The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 31, 1897, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY .31, 1897%. LMAY 81, 1567 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: 'y and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.18 v and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 #nd Sunday CALI, six months, by mall.. .00 and Sunday CALz, three months by mail 1.50 snd Sunday CarLx, one month, by mail., .65 50 Daily Daily Bunday CaLL, one year, by mail.... WALKLY CALL, One year, by mall. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Marke: Street, #an Francisco, Californfa. Telephone....... Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Streew. Telephone.. Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: Montgomery s:reet, coraer Clay; open uutll D 'clock. 89 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. €15 Larkin street, open until 9:30 0'clock. EW. corner Sixteenta and Mission streets, open wotil § o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open nntil 9 0'clock. 167 Ninth street, open untfl 9 o'clock. 1505 Poli street: open uniil 8:80 o'clock. NW. corner Tweuiy-second apd Kentucky OAKLAND OFFICB: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 52, 34 Park Row, New York Cltfs DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. — e THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are yon going 10 the country on a_vacatlon ? £0,1¢ 15 110 troublg for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss yon for you will Orders_given to the carrier or left at Office will receive prompt attention. TRA CHAKGE. Fitiy cents per moath for summer months. Once more we honor the heroic dead. Show your patriotism by attending the memorial services, This is a good day fo make up your mind to contribute something to the Lin- coln monument fund. Business prospects brighten with the summer and will ripen into realization with the fruits of the fall The Senate promises to break its record in tariff-making, and that in itself is a sign of the coming of petter times. We shall see to-day another evidence of the difference between this and the Cleve- land administration. McKinley will not go fishing. If the American Senats fnishes the ariff bill before the European concert ar- ranges affairs in the Levant we will claim the pennant. Pniladelphia boasts that during the time the President was her guest to at- tend the dedication of the Washingion monument not asingle office-seeker got pear him it seems we must put the Quaker City down as a pretty fly town. Eastern authorities on divorce laws assert that the divorce recently obtained by Mrs. Langtry is valid in tkis State and in New Hampshire, but nowhere else; so if the Lily wishes to marry again she must either patronize us or take to the snowdrifts. The St. Lounis Globe-Democrat estimates that the rush of imporis makes delay in passing the tariff cost the country about $1,000,000 a day. and yet it will hardly be denied that it will be better o pay even that amount and get a good tariff than to rush things and get a bad one. Pennsylvania 1s discussing the advisa- bility of adopting asphyxiation asa means of inflicting the legal death penalty, and some advocates of the plan propose to have the subject considered by the Na- tional Medical Society with the view of baving it adopted throuzhout the Union. The national debt of Greece amounts to about $66 per capita, and her bonds are selling in London at hardly more than 19 cents on the dollar, so it is not to be wondered that Turkey prefers to take even such risky real estate as Thessaly by way of indemnity ratnuer than to accept chances of obtaining monev. From all sections of the country comes the cheering news: “Great improvement in business.” The whole Union is affected by the upward tendency, and as soon as the new tariff has been enacted we may look for an industrial advance which will soon take us back to the normal prosperity of protection times. Experiments recently made in Missouri show that much largerloads can be hauled with wheels having six-inch tires than with those having standara tires. On macadam roads the same power would baul 25 per cent more; on gravel roads 30 per cent more; on dirt roads, dry and hard, 33 per cent more. Now that the Mississippi floods have re- ceded it has been found that the damage, instead of reaching $100,000,000, as was at one time announced, will hardly exceed $15,000,000. Even this sum, however, is 100 large to be borne lightly, and active measures should be taken by the Govern- ment to guard againsta similar loss in future. A Chicago clergyman is quoted as say- ing: “Already Chicago’s influence is on the wane, and the exodus of the men who have been identified with its progress has setin.” It would be interesting to know where the progressive fellows are emigrat- ing. Noneof them are coming here, and there are nc signs of them in New York, Philadelphia or Boston. The Pennsylvania Commissioner of Forestry says that daring the year 1896 upward of 178,928 acres of forest land were burned over in that {.ate, and it was not a pad year for forest fires, either. The value of the timber destroyed cannot be well e-timated, but since the destruction isso vast in a single State that of the whole Union must be enormous. Lady Granville is quoted as having said recently that in her younger days no one in London society ever mentioned their poverty or their digestion, as these things were considered unfit for polite conversa- tion, but now, she adds, they have become the principal topics of conversation. High society, it seems, is becoming very much like the average. Poverty is everywhere, and as for digestion, there isn’t any. The declaration of John Wanamaker that & new party is needed in this country attracted a good deal of attention in the Eastand provoked a degres of criticism which has led the orator to explain that he did not mean a new party throughout, nor a new administration, but only a new Benate at Washington ana a new set of | MEMORIAL DAY. To-day agrateful Nation pays tenderest tribute to the departed heroes of that great army whose tread once shook a continent, and whose loyalty, devotion and hero'c self-sacrifice preserved the life of the Re- public of the West, broadened its scope in the interests of humanity and made it truly “one and inseparavle.” Few remain of those who fought. The last file of the Grand Army will soon have vanished forever from our ge. Those amonz us who were once boys in blue are now old men in gray, and as theyslowly march on to join their cowmrades in the spirit realm of eternal peace we should be more eager than ever to testify our love and veneration for them. Touching is the spectacle of the white- haired veteran approaching the *un- known grave” to contribute his little of- fering of flowers tbav are wet with his tears. For the unknown grave, piled high with vernal blooms, most truly tells the story of Memorial day. ‘We pause beside that floral mound and thoughts run through our mind of Shiloh and Gettysburg and Cold Harbor, and of the thousands and tens of thousands of heroes whose life-blood, poured out in de- fense of the starry flag, moistened the fields of the Southland, and whose bones found sepuiture only in the general trench of war. To the memory of these the un- known grave is sacred. Of these the hoary veteran thinks as he looks lovingly on the simple mound of flowers. Memorial day has become a National Sabbath. The workshop and the mill are idle to-day; the mart and field desertea. The toiler dons his holiday attire and joins the millions of his brethren who do reverence to the Nation’s dead. Thereis a mingling of religion with country-love. The decoration of the graves of soldiers proves that the heart of the Republic bas the right beat, and that the masses of the people are fully alive to the loftiest patri- otic impulses, It does every one of us good to listen to the sentiments expressed on these occa- sions, There is no animosity in them, but chey awaken in us a more wholesome feeling of pride in our mighty union of States; they lead us 1o the contemplatio: of the noblest virtues, and teach us to scorn that- narrow commercial spirit which shuts out all high emotions in the mad race for gain. Let us all heartily join in the recogni- tion of this day and its holy office; re- membering that the blocd of our martyr- patriots is the seed of the Nation. MONEY AND INDUSTRY. Some time ago we called attention to a staterent of the London Chronicle that the aggregation of capital in European centers in the hands of enormousiy rich persons or of large syndicates has brought about a condition which enables men who wish to borrow millions to obtain money at very low rates of interest, while those who wish to use small sums can scarcely getit at all. This is due to the fact that the big baukers do not care to deal with small customers. They prefer to place money in large blocks on good security rather than to lend it to ordinary traders or manufacturers, and a result, while nations can borrow money cheaply, in- dustry suffers, This report showed the evil effects of present financlal ms upon men of average fortunes and the business world generally. It now appears that capitalists suffering as much as the smaller dealers. Money is rapidly declining in productive power, and those who do not hold it in very large amounts are in danger of being forced to return to the ranks of industry in order to provide themselves with a comfortable living. Some recently compiled statistics show the extent of the decline. There was a time when French rentes yielded 5 per cent. They now vield only 214 Bonds of other nations have fallen in about the same ratio. Even Egyptian funds which once paid 7 per cent, now pay but 33§, while Turkey, that at one time had to pay 10 per cent, now gets all the money she needs at 5. A similar decline is noted in the securi- ties of well-established companies that borrow money by the miliions. Nearly all the great railroads of the world are re- funding their debts at lower rates of in- terest. 1t is estimated that taking the United States and Western rope to- gether there has been since 1850 a decline of interest on railway securities equal to 42 per cent, and on industrial securities egual to 39 per cent. It is probable that this ranid decrease of interest on money loaned in large sums will eventually work a remeay for the evil complained of by small borrowers. Sooner or later the smaller capitalists will be forced to abandon the market for na- tional bonds and other well-established securities to their richer neighbors, and tarn their attertion once more to lending money in smaller sums as in former times. Men who cannot obtain a suf- ficient income from their capital when in- vested in bonds yielding 3 per cent, or less, will be inclined to pay more atten- tion to borrowers who wish smaller sums, but will pay better interest. It is certainly fall time that some change should come in the financial situ- ation. Capital is now congested in the great banking centers and neither pays zood interest to its owners nor affords in- dustry a means to continue its work. Th is one phase of the problem. There is another in the fact that at the rate prices have been falling of recent years industry does not care to undertake new enter- prises that are at all hazardous. This phase also may be affected by a decline in the rates of interest demanded of small borrowers. In any event the world is not likely to Jose much by a continuance of what is called *‘the decreasing productive- ness of wealth.”” THE SIGNS ARE GOOD. Signs that business is improving are multiplying. The Western railroad man- agers report an increased volume of traffic over the great railroads of the Central West. This has produced a favorable effect on railroad shares in Wall street and quotations are pointing upward. Gov- erument bonds are also quoted firmer with an advancing tendency in one or two descriptions. Imports of dry goods at New York are larger, showing an in- creased purchasing power. In England there is a better demand for American securities, which indicates an expectation there of better tinies in this country. Of course, these are merely straws, but they show which way the wind is blow- inz. Several weeks ugo it was pointed out that the trend in all classes of trade was toward increzsad activity. The fea- ture last week was the publication of the Government statement showing the enor- mous excess of exports over imports. This week it is something else. New signs are cropping up on all sides. True, they are mere premonitions at present, but they all set in the same direction. We have evidently touched bottom and are on the rebound. Waether the action of the Senate in finally taking up the tariff billis the cause delegates to Congress from Pennsyivania. |of this tendency toward the revival in | wi business it is impossible to say, but it probably is. The eyes of the whole coun- try have been fixed on this bill as afford- ing the one avenue to better times, and as the prospects for its passage improve con- fidence increases in like ratio. All ciasses of business men .have confidently pre- dicied an improvement in trade after the adoption of the tariff, and it is reasonable to presume that this s the principal factor in the current upward tendency. As far as the State is concerned there are no new features worthy of especial comment. Wheat is tending downward, as it generally does on the eve of the har- vest, but is still worth a profitable price to the grower,and nobody expects that it will fall below a profitable price this year. The other staples rale quiet at about last week’s prices. Except in wheat there is no downward tendency visible anywhere, Nor is there any marked trend toward better prices. There never is at this time of the year. But crop conditions are full of promise and there is a feeling of confi- dence that the present year will be more satisfactory to the general public than its three or four predecessors, THE THIRD RAIL The feasibility of electric traction on existing steam roads has been recently demonstrated in the vicinity of Hart- ford, Conn., where an old-established steam line, belng threatened with the loss of alucrative business through the estab- lishment of rival trolley roads, has pro- ceeded, in accordance with the aavice of scientific experts, to meet the enemy with its own weapon. While steam railroads all over the country have been experiencing big en- croachments on their business through these electrical rivals, it remained for a Yankee railroad manager to profit by the suggestion of the experts, and, by ample test, to discover that an old steam road enjoys a distinct advantage over the trol- ley in being able to derive its current through a third rail. Trolley cars run on open highways, and therefore mustresort to the overhead wire, which, with its elaborate system of poles, brackets, cross-suspension wires and insu- lators, costs much more than an extra rail. The tracks of the steam roads are fenced in, however, and placards 1n proper places warn venturesome parties against such danger as may exist. It is averred thatonly at street-cross- ings and at stations need this peril be con- sidered, and that here it can be obviated in several ways. For instance, boards may be set upon edge, on either side of the third rail, just high enough to prevent wagons’ wheels or horses’ hoots from com- ing in contact with the metal, or the rail may be discontinued for a distance of thirty or forty feet, an extra shoe on the rear car picking up the current until the front car has passed the gap and has re- stored the conneciion. The third rail isabout to be tried in many other parts of the Eist, and in the vicin. ity of the cities of Chicago and St. Louis. Iis successful employment for passenger trafficin Connecticut is regarded as the probable beginning of the substitution of electricity for steam as a motive power. The Hartford Times recognizes that the new sysiem “is the best and most perfect electric railway in the worla,” and antici- pates that great numbers will visit Hart- ford this summer to see how it works. The same publication directs attention to the fact that “‘one result of the general adop- tion of the electric system on railroads would almost certainly be the absolute inclosure of the route,” for “the third rail means death.” The character of the situation, according to the Times, is indi- cated by the fact that employes of such railroads are required to wear rabber shoes and rubber gloves. But there seems to be no doubt that the technical part of the problem of electric traction on steam roads has been solved. THE ITDTTERY SWINDLES. The so-called *little lottery” schemes, which bave long been luring dollars from the pockets of poor victims into the cof- fers of clever swindlers (whose nefarious business flourishes openly and unmo- lested under the very eyes of the police), have been again shown up in their rob. bing practices. The expose in yesterday’s CALL of the wholesale thievery carried on under the guise of fair-play “little lotteries’ should be enough to doom them for all time. That fiity tickets, every one of them bearing the number of the capital prize, should be sold right herein San Francisco, and that every one of them upon pre- sentation at the lottery *“agency” should be rejected as “'counterfeit,”” is a lesson that should forever deter the poor man from yieiding no matter how small a frac- tion of his earnings to help enrich the un- scrupulous persons who have been trad- ing upon his gullibility. The fact that of the winning ticket alone fifty ‘‘counter- feits” had been presented and rejected did not in the least disturb the “agent’s equanimity. He informed THE CALL re- porter that he expected more. There seems to pe no limit to this fleecing pro- cess, and the most deplorable thing about it 1s that the poor man is the party floeced, while the lottery “agents” sim- ply rake in the shekels ard laugh as they ‘Wwax rich. If the police cannot be forced to carry out the law against thess rascally frauds it lies in the hands of the people who have been plucked of their money through these so-called “little lotteries’ to drive the manipulators of these bunco schemes out of their accursed occupation by refus- ing to be duped any longer. The working classes of the City have been duly warned by THE Cary, which has held up the gross deception to the light of day. Kill off the lottery swindles by ceasing to purchase their tickets. In this way you may arive the rogues to the necessity of getting money by legal mean CCAST EXCHANGES. According to the Napa Register Marysville is soon to enjoy the blessings of a free postal de- livery. It has becan intimated, says the Lompoc Journal, that at least 5000 acres will be planted to olives this season. The Colusa Sun has offered the use of its of- fice as a regisiration place for men out of work. Information in regard 10 work is also furnished free to all. The Alaska News has ceased to exist, having been merged into the Alaska Miner, whicn lat ter journal will continue iis old business without a competitor. The Riverside Globe, although having ap- peared only sixteen times, has found it neces- sary to issue two edltions esch day—one at noon, the other at 4 o'clock. Another sign of reviving business. According to the Lake County Bec about $1560 in money, work and materials has been subscribed toward the carnival to be held at Clear Lako in a couple of weeks. All arrange- ments sre progressing smoothly. ‘W. Charles Equier, in El Barbareno of Santa Barbara, publishes a set of directions for visit- ors to San Francisco. Judging by Mr. Squier’s article he must have had a good tiwe finding out kow to wrile the directions. The Evening Express says that Los Angele: all talk (o the contrary. The committeo in charge of the affair has a balance of money on hand and also a large amount of parapher- nelia that will be useful. According to tie Yuma Sun, H. W. Blaisdell of that place has just received a large number of sprouted cocoanu's that he will at once set out and make an effort to propagate. There are many reasons why the cocoanut should do well in the vicinity of Yuma and only a few why 1t should not. Cattle are becoming scarce in Oregon and Washington and fears are expressed for the future of the meat supply. The Tacoma Ledger says that {n many sections the supply is entlrely exhausted and cattle have been im- ported {rom the Missouri country. The cause of the depletfon of beef is ihat herders are driving their catile to the Montana ranges, where feed {3 better. Higher and higher rises the tidal wave of prosperity. If such were Dot the case the Merin Journal would never have had an opportunity to print the following: Lively times are dawning in Guerneville. Tnirty-five men are now employed at the quicksilver mines, and the Sonoms Lumber Compsny’s mill willemploy ver s hundred men at the mill and logging camp. No more camping on the lands of the Kern County Land Company. The edict has gone forth and been published In the Californian, so all who may have had intentions of camping in that part of the world might as well give up the idea. The edict stater, however, that under certain conditions “special permission” will be given to campers who will be willing 10 go under “the supervision of the company’s sheep department,” That experiments never turn out as ex- pecied, even though they may be sucoessful, isproven by the sad state of affairs that at present exists in Los Gatos. The Etening Oul of that place states that the rural postal aelivery recently inaugurated in that part of the coun- try is proving ruinous to merchauts in Los Gatos. It may be a convenience to the ranch- ers, but it keeps them away from town, and consequently less goods are sold, In the Outlook of Santa Monica there ap- peared a few days ago the following editorial: ‘“‘Pasadena has passed an ordinance to protect song birds from the small boy and tha slung- shot. A splendid move and one well worth following. Better to destroy the cruel small boy than the song bird.” Evidently the editor of the Outlook has no smail boys of his own. Of course, the possibility of their being cruel, if he hed any, goes without saying— all small boys are cruel. Badon claims to be tiie most fortunate town in the State, and it certainly has reason for congratalation, as the following item from the Enterprise will show: “When a civil ulcer in the shape of a Cinatown has once become fastened upon a community there appears to be no legal process whereby it can be reduced o removed, as the great City of San Francisco has Jearned to her detriment and sorrow. For- tunately for our own little burg, not single germ of this cancerous growth has been per- mitted lodgment here.” NEWS QF FOREIGN NAVIE A fatal accident happened on the French battle-ship Hoche at Cherbourg on May 10. One of the dayits carrying the steam launch suddealy broke and several sailors in the launch at the time were thrown—some In the boats alongside and others into the sea. One man was killed and tbree were seriously injured. The submarine vassel, Gustave Zede, while maneuvering under water in Toulon harbor,on May 10, ran into a torpedo boat of the naval coast defense, seriously damaging her fore and aft. The furnace door of the torpedo boat ovened and the stokers were seriously injured. The submarine boat was not damaged in the least degree. The gathering of naval vessels at Spithead next month, on the occasion of the Queen’s jubilee celebration, is likely to surpass any Daval pageant that has ever taken place. Of the British navy alone there will be 160 pen- nants, fnciuding the ponderous armored bat- tle-ships and the graceful swift torpedo-boats. The tllumination preparationssre being mads on a large scale, providing for 170,000 incan- descent lignts, for whicn 700,000 yards of wire are required. The new regulations governing the admis- sion of naval cadets in the British navy have been issued and are to o into effect at the ex- aminations to be held next December. Six cadet-ships are to be given annually to the colonies, and service cadets, not to exceed seven inone year, will be selecied by the ad- miralty from sons of offisers of the army, navy or marine corps who msy have fallen while in active service. Naminations will be made three times a year and (he examinations will be conducted by the Civil Service Commission- ers. In order to qualify for admission all can- didates must obtain 40 per cent of the marks in arithmetic, algebra and geometry. The handsomest shipsof-war are those built by the Armstrong Company at Elswick, Eugland. Fourof the ships built for South American republics have not their superiors in any other navy so fa: as regards utility and no other vessels built of thelr class can com- pare with them in gond looks. The Buenos Aires, a cruiser of 4740 tons bnilt for the Argentine, is 396 feet 12 length and presents a very pretty appearance. Of the ships built for Chile the Esmeralda, ermored cruiser of 7020 tons, Blanco Encalaas, cruiser of 4400 tous, and Ministro Zenteno, cruiser of 3600 tons, have all great length, are well out of water and with comparatively minjmized super- structures and deck obstructions. Their grace- ful stem and stern and general rakishness in design give them the appearance of huge yachts rather than ships-of-war. The Tatsuta and Yoshino, built for Japan by the Elswick firm, are likewise handsome shipt. In Germany the Friedrich 11I, first- class battle-ship of 11,130, is a marked improvement upon the clumsy designs of ten years ago. France still leads in freak naval ronitecture and Great Britain in the Edgar and Eciipse class have twenty-one very pretty ships. The new ships of our navy, while not up to the appearance of the Elswick ships, compare, however, favorably with other for- elgn designs emanating from the respective navy aepartments. PERSONAL. L. H. Owen, merchant of Fresno, is at the Lick Hous C. E. Biggs, banker of Gridley, Cal,, is at the Grand Hotel. Dr. W. 8. George of Antioch isa guest at the Grand Hotel. Judge N. 0. Bradley of Visalia is a guest at the Lick House. A. J. Hudson, rancher, of Templeton, is at the Grand Hotel. A. L. Jackson and wife of San Jose are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. R. B. Oullahan, real-estate dealer, of Stock- ton, s stopping at the Grand. R. L. Harris and wife of Sacramento are stay- ing at the Cosmopolitan iotel. Mrs. M. Pixley and daughter of San Jose are registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. H. Staples Potter, Boston, reg- istered at the Palace Hotel yesterday. Frank Gould of Stockton, ex-Speaker of the Assembly, was in the City yesterday. E. 8. do Golyer and Dr. A. F. Schiffman, min. ihg men of Los Angeles, are at the Palace. George Harney, real-estate man, of Marys- vi.le, registered at the Grand last evening. Senator J. H. Shine of Sonors, Tuolumne “County, isa guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. O. P. Posey, a prominent mining man of Denver, arrived in the City yesierday and reg- istered at the Palace. George L. Arnold of Los Angeles, member of the S:ate Board of Equalization, registered at the Lick House yesterday. John McMahan of New York is at the Palace. He is well known in connection with the manufacture of Fairbanks scales. CALIFORNIANS IN WASEINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 30.--John P. Davis of San Francisco is atthe Shoreham; Charles N. Falton, at Chamberlsin’s; Theodore ill have anotier Fiesta next yoar, in spite of | Keaney, at the Shorehsm. 7 i St. Gaudens’ Equestrian Statue of John A. Logan. Great preparations are being made in Chicago for the unveiling of the St. Gaudens statue of General John A. Logan, on the lake front, on July 22 next. It is expected that President McKinley and his Cabinet will be present. “THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.” Letters From Our Readers on Topics of Current Interest. The Railroad Problem. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Maguire Suturday night. May 22, at Melropolit deserved. As the write: 1s proud to admit his admiration for the statesman the following is only intended to point out an error outlined in Turning to the Populist (Dr. Daywalt) chairman of the meeting the eloguent orator said he was opposed to Governmental ownership o He admitted that there was no virtue in so-called regulation, but declared that two remedies were the only possible sclution for our rail:osd lism—National ownership and operation. The and control their use, opening them to every person desiring to own and run a traia, \ Lot us test this last method, The real and bedrock objection to privaie ownership and operation of the railroads is that they become dangerous and oppressive mouopolies. It is admitted that these spring partly from exclusivel cvils came 3olely from that cause, then the posit: i3 clear that many evils spring eltogether from The rolling-stock, management, personnel, political intrigues, etc., etc., are tors of myriad abuses. the roadbeds. cit The eyils would remain. For ownership generally among our citizens. Th and by corporations, because the vast mass of our people are too poor to own them or could not operate them to advantage. sequence of poverly or lack of patron raflroading, and therefore the claim that maay different trains would go on the roaabeds, all | competing for business, would not find verification in practice. number might begin operations, but competition among them would ruin ail, and, therefore, following the genius of the age, s pool would take place and competitivn would eutirely cease, The final result would be thata gigantic trust or trusts would control and operate the trains and gather in their profits The only aiftsrence between the present system and the one suggested by the orator would the public would be taxed perhaps two billion doilars to build and maintain the road- be th. beds, and the transportation companiss would ernmental action as a mere donation. destroyed, but would rather be intrenched and Our rivers, bays, lakes and bordering oceans are now fra them monopoly of transportation flourishes just the same in counection with our inland sys- tem of privately owned railroads. Republicaii teft dominant, destroy our Nation. The regenerated Democracy dimly sees the coming danger | and gropingly hunts for a remedy. But Populism clearly knows that the genesis of our trouble | is monopoly, and perceives tha: in this couniry the principle of evolution runs in the railroad development as it does in all other industries. The chain of progressis this: The individual bor. This is a parinership. The two partners combine with a third person or more, and they form au association. The last eventuates into a corporation with divided conscience. These corparations ferm the trusts, whic are all intellect, and aie totally of conscience. One hundred of these trusts now control all the industries ot the Na- iinks in this chain are the individual, partnership. association, corporation, trust devoi tion. Thy end finaliy Nation. The Iatier will have ail there will be no need of discrimination. Let us et oace, following this philosophy, at least in railroads and telegraphs, forge the | iast link aud make a Natfonal trust of them sli. ! petition is killing and union is strength, and saves waste. centuries of recorded time at the singie problem, how shall men get the greatest product for thie least labor ? Collectivism, or the National time leave ibe individual hisevery natural right untrammeled and give him full opnortunity for his noblest development, physical, moral and mental. s None of them weuld be essentially removed by National ownership of en out of 100 conld own and overate a private train. and a car is surely $5000. A iocomotive and even one car would cost entirely too much for This shows that our present monopolies wou.d not be The reception given to Congressman James G. an Temple, was distingmshed, well earned and his speech on tnat occasion. f railroads, as adyocated by the People’s party. evils. One remedy is that proclaimed by Popu- other is that the Nation shall own the roadbeds private ownership of the railroads. If the n of Judee Maguire would be tenable, but it different sources. otent genera- it is c.ear as suushine that not more than one The minimum cost of a locomotive erefore the trains would be owned by rich men age the vast mass of people would not turn to At the start a considerable be fread from that burden, receiving the gov- fattened. roadbeds, open to all, but on sm innately will foster monopoly, and will, if 18 not equal to a task and he joins his neigh- | the united intellect and guided by a weak and our intellect and all our conscience, because We shall then kill the monopoly. For com- Civilization has worked for all the trust, will solve the problem and at the same JAMES TAYLOR ROGERS. WITH YCUR COFFEE. find it mypossible 10 kill the merve,” ex- claimed the deutist1n a troubled tone. “What can it mean?” “I'm s drumfer,” with s ring of pride in his voice.—Detreit Free Press. She—If you were worth the million and I was poor would ysu marry me? He—II you feel ke transferring the fortune to me and taking thancos I will give the mat- ter my serlous consideration.—Detroit Free Press. “Bridget has had breakfast late every day this week. Can't 50u do something to get her up on time?” “Well, there's the aiarm clock.” “That doesn’t aiways go off—lend her the baby."—Chicago Record. Lawyer—Did you kil your cousin only and no other member of yotr family ? Prisoner—Yes, only my cousin. Lawyer—What 2 pity. Had you butmur dered your whole family [ might have got you off on a plea of emotional insanity.—Fliegende | Blaetter. “John,” said & Somerville mother to her 3-year-old boy, “bow do yiu ever manage to wear such big holes in tie knees of your stockings?” “1 don’t know, mamma; John anmswered thoughtiully; “maybel do¥ when Isaymy prayers.”’—Somerville Journs, “Whatdid Noah live on whe the flood sub- sided and his provisious in thy ark were ex- hsusted?” asked a Sundsy-school teacher of her class. i 1 know,” squeaked a littte firl, after the others had given up. “Well, what?” inquired the tedsher. “Dry land.”—Chattanooga Timss, 1HE bATTLE. 0 f0ol, and how should we know What It was ail about? i Go to the men who sowed the croj— We simply thrashed {« ont. ‘Wordy statesmen sowed the And 'fore God 1t yielded mixhti As line on Aue of sal wart men Swung wide in tbeir swaths full From an Eastern sun to a Wester: We reaped in the harvest fle d, And wheu we rested at eventide ‘I'he ravens garnered the yleid. And with the night the gleaners came, Ruthless and cunning-esed, And 100« their toli of the fallen cropy Peering from side to side. On row on row of Human Chafr, Sifting the souls of the slain. F. E. CLAYTO! MEN :N. WOLEN, Rev. Eugenie St. John of Kansas, a we). known woman clergymsn and advocate g woman suffrage, is %0ing to Europe to st the problem of municipai government, - Connecticut papers say that the oldest mix. in the State is Manuel Oiiver Levy of Stoni, one of them what he thought of it. “Humph! Billiards gone to grass,” he replied and walked away, but not so quickly that the young lady did not see the merry twinkle in his eyes. Charles Dudley Warner, who has been mak- inga tour of Mexico, comes home much im- pressed with President Diaz as a remarkable man. Mrs. Charlotte Dewey Ross, the oldest native resident of the town of Poultney, Vt, who died at her home in East Poultney on Mon- day, at the age of 93 years, was the triend snd assoctate of Horace Greeley during his four years’ apprenticeship in that village in the trade of typesetting. She was also the school- wate anG associate of George Jones, the foun- der of the New York Times, and of Jared Sparks, the historiai The Rev. Willlam C. Mullenix of Wheaton, Ill, 64 years old, was married last month at Grand Meadow, Minn., to Mrs. Mary Bessen- aged 62, of Graud Meadow, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. Mrs. Mullenix, the bride's daughter, and the daughter-in-law of the bridegroom. The bridegroomjhad preached the funeral sermon of his wife’s first husband, and had married her to her second husband. He is her third husband, and he has himself been twice a widower. WHAT WILL TEE POWERS DO ? The fortunes of war have completely changed the situation with regard to the powers, and it is not unlikely thet the diplo- mats may prove powerless to affect the action of any Government except their own.—Brook- Iyn Citizen, Discussion of the terms of peace is now in order. An alleged “official of the Turkish Foreign Office’” is eredited with saying th NEW TO-DAY. Your throat is weak. Any unusual exposure or quick change in temperature causes roughness and uneasiness. Sometimes you have a feel- ing of tightness as if some foreign body were there. You can treat it with troches and washes, but you don’t reach the seat of the trouble. Throat weakness is a symp- tom of more general disturb- ance. Scott’s Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil does cure weak throats by healing the in- ton, who was born in Portugal 104 years -gg, Alady in Maine, speaking of Camp Meetin, John Allen, says that some years ago stopped in the street to see her and her friends playing croquet on the Jawn and was asked by flammation and nourishing his Government would possibly “moairy its demand for the cession of Thessaly and an in- demnity,” butit would insist on depriving Greece of the privileges granted in the capitu- Jations. As this is en entering wedge for sube jecting all foreiguers in Turkey to the uncer. tainties of Turkish justice, it will be closely scrutinized, doubtless, by ‘the powers.—Lait more Sun. 1 the concert decices that Turkey is en to Thessaly, or so much of it es she nee “rectify, her fronuer,” Lord Salisbury w bound to submit, as he has submiited before, Many Englishmen are bezinning (o complain that It really has been the concert and nothe ing—nothing but fuiiure and disgrace.—New York Evening Post. The war is over, but the end s not yet. Turkey has won ‘Thessaly by the sword, and the chances are that by the sword alone can she be driven out. Weseriously doubt whether the powers, in view of the Russo alifance, will be able to prevent an ext of the Turkish: border into Thessal proves to be trne the shame and humiliaijon of Caristian Europe will be complete.—X York Mail and Express. Itis difficult to see how Greece could money with which to pay a war indem Her nationnl debt amounts to $66 per capi more than five times our debt, nud her secur. ties are quoted in London at 19 cents on tne doliar. Turkey’s financial condition is equally precarious. There is no record in moder, history of two such bankrupt nations going . war with each other and Wwith as much froid as was ever possessed by a Micawbe Philadelphia Inquirer. tled CREAM mixed candies 20 Ib. Townsend's, * - £PECTAL Information daily to manufacturary * business houses and public men by the Prasy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Moutgomery. & i Frnsl i “They say Flippy is very absent-minded.” “Yes; hismind has been absent ever since I knew him, and that's twenty years.”"—Detroit Free Press. The Great anta Fe System Leaves dally at 5 ». ». Through cars to Chicago, with Pullman palace, drawing-room and modern upholstered tourist sleepers now daily. Tickets also sold via Portland, Ogden, Los An- geles, Demiog or Fl Pasoto all points in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and s eamship tickets to all poluts in Europe. “ee time-table ln adver- tising column. San Franclsco ticket ofhce, 644 Market street. Chronicle bullding, telephone Mala 1531; Oakland, 1118 Broadw: Greatly Reduced Rates to Spokane, Helena, Butte and St. Paul Tickets both first and second class sold to the above-mentioned points at a great reduction. These rates may oniy be in effect for_alimited pe- rio1, 30 buy your tickeis at once. Now Is time to g0 to the Kootenal mining distric these low rates. Call on or address T. K. Ntate goneral agent Northern Pacific Ko Market stieet, San Francisco, before buy ticket anywhere else. —————— ‘Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrap* Has been used over fitty yoars by millions of motbers for their children whiie Teething with pers fect success. 1t soothesthe child, softens (he gums, allays Patn. cares Wind Colic, regulates .he Bowely and s the best remedy for Diarrhcens, whether aris- 10g from tee.hing or other causes. kor sale by drug §1818 10 every part of the worid. Be sure and ask 107 Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 26C & boitle, S ComoxaDO.—Atmosphere is perfectly dry. soft and miid, being entirely free from the mists come mon further north. Round-trip tickats, by steam- ship, fucluding fifteen days bosrd at the Hotel del Coronado, $60; longer stay 4 New Montgomery stre A hacking cough is a weariness 10 tha flesh; but Ayers Cherry Pectoral Is & cure that never fails, ————————— “Juliug is making money now.” What is he doing?” “He is teaching deaf peovle how to keep from wanting to walk on railroad tracks.”— Chicago Record. NEW TO-DAY. Hall-chairs—but not only for halls. Can be used in any room in the house. We sell many for desk chairs and for odd bits in the parlor and sit- ting-room. We show 102 kinds, each differing from the rest by some curve, twist or circle. It costs no more to choose from this lot than from the skimpiest stock in town. From $5.50 to your purse limit. Like picture, $6.50. New Another lot of sum- mer furniture ha Summer Giteae 4 come. Chairs, di- Furniture. vans and couches of bamboo (American made), stained green. Upholstered in a coarse fiber cloth that looks like art matting, but it isn’t. California Furniture Company (N P Cole & Co) Ut{r‘{gs u7 Street Matigs (LOSE ONE EYE s N THE OTHER IF YOU CANNOT SEE EQUALLY WELL BOTH NEAR. AND FAR CALL AND SEE US OPTICIANS pHoT0%s g es 3k SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS "5, 77 642 MARKET ST. A% For sale by all druggists at so cents and $r.c0. andstrengthening the system. 1 SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. UNBLRCHRORICLE BUILDING o« 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-00 MEAI Properly prepared ana 2 promptly served, can THE GRILL ROOM OF THE Diniee soers GROVE L. JOHNSON JartDSTaD with Watter 1 Liohe o aad’ e AN EXCELLENT =N L always bs obtained in Decidedly the P a I A CE meat in town. HASBKMOVED HIS LAW OFFICES FROM K. Whitaker, with oftices at 310 Piue s p 14 { \ 1 ev [ a 1 8