The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 7, 1897, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1897. e eee——————————— CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUL, Editor and Proprietor. | SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily end Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.18 Daily Daily Daily D and Sunday Cavi, three months by mail 1.50 nd Sunday CaLy, one month, by mail. .65 y CALL, one year, by mall W EEKLY CaL1, one year, by mail. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Marke: Street, Fan ¥rancisco, Californtia, Telephone . ceieieeneenn. MalD—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Streew Yelephene . Main-1874 BRANCH OFFICES i Montgomery s:reet, coraer Clas: open antd | o'clock 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until $:30 o'clock. | BW, corner Sixieenia and Mission sireets, open n street, open until 9 o'clock. eet, open until 9 o'clock. pen until 9:30 o'clock. corner Tweuty-second and XKentuoky ; open Lill 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICB: 908 Broad way. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 52, 54 Park Row. New York Cltye DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. — THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMEK MONTHS. Areon going to the country ona_vacation? It €0, 1t Is no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your add Do not let it miss you for you will E ven 10 the Carrier or lefi ay receive prompt aitention. NO EXTRA CHAKGE. Fifiy conis per monih for summer montns. The tariff bill goes slowly through the Senate, but up to this time it has steadily improved as it goes, and there is comfort in that, ¥ Queen to wed herself to a Wettin they might have foreseen she would give them a long reign. There may be a gnod deal of the so-called tpush” on the Hall of Justice bulding, but it is not pushing the work to any great extent. Greater New York will be thirty-two | miles long, eighteen miles wide and so high Chicago will have to turn up her nose to look at it The next time Eurcpe hasa Cretan ques- tion on her hands she will settle it before all the fat gets in the fire. It is true that one man is running the House of Representatives, but as he is| running 1t to suit the majority and to suit ) the country, no distress is felt except among the blatherskites. Europe is doing her best to avoid hav- ing to whip Turkey, and we are trying to get awsy from the task of giving Spain a lesson, but these disagreeable things may | have to bo done in the end. | The proposed free market is to be dis- cussed before the Farmers’ Club this even- ing by so msny experts that when they | have finished there will hardly be left | unsaid acything worth saying except “thanks.” Ex-Governor Waite of Colorado has gone to Texas to make his home and grow up with the country, and now whenever he wishes to ride in blood up to his bridle- bits all he will have to do is to tackle a cowboy outfit. It is the opinion of Dun’s Review that *‘people areactually doing more business than they realize,” and the opinion is well founded. There is the same old talk of bard times, but trade statistics show steady improvements everywhere, Philadelphia has erected a monument to Stephen Girard and New York has erected one to Peter Cooper. The “promi- nent citizen” is coming to the front in the statuary list, and our sculptors are count- ing on something like a boom. There is no summer resort on the conti- nent which equals San Francisco 1 the variety of its charms., We have ocean, mountains, woods and landlocked waters at our doors, and in addition thereto all | the comforts of home. The people of the | interior who wish a good time should | come to see us and stay all summer. | All the streetcars in Albany, N. Y., have recently been provided with a siyle of | fender known 2s “the providence,” and | tbe New York Times in describing the mechine says that a man who is scooped up in one of them “is apt to have an ex- citing moment or two, but be will escape any serious injury.” The double-story bonnet, with a wealth of pretty ribbon and a bird or two upon | it, will never more obstruct the sight of goers to tae piay; but the goer to the churches still may find it in his way. And this may have the good effect his falter- ing steps to guide where the old famil bonnet holds the same old sway inside. The attractions of the Queea’s jubilee hias led to an abnormally largs rush of travel to Europe from this country, and it is estimated the tourists will take out at least $100,000,000 to help pay for the spec- tacle and the accompanying frolic, so that for the Londoners the festival will be | almost as good as a bonanza or a universal | exposition. A lively discussion is geing on among the word purists of the East as to whether the new siyle of show should be called a veriscope, animatiscoe, alethoscove or cinematograph. It is a safe prediction that veriscope will be generally adopted because it is most easily pronounced, but any man who pays his money to see the show may call it what he will. It is announced that the receipts of the streetcars of Torontc on ths first Sunday they were ever run in that city amounted 10 $1326, and in accordance with an agree- ment made with the railroad company the whole amount was turned over to the charitabie institutions of the city. Just think what charities we could sapport in Ban Francisco if we had for them the total receipts of the Sunday travel oa the streetcars. Senator Chandler’s suggestion that Sen- ator White should wear ared badge on the day when he is going to oppose the tariff and & white one on the day he pro- Pposes to support it applies equaily ta every Democrat in the Senate. They always vote for protection to their State industries and oppose those of others. The variable badge, therefore, would apply to the whole party. At one time the Democral hoists the flaz of truce to save his Jocal interests and the next mo- ment he raises the war flag and threatens to knife everything in sight, When the British people allowed their | THE FREE MARKET. The programme announced for the meeting of the Farmers’ Club at the hall of Mechanics' Institute this evening gives promise of furnishing on first-class au- thority about all the data needed to pro- | vide a safe basis on which to make esti- mates as to what will be the requirements of the proposed free public market on the water front. The meeting will therefore be one of more than usual public interest and shoula be attended by all who feel any concern in this important municipal | undertaking. Edward F. Adams is to submit to the ciub a statement of the objects of the market as conceived by its original pro- moters; T. V. O’Brien will explain the | scope of the act of the Legislature on the subject; C. F. Smurr is to give estimates of the total tonnage to be provided for; Marsden Manson will deal with the engi- neering and docking problems invoived ; B. N. Rowley will consider the number of persons concerned in the traffic to be car- ried on at the market either as buyers or sellers; a member of the California Transportation Company will discuss the transportation problems to be dea!t with, and W. H. Milis will consider the market as it affects the public generally. These papers cover nearly the whole subject and constitute a comprehensive sion Merchants' Association to appoint a representative to prepare a paper on the trade problems involved. A. W. Foster has been requested to make a statement of the railway transporiation problems whico may possibly arise, and the Mer- chants’ Association has been asked to have one of its members prepare a paper on the manner the proposed market is likely to affect the people as consumers. Itis, of course, to be expected that all the papers will be short. The object of them is simply to compile the data neces- sary for a proper consideration of the problem. The men who have been chosen | to prepare them are experis in the sub- jects on which they have been requested to write, and the information obtained will be therefore of gennine value to the public. It is even probabie that, taken as a whole, the papers will furnish to the farmers and the Harbor Commissioners all the facts which will be required to en- able them to reach some satisfactory con- ciusion as to wbat is to be done, how it cost. The proposed market is one which will be of benefit to the City as well as to the country. The consumer in San Francisco will derive advantages fully eaual to those gained by the producer of the interior, and it is to be hoped some way will be seen for a prompt beginning of the de- sired work. Thediscussion at the Farmers’ Club will help to make the way clear, and | it will certainly furnish the public with a | completer knowledge of the subject than could be gained hitherto from any source. CONDITION OF TRADE In spite of the delay of the Senate in passing the tariff bul trade conditions continue to improve, hence it is reason- able to suppose that had the Senate been as prompt in the matter as the House the country would to-day b fully entered upon the promised season of prosperity. But the iide has turned, and even the prolonged debate in the Senate cannot check its advance. The improvement is shown by many | quiet revivais here and there. One excei- leat indication is the railroad earnings, which are about as good a trade barometer 8s we have. The cross earnings of eighty roads for the first week in May amounted to $6,316,485, an increase of $208,295, or 3.41 per cent; while fifty-six roads for tha sec- ond week of May report $5,163,760, an in- crease of $260,487, or 5.31 per cent. As to net earnings, 135 roads show an increase of $1,615,000 for March, &t the rate of of $1,651,000, or at the rate of nearly 3 per cent. One of the most satisfactory fea: tures of this improvement is that it ex tends pretty evenly over the roads of all sections, showing that the recovery is due | to canses common to the country at large. Dun's Review recognizes the general improvement, and in commenting upon it says: People are actually doing more business than they realize. They reckon by values, but these are much lower than in any previous year of prosperity and leave little marzin for profits In quanuty there is almost as much busine: being done as in the yearsof greatest pros- perity, and though the increase in popula- tion would call for a material expansion tne comparison is not discouraging. The recov- ery is siow, hesitating and gradual, but more bas been done on the whole in May than in April, while returns in April showed the volume of business only 10 per cent smaller than that of the best year heretofore. Yet hesitation is doing its work every week, and multitudes are waiting because of possibilities at Washington who ought to be swelling the demand for lubor and the products of labor. Exports of gold cause no alarm, as ‘hey are obviously the resuits of the premium paid by Russie, and it is well understood thatgoods imported in May, thus far 51 per cent larger than last year, are suppiying wants for months to come, while exports of products, in May thus {ar 27 per cent larger than last yoar, will much increase within two months. The treas- ury is doing well and the money market has gained $2,000,000 from the interior during the week. The encouraging incresse in the demand for commereial loans still continues in volume as large and in quality of paper offered even betler than last week. An amusing illustration of the fallacy iff results in large expor!s of our manu- factures has just come to light. Accord- ing to the Government report, of the $569,000,000 worth of goods exported from the United States last year $504,000,000 worth were agricultural produce. As the percentage of manufactures in the above exports was under 9 the state- ment must be an eye-opener to the aver- age free-trader. ARE OUR SOHOOLS ASLEEP? In an address before the Harvard Teach- ers’ Association, Colonel Thomas Went- worth Higginson expresses the opinion that many of our schools are asleep, that they teach processes that deaden rather than stimulate the mind, and that they and their teachers need to be waked up. He suggests that so far as the teacher be- comes himself a learner and keeps him- self perpetually in the attitude of learn- ing, just so far is he near the pupiis, and can see through the pupils’ eyes, and the pupils through his eyes. Colonel Higginson illustrated his point in this way: ‘A French dramatic criti Sanson, listening to a certain play that young aspirant was reading, went sound asieep early in the play. When the read- ing was over, he awoke and informed the youth tbat it would never do. The youth said, with just indignation, ‘How do you know? You cannot even have formed an opinion; you were p.’ Said the crive, ‘Sleep is an opinion.” The verdict upon the average school or upon the poorer class of schools is the rzign of p within them.”” At a conference of professors of English in colleges and preparatory schools, held programme of discussion, but in addition | | to them the ciub bas invited the Commis- should be done, and what it wili probably | about 9 per cent; while for the first three | montns of the year 179 roads exhibit a cain | of the free-trade argumer.t that a low tar- | | last week in New York City, Professor Mott of the College of the City of New | York declared that the average New York schoolbov, on going to college, had to be taught English as if he were learning a new language. Of course, Colonel Higginson's opinion, as well as Professor Mott's declaration, had particular reference to schools in the East. Can it safely be aflirmed that as a rule the common schools of the West are superior to thos» of the East? Are any of | our schools asleep? It is possibie that these questions are susceptible of answers that would redound to the credit of our | Western common schools. Nevertheless, | these opinions and declarations from | Eastern educators should be seriously con- | sidered; not that any criticism above made apolies to our Western schools, but in order that our schools may not at any time afford reason for such criticism. WORLD'S RAW MATERIALS From the annual report of the president | of the French permanent commission on customs valuation, just published, it ap- pears that the civilized worla is by no means coming to an ead of its resources as regards raw materials for industries, or even for food, and that there can be no fear of nature being exhausted in satisfying its requirements. In a recent issue of the FEconomiste Francais M. Paul Leroy-Beaulieu states that for a long time it had been a sort of axiom with economists that if manu’ac- tured goods have a tendency to persist- ently fall in price as mechanical and chemical improvements advancs, ail veg- eiable and animal proaucts, especially the | 1atter, must grow dearer through ths in- capacity of agricuiture to keep pace with industry in its progress. This contention is, however, denied at the present day as aresult, in fact, of the experience of the last quarter of a century. On the one hand, the world not being yet completely peopled, enormous tracts of country like the two Americas, Oceanica, and more lately Africa, with an extent of territory out of proportion to their sparse popula- tion, can daily pour out into the oid coun- tries increasing quantities of raw material; on the other hand the ancient civiliza- tions, such as India, Japan and in a lesser | degree China, are having recourse not | only 10 the capital, but also to the techni- cal methods of Europe and are becoming more and more productive. The report refer ed to in the first para- | graph gives instructive information on the upward tendency in the prodaction of raw materials for industriesand manufac- tures. On account of the minute detsils it affords this report cannot be applied to quite recent facts, bul doals with the | years 1894 and 1895, For exemule, take wool, which is the | first article treated. It1s well known how much the quantities of this article of mer- chandise have increased within the last | thirty or forty years. One estimate has placed the production in Europe, the United States, La P.ata, the Cape and Australia at 806,000,000 ponnds in 1850, 1,371,000,000 pounds in 1870 and 1,577,000, 000 pounds in 1880. In 1895, according to the repori of the valuation commission, *‘the quantity of wool at the disposal of { the world’s industries reached 1,059,000, | kilogs.”” This wouid mean about 2,334, 000,000 pounds, or nearly three times as much as in 1850, 70 per cent more than |in 1870, and 45 per cent more than |in 18%. This enormous development in the production of a raw mate. |rial must cause a considerable fall | in prices, and even with this decline in the wholesale value, which is never fol- lowed by a provortionate and equally rapid decline in the retail vaiue, the plac- |ing of the article has been very difficult, In 1896 there was a perceptible rise in the value of wool on account chiefly of the ravages oceasioned by the drougit in Australia; but it woula be imprudent to reckon on the continuance of this rise, which was due to exceptional causes. Permanent prosperity in the wool in- dusiry of this country will be attained | through a protective tariff. In this, as in ther cases, we can well afford 10 encour- ge our own country’s production of the | | raw material needed in our manufactures, Asto cotten, the production of which goeson increasing year by year, the re- port says: “The consumption cannot keep pace witn the production.”” Increase in production to a wonderful degree is shown in nearly every instance where raw ma- terial, of whatever kind, is considered. The production of timber may increase in notable proportion. The mewer coun- tries of South America, and parts of Alfrica, will be able t0 sdd immense quan- tities of various kinds of woods to the world’s supply when they are opened up | by railways, or when there are increased facilities for river transportation. COAST EXCHANGES Surveying of the route of the new electric road beiween Nevada City and Marysville will begin in about ten days, says the Nevada City Transeript. The Stockton Independent is authority for the statement that the building of the Sierra Pa- cific Railroad from Oukdale to Sonora is about the fastest bit of track-laying ever done. Dur- ing the full moon last month workmen were kept on night and day, and the completed truck seemed to come into existence like magic. A representative of the Marysville Democrat took a tour through the mining aistricts of Yuba County last week and reports that pros- pectsin that section are most encouraging. Work on several long-sbandoned mines has { been resumed and & number of new ones are siarting. The county is full of prospectors and some big strikes are likely at any time. According to tie Washington Press of last week quite & little excitement was caused last Tuesday in the vicinity of Niles by the dropin prices and the refusal of canners to take cherries contracted for. The Press say: “Growers are ina sense at the mercy of the packers, and will be just as long as they do not have and own their own canneries, as they do their drier: The people of Suisun, says ihe Solano’ Re- Ppublican, are getting anxious about the start- ing of the cannery that was bullt there few months ago. It was expected that by this time it would be running full blast, buc all is as yetsilent in the building. It seems that the prices of early fruit have been unsatistac- tory to the owners of the cannery and they decided not 10 prepare any for market. How- ever, some changes have been made in the management, and the promise has gone forth that work will commence when apricots are ready for canning. Tne proposition to construct s magnificent boulevard between Los Angeles and Sunts Monica, that was broached in the Herald a few days ago, is meetng Wwith & reaay approval through the southern counties. Many of the papers in that partof the State have referred to the matter in such a kindly way thst the people will surely be interested, and if such comes to pass the building of the boulevard will be an easy matter. From present indica- tions the road should be well under way be- fore winter, and when it is finished there is littie doubt that it will be one of the finest driveways In the world, NEWS OF FORE.GN NAVIEs. The battle-ship butlding at the Thames Iron Works, London, for Japan has been named Shikishima. The European fleets in the Mediterranean consist of 100 vessels exclusive of torpedo- boats. Engiand has 25, France 32, Italy 26, Russia 9 and Austrie 8 ships watching tae trouble beiween Turkey and Greece. On June 15 twenty-two cruisers and forty- two gun-vessels, torpedo-bost destroyers and torpedo-boats will go into commission at the dockyards at Chatham, Devonport end Ports- mouth. This fleet will require about 10,000 men, but only for the time during which the jubilee programme is carried out. The Whiting, torpedo-boat destroyer, built by Palmer, Newcastle, for the British navy, had her second trial on May 14, and made an average speed of 30.42 knots in six runs over the measured mile. The horsepower averaged 6231 During her three hours, continuous trial the boat averaged 30.21 knots per hour. The Tagasako, a cruiser of 4150 tons built at Elswick for Japan, was lsunched May 18. She 15 360 feet in length, 46 feet beam and a max- imum draught o1 17 jeet. The bunker capac- ity 15 1000 tons of coal and the contract speed 24 knots or 13 knots more than the cruisers now in course of construction at Cramps ana the Union Iron Wor ks. The Royal Sovereizu has hitherto been con- sidered the fastest battle-ship in the British navy, but must now give way for the Prince George. Coming down from Aross Bay May 20, the battle-ships got orders to proceed un- der full power, with natural dravght, for twenty-four hours, and in the race the Prince George got into Portsmouth one mile ahead of the Royal Sovereign. The London Engineer expresses the opinion that the trouble in the United States with the armor-plate manufacturers is likely to result in dearer instead of cheaper armor. Armor- plate manufacturers at Sheffield and Creusot are in the combination with Carnegie and the Bethlehem corporations, and will not reduce the price. As a consequence the Engineer be. lieves the American companies can afford w0 weit until the Government accepis their terms. Die Marine Rundschau, a semi-official pub- lication in Germany, devoted to naval matiers, Tates the principal nayal powers in the follow- iogorder: England, France, Russia, United Staies, Japan, Italy and Germany. Expressing their fighting values in units, the relative effi- ciencies stand: England 1001, France 466, Russia 280, United States 195, Japun 170, Ac- cording to this showing the nevy of Great Britain exceeds in fighting vaiue the com- bined navies of France, Russia and the United States. Atthe dockyard at Kiel 4000 to 5000 men are steadily emplosed. Shipwrights receive 60 to 90 cents a day of ten hours, and leading men $1 03. Near the dockyard the work- man's buliding socleties have erected cottages for 200 families. Each dwelling, containing three rooms and kilcuen, rents for §3 12 to $3 88 monthly, and ten years after allotment passes into the possession of the workmau, while at the end of thirty-five years it becomes bisfree and unincumbered property. Stores are also provided, at which workmen can buy all they require at moderate prices. Consid- ering that the wages at Kiel compare with those at Philadeiphia s 60 and 90 cents to $2 50 to $3. the mystery is why the German ships-of-war are so expsusive, Ships builtin this country only exceed the cost of German man saips by less than 20 per cent notwitn- standing the enormous difference in wages favorable to Germany. There seems to be but one satisfactory explanation, namely, that more work is done by the individual work- maaand & better system carried on in this country, PERSONAL L. Wilmot of Livermore is at the Cosmopoli- tan. W. H. Hollenback of Fresno is at the Cosmo- politan Hotel. John Baker of Highland Springs is at the Cosmopolitan A.C. Rosendale, s merchant of Pacific Grove, is & guest of the Grand. H, P. Blackburn, a leather merchant of Phiiadelphis, is at the Palace. Dr. Godfrey Broderick of the U. S. S. Concord was at the California yesterday. Judge J. D. Goodwin of Plumas County regis- tered at the Oceldental yesterday. J.Kahn, a prominent merchant of Plymouth, Cal., was at the Baid win last night. W. Maurer and C. Knoll, promiment busi- ness men of Seattle, are at the Cosmopolitan, A. Shewon and Harry M. Woods, of Shang- hai, and H. McDougall of Amoy are at the Palace. L. Leon Lorde, an extensive planter and merchant of Costa Rica, with his wife. isat the Caltforn Judge Erskine M. Ross and United States Marshal Covarrubias of Los Angeles registered st the Palace yesterda; Lieutenaat-Commander J. D. Briggs of the United States navy, en route for the Honolulu station, is at the Palece. J. D. Meikle, furmerly in the insurance busi- in this City, but now a resident of Glas- gow, Scotiand, is st the Grand, Rev. W. O. Elterich and wife, of Peoris, who have been serving ss missionaries in Chine, arrived on the Coptic last night. Colonel Z. S Spaiding of New York, pro- Jector of the contemplated cable to Honolulu, was among the guests at the Palace lust even- iny ommander Richardson Clover of the United States navy, accompanied by his fam- ily, arrived from Washingion and registered at the Palace last evening. TBishop McKim, head of the Episcopalian missions of China and Japsn, and Arch- deacon Page of the same aistrict, arrived on the Coptic last night and registered at the Occidental. OPPOR UNITY Master of buman destinies am 1! on my footsteps walt. nd fields I walk; I penetrate Deserts aod seas remote, and passiog by Hovel and mart and pi ce, 00@ Or late 1 knock unbidden once at every gate. 1f sleeping. wake; If feasting, r.se before 1 tarn awa; It i Lhe hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals aesire and conquer every foo Eave deaih: bui these who doubt or hesitate, Condemned to failure, penur- and woe, Feek me in vain and uselessly inplore. 1 answer not and I return no more. —U'he Watchman. WITH YCUR COFFEE. “Do you understana the nature of an oath!” *I'm a telephone girl, Judge.”"—Judge. She painted an exquisite picture— The colors were spread nice and thiek ; Then, while *neatn a tree, she fell dozing, A calf gave the finishing lick. —Detroit Free Press. Mistress—Now, you must always sweep well behind the doors, Mar. Mary—Yes'm, trust me for that! it's the only Wway one can get the dust out of sight.—Pick- Me-Up. Actor James O’'Neill, who has been arrested in St. Paal jor riding & bicycle after dark without & lantern, probably thought that a bicycle carrying a star needed no additional light.—Chicago Post. Itis true that Prince Constantine was bap- tized with eleven front names, but that cuts no ice with Consiantine. He retreats withas much ceicrity as plain John Smith.—Cincin- nati Commercial Tribune. “Did you tell that young man not to call here any more?” asked Mabel's father se- verely. 'N—no.” hy no1?” 1did’nt think it was necessary. I don’t see how he could call any more, now. He calls seven times & week. ‘Washington Star. He—You say you msrried a Western man? She—Yes. ‘And that he never drinks?” ever.” or smoke?” No, sir. “Nor loses his temper!” “That’s what I " “‘When did he die?”—Yonkers Statesman. NOT A onk--AY JIB Baltimore .American. Itis o easy task to rightall the wrongs of the Cieveland administration, but the work isbeing done as rapidly as cirgumstaaces and Democrats will permit. and Sunasy; “If M=, McKenna didn’t rido a bike, able to keep himself in trim for the job.” ATTORNEY-GENERAL MKENNA AND HIS WAYS. “Attorney-General of the United States” might more properly read “Solicitor of Pardons for the United States,” fof since the great increase in the establishment of Federal courts throughout the country the chief function of the Attorney-General has been the disposition of pardon cases. FPresident Cleveland’s Attorney-Generals were, it is tue, relieved of this herculanean task, for Mr. Cleveland’s hobby was a close personal serutiny of every serap of paper bearing upon a pardon that reached his desk, and no otner President since Lincoln | passed upon so0 many cases of this sort. The gristof pardon applications that reaches the desk of a President every year is now close on (0 700 in number, or neaziy two & day, and the Papers nccompanying each appiication are of huge bulk, skill of devisement and persuasive- ness—the petitions alone often weigh as much as an old-fashioned family Bible. Presiden: McKinley intrusts the consideration of this Attorney-General, Josepk McKenna of California, and it keeps Mr. McKenna working o’ nights 100, to handie it, says the Washingion Star. * said Private Secretary Blandford, he wouldn’t be Even as it s, Mr. McKenna sometimes exhibits an abstracted weariness to observant visit- ors that portrays the strain of the work. He has often the aspect of a student worn out by much labor under the lamp; and when you are ushered into st mass of pardon material to his is office he is apt not to be im- THE ATTORNEY.GENERAL TAKING A MORNING SPIN. of his 1ask. working Attorney-General since Garland. “that he does not sleep in his office.” quality of indefatigabl=ness get up early in the morning. E along without using bis handiebars! now he rides because he can’t help himself. them. rily gets there not long after 8 o’clock. the Nation. umbrageous trees. his work, or as much of it that hour. alot of fishing heresbouts. grizzhes and House of Represeniatives. mediately able to raise his gaze from the enormous pile of papers before him, and when he does finally become aware of your presence he often enough runs his hand over his eyes and look<out of the window for a moment Lefore he is able to throw off the absorbing influence Judge McKenna is pronounced by old Department of Justice officials to be the hardest- It is rather & wonder to me,” said one of them, As a commitieman in Congress he displayed the same He belongs to 1.0 clubs, socleties or fraternities, und is therefors permitted to go to bed &t a reasonabie hour of nights—that Department of Justice, and tbat hour might sometimes be deemed unreasonable fora man nolding one of the highest positions under the Government. upon retiring at an early hour that will permit him to rise very early in the morning, for he has the very strongest sort of an appreciation of the leafage and the flowerage of this town, to say nothing of the concrete pevements; riders this should seem to leave nothing to be He goes a-riding on his wheel. the sireots in northwestern Washington at an hour in the morning when his clerks are dresming of elysium and payday and other bright tnings. veteran, which be is, for he was one of the first of the first brigade of safety wheel users, There is something quite interesting in the spectacle of an Attornes-General of the United & man of the greatest dignity and learning, scudding about at dews morn on a racing- machine; but tbe interest grows to wonder when it is noted that he is quite capable of going At first, Mr. McKenna took up a bicycle for his health; He has some rather fine ideas on the question of physical training—as what man who has spent nearly all of his life in Benicia, the home of the eminent pugilist, John C. Heenan, would not?—and bicycle-riding figures at the front of Quite often Judge M¢Kenna rides his wheel to the Department of Justice, and he ordins- Then it is a case of grind—not alone upon his accumu- lating pile of pardons, but upon the thousand other details which fall to the lot of the official who is the law representative 6! the United States Government, the prosecuting attorney for Mr. McKenna usually keeps at work on the lofty heap on his desk until close on to 12 o’clock noon, when be receives visitors. But for the first month after he took his office he was fortunate in having for a private secretary a man whose experience hed taught him a great deal of the gentle art of *“fanning”—Mr. Blandford—who was with Mr. Olney both in the De- partment of Justice and the Department of State, and has the most winning way known in Washington of pointing out to unweicome callers the joys of exercise out-of-doors under the Judge McKenna has his chicken sandwich and bottle of apollinaris brought to him after be has dispersed his visitors, somewhere near 2 o'clock, and he not gncommonly holds the sandwich i one hand and a very ponderous-looking paper in the other. tates during luncheon. He has no stenographer, Mr. Blandford acting as his shorthand man inconnection with his dutles as private secretary and confidential clerk, which would make it appear that Mr. Blandford rather earns his pay. Somatimes Judge McKenna gets through with he chooses to do for one da: good deal oftener hedoes not. It does not grow dark in Washington nowadays until late and yet the lights are often ablaze in the Attorney-General's office for & cousidersble period after During the summer Judge McKenna will probably find enough of a let-up in his work to do | He is a fisherman oi entnus! angler, but a fisherman. If, however, he is not a scientific angler, he s certainly, nccording to the stories told by his California friends, a giant smong hunters. He took hia few vacadons in California among the great mountains of that State, and in those mountains there ere ainters” and other such “varmints,” has guaned and gunned well, so that the redheads and pheasants down the bay have scemed exceedingly easy (o him on the gunoing trips he made down that way when he wi , after he leaves his office at the But, in Washington, he insists | and he rides a bicyele; and to bicyele- id as to why the Attorney-General likes to He may be seen flitting around What is more, he rides like & Often, too, he diec- | by 5 o'clock in the afternoon, buta m, persistence and success—not an For these, it is said, Judge McKenna in the MEN AND WOMEN. Mrs. McKinley takes an interest in all col- lege entertainmen; Lord Wolseley proposes to begin reform in the army by abolishing the eocked hats and feathers worn by staff officers. Miss Charlotte H. Spence, who has been nominated to & seat In the Australasian Fed- eral Association, is & native of Melrose. Jan Maclaren is responsible for the state- ment that Harold Frederic is the most popu- lar American author in England to-day. Miss Belle Norman received a large vote for member of the Board of Education inSt. Louts, Mo., on May 18, but failed of eleciion. It was the first time that a woman had been a candi- date for the School Boara in that conservative aty. Senator Wellington of Maryland interests himself while the Senate is in sestion in look- ing over newspaper clippings about himself. e supscribes to a news-ciipping bureau and reads everything that is said about him with a great deal of interest. Drs. Seguy and Quenisset of Paris, who have made a special study of the effect ot X rays, advise all persons with wesk hearts to keep away from the rays. The doctors say the rays produce an unendurable palpitation, which is 8pt to cause fatal trouble. Major Ginter, the Richmond tobacco king, has resigned his position as director of the American Tobaceo Company and will soon re- tire from active business, worth $8,000,000. When he laid down bis musket at Appomaitox he did not have a dollar or the prospectof one. Judge-Advocate Samuel T. Shaylor of Jack- sonville, Fis., while sitting on a whar{ during & court-martial recess, found in the hem of his trousers & $75 dismond ring. He had pur- chased the trousers a yesr sgo of Captainu Lelter of Sanford, Fia., but had not had oc- casion before to use them. THE - ANSHEE New York Sun. ‘We hear no more of the Banshee. Isthat melancholy old lady dead? The hills where she took up ber residence in times pastare silent now, and even the whirlwinds in which she used to appear, with her sad, pale face and flowing hair, come without her. After all, 1t may be 100 soon to write her obituary; but, inasmuch as she was always a sympathetic and singularly interesting creature, a littie sketeh of her may not be out of place. Thero was always & good deal of mystery about her, and even her pative country was never known. Although Scotland and Ire- land have claims upon her, it is suspected that she first saw the light in Norway so long go that she is now forgotten in that country Probably she came over to Britain with th vikings, and, as ‘was 8 lady of refinement | and good taste, she preferred to confine her- self 10 Scotland nd Ireland. She loved to listen to the pibroch on the die- tant hills and to siz on some rock nears frown- ing castle and cateh faint fragmonts of the mu- sic of the narpers as it came 10 her in “the wind that shakes the barley.”” Like most romantic | ladies, she was foud of the soldiers, She loved the warriors, and {avored the fighting fami- | lies only. Proud, indeed, were the Ceits who could boast that their ancestors for centuries hed heard the keening of the Banshee. Her painiul duty was to give warniog of approach- ing death, and she always performed it in tears. Sh Kkept pretty busy weeping and wailing, and, her uncle Odin, could be heard 10 the 'best advantage on & wild and stormy night. Now the real name of the Banshee may or may not be known. Possibly some of our Norwegian scholars may be able to give it to us, if she really does belong to Norway. Cer- tainiy she might be cailed & somewhat super. stitious dame; but she was berutiful, and, although nobody ever liked 10 hear her voice, everybody would be sorry to think that she was dead. A MODERN ALCHEMIST. ‘Washington Post. E.C. Brice, the Chicago alchemist, whose process for creating gold and silver has just received inquiry at the hands of a commisston appointed by the Becretary of the Treasury, says he has been most unfairly treated. The Treasury side of the matter has already been told. The commission appointed by Sscretary Gage emphatically reporied thet the Chica- goau couid not create either of the precious metels. “From the hostile position assumed from the start by Mr. Gage's commission,” said Mr, Brice, “it was quite impossible for me 1o give them satisfaciOry resuits, though Idid prove beyond the shadow of a doubt an inerel creation from chemically pure materials of over 100 per cent. Hud ths commission treated me with common fairness I would bave given them some of the further steps of my process and they would have seen results that would have compelied them to give & re- port in my favor. “My invention,” continued Mr. Brice, “is Dot the creature ‘of a few idie hours, but the result of years of research in the very bosom of mature, from which mignty storehouse but few of our so-called scientific men draw any of their inspiration at the present day. They seem to prefer the drugstore and the supply house. My researches were along the line of discovering how nature made the ore from which man extracts 04, and mot the goid itsell. Tknew that if T tound the one I could discover the other. In this the ancient sichemists failed. They endeavored 1o pro- duce in their crucibles lumps of yirgin gold. The appliances of the times, moreover, were against them, asmechanics aud the knowledge of heats hed at no time advanced sufficiently to warrant a chance of success. 1:0n the night of February 20, 1889, I made the first gold 1hat was ever created by the hand of man, and the fact that this can be doue has since been repeatedly demonstrated. We have sent thousands of ounces of goid to the smelters. “Mr. Gage said originally that this imven- tion would have to be suppressed; that, if lion had s ‘soft snap,’ and we should I S the Funs ofthe entire world trained pon us. Mr. Gage's contention was that the Gov- ernment had a right 1o suppress such a dis- covery in the same way as it had & right to supuress and control the manufacture of ak cohol and gunpowder.” A MISSOURI EDITOR'S JOB LOT. Maryville Review. The Review does not hesitate to say that we have three marriageable daugnters who are fully able to take care of themselves and who would take pleasure in taking care of a home with some sober, honest, industrious roung man ready and willing to commence &t the Dottom round of the ladder and work unceas- ingly 10 the end of & happy and usetul life, parting the thorns and plucking the bouquets on the way. NO BATTLE> While » party of Senators and Representa- tives were visiting Mouticello, the old home of Thomas Jeffersou, the other day Represen- tative Tongue of Ohlo asked a yenerable con- trabana who was driving the carriage and pointing out objects of interest 1o his pas- cengers, cre’ there sny battles fought o sah; mo, sah.” was the reply. *Not since ‘the wah, sab.” FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT. El Dorado Council of the National Union Elects Officers to the Assembly. El Dorado Council of the Nation Union on Friday night elected J. W. Cuthbert vice- president in place of J. H. Blewitt, resigned. Senate Deputy James E. Field being present installed the new offic L. L Mil'er ana gman were elected delegates to the assembly, and E. Dreyfus and H. Schunhoff alternates. The delegates were instructed to vote for J. E. Field for sen- ator. During the evening thre¢ applications were acted upon, and_remarks vere made by J. E. Field, Edward Di - Bunting and others, The members of tho council wers invited to attend the patriotic meeting to be held by California Counci! and the invitation was accepled. Native Sons Elect. San Francisco Parlor No. 49, N. 8. G. W., has elected the following officers for the ensuing term: J. Henning, president; D. Capurro, first vice-president; E. Rittore, second vices resident; P. Murray, third yice-president; L. . Poweison, recording secretary; Jonn Nele sou, financial secretary; F. Marini, ireasurer; C. Green, mershal; H. M. Lock, trustee, and J. E. Artignes, M.D., surgeo Daughters of Liberty. California Council No. 1, Daughters of Lib- erty, at its last held meeting, initiated five new members, and two candidates were ba loted for. The mock trial, which was to have been held at that meeting, was postponed until the next one. The council will picnic at Larkspur on the 20th inst. The entertainment committes promises & pleasing event for next month, e CAZIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ [b. Townsend's.” o snl i FrECTAL Information daily to manufacturer business houses and public men by the Pross Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomary. ————— A revolving palac:, 362 feet high, is planned for the Paris Exposition of 1900, It will be divided into several floors, to be used as restaurants, theaters, etc.. and will revolve continuously on a central pivot. 825 Eate to Chicago via the Great tanta Fe Koute. The low rates made for Chiistisn Endeayorers will be open to the public as well. An opporiu- Dity to Visit the East never before enjoyed by Cal- ifornias. Pullman Pelace Drawing-room Sieep- ing-cars of the latest pa'tern. 1iodern upholstered tounist sleeping-cars run daily through from Omk- land pier to Chicego. Sie time-table in advertis- ing column. San Franeisco ticketoflice 644 Markes street, Chronicie bui d'ng. 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