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The morning call., 1893-09-27
ROYCE FOUND GUILTY.
A Jury Convicts the Ex-Ireasurer
of EmbeZZlement.

The trial of Clark E. K. Royce. ex-treas-
urer of the Veterans Home ASSOCIATION
came 10 an end in Judge Seawelfs court
yesterday.
The Jury found the defendant guilty as
charged.
This case excited great deal OF interest
when the first details came to light. Inc
supposed attempted murder OF Royce In the
Burlington. the subsequent discovery OF
his attempt at suicide, and then the "hole
miserable story of his defaIeatlons as
treasurer of the YOuntVille Home, all
afforded excitement enough at the Clihe'
Yet, strange to say, the trial OF TINS man
on a Grand Jury indictment has attracted
but little interest, and but corporate s
guard of spectators were present yester,
day when the case was finally submitted
to the jury.
The particular charge on which Royce
was tried was the en- beZZlement or S205O,
balance of eheck for S10,350, which, as
treasurer of the Veterans Home AssOcia-
ton, he had received through Governor
Markham from the National Soldiers
Il ONE Association in New Ork. lt was
shown that Royce cashed the draft IN
question, and had deposited to the credit
f0f the Veterans Home in the First Ma
tional Bank of San Francisco sum S2O5O
less than be had received in payment OIL
the draft.
The defense set up was that Royce had
committed no felonious embeZzlement. He
mad received the money, true, but he had
accounted for IL. not by deDositing it in
money in the bank, but by acknowledging
the receipt of the draft, with the under
standing that he held the money in trust
for the association. Royce had been put
to considerable expense in making certain
visits to Sacramento, where he was en-
gagged in putting certain bills through the
Legislature on the instruction of the dI-
rectors of the Veterans Home, and all this
| had cost considerable money. Royce had
drawn on the funds of the home for this
purpose.
When the court opened yesterday morn
| ing Assistant District Attorney Hinke
| argued the case on behalf of the prosecu-
ton, and Patrick Reddy followed with a
| brilliant argument for the defense. He
III ade out that no case of embeZZlement had
| been proved
The Jurors retired to deliberate before
noon, and when the court reassembled al
O'Clock they came into court with YER
dict of guilty as charged, and fixing the
| amOut embezZled at S2050.
| Judge Seawell fixed Saturday for sen-
tence, when MIR. Reddy will move for a
new trial
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appears TO be law In obedience to which
the productiveness of the earth diminis hes
with the drain upon it, and when our pop
ulation is trebled and Quadrupled it may
be found that the means of subsistence
have not increased in a corresponding
ratio.
No chapter of history is more interest
ing than the one which chronicles the
tidal movements of huma anty. There
have been times when every race seemed
to be satisfied with its surroundings. and
10 have become spdentary. These have
been succeeded by periods when every
race seems to have been in motion in
quest OF new homes. For 500 years there
was steady migration of the peoples of
Northern Europe TO the south, so that the
Italians of the Middle Ages became as
different from the Romans whom Cesar
led as the Norman sea-rovers were from
the London shop-keepers of to-day. The
northern races settled down in :heir
southern homes and migrated no more
Within our time a new migration set in
from Europe to the two Americas. 1t is
in progress now. No one can tell when it
will end or what proportions it may as
sumo
When it becomes a menace to our well
fare il will be our duty to check it.
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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

George NJ. Pullman sent check for
$1,000 to the Fire Marshal of Chicago after
The big fire In his shops.
Miss Julia Stevenson, daughter of Vice
President Stevenson, is member Of the
entering freshman class at Wellesley Col
lege.
The only wCman editor in Ohio is Mrs.
Mary Virginia Proctor, who is editor. pro-
prlet"r and business manager of the Demo-
cratic organ OF Warren County.
Rumanian papers say that Queen Eliza
beth ("Carmen Sylvia'0 will return to
Bucharest next month. Her rooms in the
royal palace are about ready for occupancy.
Mr.. Burne-J Jones, the English artist,
Is engaged npOn the interesting task of
painting the portrait Of Mr.. Gladstone's
Youngest granddaughter. Dorothy Drew.
joseph Samuels. 81 years of age, has
lived all his life on the same farm in Page
County, Va, and he and his 65-yehT-old
wife boast that they have never been
obliged to call a physician.
The youthful appearance Of Mr.. Eckels,
Comptroller OF the Currency, has fire.
quently caused him annoyance on his
travels. At Milwaukee hotel recently he
was mistaken for messenger-bOy.
j. Grant Cramer of Orange, n. j., son
of a former United States Minister TO
Switzerland and a nephew of General
Grant, mas been appointed instructor of
French and German in Lehigh University.
Friends and admirers of Guy de Maupas-
SAINT are preparing TO erect monument to
his memory in Paris. One of the most
active workers for the project is Zola, who,
among other things, has enlisted the ser
vices of A. S. SaGvarin, editor OF Noyoe
Vremya of ST. Petersberg
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A WORKINGMAN ON TOP.

When the Ways and Means Committee
was hearing manu- facturers tell why the
tariff should not be reduced, it happened
one day that plain workingman presented
himself and asked a hearing. His name
was Stewart, his residence Philadelphia.
He told the committee how the demand
for work was falling off, and attributed the
fact to an apprehension that the duties on
all kinds OF goods would be materially re-
duced. Congressman Turner thought to
throw the wOrkingman off the track by
alluding to the heavy tax the workingmen
had to ray on their woolen clothes. To this
Mr.. Stewart replied:
The duties on all the wooden clothes 1 wear
in year could be paid with TWO days wages.
Now am losing two days work every week on
account OF the mere threat to reduce the du-
ties, threat which, IL carried out, would take
from my weekly wages an amount that would
pay the duties on all the wooden clothes buy
In year.
About that time the Ways and Means
Committee adjourned.
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DEPORTATION.

The dispatch which defined the position
of the administration as to the enforce
ment Of the registration act referred to
that act as the deportation act" This
appears to be the view the administration
proposes TO take of the law. A deporta-
tion act in itself might not be justiiable.
Chinese who are in the country by the
consent of the Government might protest
against an act which authorized their de-
portation without cause. But the registra-
tion act did not contemplate deportation.
No one supposed that the Chinese would
refuse to register. Deportation was named
simply as proper penalty on refusal or
neglect to comply with the conditions OF
the registration act
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MIGRATIoNs OF RACES.

An official ia the Census bureau states
unofficially that the population of the
United States will be 720OG,0AO in 1900
S5,00O.O00 IN 1910 aud 100000 in 1920.
The prediction has no scientific value, for
It's fufillment depends on factors which
cannot be reckoned in advance No one
Can forese the volume of future immigra-
tion or the effect of fluctuations in the de-
mand for labor upon natural increase.
Nautilus figured that population, when
unchecked, doubles itself in twenty-five
years. That rate of increase was main
tanned in this country for the first seventy
five years Of its growth. From 1880 to the
war the Increase was more than a hundred
per cent for each quarter Of a century.
But after 1860, though immigration as
sumed larger proportions, the general
increase became slower. And there is rea-
son to believe that it is even slower now.
1t is hardly to be expected that In 1915 the
population will number anything like
125, 100000. Nautilus reasoned from obser-
walton of small communities. In the dec
ade 1SS0-90 several new States increased
at faster ratio than a hundred per cent
in quarter Of a century, but the older and
more populOus States grew at a more sober
rate of progression.
The idea of Malthus, which cannot be
successfully cOntroverted, was that man
increases as fast as he can. His progress
is stayed by wars, famiHes, pestiiences and
the gradual decline in the means of sub
sistence. OF these four checks to the
growth of population the three first are
now imperative; but the last is operating.
and unfortunately we have no scientific
data to figure how widely or how swiftly il
acts. We only know in a general way that
regions which were once densely peopled
are now scarcely supplied with occupants
also that scanty as their population is it is
fully as large as the country will support.
Examples of these regions are the Persian,
Babylonian and Assyrian empires, which
once furnished large armies to their des-
pots aud are now tenanted by few wan
dering Orienta
Population is congested in China, Hin
dostan. and parts of Europe. The two
former grow food enough to support their
people. Though the struggle for life is bit
ter. Europe does not. If maritime inter
course between Europe and the rest of the
world were cut off ii is hard TO see how
the people of Great Britain. Belgium.
France and Germany would live. Th1s
far there is no congestion in this country
except in few large cities. and the evil day
is long way off, for when our present alb
surd fashion of large agricultural holdings
Is superseded by system of small farms.
the arabic area of the United States will
be able to maintain a very much larger
population than the Continent will prob
ably contain for centuries. SIill there
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the intrinsic value OF either gold or silver
is we assume that Mr.. Andrews means the
commercial or market value. For example,
a bill calling for one dollar would be paid
win a dollars worth Of silver or dollars
worth of gold. we presume at the debtor's
option. But under our present laws gold
is the standard of value. Silver is depre-
cated by the fact that it forms no part of
the measure of value either for itself or
other commodities. or course, if the bill
Is redeemed in gold either gold will be used
As medium of exchange or a gold dollars
worth Of silver would be given. And then
the amount of silver to be given in place of a
gold dollar would change with each fluctu-
alton in the market price of silver. Pos
sibly detail of this plan would remove
objections which occur at q first glance of
the plan as outlined.
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CONGRESS ON HIS HANDS.

Senator Stewart objects especially to a
remark attributed to President Cleveland
that in few days lie would have a session
of Congress on his hands. If the Presi-
dent made the remark. and it must be ad-
mitted that it sounds like him, he probably
intended to convey an idea of the labor he
would have TO perform to induce a lot of
human colts 10 pull steadily in harness.
As some of these colts are well along in
years and have seen much service it is not
unnatural that they should resent the as
sumption of superiority which the remark
implies. Mr. Cleveland will be fortunate
if before his time expires Congress does
not have President on It's hands.
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counting for this type of monster save on
the theory of disease. The perpetra to rs
are 6eteS huadineS of the irres rainable
homleidal class portrayed by Zola, but II
would be "A crime against society TO con-
clude that they are insane enough not to be
Responsible Tor their actions. Deemlng
showed perfect comprehension OF the
case against him, and was quite sane at
every turn OF his defense. Yet had he
Oeen set loose on society the ravenous I'M
pulses within him would very likely have
driven him into other betrayals and asSaS-
slnations. Psychology has to employ re-
sources IN accounting for these demons.
What does the community think of the
state OF the law which permits man like
Dr. west, now in Jail under a most bor-
rlble charge, to marry a woman who as
sisted him ln his inf nous career? The
purpose is evident. 1t is a PROCLAMATION of
all tEat is solemn to find this malpractl-
toner taking Annie Margaret Staley as his
true aud lawfully welded wife, TO love,
comfort honor and cherish through sick
ness and IN death, for better or worse,
until death do US partp Marriage by doc
ument can go great lengths.
There are various degrees of cnlpability
in suicide. Some mortals have such load
of misery or pain that they do not excite
much wonder when they take one of the
many routes out Of the world. One is
charltably disposed to con slider the depar-
ture OF an accountant in one of the Carne-
gle establishments at Pitts burg as due to
alteration. This man had two troubles.
He had had his salary reduced and he did
not agree with his wife about religion. So
lie blew her brains out and then his own,
and left seven children to scramble for a
living on no salary. The good man was in
need of holiday, and would have seen
things in cheerful atmosphere had he
taken one.
According TO Superintendent Byrnes of
New York the police will not hunt up a
case against COrbett and Mitchell! If they
can keep out of it. 1t is notorious that
they are to fight, but the getting of proof
Is technlcallty not TO be obtained with
out trouble. PriZe-fghting is now being
run sn close that the champions may here
after be COMPELLED to charter large steam
ers and go we'll to sea for a quiet mill
This would perhaps not be more costly
than the enjoyment of the privileges Of a
club. But what II to the pleasures of
bruising there were added the horrors of
sea sickness?
The morning call., 1893-09-27
VALUABLE CARGO.
Half a Million Dollars in
Skins.
The Steamer Kotic Arrives From
PetropauIovski With a Rich Con-
signment for New York.

The steamer Kotic of Petropaulovski is
portions. yet she brought into this port
yesterday afternoon cargo valued at
over half million of dollars.
From a nautical standpoint the Kotic is
rather a strange looking craft, and looks
more like a converted tugboat than a
steamer belonging to no less an important
corporation than the Russian Fur Seal
Company of New Yurk. She is built ex-
ceedingly strong to risk the storms of the
Arctic and crush her way through the ice
of the north seas.
The hOtic, however, is not beautiful.
She is painted black and has hull that is
not marvel OF graceful lines, but simply
short. stubby-lo0king affair that bulges
out at the water-line, and gives evidence
of an ample capacity of hold.
1t is the hold that is the most interest
ing feature of the kotic. for stored therein
is the half-mililOn dollar cargo that is to
he shipped by the railroad company to
New York City. where it will be sold f0-
The benefit of the owners of The Kotic of
Petr0paulovski, which Captain Tchoni-
kUtf has the honor to command
The wealth of Northern liberia is we'll
represented in the hold of the Kotic The
ugly seal pelt, SaIt-eDcruSted and smelling
like deceased rodent, is piled main. hatch
high, while under the c0mbiDgs of the
forehatch are barrels of fish oil, skins of
the sea otter, great brown rugs from the
backs of Siberian bears and white robes
carved from the carcasses of thesdreadful
polar bear There is also ivory of a yerv
fine quality for French manufacturers. 1t
Is as white as the snow-covered steppes OF
Russia.
why can't San francisco secure this
valuable cargo?" was asked of seal
hunter. Because it is more profitable to
ship direct to New York. The sealskins
all go to England to be cured aud the bal
ance OF the cargo will be sold in New
York" was the answer.
The Russian Fur Seal Company is con-
trolled principally by Russians.
The morning call., 1893-09-27
A TROUT EXHIBIT.
Ell Dorado Will Stock an
Aquarium.
WorralI s Miller Make the Lowest
Bid for the Fine Arts Building.
Nevada's Display.

Nevada will be represented at the Mid
winter Fair. Governor Colcord has writ
ten to The director-general, stating that the
citizens of the Silver State will max a big
exhibit of minerals and agricultural prod
ucts. He states that the greater portion of
the Nevada exhibit at Chicago will be
transferred to the Golden Gate Park.
Governor Colcord adds that he will GER
tainly be in attendance at the opening of
the exhibition in January.
Engineer NJ. NJ. OShaughnessy has CON-
peted his plans for water system in and
about tie exposition buildings. The sys-
tenn includes the use of thirty-twO hydrantS
in case OF fire. The pumping works now
in the park will be used in addition to the
water supply volunteered by the Spring
Vally Water Company.
Among the applications for concessions
received by the executive committee
yesterday was one from M. Slontsky of
Chicago. He proposes to erect an electric
theater at the park, with all the change
able effects that such structure makes
possible. The theater will be kept entirely
dark by day as well as by night except for
the electric effects. Two such theaters
have been o Grated with signal success at
the Columbian Exposition.
Nathan Gilmore. manager of the Glen
Alpine Springs in Ell Dor do County. pro-
poses TO establish an aquarium for colec-
tiOn of lake trout. The fish will need to
be delivered in October, for Mr.. Gilmore
states that after that month there will be
snow on Tallac Mountain and all the
lakes In the canyon will be frozen over.
One idea in connection with the exhibit is
that the display of trout would lead 10 the
stocking of other lakes in California.
Bids for the construction OF the Fine Arts
building were opened yesterday. and were
found 10 ha as fnllnws.
The morning call., 1893-09-27
SEE !! !!

The Singer Manufacturing
Company's Four Great Exhi-
bits at the Worlds Fair. The
magnificent white and gold
pavilion in Machinery Hall
contains 1874 machines, no two
alike, showing all kinds of
manufactures, from the widest
inch-thick rubber belt to sew
ing in the thumb Of a dainty
silk glove,
In the Leather Building are
two other large exhibits, Illus
trating over sixty-eight pro-
cesses in shoe and leather
work. The Family Sewing
Machine Exhibit in the East
Gallery, Manufactures Build
ing, contains over 1000 square
feet of floor space. The first
floor is devoted to Family Sew
ing Machines. The second
floor is exclusively art work
a suite of three rooms-a mod
ern reception hall, Henry
VIII dining room and a XIX
century bed chamber, are lit
orally crowded with tapestry
pictures, curtains, point laces,
ETC., etc, all made with the
Singer Sewing Machine, with
out attachments.
THE SINGER MAN'F'G. CO.,
OFFICES. EVERYWHERE.
San Francisco Office,
22 POST STREET.
1s4l Iy WeFr&Wy ~
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Probate Notes.

The will OF Henry Scamman was filed
for probate yesterday. The testator was a
native of Saco. State of Maine. and died
there. but his widow and daughter are at
present residents of San Francisco
The estate is valued at over S1O0 0oo and
Is bequea thed as follows: $1,000 for the
erection OF monument over the graves of
the testator's parents at Saco, some small
requests to nephews and nieces. and the
balance of The estate to the testator's
widOw and daughter. The widow is to
take one-third and the daughter two-thirdS
The widow is left sole executrix.
The will of Jane L. McMullen. deceased.
hled yesterday, is remarkable for only one
tnng. Her will is correct IN eyery mar
tlcular. and is duly attested, but il bears
date OF August Z, 1898" Whether this
error VIII prove bar 10 the admission of
the will to probate remains to be seen
The morning call., 1893-09-27

in section 3O3 of the Penal Code in unlaw-
fully furnishing liquors in place in which
dance is given for public amusement
was set for trial by jury in Judge Joach M
sens court yesterday on October "A. ne
decision in this case will probably govern
the eases against Ned Foster of the Bella
Union, j. Hayes of the Eureka and ID.
Monroe of the Marble Hail.
The morning call., 1893-09-27
BULLION CURRENCY.

Professor c. n Andrews of Redlands
has conceived plan by which he thinks a
currency may be issued based upon both
gold and silver at the commercial value of
the two metals. The dispatch says the
intrinsic value, but as no one knows what
The morning call., 1893-09-27
PUBLICATION OFFICE

625 Montgomery street. near Clay, open until II
o'clock p. NJ. BRANt II OFFICES: 10 Market
street, near Kearny open until > o'clock midnight;
339 Hayes street open until 80 o'clock; 6O3 Larkin
street open until clock SW. corner Sixteenth
and Mss streets, o-en until o'clock; 251S
Mission street open until o'clock; and 116 Ninth
street, open until 80 o'clock.
The morning call., 1893-09-27
Now is the Time to visit the World

commencing Friday, September l. the fare to
Chicago and return via the Union Pacific Will be
$50.
Inc Union Pacific is the only line running
through Pullman sleeping-cars and dining-csrs.
san francisco to Chicago, without change, in
three and half days
All tickets good via Salt Lake City and Denver.
For seeping-car aeeomm odatIons and tickets
can on D. w. Hitchcock, general agent, No l
montgomery street, San Francisco; +. r. ELS
worth, agent, 91S Broadway, Oakland; or 6. +.
Cal
The morning call., 1893-09-27

r-vISITORS TO THE WORLDS FAIR will
End THE CALL on sale at the newsstands in the fol
lowing hotels: Palmer House, Auditorium Hotel
Briggs House. Clifton House, commercial House
Gault House. Grand Fac fc Hotel. Sherman House
Leland House, Northern Hotel, Rche'ieu Hotel
fremont House, Virginia Hotel and Wellington
Hotel
AT WASHINGTON. D. C.-The Willard, Airing
ton Ebbitt and Shoreham Hotels.
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WOr-aIl q Miller will probably be award
ed the contract today.
Count Valcourt dc Vermont left for
Chicago yesterday to complete his arrange
mentS with the Oriental exhibitors, TO
whom space has been allotted. He prom
ises that all the leading features of the
Midway Plaisance will be here in De-
cemDer.
Tne cash receipts yesterday amounted to
S1795 40 making the total paid in to date
Sl32. .O73 56.
The morning call., 1893-09-27
Phillips Rock island Excursions

Leave San Francisco every Wednesday and Sarur
DAY via RIO GRANDE AND Rock ISLAND RVS
through tourist sleeping cars TO Chicago and Bus-
ton. Manager and porter accompany these exeur-
slons through to Boston. For tickets, sleepingcar
accommodations and further information address
CLINToN JONES. General Agent Rock Island Ry
80 Montgomery street. San Francisco.
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"Mrs. Winslow,s soothin~ sxrnnn

W W >
Has been used over fifty years by millions OF
mothers for their children while Teething with
perfect success. 1t sootnes the child softens the
Gums allays Pain. cures Wind Collie regulates the
boweis, and is the best remedy for DiarrhCeas
whether arising from teething or other causes
FOR sale by Druggists i'll every part of the world
be sure and ask for Mrs Winslow's Soothing
Syrup. 25e bottle.
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# Cal subscribers orho intend ledUing
the city aciU notify the business office OF
their change Of address the paper lUiu be
1orlgorded to them regularly.
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WEATHER PREDICTIONS.


DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE \
WEATHER BUREAU.
SAN FRANCISCO, September 26, 1898.
OfffciaI Forecast for Twenty four Hours
Ending Midnight "Wednesday.
San francisco and vicinity Fair weather
Slightly warmer Wednesday; northerly. shifting t.
westerly winds.
JAMES J. GRAY,
Acting Local Forecast OfhcIaI
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Midwinter Fair subscriptions.

The committee of the Midwinter Fair has
decided on the plan OF publishing a subserip-
ton blank In tn daily papers, which may be
niied 10 by parties wishing TO subscribe 10 the
fund. This blank will be found In another col
umn, and all are earnestly requested to assist
in the good work.