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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1899, ADVERTISEMENTS. ART CARPET SHOP’S XMAS ANTICIPATION ! SALE EXTRAORDINARY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. OSSR £ i | Doors will be open at hclf-past seven, and, contrary t v l to our custom, we shall keep open till nine p. m. 1000 English Velour Sofa Cushions; regular $3.00; now ...... $1.90 500 Roumania and Gobelin Cloth Sota Cushions; regular price $1.25; now......... Aty A TR e e S hepslnsda S BOE 500 Axminster Rugs; regular price $2.50; special............ $1.74 2000 Royal Wilton Rugs; regular price $7.00; now...... ..85.25 100 R I Wiiton Rugs; size gx12; regular price $50; now..$38.00 | * Carpet (the heaviest made, vard wide); regular 005 DOW:Z, 250 ot nn ok . 65¢ et (**Cashmere,” second quality)... . 35¢] vards Heavy Contract Seamless Matting; regular price | ; nNow NOTE—Because of the phenomenally low prices quoted in the | ove scle, we cannot agree to free delivery Friday and Saturday. | ART CARPET SHOP, 228 POWELL STREET. ab Near Geary AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. 'COLUMBIA | LAST 8 NIGHTS M7 'DON'T FORGET! Thursday Afternoon, e Jacod Litt's Revival of S D cembE: ia SHENANDOAH] ~ e - -+ Orpheum. R TCPRNDOUS BATTLE SCENE MONSTER CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE PRICES— Evening e to MATINEE SATURDAY-——23c to Tic. Beginning NEX T MONDAY. FREDERICK WARDE M Tuesdny n IN AID OF THE CHARITY FUND | —OF THR— | Associated Theatr'cal Managers | of San Francisco. THE GREATEST BILL EVER OFFERED, EDERICK WAR Sother with S READY. CALIFORNIA THEATER £ TEE BOERS ARE AN ENEMY TO THE QUEEN, EUT YOU WILL NOT BE BOERED TO SEE “AN ENEMY TO THE KING.” T a F 8. ¥ utitully Presented EY COMPANY, S and Company, from mbla. The FRAWLEY C tornia A IMPA from the Cali- S OF NORMANDY," ™ the Alcazar RGE FULLER Vaudeville, from THE FRAWL . from “THE FATAL and Big Things, from the nt Production of CARD.” WILEON and Vaudeville Lights, from AT ONE O f . RIA = . o) i - The Managers and Actors have helped ening 7 every known charity. Now help them. CLOCK SHARP. Enough said | RESERVE SEATS—Entire Ground Floor, and S0c; Box Seats, $1 50, | AT THE MORN- TIVOLI OPERA-HOUSE. Enttrely J i Re ted and Renovated. GRAND GALA REOPENING T0-MORROW EVEN] Gorgeous Production of the Comic Opera TAR and TARTAR Reappearance of the *‘Prince of Comedians,” S ETARS CAMILLE D'ARVILLE GEORGE FULLER GOLDE = Vaute- | FERRIS HARTMAN. ! ; Return of the Charming Boubrette, ANNIE MEYERS, Bri POFL 2 PRICE Box Office Open T Telephone CONCERTS AND RESORTS. CHUTES AND ZO0O. EVERY AFTE! MAJOR MITE. 1 MPH "'s Br LE ow. BATURDAY) f flercest and CORBETT-FIT & TAINM EK ¥ .. REQUEST, CHIMES OF NORMAN “THE DY.” I e, 2e. | 100 Chickens. 500 Pigeons. 200 Dogs, valued . e 206,00, on _exhibition. Incubators o chickens every day und night. Ths biggest show you ever saw. 0 m to10p m, / lend, Dec, 6, 7, § and dren’ 15e. PLAYHOUSE.) SHOW Doors open from xposition Bulling, Oak- 9. Admission 25c; Chil- and Jones Ste. Eddy Phone SOUTH 770, | s —_— DO YOU WANT 1'-" ENJOY A HEARTY Permanent cure. Entire time fevoted to rectal discases “MR. PLASTER OF PARIS” U ey TSR i furgery. A, ATKINS, s PLEASE YOU. Francisco: hours 1 to § p. m. MATINEES T¢ W (SATURDAY) AND | === = =S — RS prevailing use of electricity has e, e o ght atout a large increase in fires 1 e o to crossed wires. vears ago e only sixty-five there were 98, NEXT SUNDAY NGHT— ach Tigew wod | coasting fleet made port yesterday. | mook, wa | uneasiness are the American ship Kenne- LIVINGSTON'S RED FLANNEL SHIRT - TEMPTED “WIDDY” O'REILLY’S GOAT ' i ey 3 WiDDY OR MR LiviING STO AD not the William Goat of the and the red flannel H ONOe the underwear would not have flanne. a la soapsuds. It appeals to his thing can. No sooner, then, did the ** | §¢ the first whiff of the superintendent’s $ his nose in the alr, twitched his stuni o QORI BOVR NG WHRORONOR ! LONG OVERDUE AMETHYST PORT AT LAST Fifty Days Coming| From Tillamook. OTHER VESSELS NOT SPOKEN | CRUISER PHILADELPHIA DOWN | FROM MARE ISLAND. ———— One of the anxiously looked-for over;_l:e e schooner Amethyst, fifty days from Tilla s reported about noon, and Cap- tain Zimmerman sailed his vessel up the bay and made his anchorage off Mission Rock as though nothing had happened. | The vessel did not show any signs of | hard usage, yet for forty-five days, the captain reports, there was nothing but a succession of southeast gales. The Amethyst sailed from Tillamook on October 18, and on November 15 she was spoken by the transport Columbla sixteen miles southwest by west of Yaquina. Dur- ing that time the schooner had made ex- actly eighty miles, and the captaln and crew were on the verge of starvation. The sight of the stars and stripes, union down, brought the transport to a stop, and a boat from the Amethyst received a liberal supply of provisions. Since that time the schooner has salled 450 miles in twenty- thrae days, and the provisions supplied by the Columbia were sufficient to keep ail hands on a feir diet. During the gales the schooner was under bare poles, as had any canvas been spread she would have been blown away up the coast. Occasion- aily a double-reefed mainsail was set and & gain of a few miles made. On November 12 the Amethyst spoke schooner Antelope, now fifty-cne d: out, from Coquille for Port Los Angeles. At 'that tme the latter vessel made no report of being short of provisions, but unless she has been supplied by some ves- sel since then the crew must be on a very short allowance. Other coasters in the same predicament are the S. Danielson, now out fifty days from Tillamook; Wing and Wing, thirty-three days from Grays Harvor: L D, thirty days from Port ; Mayflower, twenty-fiv dn;’l from Coquille” River; Martha W. Tuft, twenty-three days from Grays Har- American Girl, sixty days from San neisco for the Sound: and the British bark_Nanaimo, from Chemainus, B, C., for Nagasaki, 121 days. Two other vessels that are causing some | bec and the British ship St. Enoch. The Kennebec has coal on board for the lowa, and is now out 153 days from Baltimore. The St. Enoch 1s on her way from Pana- me for Portland, and was off the Colum- bla River on November 17. A pllot was put aboard, but a storm coming up the | ship had to stand off shore and has not been heard from since. The wind blew from almost every point GREAT SALE! ORIGIN:L GEORGIA MINSTRELS. |- 1 PRIC — 1%c 3o Bhe. | OOCO00C0N000 ALCAZAR THEATER. % TO-NIGHT ! 8 MA'I\A'-‘ : MORY ,'\‘J'r“;'T\'Y‘,\Y g Francls Powers' Mexican Tragedy, 3 1] ] MOTHER EARTH" | THIS “UP TO WATKINS.” OUR . FRINGIFLE: SEATS 15¢, 25¢, 35c, 50¢. | WESTERN TURF ASSOCIATION | & _TANFORAN PARK. & MISSES’ MACKINTOSHES, value out at.. LADIES’ MACKINTOSHES, value out at LADIES’ MACKINTOSHES, out at.. LADIES’ MACKINTOSHES, value value for $15.00, be closed out at the low price of Arrive at Ban Leave San Bruno at 4:00 | O co to Tanforan N trark President a4 Manager . COKE! COKE! P. A. McDONALD, Wholesale Dealer and Shipper of Coke. SFFICE 1146 Market | $1 FOLSOM ST. i Ladies’ and Misses’ Mackintoshes. No goods carried over from one season to the other. value for $8.00, $12.00, Will be closed out at......ccecunee. LADIES’ MACKINTOSHES, in plain and fancy shades, b $18.00 and $20. . O’'BRIEN & CO., Bet. Taylor and Mason. ENDEAVORED TO FluL THEGOAT FULL OF HOLES. shirt of Harry into conjuaction Wednesday afternoon the owner cf admitted fact that a goat craves no finer dish than red DAY. for $3.00, will be closed $1.90 $3.90 $4.90 $7.90 for $5.00, will be closed 1 for $£7.00, will be closed $10.00 and oo—the entire lot will $l 1'75 Street . . . \\ 1A N , GOAT SCENTED A RED SHIRT AND PROCEEDED T% DEVOUR, N 7. ~ “Widdy"” O'Retily Livingston gut been in the Police Police Judge palate as no othac Widdy's” goat get shirt than he put p of a tail to see OROON0 % paying the in the compass yesterday and old ship- masters are looking for another south- easter At 6 a. m. yesterday it was blow- ing sixteen miles an hour from the north- east; three hours later it was blowing ten miles an hour from the southeast; at noon It was blowing twenty miles from the south-southeast; and at 3 p. m. It was twelve miles an hour from the south. At 5 p. m. there was very little change, but the overdue barkentire Leslie D hove in sight and will probat make port to-day. 'he cruiser Philadelphia came down from Mare Island yeste and Rear Admiral Kautz at once transferred his flag from the Iowa to her. While ske has been at the navy vard the Philadelphia has been completely overhauled and her old six-inch guns replaced with rapid-fire f the same callber. The Towa will nd Tuesday or slphia_ will There they will meet nd the warships will go dalena Bay for gun practice. The British bark Ardencraig, which left here July 21, with 70.643 centals of barley, valued at $75,942, hs n in collislon with the Goodwin Sé lightship at the en- trance to the British Channel. The light- ship was considerably damaged according to @ dispatch from the Merchants' Ex- change, but the Ardencraig has not yet been heard from e steamer Curacao sailed for Mexican ports _vesterd The whaling barks Chas. W. Morgan and California and the British ships Rahane and Pythomene also got away. The change of wind which the salling vessels have been waiting for came early in the day and they took ad- vantage of it PERJURY IS ON TAP [N THOMAS KELLY'S TRIAL Wilsons, Colored and White, Disagree. Perjury, bald-faced and plenty of it, is being Indulged In by some one in the case of Thomas A. Kelly, now on trial before Judge Lawlor for having know- Ingly placed forged bonds on record for the release of Harry Wilson on three charges of petty lirceny. The court- room presents a strange appearance. De- tectives are sprinkled throughout the on- lookers and crooks known and crooks sus- pected are everywhere in evidence. Harry Wilson, the colored man whose release resulted in the present outrage on the respectable element of the city, was the sensational witness yesterday. was recalled frequently t ughout the day and (nally his indignation got the best of him. Referring to the statements of Attorney J. N. E. Wilson published yesterday, he sald: Chis man Wilson has attempted long enough to make these gentlemen of the jury belleye that 1 am a strangler and a murderer; he has tri to make them believe that [ went over a circuitous route to California and Mon! gomery streets, and then, during his ab- sence, ran away. ‘This is absolutely false. 1 went with Wilson to the house on Howard street and there I pald him three $1w bills. He denies that he got a cent from me and that he went down to the Cafe Royal and to other saloons; he also denies that he told me that | could go and that the case against me was squared, but he did tell me all of these things and he also got the three $100 bills. e is simply swearing to clean his skirts of this $3% business, but what I tell is the truth.” The witness was asked if it was not the truth that he had told W. S. Barnes at the County Jail that he was anxious to get out and was willing to pay $1000 for nis freedom that he might join a certain white woman In this city and continue on & course of robbery with her. This the witness positively denied and he added: *Myp. Barnes will not testify to this either.”” A short time later "Mr. Barnes, who will appear as a witness to- day, said that he positively would not swear to the statement that Wilson told him that he wanted to get out and con- tinue on a course of crime with the white woman, who has frequently been refer- red to in the case. During yesterday's proceedings Henry H. Adams and Edwin M. Sweeney were called to impeach Rellly’s testimony to the effect that he never offered himself as a bondsman with the same property accredited to his D“nershl‘hns is describ- ed on the forged bonds. oth witnesses testified that Reilly went on a bond for the release of Simon Gallie, but that the bond was refused. Samuel Soloman and James Bowlan tes- tified that they saw J. N. E. Wilson, Rellly, Cosfrnve and Kelly together on the night J. N. E. Wilson alleges they met for the purpose of securing Wilson's release, but their description of the miss- ing Cosgrove did not correspond with that given by Wilson. The case goes on again to-day. The Su-Ela Tyson Murder. ‘When the case of Dr. A. 8. Newman and John Vaccari, charged with the murder of Su-ElaTyson, was called in Judge Mogan's court yesterday ex-Judge Ferral and Sen- Stor Simms of Santa Kosa, on behalf of Newman, and Attorney Devoto, on behalf of Vaccari, submitted the evidence taken at the Coroner's inquest and asked that the defendants be admitted to ball. Pros- ecuting Attorney Joachimsen offered no objection and the Judge fixed the bonds examina- ,000 each. The preliminary 't?onown set for ne:¥ Tuesday. I that his steering apparatus was in good working order and started dead ahead in the teeth of the gale for Liv- Ingston’s vack yard. Five minutes later the reports of several pistol shots Livingston admitted the rhootin iraham sentenced or serve five days in jail. fine was that it was not part of the funera: expensces of fhe “Widdy's"” better luck next time. WONONON ORINONONG NORORONON GUIRHOR ORI RO [ T F HArvEY LNINGSTQN “SPOTTED” THE REMAINS OFHISRED UNDERWEAR T Contributors to this course: Master, Laughlin and others. BY WILLIS M. WEST, M. A. Boyhood—Education—The Revbdlution Information regarding the family of Al- exander Hamilton is meager and the statements are contradictory. Among con- v temporartes he was commonly reputed of i | l fllegitimate birth, and John Adams refeis 4’ ‘ i ‘. to him in a letter to Jefferson as “that | bastard brat of a Scotch peddler.” i was born in the West Indles and his . mother seems to have been of French g1l / Huguenot descent. To this parentage bi- -{ ographers are fond of ascribing his youth- oy Vo /2. ful precocity and the tropical passions - and Celtic impetuosity of his later years, At and surely to colonfal Americans there Fom SAVING THE SLEEVE OF HIS ShHiRT. \1 /3 4 must have seemed something exoyjc .n the der, erect, eager youth, with glowing eyes and massive head, who, mere stranger though he was, began at 18 to play a stirring part upon the turbulent stage of revolutionary politics, and who while yet younger than an average sophomore, be- came Washington's trusted emissary upon political missions. In these plctur- iln court yesterday and | gy he fitted for King's College In a yaar im to pay a fine of The defendant’s only regret :n goat. He expects, however, SOLORIONINORORONCOROBORONOO SHE WILL FIGHT FOR PORTION OF GOODMAN ESTATE Nurse Girl Claims to Be an Heiress. b BIG FORTUNE IS INVOLVED| FLORENCE GOODMAN SAYS HER AUNT DESERTED HER. From kitchen drudgery and the trying occupation of nurse girl to an Alameda baby with lusty lungs little Florence Goodman, a colored orphan girl, has sud- | denly become aware that she is an heir- | ess. She has every reason to believe that her grandfather, the late George Good- man, who died last New Year's night In this city, leaving a fortune of nearly $30,- | 000 in good hard coin, provided for her in a handsome manner, but that a will | like rapid pace, until the crisis in politics antedating that in which she was men- | drew him into public life in 1774, two yea tioned so substantially has been admitted | after his arrival. The war of his boyish to probate. | wish was coming and he took sides with Her attorney, Charles E. Naylor, has | all the fervid enthusiasm of his nature. been looking into the matter for several | An impromptu and strangely successful weeks and yesterday reported that he had | speech at a patriotic meeting in the ficld reached the conclusion that his client had | of the New York suburbs first brought good grounds for attacking the alleged | him Into notice, but he won more perma- last will. Legal proceedings will be taken | nent notoriety by the newspaper letters in to have the order admitting it to pro- | which he entered the lists against tne bate set aside. This will be undertaken | leading loyalist talent of the colony—an on the broad grounds that the testator | agency then used by the ablest men Lo Jras of unsound mind at the time of mak- | guide public opinion and a form of con- ing the alleged last will, and that he was troversy in which Hamilton throughout unduly Influenced against his grandchi e by _his son and daughter. grandchild | pys 1ife had no superior. Tempting induce The life history of Florence Goodman | would make a good foundation for a | melodrama. She Is the child of the late | fused, of course, while at the same :ime George (oodman's favorite son, Moses | Hamilton showed his fine disdain of popu- Adolphus Goodman, now deceased. Her lar favor by gallantly opposing mob vio- parents died when’ she was scarcely 10 | . €ars old, and from that time on unul | lence toward the Torles with all the Bz death she 'was cared for by her grand- | hatred of anarchy that was o mark his father. She was his constant companion Mlater career. and seemed to bring sunshine to the old [ As war clouds thickened he set himself told by the little colored irl, her aumt Al L e g Training School and left her among o PRt G L L T F “ nental a e, 8¢ strangers. They did not call upon her | (he eye of Washington. Hamilton had the er to thoance after | perjlous task of guarding the rear in the T to the managers | masterly retreat from Long Island. He | aistinguished himself at White Plains, to the boy's power—were steadfastly rte- or offer her any financial ass they had turned her ov. of the school. Happiness had gone out of the girl's life and the future was not promising when City Clerk Ben F. Lamborn of Ala- me Trenton and Princeton he accepted an ap- pointment upan Washington's staff while still & year under age. Here his chiet reg- ular work was the management of the im- mense corfespondence of the commander in chief. Hamilton's gay, buoyant tem- er. even in the gray winter at Valley | Fe hi: t admirin, riend- him to inquire Into the nurse girl's ante- | nfi’.'p"}:g";‘:’:”‘..’}‘.\‘.,efl'n.-.'nna e (5"‘“), % cedents. and he soon learned from her | the foreign officers, young and old, and the story of her rich grandfather who | hig trenchant pen, sound sense and quick over and over u{:’arm] to \pro- | dectsion were Righty \:xl‘uvd by \\'uvhl{;z- Mr. Lamborn ould be glad to recount that petitioned the Superior Court af Alameda | {familion in Lufn showed Some Eenerons County for letters of guardianship over | ygmiration for the grave and stately gen- the girl and when they were granted he | ¢ral who bore upon his shoulders the fate Rlaced her case in the hands of Attorney | of 4 continent, but the evidence Is lack- a v ited the institution in search of se girl for a lusty limb of the Lam- born family. Florence Goodman was rec- ommended, ‘and she went to live at the Lamborn home across the bay. Mr. Lam. born’s Inquisitive turn of mind prompted aylor. n The Goodman will was admitted to pro- | &% o Gonfict With An- bate January 17. The petition accompany- | ing It set forth that the estate was worth | archy—The Struggle for a Strong:r Government. about $7000. The appralsement subse- quantly flled showed moncy in bank and real estate valued at $22.753 8. The grand- | TIn the midst of the war Hamilton had daughter believes that there is still much met, wooed and won a dnnumer.ul Philip | Schuyler. Immediately after Yorktown, the war now plainly over, declining with more that has not been accounted for, graceful dignity repeated offers of finan- The will provides for Florence to the ex- tent of $100, while the residue of the es- clal assistance from General Schuyler, he set himself to earn a livelihood for his tate 18 begueathed to decedent's children, Lucretla Thomas and Dureasso Goodman, who Is named as executor without bonds. | wife and babe, and four months’ rapa- Leonard 8. Clark, who witnessed the | elous study admitted him to the New mark of the testator to the will, §s at- | York bar, where he at once rose to the torney for the estate. | highest eminence. Last May Jud%e Coffey made an order | n election to the decaying Congress of partial distribution, allowing $1000 to | of the confederation of 1752 and his few Mrs. Thomas and $200 to the son Du- | months' futile battle there, xllunfi with reasso. From the documents filed in con- | Madison, against the inertia of the bulk nection with the case it appears that but | of the members and the distressing condi- little effort was made to notify Florence | ticn of the times, Is memorable only be- or her representatives at the time the | cause this experience seems to have gone will was probated, and it is probable that | far toward estabiishing the deep distrust the whole estate would have been dis- | of democracy and the ardent desire for a tributed before she had had an oppor- | strong central government which were to tunity to be heard in court had not Clerk | be the controlling ideas of his subsequent Lamborn of the Encinal City interested | public life. himseif In her case. To appreciate this later work we must bear in mind certain fac not altogether leasant for an American to contemplate. Kot merely was our Government marked by political disintegration at home and treated with deserved contempt abroad. Our whole soclety was equally disorgan- jzed. The most vicious results of colonial system had been the fostering among our people of a general indolence, S iaiie for buaitiess methods and an an: Expectorators Take warning. The eleven men—whites and Chinese— arrested on Wednesday for expectorating on the sidewalk were distributed among the four Police Courts yesterday. They were all admonished and discharged, with the exception of Louls Frizer, a cook, who was fined $5, with the alternative of twen- ty-four hours in the County Jail, by Judge Conlan. Frizer was arrested by Police- man George Collins on Geary street, and he testifi that he warned Frizer three times before he arrested him not to ex- pectorate on the sidewalk, but he paid no attention to the warnings. ——e—— Dinner for Newsboys. The Volunteers of America have under- taken the task of providing a genuine Christmas dinner for the newsboys of this city. It is believed that there are about five hundred boys who would appreciate a real turkey bm’uet on Christmas day and donations will be received at the Volunteer Armory, 30 Fourth street. tagonism to law manifested In universal smuggling and in the refusal of jurles to convict for such offenses. The last twenty years had tremendously augmented these evils. The mob methods of the ten years' pre-revolution contest, however neces- sary, would have demoralized any people. To refuse ohedience to the courts, to re- fuse to pay just debts, to boycott officers of the law, to disgracefully abuse them. to tar and feather conservative citizens who ventured to criticise such proceed- ings, to terrorize soclety through its law- less elements in tavern committees and nocturnal visitations—all this had been to no slight extent the evidence and con- comitant of r-trlmhm. Then these re- grettable anti-social tendencies had been intensified of course by the long wur, Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor John Bach M Professor Charles H. Smith, Dr. Frederic VIIL.—ALEXANDER HAMILTON. | which, aside social ease and vivacity of the dark, slen- | ‘Q‘ Court yesterday morning on trial for discharging fire- broke the intelligence to all Cow Hollow that “‘something saque toaits; however, Wé MM ndt_lose | {2 arms within the city limits. was domng.” Policeman E. J. McNamara, who was in the sight ot the cool, penstrating logic which, £ Livingston is superintendent for Contractors Warren & vicinity of Fillmore and Filbert streets, got a rapld move after all, was "dmm""'l‘ most remark- | B Malley. He resides at 2217 Filbert street and the red on and arrived at the rear of the Livingston residence in able personal characteristic, nor of his in- § el shirt, which is one of his bosom friends, was time to see the “Widdy's” goat running like a Filipino § | stincts for strong government and for na- & on the afternoon !n question, on the line in h.s in the directuion of the gas house, a red flannel streamer tional unity, which v\er'e to rnnk’ "im & back yard. The shirt had just been washed. As experts flying from his mouth, Livingston in close pursuit, flour- among the constructive statesmen of 83 all testify, the scent of a red flannel shirt newly treated ishing a revolvei. McNamara Intercepted the superin- America. € with soap has a remarkable carrying power. Small won- tendent, undoubtedly saving the life of the goat. Living- At 16, with sufficient funds and geod | g der, then, that It was borne two blocks away on a ten- ston aumitted having fired the shots, but pleaded In ex- | introductions, young Hamilton was sent % knot breeze to the lot on which the “Widdy's” pet was tenuation the provocation furnished by the goat that | to New York to complete his education. Ypohing Ok 4R AFROFEATIGH ‘afiedn Nabels! Notw. It {a an had eaten the tall of his red flannel shirt. With tireless application and fiery encr- and devoured the course afterward at a'ence was followed ALEXANDER HAMILTON, | ments to change sides—a strong tribute | | and finance. | and after the terrible campaign closed by | THE FIRST SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. Copyright, 1899, by Seymour Eaton. GREAT AMERICAN STATESMEN. W. Speirs, Professor Andrew C. Mc- from the integrating influence of any successful re- bellion, however just, had ruined all M- dustry and flooded the confused country with a worthless, currency Of course the reckoning had to come. {nevitable Such conditions bring out In any society a vast amount of human weakness and m s and reckless selfishness. The account appeared not merely in the gen- eral and kumillating unwillingness to pay the really si{ght cost of our national in- dependence and in the shameful negiect of the suffering army, in army mutiny and In plans for a military dictatorship, but also In Shay’s rebellion against the collection of debts and In the subsequent to whisky rebellion and Fries’ rebellion prevent slight Federal taxation. If t revolution was to be proven worth while the new republic must subdue at once the anarchie turbulence and repudiation in which its stormy birth had educated a generation. This is the real meaning of the struggle for a new constitution. he contest lasts through the organization of the new government In Washington's ad- ministration, and the hero of the twelve critical years, the victorious leader of the forces of order and honesty, is Alexan ler Hamilton. Until this time, however bril- liant his services, he had been but a .leu- tenant; now he stands forth for his real life work, a statesman-apostie of energy and union. It is true that his aristocratic and mon- archic tendencies, his distrust of the peo- ple, intensified s conflict with ?npull\r prejudices, were wholly wrong or America, and his party which shared them was soon properly punished by annihilation. But his demand for strong government and for national unity was wholly right, and was as indispen- sable to our America as Jefferson's dem- wis to be. We could have spared neither of these ,reat antagonists, each of whom contributed fundamental princi- ples to our national life. Hamilton's brief congressional expert- by his courageous struggle in New York against the cruel and foolish persecution of the old loyalists—in the course of which a club of opponen in a newspaper coi troversy compli- mented him by a proposed plan ~ to {ll him “off by fuccessively ~chal- lenging im to duels—and then by the opening of the contest for a con- stitutional conven- tion The plan, so na- tural to us, was novel enough _then. As carly as 17%, In a private letter, Hamilton had sug- ed a national convention to form a new constitution— even before the ar- ticles of confedera- tion had been rat!- nd in 1783, at suggestion, 'the New York Legi ture recommen the plan_to Con- gress. When Vir- ginia finally secured the germ of a co vention napolis in flton was the this meeting Congress and to the address W drew of States, which result in the great Philadelphia conven- tion the next year. Intimately connect- did ed as Hamilton's name s with the constitution, he took little part in the convention. The vote of his colleague from his State was against any effective union. and he him- self, on the other hand, desired a more aristocratic and consolidated plan than there was any chance of getting adopted. In his one great speech he advocated as his own ideal a President and Senate for life and the reduction of the States to provinces by making the Governors ap- {minu-ns of the central Government and by plnrln’ in them an absolute veto upon all State legislation. However, unable to get what he wanted, like a practical statesman he took without sulking what he could get and threw all his marvelous energy Into the contest for ratification. The debt to him is for first securing from the New York Legislature a most reluct- ant representation at Philadelphia at all, and then for his desperate victory in the ratifying State convention. Organization of the Government. The critical questions before the new Government were those of national credit With his instinctive Insight, Hamilton had selz upon their coming lm&mrmnrc even during the Revolution, and had already studied and written much upon them. Flllr now Washington called him to the head of the treasury, which he easlly made the leading position in the Government. The “07- of his work here would be a history of Washington's Presidency. The striking figure so justly applied to him national resources of revenue ie smote the rock of and abundant streams ushed forth”—tells only a fraction of the truth. The bewliidered Congress, with admirable promptitude, turned to the great secretary for guidance and recelved from him in swift succes- sion report after report, from - hich came the funding system, the revenue system, the sinking fund, national banking, the currency, the firs{ statement of Internal | tmprovements and' for the protective sys- | minent he oid | l | | tem and a mass of other legislation in the succeeding years. Economists of other schools will eriticize some of his views, but no one will deny that his plans, ho ever faulty, did lift us from the abyss of national shame and make us a powerful and happy people, prosperous at home and respected abroad. Later Life. In 179, after the long and bitter quarrel with Jefferson, both Secretaries left the Cabinet, but Hamilton remained a close unofficial adviser of that body. The Im- rospect of war with France in 179 made him the real commander and organizer of the army under the aged Washington, and his plans for the con- quest of Loulstana and Florida—an indi- cation of a faith in our national expansion rare in that day—afford an interesting point of -ympnhg between him and his rival, Jefferson. The blame for the schism of the Federalists which followed the clearing away of the war clouds must be shared between Hamllton and Adams, and there were petty follles enough on both sides. Hamlilton redeemed his rare slip by his wise part In helping to thwart the mad Federalist plan of seating Burr over Jefferson in 1801, and by casting his welghty volce against the secession plots ;g“( ie desperate New England leaders in These were his last public acts. Though seeing no remedy for victorious Demoe- racy in disunion. he red to the full the gloom of his Federalist associates. lHa seems to have confidently anticipatad the overthrow of the constitution by the Jef- fersonfans, but to have looked forward hopefully to a civil war to restore it after a brief democratic anarchy. To keep him- self avallable as a milifary leader and savior of soclety In that struggle was, ap- parently, his reason for accepting Burr challenge to the duel which ended his lite at 48 years of age. University of Minnesota. Butchers Take Action. At the last meeting of the Butchers’ Board of Trade George Dutchler, who was recently arrested and convicted of offering for sale horseflesh made up Into sausages, was expelled from that y by the unan- imous vote of its members. One of the by-laws of the board provides for the ex- ulsion of any member who offers menc gor i whlc{n is unfit for human food, and the board considers orseflesh comes within that provisica.