The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 22, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY DECEDER 22, 1900. Che +Solee Call. DECEMBER 22, 1909 SATURDAY.......... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. “Mdiress All Osmmosiestions te W. 8. LEAKE, Memager. MANAGER'S OFFICE........Telephone Press 204 FUBLICATION OFFICE. ..Market and Third, S. F. Telep! e Press 201. ..217 to 221 Stevemsom St. e Press 202. Deltvered by Carriers, 15 Cei Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year DAILY CALL (including Sunday), § months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. DATLY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL. One Year..... WEEKLY CALL, One Year.. All postmasters are autho: scriptions. Bample copies will be forwarded when requested. ! subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. EDITORIAL ROOMS Telep rized te receive My OAKLAND OFFICE .1118 Bromdway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Masager Poreign Atvertising. Marguette Building. Ohlsage. Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2615.") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: CARLTON. ... v-..Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: c. ¢ Grand Opers-house—""A Tale of Two Citles." Alcazer— Madame Butterfly.” he Duke's Jester.” Olympla, corner Mason and Bddy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and ning Fischer s—Vaudeville AUCTION SALES. By Bewart € Spear & Co—This day, at 11 o'clock & m., &t 21-33 Sutter street, »okS. Watkine—This day, at 11 o'elock, Horses, at Twelfth sor strets. [ and Harrh @PPORTIONMENT BILLS. ROM the House Committee on the Census [::therc have been reported three apportionment bills fixing membership of the House for the next decade. The majority reports in favor of the Hopkins bill, placing the number of Representatives &t 33 A minority of six members supports a bill drawn by Burleigh of Maine, fixing the number at 386, and Mr. Crumpacker of Indiana, in addition to signing the minority report, presents a bill of his own designed to reduce representation from several of the Southern States in proportion to the extent to which they have restricted suffrage. The question of representation from the States whers the negro vote has been restricted affords opportu- ity for prolonged debate, but it is doubtful if it will Ther: much work to be done at this session, time in fighting for a measure which, if carried through the House, would probably be deicated in the Senate by the exercise of dilatory tactics until the term of this Congress expires. Moreover, the question of the of the restriction acts in several of ates is yet to be passed upon by the is believed it would be bet- leave the issue alone until the Supreme Court, and ter for Congress to court has spoken. There is an excellent precedent for speedy action on bill. It was established by the -second Congress in dealing with the question after the census of 18g0. In that case the report of the p lation was submitted to Congress immediately upon its meeting, and early in the session an appor- bill was reported. The debate upon it lasted The bill was passed by the House 17. The intepsention of the holiday recess prevented immediate action by the Senate, but ] ¢ 20 it was adopted by that body. The President approved and signed the bill on February e time was thus given to State Legislatures ter to redistrict their States. yuld be gratifying to have an equally prompt ac- s winter. The country is hardly ready yet to deal definitely with the Southern problem. Moreover, when that problem is ripe for solution it should be t a long session, when ample time will be ichate, and when the success of other great not be imperiled by it. Daring this session the country expects of Congress a Nicaragua canal bill, a2 merchant marine bill, a Pacific cable bill, an army bill, a revision of the war revenue bill, a postal reform bill and an immigration restriction bill, in addition to the bills providing for the current ex- penditures of the Government. It would be an un- y. therefore, to precipitate at this juncture the apportionment on December mp tion mea wise polic the prolonged fight Which a strong effort to pass the Crumpacker bill would certainly entail. B every Christmas season, it is doubtful if ever before there was greater activity in the holiday tiade than that which has enlivened the streets and gladdened tradesmen during the past week. To-day, whether the weather be fair or stormy, there will be something of a culmination of what might be called the annual shopping festival. True, there will be much business and brisk business on Monday, but that will be done by the belated ones—by those who have not been wise enough to shop early, and therefore it wili be carried on with a rush and a scramble_and will not measure up to what will take place wvd-xy, This mighty impulse of trade is an evidence of something more than Christmas jollity. It is due largely to the events of the past and to expectations of the future. Humanity lives not in the present only. It looks before and after. Our people have had a vear of prosperity, and in the year to come perceive prospects of golden harvests. All these things com- bine to augment the merry liberality of the season, and we shall have a Christmas that will sum up in iteeli the good of the past and the glow of the future in one great week of joy. THE HOLIDAY TRADE. USY, bright and gay as is San Francisco at We speak of it as 3 week, for after Christmas the | preparations for welcoming the new century will be- gin, and these will be on a scale not less splendid and gay than those made for Christmas itself. " We are not to have the grand carnivals and festivals devised in some cities to welcome the century, but we will have 2 great celebration none the less. In this connection we may once more.remind those who can do their shopping in the day that they should by all means leave the evenings to the workers. To- iay and to-night and on Monday the stores will b crowded. but there is no reason why all should not be able to get through the crowds without loss of temper. Let each one as far as possible make room for another. THE LAW AND THE LADY. HE prevalence of divorce in this country has been much discussed. Regarded by some as a symptom of abnormal social conditions, it has |been held to foretell the ruin of the social fabric. The laws of many States have at times been so framed as to facilitate divorce. For a long time Connecticut had an evil fame in that respect. The laws of that State increased the grounds upon which separation could be obtained, and also lowered the residence qualification for a standing in court to invite parties from other States to make it the Mecca of couples suffering from marital infelicity. % In that time was written the punning epigram: For cutting all connections famed, Connect-I-cut is fitly named. More recently South Dakota has offered the most liberal terms and has secured the trade of large num- | bers of mismated couples, upon whom the bonds of | matrimony were too heavy to be borne. California is not specially liberal in that direction, and our laws have not been framed willfully to make divorce easy, but still much of the time of our courts is taken up with the infelicities that have followed the last quarter of the honeymoon. Perhaps the apparently undue prevalence of divorce | here has been due to our former contract marriage law, which made matrimony as easy as a summer stroll. Happily, that law is repealed. Not only social cus- tom and propriety, but the rights of third parties, re- quire that marriage shail be a public contract, not ilv entered into in the presence of a great necessaril; " cloud of witnesses, but made the subject of public rec- ord, through the issue of a license, and the proper | return made and recorded by the officiating party. Perhaps to California will belong the discovery of 2 plan to reduce the number of divorces. A divorce | should have publicity. There should be nothing se- cret nor covert about it. But publicity alone has not proved sufficiently deterrent to those who chafe in | the matrimonial harness. Something more is re- quired. Has it not been found, or suggested, in 2 trial now proceeding in this city? In this trial the husband sues for divorce and the | wife appears in court as her own attorney. She has occupied two days and threatens to use two miore in ! heckling her husband in cross-examination as a wit- ness for himself. It is true that she has made the rules of evidence look sick and the spirit of Greenleat to groan in great torment, but she has infused into juedicial proceedings an interesting and, at times, amusing novelty, that will be long remembered. She has made the somewhat seasoned partner of her con- jugal experience go over the soft and salad days ana nights of the courtship, and tell in cold blood the thrills and raptures of his first hours of love. Every cooing and each billing has been served up in style, brochetted on the iron skewer of the law. He has been compelled to tell of their quarrels and | fights, and made to beast of his skill in dodging do- mestic crockery and glasswdre aimed at him in many an inter-conjugal battle. Hi have been ex- hibited and commented on, and the pains and pleas- ures of domesticity have been treated as choses in action by the lady lawyer, who appears at once as wife, defendant, atto y and inquisitor. Now, why not recast our laws of divorce so as to scars compel both parties to such an action to act as their own attorneys and examine each other under oath? They have a more intimate knowledge of the facts than any one else can have. Each is aware that the other knows all the follies and weaknesses that may be brought out in a trial. All of the incidents of their | domestic life, from the morning when love and the pancakes were both <cold to the evening when at din- ner the wine glasses were used for ammunition, lie within their knowledge. Why not compel them to ap- pear as attorneys against each other, and have it out in open court? We are of of inion that this method would at once reduce divorces 50 per cent. What cases were tried would furnish a sort of public entertainment, and at the same time would be a solemn admonition and bordered path of matrimony, because they feel that if they don't like it they can escape so easily that their MEXICO’S SILVER DEFICIT. REPORTS from Mexico announce that heavy ex something like a financial crisis in that country. It is stated there is no lack of money in the republic, ple are averse to using it. They have been accus- tomed to silver, and can with difficulty be induced to The situation recalls 2 somewhat similar condition of affairs which prevailed in the Eastern States in 1800. example to those who enter lightly upon the thorn- experience will be a mere episode in life. ports of silver to the Orient have occasioned but it happens to be in paper or in gold, and the peo- take any other currency. There were loud demands for more paper money, and the demand came with special urgency from the rural | It was found that large numbers of East- In some cases it ap- districts. ern people were afraid of gold. pears business was seriously interfered with by tie | lack of paper, and our Eastern exchanges at the time from all parts of the country from Boston tc Phila- delphia were actively engaged in discussing the situ- ation and suggesting remedies. Men desire to handle money to which they have become accustomed and ‘with whose character- istics they are well acquainted. The average East- erner is not quite sure that he can tell a gold coin from a counterfeit, and therefore hesitates to take gold. In California, on the other hand, persons who will take gold almost without looking at it will scru- tinize a bank note or a greenback with as much care as if it were a new kind of animal and likely to be dangerous. ® of There is another point in the Mexican situation, however, of even more interest than the display of censervatism with regard to the kinds of money in circulation silver have attracted the attention of financiers and economists. Thefe has been an enormous demand for silver in India, and as a consequence the price has begun to rise all over the world. The bimetallists have been prompt to notice the fact and to take ad- ventage of it as a means of pressing their monetary theories once more upon the attention of the world. It is therefore quite probable we shall hear a good :deal about the advisability of esfablishing an “inter- ! national bimetallism” before the end of the year. Moreton Frewen, un English bimetallist, who comes very near to being a free silver crank, claims that the plan for establishing a gold currency in India has broken down. While the statement is not to be accepted as literally irue, it appears that in India, as in Mexico, the people prefer silver to gold simply because it is the money to which they have been ac- customed. The Indian Government is said to have purchased for coinage purposes upward of 30,000,090 _ounces of silver since February, and Mr. Frewen pre- ' dicts that ere long the Government will be forced to ' reopen the mints to the free coinage of rupees. | Such claims will hardly be accepted by any save the bimetallists, who still cling to the hope of a re- lvlval of their cause. The intelligence of the world For some time past the movements of | !will see no reason why a demand for silver as a cir- | culating medium should induce the Indian Govern- | ment to set aside the gold standard. They may coin |silver in India as we coin it in this country for use | where gold is too valuable and bank notes are un- available, but they are not at all likely to return to the old system which in times past was so injurious to every interest of India and her people. Despite all that may be said, there is nothing in the recent increase in the demand for silver and the con- sequent rise in price to justify a reopening of the old issue, and if the Mexican Government be wise it will take advantage of the present demand for money to introduce the gold standard in that country. A SCHOOL BOOK EXPERIMENT. LMOST every State in the Union has a school book problem to perplex educators and ex- asperate parents. We have one in California, but the discussion upon it has been mild in compari- | son with the uproar and the clamor that goes on in |some States. There are commonwealths where an | assembly of teachers rarely goes by without the adop- | tion of resolutions denouncing the text books or the } system by which they are selected as an “outrage, a %barbarism and a disgrace to civilization.” | Such being the case it is worth noting that one | ;American community has devised a plan which has | | given general satisfaction in dealing with the ques |tion. Greenville, Miss., is the lucky place, and we | {learn from the Atlanta Constitution that so well | | pleased are the people with the system an effort is |to be made to have it adopted everywhere through- | jout the State. The plan consists in the purchase of ! text books by the School Board and renting them to pupils at fixed prices. .It is said the saving to the | parents in Greenville last year was about $4000, and it is estimated that if the system be applied with | equal efficiency throughout the State the saving would pmount annually to upward of $150,000. In describing the system a Mississippi correspon- dent of the Constitution says: “The Greenville board supplies not only the books, but all other supplies re- quired in school work. The rent was determined by carefully computing the cost of the subplies, the prob- able life of the books in the different grades, etc. Books in the first and second grades are not expected | to last more than a year, but in the higher grades they | will last from two to five years. The first grade pupils pay only $1 pefyear {or everything they use, and the | high school grades pay from $2 50 to $3 50 per year. The teachers instill in the minds of the pupils the ne- cessity of neatness with their books, which is valuable in their future career, and there is not a school in Mississippi that is being conducted on a basis more satisfactory or successful than the public schools of Greenville.” A plan of that kind might not work yell in Califor- I nia, for in this State the complaint has been not so much of the cost of the books as of their quality; but none the less anything which tends to economy is of value here as well as elsewhere. School-children do | not need books as a permanent investment, therefore if renting is cheaper than owning, why not try it? Tratlficd by the Senate, has been given to our readers. The so-called Davis amendment will probably cause great confusion in the future interpretation of the treaty. In the first article it is provided that the United | States may build and regulate the use of the canal. | | The second article opens the canal to the world, pro- | vides against its blockade, regulates the passage through it of war vessels, fixes conditions for the I ships of belligerents and their conduct in the neutral | | waters at either end. Then follows the Davis amendment, which reads: “It is agreed. however, that none of the foregoing conditions and stipulations, in sections 1, 2, 3, 4and 5 | of this act, shall apply to measures which the United | States may find it necessary to take for securing by | its own forces the defense of the United States and the maintenance of public order.” Section 6 immediately follows, declaring that the | canal and all that is. necessary to its operation shall enjoy in peace and war complete immunity from at- | tack and impairment. The next section provides .that no fortifications | shall be erected commanding the canal or adjacent waters. i It will be seen, therefore, that the treaty provides | that warships of all belligerents, including ours and a nation with which we may be at war, shall pass through the canal, and that we shall, under the Davis | amendment, treat it as part of our military frontier, | and that, though so treated, it shall enjoy immunity | | from attack by a belligerent, and though usable by us in defense it shall not be fortified. Now, either the Davis amendment annuls the pro- vision against fortification. or is anrulled by it. Before its laceration the treaty was plain and com- prehensible. Now it is confusing and subject to a variety of constructions, which will probably cause grave trouble in the iuture. ! | | | THE NEW TREATY. HE full text of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, as | | | | | Joseph Manley, the well-known politician of Maine, | was recently offered"the position of internal revenue collector with a salary of $6000 a vear, but refused to take it because it would require him to resign his posi- tion as a member of the Legislature; and now folks are wondering whethar Manley is indifferent to money or whether there is more money in Maine politics than has been guessed at. No one need be surprised if Kitchener soon joins Lord Roberts in declaring the war in South Africa to be over. It is said in London that Kitchener is dis- gusted with the African job and wishes a command ir India, consequently the sooner he can get his Gov- ; ernment to accept his work in the Transvaal as a com- | pleted contract and give him a new place the better will he be pleased. Not content with preserving the forests of the Adirondacks, the people of New York are talking of restocking the woods with moose, and it is believed hunting permits could be sold at a price sufficient to make it 2 good investment by the State.” —_— The Boston papers are making quite a splutter over the fact that a woman recently died in that city at the age of 103; but the event appears to outsiders.to be quite natural. How long do they expect a decent woman {o live in that town? The Senatorial plum in Pennsylvania is still hanging high up in the tree and neither faction in the fight ap- pears to havf a pole long enough to reach it; but it is noted that Quay is shaking the tree with a good deal of hopefulness, The latest dangu warning comes from a doctor who says e good many school-children are made sick by gnawing or sucking lead pencils, and we may next hear of a campaign of education in favor of mu_zzlingl HOW MANCHESTER TOOK CINCINNATI BY STORM Free Description of the Entry of the Young Duke and His Bride Into the —_—— INCINNATI went wild over the ar- rival of the young Duke of Man- chester and his bride, daughter of one of its solid citizens. If you don’t believe it, just read the de- scription given by a special corre- spondent of the New York World. It is vivid, in spite of the suspicion that he ?m on his imagination for some of his A ‘“Never since Colonel Cincinnatus got a telephone message to shake his plow ana accept the position of Mayor of Porkop- olis, without remumeration, has the Plas- ter Paris of America, alias the Queen City of the West, been so agitated. All the week the town has been mad over His Hibernlan Highness, Willlam Angus Drogo Montague Manchester (limited). His gracelets arrived by fast freight in his father-in-law's private car, No. 7, on Saturday, December 8, A. D. 1900, at 10:13 p. m. Standard Oil time. “BEwery disengaged man, woman, child and dog in Greater Cincinnati was at the station to meet the youth who had suc- | ceeded in capturing the hand, heart and pocketbook of the daughter of a railroad magnate whose money is only awaiting a | box of sccial matches to start a British bonfire. “The Duke stepped on the platform first, leaving Mr. Zimmerman behind to tip the porter. Mr. Manchester was ac- companied by two bull pups, a leather hat box, a package of cigareites and the Duchess, “He was arrayed in a Zimmerman check | sult, silk hat, pointed tan shoes, an eye- glass end an exceedingly becoming blood- pudding tie. ““The regularity with which he has par- taken of his meals has done away with the exhausted appearance he dlsglnyed on Irn.?ldlng in New York. He looks much uller. ‘“‘As the party approached their carriage Mayor Flelschmann stepped forward and read the Declaration of Independence in Dutch. The Duke replied in pure Irish, which tickled the members of the Duck- worth Club to death. He excused his Rersonu appearance on the ground that e had forgotten to see his tallor before leaving Ergland. It had always been his ambition to get into Cincinnatl soclet{, ne sald. There was nothing like it in England. He could thank God for that, he declared. “The Friendly Sons cf St. Patrick then sang ‘God Save the Queen,’ and the Duke and Duchess were driven to Mount Au- burn in a pouring rain. “*No one except Cincinnati newspaper reporters were admitted to the residence, which accounts for nothing being known | about His Grace's movements until the following day. Sunday morning got light about 7:10. but the Duke slept soundly un- til 9:30. When he got through sleeping he woke vp. The newspapers got out a speo- ial announcing this circumstance, “‘Another edition wae published at 9:45 to record the fact that the secretary had gone into the basement to feed the bull puj t 10:30 the entire. family went to church and listened to a blood-curdling sermon on ‘The Life and Adventures of the Prodigal Son. Z: ““After the recessional a reéception was held on the church steps, and soon after- ward the bride and groom automobiled through Rat Row, Eden Park, Vine street and Clifton. “In the afternoon, Mr. Manchester at- tended a sacred matinee at an over-the- Rhine theater to witness a performance given by Belle Billings's bloated British blondes. During the second act His Grace went behind the scenes to congratulate M dst of Porkopolis. + | | | | i | | | % ) Miss Billings-on her artistic performance, expressing the hope that she might not catch cold on account of her drapery. “‘After the show a drive was taken to Clifton in cab No. §, Cincinnati Transfer Company, and visits were paid to several of our most prominent families. “Precisely at 9:30 the guest of the da washed his hands, dried them on a towel, brushed his hair, holding the brush firmly in his right hand (not the left as stated by an evening paper) and went Into the d{nlng—room to partake of a home dinner consisting of native products, via: rded pigs’ feet, pork chops, breakfast bacon, | hogs’ head cheese, bologna, pretzels and eer. “Toward midnight he had a sinking spell and was carried to bed. After sev- eral physiclans had exerted themselves in his behalf he rallied and called for some wienerwuret. At 1 a. m. the lights wers all out and the reporters siumbered se- renely on the porch until daybreak. “The Duke's arrival has upset Cincin- nati. Even a bired girl won't look at a | man unless he bas a title of some sort or | other. The K. P.'s are calling themselves | “Sir,” and the Elks have called a meet- ing to give each member an aristocratic title, Eugene Zimmerman doesn’t go erazy it will be because he has become reconciied to his fate. Fifteen hundred dollar dogs, $1400 automobiles, a 33000 set of gold harness would worry any man in THE DUKE, HIS ZIMMERMAN CHECK SUIT AND HIS PET | BULLDOG. | | [ e e e AMERICAN DOLLARS AND EUROPEAN TITLES. ————————— From the Evening Post. Our news columns are occupied to some extent with accounts of the sen- sational trial of a libel suit brought against a morning contemporary by one who claims to belong to the nobills This trial has an importance far beyond its significance as a public scandal relating to a fashionable hotel. suit against a newspaper, and in all such suits the question at bar relates to the measure of right on the part of libelous matter in the interest of the public. In the next instance the scan- dalous matter charged is against one has married into a family of wealth and social prominence. Great wealth is sometimes made the prey of titled adventurers when such wealth is in the hands of vain people. becomes accustomed to it, is far from satisfying all of the vanitles which its possession engenders. . what is termed forelgn nobility. alliances in America are, as a rule, of dissolute habit. in everything except an aristocratic lineage. poverished in purse and character, possessing nothing merchantable except the feminine form of a title which a Physlcally, mentally and morally, tocracy is undesirable. % There are honorable exceptions to this title worship, and occasionally there is a member of the European aristocracy who seeks a wealthy alliance in America, and is at the same time almost if not quite a gentleman; but there is a general and somewhat continuous sameness in the personal ‘char- acter of these people and an equally continuous sameness in the character of the people with whom they form marriage alliances in this country. Worthlessness of character on the one side and ignorant vanity on the other are the salient features of personality in these marriages. | .'H-H-I—H-X-PH-I-I—'-I-H. el @ | PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. J. L. Howard of Marysville is at the Grand. J. M. Davis, capitalist at Fresno, Is at the Russ. Alden Anderson of Buisun is registered at the Grand. Dr. R, J. Bromley and wife of Sonora are at the Lick. - Coroner H. J. Curry ot Contra Costa County is at the Grand. | L. Fish Jr., Deputy Sheriff at Red Bluff, | | is registered at the Russ. Frank H. Webster, a Minturn vineyard- ist, is stopping at the Grand. C. J. Cox and family of Elmo are at the Grand for the Christmas holidays. A. M. Allen, who rebuilt the Tanforan racetrack and has a residence in Mon- terey, is at the Grand. M. H. Walker, a prominent Salt Lake City real estate man, is among the late arrivals at the Occidental. Willlam F. Herrin, of the Southern Pa- cific law department, returned yesterday from his trip to New York and Washing- ton. Colonel Charles Bentzoni and wife, for- merly the Countess von Schlutterbach of Germany, have taken apartments at the California. They have just returned from a tour,of the world and intend to make Caiifornia their home. Colonel Bentzoni iz an officer in the United States army. J. A. Fillmore, manager of the Southern Pacific, returned vyesterday afternoon from the East. Mr. Fillmore went to Rochester early In the month to visit his aged father. The railroad manager was taken ill soon after leaving this city, and has been in poor health since. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. RAILROAD CREW-—M. P., Oakland, Cal. The question you ask about a rail- road crew is one of purely personal in- terest. You should lgsly to the railroad company that employed the crew for the information desired. i BLECTRIC SMELTING—E., Grass Val- ley, Cal. The first record of smelting by electricity in the British Isles that this ment has been able to find is that depart) i Nov ber, 1883. Edflkm was the first to use that method of separating metals trom alloy. s » —— ASBESTOS—Y., Yager, Cal. California asbestos has no value in the market for . Within the past few years, however, titled distinction has been sought by | the purchase, in the way of marriage The titled aristocrats who seek wealthy | ty of an ancient European monarchy. In the first instance it is a libel a journal to publish scandalous and- Porkopolis.” ® { | | | who, claiming aristocratic lineage, The possession of wealth, when one . settlements, of representatives of They are bankrupt They are titled paupers, im- marriage alliance with them confers. this effete overflow of European aris- | the reason that all that has been produced | up to date is too brittie fo be of use. A | prominent dealer in this material sald: “There may come a time when use will be | found for that class of ashestos, but when | that will be none at this time can tell.” | NO SUCH COLLEGES—J. H. G., Jer- sey, Contra Costa County, Cal. The ros- ter of universities and " colle United States does not show 'tg.nln(hg’-: are in California any directed by the re- Xl?'hms denominations named in the letter of inquiry, FOR NINETY-NINE YEARS-R. B. Golden Gate, Cal. If a person transfers | to another a plece of real property for a | period of ninety-nine years in considera- | tion of the payment of one dollar, that is not a gift. A gift in law is the gratui- tous transfer of property. When the property given is me. that is real roperty, then a d 18 In general abso- utely necessary to transfer the property. OLD CALIFORNIAN COIN—Subscrib- | er, Denverton, Cal. A $5 plece coined by | Baldwin & Co. of California gold in 1850, | and all other coins issued by private firms | in California in the early davs. prior to | the establishment of the United States branch mint in 1854, command a premium. The amount that dealers pay for such de- pends upon the demand. If the corre- spondent will send a self-addressed, stamped envelope the address of a dealer ':‘:d Sll purchase such coins will be for- Wi . POSTAL REVENUE—A. H. H. City. The following Is the revenue and expend. ftures of the Postoffice Department each vear from 1865 to 1899, inclusive: Revenue of l; Department. | Department. | 158 13,604,728 :’""19 I, ficu.m 1876 759,908 35,263,438 1877 . 27,468, 33.436,322 1578 29.277,517 34,165,084 1879 30,041, 33,449,508 s 3.315.479 38,542 804 1881 36,785, 251,738 o o | e B 5,508, 4231670 1884 43,298,197 45,404,960 = 42.580,844 49,533,150 1888 43,948,423 50,539 435 B . Surao | e = 2OIS | 575,58 o sms | Lo e 65,981,756 s i ARG | hmm 1894 fhuain 5,080,479 §4.324.414 = ami | Eom 295 - ESE | Moz %,021, 384 101,633, 109 | to carry the products to forelgn markets, | production and resultant stagnation. | stimulate and maintain Democracy and Socialism. Getting>rid of Bryan will not efface the conditions which have produ Bryan. Were he to be dethroned as the idol of the radicalized Democracy some one still more disturbing than he would be sure to take bis e. In the nature of things the Democratic party will become mors and more socialistic, or give to a new party. ]1?1 the co-lxn:hot ‘c;"' Y:‘:: Mr. Bryan will seem in the rel e o agltator. PHILA- DELPHIA NORTH AMERICAN. Homeseekers Enough. 3 In all respects the wonderful assimila- tive powers of this republic will be fully employed without any further increase in the volume of the great stream of immi- gration_ever pouring into the country, which Has long proved more attractive than any other to those inhabitants of crowded Old World lands who have left their homes to better their conditions and widen thelr opportunities. We are re- celving homeseekers at the rate of nearly balf a mililon a year, and that number is ulte large enough. — CLEVELAND .EADER. Aid Our Shipping. The country needs American ships now. Our manufactories are running at a tre- mendous rate and we must have vessels otherwise there will soon be a glut, ove & {s worth the while of Great Britain, nations t France and other European trade, it is good policy fo: also. We have joint owne geas and we might as well exercise our rights and utilize our opportunities.— KANSAS CITY JOURNAL. Invasion of London. But the American trolley Is ce invade London. It may not ge inner circle, but it will get eic to give the Londoner a livelier s to make him look in fifteen differ distinet directiops at the same time. the time he gets bumped a few tim ecquires the “trolley face” reailze that he is 1o lohger in the bethan age, but that he is up against the real American expansion movement. The Londoner is a stolid, conservative indi- vidual, not easily moved or excited. But the American trolley car will move him The sight of its glaring headlight in the distarce coming at the rate of thirty miles an hour will soon give him & regular C cugo movement. — CHICAGO TIME; HERALD. A Policy of Error. When England gets over the war fever, which is now blinding the popular sense of right and justice, we do not believe that British opinion will tolerate this despotic_system of government in terri- tories where the people have abundantly proven their capacity for self-govern- ment. The amendment to the address moved by the Liberals “that it would con- duce to the pacification and future good relations of the races n South Africa if measures securing the liberty and pro: perity of those who surrender be an- nounced at the earliest possible moment™ points out the enormous and radical error of the Chamberlain policy i neglecting to eommence such measures long ago.—ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS. Industrial Migration. The migration of Euroj capital - vested in industrial productiveness from a continent of exhausted natural resources is_the most natural thing in the world. American bridges, agricultural machin- ery, locomotives, steel rails and warships have successfully invaded forelgn mar- kets, and will continye to do so in in- creasing ratio, because with our abun- dant raw materials and marvelously effec- tive machinery we can produce thess things against the competition of the world. We have been sending coal abroad to supply European deficiencies, but long- headed British capitalists have decided that it will be economy and the applica- tion of some business sense to to the American coal and ore and send finished products into the world’s markets.—PHIL~ ADELPHIA TIMES. Justice in Canada. Beyond a doubt the Canadians are right in crediting much of their immunity from violent crime to the sharp and sure jus- tice that is always meted out to criminals. As all criminal laws are made by the Fed- eral Parliament. they are the same in all provinces. More important still, there ars practically no court delays. There is no appeal to a second court, nor is there any other method by which proceedings can be stald and the case ragged t h months or_years, as in this country. THe Minister of Justice for the Dominion alos has the power to stay proceedings, and the cases In which he finds it necessary to imterfere are exceedingly rare. 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