The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 26, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1898. A RCH 26, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprigtor. Address All Communications to W. PUBLICATION OFFICE. .Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITCRIAL RQOMS...... ..21T to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1§74, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers In this clty 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.) 6FFICE- Riggs House €. C. CARLTON, Cerrcspondent. S. LEAKE, Manager. One year, by mall, $1.50 908 Broadway BRANCH OFFICES—52T Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 oclock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 0 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 25I8 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh strect, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o’clock. AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—* Mysterfous Mr. Bugle.” Columbia 492 " Alcazar—Uncie Dudley." Morosco’s—*The Upper Hand.” Ttvoli—* The Wid ow O'Brien.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Metropolitan Temple—Martean Violn Recital, this afternoon. Sherman, Clay Hall, 223 Sutter street—Concert, this afternoon. The Chutes—The Zoo, Vaudeville and Lion Huat. Mason and Eddy streets—Speciaities. fternoon. van & Doyle—Thi i ete. 2 By M. Germ d, at 11 0 cloc @A GOOD SELECTION. OVERNOR BUDD being a Democrat, we could not expect him to appoint a Republi- an to the office of Registrar, and since a was to be selected the appointment of ex Senator Biggy will be received with approval. The great mass of citizens whose commendation is worth g will cordially indorse the selection of the Gov- | ernor, and the*general sentiment of the people will be one of satisfaction and gratification. The office is one of the most important in our local government. The duties imposed upon the Registrar and the trust reposed in him are so great as to render it imperative that the work should be in the hands of a man of unassailable integrity and un- wavering honesty and fairne: With a corrupt man, or even an extreme partisan, in the office it would be possible for gross offenses to be committed in every election with comparative impunity, and therefore the faithful and impartial man in the po- ential to the right admin- G Democra havi need of a firm, sition is recogn ed as istration of our electoral system. tion Biggy possesses every quali for the He is an experienced man of business and has He has been | c an executive ability of a high order. shown himself superior to | the dictations of bosses and the temptations boodlers. Both in public and in private life he has | won the confidence of his fellow citizens by the hon- | tested in office and has 3l of | orable performance of every duty and the faithful ful- Governor s to be congratulated upon hav- ing found so excellent a successor to Registrar Hin- ton, and the public will regard the appointment It assures as one of the successes of the administration. cient management of an office of the highest importance, and it is safe to say that in the work now before him Mr. Biggy will give new evidences of his fitness for public service and add to us an honest and the esteem in which he is held. THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS. MPLE evidence hias been given that the pco—‘ fl ple of California will have to fight over ag the battle against the school book ring which resulted in the establishment of a system of State school books. In ways more or less direct the ad- | vocates of abolishing the State system and returning | to that which prevailed in times past have given signs | of an intention to force the fight. The issue will have to be met and it is important that the people | should prepare for it. | It may be conceded at the outset that the State | system of school books is not wholly satisfactory. | No system of books could be. Almost every teacher | as his own idea of what should be taught in the | schools and how the teaching should be done. The book that would appear perfection itself to one would appear an absurdity to another. Each teacher, there- fore, would like to have the selection of the text books out of which his pupils are to learn what he has to teach, and such a right of selection might be good if it were not for the fact that school books cost money and few parents are able to change them every time a teacher is changed. As a matter of fact the better part of all teaching comes from the teacher and not fromthe book. Under the instruction of a competent master a child could learn to spell just as well out of the Webster spell- ing book of fifty years ago as out of the most im- proved spelling made easy that has since been put on the market. r that reason the purchase of school in | books is one of the departments of public education | in which economy can be well practiced as a matter of the highest importance. have a new set of text books in primary education every time a new fad in teaching sweeps across the country. It is much easier to see the evils of the system we have than that of a system we have not. Before we become so impatient of the State system, however, as to return to the former method we should recall the fact that experience with the old system was ‘the cause of the establishment of the present one. In States where there are no State school books the dissatisfaction is as great as it is here, and with much better cause. The school book ring of the East is one of the giant evils of the republic. It is a corrupting force in politics and in the schoois of the first mag- nitude. We are fortunate to be rid of it, and will rue the day if for slight discontents we abolish our State system and return to the domination of the ring. When robbery of an express car is committed the public is left to guess what the value of the booty is, and while its conjectures may be wild, it is never deluded into the belief that the sole loss consisted of a bundle of twine and the express messenger’s lunch. LI 1 The waiter who is in charge of the police because he refuses to support his family ought to find in the eircumstance a tip of considerable value. cursion 10 San Jose aud the Santa Clara Valley. | the building that have not been held behind the back. | secure better government. | ing party organizations restore the old system of cut- | party responsibility. It is not necessary to | | E present to-day, in summary form, the water | Wfrout scandal, for which there is somewhere serious and perhaps penal responsibility. i For years the administration of the harbor by Com- ‘missioners has furnished scandals and been charac- terized by corruptions of the most serious nature. [l\lembers of the commission have, indeed, suffered | penal consequences, as have their agents and em- | ployes. | With such a record one would suppose that the Board of Harbor Commissioners would be admon- ished that the property and the revenues under their | control present such favorable opportunities for in- | direction and dishonesty that they would be moved to the greatest care and would never surrender scruples that are an ever present element in the-hon- cst exercise of their authority. There are before them | the honorable examples of Commissioners like Irwin | and McCoppin; whose highly scrupulous' and intelli- gent management of the water front added honors to those: which they wore so worthily before they en- tered upon these duties. After reading the record which we publish to-day we think that no one will conclude that the members of the commission who are respansible for the loot- | ing of the appropriation for the ferry building or | those who have constituted that body for the last few years have found leisure to bask in the light of | these illustrious predecessors in the same office. In= deed it would seem that basking in any kind of light is not their favorite form of repose. | They have succeeded in erecting a ferry building so thickly veneered with frauds that if they were | risible in concrete form the building would be written | all over with them as thickly as the words “one dol- | 1ar” on an old Indiana red dog bank note. If any part of it has been spared, from the vent- hole of a pipe to the time ball above the tower, it should be recorded and a tablet set to commemorate | the oversight. So open and patent is it all that the sewer openings on the front smell like cologne in | comparison, and the teredoes and limnoria take sec- ond place as ravagers of the State’s property. It is no pleasure for us to point these things out nor to | expose the misfeasance of any one in office. But the duty of exposure is accepted as inexorable and per- «ormed with regret. The further pursuit of the mat- ter lies with those who are charged with the penal purging of high places to cleanse them of corrup- If these things go on the face of the tower | those tion clock will blush so that it will need no illumination at night, and its hands will be the only ones around THE PRIMARY LAW DECISION. HE decision of the Supreme Court declaring the Stratton primary electionlaw to be unconsti- tutional will cccasion little or no regret among non-political citizens. The experiment established by the statute wasone which the practical politicians were quite anxious to try, but there was no popular de- sire for government primaries nor general opinion that through them-the people would be enabled to Indeed, on the contrary, there is every reason to believe that the Stratton law was a device of the political bosses to check the | operation of the official ballot act and by strengthen- and-dried tickets which the people may either vote or not vote at all. We are among those who bglieve in party respon- sibility and party government. We think that after the Australian ballot has run its course and the un- thinking multitude has had ample opportunity to de- monstrate that in electing “good fellows” to office they are mostly successful in selecting incompetent | officials there will be a return to the old method of | embodying political conventions and conferring upon them the power to nominate party tickets and for- mulate party politics. Some of the best government the State and city have ever had has been produced by In fact, until the political boss | appeared upon the scene with his following of plug uglies and criminals party government was a success. Until this malignant individual has been disposed of we think no device for strengthening the political machine should be encouraged. At present the system of independent voting es- tablished by the Australian ballot is rapidly retiring the corrupt political bosses from view. People no longer regard party labels nor party machines. A nomination by a political convention has no greater significance than that a body of citizens calling themselves Democrats, Republicans, Taxpayers or something else have indorsed the aspirant for poli- cal favors for an office. The moment the course of events demonstrates that such an indorsement means nothing more than this, that moment politics will be- come a science of vote-getting and the present science of stuffing primaries and packing conventions will be abolished. At some time, perhaps, the Stratton primary law— clumsy and impracticable though it was—might be considered a step in the right direction. Its purpose was to dignify parties and strengthen their indorse- ments. But the day has not yet arrived for the en- forcement of such a law. Had the Supreme Court declared the statute valid.there is'no doubt that it would have damaged party organization. = There would have been an unseemly struggle by the bosses to get control of the Republican and Democratic ma- chines of this city, a loud protest on the part of the | press and the people and the entire theory of the | law would have been discredited. The evils certain | | to flow from the independent system of voting now | in vogue have not become sufficiently conspicuous to | justify such a statute. When that time comes it will be in order to inaugurate a government primary system. In the meantime it is well that Senator Stratton cultivates a feeling of hostility to the constitution and writes legislative bills with skyrocket sticks. Were he once to read the organic law we might have elec- toral reform forced upon us long before it is due. B - Before an alliance between England and the United States can assume any more definite form than that expressed in casual observation, it will be necessary for the mother country to make that overgrown kid of hers up in the Northwest behave. The proposition to give Patrol Driver Cashel a po- sition on the police force is-a good one. There is not only reason to believe he would be a faithful officer, but he might serve as an example to other officers too prone to sprint. In papers published yesterday afternoon the find- ings of the Maine Board of Inquiry were announced for probably the tenth time. When the findings have been revealed they will be announced some more. Perhaps Spain’s boast of being prepared for war means that she has a lot of white flags ready to run up at short notice. I | wrong, it is wrong regardless of its effect upon the ‘ VAIN TRICKS IN HAWAIL FTER the frank exposition of the Dole idea f\ of government in his organ, the Advertiser, 4! one is prepared to properly weigh and meas- ure the propositions coming from Hawaii and in- tended to affect annexation. There is pending in the Legislature at Honolulu a measure affecting contract labor. This has been urged by Dole’s representatives at Washington as a proposition to abolish such labor and is used as an argument for annexation. An ex- | amination of the proposed bill shows that it does not abolish contract labor at all. It merely abolishes the penal clause in labor contracts. The contract labor law of the United States, passed in 1864, had no penal clause. Its liens were not upon the person, but upon the property of the contract laborer. That law (see Brightly’s Digest, vol. 2, 1857-65, page 148) pro- vided: “Section 2—All contracts that shall be made by emigants to the United States in foreign coun- tries in conformity to regulations that may be estab- lished by the Commissioner of Immigration, whereby emigrants shall pledge the wages of their labor for a term -not exceeding twelve months to repay the expense:of their emigration, shall be held valid in law and may be enforced in the courts of the: United States. or of the several States and Territories; and such advances, if so stipulated in the contract, and the contract be recorded in the Recorder’s office where the emigrant shall settle, shall operate as a lien upon any land thereafter acquired by the emi- grant, whether under the homestead law when the title is consummated or on property otherwise ac- quired, until liquidated by the emigrant.” That was our contract law which became so offen- sive that it was repealed upon the demand of our labor organizations. It made the contract a first lien upon the laborer’s wages for twelve months, and upon his real property forever until liquidated. The difference between this and the Hawaiian contract labor is that the latter instead has a penal clause enforceable against the person instead of the prop- erty of the contract laborer. The withdrawal of this penal clause leaves the statute just as offensive as our own and with every feature which made it so ob- noxious that no one dared resist its utter repeal. Again, the repeal of this penal clause has not passed. It is proposed as a blind by the crafty island politicians, who brazenly quote what we all understand to be the odium of our politics as the avowed rule of action in theirs. If the penal clause in their labor contract law is fortunes of annexation. ‘If it is right, its rightfulness is not measurable by its relation to annexation. The | men who now parade as a virtue the proposition for its repeal have had the power to abolish it ever since 1803, but they have let it stand and have taken the benefit of it. If our Congress defeat annexation this penal clause will not be repealed. The Macchiavellis of the oli- garchy will reveal their true character by continuing and enforcing it. These things teach and exhort. They illuminate Dole’s remark that “we expect the United States will give us special laws by which we can get labor.” If | annexed they expect to exert their peculiar craft in violation of our labor laws or in getting special and unequal privileges. | Existing conditions on the islands expose the | hypocrisy of holding out hope to white labor of an | outlet there. The highest wages paid to field h;mds; are $12 50 per month, and it is proposed to reduce | this to $10. The Portuguese are disquieted by this, | for they and many of the natives are now on the | verge of starvation for the first time in the history of | the country. Dole’s government is the author of | these distresses, the signs of disintegration | among its supporters are on the increase. [ and The sham | republic will totter and fall, to be replaced by a real republic in which the people will have a voice and the power to protect themselves against starvation by the use of the ballot. RECK aiter wreck has occurred to give warn- WARNINGS TO KLONDIKERS. \A/ ing to the adventurous that if they expect to | reach the Alaskan ports in safety they must exercise more than ordinary care in the selection of the ship on which they are to make the passage. The rush to the northern gold fields has been so large that the demand for transportation has led the un- scrupulous to press almost any kind of old hulk intp service to carry passengers, and there is danger ahead for all who take ship without close serutiny into the nature of the craft they are to embark upon. ‘While the men who outfit the coffin ships for pas- senger service are to be condemned for the offense, those who engage passage on them are not wholly free from blame. There is no law- to prevent such ships from plying in the coast trade, but a man who exercises reasonable care can easily find out whether any ship starting from this port is of that character. | There are abundant sources of infonna.t\ion ready at hand for all who have sense enough to make in- quiries, and those who neglect to seek information of such vital importance are themselves to a large extent responsible for whatever may befall them on the voyage. In one respect the most important lesson taught by the wreck of the Almy is that of individual re- sponsibility in matters of this kind. It is most important because it is the one which is most timely. It will require a long period of time to procure from Congress the legis- lation necessary to prevent the outfitting of coffin ships, but the importance of personal care can be learned and practiced at once. The men and wemen who are going north should begin at once to rely upon themselves to guard against the dangers of the venture in which they are going to embark. The leap begins when they take ship, and they must look before they take it. 5 Great as is the rush for Alaska, there is no reason why-any one starting from San Francisco need take any risk with coffin ships. The coast transportation facilities of the city are large and are being rapidly increased. There is every reason to believe that by the time the Yukon opens for navigation the means of transportation will be ample for the demand, and the season when the river will be open is now so near that persens desiring to reach Dawson will be able to make the trip just about as quickly by waiting for the river steamers as by going over the passes and making a long jourpey by the lakes. The moral of the situation is plain. The Alaskan movement is an adventure where prudence is the better part of valor. The wary will go in safety where those of reckless daring will rush upon dis- aster. In due time the outfitting of coffin ships will be made a penal offense, but for the present those who go north must rely upon their own brains and look cut for themselves. Senator Stewart might be in better business than attempting to haul chestnuts out of the fire for Hun- tington, but he would not be apt to be. .0900000000090090000059000000000000000 ° IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF EDISON. @ @ POPPOPOPOPPPPPVPPPCPOORPOPPIPPOOOOOOOOO®GS @ @ UDGING from the numerous {ngenfous contrivances for handling and con- trolling electrical currents which he has made and put in successful oper- ation, Edward F. Winfield, a young man of this city, promises to achieve some distinction In the field of practteal electrical invention. Mr. Winfield Is em- ployed in the photographing and etching department of The Call, where quick and accurate work of the best order {s de- manded. The difficulties and exigencies of the situation seem to have stimulated the inventive faculties of the young man, and he has not only materially improved some of the expensive and high-class ap- E.EWINFIELD paratus of most recent invention, but has launched out on new lines with much gain in economy of current and rapidity of work. Very recently an improvement on the | mechanism of the 16,000 candle-power arc lights furnished by the California Elec- trlc Company brought quite a handsome recognition from them of his skill and ingenuity. Besides this and several other very meritorious arrangements, Mr. Win- field has lately contrived and put in operation an automatic cut-off by which the time of exposure of a valuable picture bd @ @ 4 to the powerful arc lights can be regu- lated to. the second without the pres- ence or watching of the operator. The device i{s quite simple and can be| readily understood from the accompany- ing cut. The two heavy wires ontheright marked “current wire” connect the arc lamps with the dynamo. One of these is cut and the ends connected through the bot- tom with two cups partly filled with mercury placed near each other. Connec- tion Is made between the cups by a metallig .bridge, the points of which dip into the mercury carried on the end of an insulating arm attached to the armature § N 3y § g 3 ) I Wi 0 i S | Nz of an electric magnet operated by a small | dry battery near by. The wire from this is cut, and one end carried to a metallic pin on the dial of a clock and the other fastened to the pivot of the hand. When the hand touches the pin the circuit is made, the electro-magnet draws down the arm above, thereby lifting the connecting | bridge out of the mercury and cutting off | the current from the dynamo to the arc | lamp. By. careful adjustment of the hand | of the clock the time before it touches the pin and shuts off the dynamo cur- rent can be controlled at will. COLLECTED IN | THE CORRIDORS. | J. S. Miller of Stockton is at the Grand. | B. K. Bliss of New York is at the Pal- | ace. | C. A. Rose from St. Paul is at the Occi- | dental. | J. R. Haughton of Chico is a guest at | the Lick. Attorney A. J. Hull and wife are at the Lick. James Lane of Detroit is a guest at the Occidental. William G: Hoog from Chicago is at the Occidental. Ex-Judge A. P. Catlin of Sacramento is at the Lick. B. 7. Spencer from Los Angeles is at the Baldwin. H. R. E the Baldwin. Henry Claus and wife of Brooklyn are at the Palace. Carroll Hutchkins of Boston, Mass., is | at the Palace. C. F. Chandler of Boston, Mass., is at the California. F. G. Baker from San Jose is staying at the California. N. A. Watson from Erie, Pa., Is a guest at the Palace. C. A. Weaver of Chicago is a guest at the California. Dr. M. D. Smith of Middlebury, is at the Grand. A. B. Young of Philadelphia is a guest at the Baldwin. C. H. Jones, a merchant of Philadelphia, is at the Palace. . L. Hartman from Washington, D. C., is | at the California. Dr. F. W. Bliss and wife of Santa Cruz are at the Grand. J. C. Mackay of Chicago Is registered at the Occidental. C. R. Treeson from Modesto is regis- tered at the Lick. Rev. J. M. Chatten from Chicago is a guest at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. Rushmore and Miss Rush- more are at the Palace. Mrs. and the Misses Rhodes of Pitts- burg are at the Palace. R. S. Stitt, a merchant from Chicago, is registered at the Palace. Professor A. Van der Nailen, president ns of Salinas is a guest at Vt., of the School of Engineering in this city, made his departure for Europe last even- ing to visit the leaaing scientific institu- tions in the interest of science. 0000000000 TheAncient i 0 and Honorable o A o Associationof - Deep Water © DANGEROUS © g5 held their O BUSINESS. © regular meeting a o O few nights ago 0000000000 aboard the schooner Water Witch, and as is custom- ary at these sessions of the old tars, there was much discussion upon the leading topics of the day. In consequence, the patriotism of the gathering led to the in- terchange of opinions as to what was the cause of the Maine disaster. During the conversation one of those present inti- mated that he would like to be a diver, declaring that it was a soft thing with plenty of money for easy work. This brought forth a few words from Captain Bogus, a learned and practical seaman, who, to illustrate that the lot of a diver is not a happy one, said: “The average person who glances over the accounts of the investigation of the Maine disaster probably thinks little or nothing of the divers engaged in this work. He does not know of the dangers to which these men are constantly ex- posed, even in the calmest waters. There is no work which requires such a strong, vigorous constitution as is necessary to the diver. Not only must his muscles be like iron, but his heart and lungs must be in faultless condition or he will be unable to stand the strain of living for even a few moments in deep water. The diver carries with him on every trip eighty pounds at least. The sult he wears is heavy and oppressive. The boots alone, made of thick leather, with leaden soles, weigh twenty pounds each and the hel- met, with its ingenious arrangement o air pipes and valves, adds forty pounds.” Captain Bogus is a man who knows what he talks about, so it did not take him long to change the mind of the would-be diver, who frankly admitted that perhaps the diver did not have such a snap after all. F. A. Boole, a lumberman from Sanger, is a guest at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Moore of Chicago are guests at the Palace. £ Frank McKhargand family of Stamford, Conn., are at the Palace. Dr. A. M. Gardner, chief of staff of the medical corps of the asylum at Napa, is a guest at the Palace. Dr. James McLane, one of New York’s most-prominent physicians, accompanied by his wife, is at the Palace. J. J. Dooley, a merchant of New York, is registered at the Palace. E. O. Pope, a prominent merchant of Los Angeles, Is at the Palace. H. Tetlow, a manufacturing chemist of Philadelphia, is at the Palace. C. E. Tinkham, a lumber merehant from Chico, is a guest at the Grand. Mrs. and Miss Grant from Shenandoah, Pa., are registered at the Palace. E. C. Moore, a merchant from Syracuse, N. Y., is registered at the Palace. Dr.-M. B. Campbell of the State Hos- pital at Sacramento is at the Grand. H. M. Garham, a mining man-from Gold Hill, Nev., is registered at the Palace. W. L. Tichner is registered at the Bald- win as being from Greater New York. Carl E. Lindsay. the District Attorney of Santa Cruz, is registered at the Grand. C. H. Wilson of Boston, one of the most prominent tourists ‘managers, is a guest at the Palace. e THE CALL ON COLNON. Eureka Standard. The State Harbor Commissioners and Mr. Colnon, the particular, bright and shining light who reflects his effulgence from the pages of the Stoc<ton Mail, recelve a most genuine roasting in The Call of March 16. Leaving the harbor piling contract, over which the Malil be- came so abusive some weeks ago, The Call has been investigating tne construc- tion of the new ferry depot at the foot of Market street. It is shown that .n many instances the specifications have been changed and that at each change the con- tractor makes a lot of money by putting in cheaper material. The contract for tha galvanized iron called for No. 22 jron, and by consent of the Commissioners No. 26 iron was used, saving the contractor over $2200. The Call also asserts that the Com- missioners paid this contractor about $:5000 for covering certain walls with iron, which he had agreed to do in his original contract. e same crooked work Is done, so Tha Call avers, all along the line. The steel- work is not up to contract; the brickwork, which the contract says should be of Ro- man pressed brick, is done in common brick worth less than a quarter as much, and throughout the contractors are pock. eting money at the expense of the people. If this be true—and The Call would scarcely dare make such specific charges unless they are true—Brother Colncn of the Mail will need to use more fairness, more explanations and more argument than his former reply to the Standard contained to convince the people of this State that they are getting a Square deal at the hands of . udd’s Harbor Commis- sioners. It will be well for this bellicosa official to use his pencil to explain the reason for the failure of the commission to hold its contractors to their contracts and not allow money to be drawn from the pockets of the people to fatten the bank accounts of those who contracted to do the work. The ferry depot will cost far more than it should, and as it is done by the State the people of the whole State have an interest in seeing that jobbery and corruption shall not run rampant through all departments of its construc- tion. Will President Co!non rise and ex- plain? _—————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A BACK DATE—“The Ignorant One,” City. The 14th of March, 1847, fell on a Sunday. NOT A PREMIUM PIECE—G. D. B, City. A $5 plece of 1838 is not one of those that command a premium. SEATING CAPACITY—F. J. H., City. The Orpheum claims the largest seating capacity of any of the local theaters. CITY HALL CORNERSTONE—N. S., City. The cornerstone of the City Hall in San Francisco was laid on the 224 of Feb- ruary, 1572. RUSSIAN-TURKISH WAR—D. L., Napa, Cal. The latest Russian-Turkish war, known as the war of '77, lasted 322 days—from April 12, 1577, to March 3, 18i. NAVE OF A CHURCH—A. R., City. 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But as war scares Nnow encompass the earth, the yellow metal has small choice of an asylum.—Springfield Repub- lican. ADVERTISEMENTS. To the Klondike. L. N. McQuesten, the “Father of Alaska,” writes . * “The ROYAL is the only Baking Powder that will endure the severe climatic changes of the Arctic Region. A miner with a can of bad baking powder is almost helpless in Alaska. Therefore, we have used nothing but Royal Baking Powder.” ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. 74