The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 16, 1897, Page 6

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUL, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally snd Sunday CALL, ené week, by carrier..$0.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CALi, three months by mail 1.50 Daily #nd Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 | Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.. 1.50 | W ERKLY CALL, one year, by mail, . 350 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, Fan Francisco, Californts. Telephon - Main-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone, ..Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICE 527 Montgomery street, coraer Cl 9:80 oclock. 589 Hayes street; open until 9130 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. BW. corner Sixteenti and Mission sireets, Open ©ntil 8 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, apen unttl 8 0'clock. 187 Ninth stroet, open unttl 9 o'clock. + open unt NW. corner Twe streets; open till 90 OAKLAND OFFICB: 9U8 Broad way. EASTERN OFFIC Booms 31 and 4 Park Row, DAVID M. FOL' ew vorz City Fastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou §oing 1o the COUniry ona Vacaulon ? n ro, 1t 18 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not lec it miss you for you will Orders given to the carrier or left at ess Office will receive prompt sitention. KA CHAKGE. Fifiy cemis per monib for summer montlis. —e— Bimetallism has caught on in England. | The gold men will have to quit calling | Wolcott a rainbow-chaser. The Alaska boom promises to be hot enough to warm up the Territory. The trouble with the striking miners is | they attempted to reach prosperity by leaping before they looked. Now that a plan for settling the miners’ strike is in sight itisto be hoped both sides will move up and get it within reach. The latest report that Weyler was to be recalled is getting old, and still Weyler is in Havana and hes not even packed hi: typewriter. The Moslem turkey must consider ni self in a very safe position just now, for it | is noticed he doesn’t drop his tait even when the bear growls. The decision of the Treasury Depart ment to build the new Postoffice in this | City of marble will not be objected to pro- vided it is the marble of California. It is announced :hat Bryan has finally decided to go 1o Mexico this fall to study the silver question, and perbaps when he comes back be will know more and talk | less. Now that the Briti-h have Iaid the bur- den of the Transvaal raid on Cecil Rhodes’ back, it ought to i1mposs a fine which would lighten his pocket enough to even things up. The latest Tacoma enterprise is to equip | fishing-boats with scoopnets operated by steam-engines, and it would be interesting 1o have them test the machine by trying it on a whale. Itis said the wisest thing John R. Mec- Lean is doing in the way of managing his | campaign for the Senate in Ohio consis's instaying out of the State so persistently that the voters are liable to forget that he is running. The Gola Democrais of Kentucky ought tn have sense enough to sce that the only way to redeem their party is to get in and lielp the Republicans knock the Bryanite stuffing out of 1t bafore tl.e next Presiden- tial election. in thanking the President for the appoint- ment of Wiiliam L. Merry as Minister to Nicaragua. His service in the office will be of benefit to the whole Trans-Missis- sippi country. Carlisle’s eulogium of Cleveland before the Keniucky convention may have suited the crowd, but it did not suit the time nor the sitnation. It is just this cuckoo devo- tion to Clevelandism that makes gold De- mocracy a futile folly in American poli- tics. Every Californian who receives a diplo- matic appointinent to a country facing en the Pacific Ocean has it in his power to advance the interests of our trade, and it is safe to say they can be counted on to do it whether they are Ministers or Con- suls. The danger of forest fires shoull be im- pressed on the mind of every one who goes camping in these days, and perhaps the only way to make theimpression stick would be to punish some fellow who starts a fire to light a cigarette and burns up a township. It required t' e presence cf two Amer- ican cruisers at Tangler to induce Mo- Tocco to do ju-tice 1o an American citiz-u, but even this iz better than it was in the old days when Decatur went over to see the Moors on a similar business and had to fight in order to make them settie. The announcement that Quille” is to leave Nevada to make his home in Jowa will canse a feelingof regret throughout the Pacific Coast. ““Dan’ be- Jones to us, and if he i«w’t equal to the | Nevada hustle any more he should have sought his rest in California and found it among friends who have appreciated his genius for veracity and are prond of the fame of all tne journalists of the Com- | stock. The report that a Europeau conference is to be held éitner at Berlin or Vienna for the purpose of devising a policy of ac- tion in regard to our tariff is one ot the stories that tdds to the amusement of the summer season. Until a Eurcpeai con- cert has been avle to make the Turk sing in tune and bring harmony out of Eryp- tian discord it will not be worth while for it to try 1o make Uncle Sam dance to its piping. According to the Washington Post emi- gration from the cold States of the North to the Bouth nas assumed such propor- tions in some sections as to oceasion alarm, and it is clear the alarm is not unreason- sble on the part of the friendsof the emi- grants. True, it is an act of wisdom to leavea blizzard climate for a mild one, but he who seeks a sunny climate in the South when he could come to Californ.a shows signs of lunacy. The emigration move- ment should be rectified by being headed this way. i “Dan de PACIFIO GOASLI_IN TERESTS. The Trans-Mississipp! Congress did a | fitting and graceful thing when it passed resolutions giving thanks to Prcs:dent | McKinley for the appointment of Wil- | linm L. Merry as United States Minister to the republics oi Nicaragua, Costa Rica | and Szlvador. In his new office Capain | Merry will render services important to | the Nation at large, but in a particular | sence will they be of benefit to the Pacific | Coast, and it was most appropriate, there- | fore, that a convention of Western men | shonld give expression to the general | gratification in the appointment. Tre CaLL cordially congratulated the people when, through our correspondent | at Washingion, it was first announced the appointment of Captain Merry would | be made. Itis necessary at this time to repeat only that the new Minister is per- | haps, of ail the men in the United States, | the one best fitted 1o perform the impor- | tant duties which are expected of a Minis- | ter to Nicaragua during this administra- | tion. | It is notable that on the very day when the appointment was made by the Presi- dent at Washington, a paper on the Nica- ragua Canal, written by Captain Merry, was read before the congress of Western men at Salt Lake. Thus while his ap- jo.:ntment was being read in the Senate, a great convention of his fellow-citizens wes listening to an evidence of his inter- est in the general welfare of the country and a manilfestation of his knowledge of the most impertant problem with which he will be called upon to deal. Of all classes of officesat the disposal of ! the President of the United States there | are none more impartant to the people of California at this time than those of the diplomatic service. Every Minister and every Consul sent from California or any other Pacilic Coast State to a country facing on the Pacitic Ocean will be a potent factor in buildingup our trade with those countries and promoting our indus- tries ai home, and we have reason to be gratified at the number of these appoint- ments made by the present administra- | tion. It we have not seen Californians placed | in every position of the kind we may have desired we have at least the satisfaction of | knowing that those who have been ap- pointed are men of such ability and energy | us will enable them to render a service to | the merchants and manufacturers of the Pacific Coast that will materialiy aid in winning a way to the markets of the coun- tries to which they yo. This is something we can well afford to rejoice over, and it will be largely our own faait if we do not | obtain protitable resulis from what will be done for us by such men as William L. Merry and his colleagues in the diplomatic service, AN ALASKAN BOOM. The little stearaer Excelvior, which ar- | rived in San Francisco on Wednesday, ’bmuzht with it a veritable boom for Alask», and it was not an empty boom, either, but well filled with gold dust. So rich was the baggage of the returning miners that the simple story of the amount of wealth they brought back from the diggings sounded like a romance of King | Solomon’s Mines. | The stories told by these miners con- | firm the most sanguine expectations of the rich gold deposits of the Yukon country. Their experience attests the | fact that fortunes in that country await | miners who are lucky enough to strike the rignt districts, and who have suffi- | cient energy and industry to profit by the golden store which nature has provided. | With such proof as was submitted by the sacks of the miners, and the concentrates | of the Alaska Commercial Company, there can be no longer any doubt or ques- tion of the richness of the new gold fields. The miners of California who may be attracted by this glow of gold should bear in mind, however, that the Alaskan boom, | like every other, has two sides, and the reverse is not so shining and spiendid as | that which is présented to the public. It costs a great deal of money, time and energy to make the journey to the gold districts, and moreover there are dangers as well as difficulties by the way. The working season 1s short. The winter is severe to a degree almost unbearable to men raised in warmer climates, and de- spite all the wonderiul stories that are | told, it is certain there are comparatively few claims, even in the richest districts, that will yield fortunes. It is well krown that in accounts given of new gold fields the tales deal wholly { with those who succeed, and notking is | said of those who fail. Nevertheless, there are on the average about ten failures to one success in the richest gold districts ard under the most favorable circum- stances. Not to all does fortune come, nor does she reveal herself to all who seek her. 1t is in the bighest degree gratifying to have these golden reports from the Yukon country. The commercial world needs more gold for the conduct of business, and the industrial world rcquires it for the expansion of existing industries and the undertaking of new enterprises. Every ource added to the world's store of the precious metals is of material benefit and Calitornia will profit by the output ! which Alaska gives. It is, therefore, with no desire to belittle or underestimate the value of the new districts that we give this warning against the arttractions of { the new boom. The safest place for the miner is California unless he has money enough to provide amply notonly fora trip to Alaska and maintenance there, but for his return if he should be among those to whom the search for wealth provesa disappointment. PROTECTING THE FARMER. The United States Agricultural Depart- ment is doing a great deal of hard work to save the farmer from being fuoled and defrauded in the purchase of sseds. At- tention.shouid be called to thisin order that the efforts of the Government may ‘be properly appreciated by the people they are trying to serve, and in order that | farmers may be able to profit by the work performed. In some recent seed ipvestigations it | was discovered that thousands of pounds, probably tons, of grass and oclover seed are annually shipped into the country which are mixed with tho<e of many kinds of injurious weeds. Not only are the old pests of the field thus sown and spread, but new varieties of nuisances are being introduced. Paying hign prices for | this trash woula bs bad enough, but this isnot the worst of it: the weeds once es- tablished on the farms are very difficalt to eradicateand they become a permanent injury to the land. Another evil which the seed investiga- tion is trying to mitigate is the trick of selling as novelties and at fancy prices seeds that are either worthless or some old variety that may be bought for far less money and are in no sense novelties, al- though they may not be known in the localities where they are advertised. A recent report of the department men- tions particularly in this regard a certain “German coffee berry,” which is now being extensively advertised as an eco- | | | nomical substitute for genuine coffee. This can be bouzht cheaply in many places, where it is known as the common Soja bean. The necessity of caution in seed-baying is made more plain by the statement that some seedsmen doing a large business wili sometimes se!l half a dozen different varieties of seed out of the same bin. From this it can be realiz>d how, by giv- ing the same seed a mult:itude of names, the business of *“novelty seeds' can be made to flourish. This commendable work of the depart- ment in seed testingis of great magnitude. This year the experts have already made half a million tests. They have a coilec- tion of 15,000 vials of seeds from all over the world to aid them in identifying the foreign seeds shipped to this country. Farmers should keep themselves posted about the results of these laborsand buy only seeds recommenaed by competent autherity. KEN.UCKY POLITIOS. The convention of Gold Democrats of Kentucky which assembled on Wednes- day nominally for the purpose of nomi- nating a candidate for the Courtof Ap- peals had in view a much larger object than that. Such men as Jobn G. Carlisle, Henry Watterson, Colonel Breckinridge anc others less known in National politics, but hardly less eminent in the State, would never have left their business to attend a meeting which bhad no other purpose than that of naming a can- didate for a minor office, particularly when the candidate has no chance of election. The real object was to reaffirm the prin- ciples of Cleveland Democracy and to hold the old conservative Democrats away from the Bryanites during the campaign this year, lest, having been once led astray, they might be with more ease misled dur- ing the Congressional elections of 1898. 1t is going to be & hot year for polities in Kentucky. The stakes in sight are small, but the stakes in the distance are large. It matterslittle which party elects this year, but it matters a great deal to every notable Democratic politician in the country whick faction of Democracy ob- tains control of the party machinery in the State. It is to fight Bryanism that the 865 delegates went to the gold conven- tion, and the fervor of their proceedings attests the strength of their determination to carry on the fight so lonz as the Bry- anite leaders have controlof the Kentucky Democracy. According to all reports there will be four tickets in the field, as the Republi- cans and Populists will each nominate a ticket. There is to be no fusion. Each party will poll its own vote, and at the close of the election the leaders of each will be able to estimate the comparative strength of their following. The outlook for a Re- publican victory is good, and 1t would be assured if the Gold Democrats had com- bined with Repubticans. This they have not done thus far, but the chances are they will do =0 in the Congressional elec- tions next year. Kentucky, in fact, is no longer one of the solid States of the Union. Itsvolil- ical aspects have changed so compieiely that it has become one of the most doubt- ful. It would be difficult to predict how it will go this fall, and its future course is involved in so much uncertainty that even the rashest of political proplets hesitates to venture a prediction. TW0 NAVAL REFORMS. There are two ways in which it is likely our navy will be improved under the new administravion. Secretary Long has ex- pressed an intention to reorganize the personnel of the service and a very much needed change has been pointea out by Mr. Henry W. Cramp of the great Phila- delphia firm of shipbuilders which will no doubt be given attention by the Naval Department. The intention of changing the person- nel is not a reflection on the officers and men now handling Uncle S8am’s war- ships. Their bravery and efliciency is not questioned; but there are numbers of foreignersin the fleet and the contem- plated change is to replace these with Americans, It is not claimed that for- cigrers are not good sailors and cour- ageous, for they could not hold their places if they did not know their busi- ness, and on some notable occasions they have shown a genuine heroism, but never- theless it is believed naiive Americans would be better. The benefits are expected to come from the experience-proved fact that the Ameri- cans make the best sailorse—chiefly from superior quickness in learning and acting. It is claimed that the American seaman will have at his finger’s ends in a month’s time what it will take the foreigner a year to learn. From some peculiarities of ancestry and of ciimate he also is faster on his feet and will execute an order while an Engiish sailor is thinking about it. Aside from these reasons there is a ques- tion of national pride in havine our ships manned by our own countrymen. There can be no doubt that, however brave and honorable the foreigners might bs, yet in time of warthe crew of a ship might be put to some supreme test that only valor sustained by patriotism could bear. Love of country would be a stimulus to courage and an inspiration to guick thought in a time of crisis which no mere will-power on the part of the foreigner could take the place of. The improvement that Mr. Cramp’s criticism suggests is that ample provision be made for the rapid armamentof our great swift ocean steamers so they couid be used in case of the suaden dectaration of war. Itis true that some of the great liners are now under a contract that per- mits the Government to so use them if war arose, but there exists no provision for supplying them with modern guns. Mr. Cramp says it would tax the re- sources of the Washington gun-factory to turn out guns in numbers sufficient to make these ships formidable, even if they had a year's notice. ln striking contrast to this is England’s preparations for using her tratfic steamers for war purposes. In forty-eight hours’ time she can turn one of them into a dangerous, armed cruiser, equipped with rapid-firing guns and ma- chine rifles, HOW MUCH GOLD HAVE WE? To the Editor of the Sam Francisco Call— BIR: Insearching .o:information which will efford a reliable answer to the above simple question, th are many things to be con- sidered. Inorder to obtaig the answer the information must show how much go.d there was in the country at some stated time, how much has since b:en produced in the couniry and how much has been imported, and from this aggregate increase we must deduct all that has been exported, taken abroad by tour- ists and heiresses who have married foreign titles, our William Waldorf Astor and others who have expatriated themselves: also all that has been used in the art< and manufac- tures and that which is lost by wear and muti- lation, as shown in the 1ecoluage of old coins, d also the wastage allowed by law for coin- . The difference between these aggregats sums wili Le the answer to our questiou. In my search ior the iniormation I have put in long hours every evening for more than a week ir studying the report of the Director of the Mint, R. K. Preston, for the year 1896, comparing his figures and statements owe e with another, and I now propose to give the result of my investigation in as condensed formas it can be presented and be readily understood by hurried business men and readers of ordinary intellizence on the money question. Ihave not found itan easy task to ll)hllln this information aud put it in due orm. All the authorities agree in taking the year 1873 as the time when the stock of gold in th United States was ascertaized as nearl possitle. Dr. Linderman, the Director of the Mint, made a special and most exhaustive in- vestigation at that time, which was done for reasons understeed by inteiligent men with- out explanation. He reported the stock of 53‘(;1 in the country ai that date as $135,000,- Ou page 50 of Mr, Preston’s report for 1896 there is a tanle showing the reported stock of gold in the United Stutes for the past twenty- three years, from 1873 to 1896, indicating anite & regular annual increase tili the year 1888, when it resched the great sum of $705,818,855. Since that date it has de- creased to $599,597.964 in 1896. according 10 these mint statistics. This in an appareut addition o1 $464,597,964 to our stock of gold sirce 1873, On page 60 the production of gold in this country dniig these twenty-three years is given as $830 660 000; on pages 282-3 it ap- pears thai the expor.s exceeded tne imporis of gold during this period by $79,902,572, and on } age 55 the report shows that the go d used in the arts and manufactures from 1880 to 1895 amounted to $229,072,155. an average annu:l consumption of $15,311,477, making in twenty-three years a total oI $352,163,971. Manifestly these iwo sums, the excess uf ex- ports and the amouut consumed in the arts and manufsctures, a total of $432,366.543, must be deducted from the total vroduction of goid during these twents-three vears $830.- 660,000, wnich leaves ns but 398,593,457, 1nstend of he $399,597,064 reportec on page 50. Aud yet fnere areother imporiant de. dnuetions to be made from even tois $398,593 457 for the sums taken abread by tourists, heiresses and our expatriois since 1873 and for the ‘oss shown by recoinage and the legal allowance for mint wastage in twenty-three years, At the extremely low figure of £5,000,000 annualiy these losses aggregate $115,000,000. Deduct this sum from $398,593 457 and tie actual stock of gold in thi< couniry July 1, 1896, could 1ot exceed $283,593.457, and was not ¥599,597,964, as reported by the Director of the Mint. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, July 15, 1897. THE FOLI1E MAN. Two men tolled side by side, And wrought with bralu and baad, Ana one said: I shall win thiough worth”; The other gohemed and planned And flatered him who had the power T ruise him from the throng, Aud people were amaszed 10 see “How 1ast be got 810ng And he that sought to win through worth “Ihe other's purpose saw— Saw how he fawned upon the man Whose will or whim was law— A craven sycophaot himself And always 1ain to hear i Toe honey d words Lhat any rogue Would pour into his ea: And s0 it came to pass that he WEo flutiered rose apace, While he thas sought to wii through worth Obtained no higher piace: And (here, us in (he former days, 1 saw him tofling on, And aske | him of the other who Lo nigber wasks had gone. “They say,” he said, “hat worth will win; Al well, it will, But he that flattered now directs, While | am toiling stall ! And e, they say, *has poiicy,’ Whi.e I have seli-respect; His sin is deemed & vir.ue now, My victue a defect.” % E. KiskR in Clev. land Leader. 3 GOING DEBS ONE BETTER. [ Detroit Free Press. Mrs. Hattle N, Bemis of Arabia, Nebr., goes Debs & good many better on the colonization scheme. She has offered a large tract of land in the northwestern portion of Nebraska for the establishment of & Reputlic of Widows. She does not shut ont capitalists, &8 Debs does, butshuts out men aitogether. member of the colony is permitied to marry or (o hire male heip under penalty of forfeiting her Tignts as & colonist THE BASIS OF FROSPERITY. Boston Post. From both the raiiroads and the farms of the West come cheoring reports. It is not only incressed earnings that the roads report, but an inerease in the aggrogate tonnage dur- | ing the last few weeks of the half year just closed. which indicates the improvement of general business condition=. 8o sign!ficant is this that the outlook is considered 1o be favor- PALESTINE AND THE CHOSEN PEOPLE. ~ VO DR. THEODORE HERZL. The plan to rebuild Jerusalem and re-establish the Jewish nation in Palestine 1s daily receiving additional supporters among Israelites the world over. Dr. Theodore Herzl, the celebrated Vienna euthor, whose pamphlet entitled *“The Jewish State’’ attracted univer- sal attention some time ago, is one of the prime movers in the great undertaking, and he, with otners, has called a conference of Jews from all countries to be held next month in Switzerland for the purpose of devising ways and means to carry out the design of restor- ing the land of Zion to its old-time glory and to the race which for 2000 years has prayed for such n consummation. Already there are flourishing colonies of Jews in Palestine, and Dr. Herzl belfeves taat Turkey will accept a proposition to allow the Jews to settie in the Holy Land with the privilege of self-protection, together with a measure of indepen- dent legislation, under the suzerainiy of the Sult: themselves (o pay & certain annual tribute to , providing the Jewish people pledge the Turkish ruler. OPINIONS OF A PESSIMIST. Cleveland Leader. Gold is gold, whether it is used to form a king’s erown or to fili the tooth of an ape. Wisdom is wisdom, whether it comes from the mouth of & sage or is uttered by a careless fool. A cure for indigestion would rob the world of many of its poets. The largest bottle doesn’t aiways hold the Ecs: wine, nor the biggest head the greatest rain. Some peop'e pride themselves upon the fact that they unever shed tears, They seldom have opportunities to brag of other accom- plishments. 1f women had to shave they would never succeed in get:ing ready to go anywhere. THE PREACHER AND iHE BIKE.l “Certainly, ministers should ride if they want to,” says Dr. Talmage. “As for dignity, Idon’t see how they can lose any of it on a wheel; but if they do, why, it's not much loss, anyway. I have seen ministers of the gospel on bicycles in high silk hats and Prince Albert coats, their coattails flying behind tnem. Peovpie on the sidewalks laughed because it but what of it? If a minister by riding on a wheel in that fashion AMERICAN FARMER—Well, well! Am I in [From the New York Press.) l R4 T Y™ i it? Home crop heavy, foreign crop light. able for a larger movement of merchandise than has been known for many years. At the bottom of this improvement is the crops. The farmer mukes the ruilroads possiple; transpor- tation draws its business from the cultivation of the soil. It {s from the West that we Jook for prosperity to come. That is the section on which the depression setiled first and most heavily. The West has suffered most cruelly from tie hard times. And now it is from that section that we get the first gieam of jeturn- | ing prosperity. It is a healthy indication that we have here. It polnts to a building upof g00a times from the solid fouudation of a fruitful soil, Agriculture is still the basis of the country’s prosperity. WITH YOUR _OFFEE. “Pa,” remuarked Clarence Callipers, after watching his iather's efforts to entertain the baby for half an hour, “it is kinder queer that nearly all babies sre born Populists, isn't 1 “Populists! What put such an idea as that into your head?” “Whny, although the average baby is always wanting someching, nobody can get it for le,imi-becuuu it is always something else.”— ucl Lady (after going over the whole stock of blaukets)—You needn’t show me any more. I| only ceme in to look for & friend with whom I had an appointment here. Perspiring Shopman (politely)—If you think your friend isamong thé blankets, madam, I shall be happy to go over them again for you. ~Tit-Blts, Teacher—How many divisions of mankina are there? Bobby—My paw says it is divided into the people who earn a living without getting it and those who get a living without earning it.—Cincinuati Enquirer. Thers's nothing in the world as sweet As a maiden’s loving look, Tnless it is the “finis” of ‘The average modern book. —Clevelana Leader. ‘orgive me, dearest, if I spoke hastily,” pleaded the repentant man. b, a mere matter of 274 wordsa min- ute,” ponded the falr stenographer, look- ing ruefully at her wilted shirtwaisi—Chicsgo Journal, : g can make people laugh, which means making them forget thoir troubles for a very shori time, why, then, that minister has done a good and charitable action. He has been far more righteous than if he had kept his dignity and lost the opportunity of making people laugh. Let the clergy wheel away, I say. 1| would like 10 jofn them if I could keep with | ;hleL processiou. But I coutd mnot. I should o1l MEN AND WOMEN. The New York Order of Confederate Women haselected Mrs. Jeiferson Davis honoraty presi- dent. The Empress of Austria has directed that 30,000 rose trees shall be planted around a statue of Heine, which is being erccted on her property at Corfu. 0ld followers of Garibaldi, who fought with him for the liberation of Italy, are indignant at the assumption of the name “Garibaldiui” by the socialists and revolutionaries who fol- lowed the general’s son to Greece. Steps are being taken in Halifax, N. 8, for the erection of a monument to the memory of Joseph Howe, the “father of responsible government in British North America.” Miss Gail Laughlin was the only woman selected to take part inthe last of the inter- society debates held between the Cornell Con- gress and the’S7 Curtis Ciub. The congress won. This gives the congress the champion- ship of the university and the silver-mounted gavel given by the Cornell Union. - Marseilles’ Mayor has created a sensation in France by utilizing the bell-cord in a railroad train. His speedy appearance at a certain vi:lage being worth more than a fiue to him, he got on aa express train, stopped it, paid his $3 and went about is business. The railroad authorities are puzzling over the means of preventing his examp e from being imitated. The Archbishop of Canterbury receives a stipend of $75,000 a year, which comfortabie sum a writer in a London church p:riodical asserts is in-ufficient. He maintains that a curate with £120 a year is “‘in a better finan- cial position than the Archbishop; for the former, at any rate, has bis £120 » year to spend as e lizes."” PERSONAL. C. R. Hurd of Denver is in town. John Clements of Red Bluff is in the City. Ex-Mayor Sam Rucker of San Jose is at the Palace. John R. English, a business man of Vallejo, is at the Lick. Rodrigo Arpiroz of Mexico is registered at the Occidental. H. W. Harding, a well-to-do resident of Den- ver, is in the City. J.C. Coleman of Arcata isin the City. is here on business. R. Barerolt and wife, of Merced, are at the He | Cosmopolitan Hotel. not imagine this to be the butitls 1t will take as long & time to make known the beauties of Al ska as it will her endless re. sources. e /THE BLUE AND THE GRAY. Syracuse . Confederate veterans will join with Unfon veterans in the great parade at Chicago July 22, when the Logan statue 18 to be dedica Triswill be a happy indication that the anis mosities of war time have passed away and that sectlonal lines no longer divide the citi- zens of this great Republic. —— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS THE INsTITUTE OF ART—S., City. The Mark Hopkins Institute of Art is oven to the put Without cost on the last Friday of each i h; ELECTRO-PLATING—D. D., Occidental, Sonoms County, Cal. Anye ectro-plater in San Fran. cisco will give the desired information, but this department cannot sdvertise any one in tnat business. Moust CENIS TUNNEL—N., Los Gatos, Cal When the working forces in the Mount llun s o opening was mae, it was B vored. that the jovel on the French sid was only sixty centimeters above the level on the Italian side. That was & liitle lessthan three-quarters of a yard. Tue LiGur BricApE—S., City. This corre spondent is anxious to obtain a list of those who took part in the famous charge i Bala- klava, which has been fmmortalized in ver:e under the title of “The Cnarge of the Ligit pr.gade.” He is anxious 1o obtain the lst be informed where he can see & copy of it. ubscriber, City. The cor rect coiors ior & barber’s pole are blue and white, not red, wbite and blue. Anc.eatly barbers performed minor operations iu sur gery, and in particclar, when bleeding was customary, it was to the barbers that the patients applied to be bled. “To essist this operation,” says & writer on ancient customs, “it being necessary for the patient Lo graspa steff, a stick or pole was always kept by the barber-surgeon, together with the fillet or bandaging he used for tying the patient’s arm. When the pole was not in use the tape or fillet was tied to if, so that they might be both togetuer when wanted, and ju this stato the pole and tape were hung at the door asa sign. Al length, iustead of hanging out ibe identical poie used in the operatior, a poie was painted with stripes around it in inrita- tion of the real pole and vandage, and thus came the sign.” Lord Thurlow, in & speech in the House of Lords, July 17, 1797, *aid that by statute, still in force, barbers and surgeons were each 10 use & pole (es a sign). The barbers were to have theirs blue and ‘white striped with no other appendags, but the surgeons’,which was the same in other respects, was iikewise {0 nave a galley-pot ard a red rag to denote the pariicular nature of their vocation. THE NAVAL AcApEMY—D. L. E., Oakland PARBER'S POLE Cal. There are allowed at the United States Naval Academy at Anuvapolis one cadet for each member or delegate of ‘the United States House of Representa- tives, ome for the District of Colum- bia and ten at large. The sppoiniment of cadets at large and for the District of Co- lumbia is made by the President. The Secre- tary of the Navy, as soon aiter March 5 ineach year as possible, must notify in writing each member and delegate of the House o! Repre- sentatives of any vacancy that may exist in his district. Tue nomircation of a candidate to fill the vacancy is made, on the recommendsation of the member or delerate, by the Secretary. Candidates must be actual residents of -tlie districts from which they are nominated. The course of naval cadets is six years; the 1ast two of which are spent at sea. Candidates at the time of tueir examination for admissior must not be under 15 nor over 20 years of ¢gs and physicaliy sound, weil io-med and of robust condition. They enter the academy immediately after passing the prescribed e aminations, and are required to sign articl binding themselves to serve in the United States navy eight years (including the 1ims of probation “at the Navel Acsdemy), unless sooner discharged. The pay of a naval cades 1s $500 a yoar, begiuniog at the date of admis G. H. Bender, a business man of St Louis, | sion. Mo., i8 a recent arrivel. Dr. W. E. Cook of Eureka was among yester- day’s arrivals in the City. W. H. Howard, & well-to-do resident of Seat- tle, errived here yesterday. U. 8. Ward, an attorney of Plumas County, reached the City yesterday. W. M. Elliott, who owns a general store at Mcndocino City, s at the Russ, Among the arrivals at the Grand is Charles A. Calhoun of Washington, D. C. A. L. Moncure, an orange-grower ot Palermo, is n late arrival at the Occidental. J. E.La Rue of Davisville was among last night’s arrivals at the Occidentai. Dr. W F. Hubner of Healdsburg was amoug the arrivals at the Russ yesterday. A. Munson, owner of 2 bank and general store at Placerville, is a visitor here. M. D. Shea and T. J. Fellows, mining men of Rossland, are among the arrivais at the Russ- J. H. Thorne, who owns & general store at Rio Vista, is here on a short stay. He isat the Russ. Thomas Flack, one of the miners of the Clondyke district, is at the Russ. He is down to stay several months.. ¢ H. H. Shell, the new Inspector of Immigra- tion, has arrived here from Des Moines, Iowa, and assumed his duties. M. B. Appel, a hotel proprietor of Wilcox, Ariz,, and M. F. Nichols, & business man of that place, are at the Grand. H. C. Yancy, a Depnty Sheriff of Sonora, Tuolumne County, is down on business and is a guest of the Cosmopolitan Hotel Henry L. Wilson, & wealthy reslaent of Spo- kane, Wush., arrived here yesterday, accom- panied by his famlly. They are at the Palace. J. W. Hull of S8acramento, superintendent of the Sscramento Light and Power Company and the American River Land and Lumber Company, is in the City. J. O. Hestwood, Fred Price, H. L. Levesque and L. B. Rhoads, of Dawson City, Alaska, ate at the Grand. They are among those who have mede good stakes in gold mining in the Clon- dyke distriet. Samuel McMurtrie, the well-known railroad contracior who has had important contracts during the last few years with the Southern Pacific nnd other roads, is here from Denver, where he lived for a long time. He is at the Palace. James O. Broadhead of St. Louis, son of the late em'nent sttorney and ex-Congressman J. 0. Broadhead, who prosecuted the cele- brated whisky ring during the Grant adminis- tration when Grant uttered the famous saying, “Let no gulity man escape,’’ is among the arrivals in the City. He is here on a trip com- bining business and pleasure. Roy V. Robertson, owner and editor of the Placerville Daily Nugget, was among last night's arrivals at the Russ. He isaccom- panied by Mrs. Robertson. Mr. Robertson founded the Nugget about a yearand a half ago. He runs a weekly as well as a daily and has both on a paying basis. Mr. Robertson will stay over till Monday and attend the Press Club smoker, which occurs to-morrow night. . TO COME. Chicago Journal. The United States Monetary Commission, sentabroad in the interest of international bimetaliism, 1s receiving much eucoursge- meut in the way of definite assurances, if re- Boru concerning the matter are reliable. 1f rance and England are ready to extend the use of silver the prospect for an international agreement on some bimetalllc system may be called very bright and promising. The right solution of the problem is bound to come, and it will not bear the Bryan imprint, either. TRUIH IN EULOGIES. Portland Oregonlan, It would be worth a great deal to the public life of this country if af er the death of any eminent per-on, a verdict according to the facts of his life were to be pronounced. It is time we had outgrown the adage, ““De mortuis v il nisi bonum,” since, besides being respon- sibl* for any amount of good-natured lying, it makes all eu.ogy practically meaningiess, and thus destroys the force which tue example of & well-spent life might otherwise bequeaih to the world, BEAUTIES OF ALASKA, Juneau (Alasks) Miner. We wonder what thove people who talk of Alaska as an ice-bound, dreary, bleak country would think if they had spent the last month with us here. Hardly a cloud in the sky; unny, clear days, tempered by delightiul BOUN l hreuel; cool, comfortable nights, the darkest cuty of which is asoft swilight. They can- At the end of the tnird vear the new first class is separated into two d.visions, namely: the line division and the engineer divisiow, the numbers of these divisions being pro- portioned to the vacancies that have occurred in the several corps during the preceding year. ‘At'the end of the six years' course appoints ments to fill vacancies in the line and iu the marine corps are mede irom the line division, and to fill vacancies in tne engineer corps from the engineer d:vision. 1f, arter making #8 igaments ws above, there should still be vacaic.es in one branch and surplus graduates in the other, the vacancies in the fo'mer may be filled by assignment to it of surp us graduates from the latter. At least ten appointments irom such gradu- ates are made each year. Surplus graduates who do not receive sppuiniments are given a certificate of graduation, an honorable dis+ charge and one year's sea pay. The academy was founded in 1845 by the Hon. George Bancroft, Secretury of the Navy in ths adminisiration of President Polk. It was formaily opeued October 10 of that yesr, ith Commander Franklin Buchanan as sue erintendent. During the Civil War 1t was re- moved from Annapolis, Md., to Newport, R but was returned to the former place in 186! It is under the direct supervision of the Bu- reau of Navigntion, Navy Déepartment, CALIFORNIA Glace Fruit fire etched boxes. s; 50¢ Ib., in elegant Townsend’s, Palace HotelL* msessam iy foy The Indian gua=d of honor for the Queen in June, to be drawn from the imperial service troops and native eavalry regiments, has now been definitely fixed at 2 minimum of forty officers. They were to leave Bombay on May 15 and to be absent for threeor four months, Competition for the honor has been keen, but regiments have been selected which have not bitherto been privileged to send representa- tives to Britain. Frrerat information daily to manufasturesy, business bouses and public men by tha Pra. Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery, * ——————————— Pavis de Chavannes, tne French painter, who is over 70 vears of age, is to marry soon the Princess Cantacuzene, who has been''a. close friend of his for many years and nursed him during his recent illness. She was the model for his picture, ‘‘La Veuve,” exhibjted at the 1878 exhibition. The artist has given up the studio in the Place Pigalle, which he hasoccupied for near y fiity years, and takem an apartment in the Avenue de Villiers. 825 REate to Chicago via the Gr. fanta Fe Route. The low rates made for Christian Endeavorers will be open to the public as well. An opportn. Dity to visit the East never before enjoyed by Cal- ffornians. Pullman Palacs Drawing-room Sleep- ing-cars of the latest pattern. Modern upholstered tourist sleeping-cars run dally through from Oak- land pler to Chicago. See tie-table in advertiy- ing column. San Francisco ticketoflice 644-Mac<es streeg, Chronicie bullding. ‘lelephone Muin 1531 Uakland, 1118 Eroadway. 2 e .— Great Reduction in Rates to Eastern Cities Via Sunset Route and Pledmont Air Line. Only $38 25 to Washington and Baltimore; Phlladels phia $39 25: New York, 840 25, an! Boston §42. Gorrespondingly 1ow rates to other points. Only route operating personally conducted tourist cars San Franclsco to Washington, D. C., withoat change. For further iutormation call on or address C. L. HOPKINS, Pacific Coast Passenger Agent, 621 Market street, tan’ Francise e e 832 50 to St. Paul, Minneapolis. and Chicago. Tickets will be on sa'e July 12 to the 17th. Good final Iimit, August 15: stopover allowed. It'sa splendid opportunity to take a (rip to CHicago and 10p Off at the famous Yellowstone Park. Send 6 cents In stamps for illustrated book, **Wonder 1and," t0 T. K. Etateler, general agent Northera Pacific Kallway, 638 Market street, San Fraucisco. —_——— “Mra. 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