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The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-12
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Verrill of Whalley avenue gave
 a charming tea crush Saturday after
 noon for her daughter, Miss Edith Yer
 Till, and her guest, Miss Coe. Miss Yer
 Till iseone of this seasons debutantes,
 her presentation reception having been
 one of the prettest affairs of the win
 ter.
 Dr. w. A. Croffut, at one time editor of the Palladium, this city, but for the last six years executive geological of1- cer of the United States survey at Washington, is organizing vacation party to lead to Europe as far as Rome June 29. Already, it is said, sixty per sons are booked, including thirty from Connecticut.
 Fire Commissioner Parsons has recov- cred from his recent illness, and is at tending to business.
 Announcement cards have been re- ceived by prominent society people in New Haven of the marriage of Miss Mary K. Bunce, daughter of Captain Bunce of the U. s. N, to w. J. Com stock, for several years instructor in Yale Scientific school, residing on Trum- bull street. The wedding occurred on Saturdaydlast at St. Georges church in New York city and was brilliant af- fair. sig
 Charles D. sherman of the New Ha- ven Gas Light company, who was elect ed director of the New England Asso- citation of Gas Engineers at its last an-l nuaI meeting, leaves for Boston to-day to attend the twenty-ffth annual meet ing of the association, which takes place at the Parker house on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Charles H. Net tfeton, secretary and treasurer of the Derby Gas Light company, who is pres fdent of the association, will call the meeting t6' order on Wednesday morn-3 ing at 10 o'clock.
 MT. and, Mrs. J. c. Van Raessler of Brooklyn, who were married Wednes- day and are visiting friends in this city were rendered reception Saturday af-! ternoon by MT Weatherwax, an inti-i mate friend of the groom. "Jack' Van Raessler is well known in this city as a popular man of the class of '93 L. s. Mir and Mrs. Van Raessler and Messrs. and Moody are to sail on the 9th for Europe to be absent one year in northern France, Italy and Switzerland.
 Edward Downes, consul at Amster- dam, arrived in New York yesterday on the steamship Maasdam at 10 o'clock. He arrived in this city last evening.
 F. F. Andrews of Church street has sent for twenty-four dozen live quail, which he proposes to set at liberty in the woods in this vicinity. He expects that the birds will arrive here about the 20th of the present month. Another lot of birds will also be received by MT. Andrews in March and these also will be set at liberty.
 Miss Pardee's "Yale Man Up to Date' Is such g. success that the entire edition Is exhausted. A second edition is being
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-12
NORTH CHINA MISSION.

Meeting To-day in Center Church Chapel.
 The February meeting of the New Ha- ven branch of the Woman's Board of Missions will be held in the Center church chapel this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Mrs. Harlan F, Beach will speak of work in the North China mis- sion, with which she has been con nected. Mrs. Beach is most interest," ing and attractive speaker.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-12
4 pUPI1 OF wHEAroRoFr,s.
Miss Mary Dudley Burlr of Thir ! City.

Miss Mary Dudley Burk, the elocu- tionist of this city, who gives a re- cital in Warner hall Monday evening, February 1S,is studying with MT. Wheat croft, the actor of New York.
 Miss Burk will be assisted in the re- cital by MT. Frank Denithorne, who has this year been engaged to support Miss Dauvray of New York. MT. Deni- thorne is one of MT. Wheatcroft's grad uates.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-12

Fogg-Since Tom has married that rich Miss Munniworth he leads a reg ular dogs life. Figg-It's always the way. Fogg-Yes, he does nothing but sleep and eat.-Boston Transcript
The advocate., 1895-07-31
Ny COuntry-HOw Lost.

EDITOR ADvoCATE:-Ie coming events
cast their shadows before, Of what awful
moment to mankind will be those events
whose Plutonisn shadows so dsrkly fall
in the twilight Of the nineteenth GEN.
tury.
We are standing in the shadow Of that
darkness in which nations Of the past
have bsen swallowed up when their
glory's day passed its zenith, and only 8
mass Of ruins lie mouldering in the dust
Of the past to tell us where they once
flourished and now lie buried in the sea
Of forgstfulness that awaits all people
in all ages who forget that the "WsgeS
Of sin Is DEATH"
Moral and political corruption are the
rocks on which they went to pieces and
must ever strand until men shall learn
to heed the voice Of truth, whose clarion
tones ring triumphant through the ages
above the wrecks OF death and time.
VntI tho psHOpg uhSll Geese 10 make
The advocate., 1895-07-31

conducting free excursions for poor chill
dren, taking 500 of them at a time to
Che parks near the city. The Salvation.
lists are not considered to be Of much
use on earth, but in this act they ara
doing more good than all the churches
of Kansas City have done by sending
money and missionaries to the heRthens.
The Epublic will not get much ex.
cited about the reports Of Indian mas
saCres and battles in Wyoming. The
newspapers must indulge in that kind Of
rot about once year and it is much
more convenient for the reporters to
have it 80 they can furnish the stuff
while they are enjoying their summer
vacation in proximity to the Indian res.
ervRtions.
The Nebraska Legislature passed law
last winter Ito go into effect August u
the effect Of which would be to turn the
city government Of Omaha over to the
American Protective association, and
bar all Catholics from sll official posi-
tions In that city The prospects iindi.
cate riot in store for Omaha and Gov.
srnor Holcomb is trying to- prevent 1t
by having the supreme court pass on
the validity of the law.
The advocate., 1895-07-31
An Open Letter.

To the O6lcers Of the Ancient Order of United
WOrkmen
Hon. Joseph E Riggs, supreme mas.
ter workman; w. M. Wallace grand mas
ter workman Of the Kansas jurisdic-
tiOn; E, M. Forde, for fifteen years
grand recorder Of the Kansas jurisdic-
tion; Hon. A. P. Riddle, editor Kansas
Workman.
BROTHERS: The good name Of our Or
der as we'll as the good name of all ben
efloiary organizations has been sssailed
in an official report OF the insurance de-
psrtment Of this state with the evident
intent Of iniurlnR the growth and inn
pairing the usefulness Of such orders
and with fair presumptiVe purpose Of
rendering valuable service to old-line
insurance companies. 1t is my
belief that such an unfair and unjust
aB we'll as uncslled for report demands
something more than silence from those
upon whom the highest official honOEs
have been worthily bestowed. Knowing
as you do that the effairs Of our order
have always been honestly conducted,
that we have paid to the widows and
orphan children Of deceased brothers
more than 80 millions of dollars, and
that there has never been dollar di'
Verted from the purpose for which it
was levied; and knowing, too, that there
has never been an honest claim Rgsinst
the order that has not been promptly
adjusted, l believe the membership Of
the order have a right to expect from
you such treatment Of this dastsrdly re.
port as it's infamous character merits.
believe we have a right to expect you
to speak in your official capacities Of it's
villainous SANDERS and to present the
facts within your knowledge respecting
the character Of our order to the people,
giving them all the publicity that has
been given to the libel upon our good
name. What say you?
s. MCLlALLIN.
The advocate., 1895-07-31
The HOrr- Harvey Debate.
s.. MCLlALLIN.

Special Correspondence.
II there ever was q pitiful spectacle
presented in public on a rostrum it was
Saturday at the Harvey and Horr de-
bate, at the Illinois club in this city, by
Rossvills G. Horr, the imported cham
pion Of the gold bugs, the man brought
to Chicago to literally wipe up the earth
with Colonel Harvey.
Commencing his part Of the debate
the first day by accusing Harvey Of try.
ing TO fool the people into q belief that
. school really existed and that persons
The advocate., 1895-07-31

named in the book were in attendance,
when every school boy who read the
book understood that it was only ale
goriCal, Horr, after working this dodge
that has been worked by the papers
until it has become Q chestnut, has
stumbled through from the beginning
by the employment Of inveotiV9 and
ridicule in snswer to HsrVey's calm,
philosophical argument, managing by
some hook or crook to partially keep his
head above water until yesterday, whom
down he went completely snnihilRted,
limp Rs q rag, q wrothful, hysterioal
old man; one moment with wild and
frenzied gestures denounClng, in the
worst billing8gate, the advocates,
Of free coinage, the next moment plead
ing his loyalty to the working masses,
old age and sincere purpose. Driven
to bay by the calm and lnvinoible Har-
Vey, he snarled and Kissed and writhed
ard showed his fRngs and then covered
in his corner, the defeated champion of
an ignoble cause, whipped and whining.
But impotent as Horr's rage and hu'
initiation, they are but a bubble from q
tiny spring compared with the torrents
Of despair aud sffliCtion rolling over and
about those who brought their cham
pion here, full Of glee, at the prospect of
the "holy show" they were going to
make Of Harvey and the fun they were
going to have. Alasl the poor old
Tribune end the other Chicago organs
Of the "Eed metal cor spirRtOrs" He
who reads between the lines Of their
daily Misrepresentation concerning the
debate beholds the rawlings Of despair
caused by the ignominious and crush
ing defeat Of the Eastern idol. The poor
Chronicle, the new democratic daily
gOld-bu organ, had it the worst Of all
the day succeeding Saturdays debate in
which their champion was thrown as
fest Rs he could get mp. Its ''squeaW
was piercing and the most pitiful Of all,
1t was stricken with a maudlin grief
that drove it into q driveling, sniveling
whine Of oontumely and misrepresenta-
tion, like the swapping snarl OF q
whipped cur.
Yes, the demorslizsd, sickened crowd
Of gold, bugs would, like the man with
the bear, implore help to let 60. Not
an impression yet made on the invul-
nerRbility of Coin. On the one side,
Colonel Harvey, calm and unruffl9d,
standing sphinx-like in his serenity and
faith, God and right on his side, upheld
by the sublimitY and justice of his cause;
on the other side, their man, nervous,
agitated, confused, losing ground day
by day, in the debate which they them
selves invited. Yes, they want some one
to help them let 90, but all the letting
go now or at any time will not repair the
mistake they have made In putting up
this job on themselves.
The advocate., 1895-07-31

ised land, the land OF hope, where Rlorv
shall never die" But that bright pic.
ture is fading away within its iewsled
setting, and how miserRbly inconsistent
must seem the Transformation when
they look upon us now, in the light Of
different hue, whose tints are reflected
from the dark events that trsnspIred 80
soon after.
And the end is not yet, for the destroy
Ing car Of JuggernRut still goes mRdly
on, crushing and manning che victims
who venture too near. The "Cry Of the
needy is heard in the land;" Ressts are
spread in the homes Of the wealthy
whose coat would feed the multitude,
but the tinted light from the ohande.
llers that hang over those tables shines
upon grim starvation without, where
the wolf waits as the cottage door, OeF-
tain Of prey.
Manhood is blightsd in its bloom, and
the fairsst flowers Of mortality that ever
grRCed this lovely earth wither and die
when the polluting blasts Of vice and
crime that originate in "the mansions"
sweep across their otherwise pure and
innocent lives. And He who marks the
SpsrroW's fall will not forget these prime
motors Of crime, IN the day OF wrath, for
surely vengeance is not Of this world
else the black souls OF some OF eaEth's
rich lspers would lend even the clay in
which they dwell q midnight hue.
20 ,LibertyI what crimes are COM
mitted in thy nsmsp The spectacle Of
great plundererS living in more than
prinCely luxury from the interest OF their
stolen millions, and the poor common"
people who produced these same mil
lions starving by degrees, agony long
drawn out, In the shadows of the rob.
bers' mansions, is a aRddsr one than that
which caused the mighty Nazarene to
weep over the srring Jerusalem In His
day.
0, my country once, my country still
How lost, how fallen; how dead to thy
purer, better self art thou, when al the
mighty deeds Of heroes gone, and the
memory OF all the untold suffering OF
those patriots who died that we might
live, avsils nRught toward srousinQ the
sleeping sons Of liberty from that we'll
nigh fatal letheFgy, brought on by the
opisteS OF ignorance, prejudice and in
difference to those things which most
concern the welfare and happiness, aye,
the life, Of every citizen OF our common
country.
Viewed in the light Of precedent, IL
seems 80 foreign to the natural: order Of
the former things to see the people Of
truly mighty country so utterly indihsr-
emit to their welfare, for surely this is the
mightiest nation Of modern times, the
golden Utopia toward which the covet-
ous gazs OF all nations has been turned
and to whose lovely shores the sore OPP
pressed Of every land have come to find
blessed relief from tyrsnts they could
no longer endure. They came by mil
lions to psrtake freely Of that dear
bought hospitality whose warm welcoms
greeted them everywhere. The birds
sang more sweetly in our balmy cir OF
freedom. Our soil produced richer
fruits and rarsr flowers, and time healed
their grievous wounds.
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The advocate., 1895-07-31

eEty and Christianity. Until that happy
condition 10 brought about by and
through the refining influence of better
homes and less poverty, more equity and
less political law" the nations Of earth
must fall, one after another, and share
the inRlorious fate OF their predecessors,
each in turn adding "blGck" page to
the history Of the world.
In the darkness that has fallen across
our liberty's lost day we see as we never
saw before, monstrosities OF selfshness
and sin everywhere, rearing their Odious
forms in this most relentless struggle
for supremacy the world has ever known.
II is amid such conditions az these
that the knight Of the nineteenth
century finds himself to-day, with all
the dread uncertainties OF the future
before him, while the prsCedents Of his.
tory show him those dark deeds that
rRvenliks lingsr around the milestones
Of the past, and point warning for the
future.
He has arrived at the parting Of the
ways, whose ends lie in the darkness Of
obacurity beyond him, and he knows
not which way to turn.
With an arrogant plutOCraCy on the
one hand, who have, by the aid OF their
tools Of vested ignorance (pOlics and mi
litis), brought 20 millions Of people to
the verge Of destruction and made 70
millions more bow the knee in servile
patronage to them, and the cries of an
outraged and oppressed people for do.
livsrsnce on the other hand, the way is
strsWn thickly with thorns, and the end
cannot be far of,
How hopeless seems the lot Of 30 mil
lions of free born human beings IN bon
dsgs to $4,000 or 10000 Of their own kind,
whose only leverage Of power is that
which money alone gives them.
Such Capitalization Of power in the
hands Of a few has never in the history
Of men been productive Of but one re-
suit, viz: the final ruin Of the nation in
which the power of the people was 30
centralized.
But still more melancholy seems our
fate when we realize that this Withering
blight has fallen upon as slowly aud 81
lsntly, like the fatal volcanic ashes
which buried the fair city Of Pompeii in
all it's splendOr ere the people were aware
Of the danger. This deadly poison Of
corruption, stealing slowly through the
arteries of our national life, has been
unheeded, save by few, who, like grim
prophets, have cried from the watch
towers Of liberty to q sleeping people to
arise and cast it out. But now the
poison has reached the heart, and the
people are srousing themselves, per-
haps ~ too late.
The cRnker was in the bud and the
blight is on the flower Of freedom, whose
wondrous beauty enchanted the world.
And it came iu the noontide hour Of the
nations greatness; In the time Of our
most marvellous success, when a. a peo-
we had made the most sublime achieve
ments in liberal classic and industrial
arts that Was ever Witnessed in modern
times; the most ethereal dreams Of
earth's greatest srtists-under the magic
touch Of skilled labor-came to fu II frui-
ton, producing an aggregate result
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-12
THE NEW HEALTH BOARD.
AppointeeS Take the Oath
Before the Governors
Secretary.
Dennis Spencer, the Napa States
man, Is Made Attorney of
the Board.

Governor Budd's private secretary, Mr..
McCabe, left Sacramento yesterday after
noon at 3 o'clock for San Francisco bear
ing with him the commissions of the
newly appointed members of the Board OF
Health. On his departure he telegraphed
to the doctors that he had the documents
with him, and, according to instructions,
they met him at the California Hotel last
evening. Without delay or unnecessary
formality he escorted them to his room in
the hotel and there administered the oath
of Office.
The appointees took it cheerfullv and
went away in a happy frame of mind, con-
graduating each other.
The Governor signed Dennis Spencer S
commission yesterday and the document
was sent to the statesman at Napa. Mr..
Spencer Is, therefore, appointed attorney
of the Board of Health. George A. Knight,
whoeholds the Office, maintains that the
law requires his successor to be elected.
The salary of the place is $4,000 year.
Dennis Spencer is well-known Demo
crat who has rendered his party good SER
vice in council and on the public platform.
He has served as District Attorney of Napa
County and also in the Senate of the State
Legislature, representing the district in
which Napa is situated. It-cannot be dis
tinctly affirmed that Dennis Spencer
sought the office, but on the fact coming
to his knowledge that the Office was seek
ing the NAH, he nearly broke the world s
record for speed in running TO meet it half
way.
Mr.. Spencer has more than once been a
candidate for the Democratic nomination
for Governor, and has had strong following
in conventions.
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ing and draw more money from the treas
ury than anything else on wheels in this
wide world. The noise they make is music
to G. A. Buckeyes ear. The sense OF SOUND
and memory are so intimately blended
that the racket would call to his mind
those halcyon days when the contractor
for sewer-cleaning drew for many year a
handsome monthly sum for cleaning
sewers in streets which had not then been
severed.
The specifications now pending before
the Board of Supervisors do not give the
Street. Superintendent as much power over
the contractors as he would perhaps pre-
fer. For example, it is provided that a
contractor who receives a certain sum per
yard for sweeping a street three times a
week shall receive a premium per yard
when the street is only swept twice. He
cannot be made to remove the accumula-
tons of a week at one sweeping without
being allowed something extra for it.
Again, it is provided that all machine
labor performed must be charged 10 per
cent less than the price bid.
1t is the aim of the Merchants Associa-
ton to take care of men who can perform
the duty of street-sweeping and remove
them from competition in other fields of
labor. The idea is to protect the labor
market from the competition of men
forced by necessity to offer their labor at
any price.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-12
silvery among the wheatfelds of the great
San Joaquin Valley.

silvery among the wheatfelds OF the great
San Joaquin Valley.
When the rail went over the steamers
side and was landed on the barge Planet,
A. G. Stetsonswrote in his book one tally,
and the people on the dock cheered the
noted disem barkature.
There goes the first piece of steel into
the vitals of railroad monopoly in Califor-
ma" said an enthusiastic spectator. "Now
hoist out some spikes and We'll nail it
down right here, to show we mean bust
ness"
mo Huntington car will ever roll over
that rail, !" said a stevedore, singing 1t into
place on the barge.
eff it does there will be Southern Pa
cific tire punctured," answered his mate,
working his crowpar under the thirty feet
of steel as the donkey engine lowered
away.
Down in the capacious depths of the big
Washtenaw the visitor could not but
admire the manner in which the cargo had
been slowed for the long voyage around
the Horn. A layer of rails had been laid
on the ships bottom floor, and upon this
another layer had been placed, each rail
upside down, in such a manner that the
surface was smooth steel floor. This
method had been pursued until all the
1888 pieces of metal had been loaded.
Then upon them had been dumped 1000
tons of coal, which, when discharged, was
shoveled off the rails with perfect ease.
Two gangs of men worked in the fore
and after holds of the Washtenaw and by
6 O'Clock about 800 rails were unloaded.
Considerable pickering took place between
the gang in the steamer breaking out the
iron and the men on the barge receiving
it. The former are regular stevedores,
who are under a contract to unload the
vessel as soon as possible, and the others
are California Navigation Company men,
who are unaccustomed to handling such
freight and, moreover, are working under
contract that calls for the unloading of
only certain number of tons daily. The
two gangs had several clashes during the
afternoon and the unloading was retarded
in consequence.
The managers of the steamer expect to
have her empty Saturday, and go on Hun
tiers Point drydock Sunday morning to
prepare for the trip to Panama. But I'M
less, better arrangements are made the
work will not be finished till next week.
The hold also contains 2496 packages of
fshplates and 720 barrels of spikes.