The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 20, 1897, Page 8

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EASTERN OFFICE: Beoms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Cltye DAVID M. FOLTZ, Esstern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are yon going to the conntry ona_vacation * n #o, 1t 18 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or lefi a: Business Office will recelve promp: attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifty cemis per month Don’t be a premature Klondyker. There is no soft snap on the Yukon, The new stream of gold will set many a millwheel turnin The tariff has taken its final form and California is all right. As California went for McKinley in’96 he should come to it in "97. s, it will be observed, remains in the condition it was six months ago. Money expended for a park in the Mis. ‘wion will be accounted an economy if itis handled right. Work on the Hall of Justice is expected to be lively enough this week for people to see it moving. e People in Eastern cities take long rides | on rapid trolley-cars in the evening just to catch a breeze and keep cool. Forest fires continue to remind the people of the interior of the folly of being too careless when camping out. The wise man who resolves to go to the Klondyke will take a second thought and decide to wait until next spring. A settlement of the strike by arbitra- tion will be a good way to open a new era of prosperity in the coal districts. The Sultan is slowly convincing the leaders of the European concert that they must play his tune if they expect bhim to dance to the measure. Weyler has at last come to the con- clusion that the only pacified Cuban is one who has been reduced to the con- dition of a good Indian. To the average citizen it would appéar that the promptest way to enact a tariff bill would be to refer the question toa | conference committee at the start. The rise in the price of wheat has had the effect of compelling the calamity howler to find something else to howl about, and for the moment he is as silent as a clam-digger. The Chicago [nter Ocean defends the bicycle habit on the ground that it adds to ‘the picturesque in American life,’ and there can be no doubt it has been a great inspiration to the comic weeklies, When the conference report on the tariff is laid before the Senate the Demo- crats will have one more chance to blun- der, and there is danger they may do it, and keep the country in a muddle for an- other week. It the flood of gold flows on a few years longer at the present rate, the ratio of six- teen to one with silver may return of itself without any international agreement, and that fact may incline the nations to agree more readily. 1t is zaid that Allen ot Nebraska is the nearest approach to a perpetual talking machine that was ever in the Senate, and memories of Peffer remind us that this is extraordinary praise to Allen's tireless- ness of tongue. Every month of this administration has seen an improvenrent in business and an increase in confidence in trade circles, and yet the Democratic organs continue to assert they can see no evidences of re- turning prosperity. The appointment of & new commission to investigate the Nicaragua canal project will bring that work once more to the front, and this time there is reason to be: lieve that when it comes belore Congress it will come to wi The richest gold fields of the Yukon may be in Canada, but it will be United States miners who get out the stuff. When it comes to gold mining we lead the world, and even Australia and South Africa have to send to us for experts. Courtney, the coach of the Cornell crew, says that brains are the first thing he looks for when selecting oarsmen for the university boat, so it will be seen that our modern college training is not without some inducements to 1intellectual life on the part of the aspiring student. According to the Courier-Journal some ciever rascals have been reaping a rich harvest in Southern Indiana by selling white topazes to the farmers for dia- . monds, This is the first intimation the country has bad that farmers wear dia- monds, and it may be classed as another evidence of prosperity. In a recent interview on the gold- mining industries of the world Director Preston of the United States Mint, after pointing out the favorable prospects for the industry, said: “The man who does not understand the business, or who is not prepared to stay in the gold regions long encugh to learn it, had better keep his money and remain at home.” Thisad- just now as pertinent to the occa- if it had been made for it, | | | | | ity County, | | In a recent interview, Mr. Preston, Direc- | which was in round numbers $150,000,000, | every part of the world. |MINING BOOMS NEARER HOME. | by a mine-owner led to an investigation | A TFLOOD OF GOLD. If the stories of the richness of the gold-fields of the Klondyke are confirmea and the placers continue to yield the out- put which has enriched so many of the first comers, the effect will be far greater than that of causing a mining excite- ment on the Pacific Coast and bringing about a rapid development of the upper Yukon region. The whole world will be affected by the increase of the gold sup- ply and we shall have a universal revival of the enterprise which followed the great discoveries of goid in California and Aus- tralia nearly fifty yesrs ago. Tven before the late reports of the rich finds on the Klondyke were made known, the estimates were that the output of gold for the year would be extraordinary. tor of the Mint, estimated the probable gold product for 1897 at about $230,000,000. This in itself would have been a vast in- crease over the product of five years azo, and when this estimate is revised by the returns now coming in from the north it wiil be seen that we are on the verge of a flood-tide in the gold supply. The increase in the output of gold has come in response to a pressing demand. ‘Fhe trade, the commerce and the indus- try of every civilized nation on the earth needed it. It was to supply this demand that money has been poured ferth in Australia, South Africa and in the big mines of this country to bring the pre- cious metal from the earth and set it to work. While the prospector gave his en- ergy to the task of finding the ore, science lent its aid to devise bstter means of ex- tracting it. With an increase of gold mines came an improvemont of the math- ods of hendling it, and the two, working | together, have produced the results which now promise to carry blessings to We shall not get the full effects of the gold-fields of the Yukon until placer min- ing has given way to the more scientific and thorough methods of quartz mining. If, however, the fields turn out to be any- thing like as rich as they are said to be it will not be long before a more commodi- ous route will bs opened and machinery will be set to work crushing the ores and pouring the golden stream down this coast, to spread from here to all parts of the globe. The story of the rapid settling of South Africa will be repeated in Alaska, and a new movement of enterprise will be felt in all forms of industry. It is fortunate for us that the new flood of gold will find us better prepared to profit by it than the old. When the gold- fields were discovered in California we were doing business under a Democratic free-trade tariff. As fast as our gold was brought from the mines it was sent abroad to pay for foreign goods. It will be differ- ent this time. We are to have a protective tariff in force in a few days, and the new gold will remain at home to develop | American industries. There will be big business in California as well asin Alaska, and those who stay at home will reap their share of the rewards which are promised in the new land of Ophir. | The Klondyke regions under the Arctic circle are not to monopolize the gold ex- citement this year, it would seem. While the Alaskan fever is still at ex- tremely high temperature, ths news is flashed to us that & new mother lode has | in 2/l probability been discovered in Trin- | California, aud that ines- | timab e treasure will undoubtedly soon be opened up in that section of the State. | The new gold find was made at Hall Oity, where color-yielding rock picked up which proved that similar rock, assaying | $15 to the ton, could be found throughouta | belt of 600 feet, outeroppings of the broad | formation being frequent. Claims were | located witkout delay by those who were first to learn the precious tidings, and when the information sped to the camps | of the neighborhood prospectors began to flock in to the new field of glittering promise. The story of the find became generally known in the vicinity a week ago yester- dav, and all that night prospectors were out staking off claims. Over ten miles of the supposed lode had been located within forty-eight hours. Experienced mining men of Hail City and Harrison Gulch are said to be in ec- stasies over the disgovery. A According to report the rock is of a black and white or gray variety and is freely impregnated with lime. The formation runs northwest and southeast from Tehama to Del Norte. Itis claimed thata quite similar forma- tion existsin Colusa County, and thata mining boom in that section is also one of the possibilities of the near futare. Portland, Oregon, has a gold craze, caused by recent rich finds in locations north of 8t. Helens, in the Webfoot State. Veins carrying 20 per cent copper and from $20 to $100 per ton gold are talxed of asif they were common theresbout and said to be exposed hundreds of feet in width ana thousands of feet vertically in the mountain sides. Wonderful gold sto- ries also come from the States of Wash- ington and Idaho. There are numberless inducements for the gold-seekers right here on the Pacific Blope, and perhaps more people will be enriched in the long run by the right kina of prospecting and developing in the new mining regions of this State alone than will come back with fortunes from the banks of Klondyka River or Bonanza Creek. AN IDEAL UNIVERSITY. ‘When the plans of the contemplated ideal buildings for the University of Cali- fornia are completed and carried onut, no university in the world will compare with it in point of architectural magnificence. ‘The most famous architects in Europe and America will submit plans for the har. monious grouping of twenty-eight or more beautiful buildings, and the whole general design of buildings and grounds will be passed upon and accepted by competent judges before any one of the structures is begun. It is admitted by all who have seen it that the site of the university at Berkeley is nowhere equaled in appropriateness for such a purpose. The large area of its erounds and their situation on agently rising hill overlooking the Golden Gate, with a glorious panorama of the bay of San Francisco and the surrounding hills, all tend to make a great opportunity, which the architects, artists and land- scape gardeners of the world have appre- ciated thoroughly and quickly. The international competition is made possible through the praiseworthy liber- ality of Mrs, Phebs Hearst. Representatives of the Board of Regents have traveled all over Europe enlisting aid entered into its accomplishment as zeal- ously as though it were a matter in which they were personally employed. The programme of the reqguirements of the university, together with the neces- sary daia, is now being prepared, and the result of the competition promises to mark an epoch in the history of the world’s architecture, while it will assure for California the grandest university in existence. THE STRIKING COAL:MINERS. The first week of the great coal-miners’ strike in the Fast represented, accord- ing to the Philadelphia Record, a loss to miners, operators and raiiroads of a total of §1,300,000. The idle men numbered 110,000, and their wages for the week, on the basis that if at work they would earn 70 cents a day, would have amounted to $462,000. As this number of men would mine 924,000 tons a week, the loss of the operators for that time, estimating a vrofit of 25 per cent per ton run from the mine, would. be $220,000. The railroads lostin the neighborhood of §:00,000, as they have been transporting this coal to the lake at an average rate of 80 cents per ton. As this is the beginning of the third week of the strike, and as the ranks of the idle miners have been augmented in many districts, the loss thus far must be up- ward of $3,000,000. Itis to be hoped that a plan of arbitra- tion may soon be agreed upon by the leaders of the strike and the operators. The miners are right in their declaration that times bave been improving in this country, and, considering that the new tariff measure shortly to bscome a law will give the coal operators the benefit of a protective duty of 6714 cents a ton, it would seem as if a reasonable advance might be made in the wages of the miners. This will probably be done through arbitration, and it looks as if arbitration were not far off. If West Virginia miners go out, the strikers feel assured of success in forcing an under- standing without much dJelay, as the supply of coal in the industrial centers will soon be exhausted. It is an interesting fact and a very fortu- nate one at the present time that Ohio farmers are demanding labor to harvest their immense wheat and hay crops, and thatthousandsof striking miners are en- listing in farm work and making higher wages than they could realize in the mines. The dawn of the new era of prosperity seen.s to be reddening into the luster of day. The miners appreciate this, and they naturally want to be guaranteed living wages under the better conditions, PLACERS IN OUR ORCHARDS. ©If Californian peaches as good 2s those we are eating in New York could be mar- keted in London they would readilv com- mand from five to ten times the American price.” Thus editorially speaks the New York Times, and the same publication suggests that it may be reserved for Cali- fornian enterprise and ingenuity to solve the problem of delivering fresh American peaches to the people on the other side of the Atlantic, just as they mastered the difficulties of transporting and distribut- ing California peaches 1n an edible con- dition to our cousins in the Eastern States. The prejudice against California fruits is fast dying out in the Atlantic States. The people of the staid old common- wealths have been forced to admit that our oranges, cherries and grapes are very good to eat, and now they have discovered that California peaches are not made of wood-pulp, but that tbey smell and taste like peaches and have a flavor not exceiied by the peaches of New Jersey or Dela- ware. California fruit has conquered the East- ern part of the great Repablic, but it wi!l not rest content with that triumph. it will not be lonz before we shall be deliver- ing oar fresh fruit in the British Isles. * A prominent English fruit-packer iz at present in this State for the purpose of making a study of the various msthods employed here in the handling, packing and shipping of fruit, This firm has been handling annually a large amount of Santa Clara Vailey canned fruit. He de- clares that English dealers have been for many years seeking a perfect metbod of transporting fresh fruit across the conti- nent and ocean, and that they are eagerly looking forward to the time which is bound to come when fresh fruits from the Pacific Slope can be placed on the London markets in good condition. Our canned fruits are well liked in England and al- waygin great demand, but buyers thers would tumble over each other to secure fresn fruit from the paracise 6f the West. We shall yet glad the palate of old England with the rare treat of fine fruits from our orchards, and when we reach that solution new fielas of conquest will spread out before us on the European continent and California orchards will become placers of weaith, with the advan- tage that the yield will keep on increasing forever. THE OANAL COMMISSION. The appointment by the Presidentof a commission to investigate and report to Congress on the Nicaragua canal route will bring that great scheme once more into the arena of practical politics. The public mind, which nas never been di- verted from the subject since it was first put forward as an enterprise to be under- taken by the Government, will ind in ita new reason for expecting an early begin- ning of the work and will be more than ever eager to have Congress take some ac- tion that will assure Government control. According to reports the President will appoint as members of the commission Admiral Walker, Captain O. M. Carter and Professor L. M. Haupt. Captain Car- ter, though still a young man, entered the Engineer Corps in 1880 and hashad ample experience to fit bim for the duties of the survey, while Professor Haupt has long been recognized as an authority on canal construction, having devoted much time to a careful study of all problems involved in such work. A commission having two such earnest and vigorous workers, headed by a man of the rank and experi- ence of Admiral Walker, will have weizht and influence both at home and abroad, and if they make a favorable report the opponents of the measure will hardly be able to find a reasonable excuse on which to base a plea for further delay on the part of Congress. 'he main object of the commission will be to determine, as far as possible, the cost of the proposed waterway and the expen- ditures which will probably be requirea for maintenance. The Cleveland commis- sion set the figures very high. The new commissioners may be able to make a bettér report. Even, however, it they appraise the cost as high as $133,000,000, as in thescheme of obtaining the architectural | the Cleveland commission did, it will be plan, and are more than gratified with | 0P too much to pay for the benefits the the result. The most renowned men in the Nation will derive from the work. Public various protessions above mentioned and | interests demand the canal, and public those most prominent all over the world sentiment will favor any reasonable ex. in educational matters have not only | Penditure to obtain it. given most cheerfully and freely their time and attention, suggestion and coun- el, but bave received the proposition “I bought litile Tommy & trumpet because he was so0 lonely,but he did not seem pleased.” ““Well, no; with unbounded enthusiasm, and have | stone deaf.”—Pick-Me-Up AN ELECTRIC DRAWBRIDGE. The advantages of electrical machinery are nowhere better shown than when large powers are required, in which cases the ordinary mechanical appliances berome clumsy and un- wieldy, while the elecric apparatus is justthe Teverse. A case in point is the big drawbridge over the St. Louis River connecting the cities of Duluth and Superior, recently described in the Electric World. This draw as designed is almost 500 feet long and carries & double line of reilroad track, a trolley track, street ve- icles and foot passengers. In order to operate it successfully electric transmission was adopted. How successful this proved is shown by the fact that the draw, which weighs 2000 tons, can be moved through an angle of 90 degrees in two minutes. Two sets of motors are required. one for operating the turning mechanism end the other for opening the latches, raising the rails and op- instruction from the Eenate, which was printed by the Government and entitled “‘Coinage Laws of the United States, 1792 to 1894, with an abpendix of statistics relating 10 coins and currency.”’ Submitted March 5, 1894, and ordered printed. On August 4, 1894, the fourth edition revised and corrected to date was issued. I think there is information in this able report which will be appreciated by the readers of THE CALL. Iquote from the revised fourth edition. On pages 361 t0 424 there is & most learned and notable paper written by the eminent Austrian, Edward Suess, professor of geology at the University of Vienna, vice-president of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, member of tne Ausirian Parlisment, etc., in which he makes a critical examination of the consump- tion of gold by the worid atlarge in the arts and manufaciures. On page 392, seventh paragraph, he sums up his conclusions, after painstaking inquiry, in these simple, but somewhat startling words: “It seems to me very probable that the de- mand for ornament, for industry and for hoarding is close to the figure of production THIS DRAWBRIDGE IS WORKED BY ELECTRICITY. erating the end lifts. Everything is done from the little cabin in the center of the bridge and with theease that an ordinary trolley car is moved, = The simple apparatus required consists of switches, indicators for showing when the bridge is locked in place or when open and also when the end lifts are up or down, light- ning arrestors, resistances to take the place of a disabled motor in case of accident, and cur- rent-measuring instruments and controilers familiar to the trolley rider. There are two motors operating the span, arranged in series, 50 lkh“ in case of accident one cen do the work. When the draw is closed it is necessary to support its ends firmly on the end piers. This is accomp ished by means of end lifts, consist- ing of massive steel eccentrics, from which hang short stout eccentric rods pivoted at their lower ends to solid steel blocks or shoes which rest on the pedestals on the masonry piers. These end lifts are operated from the cabin by a set of motors. To provide for the expansion of the rails on the draw they are made to overhang the ends of the draw and terminate in along bevel, which fits snugly beside the similarly beveled ends of the rails on the stationary spans. These rails have to be lifted clear of each other before the bridge is moved, and this also is done by the auxiliary set of motors. The latches, which sre ordinarily workea by hand from the center of the draw by long rods or shafts, are arranged to be operated by this same set of motors and by the mere shut- ting of aswitch. The bridge-turning mechan- ism differs in no essential features from ordi- nary practice in point of size. The speed reduction from the armature shaft to the bridge column is about 1500 to 1. Despite the huge size of the bridge it 1s at all times under absolute control, and can be swung asslowly or rapidly as desired, and arrangements are provided so the mechanism can be suddenly stopped. AMBITIO I want to be & hero g The biggest of the kit 1 do not care what kind at all, Aslongas Iam it Perhaps upon the vasty deep, When all wi.s fear are dumb, To go and stop the leas<ing ship By suicking in my thumb. Perhaps upon the city streets Some cblld uppn the track I'd save by seizlig on the car And holding of it back. Perhaps In some big bloody war Asgeneral 1'd go, And with my sirong right band knock oft | The heads of all the 10e. That's what Uil be when I grow up, A hero big and stout, And in parades go stalking by, And hear the people shout. —Harper's Bazar. | PERSONAL. J. D. Morgan of Bolinas isat the Cosmopoli- tan. Rev. E. Graham of Chico is registered at the Grand. J. Frye, a business man of Rutherford, is at | the Russ. C. A. Coffman and wife, of Rivera, are at the Russ House. J. M. Wilmans, a mine-owner from Newman, | is at the Lick. Dr. W. G. Hinkle is registered at the Grand | from Stockton. W. F. Street and wife of St. Louis are at the Cosmopolitan. A. L Jackson and wife of San Jose aro at the Cosmopolitan. F. H. Lang, a lawyer of Balinas, {s in the | City on business. 0. L. Tuttle, a Santa Cruz real-estdte man, is staying at the Baldwin. T. L. Reed, a Reedly grain-grower, stops at the Grand for a few days. 8. T. Black, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, is at the Lick.- F. N. Burke, a wealthy resident of San Jose, is at the Palace with his wife. Harry Postlethwaite, a San Jose fruit-grower, is stopping at the Lick House. J. R. Rose, & mining man of Oroville, istered at the Russ with his wife. J. J. Hebbron is at the Grand. He Is an ex- tensive cattle-raiser from Salinas. William McKinley, prominent in politics at Nevada City, is staying at the Lick. V. G. Frost, a lawyer, and John W. Howell, & banker, from Merced, are at the Lick. Miss Eda Ducray and Miss Hanna Ducray of Millville, Cal,, are at the Cosmopolitan. Al Livingston of Carson City, agent for Stuart, the promoter of the Corbett-Fitzsim- mons fight, 15 at the Russ. P. P. de Henssel and M. de Belenssel of Paris and G. Harany of Caen, France, arrived on the San Juan and are stopping at the Baldwin. A. M. Bergevin, a iarge dealer in California wines at Chicago, is at the Palace. He is vis- iting the coast for the purpose of buying wines. George H. Murray, manager end owrer of the “Twelve Temptations” company, is at the Baldwin. This is Mr. Murray’s first trip to the coast since he was here sIX years ago with the original “Devil's Auction.” Dr. W. N. Moore, superintendent of the in- sane asylum, and F.J. Welden, manager of the Palace Hotel, at Ukiah, with their wives, were in the City yesterday. They left on the Walla Walla this morning for Victoria, {sreg- CALIFORNIANS (N NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N, Y., July 19.—At the Plaza, H. Kevlin; Metropole, A. Eisenverg; Murray Hill, J. P. Newman, W. E. Osborn; Imperial, A. Dern J. P. Dunne, Rs B. Elder, J. Stein- berger; Grand, A. Rosenberg, G. Foster; Hoff- man, G. A. Klein; Gilsey, A. H. Steele; Grand Union, Mrs. V. E. Full. USING UP THE GOLD. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: To most people it seems incredible that fa the United States alone, as shown even by the im- perfect statistics of the Director of the Mint, gold is used up in the arts and manufactures atthe rate of $15,311,477 annuslly, and dur- ing the last twenty-three years $352,163,971 has thus been consumed. It seems incredible simply because they know so little of the sub- jects. Were they better informed they could see why I say ‘*the imperfect statistics of the Director of the Mint” on this particular ques- tion. That they are so defective on many other questions as to be of little value I have abundantly demonstrated. Let us now exam- ine this matter. In 1894 the Finance Committee of the you see his oid grandmother is | United States Senate, Mr. Voorhees chairman, made a voluminous report of 847 peges under or has already reached it.” He then cites Dr. Adolph Soetbeer, doubtless the greatest statis- tician of the century or of the world, as say- ing, “That in the years recently past the out- flow of gold to the East and the still prevalent practice of hoarding, together with the indus- trial employment, have materially checked tbe increaseof the monetary stock of gold and may presumably have nearly absorbed the yeerly new production of it.” ~Mr. Dingley in & speech in the House of Representatives, August 24, 1893, refers to “the tables of Dr. Adolph~ Soeibeer, than whom there is 1o bigher authority on tne production of gold and silver.” 1 find this quotation on page 445 of this Voorhees report. Commenting on this statement made by Dr. Soetbeer Professor Suess says: ‘‘This view L sbare entirely, and it corresponds to the pres- ent condition of affairs.”” He then goes on to say: ‘‘But the industrial demand increases from year to year with the increase of well- being” of the prosperous classes, who use more gold as they increase in wealth. And he adds: “We have already reached the day, or approached very close to it, when mining will yield less than industry consumes. From that day forward the whole new production no longer counts for monetary needs ana in- dustry will withdraw from the stock of money an amount of go'd increasing annually with the increase of well-being.” Now, what has the Director of the Mint to !ng on this subject? On pege 62 we have a table showing the world’s production of gold from 1860 to 1895, reported aL $4.356,478,200. But no such table showing the worid’s con- sumption of gold is found in the book. On page 58 there is & report of the world’s con- sumption of gold for the single year 1895 as $58,579,160, and tbe produciion for 1895 is given as £200,406.000, indicating an increase of nearly $142,000,000 in the world’s product of gold, ‘when such eminent authors as Dr. Soctbeer and Protessor Suess are tully satisfied there is in fact no increase. It will require several Alaskas to make the mint reports vals uable. Wealth is using np the gold. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, July 19, 1897. WITH YOUR COFFEE. ! “Who is that fellow across the street there, and what's he raving about? His armsand | iawsare working like those of a Popocratic | orator at a free silver convention.” ““Hush. That's Wadley. Hisfolks areafraid he’slosing his mind. Bought a high-grade bike the day before the cut.”—C.evelend | | Leaaer. In the stilly watches of a June night & New York womsn mistook a burglar for her hus- band, and nearly choked the Jife cutof him for not coming home earlier.—Denver Post. “Well?” said the assistant In a chemist’s shop to an Irishman who pointed to & pile of | soap. . *1 want a lump of that,” answered the Trishman. “Thank you. unscented?”’ “PIl take it wid me."" Will you have it scented or Tid-Bits, Ledy (during dance)—Mon Dieu! I have lost my heirpins, and now my hair is going to fall down over my shoulders. Partner—Never mind, I shall be glad to plck it up for you.—Le Monde Comique. Congressman Sutloway of New Hampshire | isa member of the Salvation army and has | irequently been seen in their parades, both at his home in Manchester and in Washington. | His wife was formerly s Salvation army lassie. | Seven hundred people attended the 100th birthday anniversary of Mrs. Beck of Burn- side Township, Clearfield County, Pa., re- cently. She was the mother of six children, and has thirty-three grandchildren, 136 great- grandchildren and two great-great-grandchil- dren living. On one occasion Mrs. Julia Ward Howe pre- sented herseif ata club of which she was a member with her bonnet wrong side front. After some hesitation, lest Nirs. Howe should feel hurt, a sister member informed her of the mistake. ata blow to my vanity!” said Mrs. Howe with an amused smile. “I thought i L I was rece1ving quite an unusual smount of | attention as I came downtown in the car, but attributed it solely to my own attrac- tions!” Florence Nightingale, who has just cele- brated her seventy-seventh birthday, is illand not expected to recover. She has long been an invalid, and will leave at her degth & magnifi- cent memorial of her achievements as & pio- neer in the work of nursing the sick and wounded on an organized plan in the shape of a nurses’ home, to which she devoted the $400,000 subscribed by the English people ss & national testimonial of gratitude at the close of the Crimean war, the horrors of which she | did so much to alleviate. TOM REED’S FIRST SPEECH. Tllustrated American. The one which opened Reed’'s way to fame as & man was short. It was delivered not long after he had begun his career in Congress. He had not, up to that time, taken much part ip debate, but one day while he was making & somewhat labored argument, an older member tried to break him up by puiting a question to him suddenly and demanding an immediate answer. Reed gave the answer readily, Then he paused, turned toward the Speaker's desk and drawled out: “And now, having em- balmed that fly ih the liquid amber of my re- marks, 1-will go on again.” The House roared. he galleries 100K 1t up. The newspaper cor- respondents sentit flying all over the country, and to his own surprise moro than any one’s else, Reed found himself & man of noie from that hour. i REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. Anybody can be a martyr if there areenough people to look on. 1 wish I could take off all my clothes and get into a bathtub full of sliced cucumbers. Fate is circumstances. ‘“You're not so warm!” to the maa who thinks he knowsit all. No girl ever had a sick headache that was too bad for her to up and try on her new dress. . A man can never look as proud and haughty as he wants to when he hason ashirt that leels wilted. The difference between a journalist and a newspaper man is that the first prints'alot more than he knows, and the second knows a lot more than he prints. CALIFORNTA Glace Fruits; 50c Ib., in elegant JUDGE REBBARD NOT LIBELED Dismissg,l of the Accusa- tions Against Marriott and Others, Campaign Publications That Gave Pain to a Sensitive Judicial Aspirant. 8. M. Shortridge’s Victory in the Mar- riott Uase Broke the Back of the Prosecution. Judge Dazingerfield of the Superior Court yesterday dismissed the libel charges, agamnst Frederick Marriott and others, on the motion of the prosecution, thus setting the seal of failure on an attempt to punish citizens for their criticisms of a candidate for office. The defendants on the calendar were Frederick Marriott, Thomas S. Williams Jr., George B. Conant, Benjamin Lucy, A. L. Casavaw, ¥. H. Qualman, E. F. Kendall end T. H. McCarthy, who were accused of having libeled Judge J. C. Hebbard be- causs they denounced him as unworthy to be re-elected to the Superior Court bench. In presenting reasons why citizens should not vote for Judge Hebbard, the history of his acts in the Peopie’s Home Savings Bank litigation was given to the public, and the lines were drawn with considerable force. It was shown at the trial of Marriott, who was picked out as the easiest mark by the prosecution, that tne card of which Juage Hebbard complained was written ana circulated by a committee of depositors in the wrecked bank and that they considered themselves wronged by Judge Hebbard’s course in re- fusing them the representation on the boara of directors of the bank which they thought their interests entitled them to. The litigation over the bankrupt insti- tution was in Judge Hebbard's court, and he bad absolute control of the property of the depositors. They accused him of using his position or the bench toadvance the material fortunes of certain personal and political adherents and candidly ex- pressed their belief that he was unfit for the high place to which he aspired. Mr. Marriott published in the News Letter the card which so frankly ex- pressed the feelings of the suffering de- positors, and, drawing his own conclu- sions from the premises, the editor backed up the appeal of the committee with an some other man ought to be elected to take Judge Hebbard’s place on the bench. The trial of Mr. Marniott lasted several weeks, the defense being conducted by Samuel M. Shortridge, who secured an ac- quitial of his client, the jury unanimously agreeing to the proposition that the rights of free speech and a free press ought not to be abridged. This victory brose the back of the prosecution. Yesterday's scene in Judge Dainger- field’s court was very subdued. When the cases were called by the court As- sistant District Attorney Walter Hinkle arose and quietly informed the Judge that District Altorney Barnes thought viction and that he was willing to have an ordar of dismissal entered. Attorney Julius Kahn, representing Judg» Hebbard, coincided. “Docs that apply 10all the libel cases on to-day's calendar?” asked the court. Mr. Hinkle responded in the affirmative and it was ordered that the last vestage of the prosecuiion be wiped from the judi- cial records of this City and County. Judgment was also entered exonerating the bondsmen of the accused. BOB TAYLOR OF TENNESSEE. Governor Robert Taylor will succeea the late States. This much is learned from a very near and dear political friend of the Governor’'s who is here direct from Nashvilie, says James S. Evansin the Chicago Times-Herald. Taylor will resign his position as Governor and Lieu- tenant-Governor Thompson, who will succeed him as chief executive, will appoint the great lecturer and orator to the seat that for twenty years has been neld by the most unique of all Southern characters. Taylor does not particularly believe in free silver; nor is he a Populist. But his State convention laid down a plan of action and he followed. He did his fighting before the con- vention met. He isan inimitable story-teller. He loves fried chicken better thana hound dog loves pot liquor. He drinks his whisky straight and he yulls off his hat to every lady that he meets. He can play the fiddle, he can ride a horse bareback and can follow the hounds until the horn blows for breakfast the next morhing, He knows the difference be- tween a thorougnbred and fetlock siock and heworships a biue-eyed baby with a devotion’ characteristic of the mountain man. He can talk, he cap sing, he can fiddle and he can cut he pigeon’s wing. He is breezy and he is brizht. Such a figure would be a valuable acquisition to the staid and sedate Senate. “aylor was elected to the Forty-sixth Con- gress. In Cougresshe wasa general favorite. hen he spoke the galleries listened. He got more notoriety because of & speech made by General Braggof Wisconsin one night when some pension bill that had been fathered by Taylor was up for discussion than unything else that he dia while in the House. "Bragg gave Bob a cruel blow, and it took the Tennes- zeean a long time to recover from it. In the course of his remarks General Bragg said: I regret much that my duty as a Congressman requires thatloppose the passage of this act granting a pension to this poor soldier who was shot 10 death with chronic diarrhea in 1861 and never found it out until 1881.” As a declalmer his friend Bryan is not a marker to him. While 1n Congress Bob got the floor as often as the Speaker would aliow him. When he couldn’t make a speech to his feliow members he would go to the commit- tee-rooms and orate to theclerks. It wasa pagsion for him in those days to repeat the celebrated speech delivered a ha'f century ago by his famous uncle, Hon. Langton C. Haynes, which was perhaps the finast piece of oratory that ever fell from & Southerner’s lips. It was about the mountains a.d the valleys, the streams and the skies, the sunshine and the stariight, the grass that grew beneath the trees and the birds that nested among the branches. Bob always delivered it beauti- fully and for a long time claimed it as his ow: He finally confessed that he had been a irate. Piob wes defoated two years later by Petti- bone, Then he returned home and was nomi- nated by the Democrats for Governor. His opponent on the Republican ticket was no other than his distiuguished brother Alf. It was cailed the waro! the roses, and had the contest occurred a half-century ago it would have been the most picturesque event in American polities. Alf mado a great race, but was defeated. Then he went to Congress and made a better reputation thera than his brother who had preceded him had made. It is his ambition now to be a prosperous farmer in East Tennessee, For fifteen years it has been Bob's desire to go to the Senate, Once he was elected Sena- tor. That was in 1881; but before the result could be announced & vote that he could not spare was changed and Bob retired to one of the cloakrooms and spent the balance of the day in tears. The succeasful man was Jack- soz. He bas had the fenatorial fever ever since that day. It was for this that he ran for Governor the first time. It was for this that he took the nomination for the same office last year when he really aid not want ft, MARK TWAIN'S THOUGHTFUL- NESS. General Horace Porter tells a story of his fire etched boxes. Townsend’s, Palace Hotel* FrrcraL information dsily to manufasturers, business houses and publiensn by the Press Ciippiag Buroay (Alen's, 510 Modtgoerr, ferewell to Mark Twain once when Mark was going away. “I said: ‘Goodby, Mark; may God be with you always.’ He drawlingiy re- lied: ‘I—hope—he—will, but—I—hope, too— hat—He—may find some leisure—moments— to—1ii carg—of—you,' ¥ - article, brief but spicy, which said that | there was no poseibility of securing a con- | Isham G. Harris in the Senate of the Urrited | NG INT0 IS EXPENSES Chief Lees Produces Checks | Drawn by Theodore ! A, Figel. DELYV Edward S. Rothchild Declares That He Erred in His Former Testimony. Bookkeepor Gellert Told Witness He Had Not Seen Another Trial Balance Book. The trial of Theodore Figel on a charge of embezzlement moves along slowly. The monotony of figures and the dry reading of business letters hour after hour has had its effect on everybody about the courtroom. The crowd that thronged in and about the room last week eager to get a glimpse of Figel, the accused embez i and murderer, has dwindled to the ¢ ing capacity of ths place, and even his Honor Judge Campbell keeps somnolency. away by chatting with Mrs. Campbell; who yesterday sat with him on the bench. The developments of the day were not many nor particular'y interestine. The private or “special’’ account el kept in the First National Bank furnished subject for comment, as it showed an aggregate of about $25,000 being deposited and with: drawn within the space of three months. The checks included payments from $3 20 to $350, grocery bills, loans and oiher causes for their issuanca. This line of examination, however, did not show the money deposited one day to be drawn out the next and to be redeposited. +On $1000 in bank to-day,”, Figel stated to a friend, after adjournment, “I oqql_d run the figures to §40,000 in a month if I wanted to, by drawing out and depositing repeatedly.” The main testimony given was short and to the point in regard to the trial balance book, which the prosecution has all the time claimed that Figel has done away with. Edward Rothchild acknowi: edged that Gellert, the assistant book- keeper in the employ of his firm, does not remember such a book. In answer to a question, witness said that he had examined into the trial balance book he took away from the court on Thursday and which he had then testi- fied to as showing balances ending | December 31, 1896. *I would like now to amend that testi- mony, as I have discovered that the trial balances on the book reach January and | Feoruary. But I insist still that there was another trial balance book that has | disappeared, containing balances for November, December, January and Febry- | ary, those of the first two months I bave | mentioned being missing in this particular | book. The missing book would have been | valnable to Mr, Figel. i “I want to state that I notice in this trial balance of February, in Figel’s own handwriting, that the Weinstock, Lubin & Co., the J. L. Stockton and the L. R. | Smith & Co. accounts, paid as far back as | Noverber and Decem ber, are carried over | as being still unpaid.” | Chief Lees again resumed the stand on | direct examination, continuing the iden- | tification of tags of deposits made by Theodore Figel with tne First National Bank and obtained from President Mur- phv of that bank by witnessafierthedeath of Isaac Hoffmar, Most of the afternoon was taken up with these identifications and comparizons with corresponding checks when the documents singly were marked as exhibits. General Barnes suggested as a means of expediency to admit all the checks, seventy-six in number, as exhibits in a bunch, rather than read them and mark them one by one. To this procedure ex-Judge Murphy and Attornsy Ach objected, stating that it was necessary that the reading go on record. ‘‘Go ahead, then,’” submitted Barnes, sitting down in his armchair, wearily. At the hour for adjourning ex-Judge Murphy asked that the case go over until to-morrow, as he had toattend the funeral this morning of the late Colonel Crocker. $25 Eate 1o Chicago via the Great Santa Fe Koute. The low rates made for Christian Endeavorers will be open to the public as well. An opporiu- ity to visit the East never before enjoyed by Cal- fiornians. Pullman Palace Drawing-room Sleep- ing-cars of the latest pattern. Modern upholstersd tourist sleeping-cars run dafly tbrough from Oak- land pier 10 Chicago. See time-table in advertiy- ing column. 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