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A BlMETALLlsT's OPINION.
DR.. Andrews Of Brown University AnsWers
Pertinent Question.

Dr. AnofoWS OF brown unworthy AnsWofo
Pertinent Question.
Perhaps the most scholarly, intellec-
tual and honest Of the bimetallists is the
president Of Brown university. he was
one of the delegates from this country to
the International monetary conference
held at Brussels in 1892 and is an ar
dent advocate Of the wider use Of silver.
But he sees the folly and danger Of at
tempting the impossible-at least when
one nation attempts it single handed.
The following is DR.. Andrews reply,
published in the Chicago Record, to the
question. "Shall tho United States at
tempt the free coinage Of silver alone2"
III we take up tho metal alone, and
that course results as I should antici-
pate in the expulsion Of gold, we shall
have In the first place financial crisis
worse than any ever suffered in the
country. This because we cannot in a
long time, even by working our mints
day and night, coin silver enough to
take the place which would be vacated
by gold Prices would surely fall. I'm
mense numbers Of failures would occur.
Laborers would be thrown out of work.
Altogether dreadful paroxysm in our
business would be precipitated. Slowly
the gap left by gold would be filled by
the mining and coinage Of silver. Prices
would then gradually rise. At last they
would become higher than now, more
and more approaching the Mexican and
Japanese level
but consequence far worse than
any Of these would be that our passage
to silver basis would erect against for
eign exchange between Europe and the
United States just such barrier as now
exists between Europe and Mexico. 1t
would annihilate all fixed par between
New York and London, repeating the
terrible inconvenience in our European
exchanges which we suffered in war
times when we were upon paper
basis
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Literature Local and General News
ONLY FOUR lMMORTALS.
James Russell Lowell Crowns Homer,
Dante, Cervantes and Goethe.

James Russell Lowell Crowns Homer,
Dante, Cervantes and Goethe.
There are certain books which it is
necessary to read, but they are very
few. Looking at the matter from an
esthetic point Of view merely,
should say that thus far only ono
man had been able to use types so
universal and to draw figures so cos
mopoltan that they are equally true
In all languages and equally accept
able 10 the whole Indo- European
branch, at least, Of the human fami-
ly. That man Is Homer, and there
needs, 1t seems to me, no further
proof of his individual existence than
this very fact of the solitary unap-
proachableness Of the "Iliad" and the
Odyssey" The more wonderful
they are, the more likely to be the
work Of one person. Nowhere is the
purely natural man presented to us
80 nobly and sincerely as in these
poems.
Not far below these I should place
the "Divina Commedia" of Dante, in
which the history of the spiritual
man is sketched with equal COM
mand of material and grandeur of
outline. Don Quixote" stands upon
the same level and receives the same
universal appreciation. Here we
havo the spiritual and the natural
man set before us in humorous con-
trast. In the knight and his squire
Cervantes has typified the two op-
posing poles Of our dual nature-the
Imagination and the understanding
as they appear in contradiction.
This is the only comprehensive satire
ever written, for 1t is utterly inde-
pendent Of time, place and manners.
Faust" gives us the natural his.
tory Of the human intellect, Mephis-
topheles being merely the projected
impersonation Of that skepticism
which Is the invariable result of a
purely intellectual culture. These
four books are the only ones in
which universal facts of human ma
UuAC duu OApC1 lCuCO dIC 1uCethy ACp-
resented. They can therefore never
be displaced.
Ihaven not mentioned Shakespeare,
because his works come under q diff
ferent category. Though they mark
the very highest level of human gen.
ius, they yet represent no special
epoch in the history of the individual
mind. The man of Shakespeare is
always the man of actual life, as he
is acted upon by the worlds of sense
and Of spirit under certain definite
conditions. We all Of us may be in
the position of Macbeth or Othello
or Hamlet, and we appreciate their
sayings and deeds potentially, so to
speak, rather than actually, through
the sympathy Of our common nature
and not of our experience.-James
Russell Lowells Posthumous Essay
In the Century Magazine.
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North Carolina Emeralds.

In Alexander county, N. c., the
farmers in blowing used to turn up
pretty grass green prisms which they
called green bolts" Professor W.
E. Holden identified them as emer-
aids, and in July, 1880, he started in
to mine for them. He got many en-
eralds, but also discovered another
kind of emerald green stone unknown
until then, which he named hidden
ite." It occurred in slender prisms.
Digging for it has since been carried
on very profitably in that locality.
BY lapidaries it is highly esteemed,
and it has found much use in jew
elry. Seventy-four emeralds were
found in a single pocket" but most
Of them were too badly flawed to
have much value. - Boston Tran
script.
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A Race Cup.

A well dressed man entered a jew
eler's and asked if he could see
"those cups in the window" point
ing as he spoke to some silver cups
lined with gold.
"These," said the jeweler, handing
him one, "are race cups"
"Race cups7 What are race cupsT'A
why" replied the jeweler, they
are cups I had ordered to be made
for prizes for the best racer"
"Well, if that's so, suppose you
and / race for one," and with a cup
he started, and the jeweler after
him.-London Tit Bits
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A Fable and q Moral.

A cock, scratching for food for
himself and his hens, found a pre-
cious stone, ON which he said: If
your owner had found thee and not
I, he would have taken thee up and
set thee in thy first estate, but I have
found thee for no purpose. would
rather have one barleycorn than all
the jewels in the world. However,
on second consideration, thou wilt
make a good addition to the gravel
that Is in my craw and may help to
correct the slight dyspepsia that has
troubled me of late" This said, the
cock ceased moralizing and swal-
lowed the jewel.
Moral-There are a great many
people who wear diamonds for their
health. Halo.
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Mine Owners Versus Cotton Growers.

Two-thirds of our southern cotton
crop, valued at $500, ,000,0 is sold in
Europe to gold standard countries, and
the price is mainly fixed in Liverpool Oh
a gold basis If the United States adopts
free coinage without international agree
ment, the gold standard price for cotton
would remain exactly the same. The
southern farmer above all others is vi
tally interested in sound money, or the
dollar that has the largest purchasing
power. for his cotton is 'good as gold"
In Europe or America. There is 100 per
cent profit In free silver to the western
mine owner and 100 per cent loss in 1t
TO-. the southern cotton farmer.--West
Tennessee Whig,
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Jolly Funerals.

Here is a bill Of funeral expenses
containing items not uncommon at
the time. 1t is the burial expenses
of one David Porter of Hartford,
drowned in 1878:
eR
BY pint of liquor for those who dived for
BY a quart of liquor for those who brought
him home. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
BY two quarts of wine and one gallon cider
to jury Of inquest. Observation-Disclosures. 8
BY eight gallons and three quarts wine for
funeral. ..................... l 10
BY barrel cider for funeral. ................. 10
Ono coffin ln........................ u
Winding sheet. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. IL
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Inquisitive Tommy-Sunday is the
first day of the week, isn't it, pa9
His Pa-Yes, my son.
Inquisitive Tommy-And Saturday
Is the last day, amt it1
His Pa-Yes.
Inquisitive Tommy-Then how Is
it that Saturday comes before Sun
day2-Chicago Record.
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Christmas and Easter.

Christmas of any year always falls
on the same day Of the week as the
second of January Of that year, ,ln-
less it be leap year, when it is the
same week day as the third day of
January of that year. Easter is al
ways the first Sunday after the full
moon that happens on or next after
March d. It is not easy to see how
It can occur earlier than March % or
later than April 26 in any year
Boston Home Journal.
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Earned n Coffin.

A Winston citizen employed COLI
ored man to help him move his house
hold effects. When the job was COM
pleted, the employer told the man
that he had no money to pay him;
that the only thing he had to spare
for his services was coffin. The old
darky, after considering the proposS.
ton for some time, accepted the offef.
He picked up the coffin and carried il
to the colored undertaken, with whom
he made trade to sell his piece OF
property on conmission.-Winston
IN. CO. Sentinel.
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Mr.. Porter must have had merry
funeral, with a great deal Of sack to
very little coffin.
Even town pauper was given
three gallons of rum as libations at
his funeral-drank probably by the
sheriff and Mr.. Bundle with their
friends.
Hawthorne tells us that the New
Englanders were the jolliest at the
funerals Of their friends and neigh
bors-the only "boon companion Of
the Puritan was Death. Baltimore
Sun.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-14
KINDERGARTEN BAZAAR.
Unique Entertainment for the Benefit
of the French Christian Union.

Unique Entertainment for the Benefit
of the French Christian Union.
The kindergarten bazaar for the benefit
of the French Christian Union, held at the
Headquarters of that society, will be con-
tinued until 10 o'clock this evening.
There are four booths, uniquely and pret.
tily decorated, presided over by the ladies
of the guild. Many of the articles for sale
are made by the young ladies of the French
Industrial School.
The booth of fancy work articles is pre-
sided over by Mrs. P. Roscoe Men ulty, as
sisted by Misses Valerie Brennan and Cora
Kelsey and Mrs. Felix Latz; the flower
booth by Miss Alice Coleman and Miss l.
Mccullough; the candy booth by Miss
Sparks, and the booth of domestic articles
by Mrs. Wallace Everson.
This evening a musicale will be given, in
which Miss Pauline Collins of Oakland,
who has lately returned from Berlin, will
play, and Miss Josephine Sistermans and
Nine Marshall will sing. There will also
be q vocal quartet by the children of DIR.
Kus of Oakland.
One of the features of the bazaar is a
Punch and Judy show, conducted after
the manner of the Parisians on the Champs
Elysees. 1t creates great deal of amuse-
ment.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-14

Doescher, judges; Oscar Osen, referee; w.
Wand, D. w. Needhan, scorers. The committee
having charge of the tournament is composed
of Charles A. White, George III. Stratton, w. L.
Geldert, I. G. Spillane and C. F. Montealogre.
The Olympic Cyclers held an enthu-
siastic meeting last evening. 1t was de-
cided to organize football team among
the members. Considerable money will
be expended in fitting up room in the
club building for the cyclers. They will
have a run tomorrow to the park.
The Olympic Club will hold a vaude-
vile show and minstrel entertainment at
the Columbia Theater Monday evening,
January 20, the occasion being the thirty
sixth anniversary of the club. Super
intendent Kennedy will be the inter
locutor of the minstrel first part, and the
end men will be Dave Mclaughlin, Bob
Mitchell, Will Hines and Jack Cathcart.
Tickets can be obtained now at the club.
Next Thursday evening there will be
swimming tournament, open to all, for
which there are nearly hundred entries.
Thursday evening, January 8, will be
gentIemen's night. for which there has
been arranged catch-as-catch-can wrest-
ling bout between l.. Fetress, Olympic,
and J. G. Williamson, Acme, at 145 pounds /;
also two boxing contests, between +. H.
Smith and Joseph Sullivan, Olympics, at
12O pounds, and George Bates, San Fran
cisco Athletic Club, and J. W. Reay,
Olympic Club at 155 pounds.
The Olympic and Pacific baseball mines
will compete tomorrow at Central Park at
3 O'Clock
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-14
MR. W|SE'S SON HARRY HAS A WAREHOUSE,

him, but Mr.. Wise Sr. sent word to Ware
houseman Edwin Danforth yester rday by
another warehouseman contradiCtlng this.
The information conveyed to the Broad
way and Atlantic warehouses was that lie
had not gone around Chinatown with his
son at all. Mr.. Danforth believes Mr.
Wise tells the truth tor he reasons that the
CoIlt ctor could not afford to do anything
that would be so open to criticism as
Collector of Customs drumming up bonded
warehouse business for his son among Chi
nese merchants, considering Mr.. Wlse's
vigorous enforcement of the exclusion acts.
With the Chinese merchants Mr.. Wise
is not popular. They and their counsel are
disposed to think that he is aspiring to the
fame of a very Vidocq in his particular
line. investigation of Chinese immigrants,
and if they can possibly avoid 1t they Will
not throw any business In the direction OF
the Vallejo-street warehouse, they say
A rather high-handed proceeding was in
dulged in few days ago. Some goods be-
longing to Henry Doyle & Co. were on the
Broadway wharf. They were rushed over
to the ValIejo-street warehouse without
any consultation of Mr.. Doyle's wishes.
Mr.. Wise's explanation of his sons busi-
ness venture is that he knows no way OF
preventing Harry from going into any
legitimate business he sees fit to engage
in; that bonded warehouse is as leglt1-
mate business investment as any other,
and not political matter. and that the
fact that Harry is his son has nothing to
do with it any more than if he was any
BODY else's son. He reasons that his own
position as Collector has no connection
whatever with Tanv other mans private
business affairs.
Those who are close to Mr.. Wise say that
his son went into partnership with Mr..
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-14
SAMPLES OF WATER.
The Board of Health Visits Number
of the Spring valley Company's
Reservoirs.

The Board of Health Visits a Number
of the Spring valley Company's
Reservoirs.
The Board of Health, represented By
Mayor Sutro and Drs. Morse, Hart and
Williams, made a trip to number of
Spring Valley reservoirs yesterday for the
purpose of getting samples of water to be
analyzed for organic or chemical impure
ties by experts employed by the board.
They were accompanied by Professor
Wenzell, the analytical chemist; Thomas
Price Jr., George T. Gaden and Taylor
Rogers of the Mayors office; DR.. Spencer.
DR.. White, the bacteriologist, and Her
mann Schussler, the Spring Valley en-
gineer.
The party left the City Hall in a number
of carriages. Laguna Honda, Laguna de
la Merced and the reservoirs at University
Mound, Clarendon Heights and College
View were visited and numerous demi-
johns filled from each.
Mr.. Price, Professor Wenzel and DIR.
White will begin their work on the samples
at once and the results of their labor will
probably be known within week. Mayor
Sutro said that in case the analyses were
finished before the next regular meeting of
the board he would probably call a special
meeting to hear the reports Of the experts.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-14
KINDERGARTEN CHRISTMAS.
Joyful Days in Store for the LittI,
Folks.

The Golden Gate kindergarten Asso-
citation with its forty different classes,
will have lively time of it for the days to
come in the Christmas festivities of the
children, which will be held at the follow
ing times and places:
On Tuesday, the 18th, at 10 o'clock, the
first festival will be held at the Grant
Memorial kindergarten, corner of Ala
bama and Twentythird streets. At II
o'clock the Pearl Dowda, at 1927 Mission
street. At 2 o'clock, the Stanford Memo
rial No. S, at 1910 Mission street; the Will
lam N. Steuben. at N ineteenth and Hamp-
shire streets, and the Noe Valley, at Vicks-
burg and Twenty-ffth streets.
On Wednesday, the 18th, at Eighth and
Brannan streets, at 10 o'clock, the STAN
ford Memorial Nos. and 4 will hold their
Christmas festivities. At Ii o'clock, at I'll
Ninth street, the Pope, Emily P. Walker
and Hazel Montgomery will celebrate !;
also at IL the Wilmerding Memorial and
the Osgood and Grace Bradley Memorial
will have their exercises at Turn Verein
Hall, 237 Twelfth street, near Folsom. at
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-14

meeting the other evening Father Leggo,
8. j., director, presided. The secretary,
Charles E. McAuliffe, read the minutes,
as we'll as history of the society for the
year. D. J. Costello read the treasurer's
report, showing healthy state of finance.
Mr.. Dignan's account of the library and
reading circle was very interesting show
ing a great increase in the number of
books and readers.
The roll project, Mr.. Colson, gave de-
tailed account of attendance of every
member for the year and showed con-
siderable net increase in the number of
Socialists for 1895, a compared with any
year since 1861.
James R. Kelly, who was one of its
organizers as well as president for over
twenty years, was unanimously reelected
prefect, ard in a happy and eloquent
speech thanked the society for the high
honor conferred on him so often.
Thomas r. Carew and John E. Fitz-
patrick having received the highest num-
Der of votes for assistant projects, were
elected accordingly.
The election of recording secretary, finan-
cial secretary, treasurer, roll prefect, IL
brarian, marshal, vestry project, assistant
officers, choir and six member of council
will be held Tuesday evening, December
81, in the library of the sodality.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-14
POLICE PULLS"
Judge Joachimsen Will Not Allow Such
Thing Said In His
Court,


Court.
It is not often that plain drunk" case
in the Police courts attracts attention, but
there was one before Judge Joachimsen
yesterday which was unusually interesting.
James OLeary, fagman at Seventh
and Bryant streets, was arrested by Officer
McGrew some days ago and booked at the
Southern station as drunk. The case has
been continued several times, but is now
disposed of, with the result that O'Leary
must pay fine of S.. From the evidence
it was shown that O'Leary was in an in
toxicated condition when he met McGrew
and for some imaginary grievance imme-
diately attacked him. The officer was Sc
verely bitten in the left hand, and was
finally forced to punch the festive o. 'Leary
before that gentleman came to his senses.
OLeary at once preferred charges
against McGrew, which are still pending
before the Police Com missioners.
Prosecuting Attorney Dare reviewed the
evidence in the case, finally demanding
the conviction of O'Leary as the only way
in which justice could be served. He al
luded to the powerful pulp OF the Central
Pacific, for which corporation the defend
ant worked.
When Attorney McGregor, in behalf OF
O'Leary, began his reply the ire OF the
court was Immediately aroused.
"All that I want is justice" began the
attorney. There is not one scin tilla OF
evidence to show that this man was
drunk. My friend talks of the Central
Pacific pull. l say let justice be done in
spite of the so-called railroad pull or any
Police Court pull Or"
Here, stop that" thundered Judge
Joachimsen. "I allow no talk of Police
Court pulls in this COURT
'But, your Honor, the Prosecuting At
torney has alluded to railroad pull and
II don't care what he has alluded to
you must not talk about any Police Court
pull around here"
That ended the little tilt, McGregor
making no further reference to the pro-
hibited subject. 1t is probable that
O'Leary will appeal from the decision oi
Judge Joachimsen.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-14

2 O'Clock the Two Friends, at i018 Folsom
street, and the Willard, at 1861 Turk
street.
On Thursday the 10th, at 10 o'clock,
Stanford kindergartens Nos. l and 2 will
have their exercises at 1906 Mason street;
at II o'clock the Lester Norris, the Produce
Exchange and the Pacific, at 1881 Pacific
street; at 2 O'Clock the Golden Gate Valley
and the Scott Memorial kindergartens at
1916 Union street, and the Richmond Dis
trict Kindergarten at 291 Third avenue.
On Friday, the goth, at IA West Mission
street, at 10 O'Clock, the Lux-Potter, the
Fuller-Shattuck and the Merchants kim
dergartens will hold their Christmas ex-
erciseS; at IL o'clock the Real Estate and
Attorneys at 535 Castro street; at 2 o'clock,
the Hearst and Helping Hand kindergar-
tens at Bersaglieri Hall, corner of Stockton
and Union streets; the Potrero Kindergar-
ten, Tennessee street, near Solano, at the
same hour.
The friends of the kindergartens are very
cordially invited to attend these Christmas s
festivities. The children will have a happy
time.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-14
SUES THE POUNDKEEPER,
An Attorneys Pathetic Story
of the Death OF an
Old Horse.
Poetic Description of a Point Lobos
Avenue Lot Where the Servant
of Man Grazed.

1t is not often that attorneys have the
time or poetical turn of mind necessary to
make pen-pictures within the confined
limits of Justice Court complaints, par
ticuIarly where the m after over which the
litigation is begun is nothing more than
the value of horse captured and executed
by the Poundkeeper.
Attorney John O'Byrne, who is credited
with having been the main factor in the
conviction of Boss Tweed, the New York
political leader, who absconded many
years ago with S., 900 of municipal
funds, filed a complaint yesterday in which
the faithful servant of man is treated in a
new and novel manner and the environs of
a Point Lobcs avenue lot are clothed in
poetic thoughts that throw the surround
ings of empty cans and other useless debris
entirely into the shade.
The complaint begins in the usual
prosaic way, reciting the fact that on No
vember % j. t. Mabey was the owner of
one sorrel horse, which was kept in a lot
adjoining his residence on Thirty fourth
and Point LoboS avenues. That the ami
NAL was kept there with the knowledge and
consent of the owner of the lot, and that
the ground was properly inclosed and
fenced.
When the attorney came to the narration
of how the animal was taken out by the
employees of the Poundkeeper, who is the
defendant in the suit, he waxed eloquent.
He says:
That on or about the 23d day of November,
1895, and while said horse in said lot afore-
said was quietly and harmlessly cropping the
tender blades of grass and the fragrant clover
blossoms which with oriental ruglike effect
covered the said pasture lot, and was musing
with his innocent animal thoughts upon the
kindness of the human race in general. and
upon the devotion and care OF his master and
mistress, the said plaintiff, to him in particu-
deputies and employees, suddenly appeared
upon the horizon. rudely disturbed the effec-
tive picturesqueness OF the rural scene, took
violent and unwarranted possession OF said
horse as he graZed in said lot as aforesaid and
proceeded to compel him to direct his steps to
the institution provided for the unfortunate
wanderers of bis race, to wit: the public Pound
OF the said City and County, of which the
defendant was at all times mentioned herein
and is the keeper.
All without any notice to or consent by the
said plaintiff, or to or by any one having the
horse in charge.
That after cruelty driving said horse for some
thirteen blocks the defendant, through his
agents, deputies and employees, without cause
and in cold blood, shot him to death on Lake
street, near Twenty-fifth avenue, in said City
and County, thereby causing his dumb spirit
to take flight to the animal kingdom above,
and to the damage OF the plaintiff in the sum
of 500.
That beside said pecuniary damage the
depression of spirit over the premature death
of his said faithful animal servant, which no
money can compensate and which only time
eau render bearable.