The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 25, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1900. SEPTEMBER 25, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. 4! Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. MANIGER'S OFFICE. .... L e PURLICATION OFFICE. .. Market and Third, §. F. Telephone Press 201. ROOMS.. . ..217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. EDITORIAL Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies. 5 Cents. 1. Including Fostage: ¥), one vear ¥), § months All postmasters e anthorized to receive ubseriptions. 1l be forwarded when requested ge of address should be AND OLD ADDRF in order compliance with their request OAKLAND OF 1118 Broadway KROGNESS, Marquette Building' Chicago. hone “'Cen GEORGE C. RRESPOND! C. €. CARLTON Herald Square AMUSEMENTS. Riue Jeans. Wite of Seville.” ednesday might, September 26. and FAddy streets—Specialties. er—Vaudeville every afternoon and Masc Sixteenth and Folsom streets. nights. at Fair, September 24 to October €. sz—Sunday, September 30. AUCTION SALES. Horses, at Market street, between at 11 o'clock, Horses, at Wednesday, September 26, at 11a m., ixth street. soxle- FOR THE BEST MEN. nation of candidates for State es the local campaign will enter The issues will then be pted and the tickets of the ated. There will remain noth- the people to pass judgment upon b es submitted to them, election day make known their choice. hase. propriate The Call should at the very outset of the cam . nnounced more than once since tk pport 2 bad man for an e the election of a crooked the election ce. There is but one in politics, and that is for for honest men. That is it is the rule we re. oi ¥ sel for all voters; Call announced that hon v, and gave due notice to all tha uption or dish “Republican.” out the nomi- 1 the Republican ticket The Call but if their Demo- t it n- ve brought )se men, men The Call will advocate ocrats tics, The Call will the chips fall where they m policies of the Republ 1 stands and of which it has to honesty ay. an t champion, are not to be ad r crooked po’ No intelligent Repub- aith in protection and sound nto believing he must vote for to believe the same thing; nor ican consent to vote under any 1an who in office would disgrace ans for the Leg- es ruption. m is concerned the fight against g the preservation oi prosper ernment, and every Republican and t hould support the Republ men and for Presidential terests of the county and the zood judges and honest legis- policy of voting for the best lone to jeopardize the success ni That ct e scrutinize both tickets be elected. must be JVZRNMENT CWNERSHIP. F RAL of Colonel Bryan's platforms de- \ sovernment ownership of production / he instruments of commerce. »dden eotton planters who a pound for their cotton, and the r en people who wear cotton because they pay } s told of oppression because or his bread, and the farmer be- ittle for his wheat, and the remedy ent action. public ownership, more and a fittener currency” in limited issue of greenbacks. He all prices are under trust con- e oppressed thereby, from the heir pillows to the salt sprinkled recent speeches, squirting at Govern- aid: “We should not be afraid nything that is good in the policy of other of course not; quite otherwise. Now, take the article of salt and its price as an ex- Germany owns all the salt mines, as Bryaa ts the Government here to own all the mines. Consul Warner., at Leiprig, in his official report July 21 v. fixed by the Government, was $2 07 per 120 The Government attributes an advance from ks to 870 marks to increase in the wages of la- ment ownership, he ations.” his country the salt product is handled by cor- orations, and there said to be a salt trust. But salt sells in Chicago. in barrely at 35 cents per hun- | Ared, against $1.725 per 100 pounds at the Government nines in, Germany. Germany pays $1.375 per 100 pounds more for Government salt than Americans pay “r corporation salt. and the labor which produces rporation s2it here is paid nearly three times ag that which produces Government salt in Ger: 1any VYes, great thing, Government ownership; thing, Bryanism; great man, Bryan! great Telephone Press 204 1000, says that the price of salt in Ger- | BRYAN AND JEFFERSON. OLONEL BRYAN, as a protean artist, is at the C footlights, in the fierce glare of publicity, pre- } senting himself alternately in imitations of Jef- | ferson, Jackson and Lincoln. “Imitations,” did we say? No. He professes alternate reincarnations of | those worthies. In his speech at Columbus he announced a fine and | natural materialization of Jefferson, with the fiddle which that statesman played with skill and effect. He cited the Porto Rican measure as evidence of imperialism, and, posing like Ajax, cried out: “That | | bill cannot exist except upon an imperialistic theory | of government. 1 challenge you to find in all the his- tory of the world a power exercised by a tyrant or | despot more arbitrary than the power asserted by the Porto Rican bill.” This was hailed with “great applause.” That is | right. Nothing brings greater applause than smashing the jaw of the tyrant and despot with a figure of | speech. Nor was it the first time that denunciation of | the theory of the Porto Rican bill had been greeted by great applause. With a single exception that bill | is almost an exact copy of the Leuisiana bill adopted during Jefferfon’s administration for that territory | newly acquired from France. For nearly a year Jeffer- | son governed Louisiana as commander and chief of | the army and navy. His government was purely execu- | tive, using the army as its instrument. Then Con- | gress took up the problem and passed the original | of the Porto Rico bill. When it was put in operation | the people of Louisiana sent a memorial to Congress | in which they said: “Shall we be called on to show that this government is inconsistent with every prin- ciple of civil liberty? Is it necessary for us to demon- strate that this act does not incorporate us in the Union, that it vests us with none of the rights, gives us no advantages and deprives us of the immunities of American citizens? This Governor is vested with all executive and almost unlimited legislative “power. The council operates as a cloak to conceal the extent and to give us a faint resemblance of ssembl of his authori ™ representative This memorial was strongly backed by the enemies of Jefferson. He was accused of inoculation with the imperial views of Burr, who, following the lines of General Wilkinson's report on the Mississippi region, indulged in certain movements which indicated his purpose to found an empire in that region and caused | his trial for treason. That Louisiana memorial was referred to a commit- | tee of Congress, which reported, through John Ran- dolph of Roanoke, that: “The grievances complained of by the memorialists are of a nature inseparable from those sudden transitions to which late political events have subjected the people of Louisiana.” For seven years Louisiana continued to be gov- erned by that law denounced as subversive of popular rights and imperialistic in its purpose. It goes with- out saying that if at any time during that period the | best interests and the permanent welfare of the Union had been proven to require the alienation of Louisi- ! ana, that territory could have been relinquished, cut | loose and consigned to destiny independent of that of the rest of the continent Jefferson never pretended that the constitution fol- | lowed the flag into the Louisianas. After the terri- novitiate, under the law denounced as tyran- and despotic, Louisiana was brought wholly un- der the constitution and its immunities and privileges extended to her people. The Philippines are in the same position as was Louisiana, although Colonel Bryan contends that they are wholly under the constitution. They are held | where the American people can take tests of the de- ‘ sirability of retaining them. The treaty of Paris puts them in that position, and owes .its ratification to the lobbying done by Colonel Bryan. It is not unlikely that the future decision of the people will be against their permanent retention, but that decision will be reached in deliberation and not in hysterics. It will be reached not because of Bryan's yelping about-im- perialism and bearing false witness against his coun- try. Tt will be reached when the lobbyist for the pur- chase of the islands cannot be made President by de- rouncing that purchase. It will be reached regard- less of his spumy ambition, his smart Aleckism, his | demagogy and hypocrisy. It will be reached after his | show is off the circuit and the protean artist of | American politics has dropped to his proper place of orator at county fairs and the choice of committees to present the church fair ring cake to the hand- somest young lady, to whom it has been voted at 10 cents a ballot. Colonel Bryan is ignorant of history, is ignorant of past analogies to the public issues which he now dis- cusses, and is lacking in profound knowledge of any- thing except the arts of the demagogue and agitator. In these he is past master. It is a fact that the conscientious anti-expansionists deplore his voluble and voluntary advocacy of their cause. They feel his presence as that of a parasite and have resented it by the nomination of Senato: Caffery. | Every President he quotes and professes to imitate, 1 Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln, was denounced as an imperialist by just such fellows as he. When Jackson pursued hostile Seminoles into Florida and found them protected by the Spanish Governor, to whom he gave a powdery and peppery piece of his mind, he laid the foundation for charges of imperialism which gathered further material from his course in the Presidency. and his enemies car- tooned him as “King Andrew the First” and pursued him with lampoons and the “coffin handbills.” It is history in Southern Illinois that Bryan's father used the same language toward Lincoln that the son now employs against McKinley, and General John C. Black is authority for the statement that after the close of the war the ¢lder Bryan made speeches as- serting offensively the constitutional right of secession and disunion. The Colonel came by his gift of accu-. | sation by inheritance, and it is perfectly natural that his theory of the Philippine question requires a dis- solution of the Union to reduce it to practice. But for sheer decency’s sake he should not parads Tefferson, Jackson and Lincoln as his ineffable back- 1f they were again in the flesh and heard the in the same language, employed ers same charges against President McKinley that were used against dignity them. in spite of their “Chestnut they would cry The proposition of school teachers <o to amend the charter as to provide for a non-salaried Board of FEducation probably had its inspiration in the offen- | sive activity of the present board in degrading in- structors to the unassigned list without pay. —_— Local poolsellers are congratulating themselves on another “victory.” Tt is one of those triumphs, how- ever, which reveals how thorough has been their | defeat in their. efforts to corrupt the youth of the city. 2 The !ady who objected to singing “God Save the Queen” for breakfast, luncheon and dinner on ship beard possibly was ccncerned, as the weather was | nouncing trusts and specifically condemning the Lrough, in making other gaauests during meals TO DEFEAT BELSHAW. ERRIN of the Southern Pacific has not yet H abandoned his fight against C. M. Belshaw. The failure of his efforts to prevent Mr. Bel- shaw’s nomination for the Senate by the Republicans of the Eleventh District has had no other effect tl.um that of making him change the field of his opera- tions from the Republican to the Democratic camp. Mr. Herrin and his gang are no longer Republicans in that district. They have become Bryanites for the time being, and have induced J. H. Wilkins of Marin County, a popular Democrat, to assist them to defeat Mr. Belshaw before the people. 5 It can hardly be necessary to remind the voters of the Eleventh Senatorial District of the causes which have led Herrin and the railroad bosses generally to make so persistent and so earnest'a fight against Bel- shaw. It is well known that when the railroad under- took to send to the United States Senate a notoriously corrupt boss, who in the Senate would have dishon- ored the State and the office and served only the rail- road, Mr. Belshaw was one of the most faithful and efficient supporters of the cause of the people, the honor of the State. and the credit of the Republican party. Herrin could not control Belshaw's vote either by coaxing, by threats or by promises of rail- road favor. Thereupon the name of Mr. Belshaw was | placed upon the political blacklist of the Southern Pacific Company and orders were given to fight him at every opportunity. While Mr. Belshaw was a candidate for the Repub- | lican nomination in the Eleventh District the railroad | bosses resorted to every sort of tactics, foul or fair, to beat him. At that time Herrin posed as a Repub- lican doing Republican politics. He was urgent in counseling this man or that man to get in and beat Belshaw. His efforts were in vain. The Republicans of the district stood firmly by the man who in office stood firmly by them. The bosses were beaten, and now we have the spectacle of those same bosses turn- ing up in the Democratic camp and doing politics there just as if they had made no pretense of being Republicans, The open audacity with which the Southern Pacific bosses have transferred their activities from the Re- publican to the Democratic camp is another proof that the railroad cares nothing about politics in the higher | sense of the word and has no regard for parties fur- ther than it can make use of them to promote the election of men who in office will serve the railroad and do what the bosses tell them. In the present instance Herrin is well aware that he cannot defeat Belshaw without the aid of a popular candidate, and for that reason he has turned to Mr. Wilkins. "Such is the situation that confronts the voters of the district. Personally and in his private vsiness Wilkins is a good man, but he has entered this contest as a representative of the railroad chosen to defeat a man whom the railroad could not and can- not control. Wilkins’ nomination by the Democrats was urged by Herrin, and Wilkins has been promised the support of the railrcad bosses. It is not likely that support was given without a pledge, either express or implied, of reciprocity on the part of the candidate. [f Herrin serve Wilkins in the campaign, he will expect Wilkins to return the favor should he be elected. The friends of Mr. Wilkins will be surprised to see | him act the part of a railroad tool in such a %cheme, and it is to be regretted that he has done so. In any event the people have a safe recourse against the ma- chinations of Herrin. They have only to vote for Mr. Belshaw to assure themselves and the State of the service of a Senator whom the railroad can neither control nor defeat. s e @ CASE OF CLOTTED GALL, F all the exhibitions of gall ever made by poli- O ticians of this or any other country that of tha Democratic State Convention at Saratoga was the worst. The convention was dominated by Croker. The Tammany boss ruled it openly. There was no secret about the domination, for it was mani- fested brutally and boastfully at every step, from the selection of chairman to the nomination for Gov- ernor, and yet the convention adopted a platform de- ce trust,” of which Croker is one of the chief organizers, and among those stockholders are Mayor Van Wyck and several other Tammany officials. The trust plank in the platform reads thus: “We condemn the corporate combination known as the ‘ice trust’ and denounce all combinations of capital known as ‘trusts’ as inevitably and intolerably unjust to both producer and consumer. By substituting for the natural laws of commerce the arbitrary dictates of selfish greed prices are reduced to the producer and increased to the consumer to the extreme limit, to provide enormous dividends upon fictitious capital values. To accentuate the evil the policy of trusts, in restricting production, deprives thousands, who under legitimate conditions would be profitably employed, of all epportunity to earn a livelihood in the calling or occupation to which they have been trained. The direct effect of these immense combinations of capital in control of every industry is to destroy all individual cnterprise, and to rob the young men of the country of the free field and fair competition which in demo- cratic times constituted the great glory of the nation and permitted the aivancement and independence of our youth ‘without any favoritism and without any other requisite aids than merit, honesty and industry.” Now if you were a resident of New York and had been cinched by the ice trust into paying an extor- tionate price for what is a necessity of life in that sweltering city; and if in your fight against the trust there had been reveaied the fact that Tammany offi- cials controlled it and manipulated it for their profit; and if those very officials should at the next election denounce themselves and ask you to vote for them— wouldn’t it jar you? Wouldn't it make you mad? That is the bluff Tammany has put up in New York. Ttis against that the voters have to go. When it comes to gall, the devil himself can hardly beat Dick Croker. Massachusetts is not noted for her forests, but afte- all she appears to have woods to burn, for a recent forest fire in the State is said to have swept over sixty square miles, being checked only by the oppor- tune coming of a heavy rain. Evidently there are more lands than California'where a forest is regarded as a gift of God and its destruction as something providential that should not be guarded against any more than a law of nature. A writer who claims to have gone through the rec- ords says that in Chicago there were last year heard before the courts 711 cases of fights between hus- bands and wives and that broomsticks were used by the wives twice as often as any other weapon, so the old joke about the broomstick has a statistical basis, Bryan, it is said, is now dodging the issues of the national campaign. It is safe to say that he will not be asked to display any particular agility in dodging | votes on election day, VETERAN OMAHA DEMOCRAT STRONGLY OPPOSES BRYAN & ! } Calls Him a “Contin Says Democracy'’s ! UCLID MARTIN, a leader of the| Democratic party in Omaha, Post-| master during the last term of Pres- ident Cleveland and for years chalr- man of the Democratic State Com- mittee, is stronger in his opposition to Mr. Bryan's candidacy this year than he was in 1896. Four years ago Mr. Martin denied his support to Bryan because he could not assent to the financial legislation prom- ised by the Chicago platform: this year he finds the same objection to the Kansas City platform, and in addition observes other reasons for making the defeat of the Democratic candidate desirable. Mr. Mar- tin sends the following: Editor San Francisco Call—In the pres- ent political situation I am’ unable to dis- cover any good reason why a Democrat favoring a stable currency who refused to | support Bryan in 1896 should support him now. His prophecies and predictions as a | candidate in 189 are unfulfilled, and the disasters which he announced as sure to follow the alqcmlaln of Mr. McKinley have failed to materialize. The platform of 1900, it seems to me, is | in no wise better than that of 1596, and in | some instances it is worse. I regard the | continued agitation of the i6 to 1 fallacy ‘as detrimental to the best interests of the country, and the attempt to make an is-| sue out of imperialism is entirely abortive. | While maintaining a high appreciation | of the personal qualifications of the fusion | candidates, 1 am constrained to say thnt“ I belleve a Presidential candidate should | be a man of loftier purposes and pursuits | than a continuous politician interested in ent. Very truly yours, his own advancem ey T P B R e £ : 2 | uous Pol’i't.ician" and Platform Is Bad. 3 ¥ + | | ; | o+ NEBRASKA DEMOCRAT WHO DESERTS THE STANDARD OF BRYAN. | ! | 30s + ‘Omaha, Neb., Sept. 16, 1900. PERSONAL MENTION. Charles W. Otis of Washington is at the Palace. . Dr. L. P. Tooley of Willows is at the Palace. | Dr. W. H. Davis of Detroit is at the Oc- cidental. E Dr. Martin Schnabel of Nome is at the California. | E. O. Miller, merchant at Visalia, is at | the Palace. R. C. Sargent, a Monterey lawyer, is at the Occidental. | Dr. W. H. Cope of Pleasanton is regis- | tered at the Palace. | Frea L. King, a large Denver miner, is stopping at the Grand. Willard H. Stimpson, a Los Angeles cap- italist, is at the Palace. J. F. Coonan, a well-known Eureka at- | torney, is at the Grand. | Judge Henry L. Benson of Kiamath Falls, Or., is at the Grand. | S. Rummelsburg, a Keswick merchant, | is registered at the Grand. | William Palmtag, a large merchant at | Hollister, i{s at the California. J. P. Watkins, a big land owner at Lodi, | is registered at the Occldental. | | W. R. Blough, a prominent merchant of Harrisburg, Pa., is at the Palace. | J. W. Henderson, a prominent Bureka | banker, is staying at the Palace, | G. E. Kennedy, iron manufacturer “: | | Livermore, is staying at the Grand. J. G. Scott of Agnews. trustee of the James Lick estate, is at the California. J. C. Dresher, an insurance man from Sacramento, is registered at the Califor- 1 nia. James O'Brien, a big miner at Smarts- ville, is staying at the Russ for a few aa R. W. Adams and R. H. Lacey, mer-! chants of Los Angeles, are registered at | | the Palace. W. J. Barrett of Los Angeles, Republi- ecan Presidential Elector, s stopping at the Palace. Charles L. Tutt of Colorado Springs is here on a pleasure trip and Is staying at the Palace. ‘ | James MacMullen, managing editor nr; | | | the San Diego Union, is spending a few days in this city. John A. McIntire of Sacramento, a prominent mining man, is staying at the | Grand for a few days. Hiram C. Hinds, one of the well-known journalists of Butte County, being editor | | of the Biggs Notes, is In San Francisco. Judge W. B. Gilbert of the United States Circuit Court at Portland, is in the city | for a few days and iIs stopping at the Oc- cidental. N. 8. Mullan, clerk in the Van Nuys Hotel at Los Angeles, accompanied by his wife, is enjoying a pleasure trip through | this part of the State. They are at the | Palace. ‘W. G. Barnwell, assistant general freight agent of the Southern California Com- | pany, has had his jurisdiction extended | over all the Santa Fe lines west of Albu- querque. | Scott A. McKeown of Chambersburg, | Pa., who married Miss Dorothy Stude- baker and who came into prominence by throwing away $20 gold pieces on the eve | of his wedding, arrived in the city last | evening with his wife. They have taken apartments at the Palace. | Will L. Visscher, sometimgs called “the | sweet singer of the sunny South,” passed | through this city yesterday on his way | to Seattle to stump the State of Washng- | ton for McKinley and Roosevelt. Mr, ' Visscher was connected with the press of | this city twenty odd years ago. He has | | achleved a reputation in the East with his pen, —_———— CALTFORNTANS IN NEW YORK. e | NEW YORK, Sept. 24—W. J. Whitmler | of San Jose is at the Netherland. Theo- | dore Price of California is at the Empire. LAW NEEDS MENDING. Fresno Republican. The acquittal of Fred Himes, the boy murderer, calls attentlon to a defect in | the law that should be remedied. Here is a boy guilty beyond doubt of the gravest crime known to the law, who goes scot free because there is no legal provision to meet his case. If he had been a petty | thief, brawler, merely an incorrigible youth who gave promise of growing up to be a worthless man, he would have | been convicted at once and sent to spend | his minority where society would be safe | from him and he would have an oppor- tunity to reform, if reform is in him. If ga had been even an ordinary murderer e would have been sent to the peniten- tiary or the reform school dur?e :1':- s e minority. But because his crime most heinous of all, the only form ot murder in which there is no second degree, he goes free. “rhere was nothing else to do, of course. To hi S0 young a boy or im- prison him for life is out of the question, and since the law provides it is not the busi one by subterfuge. XX oen g mentally wel weak t he 4 g : -4 H Ea Ed 2 g ° 3 ! I -4 roblem of building a life on so | unpromll"nl a beginning. Yfl- not safe to e ol "eoém}f&:" ‘with, hndxug:t. 5 i rovided the irderer 3 d [ ot Tight that our lawa should be tata. ly inadequate to meet such emergencies 1 | gives pure | brush off the dust of conflict | working under | City. ' row A CHANCE TO SMILE. He looked about the seven-by-nine bed. | room of that palatial seaside hotel and scowled. ““No water,” he sald. Then he added: “I will ring for some.” But there was nothing to ring. “I am indeed baffled,” he growled; “there no water, I cannot even wring a towel!” So he walked down nmine flights of stalrs and took a dip in the garbage flavored surf.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. 4 “Has he backing in his candidacy?” “Oh, yes, the Patriotic Order of Shoot- ers of the First Shot in the Spanish War are behind him, and they are very strong, numerically, you know."—Detroit Jour- nal. “The difference hetween the cow and the milkman,” said the gentleman with a rare memory for jests, “is that the cow milk." “There is another difference,” retorted the milkman; “the cow doesn’t give cred- it.”—Indianapolis Press. “Oh!” exclaimed the little city girl, “look at the mamma cow and the lttle baby cow.” “That =aid her big country cousin, “happens to be a baby bull.” “Oh, yes. pup, isn't it?" “1rn man_who had been licked. Philadelphia Pre: said the he tried to sue vou for damag “Oh,” responded the victor, “if you are not damaged enocugh I can save you the trouble of going to law to get more,” and he made at him again.—Detroit Free | Press. ‘ Mrs. Seribbles—I suppo: my husband is a profess Mr. Dibbles—Oh, yes. his jokes. Mrs. Scribbles—He never laughs at any of them himself. Isn’t that strange? Mr. Dibbles—No, I can't say that it Is.— Chicago News. vou know that nal humorist. I've read some of Johnny White—Did yer ole man make a holler when he found that you had been | smoking his-cigars? illy Black—You bet he did. | What did he say “Didn’t have to nothin’. He got the | holler out o' me.”—Denver News. | —_————— | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. VIENNA OPERA-HOUSE—-G. M. L., City. The seating capacity of the new opera-house in Vienna Is 233. The stage capaghty is 250. | NO RELATION—A. B. C., City. If two | men, not related, marry two sisters, the | men are not in any way related to each other by marriage. DENTAL COLLEGES—G., Occidental, | Cal. The dental colleges in San Francisco | charter of the State of | California are the college of the Univer- sity of California and the Dental College of the Affiliated College of Physicians and | Surgeons. S aes THE OPERA AT CATRO—Contralto, An examination of several flles of newspapers and literature of the time fails | to give the cast of those who produced the opera given in Cairo, Egypt, on the occagion of the celebration of the opening November 17 1869. of the Suez canal APPRENTICE—E. M. B., City. A boy may apprentice himself during the period of his minority with the consent of his garems. The one who would take in a oy as an apprentice would be entitled to his services during the period of minority. the apprenticeship being in the nature of a contract. AUTOMOBILE—TIsabelle. West Point, Cal. The first attempt to develop a self- | moving steam carrlage was by Trevithick and Vivian, in France in 181. The first | automobile by electricity (storage battery) | was by M. Jeantaud, in Paris. France, in 1895. He had been working to attain sueh | a restilt since 1877. GRAPE JUICE-W. H. P., Undine, Cal. | The following is given as a method of making unfermented grape juice, but this ' department does not know anything of jts merits: ‘““Place the grapes in a clean bowl. Express the juice by squeezing the grapes with the hands. taking care not to | crush the seeds. Strain the juice at onee | then bottle without delay, seal tightly and | klodop' in & cool place, bottles laid on the | side.” VALKYRIE-C. M. L., City. Like its more famillar German equivalent Val- kuere, Valkyrie is but an adaptation of the Teelandic Valyrja: the ‘‘chooser of the slain,” a compound of valr, a slain (In _composition Val, as in Val-holl, the hall of the slain, or as we have it, halla), and of kyr, part of the verb kjosa— to choose—the same word as the German klosen, the Anglo-Saxon ceosan and Eng- lish choose. e name was applied fn Norse mythology to one of the virgin at- tendants of Odin. whose duty it was to garry to Valhalla thar heroes slain in BLACKBOARD SI.ATIN? — Isabelle, West Point, Cal. There are two kinds of imitations of slate for blackboards. One consists of pulverized slate or quartz rock moistened to the consistency of a thick fluid with silicate of soda (water glass of commerce) and applled to the boards means of a brush, or merely paints, suc) as asphaltum or grahamite, dissolved in troleum naphtha. If the latter, petro- “eur:xd naphma wfllnrflkuile ether to a quid consistency after it has Would be less troublesome and expensive | to obtain a new can. RED, WHITE AND BLUE—F. F. W. City. In using ordinary buntine for dec- oration purposes in the United States the decorators should follow the colors of the | American flag—red, whit i ontop: but \f bunitng or mucit Sk o or more of white stars I H is used, the blue should lgr; l.:‘) (t'fl; !:37‘::.‘ for that takes the place of the flag and the stars are always on top. d| that the American sotors oy 'l'he.re'fl;‘u': That's what you call a bull | | ape ana prehistoric Wal- | ‘UP-TO-DATE EDITORIAL | UTTERANCE Views of the Press . on Topics of the | Times. R TEuK ‘ ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC - American people that the . | party is contending when tlement of the Philippine que | consistent American lin | CHICAGO: INTER-OCEAN—The | powers must now exact such terms | make the life of the Chinese Chr | safe as that of a Buddhist, a Cor | or a Mohammedan. ST. LOUIS STAR—A failure of t | ginia peanut crop is announced ginia is certain of Bryan's elect | believes that bis elev to | dency will reetify all the shortcom | nature, a little thing like the pear w» should make no difference in her present | outlook. | INDIANAPOLIS NEWSTt seems to v | that it is very significant that Mr. Bry ’:m'.fl glorious Don Quixote campaign against “imperialism” has already d erated into a wail provoked by | miseries of the strongest, ha | most prosperous people on the fac globe, | _DENVER NEWS-—If the general public | shared in the benefits of the reduced cost | of production, some show of defense might be entertained for these combines— | but it does not. If the reduced cost were divided among labor by an Increase of | wages, and the consumer by a reduction of price, the trust retaining a fair share for its increased responsibili eriti- cism would be ma sombines. But nothing of the kind is the resuit. The trust proposes to pocket all the benefits and more. PHILADELPHTA TELEGRAPH-It is | fairly impossible to belleve that any of | these ministers of the of Love would be willing to go on rec as’ particepes criminis in the horrible out- s which have branded the allied cam- | palgn In China as one of the most Infay mous in the whole history of warfare. | CHICAGO TRIBUNE—The British peo- ple are better off than we are in one re- spect. With their rapid election processes the whole fabric of business life is not torn up month after month, nor do they expect these unsettled conditions every four years. The machinery of business with them goes on undisturbed. They ar: not troubled with huge national conven- tions, entailing great expense, with speeches o ce and letters of ac- ceptance, ally floods of cam- paign oratory, ext in over four months, which' may not change a vote. CHICAGO INTER OCEAN—Cash re- turns from our immense importations rep- resent only a fractional part of the receipts. Our exports, in the main, are nged for imp Since Wiillam MeKinl became <ident the balance has been steadily growing in our favor. The exchange of commodities under the reciprocai provision of the Republican tar iff system has increased marvelously. PITTSBURG CHRONICLE TELE- GRAPH—This unequivocal announcement* of the position of Mr. Bryan and his party a danger signal that should be heeded oy all believers in 100-cent dollars. The way to prevent depreciation he e | rency is to defeat the Demoecratic candi- | date for President. | PROOKLYN EAGLE—Mr. Bryan hini- self rebuked one of the hyste in the Chicago Conventi ¢ aid something about the ¢ lution and the massaeri ‘;ru < of the poor by an Rcbesplerre, by declaring to the excit delegate: y friend, in this land of th ree you need fear no tyrant who will spring up from among ths peoplk FOR CALL READERS. American The “missing link” has again been found, this time in Java, where Dr. Du- bois has unearthed certain fossil remains ch an interesting character that Pro- celebrated German r Haeckel, the biologist, has determir self and Investigate. of opinfon that ik species intermediate between the highest man. Last spring some person or persons un- known stole from Mrs. Lewis P. Roe of Bath, L. L, a number of preserving jars | Mrs."Roe said nothing about it at the time, but a few days ago her husband posted a notice in front of his residence saying that as the preserving season was now at hand his wife wanted those jars returned immediately or he would call the gullty parties. Gullty conscier. seem to be plentiful thereabouts, for next morning there were jars enough in the vard to fill a freight car—many times as many as had been stolen. Willlam H. Utter and Jeffrey W. Utter, brothers, own adjoining farms at Amity (?ngr‘ County, N. Y. Willlam's fad i péaches, while Jeffrey goes in for be Willlam' alleges that his hrother's bees in seeking material for honey have tured and so destroved his finest peaches He therefore or §100 damages. Jef- frey’s defens: that even if the peaches were injured by bees it cannot be that his bees are at fault. Good lawyers have been revained, and as both brothers | are wealthy, there is prospect of a stub- born fight. The Osage Indians have just been cele- brating a wedding in_hizh life—that of Tall Elk, a chief worth $0,000 In his_own right and heir to much more, and Marv Red Eagle, daughter of a wealthy chier. The fathers of the bride and groom have long been enemies and both were bitterly opposed to the wedding. especially ths squaw's father. wheose fortune is sald to be about $2,000,000. ——————— | GALVESTON TORNADO’S VERY QUEER FREAKS A huge tank fillad with cotton-seed ofl was blown from its foundation and car- ried a distance of six blocks. A man was carried out to sea on the roof of his house and swirled back again, landing near where his home stood An 8-year-old boy, floating on a raft, picked up a box containing two children. who later proved to be his sisters Galveston Bay must have beén the vor- tex of the gale. Its rotary motion drove sh_:&plng ashore in opposite directions. e body of a young man was f lodged in the forks of a tree two mile from his wrecked home, with clasped in his right hand. Two women in a wooden bathtub were swept out into the gulf by the receding waves and were rescued alive after twelve hours in the raging sea. | _A boy of 12 years, one of a family of | five, clung to a trunk when the flood came ahd was carried across the bay, a dis- tance of twenty-two miles. A man and wife sought safety in three | successive houses, each of which was de- molished. They eventually saved them- selves by climbing on a floating_door. Only one steamer in Galveston Bay suc- cesztully rode the storm and remained in its element. The others are on the main- land, one of them six miles inland from the bay. One hundred and elghty persons, all the inhabitants of Bolivar Point. saved them. selves by crowding into the lighthouse. Bolivar Point Is across the harbor en- trance from Galveston. 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