The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 21, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1897. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Paily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier. Qg.:; . 300 1.50 six months, by m4 three months by ma! Dally and Sunday CALL, one mouth, by mail. 65 Bunday CALL, one year, by mail WREKLY CALL, ozne year, by mail. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Marke Stroet, #an Francisco, California. Telephens Maln—-1568 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Streew Yelephone.... -Matn-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery sireet, coraer Clay; open untd 9180 o'clock. 580 Hayes street; open until §:30 o'clock. 8156 Larkin street, open untll 8:30 o'clock. EW. corner Sixteenth uud Mission sireets, open until § o'clock. 4518 Mission street, open unttl 9 o'clock. 167 Ninth street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clock. | NW. corner Tweuly-second amd Kentucky ; open till § o'clock OAKLAND OFFICB: $U8 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Reoms 51 and 52, 34 Park Row, New York Cith DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Mansger. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONITIS. Are yon poing to the country on a_vacation? Tt €0, 1t 1a no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to youraddress. Do not let it miss you for you will s 1t. Orders given to the currier or lefi at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifiy cemis per momib for summer months. The mining boom has come. Grubstakes are in big demand. Where's the calamity howler now? Once more the Pacitic Coast is El Dorado. And lots of people are sking, “*Can you get there on a bike?” This is Utah's week to celebrate and she is doing it in grand style, McKinley should come to San Francisco beiore we all leave for the Klondy Bryan should go to Alaska instead of Mexico to study the money question. Most of the gold found on the Yukon will come to California to get into circu- Jation. Wall street caught on to the new tariff at the start and stocks went up witha jump. The House succeeded in doing all of its work on the tariff bill with neatness and dispatch, We are promised the Hall of Justice will be completed on time and there is great comfort in that. After the placer miners will come the quartz miners and there is big business ahead of us for years to come. In the meantime the movement for in- ternational bimetallism marches steadily ahead and the band keeps playing. It will be noticed that no such good things happened under the Cleveland ad- ministration. Grover was a hoodoo. The grubstakes must be long enouch to reach several thousand miles and strong enough to stand the blows of a couple of winters. There is no reason why the Californian should leave the State to look for gold in {rozen countries. There iz plenty of it Lere yet. California is prepared to give the ad- vance agent of vrosperity the biggest re- ception ever accorded to an American President. As we have the mother lode in Califor- nia, the rich streak to the north of us must be tke daddy lode—and it seems to be no slight jag, either. Even the women have caught the craze, and Dawson will wake up some morning to tind itself in the possession of the di- vided skirt and the bloomer. The duty on wine adopted by the con- ference committee is not as high asit ehould have been, but later on we can make that fightas a separate 1ssue and win itin the end. ‘While the new tariff does not give us all that we asked for, it gives a great deal more than any other tariff ever did, and here we have another proof that things are improving. Don’t overlook the fact that some excit- ing gola discoveries have jusi been made in this Svate and you do not have to go be- yond the reach of sunshine and civiliza- tion to get to them. The attitude ot the European concert in the presesce of the Sultan is becoming comic, and it is all the more so because of the dignity 1t assumes when it turns from tbe Turk to face the world. Persons who are thinking of adventur- 11 g to the new placers should »emember that the Alasksn climate keeps a large as- rortment of cold days on tap and never tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. When gold-miners are rushing work it is called & strike and when coal-miners quit work it is called a strike also, and thus the English language adapts itself to every ex- igency without straining the dictionary, A slight ripple in Pennsylvania volitics has just been settled intoa perfact calm by the announcement from Senator Quay that be would be a candidate for re-elec- tion and Las no thought of retiring from the arena. Tne rise in wheat and wool, the revival oi Western mining, the gold strikes on the Klondyke and the passage of the new tariff form a combination of potentim- pulses which moving together are likely to set everything booming before the year is over. 1t iy satd that of the 2000 pioneers who entered Utah in 1847 there are known to be 650 survivors. It is a healthy climate and a healthy life that keeps so large a percentage of as big a company as that alive to hold a reunion after fifty years of pioneer work. There would never have been so large a strike among the coal-miners if there had not been some widespread and long-con- tinued reason for it, and it therefore, gratifying to learn that they stand a good chance to win their fight and return to work in a few days on better terms. the greater West. their labors. equally fortunate. portion of the Union. has been everywhere felt. good business reasons. large benefits upon the community. is there likely to be. The safest product of the mountains of our State are seamed and support to every industry. benefactor, a Columbus. and industrial redemption.”’ former years ana break our record of gold ing preparations for carrying on their industries on an enlarged scale. manifest at the recent convention at Denver, and it is certain that even if the exciting reports had not come from the north there would none the less have been an extra_ ordinary development in California mining within the coming year. While there is an undue excitement in some quarters over the new discoveries the movement toward an increased activity in gold mining is on the whole based on California can well afford to devote a large part of gies and her capital to the work of exploiting her mines. No other business is so profitable at this time as mining when legitimately conducted, and none confers such L'here is no depression in th2 gold market, nor As was sail by Governor Adams at the Denver convention: perish, gold and silver remain as permanent contributions to the wealth of the world. | Production of gold adds to the valus of every product of field, orchard, pasture. give work to laborer, mechanic, professions; patronage to merchant, manufacturer; He who discovers a new Cripple Creek or a San Juanisa Every great mine 1s a mllestone on the road to financial THE GOLD MINING REVIVAL. The sudden gold exciteraent, amounting in some instances to a craze, caused by | the reports of the rich placers on the K'ondyke, will of course have some injurious effects on the community, but these will be vastly overbalanced by good. tion of mining men tbroughout the world will be directed anew to the gold regions of the. Pacific Coast, and we shall be supplied with the capital required to develop not only the new fields to the north, but the rich quartz districts of California and all of The atten- The excitement finds us prepared to profit by the attention which will soon be directed toward us. Never were our prospectors, from Montana to Arizona, more active than at present, and never were they in later years finding better results from The stories from the Yukon have overshadowed reports from sections nearer home, but these in ordinary times would have been sufficiently notable to cause something of an excitement throughout the coast. ported from several portions of this State, and O:egon and Colorado have been Rich discoveries are re- All the influences of the time have tended to a revival of mining activity 1n this The demand for more gold has been pressing—the need of it Our mining men have recognized this and have been mak- This was made her ener- the world is the yellow me:al with which lined. ‘‘All other products You | There can be no question of the truth of these words. The industries of the world ‘ wait the coming of the golden flood which will b2ar them on to fortune. | revive aught else we must revive gold mining. Before we We must renew the rich output of production in order that we may the more surely go forward to surpass our accomplisnments in other industries. 1t is not neces- sary to go as far as frozen Alaska to find gold. California is st1ll El Dorado. A GENUINE AMERIOAN POLICY The Spanish authoritiesin the oppressed island of Cuba have discovered the differ- ence between the sturdy American policy of President McKinley ard the excuse for a policy offerea during Mr. Cleveland’s term of office. It appears that there has come down to this administration the legacy of many claims for damage to pe- sons and property of American citizens in Cuba; and the main reason for this lies in the fact that whether the cause was murder or a ruined sugar-house the last wdministration simply filed the ¢Jaim and allowed the matter to rest right there. American victims of Cuban outrages de- spaired of redress under the Cleveland regime, but they have become encouraced since the vigorous hand of a genuine American President has begun to be felt in affairs of this country, and especially in its foreign relations. Minister Woodford has been instructed to push the just ciaims of citizens of this country and to insist that they shall no longer be ignored by Spain. counted on to fulfill his instructions to the letter. The claims are no light affairs. They will make a heavy drain on Spain’s borrowed finances. One of the claims, tor instance, is for $778,000. It represents the entire destruction of a sugar estate, in- cluding houses, sugar-mill, telephone, railroad, fences and all improvements, and the claimant is FKrancisco Seigle, whose papers of citizenship are now before the State Department. Then there is an indemnity demand of $100,000 for impris- onment and cruel treatment of a New York doctor, and numerous property claims of from $40,000 to §100,000 each. It will be remembered that during the last few months of Mr. Cleveland’s term a warm correspondence was carried on be- tween Consul-General Fitzhugn Lee at Havana and Secretary of State Olney. General Lee’s appeals to the Secretary re- garding Weyler's disregard of treaty rights met with indifference in Washing- ton, and were left unanswered for weeks. General Lee’s position became a very un- enviable one, on account of the lack of support from his home Government, and he threatened to resign. A Republican administration took up the reins of power, and General Lee is to- day in thorough accord with Secretary Sherman upon the defense of American rights in Cuba. There was antagonism between the Cleveland admiuistration 2nd the Cuban consuls of its own ap- pointment. There is to-day harmony of action between President McKinley’s Gov- ernment and the Demociatic consuls of Cuba, not one of whom has been changeu thus far. In the first two months of the McKinley administration more Amer- icans were released from Spanish jails than in the two full years of Cuban revo- lution prior to March 4 last, and since this latter date the Spanish anthorities in Cuba have ceased to imprison American citizens in defiance of treaty rights. Becretary of State John Sherman de- clared, it will be one of the aims of the present administration to see that ‘no American citizen shall be wronged of his rights and persecuted and prosecuted un- justly by any power, great or small.”” THE NEW TARIFF MEASURE Californians have reason to rejoice over the benefactions accorded them in the new tariff bill as finally acreed upon by the conference committee of Senate and House of Representatives. Never before have Pacific Coast interests raceived such large and favorable recognition in a tariff measure. The bill is as broad in its scope as the great country whose conditions, financial and industrial, it is designed to improve. The pledge contained in the National Republican platform of last year has been fully complied with in providing ample protection to American industries. Every consideration, and hence tbere is heard no longer the cry that tariffs are framed chiefly in the interests of Eastern manu. facturers. Among the particularly good results with reference to our own State mav be mentioned the compromise rate of 40 cents per gallon on still wines, adopted in place of the Senate rate of 30 cents, T e rateon brandy was made $2 25. The tariff 01 50 cents per gallon on olive oil'is very gratifying. Almonds are placed at 4 and 6 cents for shelled and unshelled, and fil- berts and walnuts at 3 and 5 cents in the same conditions; the conference having made a general advance over the Senate rates on nuts, A protection of 1 cent per pound on citros fruits will make the orange and lemon growsrs happy, and the rate of 2 cents per pound on Zante currants will give this State further cause for gratifica- tion. For apples and other deciduous fruits there is a rate of 25 cents per bushel, with 2 cents a pound when dried. The $2 rate on white pine is restored, and sufli- cient protection placed on grain bags and burlaps to materially help those engaged in their manufacture here. It is not unlikely that our quicksilver He can be | As | section of the country has received careful | mines may soon resume their old-time activity through the effect of the rates made for the encouragement of such in- dustry, while our borax interests will | | kewise profit by the new measure. The beet-sugar industry, which has already served to better agricultural conditions in different parts of California, is favored to a considerable extent in the sugar sched- ule, and, on the whole, the Pacific Coast has been treated remarkably well. OALIFORNIA'S INVITATION. Patriotic Californians, without regard to political creeds, at an enthusiastic mass-meeting last Monday evening re- solved to exterid a general invitation to President McKinley to pay a visit to the | Golden State. Supplemental to this, there wiil be individual invitations from the Grand Army of tne Republic, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, the California State Board of Trade, the local Board of Supervisors und the various labor organizations. Only twice in its history has California entertained a President during his term of office, and 1t is eager now to have the | honor of welcoming to her domain the | Chief Executive,whose unwavering cham- | pionship of the best interests oi the American people have made him re- spected and loved from one erd of the country to the other. ‘ As one of the speakers at the mass- meeting observed, the President has shown his interest in California by giving it the first Cabivet appointment it had ever received. The regard for the State shown by this appoiniment has increased the popularity of the President, and he ill be hailed not only as the chiel execu- tive of the Republic but as a tried and proven friend of California and its people. The President, on his vacation trip, will visit Yellowstone Park. and he can hardly decline the warm popular invitation to extend his tour tothe City ol the Golden | Gate. His own neighbors at Canton, | Onio, could mot give him heartier greet- | ing than he will receive here if he comes. | It is not a partisan matter. The whole | people will glory in the visit of their President, and no effort should bs spared | to bring about the realization to Califor- nia of such a pleasure and honor. FOURTH OF JULY “REFORM.” | A iew weeks ago the proposition of a Sabbatic Memorial day was advanced by | somebody in the KEast, the argument veing set forth that the people of the Nation indulged in gay festiviiies to so | great an extenton the 30th of May that the day was deprived of the solemnity which ought to characterize it. It was maintained that the decoration ceremonies should tzke place on the last Sunday in May, when grave religious influences | would wrap themselves about the occa- sion and preserve it from becoming too largely a day of pastime and pleasure. | The suggestion created talk in the press for a day, but not very serious talk, as a rule. That odd idea about changing Me- morial day, however, has hardly been for- gotten when an Eastern newspaper springs up with the declaration that the citizens of this country ought to ‘reform the Fourth of July.” The Chicago paper wants to have the *inlernalism of torturing noises’” re- formed out of the celebrations of Indepen- dence day. It observes that at the recent Queen’s jubilee *‘the sounds are said to have been more -impressive than the scenes.” But ‘‘those sounds were some- thing very different” from *‘the execrable brute noises ot the corumon cracker and suchlike idiotic, ear-splitting bang- whangs.” Our contemporary thinks these noises threaten to “spoil the day’s glory and glad- ness for the great masses of the people.” That is a mistake; the glorious Fourth can never be spoiled by ‘ear-splitting bang-whangs,”’ To *‘reform” all the cus- tomary expression of ebullient patriotism out of a day which stands as the greatest monument to the greatest reform in the history of nations it will be almost neces- sary to change the republic back to the form of government which we glorify our ! forefathers for annihilating in this favored | land. Americans surely ought to be able and willing to stand the "bang-whangs” on this one day out of 365. The masses of the people are mnot ciamoring for pro- tection against the noises of the firecrack- ers and bombs on the Fourth of Jaly. The masses of the people rather enjoy the “bang-whangs.” The glorious Fourth will continue to be celebrated in the future pretty much asin the past. It will be a sorry day when we have to choke off the screeches of the bird of freedom just because he isn’t as musi- cal as sébme of the caged songsters of roy- alty. Without the wsoaring and the screaming of the eagle and the ““whang- | banging’’ of the firecracker and the tor- | pedo the Fourth of July wouldn’t be itself at all, 1t is announced that a new plan of ship- ping fresh fruit to New York by sending it 10 Ogden in ventilated cars and there transferring it to refrigerators has proven to be successful, not only in preserving the fruit better but also in reducing the freight. Here, then, is a double saving that promises good results, and perhaps it will not be long before we can be supply- ing London with fresh fruit as a steady business without running great risks. —_— PERSONAL. | Dr. J. J. Stephen of Petaluma is at the | Grand. B. C. Wright and wife are back from their Salt Lake trip. F. & Hortman of Guatemals is stopping &t the Celifornia. C. W. Rush and wife of Lincoln, Nebr., are at the Cosmopolitan. James F. Peck, an attorney of Merced, is stopping at the Lick. E.G. Carson, a banker of Denver, is regis- tered at the Baldwin. J. M. Schaeberie ot the Mount Hamilton observatory is at the Lick. Walter E. Wyman, a mining man of Sutter Creek, is at the Occiden!al. Mrs, H. Thornton and daughter, of Los Banos, are at the Cosmopolitan. William Niles, a large stock-raiser of Los Angeles County, is at the Occidental. M. Canning, a prominent merchant of Port- ; land, Or., is stopping at the Occidental. R. J. Bentley, an ettorney of Sacramento, is In the City, and is registered at the Lick. A. B. C. Dowdell, a merchantof St Helena, ison & visit to the City. Heis at the Baldwin. D. F. Verdenal, the well-known newspaper | correspondent, arrived from New York last night. 1 George E. Faw of Gonzales ison a visit to 8an Francisco. He is registered atthe Occi- dental. F. 8. Wensinger, the well-known dairyman of Freestone, Sonoma County, is at the Occi- dental. F. A. Hihn, the millionaire lumber mer- chant, of Santa Cruz, is up from Santa Cruz He s at the Occidental. Ernest Otto Meyer of Hamburg arrived yes- terday from Valparaiso, homeward bound. He is stopping at the Palace. District Attorney W. S. Barnes has been ill for several weeks. He expects to be able to resume work next Monday. John T. A. Arundel, who is largely interested in guano islands in the South Seas, left for & cruise in the South Pacific yesterday. F. 8. Shacklett, a banker of Nevada, Mo, is stopping at the Grand. He is making a tour of the State, accompanied by his wife. Maraino Lapas, R. Zeisz and E. de Miranda o1 Guatemala arrived here from the East, bound for Central America. They are at the Palace. F. Temple Lynch, a prominent coffee plan. | ter of Guatemala, is on his annual visit to this | City with his wife. They are registered at the Occidental, J. A. Wilson, who recently sold a claim in Arizona for §5000, is stopping at the Grand Hotel. He is making preparations to leave at the earliest day for the Klondyke to try his luck there. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 20.—At the Plaza— J. W. Libby. Imperiai—J. F. Evans, A. F. Thedy. Netherland—W. Shaw. Hoffman— L. & Sherman. Belvedere—A. H. Crocker. Grand—Mr. and Mrs. E. Goutt, J. Malowansky. | Everett—A. H, Hart. Miss Marie Miller left the Plaza and sailed on the Trave for Bremen. —_— —— | A SONG OF TIME. Weep not for the hereafier— The burden of the years; For Time stays not for laughter | And Time stays no- for Lears. On swiftest pinfons flying lie speeds o'er land and seas; Shall 10ses dead or dying Revive because of these? Care not for sharp thorns springing; nfiheo e iite complete y brd is singing, d ALy Tuse Is sweet. € T 1 A ‘What 1lls may come hereafter Wilcome despite my fea Time lioxers not for laughter And Time :tays not for tears. —Atlauta Constitution. { WITH YOUR COFFEE. “You have injured my reputation, young | man. You said in your paper thatlgotoffa | new joke.” | “Begging your pardom, doctor,” said the | soft-eyed reporter, “you are under a misap- prehension. I said you got the joke off for the first time,”’—Indianapolis Journal. Farmer Honk—You are from Boston, ain’t ve? Summer Boarder—Yes, sir. Farmer Honk—Wa’al, now, do you live right in the Hub or out in one of the hubbubs?— Puck. “Papa, how do the people in the Weather Burean find out what xind of weather we are going to have I didn’t know that they did, my son.”— Yonkers Statesman. The Rescuer—How did you come to fall in? The Rescued—I didn’t come (o fall in; I came to fish,—Harper’s Weekly. Amy Allright—What is the best thing you | ever did? Little Gofast—Cholly Van Million.— Town Topics. “What s apathy?” “Ivsastrange and dangerous condition that aman sometimes falls into—a condition in which he has even been known to lend his bicyele.”—Chicago Record. | “Whatever made you make Brackins a pres- ent of a pocket-comb? IHe'sas bald bil- ¢ liard ball.” “That's just it. I wanted tc make him think I never noticed it.”—Tit-Bits. Slimson—Some one gave my boy a drum for & birthday present, but it turned out all right. Twickenham—How so? “Igave him a pocket-knife.”—Detroit Free Press. First Populist—Wouldn’t you like to see the railroads carryin’ us all free? Second Populist—I dunno. I think the mil- lionaires ought to be mede to pay their fare.— Puck. “‘Look at that girl1” explained Mrs. Prim at the seashore; “'she might a8 well have nothing on as that bathing-suit!” “Never mind, dear, I'll cover her with my glasses,” said Mr. Prim, sympathetically, suit- ing the action to the word.—Ben Franklin. She—Is the bicycle taking the place of the horse in Paris? He—No, indeed! There isn’t any old bicycle that was ever made that 15 good enough to eat. Yonkers Statesman, WOULDN'T TRUST THE JONAHS. Sydney Bulle:in. A remarkable story of coincidence and sailor superstition was told by the survivors of the John Carey on their arrival the other day at Auckland, New Zealand. The John Carey,a trading brig, ran into dirty weather and sprang a leuk, which at 1ast forced the captain ! and five others to take to the only boat left uninjured. They were picked up by the Lady- bird, another trader, which next day went ashore a total wreck. Two days laler, a third trader, the Brightwell, hove in sight, and being signaled by the castaways, sent a boat to take them off. The John Carey’s men were tne first to embark, and, going through the surt, the Brightwell’s boat was upset and the aeouxl were drawn on board hall-drowned. At this disester the Ladybird's crew set up acry of “Jonah.” The. J. C.'s people, they said, hud been twice wrecked, and to embark with them again was certain death. And so firm was their faith in the old superstition that when the Brightwell sent a second boat they actually refused to be rescued, preferring 10 stay where they were and take their chance other ship coming that way, to sailing in company with a crew of Jonahs!' Accoraingiy the Brightwell sailed away with the six sur- vivors, who must have experienced lively and varied emoifons when, the very next day,a heavy sea broke on board, stove one of the bo: and carried away a portion of the bul- warks! However, the weather cleared, and the much-harassed and luck-tormented John Careyites were eventually landed in safety at Auckland, of CLOCK TO KEEP YOUR DATES. The indispensable tablets on whieh it is meet to set down the thronging engagements of these busy days of ours need no longer be “stlent rememtrancers,” having been made articulate for us by the latest development of the clock-maker’s art. A clock isnow to be had provided with & set of ivory tablets on which the nature of any engagement or ap- pointment may be written. These tablets are inserted ina kind of perforatea disk at the A —— PR AT Y At N\ 1% poee——————— A LU IE e e AA = Placing the Memorandum. top of the clock, which 18 divided and sub- divided into houss and quarter-hours, each tablet being placed in the division marked with the time of the engagement. When the appointed moment arrives the tablet fails into & small receptacle at the base of the clock, while an alarm begins to ring, and continues to call attention until the tablet is taken out, with an insistence which imperatively de- mands notice, and leaves no loophole for for- getfulness, Thess mnemonic clocks are all highly finished, are eight-day timepieces, and The Memorandum Delivered. are mede in & variety of patterns, some plain and inexpensive, others more elaborately decorated, and, in some cases, forming part of a stand for stationery to be placed on the writing table. The ingenious invention has been patented in all countries, and the alarm is calculated to last fur t1wo years, when it can easily be renewed. MEN AND WOMEN. Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fawcett has written a life of Queen Victoria which gives especial prominence to the Queen’s abilities s a states- woman. The stone wall about Whitelaw Reid’s coun- try seat, Ophir farm, at White Plains, N. Y., has been decorated with scriptural texts peinted by some fanatic. United States Senator George Frisbie Hoar of Massachusetts and Senator Julius C. Bur- rows of Michigan are studying modern Greek with a Turkish tutor in Washington. The father of the British navy, admiral of the fleet, the Hon. Sir Henry Keppel, has just celebrated his eighty-eighth birthday. De- spite his advanced age he still remains on the active list. Dr. C. A. Stephens of Norway Lake, Me., who believes that death is only & habit, which will eventually be overcome, is & writer of stories for boys, and naturally wants mankind to re- main forever young. Mrs, Helen Campbell has accepted a call from the State Agricuitural Coilege of Kansas, | as dean of the woman's department, with the chairs of household economics and_hygiene, and begins work there in September. The salaries of the professors of Glasgow { Untversity lest year amounted to £23,733, the best paid of them being Professor Clelnnd, who received £1645, while the smallest emolu- ments were those of Professors Simpson, Moir and Becker, each of whom received £600, M. Fremiet, the sculptor, who has been com- missioned to execute the statute of M. Ferdi- nand de Lesseps to be erected at the entrance to the Suez Canal, says the monument will be of colossal size, four times life size. M. de Lesseps will be represented standing with the plans of the canal in one hanad and the other hand pointing toward the entrance. Upon the granite pedestal will be medallions repre- senting in bas relief the portraits of the three Khedives who encourageda the construction of the canal. John L Blair, of Blairstown, N. J., now in his ninety-fifth year (and worth $40,000,000, made by bui'ding railroads and speculation in | their watered stock), laughed heartily the other aay when he heard the repors that he was dying. “I feel stronger and better now than I have for some months past,” he said. I have been ill, but am geting stronger and stouter now. You see, I can scarcely span my wrist. A couple ot months ago my fingers lapped over. I am picking up, and hove to live many years yet.” WHAT BECOMES OF THEM? Chicago News. Of the 119,900,000 old copper cents which were sept out from the mint only 900,000 have ever been accounted for and only now and then is a stray one of the remaining 119,- 000,000 seen in circulation. Of the 4,500,000 bronze two-cent pieces sent out only 1.500,000 ever found their way back, leaving 3,000,000 to be accounted for, ana there are an equal number of nickel three- cent pieces somewhere in the country, though it is very raroly oue is seen. 0i the 800,000 of the half-cents not one has ever been returned to the mint. A few of this denomination may be found in the hands of coin collectors, but the whereabouts of the rest is & mystery. It is estimated that the daily supply of needles for the entire world amounts to 3,- 000,000 of varying shaj and sizes, while the Uuited States alone calls for a yearly supply oi 300,000,000. Of pins, it is said that some of the large de- artment stores often order 100 casesat a time. Each case contains 108 dozen rs and each paper holds 360 pins,so a little use of the multiplication table will show what an im- mense thing even the one order means. The venrly output of pins fron the largest factory in the United States, it is claimed, would if placed end to end reach three times around the world, SUPREMACY IN MECHANICS. Philadelphia Record. In the building oif.ocomotives, bicycles and all forms of electrical machinery the manu- facturers of the United States have distanced competitors and commanded the first piace in neutral markets Tuisis a sheer triumph of business. In theart of making brawn effec. tive by mechanical devices the Yankee stands unexcelled. SEWARD’S FAMOUS BARGAIN. Indianapolis Journal. The new discoveries in Alaska of rich gold flelds and of a lake of petroleum fed by springs from mountains full of coal, show that the resources of that remote region are now be- 5{',‘;“"‘ to be developed. In buying it Uncle did not make such ;a bad bargain as the wiseacres of the day thought. ANHAMERICAN GAME. ‘Washington *tar. Japan by this time appreciates the fact that & “bluff” so far from being unfamiliar to this Government is an essential feature of an es- sentially American game. —_— DEMAND FORAMERICAN WHEAT. Minneapolis Tribune. One of the unquestionably strong features of the American wheat market is the demand for our wheat and flour that is developing in the Orient. Bome of the Asiatics, notably the Chinese and Japanese, have begun to eat wheat food during the past few years, and find that they like it immensely. According to the reports of the Agricultural Department some 5000 bushels have heen sold to them during tne present year and before the year is out the amount may, increase o startiing proportions. If they once get staried, there is hardiy any limit to the quantity of our bread- stuffs the teeming population of Asia could consume. RAPID TYPESETIING. New Yorc Times. i The “record” in typesetting made by Will- | 1am Duffy while operating & linotype machine | in Philadelphia recently was astonishing, and all the more so because the operator is also a | typesetter who in the days of movable types | was distinguished smong his assoclates for the rapidity and accuracy of his work. In| those days the possibility of one man setting | 469,300 ems of type 1n six days was undreamt | of. Duffy’s average was 9192 ems an honr. | 1n actual typesetting the best record aid not greatly exceed 2100 ems an_ hour. But that was a “spurt.”” A record of 1500 ems an hour | was briliiant, and in_the printers’' flush days | a typeseiter who could work as weil as that could maxe big wages. But if Duffy had been paid at the old rate of 55 cents per 1000 ems for h.s week's record of 469.300 ems his wages would have been far beyond the hopes of the iastest printing man of the palmy days. The linotype operator does not acfually set | type, however, and the printer's case with its boxes full of movable types is practically a thing of the past. The operator sits at a key- board and proceeds much as the operator of the typewriter does. The machine is as nearly | perfect as the ingenuity of man can make if, but the operator who gets the best resulls from it must have a quick brain end a sure touch. Oi course he ueed be no match fu dex- | terity for some of the heroes of the old type- setting contests, whose sense of feeling was so highly cultivated, and whose rapidity of mo- tion was fairly amazing. The advent of the machine has brought into play new iaculiies and & new sort of skill. It has also Ereatly n- creased the volume of printed matter, and has been the cause of some new and interesting varieties of typographical errors, FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT. The Grand Officers of the Independent Order of Red Men Will Con- vene in Santa Cruz, The next annualsession of the Grosse Stamm or Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Red Men of California will be held next week | in Santa Cruz, commencing on Monday at 9 ©’clock in the forenoon at Odd Fellows’ Hall. The following named are the grand officers | of the order: G. O. C., Charles Schlesinger; G. U. C., Charles Kuss; G. B. C., F. Schu- | macher; grand chaplain, John Mangels; | grand secretary, B. A. Samman; grand treas- | urer, Joe Gutberlet; grand marshal, J. Rum- etsch; grand Herold, F. R. Schwerz; grand | Krieger, C. Munder; grand Waldwacht, C. Nissig; grand Zeltwscht, M. Diecert; grand Grenzwacht, H. Beck. The following are the names of the delegates 1o the grand pudy, so iar as received by the grand secretary: Pacific Stamm No. 66—William Geistlich, A. Biedenbach, J. B. Reinhardt, C. Munder, C. G. Bolsdorf anu L. Friedmann. California Stamm No. 70—C. Wekerle, C. Stein, H. Horstmann, 0. Dammel. Golden Gate Stamm No. 74—M. Fuetsher, P. H. Will and A. Stanke. San Jose Stamm No. 77—Valentine Humburg, F. Yung, P. Warkentine. Santa Cruz Stamm No. 125—Jacob Bernheim, Carl Beck. Hermann Stamm No. 224—Jacob Rumetsch, R. Langer, R. Landmann, F. R. schwarz, Jac Noll, i‘ Mangels, J. Guthverlet, Ernst Maak. Sau Francisco Stamm No. 246—J. D. Felder- mann ana C. Leidecker. Teutonia Stamm No. 250—M. Diekert, R. Bail, P. Rotuarmel. Vorwarts Stamm No. 255—Cherles Schlesin- ger, Theo Koch, Julius Friske. Schiller Stamm No. 278—F. W. Menzer, H. L. Muller, W. Morlock. Germania Stamm No. 83—L. Winter, IL Drie- fer, Jacob Beck. C. B. Roue, C. F. Fahrbach. Metamora Stamm No. 4, P. T.—C. B. Rode, Wiiliam Geistlish, L. Krum Concordia Stamm No. —F. Breamer, W. Dannheim, R. H. Putzmann. Tue reporis that will be presented during the session will show that the order is ina flourishing condition, having a membershi of 1375 and a capital o1 $67,000. Itwill also be shown that the subordinate bodies 1n San Francisco have made good progress during the year. 1n view of ths iact thatduring the ses- sion of the grand body some important changes in the constitution and by-laws will be made the membership will watch the pro- ceedings with interest. The day before the first session of the grand body there will be a grand excursion and pics nicof the order to Santa Cruz aud for that day only reund trip tickets have been fixed at & low rate. The excursionists will leave ata quarter to 8 o’clock on the morning of Sunday and will reach Santa Cruz at a quarter to 11 o'clcek, when they will be metat the depot by the members of Sauta Cruz Stamm and es- corted through the principal streets 10 the picnie grounds where there will be & display of Japanese day fireworks, games, concert and dancing. Arrangements have been made to have two trains leave for this City,oneat4 and the other at 6 o’clock. Minerva Parlor, Native Daughters. Mrs. M. Agnes Lunstedt, deputy district | grand president of the Native Daughters of the Golden West, made her debut as a pablic installer last Monday night in Native Sons’ | Hall on the occasion of the instailing of the officers of Minerva Parlor, and she was greeted by more than 100 Native Daughters, who were anxious to see how she would conduct the work. It was a fact worthy of remark that while the installation was public, there was but one representative of the male sex pres- ent. Mrs. Lunstedt, who is a very intelligent Indy and fair of face, having a dignified bear- ing, carried on the work with just enough dramatic effect to engross the attention of the officers of the parlor, the members and visit- ors, and to make the event a pleasurable one for'all. At the close of the ccremony she was | congratulated in open meeting by Grand Trustee Mrs, Lillisn Carlile for the very suc- cessful manner in which she acquitted herself in the discharge of her duty. That this was concurred in was made meanifest by the loud appiause that grected the speaker. he officers of Minerva who will serve for the ensuing term are; Miss Carrie Creigh, past president; Mrs. K. Coleman, president: Miss K. Curran, first vice-president; Miss L. E. Roche, second vice-president; Mrs, M. Biakely, | third vice-president; Miss Auna Donaldson, cretary; Miss May Winn, financial Miss Mary Dempsey, ireasurer; Mrs. V. Stevens, marshal; Miss Mary Creigh, inside sentinel; Mrs. Shade, outside sentinel} Mi-s B, Creigh, Mrs. L. Levering and Miss R. Rush, trusiees. Those who assisted the dep- utyin her work were Miss Aunie Worth of Buena Vista Parlor ss past grand president, Mrs. Daniel Danfels ot Fremont F’nrlnr as grand secretary, Mae Smith of Minerva Parlor 88 grand marshal. Past President Mrs. Mary E. Tiliman made a few remarks and made the annouicement that the father of Grand President Mrs. Belle W. Conrad had recently taken from the Pansy mine, in old Tuolumne, of which he isthe owner, $25,000 in one clean up and a short | time atier’ $55,000 more, and she added, *Klondyke is not the only gold-producing sec- tion iu the world.” During the evening there was introduced a pew feature called “collecting autographs,” Every person present wishing to compete for the two prizes offered was furnished a book and pencil and given & limited time in which to obtain signatures. The two obtaining the Rgreatest number were to receive the prizos. In the ten minutes aliowed the competitors there was some lively soliciting for names with the injunction to “please write quick,’ and the resul? was that there was much rapid but horribie scrawling. The winners in ihe contest were Miss Mury Crelgh, who obtained seventy-three names, and Miss Lucy E. Roche Who secured seventy-one names. g 8 was followed by the serving of i ana dancing without zentlemen.' ok Golden State Parlor. This evening that wido-awake parlor Golden State No.50 of the Daughters of the Golden West, will give one of its usually ;‘nc;lv‘-d‘;n homes” in Balboa Hall, Native ns’ building, and one oi the f a grab-bag lm'o which all ml,: del;'t“hreei.r ::21?: The commitiee, of which Miss Rosa Day, grand marshal of the order, is the chairman’ promis riends of the parle ' evening's enterta nment. . Lo ¢ Pleasant Hermann’s Son The proceedings of the nineteenth annual session of the Order of Hermann’s Sons, held in Woodland, Yolo County,on the 10th, 11th and 12th of jast May, Lave been printed in | the German languageand issued in pamphlet | form. The proceedings cover sixty pages of print and are a ooncise and comprehensive resume of what was done during the session, half-tone picture of the delezates to and grand officers of tha grand inner title page. ¥ O Ao Fons of Benjamin. The following officers of Golden Gate Lodge No. 113 oi the Independent Order of Sons of Benjamin were installed last Sunday night by District Grand President Krause, assisted by . B. Wachalder, who was conducior: Ex. President, J. Goodman; greshl!n& 8. Stern- berg; vlw}i)ruidem, A. Michaels; recording secrelary, L. Springer; financial secretary, ngl reasurer, R. Rosenberg; out- side guard; L. Kahn; trustee, I, Shapiro, ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS W. 0. M., City. Geraldine and GERALDINE— the By Los Angeles did not run a race over District track. ! lowing Lowest Tipes—J. E. ., City. The fo is the dates of the lowest tides at San Franclsco for the year 1897: January 1, May 18, Decem- ber 23. Tue Goipex Garr—W. McC, City. r::; Golden Gare, the entrance to the harbor of il Francisco, is, at its narrowest point, 5 wide, a little' less than a mile. THE A J. B., City. Thered a p 8 ; the in the American flug represents courage; white, integrity of purpose, and the blue, steadfastness, love and faith, J. H., City, An snswer to the question, “Who is entitled to the use of Honorable’ " was enswered to correspondents in THE CALL of June 8 of the current year. THE Boss oF THE Car—A. N., City. On V;‘ll street railways the conauctor issuperior tothe he is in gripman or motorman 1n rank, for charge of the train. Counductors, gripmenand motormen receive the same pay HONORABLE— MARE IsLAND—J. 8., City. Applications for employment at Mare Isiana should ve ad. dressed to “The Board of Labor Employment, Mare Island, Cal. The board prescribes n;: ex]sminnuon to which an applicant hastosu mit. A PRENTUM HALF—A. O., City. The half dol- lars of 1853, for which a premium of $30 is offered, sre those which were coined Without arrowheads at the side of date and without rays about the eagle. All other half dollars o that date are worth only their face value. THE PUBLIC DEBT—L. D, City. On the 1st of November preceding Cleveland’s second inauguration the ablic debt of the United States was 3 6 5 on the 1st of November preceding McKinley’s inauguration the smount of the debt was $1,785,412,640 90. Car COUPLING—A reader, Banta, San Joaquin County, Cal. If you have invented a new kind of coupling which you believe superior to any in use, you shoutd firstsecure a patent thereon and then submit it to sgme railroad company. If it is of any value yod will receive an offer.. for your patent. SEQUIN—S. L. W., City. The gold colns that are mentioned in the ‘‘Arabian Nights'’ wero sequins, first siruck in Ifaly in the latter part of the thirteenth century and worth about $2 30 in American money, It was about the size of & ducat. Coins of the same name but varying in value were issued by other coun< tries. CHIEF OF POLICE—G. W. H., City. 1n 1§b4 Martin J. Burke was Chief of Police of Sfl\! Francisco. He was followed in office in 15_6() by P. Crowley, who held office until 1874, when Theodore G. Cockrill heid the office ua- 111876, Then Henry H. Ellis toox the offics and he retained it until 1878, when he was followed by John Kirkpairick, and in 1880 P. Crowley was appointed chier, and held the. office until recently, when he resigned, and L W. Lees, the incumbent, was appoiated. THE FIRE DEPARTM W. H., City. David Scannell was Chief Engineer of the Fire De- partment of San Francisco in 1864, and held that position uutil 1867, when he was suc- ceeded by F. E. K. Woitney, who in 1870 was succeeded by Charies H. Ackerson. In 1871 David Scannell was again chicf, until April 21, when he was succeeded by F.E. R. Whil- ney. Whitney wentout ou the 1stof Decem- ber of the same year, making way for Scan- nell, who remained iu cffice until his death, March 30, 1893. Then his successor, Dennis T. Sullivan, the incumbent, was appointed— April 4, ace fruits, 50¢ 1b. Townsend's* RIS g s FPreraL information daily to manufasturery, business houses and public men by the Pres Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. CALIFORNIA Among the maxims of the late Barney Bar- nato were the following: “Never let a man put his band on you without giving him ‘what for,’ and always have the first hit.” *You have no right to spoil enother man’s game as long as he plays it cleverly; he will expose himself soon enough when he ceases to be clever at it.”” “Never play the game above the people’s heads, but as they think tney un- derstand it; you have a bit in hand every time then”: and, “Always wind up with a good curtain, and bring it down before tha public gets tired or has had time to fiad you out.” $25 Eate to Chicago via the Great tanta Fe Route. The low rates made for Christian Endeavorsrs will be open to the public as well. An opporiu- nity to visit the Last never before enjoyed by Cal- ffornians. Pullman Palace Drawing-room Sleep- ing-cars of the latest pattern. Modern upholstered tourist sleeping-cars run daily through from Uak- 1and pier o Chicago. See time-table in advertis- ing column. San Francisco ticketoflice 644 Macxes street, Chronicie tuiiding. ‘lelephione Main i35l Lakland, 1118 Eroadway. —————— Northern Pacific Railway—Yellowstone Park Route. Parties desiring to visit the Yellowstone Park, or go Fast via the Northern Pacific Railway, should call at No. 688 Market street, San Fran- cisco, for their Raflroaa and Yellowstone Park tickets. We can accommodate all that wish to make the trip regardless of rumors 1o the co"trary. Stop overs given on all Christian Endeavor ticke ets. T. K. Stateler, Gen. Agent, 638 Market st. —————— “Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup* Fas been used over fity years by millions of mothers for their children whiie Teething with per, fect success. It sooihesthe child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cares Wind Collc, regniates the Bowels sud 1s the best remedy for Diarrhcess, whetber aris ing irom tee.hing or other causes. 1 or sale by drug gl8i8 10 every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winsiow's Soothing Syrup. 25¢ & bottla - Reduoed Kates for All To the East via the k1o Grande Western Raflway, passing through Utah and Colorado by daylignt. Through cars by all trains. Tickets, sleepiug-car reservations and full information furnished at :4 Montgomery s re e D — CORONADO.—Almosphere is perfectly dry. sofs and mild, being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round- trip ticksts, by sbip, including fifteen duys board a: the Hotel dai Coronado, $60; longer stay 82 50 perday. App.7s 4 New Montgomery s'reet. San Franci. —————————— “WOULDN'T be without it for worids!” was the emphatic dec'aration of a lady in ref Tince to Ayer's Hair Vigor. = g A picture by Holbein from the estate of Sic John E. Miilais has been bought for the Berlin gallery. Jtisa portraitof an unknown man, and issaid to be a masterwork. The work was bought, not by the authorities of the museum, but by the Museum society, an organization founded in Berlin for the useful purpose of acting promptly when prompt action is neces- sary 1o obtain valuable works that come on the market and are likely to be bought else- where while the Government authorities are going through the necessary red tape prelim- inary to purchase by them. KEW TO-DAY! JF CUTTER EXTRA 0ld Bourhon has been a staple family and medicinal whiskey for a quarter- century. 41 Market 5t San Francisco.