The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 3, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3 1 1897 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES-—-Postage Free: Dally. and Sindsy CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 Daily and Sundiy CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily andSunday CALL, six months, by mail. 3.00 Daily and Senday CALL, thiee months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, oné mionth, by mail. Sunday CAL1, one year, by mail. W EEXLY CALL; one year, by miail BUSINESS OFFICE: 310 Market Street, an ¥rancisco, Californts. Telephotie........... <-eee..Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. B Telephone.......... .Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICE! 527 Moritgomery sireet, coraer Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin streef, open untii 9:30 o'clock. £V, corner Sixteentli and Mission streets, open | Lntil 8 o'clock: % 2518 Mission streat, open untjl 9 o'clock. 167 Ninth street, open until § o’clock. 1505 Polk street;-apen until §:30 o'clock. NW. corner Tweuly-second &nd Kemtucky streets; open'till 9 oclock. OAKLAND. OFFICE: 908 Broad EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 34 Park Row. New York City DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. 2 TIHE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. : ‘Areyou:going (o the country ona vacatfon? It | £0, 1t i5-1o trouble for us to forward THE CALL to | your pddress. Do not let it miss you for-yeu will | miss it. Orders_ given o thé carrier or left at Busitiess Office will receive prompt aitention. NO.EXTRA CHARGE. . Fifiy ‘cents per month for summer monthix Chinatown is redhot again. The highbinders are on the warpath. The Mongolian fiends are demanding blood-money or blood. There is needed in Chinatown now a strong hand and a prompt one. It is a very poor sort of :a scow that can- | not get a move on as an Alaskan steamer, The threat of a tariff war in Europe sounds ominous, but it will not disturb us. Our tariff is alt right. Itlooksas if the Cubans would spend Christmas in Havana and give Weyler a chance to spend it in Madrid. | Since prosperity is now plainly at hand | several former calamity howlers are to be heard saying they predicted it Wireless telegraphy will be a benefit, | but the country would have preferred a system of wireless political conventions, The royalty which Canada proposes to impose on the miners of the Kiondyke is | not of the kind that attains fo a jubilee. It is well enough to have rising prices and rising wages, but the prospect of a rising tax levy is too much of a good thing. The trouble in the Afghan country seems to'be that the British attempted to take | Swat in an underhand manner and got it in the neck. It Bryan intendsto keep up his continu- Gus performance. tour he will soon have to geta trick monkey or an animatoscope to | help draw a crowd. | The Cretan question comes up again us adisturbing factor in the Turkish ‘prob- | lem, and once more it finds Europe unpre- pared with 2n answer. There will be ne pirates to assail the re. | turning miners from Alaska, bul there will be card-sharpérs enough all along the line to do the busines People who are in doubt whether to go | to Alaska or Peru will iose nothing by their indecision so long as it leaves them safe and sound in California. Marconi gives us good promise of a wire- less telegraph, and perhaps the problem of ridding modern cities of electric wirss may be solved for usin a very inexpensive way. The number of men who are giving up a sure thing in California for a change in Alaska is an evidence that our lunatic asylums are not yét adequate to the needs of the State. ’ The Aliee Barrett mystery in Boston is an evidence that when the new woian undertakes to lead a_aouBle life she can zoake it moré mysterious than a Gaboriau romance and not half try. The silver men of Nebraska are to meet in three distinct conventions and make an attempt not only to shout thesame names but to shout them in unison, so we may as well be-on the lookout for.a ruction. ST e gl The story thaf the Cubans, in sacking several stores in the subiurhs of Havana, refused to carry off “anything importea from Spain on the gronnd that they are too patriotic to tise anything Spanish even 1f'taken as a- spoil of war .is so beantiful that a chromo should -have been offered along with it for ‘the first person who be- lieves it. 5 —_— : The Mohammedan agitator who told the people of Lucknow. that Victoria exists’ only by the sufferance of . the .Suitan, and but for his forbearance *“the old lady’s ribs would have been broken years ago,”’ ex- pressed: what is undoubtedly a widespread opinion among the Moslems of Indis, and the British will not get the idea out of the popular mind by the simple process of im- prisoning the man who uttered it. ‘According - to. ‘the 8t. Louis Glcbe-’ Demoerat, “Nebraska has paid off $30,000,- 000 indebtedness; North Dakota has paid off'$25,000,000 indebtedness; South Dakota has paid off $50,000,000 indebtedness; Kan- sas has paid off $30,000,000 indebtedness; Jowa ‘has paid -off $25,000,000 indebted- ness.”” With a showing' like that before us it is plain that the failure of Bryan’s calamity tour'was due to something else than the hoarseness of the orator. -Professor Ramsay, a scientist of repute, - who has-spent many years in the Levant, says the Turkish men are better than the Greeks, but the Greek women are better * than thé Turkish women. From this fact hé draws- the conclusion that the Greek race is improving, while the Turks are de- generating. He adds that if the two peoples would blend, the result would be one of the strongest racesin Earope, as each has- qualities which the other needs to make a strong manhood. The Greek has ingenuity, but he lacks persistence, while the Turk, who has a dogged courage and determination which enables him to | and strongest evidence of moral greatness ®hs highbinders of Chinatown have arises, therefore, the question: Can we Ivisa question waich concerns not the Francisco. Tue Caur has made plain the course o | murder come. It has publisked the story of and shown how some of them were burne bow their comrades escaped. The cause of public'and the police. | { l‘ be possible under our 1aw to prevent furthe: | frightening them that they will not dare to In the proclamation of warning the highbinders state plainly that their object is to revenge themselves upon those Chinese who have assisted in the work of main- taining American law and protecting Ch misery. They say that the effort to preven have obtained from the brothel keepers. T men who have interfered with the profits of It has been made boldly. Is American law every white man aids 10 bring the assassin The highbinder siays his victim in the sig agsistsin arresting him. exposed the infamy of the brothels and ma an indignant public can do to prevent fur! THE HIGHBINDERS AROUSED. issued their proclamations warning twelve versons, *Your dying day is surely at hand.”” This means that unless vigilant watch is kept we shall have more murders in Chinatowr and another illustration of the con- tempt with which the Mongolian fiends regard human life and American law. There prevent the perpetration of thess crimes? police force only, but every citizen of San f events out of which thess new threats of f the rescue of Chinese girls held in slavery d with hot irons to compel them to reveal the new outrage is known thereiore to the It now remains to be seen whether with this knowledge it will r crime by arresting the highbindersor so carry out their murderous designs. iness girls from a life of degradation and t the landing of Chinese women imported for immoral purposes causes the highbinders to lose the “blood money'’ they would 'herefore they propose to kill those China- their trade. This is their proclamation. powerleas in the face of it? It has long been evident that the Chinese colony in this City cannot be governed by the laws which are adequate to the government of Americans. There is among white men an instinctive abhorrence of murder. When such a crime is committed to justice. It isnot soamong the Chinese. ht of dozens of Chinamen and not one It is clear the police must be given greater powers in deal- ing with Chinese than in dealing with white men. ures the British used in dealing with the thugs of India. Tue CALL has done all the public service the press can give in this case. We must adopt the severe meas- It has de known the inhuman cruelty practiced upon the poor girl whose back was seared with red-hot irons. It has published the warnings sent out by the highbinders. 1t now remains to be seen what the police and ther outrages. Is there no way to counter the blow which has been so openly, so impudently and so infamously threatened ? [ A NOBLE LIFE. The death of Miss Margaret Culbertson ends a devoted and useful life, and her passing away will be long regretted in this City, where she labored so bravely and where her wisdom and experience in her chosen line of werk could still have been | of so much service. : In the noble and much-needed work of | resczing slave-girls from Chinatown she for years took an arduous share. It issad to think that one of these should have, five years ago in a fit of anger, given her benefactress the blow from which she never recovered. It is not the individ- | uat girl, however, but the system in which she was trained that we should {blame for the offense. The memory of it should fur- nish-another keen incentive for efforts to | prevent Chinese iniquities from gaining a foothold on these shores. If the Mon- gols are to permanently remain in the | midst of our civiiization they must be made to amend their ideas about woman slavery. Itis noordinary philanthropy which can | devote itseli self-sacrificingly to an in-) ferior race for a score of years as Miss Cul- | bertson did. A great proof of kindness | iven by her when she resolved to give | her youth to this laborious occupation. Wonderful endurance and patience was shown by her persistencein the good work, | of ail was perhaps given when she heroic- | ally strove to resume her old active serv- ices at the mission after being physically | disabled. Outside of the Roman Catholic church | canonization in the literal sense is un- | known, but figuratively speaking Miss Margaret Cutpertson will be canonized by the loving hearts of thousands who know of her noble- work and sympathize with her loity aspirations, EVADING THE ISSUE. The issue invo!ved in the enforced re- tirement of President Andrews from Brown University because of his support of thie doctrine of himetallism continues to occupy a prominent place in the dis- cussions of the Eastern press. It isalto- gether proper that this prominence should be given it, for the question is one of importance to the country and should not be passed over as a matter of little moment. The Providence Journal commenting upon the affair says: “The whole Popu- listic press and platform of the country now have an opportunity, which they will doubtless improve, to hurl their thunder- bolts against the old-fashioned but sound ideas ol those respcnsible for the govern- ment of this institution of learning.” This is an evasion of the true issue at stake and is dangerous because it implies that the question is one of party politics. For that reason if for none other it should be promptly refuted. The Popocrats cannot as a party de- nounce the action which drove Professor Andrews from his position because in several States they have committed simi- lar offenses thewselves. Last winter the Populists of Kansas undertook to remove professors from the university of that State because they did not teach the economic dogmasof Populism. A similar effort was made by the Democrats in Texas to reform the teaching in the uni- versity there, and but a few days ago.the president of the board of curators of the University' of Missouri announced. in a public letter that a professor of that insti- tution “‘would not be permitted to inocu- late students with anv kind of political doctrine he may wish to formulate.”’ This means of course that only Democratic economics are to be tanght in the Univer- sity of Missouri. It is not the Popocratic press that Brown University will have to fear. Those who have regretted the course pursued in fore- ing the retirement of President Andrews ate the men and women of all parties who believe in intellectuul liberty and desire to see the fullest freedom of thought maintained in our universities. Unless some unforeseen and improbable war intervenes, the political questions of the United States will turn apon econo- ‘mics and sociology for the rest of this generation. If therefore professors in our universities are to be required to teach the doctrine of the dominant party on the board of trustees we shall have a shifting of professorships after almost every election. The plea of the Journal for “‘old-fashioned and sound ideas” is of no avail. In the history of the intellec- tual development of our race it has not infrequently bappened that new ideas were sounaer than the old. For the purpose of arranging better traae relations with their colonies the British have given notice of intention to close their commercial treaties with several Eu- ropean nations, and if the colonies should now refuse to stana in John Bull would be as isolatea as & man up a tree with an assortment of tigers waiting for him to come down. Kansas counts on 60,000,000 bushels of wheat this year, and as the price is rising every day ber people have quit howling calamity and are coming back to the ranks of the party of prosperity. Even Mrs, Lease is tending away from Populism, but with her usual perverseness, instead of fight until he is cut to pieces, lacks intel- lizence and resources, being sociable she is setting up as a | socialist. PRICES AND WAGES. Bince the passage of the new tariff bill a strenuous effort is being made by the free-traders to frighten the people by a prediction of prices teing so high that the comforts of life will have to be greatly curtailed and the work necessary to earn a living will have greatly to be increased. Fortunately a calm review of the situa- tion will prevent the effort at alarm from having any serious effect. A rise in prices is not to be regarded as an evil when it goes hand in band with an increasing general prosperity. The rise in wheat, for instance, is not causing any weeping in the land, but, ratber, an ex- ultant rejoicing. The reason is that no one will regret giving the farmer a little more for his crops, because all are confi- dent that the revived prosperity of the tiller of the soil will be a foundation on which all otber branches of the com- munity can build a betterment of their fortunes. As it is with wheat, so it will be with products in general. An increase in price to the seller of each product will enable him to buy more of his neighbor, and activity wili result all along the line of trade. With increased prices wage- earners will get more pay for their work, and an all-round revival of industrial ac- tivity will far more than compensate for a little extra paid to ona’s neighbor for his wares. It has been very pertinently asked of what avail was it to cut down the price of foreign woolens from $2 to $1 75, when the wage of those who buy was reduced from $2 to $1 50. Even worse was it when from the stagnation of business the wage-earner lost his job altogether. Laying all arguments from theories aside and taking the policies of protection and free trade by experience, we find that in 1890 and 1892 the piosperity of the country was far ahead of 1893 to 1896 uader the reduced Wilson tariff law. If the proof of the pudding is in the eating, the change back to a higher tariff need not be dreaded. The prophets who pre- dict harder times because of hizgher prices cannot prove their words by either past or present experiences. PROGRESS OF TELEGRAPHY. The news received from London that the young Italian electrician, Marconi, has now so far perfected his apparatus for wireless telegraphing that he can send a message twelve miles will prepare the world to believe in the probability of in- creasing this distance till poles and wires can be dispensed with. It will be like the cases of the Morse system and the tele- phone. Increase of distance will develop with further study and experiment. The first efforts at wireless telegraphy extended only a hundred yards, and at that time it seemed a wild dream to ex- pect messages could be sent more than half a mile. Later four miles was consid- ered wonderful, and when the limit of eight miles was reachedq, in irials on the British Channdl, the instruffien‘s passed from the toy stage to a mechanism capa- ble of much commercial and military use. Now the inventor talks of the possihjlity of sending messages across the ocean. The wonderiul ease and cheapness with | which communications can be trans- mitied when this method has had time to develop will perhaps be nearly as greata stride in the progress of commerce as that made by wire telegraphy. From the description of the 1nvention it would seem possible that every business house might at slight cost have its private telegraph service, How a multiplicity of such instruments could be prevented from a confusing in- terference with each other is a puazzle; but no doubt inventive genius will find a way. At first the instruments would send out their electric influences anike in all directions, but now reflectors have been arranged so as to confine the radia- tion of the current to any point desired. We live in such an age of wonders that no new thing scignce brings forward is able to surprise us. Marconi’s discovery, though, is a great reach in man’s mastery over nature. It will doubtless result in benefit to the interests of both commeroce and peace. THE OMAHA EXPOSITION. Omaha is now calling the attention of California by meansof a traveling repre- sentative to the great trans-Mississippi and International Exposition which is to be reld in that city next year from June to November. All the counties of the State should make preparations to meet the opportunity thus presented. The ex- position promises to be an immense one, and it occurs at a time when the whole country is in the full tide of a reaction from the long depression. The fact that it is a aistinctively Western exposition makes it imperative that our products should be well represented there. Although the State dia not make any appropriation for the exposition an equivalent for State action can be attained by all the counties acting in concert in raising the necessary funds. Some agreement could be reached by which the fair provportion for each county to con- tribute might be ascertained. 4 As the exposition openson June 1, some of the fruits forexhibition there should be prepared now anc lad aside ready for shipment. To leave everything for next year will be to get left on many important features of a complete digplay. The enterprise of Omat a, the Gate City of the Greater West, is praiseworthy, and should be enthusiastically backed by every one of the trans-Mississippi States. The city claims to be ir the center of a population of 20,000,000. It will have some special features, notably the grand military spectacle of 100,000 of the Na- tional Guard, which will attract great crowds. Times will be flush and people ificlined to travel and to extend their business and to select new fields of enter- prise. The chance to advertise California properly must not be missed. PERSONAL. Charles B. Bacon of Fort Bragg is in town. \ Charles Goddard, a mining man of Arizona, is at tne Russ, B. M. Jacobs, a banker of Tucson, is a visitor here. George H. Stewart of Boise, Idaho, s at the Palace. The Baron Van der Brugger of Belgium is at the Palace. E. J. Taber, a business man of Elko, Nev., is in the City. W. H. Brisen, captain of the guard at Fol- som, is in town. J. C. Bull Jr. of Arcata is one of the late ar- rivals at the Lick, Francis Doud, a banker of Monterey, I8 among the arrivals here. J. M. Williams, a well-to-do merchant at Newmans, 1s on a visit to this City. W. W. Wyckoff of York, Nebr., reached here yesterday. He ison a business trip. Willlam G. Follanshee, a miring man of Chinese Camp, is in the Bay City. He is here on a business trip, William Gilchrist and E. C. Dixon were yes- terday made deputy collectors of the Internal Revenue Department. H. C. Whiting of Burlington, Iows, and Dr. E. L. Holyoke ot Lincoln, Nebr., are among the arrivals at the Grand, A: B. Butler, the widely known raisin- grower of Fresno, is in the City, accompanied by Mrs. Butler. They are at the Palace. Congressman Marion de Vries of Stockton was one of the arrivals at the Grand lest night. He bas recently left Washington, D. C. . Fred Conn, the owner of large borax mines at Big Pine, is one of the arrivals at the Russ. Mr. Conn has been the owner of the borax mines there for a number of years. Stewart Menzies has returned to the City after a vacation of three months in England and Scotland. He is much improved in health and strength by reason of his journey. A party consisting of Lawrence Larsen of Washington, D. C., Gaines Larsen of the United States navy, and Mrs. William McKin- ley of Boise, Idaho, are at the Occidental. Rounseville Wildman, editorof the Overland Monthly, who was recently appointed United States Consul at Hongkoog, will sail for his new post of duty, on the steamer Chins, next Thursday. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Aug. 2.—At theSt. Cloud, B. W. Dobbins; Netherland, J. Carstair; Impe- rial, E. C. Godfrey, F.J. Henry, C.McClellan, R. McClellan, J. Martin; Murray Hill, J. Chamberlain, 8. Cbamberiain; Mariborough, N. H. Crocker, F. L. H. Noble, G. A. Rankin; Hoffman, Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Edwards; Astor, F. J. Henry, H. B. Montague; Morton, Mr. and Mrs. H. 8. Hitz; Holland, Mrs. F. W. Krause; Giisey, Dr. L. Stern. D. G. Davis,P. Liebes and M. J. Kennedy are here buyin DESTRUCTION OF OUR FORESTS. 1 suppose we need not go mourning the bul- A SOGIETY BELLE AS DEPUTY ———T. ~ SHERIFF. Miss Claire Ferguson, the Salt Lake belle who was recently appointed 8 Deputy Sheriff, was born ana raisea in the State of Utah and educated at the State University. She hastaken an active interest in politics ever since she was a child. Miss Ferguson has always wished to study law and may do 5o yet, being a naturally giited orator. She is very fond of outdoor sports, particularly riding aud driving, ana is an enthusia;tic wheelwoman. Miss Ferguson has had & good musical education and is a favorite in social circies. She isa daughter of Mrs | Dr. Ellen B. Ferguson, who is one of the leading women politicians of Utah. Miss Férguson's father, before his death, was a practicing physiclan of Salt Lake Clty, and through him she is related to the late General U. S. Grant. great Earl Warwick, the ‘*Kingmaker.” On her mother’s side Miss Ferguson belongs to the Brooke family of England, and is very proud of the fact that she isa lineal aescendant of the. ACTUAL MONEY SUPPLY. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: In the financial department of the Bulletin yesterday (July 80)Ifind under the heading of “Money Supply’’ a great array of treasury statistics, which are wholly unreliavle as published, and yet they appear without & word of comment or explanation, although the financial editor has recently admitted editorially that including the various certifi- cates in these treasury statements as so much money apart from the coin and greenbacks they represent is a sheer duplication or doub- ling of the figures, and is therefore a false quantity, and to that extent the result ob- tainea is absolutely untrue and unreliable. The figures given by the Bulietin are here- with reported, which were introduced as “‘ihe United States ireasury statement of the stock of coined and issued money in the country on the 1st of July, 1897,” as follows: Gold coin.. $671,676,250 silver dollai 451,898,742 Subsidiary silver. 75,4 8884+ Gold certificates 38,782,169 Silver certificates 875,479,604 Treasury uotes of 1880, 114,867,280 Uunited States nox 348,651,016 Currency eertifica: 61,570,000 Nationa, bank not 231,441,686 Total $2,368,110,631 The agsregate amount of the certificates and treasury rotes of 1890 in the foregoing table | faloes, says John Muir in the August Atlanticadic* §500,878 959, and being deducted as it In the nature of things they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have bsen made without barbarous wickedness. Likewise many of nature’s five hundred kinds of wild trees had to make way for orchards and cornfielas. In the settlement and civili- zation of the country, bread more than timber or beauty was wanted; and in the biindness of hunger, the early settlers, claiming heaven as their gulde, regarded God’s trees as only & larrer kind of pernicions weeds ex- tremely hard to get rid of. Accordingly, with no eye to the future, these pious de- stroyers waged interminable forest wars, chips flew ¢ thick and fast, trees i their beauty fell crashing by millions, smashed to coniusion, and the smoke of their burning has been rising te heaven more than 200 years. After the Atlantie Coast from Maine to Georgia had been mostly cleared and scorched into melancholy ruius, the overflow- ing maltitude of bread and money seekers poured over the Aliegnanies into the fertile middle West, spreading ruthless devastation ever wider and farther over the rich valley of the Mississippi and the vast shadowy pine re- gion about the great lakes. Thence still west- ward the invading horde of destroyers cailed settlers made its fiery way over the broad Rocky Mountains, felling and burning more fiercely than ever, until at last it has reached the wild side of the continent, and entered the last ot the/great aboriginal forests ou the shores of the Pacific. \ A GIGANTIC PARADOX. Ob, what a helpless lot we are 1n this old world of w 1t is the very worst by far ‘I hat we can ever know. ach mourns because those plans of his Are made to call & halt; His failure to reform life is The other people’s fault. There never was a mortal yet Who didn’t suy he had Emotions of intense regret Because this worid is oad. But somehow man can flad 10 way Its s andard 1o exal The individva s al “It's other people’s 1 —Washington Star. T STRUGGLE OF THE NEGRO. The history of the American negro, says W. E. B. Du Bois in the August Atlantic, is the history of strife—this longing to attain self- conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a truer and better self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost. He does not wish to Africanize America, for America has too much 10 tetch the world and Africa; he does not wish to bleach his negro blood in a flood of white Americanism, for he beiieves—ioolishly, verhaps, but fer- vently—that negro blood has yet a m! &1 the world. He simply wishes to make it sible for a man to {)e both a negro and an American without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without losing the opportunity of self-development. # WITH YOUR COFFEE. 08- “I don’t believe young Billfighter is very happy under the matrimonial yoke.” “He ain’t. His wife won't buy him as good clothes as his father used to.”—Indianapolis Journal. “Why this sign not to touch this particular piece of tuery with canes or umbrellas ?” asked a visiior at the art exhibit. “Because,” snapped a competing ar you could only do it justice with an ax, Detroit Free Press. Perry Patettic—Flease, mister, could you help the victim of a washout— Mister—Ot a washout? “Yes, mister. Iain’t had nothin’ but wotter to drink for two long weeks.”—Cincinnatf Enquirer. “Why don’t the Bifftonsappear in mourn- ing ? Wasn't Charley Biffton, who wasdrowned last week, a member of their family 7" “Yes; but he rocked the boat.”’—Cieveland Leader. “Bah!” said the old soldier. “You never saw a battle, except in a picture.’ “No.”” admitted the young man, “I never did. ButIhave been on the same street with a policeman who was shooting st a dog.” —In- dianapolis Journal. A close friend 1s one who will not lend you any money, and a dear friend is one who bor- rowsall you will give him.—Columbus State Journal. 5 First Prospector (at Klondyke)—I understand Nuggets has been arrested. Second Prospegtor—Yes, the darn fool per- sisted in heaping gold in front of his cabin and bleeking the trail.—Philadelphia North Amer- ican. The reason that the good die young is that they wouldn’t ba good if they grew up.— Cleveland Leader. must be from tae total the money supply will be at once reduced to $1,777.231,598. But is that all the reduction that shouid be and in- deed must be made? Is it possible that we have $346,681,016 in United States notes or greenvacks still in existence? That is the ex- act sum reported by the Treasury Department nineteen years ago, not even one oi tne lonely $16 at the tail end of these figures naving been lost or destroyed in nineteen years it we are to believe the treasury reporis with the childlike faith of the Bulletin. All readers of ordinary intelligence know thatas & plain matter of fact there cannot be any such sum as $346,681,016 in greenbacks in existence, notwithstanding the solemn ar- rey of these uuchangel figures for nineteen years by each succeeding Secretary of the Treasury. At the extremely low rate of an an- nual loss of one quarter of 1 per cent per an- num or 25 cents out of each;$100 there can- not be less than $29,802,348 (ost and destroyed even within the last thirty-five years. Isit notlikewise true beyoud the shadow of a doubt that there is no such sum as $671,676 250 in goid, as reported for July 1, 1897? Iuu- dertake to say that it should beé reduced to half that sum, and thatIcan show why this reduction must be made if we stand by facts which cannot be refuted. Then, a, the total amount of silver coin is given as$527.- 431,911, which is more than $18,000, 100 much, as can be easily proven. In & word, to cut the matter short, I claim, and this is the cause of my criticism, that there is no valid reason why these reductions should not appear in the treasury reports, and we should have a total reduction of $974,519,- 426, leaving the actual oney SUpp.y not & dollar more than $1,393,591,105, instead of the absurd amount of $2,368,110,531, as re- ported, and which the financial orthodoxy of the Bulletin accepts as ““nspired” official inerrancy. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, July 31, 1897, THE LAW AND THE DOCTORS. To The Call: The present Board of Health has surpassed its predecessors in reformatory work. Its recent compulsory action, after a year and a halfs delay, in executing the law against the non-registration of births, is commendable. Now if they will enforce Sec. 13 of “An Act to Reguiate the Practice of Medicine in the State of California,” viz.: “Any person prac- ticing medicine or surgery in this State with- outa license shall be punished by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $500, or by fm- prisonment in the Coumg Jail of not less than thirty days, nor more than 365 days for each and every offense,” then they will be en- surined in the grateful hearts of the 800 reg- ularly licensed physicians ot this City. The no-reglstration ofa lew births by over: worked doctors does but a tithe of mischief to that of the 400 quacks plying their nefari- ous calling in & community kept i 1gnorance of their true medical status by the leniency of this same Board of Health. MARION THRASHER, M.D. MEN AND WOWMEN. Miss Christine Law has been appointed as- sistant clerk of courts for Hampden County, Mass. She is the first woman in the State to bold this office. Captain John Klugh of Company F, Two Hundred and Ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers, was recently appointed postmaster of Frank- linton, Pa. Captain Klugh is 84 years of age, and probably the oldest postmaster appointed by the preseng administration. The tomb of President William Henry Har- rison at North Bend, Ohio, is being recon- structed, the brick structure bei by one of blue limestone. The: bodies, including four children, in the tomb, and vacant receptacles for the interment of others. The Munich portrait painter, Franz von Lenbach, has finished a portrait of the distin- guished historian of Rome, Theodor Momm- sen. The picture is now on exhibition in the international exposition in Munich. Near it is shown another new work of Lenbach, a por- trait of Bismarck in cuirassier uniform, that was finished this yea Mrs. Bliza D. Stewart, who organized the first woman’'s temperance union in the West, cele- brated her eighty-first birthday at Springfield, Ohio, recently. “Mother Stewart,” as sheis called, organized the first union at Osborn, Ohio, with 100 members in 1873. Since then, up to recent years, she has employed her en- tire time in active crusade work. Commodore Robert L Phythian, superin. tendeut of the nayal observatory, who has just been placed on the retired list, entered the navy from Kentucky in 1853. He will be succeeded as superintendent of the observa- tory by Commaunder Charles H. Davis, who ‘was the special escort of the Princess Eulalie on her visit to this country during the World’s Fair, and isnow a member of the Naval In- spection Board. 5 |.ture, orchestra; specialties, Ciaire Fe: FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT. The Minstrel Entertainment by Courts Kensington and Star of the West, A. O. F. i Union-square Hall was comfgrtably filled last Saturday night by an audience that had assembled to listen to the minstrel entertain- ment that was given by Courts Kensington and Star of the West of the Ancient Order of Foresters. The first part was given by a circle of members ot the courts, who were blacked up, and they are entitled to the credit of hav- ing given a very good show. The singing was unusually good and the jokes that were given by the endmen and the interlocutor had the merit of not having been taken from the chestnut-box. Tne second pari was made up of specialties that were thoroughly appreci- ated. The following named were the partici- pants in the first part: Interlocutor, W. J. Lock: bones—J. L. Glennon, J. ¥. O'Donnell; tambos—John Keough, Charles B. Aubry; baliadists—Georze B. Ferguson, ert Ray. The features of the second part were: mul imitations, E. J. Erickson; specialties, Koough and Crotiy; Hard Times quartet—J. L. Glennon, J. J. Collins, 8. J. Crowley, C. B. Aubry. The entertainment was far above the range of smateur presentation, and the following named committee of arrangements has reason to feel proud of its success: C. P: Stanley, chairman; F. G. McGuire, secretary; W..J. Locke, John Keough, W. J. Thorpe, T. Pem- berthy, Charles B. Aubry, W. G. Conklin, H. J. Oiiver, George Nisbet, S. J. Crowley, J. i Glennon, E. Strohmeler, N. J. Savage. Oro Fino Parlor at Home. Oro Fino Parlor No. 9; Native Daughters ‘of the Golden West, announces that it will givean “At Home’ to its riends next Saturday even- ing in {ts hall, in the Native Sons’ building, and that its committee of arrangements is| making preparations for a most enjoyable evening. Keystone Lodge, Knights of Honor: Keystone Lodge No. 2107, of the Knights of Honor, has for some time past been making arrangements for & *‘Welcome Home” to the supreme representatives, County Clerk C. F. Curry and John W. Rourke; who- recently ro- turnea from the session of the Supreme Lodge. The welcome will be given 1n the social hall of the Alcazar building on next Friday evening at 9 o’clock, and the ‘committee ‘that has charge of the affair promises something new | in the way of entertainment. TWO SCULPTORS AT HOME. “No trait in the character of Edward Kem- eysis more pronounced than his domestic- ity,” writes Forest Crissey in his article, “Two Sculptors at Home,” in the August Woman's Home Companion. *“His wife is his chosen companion in all that claims his at~ tention or interest. She ‘accompanies him to the prairies and mountains of the Far Westia search of big game, and he confesses that her presence gives him the stimulus of rivalry, for she is a ‘crack shov’ with a repeating rifle, has asplendid physique, which finds keenesten- |- joyment in the hardships of & hunters life, and loves the excilements of the chase as ardently s the sculptor himself. - “In the line of his work she is equally fitted by nature to enter into his most intimate thoughts and emotions. Her fine artistic sense Las already made itself felt ia several pieces of sculpture, which have brought her deserved recognition. But itis her urue eye. tor thipgs mechanical and her caonstructive strength and resourcefulness which appeal perhaps most strongly to. her husband’s ad- miration. Together they labored’ on the. ‘Kemeys groups’ of animal. figures in the grounds of the World’s Columbian Exposi- tion, and he points with pride to the fact that she built: their ‘skeletous,’ or framework, & most difficult mechanical task. - “Although they are charming entertainers |- and sare always in demand as guests, Mr, and Mrs. Kemeys %ecept few invitations and pre- fer the quiet of their home to ‘social life, e when the latter is of the most pronounced in- tellectual and artistic character. The greater number of their evenings are spent within the. charmed walls of Wolfden or their residence.” FOR TEN YEARS AT LEAST. Philadelphis Bulletin. With the return of improving conditions it is not likely that the country will -hear any- thing from the tarift as a political issue for many a long day. The ople have nad J. J. Geary, John J. Collins, Rob- | enough of the agitation to last them for years to come, and the Democratic party has little stomach for keeping up the fight. An era of prosperity will pracucall; least. IN PROSPE30US KANSAS. Kansas City Journal. farmer who simply could not get. aads put this sign upon his fence: “Harvest hands wanted. Hired girl blond ana finhL Cabinet organ music in the evening. e three times a day. Three spoons of sugar witk every cup of coffee. Hammocks, feather beds or leather divans at your option for sleep- ing. Rising hour 9 o'clock in the morning. Tllf?e hours’ rest at noon. Come one, tome all JOAQUIN Cincionati Commercial Tribune. Joaquin Miller has joined the general rush to Klonayke. If there is any general rush in which Joaquin has not figured, poetically and picturesquely, within tne memory of the old- est inhabitant, it may be put down as an unin- tentional omission on the part of the silyer- haired singer of the snow-crested Sierras. —_— SIGNS OF FITNESS. Chicago Record. Secretary Sherman should be proud of these rumors that he is about to resign. No man can feel that he is holding the job of Secretary of State down in a thoroughly professional manner until these rumors begid to be circu- lated about hi IS IN IT. MAY EE KNEADED. Philadelphia Times. As a sign of prosperity the big wheat crop may be thrashed, but it can’t be beaten, eliminate the tariff | from American poliiics ior another decade at | Two Indiotments Against Dr, Stahle Dismissed by . ~Judge Cook. Grand Juror B. B. Kittredge Had | No Legal Right to Be a " Grand Jurymani Other Aots of the ‘Late : Inquisitorial Body Will Be Held to Be Valid, Dr. Frederick. H. Stahle -has two more chances o -escape from the consequences of his term at the City and-County Hos- pital, because -a :brace- ot indictments charging him - with. embezzlement were dismissed by Judge Carroll :Codk on & technical objection yesterday. The point was made thiat one:of: the grand jurors who vated for the indictment was not a taxpayer, and consequently the indictment was void. Attorney Edgur Peixotto,. representing the prisoner, contended that . as” Grand Juror R. B. Kittredge did not pay any taxes to the City ‘and County he wasnot qualified ‘to act as an:.ihquisitor inte the affairs of other members of - the commun- ity.- In support of'this he presented proof that .the “properiy -beionging to the Ki tredge. family - was sssessed to Mrs. Kit- tredge; and, altbotgh ‘that: fact:hed -no relevancy, © he - brought -out -that ‘the amount paid in yaxes. was.less than a dol- lar. 2 7 7 Assistant, - District - Attorney. Hosmer; representirig ‘the District Attorney, made no opposition” to -the motion to dismiss the indictments in. ‘question,:and. :the court made the order. as requested, re- marking incidentally that.the law Is clear and cannot be misunderstood. . Dr. Stahle was theréfore ordeéred .dismissed’ froni custody, so faras the two indietments in controversy were concerned. This order does not get Stahle out of his troubles, however, ‘for-ue will be called on to answer tworother indictments- that were based on substantially the same grounds, charging him with taking: valu- able property belonging tothe City and County. Although “these indictments were formulated and presented by tha same Grand Jury, it is held that they will legally hold as against :he defendant be- cause he did not raise the technical ob- jection that one of the grand jurors was not qualified to act. Instead of making that voint; he filed a demurrer, thus legally waiving his right in that respect. The demurrer was offered on the ground that the word ‘tbailee’” was used in the ac- cusation of the Crand Jury, which, Mr. Peixotto asserted, was a fatal defect. My. Hosmer does not take this view: of the case. - He thinks the word ‘“bailee” may be treated as *‘surplusage,’’ and will 80 argue when the case comes up for hear- ing.” The fate of Dr. Stahle may thus. be seen. to hang on -a particularly slender . thread of technical construction. . Friends of My. Kittredee feel that some explanation is due him ‘on account of the unfortunate position -in. which he finds himsell.: At the time he wasexamined in regard-to his'qualificatiotis to serve as a grand. jaror' be thought hie was on the tax list, not Knowing that his wife had made out the list-of “property inher own name. This lack ef information caused the mistake to be made and led to the en- tanglements that have since ensued. Seyeral other -indictments were pre- sentad :by ' the same ‘Grand Jury. The binding force of these will not be dis- turbed, Mr. Hosmer says, becanse the ac- cused in all the other cases have filed their "pleas . of *'guilty’’ or “not guilty,” thus waiving their right to make technical -objection "to the mannet in which the .Grand Jury was organized. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend's™ e ——————— EPECTAL Information deily to manufasturers, - business houses and public men by ‘the Prass Ciipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * R Only $32 50 to Washington, D, C., Via Sunset routeé and Pledmont airline. Cor ‘respondingly low rates to other Eastern cf ties. For furiher: information call on or address Chag. L. Hopkins; Pacific ‘Coast Passenger Agent; 621 Market street, San Franeisco. = * D s S—— Bunker—Yes, sir;. just as I .got that fisn up to the side of the boat I fell overbosrd. Hili--Get wet? “Not abit.” I fell on.the fish.”~Life, % e i ‘Northern Pacific Railway—Yellowstone Park Line. The managers of the Yellowstorie Park wish to announce to the public. that they have never boen in better.condition to handie visitors than a the present time (rumors to°ihe CODLTAry no:with- standing). All of the large parties of Christian Endeavorers have made: the trip and are out of the park: . For tickets and information apply to k4 téler, Gen. Agent, 638 Market st., 5. ¥, AR SR T Not Excessively Warm on the Great g Santa Fe Boute. A popular misbelief exists that In sammer it ix very hot in_crossing the conilaent on the Sants Fertoute,: Through -Arizoua and New MeXico the line. is siiuated a¢ e average élevation of 5000 Teet. ‘Laowest rates and superior accommodations to all Eastern and European-points, Ticket gfios, 644 Market street, Chroiicie butlding. .. Reduced Rates for All To the East via the K1o Grande Western Rallway, passing through Utah and :Colorado by daylignt, Through-cars by sil trains. : Tickets, sleepiug-car reservations and full information furnished at 14 Montgomery s reet. ————————— AYER'S Cherry Pectoral gives prompt reliet That's why ‘it excels all other preparations for colds and coughs. " 2 “He {s.oné of the leading lawyers of®ths town.". o «“Gets pretty big fees, e “lshounidsay so.. Why, itisalmost as cheap to buy the' Grand Jury as to. hire him.”— Truth.. 2 NEW T0.DAY! J : Royal makes the food pure, * wholesome and delicious. Absolutely Pure. < ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK,