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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-03-19
HE MADE FEW SALES.
But When They Were Figured Cut
They Were No TrifIes.
NRn York Snn
Honolulu, March 9.

New York Sun.
You meet on the road" said a CONNER
cial traveller. men representing many kinds
of business and Il is not always easy to
classify them. | once met, for instance on
train in the South calm, polite, agreeable
man who l was sure was selling something,
but couldn't even guess what. | learned
in the course of conversation with him that
he was selling railroad cars. At first that
may seem a strange sort Of business to be
in. but there isn't anything very remarkable
about it after all. The car-builders keep
track of railroad news of every sort-pro-
jected new roads, branches, new cOnnec-
tlons, proposed new equipment, everything
that indicates a present or prospective de-
mand for ears-and they send out men 10
look after this business as occasion de-
mands.
Speaking Of a man selling railroad ears
reminds ME of a story | read once. There
were a lot Of travelling men sitting around
in the smokin groom of a sieeping-car after
dinner smoking and talking. A quiet man
who sat IN corner said that he had only
made one sale in six weeks. Some one
ventured in friendly interrogatiye sort Of
way to say that he hoped that that was a
good bill The man said: We'll. pretty
fair; 1t was little over 100000 And
when somebody asked him what he was
selling the man said he was selling railroad
bridges, and ii appeared that the last one
he had sold was double-track steel bridge
something less than mile long. Nobody
evineed any surprise at this, but they all
agreed that man couldn't expect to sell
bill ike that every lHy, -
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-03-19
SOME POPULAR PALACES.

The difference between dromedary and
a camel?
Oh, yes; the simplest thing in the world
A camel has two humps and a drome6ary
has only one.
This rather suggests the subtle distinction
between horse and a mare. Every mare
is horse, but every horse is not a mare.
Every dromedary is camel, but every
camel is not dromedary.
The dronIedary is the racing camel-the
flier of the desert. 1t happens that the
Arabian camel, commonly known as the
dromedary, has but one hump as a general
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A Book in the Etruscan Language.

The discovery OF book, or rather of
linen sheets, IN the Etruscan Language. an
undeciphered tongue, has been lately made
by Professor Krall of Vienna. Forty wears
ago mummy was brought from Egypt bv
an Austrian traveller. 1t was wrapped
with linen bands, which Brugsch Pasha
thought 10 be inscribed with Ethinpic CHI ar
acters and Sir Richard Burton Thought was
Nabathean. A few known words in the
Ethopic text enabled Professor Kran to
identity the manuscript as Etruscan.
Etrurla was the home of augury, the great
Etruscan work on divination being in
twelve books Hardly ANYTHING is knoWn If
the origin IT the people, but Professor
Sayce thinks that it cannot be long before
the mysteries of this manuscript ale re-
vealed, and another page OF history laid
bare,
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-03-19
Venerable Plants.

11'
The Egyptian Museum at Cairo contains
collection of dried plants remarkable for
their age and preservation. They had been
used in remote ages to adOrn the dead. The
French scientist, V. Loret, has published
book under the title Of "The
Pharaonic Flora" in which he
describes this wonderful herbarium.
Many OF these plants are more than 5000
years old. Before they were arranged in
the Cairo herbarium they were soaked in
warm water and freshly dried and pressed.
Among them are flowers Of the pomegran-
ate, the red POPPY, blue and white lotus.
several species of the mallow, and leaves OF
the leek. onion and celery, with which the
dead Egyptians were buried in those DAYS,
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-03-19
TRAINS IN TIE CLOUDS.
Railroad Tracks in Peru a Mile Higher
Than Any in the Rockies.
Pjttsbury Disnatch

The highest point attained by railroad
in the United States is in the Rocky Mount
ains-9627 feet above the sea. Trains on
the Callao-Oroya line in Peru are now as
cending 10 height as far above this great
elevation as the total height of Mount
Washington.
In other words, when train on the Oroya
line enters the Galera tunnel TO cross from
the western to the eastern sIope of the Cor
diloeras it is more than a mile higher above
the sea than the Hottest bit of railroad track
in this country. Some stretches of track i'm
Mexico are also higher than any railroad in
the United States. At present the Galera
tunnel Is the highest elevation attained by
any railroad in the world. Engineering IS
gradually possessing the world.
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She Said Her Verses.

Little Ruth eau read very nicely. aud her
mother is anxious that at an early age she
shall become familiar with the Bible, so that
when she was obliged TO leave houe TO be
gone five months she told Ruth She would
bring her home a muff il she would say a
Bible verse every night before she went 10
bed. Ruth promised thatShe would. Mamma
came home at the end of the five months.
Before presenting the muf she said: How
about the verses. Ruth?" 81 said one every
night, mamma" That's mammals nice
girl. You must have learned good many
In I'VE months, dear" "Why, | always
said the same one" 1.-THE same one all the
timel What was thal?" Jesus wapt,"
said Ruth. 1t wasn't Just what mother ex-
peeted. but Ruth got The mutt.
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AN oLD-FAsHIoNED LOVE SONG.

Tell me what within her eyes
Makes tbs forgotten spring arise,
And all the day. II kind she looks,
Flow to a tune Ike tink ing brooks.
Tell me why If but her voice
Fails on mems ears their souls rejoice.
Tell me why II only she
Doth come into the companie
All spirits straight enkind ed are
AS II moon lit up a stir.
Tell me this that's writ above
And / will tell you why love.
Tell me why the foolish wind
Is to her tresses ever kind
And only blows them in such wise
AS lends her beauty some surprise.
ell me why no chang Hg year
Can change from spring II she appear.
Teli Inc why to see her face
Begeis in ali folk else a grace
That makes them fair as love OF her
Did To a gentler nature stir.
Tell me why II she but go
Alone across the fields OF snow
All fancles of the springs Of old
Within lovers breast grow old.
Tell me why when her he sees
within him stirs an April breeze,
And that In his secret heart
Most sacredly was set apart
And most was hidden. then awakes
AT the sweet Joy her coming makes.
Tell me what is writ above
And Will tell you why l love.
H. c. BuNSER
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rule, while the Baetrian camel or beast of
burden has two. but the distinction begins
and ends in this.
The dromedary bears just the same rela-
Ilon 10 Inc camel that the PAGER does to the
wagon horse.
When circus OF menagerie comes along
me small boy is always lost in wonder and
lncredullty at the keepers story of
how the camel can 60 week without
1000 or water He omits TO explain
TO the small boy that the camePs
stomach Is partitioned off, as 1t were,
ON the principle Of the watertght compart-
ments in the hull of a modern cruiser.
When the camel gets a good, square drink
ana gooo, square meal the allowance is
taken on the same idea that an army about
to go into fight carries three or four days
rations to every man.
Very mixed ideas prevail about the shells
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Value of Musketry Training.

A writer in a German war journal, CON-
mentiDg on the experience of the most
recent wars. says that the new rifle has
reduced all armies TO nearly the same level
so far as arms are concerned. Even the
effect of the individuality of the men will
be to certain extent lost, and the advan-
tage will now be ON the side of those who
have had the best training. This can only
be tested when within ranges at which
small objects can be aimed at The granu
end of musketry instruction must now be
to make men accurate shots at distances of
from 500 yards to 600 yards.
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OFFICE=SEEKERS.
Hungry Crowds Haunting
the White House.
HOW THEY ARE WELCOMED.
The Troubles of Former Presidents.
The Blue Book and What
1t Contains.
Correspondence of THE MORNING CALI.

Washington is full of office-seekers. They
crowd the hotel. they have filled up the
boarding houses and you meet them in the
corridors OF the great departments and in
the lower halls OF the White House. The
civil service rules seem to make no differ
ence in their demands, and President CIeve-
land has to send away large number of
them every day. His experience during his
last administration enables him to dispose
of them with refreshing rapidity. He has
fixed hours for his receptions, and such as
get past the clerks and his private secretary
are given a short audience and are some
times turned down with a word. The
President does business rapidly. He Is o
good judge OF men, aud he knows the office
seeking type at glance. He does not re-
ceive Office seekers until about 10 o'clock,
though they begin to come much earlier
They hand in their cards to the doOrkeepeIs
and take seats in the anterOom. At about
10 O'Clock President Cleveland is ready to
have them admitted. He moves about the
room from one man to the other, and often
leads one OF his callers to the center of the
room and talks with him in such low tone
that he can't be heard by the others sitting
around. Not infreQuently lie res Is himself
against his desk as he talks. half sitting on
the corner of il, and he dispuses of many
cases without even taking the papers which
each of1ice-seeker brings with him.
l caunOt itemize the number of offices
which are open TO change at the present
time. The civil-seTvice rules, as rigid as
they seem, are very flexible if the President
one of the 10000 places in the Government
which could not be changed if President
Cleveland desired it. There are something
like 10000 clerks right here in Washington,
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President clereland aud the ofice-seezers.

and the number Increases every year,
There is a fat book known as the b,ue book,
which contains their names, and this holds
as much type as a dictionary, and it gives
every salary in the Government service
The blue book can be got at through a
Congressman. and il is made for private
circulation. Each Senator and each MEM
Der has two and there is one in the hands
OF each prominent Government official. I
understand that a private blue book has
been lately published which tells all about
the offices, their salaries and their duties
and this is being quietly distributed
among those who Will pay good price for
It. 1t is largely made up from the official
blue book. OF the blu book proper there
are only about 1000 copies extra printed,
and this book is in proportion TO the circu-
lattOn one of the costliest volumes in ex-
istence. it costs over $4,000 TO set the
type and it wOnd take q good typesetter
ten years TO set it.
Speaking of ofice-serkers, the mail has
rapidly increased in all the departments at
Washington during the past month. The
letters of the appointment clerks are
brought in in bags, and the office-seeking
applications come in by the tens of thou
sands. The appointment clerk Of the treas
ury has score of CLERKS who do little else
than take care of this mail, and in the
pigeOn-h0Ies of this office hundreds Of hnu-
sands OF papers and letters ara now filed
away, carefully indeXed and brefed and
ready for use and reference in case the men
named in them get an appointment. 1t is
the same in the P0stOtfice Department, and
| was told not long ago that there were
something like 100000 applications In one
OF the departments here at Washing ton
awaiting action. The postOffice applicants
usually send yOluminous papers. and q
Observation-Disclosures job often has more
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-10

tional and intellectual faculties were
highly developed. as child and m AZURE
woman. She early became mem Der of
Trinity church, Boston. and both her
devotion and talent soon attracted the
attention of her distinguished pastor,
the late Bishop Brooks, who was III the
habit of discussing. in visits to her
home, as well as by letter. theol ogical,
scientific and social subjects of eco
nomic practical life. Another strong
personal friend was Wendell Philips,
the reformer. Miss Chevailler has been
engaged in many occupations of public
interest by appointment from those
high in official position.
Among the larger investigations of
the subject of public charities. or at
least the most important one, was that
under an appointment by President
Arthur to visit the hospitals and other
charitable institutions in Europe,
through the influence, of our ministers
and consuls who were resident there,
who were directed to aid her in all in
vestiga1ions for the public good.
Miss Chevaillier is an interesting and
ready writer and forceful speaker.
She Is interested in all questions that
have for their purpose the general well
fare. Just at present she Is residing in
New York city with her mother.
THEO. HOLLAND.
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out exchanging the mutual winks with

out exchanging the mutual winks with
which Roman augurs are said to have
greeted each other on the highway. l
do not doubt that such belief as Mr..
Reed speaks of was all influence among
certain voters In all the states, but
it was not an intelligent or just
belief. In this as in other things the
Democratic party suffered fir ON causes
for which 1t was not responsible, and
against whose hurtful operation it has
long and unselfishly commended. Co
operating with and aggregating those
causes were others, from whose baleful
effect no party coming into power can
hope to escape, as long as the patron
age system rankles in American politics
and puts its diretul strain upon the
popularity of every new administration
and of every man supposed to have
Office-getting influence with it. The
hunger for place that has beset the
present administration from the 4th day
of March last was whetted and made raw
enous by the chronic lack of prosperity
and lack of Unemployment that has afflicted
whole sections of our people, and which
is chargeable in no small measure to
our lopsided system of federal tax
alton. For the vast majority of appli-
cant5 there was necessarily disappoint-
ment, and disappointment i'll getting an
office, even a small fourth-class post
office. is a ma lady that time alone can
cure, and against whose early stages,
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l tariff bill that the free list should be

tariff bill that the free list should be
put into effect Immediately upon its
passage and that the other provisions
of the bill should not take effect until
the first day of July next. Such pro-
visions would have the effect to hasten
the passage of the bill through the
senate in order to enable our manu-
facturers to stock our market with DOM
este goods made flom free raw ma
terial before their rivals could avail
themselves of importations under the
reduced rates on imported goods. If
such provisions were incorporated in
the bill every hour of delay of its pass
age would shorten the time in which
manufacturers could prepare for the re-
duced rates Of duties upon the finished
product, and they would insist
upon prompt action on the part of the
senate. SO that they could have
as much time as possible to prepare for
the change. In this way it is not only
possible, but highly probable, that the
tariff bill would become law by the
middle of February, certainly not later
than the first day of March next. AS
soon as it is passed, venture the pre-
diction that there will be revival of all
the industries of the country. Manu-
featuring establishments will be worked
to their largest capacity and employ
ment will be given to the greatest pos
sible number of laborers. The necesa-
rieS of life in many branches will be
procured upon more reasonable terms,
and labor will be better rewarded.
WILLIAM M. SPRINGER.
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in purchase thereof caused an appre-
hension in the minds of European In
vestors to the effect that such continued
purchases might result in the failure of
the United States to maintain the parity
Of gold and silver upon the existing
ratio, and. failing to maintain this
parity, that our country might pass to-
the silver basis. Such result would
work disaster to all of the business in
terests in this country. 1t would cause
European securities to be returned to-
drawal from the channels of trade
of hundreds of millions of Euro-s
pean capital invested in this coun-
try would produces a financial depres-
sion which would far exceed in its de-
,strultiYes effects that which occurred
during the past summer. The mere ap-
prehension that such an event might.
happen had caused large blocks of
American securities to be returned to
this country in order that the owners
thereof should realize upon them before
the break should come. The return of
these securities to the United States
caused an outflow of gold. producing a
Stringency in The money market which
brought currency TO premium and
forced many of the largest Banks and
business establishments into suspension
or bankruptcy.
Congress was called together for the
purpose of affording relief, and that re-.
lief was believed to be in the repeal of
the silver purchasing clause of the:
Sherman act. Whether such repeal
would be effective or not was hardly a
matter for debate. The whole business
world believed that such repeal was
necessary to the restoration of public
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tories far greater than were anticipated,
and in another. astounding Republican
triumphs. Virginia seems to have utterly
annihilated the Populists, while in New
York no one is more surprised than the
winners themselves. The cause OF
these upheavals ought to be eaaily de-
termined. The financial stringency
had made the people ugly. As usual,
they held the party In power RESPONSE
Dle. Another factor was the uncertainty
regarding the tariff. Aside from this,
there were local issues In New York
that bore heavily against the ruling
party.
Whether the situation will be i'm
proved at the next fall election is hard
to tell. Whatever tariff bill may be
adopted by congress can hardly be put
into practical operation before Novem-
Der. No definite results can be OBJ
tanned in time to influence the verdict.
The bill may bear hard upon some man
ufacturers and light upon others. In
both cases the interests of labor are
involved. As long as our manufac tur-
Ing interests are affected, just so long
will the interests of employees in our
factories be at stake. If the wages of
mechanics are reduced, and work is
scarce, they will be apt to hold the
party In power responsible, and to vote
against it. The proposed tariff can
hardly alleviate the situation if public
confidence is unrestored. 1t certainly
cannot do it if it destroys public conf
dence.
One thing is certain. The proposed
bill falls short of the tariff plank of the
Chicago platform. 1t is not tariff for
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tariff scare, to frighten their employe
into voting the Republican tickle have
eagerly seized the present distress to
frIghten and madden them into voting
against those who offer their only hope
OF emancipation from their thraldom
to trusts and other monopolistic COM
binations of capital.
AS threats Of dismissal and actual dis
missal in days past were used to intim-
ldate workingmen, so recently starving
laborers have been brutally told to eat
the ROSTERS they wore during the Presi-
dental campaign. All this was effectual
in the November election. Suffering
and distress are unreas0ning, blind
and petulant, and always strike at a
party in power. Many men will be
of the temper and intelligence of the
New York fisherman who voted against
his party because the fish would not
bite, But this feeling is transitory.
The eyes of the laboriug man Twill soon
be unsealed. He will find that the tariff
policies of the Democratic party are
pre-eminently for the benefit and eieya-
ton of labor; that they mean for him a
larger opportunity in life, better wages
and steadier employment. Some may
turn away from them now, even as a
sick child dashes away the healing
draught, but when they feel them work.
ing a new life and higher manhood for
them they will become their steadfast
and unf1inching supporters.
WILLIAM ID, WILSON
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WILLIAM NJ. SPRINGER.

The causes which contributedImost to
Democratic defeat in the recent eiec-
tionS are:
First, and perhaps of the greatest i'm
portance. was the financial depression,
eliminating in the monetary crisis of
last summer. Hard times are always
charged to the party in power, whether
that party is responsible for such times
or not The effect of the purchase of
100000 ounces of silver every
month and the issuing of treasury notes
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DAISY.

Written for the Globe.
Slight and lissome. tall and fair,
With that free, Bohemian air
Now in vogue:
Connoisseur Ill 'witching arts,
Kleptomaniac of hearts,
Is this rogue.
April maiden in her moods,
August maiden in her feuds
If you tease;
April's sun succeeds its rain,
August's heat is cooled again
BY breeze.
She's an arch and dimpljng smile, N
Calculated to beguile
Rowing hearts;
And she carries in her eye
Mischief-workers as they fly
Cupid's darts.
Still, in her vocabulary
1t is taItaIizing, very,
/ confess
There's plentitude Of ''noes,''
Cruelty answered 10 the beaux.
But no yes"
-GooDE KING FELDHAUsEk.
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erous welcome any lull in the storm
of popular disfator. A sudden veer-
ing of the wind : may signify little
as against the steady and persistent
currents of four years. but it is enough
to revive their waning hopes, and to
set them to claiming not only that the
storm is over, but to proving by ratio
clnation that it will never storm again.
Accordingly Mr.. Reed finds the cause of
the tremendous zresultp in a belief
among the people that-the Demo-
cratic party IS responsible for the
commercial distress and the enforced
idleness of labor, and cheerfully un-
dertakes to prove that such belief Is
both rational and just. Likewise also
Mr.. Mckinley, and although his sense
of humor is much less develop ed than
Mr.. Reed s.7w may we'll Imagine that
they did not enter upon their task with.
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CONGRESSMAN CUMMINGS.

1t Is difficult for any man to define
the political situation at an hours no.
tice. iet this is what is now being
done. 1t is an off-hand effort, and one
that may not be as clear as if made
after mature consideration.
The political situation today Is anon
alous. In one state are Democratic VIC
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Disaster in popular elections has been
SO uniformly the experience of the Re-
publican party, since its narrowlY-won
triumph of 1888, that one would be hard
hearted ind eed who begrudged its re-
joicing over successes in this fall's cleo
ton.
Especially is it natural and pardonable
for those leaders, who have IN recent
years led the party to the most crushing
defeat of its history, to hail with vocif-