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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-06
FOR PORTLAND & ASTORIA, OREGON.

THE UNION PACIFIC SYSTEH- IN
Ocean Divislon-and PACIFIC COAST TSSEA9
STEAMSHIP COMPANY will dispatch from Spear
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Il cir ] iron steamships. viz.
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- ?6.
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utI, cabin. $50.
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oiti New Montgomery street.
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New York Southampton, Bremen. The fast ex-
press steamers OF this company sail every TUES
DAY aud SATURDAY. Landing passengers In
southampton in Z n days less from New York.
These steamers are celebrated for the.r speed aud
the comfort afforded passengers.
SPRING SAILfNGS 1898.
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Complete Assortment Of Anglers Requirements,
Bait-Boxes, Floats, Sinkers, Spoon Bats, Cups,
Leaders, Etc. at Lowest Prices.
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The National tribune., 1893-06-29
TIE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
% YOU WANT TO CO
TO THE
WORLDS FAIR?
We WILL GIVE Yea
A FIRE e TICKET.

Our effer of free rOund-trip tickets to the
GAR. National Encampment last year was
so successful that we have decided to repeat
the plan upon a larger scale for the benefit
of intending visitors to the Worlds Fair at
Chicago.
Last year hundreds of our readers got
frst-cass round-trip tickets from their
places of residence to Washington and
return 10y little effort IN making up clubs
for THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
Our plan worked very uccessfully-every-
body was more than satisfied. Very many
were able to visit Washington who wanted
to do so very much, but felt that they could
not incur the exp nse, and we gave them an
opportunity which they gladly improved
There was nowhere a single expression Of
dissatisfaction.
We will do the same thing this year
with regard to those who wish to visit the
Worlds Fair. We soiH giUe a first
TOaad-t trip ticket from any point IN the United
States TO Chicago aud return for club of
subscribers, proportionGfe to the distalce the
point is from Chicago.
This ticket will be for the most direct
route between the two places and it will have
all the adv antages In regard to the time for
which it will be good, length of stay IN
class ticket will have. In brief it will be
the. best kind of a ticket, which will be a
great superiority, as there will doubtless be
many tickets offered by varions parties
which will be only for very slow trains, in
ferior cars, limited as to time, etc. Our
tickets will all be for first-class fast trains
and have every privilege given the best class
of tlcke:s.
The carrying out of this scheme involves
an immense amount of correspondence and
clerical work On our part, and We are now
prepari Z a schedule Of the sizes of clubs
which We will require from different points
We will publish this as soon as completed,
which may be some time hence.
IL the meanwhile, those who intend to
work for these tickets shouIds begin at once
They can send in their subscribers as fast
they obtain them. notifying us that. they
are for Worlds Fair Ticket" and they
viii be properly credited 10 them. If they
sfteIw change their minds they can have
the Subscribers sent in applied on any other
premium that we offer
We should very much like to have those
who expsct to get up clubs for these tickets
write to us Immediately of their intentions,
as this will help us in making up QUE
schedule. We viii send them any number
OF sample copies they wish to show friends
and acquaintance In the work of soliciting
subscribers.
Remember, all names sent to
count on this offer mustsbe yearly
subscribers at 81 each. No SUBJ
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The National tribune., 1893-06-29
INDIA pEMONErrzEs SILVER.

The most startling event in the history of
silver of recent years was the demonetiza-
ton of silver by the Indian Council last
Monday. This step has been in contempla-
ton for number of years, and the East In
dian Government has urged the Home Gov
ernment to come to some agreement with
that of the United States looking to the
maintenance of the value of silver. This
was what led to the International Monetary
Conference at Brussels, at which the English
representatives would do nothing, and those
of other nations followed their lead In the
meanwhile the gold value of the rupee-the
standard of value in Hindustan-has fallen
from. 80 cents in 1884 to under 20, cents at
the present time.
The final step of closing the Hindu minis
to silver seems to have been precipitated by
the failure Of the Brussels Congress, and
the fear that the United States Congress
would repeal the Sherman act
1ulS VIII DS a tcII1UtE DlUW Lie
ALL their wealth is in silver, or measured by
silver. They have been the greatest con-
sinners of silver in the world, as they invest
all their savings in silver, which they carry
about with them in the shape of personal
ornaments. As the population of Hindustan
is about 0,00o-neariy one-fifth the
people of the whole world-it will be seen
that the quantity of silver they require is
enormous.
Last year the total production of silver in
the world was 152,000,000 ounces, of which
the United States Government bought
50, 000,0 600 ounces. We used 1905, 900 ounces
in the arts, and India coined 45,000,O 900
ounces, leaving 46y0O000o ounces to be used
in the arts and subsidiary coinage by the
rest of the world.
| The total amount of silver in active cir
cnlation in Hindustan is estimated by the
English at 115,000,000 rupees equal at pres
ent prices to about S33,oOO,000, but this is
undoubtedly far short of. the real amount,
and gives nc idea of the total depreciation
Of property which will be wrought by the
decentralization.
The news of the characterization imme-
diately sent the price of silver in Lon-
don down to 76a cents an ounce-the
| Invest fioura that has aver haen kpowp
and about four cents less than the United
States Treasury has been paying. The
highest price paid for silver in this country
followed the passage Of the Bland Bill in
The National tribune., 1893-06-29
Cen. Grants C.randslanghter.

The report that Vivian, daughter OF Mrs.
AlgernOn SartOris. has decided to go on the
stage created no end of interest aud remark
among the many friends of the young iady's
grandfather. Gen. Grant, IN this city. 1t Is
found to be without doubt that the young lady
has decided to adopt theatrical career, and the
first construction put upon this was the natural
one, that the extravaganza of her father, Sar-
toris, had so reduced the family finances as to
make this step necessary from q pseuniaFy point
of view. 1t has since been learned that this Ia
not true; that the young lady is going on the
stage from a decided love of the profession. and
hopes to achieve high standing in the art.
She has shown remarkable talent in amateur
exhibitions and has shown SO much desire for
the career that her mother and friends have
not had the heart to oppose her engaging in it.
It is not known where she will make her debut
or when, but it is generally understood that
she will join one of the companies of Charles
Frohmau. who will, of course, make the most OF
the sensational attraction of one of Gen. Grants
granddaughter as a star The young lady
has strain of theatrical blood in her veins. her
fathers mother having been one of the famous
Kembla family OF actors, and was herself .
popular actress until she left the stage upon
her marriages to MI SsEtOris, an English gentle
The National tribune., 1893-06-29
PERSONAL.

Or. Samuel Francis Smith says that many years
ago, long after he had written his famous anthem
America" some lines for a song ran through his
mind for several days. He tried to fl Them but
could not. They persistentiy returned to him,
however convincing him that they demanded out
let from his brain. Finally" says the author
II woke up at o'clock one morning to find tile
words clearly outlined In my mind. The poem
patriotcin its character. and as saw it before
me realized that IL was anthem infinitely su-
perior to American and, if written out would sup
plant IT.. / arose, but being too sleepy to find a
match, picked up "a newspaper, and, taking q
pencil from my pocket, wrote down the words
There were three, verses, and when had finished
transcribing them was exhausted and fell asleep
In my chair. The next morning whom / awoke
could not remember q line, and then 1t was that 1
was grateful had tranferred the verses TO paper
But to my amazement, when looked at the jour-
nal not q word was written the margin There
were some weak traces of writing. but not word
Then looked at the pencil lying beside the paper
This mystery was explained. Tn unscrewing the
pencil had dropped the lead on the floor. where
found 1t. i have never been able to recall a word
of the poem. But. then, suppose il was no. to be
that should write another anthem"
IL wns at the second battle of Bull Run that
piece of shell cost Corp'l Tanner his two legs
There were six ofus," said the Corporal I" in one
little tent Tile six had lost seven legs. Our gar
mems had been cut from bodies because of
their fthiness. and all the covering each man had
was thin rubber blanket. We lay moaning for
water. On the ground outside lay one poor fellow
wounded in the side He could not rise, but when
lie spied little tree laden with apples near him
he crawled regardless of the terrible pain to the
tree, and. keeping his bleeding side uppermost,
draeged himself back and passed some apples to
me for the six of Then he died. L am going
to Secretary Smith to get reinstated one of
that six. He Is man of excellent habits. found
him supporting his family by working In shoe
shop at 81 day. Igave himaa place messenger
in the Pension Office, and is has been dismissed
will tell Secretary Smith how he came to be APP
pointed and ask reconsideration. the more conf
IDENTIFY as there Is Democratic evidence that when
in office j saved every Democratic old soldier I
possibly could. There the wsl Is q eertfuats Of
The National tribune., 1893-06-29
FITS IDEA OF "PENsIoN REFoRM.p

The Charleston News and Courier is rad
ical pension. reformer 1t does not believe
in any dilly-dallying with the momentous
subject. This is what it would do:
When you leave off the rolls the zoo, 900 coored
troops. and the 500. 000 foreign mercenaries. and
the $4,000 Southern renegades, and the 900
who fought for bounty, and the 900 who
fought for the wnges they received, how many
men were there who could be suspected of having
fought for the Union"? Have you ever made
the estimate? We should like to have IL. Our
own opinion. formed In tile light of subsequent
history and of the pension Developments, is that
Raun and Tanner. Sherman and Sheridan flirly
represented the material and sentiment of nine
tenths of the army of subjugaiion
The Mems and Courier only differs from
the other pension-baters in not indulging in
any hypocritieal ,palayer about wedding
out the deserters1 aud bounty-iumpers, the
shirks and the eoffee-coolers.' 1t wants all
who belonged to the army of subjugation
taken from the rolls. It has the rare merit
of honestly expressing its wants and inten-
tions.
The National tribune., 1893-06-29

ANOTHER "Reminiscences of States Rights.
Some time. ago the members of the LIST Va
n. G. desired TO have the benefit of the in
structions of an officer Of the Regular Army,
and upon the request of Gov. Mckinney
Lieut. Ira w. Haynes, 4th U. s. Art, was
detailed to duty as instructor of the Virginia
militia. He has recently asked to be re-
lieved from this, and returned to his own
regiment, for the reason that there has been
discovered in old law of Virginia forbidding
the employment in the service of the State
in any civil or military capacity of anyone
who is in the employment of the United
States.
The National tribune., 1893-06-29

The ordering of 100000 in gold from
Europe last week by New York firm is
welcomed as the first swallow which heraIds
the coming Spring of better times. The
low prices of wheat in this country have
attracted the attention of foreign buyers,
and a large investment has been made in
grain by English dealers. twill send back
to US our gold. Another thing that will
tend to bring gold back which is not so
cheerful q thought is that call loans in New
York are SO high that it pays better to use
the money in that city than in London,
where the Bank of England has lowered it's
rate of discount, making it considerably
lower than that obtainable in New York.
Altogether we feel that the worst is now
past, and by TIE LIST of July things will look
better all around.
The National tribune., 1893-06-29

Is electricity to give new life and vigor to
the canal traffic? 1t is thought 80 by many
practical men. Transportation by canal is yet
much the cheapest that has been devised,
in spite of the many Improvements in rail-
reading 1t is asserted that by using the
trolley system, boats can be propelled along
canals at less than one-fourth the cost by
mule power. Where the canals have album
dant water-power to generate their electricity
without the use of coal, as most of them
have, the cost of power can be still farther
cheapened. The experiment is to be tried
on the Erie Canal, and upon its success will
depend the adoption of the system by other
canals. Wehave faith in its success. We have
made a great mistake in not giving more
encouragement to canal traffic. The French
Government, which has incomparably more
business sense than any other in the world,
has never allowed one of its canals to 90
down. On the other hand, while all the
rest of the world has been neglecting canals
for railroads, the French Government has
been expanding immense sums In digging
new canals and developing the old ones, and
the navigation of rivers. The present Re-
public has spent over S200,O00,000 in this
work, and more than $3OO,0OO,0O0 has been
expended in it since the beginning of the
century.
The National tribune., 1893-06-29

SECRETARY CARLISLE has decided to aid
in ameliorating the financial stringency by
ordering that the payment of the usual
July interest On the bonds be anticipated
several days. This will undoubtedly help
greatly to tide over the financial shadows of
the LIST of July. But it would help vastly
more if the pension payments could be an
ticipated The money paid ont to the pen
sioners does not go into the Golfers and
boards of banks, but is at once distributed
all over the country. Everybody through
out the entire length and breadth of the
land gets immediate benefit from it.
The National tribune., 1893-06-29
How Booth saved IincoIn.

In the Spring of 1876. Edwin Booth was
standing on railroad platform ut q station
near Bowling Green, KY, waiting for a train.
He noticed gentleman standing near hiEJ,
apparently with the same object, and saw thas
he seemed eDgrossed in his own meditatioBs.
Presently the gentleman stepped from the plat
form to a track and began walking upon Il
entirely obIivious Of his surroundings.
Just at this moment an engine, which had
been getting water from a tank near at hand,
began backing up the track. Mr.. Booth, turn
ing around, saw it only when it was within
q few feet of his absent-minded companion.
On the impulse of the moment without
attempting to rouse the man to a sense Of his
danger-there was not time for this-Mr.
Booth stepped forward, and, clutching him by
the arm, lifted him almost bodily upon the
platform So near was the engine that it
struck the mans heels as they left the track.
The rescued gentleman was so overcome when
he realized his danger that he could only bow
his thanks and give his hand to his preserver.
It happened that Mr.. Ford, in whose theater
at Washington President lincoln was assassin
ated By Mr.. Booths brother, witnessed the
scene described above. Stepping forward, he
said exeitedly Mr.. Booth. do you know who
that man WASP" mo" was the reply. Is
was" said Mr.. Ford, Robert Lincoln, Presi.
dent Lincolu's son."
Mr.. Booth afterward said that this act Of his
gave him more satisfaction than could be rep
resented in any other way.
The National tribune., 1893-06-29
PAY OF NATIONAL LEGISLATORS.

PAY OF NATIONAL LEGISLATORS.
Itseems that the I.sndon Globe has had its
attention drawnIto hs same subject that
was recently discussed in the columns of
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE; that is, COM
parison Of the payof united States Congress
men with those of National Legislators in
other countries. 1t says;
The seriss of reports issued by the Foreign Office
on Saturday, which have been prepared by tha
British representatives abroad upon the question
OF payment of members of various legislative
bodies. contain some curious details. In Baden
for instance, though member of the lower house
receives IL shiings q day, peers are expected to
discharge their legislative functions for nothing,
Allowances for travelling expenses or gifts OF free
passes In lieu thereof, very common, but the
arrangement in France is peculiar. Members OF
the Chamber of Deputies receive G360 year and a
free pass on all the State lines and travel first
class on all other lines upon the payment of eight
shiiings a month. The United States are, as might
be expected, far from the most liberal in their al
iowsnoes. Every member of Congress receives
FL 900 ayear, paid monthly. 10d mile for travel
ing expenses and f25 year for stationery.
1t is. perhaps, tire great generosity of the States
which has filled Congress with class of profess
sional politicians. and tended to drive decent peo-
pie out of American politics. In Switzsrlanda MEM
Der gets only travelling allowance of two pence
kiiometer, which will rather inadequate to the
tourist who carries anything more than q KNAPP
sack with him. In Norway democratic Norway,
tile representatives of the people lave taken good
care that patriotism shall be made to pay. They
reoelvo IL shiiiiBgs and four pence day during
their presence in the Legislature. and they take
care TO sit most of the yeHr and IL shillugs day
for travelling expenses. besides the actual fares.
In addition. they have free nursing and doctoring
during the session. and entitled 10 courses of
gymnastics. massage and baths. and 10 have their,
teeth drawn or stopped free of charge, we hope,
painlessly. Portugal alone has ceased to pay its
members. except those who come from the colo
MES, but the municipalities may pay them IL they
like
1T is not little funny to have foreign
paper object to our high salaries for Con-
gressmen, as attracting to our public service
an inferior class of men, just az many Con-
gressmen assert on the floor of the House
that our big bounties attracted an inferior
class of men into the Union army. One is
probably just as true as the other.
The National tribune., 1893-06-29
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

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tered letter. postal money order, or draft on
New York, will be at the risk OF the sender.
AGENTS.-we employ no agents. THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE has many volunteer can.
vasscrS. and they are generally honest and
faithful; but persons who cOntide their SUBJ
scriptions TO them must be their own judges
OF their responsibility. The paper will be sent
only ON receipt of the subscription price.
ADDRESSES, RENEWALS, ETC.-Ad-
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but each subscriber should in every case give
the old as well as new address. In renewing
subscribers should be careful to send us the
label on the last paper received, ana specify
any corrections or changes they desire made in
name or address.
CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence is
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ARMY Sons of Veterans, Pension. Military, Ag-
ricultllral. Industrial and Household matters,
and letters to the Editor will always receive
prompt attention. Write on ONE SIDE of the
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their publication at any special date.
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE,
Washington, ID. G.
The National tribune., 1893-06-29

THE Portland Oregonian ostensibIy Re-
publican paper, is edited by man who was
a notorious Copperhead in Iowa during the
war. His old-time feelings breathe through
q recent editorial:
The Administration would gain infinitely more
by emitting down the pension rolls two-tbrds or
three quar- than it would lose in the estimation
of the people at large. an immense majority Of
whom have forgotten tho days of '6i-65, or
consider my mention OF them bore or perhaps
act unworthy of a patriot and gentleman. One
thing is certain the spirit of the country has 30
changed that like That would be fought
through now. The man who died for his country
offered to die for it. Is thought of a sort
Of romantic fool.
That is a pleasant way to inculcate- the
spirit Of patriotism in the rising generation.
The National tribune., 1893-06-29

THE financial striDgency began in Eng
land three years ago with the failure of
Barring Bros; it reached New York in full
force last Fall; struck the interior of the
country in the SPRING and is just now de-
vrloping ON the Pacific Coast After short
stay there it will leave our shores, probably
for Japan and China. In the meanwhile con-
6dence is rapidly returning in the pathway
already passed over by the commercial
cyclone.
The National tribune., 1893-06-29

THE Mahomeian propaganda in this
country seems to be a serious, thing. The
missionaries have established very fine
looking paper, The Moslem World, in New
York, which is devoted to the interests of
the American Islamic Propaganda" The
second number-it is published monthly
is finely illustrated, and devoted to enlogy
of Mahomet, and an explanation of the
various points in the religion of ISLAM