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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6 Call .OCTOBER 6, 1897 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE.. ....T10 Market street, San Francisco Telephone Main 1868. WEDNESDAY..... EDITORIAL ROOMS... ese00e 817 Clay street Telephone Mein 1574, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.... One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE.. vssesesns.. 808 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE, BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery stréet, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes sireet; open until 9:30 o'cloek. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o’clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open untii 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. 9 o’clock. 1243 Mission street; open until 8 o’clock. 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o’clo NW. corner Twenty-second | =and Kentucky strects; open tiil 9 o’clock. THE COOLIES OF HAWAIL HE vellow Examiner is afraid that Mr. C. P. Hunting- ton has sent Mr, Schwerin to Hongkong to arrange for bringing Chinese to the United States. Economy is Mr. Huntington’s leading characteristic. He said once to the cashier of the Palace Hotel, while disputing an overcharge of 25 cents in 2 board bill, “Young man, if ycu will inquire into my career you will find that no man can track me by the two- bit pieces I have dropped.’’ Mr. Huatington will not spend money to send agents to Hongkong after Chinese, when his agents hers, the yellow Ezamwner among them, are doing the work so much cheaper and better by advocating the anunexation of about 50,000 Asiatic coolies in Hawaii. One can see the sardonic smile on the benevolent visage of Mr. Huntington while his my, Senator Morgan, and the yellow disturber of his peace sweat and toil and talk and write to carry cut his policy of more Chinese for California. Let it be said for him that be has spoken his mind on this subject with commendable frankness. The people know jast where he stands; but whatever respect they feel toward him for warning them that he will hit, and telling them where the blow will fall, they must withhold from the yellow absentee jour- nalist, Hearst, who 18 working to effect Huntington’s policy and carry out his wishes by opening California to 50,000 coo!ies. Tue CaLL has exploited the physical fact taat white men cannot work where & tropical sun warms the growth of the sugascane. Whkite farm labor is now extensively producing beet sugar in California. Itis the only kind of sugar; except maple, that white labor can produce. Luckily it was installed hereat a time when our various deporiation and exclusion acts had reduced Chiness labor to a minimum. It was not founded on that labor, nor its price, but based upon white labor and its price. It has suppiled an industry, new and of great prospective magnitude and value to this State. But with 50,000 coolies annexed in Hawaii, lured by the less trylng climate and more azreeable conditions of California, how long will white labor control the production of beet sugar nere? #Ve have felt the result of Chinese craft, ingenuity and imi- tative faculty in many lines of skiiled and unskilled labor in this State. Were the results so satisfactory as to make us eager to extend and prolong the experience? If so, the way is open by the annexation of Hawaii. —_— e e Possibly the Modesto criminal who wants to go to the peniten- tiary so as to be cured of the morphine habit is sincere. How- ever, a suspicion that he desires to get where the babit can be indulged in without any particular interference 1s natural. 1f reports are to be believed, the morphine and opium fiend is not only nurtured but actualiy created prison. 1t is convenient, of course, for such a transgressor as a yel. low journal to find a scapegoat which, bearing its burde of sin, can be led out to the sacrifice. But the modern goat has to be well subsidized else he is apt to bleat rebelliously and rob the ceremony of some of its impressiveness. If baseball is to be played for charity and yellow journal- ists arrange a rake-off, what does charity get? This is a simple proposition and couid be easily answered if the yellow journal- ists were less diffident. Possibly their modesty restrains them from exposing their good works. ChamAnT e People who read baseball reports must have noticed the familiar annual statement that Anson would retire. Judging from the record of Chicago’s club, the announcement this time is tardy. Anson seems to have retired early in the season. One can hardly pick up a Chicago paper nowadays, made hideous by long, illuscrated accounts of a murder trial, without feeling an impulse 10 say, “Hang Leutgert!” And the poor sausage-maker may be innocent, after all, Now, that Sheehan and Croker, shining lights of Tammany, have fallen out we trust nobody will be rude enough to construe the episode into tke familiar one that is supposed to give honest men a chance. Rumors that an English syndicate will buy the Union Pa- cific would be interesting 1f true, but, under the circumstances, the eiement of interest is lacking. Insanity on the part of Lily Langtry’s.husband might well have been suspected when he first began to object to losing her. OUR SERVICE ON THE YUKON, UR special correspondeut, Sam W. Wall, who is now O pusbing his way up the Yukon River from Fort Yukon to Dawson, isrendering to the people along that stream and in the Klondike country a news service more important even than that which be is giving to those in this part of the world. He is carrying to Dawson information of the blockade of the river boats, with the consequent cutting off of tbe food supply for the winter, and by this news, which he will be the first to carry to them, the people of the threatened districts will be warned to take steps at once 1o avoid the impending disaster. The course taken by Mr. Wall is one of those feats ofdaring in the performance of duty which illumine so many of the most brilliant chapters in the history of journalism. The boat by which he was expected to make his way to the gold regions was stepped at Fort Yukon by the low water in the river and the rapid approach of the Arctic winter renders certair that it will not be able to proceed further this season. The passengers decided to return down the river, but Mr. Wall was more reso- lute. He held on bis course, building a canoe of his own, and is now on his way up the stream, carrying to Dawson the news of the situation, and giving notice to the settlers along the stream to save all grass in the locality so as to have forage for borses to pack supplies. It would not be easy to overestimate the value of the news service which THE CaLy, through its correspondent, is thus rendering to the people of the whole Yukon district. The in- formation he conveys may be the means of preventing a dire calamity by giving the people warning in time to guard against it,and his notice of the importance of saving the grass along the way will enable a large amount of suppiies to be packed up the river, when without it the grass might have been destroyed and that method of obtaining food rendered impossibie. It will be readily understood thata news service of this kind is of the highest value. Itis by such feats the true Jour. nalist distinguishes himself from the crowd of fluent writers, poets, romancers and fakers of all kinds who scrawl any amount of prose moreor less floria, but who never get the news, who never seek the news, who never push straight ahead | when difficulties confront them, nor even accomplish results that aitest the value of newspapers to the world by at times conveying information on the prompt knowledge of which the lives of thousands may depend. PARTY MUSIC WITHOUT HARMONY. TTHE statements of prominent Democratic politicians T like Senator White and Congressman Maguire, on the sale of the Union Pacific, are calculated to excite smiles and perhaps laughter. They are confident that the sale is steered by Senator Hanna to_pay back campaign contribu- tions and that the contract was made for this purpose. The facts are that, before he left office, President Cleveland notified Congress that in default of some new directory legislation on the subject, he would proceed under existing law to make the best terms he could for the Government. No additional legis- lation was passed, and President Cleveland and his Attorney- General thereupon mad: the contract under which the sale is to take place. It was a binding contract, upset bid and all. When Serator Morgan was here a few weeks ago, in his speechin Golden Gate Hall, Judge Maguire being present, he de- nounced the contract and said it was made by a man whom he held in such disrespect that he never mentioned his name, although he voted for him three times for President. In the face of all this, to tell the public that this is Hanna’s contract, forced upon President McKinley to pay back cam- paign contributions given the Republican National \Committee last year, indicates sublime confidence in the ignorance or prejudices of the people. All that President McKinley could do has been done. He has increased the upset bid to $50,000,000, gaining $5,000,000 for the Government. These Democratic politicians think that they can impeach a Republican administration by concealment of another fact. The upset bid is the minimum bid upon the property. The sale is open. Anybody can bid up to $100,000, 000, or any amount. This is proved by the telegram from London to the effect that an English syndicate may bid $6o, 000,000 for the property. Nothing more raw was ever attempted in American poli- tics than the Democratic attempt to discredit this Democratic contract and ascribe it to a Republican administration. THE REAL QUESTION AT ISSUE ERTAIN features of ‘‘reform™ journalism of the yellow C variety always appear the moment an argument goes against it. One is its irresistible disposition to try every opponent by its own standard of motive—which is to advocate and criticize only when there is something in it—and the other is its ready resort to sophistry when cornered for the purpose of evading tbe logical effect of facts. The Mission-street yellow fellow has abandoned the idea that all its contemporaries who object to a revival of dollar it *‘economy” are in the pay of the corporations and has substituted that other brilliant as- sertion that no well-informed person would make in good faith, the statement that ‘‘the new Board of Supervisors Las not ap- propriated enough money to run the city government as well as it has been run at any time In the past.’’ No one has claimed that enough money has not been appro- priated to run the city government *'as well as it has been run at any time in the past.”” The allegation is and has been that ever since the municipal conventions begau piedging Super- visors to the dollar limit the government has not been run as the government of a modern city should be. Nor has anybody been charged with corruption for this result. So far as Tux CaLL is concerned it has simply said that the silurians have projected the dollar limit in taxation npén a municipal system which 1s not adapted to it and that they know and knew when the late tax levy was enacted that the only possible outcome of this year’s levy would be the deterioration of public property and a deficit. For an intellicent person to argue that, because the averare of appropriations for five or six years past has been §4,708,000, $5,381,158, the amount appropriated this year, must be sui- ficient to run the government, is to induige in the rankest kind of sophistry. The question 1s not how much money the tax levy of the new Board of Supervisors will bring to the treasury, but what are the necessities of the city, and what smount may be properiy ex: ded in relieving them? The Superintendent of Streets, in his annual estimate, asked for $046,000. A few days ago our yellow contemporary said that a million was not too much to expend on the streets and sewers. Yet the new Board of Supervisors has appropriated only $523,300. Is that sum suflicient for tie needs of the city? The record of the King-Scully bozrd is not under considera- tion, and has no relevancy to the question. It is useless for any one to refer to it as a justification for a parsimonious or silurian municipal policy. Whatever that board did in the domain ot taxation is dead history. The question now up for decision is, Has the new Board of Supervisors—which is acknowledged on all' sides to be comvposed of honorable, high-minded men, free from the contamination of barroom politics—done its duty to the people in passing a levy which throws municipal improve- ment back again into the silurian slough of despond? It there ever was a time when large appropriations were justifiable, the present is the time. The new Supervisors, so far as the streets and sewers are concerned, could have ex- vended a miliion doliars without letting a cent of it get into the hands of the Street Dapartment. They possess the power to award by contract every bit of work that is performed upon them. Yet this year they have set apart a smaller sum for, this purpose than ever before; for, be it remembered, the bill for sweeping by hand, if that process is continued, at once absorbs twice as much as has ever been expended for this purpoze in previous years, excluding, of course, last year. 1n our opinion there is no possible way in which the dollar limit levy passed by the new Supervisors can bs justified. It will not only create a deficit; it will put the parks, streets, sewers and schoo!s bohind three or four years. Besidey, it will discourage what the reformers call ‘‘decent government.” If ‘‘decent government’’ means a cheap, unfinished and dilapi- dated city, the people will eventually want no more of it. A HINT FROM BIRMINGHAM. N Tue Cary interview with Alderman Clayton o! Birming- bam, England, is a very interesting reference to a subject pertaining to our city charter, to which we have aiready called attention. The city of Birmingham has very many gov- ernmental features which have attracted world-wide attention. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, who is now in the front rank of the politicians of the British Empire, won bis spurs in the city administration of Birmingham. The cavacity of that city to adapt and adopt reforms depended very much upon its legis- lative body. That body consists of two houses—the Board of Counciimen and the Board of Aldermen. The Councilmen, selected for three years by the people, elect the Aldermen, who have a term of six years. In this way the city lezislative policy has the same guarantee that our Congressional policy has in the Senate, whose members have a six-year term, and the two houses of the city legisiature check each other and securea calm consideration of legislative measures. We are convinced that American municipal government will never approach the ideal until it separates the executive and legislative functions and intrusts the latter to a legislature of two houses. There is something novel in a breach of promise sult in which a male is plaintiff, and an absolute surprise when a jury returns a verdict for $1700 damages, as has just been done in Maine. From the beginning of time the right of the female to trifle with the masculine heart has been tacitly recognized. Her privilege of winning it and then throwirg it aside has only been questioned by an occasional suitor, he usvally employinga pistol to lena emphasis to the question, and never finding pub- lic sympatby on his side. The rejected wooer who has $1700 wherewith to salve his younds may be regarded as a benefactor of his kind. He has overiurnea a precedent that has sadly hampered them. Now when a girl thrusts the *‘mitten” at one she has encouraged up to a proposing point or beyond she must realize that a bank roll must accompany the *‘mitten” and in time learn 10 be less gay. Weyler out of & job in Cuba otight to be available for man- aging the yellow journal baseball tournament. He isn’t much on charity, perhaps, but he has the rake-off business down to a fine point. The non-refuting refutation promulgated by the Hearst- lings had all the force of a large-bore biank cartridge, PERSONAL. R. C. Sargent of Stockton is at the Russ. £. Mullins of Fresno is at the Cosmopolita: H. M. Johnson of Fresno is at the California. F. M. Wigmore of Los Angeles is at the Cali- fornia. Dr. George McKinnon of Eureka is at the Grana, Charles E. Phipps of Sacramento is at the Baldwin, W. H. Katgenstein, a Sacramento lawyer, is st the Lick. R Jacob Neff, the mining man, arrived at the Palace last night. George Lingo, a cattleman of Birds Landing, 1s registered at the Grand. 8. Weilheimer, a merchant of Mountain View, 1s & guest at the Grand. Dr. Landoro R. Ellis of Sonora is among the late arrivals at the Oceidental. W. W. Stusland, a hotel man of Visalia, 1s at the Lick, accompanied by his son. J. I Clapp, & mining man and capitalist of Cnicago, is s late arrival at the Grand. R. Heycock ana family of Pendieton, Or., are staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. George A. Davis, superintendent at Pleasan- ton of the Lilienthal ranches, is at the Russ, C. H. Sherman, a prominent butcher of Sac- ra.aento, is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. <c. Jess_a Titus, owner and manager of the Golden Eagle Hotel of Sacramento, is at the Palace. John W. Howell, surveyor of the German Bank at Merced, 1s in town and has a room at the Lick. Professor Walter Miller of the department of archeology at Stanford is a late arrival at the California, _ Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford, who has been in Europe several months, is expected home November 1. Miss C. Beattie and Miss M. C. Ross of Bos- ton, Mass., are Among the arrivals at the Cos- mopolitan Hotel, J. L. Tharp of San Quentin, in charge of the Commissary department at the State peniten- tiary, is at the Grand. Hex_vey Lindley of Klamath, formerly a prominent politician of Los Angeles, arrived at the Palace last night. Dr. Edward Alsworth Ross, - one of the pro- fessors of economics at Stanford, is making & short stay at the Palace. A. D. Shepard, assistant passenger agent at Los Angeles of the Southern Pacific Railroad, arrived at the Palace last night. Edward Chambers, general frelght agent at Los Angeles of the Santa Fe Pacific Railway. arrived at the Palace last night. P. A. Chaliant, a business man of Inyo unty with mining interests, is at the Russ, accompanied by his wife and daughter. Dr. Frank Angell, professor of psychology, at Stanford and s stanch supporter of pure amateur sport, is a guest at the Occidental. H. de Vries Van Doesburgh, the wine-make r va St. Helena is at the Lick. Mr. H. de Vries Van Doesburgh has just returned from a visit 10 Germany. Captain Wainwright of Burlingame returned yesterday from a visit to the southern mining distriersof British Columbia and registered at the Palace. 2 Drury Melone of Oak Knoll, the ex-Secretary of State, who married Miss odward, daugh- ter of the founder of Woodward's Gardeus, is a late arrival at the Palace. James Terry Langford, assistant manager of the Stoekton Agricultural Implement Works, is in town. He is a son of State Senator Lang- ford of Lodi, and was president of the big pro- neer class of Stanford University when it was graduated in 1895. Frank Mattison, Assessor of Santa Cruz County, is at the Grand. He says that this has been the livellest summer that Santa Cruz has enjoyed duriug five years. He declares, | however, that the litigation now veuding in regard to the double bond issue is retarding the progress of the seaside resort. —_— VIGILANTE 7SF7I§IT I‘N_VOKED. Humboldt Standard. A litile of the old spirit of the vigilantes would be profitable just now In several parts of the State. Kobberies and murders g0 mer- rily on and the robbers elude their vursuers and escape justice. The good name of Cali- :ornn is injured abroad by these atrocities, or Enstern people 100! dise 107 robbers and oriminda o wit torie " Our mouniain roads and the old methods of stage travel which must continue, owing to the killy and mountainous surface of the min- ing sections, offer advantages to the highway- mmmn—rmnwmmmmnmnmg “THE INFAMOUS ANNEXATION SCHEME” Santa Cruz Penny Press. - THE CALL is entitled to the good opinion of all men whose sympathy reaches pothing in common with us save a common hospitality. They are an innocent, kindly and heppy people when unaisturbed by the Americans. And they realize, now thatitis in all probability too late to benefit by the realization, that their ianocence and kindliness and hos brought upon them the misery and unhappiness they are about to suffer through ennexation. * * * * The noble fight THE CALL and sowe other big papers are meking will avail naught, I fear. The annexationists are strong, and they are backed by both Republicans and Democrats. has been secured by tnat paper in the present consideration of the subject will make about all useful and interesting that is being done, a mere p! rete, . B B . Their love of bhome is S0 strong that their hearts are breaking at the thought of being driven from their beautiful islands, as wiil be the ultimate outcoms of the | great pleasure is driving her four ponies oyer American greed that is at the botiom of this infamous annexation scheme. | gnnnnfilgfilmmmmkmmuw { men found in few other States. A determined effort to hunt down and hang these miscreants should be made. A large bounty should be offered for their heads, dead or alive. Such atrocities call for heroic' treatment, and Caii- fornie should put forth the greatest efforts to bring these ruffizns to jastice. If there is an excuse for “Judge Lynch” thesc frequently recurring robberies and murders furnish it. A SONG OF DEGREES. [“Bogus Degrees—How they are got and paid for.”] I'm the Chancellor, the Beadle, znd the Doctor, Who lecture on the Asinorum Pous. I'm the tutors, and the bulidogs aud the Proctors, The porters, undergraduaies aud dons. I'm the’Varsity, and on cousideration Of modrst aad most reasonabe fees, L'll rewmit you, carriaze paid to any siaton, The very latest fashion in degrecs. 1 have hoods—green, orange, yellow aud vermil- jon— In which & blshop would be proud to strut; 1 liave garments ucademic for the million, All warranted a firsi-ciass Oxford cut. Buy! buy! Whe'll buy a Bache or of Sclence? Wio'il buy an LL.D. or & B.A. ¢ ay et competition at defiauce. Buy! buy! Degrees are golng cheap to-day! Buy! buy! my friends, and when you have suc- ceeie In adding learned letters 10 your name, Persunde your friends thas reaily all thal’s needed 1s tha they should straightway go and do the same. a tenner or a twenty, ission on the fees, So, i YOu get me graduates in plenty. We'll all grow rich together—-by degrees. —Panch. REFLECTICONS OF A BACHELOR. Some girls’ cheeks turn a mosquito’s bill in. The average girl's kisses are dear at any price. The deal man always has the advantage; he can talk low and make you holler. Theayer man would rather have a woman sneer at hisreligion than at his necktie. In every novel written by & wonian the men do the propo:ing and the women are always trying to stave them off. No womau Is truly happy till her husband is sick and she can make him put his feet in = piil of hot mustard water. GOLD. New York Mail and Express. With the close of ihis week Europe Will owe upward of $100,000,000 to tue United States on open account. In the face of this situation sany attempt to prevent ths furiher saipment of gold to America will be about as uc- cessful as an effort to poke holes in the sky wilh a bean pole. e either by press or people. The annexation of the islands lacks the redeeming feature of an unselfish desire for the welfare of an oporessed peovle. The annexationisis have no excuse other than a seifish one. The alleged adyantage in naval defenss to be gained is 156, The whole and sole resson for annexation is commercial greod, I wish that every reader of the Penny Press mignt read Miridm Michelson’s appeal in last Taursday’s CALL on beha'f of the Hawaiians. 1 wish that this grand piece of work bad uot been delayed nntil now. She has to.d the story so simply and yet so graphically that it ought to be read by all men and women who kave within thyir souls & spar away off to the little islands where the States Government will permit them to remain in peaceful possession of their land. Thney do not aesire annexation. 1897. BRITISH ADVANGE ON KHARTOUM. TALKING ACROSS THE NUBIAN Gradually but surely Sir Herbert Kitchen- er's Anglo-Egyptian forces are pushing and fighting their way to Khartoum, the Mandi's capital. The main body has halted for a time at Berber, but the advance under General Hun- ter is at Ed Damer, lately captured, 160 miles below Khartoum. The Mahdi's sirengtn is mustered, awaiting them at Metumnsh, about half way between, where a decisive battle will doubtless be fought as soon as the conjunc- tions of the stars in the political sky of Europe seem to those in Downing street to favora further advance and the final coup that will fix the British in control of the whole Upper Niie and eastern Soudan country. Every step of the way has been marked by indicaiions of an intention of the permanent occupancy of the country by the British. Having gained with the 2id of their gunboats the control of the Nile as far as Berber, and planted garrisons at all the important points, they have proceeded to construct a railway 230 miles in length across the Nubian Desert, from Korosko, below the second cata- ract, to Abu Hamed, above the fourtn cataract, by means of which they not only avoid the three most difficuit and dangerous of these hindrances to the transportation of supplies, but shorten the distance between the advance and the base at Assuan, beiow the first cataract, several days and some three hundred miles, making communication safe and speedy, and operations of thearmy possible the greater part of the year instead of & few short months, as heretofore. Ahead of the railrcad, however, lines for telegraph and telephone were thrown across the desert, v soon after occupying Abu Hamed Geueral Kiichener found himself in quick communication with Cairo and London. In all this work free use has been macde of the natives, who under the immediste direction of an Egyptisn petty officer, which in this case means x peity tyrant, the simple, ignorant Bagaras from the Nile villages and towns have Leen made todo all work of laying the rails, fixing the plates and ballasting for the rail- DESERT. road,and carrying forward and fixing the teles graph and telephone wires. A year or. two more and voices from the 1and of “mystery, sileuce and fire” wiil become familiar sounds to the rest of the world. THE BRITISH BLUE BOOK. Mr. Chamberlain’s Blue Book, issued a few | duys ago, shows that foreign rivals are sapping British trade with the coionies, as is evident | from the fact that of the colonial imports from I 1883 to 1885, the United Kingdom furnished | £62,691,000, the British possessions £39,083, | and foreign countries £36,157,000. For three | ears, end‘ng with 1 the figures were: | nited Kinedom, £61,126,000: british posses- | sions, £47,6I8,000; foreign countries, £37 3.000; and 1or the three rears ending with | 95 were: United Kinedom, £56,509,000; | British possessions, £42, 000, ard foreign | countries, £4 L000. As an evidence of | this an English journal says that whilea short | time ago England monopolized the trade in miners’ picks, makers persisied in sendingout | a clumsy article, and now the Americans have taken nearly the whole of the trade with a nester instrument. Although Eaglish makers | have exerted themselves to turn out a better | article, they find it very dificult to make up | tne ground they have lost. b JUMPING THE EOUNDARY. | New York Tribune The determination of John Chinaman to get | into the country is in no way abated by statu-! tory or police restrictions, and he now streams, or rather trickles over the Mexican border, as he Aid till recently, and perhaps still does, over that of the Dominion. Eternalvigilance, natives are praying that the Uaited They are not Americans and have pitality to the American people have Sull the information that history. And, after all, that is w R eEy k of sympathy for the natives of Hawaii, | the price of linerty, is also the price of fencing | out the superfluou’s pigiail, whose intrusive | capabiiities mateh those of the housefly or the August mosquito. 8o far hisarmy of invasion from e1ther side is not overwhelmingz, but 4ts advance is extremely persistent, showing an Attachment toour style of zovernment which is complimentary to'us. but which we would willingly forego.” Until we are ready to admit Jonn Chinaman by way of the front door, we must not preiend (o approve his crawiing in through our exposed frontier cat holes, THEY JUs/ LAUGHED. Washington Post. A frequent visitor to Washington in connec- tion with cases before the Supreme Court is Mr. Miller of Indianapolis, President Harri- s0u’s Attorney-Genersl and at present the ex- President’s law partner. During one visit a story of his career in the Capinet was r»- counted. While he was a member of Harri- son's officiaz family he wished 10 pay a visit to his boyhood home in Indians. For years the sume driver of the same carriage traveled back aud forth between the town and the rail- weystation. He had been there when Mr. Miller was 8 boy and he is there mow. The first man the Aitorney-General met when he alighted from the train at the little country station was the old carriage-driver. “How do you do, Unc.e John,” heexclaimed as he entered the aucicn: vehicle. “Howds,” wus tue respone. | ““1don’t believe you know me, Uncle John,” | he said as the carriage started off. “You’re Bill Mitler,” was the gruff reply. ‘I suppose you’ve heard of my promotion; I'm the Attorney-Geueral of the United S.ates now.” “Yes, I've hearn folks say so.” “What else do they say about it, Uncle John? Are my old friends pleased ?” “They dou’t sey nothin’,” was ‘he reply that closed the conversatio hey jest laugh.” HOW FREE COINAGE PAYS. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Having received §750 as his share of the gate receipts for a lecture at Iola, Iowa, re- cently, Mr. Bryan was asked if that was nota pretty steep price for such an address as he had delivered. And he answered: “Any fool cansell a coat for one-seventh of its value, but it takes & genius to seil it for seven times its value.” Evidently Mr. Bryan is no fool, —_— A GRAIN OF WISDOM. Portiand Oregontan. The only guarantee of good times is the per- i never be answered either. sistent application of the lessons of hard times, ANTIDOTES FOR BLUES. “Hello, Brown. How did you get your face scarred so?” *Got run over by a truck.” “Didn’t you see it coming ?” “No. I waslooking over my shoulder at the new moon for luck.”—Indianapolis Journal. The actress looked at him inquiringly, and he felt that some explanation was needed. “You appear to have forgotien me,” he said. “Let me recail myself to your memory, Iam the man who saved you from a watery grave in the surf last August.” “Yes, yes, of course; now I remember you,” she replied. “But I shall have to refer you to my advertising mansger. He settles ail bills of that description.”—Chicago Post. Watts—Some of those Chinese plays are six months long. Potts—What of it? “I was thinking one of them would be a %ood thing to take to the Arctic regions for a one-night stand.”—Indianapolis Journal. et *“‘And'so Miss Gillman declined your offer of marriage "’ “Yes. Ican’tunderstand why she did it.” “You can’t? My dear sir, let me shake your nand. Iusedto think that no man was en- tirely ffee from vanity, but at last I have found one who is.” “What do you mean ?” “You say you can’t understand why she re- fused you. Therefore it is clear that you never stand before the mirror and look at yourseli.” Chicago News. “I guess the Griscombs must expect that somebody is going to leave them some money.” “Why?? “They’ve decided to let their son become an artist.”—Chicago News. Assistant Editor of Magazine—Here is a poem from Rudyard Kipling, Whatshall Ido with it? Editor—Hold it, and send him word that it will be printed if he will at once send 150 yearly subscribers for us.—Cleveland Leader. Johnny—What is “the riddle of the sphinx?” Papa (with a meaning glance at mamma)— The riddle of the sphinx isthis: ‘‘How can she, beiug at least part woman, sit there year aiter year and century after century without ever saying a word?” Ah, my boy, I guess it'll Cleveland Leader, PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. The Queen of the Belglans, who was born at Pesth in 1836, has just entered her sixty-sec- ond year. She isan admirable whip, and her the charming country eround Spa. The next course of Ely lectures in the Union Theological Seminary will be given by the Rev. John Henry Barrows, beginning on Janu- ary 31 next, and his theme will be “The Christian Conquest of Asia.” The person who is mentioned every few days in the newspapers as the Baroness Blanc, and who has lately figured in the music halls, ac- cording to a decision of the New York courts is not entitled to be called Baronessat all, nor yet Blanc. She issimply Etizabetn Waters. Though the “new womau” is quite unknown 1n Ireland, it is aitogether otherwise with the “new man.” Of the four peers—including the Viceroy—who entertained royalty at luncheon ana tea respeetively during the royal visit to Dublin, only oue, Lord Powerscourt, belonged to the old nobility and landlord class. A prosperous business man at Atchison Kaus,, is not only colored, but blind as well. His name is Edward J. Ingram, ana he con- ducts & broom factory. With the assistance of two brothers he manufactures brooms enough to supply half the Atchicon trade, and his work is so excelient that he has & market for all the brooms he can turn out, Fourteen different models were used by August Linstrom, the New York sculpter, for his figure “Light,” which will be shortly ex- hibited at the aunual exhibliion of the American Sculptors’ Society. The generai outline of thie form was taken from Miss Har- ris, & professional model, who posed for nearly 100 hours. Miss Helen Longstreet posed for the back and Miss Sage for the hands and feet. The Prince of Moneco, on his steam yacht the Princess Alice, is in the Azores pursuing his hydrographic researches. This year the Prince has worked in the district of Horta, which includes the islands Fayal, Pico and Fiores, and it is to Horta, the principul town of the island of Fayal, which possesses the best anchorage in the archipelugo, that the Princess Alice will go to be refitted and to take on sapplies. ———— SLIGHTLY MONOTONOUS, Springfield Republican. The famous Uncas, ‘‘the last of the Mohi- cans,’” is buried near Norwich! Conn., and the visitor who will g0 to his grave at niidnight, and alone, and ssk with proper solemnity “Uncas, have you any message for me:» and then bending his ear reverently to the ground, will listen in patience, will hear Uncas say; “Nothingat alll Nothing atalll” | November 17, 1892, three g; 5 70 CORRESPONDENTS. Niomas W, By Dy, North, DEKOSE 8 § e E ¢ a ick State; sometim alled the Fli LBI’K;::}!”OQ; (PR 18, Swingecat; Montans, s Kars fower, and Washington, Chi1n00k There General ANSWER i L Lew Warzace—S. W. B 'h~‘c:£uc‘;‘i is an extended biographical sko{fd | nur,” Lew Wallac-, the author of nur, Harper's Weekly, August, 1893, pag® ; cere—B. C., City. The Live) de the VOy8£0 3 from twenty- LIVERPOOL PACI 5 pool packets that ran betw Liverpool in 1837 and 1838 m N York in T irom Liverpool 10 New York 1n from twelrer one to twen ty-three days, and '(h.\,vél,dn;s- age in irom thirty-1wo to thirty-fi TR a Mono i dy, —R. K. and C., Lundy, nt County, Cal. The heliograph station °"\’.I,,“,§ar Conness, Mono County, was in operation ERAH direction of the Coast and Geodetic SUrvey o 1890, 1891 and 1892, but is not in OFEENT) sow. Under fuyorable circumstances 2.’ ordinary six-inch regulation heliogrePll, b7 nal is visible from 60 o 100 milcs the T, lhianey of the flash increasing with ihe the mirror. MounT CoN BIGGEST BIBLE- B., City. in point of dimension is sul}! to owned by a German lady residing chester, England. Itis mt;\‘ekll‘h:‘n = 1d and is an heirloom which has descetoCr T the presentownet by o succession of wills lhe pages are two feet long and T The bigeest be one in Man- et wide. John Bell, also of ©lotures owus a Bible to which 'he has added FORTS and photographs to the number fx‘l\mu‘_‘. the Bible is divided into ty volu: FoOTBALL GAMES—Football, City. Presuming varsit, that your question refers to the l\)-"l'niy- et played between Stanford and "lh iz versity of California, the record :s as follo anford 14, Califo 10; December 19, 1. nia 10; 5, Stanford U:lb'l.l,l\i; :gnksgiving, 1896, Stanford 20, HRecapituintion, Stenford wor mes out of six and tied turee. MINERAL LANDS—A. M., City. All mineral posits in lands belonging te tbe Unl ates, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are ared free and open to exploration and pur- chase, and the lands in which minerals are found to occupation and purchase by citizens of the United States and those who have de- clared their intention to become such under regulations prescribed py law and according 10 the local customs and rulesof miners in the several mining districts, so far as they are applicable and not inconsistent with the laws of the Unjted Btates. No claim shall exceed 1500 feet inlength on the lode or vein, and shall not exceed 300 fecton each sideirom the middle of the lode or vein. Specific in- formation can be obtained by communicating with the land office of the district in which the party wishes to take up land giviug, 18 NO MORB POACHING FOR SCALPS Crescent City News. The Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation isto be surveyed and severally distributed among the Indians, The native inhabitants along the Klamath River are making rapid progress in civilization, and many shrifty snd com- fortable little homes aro situaied upon that stream. Peace, order, happiness, and even enterprise, are’ features distinctively charac- teristic of the colony. The Klamath Indians recoguize and appreciate the fact that they are amensble to the whife mean’s law—Judge de Haven’s opinion to the contrary notwith- standing—and not a law unto themselves, as of former practice in the settiement of their domestic affairs. They appear to realize now that poaching for scalps is not an entirely le- gitimate pursuit. HEAVEN ACROSS THE BAY. Oakland Enquirer. If one might believe the San Franeisco pa pers, whenever a crime is committed in that city or in the interior, the dctectives come at once to Oakland to search for the perpetra. tors. The latest instance is that of the Ukiah stage-robbers, for whom the Mendocino County Sherift is supposed'to be looking in We choose to believe this is merely a San Francisco siander, and that any right- minded Sheriff knows stage-robbers would go to San Jose, or Sauta Rosw, or Milpitas—any= where but to Oakland. “THE CALL’S” PO-ITION SOUND, EBan Francisco Star. ‘ THE CALL'S position against the annexa- ) tion of the Hawaiian Islunds is sound. It truly says that ‘“we have prospered under & continental policy, which was declared by the- makers of our constitution. To fling that policy #nd justice and mercy to the winds together is a change that boaes no good.’” NO NEED OF A FOREIGN POLICY. Our best foreign policy is to have no foreign policy. We want no colonies, can have no colonies without giving the lie to the doc. trines of our Declaration of Independence, Inalienable rights inhere in others as well ag in ourselves. —_— CALIFORNIA’S GOLDEN GAINS, Carson (Nev.) Appeal. 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