The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 30, 1897, Page 6

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Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifiy cents per month for summer months Ihe Canadian royalty 1s liable to kill the Kiondyke goore. Prices arerising already, and beforslong we shall hear of risine wages. If we can now see a happy ending to the | miners' strike everything will be all right. There are already more wavs of getting into the Klondyke country than of getting out of it. Industry may iind a reward in Alaska, but now that good times are coming it is sure to find it in California. The more foreign nations protest against | ngley tariff the more certain we are | the Di that it is good for America. There are veople who would like to see ol Board shaken up with sufficient de open. The Republican party has once more proved to the American people that good palitics means good business. There is no use fretting over the finan- cial question. The statesmen who settled 1he tariff can settle that as well. It is a shorts politician who offends the law-aliding community for the sake of making friends of the crim- 1nal element. The appearance of pirates off the Alas- | kan coast to capture treasure-ships is all | that is d make Iife a When Burglar Smith received his par- don be doubtless struck a dramatic atti tude and exclaimed with Hamler, “O my prophetic soul, my uncle.” The men who are most eager to induce Bryan to shut up are his friends. Those who ars opposed to his political aspira- tions are not onposed to his talking. As the Gold Demo claiming 40,000 votes i . yeminded that tnere in the sunny South The generals of the Gold Democratic camp are shouting their orders vigorously and con-ageously, but we do not observe anytody taking orders to falling into line. that e we are re deceptive claims wellas in Alaska. It is impossible to please everybody in | selecting a site for the proposed park in ! the Mission; but when once the park has been established everybody will be pleased. Before long Tre CALL will be receiving accounts of the gold diggings along the | {londyke written by its own correspond- ents, and the public will then learn the truth of the general sitnation. The returning tourist from Europe who has found himself compelied to pay a duty cn the clothes he bought abroad will have sense enough hereafter to patronize homa indastry and clothe himself with pa- triotism. The insurrection in Brazil has begun to loom up as a good-sized war, and if Gen- eral Miles should start at once on a tour of inspection he might get a sight there which would make up for what he lost on his delayed trip to Greece. Itis not at all probable that the Cana- dian Government will seek lo exclude American miners from the new gold fields. €Canada ‘needs men even mor: than she needs gold, and anything which increases ber yopulation will be a benefit to her. 1i Colone! Fred Grant resigns from the Board of Police Commissioners of New York because he cannot hayve his own way he is not much like his father. The oid general would have stuck to his course and fought it out on that line if it took all summer. The plan for having the grounds and buildings of the University of Caiifornia laid out on a large and magnificent scale has had one good effect already. It has attracted atteution 10 the university in | the East and added materially to its prestige. In this country grand ideas begin to count even before they are car- ried out. It the Government of the Greater Re- public of Central America objects to re- ceive Captain Merry as United States Minister the subject will be worth inquir ing inte, as there is a possibility that some European influence may have been exerted to bring about the rejection as a step toward the prevention of the con- struction of the Nicaragua canal. Silver has fallen to the lowest leval yet known, and there is no demand for it in London, as India is said to be receiving all of the metal she needs frem China. As the prices of nearly all other products are rising, this disposes of the Bryan theory that prosperity depends on a rise in the price of silver. It furthermore emphasizes the need of an international agreement for a return to bimetallism. We cannot undertake by ourselves to lift the falling metal to the level of gold at sixteen to one. 85 | | u sireets, open | needed to complete the romance | ats of Kentucky are | THE CLARK the uncertainty which prevailed concerning ‘Whatever the decision of the court had the simple fect of dispelling the doubts wh the very object at which it was aimed. ing them wherever necessary. such pressing urgency that the decision will portance, and evexn in those counties where road work until the dispute concerning the meaning of the law was settled. above this there is a further satisfaction in the decision that the Clark road law is in- valid wherever it conflicts with the county government act. The importance of a road law commensurate with the needs of the State Is not to be questioned. The last Legislature undertook to provide such a law, and for a time i there was a prospect that It would succeed in giving us a statute under which the work of establishing and providing for the maintenance of highways could have been better carried on than at present. In the hurry of legislation, however, the general plan was mutilated, and the statute enacted provided buta fragment of the system which was intended. The law, tierefors, se contrary, it caused confusion and proved a stumbiing block in the way of attaining ROAD LAW. The promptness with which the Supreme Court has decided the case before it in- volving the validity of the Ciark road law is gratifying. The decision puts an end to the meaning of the statute, and opens a | way for the resumption of work upon county highways. This is a distinct benefit to every section of the State, and particularly so to those whose highways have been kept in good condition and where road work at this season of the year is imperative. been it would have been of advantage by ich compelled Supervisors to refrain from Over and rved no good purpose whatever. On the Now that the law has been declared invalid we return to the system of road con- | struction provided under the county govern to set to work at once in caring for the maintenance of existing highways and extend- In many counties of the State work at this season is of ment act. This enables the Supervisors be accounted a benefit of no small im- comparatively little road work 1s done there will be an advantage in the promptness with which the decision is rendered. Throughout California the action of the court will be eratifying. general satisfaction in knowing that the Clark road law is virtually a dead letter, leaving the way open for vresent work under the county government act and for better provision in the future at the next session of the Legislature, There will be a | A LINOOLN MASS-MEETING. | the public mesatings | | committee of the Lincoln Monument | League to arrange for & mass-meet- ing to promote the objects of the leagune next month is an excellent one in every | | respect. The proposed meeting will re- | | vive public interest in the work of the | | league and will go far towara incrcmingl‘ | subscriptions to the fund necessary. to | raise in Golden Gate Park a monument | which wiil serve as a memorialof the| 1 honor in which the present generation ol; | the people of San Francisco hold the | memory of Abrabam Lincoin. | The proposed meeting will be the first public demonstration held to promote the movement. Up to this time the work has been done quietly and without the aid of | public parade or eloguent . oratory to awaken the enthusiasm of the people. It| is gratifying to know that when the meet- ing is held the promoters will be able to make good reports of work already accom- | The decision of plished. The support given to the move- ment has been most encouraging, and there is every reason to believe that within a time comuvaratively short the | monument will be erected. | THE CALr bas given earnest support and ald to this movement from the beg:nnin | It has cordially co-operated with the | Grand Army of the Republic and other organizations that have shown an interest | in the movement to carry it forward to speedy success. This co-operation it will | | continue togive until the work hss been | accomplished. It isright and fitting that a noble and notable monument to Lincoln | should grace our park and adorn the | metropolis of the Pacific Coast. It would | be especially gratilying if we could make | the monument the stateliest of all the memorials erected in honor of the mar- | tyred President. ! | "That the proposed meetinz will be | | successful is beyond question. The people the most | | patriotic of the Repubtic, and have shown | of San Francisco are among | themselves to be generous and liberal in every movement that has patriot'sm as | 1ts animating principle. The time jor | the meeting is as yet distant, but never- | theless it would be well for the public to | bear it in mind, so that when it fakes | | place every patriotic zen can aid in | making the demonstration truly repre- | | sentative of the regard in which the mem- ory of Lincoln is held in this City. . TAX ON MINERS, The Canadian Government's decision to levy & royalty on the gold gathered in the Klondvke mines and to be strict in the collection of customs auties or all cutfits carried by Americans across the lines should be taken account of by those who | have plannea to seek their fortune in the | gold fields of British territ The cost of duties and royalties must be duly counted on top of the Leavy estimates ot expense that have already been made. As the average duty on such supplies as | miners use is about 30 per cent, that item alone will cut considerable figure with the many who are undertaking the trip with very moderate means. Duties, fees and royalties taken together wiil be a serious | impediment to the adventurers who are | | not provided with any margin of cavital | | beyond the cost ot transport and a| menger supply of provisions. Many will | [ be deterred from the trip by this action of | the Dominion Cabinet, and many others | will be caught short on the grounds. { | Customs duties cannot be criticized by | Americans, for protection is the policy of our own Government; but the imposition | ofso high a royalty as 10 and 20 per cent is a very questionable policy. It is seem- ingly in accord with the growing theory | that the natural wealth of the world | | should be largely retainea for the | | general benelit of the community. A | severe application, however, ol this | idea of the right of the public purse to the wealth the earth yields will, under present | social conditions, put such a damper on | eager enterprise as will seriously retard | the development of a new country. In this way the action of the Canadian Cab- inet is very short-sightéd. Any policy whose motive is mere jeal- ousy of American energy and push will, in a measure, be iike killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. Noth- ing but the excitement of gola-hunt- ing would cause a large rush of set- tlers into that cold and lonely land; but, once there, they may develop the Northwest Territory in ways not to be guessed at now, and #o produce for Can- ada a province of permanent value. The history of California should be remem- bered as an object lesson by the Canadi- ans. The rash for gold was but the be. | ginnings of a great State, Let the Dominion Government be hospitable to | the daring and industrious adventurers who rush across the lines, and uitimately it will pay better than a niggard policy. | OANADA'S BRYAN'S TALK. The long-suffering public will be de- lighted to learn that William J. Bryan's | friends are going to insist that he quit | talking and come down off the rostrum, | at least until there is a new polilical cam- paign and something to jusiify his vocif- eration, In the report that his friends have decided to call him down there can be no question of the correctness of the use of the word “friends,” His oppunents are quite willing he should continue to talk nimself to political death, The keynote of all Bryan’s talk is calamity, and the sbsurdity of his per- sisting in speech-making along that line In the very presence of a wave of pros- perity would strike any man but one like himself, who is so absorbed in a single idea as to be fit only to ride his hobby to death. When people are wishing to be bappy, and see sensible reasons for being | so, it is disacrecable to have somebody with a foghorn voice going about the country clamorously insisting that we, as a people, are miserable, and are in such a political condition as to make prosperity impossible. This is no time to sicken and to swoon with forebodings when the promise of good times is so bright that what we most need is joyous energy to grasp opportuni- ties. If tne defeated candidate’s conven- tion about free silver were true the evil | could not be remedied till the next elec- | tion, and he shoula cerse his dishearten- ing discourses till the proper time for the discussion of the question. The country has decided that the rignt solution of the silver question is by inter- national bimetallism, and Bryan’s policy is certainly dead for four years at l2ast. The orator of tne Platte, who jumped so | suddenly into fame, has talked till he has lost that magnetism which used to en- thrall his hearers. His jokes have become | chestnuts, his arguments are threadbare and have been too often confuted to be of further interest. f the leader of the free-silver party ever expects to make another creditable run | for the Presidency he must obey this Iatest advice of his closest friends and shut up, ing about a dead issue to a wearied public may result in an approximation to that familiarity which breeds contempt. STATE UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS, The progress of the movement to pro- cure for California the finest group of university buildings in the Union is such as to warrant the conclusion that the highest architectural talent now existent will mold its conceptions into form. The i magnitude of the plan will be sure to ex- cite the ambition of the most capable | architects everywhere, and the stimulns of both fame and fortune will doubtless secure for us a collection of beautiful edi- fices surpassing in completeness and grandeur the home of any university yet puilt in America. Competent experts are now preparing the prospectus, and it will probably soon be ready for submission to the regents. Then will follow an invitation to all the world to enter into a competition for fur- nishing the vlans, ana for which liberal prizes will be offered, not only for the gen- eral plan which is finally accepted, but also for every one submitted which gives valu- able suggestions for details, The liberality of Mrs. Phebe Hearst in providing for the expense of the plans and offering a quarter of a million for the erection of the first building made in conformity to them is 8 most commend- | able use of the power that wealth wields, Her appointment as a regent of the uni- versity has been fully merited by the in- terest she Las shown in its welfare as well as by the donations she has bestowed upon it. Icis a deserved tribute to the work which women have done for educa- tion in California and will be so recog- nized every where, It is gratifying that other people of wealth in the State are cordially aiding the plan for the upbuilding of the uni- versity. Four millions, it is said, have already been pledged by generouscitizens, and with future private gifts, added to the annual appropriations fzom the State treasury, the great plan, thus energeticaily started, will gradually be executed. IMPORTED OLOTHING. It is pleasing to note that under the operation of the new tariff iaw the passengers of the White Btar liner Majestic have been compelled to con- tribute over $2000 to the public fund more than they would have done under the old Jaw. This was the first steamer to arrive since the new tariff became alaw and tue finery brought from Kurope had to pay livberal tribute. It is estimated that such coliections from tourists will in some seasons bring into the treasury as much as $15,000 a week, and the chief reason for congratulation about this addi- tion to the revenue is that those who pay it will be so abundantly able to do so. It is clearly a tax ou luxuries, Under the workings of the old law wealthy citizens of this country who had been pleasure traveling in Earope could bring back duty free such a store of clothing and jewels that no home mer- chant could hove to trade with them at all. The privilege of bringing in anything that had orce been worn was abused to such an extent that one passenger would often bring through the Custom-house as personal baggage a most nnconscionable number of trunks containing goods that came in direct competition with the prod- ucts of home industry. This, however, was probably only part of the evil carried on, for there can be little doubt that under the excuse of personal baggagze a great deal of smuggling wa very profilably and safely done by people who were already so well off they should have been beyond the temptation to seek such gains. There have baen reports pub- lished of so many trunks brought in by tourists that the business simply seemea brazen. Touring thus could have been pursued as a regular and most remunera- tive occupation. This one item of a corrected abuse will either put a large sum annually into the treasury or, what is better, it will force tourists to change their habits and buy from their fellow-countrymen what they have been getting abroad. Those things which they cannot buy athome are almost Otherwise his continuous talk- | 1 | Cloud—H. F. Page; sure to be luxuries, and the duty can be easily paid by the rich pleasure-seekers who indulge in them. " PERSONAL. A. M. Cole of Virginia, Nev., s in town. Dr. Moher of Forest Hill is a visitor to the City. Dr. A. C. Rogers of Los Angeles is on & visit here. Francis Durin of Guatemala is at the Occl dental. Dr. E. J. Foster of Boston reached here yes- terday. Dr. B. Walla of Budapest, Hungary, is at the Palace. J. Curtiss Wasson of Flagstaff, Ariz., isat the Grand. Ex-Justice Dante R. Prince of Fresno Is at the Graud. George Lynch of London is in the City on a short visit. Willtam N. Russ, a cattle-grower of Eureks, 18 1n the City. B. McDonnell, the mining man, of Sonora, is at the Palace. J. A. Mofiit and wife of Merced are at the Cosmopolitan, W. H. Abercrombie, a business man of Japan, 1s at the Occidental. D. J. La France of Hood River, Or., Is regis- tered at the Baldwin, W. E. Brown, a merchant of Honolulu, came on yesterday's steamer, John H. Jancey, owner of a general store at Newman, is at the Lick. Allen H. Reynolds, a leading banker of Walla Walla, 18 in town. C. E. Hughes and wiie of North Platte, Nebr., are at the Cosmopolitan, Alexander Thompson of Coolgardie, West Australis, is at the Russ. H. E. Adams, manager of the gas works at Stockton, is ut the Grand, Dr. J. W. Hudson of Ukiah is here on & short stay. He came yesterday. Sheriff S. D. Ballou of San Luis Obispo ar- rived in the City last night. State Prison Commissioner R. T. Deviin is among recent arrivals here. Randolph Hartley, a mining man of Denver, Colo., arrived here yesterday. John Diving and family of Sacramento are stopping at the Cosmopolitan. F. B. Chandler, the lumber-dealer, Elmira, is here on a business trip. William A. Farish, the mining engineer and expert, of Denver, is sgain 1n the City. J. D. Moore, a well-to-do resident of Prescott, Ariz., is among the arrivals at the Baldwin. Acting Attorney-General E. Mills of Hono- lulu is among the arrivals at the Occldental. Charles E. Thomas of Washington, D. C., and J. A. Thomas of Montana got here yester- day John Hailey of Los Angeles, who is inter- ested in mines in Southern California, 1s a re- centarrival. Ex-Judge C. N. Strong of Los Angeles, attor- ney for the Atchison, Topeka and Sauta Fe Railroad, arrived here yesterday. G:neral Wade Hampton of South Carolina, of | United States Raliway Commissioner, and his daughter, were among the arrivals at the Oc- idental yesterday. The general has Leen fishing for salmon and yellowtails at Monte- | rey. Heisone of the most{amous fishermen in the country. He fishes all over, and is al- most as famous fn piscatorial artasas a general of the Coufederacy CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, y 29.—At the St. s, C. Houghton; Everett—Mr. and Mrs. G. Meed; Metropolita Mr. and . W. B. Sink; Grand Unlon Willismson. Mrs, Haslinger and Mrs. Schmidt left the Bt. Cloud and sailed on the Koenigin Louise for Bremen. CHANUTE’'S FLYING MACHINE. This batlike machine represents the latest results of long years of experiment made by Octave Chanute, one of the recognized author- ities and ploneers in that rapidly developing art of building flying machines. The in- ventor terms it a soaring machine. Itcon- <ists essentially of a hoop frame to which are attached wings and means for contracting the wings by power supplied from auy suitable source. Undoubtedly many of the flying ma- chine patents now being granted will become of great importauce when further procress has been made in this direction and the flying machine becomes a reality, This is interest- ing as showing & type developed by this cele- brated aeronaut. NICKNAMES OF THE PRESIDENTS, The Illustrated American, The American psople have a genius for nick- names. The sobriquets which they fasten to men in the public eye are often remarkable for the subtle shades of dislike, admiration, ridicule or affection which they express. The British soldier is content to refer to the queen as “The Widdy.” The American people have dove better by their Presidents. They have been lavish from the first in the bestowal of Presidential nicknames, many ot which have been both picturesque and imaginative, Some one may claim that this tendency in regard to our rulers ir the mere survival of a far tre- dition. For, did not the English peo- ple have habit, long ago, of pin- ning such names to their kings as “The Unready, Curtmantle,” ‘“Longshanks” and “Cceur "de Lion’? There have been many phrases applied, in one spirit or another, to our first President. Amo them are: *“The Father of His Country,” e Cincionatus of the West.” “Fiower of the Forest,” “Atlas of America,” “Americus Fabius” and *“Stepfather of His Country.”” To speak of *0ld Hickory” 18 as definite a8 to say President Jackson, who was also known as ““Big Knife,” “Her o of New Orleans,”” “Gin and “The Old Hero.” Van Buren rejoiced in such names as*“Whisky Van,” “King Martin First,” “Follower in the Foousteps” and “Tne Wizard of Kinderhook.” Lincoln was “Uncle Abe,” *Massa Linkum" and “Father Abraham.” Johnson, who was bnl:eq,q-mn both houses, won the title “Sir eto. SENATOR MORGAN’S CONSIST- ENCY. A writer In the Illustzated American says that when President Hayes nominated Fred Douglass tor Marshal of the District of Colum- bia, Eenator Morgan of Alabama, not only voted with the Republicans In 1avor of con- firmation, but made a striking spcech, which leaked out to the public in spite of the sup- posed secrecy of an executive session. After remarking that he was not troubled about the color of the candidate’s skin, he said: “I was a candidate on the Democratic electoral ticket of Alabama. I soliciied the votes of black men and obtained them to the number of 10,- , 80d now when the name of the most emi- nent representative man of this race is pre- sented for the shrieyaity of a district five miles square, shail 1 go back to the colored people of Alabama, whose votes I solicited and recelved, and tell them I refused to vote for him for no reason except that he js a colored :1:;:33 No, s I cannot perform such an THE“SEAMY SIDE” OF A BIG CITY. New York Evening Sun. Every great city has its seamy side, and this i8 no exception. But, asa great French writer pointed out in the case of Paris, that part of the life of & town is remarkable moze for its dullness than for anyihing else. Ittakesa great deal of invention and lying to make it anything else but common-place. Hence the disappointment of those who investigate the real and find it so different from the im- aginary. THE NEXr THING TO Washington Star. “0f course,” said the pailosopher who had been commenting on humen fallibility, “‘you cannot expect to reach a state of perfection.’” “Maybe not,” replied the member of Con- gress from the far West. “But I tell you when I get back to the climate and the people of Californi al'll feelasif I'd reached a State that was about as near periection as any on the map.” IT. The new equestrian statue o Bolivar, the liberator of South America and the founder of Bolivia, has just been finished in clay by the sculptor, Giovanni Turini, in his studfo at Gar. retsons, Staten Island. The sculptor has notified New York officials that the model is now ready for their inspection. The statue, which 1s to cost §25,000, is the gift of President Crespo of Venezuela and will replace the present statue of Bolivar in Central Park. Mr. Turini says Presldent Crespo would like to have it placed near the statue of George Wasnington, in Union square. The Venezuelan President thinks it would be appropriate to have the figures of the Washingtons of North and South America near each other. The present statue of Bolivar in Central Park is to be melted and the bronze used in molding the new one. Among the statues in Central Park which have been frequently criticized none has at- tracted more ridicule than De la Cova’s Bolivar. park, close to Central Park West and near Eighty-third street. that it conceals the statue until the pedestrian is directly in front of it. upon the beholder s startling. This Statue is on the west side of the It is on a knoll so wooded The sudden effect Simon, the liberator, is in so flery a mood that he seems about to throw himself from his horse. vacant look in his eyes. He leans forward, with his sword peinted at an astonishing angle. His prancing horse is in a remarkable attitude. veins and muscles are of extraordinary design and abnormal propo; There is a strange, Its head, mouth, ttons, ““The statue is not without good points in modeling,” said & eritic in reviewing it, “but it was t0o ambitious a work for so young a sculptor, and was accepted chiefly because it was the gift of Veuezuels, a friendly country.” MEN AND WOMEN. Senator Spooner of Wisconsin and Repre- sentative Cochran of Missour! look 1ike twins. Mrs. Hay and Miss Hay, wife and daughter | of Embassador Hay, will sail from England for New York August 1. E. J. Holmes, who was recently married to Miss Beaman in Windsor, Va., i3 the only grandson of the late Oliver Wendell Holmes. Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop writes to a New York paper to urge the immediate need of a hospital for poverty-stricken victims of cancer. Miss Nellie Patterson of Mount Cermel, Conn., has completed four years' apprentice- ship to the machinist’s trade, and will under- take tool-making as her particular line of work, President Gilman of Johns Hopkins Uni- versity will deliver the address at the inaug- uration of Willian L. Wilson as President of Washington and Lee Uuiversily on Septem- ber 15. First Assistant Postmaster-General Perry S. Heath has never lost the habit of putting a circle eround his periods, which he learned as & Dewspaper man. His signature never ap- pears without this merk after it. Of the eight Sunday preachers at West- minster Abbey this month five are American Bishops, namely: Potter of New York, Walker of Western New York, Thompson of Missis- sippi, Whipple of Minnesota and Seymour of Springfleid, TlL. Queen Victoria has conferred the decoration o! the Royal Red Cross upon the following women who have been such devoted nurses of the sick and wounded: Sister Mary Anastasia | Kelly, Sister Mary de Chantel Huddon, Sister Mary Stanislaus Jones and Sister Mary Helen Ells. of the University of Alabama, of which he is a aistinguished alumnus. He is a practical business man, as well as an accomplished and experienced educator, and wes tne almost unanimous choice of the alumni of the insti- tution for the presidency. Rev. John Naille, now living at Trappe, Pa., is the oldest minister in the Reiormed Church in the United States. He was born in Fred- erick County, Md., February 18, 1801, and was ordained to the ministry in 1841. In the course of his ministry he bas served six charges in several Siates, and is now in good health, with well-preserved physical and mental vigor. AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE. There's a feeling balf-Platonic born of longings emb-vonic And with scintillating passion subtly starred; 1U's & kind of stopping station 'twixt esteem and sdoration, And the name of it s “brotherly regard.” It is absent with your you've kissed her Wiih th - girl (0 whom you apeclally belong; But whenever it Is present, it’s superiaiively p easant, And it possibly is demi-semi-wrong. sister, and (10 matter how ) Now In certain circamstances—moonlight, per, sur d y dances— The cosmic forees gain «n added power; But she mocks ) our voice unsteady when you hint h ¢ you are ready To forzet the bars of friendship for an hour. sup- She won't raise a blush to please you, she will tor. ture s ou &nd tease you °Till you wish that you were any where but there: Then—U wonder past all guessing! you will feel her hngers pres«ing, And the meres. maddening tickle of her hair. Soon (I’s puzzling that you started so indifferently hearted) You grow insanely anxlous and intense; Your velus begin 0 quiver and you swear you won't forgive her 11 she calls you back again to common sense. Butat last the bush comes trembling, and she stops (or starts?) dissembling— You huve glveu up pretending long before— The little Cupld devils troop to mingle in your revels, And she says she'll never face yon any more. —Sydney Bulletin. THE GLORIOUS REDWOOD. The redwood, says John Muir in the August Atlantic, is the glory oi the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope in nearly a continuous belt ten miles wide from beyond the Oregon boundary to thesouth of Santa Cruz, a distance of neerly 400 miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses-all the other timber woods of the world, Trees from ten to fifteen feet in diameter and 300 feet high are notuncom- mon, and a few attain & height of 350 feet, or even 400, with a diameter at the pase of fil- then to twenty feet or more. whiie the ground beneath them is a garden of fresh, exuverant ferus, lilies, gaultheria and rhododendron. As timber the redwood 1s too good to live. The largest sawmills ever built are busy along its seaward border, “with all the modern im- provements,” but so immense is the yield per acre it will be long ere the supply Is ex- hausted. The big tree is also to some extent being made into lumber. Though far less abundant, it is, fortunately, less accessible, extending along the western flank of the Serra inon pnrllllli interrupted belt sbout 250 mules long, at & height from 4000 to 8000 lect above the sea. The enormous logs, 100 heavy to handle, are blasted into manageable dimensions with gunpowder. A large portion of the best timber is thus shattered and de- stroyed, d, with the huge knotty tops, is left in ruins for iremendous fires that kill every tree within their range, great and small. MR. BRYAN’S OWN STATE. Omaha Bee. The rain falls and the sun shing corn grows—in Nebraska. As the corn tassels out, the hopes of the calamity howler grow slimmer. The calamity editor is having a hard row to hoe in these times of daily improving crop prospects. and the SILVER FIGURES ALL AWRY. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call— < I proceed with the study of the ingenic constructed reports of ihe financial depart- menti of the Government, covering a period of more than & quarter of a century, my amaze- ment grows as [ gain a better understanding of the intricate construction of these reports, and after two montks of such study I now be- lieve they are stuaiously designed to confuse the general reader and conceal the inaccura- cies reiating to the volume of money in the country, it being the set purpose 1o make the per capita appear as large as possible, for Teasons too obvious to need explanation. In this last article on the subject Ishall deal all 100 briefly with the figures giving tne production, coinage, exportation, consump- tion, recoinage, wear ana loss ot silver, and I sk the reader {0 note the pages of the Mint report for 1896 cited, that he may see now related subjects are separated and scattered through the book. On page 226 there is & table showing the “‘product of gold and silver in the Urited States from 1792 to 1844 and annually since” to 1895, the silver product being given as $1,368,901,000, the product of 1896 being omitted. u puge 256 a table shows ‘“‘coinage of dol- 1ars, lractionat and subsidiary silver coins, by acts and denomrinations, from 1792 1o June 30, 1896, the total being $696,464,343 10. In order to cover the same period aud thus ayoid confusion, we must deduct the coinage for 1896, to be found on page 9, which is §11,- 440,641 20. and we have $685,023,702 as the total coinage down to 1895. Deducting this ifrom the total product, ¥1,368,901,000, we find that $683,877,308 in value was not coined, which is almost exactly half the product. What became of thisuncoined half? Doubtlass a large part of it was exported, and so we 1ook for exports and imports, which we find on page 284, but for an entirely dif- | ferent period, 1821 to 1896, and *‘coin” is in- cluded, tending to create furiher confusion and uncertainty. This is a fair example, by the way, of the “method”’ adopted in making up these misleading reports. The more they are studied the greater the confusion and un- certainty if we take things as we find them without trying to eliminate the error. In this case the worst error is the coin included in these exports, since that must be deducted | trom “money in the country’’ on which the James K. Powers has been chosen president | 1 ever misieading per capita 1s based, as now figured. On page 36 it appears that “silver coins of the United States to the value of $288,853 were exported 11 1896 and £93.057 imvorted, the net export being $195,796, nearly $200,000 for one year, which in Seventy-five years— 1821 io 1896—would be $14,684,700, ihough Ithink five times that amount has been ex- ported since 1821. However, let us even call it ¥10,000,000, and deduct that from the net exports of $389,726,060 reported on page 284, yvhioh will leave 379,736 060 to be deducted from the uncoined $653.877,398 above report- ed, and we have $404,151,335 to account for asused in the inau-triai arts in seventy-five yl%nzrll, an average of $5,388,684 annuallysince 1t now remains tor us to try to ascertain the actual amount of silver coin in the country. We haveseen the amount coined from 1792 to 1895 was $685,023,702, from which we must deduct the losses by wear, exportation, use in tne arts, etc. The I y Wear, as we have seen, is equal to Senator Sherman’s esti- mate that silver coins in constant circulation wear out once in thirty years, the annual re. coinage showing a loss of fully 5 r cent from worn and mutilated coins, Before the adoption of the silver certificates, or paper notes, to circulate in place of the coins, all these coirs were in active circulation, so that practically all in use prior to 1862 were worn outand used up at least thirty years ago. On page 256 we find that the total of silver coinage prior to 1873 was $143,813.599, and by 1895 it was $685,023,702; but on page 45 the total amount in the country in 1895 is re- ported as $500,548,489, showing a difference of $184.475,204, or an admitted loss of that sum in silver coin from 1792 to 1895. The amount in the treasury in 1895 \\‘l\!§378.3(“.- 638, and that outside of it was §122,186,581. On page 714 of the report of the Comptrolier of the Currency for 1896 it appears that 9469 banks, National, savings, private, State, etc., held a total of onl{ $19,337,292 in silver coin in 1895, and this sum deducted irom the $122,186,581 outside the treasury leaves ap- parentiy £102,848.559 in actual circulation. It is certain, however, that we must deduct from this lastsum the losses by exportation, by recoinage and use in the industrial arts since 1873. As the net coin exports anuually amouut 10 $200,000, in twenty-five years we have $5,000,000. The industrial arts con- sumed $3,300,000 from 1880 to 1895, accord- ing to the table on_page 53, report for 189 or 220,000 annually, amounting in twent; five years to £5,500,000. The yearly loss on recoinsge for tweniy-five years past appears to be about $300,000, or a total of $7,500,000 in twenty-five years. These three sums !ggl’!- gate $18.000 000, ich we must deduct from gmz.us,sao, showing but & possible $84,- 48,559 1n silver coin in actual circulstion. JOSEPH ASEUBY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, July 28, 1897. DANCING CONDEMNED. OAKLAND, Cal., July 29, 1897. Editer Call: By request I sena the follow- ing resolution, passed Monday afternoon ata meeting of the W. C. T. U.: Resolved, by the Ozkland W. C. T, U. That we indorse the article in Tue Mor: IN@ CALL of July 26, written by Stuart Booth, in which he calls aitention to the cn- terrainment given at the Qakland Exposition by Professor Akers’ ?upils induncing, and, fur- ther,we condemn all such dancing in any place or at any time as tending to lower the morals ofindividuals, as well as the tone of the ex- position. Many other ladies have expressed them- selves as taking this same view,and some gentlemen I have heard said they did not approve of it. Mgs. L. C. WILLTANMS, Recording Secretary and Press Superintend- entof Oakiand W. C. T. Union. —_— BLAKISTON’S POSITION. Editor Call: In your account of the trialand acquittal of Thomas Stanton you make it Vpnr that I made & demand “upon Mrs, M. . Thomas for 887 50, and by inference at least you lay me under the imputation of be- ing a plackmailer. Now, as a matter of fret [ never made & demand of any kind on M Thomas. The only part I took in_the tran: action was 10 warn the lady jof Lucss’ iu. tentions. Yours respectiully, 21 Colingwocd street. D. G. BLAKISTON. EET—— AN EASIER wAY. Slonx Falls 4 rgus-Leader. The chap who sticks to his business every day of every week is usndlyblthui n::"v‘l;q‘ trikes pay dirt. It is ressonable to E SHied about the thousands ‘whicn some Y‘n‘\‘:' making in Alaska, but don’t g0 r.horc.h o wili get your share of it by staying at home . and sawing wood. P ) THE GEORGIA WATERMELON. ‘Washington Post. SO «What makes the Georgia watermelon the .. best in the world?” said a representative of the Post to Senator Clay of Georgia yesterday. “I don’t know,” he replied, ‘‘unless 1tis that. we have the best soil in the world in which the watermelon can grow, the best climate'in:’: which they can ripen, and the ‘best people in the world to plant and cultivate them. “No, but seriously,” said the Postman, "is lhcr;'nny peculiarity in the melon or the : & v ot at all,” replied Senator Clay. *As s matter of fact the Jlom. watermelon isreally an Alabama melon. Governor Koib, who heg been so famous in politics, is really more ia: mous in our country because he developed the . watermelon. 5 “The Kolbmelon is the finest that gTOWs, nn‘n its sced is very valuable In Alabwma it reaches perfection and in Georgia it is equaiiy fine. Itis worth a trip to Georgia,” added ths Senator, “to see a watermelou cutting. Tlh'J farmers and their families gather from miles around, and thousands of melons—a line scmetimes stretching for a quarter of & m}l: e; aresacrificed upon the sitar of a unique holi-. day. There are more melons cut and eaten on & single day than you would see in Washing- ton in a month. Only we do not eat the melon down to the rind. We take out the juicy, seed- less heart and then, in our exXiravagance, we throw the rest away."” NEEDED REFORM IN DIPLOMACY: Commerctal Advertiser. i In saying what he meant and meaning what he said Secretary Sterman initiated & diplo- matic reform whose value will be recog: nized by sensible men. So long as its cause is just and the language of its spokesman devoid of actual rudeness, this country afford to smile at the savage criticisms of a few foreign newspapers. THE MAN WHO HADN'T TIME. 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