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| ] ! THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JUNE 135, 1897 S8 o e e e R e ey e CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, | Editor and Proprictor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: by carrier..$0.18 Dail Sunday Cari, one year,by mall.... 6.00 Dally and Sundey CALL, Six months, by mail.. 3.00 Dail onda: bree months by matl 1.50 Daily snd Sunds month, by mail.. 66 | Sunday CALL, one year, by mat 1.50 W ebkiy CALi, one year, by mall. . 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: | 710 Market Street, | Fan Francisco, Cslifornta. Telephone........ -vo.. MAlD—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Streer Telephoae..... . Mstn-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery s.reet, coraer Ciay : open wntll 9:30 o'clock | 339 Haves street; open until 9:30 o'clock. €15 Larkin street, open until 9:50 o'clock. | EW. corner Sixiceuta aud Mission sireeds, opsn ©ntil o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open nnill 9 o'clock. 167 Ninth street, open until 8 o'clock. 1505 Polk sireet; open until 9:80 o'cloek. NW. corner Tweuty-second apd Kemtucky | sireers; open Ll § o'clack. OAKLAND OFFICB: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Clts DAVID M. FOLTZ, Fastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMEK MONTHS. Areyon going to the country ona vacation * It is no trouble for ns to forward THE CALL to f0.1 vour address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at | ¥ ss Ofice will receive prompt saitention. | NO EXTKA CHARGE. for summer months. Fifiy cenis per moath There is nothing so rare as a ram in June, ana we have had it. The Tarks are gatbering the harvests of Thessaly ana the European concert is reaping what it sowed. Mr. Bryan is nominally stumping the country for free silver, but what he is really working for is gold coin. Now is the time to be getting ready your subscription to the fund for the entertain- ment of the Christian Endeavorers. The President of France is not a crowned head, but he gets all the royalties that come in the form of attempted assassinations. London expects to receive and entertain at fancy prices 5,000,000 visitors during the jubilee festivities, so it seems that royalty pays well on occasions. Dr. Angell should go to Turkey if for | 1o other purpose then that of getting the | Europesn concert to try the effect on the Suitan of the Ann Arbor yell. It is Sunday bicyeling leads to xo many acciden:s in the East toat Monday is becoming known among the d s of that section as ‘“‘arni asserted day The gold Democrats of Orezon have taken to the field with such force and in such numbers that it looks as if the Bry- an s will be able to find no standing room in that State without taking to the woods. | It is believed in Washington that ifa list had been kept of ali the “‘original Mc- Kinl who have appiied for office since inaugaration it would have formed by tnis time a nearly complete | census of O y men"’ It is ev dently expected that theelection in Ohio this fall will be a money fight from the start, for expert politicians are quoted as saylng it will not be necessary for ihe Buckeyes o trouble mselves about | making a a few calamity howlers left in the country, but the greater num- ber have found bu: essrevived tosuch an extent that it is more profitable for them 10 go to work than to stand around yell. ing that there1s no work. Victoria is reported to have said recently 10 <ome of the ladies of hercourt that if she bad foreseen the amount of fussand worry that has been made over the celebration | of her diamond jubilee she would never | have consented to have a celebration. According to the [uter Ocean Chicago is receiving about sixty carloads of strawber- ries & day and the prices are so low every- body can ea: them. Chicago,in fact, is rapidly becoming a regular dumping- | ground for Californian and Floridian lux- uries. There are stil It is said that Coxey has decided not to | attempt to form another army for a march on Washington until the new tariff has demonstrated its inadequacy, and if we can only get the crank to stick to that no- tion we are safe from Coxeyism for the rest of this generation. It is said that at the grand fancy ball to be given by the Duchess of Devonshire tha Duchess of Marlborough will appear as Columbia, gowned according to the Vanderbilt idea of what Columbia ought to be, and the effect is expected to be | sufficiently dazzling to wreck a railroad. The fight against scorching is assuming | such large proportions in Eastern cities | that before the summer is over every | bLealthy pedestrian may be carrying a | lasso and roping in bicyclersat every turn | of the road. In one day a Detroft Judge | imposed fines on foriy-four scorchers, and | Chicago threatens to beat that some day | by fining a hundred. | A sanitary Bible for use in courirooms | has been put on the market in New York. Itis bound in celluloid instead of leather, s0 that it can be washed, disinfected and kevt clean. Unless courtroom janitors | and cleaners are a good deal more ener- getic in future than they bave been in the vast, however, it is not likely that thne new Bibles will be any more enticing to | kissers than the old. | Although Pennsyivanians are called slow it 1s noted that the farmers in ihat State are taking the lead in applying elec- | tricity to farm uses. A corsiderable num- ber of them who have water-power on | their farms have put in small dynamos and are using the force 1o furnish lignts | for their houses and barns, and in some | cases they expect to apply it to thr and other machinery. Ifthe report is true that a British com- pany has been granted the exclusive right of steam navigation on Lake Nicaragua and the San Juan River for thirty years it may prove something of a snag in the way of the canal. It is probable, how- ever, that the report is erroneous, for the canal company has prior rights along the waterway and Uncle Sam knows how to protect them and enforce them, | press or of literary bureans. | papers and pamphlets conveying informa- | come from climes where summer blizz THE BIRTH This Is the anniversary of the birth of in the year 1215, Magna Charta was signed by King Jobn in the presence of the barons, nobles and ecclesiastics of England, upon the meadow of Kunnymede. The shriveled original of this ancient charter of English freemen may still be seen in the British Museum and to it and to the date of its signature the most tressured personal and property rights of the £aglish-speaking peoples Jook back for their first written guaranty. While it is a matter of frequent expre: to cite Magna Charta as the foundation stone of English liberty, it is not often thai the particular terms of that document are referred to or made familiar to the minds It will be interesting, of reemen of th» present age. of its execution to call atteution to the mo Chaita, wherein the personal-property rights of the E pres: °d and whereby they have since been There is of course much which that famous instrument contai obsolete through the pa ing of the feudal | number of provisions which find their reproduction in our modern laws. Take, for | iustance, the clause which permits the widow and family of a decedent to remain in possession of the homestead and to receive without delay that portion of the estate which is necessary for their immediate su vision protecting a debtor against any seiz tion while he hss personal property which might be taken to satisfy his debt. Or take the provision wherein are guaranteed to the cities, burghs, towns and ports of England their ancient liberties and free customs, and in this express gpuarantee find the origin of local self-government which we esteem so sacred and essential to-day. These are only samples of many clauses in word preserved not only in the laws of England but in the codes and statutes of the American States. The provision in Magna Charta which is most frequently quoted by modera champions of liberty is that which ordai life, liberty or property “except by the leg the land.” none will we sell, to none will we deny, to the Barons of England made King John s sary of the signing of Magna Charta it is well to recall this sentence and to insist that it is as essential to the full enjoyment of may be occasions, even 1in our present age liberty, when right and justice are delay sary 1o have a new Magna Charta, but it is certainly not inapt nor out of time to direct public attention to the gudrantees and to insist upon the recollection ana e: free men of England exacted from King J OUR GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY. A score and three more days will bring | to us the grest international convention of | that progressive young order, the Society of Christian Eadeavor. Hitherto, we have spoken of the splendid general char- acter of the organization, which is abreast of the times in every particular. Let us for a moment now consider a few of the many benefits that will result from the visit of this multitude of bright, well-to- do young peobie. They are coming from every sec- tion of the United States and Canada; from many parts of America, per- haps, where the Golden State is un- known, except tirough the agency of the While news- tion about our advantages of soil and climate, our vegetable and mineral re- | sources, never fail to do some good, pro- | viding their claims bear the s amp of re- hability, the actual knowledge of these thines obtained by visitors from those remote places—wherein few, if any. could describe this favored land in words born of genuine experience—witl do us an in- comparable amount of good. Feople may entertain douvts about the written truth, but seeing is believing. For California, then, to begin with, this convention of Endeavorers will be the best and most effective advertisement imaginable. Thousands of these young vpeople will s often hoid wild carnival; where winter frosts often threaten to usurp the throne of June, and where hot d:ys and hot nights follow close upcn the heels of days and nights of bitter cold. This visit will teach them that California’s just pra cannot be 100 enthusinstically sung. We remarked that these Endeavorers represent both intelligence and means. They will stay a week with us, and many of them will stay longer and then travel about 1o view tne sights from one end of the State to the other. By their visit it is ses | estimated San Francisco alone will profit | by at least a haif million dollars. Those who come will carry back to the locality of their homes impressions that will be of inestimable value 10 us. Many of them will e induced beyond doubt, by what tney seeand experience in this Eden of the West, to come in the near future and settle and cast their fortunes among us, and there will be none in any event,we | v nture to say, who will not be eager 10 | pay us another and another visit. California’s name for open-handed and open-hearted hospitality must be main- tained, and 1t wiil be. The fund to cover the expenses of meeting halls, advertis- ing, speakers, ete., is vet incomplete, but the dollars should flow in rapidly until the necessary amount is subscribed. Our citizens will be liberal now, as they bave always been. It is an excellent invest- ment that will bring returns a hundred | fold to our State in time to come, anc the material returns within a month will bz exceedingly large. DEATH OF AN OLD IIONEER.| The demise of Hiram Tubbs at Oakland on Sunday removes one more of the sturdy old pioneers who contribuied so largely, by virtue of their wisdomn, fore- sight, energy and enterprise, to build up this Western country. His name was familiar to all the old-timers and the business world knew him well for two- score years. He not only took advantage of opportunities, te made opportuniiies for himself, and in his success, through persistent effort, there is a good example for our young men of to-day. Arriving at this port in 1853, be became engaged in the shipchandlery busine but he saw possibilities in another line, | ana before a twelvemonth had rassed he was back again in his native New Eng- land, whence he brought oat machinery and began here the manufacture of cord- age. ested 1 the cordage works for twenty years, when Tubbs acquired the sole pro- prietorshin. The Tubus Cordage Com- pany has immense works, employ- ing seversl hundred peopte. When fortune had blessed him with an abund- ance of means, Hiram Tubbs built a mag- nificent hotel in the city across the bay and there entertained his pioneer friends right royally. Miners and merchants of the early days of the Golden State were assured of rare good treatment at the ‘Tubbs Hotel, which had become famous when a few years ago it was swept away by fire. Last April the old genileman retired from active business, transferring his cord- age interests to his son: but the signs of approaching dissolution were then apparent. He was in his seventy-third year, when the final summons came. It will not be long tilt we shall see the last of the honored men who, in'49 and the early *50s. iaid the foundation of Califor- nia’s present greatness, and with the passage of each the public will feel a new sense of loss. While it is well to recall with pride the origin of this essential right, it may not bs out of place in this age to insist that the clause which follows it in Magna Charta is hardly less emphatic in its guaranty nor important in its observance—*"To Flint, Peabody & Co. were inter- | OF LIBERTY. English livercy. On the 15ih day of June, fon on the part of orators and publicists therefore, upon the anniversary sre explicit and essential parts of Magna glish people were then ex- | substantially preserved. s which has become system; but leaving this aside, there are a 1stenance and comfort. Or take the pro- ure of Lis lands by attachment or execu- Magna Charta which are almost word for ns that no free man shall be deprived of his al judgment of his peers or by the laws of none will we delay right or justice.”” So gree 632 years ago, and upon the anniver- human liberty now as then, and that there and in this country of so much boasted ed, denied or sold. It may not be neces- of that ancient charter of Enelish liberty, act folfillment of the agreement which the ol 1 CALIFORNIA'S CITIZEN SOLDIERY The approaching encampment of the National Guard of California ought to be productive of better results, in a purely | military sense, than any similar gather- ing of our civic warriors in the years gone by. It is probable thas the citizen soidiers will not be made to repeat the maneuvers common to theirarmory routine, but that, instesd, they will be called upon to exe- cute problems suggested to the regular army by the War Department, end which | have been recently demonstraied by the | earrison at the Presidio. The object of | the latter movement is to place them in closer touch with the regular army, to the end that, if need should possibiy arise, | the militia would be able to act conjointly with the regulars. This is ceriainly as it should be. Vari. ance in drili, arms and general regula- tions, asan army officer hus pointed out, would b: deirimental in case of an emer- rgency where combined action by the reg- ular army and the National Guard of a State should be required. The lessons pro- posed would make the militia more valu- able as a safegaard to the interests of the | | commonwealth, and eive its members an appreciabie idea of the occupation of men whose lives are wedded to the science of | war. Our State militia has been commended for general efficiency, so far as their line of instruction has carried them. This encampment ought 1o be very well at- | tended. The obstacle seems to lie in the | fact that many business houses object to | aseven days’ absence on the part of em- ploves, who, therefors, refrain from going tocamp in order to retain their situations. This is much to be regretted, as the mili- tary teaching during those seven days will not, if the absentees be numerous, have the result desired. It is to be hoped, how- ever, that arrangements can be perfecied whereby a majority at leastof the enrolled | members of the State regiments may be | enabled to protit by the full courss of in- | struction contempiated for the seven days, VALUE OF THE SHIPYARD. “Rebuilding of the navy is the most im- | portant National enterprise of the genera- tion,” declares Lew!s Nixon in the June | number of the North American Review, and | he makes a rather substantial showing in | support of the proposition. The title of tie articie by Mr. Nixon is “The Military | | Vatue of the Snipyard,” and it is replete witn facts of deep interest, which we of the Pacific Coast, as well as our cousins on the Atlantic side of tne Nation, must thoroughly appreciate. Since President | Arthur’s time, fifteen years ago, $111,000, 000 has been apvropriated for naval re- hablitation, and Mr. Nixon asserts that | no similar expenditure in the history of the Government has produced such grati- fying resuits or met a0 pressing a need. The expenditure has not only founded a new navy; “it has also stimulated devel- opment of our industrial resources, par- ticularly in the production of steel, which all agree wouid have been impossitle u der ordinary commercial conditons,” It is shown that when the ships were first | authorized the country haa no facilities | for making heavy steel forgings for ma- chinery or for armor, and that turrets for one and sbafts for several of the carly cruisers were purchased abroad. To-day the forging facilities of this country are equal 10 those of any other country in the world. *“This,” says Mr. Nixon, “forms an ele- ment of National defense and a guarantee of National independence nhardly second in importance to the new fleet iiself.” | The naval rank of the United States | (the sixth among naval powers) is not yet | suitab'e to her general rank among the | nations, nor are our naval resources “‘ade- | quate to the effective protection of our extended coast lines, which front two oceans, under geographical conditiuns for- | bidding easy or prompt co-operation be- | tween them by water, ana, therefore, re- quire two separate defensive naval forces, each able to protect its own coast.” This has been the argument of the press |and of the representative men on tke Pacific Slope for years. Mr. Nixon far- | nishes a brief history of naval reconstruc- tion down to where it practically stopped | wien the Congress which adjourned Marcn 4, 1897, failed to make provision for the further increase of the navy. The effect of this sudden and unexpected end of a policy hitherto universally popular was instantly felt by the industry most directly invoived—tnat of American ship- building at large. In 1883 we had a few straggling sbipyards, eking out a pre- carious existence; in 1897 we have ship- yards in the highest state of organization and equipment, capable of the grandest achievements, yet nearly destitute of occupation ana almost bereft of en- couragement. ‘The example of Great Britain, in nieet- ing new conditions, is cited, and the | writer finds that British skipbuilding has bui't the British empire as we see it to- day, and now maintains its integrity. She is rupreme in a military and commer- i cial sense, carrping seven-tenths of ail the ’s commerce. “In our own case,” says Mr. Nixon, ‘the manifest destiny of future progress points with rigid finger to the sea. If we do not progress in that direction we must stand still. For the time to come, if ex- isting conditions are perpetuated, our lot | will belittle better than that of producing cargoes for British ships to carry ard of earning money to pay British tratlic- tolls.”” We have no fear that the present Na- tional administration will copy the ex- ample of the last Democratio Congress, as regards the navy, any more than it is im1- tating the Democratic free-trade policy. The Nation will soon be provided with a sufficient revenue and the new navy will be advanced along with other ereat Na- tional enterprises, and the shipyards will soon feel the wonderful impetus that will extend likewise to every branchand de- | commerce, partment of trade. industry and PERSONAL. W. H. Brown of Poriland is at the Lick. A. solomon of Helena, Mont., is in town, Dr. M. C. Hinckle of Stockton 18 in town. P. K. Tyng of Buffaio is a Jate airival here. Dr. W. I. Duncan of Hanford is in the City. George Myers of Fresno s here for a brief stay. T. A. Carroll of Washington, D. C., is in the City. Robert Chalm of Virginia, Nev.,1s at the Baldwin. G. W. Boggs. a business men of Tracy, is at the Russ. R. C. Walrath, & mining man of Nevada City, is in town. Dr. E. B. Smalley of Martinez arrived here yesterday. A. B. Jackson, the banker, of the Grand. J.8. Drufas of Prescott, Ariz, arrived here last night. Senator B. N. Bulla of Los Angelesisalate arrival here. M. Guerin and Charles Dufresne of Paris are at the Palace. C. A. Campbell, a merchant of Red Bluff, is at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Tobin of Burlingame are at the Palace. J. D. Sproule and W. H. Dora, of Chico, are on a visit here. Dr. Joseph Scroggs of Lincoln, Nebr., isat the California. George Haldorn,a mining man of Butte, inas, is at Mont., is in town. Ex-Superior Judge Louls Gottschalk of Los Angeles the City. | | | | J. W. McClymonds of Sacramento was one | of yesterday’s arrivals. John R. McAvoy, a business man of The Dalles, Or., is at the Lick. Dr. Clement Biddle, U. 8. N. a visit to the Hotel Rafacl H. Hirshfeld, the banker, of Bakersfield, is among recent visitors here. Dr. H. C. Brown of San Jose arrived here yesterda: He is at the Grand. Tom T. Lave, superintendent of gold mine at Angels, is at the Pa F. A. Boole, manager of the Sierra Mill ana Lumber Company, Red Bluff, is iu town. The Baron Willlam F. Falkenburg of New York registered at the Occidental last night. Colonel E. F. Preston came up from his Portola ranch yesterday and isat the Palace. The Rev. S. Wrignt Butler and Mrs. Butier of Omaha afrived here in last night's overlard train Louis Kiernan, a business man of Prescott, Ariz., wasone of yesterday's arrivals a the Falace. and wife are on Will am Haywood of Washington, D. C.. is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife and two children. Ira G. Hoyt, formerly State Supe: tendent of Public Instruction, is up from his home at Burlingame and is at the Occidental. Senator J. C. Holloway of Cloverdale is at the Russ. He isan early pioneer in that part of the State and is exeusively engaged in farming. George T. Myers of Portland, who is engaged in salmon eanningon the Coinmbis and Puget Sound, arrived here yesterday snd is at the California. Robert Nixon, the veteran proprietor and editor of the Yreka Daily Journal, 1sat the Grand, accompanied by Mrs. Nixon and Miss Julia Nixon. Louis Dean, the wealthy cattle-raiser of Reno, Nevada, whose livestock roam over at least half a dozen counties, is bere on a yisit, combining both business and pleasure. L. Leroy and H. Papiliaud, the French news- paper men who left Paris months ago without any money and have since been working their way, have issued “san Franeisco et La Colonie Francaise.” n large paper with por- traits and write-ups of leading French resi- dents of this City. The editors will soon leave tor Mexico. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK : z NEW YORK, Mr.and Mrs. J. P. Smith. H. P. Littie; Union Square—L Scott; Grand Union—F. Nichols. BOAT ROLLS LIKE A BARREL NEW STYLE OF STEAMSHIP To CUT DOWN THE TRANSATLANTIC RECORD. F. A. Knopp is a Canadian, who hopes to cut | since the hanGling of maiis, etc., 1s an exclu- | certain crimes | gree, notwithstanding there is no intent to constructed, on either side of which engines of 150 horsepower will be placed. By means ot triction these engines wili cause the out- side cylinders to revolve rapidiy, while the inside cylinder retains its equilibrium. It is intended to provide passenger accom- modations within the inside, or third cylinder. The present idea of the inventor is to uulxz-e the space between the inner and outer Sur lL!‘ of the revolving cylinder for the storage o cargo. This boat is now being constructed at Polson's shiryard at Totonto, and the invenior hopes to make the trial trip about August 12. WOKDENS APPEAL. Mr. Editor: Much stringent eriticism has Dbeen utiered recently in the newspapers con- cerning appeals (o the United States Supreme Court, taken in capita! cases from the judg- ments of trial courts. In relaton to the Worden appeal this is unjust, as in brief will | appear. 5 He was sentenced to be hanged Juned, 1897. A petition for commutation, signed by 60,000 citizens, was presented to_Governor Budd. It was understood up to May 30, 1897, that clemency would be extended. Then that official declined to commute him. At this point George W. Monteith first came into the case as an attorney. He urged the Governor to 1ntervene for two reasocs. One was that new witnesses would conclusively prove an alibi for the condemned man by showing that Le was in Sicramento in & drunken stupor at the time when the oridge was undermined. Theother was that the trial | court at Woodland, Yolo County, denied the jury the right to fiud & verdict of murder in the second degree. The contention is this: The prosecution claimed that Worden, at the bridge two and 8 haif miles west of Sacramento, aisplaced the | rails to prevent the moving of trains, and then he disappeared. It was not asserted that he deliberately intended to murder any one. But premeditation is an essential element of murder in the first degree. Our statute further says that homicide done in committing or attempting to commit five hall be murder in the first de- kill.' These five crimes are arsou, rape, rob- bery, burglary and mayhem. Al other homi- cides where there is no premeditation are murder in the sccond degree. Hence the State courts denied Worden & constituiional right when the jury was forbidden tbe power to find him guiity of murder in the second de- gree. & These two points were argued to the Gover- nor by Mr. Monteith, and the last one was strenuously presented by him, in good faith, before Judge Gilbert o the habeas corpus petition filed in the United States Circait Court June 3,1597. At this last named date (and never before 1n any way) the writer came into the case and argued before Judge Gilbert the second provosition contained in the peti- tion for Federal intervention. It must be remempered that in July, 1894, the great railroad strike burst in volcanic fury over the land. The Pres:dent ordered the Federal troops to aid in carrying the mail, preserve property and keep order. General sraham, from (he Presidio, sent a company (0 acramento, beeauss the State militia had failed there. Ou the aay of the homicide a train of mailcars (but without passengers or freight), guarded by twenty-two United States soldiers, came from Ovden, passing through cramento, destined for this City. When it acoed the bridge the train was ditched and ve persons killed—the engineer and four diers. For the death of the engineer Worden tried end seutenced. Now, the question raised by me was, “Which court, rederal or State, had jurisdic: tio 1t is admitted by all that the United States courts are, under the facts in this case, com- petent to try Worden for any one of these five homicides, and that such suthority comes irom the fact that« duty as to the mail was being performed by the servants of the Gen- eral Government, under the sanction of the National constitit It is further admitted that the State courts couid not bring under their examiusiion any act of any one on that train, because such person could invoke the jurisdiction of the Federal courts, for the rea- son that & Natlonal duty was being executed, was, sively Federal iunction Now then, if the National Government could in the one cese prosccute, and in the other defend, thus ousting the Siate courts, 1s it not & necetsary, inberent coroilary, that Worden may defend under the same power? He had a coustitutional right to be tried by a court that can render a final and valid judgment, her of conviction or acquitta here can be no such thing as two sover- eignties coneurrently covering the same sub ject matter. Nobody can _occupy two places at the same moment. No two bedies can occupy one place attneseme moment. A dual sovereignty is s dual absurdity, as inconceiva- bie s two minds for one body, two master forces in nature, two Gods, creating and rul- ing the universe. Hence. tue National juris- diction, Innereat g iu the cese, ex- cludes ‘all State examination of the sulject matter and renders their judgments void Now, it must be appareut to any candid per- 201 that these two points—one s to the desres of the crime, and tne other as to the voldness of the judgment—are serious legal propos tions, and that Worden is entitled to be heard on them before the highest and last tribuual in the Nution. Federal iutervention is con- stantly invoked io nullily Staie laws and State judgments when the sacredness of prop- erty is invaded. May ot lite and liverty : recognition? agie case, growing out of the e Field frc assault, b a shield for the poor as well as the exalted? Even-hauded justice hoids the chaiice to the 1ipe of all alike.” Therefore, it was not for deiay, but because these contentions are deemed logically tena- ble that they are presented and will be seri- ously argued betors the United States Supreme Couft. Yours respecifully JAMES TAYLOR RoGERs. June 14, 1897. MEN ANu WUOMEN. The Duke of Fife keeps twelve suits going at the same time, and never wears the same | clothes twice in the same week. | down the Transatlantic record to two days by | means of a new style of craft. Perhaps the best illustration of the principle involved in this vessel, says the New York Herald, is fur- nished by the paddie-wheel of an ordinary | band of an The Prince of Wales possesses curious paperweight in the world. yptian mummy. the most it is the Lee Merriweather, one of the candidates for the mayoralty of Si. Louis, came into notice a few yearsago by a lively little book telling how he sew Eurove on 50 cents a day. It is said that Ras Aluls, the great Abyssin- ian chief, whosedeath encourages Italy to another Abyssin.an campaixn, began life asa groom. He ended it by ireeing his country. Theodore Sedgwick Fay, who was associated | TO ROLL OVER THE OCEAN. side-wheel steamer. Imagine the paddle-|with N. P. Wiilis and George P. wheel to be 110 feet in width and 20 feet in diameter. The stationary paddles on the out- side cylinder of this vessel will correspond 10 the paddies on prddie-wheel. In the center of this huge paddle wheel imagine & cylinder twelys,feet in dameter, braced strongiy 1o he outdide eylinder, witn a shafl {n the center of tnis 12-foot eylinder, and connected with a vessel onewould have an ordinary paddie wheel in shape and principle. Butin the vessel mow under con- Where the Passenger Engines and Cargo Are Stowed. struction In place of the shaft there is a third cylinder, which. as before stated, is joined 10 the outside or revolviug portion of the vessel Dby ball bearin-s. Iuside this third cylinder a platform will be Morris in edit'ng the New York Mirror more than sixty vears ago, s stiil living in Berlin st the of 90. King Oscar of Sweden has sent an autograph lctter to Bethany College, at Lindsborg, Kans., in which he prom ses to send a copy of his orations to the student who wius the coming oratorical contest. Oue of the jolliest i the 0ld men present at the old folks’ dance given recently at Barre, Mass., was Dr. William L. Russell, who is now the oldest 1iving graduate of Harvard College. Dr. Russell is 97. Miss Stahlpecker, whose appointment translator for the War Department was op- posed, though she had distanced all competi- tors in the civil service examination, has se- cured a place as translator in the State Depari- ment. Photography is the fad of the Baroness Roth- schild, 1n Paris, ana an ideal studio and lavor- atory have been erected in the garden adjoin- ing her palace in the Rue de Moncean. The two-story building occupies & large lot, and has numerous rooms for photographic work iz all its branehes. WHAT THE CONCERT HAS ACCOM- PL HED. Harper's Weekly. The concert of Europe has accomplished three things. It has crushed Greece, resus- citated the Sultan and established the Czar as the arbiter of Europe. It is scarcely surnris- ing that some of its members, notably Eng. iand, feel chagrined aud bitter. The full sig- nificance of ihe result may not be yet appar- ent. Sufficient 1, however, already clear to show that coming developments in the Levant wi U be of no ordinary inerest, WILL CELEBRATE O SATURDAY Britons Make Grand Prep- arations for the Queen’s Jubilee. | Oa the Last Day of This Week the Big Festival Will Open at the Chutes. The Britisk-Born From All Over the State Will Congregate on This Occasion. The glamour of the enormous festival of Victoria’s diamond jubilee to be held in London for a week, commencing next Saturday, will be very creditably reflected in this City. From every part of the State those who by birth or descent or assocCia- tion feel like doing honor to Great Brit- ain’s vonerabla sovereign will congregate here Friday and Saturday. On the morning of the latter day the i 11 these vears been hourly exposed to de- ik ubtion fn & hundrea ways, and stiil they ar o Teporied in circuiation. This isindeed a gro ss absurdity imposed upon an uninformed public. The loss and final disappearance of gold and silver, ignored in he treasury reports. further reference to paper currency, will r ceive consideration at another time, and I fiope bu-iness mer will preserve these brief papers, which have cost me a deal of labor and days of time to dig up” out of these treasur« reports, for he is u stupid man who docs n« shat way this information concerns $o,n What WaY L sep ASBURY JOHNSON Market street, June 14, 1897 nim. YES, Who is it qu And reads me as an v ‘And even awes the mighty cook? Mother- Who when some fair one looks &t me, And 1 100k back, is sure tobe Rignt there upon the spot to see? Mother-| ' Who rips the lining from my vest. Who kniows the secreis of my breast, Who keeps my wife filled with unrest? Mother-in-law! Who, when the lit:le ones are i1l Comes in and labors with a wil ‘Ana saves a mighty docior bill Mother-in-iaw! WITH YOUR CUFFEE «I bave never seen your dsughter” said the visitor, “but I bave heard thatshe is very beautitul. Of course, she takes her besuty from you?” 3 The hostess glanced reflectively in the mir- ror opposite. “No. I think Iam still holding on to my own.” —Pick-Me-Up. Weathers—Do you think any of these de- tective stories have any foundation in fact? Raines—Me? Iwouldn’t believe & detective under oath.—Typographical Journal “I can’t help it,” said the men in the back JAMES McNAB, First Vice-President of the Executive Come mittez of the V ctoria Liamond Jubilee. carnival will commence with Highland | seat. | aud other games, inciuding water polo, | sword dances, climbing the greased pole | and other diversions. Huundreds of sailor- boys of the British mercantile navy will | be in evidence and will sing the following | characteristic chanties: *‘Banks of the } Sacramento,”” “A Long Time Ago,” | “Blow the Man Down’’ and *“Ranz | At2 o'clock the literary exercises will take place in the Chutes Pavilion. These will include an opening address by Wil- liam Greer Harrison; the singing, by a clioir 250 strong, of *Victoria,” an anthem | written by George A. Adam and set to music by H. J. Stewart; an oration by General W. H. L. Barnes, an ode recited by its author, Daniel O’Connell, and the | American and Engiish national anthems. In the evening there are to be elaborate fireworks and a grand ball. The decora- tions will be most elaborate. Sydney Chid- ley, the scenic artist, has painted a set piece to cover an area o: 1600 square feet. | Tne design includes a massive medallion of the Queen and a very pictures view of Windsor Castle—the’ latter to be offset | with calcinm effects. On Sunday a grand Te Deum service, at- tended by Consul-General Warburton and consular officials, will be held at the | Metropolitan Temple. The festival will conclude with a banquet on Monday at the Palace Hotel, at wh.ch gentlemen of | all nations will be most heartily wel- comed. It will be presided over by the | British Consul-General and attended by sovernor Budd, Mayor Paelan, General Barnes and many other prominent citi- zens. A large stringed orchestra and a selected quartet will lend barmony to the Down,” “Roll the Cotton | brilliant gathering. BUSINESS MEN MISLEL GN MONEY. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Socrates said, “Even the gods themselves are powerless in the presence of ignorance.” But misinformation s the worst form of ignor- ance. Itmakes a man wise in his own con- ceit, and that closes the avenue to his reason. | | This fact lends gravity to certain misinforma- | tion found for many years past in the reports | of the Treasury Department at Washington. | Business men are constantly misled by it, for they never stop to scrutinizs these reporis and apply common-sense tests to figures given to the public. But, as an_eminent London banker hns rald (a3 quoted in Mint report, 1896, p. 562). “the subject of money is ob- scure to most men.” The banker is right, otherwise the treasury reports would be inves- tigated and the errors exposed. et us examine the treasury report for May 1, the latest I have received. In the first piac 1'wish to point out as a plain fact, which any | business man can understand at & glauce the moment his attention is drawn to it, that the Treasury Department has systematically mis. led the public since 1879 by reporting the treasury ceruficales of various kinds as so much in use, wnen, in_fact, they are nothing | more than So many orders ou the treasury | (like checks on a bank) for the amounts | named in the certificates to be paid the bea, in coin or greembacks. er These certificates in- | | clude the *‘ireasury notes of 1890.” issued in | | payment for silver” bullion, since they eall for | coin from the treasury. The following are the | Gold certficates ... Silver certificates .0 Treasury notes of 1890 Currency certificates..... $_38.939,689 . 8T1.8: Total duplications. -$605,017,478 This enormous sum must be deducted from the amount of money in the country as re ported by the treasu:y officials May 1, which was $2,385 435,013, and we have in fact but $1,780,417.540, or iess thau two-thirds of the Anotner absurdity found in Treasury reports ty fo cse solemn T ¢ amount of Uni States notes, kuown as greenbacks, figuru&l":‘i | stillin exisience. On May 31, 1878, just nine: | teen years ago, the amount of groerbacks re- ported by the ‘ireusury officials was $346.081 - 016, which is the exact sum reported - istence Muy 1, 1897. Evem the lonels 516 o the tail en of the fizures remains urchanged | of asiagle dollar in ninetesn years, Greenbacks must have possessed magical in- destrll\'llb&"u‘lllnco May 31, 1878, for the treasury officinl« themselves at that time di- | duced " $1,000,000 as b " eady g efa e uving been alresdy y act of Congress June 1, 1879, $3,375, | of tractional currency out of ua,gfz,df;ésgg issued was declared lost or destroyed s, ter be- ing in circulation but sixieen years, & 1oss of 18 per cent, or more than 1 ver cent a year, but not a doilar of the $346.681,016 in green- Dacks is reported lost or destroyed in these last nineteen years. Ana in fact all other forms of paper currency in constant use, in- cluding the treasury certificates and National bauk notes, amounting to $838,000,000, have cer:ificates reported May 1, 1897: H amount reported by the treasury officiale. ! 1 can’t be: Iama eve in 2ything. born doubter “Ob, no, brother,” began the evangelist. “But I am. There are times when [ even have doubts &s to the superiority of m cycie.’—Cincinnati “How still they are, apropos of the young room. ked Mrs. the next rem couple in repli “it reminds me of my army days s wonderfully quiet just previous to en engagement.”—Bosion Transeript. te—It's in the morn circus-poste Willie's uncle—How have you managed, Willie ? Wiliie—Well, I heven’t gone.. Press. k to get toschool 1g when I have to go by all those CALIFORNIA giace fruits, 50¢ b, Townsend's." el FrrerAL information daily to manufactursr business houses and public men Dy the Prass Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * S sy Qe THE CRYSTAL SWIMMING BATHS. Physicisns recommend the Crystal warm sea water tub and swimming baths, North Leach. - . Billings—Bosh! Don’t tell me that Banks doesn’t care for his wife. Why, that man is completely tnfatuated, and I nave proof of it. Rockwell—What is your proof? Dillings—He consented to take her for his partner iu a rubber of whist, the other night.— Clevelana Leader. $25 Rate to Chicago via the Great Santa Fe Route. The low rates made for Christian Endeavorers will be open to the public as well. An opportu- nity (o visit the East never before enjoyed by Cal- ifornfans. Pullman Palace Drawing-room Sleep- ing-cars of the latest pattern. Mlodern upholstered tourist sleeping-cars run daily through from Oak- land pler to Chicago. See tme-table in advertis- ing column. San Francisco ticketoflice 644 Market ect, Chronicle buiiding, Telephone Main 1331 akland, 1118 Eroadway. e 832 50 to S:. Paul, Minneapolis and Chicago. Tickets will be on sale July 12 to the 17th. Good final limit, August 15: stopover allowed. It'sa spiendid opportunity o take a trip to Chicago and stopoffat the famous Yellowstone Park. Send 6 cents in stamps for illustrated booK, ‘“Wonder- land, (0 T. K. 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