The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 16, 1897, Page 4

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL ONDAY. UGUST 16, 1897. Proprictor. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, l | | SUBSCRIPTION RATES-Postage Free: i Dally ard Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 | Daily and Sunday CALL, one year,by mall.... 6.00 Datly ¢nd Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 8.00 Daily end & CALi, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and CaLL, one month, by mall. .65 Eunday CALL, one year, b A W LKLY CALL, Onie ye 0 Marke: Street, Fan Fraucisco, Californta. Telephone............. <reeee. MalD—1868 EXHTORJ? ROOMS: B17 Clay Street. Telephone Main—-1874 | BRANCH OFFICES: Montgomery s reet, corner Clav; open until | 0 o'clock Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open until 9:30 o'clock. £, corner Sixteenth und Mission sireets, open 9 o'clock. | 8 Mission street, open until 9 o’clock. 3 Mission strwet, op 11 9 o'clock. | 1505 Polx street; open nntil 9:30 o'clock. | NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streeis. open till 9 o'clock. | OAKLAND O CB 908 Broad way. EASTERN OFFICE: 24 Park Row. New York Clty | DAVID M. FOL tern Manaser. THE FOR ALL. | CALL SPEAK THE SUMMER MONTHS. | Areyou foing 1o the country ona vacation® It v0.1t ik 10 trcuble for us to forward THE CALL to your sddress. Do not let 1t miss you for you will left at miss it. (rders given 1o the carrier or Business Office will recelve prompi attention. N0 EXTRA CHAKGE. Fif:y cenis per month or sum me: < The sun of pro-parity never shines on a man who gets out of around. The calamity howler sees the smoke | arising from the factory chimnevsand swears the new tariff is going to blot out the sun, The story that big game has been run out of the Klondike country by the min- ers doesn’t frighten the sports. Any little me will do them for a starter. It is hardly lik ly that W vler would be much annoyed by a recall 10 Spain, but what grinds him is that he would have to leave the 1sland before he had banished all the newspaper corresponden It is sa’d it will require eight months of Dapew’'s tume to sizn the new issne of | New York Central bonds, but this is per- | haps an excuse to enabie him to get away | and practice bicycle riding on the quiet. reported from Princeton that Cleveland's first public act as a citizen of | the cla town has heen to indorse an | application for a license to sell liquor, we | may ‘afely conclude that the old man is still a Democrat. As it is It seems that Ten E , who won the | dismond scul's at the Heniey regatta, is | no more liked on ihe Schuylkill than he was on the Thames. The young man is evidently too brash for an amateur and | hardly too modest for a professional. Gorman’s announcement that heis not | a candidate for re-clection to the Senate | does not imply that he would not take tne office again if it were offered him. He merely wishes it understood that if the Maryland | this yes it will not be his funeral. | A New York tobacco-dealer advertises, ! “Owing to the higher dusies on tobacco | the price of our cigars has not been ad- vancad.” Other dealers might advertise the same way, In spite of the assertions | of the free-iraders the Dingley tariff will | not raise retail prices on any article of | general use. | Bes et { In order that Boston may have some | attractions ior summer visitors, the Police Commissioners have licensed a “summer garden,” where beer and light wines can be sold, and now the Bostonians | are feeling so gay and giddy they are in- clined to regret they ever let the dancing bacchante go. reat Britain has given.notice to terminate her commercial treaty with Germany she no intention of entering upon a tariff war with that country, and | it is said is already making advances to German officials for the negotiation of | another treaty which will be just as satis- | factory at Berlin. The high society expert of the New York Press in deseribing the proper way to address members of Congress says: ““When speaking 10 a United States Sena tor we say, if we are polite, ‘Well, Mr. Senator, soand so has happened.’” Why should we for the mere sake of being polite say Mr. Senator, any more than we would say Mr. Colonel in addressing the commander of 2 regiment? Although G In order {o maintain a claim that Juhus Cae had an intellect greater than that | of Napoleon a writer for the New York | Press asseits tiat while Napoleon could dictate seven letters at the same time, Camsar could write, listen and dictate simultaneous This thows that the | casual historian can at times get upa species of laudatory lying equal to any- thing in campaign biography. The New York Times complains that while the nopulation of the city inereases, the number of citizens who were born and bred in New York becomes proportion- ately smaller each year,while those whoare descended from generations of New York- ers are actually scarce. In spiteof the complaining tone 1n which these facts are stated the general judgment of the coun- try will consider them evidences that New York is improving. The story that there have arisen in England a numver of claimants of the estate of Stephen Girard who propose to | contest the right of Girard College to en- | joy tne fortune he lelt does not disturb Pniladelphia in the least. She has seen too many of her own citizens co to smash while claiming big estates in England to have any doubt ot what will nappen to the Britishers who try to reclaim that sort of moaey on this side of the ocean. The announcement of a movement in South Bend, Ohio, to erect a monument to Scnuyler Colfax is another illustration of the prevailing tendency to gommem- orate our distinguished men in that w. In the last generation the fact that Balti more erected a statue to Washington was sufficient to win for that community the title of “Monumental City,” while now not only every city, but even every town of note in the Union has one or more monuments to mark the fame of its noted men and give evidence how much room there is for improvement in our taste and «kill in the way of sculpture, bed ouly to loaf |y | are neither large nor numerous. | of still greater profit. | in the air, and whether a man bas any of . | question of Cuban policy. CALIFORNIA ANI; THE KLONDIKE. In his lecture on Alatka and the Klondike, Professor Georze Davidson pointed out two facts which should be carefally co: age to the new gold districts. One of nsidered Ly all who think of making a voy- these was the vast difference between the climate of California and that of Alaska, and the other was that California to-day is a greater mining country and richer than any portion of the Yukon country of which we have yet received any authentic information. Tue people of the United States and length of time in the genial climate of Ca particularly those who have livad for any lifornia have no conception of the severity of the winter weather in the Yukon Valley. They may read reportsof the Weather Burean at Washington that the thermom: eter in th> Yukon oceasivnally registers 55 dGegrees below zero, but they do not understand what 1hat means, nor can they reahize until they have experienceld it the amount of discomfort and actual sofferine which such cold imposes upon persons who have been accustomed to the more temperate | regions of the earth. Even if Alaska were more accessible to travel than it is, the extreme cold of its pro- son in the summer it affords to the holida the greater portison of the year it is hardly tims are confined by deep snows and icy g void of the warmth which such walls give, The reports of gold discoveries on the nia. As Professor Duvilson said: than the Klondike, 1882 our product of gold was $719 020,000. go!d, or nearly $1,000,000 evary four days. rich as the Klondike mines may b>. In 1852 the product was $81,300,000 of placer | longed winters would still render it a hazardous place for the average man or woman born in the United States to seek as a place of continued residence. For & short sea- y tourist a delightful region to visit, but for better than a prison-house, where the vic- laciers as impassable as stone walls, but de- even to the inmates of prisons. Klondaike, ev n if no allowance is made for | exazg-ration, do not give auy evidenc that the new district will be equal to Califor- “California is a greater mining country to-day For thirteen years up to Can the Klondike ever reach that?”’ 1. addition to the great gold productiveness of the past, to which Professor David- son referred, we have the rich discoveries o have been made in the frozen north. these facts to any one who is capable of understanding a moral if they read it. Stick to California. word to the wise is sufficienr. f to-day, which are not interior to any that It hardly seems necassary to point the moral of A PROSPERITY EVERYWHERE. Reports from all over the country con- volume of trade. The gain as reprevented by the Clearing-house figures is 8.4 per cent larger than last year, and there is 8 gain of 734 per cent in the exports of mer- chandice. The general average of rail- road securities is higher than st any time for four years, except a brief period in 1805, This is due largely to the beavy d of whratand the zood prices there- for and to the equally large crop of cotton, to say nothing of the increased move- ment of merchandise throughout the country. The industries are generally dull is in | midsummer,but inspite of thismany show substantial gains. We have been treated to the unusual spectacle ol mills reopen- ing in the dogdays and a voluntary in- crease in the wages of millhands in several parts o! the country. The boot and shoe trade is reported as steadily in- creasing with large orders in spite of higher prices. The wool trade isstill in excellent shape with no weakvess in prices apparsnt. The cotton miils are | not working very briskiy, but the demand for cotton goods is said to be gradually gaining. TFailures throughout the conntry These points sufficiently indicate the condition of trade, taking the country as & whole. The Pac fic Coast has been particularly favored in the current revival by the won- derful gold discoverirs. They have led to aremarkable sumulation in business in many Jines of goods. The buasiness of fit- ting out expedinions for the Kiondike has res.lted in a marked distribation of money in San Francisco, and, as the greater part of the Klondike gzold has beea brought here, the port has thus enj profit. But the stimulus give a to public confidence by these discoveries is a source | Gold seems to be itor not it makes him feel buoyant and hopeful. 1f he gets it he is rich; if some other man gets 1t he receives the indirect benefit of it in the increase of trade. So it | isa good thing all around. Tae ontlook for California products con- tinues brilliant. Wheat has been steadity moving up for some time, and the de- mand for it is sharp. Wool, hides, leather, hops, hay, beans, potatoes, provisions, | dried fruit, hogs, sheep and, in fact, al- most all the products of the farm, are sel! ing weli at living prices. This bas led to an improved feelingin country real es- tate, and the farmer is A man of increas- ine importance and credit. Briefly, wherever we look, whether in | the Last or in the West, whether at the manufscturer or the mer- | | chant, we find evidences of prosperity in- creasing on every hand. The country has | farmer, the got beyond the expectation point, and is | now in the sc ual real:zation of its long- delayed hopes for better times. SPAIN OF THE PRESENT DAY. The vprevailing uncertainty with refer- | ence to the existing governmert of Spain, | above which the threatening clouds grew darker when the as<assin’s bullet severed the life-thread of Premier Canovas, makes interesting a brief view of that monarchy asitnow stands. Thearea of Coutinental Spain lacks 70,000 square miles of being as great as that of the State of Texas, while the population is about equal to that of the four States of New York, Penn- yivania, Obio and Iliinois. Since 1890 the expenditures of the king- dom have been largely in excess of the revenues, and the Government now owes, in adaition to its floating debt, about twelve hundred millions of dollars. Spain, in fact, is virtually bankrupt, and the warfare in Cuba has been the chief canse of that financial condition. Spain’s constitution provides that the executive shall rest in the King and tne power to make laws “in the Cortes with the King.” The Cortes is composed of a Senate and Congress, equal in authority. The Senate is the castie of royaity. Half the Senators are either appointees of the King or grandees, generals, admirals, archbishops and supreme heads of Coun- cils of State, War and Navy. The other half of the Senate is elected by the cor- porations of State—that is, the communal and provincial States, the chuarch, the uni- versities, academies, etc.—and by the heay- iest contributors to the funds of the Sta The Congress is formed by deputie’, one to every 50,000 of population, and chosen for terms of five years. The monarch ap- points the President and Vice-Prasident of the Senate; the Congress elects its own officials. The constitution enacts that the mon- arch is inviolable, but his Ministers are responsible, and that all his decrees must be signed by one of thewa. King Aifonso XIII being only 11 years old, his mother, Maria Christina, daoghter of the late Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria, acts | us Queen Regent; but the responsible and authoritative voice of the Spanish Gov- ernment comes from the mouth of the Premier. Th's was instanced very plainly when a newspeper correspondent ex- pressed to the late Senor Canovasa de- sire to interview the Queen Regent on the “The Queen Regent can give yon no info-mation in the premises,’’ replied the statesman. *I alone speak with the voic2 of Spain.” There is en established church, the con- stitution binding the nation ‘‘to maiutain the worship and ministers of the Roman Catholic religion.”” As to education, it is supposed to b2 compulsory, but compul- sion is not enforced, while partly irom political causes and parily from the mis- inue to show a steady increase in the | ed a double | erable pay of most of the teachers public eaucation is, as a rule, very ineflicient, In 1895 (he total exports of Spain amount- ed 1o $660,875,094, the total imports to $686,700,802. The Spanish Colonial possessions in Asia, Africa ana America have a total area of 405 338 square miles and 10,000,000 population. Cuba has been thne most i valuable of all as a revenue-producer, but since the present war for freedom brgan | there, that island has bsen the heaviest | arain on the Spanish treasary. It the | monarchy bo overturnsd in the near | future and a republic parcbance bnilt upon the wreck of royalty, Quba wiil have baen the immediate cause of such revoiu. tion. Theloss of Cuba, it is belleved by students of the situation, will be the signal for the close of the last act in the royal play of Spain, and it certainly looks as if | Cuba was destined before long to become | free. HOPE FOR THE INDIAN. There is hope for the Indian yet, if we may safely judge from the development of his financial instincts as indicated in the reports from the Alaskan coast. There, we are informed, are gathered about 3000 palefaces of all classes and con- ditions, all alike wild with the Klondike tever. They have bundles, boxes and bales of goods—furs, moccasins, blankets, picks, shove's, tents, stove+, rubber suaits, bacon, flour, preserved onions and aried garlic. Many bave more than they can pack and ! more haven't enough to assure them against starvation on the journey to the goidfields of the no:th, even if there was a iikelihood of them all geiting over White | or Chilcoot pass. | A few have well-lined purses and all | bave at least a small supply of ready money. All are armed to the teeth, as it were, and every one of them is supposed to have known Alaska like a book before | he discovered the treacherons sandspit at Dyea or the adverfised allurement of Skaguay's wharf. | These 3000 have flocked thither from all | parts of the country. They want to get | to whera shinine gold nuggets are as plen- | tiful as peanuts in Texas or coffee-beans | in Guatemala. They don't reckon on any | smal] pickincs—they want buckets of gold |dusl. and barrels of bullion. These for- | tune-hunters at the head of Lynn Cana! are eating up their food supplies and los- ing money every day. But we started out to speak of Indian ishrewdneu and sagacity. The red man | shows as much appreciation of money in | these times as he ever exhibited for stove- | pipe hats and red blankets. Heis indus- | triously engaged in rolling up wealth, for | himself in doilars which wers luggel up | to Uncle Sam’s cold yressrves by the over- | ambitious white man. The latter car.not | stand the strain of packing freight over the passes; the husky aborigines do |it with ease and grace, and, taking 1udvunnge of the heiplessness of the | tenderfoot whose ancestors appronriated the best hunting grounds of the Indian and drove him into small fields with sien- der pickings, the noble Ch:leoots raise the rates for packingz whenever they feel like it. If the white man kicks at exorbitant charges the Indian shrugs his shoulders and tells his l1ly-faced brother to carr§ his own bundle. This being quite an impos- sibility, the tenderfoot is soon forced to yield the tull carryine-price if he wants to make progress on his way to the Yukon mines. The Indian hasa cinch and he is | acquainted with the fact. Hs has a Klon- | dike of b1s own down on the Alaskan | coast. He is getting affluent at the ex- | pense of our {riends and reiations. He has | a corner on the packing business, and he is working it for all it is worth. Doubt- les<, Lo will be rich and comfortable and happy when a majority of these tender- feet, poorerif not wiser, are endeavoring 10 work their way back to civilization. | More heaith to the Chiicoot Indian, and | may he enrich himself to the top of his desires at the cost of those people who, in relation to this Klondike business, have rushed northward at the wrong sea-on, blind to conse§uences, and spurning good advice. THE PARIS DUEL. The much-talked-of duel between Prince Henry of Orleans and the Count of Turin was fought in Paris at 5 o’clock yesterday morning. Itisof littleinterest to Amerie cans whetherthe Frenchman or the Italian was the victor in this combat, but it shows conclusively that the matier was a more serious affa.r than the comments of the Engelish | ress would imrylv, The usual mode of dueling in France, which consists of using sharp-pointed florettes on which buttons are attached one and a half inches from the point, was entirely set aside and rapiers were used instead. Rapier and saber duels are con- sidered in Europ: fully as dangerous as pistol duels, and it cannot, therefcre, be said that this affair was anything but a mortal combat, According to thecode of honor acknowl- edged in all Continental armies no officer of onearmy isallowed t0 say anything to a representative of the press detri. mental to the honor of another army. Prince Henry, when making his famous criticism of the Iialian army in Al sinia, knew full well that he was commit- ting a breach of etiquette which could not result in anything but a challenge from a representative irom the insulted army. he Italian honor having thus bean vin- dicated, the hittle episo le will be talked of for a few days in France and Italy and then be entirely forgotten. That any in- ternational oreven diplomatic controversy should arise from this affair is entirely ¢ out of the question, even if Prince Henry ul!ould be so unfortunate as to pay with his life for his indiscretion. ABOUT LIQUEFIED AIR. Professor Elihu Thomson suggests that the waste power of Niagara be used in making liquid air. The Niagara power works through twenty-four nours, and as very few indusiries demand power for the whole day a surplus is either not used or wasted. He believes that the excess of Powercan at certain times of the day be put to us2 in compressing air, to be after- ward liquefied on a iargs :cale. Liquid air is described as virtually compressed air, which remains comp:essed, as it were, even when exposed to atmospheric pressure, Ad lition of heat gives to it pressure and the ability to do work in suitable engines in the usual com pressed- air motors. Since recent methods make it pcssible to obtain large quantities of liquid air by simple means and at moderate exvendi- ture of power, it is believed that vast benefits will accrue to electric engineer:ng, “The weil-known effect of coo.ing by liquid air or like gases a conducting metal like coppers.to almost abolish its resist- ance,”’ cbserves the professor. ‘‘Conse- auentlya conductor so coaled is able to carry verv much larger currents with less loss than at ordinary temperatures.” Liquid air has proved to be one of the most perfect insulators; but the problem that now presents itself is how to obtain the stability or permanence of I'quid air in b This stability is dependent upon the heat insulation provided, and fo per- fect this matter of heat insulation is the aim of scientists and electricians inter- ested in this new means of energy storage, e SNAPSHOTS ALONG THE COAST. The meanest editor in the world is found. It is Mr. Ziegentuss of Fresno. Hear him: “Lightuing struck a brewery the other day. But let Stockton cheer up. ‘Lightning never str.kes twice in the same place. The Trinity Journa’ wexes unduly jubilant over the “Biue Ja.” mine from which the $42,000 nugget was gathered. It should recol- lect that up in the Klondike neighborhood be- fore long there will bo many a blue jay. The San Mateo Leader observes that fencing has become a fad. But really, with ail due re- spect to Dume Fashion, it must be conceded that fencing derives some of its popularity from its usefulness as a barrier between a grain patch and the neighboring hog. 'Twas ever thus! As her reward for turning her pockers inside out and scattering nuggets all over the place Trinity County receives from the Haywards Jou'na’! the title of “Cali- fornia Klondike.” The ingratitude of man sometimes assumes forms which contain not even the element of picturesqueness. In the Albuguerque Citizen 18 found the in- structive announcement that Boston has been “flooded with counterfelt pennies.” The spirit of enlightenment in Boston which gives to the necdless penny a value meriting coun- terfeiture suggests the notion that the wild and wooly West is not yet as bad as it might be. The Richmond Banner professes to know of & man who has invented a flea trap. Doubt- Jess some ob.iging contemporary will now come forth witn the dscovcry of a bright par- ticular genius who bas contrived an instru- ment capable of removing them from the trap without getting them mixed up in the trap- per’s clothes or lost up his sleeve. At Folsom the other day 8 man named Berry experienced the mischance of being hanged. 01 his personal disposition under that severe ordeal, it is related in the Sacramento Bee that he went to the other world with a smile on his lips,and on the same day a Fresno paper states thata man named Berry, with a smile on his lips, arrived in Fresno. “The young man who is single and don’tgo to the mines is missing a golden opporiunity, not only to make himself rich.bat also to make room on the dry-goods boxes for some one e!se to whittle sticks a while.’" That Nug- get is not from the Yukon—it is pub.ished at P acerville, this S:ate, and is one of those things which glitter, but are not gold. Because the Vallejo News expressed a yearn- ing thirst to know what a certain public of- ficial did to earn $600 a year, it was accused ot cailing the certain public official a thief. It would b a serious thing indeed to place that construction upon a simple desire for in- formation in which everybody who is not a pubiic official shares with refereace to every- body who is. The Dixon that “Uncle Jimmy” McGaughey, said to be the oldest liv- ing suryivor of the Mexican war, is liviug at Lawrenceburg, Ky., and attributes his long lite to the fact that he has chewed tobacco since he was 10 years old. Evidently the experience of unusual age has not been of much advantage to the thinker of “Uncle Jimmy” McGaughey. Tribune notes A paragraph quoted by the San Diego Union from a Mazatlan paper discloses the :pectacle of an Ameiican over in that celestial land contracting for 150 Chinamen to come and work in the mines of Sonors, where, he i3 good enough (o aver, they are needed. Letus not argue with him upon the necessity of Chi- namen in this country, but rather upon the unnecessity of himself. The local weekly which made the passing remark that there seems to be a desire on the part of the School Directors to give tha chil- dren a chauge in the matter of books probab.y intended to say that there seems to be a desire on the part of the School Directors to give the children an opportunity to spend in books what change they aiready had. We always sympathize with a paper that has been mede the victim of & typographical error. Insumming up the fitness of James How- ard Bridge to be edtor of the Overtand Monthly, the Contra Costa Gazelte points out that the gentieman's besi-known work was a story entitled “A Fortnight in Heaven.” As it was about two weeks sgo that Mr. Bridge entered the office which Rounsevelle Wild- man had just vacated, he is probably now ina position to write story in reference to a fortnight in an altogether different place, The News of Ban Mateo relates that two rmall boys from San Francisco the other day arrived in that town professediy on a tour to “see the world on their own hook.” After diligent fishing into San Mateo vegetable gar- dens along the road, they arrived at the com. mon experignce of discovering that they hadn't hooked the wor.d at all and couldn’t see it on their own hook or Ou any oue's else, They reiurned home and fell to viewing stars. Uuder the thoushtful caption of “Fresh Literary Note.” the Colusa Gazette proceeds to banish thoutht entirely and usher in bright mirth b- gravely announcing that W, C. Mor- row *ix said to b> a San Francisco journalist”! In Cuiifornia letterdom doub: about W. C. Morrow’s prof:ssion or anything else in his public life argues the unsure child to be in need of a governess. Either that, or (what would be infinitely more to the purpose), a cereful direction into some other field of use- fulness. The season {)r plowing, for example, is not Inconvenizantly distant, The Daily Reveille of New Whatcom is dumb with admiratioz at the cheerful air which Joaquin Miller puts on as he sails toward the Ktondike reglons; but Joaquin is sill in the cheerful stage of being on the way—like a small boy sucking & sugar-coated pill. Walt until he finds his breath patteriugin a pro- cession of icicles upon his shirtfront and his cure for snake bites freszing iato brown ice ere he can raise it Lo his lips. Then (if he die not of snake bite) he may !ive to entertain the New Whatcom editor with another kind of motion that resembles cheer sbout as much as o funeral resembles & cakewalk. NEWS OF FOREIsN NAVIES, The Russian Government has purchased the private shipyard at Eevastopol, Crimes, for 1,900,000 roubles, 1taly recently wanted seven small gunboats, | | but there was not a firm either in Italy nor on the Continent that would agree to deliver one boat in less thaa nine months, so the order went to an Engl sh firm, which turned out the s2ven boats in three months. The yacht to be built for the Queen will be approximsately 380 feet in length, 50 feet beam and 18 feet draught, with a displace- mentof 4600 tons. The vessel will be twin screw and have a speed ot 20 knots. The ap- proximate cost was given at $1,125,000 by the First Lord. The torpede-boat destroyer Bab had her cosl consumption trials receutly, found that at a maintained speed of 13 knots for twelve hours the coal used averaged 2.34 pourds per horsepower. At her extreme speed of 80 knots the coal consumption aver- ;lefl only 2.50 pounds per horsepower per our. Captain Hutchinson of the Britich second- class cruiser Fiora was compiimented by the Admiralty upon his recent return from Aus- when it was | HANDY FOR KLONDIKE PILGRIMS The rush to the Klondike has stirred up the dealer in condensed food and the chemist who condenses the nutriment from meats and vegetabies into the smallest space. One of these men the other day, spesking of the heavy weights of food prospectors are taking with them, said to & New York Herald re- porter: “I can put enough food in an ordinary vaiice to last a bealthy man a year and give him & menu just es varied as he could find in a first-class hotel, He can easily take another ‘one of those valises, and when he reaches Dawson City he can seil it for $2000. That's what a year's supply of good frod is worth there. If he wants to Joad himself down with a good-sized burden he can take four or five Suppiies, and he will be a comparativoly rich Tha the moment he reacnes his destination. An the Chino-Jasanese war tle soldiers of the' Mikado exscuied several long marchs With unusual dispatch by the us « fconuens @ Toads. Each soldier, in addition to acartridge- belt, carried wnat was cailed a dinner-bel . This was filled with a large as-ortment of cap- NECESSARIES OF LIFE IN WELL-CONDENSED FORM. tralis, Lecause of his quick trip in forty-four days irom Sydney to Plymouth. After a cruise of 36,000 miles the ship is in need of hardly any repairs. The Flora wasbuiltin 1893 at Barrow, is of 4360 tons, wood sheathed and coppered, as are all British cruisers for foreign-station servic The recent British naval maneuvers for the first time since 1886 d d not deveiop a single case of giving out of hoilers, but in two of the ships, the Mars and Terrible, the cylinders were badly scored.and the ships almost dis- abled on that sccount. Anoiher fact was proved, namely, that 14 knots was the high- est 1imis of speed which could be relied upon for an extended period. The fault is ailcged to be due to the inability of the stokers to keep up the steam, and as ths trans-Atlantic sieamers experience no difficutty in maintain- Ing steam the trouble lies either with the men or in the nayy system. At the Armstrong shipbuilding and arma- ment works, Elswick, seventeen ships.of-war for foreign navies are in course of construc- tion, 14,800 tons each; two armored vessels of 3800 tons and 17 knots speed ; two armored cruisers 0 9600 tons and 20 knots speed; eizht pro- tected cruisers, of which two are 4500 tons, 24 knots; two 4300 tons, 23}); knots; one 4250 tons, 21 knots; three 3450 tons,20 knots; one third-class eruiser 2800 tone,18 knots; one training-ship 2500 tous, 14 knois, and one torpedo-boat-destroyer, 300 tons, 30 knots. In | addition 900 guns irom the smallest caliber up to 12 inches are under construction. The supplementary naval estimates pre- sented in the Brit:sh Parliament July 27 pro- vide for one battle-ship of the Caunopus class and three baitic-ships of the Maj stic class, but of an improved type. The latter will le of 14,900 tons dispiacement, to craw six inches less, and are to be ten feet longer than the Majestic. Their speed istobe 18 knots, and the protection will be nickel steel armor. In addition it is propesed to build four armored cruisers of 11,850 tons displecement, thair dimensions 1o be 440 feet length, 695 feet beam and 26 feet draught. The armament will b> composed of twe 9.2 inch, twelve 6 inch quick-firers, fourteen 12 pounders and three 3 pounders. The hulls wiil be sheethed with wood and coppered, and a continuous speed of 19}4 knots is anticipated. On normal dis- placement 800 tons of coal will be carried, but the bunkers will stow 1600 tons. The armored cruisers and the battle-ships will ail be fitted with water-tube bollers. PERSONAL. N. A, Harrls, U. 8. N, is s guest at the Cos- mopolitan Hotel. F. M. Miller, a merchant of Fresno, is a guest at the Lick House. W. S. May, A millwright of Gri guest at the Grand. Frank A. West, a fruit-grower of Stockton, is @ guest at the Palace. John V. Arundel of London is stopping st the Occidental Hotel. P. Musto, a Stockton merchant, arnved In the City last evening. Colonel George B. Sperry of Stockton arrived in the City last night. R. C. Terry, au olive.grower of Clayton, is a guest at the Lick House, G. D. Plato, a merchant of Modesto, is stop- ping at the Grand Hotel. C. D. Blethen of the Seattle Daily Times is guest at the Grand Hotel. F. H. Lang, a stockman of Salinas, registered at the Lick House yesterday. 8. Gardenine of Mosgow, Russia, registered at the Grand Hotel yedierday. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Szfton of San Diego regis- tered at the Palace Hotel yesterday. John Harpst, a lumber merchant of Arcata, is in town, a guest at the Grand Hotel. B. F. Snell, Treasurer of Nevada County, is in the City, stoppiog at the Lick House. Ex-Congressman J. A. Louttit of Stockton is in the City, stopping at the Grand Hotel. 8 prominént merchantof Yoko- hama, is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Colonel E. D. Bannister, a mining man of Montane, registered at the Palace Hotel last night. J. D. Ludwig, a mining man of Mount Bul. lion, is 1n the City, stopping at the Grand Hotel. F. J.Cram, a merchant of Chicsgo, arrived in the City yesterday and registered at the Lick House. William Tsbister, New Zealand mail agent on the steamship Alameda, is stoppigg at the California Hotel. J. C. Poingdestre, a mine owner of Yuba County, arrived last evening and is stopping at the Grand Hotel. Adjutant-General A. W. Barrettarrived in the City last Saturday evening and registered at the California Hotel, Wiilism H. Phelps and wife of Cariboo, B. C., are guests at the Lick House. Mr. Phelps is engagad in mercantile pursuits, ' F. L Denny, United States Marine Corps, Washington, D. C., arrived in this City yester- day and is stopping at the Palace Hotel, Ganeral John H. Bryant of Seattle and Cath- erine Bryant of Washington, D, C., arrived in the City yesterday and registered at the Palace Hotel. . * Miss Kip, Miss Howell. G, W. G. Kip, Elbert 8. Kip and Charles A. Kin, of Morristown, N. J., arrived in the City yesterday and registered at the Palace Hotel. James Hill. Mrs. Hill, Miss Hil', Miss Old- field, G. W, Robinson, Mrs, Robinson and Miss Robinson of England arrived from the East on the Central overiand last evening and registered at the Paiace Hotel. s Valley, isa The list embraces two battle-shirs of | sules, pills, buttons and small packages, none ot them ilarger than a medinm-sized pocket- book. The dinner-belt weighed but ten pounds, but it contained enough nutriment to sustain the soldier for thirty days. “The present suheme is to furnish Klondike voyagers with an assortment of condensed foods somewhat similnr to that carried by the Japanese, but adapted to the peculiar needs of the men {n the diggings. “Auything in the eating line can now be put up in compressed torm. A good cup of coffec or ten is crowded in'o & mass as ihin aud as small as A medium-s.zed but Itisaiready sweetened with as.ccharine product of conl tar, which 15 200 times sweeter than sugar, and accordingly requires but & very small { amount. One of these buttons dropped intoa cup of liot water becomes immediately & cup | of good coffee or tea. “Ail kiuds of soups are preparea in the same way. The buitons contain # mixture of meat and vegelables, tully seasoned and ready for the hot water. A saussgelike affair, not as larg: as a frapkfurter, and made of pea meal, fat and bacon, makes twelve plates of uutritious soup. “Oue of the e:sentials for Klondike will be desiccated beef, an ounce of which is equiva- lent to five ounces of iresh meat. Itis putup in hard little chunks—:0 hard that an ordi- nary knife makes little Lheadway against i1, A | tiny machine like a coffec mill grinds it into fine shavings, which can be spread on bread or used for & up-making. “*A loaf of bread is compressed into a mass not much bigger than & soda cracker. When soaked in water it swelis up like a sponge, and when dried out makes very fair eating. A Joaf of the same size is compused of & pre tion of flour, beef, lat and salt. and con all the essentiais of a plain, but hearty mea | Tais is somewhat similar to the pemmican i | tion used iu the British army. Ten pounds ot onions, carrots, potatoes, turnips, cabbage or any other vegetable are, by the condensing | process, crowded into one-pound caus, and | lzn- s0u}-making purposes are said to be excel- ent. |~ *The kingpin of the scheme isto fix up all kinds of 1aney and plain drinke, from cock- 1ails and gin-fizzes to straight whisky, in tab- | let form. A trunkful of these tablets will stock a fine cafe and give the Klondikersal the pleasures of life in a big city. ** WITH YOUR COFFEE. It silver gets much lower it will be free,.— Chicago Journsl. “What & queer look thi corridor he *Yes; he has the pedestrian face. ride.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. fellow across the Doesa’t I thought you worth §10 7 “Well, mebbe I did, but that was before he had been killed by a railroad train.” —Chicago Post, Ferguson—What is the composition of Roque- fort cheese ? Tipton—Roquefort cheese is not a composi- tion; it is a decomposition.—Boston Tran- seript. “See here. That horse you sold me runs away, kicks, bites, strikes and tries to tear down the stable at night. You told me that if Igot him once 1 wouldn’t part with him for $1000.” “Well, you won't.”—Detroit Free Press. Maude (at the seashore)—How many have you, Alice ? Alice—I'vo got elevi Maude—Oh, fourt en. No, they weren't discussing captive young mer. Just plain mosquito wounds.—Phiiadel- | phis North American. id your old horse was not Andyou? “Idon't mind Jack’s slang,” said one of the girls. “He is so ciever in the use of it.” “How 807" 'Why he sent me three dozen photos of ‘famous beauties,” with a card on wnich the oniy words were, ‘You're another.’""—House- hold Words. IN JOY AND SORROW, What joy, when tolling man achie of his lite, ¥ Mals il It s to listen to the praiseof sweetheart or of W While men applaud bis valor or t O e ©or the product of P How ‘p;::? Lie is to hear her words of admiration But when the skies are c'ouded ana B e ey back: when falure hen rocks rise in his path SRR pathway and the future Ah, then to be a boy agat cobbph fomis Y again, with mother to mp’ Ah, then to hear her words of s, ! cheer and fee! he 5. F. KI8KR in Cleveland Leader. —_— MEN AN ) WOMEN. Mrs Caroline Wescott Romuey of Chicago is going to start & newspaper in the Klondike gold flelds. Senator Mason of Iilinois says that he is go- ing to write for the magazines in order to pay for his vacation. Mrs. Anna Botsford Comstock of Itha | N. Y., has been giving a course of lectures on “*Nature Studs” at the New York Chautauqua. Dr. Max Schlier of Berlin has demonstrated that by the use of Rontgen rays one can see Bow sounds are produced by the voice {n sing- ing. Prince Henry of Prussia has bought a five- months-old Siberian bear cubat Hamburg to present as a suitable pet to the o of the warship King Wilhelm. John Ruskin’s health 15 much improved, and he is taking an active interestin the pub- lication of addresses on landscape painting delivered by him at Oxford. Franchetti,the banker-composer, is building an opers-house at his country seat where he can have his own works performed without subjecting them to tbe judgment of man- agers. John Brown has been an embloye of the | Philadeiphia postoffice for filty-three years, nd Charles jummers has been a letter-car. Tor there for nearly thirty-four years, all that time on the same route. John Giimer, who died in Philadeiohia last Tuesday, at the age of 97 years, had been in the employ of one municipal department jor nearly sixiy-(WO years, serviug up to within a few months of his death Mayor Quiney of Boston has received notice from the trustees of the will of the late john Foster that they have a bequest of $30,000 for that city, to be expended in the erection of a statue of the distinguished Unitarian preacher, Rev. William Eliery Chanuing. o e e Bl THE CASE OF CLAUS SrRECKELS. Santa Roa Republican. Clans Spreckels has iived a long and honor- sble life in Californin. His name has been and continues to be connected with great business enterprises. He has not sought po- Mtica! preferment or mix:d a greatdealin political nffairs. Industrial enterprises have claimed his attention and, largely throug their skiliul management, he has sccumu lated & jfortune aud become & mill onaire. Ho has enjoyed an enviable reputation for busi- ness integrity and he must have felt v keenly the atiack made on nim by the Exar iner some 'ime ago, Hence he has sought vio: dication in the courts. 1t 1 not belieyed that there Was any excuse for the attack made by the newspaper on ti man. Toe article was malicious and intended %o be offensive. Iis effect wonld be to injure the reputation of Mr. Spreckels for busiuess fairness and integrity. Such newspaper work could not well be passed by uanoticed by him, wnd we sre not of the namber wno think it should go unpunished, No good ever comes from such reckless newspaper work and ma- liclous defamation of characier should not go unrebuked. 1t shouid be possible to d scover and bring to light the man responsibie for the contenis of a public journal. Conceaiment of suck in- d'lvu!un should be an impossibility, It should no: be a matter of any doubt who he is. To make it a question requiring judicial investi- gation indicates shady preceedings on the part of the newspaper pursuing sucn & policy. We contess to having & good deal of s5mp: thy for Mr. Spreckels in this matter. Whe the manager of the Examiner discovered ths error of that paper’s assault, he should have mude all pessible repuration. When he dis- covered the wrong e had done, he shouid have been swiit to put the injured man right before the public. It should not have been necessary for Mr. Spreckels 10 go into court for vindication, and he wiil render the entire State and journalism generally good service by fixing the crime in this instanceand secur- iug i1s punishment. RELAY STATIONS5 IN UNKNOWN LANDS. A wise London editor, discussing Andree’s balloon expedition to the north pole, sagely observes: *Balloons may become an impor- tant adjunct to exploration. Ona trouble hitherto has been the loss of gas. By means of relay stations to relaforce the gas unknown coustries may be «xplored by balloon.”” CALIFORNIA giace ruits, 50¢ (b. Townsend's* - SPECiALinformation daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Pre: Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgumery. * —————e Laura—Old Miss Shelluf realizes that she must get married soon or give up a&ll hope, and she has gore to a summer resort. Nonie—A last resort, as 1t were,—Pittsburg News. 1F efMicted with sore eyes use Dr. 1 son’s Eye Water. Druggis's sell it a S e e Get Your Tickets to the Klondlke. Mhe “orthern Paclfic Steamship Company bas put the magnificen: steamer City of Scaitle luto service tetwe n Tacoma, Seattle, Juneau aud Dyen. Steamer leaves Tacoma and reattle Au- gust 16 and 26, For tickets and information eall at the Northern Pocific Ra iway Office, 868 Mar- ket siree., S, F. General Agent. c Thomp~ cents. SENSTBL: writes to I. C. Ayer & Co that he never goes to sea without a supply of Ayer's Pils. .- “Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup Has been used over fisty years by millions of mo:h- ers for their chiliren while Teoth.ng with perfe sucoess. It soothes the child. softens the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and i3 the best remedy for Diarrhweas, whethet arising from teothing or other causes. For sale by Drugsists in every part of the world. X and ask 10r Mrs. Winslos's Soothing Syrup. 28cuvoitle CORONADO.—Almosphere Iy perfectly dry. soft and mild, being entirely free from the misis com- mon further north. Kound- trip tickets. by steam- ship, including fifteen duy¥ board a: the Hoteldsl Coronado, $60; longer siay 82 50 perday. App.s 4 New Monigomery s'reet. 8an Franet KXEW TO-DAY! Buying a sideboard is a se- rious job. Sideboards don't wear out, remember. last a lifetime. Choose carefully. Keep in mind that it must be substan- tial and at the same time pleasant to look at and live with. We've 69 different sorts by actual count. Some are light—dainty—with curved front and ends, and finely carved. Then others are massive.. Many orna- mented with heavy twisted corner-posts and shelf-supports. Qak is the popular wood— antique and Flemish—though many prefer mahogany. We've both. Oak sideboards for as little as $18 or as much as $8oo. They California Furniture Company §11v7p Cole & Co) Carpeia Geary Street u“&z-n ©0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-00 AN EXCELLENT Properly prepared and Promptly served, can always be obtained in THE GRILL ROOM OF THE PALACE g-dd«ny the lost Popular ning Apart- nt in town.