The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 15, 1897, Page 22

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FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. 7:”}[3 CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyon golng 10 the country ona_vacation ? If £0, 1t 15 o trouble for us to forward THE CALL to vour address. Do not let it miss you for you will mies ft. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will recelve prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifiy cenis per month for summer months. —————————————————————— Try oid Trinity before going further. You are likely to-day to get a rest from everything except Klondike talk. Perhaps the only thing which can el- fectually recall Weyler is & bullet. Read about the Klondike and then make up your mind to stay at home. Dyea and Skaguay may yet see their names changed to Skaggy and Die-away. It appears as if the Ottawa authorities would s:tand by the royalties and perish with them. still the gold-producing There is no other California is center of the world. place like it. THE CALL remains steadfast and true to the principles of Republicanism ana the welfare of California. ‘With dollar wheat in sight thers is no reason why the farmer should trade the wheatfield for a mining claim. Senora Canovas forgives the assassin of her husband, but she is not likely to petl- tion the Queen Regsnt to do so. You may or may not find gold in the Klondike, but it is a sure thing that to get there you must take gold with you. Prince Henri of Orleans and Count Turin should come to Carson and fight it out for blood and half the veriscope privileges. Anarchist Golli is to be defended on the ground that he is insane, but if he is ac- quitted it will be taken as a proof that the Judges were insane. There is no paradox in the assertion that the support given to the insurrection in India by the Ameer of Afghanistan will dispose of the theory that it is a mere outbreak. The proposed establishment of an archi- tectural museum is good and may pos- sibly have the effect of making the City in the future look less like an architectu- ral freak show. A Maryland murderer who killed his wife becavse she would not give him money to buy whisky went to the eallows with a vay countenance. It seems he got his smile at last. It is not to be regretted that Congress- man Grosvenor’s attack on civil service reform methods should have stirred up the Eastern mugwumps, for that is one of the subjects on which they need stir- ring up. The Kansas Populists have decided to make a demand for the abolition of Fed- eral courts the chief issue of their next campaign, and as a novelty the thing may have quitea run among people who like that sort of politics, Once more all the nations of the world will take vigorous measures to suppress the anarchists, and once mora some quiet, insignificant man whom no one thought of waiching will throw a bomb at some statesman and make another sensation. Hundreds of so-called Klondike min- ing and development companies in the East are advertisitg to a credulous public that everv man who drops a dollar in the slot will get a stock certificate enti- tling him to a big gold nugget every day in the we:k. There 1s = striking contrast between the ways in which McKinley and Cleve- land spend their holidays. Cleveland always goes off to fish by himself, while McKinley mingles with the people and recreates himself by getting into touch with the masses. Now that there is a chance of getting the Graud Army to hold their National encampment in this City next year we ought to make arrangements for a snap- shot census, as by counting in the vet- erans and the Klondikers who will be here about the same time we may get up something like a Chicago population boom and revive our Two Miliion Club like a giant refreshed from its slumbers. A social philosopher asserts there is no intrinsic d:fference between the Chinese custom of putting choice viands on the graves of the dead and our custom of cov- ering them with flowers, bnt this view overlooks the fact that an offering of flow- ers is emblematic of a sentiment essen- tially spiritual, while the funeral pigs and chickens implies an ins:inct which not even sorrow can riise above the level of a carnal appetit Itis said that the authorities of the Bos- ton Public Library exclude from the gen- eral reader not only books of a licentious character, but those economic works whicn are supposed to tend to extreme socialism and anarchy. A man who should desire to see 2 new work by Henri Kochefort would be denied it on the ground that it would corrupt his morals. The Bostoa librarian, it seems, has the same views on this subject as the Czar of Russia and the late Louis Naprleon, FULL STEAM AHEAD. The new management of Tr CaLr has to announce to its readers this morning that it will continue the course which has been pursued in the past. It will go for- ward in the work of upholding the principles of the Republican party and advancing by all means in 1ts power every interest and industry of the Pacific Coast. It will be the organ of no personal or corporate interest opposed to the public benefit. It will have no contest with men who are striving to promote the enterprises of California and the welfare oi its people, but, on the contrary, will lend a lelping hand and cordial co-operation to all who are working for the general good. TaE CALL since its foundation has been known as a steadfast champion of legiti- mate journalism, honest politics, business enterprise, and legislation, municipal, State and Natmonal, which tends to increase th he prosperity of the people. Its managers have been changed, but its course has been straightforward and direct from the beginning. On that same course it will co fidently relies upon the intelligence of the past. niinue to hold its steadfast way, and con- people to sustain it in the future as in the It is a common saying that we are about to enter upon a new era of prosperity. All the signs of the times are auspicious to every portion of the American Union, and particularly so to California and her sister States of the Greater West. The full harvest of the new era can be reaped only by a generous and patriotic spirit of co-operation among all classes of the peop le. Personal jealousies, business rivalries and selfish antagonisms will produce evils wherever they have much effect, and THE Cary will set itself resolutely to the-task o crushing them. f counteracting them, defeating them and Within a comparatively short time THE CALL will remove from its present quarters to that stately and commanding building which, rising tower-like from the business center of the City, stands as a monument to the civic patriotism and business enter- prise of its builder. and mechanism which modern ingenuity h Neither labor, skill nor money will be sp news, editing it with care, and supplying it In its new home TuE CArL will be equipped with every appliance as devised for the advantage of journalism. ared to fit it for the purpose of collecting promptly to its readers. It will, therefore, bave better facilities than ever for accomplishing success in its undertakings, and goes forward with the new era confident ot sharing in the prosperity that is expected for all. The new management of THE CALL ent ers upon the work where the old left it off. It will fight for California and labor not only for her industry at home, but for her commerce on the seas. It has equipped i tself for the new departure, prepared for friend or foe, and enters upon the voyage with the standing orders, *‘Full steam ahead.” DYEA VS, SKAGUAY. The new Alaskan seaports, Dyea and Skaguay, are engaged in a fierce battle for supremacy in the Klondixe traflic. Two months ago the world knew prac- tically nothing of either place; now ever; telegraphic page in the daily press con- tains something about each of them. Dyea and Skaguay are the deportation points for the passes en route overland to Dawson. Both settlements are located | on Skaguay Bay st the head of Lynn Ca- nal, and they glare at each other across the water like abbreviated modern edi- | tions of Rome and Carthage. 1f you contemplate a journey to Kion- | dike and listen forajew moments to a partisan of Dyea you will resoive to avoid Skaguay as a landing place, and you will keep the resolution until you run across the boomer from Skaguay, who will con- vince you that there is ouly one port on Lynn Canal and that its name is not Dyea at all. Town-lot speculators are blowing their horns in both villages. In yesterday's CALL appeared two interviews, one with a man from Skaguay, the other with a loyal representative of the rival port. It should be understood that Dyea is the landing place leading to Chilcoot Pass; Skaguay the one leading to White Pass. “Don’t go to Skaguay,” cries the warn- ing voice of the Dyeanian. ‘“White Pass has obstacles that you will never sur- mount. The trail isn’t complete; it lies across a ten-mile swamp; if you startthat way you will only have to come back and begin right at Dyea. Everybody who is familiar with his job takes the Dyea route, where the journey is easy and delightful. This Skaguay business is a delusion and a snare.”” “Steer clear of Dyea,” yells the orator | of the other side. *“There is so much en- joyment traveling over White Pass that when a person gets dcwn on the other side he longs to come back and do it over again. Skaguay is destined to be the me- tropolis of Alaska. Look at her new wharf and then glance over at the enemy. When you want to land a horse at Dyea you have to push him off the gangplank a mile and a half from shore and trust in luck to have him reach the land by swimming. At Dyea the tide washes away half your | goods and you are forced to pull, haui and fieht to get the remainder out of the mixed-up mass.” While this warfare rages miners at both points are becoming discouraged ome by one at the delay caused by the freight blockade and are planning to return to Puget Sound rather than lie around at the head of Lynu Canal all winter, filing up with the hardtack and bacon intended for consumption on the Klondike. At the present writing no report has been re- ceived to the effect that Dyea and Skag- uay have closed in final confl.ct and that one of the duellists is about to be wiped from the face of the earth. Wten the re- lief expeditions sail to Alaska a few months hence they will doubtless find Dyea and Skaguay each on hand, offering a glittering bonus to every vessel that will spurn the inducements of the rival port. THE VICTORIA JUBILEE. A writer in the Paris Figaro, comment- ingon the prominent part iaken by Amer- ican miilionaires at the celebration of the completion of the sixty years of Victoria’s reign, makes some comparisons between | England and America, showing that we have more reason fora great jabilee over the past sixty years of progress than our British cousins. About thirty American millionaires were in London to swell the honors of the Queen, and the Frenchman intimates that | they were far more lavish in their ox- pense on feasts and entertainments than | were the English themselves. 1t was a striking illustration to the British of what wondrous things have been accomplished by their alienated colonies. These thirty Americans, according to Figaro, represented an aggregate of $800,- 000,000. The Vanderbilts were there, the Goulds, Carnegie, Fiagler, William Wal- dorf Astor, Levi Morton, Whitelaw Reid and Mrs. Bradley Martin. The<e visitors were pouring vast sums into British cof- fers—in one case $12,000 was paid for two months’ rent of & London residence—and they gave an unbroken succession of ban- quets and festivals, England, as the Frenchman says, might well wish to claim these princes of wealth as her subjec's, and regret her lost sovereignty over such a wealth-producing country as the United States. The gossip of the display of America’s financial nobility in the British capital is not important save asa surface indica- tion of a real American superiority. The growth of America during the Victorian era makes a splendid showing when com- pared to what the British had to rejoice over on that occasion. Since 1841 the pop- !ulion has inereased about 20,000,000 souls in the United Kingdom, including about 9,000,000 British subjects who have emi- grated, while in the same period the ynited States increased 57,000,000. Dur- ing Victoria’s reign the increase in Eng- land’s wealth has teen fouriold—from $12,500,000,000 to $50,000,000,000. In about the same period the wealtn of the United States swelled from $4,000,000,000 to $75, 000,000,000, whict equals an eighteen-fold | increase, or nearly fivefold as great a ra. | tio of erowth as that of England. | Our foreign trade is not so great in the | gross as England’s, but the rate of increase in s:xty years has been much more rapid. England expanded hers from $700,000,000 | to $3,500,000,000, but the United States, <tarting with but $200,000,000, has now | $1,500,000,000. Our increase was seven and a half times in sixty years, and Englana’s was five times. In the matter of manu- factures for the Victorian era of sixty years the English have only doubled their output, while in forty years the United States has multiplied hers by nine. The comparison is so very favorable to our country that we can rejoice wiih the | English in their great jubilee without the | slightest trace of jealousy. The best pace | that che British can set will but bestir us | to move a little faster. The development | of a virgin country had much to do with | this surpassing of the older country, but | it was not the sole reason. Proper credit | must be given to the American men who have so ably utilized America’s natural advantages, | CANADA'S EXCESSIVE ROYALTY | | ey | Despite all protests the Canadian Gov- | ernment has decided to enforce the pay- ment of the exorbitant royalty imposed by the new mining regulations adopted | with special reference to the goldfields of | the Northwest Territory. The new laws | have already been sent from Victoria to the Yukon, and with them have gone an advance guard of men who will carry the law into effect. The Ministry at Ottawa } will change its poliey in regard to the roy- | alty only uvon the declaration of the Gold | Commissioner that such a regulation is | absolutely impracticable. | Americans are not the only ones to raise their voice azainst these exactions. The vevple of British Columbia are almost a | unit in opposition to the measure. At a | mass-meeting in Victoria Friday night a | resolution was nnanimously passed con- | demning the huge royalty sought to be | levied, and denouncing the proposed | scheme of reserving every alternate claim | to be disposed of by the Dominion Gov- | ernment as from time to time it may see | fit. The Victorians desire the framer of the obnoxious regulations to make a trip to tie coast and learn the facts of the situa- tion. These protests are not based on friendship for Americans; they are based on the interests of the peopie of British Columbia. British mine-owners on the Klondike do not relish yielding up 20 per cent of their | old output to be shipped to the eastern | part of the Dominion. Business men and residents generally of the west coast of the | provinces look upon tne royalty and re- | served-mine laws as gross infringement upon their rights. They want to build up their section of country; they want to see their fellow-citizens who bravea hard-. ships in order to secure claims in the new placer digzings of the north get the full benefit of their daring and enterprise. The people of Victoria and the adjoining country were, perhaps, the first to send expeditions to Alaska when the golden tale was brought down two months ago, |and probabdly the majority of claim- | bolders on the Klondike and its tribatary streams are subjects of the Queen. If the | Dominion Government persists in its | plan to have every other cluim reserved | for its own profit by means of sale, it amounts to the shutting out of British miners of small means as well as poor | miners of any other nationality. | While Americans regard the Canadian | measures in question as cinci-laws, it is a | sort of consolation to know that the | British themseives are doing the most violent kicking in regard to them, and we | trust the protests of people of the Do- minion wiil have the effect of bringing about the desirad repeal. CONTRASTED STATESMEN, | | In the current number of the Forum Senator George F. Hoar has an article which contains iustruction and food for thought, and which, at the rame time, is written in a commendably popular way. Under the title “Siatesmanship in Eng- land and in the United States” the dis- tinguished gentleman discusses at lengih the advantages and disadvantages of the respective countries so far as appertiains to the making of great statesmen ana diplomats. While admitting that we have rarely bere men like those so numerous in Eng- land, who are trained to National affairs from youth, the writer avers that we have here what England lacks—the training for larger service by the town meeting, the city council, and the exercise of the Btate, legislative and administrative offices, as well as that interest in public affairs which belongs to a republic, where every man teels 8 responsibility and expects to understand what is going on. A knowledge of parliamentary law is acquired aimost asa matter of course in this country; and a well-educated man, stepping suddenly ifrom private life into the public service, carries with him an in- telligent interest, an extent of informa- tion and an aptness for work which the ordinary Englishman dees not poss@ss. ‘Whiie the English statesman is devoted to the glory and greatness of Engiand, in extending her empire and maintaining her honor, “the great object and purpose of all his statesmanship is that he shall be able to hand down his broad acres, his ancestral dwelling and his siately trees from eldest son to eldest son for genera- tions to come, though a thousand paupers starve in their hovels, and though every fifth person in the kingdom must, some time in his life, receive aid from the state.”’ In contradistinction to the above, it is always the great object of American statesmanship “to keep up wages and to educate a whole people, who shall dwell ?n happy and comfortable homes, and not in huts or hovels.”” Ours is a government by the people; Engzland is governed by a class of gentry. The English governing clzsses are trained for politics just as men are trained for law, medicine, divinity. The aristocracy rules. ‘‘But,” observes Senator Hoar, *in the main, John Bull loves alord, and likes to be poverned by a gentleman.” The English statesman continues in the public service during his whole life, while in our country term of service may be long or short, as popular feeling sways one way or the other, and a Senator or Representative in office is only certain of the length of the term for which he was elected. Thus he seeks to accomplish his chief aims—to make his mark—in a short time. We do things in a hurry under our form of government, while the English statesman simply bides his time and is never in a hurry. Our statesmen cannot afford to wait; the Englishmen can. The reason why no Madisons, Hamiitons, Websters, Clays, Sumners, Lincolns, are founi in this country to-day is because the present time demards another kind of service for the Republic. When men like these are needed they will appear. “What is wanted in this country now,” concludes the writer, ‘*is honest, faithful, industrious and intelligent management of its business affairs, both in State and Nation. And this the generation abun- dantly supplies.” MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE. The idea of establishing in this City a museum of architecture, where an exhibit of building materials and appliances, to- gether with a collection of specimens of high-class workmanship, will be alwayson view, and where lectures will occasionally be delivered on subjects of interest to the building community, is a very worthy one, and the local chapter of architects deserves praise for its earnest efforts to put the propgsition into material shape. Such an institution will be of valuable service to the City, to augment the dignity and beauty of which, through new and harmonious designs in buildings, will be one of the substantial results. The project is an excellent one and merits popular en- couragement. COMPULSORY INSURANCE GERMANY. IN About three years sgo the Government Printing Office published a report of John Graham Brooks of the Labor Bureau on com- pulsory insurance as carried on in Germany. Neither Mr. Brooks’ report nor the editorials which some of the leading newspapers com- menting on the subject brought vefore the public explained the matter in a manner comprehensible to the average workingman, Mr. Brooks reported very favorably about it, but he ¢game 10 the conclusion that it would be advisable to watch the effects of theiawin Germany a little longer before introducing similar measures in this country, ss it might be possible that & still better method of opera- tion, or at least an improvement of the pres- ent system, might be discovered in Germany and of which the United States could take advantage. It may be true, as Mr. Brooks said, that some of the expectations which (he enthusi- astic framers of the law originally entertained have not been fully realized, and it may also be true that the tendency of the Social Demoe- racy has in no way been checked by it, but these are surely matters of secondary import- ance. The main and predominant object of the law was and is to benefit the working people, and this object has b2en fully realized. The German compulsory insurance law, which went into operation in 1883 and has since been slightly amended two or three times, provides that all employes must be in- sured against sickness, accident, invalidity and old age. The word employe is taken in the full meaniug of its sense and comprises all classes, such as Government officials, clerks, bookkecepers, salesmen and sales- women, mechanics, laborers and servants; in | fact, everybody who is working for salary or | wages, except those employes who earn 2000 marks or more per annum. Every employer has to see to it that one and all his employes | are so insured within ten days after entering his service. If he fails to do so he (the em- ployer) is held responsible and liable to a fine of from 5 to 1000 marks, sccording to the gravity of the offense or neglect, whatever it may be. Every large town or district has its own insurance oftice, which is controlled by the Government, The officers are elected by the people and do not receive any remunera- tion for their services, which are considered nonorable, and In many cases even the physi- cians are not pald, s many of them have volunteered their services lor this philan- thropic purpose.” The cost of insurance is therefore reduced to & minimum and not felt by the lowest wage-earner, and even this small cost is half borne by the employer, un- less he has made a special agreement to the contrary with his employes. 1i an employe becomes disabled from earning wislivelihood by anyjof the causes above named he receives a weekly cash payment, which is always sufficient to protect himself and fam- ily from want, while doctor’s service and medicine are furnisned to him free of charge, and, if necessary, he will be placed in a hospital. In this way thousands of fami- lies have been saved from becoming a burden to charitable institutions or the benevolence of their fellow-citizens, Some other European countries, notably Austria and Switzerland, have aiready followed Germany’s lead in in- troducing similar bills in their respective leg- islative bodies. The writer of this article has taken much jnterest in the workings of this law, and two years ago he interviewed more than & thou- sand laborers in the large manufacturing cen- ters ot the empire. He spoke to clerks, book- keepers, servants and officials about this in- surance law,but he never met asingleem- | ploye who was not most entausiastically in favor of it. That ougnt to speak for itself and ought to convince the most skeptically in- clined persons that the benefits resulting to the working people from this law is no mere illusion. WILLIAM LODTMAN. DEATH OF A DESCENDANT OF JOSEPH WARREN. The Iowa papers contain extended accounts of the death of Henry P. Warren, which oc- currea at Council Biuffs recenily. Mr. War- ren was one of the early seitiers of the Middle West and & man of distinguished ancestry and nigh character. He was born in Palmyra, N. Y, in 1820. His father, Horace Newton Warren, was a direct descendant of Joseph Warren of Bunker Hill. H. P. Warren went to Illinols a boy with his Iather’s family and became well acquaint- ed with the leading men who were active In the development of the country. Abraham Lincoln was often & guest at the Warren home i Dilino s. Black Hawk, the famous Indian chief, was well known to Mr. Warren and made several presents to indicate the kindly | feeling which he entertained for the young In 1 846 Mr. Warren married, at | daughter ot Rev. Dr. age. moved West and entered the mer- cantile and banking business, first at Fair- field and subsequently at Council Binffs, lowe. He took a deep interestin the Califor- nia cmigration and outfitted several young men who were anxious to challenge fortune in the gold field-. The living children of Mr. Warren are Dr. Horsce N. Warren of Missouri Valley, Iows; Fitz H. Warren of Omaha, Mrs. Hugh M. Burke of San Francisco and Mrs. J. 8, Stande- FROM NEWSEOY TO UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT. i A N From newsboy to university president in twenty years—such is the remarkable l%flp frnr: the streets of Chicago futo fame by Jerome H. Raymond, says the Times-Herald. (l;mmf poverty and s trife, against conditions that would have dismayed & Titan, backed by in ol;u e ble pluck and ceaseless industry, he worked his way from the chrysalis s'age of a news n?ls life and bloomed into an “Admirable Crichton,” to whom study was easy nvnd. learning q»m:huy acquired. He was a plucky little Chicago newsboy twenty years ago. Now, at the age of 20, he has passed many of his seniors in the educational race and has just been made president of the West Virginia University. 9 4 Mr. Raymond is the youngest coilege president in the United States. His career in search of knowledge s almost unparalleled. Few men have been able to climb the ladder of learn- ing 50 quickly s this Chicago newsboy. Many men are able to assimilate kuowledge, but few have also developed ability to become brilliant teachers of the learning they have imbibed. Knowledge grected Raymond with a smile and welcomed him in the halls of learning. He galloped his way through college and immediately became \'n‘.m'\ble Assn edurgmr. He was called to the head of the West Virginia iostitution from the University of Wisconsin, where he has held the chair of soctology for the last two years. THE KLONDIKE. PERSONAL. ork is on & visit F. H. Newberry of New here. Albert Miller of Washington, D. C., s at the Palace. the City. Ex-Judge S. M. Buck of Eureka, Humboldt County, 1s in town. Brewster C. Kenyon of Los Angeles is spend- ing afew deys nere. George W. Pettigrew, 8 mine-owner of Rands- burg, is at the Russ. Sheriff T. M. Brown of Eureka was among last nighv’s arrivals. arrived here yesterday. C. E. Locke of Chicago arrived here yester- day, and is at the Palace. Charles Downing, a business man of Ar- mona, is one of the recent arrivals. Ex-United States Marshal George E. Gard of Los Angeles is among the arrivals at the Pal- ace. Ex-Superior Judge A. Hewell of Modesto fs spending Sunday in the City. He got here yesterday. M. Pluth, a mining and business man of the old and widely known camp of Calico, arrived here yesterday. Mrs. M. J. Curtain aud Miss Genevieve Fahey of Sonora, Tuolumne County, are guess at the Cosmopolitan, Miss May Gibbons, one of the teachers in the Sonora public school, is among the recent arrivals at the Cosmopolitan. E. 0. Miller, the attorney of Visalia, former- 1y Register of the United States Land Office in the Visalia district, is at tne Lick. William A. Farish, a well-known mining en- gineer and expert of Denver, who has been on a visit to the mother lode, is in the City. Henry G. Luyties, an extensive wine-dealer of New York, who has been here for several weeks past and conferring with various wine- growers in regard 1o the purchase of their crops, is at the Occidental, Senator E. F. Bert returned here yesterday after several weeks’ absence in the East. He says business at Tacoma, Sea'tle, Spokane, Helena, Fargo and othier places, which he vis- ited auring his absence, as weli as others on the Atlantic seaboard, shows decided indica- tions of improvement, although none of them have such solid prosperity as ihis City and State. Senator R. Linder of Tulare is at the Lick. confidence to everybody in the valley and that long time. “Itisthe first time in about ten vears,” said Senator Linder, “that the farmer has got what he ought for his wheat. As a consequence tney are feeling greatly en- couraged. Business has brightened and things are taking on a new color.” CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y. Aug. 14.—At the St Cloud, J. W. Knox; Stuart, J. W. Raphaei; Grand Union, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Soule; New Amsterdam, P. Greenberg, Mrs. C. &, Phillirs, Mrs. A. L Smith; Everett, Mrs. Coughlan; Broadway Central, M. Crowley, Mr. and Mrs. R. Pateks; Imperial, A. C. Lawrence; Albert, J. Votyoka; Continental, Mrs. Corson. E Hariman left the St. Cloud and sailed on the Etruria for Liverpool. J. B. Crowley is here buying. WITH YOUR COFFEE. Tibbs—She is not only a fine-looking girl, but they say she has £50,000 in her own right. Nibbs—What would you do if you had a wife like thai? Squibbs—Nothing.—Judy. Bingo—I want to exchange this tandem for two wheels. £ Agent—What’s the matter? +I find that I am not strong enough to ride it.”'—Life. Aun Irishman was riding a frisky horse. The animal presen tly got its hi:d foot into one of the stirrups. “By jabbers,” said the Irishman, *f ye're going to get up, it's time for me to get dowm"TLoxndon Truth. “Whut some people call er hopeful disposi- tion,” said Uncle Eben, “ain’ nuffin’ ut lazi- ness an’ trustin’ terluck.”—Washington Star, bathing costume.” “Naturaily not. When I admire a beautiful picture I do not criticise the frame,’—P ick- Me-Up. Greeable—Is that your baby? Crawdon—No, sir; the possession is on the other side. He is not my baby: I'm his father. —Bosion Transcript. *My face is my fortune,” she said, with en- thusiasm. “No doubt of it,” said the manager, he signed a contract with the bearded lady.— Harper's Bazar. “Have you any witness to this assault on you?” asked the Judge. ‘es, Judge, I was there myself,” answered Fliegende Blaetter. Hany Living in straitened circumstances is the cause of many a man going crooked.—Savan- nah (Ga.) Press, If youdon’t learn to laugh at trouble you will not have anything to laugh at when you ford of Council Bluffs, are old.— Atchison (Kan.) Giobe, J. Jerome Smith ot Stockton is a visitor to | C. B. Zuck, who is at the Palace from Butte, | He says the high price of wheat has given | business is far better than it has been fl)l'll “You do not say what you think of my new | | | A stranger from some lone retreat Passed slowly down a city street; And ever and anon he gazed, As i his mind were all amazed, To see the piles of merchandise, Whose tops rezched well into the skies, And busy clerks rush to and fro. He paused to ask “What mace it 0" A clerk gave answer from his place, With pity written on I's face, “The Klondike.” And still prrplexed, he wandered on, And found in sadness, all alone, A maiden shedding bitter tears Which 1il became her tender years. “Wha: mishap pow, my little mald ? Come, teil me all, be not afral And then he stcoped 10 hear «My father speeds him far awsy. “And pray where has your father gone?” The little maiden answered, “On The Klondike,” r s The poor man stared, then went his way— Ard down the street a party ga’ Of sturdy Iads ana fair youug girls, With laughiag eyes and sunny curls, Came hurrying past him, and he heard Agaln that strange, mysterions word, As one halloo’d down the street To those behind, wi.h lagaing feet, *‘Lome on, and let us bid adlen To Charlie, who is going to The Kiondike.” The stranger paused. Hlis cares woula cease. Here wa,, at last, a scene of peace. An ol1 man sat bes:de h s door, Wh.ch roses clambered gayly o'er. And nodded, while the summer breeze (ame softly through the swaying trees. «lie dreams of heaven,” tue stranger thought. Whea suddenly his keen ear caught The old man's whisper as he turned, And on his brain these words were burned, “The Klondike " The stranger fled—and day by day He wanders slowly on his way, A weary soul with grief oppressed, A spirit vainly seeking Test. His eve gleams with a frenzy strange, That time or place will never change. He peers Into each passing face, ‘Then starts agatn upon his race. And as he leaves them ail behind, ‘Theie words float sadly on the wind, “The Kiondike.” Avgust1ll. M Portland, Or NNTE M. BopE. BUFFALO HENRY. Chicago Times-Herald. Before Mr. Hansbrough was sent to the United States Senate from North Dakota he held some minor offices in his State, and be- fore that he used to run a little paper in the roaring town of Devil's Luke. It was an aver- age country paper, just as he is an average country editor. Soxmetimes it came outon time and sometimes it didn’t, but it made money—plenty of li—because all of the regis- trations of Government lands in an immense territory were published in it. Hansbrough d1d so well, in fact, that he was able to turn it over to an assistant and put in his time whooping up the voters. He is notmuch of a humorist, but he likes a joke, even when it is on himself, and one day he told me oi his first attempt at newspaper paragraphing. He was working on & small daily in San Jose, Cal.. and the editor of it was an old fel- low, remarkable chiefly for laziness. Onedav he came to Hansbrough. then a young re- | orter, with this statement: “Son, I'm feel- ng poweriul weak to-day, an’ if you can get me out ’bout half a yurd o’ paragraphs I'll g, home an’ rest.”” With his heart beating like a triphammer because of the honor thrust upon him, Hansbrough said, ‘‘Why, certainly, cer- tainly,” and the old man went home. Arming himseif with a hal-hundred exchanges, Huns- brough buckled to his work. He ran across a dispaich to the Chicago Times, siating that five Indians had been found dead on a Da- kota prairie, and that they were supposed to have been voisoned by buffalo meat put in their way by hunters. He remembered the old ballad of ““Villikens and his Dinab,” and how ‘‘a bottle of cold pizen lay down by her side.” He remembered that the family name of buffalo is bison, and he wrote: “A Dakota dispatch says that five Indians have been found dead on the prairie. They are supposed to have been slain by buffalo meat paisoned and put there by hunters. Like the catas- trophe of ‘Villikéns and_his Dinnh,’ this is evidently a case of cold bison.” Helaughed when he wrote ir. _ They were days when it was customary to itaiicize puns that appeared in the editorial columns. Looking over the proofs that night Hausbrough found that the printers haa used the word ‘poison.” He called the foreman aud Inboredly explained the joke to him. The foreman howled with laughtcr, said 1t was the best thing that was ever written on the puper and promised (o correct the proof with nis own hands. Hansbrough went to bed satisfied, and the foreman, as subse- qreatly developed, took six driuks, Next morning, by the exercise of great self-control, Harsbrougn kept aAway from the office until 10 o'clock. Not being able to stand it longer, he rushed in, gathered uUp & paper from the business counter and went info the editor's Toom to read his purs- graphs and laugh. Itwas there all right: “A Dakota dispatch says that five Indians have beea found d-ad ‘on the p-airic. Theyare supposed to have been s.ain by buffaio meat, poisoued and put there by huite e the gcatastropne of “Vilikens and His Dinab,’ this is evidently a case of cold buffalo, with ‘buf- {;‘:;,,‘J' Inlméwa’} They cilled him ‘Buffalo 2 San Jose 8010 the Tersitory until he bad to quit and e A BACHELOFR’S tLUNDER. Detroit Free Press. *“With a little more horse sense I might have been Governor ot a great State once,” laughed & man who is so thoroughly out of politics that he usually forgets to vote. ‘I was popu- lar at home, was widely known, had held sey- eral minor offices and had my eye on the Pres- idency. Iwasa bnchr]n'r, well off and thought 1y highly of mysweif. m“"\{"ni: S minated for the Governorsnip T started right out ts help do my own cam- paigning. We decided to clean up the coun- try aistricts first ani mass our forces on the i cities at the finsh, My first date wasat Miliside. Iecalled upon several of the local leaders, not forgettiig to dandle the ba- bles and vow that each was the hand- somest litile thing 2 had seen in many 2 dav. When I came.to speak there was a goodly sprinkling of rival maidens in the au- dienca, Ithrew all thy admiration possible into my features, admited the solitude of g bacheior's existence ani vowed that the rea- con 1 haa never married was because I had never been to Mil.side, before. There was great hilarity, and 1t was':vident that I had made a hit. I had captured the girls, and each one of them could cortrol at least a sin- gle vote. But it was such a good thing that I dectded to push it along. In every village and hamiet where I went I made the sume assertion and cecured the same evidence of approval. But there came the day of judgment. My oppo- nents got hold of what I nad lone. They toid the story from the stump and through the press, charging me with insincerity toward the tender sex und toward eve:y one else, for that matter. It became notorieas that 1 haq said the same thing to all babiesand all lasses, The mothers and the girls were against me i a man,” and 1 was lost under a landslide, though'the remainder of the ticket won, | quit politics and the State. MEN AND WOMEN. Miss Jessie Livermore of Chicazo fs a suc. cessful designer of art glass. Antwerp is going to have a great celebration on the three hundredth anniversary of &ir Anthony Van Dyck’s birth, March 22, 1599, A bronge replica of the marble st Father Marquette, the intrepid explorer, wh, was the earliest ploneer in Michigan, was r. cently unveilea in Marquette, & City of ihg; State which was named in his honor. Dr. Charcot’s statue, by the sculptor guire, is mnenrly finished and will soop crected in the Saipetriere Hospital, w Charcot made his experiments on hysteria and hypnotism. Falguire has finished the skeic for a statue of the late Cardinal Lavig the city of Bayonne. M Bertha Stoneman, a student in the botanic department of Cornell University for several years, who received the degree of doe- tor of philosophy there in 1595, has been ap- pointed professor of botany in tbe Huguenot College at Cape Colony, south A ica. She sailed from New York July The Earl of Leicester has give toward the fund to rebuild toe Jen: firmary, at Norwich, England, on jubliee projects. He is the eldesi son of the first Earl, Thomas William Coke, for hali a century representative of Norfolk in the House of Commons, and himself has been Lord Lieu- tenant of the county {or as long a period. At arecentsale of curios in Brussels one of Victor Hugo’s straw hats sold for $340, and the goose quill with which he wrote “Napo- leon the Little” brought $720. It wasfastened to a sheet of paper on which was written: *I beg M. Victor Hugo to certify that it was with this pen tnat he wrote ‘Napoleon le Petit.’ (Signed) Camille Barru.” It was “(Signed) Vietor Hugo.” Tne souff used by the Pope is made fn Amer- fca. This particular snuff goes direet from Baltimore to the Vatican. It is the highest priced snuff in the world, and its value is in- cremsed several times sbove the original cost after the customs duties have been paid o the Italian Government. His Holiness likesdainty, pleasing odors, and before 1t is packed the snuff is Jiberally sprinkled with attar of roses. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy straet. s CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend's® TLrarCE Se SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Mo tgomery. * . Civil et pensious of §500 each have been granted to the widows of Anthony Trollope anda Charles Dickens the younger, “in cone sideration of the literary merits of their huse bands end their straitened circumstances.” Get Your Tickets to the Klondike. The Morthern Pecific Steamship Company has put the magnificen: steamer City of Seaitle {nto service tetwe n Tacoma, Seattle, Juneau and Dyea. Steamer leaves Tacoma and ¢eatile Au- gust 15 and 26, For tickets and information call at the Northera Pacific Ra lway Office, 368 Mar- ket stree:, S. F. T. K. Siateler, General Agent. ST SENSIBLE.—AD old sew-captain writes to J.C. Ayer & Co. that he never goes to sea without & supply of Ayer's Pi ls. — e 1¥ afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp- son’s Eye Water. Druggists sell it at 25 cents. e George W. Julian, the drst man who carried the anti-siavery doctrize to Southern Indi- ana, is a tall, finely buili man, six feet two inches tall, and, although he is in rea'ity be- coming weak from his advanced age, looks perieetly sound and strong. KEW TO-DAY. AT AUCTION TUESDAY. TUESDAY .. --AUGUST 17, 1897, At 12 o’clock noon, AT OUR SALESROOM, 638 MARKET ST., Opposite Palace Hotel, San Francisco. Elegant Western Addition Home. N W. corner (No. 2900) Bush and Lyon sts elegant modern residence of 16 rooms and bath; house fiuished in naiursl woods: porce'ain bath: elegant b llinrd-room: ot 25x75 feet. Terms: Cash above mortgage of $3000. Western Addition Investment, _E line (No. 804 to No. $12) Webster st., 25 feat N. of Fulton: improvemen s consist of 5 co tages of 4 and 5 rooms and bath ¢ach: rents $100 per i lot 95 fe-t front by irregular depth. Hayes-Street Residence. N.line (No. 806) Hayes st., 75:5 feef . Webster; 2-story bay-window house o é:zon:: and bath; elegantly finished thron : lot 2 ard bach aghout: lot 26x Western Addition Cottage. N. llne (2826) Bush st., 100 feet E. of Lyon: bay-window co.isge: 6 rooms, , laund, ot 25x125 feet, Terms: 14 cash, balance 1, 2and 3 years, 7 per cent. g, Corner Residence, Western Addition, SE. corner Golden Gate ave. and Scott st.—2- story bav-window house of 9 rou; 3 SR ms and bath; lot Golden Gate Avenue Investment. N. line (No. 728) Golden Gate ave, 137:6 E. ot Gough st.—Doubie house, with store and iiving- rooms below: ¥ roomsand bath above: renta fo. #51; lot 27:6x120 through to £im nve, . Mission Fmproved Property. SE. corner Nineteenth and Hartford sts.—Im- provem nts, 3 houses: corner house 8 rooms an Ecottages of 5 and 3 roons eachs tot 75586 "4 Richmond Cottage. 8. line (No. 1917) Point Lobos ave., 107:8 W, of Sth ave.—Cottace of 6 roows and bath; stal 2 horses; lot 25x100. e toc Mi:s’on Cottage. No. 543) Laidley st., 122:11 NE, from s ot trlilo;cu)::”of 8 rooms: water ving spring; San Mateo e eciric- Castro-st. cabie; lot S0X10C feet, — o o 8¢ Inside Property. NW. line (No. 82) Perry st, 197:6 feet NF., :rom 84 su.—2 houses. front and rear: lot 20x80 ect. EASTON, ELDRIDGE & CO., Office and Salesrooms 638 Market St. (Oppusite Palace Ho a.) DER - can be given secretly at home Lt)s harmiess. rugghts, or. writy FULLTRFORMATION GLADLY MANED FRES.