The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 24, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 24 1897 saidl CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Propriestor. Dafly and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrie Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail. Daily and Sunday CALi, three months by mail 1 50 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, | ancisco, Californta. Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. | Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery sireet, coraer Clay; open until ) o'clock | 9 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. [ Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets, open | ntil § o'clock. 18 Mission street, open until o'clock. open until 9 o'clock. open until 9:30 o'clock. ! Twenty-second and Kentucky | NW. streets; open till § o'clock. | corner OAKLAND OFFICB: 9)8 Bro RN OFFICE: Park Row. New York City | Fastern Manager. EA Rooms 81 and DAVID M. FO HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou poing to (he country ona vacatfon? I¢ £0. 1t 18 nO trouble for ns to forward THE CALL to | your address. Do not let it miss you for you will Miss it. Orders given 1o the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifiy cenis per mouth for summer months San Francisco to the front. This is the depot for Alaskan supplies. We have ships enough to handle the | rush, | Adventurers to the gold fields should go through the Golden Gate. There are no signs of improvement in | the evidence given before the Board of Equalizers. Even the calamity howlers have caught the Klondyke fever and are dreaming | golden dreams. | The *‘ghost-car” of Bush street vanishes | from t be earth, and now the spirits of the | people rise and rejoice. The climax of the trouble in the Levant | is not yet in sight, but diplomatists be- lieve they can see it coming. It is worth noting that Alaskan gold is not as good as that ot California, even | when you have it in your hanc. There would be a great inflation in the | balloon business if Andree should bring back a golden nugeet from the pole. Weyler has not succeeded in pacifying | the Cubans, but it looks as if Gomez | might do it in a few davs by taking Havana. Don’t jet the Klondyke excitement lead you to forget to leave orders for THE SUN- | DAY CArn te-day. You will wish it to- morrow. The rise in wheat has come early | enough this season to enable the farmers to reap some of the profit as weil as all of the crop. After getting rid of the nuisance of the | Bush-street car tracks the people should not rest centent with their labors. There are others. Eastern people should be notified that | if they wish to go to ‘Alaska they must | start from Ban Francisco in order to be | started right. | Atter all the talk there has been on the | money question it is strange that Con- gress should need a commission to make | a report on it. Thbe decline in the price of silver bul- lion shows that while Bryan may think heis doing a lot he is not having any effect on the stock market. We shall never be free from Chinese outrages so long as Chinatown exists, but | there is sich a thing as putting the fel- lows who commit them in a safe place. The Democrats of the Senate may per- | sist in carrying the tariff debate over into | next week. Itseemsas if they must get | in their usnal blunder whatever happens. | | The gold excitement has stirred up Con- | gress to a consideration of the needs of | Alaska, and steps will be taken immedi- | ately to extend the work of the Territorial | government. A Wall-street firm that failed five years | ago for $12,000,000, but settled up in sixty aaye and resumed business, has now failed | again,and it is to be hoped will repeat the former operation and improve on it by | resuming in thirty days Care should be taken to see that the | vessels pressed into service for the rush to Alaska are thoroughly seaworthy and are not overloaded. It is not every old hulk about the bay that can stand the voyage. If the German War Office makes any further experiments with homing pigeons from the British coast there will be a chance for the English to revive the old sport of hawking, and thus society will have another out-of-door recreation to amuse itself. Now that Brown University has rid it- seif of President Andrews it wiil havea good cause of action for breach of promise against the goldbug millionaires if they do not plank up those big subscriptions to the endowment fund they have been talking about. The assertion that there is always plenty of room at the top is not strictly true of the bar, for no sooner is it an- nounced that one Judge is to resign than there appear four men crowding in to get the place, and every one of the applicants seems to be a tip-top man. The promptness with which the House of Representatives under the control of Speater Reed attends to business w shown by the passage of the bill provid- ing for the organization of new land dis- tricts in Alaska., The work was needed and the work was dons without a mo- ment's delay. The children’s day parade was an inter- esting leaturs of the Utah celebration and wag as appropriate as beautiful. The native sons and daughters of Utah have a rich heritage created for them by the labors of their fathers, and it was right tnat they should be allowed a part in cele- brating the work and the successes of the pioneers | will be called for. | them. | corner some boiling mixture emitted an | slavery was in thiscountry. | not represent a big loss of revenue, and SAN FRANCISCO TO THE FRONT. Now is the time to advertize San Fran cisco. Now is the time to make known to the East the quantity and auality of our commercial marine. The rush for Alaska this season is confined almost wholly to residents of the Pacific Coast. Next spring the adventurous spirits of all the East from Maine to Texas will start for the gold TULY 24,1897 | ¢o0 o and the business of outfitting them will iall to that city which has best adver- | tised its ability to do it we!l at the cheapest rates. San Francisco has every advantage except distance over all her rivals for carrying The tonnage of her merchant She owns nea this trade. cific ports in this country. the coasting trade. ocean boats which were designed only for It will avail us little to possess these ad | The people of the East as well as those of Companies of men to make the Al in all the cities of the Union, and many o | rangements for supplies and transportation early in the spring. do not unaerstand the superior advantages may carry elsewhere a trade which should come here. | guard. San Francisco is the metropolitan s trade. It is here that all equipments for mi Here center the most abundant and safest place from which to start if one would start right. be widespread in the East. Put San Franc vessels largely exceeds that of all other Pa- rly all the ships and steamers engaged.in She will not have to make use of old hulks or venture upon the inland waters to supply the service which She is prepared to meet the demand which has arisen and can | suoply everything which the emergency re quires. 'vantages if we do not make them known. the Pacific Coast shoald be informed of askan adventure are now being organized f them haye begun already to maks ar- Some of these who of San Francisco asa point of departure It is against this we must ource of supply for the whole Alaskan ning can be obtained cheape:t and best. facilities for transportation. Here is the These are the facts which should isco to the front. SLAVERY IN SAN FRANOISCO. There is work for the Board of Health | and for the police authorities in the dark | dens of the Chinese quarter. The revela- tions made within the last few days con- | | cerning the dread horrors of the Chinese | hospitals and the inhuman and even mur- | derous treatment of Chinese girls who are held in most accursed bondage are enough in themselves to spur the proper author: ities to remeaial action without delay. | JOHN C. LYNCH. The selection of John C. Lynch of San Bernardino for the office of Collector of Internal Revenue is another of those wise appointments by which President McKin- ley not only assures eflicient service for the Government, but strengthens the Re- publican party in California and confirms | public confidence in the work of his ad- | ministration. Mr. Lynch is the son of one of the found- THE CALL has been shedding light on i ersof the Republican party and inherits some of the dark plague spots and on some of the daily crimes of Chinatown. o that officials cannot any longer plead | ignorance in the premises. The story of the Chinese hospital almost begzars belief, and yet the sickening de- tails could not all be told in print. The establishment is a private enterprise; the owner of the hospital is also nurse and undertaker. | infested by vermin; even a strong man | gasps ior breath upon entering the narrow doorway of one of these rooms. In one | apartment there were half a dozen bunks | along the wall, with two Chinamen in each bunk in all stages of disease and in all degrees of filthiness. In a cauldron in one almost insufferable odor, This was the cure-all medicine of the Chinese nurse. | The surroundings rendered the recovery | | of patients an accident. When friends o relatives tire of paying for an inmate of the hospital, he is shoved into another | stilt more gloomy chamber and starved to death. The undertaker realizes profits all aronnd. The process of slow murder is going on continuously in the Chinese vrivate hospitals, The dead and tbe dy- ing lie side by side, and rats wax fat on human flesh. These things are realities of to-day in San Francisco’s Chinatown. | They cannot be overlooked by the Health | Board and the police. But there is still more work for the criminal authorities in bringing to justice the devilish slave-owners of Chinatown. In this connection we must speak a word c¢i praise and commendation for the Methodist Mission on Wasbington street, and the Presbyterian Mission on Mont- gomery street, the good people in charge | of those institutions having rescued many Chinese girls from bondage worse than death, There are now thirty girls at the Presbyterian and seventeen at the Metho- | dist Mission; anda thetales of some of them are harrowing in the extremc. One was tortured by her master till her reason tled. Another was crippled for life by being | beaten with an iron rod. A third, because | she sought liberty, was brauded on the back with a red-hot iron, and presented a terrible sight with her burns and bruises and scars. This slavery in Chinatown is more | dreadful and apralling than ever negro | This Chinese | slavery should be abolished, according to the supreme law of the land. The slave- | drivers should be dragged to judgment. | The fiends who used the branding irons | should be run down and made to pay the penalty of their shocking crimes. There | is work for the proper authorities in these cases. The people are 1nterested, and on such proceedings as may be taken they will keep a watchful eye, THE NEW TARIFT. The people of this country will soon be | accorded the boon of a protective tariff measure that is destined to bring material relief to the conditions of industry and labor. That weshall realize great benefits through the agency of the new bill is as certain as the fact that the bill is very | shortly to become a law. L & Nevertheless, it is not reasonable to ex- | | pect that, immediately upon the final pas- | done the Pacific Slope a vast amount of sage of this protective tariff act, the reve- " nues will begin to boom. Considering the recent enormous importations of nearly all goods upon which higher du- ties will be exacted, and the fact that the markets of this country now have on excess of present needs, it must be per- fectly apparent that there will be a great falling off in importations duriug the first | | hand an immense stock of such goods in | | | | few months after the new measure goes | into effect, and the result will be a loss to the treasury during that time. Supplies of dutiable goods being more than ade- quate to the demand, there will be little encouragement for the time to Amer- ican industries to begin operations for supplying an alreaay giutted market. Had the bill become a law three months sooner, the big shipments of foreign goods which have been piled into our warehouses since the 1st of May would the industries affected would be quicker to start their machinery. During the last three months, where $100,000,000 would cover the value of nor- mal importations, the inflow of commodi- ties has reached the value of $240,000,000. Hence, to get the full measure of prosper- ity from the new tariff, we shall have to be patient until the surpius of commodi- ties is consumed, and that will be before many months have flitted by. Then the mills and factories will speedily resume | their old-time hum, and we shall be on the highroad of prosperity. Already con- fidence has been restored in the Nation, and the feeling seems to be almost general that the golden era of the United States is almost here. Chicago has been so rapialy adding to the number of her monuments to illus- trious men that she will ¥oon be able to abandon her habit of restiess activity, settie herself into a dignified attitude and pose as the statuesque city. ‘We have heard of the new placers only through those who have come back with fortunes. The fellows who have strnck nothing and are stuck there have not Facts and names and addresses are given, ! | His rooms are as small as | closets; they are dark and foul; they are | |« devotion to all of its principles. His | father was one of the notable men who, in the eagy days of Republicanism, helped to shape its policies and fight the hard | battles that led to ultimate victory. The | son was brought up to love liberty, the | Union and the welfare of the people. He | profited by these lessons and early in his | manhood began to take part in the politi- | cal struggles of the country. An evidence of his leadership is found in the fact that he has thrice represented his district in the Assembly of the State, and has with dignity and conspicuous ability filled the office of Speaker. His legislative career gave him a reputation as wide as the State, and marked him as one of the younger men of the time from whom much was to be expected. His ap- pointment, therefore, to his new office is not a matter of personal solicitation, but | a recoguition of faithful services per- formed in the past and a well-earned promotion 1n his upward path to political eminence. The duties imposed upon Mr. Lynch will be onerous. The affairs of the office upon which he enters are badly involved. [v will require a high order of executive ability and an unwavering honesty to straighten them out in order that the normal routine of work may be success- fully carriea on from the start without hesitation or delay. Fortunately the new appointee has all the qualifications re- | quired to master the d.fliculties which | surround him, and can be counted on to give the people an administration of the internal revenue-office which will be cred- | itable to himself ana to the President who appointed him. | TO ADVERTISE CALIFORNIA. The Ban Francisco Merchants’ Associa- tion made a move in the right direction | and one which everybody in the City and all reasonable efforts to bring more visit- ors to the Pacific Slope. It will be an es- pecial aim of the organization to encour- age conventions to come to California, it being a foregone conclusion that the more people we can induce to visit us and try our climate and behold the numberless advantages and the liwitless resourc:s of this country the more rapidly shall we add new families to our population and | the more frequently shall we hear of capi- tal from afar being invested in the Golden State. ate will approve when it decided to use ! THE CaLL mentioned some weeks since | that it would have pronted this City to have arranged a visit from the representa- tives of the republics of South America who attended the Pan-American Com- mercial Congress in Pniladelphia and were afterward made the guests of differ- ent cities in the East and mid-West. We want to overcome the South American prejudice in tavor of French wines and teach the people down there the excel- | lence and value of the product of the vines of California. We ought to build up a trade of goodly proportions with South American countries, and acquaintance- ship with the leading business men there- of would be a material aid toward secur- ing for this State much of the trade in agricultural products and wines that now oes to Europe. The Christian Endeavor convention has good. It will be the most extensive and beneficial advertisement this State has received. The good results will be ex- perienced in months and years to come. is the most delightful city on the conti- should not be so difficult a task for us to secure other big assemblages. In connection with th: work of the Merchants’ Association an information bureauv is to be established, and inquiries for facts with reference to this State will receive prompt and accirate response. This is praiseworthy pubiic enterprise. The efforts being made by the merchants promise to be of inestimable value to California. | e | THE GOLD DEMOORATS. The meeting of a committee of gold Democrats in New York to provide plans for conducting the campaigns of the year in Ohio, Iowa and Kentucky was about as useless an assembly of public men as has ever been held in this country. Gold Democracy is no more needed in our poli- tics than the proverbial fifth wheel of a coach, and it is difficult to understand what the eminent gentlemen who are so diligently cultivaung it hope to make out of it or profit by it. The Presidential election of last year showed very clearly that the so-called “National Democracy,” pledged to the Cleveland platform of free trade and the gold standard, cat no figure whatever in the determination of the results. It was a factor which could have been eliminated not only from the National contest, but from the contest in each and every State, without changing the result of the ballot. It did not poll 1 per cent of the vote any- where, except in one lone, sparsely popu- lated county of Kansas, where it suc- ceeded in electing one of its candidates for a county office. The men who lead the gold wing of Democracy enjoy a considerable re- pute in the country. No one questions the ability or the integrity of men like Carlisle, Watterson, Bynum and been heard from yet. others who are acting with them in the As 1t has been proven that San Francisco | | CALIFORNIANS seif-appointed task of saving Democracy from shooting Niagara, Kminent as they are, however, they have no following. They are leaders without an army, stafes- men without a perty. They cannot rally to their support even & considerable num- ber of men who agree with them, for those Damocrats who are most earnest in supporting the cause of sound money bave broken away from the single gold standard theory, and are now co-operating with the Republican party in its efforts to bring about the re-establishment of in- ternational bimetallism. Gold Democracy is in fact, a clique rather than a faction, a fad rather thana creed, and the effect which it will have upon the State elections this fall will hardly be greater than that of a ripple caused upon the ocean by casting a pebble into its waters, PERSONAL. R. B. Fallmer of Philadelphia is at the Occi- dental. Ex-Mayor H. N. Baggs of Stockton is a guest at the Lick. Dr. Hatch of Sacramento is stcpping at tne Lick House. E. Farrell, a hotel man of Santa Cruz, isa guest at the Lick. Judge S. F. Geil of Salinas is Occidental Hotel. Thomas Fox, postmaster of Sacramento, is stopping at the Lick. F. H. Gould of Stockton was at the Califor- nia Hotel last evening. John H. Walker oi Uniontown, Pa., is regis- tered at the Occideutal. W. A. Perkins, a merchant of Reno, is & guest at the Russ House. H. Jastro, a bauker of Bakersfield, is stop- ping at the Grand Hotel. A. W. Maltby and wife of Chicago registeres at the Palace last evening. Dr. C. F. Taggart of Los Angeles registered at the Grand Hotel yesterday. Willlam E. S:lleck, s mining man of Chi- cago, is in town, stopping at the Grand. John Bender, a well-known contractor and business man of Morgan Hill, is at the Grand Hotel. James B. Devine, alawser of Sacramento, arrived in the City yesterday and put up at the Lick House. V. 8. McCiatchy of the Sacramento Bee ar- rived in the City yesterday and registered at the California Hotel. T. K. Carothers, a prominent lawyer of Ukiah, arrived in the City yesterday. Hels stopping at the Grand. W. H. McClintock, a mine-owner of Sonora, who recenily madea rich strike of ore, was at the Lick House last night. William Mecker and G. E. Daking of Gibson- viile registered at the Lick House yesterday. They are on their way to Alaska. D. Leet Wilson and wife and L. Halsey Wil- liams Jr. of Pittsburg and John C. Wilson and Miss M. S. Wilson of Philadelphia arrived in the City yesterday and registered at the Palace Hotel. The Wilsonsare Pennsylvania bankers, Carlton O. Crane, agent for the Vanderbilt lines, arrived from Portland yesterday morn- guest at the ing. He left here last Sunday with a New York | Central Wagner vestibule train of excur- sionists and made the trip to Portland in thirty-two hours. IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 23.—At the Plaza, C. E. Lavy; Gilsey, A. H. Steei; Cadtllec, J. E. Wiison; Ashland, F. P. Baker; Broadway Cen- tral, W. Fleishe; Imperial, A. Hink; Manhatten, 1. M. Park, A. M. Samuels. I Brown and W. Dundas are here buying. THE UISCONTENTED. The windlng brook that flows along Ihrovg ) the meadow to the sea, 1s singing a bappy little song Thut arouses joy in me. And I follow its course through grassy plain, And vailey and field and len, Till it loses itself in the troubléd main, And never is heard again. Oh, thou that singest a happy 1ay I'0 some wondering rustic ma d, Why Seek to sour, why seex to stray Beyoud thy native glade? Far better to sing a simple s01g To one that admires thee Than to waste (hy straios on the rushing throng As the broo< 15 [0t iu the sea. =. E. K1SER in Cleveland Leader. WEAR ;ND LOSS OF SILVER. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Before taking up the subject of the wear and loss of silver, I wish to remind the reader that the future of gold as a moneiary agent is not bright. In a most notable paper by Professor Suess of Austria on the future of the money | metals, on page 423 of the Senate report of 1894 on “Coinage Laws,” etc., this informa- tion may be found: “It is certain a time will come when gold will hava become entirely absorbed by industry,” that is, by other uses than that of money. And he adds: “Let us not forget the conciusion of Soetbeer that the | entire monetary gold stock of the earth is smaller by almost one-third than the produc- tion of the last forty years.” Noauthorities in the world rank above Soetbeer and Suess on monetary statistics. Gold is rapidly disappear- ing as a money metal. “There is serious ubjection to the use of silyer s a money metal because it wears out 8o fast. Probably most readers wiil smile at this ob- jection and look wise. Some will deride it When they know more they will neither de- ride nor smile. N. A. Dunningo! Washington, D. C., author of ‘‘Philosophy of Price,” quotes | Senator John Sherman in 1891 us saying that “‘the entire sliver ciiculation wears out and is renewed once in thirty years.” Thatis, the | entire bulk, not any individual piece—the number of pounds i use as money—is worn out in thirty years and is renewed by new silver from the mines. Ihave diligentiy searched the reports of the Director of the Mint for informatiun on this point. Itis bard to find. It does notsuit his purpose to give it. ludeed the whoie system of the Treasury Department is based on ignor- ing the loss of gold, silver and paper money— in counting it ail s stiil in existence. But et us see what can be ound in refer- ence to this matter in these Mint reports. On 4 3 ) 50, 01 6, the silver production nent for winter or summer conventions, it | aape S0 topocsle 80 Y 2 of the United States from 1873 to 1895 is given as $1,214,751.000, and on ihe next page, 61, the silver coinnge is given for the same period as $544,142,477, or much less than half, since $670,608,523 in bullion was notcoined. What became of it? But we are concerned with the amount coined. How has that farea? Mostof it hes been locked up in the vaults and silver certificates issued to circulate in place of it. What has been the fate of that part in actual use as money ? On page 86 of the Mint report for 1896 it issaid: “There fs now on siorsge at the mint in | Philadelphia $4,500,000 in worn and unecor- Tent subsidiary silver coins’—that is, coins less than aollar pieces—‘‘that are uufit for circulation and should be recoined.” Page 87: “Itis greatly tobe desired thatan appro- priation shiould "be made by Congress to cover the 10ss on the recoinage of tnis coin. The loss 18 estimated to be about 64 per cent, or $300,- 000.” On page 187 of the same report tue re- coinage_of the fiscal year 1896 is given as $1,633,562, face value, and %4,383,289 coined yaiue, showing a loss of $250 264, or nearly 514 per cent. In the report for 1895, on page 8, the tace value of the worn coin is given as $1,361,761 for that year, which was recoined info $4.161,820, showing a loss of nearly 5 per cent. In & word, 5 per cent is a con- servative estimate of the loss by wear as shown 1n the annual_recoinage. In 1892 ihe recoin- age was $10,792.478; in 1893 it was §7,351,- 289, and in 1394 $7,184,472. No tabular stniementof the total recoinage fora period of years or the average annual recoinage is given, but it is clearly apparent that Sher- man’s estima fully sustained by these re- ports, (hat the silver coins in active circula- tion are worn out once in thirty years, OSEPH_ASBURY JOHNSON, 11 Essex street, July 23, 1897. —— A RARE DISTINCTION. Springfie'd Repubiican. New Hampshire enjoys the distinction of being the only known State in the Union which has practiced the economy in State administration which all the others have recognized as necessary, but have been unable 1o carry. Asaresultthe State finds a surplus on hand of $150,000, which is used to retire & 1arge block o1 bonds, and next year it will be able to reduce the State tax by $75, 11 because of retrenchment in expenditure. The other States and the Nation are engaged in hunng for new sources of revenue and in increasing tax rates to meet the profligacy of incompetent legislative boales. Where does _the Granite Siate get its material for a Legisiature? “THE SUNDAY CALL” Are you finterested in the romantic aspec in many years. The story will throw light on & CALL, 50 it has been divided into several parts Tow's paper tells principally who the man was pened 1o disap, they came to light again. Be sure and read it. A new Government signal station that is to Gregory. enjoyable. Some of the marvelous basketry to be found tell all about them. The largest shark ever caught on the Pacific to-morrow’s CALL. CALL, for it will contain one of tbe most important stories of this kind that has come to lignt our great men that have been but little understood. All this has been made possible Ly the finding of a packet of old letters that in days long gone by belonged to & man prominent among the builders of the great commonwealth of the Pacific Coast. The letters weave together as perfectly as if tney had been arranged by the brain of a novelist. Of eourse this story is a long one and cannot all be told inone edition of Tne r from view for nearly s half century and the romantic manner in which There will also pe an artiele describiag the terrors of the worst obstacle on the overland route into the new Yukon gold fields. There are two ways of getting past this obstacle. One takes a long time and the other only & few moments. Read about both of them, ann if you should be one of the hardy adventurers who braves the cold of a northern winter you can take your choice about which way you wilt go. If you have no intention of going to the goid fields you will be interested in the story in to-morrow’s CALL. e erected not a thousand miles from fan Francisco will also be described at length in to-morrow s CALL. | 1 “The Benicia’s Homeward Bound” is the title of a nighly interesting sea story by Tom | It has to be read to be aporecinted and the salt flavor that clings to it makes it most | It will appear in to-morrow’s CALL with & fine illustration by Coulier. of a highly interesting articie by one of the best writers on the cosst. To-morrow’s CALL will #go. The men who captured it had a struggle for their lives, all of which will be told in | The women scientists of the Pacific Coast will be the subfect of & paper foilowing in the | series sturted last week. The women scientists are fully as interesting as the women lawyers, and the article about them is fully up to the standard. There will also be & number of other interesting features the book page, fashions and all the news of the day. t of National history? If so, read to-morrow’s number of incidents in the lives of some of tnat will appear weekly. The part In to-mor- that once owned the let:ers, how they hap- in the vicinity of San krancisco is the subject Coast was landed near Santa Cruz a few days well as the children’s nlgz,i THE WHALING INDUSTRY IN Whaling on the Norwegian coast is a thing of the past, for the game has been ariven fur- ther northward, and &t the present time the whalers have to travel many miles north of Skagproe, & small island a few miles from the North Cape. Specimens of 120 feet and | over in length are frequently brougnt in, and their enormous size becomes apparent when it is considered that a good-sized row- poat with half a dozen men in it can be placed in their mouths. Emperor Willism of Germany visited Skaa- roe upon his northern journey last year, and in his honor a triumphal arch consisting en- tirely of whalebone was erected. This struc- | was burfed in Lake View Cemetery the people GARFIELD’S TOMB. New York Press. In the tomb of Jam:s A. Garfield at Cleve- | land 1s & cash register which rings up a ticket for every visitor, showing that a dime has been paid to the association for the privtlege of viewing the monument erected to the| martyr President. Whben General Garfield of the Nation set out to raise $200,000 to build a monument worthy of his memory. At the time of the dedication of the monument $50,- 000 of the fund was lacking. The deficit was raised by the Nation, and the monument was left clear of debt. 1t never was given into tho | hands of the city,and its care and mainte- | i | BREAKFAST IN A WHALE'S MOUTH. ture presented a very curious effect, not less | curious, however, than the dried jaw bones of a young whale, Within which five people sire taking lunch, as seen in the illustration. The | profit of whaling is very large and varies from | £1500 to $3000° for each animal, which ac- counts for the systematic and’ regardless prosecution, and which bids fair to result eventually 'in the entire extinction of the | whale. TOM OCHILTREE. Chicago Timas-Herald. ! Apropos of the many reminiscences of Colonel Tom Ochiltree which are now going the rounds of the press a friend of the famous | Texan tells me a story which well illustrates | the readiness with which he invariably lights | on his feet, no matter how he may be “thrown | in the air.” | < President Grant made Ochiltree a marshal for @ certain district in Texas. The colonel, | { however, did not spend mucn of his time at home, but went skylarking about the country | wherever his fancy led him. This caused so | ! many complaints to be filed agrinst him that atlast the President seut for him to come to Washington. : While wailing in the White House reception- room for his turn to see the President, Ochil- tree began reading a report of the preceding | day’s races at Saratoga, and was surprised to | see that a horse bearing his own name, “Tom | Ochiltree,” had carried «ff second money. | When he faced President Grant the latter saia | he was sorry to learn thatan appoiniee of his | should be in any way derelict in his duty. | " “The fact is, Tom, I can hardly pick up a paper that I don't Tun across your name, swid he, “and you seem 1o be uboutevery- woere except in Texas, woere you ought to be.” : “Geéneral,” eaid the Texan with a smile as radiant as a California sunset, “if you'll read | the papers to-day you'll find that I carried oft | second mouey at Saratoga vesterday, and am | | said to be ‘infine form and iaster than ever. | See here.” | _Ard he showed the sporting page of the | paper in his pocket. | "“Am I to blame,” he said, “if, while I am faithfully attending to my duties at home, | some confounded racehorse is disgracing my name about the country ?” The President thought not. And Tom hur- | rled back home and stuck to business—quite | awhile. OPEN FOR SETTLEMENT. | Cblcago Times-Herald. An old Swede {armer who lives on the Balti- more and Ohio road, a few miles out of town, had the misfortune to lose a valuable colt the | other day. The animal jumped outof a pas- ture, ran down upon the railway and was caught in & cut by an express train. The claim agent went out to effact an amicable set- | tiement, if possible, with the old man, “*We are very sorry. of course, that this affair happened.” said the railway man, “‘and 1 hope it will not be necessary for us to go into court.” | Theold farmer looked at him suspiciously and shiit:d about uneasily, but said noth- in You must remember,” continued the claim agent, “that your colt was a trespasser upon our property when the accident occurred. We don’t want any ltgation, however, if we can helpit, and we'd itke toarrange a settlement with you on a friendly basis.” “Vell,” slowly said_the Swede, “Ay tal you. Ay been sorry ds fool colt runned on de rail- road track, but ay bin poor man. Ay skal give you two tollar!” WITH YOUR COFFEE. “Are you aware,”’said the garrulous boarder, ‘that oxtail soup was the invention of the French refugees, who used to beg the oxtails because they had no money to buy soup bones?” : “In other words,” said the Cheerful Idiot, “they were reduced to the last extremity.”— Indianapolis Journal. «Yardsley donated a cester marked down from a dollar to the minister, and put a tag on it marked $16.” *Yes.” “Well, the parson took the article to Yaras- ley’s store yesterday and traded it for dry- gooas. Yardsley’ssmile won’t be able to be out agaiu for six weeks.”—Harper's Bazar, Husband—What did you think when you heard the chandelier fall in the night? ‘Wife—I thought that you had been detained on “business” again, and were getting upstairs as quietly as you could.—Journal Amusant, Bridget—Sure, ma’'am, I wud call your atten- shun to the beautiful sunsetoutav the kitchen winder.” k Mistress — That's nothing, Bridget. ought to see it rise some morning.—Life. *“Mrs. Meeker,” observed a friend of the fam- ly, “is & very superior woman. She can con- verse iutelligently, I believe. on a thousand different topics.”” “Yes,” sighed Mr. Meeker, “and she does.” Chicago Tribune. What is & hardy rosebush ?” “It1s one that doesn’t mind your wife pull- ing it up by the roots every few days to see if it hes begun to grow yet.”"—Tit-Bits, You “That’s Dobbins over there—that shabby fe'- low. You wouldn’tthink he had let a dozen or more fortunes slip through his fingers.” “Noj; it isn’t possible.” “‘Yes, it is. He used to count pennies in the mint.’—Philadelphia Bulletin, 5 ‘xenermly speaking, with the world where nace made a city charge, as is the case with most other memorials of the kind. Early in 1889 the manument association, or its local board of trustees, decided thatthe proper way of meeting the running expenses was to charge a fee for admittance. The sign “Ten Cents’ placed beside that other sign, “Stlence,” and the cash register in the doorway tells of the progressive age. What Cleveland thinks of the scheme, when any thoughtatail is given to the matter, is | shown by the fact that of the 60,000 visitors & year over 50,000 are strangers in the city. | From the cash register $6000 a year is ex- | tracted. But the thniity association has an- other source where relics of the dead Presi- dent are sold. Here can be bought at a bar- gain bits of the marble of which the tomb is built, and pictures of the monumentand the man. From the sale table $500 a year is cleared. This makes the fine total of 6500 yearly which the city of C'eveland saves by not takii g over the monument in her own hands and making the care of it a fixed city charge. NEW WORDS NEEDED. Possibly no one realizes the necessity for some new words in English so greatly as the | reader of many novels and short stories, | writes Christopher Bannister in the Chicago Times-Herald. If there is another who feels the lack as much it is the historian of con- tempo aneous times. Within a month there have been two vol- umes of short stories published which deal, Engiish is the language customarily heard. One of them had tales of Australia, the Southern Pacific and its islands, India, Minne- sota and California. Theother included India and Australis, England and Scotland, Canada and Cyprus. Recently works on countries as remote as Manitobs, New Zeaand, Georgis, Eastern Africa, Jamaica, the Bahamus, Siberia and the Sandwich Islands have appeared, some of them novels, some histories. It must of course be conceded that these countries (all of them and a great many more) have & language nnd a literature in common. It may be granted that thereare | certain other characteristics shared among | them which are not heid in common with the world without. For example, English and American travelers in savage Africa almost invariably leave 5o good an impression with the natives that it becomes easier for other white men (o pass through their territory, while the explorers of other nations produce an impression directly conirary. How shall we include the two and exclude the others? “‘Anglo-Saxon’’ does hot in the least express | the racial condition of affairs either here or elsewhere, and “English-speaking,” though sometimes accurate enough, is always clumsy and sometimes includes nations where no counection can be traced, Liberia, for example in the case at hand. English is to-day the language of the nations in the British Isles, in Gibraltar, St. Helens, Cyprus, Malta and other European islands; in vast tracts ot Africa, including Zanzibar and Egypt; in the Indian empire, Straits Set- tlements, Ceslon, Borneo, Hongkong, Aden | and any number of places in Asia; in Aus- tralin, Tasmania, New Zealand, Hawaii and a host of Pacific isiands and in Canada and the | United States. In all these !ands. except those first named, there isa population not wholly English, not always aboriginal, sometimes at | variance with the English-speaking rulers es- tablished over them. What words of disti tion have we in English for them or ourselves? | How set off the Canadian and the American | | from the Nortn American Indian, or the Eng- | lishman and resident American from the | Hindoo? There is no wey of doing it any | more than of making a simple discrimination by & word instead of a sentence between the | French of Quebec and Louisiana and their neighbors. However long this state of effairs may have been going on, it is only now that it is coming to reflect itself in our literature. These late storles are, of course, later than those of Robert Louis Stevenson, but not so much later as a matter of logic, for he was really the first to feel this world-universally of the English peoples. He deals with them in England, America, the South Seas, and all menner of places. How are jou golng to describe the quality it will surely give? One thing Is reasonably assured: We who speak English generally obtain a word when we find that thought is to be expedited in its | adoption. Just as soon as the feeling inai- cated by these books of which ‘msnngn nhn‘s been made becomes widespread, some one—it | may be an arab of the streets—will give us a plain, practical and simple name for our- selves and our brethren throughout the world, e SENATOR WHITE COUSIN. Washingion Post. 1f one man of a family ge:s to be Senator he ought to be accounted fortunate. When two men of a family find seats in the Senate to. | gether it is a remarkable event and deserves recording. Stephen Mallory White is & Senator California and Stephen Russell MAlloryxl!: e Benator from Floride. There is more thana mere coincidence in the similarity of the names. The men are cousins. Senator Mai- lory's father and Senator White's mother were brother and sister. Itisa little curious that the two Senators should represent States 25 far apart as it is possible for them %o bew one on the Atlantic and the other on the B AND HIS | of time and the strange happe | THE CRYSTAL b . constitution, retaining to her old age of ner Taculiies. Much of Semator White sturdiness comes from his grandmother. ] asnot bura in Fiorids, tor his father and mother crossed the plains in 1850, attracted to Califrrnia by the reports of newly discovered The Seny tor was born in San Francisco In 1853. “The Mullorys, on the other hand . lorids, and 0 ] remained in Florids, a1 w the whinigig reunice the families in the Senate. — MEN AND WOMEN. Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia will soon be able to communicate with the outside wor.d by telegraph. A line is being laid from Harrar to his capital, One of the largest salt works in Oklahoma is owned and operated by two young women, who expect to pay their way through colleg! | from the profits of thelr business. Miss Ethel Rebecea Banjamin, LL.B., aged yunedin, New Zealand, having passed the bar examinat.on, is the first woman ad- mitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor | in Australian courts. The deepest dive on record is that of Cap- tain John Curistianson of Seattle, Who plunged into the waters of Eiliott Bay in no and after twenty minutes reappeared distress. Hebrought with him a deadline and bucket from the tug Majestic, which lay, at half-flood tide, 196 feet below the surface of the ocean. One of the most remarkable women in Penn- sylvania is Mrs. Mary Ann Cassidy ot Coal- port, Clearfield County, who is now 105 years of age. She was the mother ot thirteen boys ana five girls; nine are living snd nine dead. | She gave birth to four pairs of twins. Mrs Cassidy was born in County Fermanagh, Ire- lana, in 1792, emigrating with her husband and family to this country in 1845. Tamworth Castle, the home of the Marmions, hereditary champions of England, offered by its latest possessor, the Marquis Townshend, atauction, was bid in by the corporation of the town for $15,000. The heralds in Scott's poem hailed Marmion “Lord of Fontenaye, ot Lutterworth and Scrivelsbay, of Tamworth tower and town.” The fishing in the rivers Tame and Anker and rights over five manors £0 with the castle. | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS THE ATLANTIC MoNTHLY—N. F. H., Vallejo, Cal. Youare mistaken in supposing that No. 1, Vol. I, of the Atlantic Monthly which you have in your possession is the only one inex- istence. There are a number such to be seen in the libraries. The one copy you have has no special value. FLYING-EAGLE CENT—G. G., City. The follow- ing are the prices that are demanded by deal- ers in old coins for flying-eagle cents. They announce in their catalogues that they do not buy but such cents of the issue of 1857 and For copper-nickel, 1856, $4 to $6; pure copper, §5 to $7 50; 1856, pure nickel. %7 50: 1857, coppar-nickel, 8 to 25 cents; 1858, 10 to 50 cents. BICYCLE RIDING—R. D. and others, City. The answer to the question, *Has any indi- vidual ridden on a bicycle, paced or unpaced, amile in one minute and our seconds or in one minute and ten seconds?” s *‘No; not in that especial time,” but E. E. Anderson rode a mile at St. Louis some time last year in 1:08 paced by a locomotive over a track specially constructed for the trial between the railroad rails, three miles long, allowing one mile to start, one mile to riae and one mile in which 10 stop. The record was authenticated. CIRCLE—A. 8., Colma, San Mateo County, Cal. The circumference of o circle bears a certain constant ratio to its diameter. This constant ratio has been determined to be 3.14159 nearly, so that if the diameter of & circle is 1 foot its circumference is 3.14159; if the diameter is 5 feet the circmmference is 5x3.14159. Archimedes in his book, *De Di- mensione Circuli,” first gave a near value to the ratio between the circumference and the diameter, being that of 7 to 22. Various closer approximations in large numbers were afterward made, as, for instance, the ratio of 1.815 10 5.702. “EVANGELINE"—Subscriber, Moores Flat, Ne- vada County, Cal. The Wind River Moun- tains that are mentionmea in Longfellow's “Evaugeline’’ are a range of the Rocky Moun- tains in Wyoming running northwest to south- east. Itforms the dividing crestof the conti- nent, the streams on one side flowing into the Atlantic and those on the other side into the Pacific Ocean. The range culminates in Fre- mont Peak, which hasan altitude of 13,5 feet above the sea. Biomindon, mentioned in the same poem, is in Kings County in Acadia, | cow called Nouva Scotia. Itis in the western part of the territory, and is a cape on the Bay of Fundy. TowNSEND's California Glace Fruits will keep all winter. Just the thing for miners and trav- elers; 50c 1b. 627 Paluce Hotel building. * ————— Frrcrar, information daily to manufacturasy, business nouses and public men by the Prasm Clipping Buresu (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. ¢ SWIMMING BATHS. Physicians recommend the Crystal warm sea water tub and swimming baths, North Beach.* Workman—Mr. Brown, I should like to ask you for all raise in my wages. I have just been married. Employer—Very sorry, my dear man, but I cen’t help you. For accidents which happen to our workmen outside the factory the com. pany is not responsible.—Answers. $25 Eate to Chicago via the Great Santa Fe Route. The low rates made for Christian Endeavorers will be open to the public &s well. An opporta- nity to visit the East never before enjoyed by Cal- fiornians. Pullman Palace Drawing-room Sieep- Ing-cars of the latest pattern. Modern upholsterad tourist sleeping-cars run dally through from Oak- land pier to Chicago. See time-table in advertis ing column. San Francisco ticketoffice 844 Markes street, Chronicie buiiding. 4elephone Maln153L Oakland, 1118 Eroadw: —————— Northern Pacific Railway—Yellowstone Park Route. Parties desiring to visit the Yellowstons Park, or go Fast via the Northern Pacific Rallway, should call at No. 638 Market street, San Fran. cisco, for thelr Railroaa and Yellowstone Park tickets. We can accommodate all that wish to make the trip regurdless of rumors to the contrary. Stop overs given on all Cnristian Endeavor tick- ets. T. K. Stateler, Gen. Agent, 638 Market st. ——————— Reduced Rates for All To the Fast via the Kio Grande Western Rallway, passing through Utah and Colorado by daylignt. ‘Through cars by all tralns. 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