The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 25, 1897, Page 22

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Congress has done 1ts work better than ever before in this generation. For the promptness of the work done at Washington, thanks are due to Speaker Reed. Now if the coal-min strike can bpe settled on fair terms, everything will be | lovely. The Democrats of the Senate had sense encugh not to monkey with the buzz-saw this time. The country will take note that the Re- publican parfy is redeeming its pledges in record-breaking time. Thisis the day for Klondyke enthu- siasts to take a sober second thought and count the cost of the trip going and re- turning. A Chicago man is under arrest on a charge of stealing a two-story house and carrging it a mile, and once more the St. Louis boomers are pale with envy. It may be difficult for the Europ: concert to get the Turks out of Thessal; but 1t will ba more difficult still for them 10 get the indemnitv out of Greece. It is said that Ogzden Goelet told a ‘*close friend” that he would rather see his daughter in her grave than married to the Duke of Manchester, but it has never been explained how the story got out if the friend was close. TUnless things settled down this winter and the cold weather takes the heat out of the gold excitement the rush of Eastern people for Alaska next spring will make San Franci co livelier than the Chrlstian Endeavor Convention. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch runs a column of letters from the people contain- ing suggestions as to “how to make St. Louis great and beautiful,” and 1t is an evidence of the wisdiom of the people that one of th m says “You can’t make St. Louis great and beautiful without abolish- ingit.” Even in these days of problems of the unemployed it is said that in some parts of the Mississippi Valley wheat crops are going to ruin because farmers cannot find men to work in the harvest fields. It s not always that the worker and the work Wwho need one another are found in the same district. A company of the Missouri National Guard which was sent out to go through some maneuvers on bicycles returned to camp in a cart, and it issaid the com- manding officer will recommend to the War Department that in case of war each squad of cyclers should be accompanied by an ambulance. Senator Mason of Illinois i reported to have been paid $500 ior delivering a Fourth o' July oration, and while the price iz none too high for a good thing of the kind, a United States Senator should have been natriotic enough to contribute his voice to the celebration of the day without charging prima donna rates. At the teachers’ convention in Mil- waukee, one of the speakers declared the speech of another to be *‘demagogic bun- come fit for consumption only in a fools’ paradise.” Itisonly just to Milwaunkee and to the teachers from other parts of the Union to add that both speakers were from Chicago, and had acquired the Alderman style of debate at home. The senior class of a young ladies’ sem1- nary In New Haven distinguished itself this year by the fact that each member of 1t made her gradnating gown with her own hands and in no casedid the material cost more then $5. Itis safe to say the career that class looks forward to is the old-fashioned one of matrimony, and the girls knew how tu advertise the fact, According to Colorado estimates, that State will produce this year $24.000,000 worth of gold, $15,000,000 worth of silver, $3,000,000 worth of lead and $1500,000 worth of copper. The estimates may be somewhat high, but there is no doubt the mininginterests of the State are advancing rapidly, and the output in the aggregate will surpass that of any previous year. ————— The latest Newport novelty is to be a garter show arranged by a number of the smart set who are tired of -the old things. Each woman in the plot is expected to furnish one of her own garters. The lot will be numbered and the men who pay to see the exhibits may vote for that which they most admire. If any woman is so unfortunate as to have her garter iden- tified she forfeits §50. The garter receiv- ing the highest number of votes is to be sold for ‘“‘sweet charity,” and the pur- chaser will be required to wear it at the next Casinu hop. It is expected the sum raiged for charity by the show willamount to quite a legacy. | The most urgent work which devolved | country. from the moment of its passage. As soo | the beneficial effects of the new bill. be a fallingoff in revenueson account of | wise action in November last. come, at least, of tariff uncertainty. furnished adequate protection, and those | of the Government. law. a dry-wine tariff of 40 cents a gallon. Sh Zante currants, and Congress gave her just on those products. turist, the horticulturist, the wine-grower, provisions, and our commerce, in common advanced. The Republican party has more than large. In less than five months from the d other ills as may exist in the affairs of our petent, tried and loyal hands. The ship of ruinous poiicy, and is once again headed, spread, toward the open sea of prosperi The Dingley law will aid avery great interest in the Golden State. NOW FOR THE ERA OF PROSPERITY. upon the present Congress of the United | States has peen completed, and the Wilson tariff now gives place to a protective measure destined to yield the greatest good to the greatest number throughout the t cannot be expected that the benefits of the Dingley law will be fully apparent n as normal conditions are reached in rela- | tion to supply and demand of dutiable goods, however, we shall begin to experience For the first few months there will necessarily the recent importation of an enormous amount of goods upon which a higher tariff has been placed. As soon as the surplus stock in the market i3 consumed we shall begin to reap thereward of the people’s | It need hardly be pointed out that the most important outcome of this legislation will be the activity in trade which must result from the settlement for some years to All 1mportant industrial interests have been who wera leading advocates of the bill in Senate and House are certain that it will provide sufficient revenue for the demands California has reason to rejoice over the blessings conferred upon her by the new In no previous tariff enactment have her interests been so fully and favorably considered. She demanded protection for her great wine interests, and the result is e demanded a duty on citrus fruits and what she asked for., Her prune industry and her raisin industry will likewice be encouraged and rendered more profitable by the appreciable degree of protection accorded them. sugar-beet farmers will share in the general benefits. almonds and olives will become more valuable property as a result of the new duties Her beet-sugar factories and Her groves of walnuts and The agricul- the manufacturer, will all profit by its with that of the whole country, will be ever earned the praise of the Nation at ay of President McKinley’s inauguration it has wiped out the obnoxious free-trade Wilson bill, and has fulfilled its pledge to give the United States a substantial protective law. been settled, the party of American principles and American idess may be depended | on to pursue, with speed, firmness, vigor and wisdom, the work of remedying such The tar ff question having now Government. The Nation is in safe, com- state has been rescued from the reefs of a with colors flying and glorious sails out- THE NEW BONANZA. The from the Klondyke mines are but nursery tales compared with those which roused the sturdy pioneers of California wuo left home at & period in our history when it | was an undertaking of great magnitude to reach this coast. The argonauts of '49 came to California and dug gold out of | every creek, bank, bar, ravine and river- bed from Oregon to Mariposa, and from the Coast Range to the Sierra Nevadas. Here they found a climate that offered | them the possibility to work 365 daysin each year, easy of access, entirely free from climatic severities, supplemented by that greatest of God’s blessings, another home under the American flug. There was no extensive journalism at | that time to publish the exploits of for- tunate individuals or boom tbe unknown richness of any restricted locality. Each different district in those days advertised itself by the daily procession returning from the mines with their well-filled sacks and belts en route to their *'home in the | tates,”” and there was plenty left for | those who would take the trouble to go | and dig it oat. Yet, that was only the dim twilight of California’s prosperity. The permanent, self-sustaining, greater California came stimulating reports reaching us| SPEAKER REED. The hero of the season not in Washing- ton only but throughout the country is Speaker Reed. He has been the most | conspicuous figure of the extra session in Congress. Noteven the newly elected Pres- ident, so justly popular with the niasses, | stands higher to-day in the esteem of the | people. The main success of the adminis- tration thus far has been due to bim. It was the President who called the extra session and who recommended the adop- tion of a revenue-producing tariff, but it was the Speaker who directed the combat and ackieved the victory. The new tariff isa McKinley measure. | It is the Dingley bill. Allison and Ald- rich have done great service in revising it and procuring its passage tbrough the | Senate. Nevertheless its enactment is the victory of the Speaker more than any one else. This is everywhere recognized by friend and foe alike. The cartoons of the comic weeklies picture Speaker Reed more often than any one else, and the papers of the great cities direct their praise or blame toward him more than toward any other man. The triumph of the Speaker has been achieved by a strictattention to the duties of his office, and by a masterful control of a stormy legisiative body. He hasheld after the ‘‘Arabian Nights" feature had ceased to be an attraction. | The large emigration from California | and Canada to the sterile lands and the inhospitable climate of the Arctic during the Cariboo and Fraser River excite- | ments have entered into the legencary | lore of the past, leaving no permanent | monuments behind dedicated to success, ‘ progress and civilization. | The moose and the cariboo are to-day | silently following the trails and cross- | roads marked out by those venturesome | spirits, or possibly taking shelter under the ruins of their once populous villages. | An occasional headstone doubtless re- mains to record the scrrowful fact that near that onceeventful spot youth, energy and ambition reluctantly became weary and gave up its tiresome search for gold. That large quantities of yellow meral | have lately arrivea from the Klondyke | placers unquestionably true, but the possibility that the rich deposits are not confined to a small and already occupied locality must remain undetermined until the commencement of another prospect- ing season in April or May next. Let us confidently hope that the pros- pects of next year will develop new and larger fields containing enough gold for | all who are now going and those who may hereafter follow. Shonld it prove other- wise the future outlook would be alarm- ing. While we are compeiled to patiently wait for a period of eight or nine months it seems to be more economical and cer- tainly safer to remain in California during that period than rush away to a country where one must necessarily be confronted with enforced idleness and confinement while the thermometer ranges from 30 to 60 aegrees below zero. MAP OF THE GOLD FIELDR. THE CALL presents this morning the first complete and reliable map of the in- terior gold region of Alaska that has been published anywhere. It has been compiled and drawn for THE CALL by Professor George Davidson, than whom no higher authority could bs ap- pealed to. Professor Davidson was for over a generation the head and director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey on this coast, and his own astro- nomical and geodetic work has at various times taken him into the snowy Alaskan ranges. The Government boundary sur- veys have been under his immediate direc- tion, and besides his intimate personal acquaintance with the subject he com- mands a mass of charts, reports and other information inaccessible to most people. Professor Davidson’s map represents a large amourt of care and labor, and is intelligently prepared. It admits of no compar.son with the hastily thrown to- gether outline sketches, full of absurd inaccuracies, which flock to the public vision as maps of Alaska. Itis by a mas- ter geographer, and is a long advance on the best that have gone before. The latest and best of its rivals are bare of the names and geographical features that are now of universal interest. These are shown accurately and readily, and the overland route from Juneau to the gold fieldsis shown in correct detail. The map is accompanied by information which will help make it by far the most complete and reliable exposition of the country that it is possible to obtain. It will provide an invaluable char’ to those making the journey, and will enable read- ersof Alaskan events to acquire under- standing of the localities which are now the centers of public interest. —_— In her eagerness to take tne lead in the development of our social ways and cus- toms, St. Louis is about to take a step which will not catch on in this part of the country. S8ome of her undertakers propose to organize a corps of professional pall- bearers. L the unruly elements in check and enabled the House to do business. Democrats and Populists have been prevented from delaying the work of the majority and im- peding the performance of the task in- trusted to it by the peonle. Without this strong and wisely directed control Con- gress would bave been wrangling and de- bating to this day and the business ot the country would still he uncertain of the outcome, It is gratifying that the commendation given to the Speaker comes not altogether from Republican sources. Business men of all parties unite in expressing their ap- | preciation of the work performed by him in hastening the passage of the tariff bill | and putting an end to the uncertainty whlch harasses industry. This commen- dation is the more valuable because it | atones 1n some respect for the abuse, in- vective and denunciation with which he | was assailed when during his first speak- ership he undertook to make the House a legislative body instead of a wrangling and tumultuous debating society. It comes late, but not too late, and aoes jus- tice at last to one who for a long time has been the most grossly misrepresented of our public men. The grateful recognition which has been everywhere given to the work of Speaker Reed is significant of the value which the American people place upon the service of astatesman whoserves by deeds even more than by words. There has been no event of the session out of which he has made an opportanity for personal display. He has had no part in the tariff debate. He has had no occasion to show his firmness and parliamentary skill in raling a noisy revolt asin former sessions. What he has done has bzen accomplished without stress or strain, and it is the silent record of work achieved which wins for him the honor of the American people. AS VIEWED BY A FRENOHMAFW. M. Emile Levasseur oi the National In- stitute of France has recently contributed an article to the press on American work- men, the wages they receive, the machin- ery they operate and their standard of living. While he found egreat differences in the earnings of wageworkers in the various sections of this country, neverthe- less, on the whole it was demonstrated that the American wage rate is exceed- ingly high as .compared with that of France, or even of England, where wages are higher than those of any other European country. The writer disputes the doctrine that the increase of 50 per cent 1n wages during the last thirty vears is dve wholly to the pres- sure which trades unions have been able to bring to bear on employers by means of strikes, and directs attention to the fact that the wages of agricultural laborers, who are not organizod, have increased nearly in the same proportion as those of most of the workers in other industries, while the wages of domestic servants, both in this country and in France, have risen more in proportion than those of the or- ganized workers. Notwithstanding all this M. Levasseur does not deny that trades unions have influence. He asserts that they are very strong in numbers and bave taken an active part in the efforts of workers to secure shorter hours, higher wages and better conditions in general for the laboring man. The marvelous development of machin- ery in America is treated of by M. Levas- seur, who declares that progress in me- chanics has been more rapia in the United States than in any other country in the world, “because the Americans have a genius for invention combined with bold- ness in undertaking new enterprises ;. be- cause their population has increased from four millions a century ago to more than seventy mullions, while the wealth of the country has increased faster than the population, and because this great num- ber of people furnishes an inimense mar- ket for all kinds of goods, a marketin which the per capita consumption is much larger than in European countries.” The standard of living of the American worker is higher than that of any other country on earth. With the exception of luxuries, it was found that the average price of goods consumed by the working- classes was very little higher in America than in France, while provisions are slightly }ower here. The one item of ex- pense whieh is nearly always heavier for the workers of American than for those of France iy rent. But the Ameri- can laborer, however, requires far better accommodations than the French laborer. His home is larger, better furnished and more comfortable. As to the causes of high wages, M. Le- vasseur opines that they depend on sev- ‘eral, of which the principal is “‘the total amonnt of wealth previously existing or produced at any given time by labor and the average quantity of wealth produced by the individual worker.” There is always a question as to the rate in which the distribution of this wealth shall be made as between capital, man- agers and labor, “but the wages ¢an, in no cace, under penalty of ruin for the indus- try, equal the total valne of the produc: 1t is, therefore, concluded ‘‘that the pro- ductivity of labor is one of the principal causes which regulate wages.” And M. Levasseur, had he looked further into the matter, would have discovered that an- other leading causeof higher wages in this country during the past thirty years is the American protective policy, to which isaiso due very largely .the wonderful progres< made by the mllh aad factories of the United States. LIMITS OF MILITARISM IN FRANCE. The rapid growth of the vast military ma- chines 1n the states of Continental Europe is one of the most marked features of the pres- ent century. First adopted by Prussia, after her disastrous defeats at the hands of Napo- leon, the general system of short service and reserves has received such a development, especially since the Franco-German war, that these countries have become able camp- grounds. Stiil the cry is for more soldiers and greater expenditures for armaments. With peace armies of over balf amillion men each there is still no end in sight. When there are two rival nations of about equal power any increase of force in the one army is sure to be the signal for increasing the other also, and the process is thus continuous. In the middle of the present century the annual mili- tary contingent of France was 80,000, while it is now 240.000. As late as 1893 the entire German contingent was 176,000, and now is about the same as that of France. If to the active army we add the reseryes the resulting force is of a size by the side of which the famous hordes of entiquity seem smail. According to a well-informed writer in the Revue des Deux Mondes, Italy, Russia, Aus- tria, France and Germany have at present s total trained force of nsarly 17,000,000, out of some 25,000,000 men of military age,and the remaining one-third have had some military instruction. What will be the final limit no one can at present foretell, but itis only a question of time, evidently, when the entire adult male population will have had military training. Before this happens the financial burden may become sabsolutely insupportable, or the people may finally en- teran effectual protest against the system. While we may deplore the system of uni- versal military service and consequent with- drawal of 50 many men from civil pursuits, there are still many compensations, and the European nations would not submit to the burden unless there were some ever-present necessity, or at least supposed Decessity, which emounts to the same thing, practically speaking. Until recently there has never been any trouole in filling the annual contingent of re- cruits, but in France the limitseems finally to bave been reached and she cannot increase the size of her active army, because the availa- ble population is not sufficient, even when every man of proper age is drawn upon. With apopulation of 38,000,000 she is keeping up anarmy of the same size as Germany, while the latter power has & population of 52,000,000 to draw upon. Thus in France the war strength is 111 per thousand of population as against 82 in Germany, and as low as46 in Austria. With a stationary or even decressing population Frence will have apparently to give up the struggle for mere numbers o soldiers. According to the French Annual Report of Army Recruiting jor 1895 there were 337,000 youths of a suitable age to enter the army that year. After deducting those who failed to appear (some 9000), those phy- sically disqualified and those rllowe1 to enter for one year's service, there remained only 142,000 men entering the ranks for the regu- lar term of three years. The remainder of the 210,000 required were made up from the one year's men and some 18,000 put back the pre- vious two years for some slight physical im- maturity or infirmity. The decreasing population in France hes been the cause of serious alarm for some time and has been the subject of innumerable arti- cles in the public prints. All this time Ger- many has been forging ahead, and 1n the past seven years the German births have been double those in France. According to the eminent statistician, M. Bertillon, in thirteen or fourteen years there will be two German conscripts for every French one. It scems hopeless for France to compete with Germany under these circumstances; but, on the other hand, if past and recent experience in war teaches anything it is that mere num- bers do not always win by any means, and herein lies the hope of France. Asarecent writer has put it, the French army may still meet that of Germany on terms of equality and hope to make a winning fight, if jor mere numbers she substitutes quality in her sol- diers. This will probably be effected by a return to & greater or less extent to the system of long service with the colors, with its corresponding better training, and with the result of putting into the fizhting line men of maturer age and those better fitted to bear the privations and fatigues of active campaigning than the pres- ent youthful and half-trained contingents. The outcome will be most interesting, whatever it may be, and the failuras of the system in this instance may predispose the nations coucerned to agree to & reduction in srmament. Aithough this has often been proposed and strongly urged, so far there has not been found any nation that is willing to take the initiative in the matter, and the nat- ural distrust of nations so situated has proven & great stumbling-block to the realization of the plan. Now thatit is proven,in at least one instance, that the limit has been reached, we may hope thatit wiill have its effect in zudiu-lly aecreasing the contingents of other armies, SPEAKER REED’S AVOIRDUPOIS. ‘Washington Post. Although Speaker Reed is seriouslv con- cerned over the outcome of the tariff bill, there is something which weighs even heavier on his mind. He i8 growing corpulent. Years ago Reed was a big man, broad-shoul- dered, heavy limbed, but he was well-propor- tioned. Then he began to grow stout. This did not trouble him, because upon his large frame the accumulating flesh was well dis- tributed. Now, nowever, he has reached the voint where his fatness is becoming annoying. Nothing that he can do w1l decrease the load that ne seems doumed to carry. He exercises, though not a great deal, he walks, even in this hot weather, and he carefully avoids all fat- producing {00ds. Notwithstanding all these precautions, the inches are being added to his girth and his weight continues to increase. Just where it will'end he does not know, although he would like to do s0. Not only is his bulk inconven- ient, but he has been compelled to discard suits that fitted him well enolfih not 80 many months ago. Last summer’s clothes seem to ::h-va shrunk when he attempts to get into em. His increasing size atiracted the attention of & Congressman the other day, and he was asked how wuch he weighed. “Two hundred pounds,” promptly replied the Speaker. “Why, Mr. Speaker,” s 1id the Congressman, honestly surprised. *‘I weigh 200 pounds my- self, and you surely are one-third heayier.”” ‘I don't care what you weigh'” repiied Mr. Reed instantly, “but no gentleman ever weighs over 200 pounds.” . AN EMPEROR’S PORTABLE HOUSE. ‘When Emperor William of Germany recentiy journeyed to Heligoland to witness the finish of the yacht race from Dover to Heligoland, for which he had offered a magnificent cup, & very difficult problem arose, that of properly nousing his imperial Majesty. The official buildings are too small and the Emperor did not want to go to & hotel. The Emperor himself found a way out of this difficulty by remembering a portable house he had purchased at the Berlin exposi- tion last year, which except for being a trifie Emperor William’s Portable House. longer than the type of portable barracks adopted by the German army, corresponds exactly to those buildings. It was accordingly shipped to Heligoland, and was erected there inside of a few hours in the garden of the military commander’s quarters. Toe portable building is filty-two feet long by sixteen feet three inches wide, and in- cludes & parlor, a bedroom, & bathroom and a small attendsnt’s room, with an adjoining entry. In frontof the parlor there isa small addition for another entry. The floor of the house consists of twenty-one flat boxes, within which the entire house and THE MINERS REMEMBERED. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “Do you see those nuggets?” With the fore- going remark Tom Cochran of thiscity handed | a Post-Intelligencer reporter a small jar al- | most full of yellow chunks. “Well, thatis | gold from the Klondyke, ana it typefies the proverbial generosity. That gold is a present | to me because Isent a few copies of the Post- | Intelligencer into Alaska last season. You see, my friends Dick Butler and Charley Meyers nad been prospecting in that country, and one day I bundled up the papersand dropped them in the mail. Sincs the Portland got in I have received this botue of gold. Butler and Mevers, through having those papers, had the only iibrary in the Kiondyke, and the miners congregated from all the creeks and read everythiug in those papers, advertisements and all. One day a crowd was in the cabin, | and Butler said: “ ‘Boys, Idon’t mind your reading he pi pers, but I think you ought to remember the fellow who sent them. I’m going to put up s little contribution box,’ and ne left the bottle near the papers.” The miners did not forget, Cochran has the dust. and to-day Mr. 1t is worth $400. NATURAL DESTINY OF CANADA. Not a Dependency of a Foreign State, but Part of the Republic. From a Speech by Goldwin Smith at Moorefield. | “Why should you be spending your earnings in milltary lines of steamships, or military preparations of any kind? Do you want to fight the million of Canadians over the way, many of them your own sons or brothers ? Is it wise to spend your money on unprofitable lines of road, only that you may not use Amer- iean roads, while the Americans are freely using yours ? “Look at the map. Not the delusiye map The Imperial Salon in the Portable House. its contents can te stored away, the roof and side walls forming the covers of the boxes. A system of hooks and calches anchors the boxes together 5o as to form as solid a flooring =5 could be made by any carpenter. The in- terior is furnished simply, but with perfect taste. The parlor and bedroom are carpeted; the other rooms are covered with linoleum. One stove is placed in the parlor, another in the bathroom, which is provided with hot and cold water, The Kmperor was much pleased with his temporary quarters. AT TWILIGHT. Out of the dusk, wind-blown and thin, The shadowy woodboats gather in. And twillght hushes the barbor’s din— Sleep, litile head, on my shoulder! The gold lizhts wake through the evening gray In the little village beside the ba; And a few cold stars g eam 'ar awi Sleep, littie head, on my shouide; The sailor turns his face once more W here his sweetheart waits at the opened door; The lone Light washes the wave-swept shore — Sieep, little head, on my shoulder! flere where the dancing shadows swarm. Onr drifiwood fire i3 bright and warm; Berond our window wakes the ' orm— I hen sleep, Httle head, on my shoulder! WILLIAM CARMAN ROBERTS in July Century, PERSONAL. Walter Tryon, a mining man of Angels, is at the Grand. H. McDonald of Fresno is staying at the Cos- mopolitan. Dr. F. Walton Todd of Stockton is a guest at the Occidental, H. Rapelje, Deputy Sheriff of Fresno, is at the Cosmopolitan. A. M. McDonald, a mining man of Sonors, is stopping at the Lick. D. P. Pierce, & mine-owner of Placerviile, is a guest at the Grand. General hemper and family of Virginia are af the Occidental Hotel. F. A. Booth, a prominent lumber merchant of Red Bluff, is a guest at the Grand. H. M. Gorham, a8 prominent mining man of Goid Hill, Nev., is regisiered at the Palace. Captain Whiting, commander of the Monad- nock, reg.stered at the Occldental yesterday. M. Sutton, & prominent business man of Pacific Grove, is registered at the Russ House. Among the guests at the Russ House is J. C. Erickson, & cattle-raiser of Humboldt County, B. T. McCullough of Crows Landing, the well-known cattle-raiser, is registered at the Grand. Ex-Congressman James A. Louttit of Stock- tou is visiting the City. He is stopping at the Grand. R. E. May, Wells-Fargo’s agent of Sonora, Tuolumre County, is 8 guest at the Cosmo- politan. ¥. P. Wickerson, prominent in Fresno poli- tics, came to town yesterday and put up at the Lick House. A.W. Perkius, a well-known mining fore- men of Gold Hill, Nev., is stopping atthe Russ House. Among those who registered at the Ocei- dental yesterday were W. J. Dickey and Dr. J. D. Davidson, both of Fresno. Frank Morrato, the well known representa- tive of Notary & Morrato of Denver, Colo., is registered at the Golden West. % H. E. Pickeit of Placerville, largely inter- ested in mining operations in Ei Dorado County, is registered at the Lick. F. W. Swanton, who has charge of the big electric piant at Santa Cruz,is on a visit to San Francisco. He is at the Palace. Paul May, the secretary of the Belgian Le- gation at Tokio, Japan, errived on the steamer China yesterday. He is stopping at the Palace. Dr.J. M. Proctor of Placerville was among the arrivals at the Pslace Hotel yesterday. He is largely interested in mining in his county. Joseph P. Durkin, euperintendent of the Bunker Hill mine, Sonora, Tuolumne County, is down with his wife on his honeymoon et the Cosmopolitan. Baron von der Grattz and Baron von der Bruggen are guests at the Palaca. The former is registered as coming from Peking, China, and the latter from Beigium. -4 A. B. Woods of Detroit, who is & wealthy copper-mine owner ot Michigan, and who is also interested in gold mining properties in this State, arrived here yesterday and is stop- ping at the Palace, Theron Geddes, auditor of the Rio Grande Western Railway Company, whose he quarters are at Salt Lake City, arrived yester- day. Mr. Geddes is considerable of a mine- owner. He is at the Occidental. CALIFORNIANS (N NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 24.—At the St. Cloud, J. Stumpf; Imperial, G.J. Myers; St. Denis, F. O'Brien; Albert, Mrs. Paxton; Met- ropolitan, F. L. H. Noble: Hoffman, 1. Bloom; Bartholdi, M. Hale; Sturtevant, Mrs Milner; Continental, C. L. Plerce. W. 0. Paull is here buying. Mrs. Marie Bruns, Louise Bruns, Mrs. Anna Bruns and Anna Bruns arrived on tne Konigin Luise from Bremen. Miss Wolls- kill of Los Angeles arrived on the Lahn from Bremen. A Georgia editor sent a short story to 150 newspapers and magazines combined. It took allof them just three years to decline it; but he was not discouraged, and during the fourth year of its itinerary it was accepted aud paid for, which makes Canada a solid muss of territory extending to the north pole, but the truthful | map, which shows the geographical distribu- tion and relations of our several provinces. You will thea see what the construction of lines of traflic in Canada, entirely separate from the rest of the continent, means. To keep 5,000,000 of North Americans out of North America will be a difficuit and costly undertaking. To the few the experiment may bear fruit in peerages or knighthood; 10 the many it will bear fruitin increase of taxation. “There are people who, from sociai fancy as well as for political objects, want to build up a barrier of hatred beiween us and our kins- men to the south, while Englend, to whom we are all so loyal, is courting American friend- ehip by all the means in her power. "g'hem does unfortunateiy exist feeling | against Great Britain in the United States. That feeling is likely to continue, and when any friction arises to show itself so long as Great Brilain remains a political or military power on this coutinent. You would have the same thing on the other side if the United States were a political and military power on the flank of England. But egainst” Canada as an Amorican community there is no feeling whatever.” MEN AND WOMEN. A Niantic (Conn.) woman has taken and pre- | served a New York paper for forty-one years. Professor Samuel Brassal of the University of Kiauseaberg, in Hungary, died recently, soon after celebrating his hundredth birthday. A lock of nair of Agnes Sorel, the mistress of King Charles VIILof France, a tawny blonde lock, taken from her tomb at Loches, was sold in Paris recently for 140 francs. There is a negro man working near Dublin, Ga., who says he 13 one of forty children by one mother. He says his mother was married four times, and gave birth to twenty-seven boys and thirteen girls in North Carolina, and is yet living, Preacher Moody at Northfield the other day took up the scriptural story about the whale swallowing Jonak. He accented no theory of illustration or allegory, but he told the papers to put it down thet he would never let a man come on hisplatform to speak if he did not be- lieve that the whale swallowed Jonah. Bessie Potter. the young Chicago sculptor whose portrait statuettes in plaster have been seen in recent Boston, New York and Chicago exhibitions, spent the past winter in Florence, where her most ambitious work, “The Young Motber,” has been put into marble. A special exhibition of her sculpture is to be given in Boston next season. Colonel Watterson is fighting the silver can- didate for Clerk of the Court of Appeals in Kentucky with much intensity. A local con- temporary unkindly says toat the colonsl is getting up a sham fight; that he rushes to the front of the stage, wraps the flag about him fires off a “hoss pistol with an apostrophe to God and his native land, and falls in a dead faint.” To a question put to Justin McCarthy by the Independent the well-informed historian of “Our Own Times” has replied: To my mind the one most impressive characteristic of her Majesty’s reign is the fact that she is, strictly speaking, the first really constitutional sov- ereign who ever ruled over the British empire. If that does not make an epoch Iknow of nothing that possibly could.” ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS NoT His FATHER-IN-LAW—N. N., Cloverdale, Cal. Chief Lees of the police force of San Francisco is not the father-in-law of Theodore Figel, whose case is now pending in court, UNDER THE BAN—N., City.—The three socie- ties that were putunder the ban a few years ago by churc: authorities were the 0dd Fel- lows, Knights of Pythias and Sons of Temper- ance. “BLACK-EYED SUSAN"—A., City. If Dion Bou- cicauit took the part of Willfam at the initial p'erlol"!r;llnce‘_n(k“’{illgk» ved Susan” in the city of New York, his biograph Any mention of the fact, o P o> [ail to make PAY IN THE ARMY—O. 8, City, The peyofa regimental quartermaster in the United States army is for the first five years $150 permonth; frer five years it is $165; after t : after fifteen years $105, ind .:.e‘:'iiéafi-’iti?s The question as to the clerks cannot - gmereg without specifying the par ncu:a?:l:‘s‘l :{Wc“lirx the correspondent wishes (o know EMPRESS OF GERMANY —W. T., City. The Teigning Emperor of Germany married Prin- cess Victoria of Schleswig - Holstein - Sonder- burg-Augustenburg on the 27th of February, ::f;. “él;lt‘ vusl bora October 22, 1858, and is aughter of the late Duke Frederick Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg. She. i';lcnn:: to the house of Holstein of which the fir<t branch is Schleswig-To!stein-Sonderburg-A gustenburg. The royni family of Denmark is connected with the house of Schleswig-Hol- luln-Bonderhur'-Glncklbnrg. The Almanach arlx::;gnél; to show that the Kmpress of marri o i D aasy age related 10 the royal — — HEAT CURLED UP THE RAILS. Kansas City Journal Santa Fe trainmen vouch for the statement that Friday’'s through California train was flagged by section men two miles this side of Lexington because the raflsof the track had been curved by the heat into the appearance of sleigh-runnere, the heavy spikes having been pulled from the oak ties and thrown inty the air by the strain of the bending rails. The accident occurred but a few minutes | marringeable duke. before the train was due to pa the section men been st once spot by the noise of the flying spikes the train Would have dashed into the break and have been hurled from the track. Passengers on the train stated that the heat at the point of the accident was terrific. While the repair of the track was going on the occupants of the train sought & wood at one side of the track and remained there until the work was completed. 1t was two hours before ;‘ewd track was in shape for the train to pro- ed. GLOEE SIGHTS. Atcmson Globe, No woman who smokes has a right to be jealous of her husband. After a woman has had two husbands and realized on their life insurance, that ought to be enough. We are afraid {o ask what's the matter with Hannah at this season of the year, but Jamaica ginger is good for it Toough clothing is cheap, every one cherishes the hope that if he should drop dead noone but his family will see the quality of his underwear. This is the season of the year when we would rather have the mo:h eat up all the woolen goods in the house than go downtownin the sun for camphor balls. A woman who has_married as often as three times is bound to have trouble. £he ma: escape it with her first and second husba but her third husband is pouad to cause & scandal of some sort, TOM REED ON McMILLIN. Washingto: Post. Congressmen Benton McMillin and James D. Richardson are candidates for the Sens- torial appointment to succeed the late Isham G. Harris of Tennessee, and there is much speculation in Washington relative to the re- sult. MeMillin has served five terms in Con- gressand is 52 years old, the right age for 8 Senator. Tom Reed, Spesker, cannot stand McMillin. Richardson is one of his pet avers sions, but he can manage to get along With him.’ He wouid like to sée McMillin dis- patched to the Senate end of the Capitol, for the Tennesseean is worse than a nagging old woman with thirty children. “Richardson talks e good deal,” Mr. Reed said on & cer oceasion, “but he is a good-natured fellow, and what he says doesn’t make the least dif- ference one way or the other. McMiliin is difs ferent. He never says a word without sub- tracting trom the sum of human knowledge.” IT RAINS LEAL. ew Yorz Sun. The ordnance «flicers of the navy have reason to be satisfied with the performance of the Maxim automa'ic one-pounder gun, which completed 118 official test the other day. 1t reached the extraordinary maximum of 200 shots a minute, and held that rate for a con- siderable. time, while it could keep on for long periods with rapidity nearly asremark- able. One hundred of thésa guns are now be- ing turned out at the Washington loundr{ for our ships, and the torrent of projectiles fr a secondary battery of these and otbers of larger caliber can be imagined. WITH YOUR COFFEE. “As an actress she is not altogether a suc- cess. She is great only in certain parts.” “She ought to ride the wheel. Thatdevelops 211 the muscles.*—Detroit Journal, «‘What's Darnley doing now ?” “Gota great snap. He's press agent for a Works on the percentage plan.”’—North American. “Do you say that you received a college edu. cation?” asked the court of the would-be juror, “Yes, your honor.” hallenged for cause,” promptly inter- rupted the counszl for the prisoner.”’—Detroit Free Press. Mr. Porkpacker (impressing his friends)— Mary, where’s the daguerreotyps of my great- grandmother? Mary—Shure, an’ tn' artist sint wur-rd it wouldn’t be done till termorry.—New York Evening Journal. Madge—T never knew Dolly was interes in charity. Marjorie—She isn’t. She started her club in opposition to a similar society, the president of which she says is a hateful old thing.— Judge. “Writem has gotten outa new book. This time it is a purpose novel.” “Is that so? What's the purpose?” #To make money for Writem.”—Cincinnat{ Commercial Tribune. First Summer Girl—This paper says there are over 300 actors in New York out of engage- ment. Second Summer Girl—For pity's sake, why do 't they come here? We could accommo- date them.—Truth. Dinwiddie—Y ou often say that the street-car companies are not taxed sufficlently. Van Braam—That is what I maintain. Dinwiddie—The papers Sy that they were taxed to their utmost in taking pnssengers home from the fireworks display.—Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. “Is Sutter a laboring man?" “When fe talks, yes.”—Columbus State Journal (Ohio) H. BLAcK, pranter, 120 Eddy straat, Skt “Come up to my house to-morrow night,” said Herr Pantoflel. ““I'm going to celebrate my golden wedding.” “Golden wedding! Why, man, you've only been married three yesrs.” “Iknow it; but itscems like fifty; so every« thing is all rignt.”—rliegendo Blatter, e TowNSEND'S California Glace Fruits will keep all winter. Just the thing for miners and trave elers; 50¢ 1b. 627 Paluce Hoiel building. * ——————— The Fond Motner—Everybody says he is such & pretty baby! I'm sure the poet was right when he said that‘*Heaven lies about us in our infaney.” The uncle (unfeelingly)—But he should have added, *So does everybody else.”—Life. —————.———— Frrerar information daily to manufacturess, business houses and public men by the Pras Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 910 Montgomerys. * —————— “I'm going to be a contortionist when 1grow up,” said little Johnnie, proudly; “I'm in training now, so I want you to tell me what is the best thing for me to eat.” “‘Green apples, my boy,” chuckled the old man.—Demorest’s Magazine. ——————————— MORTON SPECIAL DELIVERY. Baggage transferred to trains, steamers, ete. Also moved in the city. 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