The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 22, 1897, Page 8

8 THE SAN FRAN CISCO CALL DAY, AUG 1897. ST 22, JEWELER JOLY MAKING HONEY Studied the Art for Years and Is Now in Trouble. The Coins Manufactured by Him Are Perfect in Every Detail, All the Appliances and Ingredients Found in the Room Which He Has Ocoupied for Two Years. The clever arrest of Paul Joly Friday aight by Policeman Frank Riley for pass ing counterfeit money has given great satisfaction to the Police Department and the Secret Jervice Department. i | along time been lying in wait for the | | men who catch trout out of season. | Whereupon he took him before a | of the Peace, who fined bim £2 i Exchange. | JIaR S |PARKER QOMMITTED SUICIDE. He Ended His With a Big i DLose of Arsenic. | Charles A. Parker committed suicide by | taking arsenic last night at his residence, | corner of Fulton and Fillmore streets. | It was atout 10 o’clock when Parker | took the fatal dose. Dr. Burnham was | called in soon after, but the poison was ‘ rapid“ in its work and at an early hour \ | this morning death ensued. No cause is known for the man’s act. He leaves a widow and two children. | oo oom. | One of a Limited Number Issued Nearly | Tweity Years Ago. piece worth about §4 was presented for | criticism and explanation the other day | at the window of a Cincinnati bank, but | except for an expression of the opinion | that the coin was genuine, no information | about it could be obtained from the bank’s | officials. i Then the preblem was submitted to the | Treasury authorities at Washington, and they at once solved st. This $4 cold piece | is one of about 450 of the same kind that | were coined in 1879 as the result of a | | What seemed to be a United States gold | | | | | scheme invented by Congressman Wiltiam | | W. Hubbell. He thought it would be a | | good idea to have, not gola dollars | | - Joly is an educated man and speaks five languages fluently. He is a native of France, 50 years of age, and professes to follow the occupation of a jeweler. Hos is agraduate of a college in France, and came to this country in 1879, arriving in this City nine years ago. For several years he has made the coun- | terfeiting of coin a study until he became an expert in the art. The coins turned out by Joly are a perfect imitation. They have the genuine ring, and the only de- fect noticeable in them 1s that they are slightly under weight. They would easily pass for the genuine article, and the man who suspected that they were counterleit may consider himself an expert. The clerk in Harry Corbett’s saloon on Eliis street, who attends to the pools on prizefights, notified Policeman Riley that counterfeit dollars had been passed on bhim by a man in the “Paris Mutuals” on the prizefights at Woodward’s Pavilion about two weeks ago. Riley determined 10 bs on the lookout for the man Friday night, as it was ex- pected he would pass some of the coun- terfeit money on the muunals on the prize- fight that nicht. He stationed himself in a convenient place in the poolrooms and when Joly entered the clerk signaled to bim. Joly passed up four$l coins to the clerk and just as he was turning to leave the clerk jumped off the stand and called to | | PAUL JOLY, the Jeweler, and the Room Which He Had Converted Into a Private Mint for Base Metal. Riley, who promptly placed Joly under arrest and took him to the City Prison. When searched at the prison two $1 coins were found in bis pocket, which were booked as evidence against him. ‘When asked for his address he rave Riley & card bearing the inscription *‘Paul Joly, Manufacturing Jeweler, 205 O'Farrell street,” and said he slept there. Riley told him there was no jewelry store at that address, and happening to look on the back of the card he noticed the ad- dress “514 Bush street.”” Joly then aa- mitted that he roomed there Riley, after booking Joly, notified Se- cret Service Agent Harris of the arrest and also Policeman T. B. Gibson, who ar- rested the Rodgers gang of counterfeiters, and the three went to Joly’s room at 514 Bush street. It 1s a small room, No. 35, and it did not take them long to thoroughly search it. They were rewarded by finding nine molds—six for $1 coins, two for half-dol- lars and one for §5 gold pieces—a blow- pipe, 1wo batteries, acids and various tools and ingredients used in the msanu- facture of the coins. They also found some twenty $1 coins, | some half-dollar coins complete and a number of unfinished coins. They took possession of iLe articles and coinsand re- turned to the City Privon to see Jo ‘When he was confronted with the evi- dence of his crime he frankly confessed that he had been alone making counterfeit coins and passing them for some time. He had been living in the room, 514 Bush street, for the past two years, and when the landlady ana the other roomers heard him workingat nights they thought he was doing some jewelry work, and never imagined for a moment that there was a counterfeit mint in the house. Joly wouid aliow no one toenter his room and always kept it loczed. He was reserved in his manner and kept himself aloof from the other roomers. A Fine atch. A city eentleman returning from an un- successful fishing expedition encountered on his way a professional angler. “How do you do?’ said the former, *1 rejoice to see that you have been more successful than 1. Would you, fora con- sideration, part with a few of your fish, that I may not return to my family empty-handed ?”" The professional angler said he would, and the city gentieman went on his way with all the trout caught by his mors suc- cesslul acquaintance. He met, a little later on, another gen- tleman, who eyed his tish and stopped to speak to him. “#Did yon catch those fish yourseli?” he said. The cily gentleman said “Yes,” and asserted, moreover, that he was ashamed to take home 0 faw, saying that bis usual catch was much larger. “Indeed,”’ said the other, ‘'then come with me, for I am an officer, and have for | I | rural districts of the State. | tions in READY 10 UPPOSE AN INCREASE Assessor Siebe’s Property Valuations to Be Defended, PROPERTY-OWNERS ARE ANXIOUS. Fear the State Board Will Raise the Figures Again This Year, MAYOR PHELAN SECURING FIGURES. Ex-Mayor Ellert Suggests That Large Property-Owners Go Before the Board. The State Boara of Equalization is in session, and many of the officials and large property-holders of this City are momentarily expecting 1o hear that the board has raised San Francisco’s assess- ment, as it has done forseveral yoars past. Last year valuations submitted by As- sessor Siebe were raised 20 per cent by the State board, and since, owing to shrink- age in lccal property values, this year's assessment is some millions less than last year’s, many anxious taxpayers in this City are expecting similar action on the part of the State board to that of 1896. Mayor Phelan, the Assessor and the chairman of the Finance Committee, who will go to Sacramento in the event of a threatened raise have been collecting data tending to show that San Francisco is assessed fully as high in proportion as the *“The valua- this City,” said Mayor Phelan last night, “‘are fully as high in proportion and silver dollars, but dollars of | both silver and gold, or ‘goloid” | doliars, as he called them, and affer much | | importunity by h'm the Committee on | Coinage, Weights and Measures made a | favorable report on the plans, and the | proposition to coin a limited number of | such pieces was put in the form of a joint | resolution, and passed by both Houses. The first ‘“goloid "’ dollar contained | ione part of gold and twenty-four |of silver, nine-tenths fine, and weighed 258 grains, Then, in 1879, metric doliars were | | some “‘zolold”’ | made, containing one part of gold, six | teen and a tenth of silver and nine-tenths fot copper. The $4-piece of 1879 be- |longs to the same series. On the face of it, around the outer edge, are the words, “United States of America.” Un- derneath, in small tyre, is “E pluri- |bus unum.” In tre center is a star bearing the following: **One tella, 400 cents.” Underneath the star, in small letters, are the words, “Deo est Gioria’’ On the obverse side, in the center,is a head of the Goddess of | Liberty. Above this, on the outer edge, | are thirteen smallstars. Between the stars are the following ietters and figures: 6, 1G, 3, 8, 7. G, R, A, M, 8. Underneath the head is the daie. he pileces were never legal tender. Only a limitea num- ber were stricken off, and these did not get into general circulation. The joint resolution provided that members of Con- gress who so desired conld purchase sam- ples of the new coins at about cost price, and the greater part of the issue was thus | | bought in. The experiment was aban- | { doned before the attention of the public! was called to it, and now, whenever one | of the pieces turns up, there is always a bombardment of the treasury with ques- tions about it.—New York Times. . e e | Convincinz a Policeman. A small-boy cyclist was riding without | a light and was stopped by a park officer, | who asked him in gruff tones where his light was. “Why, it’s here,”” exclaimed the rider | in surprise. | *Yes, but it's out,” asserted the patrol- | n. Well, it was lighted at that last turn.” Sonny, it's cold; couldn’t have been lighted this evening,” triumphantly an- nounced the cfficer. “Hub! That thin metal cools in a min- ute. TI'll light that lamp and wait until it gets red liot, put it out, then ride to the next corner and back, aud when I return it’ll be cold. “All rizht; policeman. |~ The boy lighted the lantern, waited un- til it grew redhot, turned 1t out and start- ed, and that kid 1s goingz yet,—Philadel- phia Press, m try it,”’ assented the acute as those elsewhere. In fact property has been assessed atabout 70 per cent of its market value as determined by average sale prices. *“We have facts and fizures which sup- port this contention conclusively. In case a citation is issued to the City to send a representative to appear before the State Board Assessor Siebe, Chairman Rottanzi of the Finance Committee and myself will probably go to Sacramento as has been the custon In the past. As yet, how- | ever, no citation has, to my knowledee, been issued. At least the Assessor, who | would naturally be the one cited, told me yesterday that he had not been notified ” City and County Attorney Creswell had received no knowledge of what would be donein regard to representing the City in case of threatened action by the State Equalizers, “I suppose,” said he, “that the Mayor, the Assessor and chairman of the Finance Committee will defend the valuations submitted by the Assessor. I know,” he continued, “that Mr, Ellert, when Mayor, used to appear personally before the board when summoned, well armed with figures and statistics, It was through his care- ful and persistent efforts, T am convinced, that only slight 1ncreases were made in the City’s assessment.” “I believe that besides the officials a delegation of large property-owners should also appear before the board,” said ‘ex- Mayor Ellert last night. *‘If the City is cited it should have a good iepresentation before the State Board. They are sure to be well received, even if the board does not graut them all they ask. Many things could be done by such a representation, which would show that San Francisco is not shirking its fair share. *Of course the cry always is that San Francisco receives a large share of tite ap- propristions, and yet does not pay taxes in proportion. Iremember hearing this especially one vear when [ went up to the capital to appear before the board. It happened that at that time thousands of dollars were being paid by the State for coyote scalps. When I met some of the men who had complained that San Francisco was getting more and paying less than the rural districts, I called their attention with good effect to the fact that in this instance San Francisco, which couldn’t boast of coyotes anywhere with- in twenty miles of its limits, was furnish- ing at least a third of the hundreds of thousands of dollars that were being paid for coyote scalps. “Previous to and during my term as Mavor,” continued Mr. Ellert, “‘the cus- tom always was, for the Mayor, Assessor and chairman of the Finance Committee to appear before the board. Throughout the ierms f Poud and Sanderson the cus- tom was ob«erved and I continued to do as my predecessors had done, Last year Sacramento I believe. 1t was thou:ht that the assessment would be raised any- how and that it would be useless to send arepresentation, The matter accordingly went by default and a raise of 20 per cent was made on ihe Assessor’s valuation.” QUEEN VICTORIA’S ENGINEER. Precautions Taken to Safeguard Her Railway Journeys. “Everybody knows that extra care is ex- ercised whenever her Majesty travels by rail,” remarked George Lasham, famil- lariy known among railway men as the | ' Queen’s driver,”” to the wiiter oue day recently, “but few people realize how thorough and complete are the precau- tions taken to guard against any and every possible danger.’” Mr. Lasham, it may be explained, has driven the ‘‘royal special” over the Lon- don and Southwest system for nearly forty years, and is therefore an aathority on the subject. Quite recently, on his re- tirement from acuve service, he was pre- sented by her Majesty witn a beautiful siiver salver, elaborately chased and en- graved with the royal arms. “'Before every journey,” he explained, ‘‘no matter how short the distance may be, (he engine and tender attached to the special are carefully examined by the chief locomotive superintendent. A piiot engine precedes the train, all ordinary traffic is suspended, and the line for the whoie distance i1s watched by relays of vlate-layers, To the driver are given the most explicit instructions as to speed, stoppages, etc., to disregard any one of which would be to court instant dismis- sal. Printed instructions are given to every official accompanying the train, who' is strictly forbidden to give any in- formation respecting the arrangements. “It is wrong to suppose, as many do, that the ‘Queen’s special’ slips along any faster than any other train. Asa matter of factit isa standing order than the speed of the Queen’s train is never to ex- ceed forty miies an hour, and it is gener- ally kept well within even that moderate limit. ~ The latter regulation, however, applies only to her Majesty’s special. The Prince of Wales likes to travel as rapidly as possible, and he generally has his cesire gratified. If not he invariably wants to know the reason why, “When any special danger 1s appre- hended the ordinary precautions are re- doubied. For instance, during the dyna- mite scare in the jubilee year every piece of coal used inthe furnace was broken into little bits in the presence of an offi- cial befors being loaded on the tender, and the interior of the boiler was carefully examined and scraped. The object waz, of course, the same in both instancer- to guard against the introduction cf ex- plosives.”” It is not unusual, it appears, for mem- bers of our own royal family to bestow ex- tra remuneration upon the drivers of their trains. Foreign potentates, how- ever, are more free-handed. Thus Mr. Lasham recounts with a good deal of sat- isfaction that he invariably received from the Shah £20 a trip. Next to that much- bejeweled autocrat in generosity was the Emperor Napoleon, wuom the “Queen’s driver’’ often took from Chiselhurst to Windsor, ana who was invariably ‘'good” for a £5 pound note. It was always de- livered, inclosed in a sealed envelope, by his Majesty’s private secretar This cus- tom his widow, the Empress Eugenie, kept up until the death of the Prince Im- perial, when she ceased to charter ‘‘spe- cials,” The number of cigars presented to the ““Queen’s driver’’ by distinguished travel- ersis Jegion. Most of them have long ere of them have been preserved as souvenirs. Notable among these latter is agigantic specimen, nearly a foot long, presented to one, not much bigger than a cigarette, given him by the Empress of Austria.— Answe e SOME NEW INVENTIONS. To prevent the check-rein of a harness from slipping outof place when & horse throws his head up a wire loop is siipped over the hook to its base, with one end of the loop pressing against the point of the hook to hold the rein. An Englishman has invented a {op pro- vided with a pivot and a screw nut, which engages with a screw equal in length to the height of the top, the screw being withdrawn to its tip and pressed into the nut quickly to spin the top. To more easily detect a puncture in pneumatic tires a new device censists of a tube with one end cut out to fitan inflated tire, with an air-tight fabric loosely fitted over the opposite end, to be agitated by the air escaping from the puncture. Tooth brushes are to be made with re- movable pads for the bristles, so that one handle will be sufficient for any number of bristle pads, which can be replaced as fast as the brush wears out, or can be fitted with a set of brushes of different firmness. For polishing boots and shoes two Canadians have invented a box with two rollers at its sides and a rest in the center for the foot, a polishing band being vassed under the rollers and over the foot, to be drawn back and forth by loop-handles on the end of the strap. A newly designed hat, which is intended to be worn winter and summer, has a sweatband with perforations in its lower edge, the upper edge fitting tightly to the crown of the hat for winter use and drawn inward by means of a cord to ventilate the hat for summer wear. Spray-bath cabinets are being manufac- tured with a series of perforated pipes running around the upright tub and across the top to force tiny jets of water over the whole body, the regulating valve being placed within easy reach of the bather as he stands ih the cabinet. A German has patented a burglar alarm door key, having & sliding pin in the end of the key opposite the loop to close an electric current as soon as the key is tam- pered with, the pin sliding into the key until it strikes the wire and pushes it against the side of the key. To prevent the refilling of a new bottle several metal balls are placed in the neck and attached to the cork in such a man- ner that they wiil fall to the bottom of the bottle as soon as the cork isdrawn, so that if the balls are loose in the bottle it shows 1t has been used before. ———————— Divided His Estate by Lot. Fearing that his children might gnar- rel over his estate when he dies Jonn Wal- ters, an early resident of Green Bay, Wis., made a novel settlement with bis heirs the other day. He called his family of nine children around him and proposed that the estate be divided among them now and thus save future litigatfon. The plan agreed upon was that the estate should be divid- ed into nine eqnal parts of as nearly equal value as possible and that corresponding numbers should be drawn. To this all agreed. The numbers were accordingly thrown into a hat and the drawing pro- gressed good naturedly to the end, when all declared themselves satistied. The only stipulation made by Mr. Wal- ters was that each of the beneficiaries should contribute $15 per annum to a fund for hs private use. In case thie proved to be more than he needed hs would refund what was left. The estate is valued at about $14,000.—Cincinnati En- quirer, —_——————————— In Law—But Not in Fact, A man called upon a lawyer the other day and began to state his case in rather an abrupt manner. “'Sir, I nave come {o you for advice. I'm a husband-in-law.”” :A what?” spoke out the learned coun- sel “Husband-in-law, sir.” “I have never seen that defined in domestic relations.” . *‘Don’t you know what a husband-in- law is, sir? 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We knew how to pull boats, and we had to know, working in this har- bor with the water gomng all ways and boats coming from all direc- tions. Of course we were not much on the new-fangled shellboats, but the boys got points from us just the same, and those who learned to row the shells the best were ihe regular watermen. There was money in being a boatman in tnose days, but the business has gone,and only those remain in it who are too old to do anything eise. “What did we do? Well, we had plenty of work between taking people to the ships and off them, transporting steve- dores and bringing messages to ship and land, and it was a poor dav when an industrious man made less than §$10. And there was tun in it at tnat, with lots of excite- ment and races muany times each day. Nowadays there 18 nothing for the boat- man to do except to think of the good times that are gone, and to ‘run a line’ when he gets a chance at $3 a run,” The old boatmen say that their business has been ruined by the little steam eraft. ‘When a ship comes to the harbor nowa- days there is never a lack of boatmen to run a line or carry it to the place where the vessel will make fast, but that was formerly only one of the many duties of the industrious boatmen; now it is the mainstay. “We never quarrel as to who shall have the jobif several boatmen are on the agot," said the veteran, ‘“‘and the man who is nearest the incoming ship usually gets it and $8. To be on hand we go out as far as Robbins Reef light and the man who gets a job earns his money.” 3 He explained that the numerous boats which are seen from the ferry-boats are not regular boatmen’s craft. Many be- long to lobster men and fishermen and a goodly number are the property of men who hunt drift wood and drift stuff; others ar> manned by men who are in the employ of the ferry corporations, who go to and from their work on the ferry prop- erty that way. “‘The boats dor’t look very natty,” said the bronzed oarsman of long ago, “and would stand a poor show,in a beauty match, but they’re a sieht more use- ful than the fancy shells that all the fuss is made about; and as to rowing—well, I’ve been at it, boy and man, for forty-five years, and I think I'd stand a good show in a race here in the harbor with any one of the champion oarsmen. Our rowing was useiul; what's their's good for?’— New York Tribune. — e .————— NAPOLEOKN'S HAPPY DAYS. Delightful Years Spent at Malmaison Josephine’s Art Collections. According to the memoirs of Constant, the First Consul passed at Maimaison the most deiightful years of his life; he spent there, before he became Kmperor, every moment that he couid spare from the work that engrossed him at Paris. At Malmaison, too, there were some brave fetes, in which the ruling spirits were Lauriston, Rapp, Eugene de Beauharnais and his sister Hortense, Jerome Bona- parte, Isbey and the demoiselles Anguie, of whom one later married Ney. But even in those hapoy days, before Napoleon was given over body and soul to glorification and ostentation, there wasa canker in the bud. He had already ene- mies, and whenever he was to appear at his country seat Josephine took care to hedge him with armed spies and servants all the way from Paris. It was said that there was a conspiracy on foot to kidnap him—the plotters baving their headguar- ters at the neighboring quarry of Nan- terre. They had even succeeded, it ap- pears, in buying over some of the ser- vants of the chateau, for upon one occa- sion a servant placed poisoned snuff on Napoleon’s desk, which, being used, made Citizen Bonaparte very ill. Josephine gathered about her at Mal- maison many objects of art of great value. Upon her death several pictures from the gallery and two pieces of statuary by Canova were bought by the Emperor of Russia for $100,000. The large portrait of Josephine by Gerard, which hung in one of the salons, is now at Munich. There was also a collection of Greek vases, of antique bronzes and of pictures from Pompeii, painted upon stucco, given to Josephine by the King of Naples, which is | at the Louvre. ‘The statues of marble which crnamented the facade are also to be seen at the Louvre. They have been replaced, in the restoration, by figures in terra cotta. On the park side, 1n front of the drawbridge, are two large pyramids of red granite, with hieroglyphics, which werzs taken from the chateau of Richelieu by Jose- phine, who wished to surprise Napoleon with these Egyptian reiics upon his re- torn from his oriental campaign. In the park there are also still standing some temples and fountains and a gothic chapel brought from Metz. Of the ‘entrance lodges formerly occu- pied by the grenadiers of theguard noth- ing remains but the walls and the grills. One of these is the gate which Napoleon opened when, after Waterloo, be left the chateau, his [ast refuge, to go to Roche- ! fort. At this spot a stone marks the place where the dethroned Emperor set foot for the last time upon the beioved ground to which he would never return. Malmaison is near the town of Nanterre and but half an hour by steam tramway from Paris. After its opening to the pub- lic it will doubtless become as popular a resort for pilgrims as Versailles and St. Cloud.—Paris letter to New York Sun. ————— The Champion in Frugality. Guy, the founder of Guy’s Hospital in London, was as parsimonious in private life as he was munificent in public. A good story illustrative of this is told of him in connection with Jobn Hopkins, one of his contemporaries, who was nick- named Vulture Hopkins on account of his rapacious mode of acquiring his immense wealth. On one occasion he paid a visit to Guy, who, on Hopkins entering the room, lighted a farthing candie. Hopkins, on ing asxed the reason of his wvisit, said: better versed in the prudentapd necessary art of saving than any man living, and I therefore wait on you for a lesson in frugality. I havealways regarded myseif as an adept in this matter, but I am told you excel me.” “Ob,” replied Guy, *if ihat 1s all you came 1o talk about, we can discuss the matter inthe d=rk,"” and there- upon he blew out the candle. Struck with this example of economy, Hopkins ac- knowledged that he had met his superior in thrift.—Medical Record. —_————— How Indians Get Whisky in Oregon, ‘This business is principally in the hands of Missouri Jack and his corps of assist- ants; but there are one or two more dives in thesame business. At the rear of Mis- souri Jack’s saloo is a sort of back room, and behind this a smalier room. An In- dian goes to the front saloon and inti- mates how much whisky he wants. He then goes round to the little rcom furthest back and leaves the money on a table, and on going out slams the door. The attend- ant Ganymede takes the liquor into the iml. o:cx room and puts it on the table, akes the money, and on going out sia the door. The Indian llvefil goges and g:::: the liquor. This sort of thing has been going on for years, and it is said the bulk of Missouri Jack’s business is of this kind.—Qregonian, ‘I have been toid that you, sir, are | { is popular with the craft. SENATOR HANSBROUGH. He Made His Fortune by Following Horace Greeley’s Advice. United States Senator Henry C. Hans- brough of South Dakota is to be married. The prospective bride is Miss Mary Berri Chapman of Washington, D. C., says a writer in the Cbicago Times-Herald. She is a talented young woman and very beautiful. She is a painter, she writes weil, and is especially strong as an illus- trator, She has done a good amountof newspaper work of varying sirength, and The upper cir- cles of Washington soctety know her well. America is 1o be congratulated that one of our bandsomest women has seen fit to marry an American, not some titled tor- eigner, with a losd of debts and a speckled recora. Miss Chapman bLass had ample opportunity to commit this foolishness. The legations at Washingion contain many detrimentals who are just blooded, penniless and immoral as any Churchill o! them all. Hansbrough is one of the best living exemplifications of the beauty and truth of old Horace Greeley's admonition, “Young man, go west and grow up witn the country.” If he had remained in 1llinois, where he was born, ne wouid bave been small potatoes and few in a hill to this day. For be it known thai men of talent and energy in this commonwealth are s0 thick that they bump against each other at every street corner. Here the race is not to the swift, but to the super- latively swift. The average man from elsewhere who comes to Chicago goes 1o the bottom like a bullet dropped in the water, The average Chicago man who goes elsewhere becomes a whale among minnows. When Hansbrough went out to California at an carly age he did the wisest thing possible to him. He learned to be a printer while subsisting prinei- pally on glorious climate. When Le had learned that much he nad some sortof living at his fingers’ ends. Even in California the folks were too strong for him. So he went to Dakota, then a Territory. - That move was the thing. Dakota 2t that time contained miners and cattle-raisers and cattle. rustlers and gamblers and many ladies who belonged to the three grades of free and easy, freer and easier, and freest and easiest. It had no men who cared a rap for poiitical preierment. They were too busy raising cows of their own, or some one else’s cows, or ‘‘calling the turn’’ on a green baize faro table, or shooting it out with a rival for the smiles of *“Deadwood Moll” 1o care anfilhing about holding office. Mark that Hansbrough was from Illinois. Therefore he was an office-seeker born. It wasin 1882 that he made his last move, and tue fact that he has proudiy borne the starry gonfalon of Illincis in the very thickest of the fray is evidenced by the further fact that he bas been in office practically ever since. No one who knows him can doubt that he will mske an admirabie busband, al- though close upon 1fifty years. Heis a thoroughly respectable and likable man. Although from a section that wes in its aay one of the wildest and wooliest and most difficuit 10 curry in the United States, there isn’t anything unconven- tional in his habits or modes of thought. He 1s, however, strictly a mediocre man. lie isnotan orator. He is not a writer. He does not shine in conver:ation. There is nothing brilliant in his appearance. He is not of original ihought. He is not especially well educated. He is just such & man as one meets and passes without comment a hundred times a day— a good citizen, a prompt taxpayer, aloyal American, a sober, reasonably industriou; conservative son of the State. These men, of course, are valuable everywhere, It1s of them that the real wealth of the country consists. But what I wish to emphasizeis the fact that such a man was able to go to Dakota and leap into the | hignest office within the gift of the peop! Why, down in Texas, particularly in the neizhborhood of Tyler, thich is lth!;:: of inteilect, he would have had to work twenty-six years to become a Coroner. ‘What Dakcta was fifteen years ago Arie zona, Utih and New Mexico now are, Young man, go West and grow up with the cotniry,