The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 3, 1897, Page 7

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EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 82, 34 Park Row. New York City DAVID M. FOLTZ, ern Manager. TTHE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou: going to the country ona vacatlon? It | £0,1t 1510 trouble for us t forward THE CALL to | your pddress. Do not let it miss you for-yeu wil | miss 1t. Orders given o thé carrier or left at Busitiess Office” will. receive prompt attention. NO.EXTRA CHARGE. Fifty ‘cents per monih for summer months Chinatown is redhot again. The highbinders are on the The Mongolian fiends are blood-money or blood. There is needed in Chinatown now a strong hand and a prompt one. warpath. demanding 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 notdisturb us. QOur tariff is alt right. It looksas 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 bave preferred a system of wireless political conventions. The royalty which Canada proposes to impose on the miners of the Kilondyke is | not of the kind that attains to a jubilee. It is well enough 1o have rising prices and rising wages, but the prospect of a rising tax levy is too much of a good thing, The troublein the Afghan country seems to'be that the British attempted to take Swatin an underhand manner and got it in the neck. It Bryan intends'to keep up his continu- ous performance. tour he will soon have to geta trick morikey or an animatoscope to help draw a crowd. The Cretan question comes up again us adisturbing factor in the Turkish ‘prob- ler, and once more it finds Europe unpre- pared with an answe: s { There wiil be no nirates to assail the re- | turning miners from Alaska, but there | will be card-sharpérs enough all along the line to do the bus 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 chance in Alaska is an evidence that our lunatic asylums are not ybt adequate to the needs of the State. The Alice Barrett mystery in Boston is an evidence thaf when the new woman undertakes to lead a_aouble life the can Znake 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.the same names but 1o shout them in unison, so we may as well be-on the lookout for:a ruction. The story tl the Cubans, in sacking several stores in the suburbs of Havana, refused to carry off “anything importea from Spain on the gronnd that they are too patriotic to tise anything Spanish even 1ftaken 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. : 2 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 breken 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 " S8t. Louis Glcbe-’ Demoeraf, “‘Nebraska has paid off $30,000,- 060 indebtedness; North Dakota has. paid 0ff'$25,000,000 indebtedness; South Dakota ‘has paid off $50;000,000 indebtedness; Kan- s4s 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 fajlure of Bryan’s calamity tour'was due to something else than the hoarseness of the orator. K _l’ro}esaér Ramsay, ascientist of repute, who has-gpent many years in the Levant, says the Turkish men are better than the Greeks, but the Greek women are better " than theé Turkish women. From this fact hé draws: the conclusion that the Greek race is improving, while the Turks are de- zenerating. He adds that if the two peoples would blend, the result would be one of the strongest racesin Earope, as each hasqualities 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 fight until he is cut to pieces, lacks intel- lirence ana resources. | bertson did. | be passed over as a matter of Bhs highbinders of Chinatown have Can we not the arises, therefore, the question: Itisa question whaich concerns Francisco. Tue Caur has made plain the murder come. and shown how some of them were burne bow their comrades escaped. The cause of public'and the police. course of to revenge themselves upon those Chine: taining American law and protecting Ch misery. They say that the effort to preven [t bas been made boldly. It has long been evident that the Chin white men an instinctive abhorrence of m every white man aids 10 bring the assassin The highbinder siays his victim in the sig! assistsin arresting him. It is clear the pol ing with Chinese than in dealing with whi versons, “*Your dying day is surely at hand.” is kept we shall have more murders in Chinatowx and another illustration of the con- tempt with which the Mongolian fiends regard human life and American law. by the laws which are adequate to the government of Americans. THE HIGHBINDERS AROUSED. issued their proclamations warning twelve This means that unless vigilant watch There prevent the perpetration of these crimes? police force only, but every citizen of San f events out of which thess new threats of It has publisted the story of 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 be possible under our 1aw to prevent further crime by arresting the highbinders or so | frightening them that they will not dare to carry out their murderous designs. In the proclamation of warning the highbinders state plainly that their object is se who have assisted in the work of main- 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 have obtained from the brothel keepers. Therefore they propose to kill those China- men who have interfered with the profits of their trade. Is American law powerless in the face of it? This is their proclamation. ese colony in this City cannot be governed There is among urder. When such a crime is committed to justice. It isnot soamong the Chinese. ht of dozens of Chinamen and not one ice must be given greater powers in deal- te men. We must adopt the severe meas- ures the British used in dealing with the thugs of India. Tue CArnt has done all the public service the press can give in this case. exposed the infamy of the brothels and made 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 an indignant public can do to prevent further outrages. the blow which has been so openly, so impudently and so infamously threatened ? It has Is there no way to counter f 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 work could still have been of so much service. In the noble and much-needed work of | rescuing slave-girls from Chinatown she for years took an arduous share. It is sad to think that one of these should have, five years ago in a fit of anger, given Ler 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. nish - another keen incentive for efforts to prevent Chinese iniquities from gaining a foothold on these shores. If the Mon- gzols 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- | A great proof of kindness | was given by her when she resolved to give | her youth to this laborious occupation. Wonderful endurance and patience was shown by her persistence'in the good work, | | and strongest evidence of moral greatness | 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 figurativaly speaking Miss Margaret Culpertson will be canonized by the loving hearts of thousands who know of her noble - work and sympathize with her lofty aspirations. The issue invo!ved in the enforced re- tirement of President Andrews from | Brown University because of his support of the doctrine of himetailism 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 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- Dolts against the old-fashioned but sound ideas of 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 thewmselves. 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 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 politlcal 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 forc- ing the retirement of President Andrews are 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. TUnless some unforeseen and improbable war intervenes, the volitical questions of the United States will turn upon 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 relutions 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 a 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 Popalism, but with her usual perverseness, instead of being sociable she is setting up as a socialist. The memory of it should fur- | effort was made. by the Democrats in | PRICES AND WAGES. Since 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 sitna- 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, rather, an ex- uvltant 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 witn 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 under 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 barder times becauss of higher 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 aistance 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 aream to ex- pect messages cculd be sent more than half s mile. Later four miles was consid- ered wonderful, and when the limit of eight miles was reacheaq, in {rials on the British Chann#l, the instrufhen‘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- mitted 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 puzzle; 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 commerce 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 io 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 did not make any appropriation for the exposition an equivalent for State action can be attainea by all the counties acting in concert in raising the necessary funds. Some agreement could be reached by which the fair proportion for each county to con- tribute might be ascertained. As the exposition openson June 1, some of the fruits for exhibition there should be prepared now anc laid aside ready for shipment. To leave everything for next THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3 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 the Russ, B. M. Jacobs, a banker of Tucson, is a visitor here. George H. Stewart of Boise, Idaho, is 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, 18 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, & mining man of Chinese Camp, is in the Bay City. He is here on & business trip. William Gilchrist and E. C. Dixon were yi terday made deputy collectors of the Internal Revenue Department. H. C. Whiting of Burlington, Iowa, and Dr. E. I. Holyoke ot Lincoln, Nebr., are ameng 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 has 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 hes 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, editor of the Overland Monthly, who was recently appointed United States Consul at Hongkong, will sail for his new post of duty, on the steamer China, next Thursday. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N.Y., Aug. 2.—At theSt. Cloud, B. W. Dobbins; Netherland, J. Carstair; Impe- rial, E. C. Godfrey, F.J. Henry, C.McClellan, R. B.-McClellan, J. Martin; Murray Hill, J. Chamberlain, 8. Cbamberlain; 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; Gisey, Dr. L. Stern. D. G. Davis,P. Liebes and M. J. Kennedy are here by DESTRUCTION OF OUR FORESTS. 1 suppose we need not go mourning the bulf- A SOGIETY BELLE AS DEPUTY SHERI . it Miss Claire Ferguson, the Salt Lake belle who was recently appointed a 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 sinc he was a child. Miss Ferguson has always wished to study law and may do so yet, being a naturally giited orator. She is very fond of outdoor sports, particularly riding and driving, ana is an enthusiastic wheelwoman. Miss Ferguson has had a good musical education and is a favorite in social circies. She is a daughter of Mrs | Dr. Ellen B. Ferguson, who is one of the leading women politicians of Utah. Miss FerRusgu'! father, before his death, was a practicing physiclan of Salt Lake City, and through him she is related to the late General U. 8. Grant. On her mother’s side Miss Ferguson belongs to the- Brooke family of England, and is very proud of the fact that she is a lineal aescendant of thé. great Earl Warwick, the ‘*Kingmaker.” ACTUAL MONEY SUPPLY. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: In the financlal department of the Bulletin yesterday (July 30) I find under the heading of “Money Supply’’ a great array of treasury statistics, which are wholly unreliable as published, and yet they appear without a word of comment or explanation, although the financial editor has recentuly 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 Bulletin are here- with reported, which were introduced as “ihe United States ireasury statement of the stock of coined and issued money in the countryon | the 1st of July, 1897,” as follows : Gold coin. . $671,676,250 sitver doliai 451,998,742 | Subsidiary si 75,4 B.88. Gold certificates . 38,782,169 Silver certificate 375,479,604 Treasury uotes of 1590, 114,867,280 United States notes 346,671,016 Currency certificates. 61,570,000 Nationa: bank notes. 231,441,686 eene.. $2,388,110,631 The agsregate amount of the certificates and treasury rotes of 1890 in the foregoing table faloes, says John Muir in the August Atlanticatis" §590,878 953, 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 a larcer kind of pernicious weeds ex- tremely hard to get rd of. Accordingly, with no eye to the future, these pious de- stroyers waged interminable forest wars, chips flew thick and iast, 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 scorehed into melancholy ruius, the overflow- ing maltitude of bread and money seekers poured over the Alieghanies intwo the fertile middle West, spreading ruthless devastation ever wider and farther over the rich valley of the Mississippli and the vast shadowy pine re- gion about the great lakes. Thence still west- ward the invading horde of destroyers called 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 o1 the/great aboriginal forests ou the shores of e Pacific, \ A GIGANTIC PARADOX. Ob, what a helpless lot we are 1n this old world of woe! 1t is the very worst by far ‘I hat we can ever know. Each mourns because those plans of his Are made to call a halt; His failurs to reform Iife is ‘The other people’s fault. There never was a mortal yet Who didn’t say he had Emotions of intense regret Because this worid is bad. But somehow man can find 10 Way Its s andard 1o exal The individva s all “It's other people’s fault " —Washington Star, e STRUGGLE OF THE NEGRO. The history of the American negro, says W. E. B. Du Bois in the August Atlantic, is the histery 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 Alricanize America, for America has too much to tetch the worl and Africa; he does not wish to bleach his negro blood in a flood of white Americanism, for he believes—foolishly, perhaps, but fer- vently—that negro blood has yet & message lor the world. He simply wishes to make ll&am- sible for a man to %e both a negro and an Ameriean without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without losing the opportunity of seli-development. . WITH YOUR COFFEE. “I don’t believe young Billfighter is very happy under the matrimonial yoke.” “He ain’t. His wife won’t buy him as good clottes as his father used to.”—Indianapolis Journ: “Why this sign not to touch this particular piece of statuary with canes or umbrellas 7 asked a visitor at the art exhibit. “Because,” snapped a competing artist, you could only do it justice withan ax.”— Detroit Free Press. Perry Patettic—Flease, mister, could you help the victim of a washout— Mister—Of a washout? ‘“Yes, mister. Iain’t had nothin’ but wotter to drink for two long weeks.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. “Whay don’t the Bifftonsappear in mourn- ing? Wasn’t Charley Biffton, who was drowned last week, & member of their family ?” “Yes; but he rocked the boat.'’—Cievelana Leader. “Bah!” said the old soldier. “You never saw a battle, except in & picture.” “No,” admitted the young man, “I never did. BulIhave been on the same street with & policeman who was shooting at & dog.” —In. dianapolis Journal. A ctose 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 blocking the trail.—Philadelphia North Amer- ican. 5 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 o te lonely $16 at the tail end of these figures naving been lost or destroyed in nineteen years i1 we are to believe the treasury reports with the childlike faith of the Bulletin. All readers of ordinary intelligence know that as & 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 vi 1 per cent per an- num or 25 cents out of each;$100 there can- not be less than $29,802,348 iost and destroyed even within the last thirty-five years. Isit notlikewise true beyoud the shadow of a doubt that there s no such sum as $671,676,- 250 in goid, as reported for July 1,1897? Iuu- dertake to say that it should be reduced to half that sum, and thatIcan show why this reduction must be made if we stand by facts which cannot be refuted. Then, again, the total amount of silver coin is given as$527.- 431,911, which is more than £18,000,000 too much, as can be easily proven. In a 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 Ironey Supp.y not a 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 Reguiste the Practice of Medicine in the State of Californla,” viz.: “Any person prac- ticing medicine or surgery in this State with- outa license shall be punished by u fine of not less than $50 nor more than $500, or by im- prisonment in the County Jail of not lessthan 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 non-registration of a few births by over- worked doctors does but a tithe of mischief to that of the 400 quacks plying their nefari- ous calling in a community Keptin ignorance 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 aud Ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers, was recently appointed postmaster of Frank- linton, Pa. Captaln 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 being replaced by one of blue limestone. There are twelve 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, thas was finished this year. Mrs. Eliza D. Stewart, who organized the first woman’'s temperance union in tne West, cele- brated ner 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, has employed her en. tire time in active crusade work. Commodore Robert L Phythian, superin. tendeut of the naval 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 Commeander Charles H. Davis, who was the special escort of the Princess Eulalie on her visit to this country during the World’s Fair, and is now & member ot the Naval In. spection Board. FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT. The Minstrel Entertainment by Courts Kensington and Star of the West, A. O. F. Union-square Hall was comigrtably filled last Saturday night by an avdience 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 part wss made up | of specialties that were thoroughly appreci- | ated. The following named were the partici- pants in the first part: Interlocutor, W. J. Locke; bomes—J. L. | Glennon, J. ¥. O'Donnell; tambos— John Keough, Charles ubry ; baliadists—George B. Ferguson, J. J. Geary, John J. Collins, Rob- ert Ray. The features of the second part were: Over- -ture, orchestra; specialties, Claire Fex; ani- mul imitations, E. J. Erickson; specialties, Keough 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 emateur 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- b berthy, Charles B. Aubry, W. G. Conklin, H. J. s, Otiver,’ George Nisbet, Glennon, E. Strohmeler, Oro Fino J. Crowley, J. L Savage: arlor at Home. s Oro Fino Parlor No. 9, Native Datghters ‘of the Golden West, announces that it will givean “At Home" to its triends next Saturday even- ing in {its hall, in the Native Sons’ building, and that its committee ot arrangéments is. making preparations for a most enjoyable evening. Keystone Lodge, Knights of Honor, " Keystone Lodge No. 2107, of the Kuights 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 ra- turnéa from the session of the Supreme Lodge. The welcome will be given in 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 HQME- “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 Companfon. *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 Westin search of big game, and he confesses that her presence gives him the stimulus of rivalry, for she is a ‘crack shot’ with a repeating rifle, has asplendid physique, which finds keenest en- joyment in the hardships of & hunter's life, and loves the excitements of the chase as ardently as the sculptor himself. * *In the line of his work she is equally fitted thoughts end emotions. Her fine artisti sense Las already made itself felt in several pieces of sculpture, which have brought her deserved recognition. But itis her trus_eye tor thipgs mechanical and her constructive strength and resourcefulness which appeal perhsps 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, a most difficult mechanical task. and sre always in demand as guests, Mr, and Mrs. Kemeys &ecept few invitations and pre- fer the quiet of their home to ‘social life, save 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. Philadeiphia 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 Y by nature to enter into his most intimate |- ““Although they are charming entertainers |- enough of the agitation to to come, and the Democratic party has little stomach for keepinz up the figkht. An era of prosperity will practically eliminate the tar.ff {"n:. American politics for another deca eas IN PROSPE30OUS KANSAS. Kansas City Journal. A Kansas farmer who simply could not get. haryvest haads put thissign ubon his fence: “Harvest hands wanted. Hired girl blond and genial. Cabinet organ music in the evening. Pie three times a day. Three spoons of sugar witk every cup of coffee. Hammocks, feather beds or leather divans ai your option for sleep- ing. Rising hour 9 o'clock in the mornin, Tllf?e hours’ rest at noon. Come one, tom all” e JOAQUIN IS IN IT. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Joaquin Miller has joined tne general rush to Klondyke. If there isany 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 p: of the yer- haired singer of the snow-crested Sierras. e 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 begin to ve lated about hi MAY EE KNEADED. Philadelphia Times. As a sign of prosperity the big wheat crop may be thrashed, but it can’t be beaten. ON A BARE Two Indiotments Against Dr. Stahle Dismissed by . ~Judge Cook. Grand Jutor B, B. Kittredge Had | No Legal Right to Be.a " Grand Juryman:- Other Apts of the ‘Late' Inquisitorial Body Will Be Held to Be : Valid. Dr. Frederick H. -Stahle has two more chances to -escape irom the consequences of his term at the City and County Hos- pital,: because -a - brace- of indictments charging him - with. einbezzlement were dismissed by Judge- Carroll :Cock -on & technical objection yesterday. The point was made tliat 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 tihat-as- Grand Juror R. B. Kittredge did ‘not pay:any taxes to the City ‘and County he wasnot qualified ‘to act as an.ihquisitor into the affairs of other members of - the commun- ity.’ In support ofthis he presented proot that .the property ‘befonging to the Kit- tredge- family - was assessed to Mrs. Kit- tredge; and, sltbotigh ‘that: fact: hed no relevancy, ~ he brought :out -that ‘the amount paid in yaxes was.less than a dol- lar. 2 Assistant - District - Attorney. Hosmer; representing ‘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 lawIs clear and cannot be misunderstood. . Dr. Stahle was theréfore ordéred .dismissed’ fromi custody, so faras the two indietments in controversy were concerned. This order does not get Stahle out. of his troubdles, however, ‘for-ue will be called on to answer tworother indictments- that were based on substantially the same grounds, charging him with taking: valu- avle 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 the 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 point, 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. Mr. 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 Mr. Kittredee feel that some explanation is due him -on account of the unfortunate position -in. which he finds " himgelf.. At the time he wasexamined in tegard to his qualifications to serve as a grand: juror ke thought lie wason the tax list, not ‘Knowing :that his wife had made out the list-of “property in her own name. This lack of information caused the mistake to be made and led to the en- tangléments that have since ensued. Seyeral other -indictments were pre- sented :by the same Grand Jury. The binding force of these will not be dis~ turbed, Mr. Hotmer says, becanse the ac- cused in all the other cases . have filed their "pleas.of *‘guilty’ or “not gnilty,” thus waiving their right to make technical -objection "to the. manner’ in which the Grand. Jury was organized. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend's™ e EPECTAL Information daily to manufasturers, - business houses and public men by ‘the Praig .Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * . Only 832 50 to Washington, D, C., Via Sunset routé and Pledmont airline. . Cot- ‘respondingly low rates to other Eastern cf ties, For furiher: information call ‘on or address Chas. L. Hopkins; Pacific ‘Coast Passenger Agent; 621 Market street, SanFraneisco. = * B S, Bunker—Yes, sir;. just as I'got that fisn up to theside of the boat I fell overboard. Hili-Get wet? “Not.abit." I fell on the fish.”—Life, % —_— Northern Pacific Rail way—Yellowstone Park Line. The managers of the Yellowstone Park wish to announce to the public tiai they have never hoen in better condition to handie visitors than at the présent time (rumors tothe cOntrary moiwith- standing). All of the large parties of Christian Endeavorers have made: the trip and are out of the park. . For tickets and information appiy to 3 Statéler, Gen. Agent, 638 Market st., 5. ¥, pAnA i in Not Excessively Warm on the Great : Santa Fe Boute. A popular misbelief exists that In sammer it s very hot in crossing the caniluent onthe Santis Feroute,. Throogh Arizoua and New Mexico the line: is situated a¢ an average élevation of 5000 Teet. ‘Laowest rates and superior accommodations 1o all Eastern and European-points, Ticket gfios, 844 Market street, Chronicie butlding. . 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