The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 19, 1900, Page 6

o "fiecy BE- s @gli‘l.b ...... SEPTEMBER 19, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFIC Telephone Press 204 FUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201, to 227 Stevensom St. ress 202. EDITORIAL ROOMS Telep Delivered hy Carrfers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies. Terms by 5 Cent Ineciundin Mail, DaT ), one year 29000 Da € montl .. 3.9 DA 3 months 59 DATL 1 z 5c 1 1 18 | WEEKLY CALL One Year.... s 100 All postmmsters mre antherized to receive subserip tiona. Sample coples will ra when requested. OARLAND ...1118 Broadway iding. Chicago. ‘Central 2618."") YESPONDENT: 3 Heraid Square NTATIVE: 3 Tribune Building NEW YORK ria Hote There same which It nber. be sub The Su- on amend- 1e regular ses wil xtra ses raphers 1 the Moreos the § m of L3 re il lead to an ¢ svercome. y Justices of the clected by the people the » appointed by the Gov- & . on that the persons ap- I - T »n when the time comes 5 being already in off v tors. Thus + or stem of the he w t of our ool d of selecting such « t yut to the people of « e it to bear uy nt be adopted and the It is even probable sck have already nto office should ) e strong objes wothing to com r ave not been asked for g e has been no c ign of e n t 1oters of th me . be adopted. We end g e S has killed the extra ‘ people kill that of t # Sen Joi « Democrats appear to be ed use 1 ominees insist upon resign- % hon, t t upon ghem. The nom lose touch with the men h e gro r spouse and i md of desertion n a knpwledge of the general expected the gentle- an n t to rum = of shreds N and pat test in the court n of the tax levy adopt y June is a ness , in gpology for the eccentrici- ty government, that the charter is not yet His Honor is mistaken. The in working order, but its work is coarse. It would be difficuit to determine who are worse in the sdvage, barbarous war being waged in China— the Russians or the Chinese. The Russians appear to have the advantage of more studied deviltry. May ties of the working order. charter is i BRYAN'S ACCEPTANCE. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, 'WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1900. . RYAN'S letter of acceptance is nothing more than a wordy and windy expatiation upon the | various planks of the Kansas City platiorm. | With a degree of moderation remarkable in him, he | put aside whatgver inclination he may have had to | write big words about the “paramount issue,” and, after declaring he had said enough on that subject in his notification speech, he passed on to a considera- tion of the remaining pledges of his party. Of cousse he indorses and promises to uphold every declaration ! of the Kansas City convention, and the only notable passages in his letter zre those in which he reaffirms his epposition to the gold standard and the protective | | tariff. | Fo some time past the Democratic leaders and | their organs have been trying to put the money ques- tion aside and to deceive the public into a belief that the free ¢ of silver is not an issue in this cam- For a time Bryan gave encouragement to the nd kept silent out silver. A short time ago \ a correspondent of the New York Herald asked him whether if elected President he would pay in sil- ver all the obligations of the Government not speci- fically payable in gold he refused to answer the ques- tion. Gaining confidence by that action of their leader, the orators and the organs of Bryanism be- came bolder in scoffing at the financial question. They ridiculed any suggestion that such an issue is before the people, and firmly took their stand upon the declaration that the one issue of the time is the “para- mount issue” of imperialism. Alas for those who put their trust in Bryan! The windy man who but a short time ago promised com- liance with the plan’of ignoring silver is now to the | ont waving the irce silver and the free trade banner | with all his might and shouting for it with all his il In commenting upon Roosevelt’s letter of accept- ance on Mon morning the Examiner said; “Gov- ernor Roosevelt is very sure that we ought not . to It is believed, al- though space v king to dwell upon it, that he is equally opposed to the Ptolemaic system of astron- the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions and the Lecompton constitution of Kansa Those were gay and galliard words, but now comes Bryan in his let- ter of acceptance and commends the action of th: convention because, among other things: he platform reiterates the demand confained in the | Chicago “platiorm for an American financial system made by the American people for themselves. The purpose of such a system is to restore and maintain a level of prices, and in order that there may have the free coi bimetal be no uncertainty as to the method of restoring bi- metallism the specific declaration in favor of free and unlimited coinage at the existing ratio of 16 to I in- dependent of the action of other nations is repeated.” The struggle for the standard of value i%};mt the | bygone contest which Bryan revives. 3 e ounces an opposition to the Dingley’ tariff hardly determined than that to the gold standard. 1d he be elected the fiscal policy of the nation is to be once more made the subject of Democratic tinkering and the whole commercial and industrial to be disturbed. Furthermore, he an- stem nounces a direct antagonism to the recent currency and banking legislation. Thus his election to the Presidency would mean an overturn of all the bases on which our prosperity rests. ecting every trade and every home in the an- It would be a revolu- | ti 2 country. Such is the programme Bryan proclaims in his let- | ter of gcceptance. What intelligent man on that show- | in consider the Philippine question to be the | n ing paramount issue before the people? So long as the industrial prosperity and financial integrity of the na- | tion is menaced by a party demanding free trade and free silver, so long will that menace be the chief issue | before the voters. As President McKinley has said, “Another issue may be paramount, but this is imme- diate.” The transport Lawton will in all truth Be a pauper p when she returns with her army of destitute | miners from Nome. By orders of the Government the impoverished prospectors will be brought back as freight rather than as passengers, so great will be crowd THE DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT. ]]CTORI:‘\ has signed the proclamation for the \ dissolution of Parliament, and it is announced a writ will be issued summoning a new Parlia- ment to meet November 1. The political campaign in Great Britain, coming on at the same time with | our own, will illustrate the difference between the po- !litical methods of the two countries. We have al- ready been campaigning very busily for some weeks, and yet the British will hold their elections, choose their members of Parliament and get that body to work a week before our election takes place. More- over, even after we have elected a new House of Rep- resentatives it cannot possibly meet before March 3, and is not likely to meet beiore next November. | There are many respects in which our system is the better of the two, but so far as prompt éxpression of | the will of the people is concc{ned the British plan is unquestionably the superior. It is probable the Liberals will denounce the disso- ! lution at this time as a Tory trick, designed to take advantage of the popular satisfaction over the vic- tories of Lord Roberts, and so obtain a new lease of power. In fact, ever since the first intimation of an | intention to dissolve was given out the Liberals and the radica ave been denouncing what they call the threat of a “khaki campaign,” and the London | Chronicle has greeted the dissolution by a declara- tion: “Lord Salisbury, as he always does, has yielded to the strong man. He has stifled conscience, thrown" scruples and justice to the winds, and succumbed to AMr. Chamberlain, who is now the ruler of the Premier and the country.” Such an attack from the opposition is natural, yet i+ is hardly justified. The present Parliament could 3«»1 live longer than another year at the utmost, and nce the British Government has now to undertake | the pacification and. government- of the conquered South African republics it is clearly advisable that an | appeal be taken to the people on the new issue and a | Parliament clected which can support a Ministry in office long enough to put its policy into effect.. As a matter of fact under ordinary circumstances the Liberals and the radicals would be only too glad | to have Parliament dissolved, as an election would i give them a chance at least to get possession of the Government. Unfortunately at this juncture neither Ethe Liberals nor their radical allies have either a ! policy to submit to the country or a leader to make ‘ the campaign for them. They are wholly unprepared | for a fight, and are therefore very deeply indignant that the Conservatives should force one upon them. While the South African problem will probably be | is a mistake. C | trees do not grow with anything like the the chief subject of discussion during the campaign thefe are many domestic issues that will have to be met. One of these is 2 demand for a redistribution of seats in Parliament, others are involved in various measures’ of reform advocated by workingmen, and there will be of course more or less attention given in many constituencies to the inevitable Irish ques- tion. An interesting feature of the campaign will be the course taken by the labor organizations. British workingmen, like those of other countries, have hitherto been divided between the two great parties, but lately efforts have been made to form a Labor party, to act, as the Irish party has done, as a distinct organization for the purpose of carrying out a defi- nite programme of legislation. Should that move- ment prove effective it is quite likely the historic Whig party will go to pieces, the conservative mem- bers of the organization going over to the Tories, while the radicals will affiliate with the workingmea. Altogether the election is going to be a most im- portant one, and the result will have an influence upon the development of British policies at home and abroad which will be felt for years to come, P T —— P. A. Bergerot, the Kelly chairman of the Repub- lican local convention, owes a solemn duty to him- self. He ought to take himself into his own confis dence and learn what everybody else knows—that he is a creature of the man who placed him in the chair. THE DUTY CF REGISTRATION. /\/\ NY times. of late The Call has directed the at- tention of Republicans to the duty of regis- tration, and now comes the following letter which renews the urging: Editor of The Call: There are a great many citizens under the impression that because they voted at the election last November there is no necessity to register at the coming election. That All registrations prior to January 1, 1900, have been canceled. The law requires every citizen to register for the coming election. The registration office at the City Hall is open from 8:30 a. m. to 10 p. m. Citizens should not wait for the last day—=Sep- tember 26. Now is the time to avoid the rush. It takes only a few minutes. Yours very truly, GEORGE STONE, Chairman Republican State Committee. The letter speaks for itself. Republicans should need no further urging to get their names enrolled upon | the great register. Unless regsstercd, no one can vote. The citizen who neglects the duty forfeits his fran- chise at the coming election. The issues are impor- tant, for the welfare of the whole country is depen- dent upon the result of the vote for Presidential electors. All who desire to cast a vote for prosperity and good government should register at once. The Phelanite administration is at least liberal to itself. After demanding what it pleased for the con- duct of the various municipal departments it now in- sists that taxpayers shall pay $300,000 more than the most extravagant demands involved. e — ONE MORE BLAZING LESSON, ALIFORNIA is about to elect a Legislature, and that Legislature will be charged with the duty of providing for California’s welfare. As | if for the purpose of illustrating in the most striking manner what is her chief need in the way of legisla- tion this winter California is illuminating the cam- paign months with forest fires blazing in rapid suc- cession in all parts of her domain. The latest of these burning lessons was reported in the dispatches from Santa Cruz on Monday, to this effect: “A forest fire broke out on H. Cowell's land, east of Big Trees, yesterday and worked toward the famous grove. This afternoon the fire was re- ported less than a mile from Big Trees. Between the fire and the trees is a densely wooded country. A large force of men was out all night fighting the fire. To-day section men were added to the force. A north wind sprang up late this afternoon and turned the flames away from the direction of Big Trees, but to- night the fire broke out in fresh places and is not yet under control. Several hundred men are now fight- ing it. Word was sent to the powder works for help. The mills immediately shut down and all available men went to the fire, armed with shovels. The con- flagration is about two miles from the mills. It is ‘expected the men will have it under control by morn- ing.” By hard work the fire was extinguished and prop- erty saved. That is the record everywhere and in every instance. The hard work, however, never saves all the property. There is always a great deal de- stroyed. Credit is given to the men who fight the fires and save property. Why, then, should there not be much more credit given to men who will devise a comprehensive system of forest preservation that will virtually save it all? It is safe to say that no reasonable system of pro-, tecting our forests will cost the people of California one-fourth as much as it costs to have no protection at all. . Of course to provide for protection there will have to be taxes, but no tax that the State will devise will ever be so ruthless and so disastrous to a com- munity as the tax levied by fire. This issue should be kept in the minds of the voters in every legislative district in the State. Therce is no other State issue of the time of so much or such general importante. The great forests of the world are being rapidly destroyed. Timber is becom- ing more and more valuable every day. Tt would pay California to undertake forest cultivation on @n ex- tensive scale. Germany maintains about 10,000,000 acres of State forests on lands unfit for other cultiva- tion, and it is said derives from them an annual rev- enue equal to about $23,000,000. , Yet in Germany beauty, strength and profusion that they grow here. By sav- ing her forests GePmany derives a rich revenue from them, but we, by neglecting ours, lose millions of dol- lars instead of gaining them. z Upon this issue there ought to be no ‘division of sentiment among the people. What county is there in California that has not within this year lost much by fires in/ihe fields, pastures or forests? What in- telligent man can consider those losses without per- ceiving the lesson they teach? e —— When the historian writes the story of the South African republics it will not be difficult to guess to whom his tribute will be paid—to a fleeing Kruger or an exiled Crm:nje. ; ' % The Alameda murderer whose skull was proof against a self-inflicted bullet will probably discover that his neck is a more pregnable part of his anatomy. Natives of Guam, says Judge Estee, are citizens of the United States. Just think of what our fellow- citizen, the Sultan of Suly, lost by running away . LILLIAN RUSSELL’'S NEW [BRAND OF FAITH C — e Relieves Aches and Pains Almost in a Jiffy. —_— SHE ONLY USES “THINKS'| PRGN Prima Donna Finds, However, That Smelling Salts | and” Bromo Seltzer Are Great Ads —_—— | After long ond diligent study of the question of religion Lillian Russell has announced to her friends.that she is an out-and-out faith curist. She does not subscribe to the doctrines of Mrs. Eddy, of the Christian Science cult, in their en- tirety, but so strongly is she convinced of the power of the mind over the tendency of the body to become disorderly that she | is almost hoping for a severe attack of iliness, in order that she may give the theory a test. At the outset, says a writer In a New York paper, it may be said that Miss Rus- sell has never been seriously ill in her | life, and that her health at the present | time is so good that she is almost ashamed of herself. It is hard indeed for a woman to work as many as two hours a day on a hot, stuffy stage and be un- able to produce a single pain. Even on days when there is a matinee Miss Rus- | sell retains her scandalous freedom from bodily aches and pains. “I have noticed, however,” she sald yes- terday, during an intermission in the Weber & Fields matinee, “that when I get headaches I am able to get rid of them by simply concentrating my mind on the proposition that I have no head- ache. This, in connection with some bromo seltzer and smelling salts, never | falls to relieve,me. “When I am fatigued and would fain seek rest when I should be at work, I simply Insist to myself that I am fresh and strong, and, lo, I become fresh and strong at once. By concentrating my mind | on the undertaking I have cured hic- | coughs when all other known remedies { have failed. | *‘Of course, I do not believe that I could | | wish myself a new arm should I have one | cut off by a Broadway cable car, nor do I | believe that my mind would be strong | enough to equip mé with a new lung | should I fall a victim to the ravages of | consumption. I o not go to these lengths. | But I do say that we are too prone to drug | ourselves and that the mind is in such su- | preme control that the ordinary ills of life | can be cured by thought concentration. ““This is not a new bellef with me,” con- tinued Miss Russell. “I have had as much | trouble as any woman, but I have found, | all through my life, that by persistently concentrating my mind on the bright side URE - - = d B — e AIRY, FAIRY LILLIAN, WHOSE FADS MANAGE TO GET INTO | | THE PAPERS. s = of a dark situation—every cloud has its silver lining. you know—I have been able to live quite placidly. If women could only be brought to the realization of the power of the mind we would have more healthy and happy members of our sex.” Miss Russell is not the only advocate of the faith cure in the theatrical profession. Many actresses 'go to greater lengths in their advocacy of the cuit than the prima donna. But it is news at this time that this beautiful woman, with everything that a female heart could desire at her disposal, should come out in advocacy of the theory of the superiority of the mind over matter. "PERSONAL MENTION. Judge J. M. Mannon of Ukiah is at the Lick. Doyle oi Santa,Cruz is at the Dr. C. W. Grand. R. J. Billou, a San Jose merchant, is at the Grand. C. 0. Downs, a miner of Sutter Creek, is at the Occldental. C. N. Garrard, an Arizona miner, is reg- istered at the Grand. Francisco Rohrmoser of Costa Rica Is registered at the Occidental. A. §. Goldereserder and son from Rus- sia are stopping at the Palace. A. M. Brown, a Grizzly Flats mining man, {8 registered at the Lick. W. H. McKenzle, a well-known banker in Fresno, is stopping at the Lick. R. W. Skinner, an extensive fruit packer at Marysville, is at the Grand. Captain M. F. Taylor, manager of an Occldental. M. P. Morgan and wife are stopping at the Grand. Mr. Morgan is a prominent mining man at Angels Camp. J. F. Lawless, auditor, and J, G. Wood- worth, traffic manager of the Oregon Navigation Company, are stopping at the Palace. Commander F. L. Drake, stationed at the Mare Island Navy-yard, is in town for a few days and Is registered at the Oceldental. Dr. A. E. Nichols, who has been FEast on a business and pleasure trip, is stop- ping at the Occidental on his way back | to Honolulu. A. J. Finlay, formerly of this city, but who has spent the last three years in| Manila, is,home on a visit and is staying at the Palace. John Flanagan, & millman from Men- docino, and L. D. Bendixen, a large Eu- reka shipbuilder, are in the city, making their headquarters at the Grand. Lady Petty and mald and Mrs. Lewder, all of England, have returned to the Oc- cidental after an absence of several days in the Yosemite. They wlill leave to-day for Portland. Willlam H. Read, an employe of the United States Government, who has been in the city for several days, with quarters at the Occidental, goes to Victoria to-day on the steamer Walla Walla. James M. King, secretary of the foreign board of missfons in the Methodist Epis- copal church, with headquarters at Phil- adelphia, Pa., is stopping at the Occiden- | tal with his family. They have come West on a pleasure trip. Rev. Dr. James M. King and family are stopping at the Occldental. Dr. King is secretary of the Church Extension So- clety of the Methodist Episcopal chusch. He has been attending the conference at Pacific Grove. He will attend a similar gathering in Nebraska the coming week. Dr. King was for many years one of the foremost orators and divines in New York City. He champloned a number of reform measures while there, among them being a law to wipe qut the gambling dens. (Dr. King is author of “Facing the Twentieth Century.” —_—— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 18.—Mrs. G. C. Girdley of San Francisco is at the Arlington. J. W. Kiler of San Jose and J. A. Bull of 8an Francleco are at the Raleigh. A. Murgotten and wife of San Jose are at the St. James. C. L. Batchel- lor and W. Hale of Los Angeles are at the Metropolitan. PROFESSOR STEPHENS AND HIS LECTURE The Call does not hold itself res the opinions nnblu;wd in this ggl..“.m’. b’fi presents them for whatever value they may ave as communications of general interest. To the Editoy Professor Henry M. Stephens of Cornell University, in his lec- ture at the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation, gave us the history of the English Asiatic dependencics as it is presented to the English youths at Oxford and Cam- bridge universities and as it is specially prepared for those whose fathers have stolen themselves rich from British India or whose fathers have enjoyed fat gov- | extensive ranch at San Stmeon, is at the | | addition to these. { with flame-lit windows shadowed by ART AND ARTISTS. HE San Francisco Art Association annoufices “an exhibition and salc of the paintings of the late Ray- mond D. Yelland at the Mark Hop- kins Institute of Art. to begin on Thursday, September 20.” There will also be a “private view and reception, with musdte, for members only,” on Wednes- day evening. A large collection of the late artist's pictures have been gathered together, numbering in all nearly 300, and no fewer than fifty of her favorite subjects have been retained by Mrs. R. D. Yelland in The work extends over a perfod of several years, and the exhi- bitien is fully representative of the art- ist's different methods. and, to judge from the interest so far shown, the financial resuit of the exhibition should be most ?',“”y’"‘ to those in charge of the af- air. A ‘delightful moonlight effect of Charles Rollo Peters will soon make {ts appear- ance in_the gallery of Louis Sloss. = Mr. Peters is still painting in Monterey, and will shortly take his summer gleanings back to New York. A passing glimpse of the new Sloss pos- session reveals a deliclous symphony in moonlight, a red-roofed adobe cottage. a solitary pine, and over all the still, cool, limpid moonlight. The picture Is like a Stevenson sketch in paint, full of the romance and mystery of night, richly uggestive, and true with a truth taat uches almost to tears. It is eminentl ?ilmple in subject, composition and h: ng. 1% way of this. a fair art critic hear- ing mention of Mr. Peters’ name in the | gallery where for an accidental moment | Mr. Sloss' picture rested, inquired if there | i | child portrait, [ l were any of the famous moonlighter's subjects to be seen—she adored them, etc. On being directed to the gallery she flxed her critical gaze udmmnfly on a neigh- boring moonlight confection—all frills of froth on the wavelets and with swan- down clouds about a moon that never shone on sea or land—and said enthusias- tically, “I should know a Peters wherever I saw | In the same gallery is an ambitious life size, painted by _N. Moller, whose two portraits of John Per- ry Jr. are still to be seen there. His is a curious, careful, obvious method, entirely without subtlety, originality or distine- tion. As a likencss the portrait is proba- bly good, the model is certainly “pretty, but the child is posed about as wrongiy as thé most vivid imagination could con- ceive. The line of the curtains which form the background cuts clean through the child’s head, the arms hang stiffly by the sides and their line of continuation would carry them exactly parallel with two equally stifly posed black-stockinged limbs below. in another gallery are some fascinating etchings of Evert Van Muyden—“anima- lie as he styles himself. This young animal painter-etcher is rapidly aequir- ing fame in_his chosen line, and the two specimens of his work in question, a cou- ple of studies of the black panther, are fine examples of his quick, sensitive and spirited pencil. He has admirably caught the character of the fierce, agile and cow- ardly brute, its cruel strength and lithe beauty. Boardman Michael Robinson shows in the same gallery an_ Interesting study of the gardens of St. Cloud, near Paris. It is a good 9x.1mgle of the school at present so popular in France—the low toned, re- served, synthesized method; a little mor- bid perhaps, but with a deep and tender reach into the darkness after new and | elusive truths that art yet holds im her that he thinks it best to keep it to him- | self; i. e, the fact of the ownership of land in British India. Who stole and swindled the natives out of their land and made them unable to guard against fam- ine and pestilence, as in the days of the Rajahs? The professor should remember that he s in America and nct in England, that he is addressing a people whose fathers have not yet stolen the Malays' lands, and he is, therefore, allowed the privilege of stat- ing the whole truth regarding the history of the sad condition of that unhappy country and its people. | In Java and the other Dutch colonies no | white man is allowed to buy land from the native Malays or other native races. During the time of Napoleon, when these Dutch colonies re under English rule for elght or ten years in their land grabbing system, and all the land taken from the natives by white men was taken umder English rule, except some Government land which was the property of the Government since the ast India Company was established. In Java 25000000 people live in abundance, while only a quarter of the i than one-third that of California. It was well for these people that English rule and is pop- | ulated, and the size of Java is not more | body, for the world!" s, the English started | eves n“nd pull the trigzer! capricious hands. A CHANCE TO SMILE. INDEMNITIES. “You must remember that our country is enormously rich,” remarked the Chi- mandarin. s answered the Caucasian. “But somehow you don’t seem to e abte o buy much of anything wit all your money, except the privilege of being whipped every once in a while."—W: ington Star. HUNTING IN MAINE. Guh’is—N‘nw. then! Aim between his Cholly—Y—Yes! And what thes Guide—Why, then I'ii shoot hi; KEEPING iT QUIET. e me, John?" But don’t tell any (Pause of a few moments.) did_not last there or the English land | John?" grabbers would have owned or mortgaged every bit of good land on the 1slan3 and Do you really and truly love me, “To distraction, Katie!" “Well, don't tell anybody—but me!"— slavery and starvation would have been | Chicago Tribune. the result. A TLondon paper dated August ar:ws some history which the professor id not mention in his lecture, although 9. 1900, he mentioned the person who he says | me? invented the tax collector's business in India. giving these persons full credit for their intellectuality in the execution of their civilizing influences. The article re- ferred to says: “Taxes are still being diligently collected in the famine-stricken | district In India. Wearing apparel, beds, plows and small household stores of grain are seized. Tn one case a woman was compelled to undress in the presence of the collectors that they might see whether she had anything concealed on her per- son. Floors have heen dug up with the | | DIR: ING HIM. Beggar—My dear sir, won't you have no place o lay my hess Mr. Savidge—Oh, indeed! Well, there's a railroad track about three biocks fur- ther on.—Standard and Times. HAD NO RIGHT TO KICK. First Crook—Wot I says is, “Why should a pore man pay rites and taxes—wot does the country do for 'im, I'd like ter know " Second Crook—Well, don't you talk— they keeps you in board and lodging and free ‘alr cut six months a year, so you car'nt grumble!—Moonshine. game object, and nothing has been found. | an‘:en_.ntlfl tions at the oootho( the amine. en R B R {reu his own opinion cr he ques- ion whether England is right or wrong in her ecoloni: vernment—but will just give history and fact: on of the country who will have to race in its of this with the ly iRt l?r‘emé*h‘p n-fl on:y those facts which Tain et which Is ko’ aeq%a';mm:m Sick people have heen evieted, watchmen i g:\;‘ l\e:n placed at the village wells and | bl eople preventes 'rom taking water until |« ~ A o Pher Government dues were ¢ These | rarts ’;;‘,‘“fi“fl‘ifim Beat 10 . nete sufterers are of course just above the ab- | “¥es: the grand stand didn't break solute want line, which drives people on | 45un " Chicago News. to rellef works (3 cents a day). Tt is the ® . B tis! ehest that they be all - < —C ized.” T P. VAN BAGGEN. | o oo e Ex-Officlal of the Department of Mines and Mining of the South ‘African Re- | public at Pretoria. San Francisco, Cal.. Sept. 17, 1900. —_— e L2 ) FASHION HINT FROM PARIS. FOULARD“AND LACE DRESS. This dress is of lllac-ground l(‘:ul.lfd. The corsage is formed o(':mum“d chemisette, rather vague in form ed with mauve comet ribbon. g‘: skirt is trimmed round the bottom with a flounce of gathered lace. ———— HER SUSPICIONS AROUSED. “T wish you would regd this lfligl. he ‘What's it about?" she “It's about the dmger of anfl&wuwrmm y a pl y for a minute. e looked at him sha ‘‘What have you bee: now?" “What Kind of 2. confession sng ting n,” he you about to make?". e ™ “That's a_terrible n in the nursery, Mollie," id the mistress. ‘“What's the matter? Can't you keep the baby quiet “‘Shure, ma‘am,” replied Mollle, “T can't o keep him quiet unless I let him make a nofse.”"—St. Louls Globe-Democrat. HOW NATIONAL CREDIT MIGHT BE DISHONORED A short time 2go Colonel John 8. Mosby of this city wrote to the Secretary of the Treasury asking If, in his opinfon—and in the event Bryan was elected— it would be in his power to make use of standard sil- ver dollars in the payment of the Govern- ment’s obligation., Yestgrday he received the following letter in reply: ‘Treasury szplrtment, Office of the Sec- retary, Washington, Sept. 13, 1900, Mr. John 8. Mosby, San Francisco, Cal.— “8ir: _In reply to your letter of the 6th inst. T have to say that the Secretary has recently stated publicly that, in his opin- ion, a ident, unfriendly to the exist- ing standard of value, would have it in his power to seriously injure the business interests of the country by paying in standard silver dollars such obligations of the United States as are not specifically payable in gold. The amount of standard silver dollars avallable for this purpose at present iy comparatively small, but it is believed that upon indication of a pu on_the rt of the Government to disburse them rn'prelannce to gold the amount of pay- ments into the treasury in silver would be largely augmented, thus providing the Government with additional silver with waich to make further payments. It is also believed that in the event of such_action unfriendly to standard the interests of the country would be inju- riously affected, not only by the actual oc- currence, butyby apprehension as to the final results. Respectfully yours. F. A. 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