The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 12, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1898. Call MARCH 12, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communication: s to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 221 Stevenson Street | Telephone Main 1574, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE.... Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE.. ...Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. Riggs House €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAlilster street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o’clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth,.open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open | until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and | Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. ne year, by mail, $1.50 ..908 Broadway | AMUSEMENTS. | Baldwin—* Robin Hood Columbta—Primrose and West's Minstrols. California—* Town Topies,” Sunday night. Aleazar—“A Gllced Fool- Morosco's—"The Woman in Black." Tivoli—"The Geisha Orpheum—Vaudeviile. Olrmpia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. | Auditorium, Mason and Ellis streets—Violin Recital this | afternoon. Mechanies' Pavilion—Masquerade Bail. to-night. Metropolitan Temple—Lecture on Phrenology. Monday night. The Chutes—Chiguita and Vaudeville. California Jockey Club, Oakland—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. March 12, Silks, ete, at 116 Grant By T. McDonald—This d avenne, at1la. m. and p. m. f_\ / finance. We do not undertake to publish a dictionary to de- fine the meaning of Mr. Bryan's statements, but we | have no objection to explaining the point that is in | MR. BRYAN AND MEXICO. FREE silver correspondent asks us to explain | one of Mr. Bryan's statements about Mexican issue. | Mr. Bryan states that to pay $6,000,000 of interest | on her debt Mexico is compelled to collect over $12,- 000,000 in silver dollars. This is due to the difference between the bullion value of gold and silver and to the fact that Mexico is on a silver basis under free coinage. Her Federal taxes are all collected in silver | and are doubled by her having to pay her debts and | interest in gold. Free coinage in this country would | lead to the same result. It would affect nearly every private contract and State and municipal bond in the United States. In 1804, in the midst of the panic, the gold contract mortgages outstanding in California | amounted to $202,000,0c0. Under the Mexican sys- | tem $404,000,000 in silver would be required to pay them, for here as there free coinage would be entirely ineffective to equalize the value of the two metals. The people of this State pay in taxes annually say $18,000,000, and it must be in gold, for the public obligations are gold contracts. Then under the Mex- ican system sought to be fixed upon us by Mr. Bryan, if our taxation is $18,000,000 it would require $36,- 000,000 to pay This discloses the fact, according to Mr. Bryan's own statement, that to adopt the Mexican system would require us to discharge all outstanding public and private obligations, written in gold, by raising | double their amount in silver. This would be the first cost of the change. Now in what measure would we better ourselves by this change to Mexican methods? Granting that prices would rise, that when things have to be paid for in silver those who sell them will ask $2 for what | $1 buys now, because, as in Mexico, the dollar would ; then be worth only hali as much as now, the appar- ent rise in price would be taken up in the necessity | of paying existing debts in more than twice as many dollars as they call for, and the debtor would be left | just where he is now. ‘What would happen after that will be just what exists now in Mexico. Prices received in silver would apparently be double, because those who sell charge ! enough in silver to make the gold value of the ar- | ticle. If silver rose in value as it approached gold prices would fall in proportion. Mr. Bryan has said | that he expects this to occur. But that it has not occurred in free coinage Mexico he admits, for it takes more than $2 in silver there to pay $1 of gold debts. If silver further decline in value those who sell will demand mbére silver in o:der that they may still get the value of their wares in gofd. They will exact from the buyer enough silver to exchange for the gold value. No statute can stop this. Gold being the natural standard, it will continue to measurc values, and these in turn will be met by the exaction of enough silver to equal them. Our correspondent asks if gold coinage circulates in Mexico. It does not. Only silver is in circula- tion there. Mexico's stock of silver money per capita is $4 54, her gold per capita is 41 cents. The same situation is found in every free coinage country. They have practically no gold and a very small per capita of silver. The great gold standard nations cir- culate as money more silver per capita than the total per capita circulation of the free coinage countries. Finally, in the free coinage countries like Mexico all prices measured in silver are higher except the wages of labor. Labor, then, gets less and pays more on a silver basis than under the gold standard. Tt has to stand the actual depreciation in silver and has to buy the necessaries of life with enough silver to make the gold price. — An evening paper is guilty of error in speaking of “General” Duggan as the head of God’s Regular Army. The head of that army is also in jail, but it is well to be correct even in small matters. God’s Regular Army has not yet been charged with any- thing worse than being a lot of vagrants prone to abuse of children and to burglary. | Perhaps Havana will buy a war vessel to present to Spain, this meager chance being about the only one that country has of acquiring another vessel. But if Havana really knows its business it will raise the cash and devote it to buying bread. The Daily Mail of London seems unduly con- cerned lest the United States goad Spain into making a declaration of war. The tendency of this country to goad Spain or any other power had escaped notice here. According to correspondents there is talk of the Spanish blowing up the Montgomery. Of course there is. The correspondents get space rates on just such fool talk. ‘ A | But the facts of the situation appear to be that these | ance of the work is pressed upon the attention of | son hope to achieve success when Congress meets | next winter. THE CARBON MONOXIDE BANKS. DESIDERATUM devoutly to be wished is that the lawsuit instituted on Thursday by Henry James against the San Francisco Gase and Electric Company for the recovery of a $5 meter | deposit—an account of which was given in yester- | day’s Call—will result in establishing the rights .of gas consumers in this city. If the gas companics have any legal authority for compelling their pa'trons to deposit money as a guarantee of integrity this ac- tion will bring it forth. Neither the water company nor the telephone company has any such author- | ity, and the privilege of exacting a similar guarantee is enjoyed by no other individual or corporation en- gaged in business in San Francisco. Yet for years | consumers of gas have been subjected to this in- | dignity. We are curious to see what sort of a defense the gas company will make to Mr. James’ action. Prob- ably it will say that taking from its patrons and hold- ing without paying interest some $50,000 or $60,000 | a year is a reasonable rule of its business, but the | people generally will decline to be appeased by any such argument. The company will be compelled to | hands of President McKinley in his dealings PREPARATIONS FOR WAR. VOTE of $50,000,000 for national defense when considered as an evidence of the willingness of all parties in Congress to strengthen the with) Spain was a notable act and has been regarded by the American people generally with a just pride. It was a public manifestation of the patriotism of the nation and an evidence of the unity which prevails among all classes of citizens on issues which affect the honor of the republic or its prestige in dealing with foreign powers. When the vote is considered, however, not as an evidence of patriotic determination but as an ap- propriation for national defense in view of probable war, it is by no means such an extraordinary outlay as some seem to think it. Even in this very emer- gency it has been eclipsed by both Russia and Great Britain, and ranks third and not first among the steps that have been taken in these piping times of peace and industrial revival to make ready for imme- diate battle and destruction. Almost on the very day on which our Congress with swift and willing votes appropriated $50,000,000 for national defense the Czar of Russia was preparing A show its legal authority for refusing to supply meters | on demand or return the money. If it should turn itself into a savings bank and allow interest on de- | posits there might be some public toleration of (hez system, but until it does that it may expect to see | everybody back up the suit instituted by Mr. James. The Call does not desire to precipitate a “run” on | the “banks” of the two gas companies of this city. | corporations have in their vaults about $150,000 in coin of the realm which does not belong to them. | They are probably using this money in their business 3 and presumably making interest on it. In effect, not only are they supplying consumers with gas at a fair profit, but they are forcing their patrons in violation of law to loan them a sufficient amount of coin to con- stitute a good working capital. If either of these cor- porations should fail this money would probably be lost. In other words, gas consumers have no secur- ity for their deposits. 1f these facts cause a “run” on the gas banking houses it is not our fault, and if any person having money on deposit with them asks our advice we shall | unhesitatingly tell him to demand his coin. It may | be inconvenient for the gas companies to suddenly pay so large a sum of money, but it should be re- membered that the depositors have no security, not | even a bank book, and that at any moment the car- bon monoxide depositories may go into liquidation | and not pay a cent on the dollar. | Banks, holding deposits in this way ought not to expect to avoid “run: People who place their money in regularly incorporated banks are not al- ways satisfied with their investments. It is to be hoped, therefore, that Mr. James’ suit will settle the status of these deposits and compel the companies to return to their customers the forced loans. THE RIVER IMPROVEMENT BILL. Y the decision of the Senate Committee on B Commerce not to recommend an amendment to the sundry civil bill appropriating money for the improvement of the Sacramento and San | Joaquin rivers it seems that the chance of obtaining | any such appropriation at this zossion is closed. The only way to procure the funds for the work would be by a river and harbor appropriation bill, and it is not likely such a measure will be brought up at this i late date, since it is well known that the leaders of | the House desire to finish business as speedily as pos- \ sible and bring about an early adjournment. | The failure to procure the much desired appropria- tion is a delay and not a defeat. That much of con- solation remains to us. In neither House has the proposed improvement been rejected. If the import- | | | Congressmen and the claim for a liberal appropria- | tion warmly supported by our delegates in Congress and by influential men and strong commercial and | industrial organizations at home we may with rca»“ The people of California should require no urging to hold their attention closely to the work of river improvement. In many respects it is the most im- portant problem of State development which now confronts them. The sweep of the two streams is so great and the number of industries affected by them is so large that the improvement and maintainance of their channels in good condition is in the fullest sense of the phrase a Californian necessity. Nearly all sections of the State and nearly all classes of peo- ple will derive benefits from the work, and we have no other claim to urge upon the Natlonal Govern- ment in which so much of public good is involved. Although reports from Washington are to the effect that a considerable number of leading Con- | gressmen are favorable to the appropriation and that the chances of obtaining it at the next session are good, we should not rely too much upon the en- couragement thus given. Chance is never so good as certainty, and outside help is generally found to be strongest on the side of those who help them- selves. California must make her own fight for the measure and must make it resolutely, persistently and unitedly. Many a little stream just big enough to find a place on a State map has been improved by the Government while our great rivers have been neglected for all these years, and the reason has been simply that the little streams have had big workers on their side while the rivers have had none. The fight for the improvement must not be dropped at home because the bill appropriating money for it has been virtually shelved for this ses- sion. Let us keep the iron hot until the time comes to strike again. Congress can afford to delay, but we cannot. There are counterfeiters in Folsom prison, which would seem to be a proper place for them. How- ever, it has been the rule for coiners of spurious meney to cease operations when they begin to wear stripes. —— Announcement that the talented Miss Beveridge is to marry again leads to the hope that this time she may select 2 man not already burdened with a wife. Such complications lead to unpleasant re- marks. Talk of an alliance with Japan is nonsense. The United States has no reason to seek it, while several reasons for not desiring it could be enumerated if the doing of it were worth the trouble. It would appear that Dr. Westphal could afford to purchase all the horses,_needed by the city and do- nate them to the public’s*usc on condition that he be allowed to board them. Qe R e o Young Flannelly of San Jose need not be surprised at having been found guilty of murder. The simple fact that without excuse he had killed his father was against him. a decree setting apart 90,000,000 rubles—something like $65,000,000—for the construction of warships and the equipment of his navy. It required no vote of his people to set aside this vast sum for such a pur- | pose, but that does not affect the military significance of the act. Russia has shown herself in her way as prompt as the United States in getting ready for bat- tle and as willing to pay the cost of the preparation. Larger and more costly than all are the prepara- tions which are being made by Great Britain. In the House of Commons on Thursday Mr. Goschen, in presenting the naval estimates for the year, pointed out that the proposed expenditure taken in connec- tion with the outlay for naval works amounted to the colossal sum of 235,550,000 pounds sterling, or about $127,750,000. This sum surpasses the Russian appro- priation by nearly double and casts our fund for na- tional defense completely in the shade. It is significant that in the Commons as in Con- cheers from men of all parties. One Radical mem- ber moved to increase the amount, and his seems to | at all. The war spirit is evidently popular. Germany is the only country in the world where appropriations tion, and even there the Emperor seems to have won the people to his side by his bold policy in China. boom time for the builders of fighting ships. THE ALASKAN BOUNDARY. an- nouncement that Sir Julian Pauncefote, Brit- ish Embassador at Washington, has officially tion has been agreed upon with the United States whereby the long dispute over the Alaskan boundary | Owing to the importance given to the boundary by the discovery of gold in the Yukon Valley and the re- disputed line, any settlement of the controversy would have been more or less beneficial to the people agreed upon is distinctly beneficial to the United States inasmuch as it concedes about all that our | the inlets and arms of the sea along the coast. The origin of the dispute was the clause in the which lies south of Mount St. Elias. This portion of the boundary was declared to begin at the southern- the continent, where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude, and thence along the summit of the moun- gress the huge appropriation for war was greeted by have been the only voice that criticized the estimate for naval expansion have met with much opposi- This may not be a warlike year, but it is certainly a OST gratifying in every respect is the informed the Canadian Government that a conven- has been settled. sulting increase of trade and population along the | of both countries, but the actual form of settlement statesmen have claimed and leaves us in control of treaty defining the limits of Alaska in that portion most point of Prince Edward Island and proceed to | tains situated parallel to the coast as far as the point | of intersection of the 1415t degree of west longitude. It was further provided, “Wherever the summit of the mountains which extend in a direction paralle} to the coast from 36 degrees of north latitude to the point of intersection of 141 degrees of west longitude shall prove to be a distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia shall be formed by a line parallel to the widening of the coast and which shall never exceed the distance of ten marine leagues therefrom.” Under this clause the British claimed that the boun- dary should run alonga line ten marine leagues distant from the ocean shore of the islands along the coast, or at least from the outer shore line of the continent, running from headland to headland and not curving inward with the indentations of the coast at the deep arms of the sea which mark that portion of Alaskan geography. This would have given Canada control of the headwaters of several if not all of the inlets and would have given her direct water communica- tion with her territory along the Upper Yukon. By the agreement as announced the American claim of a coast line running back ten marine leagues from the indentations of the coast is conceded, except where such a line would overpass the summit of the mountains. Canada therefore gets control of the summit of Chilkoot Pass and we maintain control of all the ports along that portion of the country. It is a distinct victory for our diplomacy, and will be a great benefit to our trade. The Canadians will of course protest, but it is not likely that the protest will avail much. The issue seems to be settled against Canada’s claims, and if she desires to construct an all Canadian line to the Kiondike she will have to start it from some point south of the 56th degree of north latitude. The Alaskan panhandle and all its ports ate ours. Local murders lately afford at least the consola- tion of showing that the community is rich in ma- terial which is distinctly improved by being killed. Fanny Davenport's offer of $100,008 for a play and Hearst’s offer of $50,000 for the discovery of the per- son who sunk the Maine ought to be paired. COINING SILVER DOLLARS. Globe-Democrat. Since November 1, 1893, the United States has colned 87,735,572 standard silver dollars. It is worth while in this connection to recall the fact that only 8,031,238 sil- ver dollars were coined in this country from the crea- tion of the mint in 1792 down to 1573. THE COUNTRY IS SAFE. Chicago Times-Herald. ; A br:ncba:: h7s been organized in Wellington, Kas., 0 g0 to Cuba with the first regular troops from that i'::ir If the Spaniards hear ab‘:ut that there will be —_—— YANKEE TRICKS OUTDONE. St. Paul Pioneer-Press. Talk about “Yankee' shrewdness. The English tex- tile manufacturers ‘“adulterate” their cotton sheeting with zinc, and thelr flannelettes with glycerine and cas- tor ofl, to make them heavy. This is meaner than ‘wooden nutmegs, ich don’t hurt anything but the feglings of the buyer. nent than the noted Longmans. business life. their own livings. the aristocracy of England. man who earns her bread has an unsympathetic friend in the Countess. wick has merely joined the many friends of labor that have appeared of late years In smmam a0 L KR s LR s e e B ¢ THE COUNTESS OF WARWICK + + DR R R R R R R R s The Countess of Warwick has come out in a fresh role and has amazed London with her new book, entitled “‘Progress in Women'’s Education in the British Empire.” The Countess will be remembered by those who are given to gossip rather than to soclological study by the part she played as Lady Brooke in the famous baccarat scandal of six or seven years ago, in which the Prince of Wales was Involved. The Countess was then, and perhaps still is, the most beautiful woman in all Eng- land. The nobility to which she belongs by all the rights of marriage did not and does not now recognize her as one of its own. of her striking beauty and her great cleverness as a writer. the Countess has written a book that has challenged the attention of the best and the deepest thinkers in Great Britain, and has secured publishers none less promi- In it she shows a wonderful knowledge of the ne- cessities of the requirements of women who wish to enlist in the professions or in Her friends say that this is so because However that may be, The Countess has a practical knowledge of the needs of women who have to earn She has worked and lived with the industrial classes, and no wo- Lady War- 00 030000000 PEACE WITH HONOR. Los Angeles Herald. If peace with honor is possible it will be welcomed. Otherwise the credit which a patriotic people will vote its Govern- ment will not be measured by the cash available in the treasury, now four times the sum named. Money-seekers though we be, avaricious and aggrandizing as we have been denominated, worshiping the almighty dollar as perhaps we should not, there is still not a people extant more ready to sacrifice all for a great princi- ple, to vield more of human life and treasure for a cause deemed just in the sight of heaven. S O OUR PEOPLE A UNIT. Oroville Mercury. It will open the eyes of the peo- ple of Spain to the fact that they have to contend with a nation blessed with unlimited wealth, against which their own tottering and impover- ished Government cannot hope to_cope successfully. The unanimous indorse- ment of this measure by a CONgress so recently divided against itself on que: tions of natlonal policy is an object les son in itself, and should teach the people of Europe that where the national honor is at stake the American people are as a unit. e A PEACE MEASURE. Stockton Independent. Those who said the $50,000,000 bill was a peace measure were correct. No sooner was it presented in the House than Spain began to take milder views of everything American. The unanimity with which it was passed by that body and sent to the Senate must have a still more soothing effect on Spanish nerves and temper. Now that the Senate has passed it Spain may be expected to offer to do anything in her power to restore amicable relations with the United States. - A WARNING TO SPAIN. Los Angeles Times. Though having the appearance of a war measure, this $50,000,000 appropriation is, in fact, more a measure of peace than of war. It Is a notice to Spain and to the world that we are dreadfully in earnest in this matter. It seems hardly possible that Spain will commit herself to the stu- pendous folly of engaging in a struggle with the United States, in which she will be predestined to abject failure and de- feat. R SPAIN MAY NOW PAUSE. San Jose Herald. It is reported that the Spanish Govern- ment is more peaceably disposed in view of the promptness and unanimity with which this little bill went through, and of the fact that the money is in the treasury ready for use. Fifty millions is a good deal of money for Spain, but a mere bagatelle for the United States. ‘With that knowledge borne in upon her Spain may pause if her people will let her. R Bl OUR RESOURCES LIMITLESS. Redlands Facts. The remarkable outcome of the vote will probably awaken all Spain to the fact, that, if she provokes a war, she must fight not a faction but the whole people of this prosperous country, whose resources are practically without limit. cautious about ralsing issues which might lead to Immediate action. i L EQUAL TO THE CRISIS. Stockton Record. 1t gives us renewed convictions of the capabllity of popular Government to meet the most threatening crisis. It sets a higher mark for national honor, and opens the individual heart to more gener- ous impulses. Whether the vote means peace or means war, it makes national kindred of us all. CO00000000C00000000QCOO000000000000C THE -GREAT PEACE MEASURE. Expressions of California Newspapers on the Subject o the Big Appropriation for the Defense of the National Probably, too, she will in future be more | [} [ (=] [ [+ S [+ Honor. o o o 000000000000 000000000000000000C020C0CO tionary measure is the wisest that could be adopted; an- if war does not result it will be valuable as an object lesson to the world and will give to people of other countries a better opportunity to form a correct estimate of American patriotism than they have had for many years. L AR NO PARTISANISM THERE. Pasaaena Star. ‘We are a united people. Every member of Congress cast partisanship to tue winds and showed his confidence in the administration by voting for the appro- priation of fifty milions for the defense of this country agalinst posible Spanish warfare. . WILL SPEED A SETTLEMENT. Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. The decisive action of Congress will bring the brutal oppressors of the Cubans to a very solemn realization of the grav- ity of the situation, and it will not be | surprising if the terrible tangle is not very speedily unraveled. — - CONFIDENCE HAS RETURNED. Fresno Republican. ‘When every member of both houses in Congress votes “aye” on a proposition to intrust the expenditure of $50,000,000 to the chief executive, it may be accepted as a fact that confidence has returned. - JUST WHAT WAS WANTED. San Diego Union. The prompt passage of the natlonal de- fense bill was only what was expected. A display of the strength and patriotism just at this time will not promote war, | even though it may not avert it. —_— MOST EFFECTIVE ARGUMENT. Oakland Tribune. Money talks. That $50,000,000 appropri- ation is the most effective argument made so far in’ our controversy with Spain. b AMERICANS ALL OF US. ‘Woodland Malil. ‘We may differ politically, but we are all Americans when it comes to the test. WHERE LIFE IS LONGEST. More people over 100 years old are found in mild climates than in the higher lati- tudes. According to the last census of the German Empire, of a population of 55,000,000, only 78 have passed the hun- dredth year. France, with a population | of 40,000,000, has 213 centenarians. In Eng- Jand' there are 146, in Ireland 57, and in Scotland 3. Sweden has 10, and Nor- way 23, Belgium 5, Denmark 2, Switzer- Jand none, Spain, with a population of 18,000,000, has 401 persons over 100 years of age. Of the 2.250,000 inhabitants of Ser- via 575 persons have passed the century mark. It is said that the oldest person living whose age has been proven is Bruno Cotrim, born in Africa, and now living in Rio de Janeiro. He is 150 years old. A coachman in Moscow has lived 140 years. —_—————— A *“MIXED"” CORRESPONDENT. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—Sir: 1 see from a letter signed by Mr. Bryan, which was printed in tne papers about his trip to Mexico, he says the following: ‘The Federal (Mexican) Government pays about $6,000,000 interest annually on gold obligations, and while it is com- pelled to collect over $12,000,000 in silver to cover this interest account, It has no trouble in doing so, because of the pros- perous condition of the nation's indus- tries.” Now, I have been a free silver man, and - can’t understand this. I thought where free silver was coined, like in Mex- ico, that a silver dollar was as good as a gold dollar, and that all that was neces- sary to make sflver and gold equal as money was free coinage. How is it that it takes more tunan two silver dollars there to buy one gold dollar? What 1s the reason? Mr. Bryan, 1 see, sad in his speech at Chicago when they ma.g the platform that gold debts, of “hm} Liere are several thousand millions o dollars, will we have to pay two or more silver dollars to get gold dollars when coinage is free like in Mexico? Does gold circulate as money in Mexico or any frea silver country. I read in a speech of Mr. Bryan when he was in California that the vital thing to free coinage was that the debtor should have the option to pay in either metal, and that if the creditor could demand gold rather than silver, then the metals were drawn apart and free coinage cous only be maintained at 1 to 1. inuependent of other nations by the debtor having the option. If gol debts can't be paid in silver, how Is the debtor to have the option and how will this work? I am getting, mixed about n this if you i this, Please explain this if you wie San Francisco, March 11, 1898. —_——————————— MEN OF THE MAINE. Men of the Maine, O men of the Maine, lower of the people’s life, Vatiant your death was, nor suffered in vaini You perished for peace, not strife. Men of the Maine, O men of the Maine, Sad though your fate beyond words, Still your true souls ‘mid the fire and the pain Rose high with the winds and the birds. Men of the Maine, O men of the, Maine, Your forms in the deep water Slept; Yet the thought of your faithfuluess neves hall wane, And our memory's faith shall be kept. Men of the Malne, O men of the Maine, Fou are part of the earth and the sky. Grandly you've shown us poor fellows agaln How bravely to live and to die. Ard, men of the Maine, O men of the Maine, When our great guns shout aloud, In peace or war, they will thunder again To the world your loyalty proud. Men of the Maine, O men of the Maine, The sound of the sea's deep roar, As It rolls on the coast, in an endless refrain hall chant your fame evermore. SR eaorge Parsons Lathrop, In New York Times. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. GLADSTONE'S ADDRESS—M. E., Stanford University, Cal. The address of Hon. W. E. Gladstone is Hawarden Cas- tle, Hawarden, County Flint, North Wales. THOMAS EDISON—H.L.,City. Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, is descended on his father's side from the Dutch, his an- cestors having emigrated from Holland to New York in 1730. His grandfather was a banker in New York at the time of the revolutionary war, and he lived to the age of 102. His father was born in Nova Scotia. His mother, who was Miss Mary Elliott, was born in New England of Scotch parents. FOG—A. S., City. Fog is the aggrega- ticn of & vast number of. glohules. of water in the air near the earth’s surface usually rroduced by the cooling of the alr below the dew point, whereby the va- por is condensed. The cooling may be the result of radiation, condensation, mixture with colder air or ascension. Over sur- faces of water warmer than the air the tog produced by cooling is brought about by the continued evaporation of the water into the already saturated air. Solid par- ticles in the air constitute nuclei for con- densation and are thereby promoters for the formation of fog. HAIR BRUSHES—S. M. D, City. To clean a hair brush, wash the bristles for a few seconds in a weak solution of hartshorn, say a tablespoonful to a pint of cold soft water. Then rinse In clean cold water and dry. Do not set the brush near the fire, nor in the sun, to dry; but after shaking it well, set it oa the point of the handle out of the way, in some shady place. By this process the brush will be thoroughly cleaned with very little trouble. Observe that the mahogany or satin wood back of the brush must be kept out of the solution. as it_is apt to discolor wood. Combs may be cleaned in the same manner. Extra fine cream caramels. Townsends.* e ———————— Peanuttaffy bestin world. Townsend's.* ———e—— Finest eyeglasses, specs; I5c. 33 Fourth.® — —e—————— A choice present, Townsend's California Glace Fruits, 50c 1b, in fire-etched boxes. * —_———— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1043 * —_———— Dr. Bredon, who has been appointed Deputy Inspector General of Chineso Maritime Customs, was for some time in the medical service of the English army. FOR RELIEVING THROAT DISEASES, COUGHS AND HOARSENESS, use * Brown's Bronchial Troches.” bold only in boxes. Avoid imitations. —_———— KEEP 100KINg young ana save your halr, its color and beauty with PARKER'S HATR Batsax. PARKER’S GINGER ToNIC the best cough cure. ———————— DR. SIEGERT'S ANGOSTORA BITTERS fs lne dorsed by physicians and chemists for purity. Don't be defrauded by accepting a substitute. —————— Queen Victoria has refused to lend to Canada and the Australian Colonies for exhibition her Jubilee jewel gifts. ADVERTISEMENTS. When Outfitting for the Klondike bear in mind that Royal Baking Powder is an absolutely ply. necessary Ssup- No other baking pow- der will endure the severe e ‘WISE PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE. Visa.a —elta. If war must come—and it is difficult to see how It is to be avoided—this precau- climate of the Arctic region. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.