The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 21, 1897, Page 6

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H Areyou going 10 the country a vacatl £©, 1t I8 no trouble for us to forward TH your address. Do not it miss you for youn will miss it. Orders given to the carrier cr left at | Business Office will receive prompi silention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifiy cenia per moaih for summer months The snow on the Chilcoos glitte: it isn’t gold. Luck deserted Jeter Attend the Mechanics’ home industry. Fair. Help to make it a suc- | cess. | is the day to leave orders for THE | NDAY CALL and make sure of good read- | ing ior your day of rest. : | Freizht competition by the way of the Horn tas to 2o a long way round, but if it gets here all righteverybody will be satis- fied. Every disturbance in the European con- | cert seems to be caused by a refusal on the part of John Bull to pley his trom- | bone right. i Section 22 of the Dingley bill may have | been loaded for the Canadiar bear, but it | seems to ! brought down tbe British | loans and sold a large amount of their American holdings. | has continued to rise.” | FOEEIGN AMERICAN FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE. The attention of commercial and financial authorities in New York has been di- rected to the fact that the presant and prospective foreign demand for our grain and meat have served to emphasize and strengthen the forces which for some time rast have been working a radical change in the basiness relations of the New ‘World to u.xe Old. It haslong been our custom to borrow money from Europe, but now Europe is borrowing money from us. The financial editor of the New York Herald, in reviewing the situation n.nd the events which led up to it, points out that up to seven years ago we were continually borrowing more and more money from older nations to build railways, de\'elozt our resources and conduct our trade. Money in those days commanded much higher rates of inferest here than in Europe, and in normal times we were accustomed to seek in foreign lands the capital necessary for our enterprises. A change in the financial transactions of the worid began about the time cf.the Baring failure and the resulting panic. Foreign lenders called in their Amervlcan Then came the panicin this country and the depression, which affected every industry and every trade. Business languished in ail parts of the Union and enterprises ceased. There was })ut hittle demand for money, and as a consequence large accumulations of iale capital were made in all our chief monetary centers. Rates of interest in New York last fall were lower than Europe, and then the world saw the strange sight of America lending money to the Old Worid. It was thought at the time this would be but a temporary alteration of the usual course of financial affairs, but it now seems likely to be the peginning of a permanent change in the relations of the two continents, for commercial develop- ments have occurred to strengthen the movement and give it greater stability than was expected. “Che new developments have been due to the rise in the prices of the great staples of American export. It has long been an axiom 1n Wall street that American securi- ties could not have a sustained advance without extensive investments on the part| of European buyers. Thisaxiom is no longer of force. Theriss of prices and the re- ival of industry 1n all parts of tha United States have been suflicient to assure ;:o-od dividends, and the stock market bas been buoy ot without the aid of Earopean in- vestors. In fact, the Herald notes that ‘“‘for many weeks past the foreigners have been sellinz stocks and bonds, but they have been readily taken here, and the market in the chief cities of The meaning of this alteration in the financial and commercial relations bstween ourselves and Europe is that American industrial independence is now in sight. We shall not be compeiled in the future to mortgage our enterprises to foreign money- enders, in order to bs able to carry them out. The new era is promising in many | but 1n nothing does it promise so much of permanent benefit as in this | It relieves us from dependence upon Europe, and goes far toward making rity secure. things, change, our prosr VIEWS OF KLONDIKE.! THE GREAT COAL STRIKE from the region of the Eastera coal-miners' strike indicate that a crisis is at band. The situation looks desperate, cousilering tne declara- Telegraphic ad In the midst of the Klondike excite-| ment, with new crowds of fortune-hunters | rushing northward as fast as ships can c: them and the press daily recording | fre ncidents of the wonderful gold | tion of the chief officer of the Mire- strikes; in the midst of all the boom- workers' Union that the strikers would spirit, it is interesting to turn to some of A endeavor to prevent operators from mov- 1ng any coal in the district of which Pitts- the foreign publications and obtain an urg 1s the center. A general conference idea of how all these things are regarded abroad. between operators and employes seems to In England, for instance, the news- beout ol the question, aud_:he attitude of | papers direct attention ibe leaders of the strikers is accepted as| to the d:fficulties of Alaskan gold-min meaning “war to the knife.” than to the reported marvelous riches on Up to the present time the strike has the banks of Arctic rivers. They tell of ' been remarkable in many respects. Dis- the long voyage by steamer, of the tedious cussing the matter, a Pittsburg paper | avers that never in the industrial history cf that city has thers been so novel a | labor situation. Strikes are nothing new there, but the means of conducting this | strike have been thus far without prece- | dent or parallel. march over semi-frozen wastes and peril- ous mountain passes; of the heavy cosis and exactions, and the discom in- numerable, not to mention the menaces to life. But y don’t indulge in any palaver over the big, fat sacks ot nuggets CISCO- CALL, { which have been pictured for weeks to pRlaswell s the astonished gaze of Americans. THE CALL news service has been good | Those British accounts of the gold in the past and will be better in the | strike and the British comments made in future. The world goes forward and we | regard thereto will hardly stir up a large- keep up with the proces. sized exodus from the tight little island We may as well make up our minds to it that Spain will never recall Weyler! until she recalls her last soldier from | Havana and lets Cuba go free. ; = i Lynch law has been asserted so vigor- | ously along the Skaguay route that a man | cannot even steal a march without being | brought up with a round turn, General Weyler's retiring disposition is acutely manifest only when Gomez strays into the neighborhood. It never reaches the extreme of letting go of nis job. | | | Whatever may be thought on general principles of Spain, it must be admitted | that when she catches an assassin red- handed she knows what to do with him. In these days of prosperity thereare just two classes of people who are sad: those who are sorry they cannotgo to Alaska and those at Dyea who wish they had stayed at home. To be “lull of prunes” is an expression sometimes meant to convey reproach, but California owns up this year to thousands of tons of the fruit, and doesn’t care who knows it. If the story that Healer Schlatter has just married a widow is true, then that other story that he starved to death months ago becomes painfully shadowed | with doubt. Is it possible that Governor Budd has left the State so as to give his friend Jeter the pleasure of passing upon the Hill murder case? He enjoys such things so much himsels, too. It is reported that many of the boomers who went from Kansas to Oklaboma a few years ago are now returning to Kan- sas, and the bleeding Siate expects to | boom again next year. | The symptoms of the titled gentleran who recently acquired asword thrust have | not been detailed for a day or 1wo, lead- ing io the uncomfortable suspicion that he may be getting well. It is stated that a Kansas man startea for the Klondike six days after his wed- ding, but it would pervaps have been more accurate to say a Kansas woman started her husband out of the State. The committee of one hundred mnust | bear in mind that the object of their labor is not to devise an ideal form of munic pal government, but one that the people of Ban Francisco will be willing to adopt. The writer who ssys the mountains of Chilcoot point 40,000 feet into the air is modest. Wky, at certain times of day those mouniains have been known to point directly at the sun, and that’s mil- lions of miles distant. The absentee journalist who slanders men in San Francisco and then slinks in the slums of New York to ayoid the con- sequences may call himself the publisher of a newspaper, but he is more like the circulator of a dod ger. In their latest raid into Armenia the Kurds killed every Armenian in sight, whether Mosiem or Christian, and the absolute impartiality of the proceeding will probably prevent the Christian powers of Europe from raising a row about it. It was not simply for throwing a beer- glass at agentleman who bad atiained his disapprobation that a Cincinnati um- pire was fined $100. Evidence was con- clusive that in his haste to hurl the mis- sile the umpire bad absolutely wasted the beer. This talk of Canovas as “foremost statesman” of Spain begins to grow wearisome. Circumstances point inevita- bly to the conclusion that even before Canovas was murdered, Spain did not have any statesman of this desirable va- riety. | over the sea. The Amsierdam Handelsblad foresees | some political iroubles as a resuit of Eng- land’s attitude in relation to the North- west Territory placer diggings. It com- trasts the matter of heavy exactions prac- | ticed under the British flag with the com- | plaints of the English in the Transvaal, where the royalities demanded by the Boers are very light. It thinks the aim of John Buil, with his royalty and other | taxes, is to exclude Americans, and ressons that if an alleged exclusion of | Engiishmen entitles Great Britain to| annex the Boers’ republic it might not be amiss for the United States to profit by | the example with reference to Canada. An Edinburgh paper, The Scotsman, | thinks that if a tithe of the tales told about the Klondike are true Uncle Sam | has at hand a new cause of dissatisfaction | with Britain. The paper avails itself of | the opportunity to get a lick at tha | Monroe doctrine, remarking that if the | new discoveries are as rich as reported the Americans may trot that famous| measure to the front and claim everything | in the western hemisphere. All the foreign papers agree in their re- portson one thinz, and that is, that the overwhelming majority of the Klondikers are Americans, and from this fact many of them think that the new Canadian mining reguiations, made to fit the Northwest Territory case, may cause serious trouble pefore many months baye flown, and may possibly result in inter- national complications. RAPIDLY NEARING COMPLETION, The formal opening of the Valley rcad to Visalia will bs celebrated in Tulare County’s cavital in conjunction with the | festival of Admission day. Thus gradu- ally is this popular railway enterprise exiending its benefits down the great| vailey of the £an Joaquin, and tarmers and merchants find excellent reason to rejoice at its advent. It has fulfilled its promises to the letter; it has reduceJ‘ passenver fares and cut down freight rates | and encouraged every business interest 1n l the couniry through which it passes. i Now comes the welcome announcement | that the right of wuy question has been | virtually settled and that speedy progress | will be made in the completion of the | road to Baxersfield. Sixty-five miles of track remains to be laid to fill up the gap between Hanford and the Kern county seat, and twenty-five miles of that stretch have already been graded. It is confi- dently believed that the line wiil be in operation between Stockton and Bakers- tieia before the dawn of another year. Excessive freight rates have been the greatest obstacle in the path of Kern County’s prosperity. The country around Bakerstield has an extensive and costly irrigation system, and the soil is capable of producing anything that grows in a semi-tropical clime. Railway exactions have been the bane of the county, the development of which will be quickened and its trade with the outside world en- larged and rendered more profitable through the agency of the Valley road. The problems confronting the Commis- sioner of Immigration are various. One of the latest is the case of a young Bohe- mian who staried across with $60, but ex- pended it all for beer, landing penniless. Mr. Powderly does not know whether or not to send him back, but he ought to send him. The only hove of that immi- grant would be to secure a position in a brewery, and such positions are scarce. Humanity does not take readily to the idea of having horses butchered for food, and the heart is stirred to pity atit. Yet todie in a slaughter-house without any preliminary brutality is not so bad as to first have the hoofs battered off on the Kiondike trail, starve and freeze until helpless, and then be used for dog feed. In either case the faithful horse has rea- son for thinking bis lot a bard one. {armies and sought by pleading to get | | ter wages has popular support, there is The operators have been discussing the vroposition of adopting the uniformity plan, which provides, among other things, for arbitration of disputes, payment of wages in cash, abolition of company stores and a uniform price for pick- mining. They have come 1o no agree- ment, and it is a foregone conciusion that they will not consent to the miners’ de- mand for 25 per cent increase in wages for | pick-mining and 50 per cent increase for | machine-mining. The miners, in an address to the people, have avowed their determination “to for- ever put a stop to a state of starvation.' They want wages ‘‘sufficient to enable them to live,” and they will insist on the 25 and 50 per cent increases. So far there has bzen no violencz on the part of the idle workingmen, who, until | stopped by an injunction of court, marched irom mine to mine like mighty | those still at work to abandon the coal | pits 1n order that the strike might become eeneral. They preserved order, won public sympatny, and up to this time tavenot oversiepped the imits of law. | Itis a rather odd phase of the situation that while the fight of the miners for bet- general approval, outside of the ranks of the strikers, of the efforts of the operators for uniformity. Even if the operators should agree upon the uniform plan above outlined the differ- ences with the miners would be far from settlement. It is maintained by mine- owners that the emuvloyes aim to destroy the utility of the machines by raising the raie of machine-mining to figures that would be unprofitable to the operators. When President Ratchford of the Mine- workers' Union was on Thursday asked to consent to a conierence of representatives of the strikers with the operators of Pitts- burg district he bluntly refused and said that such a conference would be possibie only if ail the operators of the four States of Ohio, Pennsylvania, lilinois and Indi- apa wounld take part in it, and this gen- eral conference is hardly to be expected. The Pittsburg operators may decide now to reopen the mines with non-union | labor, and that may be the signal fora conflict like some of those of years gone by, wherein gun and torch have played | parts and lives and property have been destroyed. Itisto be hoped that these grim forebodings may not be realized; that peace will be kept, and that wisdom on the part of mine-owners and strike leaders will dictate terms based on justice to both sides and ward off the crisis in the coal district, where the lizhted match now seems to be dangerously near the barrel of powder. THE BANKERS' CONVENTION. There was very little in the proceedings of the convention of the American Bank- ers’ Association of interest 10 the general public. This was not due to any lack of importance ir the subjects considered, but to the fact that the monetary issues of the country have been so longdiscussed in the | press and on the stump that the people | look for their solution to Congress and i are therefore comparatively indifferent to | resolutions on the subject adopted by any assembly of private citizens. It is conceded on all sides that some al- teration and reform in our banking and currency system is necessary, At the time of its adoption the nattonal bank system worked well, but since the de- crease of the public debt and the reduc- tion in the amount of interest paid on United States bonds, national banks no longer furnish a currency sufficie ntly elastic to supply the needs of our com- merce. Differences exist as to what form the proposed revision shall take, but these differences can be sattled only by the ac- tion of Congres:, and accordingly the papers reac before the Bankers’ Conven- tion, though excellent in themseives, bave not attracted much attention from outsiders. The more interesting addresses made to the convention were those which deait with banking problems lying apart from the field of political controversy. One of the most striking of these was that of Myron T. Cieveland on “Savings Banks.” The speaker poiated out that these insti- i SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1897 tions in the United Stdtes hold $1,700, 000,000, and that in combination with trust companies and like institutions they practically own all the municipfl_ and State debts, and together with indl'ldlzal holdings, some nine-tenths of the Na- tional debt. Contrasted with the deposits in the sav- ings banks of this country those of any European nation make but a poor show- ing. The vast wealth accumulated by the earnings of our working men and women 13 & distinctive feature of American life. In no other land can there be found any such evidence of thrift and prosperity, and, as Mr. Herrick said, these are unmis- takable signs pointing to the fact that the United States is entering upon a new era of prosperity, and that itis soon to be a creditor instead of a debtor nation, " PERSONAL. T. K. Beard of Modesto is at the Russ. J. Wood of Merced is at the Cosmopolitan. F. E. Sheadley of Sitks, Alaska, is at the Lick. J. D. Sproul, a lawyer of Chico, is at the Palsce. Dr. Thomas Cox of Sacramento is at the Baldwin. State Senator J. H. Seawell of Ukiah is at the Grana. Mayor M. P. Snyder of Los Angeles as at the Occidental. Robert Graham, a contractor of Sacramento, is at the Palace. T D.Satterwhite, & mining man of Tucson, Ar.z., 1s at the Palace. Isasc Bird, manager of a large ranch in Mer- ced County, isat the Lick. J. P. Blair, a merchant of New Orleans, is at the Palace with his family. G. W. Towle, a mill end lumber man of Towle Station, is at the Grand. Charles C. MclIver of Mission San Jose is at the Caliornia with Mrs. Mclver. Ex-Congressman Caminetti of Jackson, Am- ador County, is a guest at the Lick. Mrs. F. J. Nippers and daughter, of Boise City, Idaho, are at the Cosmopalitan. Jonn C. Lynch of Cucamonga, acting clerk of customs at this port, is at the Baldwin, John Fisher, Collector of the Port of San Diego, is making a short stay at the Palace. Polica Surgeon Weil has been appointed a resident physiclan of the German Hospital. Adam A. Cramer, an attorney-at-law of Cin- cinnati, Ohio, is among the guests at the Palace. J. C. Ruddock of Ukiah, one of the directors of the insane asylum at that place, is at the | Grand. A. E. Williams, a prominent merchant ot Sonora, Tuolumne County, Is at the Cosmo- politan. S. M. Buck, late Superior Judge of Hum- boldt County, is at the Lick, registered from Eureka. Marion Biggs Jr., a vineyardist and for- merly a State Senator, of Oroville, isstopping at the Grand, i Eugene Runicke of Valparaiso, Chile, ar- rived at the Palace last nighton his way home irom the East. James Stockwell, editor of the San Frauncisco Law Journal, bas returned from his vecation at Paraiso Springs. C. E. Tinkham, secretary of the Sierra Miil aud Lumber Company at Chico, is & late ar- rival at the Grand. 0. Mouron, accompanied by nis sister, Miss Juliette, of Sonora, Tuolumne County, are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Archie Sands, one of the managers of Main’s Railroad Shows, is at the Russ with t wenty-one members of the circus troupe. B. U. Steinman, ex-Msyor of Sacramento and proprietor of the Depot Hotel at the Capital City, is registered at the Palace. E. T. Loughborough of Virginia, a cousin of the late Attorney Loughborough of this City, is at the Palace on his way 1o Oregon. Joe Evans has been made local agent of the Grand Trunk Railway, which will hereafter look after freight business in this City. Guy B. Barham, nephew of Congressman Bar- ham and ex-Folice Commissioner of Los Angeles, is up from the south and is at the Baldwin. 8. T. Black of Sacramento, State Superin- tendent of Public Instruction, has just re- turned from a long vacation at Lake Tahoe, whither he went because of ill health. Among the arrivals last nightat the Ocei- dental were thres young women missionsries in Japan: Miss Bancus, Miss Dickirson and Miss Margaret Scott of Grand Rapids, Mich, CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. N. NEW YORK, N. Y, Aug. 20.—At the St. Cloud—A. Davenport; Ashland—F. Hansen. Sinclair—C. H. Philpott; Continental—A. M. Womble. H.von Gosliga and E. H, Norman arrived from Genoa on the Fulda. THE LIGHTS OF KILGALLON. There's a party at Kilgallon’s, Mary Ann: Au’ the winders all are bl: z!n’ out with light, We c'n sit here if we want to On the porch, an’ I'm a-goin’ to, Even if they didn’t send us 1o invite. Nell’s a mighty proudish person, Mary Ann, Eince ber husband B s pullin’ o, 3, But them times when he was firin’, Heavin’' coal in an’ perspinn’, She was 10t 100 g00d 10 Leighbor Up with ma. She was not too proud to xnow me. Mary Ann. ‘When they set him up to haul_a switchin’ crew; But this new run on the Flyer— Well, o' course, it's bound io try her. An’ old frienas, I s'pose, must make way for the new. There's a hustiin’ round ¢’ lanterns, Mary Ann: All the roundhouse men have turned out, I ex- pect. It's a high an’ mighty party; Ab, I'm sure I wish ’em b Even if she thinks for me i’s 100 1don’t care for the invitin’, Mary Ann, Nor the sligntin’ Nelt Kilgailon puts on us; Still T hope her pride’il borrow Allit's weight In grief an’ sorrow, An’ that she—what's that you're callin’ to me, Gus? Come up closer. C’n you hear him, Mary Ann? Iam wanted at Kilgalion’s? Biliv's dead? Killed to-night at Silver Sligin'— Bronght hyme iu the biood he died fn— Nell wants me? * * * God forsive the words I'vesald. —Chicago Record. An' KNEW WHAT HIS AUDITORS WOULD DO. ‘Washington Post. A Chicago editor, who was recently in Wash- ington, paid Senator Mason & handsome trib- ute as a public speaker. Though his speeches overflow with wit and humor, which seem to | be born of the cccasion, Senator Mason pre- pares them with great care. Long experience has enabled him to judge what poiuts will take with his hearers. Said this Chicago edi- tor: “Mason has sent me a type-written copy of & speech he going 10 deltver, In look- ing over it I noticed the sppiauseand laugh- ter were sprinkied very liberally through it, but I thought Mason might be assuming too much. 1deter.iined to make the test, so I car- ried that type-written copy with me to the meeting where he was to speak. Ifollowed him line by iine. Now,Iwant to say thatin nota singie case had he made a mistake. Where he had put ‘Great applause’ in paren- thesis the nudience justified the parenthesis. ‘Where he had put ‘Liughter’ there was laugh- ter, and where he had guessed there would be ‘Great laughter’ the merriment was great. ‘Where he had adroitly made a feint of ending his speech, and then had interpolated de- mands from his hearers to ‘Go on, Billy,’ the audience thunderea for him to ‘Goon.’ The only cases where he misjndged were in brack- etiug ‘Applause’ and ‘Laughter,’ where actually there wes great applause and great laughtér. 1 suppose his modesty kept him from giving too high a decree to it After that speech was fin‘shed I carried the copy over io my office and gave instrnctions that there- afier Mason’s speeches should go just as he sent them in.” ASKING FOR THE POLITICIAN’S DAUGHTER. Washington Star. “Did you speak to the father of the girl you wish to marry?” said one young man. “Yes,"” replied the other. “Did he give you any encouragement?’’ “He seemed to think he did. Heis a poli- tician and has been haunted by constituents When I told him the am- . of my life he said very gravely that it was seldom anybody secured exactly waat he @esired; he couldn’t see his way clear to making me the groom his daughter's wed- ding, but he'd see what he could do about getling me the place of vest man,” |SUNDAY'S SUPPLEMENT TO “THE CALL. Among Other Valuable Contributions to the Entertain- ment of Its Readers It Will Contain a Review of This Famous Californian and Her Work. ALICE KINGSBURY COOLEY. A new play by Alice Kingsbury Cooley will be presentéd to the public to-nig_hl in Oakland. A review of the life and achievements of its noted little authoress will appear in to-morrow’s CALL. Alice Kingsbury was in early days in California one of the most celebrated actresses in the West. All the pioneers remember her. She was leading lady to John McCullough in the heyday of his success, and subsequently played with Forrest and Barrett and was a star of the cay. Yearsago, having reached the zenith of her career and foreseeing the inevitable conse- quences of a prolongation or her stage life aiter the summit of it had been reached and only descent on the other side remained, Alice Kingsbury wisely retired to private life. With rare presence of mind, she seized success while it was still within reach, and, cover- ing Lierself with it as a mantle, stepped off the stage full of honor and freighted with plaudits, insteadof lingering to grow dim in the public eye. People of these days still remember her as a bright, vivacious creature, on the crest of popularity's wave—and not as one who merely d been on the wave and gone down again. Yet t0-day she is a homely little lady of elderly mien and the mother of a large family, re. siding in comparative obscurity in the midst of another generation, which does not know her nor remember the famous little theatrical star whom the pioneers knew and flocked to see. Is it not an event to Califoruia that this woman has at this late dsy come as a play wright back into the life which she left as an actress long ago? It seems like a tinking of the theatri- cal past with the present. Her play is said to be very promising of success. Read of Alice Kingsbury that was and of Alice Kingsbury that 1s, in THE CALL to-morrow. Thiriy years ago the State of California acquired a State university. To-day that university is a colossai monument of education, which all the world can see. And to-day some vast projects are afoot to enlarge its scope to a scale unequaled by thatof any institution of learning on the globe. Reyiew this prodigious work in all its details and possibilities in THE SUNDAY CALL. Two large illustrations by R. D. Yelland accompany the article. A missionary has brought to San Francisco news of a startling nature in regard to Buddh- ism in Japan. He assarts that Buddhism in the Mikado’s realm has increased at the rate of 40 per cent within the past five years, and adds a few little-known incidents connected with the religion which is making such rapid strides in this most enlightened of the Oriental ntries. coqu’leau ten other important articles combining & news element witn a unique chracteristic per inits home. will appear in this Sunday’s CaLy, and all wil! be strikingly illustrated. plete Sunday to the Californis family which fails to have this issua of California’s family pa- It will be an incom- THE GLASGOW COUNCIL. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIk: According to Sir James Bell, Lord Provost of Glasgow, in his work on the “Municipal Or- gunization and Administration” of that famous city, ‘‘the various committees of the Town Council embrace the finance commitiee, a committee 1n charge of the bezaar, halls, public clocks and bells of the city, a commit- tee to deal with churches ana churchyerds, the property of the city, and a ¢ mmittee on | parliamentary bilis,”” etc. ‘“Committees are also appointed to manage (1) the tramweys, (2) the Mitchell Library, (3) the municipal baildings, (4) the gas and electric light under- takings, (5) parks, gardens, galleries and mu- seums, and (6) an executive committee,” eic. “These committees in their turn appoint their own sub-committecs, and so the wide and comprehensive duties of the Town Council are diviaed up and allocated.” Page 75: “‘All are now (1896) consolidated into one body, the corporation of Glasgow, and while for the facilitating ot business, for con- trol of expenditure and for statement of ac- counts, all these departments must be man- | aged by separate committees, the-e commit- tees are committees of the corporation, and it is competent for the Town Councilto deal | with the effairs of any or all of them atany ordinary meeting regularly convened.” At this point I desire to direct special atten- tion to the distinguishing features of the British system o' municipal government, as I understand it, and of which Glasgow is a_con- spicuous example, though in Sir James Bell’s ample pages it is rather assumed than stated asan essential and fundamental characteristic. 1 refer to the heads of depurtments. In the preceding enumeration of committees it would appear that there are ten of these departments. As already statea, these ten departments are under the management of standing committees of the Council, ezch committee presumabiy consisting of about seven ot the seventy-eight members, but the ectuai work of these com- niittees, variously called ‘‘commissioners” and “trustees,” is the consideration of the reports | consiaered uniess ihese papers are sent wi.h ir. | been dis harged from and recommendations of the “heads of depari- ments” and the taking of such action thereon | as seems proper and wise for the promotion of | the public weifare. 1his method thus makes | tne hend of & department its guiding spirit— | the real manager iu fact—a viial part of the system. S| Referring to this matter, on pege 79 of | “‘Municipal Govermment in Great Britain | Dr. Abert Shaw says: ‘Heads of depar menis are selected wilh great care by the Couneil itself and their piaces sre pra tically permanent. In the minor ap-| pointments tne Tespobsible heads are | allowed to use large liberty of sug- | | | gestion, the Council ratifying such selec- tions as are agreed upon by the department head and the supervising Council committee’ that is, the committee in charge of that de- partment, for, as he says in another para. graph, “Each of these departments 13 organ- ized separately and its work is carried on by | the standing committee.” Asa matter of fact, these heads of depart- mets are almost always men of marked ability and great aitainments in the special line of investigation for which they are severally chosen, their qualifications rendering them pre-eminently it to occupy these various po- eitions. Then, again, the Counciimen gerve three years, three from each ward, and one- tnird of them go out of office each year, so that new men can be chosen 10 meet any change of public sentiment, while two men of experience remain in office. But the one fact which I wish most to em- phasize is that these specially qualifi:d heads of departments, who are rareiy changed, but are practically permanent, are in the actual working of the system, the Teal menagers of the great city corporation, just as heads of departments manage the great private cor- porations in this_country. In & word, the business affairs of Glasgow and all the British cities are mapaged as all successful business enterprises must be managed. The “Town Councis” of seventy-eight pass upon the work as lsid out by the heads or de- partments and their wisely chosen assisiants, each committee 1n charge of & department rendering through sub-commitiees, as well as by full committees, all the aid they can to ar- range and perfect any business or meesure of a department before it 1s laid before the “Town Council” for approval and adoption. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, August 14, 1897, BICYCLE PATENTS. Washington Post. Nearly one-fourth of the patents granted at this time relate to the bicycle. There are all kinds of devices, from small toois to the whole wheel. So many kinds of wheels are made and the wheels are used for so many purposes that patents concerning the various parts are very numerous. Almost every use to which a wheel is put will point the way to a patent to improve theservice. Ihen there are constant experiments in cheins, handle-bars, spokes, tires, frames, yflhls snd in factevery partof the machine, It would seem that with $0 many patents issued every week the bicycle would soun become perfect. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. VETERANS' Hoxis—Veteran, City. The tional Soldiers’ Home pays over to the soldier inmates all the pension that is due them. In the State home for soidiers at Youniville in this State the home collects the money for the pensioner, allows each pensioner a sum of maney monthly, not to exceed 5, for ver- sonal use, and pays over to those dependent on the inmate such sum as he may name, and if there is any surplus it is reserved untif tho inmate is discharged, when it is turned over to him. The requirements for admission to the National Solaiers’ Home are: 1. An honorable discharge from the United States service. 2 Disabliity which prevents the applicant from earning his living by 1. bor. 3. applicants for admission will be required to stipulate and agree to abide by all the rules and Tegu ations made by the board of manazers, or by : to perform all duties required of them, and to obey all the lawful orders of the officers of the home. ~ Attention is callied to the fact that by the law establishing the home the members are | made subject to the rules and articles of war, and wil be governed thereby in the same manneras | if_they were in the army of the United ~tates. | 4. A solaier or sailor must forward w.th his ap- | pi cation for admission his discharge p per, aud | when he is a pensfoner his persion ceriidcate, and | if he has been a member of a State home his dis- chaige from that home, before his appiication will | be considered, which papers will be retained at the | bia chlowhich the spplicant is admitted, to be | Kept there for bim aad returned 1o him when he is aischarged. 'Thi, rule is adopted to preven: the | loss < such papers and ceriificates ana 10 hinder iraudu.ent practices; aud no apj lication wil be If | the orizinal discharge does Dot exist a copy of dis- | charge, cerslfied by the War or Navy Department, | or by (he adjutant-gereral of the Site, niust uc: | company the appication. Soluiers or sailors, whose Fensions exceed $16 & month are not eligible to 1he home unless tha reasons are peculiar, and are exjiained to the manager and are satisfaciory to him. Toose who | have been members of the State homes musc have 0se homes at least six mon:hs betore they cau be admiited to a branch of the Nati nal home, except by a vote of the board of muanagers. Appiicants are reqaested to conform str.c:ly to the abuve requirements. ‘The United Stutes ~0.diers’ sicme fn the Dis- trict of Coluwnbia recelves and mainiains d.s- coarged soldiers uf the reguisr army. Al soldiers Wwho have served 'wenty vears as eniis.ed men in | the army (inciuding voiunteer service, it any), and all so!diers «f less than twen ears’ servic. wounds, dis- | while in the urther service, are entitied 1o the Lenefils of the bome. i A pensicner who enters the home may assign | his pension_or'any part of it, to bis chila, wite, or 1 | | Wwho have incurred such disat{ ity ease or ivjuries:n the line ot dut regular army as unfits them for parent, by filing Wri ten notice with the agent who pays him. gned, it is drawn by the treasurer of the home and held in trust for the pensioner, to whom it Is paid in such sums as the | commssioners deem proper while he Is an inmate of the home, the balance being paid in full woen | he takes his discharge and leaves the home. Wates are subject (0 the ruies and articles uf w the same as su.diers in the army. They are con sortabiy lodged, fed and clothed, wnd receive medical attendance and medicine, all withous cost 1o them There are 125 men now recelviug the bene Lits of the nome. The Board of Cummissioners consists of “the generai-in-chie? commundink the aimy, the sur- Beon-general, the commissary-general, the adjo- tunt-general, th: quariera. aster-genersl, the jud se- advocaie-seneral and the Governor of the home * Applications fo. 1dwission to the home may he addressed to the “Hoara of Commissioners, Sol- diers’ home, War Uepartment, Washiagton, . (.7 and mus: give date of enlistmént and date of dis- charg:, With letier of company and number of regimen: for each a1d every term of sereice, and Iale of pension, if any, and must be accompanied by a medichi Certificate showlug naure and de- gree ordisabilicy, if any exists. et e, 1 T MEN AND WOMEN, John D. Rockefeller has presented to Vassar College a library of 2700 books purchased in Germany. The venerable Horatio F. Simrall, ex-Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Miss)s: iopi, is 8 member of the Boara of Supervisors of War- ren County, Mississippi. Three sets of twins, all boin within the same hour, break tne record in Smyrna, Del., two girls being born to Mrs. Jefferson Staats, two bors to Mrs. Amos Walker and two boys to Mrs. Gray Deakyne. Helen Kellar, the remarkable deaf, and blina girl, who recently took exn:n:?- tions for Radcliffe College, read the questions in French by feeiing the movements of the ex- aminer’s lips, but in the German examina. tions letters were formed on her hand by the sign language. 5 Charles Henry James Taylor, a well-knows colored man who has taken up his residence in Baltimore, has just been admitted to prac- tice in the Bupreme Court in that city. He has declined the deanship of the Morris- Brown Law School of Atlants, Gs., which was pursues. At whatever place she stays sho purchases a cow, which becomes part of her luggage when she returns home after her travels. Young Master Hobart, son of Vice-President Hobart, hes a 1'king for electrielty and instru- ments. The queer Weather Bureau insiru. ments in the Marble Room of the Capitol have a perfect fascinetion for him and be can read them at a glance and expiain all about in sctentific terms. Ile Lovers around : as though bewitched. WITH YOUR COFFEE. Mrs. Commonatock (at the summer ho They say the Waiter at our hotel is a nobleman. Mr. Commonstock (excitedly)—Good! I'll offer him one of our daughters and a share in my business and escape lipping him.— Judge. “Jorkins broke his engegement with Miss Loveleign.” “Was he justified?”’ “Yes; he found out that her motiier was one of those women that never travel without taking a bird cage along.”—Chicugo Record. “I tbought you advertised home farel” said the summer boarder indignantly. “Wall,” replied Farmer Corntossel, “tha: what you're gettin’; canned peaches, canne tomattusses, canned corn beet and conden milk, the same 8s you're used to.”—Washing- ton Star, She—So you don’t like the hat justin fron: oi us, How would you like 1t trimmed? He (savagely)—With a lawn mower.—Ti:. Bl : she—How delightful it would be to drif like this forever and ever. He (who had hired the boat)—Not at 75 cents aa hour.—Leslie’'s Weekly. We have not read Professor Corbett's : 1 on what 10 do ina fight, but it probebly t the reader to do as Fitzsimmons did.—Chic. News. “Dad, T wish 1 came of a distinguis family, like Bob Hill, so's I could have som thing to boast abou ‘A distinguished family like Bob Hill's, eh? In what way were his parentsdistinguished?’ *“Why, his mother wes a fat woman in a mu- seum and his father was sweilowed by an alli- galor.”—Richmond Dispatch. ““I don’t see why you should feel <o badly over my refusal,” said the summer girl to her latest vietim. “Why, if Imarri who ask me at this place they’ prison, and (sweetly) you wouldn’t like that, now, would you?’—Philadelphia North Amer- can. nd me to HOW HE WON. A Western Congressman says thatout in his district the Populists are pretty strong and very active, says the Pniladsiphia Inquirer's Washington correspondent. They nominated a candidate for Congress last year. He started in on nis canv: having good-sized audi- ences almost everywhere and was received by them with considerable enthusiasm. One of the chief tenets of the Populist party is op- position to the legal fraternity. Fiually it was noised about among the Populists that their candidate for Congress was a lawyer. This greatly disturbed them, and the leaders took couusel together as to what should bz doue, whether they should permit him to corn tiuue in the race or withdraw him and nom nate some one else who was not a lawyer. Before they had arrived at a decision a friend of the candidate appeared on the scene and declared the story tuat the candidate was a lawyer to be without foundation *“OQurcan- didate,” said he, “was at one time 8 lawyer. He is note lawyer any longer. Ile has been disbarred by the courts.” *This explanation seemed to satisfy the Populists,” exciaimed Lhe Western Congressman, *for, you see, 1 am ere.” CITY BOY VERSUSCOUNTRY LAD. Atlanta Journal. The city bog grows up i. a contracted space. The square upon which he lives is his world, the little things on earth he despises, end be begins to burn the candle of existence too soon. For him there is little opportunity for the display of sterling manhood or the enjoy- ment of life in its relation to nature. The country boy is, from the first, a child of neces- sity, and eary learns the iesson of how to make evds meet. The ways and means of life isa hard and effective school from which to graduate. Thepuplis therein canuot sit uown wWith folded hands and wait for help, but they must help themselves, and at once. The broad fields give scope to the mind and strength to the heart—the country boy is & man at 10, though ke does not know it andat 20 ne stands a young giant, while his’ city cousin is the dyspeptic victim of vile cigarettes and bad hours. POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES. Euftalo Courler. According to an cfficial estimade made in the Treasury Department the present popu- lation of the United States slightly excaeds recently offered to him. The Empress of Austria collects cows. This is & curious habit on the part of her Imperial Majesty, but it is one which she faithlully 77,000,000. This indicates an anuual in- crease of more then 2.000,000 since the last Federal census was taken in 1890, when the total population of the country was found to be more than 62,000,000. We are now within three years of anotner Federal census, at which, it is rea~ouable to aniicipate, the total gny\uu:inu of the United States will exceed 0.000,000. BEST peanut taffy in the world. Townsend's* —————o CALIFORNIA Glace Fruits; 50c 1b., in elegant fire etched boxes. Townsend's, Palace Hotel* —————— CrEAM mixed candies 25¢ Ib. Townsend’s. * e FINE eyeglasses, specs, 15¢ up. 35 Fourth st. —teegtegen s o SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Montgomery. * - The figure 9 has a peculiar connection with the career of the Emperor of Germany. His Majesty is the ninth King of Prussia; he was torn in the fifty-ninth yearof the century, entered the army in 1869, and completed his university career i 1i The dates of his birth and marriage, January and February 27, both make nine if the figures 2and 2 are added together. Get Your Tickets to the Klondike. The Northern Pacific Steamship Company has put the magnificen: steamer Oliy of Seattle fnto service tetwern Tacoms, Seattle, Juneau and Dyea. Steamer leaves Tacoma and teattle An- gust 35 and 26. For tickets and information call at the Northern Pacific Raiway Office, 568 Mac- ket stree;, S, F. T. K. 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