The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 27, 1897, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1897 ey Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 . 6.00 Dally snd Sunday CALr, one month, by mall.. Sunday CALL, one g WEEKLY CALL, one y BUSINESS OFFICE: #an ¥rancisco, Californ! Telephone............ EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Streew Telephone ... BRANCH OFFICES: ntgomery s:reet, corser Clay ; open until lock. 615 Larkin street, open ul SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets, open clock. ion street, open until 9 o'clock. 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk s t; ope! 1 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Tweuty-second and Kentucky streets; open till § o'cloci OAKLAND OFFICE 9.8 Broadway. FASTERN OFFICE Rooms 31 and Park Row. DAVID N LTZ, Fast ew York City Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou Folng to the country on s vacation® It ¥0, 1t 15 no troubl 10 forward THE CALL to Your address. miss COrders given 10 the carrier or left at Husiness Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifiy cenis per month for summer m The storm question of the money center bas shifted from Wasbington to the Kion- dyke, The Senate evidently regards itself a better monetary commission than any the President could appoint. When everybody expects better business and works in the faith of that expectation beiter business will come. There is no stopping the Klondyker and all the wise mancan do is to advise him to get hisoutfit in 8 ! It seems to be the intention of the Jap- anese diplomats to kesp Secretary Sher- man b writing notes ali summer. The Mission Park movement wiil not be turned aside from its object by the cry *‘bood!e’” when there is no proof to sustain the cry. Tramps in Nebraska this year are re- ported to be worse than grasshoppers, but no accounts have been given of their ap- pearance in the wheat fields. Now that Congress has broken the rec- ord for promptness in passing the tariff bili let hope the bill will break the record in bringing about prosperity. The Christian Endeavorers are now ar- riving at home and the accounts they are giving of their trip has thrown something like a California glow over the whole East. The wine men of California will prob- ably have a reason to rejoice with the rest of us, for a big crop is in sight and good wrices are said to be waiting for it as fast as it can come in. Visalia 1s getting ready to rejoice over the special prosperity of her own which the Valley ~oad is hasteniag to bring to her. The festivities are expected to eventuate in August. Before long people will be telling us that the best jime to make the trip to the Kion- dyke is in the winter when you can make a seeighride of it instead of having to shoot the rapids in a canoe. As many of the miners who struck it rich in Alaska are reported to have gone about the country paying up old debts, there can be no question bat what the ore they found is honest gold. The report of the Grand Jury commit- tee on the importance of improving Mar- ket street should lead toaction on the part of the Supervisors. We cannot pave the sireet with good intentions. This is not Hades. The time to prepare a Califoruia exhibit for the Western exposition at Omaha, which opens next June, is richt now. The freit crop will be gone before long and there will not be anotherin time for the grand opening. The Me:a Encantida has been scaled, and the scalers came down feeling scaly, for there was nothing on the summit but rocks. Perhapsthe north pole adventur- ers may have similar luck if they ever eacceed in reaching the long-sought point. Peter McNa in an attempt to water fifteen hours and swam thirty-five miles, but failed toreach land, willknow enough to consider the drifi and force of the current before he takes water next time. Under present conditions the Spaniards are unable to subdue any of the provinces of Cuba and the Cubans are unable to cap- ture the cities. Unless therefore some yower intervenes to prevent the war may go on indefinitely, or end only like the famous struggle of the Kilkenny cats. Now that Congress has adjourned Wash- ington will g.ve itself up to the circula- tion of rumors and reports founded upon street talk and hotel gossip, Ons of these rumors is that Secretary Sherman is to re- tire and Whitelaw Reid is to be SBecretary of State. Anything goes in the off season. New York City expected to have a red- bot munieipal campaign this summer by way of inaugurating Greater New York, but up to date neither party has nomi- nated its candidates. It looks asif the situation were so hot in itself thatthe politicians are afraid (o touch it before cooler weather sets in. A Chicago vpoet named Holbrook has writien a revised version of “Star-spangied Banner'’ and according to his own notion improved it. This is the way Chicago treats the classics geperally. Anything she cannot understand she greases with hog lard and swallows in the hope of be- ing able to digest the lard if nothing eise, The benefits derived from the railway constructed across the isthmus of Te. hauntepec has encouraged the Mexican Government to construct another across the country fartber north, and the line is rapidly approaching completion. The new road will lead to the development of a rich region of the republic and will open a way for an increasing market for Cali- fornia preducis, Do not let it miss you for you will | of | m the British Channel remained in the | THE COURRENCY PROBLEM The fact that the Fenate adjourned without acting upon the recommendation of the President that a special commis- sion—non-partisan in its ¢! aracter—be created to report upon the revi 1n our banking and currency laws is omi- nous of trouble in the settlenient of that question when it comes.up for determina- tion. Otherwise there is nothing in the delay of the Senate to be regretted, for it is not likely that a commission weuld make a repcrt which wounld have any effect in harmonizing the differences of opinion which now prevail. 1t is not clear what the President hoped to gain from the proposed commission. The Secretary of the Treasury has ample opportunity to consult with any and all persons upon the subject. He has at his disposal all the public documents and re- ports bearing upoun it, and has, moreover, an ample staff of expert officials in his office to assist him in preparing a report in time for the meeting of the next ses- sion of Congress. His report wiil have just as much we.ght with the country as would that of a non-partisan commission, and nothing, therefore, seems to be lost by the failure of the Senate to uacton the recommendation. The experience of the past demonstrates the futility of attempting to settle party issues by the appointment of non-parti- san commissions. We had a striking il- lustration of that truth in the celebrated commis-ion appointed to decide thedi- puted Presidential election of 1876. Every member of that commission voted with his party, and the Judges of the Supreme Court who served upon it showed them- seives to be just as strongly partisanas any of their colleagues from the Senate and the House. A commission chosen of men of all par- ties could never agree on the most impor- tant issue involved in the proposed cur- rency reform—that of the maintenance or retirement of greenbacks. On that point, at any rate, there wouid have been surely a minority as well as a majority report, and the issue at last would have been left for debate in Congress and determination by the vote of both housas. The only probable advantage which might have teen gained from the appoint- ment of the commission would have been that of resolving the doubts which may exist in some quarters asto the speedy settlement of this issue. It woulld have given an assurance to the p:ople that the Republican party intends to fulfill the pledge ot currency reform as it fulfilled that of teriff reform. It would have re- moved the controversy from the public mind for the rest of the summer, ana to that extent would have been beneficial. These advantages, however, have been virtually gained by the very fact that the President asked for the appointment of such a commission. Public notice has now bzen given thst the administration will enter upon the solution of our financial problems at once. Nothing further is needed to put an end to uncertainty wherever il may have been felt, and to re- new and increase the confidence of the people in President McKinley and the Republican Congress. THE WORK OF OONGRESS, While the extraorainary session of Con- gress just closed wou'd have merited the applause of all citizens of the R public even if it had accomplished only the one great purpose for which it was called, it went further and performed many other valuable and important services for which the country will be duly grateful. The last Congress failed to pass the sundry civil, agricultural, Indian and ganeral de- ficiency bills, and thess four biils would bave necessitated an extra session even if the demand for tariff revision had not brought the National legislature together at the earliest possible date. Not a montn had elapsea after President McKinley's inauguration when the Ding- tariff bill was passed by the House. It spenta month and thre:days in the Senate Committee on Kinance and was two months under deliberation in upper house. Congress assembled March 15, and 1he President approved the tariff bill July 24. The general deficiency bill carried a provision accepting the invitation to par- ticipate in the Paris Exposition of 1900, and appropriated money for preliminary expenses. It fixed ihe limit of the cost of armor plate for our new battle-ships at §300 per ton. In the Indian bill, the ques- lion of sectarian schools was settled by this declaration of the policy of the Government: *‘That the Secretary of the Interior miy make con:ricts with con- tract school+, apportioning as near as may be the amounts contracted for among schools of various denominations for the education of Indian pupils during the fiscal year of 1898, but shall only make such contracts at such places where non- sectarian schools cannot be provided for such Indian children, and to an amount not excaeding 40 per cent of the amount 80 used for the fizcal year 1895.” The order of President Cleveland setting aside 21,000,000 acres of forest reservation was suspended and new provision made for the protection of the forest reservations of the country. Approoriations were made for the relief of American cit'zens in Cuba, and for the reliet of Mississippi flood sufferers, as well as for transporta- tion of food supplies to the famishing peo- ple of India. The new marine laws were passed, as well as a bill authorizing the President to suspend discriminating dutias on foreign vessels and commerce. The Senate rejected the arbitration treaty negotiated by President Cleveland with Great DBritain, and passed a number of bills and reso'utions which were not con- sidered in the House. Among these were the Cuban beiligerency resolution aud the bankruptcy and “free homes'’ bills, Numerous minor measures were passed, and on the whole the special session of Congress was productive of more genuine good than has been the case with any ses- sion of the National legislature since the enactment o! the McKinley bill. THE TRADE REVIVAL, From every part of the country comes the cheerful news of a trade revi- val, which embraces every interest whether manufacturing or agricultural. The beueficent effects of the new tar.ff ara felt everywhere in the American Republic to-day, and these effects will expand and increase steadily until we shall all be en- joying the good times that people forscok in 1892 for a free-trade delusion. In tne Soutnh and West especially are the evidences of improvement remarkable and general. There is jubilation even in Democracy’s old-time strongholds over the boons conferred by the new protective measure, In Louisiana it is conceded that the law will eive a great impetus to all thechief industries of the Siate, par- ticularly sugar, riceand lumber, Business had been dull in that section during the first part of the year, but recsntly when the sugar-planters becama sure of the pas- sage of a bill favorable to their interests, they began putting in heavy orders for machinery and agricultural implements, until the orders placed in New Orleans foundries now amount to $5,000,000. The the | miils are opening in response to the big demands of the planters, and there is new business life on every hand. From Kentucky the fact is wired that a wonderfnl change has come over the spirit of the farmers. For two years tobacco had sold below the cost of production there, and its depreciation is declared to have been mainly responsible for the silver sentiment in the Blue Grass State last fall. In April the tide began to turn, until the prices have now advanced on every grade from 100 to 300 per cent. The wheat crop is immense, and wheat is worth enough monev to make it worth while raising it. Where potatoes sold for 40 cents per barrel last year they now command §1 £0. Cattle are bringing top- notch prices and sales are many. In Louisville at this time last year all the factories were closed; they are all run- ning now, some on ex'ra time, and Ken-. tucky knows depression no more. In the very home of Populism, Kansas and Nebraska, the most convincing signs of prosperity are manifested. The pro- tection 1o the beet-sugar industry is worth millions of doilars annually to the people of those and other Western States. Cali- fornia will profit immensely in that re- spect, and our fruit-growers and wheat- raisers will be sounding the praises of pro.ection in unison before the year is done. The better feeling is apparent on all sides. America has again anchored in the harbor of glorious good times. THE OMAHA EXPOSITION. Tiework of preparation for the exposi- tion at Omaha has now progressed far enough to make certain that 1t will be the most thorough exhibition of the indus- tries and resources of the greater West that has ever been held. Itis, therefore, important that our peopie should con- sider at once the best mears of making a California display that will attract to this State the attention of every visitor at the exposition, Many States have appropriated money for State exhibitions, but this Las not been done by California, and our exhibi- tors are, therefore, to some extent handi- capved in entering the contest. Fortu- nately we have in the resources of the State sufficient advantages to enable us to overcome this bandicap, if we make full use of them. Ii the counties will com- bine together and make appropriations from county funds, anample sum can be brought together to obtain a space suffi- cient to enable each county to make a separate display in a form which will give to the aggregation the attractiveness of a general éxhibition of the industries of the State. ‘The exposition is to open next June, and, therefore, much of the fruit which is 1o be exhibited must be collected from the crop of this year. It will be seen that no time is to be lost, if we are to make an exnibit at all creditablie to ourselve:. In a short time the fruit barvest will be over, and unless we have provided for the coming exhibit we will make but a poor and inadequate <how in comparison with that which will be set up by some other of the Western States. This is the first great exhibition which has ever been held for the express purpose of exbibiting the resources of the Greater West. The Eastern, Middle and South- ern States have had their expositions, ana it is now our turn. The whole West should act in harmony to make the exhi- bition a great one, and California cer- tainly sbould contr.bute her share to its succes=, COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE. The House commitcees, as announced by Speaker Reed on Saturdav last, will meet with general approval. Few changes of importance are made, and iu the recog- niticn on commitiges accorded to new members the Speaker has shown his char- acteristic wisdom. Representative Loud, who is regarded with much favor by the brainy Maina statesman, is retained as chairman of the important Committee on Postoflices and Postroads, and will therefors wield a strong inflaence among Congressmen. Representative Barham is given a place on the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, whera he will be in a position to aid the Pacific Coast in a ma- terial way, as that committee has juris. diction over the Nicaraguan canal matter. Mr. Barbam is assigned also to the Irriga- tion of Arid Lands Committee. Repre:entative Hilborn will continue on the Naval Affairs Committee, and also oh that of Public Builaings and Grounds, and it goes without saying that he wiil make a showing satisfactory to his con- stituents and to the State. On the Pacific Railroads Committee Representative Maguire is placed, accord- ing to his own expressed wishes, while Representative De Vries is assigned to the Committee on Public Lands. Representatives Castle and Barlow are appointed respectively to the Committees on Presidential Elections and Civil Service Reform. In tact, California is treated exceed- ingly welil in this distribution of favcrs, and tbe several sssignments above men- tioned should give satistaction to the peo- ple of the various Congressional districts and to the commonwealth at large. UNITED STATES ARMUR PLANT. Unabls to reach a satisfactory agree- ment with the private armor-plate facto- ries, and unwilling to pay their ex rbitant rates for ship-armor, it is probable the Goy- ernment will this week set to work to plan and builg, under the direction of a board of experts ifrom the Navy Depariment, an establishment for the manufacture of armor-plate sufficient for all the needs of the navy. The facts leading np to this movement on the part of the Government are inter- esting. When we began to armor our bat- tle-ships the only factory in\ihe country that could make the armor-plates was lo- cated at Bethlehem, Pa. Tae naval de- partment thought there should be compe- tition in the work and through its instru- mentulily the Carnegie Company put in an armor-plate piant at Pittsburg. As might have been expected, tne two com- panies combined. They ran up the price till the rate for armor reached $380 a ton. It was deemed by naval authoriies that $400 per ton was an ample price and in- vestigation proved that the Governmant was really paying too much by $180 per ton. Then the suggestion was mude that the Unitel States build a plant of its own, but just at this time a new competitor, the lilinois Steel Company of Chicago, stepped into the lists with the offer to take, under certain conditions, the armor- Pplate contract at §300 per ton. The Chicago firm estimated, further- more, that the armor could be made tor $240 per ton. In fact it became plain that the Government had been paying double what its armor was worth, The Fifty- fourth Congreas comsequently provided in the naval appropriation bill that no more than §300 per ton should be paid for ship armor. An enormous :aving was looked for, but when tie Illinois Sieel Company presented its contract it was found to contaiu a proviso that it should ran twenty years, the Government to take at lonst 6000 tons a vear. As the armor at this rate would be enough to equip fifty battle-ships, and as that would be far be- vond our requirements, and as the Govern- ‘ment wouldn’t make a contractso far in advance underany consideration, the prop- osition fell to the ground. The establish- ments which have been engaged in mak- ing armor plates at this time refuse to take less than §425 per ton. Secretary Long is confident that an im- wense saving can be made by a plant operated by the Government. The first United States armor plant, which will be constructed on the Atlantic Coast, of course, will cost about $2,000,000. Since the Pacific Coast is equipped with works which can build the largest sized battle- ships, and since many vessels of the new navy will undoubtediy be built on this coast, it sppears the Government would profit in the lonz run by es- tablishing a plant on the western shores of the Nation. Ournaval requirements on the Pacific are becoming greater every year, and our interests in these waters de- mand more serious sttention frem the central Government. Secretary Long will do well 1o carefully consider the suzgestion of a United Siates armor plant for this coast. e PERSONAL. | €. A. Cloman, U.S. is at the California Hotel. M. Biggs, a rancher of Oroville, 1s a guest at the Grand. M. R. Engel of New York is a guest at the Palace Hotel. 0. J. Smith and wife of Reno, Nev., are stop- ping at the Palace. Alired Daggett, s lawyer of Visalia, s stop ping atthe L ck House. C. H. Brickwedel, purser of the steamer China, is at the Palace. Fred Sutton and Frank Corbin, of Sonors, are guesis at the Baldwin. P. Musto, a Stockton merchant, isin town, stopping at the Grand Hotel. Professor von der Steiuer of Berlin registered at the Grana Hotel yesterday. Frank A. West, a wine-grower of S'ockton, registered at the Palace Hotel yesterday. W. E Duncan, s mine-owner of Oroville, is in town. He is a guest at the Lick House. Dr. A. N. Beach, surgeon of the steamer Chiua, is stopping at the California Hotel. E. C. Macfarlane of Honolulu, who was very sick at the California Hotel, is convalescing. James H. Kinkead, a mining man of Virginia City, arrived in town yesterday and registered at the Palace. Charlcs H. McClatchy snd Edward J. Devlin. of the Sacramento Bee, registered at the Lick House yesterday. M. M. Folestron and Cherles EastofIquique, Chile, arrived in town yesterday and regis- tered at the Russ House. Thomas W. Wells of Sonora, Treasurer of Tuolumne County, arrived in the City yester- day and reglsiered at the Baldwin. Dr. C. A. Ruggles of Stockton, member of the State Board of Health, srrived 1n the City yesterday and is stopping at the Grana Hotel. Captain J. B. Libby of Port Tow isend, a well- known commander of ships, arrived in the City yesterday and registered at the Lick House, Lee W. Mix of Nogates, an old-time resident of San Francisco, is iu the City. He attendea the Midsummer High Jinks at Mecker’s Grove. He will soon Jeave California and sail for Eu- rope. Warden Hale of the San Quentin prison and ex-Governor Colecora of Nevada, who mined togeher in California many years ago, ex- changed reminiscences at the Palace Hotel ye.terday. The Warden has just returned from & season of rest and recreation in Siski- you County, and while there visite1 some ot the rich mines in that locality. Toe Governo: is looking around for a good gold mine, and would rather have it in this region than go to A aska to find it. In the talk yesterday he re- called the Fraser River excitement and the prodigious stories then told of woncerful dis- coveries. The glowing accounts induced him to leave a good mine in Tuolumne County to seek a better one in the Fiaser River country, and like many others he returned poorerin purse than when he went away. It wasre- Iated that in the return rush from the Fraser River the steamers were obliged to carry passengers free. Men were stranded and had 10 get back to Calilernia some wa: THE WEAIHER MAN. The weather man sijs i1 his evrie so high And 100ks st his thingnmbobs; Theu says f the day will b- wet or be dry, And gives out weather wisdom in govs. He knows all the clonds and can tell you their nawes, And bow they 're expected toact: And explains ail the rulesin the wind's many games, ‘Which they vever abide by, in fact. With his ometers, graphs, and his records he'll show. That in winter few sunstrokes occur : And wny in midsummer we seldom nave snow, And id August we never wear fur. He'll stow you the pressure, here low and there high, And point it right out on the map: And after the weather haschanged, he knows why, This prognosticating old chap. what should we do were there no weather man. W1th bis ometers, records, and sraphi He Lakes all the tlame if the asy doesu’s yan Uut, s if we rheud have wishea it, and laughs. —Buffalo kxpress. ont WITH YOUR COrFEE. “Didn’t I tell you thatif you weatswim- ming again I woald punish you?” asked the stern father. “I didn’t forget,” replied Johnnie, whose heir was dripping, “but I can't swim a stroke.”’—Detroit Free Press. “Whether a man is happier working for hig own good, or for the good of others, is merely a matter of tomperament,” said the philoso- pher. “It all depends on whether a man would rather have money or a monument.”’— | Indianapolis Journal. “There will be a clerkship vacant in the Third D.vision of the department of which I have the honor o be chief,” said the Appoiut- ing Power. “I nave the man wko is ideally fitted for the place,” said the Senatorial Influence. ‘"Are you certain?” “Quite certain. He must be the man be- cause he want« the job, and he isn’tfit for a position in business.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. “Then, proud beauty, you refuse my love?"’ said he. “Well,” said the summer girl, thoughtfully, “I don’t know but that I might be willing to <ake an option on it.”—Milwaukee Sentinel. «But what,” inquired the general passenger agent affably, “is the obj ctof this society for whose convention you ask consideralion ? What does it do?” “Why, it obtains excursion rate: ex- plained the inexperienced chairman of the transportation committee.—Chicago Journal. Bowser (reading telegram he has prepared) —How does this suit you? “Can’t come to- ai Expect us next week. Mother is iL” There's just ten words. Mrs. Bowser—Thav's ail right; only why not say, “Mother is indisposed?” Mr. Bowser—That wouldn't make it any clearer. Mrs. Bowser—I know; but 1t is a longer word than “iil,” apd we might as well get our mones’s worth while we are about it.—Boston Transcript. “That,” remarked the Thoughtful Gug, “is the most aborbing book I have read for along time.” “Was it printed on blotting paper?’’ acked the Nonsensical Chap.—Cincinnati Comumer- cial-Tribune. Magistrate—What made you steal the jewels of that actress? Burglar—I saw her inthe theater and ad- mired her art so much that I concluded o give her a chance for a free pufl in the papers. —Fliegende Blaetter. “Our gas meter is 111, Tom!" “What's the matter—gastric fever?’” ; galloping consumption.”—Judge, OMAHA’S GREAT EXPOSITION. One of the most atiractive features of the trans-Mississippl exposition, to pe held at Omaha next year, will be the adminisiration arch. The drawings show a beautiiul build- ing designed along the “free classic” style, which dominantes all the buildings on the main court, but the French renaissance stands out more prominently in this par‘icular build- ing than in any of the other main buildings. The administration arch is 50x50 fect on the ground and is 150 feet in height. It fsin- tended to be nsed as a general headquurters for the reception of distinguished visitors, e- sides giving a finished effect to the archi- tectural easemble of the main court. Itis mucn taller than any of the other buildings on this court and forms the central figure of the group of buildings facing the lagoon. In general effect the building is a solid rectangular mess with four rec angular spires surmounted by a hizh-hipped French root and lantern. The drawing isin b.ack and wnite, giving the silhouette and detail in strong iines. On the building itseit color will be used freely In the loggias all the haif lights and under the arches color will be used with freedom and strength. The contrast between the lower solid portion of the building and the roof will be emp=as zed by colors. To heighten the architectual effect statuary of heroic size will be used above the cornice. On each of the four spires will,be four sym- bolic figures, and at the center of the souta side, facing the lagoon, will be a group symbo- lizing “admi.istration.” Models for “these figures have already been prepared by Sculptor Mettler, who has been engaged on them for several weeks. MEN AND WOMEN. Sir John Bennett, the famous watchmaker, is dead. He was one of tie most familiar figures in London. Probably the greatest bioliophile among peersat the present time is Lord Crawford, the well-known Scottish nosleman. John O'Brien, stated to have been at one time ‘‘champion fowler and angler of Ire- land,” has died at Newmarket, County Cork, aged 108 years. SRR The late ex-Governor John Evans of Colo- rado did much to butld up Chicago, and one of its bast-known suburbs, Evanston, was named in his honor. Moses Fielding, an Indian, who died in Nor- wich, Conn., recently, was u direct descendant of Chief Uncas of the Mohegan tribe of In- dians. Only three members of this tribe now survive. Mrs. Henrietta Wilkie of Elwood, Ind., who receutly applied for admission to the Mxdison County tar and met with objection from At- torney J. E. Beeler, has won the victory, pleading her own case. Miss Edna Dean Proctor, the poet, has re- turned to the United Siates afier huving spent six months in scaling the precipices of the Andes, traversing the wide plains of tne Ar- gentine Repub.ic and braving the dangers of the South Atlantie. Mrs. Booker T. Washington has a noted Sun- day-school class in nousecleaning. Every unday she takes one of the negro cabins as o sample of how such work should be done. She washes, cleans, sweeps and dusts, and hes changed for the better very many of the eabins. The late Archbishop Janssens of New Orleans left an estate of un y about $6000, which he inherited from his father, and three-fourths of it he bequeathed for religicus and charitable purposes. He was entitled to s handsome salary for years, but drew barely enough to pay the actual expenses of his simple living, having allowed the remainder to accumulate to pay off the debt of the diocse. WHY THE CHICKENS5 DIED. Christian at Work. A professor at oue of our universities is the subject of & queer amecdote. Last winter he was married «nd went to housekeeping out- side town. This spring he thought he would add a few hens to nis steck; he aiready had a dog. Heseta couple of hens and in good time had two large broods of chicken:. He was very proud of them, butin a week or so the fowis began to die. ' The professor called in a weighbor to look at the chickens and offer aa- vice. Toey were ceriainly a dilapidated lot of cnickens that the neighbor viewed. They were thin aud apparently without ambition. “What do you feea them?” a:ked the neigh- bor atter a brief survey. “Feed them?” responded the professor s thougn he didn’v hear right. “Why, 1 don’t feed tnem anything. Ithought the oid hens had enough milk for them.”” REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. The average woman’s idea of politics is find- ing something that she CAn “‘protest” againsi. At some time in her life probably every girl lse\\'kl something or other on to her garter for uck. When a rich girl’s hair looks like streaked molasses candy 1t is said (o be of the color of soun gold. Train up a hired girl in the way she should o and she will depart from you and go to the neighbors for a dollar a month more. Down at the bottom cf every woman’s praver is a reminder to the Lord that he knows she has to put up with so much from ner husbanad. THE HOPE OF THE COUNTRY. Philadelpbin Fress. The hope of the country is in the Repub- lican party, not only because It advocates the principles which have been shown to be for the Nation’s interest, but because the younger and progressive element upon whom the coun- try's future rests goes so largely to the making up of the party. Thiselement is sure to keep Republicanism abreast of the best thought o: the day and tbe Republican party as its expo- nent. The party canuot go far wrong, and even when it errs it must soon return i first principles so long as the best biood of the Na- tion pulsates in its veins. The Detroit conven- }ion 15 a new and convincing evidence of these acts. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS KroNpYKE—T. B., City. The name of the new mining district in Canasdian Yukon fis Klondyke, and is pronounced as i1 written Klondike, and not as if written Kiondick. How T0 CLEAN SHELLS—J. E. H.. City. Meke 1ye by boiling strong ashes, aliow it to settle; pour the lye over the shells aud boil them for six or seven hours, or longer if they are large, then sosk and wash often in fresh water. THE CLOTURE—W. M., Oakland, Cal. The cloture is a parliamentary rule for closing debate in assemblies. ‘The cloture being orceé pronounced non further debate isin or- der, Wit the single exception of remarks upon the state of the question. To RICHMOND—A. S., City. Theonly electric line that runs from the Richmond District to the water front direct isthe Sacramento-sireet line. Tnis department is not aware that at this time any other line i1s endeavoring to run au electric line from tnat past of the City and County to the City front. CORNERSTONE—J, B., C1ty. There is no law or rule that requires tiat the cornerstone of a public building or charitable institution shall { snnounces be 1aid by any particular organized soclets. I many mgmnge‘; the Musons have becn asked o lay the cornerstone of a building, but the 0dd Kellows and otherorganizations have laid the cornerstone of buildings. . MARRIAGE LICENSE—A, 8. If a person in applying for a marriage license gives the wrong age or ages and does 5o knowingiy he ob‘ains the license by fraud and is liabie to punish- mont for petjory. Shou.d it, however, turn out that the jarties warried ou such a iiceuse were of lawful age to contract marriage it is probable that a court would hola that the marciage was not invalid. FLAGS—M. D. B., City of Oukland, Cal. There is no law that regulates the flying of foreign flags in the United States. There is, however, #law in this State, and in other Siates, that declares that no company of the Naional Guard shall carry any but the American flag. There 8 no lnw to prohibit the uxe of tie Amegican flag as an advertising medium. On the 7th of January, 1880, & bill was intro- duced in Congress 1o make 11 8 crime 10 nse the Amreican flag for the purpose of advertis- ing, but no action was takeu. OLD ProPLE—A. S., City. There is an old ladies' home at Fruitvale, conducted by tbe Sisters cf Mercy; the Altenheim Home for Old Peovle, aiso at Fruitvale, conducted by a Ger- | man association; the Crocker Old_People’s Home st Pierce and Pine streets, in San Frau- ci=co; the Li 0.d Ladies’ Home on the Mound University Tract, San Francisco; the Hebrew Home for Aged and Disabled Hebrews, a1507 Lombard street, San Francisco, and the Home for Aged nd Infirm Females, at St Mary’s Hospiial, San Francisco. JURNING BACK THE CLOCK—W. M., Oakland, Cal. The session of the Senate of the United States ends at 12 o’cl ck on the 4th of March. When that hour is reached the Vice-President that the Congress (siving the aumber) stands sdjourned s ne die. If any important business presses and must te fin- ished before the close of the session of Con- gress it has been the custom for some one to slyly put back the hands of the Senate clock, £0 1hat the nominal time should not indicate 12 o’cluck before the S:nate was ready to ad- journ. For meny vears the assistant door- keeper made it a speciai duty to turn back the clock. Further than this the custom 1s nota regular one. TERRY, CLOCKMAKER—T. C. H., Bishop, Inyo County, Cal. The first wooden-wheel clock was made in 1792 by Elf Terry, then residing &t Norwich, Conn. Terry learned the cloek and waich making trade from Jacob Sargent of Hartford, Conn, and in 1793 began, in a small way, to make clocks in Lis own house near Plymouth Center, at a place on the banks of the Naugatuck. The firsi clock that be made with wooden wheels had the wheels whittled ot with a jackknife 1 the year given. He went about the country seiling wooden-wneel clocks, and in tine Lad qnite & iarge business. In 1837 Chauncey Jerome of Massachusetts first eppiied machinery to the making of metal.waeeled clocks and quite drove wooden-wheeied clocks out of the mar- ket, but before that time metal were manufactured. Clocks with metal wheels were mede by Thomas Clark in Plymouth Hol- low, Conn., in 1811, SKEELETON IN EVERY CLOSET—W. M., Oekland, Cul. Toe tollowing is given asthe origin of the expression often used, *‘A skeleton in every closet’”” A young student of Naples, fearing himself to be dying and believing that the news of his death would break the heartof his widowed mother, who passionately ioved him, after much reflection adopted ihe follow- ing device: He wrote fo his mother telling her that he was ill and thata soothsayer had foretold that he could notrecover until he hud worn a shirt made by a woman who had no trouble, in fact one who was periectly hap end coutented. The widow, in her simplhicit; thought that attaining such a garment was an easy task. but after inquirias among her friends found that each had & secret care. At last she heard from several sources of a lady surrcunded by every comfort, and possessing a husband who seemed to think of rothing but making ner ha made [hy. The old lads iastened to hier and nown her wish. The Jady made no but took Ler visitor into an edjoining where she was horror siruck at benold- ing n skelelon suspended from & beam. “For twenty years I huve been married,” said the lady. ““I was forced to marry my husband while loving another. Shortly after my we- ding my former lover came one evening to bid me ferewell forever. My husband sur- prised us while together and 1ustantly stabted the man he unjusily suspected to the heart wheeled ciocks | He then cansed his skeletun to be preserved, | and every day makes me visit it.”” The widow conciuded that no one was without trouble, and, as het son had desired, sho became reconciled to the idea of his loss. Every one bas his iroubles—there is & skeleton $a cvery closet. ¥ FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT. The Woodmen of the World’s Execu- tive Committee Will Meet in Den- ver, Colo.,, Next Month. The board of head managers of the Wood- men of the World will meet in Denver, Colo., on the 7th of next August, and immediately after the close of the session there wili be & meeting of the executive couuncil of the head camp of the Pacific jurisdiction. It is an- nounced that at that session there will be recommenastions for chang 's in tbe constitu- tion, and & plan will b offered for the ad- vancement of the order on this coast. The matter of the Sovereign Camp's claim for per capita tax and the trouble in the Woodmen’s Circle will'also be brought up. A new camp has recently been instituted at Cloverdale, Sonoma County. Itis called Vine- vard Camp and i's consul commander is L. H. Kauffung and B. E. Baer i1s c.erk. To-morrow night Alpha Camp Wil install its ofticers and the ceremony of installation will be fotlowed by a grand entertainment. Membership and Deatli Rate. The following interesting figures in relation to a number of the most prominent fraternal organizations, showing the numerieal stand- fug of cach at the close of 1896, is taken from Northcott's Statistics of Fraternal Societies: 3 I 2 £ 3 2 = x 5 = £ o -4 = e ™ g g £ g z 5 = = o B H H | H i g 9687 * < Gvnusg drgs = ~12QUolY [¥I0L z | - | ks 1681 ‘T Lmwnasr digs ~1sQWa w0y | | BRI Fuung uiwy e supng ssog | 9681 ‘ 680 0001 304 o.uy wIwea | The losses 1n membership noted were sioned by great number of membvers in the several orders drawing out in consequence of the change in the manner of levying assess- ments, the classificd pian not being under- stood by mauy. Since the beginning of the year there have been many reinstatements in | the various organizations and many new mem- bershave been edded. Tuk: for instance he Kuights of Honor—on the 1st. of last June the membership had been restored to 93 636 in good standing, rnd the Chosen Friend. have regained mauy ot those who had dropped out. The 0dd Fellows, Grand Master Drew announced the following visitertens: July 27, Mayfield; 28th, True Fel. lowship; 20th, Pajaro, end 30:th, Branciforte. Grand Patriarch Doran will visit St. Helena -August 2, Modesto on the 34, Truck=e on the 4th, Wildey Encampment in San Francisco on the 510, Golden Ru e in Oakland on the 6tn, Healdsburg on the 7th, Auburn on ths 9th; Placervil e on the 10°h, Paso Robles on the 12th, Goiden Gate Encampmentin San Fran- cisco on the 141h, Sunset Encampment in Afu- mede on the 26:h, Oakiand on the 27ih, Meridian on the 28 h and Colusa on the 30th. ——————————— First Farmer (at railroad station)—You’rea farmer, 100, eh? Second Farmer—Yes; been farmin’a good many years. First Farmer—That 80? Glad to meet ye. Where is your farm—in the flood district, the drought section, the grasshopper regiom, or the cyclone beli?—New York Weekly, | | ocea- | | Adams, | this matter OR BETTER CITIZERSH To Be the Primary Object of the New Pastors’ Alliance. An Enthusiastic Preliminary Meeting Held Yesterday Morning. Denominationalism Will Be Thrown Aside and All Will Work for Common Good. The various evangelical denomina in this City and vicinity have been c sidering the advisability of laying asid. denominational differences outside their | puipits and working together for common good. This movement was started two week azo, when the Rev. Josiah Strong of Ne¢ York, in an address to the ministers, vocated the formation c¢f a ministe leazue, whose primary objects woul!d b district the City off and have some re- sponsible person, on each block if pos- sible, to distribute literature bearing on betier citizenship, General Carl Scharz. is now preparing tracts on such as “The Meaning of Nutural.zation,” “Tue Duties of Citizenship,” etc., and it is one of tke purposesof the organization to see | that these, together with a digest of the E laws reiating to the duties of the Mayor of a city, the duties of policemen and other officia be placed in the hands of ail cit.z ns, and particularly foreigners. The alliance will also be a well-regule mac hine r y to go to work them any question concerning public welfare demands it. A committee consisting of Dr. Adams of the First Congrecational Church, Dr. Beard of Grace M. E. Church and Dr. Coyle of the First Presbyterian Church, Oakland, was appointed to eal of the pastors of the various churches arouse interest in the movement. The meeting was beld in the Y. M. C torium yesterday morning, represe tatives from the various denomination throughout this City and a number fro Qakland, Alameda and San Leandro bein, present. The meeting was called to order by Dr. whio briefly stated its objec after which Dr. Beard was elected chai man and Rev. Philip Coombs secreta The meeting partook of ihe nature of an open congress, in which the various preachers expressed their views as to tle ideal alliance, some being in favor of re- susci‘ating the old evangelical alliance which flourished for a time in thi ‘Asthere was practically nothing defir to work on, a resolution passed that a committee on organzation, comsisting of two ministers of each dencmination, be appointed to draft a constitution and pians for active work. The following were appointed to bring before their re pective de- nominations at _ths next pastoral meet- ing: Rev. Dr. Paimer, Oakland, Presbv- terian; Kev. A. M. Russell, Baptist; Dr. George C. Adams, Coneregational; D Bushnell, Lutneran; wv. Mr. Fora, Christian; Rev.. Dr. Wilson. Methodist Episcopal; Kev. Dr. Gioson, Umted Pres- byterian Cburen. Tue next meeting will be held in the leciure-room, second floor of the Y. M. C. A. building, next Monday at 1:30 ». a. All ministers are cordially invitea to be present. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c 1b. Townsend's.* e Frrerar information asily to manufactur business houses and public men by the Clipping Burean (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. R . 1 Cogswell Polytechnical College. The fall term of this Institution will open Monday, August 2. Applications received this week, except Saturday, between the hours of 10 4.3 and 3 P. . On and siter August 2 ap- plications will be received between 9 A. M. n1d 3:80 P M. - e MORTON SPECIAL DELIVERY. Baggage transferred to trains, steamers, eto. Also moved in the city. Furniture moved; estimates furnished ot transferred and shipped. 408 Taylor street nud 650 Market street. Jelepuone Main 46 ———————— So your duughter’s going tomarry Jones. Why, I thought you hated him? Henpeck—So I d». Won’t my wiie be his mother-in-law ?—New York Journal. g s 825 Eate to Chicago vin the Greas tanta Fe Loute. The low rates made for Chiistian Endeavorsrs will be open to the public as weil. An oppor.u- nity 10 Visit the East never before enjoyed by Cal- rojans. Pollman Palaca Drawing-room Sleej-. ing-cars of the latest paitern. ) odern upholsterad tourist sleeping-cars run daily through from Vax- land pier to Chicego. time-table in advertl: ing column. San Francisco ticketoflice 644 M street, Chronicie tuilding. 'ieiephoue Maini5sl Ouklaud, 1115 brosdway. —————— Northern Pacific Railway—Yellowstone ¥ark Rout Parties desiring to visit the Yellowstone Park, or go !ast via the Northern Pacfic Railway, should cail at No. 638 Market street, San Fran- cisco, for their Railrora and Yellowstoue Park tickets. We can accommodate all that wish to make the trip regardbess of rumors 10 the co itrary. Stop overs given on ali Christian Endeavor ticss ets. T. K. Stateler, Gen. Agent, 628 Market 5. e Reduced Kates for All To the East via the Kio Grande Western Rallwar. passing through Utah and Colorado by daylight. Through cars by all_trains. Tickets, sleeping-car reservations and full information furnished at 14 Montgomery s reer. Simpkins Se e A SAFE, simple and effective remedy for indi- gestio is & dose of Aver's Pilla Try the rills and make your meals enjoyable. e ey s ccording 10 & Chicago poet the girls up there put their feet out of the windows to coul them.” “I1 should the trolle: nk they would interfere with thi; ""—Cleveland Plain Deale NEW 7O-DAY. Royal makes the food pure, ‘wholesome and delicious, Absolutely Puro 1 %