The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 20, 1897, Page 6

et THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1897. ¢ carrler. §0.18 by mail.... 6.00 s, by mail.. .00 , three months by mail 1.60 " one month, by matl. .65 1.50 150 ¥ CaLL, 0! W ELKLY CALL, 0 BUSINE 710 darket Street, fan Fraucisco, California. Telephone .. <veve-n.Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: D17 Clay Stre Telephone BRANCH OFFICES: 7 Montgomery s:reet, corner Clay; open unil ) o'clock 439 Hayes street 15 Larki W open until n open until 9:! Sixteents snd Mission sireets, open 18 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 167 Ninth street, open 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open until 9:80 o'clock. NW. corner Tweuty-second and Kentucky streets; open till § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICB: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and Park Row. New York CIty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Fastern Manager. CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Colonel Vassos will now have to leave Crete or lose the fun, and the choice is not an easy one. s npathy isa side of the Greek to fayor the Turks. Itisan easy prediction that the worse the betting seems spells of the present war are going to be | fou s of the battlefields. nd in n, Los Angeles will have more beauty this week than ever before. Quitea number of San Francisco girls are going toLa Fiesta. 1t will be easy for Los Angeles to see herself double this week, for the rapture of the fiesta will maks her a city beside herself. Now that the Greeks have entered upon a campaign with Skouzes as War Minis- ter, let us hope they will not come out of 1t with excuses. n-gro carrants, a uck agai The war betwee Greece and Turkey not concern us much. Our duty is to » the work on Balboa avenue and provide employment for lator. It matters little whether the Greeks or the Turks were the aggressors. The im- portant question now is which of the two will show itself most egeressive. The gold standard Democratic papers of the East are almost unanimous in refer- ring o the celebration of Jefferson’s birth- day by the Bryanites as a ‘‘desecration of the day.” There seems good assurance of an alli- ance between Germany and Russia, but whether tisan agreement for a mutual | stand-off or to whip somebody else is not 80 certain, It would be interesting to know whether Bismarck was riled by Gladstone’s letter denouncing the Kaiser as a ‘“youthfal despot,” or whether he put it in his pipe and smoked it. The scheme by which Cleveland under- took to secure positions for life to all his cuckoo cffice-holders may be defeated yet. There is such a thing as taking a trick of that kind by trumping it. Every treaty we have arranged with England in recent years seems to be full | of blow-holes, and the best thing the ad- ministration can do is to throw them all in the waste-basket and make a new lot. The only effect of the retroactive clause of the Dingley bill that can be surely counted on is that it will lead the new tariff straight from the President to the Supreme Court as quickly as can be. If the Servians, Macedonians and Al- banians join with the Greeks Tarkey will be carvea and distributed befors mext Toanksgiving, and an immemorial joke on that anniversary will be lost to the American pecple. According to a recent report the money gifts to Yale during the last decade have averaged $100,000 a year, and still the president is asking for more. Asa little learning is dangerous he wishes money enough to supply it in bulk. If the report is true that when asked his opinion of the Democracy of David Bennett Hill Mr. Bryan ‘‘relapsed into silence,” it is to be hoped somebody will ask him the same question from this time on until the country has a rest. It is believed that one of the reasons why Speaker Reed declines to appointthe committees of the House is that the pres- ent situation gives him a means for con- troiling the unruly members. Every man who his enough leadership to aspire to the chairmanship of a committee looks to the Speaker for the appointment, and in the meantime behaves himsell. The provosal in Kansas to tax “inor- dinate wealth” has raised a discussion over the meaning of the term. A degree of riches which might be inordinate in one locality would hardly be a compe- tence to keep up with the procession in another. Takinz the United States as a whole no man’s wealth can be called inordinate o long as there 1s a millinery- store in every town and a new Easter every year. To the Jeaders of the Democratic party the New York Sun says: “Too much Bryan, gentlemen, from this time on will mean too few Democrauc votes at the next election.” The warning was doubt- less well meant, but as it is better for the country to have 100 much Bryan rather than too much Democracy, it is gratifying to know it will have no more effect on Democracy than the buzz of a gad-fly on the ears of a donkey. Senator Allison having been asked when the tariff biil would probably be adopted is reported as having replied: *I thould say.the middle of June would be as early as could be expected. The firstof July may come before it is a law.” It will be seen from thisthat but for the retroactive clause the speculators would have had a great deal of time to import Jarge stocks of foreign goods under low duties and thus provide themssives with big profits at the expenso of the ireasury. ..Maln—1874 | | nost universally on the { THE WAR IN EUROPE. The conflict between Greece and Turkey has been so long before the world that the formal declaration of war occasioned no surprise and has bad hardly any effect upon the stock market. Such influence o8 it may have had was foreseen long ago, and has beew amply discounted by the able and far-seeing financiers who manage the great bulk of the world’s business. In this country the'eftects will bardly be even noticeable. As Secretary Sherman has pointed out, our trade with Greece and Turkey combined constitutes but a very small fraction of our foreign commerce. the great staple products of the American Neither country exports or imports any of people, and it is doubtful it the war will have any great effect even upon the wheat market, which is more susceptible to war influences than any other. It s well understood, however, that the normal continuance of commerce is de- pendent wholly upon the abilliy of the great nations to keep the war localized in the Levant and avoid on their own part any complication with it, To this ena the diplo-" macy of the statesmen will now be directed, and from the present outlook it seems altogether probable that they will be successful in doing so. The elements of danger are the persona | Gladstone called the *‘youthful despots’” cf Europe. I characteristics of the two rulers whom Mr. If the ambitions of either the Czar or the Kaiser should be excited by the progress of events there is no telling what aday might bring forth. Fortunately neither of them is such an absolute ruler in fact as he is assumed to be by the law of his only. ountry. The Czar isan autocrat in name Russia is really governed by a bureaucracy which acts in the name of the Czar, and which, being supported by the nobility and the church, has frequently shown itself powerlul enough to withstand much present Czar has ever been reputed to be. stronger and more resolute men than the Mauch the same condition prevails in Ger- many, and, even if the Kaicer were eager for war, it is by no means certain that he could obtain from his Ministers, his Perliament and his people a sufficient support to engage in it. According to the latest reports from Europe the Governments of Russiz and Ger- many are perfectly willing to leave the Turks and the Greeks to fight out their quar- rels by themselves, so long as the other Balkan states are not involved in it. There- fore, untess the Greek agitators can succeed in inducing the Macedonians, Albanians and Servians to assist them in attacking Turkey, the war will probably be confined wholly to the two nations already engaged, and will not be long continued nor of much effect upon the commercial and industrial interests of the rest of the world. chief result will be political. Its It wiil bs another step made in the direction of a final settlement of the long-vexed Turkish problem, and can hardly fail to hasten the coming of the end of the Ottoman empire in Europe. THE LOS ANGELES FIESTA. The Los Angeles flesta has now become one of the notable features of California life, and serves to attract annually a large | number of visitors to the State. Ithas not yet become so noted as the carnival at New Orleans, but is rapidly approaching a close rivalry with that great festival and promises within a fow years to surpass it | in magnitude, in brilliancy and in popu- larity. An occasion of this kind, which serves | 50 well to advance the welfare of the State, Itis | something more than a pleasant pastime | is & matter of no little importance. and a week’s frolic. It takes the nature of a ceremony, serving as an education in artistic development and in the art of life. | It makes known throughout the world the geniality of our climate, the profusion of our flowers, the wealth and culture of our people and the open-doored hospitality of our homes. Itgives to Californiaa repute and @ prestige among the States of the Union, which add to its attiactiveness to all who have strongly developed social in- stincts and the means to cxercise them. It serves, therefore, to promote the gen- | eral interests of the community, and de- serves a liberal paironage from all parts of the State. The fiesta this year has a particular claim on the people of San Francisco, from the fact that when a carnival 1n this City was talked of some of the leading men in Los Angeles arranged to bring large excursions from Soutuern California to take part in it. That the intention was not fulfilled is due in nowise to Los An- geles. The kindness which prompted it and the State patriotism manifested in 1t remain as obligaticns for us to repay. We should fulfiil to Los Ancelesthat which her peovle promised to us. Our | society should show itself there, and add what it can to the beauty and the gayety of the festival. Weshould help the enter- prising people of the sonth to make their display worthy of a Nationa! reputation, being well assured that all the benefit to be derived from it will not be confined to that portion of the commounwealth, but that we, in common with the rest of Cal fornia, w:ll reap a portion of it as well as of the pleasure which the fiesta will afford to all who witness'its beauty and take part in its gayetie: EASTWARD EMIGRATION. In arecent interview with George Alfred Townsend Senator Allison stated that the tendency of immigration from Iowa is now eastward instead of westward. Young men who leave that State to seek homes g0 to Chicago instezd of going further west, as they did in former years. In fact, as he said, the reflex wave which General | Sherman prophesied has begun and immi- gration is now rolling eastward. In giving an explanation for this course on the part of the voung men of Iowa the Senator is quoted 25 saying: *‘They formerly went to Dhkota, Colo- rado and beyond the Rocky Mountains. Many of them saved or converted their farms and bomes into money and went to fos Angeles or to Seattle or elsewhere, and they almost alt lost their money. ‘When I talked to you in this room firteen or twenty years sgo the young lawyers were moving to Dakota, to Yankton, to Nebraska; they are returning and settling | to the east of the Missonr..” That this statement is accurate cannot be guestioned. Senator Allison is an able and trained observer of the social condi tions and tendencies of the people of his section of the Union and spesks as an established autnority. Nor can it be doubted that he is right in the reasons e has given for the changed course of em - gration. Neither is it difficult to under- stand the eituation and realize exac:ly how the cause has produced its effect. Among the thousands of young men from the East who come to the Pacific Coast and the greater West generally there were many who found profitable employ- ment, made successful ventures and set- tled themselves permanently in the new land. Those who failed returned home. The effect of this on pub'ic opinion in the older States might have been calculated from the start. The successful settlers in the West were far away from their old homes and were soon forgotten. The un- successful ones were at homs, continually talking to their friends and neignbors, and each one by a natural impulse en- deavored to account for his failure by de- nouncing the land, the cities and the States in which the failure occurred. As a natural resuit the better features, ad- vantuges and inducements of the greater West were lost sight of, while its draw.- backs and its defects were incessantiy re- peated and magnified in the ears of the people. It will take the Pacific Coast some time 1o overcome the evil effscts of 1he bygone booms. That it will ultimately do so, however, cannot be doubted. We must, however, expect to see our progress in the future laid upon lines materially different from those or which progress has bsen conducted in the past. The drift of American population now is toward cities, The factory draws better than the farm. The workshop is more attractive than the | town lot. The people wish employment and tend to those centers where employ- | Fave of emigration will turn westward | again as soon as we develop on the Pacific | Coast a diversified industry. The . reflex | movement toward the East can hardly be | more than a recoil of the wave. It is as true to-day as it was yesterday that ‘‘the | star of empire westward holds its way.” | WALL STREET OPINIONS. ‘ The financial editor of the New York | Times recently summed up the conditions | of the stock market in that city by say- |ing: “Wall street tries to be hopeful, wants to be confident, but is nervous. Hesitancy is the chief of current security market characteristics. Bad features dis- | closed get more attention than develop- ments which are encouraging.” The uncertainty of the situation and | the existence of this nervous feeling led the writer to a study of the subject in order to determine how far the feeling is well founded. In making' this study he did not confine himself to his own obser- vations, or draw his conclusions solely by his own reascning, but sought interviews with men prominent in financial circles and obtained from them opinions which | confirmed his own idea that the depression | in Wall street is due more to a pessimistic condition of mind than to anything in the actual situation of affairs. | Ex-Governor Roswell P. Flower is quoted | as taking a hopeful view of the situation | and anticipates an upward movement of the stork market in the near fature. He is quoted as sayine: “In the whole situa- | tion there is nothing of any very grave | Dature—nothing which even appears to be a lasting barrier to business improvement. It is true there are at present a number of adverse factors, but none of them are of any lasting importance or are of sufficient magnitude to be pluced among the real underlying conditions.” James H. Benedict, one of the veteran and cool-headed observers of Wall sireet, | whose experience has extended through many years and whose interests have been continually large, is not only hope- ful but confident. “Wall street,” he said, *‘has for some time past been drifting into | a state of professional pessimism. It has been fashionable to be scared. In worry- ing over discouraging features we have formed a habit of ignoring what is good— tremendously and dominantly good—in the balance-sheet.” The conclusion of Mr. Benedict, as stated by himself, is: “Not one fair-minded man who iakes up the subject reasonably | and is moderate and intelligent in his | calculations can fail to ge: any other re- sult from investigating National condi- | tions than a result which will induce con- fidence, and even enthusiasm.” There can be no question that the finan- | cial, industrial and commercial classes in the United Btates are affected more or less by the uncertainty which prevails as to the result of the tariff legislation now under way at Washington. Until the tariff bill bas been enacted, and it is definitely known what duties are to be imposed upon imported articles, capital will hesitate about entering upon any new ventures. This seems to be the main ob- stacle In the way of an immediate reviyal of business. Fortunately that obstacle will soon be removed. Leaders of Con- gress are sanguine that the bill will be adopted not later than the middle of June, and then the natural forces of the country which are already tending toward im- proved conditions will have full scope to work out their results and re-establisn a general prosperity throughout the coun- try, —_— OH, WHAT A D/FFERENCE! His business never leaves a chance To take a holiday ‘When his wife reads the announcement Of & coming matinee, Lite is much too short for trifies And his ime she must not cialm, But when u friend invites him out. To see & baseball game— That's d.ferent. He vows a man shou'd ne'er complain About the tax h- pays. But giadiv belp the Government Its revenue (o raise. ¥ ach one should sweil the public purse | ‘That threatens 1o lim: Yet when the b Iaterrogating him Thav's different. He ever counsels gentleness, And suys no person ought To let himself forget the calm 01 philosophic thought; Nothing in life I8 great eaough To_justlfy our ire, But wnen, eleven miles from home, A tack sticks in his tire— That's different. —Washiogton Star. —_— AMERICAN ‘EET SUGAR How to Supplant the Foreign Prodwot oend Save Millions, St. Louls Globe-Demo- rat, A payment of about $100,000,000 anuuslly to foreign countries for a product adapted to our own soil and climate is plainly an indus- trial error. Within the last ten years atten- tion has been directed to this wasteful method of conducting business, and signs are muiti- plying that the proper remedies will be ap- plied. Last year every pound of wheat and flour exported was required to pay for the sugar imported. Our exports of cotton were only double the value of the sugar imported. The velue of all exports of live and aressed beef, beel products and lard just about bal- anced that of the susar bought abroad. It fs now kuown beyoud question that the sugar beet can be grown in m, of a qu: cane al country than is generally suppo meat is most likely to be found, The | iakiug the Wosld ‘ot 1eres, the Siors st oout SUBAT I8 Increasing twice as fast as cane-suger producticn, Beet sugar has become of such importance tothe farmers, manufucturers and merchants of Germany and France that the two Govern- ments are engaged ina sort of protective duel over the first place in its exporiation, for which both countries pay a bounty. Some Ume ago Germany proposed to gradually ex- tinguish the sugar bounty, but the popular Dressure against this step has been 100 strong 10 be resisted. The German export bounty on S$ugar is nearly haif a cent s pound, and France has advanced its export bounty in order to keep even. Supplying sugar to tue world must be 2 profitable business. Our own averace cash payment for foreign sugar of about $274,- 000 every day in the vesr is proof enough toat ihere is a great deal of money i it from one cusiomer alone. This siream of treasure shouid be diverted toour own farmers and factory workers, and in the course of time this country should reach a secure place as & heavy exporter of sugar, Our production of beet sugar between 1880 and 1896 {ncreased from 500 tons_to 40,000 tons. Tuis is not much, but it 1s a beginning. One tmportant point fo be kept in mind is thatan American consumes two or three times As much sugar as a German or Frenchman, Sugar here is cousidered a necessity, not & luxury, and our abundaut and varied crops of fruit fequire its free usc. The culture of the sugar beet will be quickly mastered by our farmers. It is an iniensive form of horticul- ture. Slipshod methods on large areas will not answer in this case, but for that matter they are not euccessful with any cron. Some- thing of the high farming of the market gar- dener is demanded by the sugar beet. 1t 1is profitable and our farmers are looking for har- yests of this kind. The genius of Americans in the use of machinery is an sssurauce that the sugar-beet factories will return good divi- dends. What measure of protection should be granted by the Government is a sub ject to be considered with care. Meautime States and localities are disposed to encourage the new industry with so many millions in it. ——— PrRSONAL. B. W. Ellis of London is in town. Dr. C. L. Bard of Ventura is in town. W. F. Purwell of Stockton is at the Grand. R. M. Shackelford of Paso Robles is in the City. H. S. Hungerford of New York'is at the Palace. President David Starr Jordad was in the City vesterday. Frank Barilett, s surveyor of Livermore, is at the Grand. The Rev. Dr. Alexander of San Anselmo is at the Occidental. D. W. Minor, a wealthy grocerof Los Angeles, 1s at the Palace. J. B. Richardson, a fruit-grower of Suisun, is a late arrival here. Ex-Superior Judge Charles F. Scott of Oro- ville is at.the Lick. C. E. Curby, a wholesale merchent of St. Louis, is at the Palace. J. M. Wilmans, owner of & large mine at Newman, is in the Cliy. George T. Baldwin of Klamsth Falls, Or. is here on & business trip. Dr. F. W. Eastlake of the Japanese Uni sity, Tokio, 1s at the Palace. J.T. Pratt, a wholesale merchant of Brook- iyn, N. Y., is on a visit here. F. R. Coffin and Miss Coffin of Boise, Idaho, are among the arrivals here. F. M. Adar and P. Schlister, coffee-raisers of Guatsmala, are at the Palace. . H. Hogan, an attorney of Reno, Nev., is registerea at the Cosmopolitan. T. H. Hemmer, editor and owner of the Los Angeles Hotel Gazette, s in the City. T. A. Wadleizh of the Rio Grande Western Railway at Salt Lake is at the Palace. United States Vice-Consul W. Abercromble of Negasaki, Japan, is here on his way East. Captain O. F. Loog of the army and Mrs. Long, formerly Miss Requa, are at the Palace. George Muirhead ana Mrs. G. Muirhead of Haddo House, Aherdeen, Scotland, arrived yere yesterday. George Tricht, a wealthy mining man of Denver, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wie and daughter. J. V. Kobayashl, a merchant of Tokio, Japan, arrived on the City of Peking yesterday and is at the Cosmopolitan. Ex-Superior Judge Hewel of Modesto is at the Lick. He is one of the wealthiest men in that part of the State. W. E. Willett, for a long while first officer of the City of Puebls, has been made captain of the Alexander Duncan. W. 8. Greene of Washington, D. C., special agent of the treasury, who has been here for & few weeks past, leit last night for the East. Mark Walser, the well-known attorney of Fresno, who is interested in mines near Coui- terville, is among the arrivals ere, and is at the Grand. Allen Towle, owner of an extensive mill and a large area of timber land at Towles, on the | Central Pacific in the Sierras, and also owner of other interests, is among the arrivals at the Lick. He is accompanied by Mrs. Towle. Wu Ting Fang, Minister from China to the United States, left last night, accompanied by his suite, for Washington, D. C. It was a very busy scene around tke Occidental during th afternoon because of the reshipment of the baggage and other arrangements for going. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., April 19.—At the Plaza, C. Griezenbeck ; Savoy, Miss Coleman, Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Gunst, E. Guost, M. Gunst; Man- hattan, J. Curtls; Windsor, O. A. Erhern; Metropole, T. Kirehho! W. Howard; Imperial, C. A, McLane; Park Avenue, E. B. Rembo; Belvidere, Miss Doherty; Marlborough, 8. H. Friedlander; Murray Hill, W. A. Green; Holland, E. E. Plelps; Broadway Central, 1. Lowenberg, O, B, Tropling; Sturtevant, E. 8. Exer. A. Green 1s here buying. WIIH YOUR COFFEE *“No, I don't send any stories to the Monthly Bugle. I sent them some once, snd they re- turned them without reading.” “How do you know the storles were not read? ; : “Because they were returned.”—Indianapo- 1lis Journal. Mistress—Oh, Bridget! Bridget! what an awful numskull you are. You've put the po- tatoes on the (ab e with the skins on—right in front of our visitors, t0o! You—you—what shall I call you? Bridget (aflably)—Call me “Agnes” if ye lotke, mum; *tis me other name.—New York World. The Teacher—When a woman's husband dies, Patsie, what is she called? Patsie—A widder. The Tencher—Aud when a man’s wife dies what do we call bim? Patsie (after some thought)—A wid-out-her, mum !—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Claude (éarnestly)—Am I the first man you ever loved? Mande ~Why, certainly! How strange men hey all ask me that question.—London -Bits. MEN AND WOMEN. The Emperor Francis Joseph has made the poet Maurus Joksi a life member of the Hun- garian House of Magnates. Common Pleas Court No.1 in Philadelphia isknown as the “court of busy bees” because of its hard-working Judges — Biddle, Bregy and Beitler. Friends of Francis Murphy claim that he closed his recent two months' temperance campaign in Boston with & record of 13,000 total abstinence pledges. The original manuscript of Keats’ “En- dymion” has jusi been sold for $3475, which is without doubt more than Keats ever re- celved for his entire poetical works. Jose Echeearay, Spain’s grentest playwright, is 64 years old. He is an engineer and a mathematician. He was once a Minister of State. He has written fifty-two plays. Princess Marie von Hohenlohe, wife of the Imperial Chancellor, has performed the mot- able feat of killing a bear while hunting on ber estates in Russia. The Princess is 68 years old. “‘Confound you, what are you grinning at?” asked the man who was getting held up. *'Oh, well,” chuckled the footpad, I never WaS & man to take things seriously.”—Clncin- uail Enquire Netherland, Mrs. C. | ] “THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.” Editor of the San Francisco Call—Str: It May, in’ the 431 vear of her reign, b foregoing paragraph: John: on condition that he should pa; current and lawful money of England, [a_sortc obligation, The iss e, as stated by Sir John, was hibited inasmuch as this consideration quired the chief Judg Teturn to him’’ their The decision of ** cision. and that the said Brett shoul, certificate entered i the council Look ” ercise of her royal prerogative in demonet the debased or “‘mixed mone: and debts, brushing a: was at stake and settiing these issues for the 1 10.its old place under the constitution and re. Government nlone, me decision with it. demanding national decision. 855 Market street, April 19. 1897. Letters From Our Readers on Topics of Current Interest. Old English Money Law. readers of TiE CALL make allowance for extreme condensation of staiement, which restricted space necessitates, but where two columns would be requisite for a full consideration when I discuss certain financial problems. In the present instance, for example, it would require s fuil column of the small type in which my contributions to THE CALL appear to report the celebrated case of «Mixed Moneys,” decided during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in 1601, as Teported by Sir John Davies, and yet I shall aitempt to state the chief reatures of the case and the poinis raised and decided by the highest judicial autnority of England, for that decision stands to-day as the law of the British empire after the lapse of 296 years. In the quaint style of that day, Sir John Davies thus states the case: “Queen Elizabeth, in ordcr to pay the roval army, which was maintained in this kingdom (Ireland) several years to suppress the rebellion of Tyrone, caused & great quantity of mixed money, with the usual stamp of the arms of the crown and inseription of her royal title, 10 be coin’d in the Tower of London, and transmitted this money into tais kingdom, with a prociamation bearing date 24 ich Her Majesty declared and established this mixed money, immediately sfter the said proclawmation, to be the lawiul aud current money of the kingdom of Ireland, and expressiy commanded that this money should be used, accepted and reputed by all her subjeets, and others, using any traffick or commerce within this kingdom, as Iawful money: aud that if ‘auy person or persons should refuse to receive this mixed money, according to the denomination or valuation thereof, viz., shillings for shillings, sixpenny pieces for sixpenny pieces, etc., being tenaered for payment of any wages, fees, stipends, debts, etc., they should be punished as contemners of her royal prerogative and commandment.” Here Tmust break into the report of Sir John to ask special consideration by gold standard men to the succeeding sentence, immediately following,without a break, the last words of the “And to the intent thal this mixed money [Something worse than silver in our day] should lave the betier course aud circulation, it was further declared by the same prociamaiion that after the 10th day of June [or seventcen days after the date of proclamation] immediately following, ail other money which had been_current within this kingdom beiore the said proclamation shonla be cried down and snnulled and esteemed as bullion, and not as lawful and current money of this kingdom .” Silver advocates did not ask in the late campaign to have gold “cried aown” and “esteemed as bullion.” Now,_comes the case Gilbert against Brett under this law, which is thus reportnd by Sir “Iu April, before the proclmnation was published, when the current within this kingdom, (Ireland] one Brett of Drogheda, merc] tain wares of one Gilbert in London, became bound to the said Gilbert in an olligntion of £200 10 'the said Giibert, his executors or assigns, £100 steriing, of Ea:1 Strongbow in Christ Churcn, Dublin, at a certain day to come; at which day and place Breit made a tender of £100 in the mixed money of the new standar ” which was reiused, and then followed the sult to test the vall whether this tender was sufficient to save the for- feiture of the obligation, or whether the said Brett should now, uvon the change or alteration of money within this kingdom, be compelled 10 pay the said £100 iu other or better coin than the mixed monev according 1o the rate or valuation of it at the time of the tender, which was the question at the Council table, where the said Giibert, who was & merchant of London, e petition against the said Brett for the speedy recovery of his debt aforesnid. case related to the kingdom in general and was also of great importance in | d reason of state Sir George Carew, then Lord Deputy and also Tressurer, re- (being of the Privy Counciy) to confer on and consider this case Au Chief Judges’’ has come down to these words: “Upon conference and consideration on all the points of the safd proclamation, the Judges resolved that the tender of the one hundred pound in the mixed money, at the d: i and piace aforesaid, was good and sufficient in law to save the forfeiture of the said obligation, not be oblized at any time after to pay other money in discharee | of the debt than this m:xed money, &ccording to the rate and veluation that it had at the tims of the tender; and this resolution [decision] was certified by them to the Lord Deputy end the In the lizht of this aecision, uholding the proclamation of Queen Ellzabeth aud the ex- | Zing the ‘‘Dure coins” of the reaim and substituling | ” in their place and making them full legai tender for ull dues | de specific contracts as legal cobwebs, when the welfare of the country | the tremendous ubroar made by the goldbugs of our times over the proposal to restore siiver | quire the jssuance of ail paper money by the | as the fantastic demands of crazy repudiationists? 5o lavishly praise the financial system of England they must accept this “mixed money Sir John follows his report above cited with these word: were considered and resolved” or decided, which he reports to the number of six, including | severa: subd ivisions. These six “points” of law, still in force in England. must be reserved | for another time, for they are vastly important to us to-day in the study of the vital issue now is a fond delusion perhaps to supposs that veloped yesterday that fseued from raiiroad all employes wh 5 inated af trains mast be vaceingted S 500 ne tand the signiti- undar;“ltn"n merely opportunity. operation did not ‘cance of the regulation, obeying orders. street, reported to the young man attempt irom herat O'Farreil Saturday night. She sct the young man ran away. give an nécurate description of him. A Purse-Snatcher. rders had been hesdquarters that them on ose duties ksep them of is i a domestic at 1323 Octav! ot rara ) police yesterday thata ea to snatch her purse and Gongh a;r:‘;ulgxa d for i away, She was unable 0 ure coin of England was ant, having bought cer- £ United States gold coin contract) at the tomb in performance of ity of the new law. the And <, as reporied by §ir John Davies, in ast 206 years in England, what shall wesay of | While these gold | ‘And in this case divers points | JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. | GREATEST DANDY IN THE v. ORLD. London Tit Bi:s. The greatest dandy in the world is Prince Albert of Thurn, Germany. This fastidious young man attires himself in a new suitof clothes every day, enough to keep twenty ex- verienced workmen going, and to run up a bill of £3000. Each suit of wearing apparel is hignly perfumed with attar of roses, st £5 an ounce. He wears no fewer than 1000 neckties during the year, bein an average of three every day. His cast-off boots number 200 pair ayear. The cigar bill of this highly scented young gentleman reaches the total of £300 per annum, and the differenv sports he indulges in, including hunting, shooting, fishing, golf- ing and bicyeling, cost him more than £15,000. ANSWERS TO «ORRE.PONDENTS. DEL MoxTe—D. S., City. *Del Monte” is Spanish and means “Of the moun tai SOMERSAULTS—F. W City. Yes; three somersaults have been made from off a horl- zontal bar at the Orpheum. Licexse—F. B., City. A person wishing to g0 through the State of California to sella medicine will require alicense in every county. RUNNING RECORD—A Reader, Grafton, Yolo County, Cal. The record for running 100 yards by man is 9 3-5 seconds, by Weffer, ama- teur. CONDUCTOR'S RUNS—G. G., Oakland, Cal. The run of conductors on passenger trains is from 140 to 210 miles; on freight trains, from 95 to 125 miles. THE RFIAY RACE courier of the relay in cycle San onds. . C., City. The last race against time (bi- reached New York with a packet from rancisco in 13 days 29 minutes 43§ sec- WEIGHTS OF PUGILISTS—A Reader, Grafton, Yolo County, Cal. At the time that Fitzsim- mons and Dempsey fought at New Orleans— January 14, 1891—Fitzsimmons weighed 15035 ounds and Dempsey 14714 pounds. FIGHTING WEIGHTS—A Reader, Grafton, Yolo Connty, Cal. Fighting weights are: Bantam, 105; feather, 105 to 118; light, 118 to 133} weller, 135 t6 154; m1ddle, 140 t0 160 (us uaily 150); ‘heavy, over 154; catchweight, any weight at which the men may enter the ring. NANSEN'S NATIVITY—AM. E. M., City. Fridtjof Nansen, Ph.D., the explorer, was born in Christiania, Norway, in 1861. Your second question, ‘*Who is Mr. Rhodes?” is a very in- aefinite ‘one. If you will designate which “Mr. Rhodes” you refer to this department will endeavor to give you an answer. HISTORY OF SAN FRANCISCO—A. O. R., Mon. terey, Cat. Itis probable that what vou want to know about is a history of San Franeiseo. The handwriting is good in the communica- tion_except the one word that precedes the words “‘of San Francisco.” Correspondents should write plainly whea they ask about anything, a5 it is not always safe to guess at what is written. If your question refers to a history the answer is that the first history of San Francisco was publisbed in 1854 under the title of “The Annals of San Francisco.” Copres of the book are to be found 4n the libraries. CaL. glace fruit 50¢ per Ib., at Townsend’s. * ————— EPECTAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. ————— Men laugh at women because women all fol- low the fashion; but would men follow the women if they didn’t 7—Somerville Journal. ———— Christian Endeavorers Coming. Acrtistic paper-hanging, painting and interior decorations. Good paper in stock 4 ceuts, in- grains 9¢ roll. MERIGAN, 1302 Webster st. * [ Blobbs—Why did O'Hooligan leave instrue- tions to have his tombstone made of cement? slobbs—He probably wanted a shamrock over his grave.—Philadelphia Record. ““We're going to celebrate grandpa’s golden wedding anniversary next week.” ‘But youa grandfather is dead, fsn’t he?" “Yes; but some of the invited guests don’t know it."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Faster Time on the Santa Fe Route. Three and One-half Diys teo Chicago or St. Louts—Four and One-half Days to New York. Leaving San Francisco Mondays and Thursdays. at B P. 3., connection Is made at Barstow with the famous Santa Pe limited train. Dining-car, buftet smoking-car, vestibuled Pullman, palace drawing- r00m, sleepers. The handsomest tran on earth— equipment and appointments faultiess Dally through sleeping-cars, bo.h palace and . tourist, Vakland pler to Chicago. Tickets also s0id via Ogden, Portland, Mojave, Los Angeles, Deming or EI Paso, to !l points in the United States, Canada, Mexico or Europe. Ticket office 644 Market atreet, Chronicle Sullding. hone Main 1831 —_———— Railroad Tickets to the East via Rlo Grande Westoern and Denver and Rio Grande Raflways, At Jowest possible rates, with throngh Pallman buffet and tourist sleeping car service every day. Personally condueted excarsions leaving Tuesday, Weduesday and Thursday. Only Iine permitting stop-over at Salt Lake City on all classes of tickots Deialled information and tickets furnished ai 1 Montgomery street, or 314 California stres ——————— FoR HOARSENESS, COUGHS, ASTHMA AND BRON- CHIALTROUBLES use s Brown’s Bronchial Troches.” £0'd only In boxes. Avoid imitations. - e o As everybody is liable to derangements of the FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT. | The Foresters of America and the Companions—Cities That Want the Grand Court in 1898. During the week official visits will be made | to Court Buena Vista in Misston San Jose, | Court Niles in Niles and Court Sotoyome in | Healdsburg. Haywards, San Luis Obispo and Healdsbure | will, at the coming session of the Grand Court, attempt to secure the succeeding ses- sion of the Grand Court for their respective towns, Among the visitors to the grand secretary’s office during the past week were H. E. Schmidt, chairman of the general entertain- ment committee in Marysville of the coming Grand Court; J. Newman, P. C.R., of Court lone; J. J. Livernash, F. C. R, of Court | Sotoyome of Healdsbutg; J. Hendrickson of | Court San Leandro: Louis Levy of Santa_ Ana | aud Ralph Harrison, P. C. R.,0f Court Mount | Diablo in Danville. Additional delegates to the coming session of the Grand Court have been reported tothe | grand secretary as foilows: W. J. Donlon from | Court Presidio No. 40, in this city; J. H. Arm- | strong and J. W. Coburn from Court Bonita No. 48, in thiscity: E. J. Baker and Max Grimm irom Court Stockton No. 56: George J. Wolfer | | from Court Sunset No. 68, of Los Angeles; T. W. Lockhart from GCourt Rio Brava No. 69, in Kern City; 8, Longfellow irom _Court Sequoia No. 128, in Angels Camp; Willlam Slaitery from Court Valley Ford No. 140. Anew court, No. 155, was instituted in Merced last Fridey evening by R. B. Vellage, grand chief ranger. The Native Daughters. Las Lomas Parior will give an “at home” next Monday evening in Mission Parlor Hall and the committee that has charge of the ma ter has arranged to have a most pieasant even- ¢ § s s ¢ s s § ¢ ; : s $ ¢ § : § ; E ¢ % $ g g § i % E ; s s ¢ : s e | : s fi s One of the features will be games, and prizes will be awarded to the winners. Refreshments | will be served during the e¥ening and a gen- | erai good time is promised. | Lassen View Parlor has been instituted, an- other will shortiy be institute dat Columbia, and one is being organized at Redding. Joaquin Parlor No. 5 of Stockton, cele- | brated its tenth anniversary last week. There | were fifty-eight members present beside visit- | ing sisters from Ivy and El Pescadero parlors. After the adjournment of the parlor the in- vited guests, the Native Sons, stepped into the hall, where a short literary programme was given. The company then proceeded to pass-a pleasant half hour in couversation, alter which all were invited to the banquét ball, where & delightful repast was served. The hall and tables wero beautifully decorated with the golden poppy. At the close of the banquet many pleasing foasts were given. Golden Bar Parlor initiated five condidates | at iis last held meeting in the presence of a large membership and Deputy Miss Ida Aiken and members from Neomi Parlor of Downie- viile. After the business meeting, the mem- vers of the parlor of Native Sons were invited | 1010 the hall, wnich is now in the Oad Fellows’ building, and a pleasant time was had. Tais | parlor hes been very successful and much of | its success is due to untiring efforts of District | Deputy Miss Ida Afken, and at a recent meet- ing the hope was expressed that the next grand president will reapgpiat her. Marcuerite Parlor of Piacerville is reported in a splendid condition. Mre. Lucie Mayer, the ener Naomi Parlor of Downieville has returned to her home after a protracted stay n this City, | Laurel Parlor of Nevada City celebrated its tenth anniversary lasi week by a grand ban. quet in the National Motel The room in which it was held was most artistically dec- orated with flowers and the colors of the order. Miss Minnie Brand, president of the parior, acted as toastmaster, and_during the evening many toasts were responded to.. The grand president was one of the many guests, tic secretary of Companions of the Forest (F. of A.) Official visits during the week will be made by Mrs. M. A. Duke, grand chief companion, to Golden Gate Circie No. 23 on Monday even- ing, to Robin Hood Cirele No.58 on Wednes- dav evening, to Pride of Columbia Circle No. 259 on Thursday evening and to Village Belle Circle No. 264 on Friday evening. Mrs. Pauiine Schwab and Horman E.Schmidt, past chiet companions of Yuba Circie No. 101 of Marysville, were among visitors to the grand sécretary’s oftice during the past week. On last Tuesday evening Mrs. M. A. Duke, accompanied by Mrs. L. Atwood, P. G. C. C.t Mrs. G. Harrington, G.8.C. C.; Mits B, Hintze grand trexsurer; Miss A, D. Bremer, grand sec. retary; Mrs. C. Go'dman, grand tristee; Mj M, Conned, D. G. C. C. at large; M. E. Licht, D. G. C. C., 'and delegations from Oakland Cir. cle No. 3, Robin Hood Circle No. 58 and United States of America Circle No. 260, visited Hame- let Circle No, 64 of Alameds. The circle-room had been transiormed intoa perfect fairybower by thie members of said circle, and the recep- tion tendered to the visitors heartiest thathas greeted the Auring the pest year. The ritualistic and floor work of the order was illustrated and performed in a very creditable manner. After the ciose Of the business session those present adjourned to the banquet-room, where re- freshments were served, and dancing wound up the evening's enjoginent. Was one of the grand officers Liberty Clrele, C. O. F. Thesocialto be given by Liberty Circle, Companions of the Forest, which had been announced for this evening will be given in Mission Maccabee Temple on the evening of the 28th inst. The committee of srrangements will make the evening an enjoyable one for gl:dmln! friends of the cicrie who will at- Railroud Men Vaccinated. The large number of railroad em- ployes—conductors, Puliman car porters and others—who have beea called within stomach and bowels, the ueed of Ayer's Pills i3 woiversal. They are the best catbartic, ] the pastfew days to be vac-inated.has acited copsiderable comment, It de-| NXEW TO-DAY! Analyzed “Royal,” a cream of tartar powder of superior purity and strength. The following extracts from Certificates of analyses of the Royal Baking Powder, made from time to time, are very help- ful to those who wish to be cer- tain as to what baking powder to select in order to get a pure article, free from alum or any form of adulteration. Your committee have made a very careful examination of the Royal Baking Powder, and are satisfied that it fulfils all the re- quirements which the public can make of a baking powder. For purity and care in preparation it equals any in the market, and our test shows that it has greater leavening power than any other of which we have any knowledge. W. B. RISING, Prof. Chemistry, University of California, State Analyst. By analyses which I person- ally have had made, it is clearly demonstrated and proven that the Royal Baking Powder is pure and wholesome, and that it stands, as far as strength and purity are concerned, at the head of the baking powders of the United States. The Royal is composed of absolutely pure, harmless and wholesome ingre- dients of the highest grade and character. GRANVILLE McGOWAN, M. D. Health Officer, Los Angeles. The best baking powder made is, as shown by analysis, the Royal. Its leavening strength has been found superior to other baking powders, and, as far as I know, itis the only powder which will raise large bread perfectly. CYRUS EDSON, M.D., Com’r of Health, N. Y. City. Crrcaco, March 1, 1887, As the result of my tests, I find the Royal Baking Powder superiorto all the others in ev: respect. It is entirely free from all adulteration and unwhole- some impurity, and in baking it gives off a greater volume of leavening gas than any other powder. It is therefore not only the purest, but also the strongest powder with which I am ac- quainted. WALTER S. HAINES, M. D, Prof. of Chemistry, Rush Medical Collegs, Consulting Chemist, Chicago Board of Health. I have analyzed all the prin- cipal brands of baking powder sold in this State. Royal has the highest leavening “power, and is composed of pure and wholesome ingredients. No other gave results so satisfactory. FLOYD DAVIS, lowa State Chemist. I have made a large number of analyses of Royal Baking Powder, and have found it to be an absolutely pure cream of tartar powder, entirely free from ammonia and all adulterations and impurities. In leavening power it is of the very highest. CHARLES W. DREW, Late Chemist Minn. Food and Dairy Commission. I have carefully analyzed bak- ing powders on sale in this city, The Royal excels all others. It is the highest in strength, in fab- rique a faultless arrangement of agents, pure and wholesome, free from adulteration with lime, ammonia or alum. JAMESE.SULLIVAN, M.D., St. Louis City Chemist. The Royal Baking Powder is superior ‘to any other powder which I have examined; a bak- ing powder unequaled for pu- rity, strength and wholesome- ness. WILLIS G. TUCKER, M. D, Ph. D,, New York State Analyst. AOYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW-YORK,