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PRESERVATIyE OF PEACE.

General Miles is President Of the
Board of Ordnance and Fertilization.
AS such he has reported to the Secretary
of War, and the latter to the President
in urgent terms, that the coast defenses
of the country should be augmented in
number, improved in character, and that
those now under construction should be
rapidly pushed on to completion. No
one who knows General Miles believes
that he would have signed such a report,
except convinced beyond all doubt of
the necessity for that which it recon-
mends.
The General believes that while there
is no immediate danger of war with any
nation, that one of the best of peace
presentations is readiness. 1t is not so
necessary to equip all coast defenses as
it is TO have the latter ready for equip
ment We should first provide for the
constructions and for arming a number
OF them, and then give attention to the
afInaInSHI VI siil ttS IL SeCOllOdTy dStlSlty.
The report OF the board is expressive
of its belief that If war comes at all
it will come without warning, as did the
war between France and Germany in
1870, and China and Japan in 1894
General Miles says that of more than
sixty European wars of record in this
century, in only one case was any for
hostilities.
The Baltimore Sun" points out that
twenty years ago Samuel J. Tilden gave
precisely the same advice that is now
pressed upon the country by the board
OF which General Miles is President The
great Democratic statesman said that
"a nations peace and property ought
to be adequately protected by prepara-
ton In times of peace against even the
possibility of war"
Preparation for defense if an influence
for peace is great economy. It is cal
culated by statisticians that the wars
of the last forty years cost the nations
involved the enormous sum of S113, ,000,-
100000.
DR.. Engel, a distinguished German
statistician, gives the following as the
approximate cost of the principal wars
OF the last forty years: Crimean war,
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limbs, heads and headless trunks of
soldiers, SO frightful is it's work Of de-
struction.
Seven shots from the gun won that
Important battle for the Cubans. Short
ly after, about September Goth, the in
surgents, only a handful of them, but
having the dynamite gun, met 5000
Spanish, commanded by Echague, but
the work of the gun was SO terrible
that the trained soldiers were whipped
by the unframed rebels in few min
utes.
Now, a ha1f-dozen of these guns
casting shot into city would do as
dreadful work as would dynamite shells
dropped from balloon. Since war
means the killing of human beings and
the rending of them limb from limb,
and the destruction of property of all
kinds, why should the balloon bomb ap-
pear to us more inhuman than the gun
shell?
1t is perhaps to be said that in towns
and cities women, children and nom
combatants are congregated, and
against them war is not to be waged
under the humane regulations TO which
the balloon shell would wreak destruc-
ton among such. But so, too, will the
same shell if cast from a mortar or
compressed air gun. In warfare, of
course, warning is given to non-com-
batants to leave a city about to be
shelled, and the same regulation of hui
manity would prevail in case balloons
are ever used for dropping missiles
upon a doomed city.
In either case property is to be de-
stroyed. In neither case is soldiery es-
pecially aimed at, except they are
massed in a fort. 1t is the city that is
to be destroyed rather than the SOL
diers who may happen to be killed. It
is the absolute wrecking of town that
is desired to compel the enemy to save
it by evacuati ton or surrender We can
not understand, therefore, why the hu-
name should be any more worked up
over the use of dynamite from bal
loon than dynamite from gun. Either
use is fearful and inhuman, just as is
all war. More than this, the more de-
structive war is, the less people will be
inclined to engage in it, and the shorter
will be its duration.
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So, 100000, 900; italian war of 1889.
$500, ,O00, 900; Prusso-D Danish war Of 1864,
$50, 100000; American civil war, 1851
|65-North, 50, 100, ,0O0,0 900, South, s., ,3U0,-
1896, 600, 600; Russo-Turkish war, S125,-
100000; South African wars, SS,770 900;
Afghan war, SIS, $50 900; Servo -Bulga-
rian war, S176,000,000.
But these figures, while not exactly
agreeing with those of American statis-
ticians, do not include all the cost of
war. The individual loss to the mem
bers of communities in state of war is
simply beyond the power of calculation
with any degree of accuracy, so vast are
the sums. The United States is too great
nation; it's mission in the cause of
civilization is too grand to be imperiled
by the chance Of accident which may at
any time precipitate the country into a
conflict of arms with another nation
The sensible, the practical thing to do
Is TO make ready and keep ready, as the
best of means of preventing encroach-
ment that may lead on to war. Never
theless We do not need such preparation
as in Germany, for instance, in the
maintenance of vast standing army
that robs industry Of it's best men and
puts upon the people the cost of main
tanning in comparative idleness great
body of men,
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The instructors in Whittier School
who We're on trial for cruelty to girl
inmates We're acquitted last week by
the decision of a jury that remained
out only long enough to prepare a ver-
diet. Thus ends another supposed
scandal. 1t appears that the unruly
girls were subjected only to such dis
cipline as was necessary to preserve
order and enforce obedience, and that
the chief complaint against the women
defendants Is girl of vicious tenden-
cies who had become imbued with the
idea that she could run the institution.
In all cases of complaints by inmates
of reformatory institutions it is well to
assume that complainants are insubor-
dinates. The presumption should be in
favor Of the teachers until it is shown
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reminds it that it is the press of Spain,

reminds it that it is the press of Spain,
not of the United States, that is seek
ing to provoke difficulty. In proof il
calls attention to the utterances of lei
Imparcial' and La Illustration" of
Madrid, and la Epoca' and Union
CONSTITUTIONAL of Havana and other
papers that uphold the Ministry in its
war with Cuba.
The Gazette" is right, the United
States does not want war with Spain.
Our press is not urging it. Our people
wish the treaty obligations preserved
as they are. But they do say that
Spain ought to listen to our entreaty
in behalf of Cuba, and they do say that
they have not particle of fear OF
Spain. They have no chip on their
shoulder, but if Spain puts one up they
do not fear to knock it off. if justifica-
ton for the act becomes necessity. No,
We want no war with Spain, but we do
pray for Cuban independence; at least
for a speedy end of the war that is rip
ping up the gem of the Antilles.
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feather Forecast.

feather Forecast.
Northern Calitornia-Probably occasion
al rain Sunday, preceded by a partial
clearing Sunday morning; brisk to high
southerly winds
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The Cleveland Leader" has just been
approved by a purity press association
or committee, as one of the thirteen
great Eastern dailies that are morally
clean. If the association will look more
broadly it can discover more than thir-
teen of that order in the great East
Commenting on the approval it has re-
ceived, the Leader says:
Clear water can't be dipped from a
foul stream. Bad men can't make a
clean newspaper. Men of low instincts
and men who elevate the dollar above
their honor will produce that which is
exactly like them. Mercenary men sell
dom care how they get money so long
as they get it. Back of every newspaper
is the quality Of the force that makes
1t. Therefore newspaper editors and
publishers should themselves be right
living and right thinking men. More
over, they ought to be trained men, for
the newspaper profession is governed
by rigid code Of ethics which no new
conner can hope to know or understand
II known. Some men go into the news
paper business to exploit themselves or
their own interests. They have pro-
duced what is known as "the new jour-
naHsm." They are to blame for the
scandals that have disgraced the press
of America because they are inherently
unclean themselves. Some Of them are
posing as reformed rascals, whereas,
like a spoiled egg, they can't be
changed except to be made worse.
The people themselves can drive the
hypocrites, the scoundrels and the pro-
moters of vice out of the newspaper
business by refusing to buy that which
is fraudulent, that which is degrad-
ing, that which isn't clean and decent
throughout.
The record-union., 1896-12-13

Alas for Posen. The King of Prussia
has ordered that the Posen colors be
changed to match those of the king
dom. So goes the last of Polish inde-
pendence, and to display the flag OF
Poland of old is now a crime
The record-union., 1896-12-13

The Paris Figaro" says that the
press of the United States is urging
that it does not stop to reflect that
that means a war with Europe. The
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette calls
Figaro down ON that proposition. and
The record-union., 1896-12-13
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beyond all doubt that the inmates are
improperly treated
The advocate., 1896-10-07

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To Colorado, Montana, Hot Springs, Puget
Sound and Pacific Coast via Bur-
llngtOn Route.


Take the shortest and most desirable
line to the far west; complete trains from
the Missouri river. Daily train leaves
Kansas City at 1O:4O q. m arrives Billings,
Mont, 1850 miles distant, GAS next even
ing; free chair cars Kansas City to Billings;
sleepers Kansas City to Lincoln; through
sleepers to Lincoln to Billings. Connects
with fast train beyond to Montana and
Puget Sound. Ten to twenty-five hours
shorter than other lines from Kansas City.
Through sleepers and chair cars Mis-
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Ask agent for tickets over the estab-
lished through lines Of the Burlington
Route.
L. w. WAKELEY, Gen. Pass. Agt.,
st. Louis, Mo.
The advocate., 1896-10-07
DAIRY STATISTICS.

The Percentage Of Butter Made on Farms
and In Factories.
The idea is generally prevalent that
the amount of butter which has Of late
years been made by individual dairy
men was insignificant as compared
with the output Of creameries and butt
ter factories, but figures given in "Sta-
tistics Of the Dairy" by Henry E. Al
word, chief Of the dairy division, shows
this belief to have had no foundation
in fact, up to 1890.
While theincrease in population from
1880 to 1890 was about 40 per cent, the
production of butter for the census
year Of 1890 exceeded that Of 1850 by
2s4 per cent. This increase was not
uniform with eitherpopulation or butter
production, but quite the contrary, as
may be seen by the following figures:
The advocate., 1896-10-07
GOLD AT CRIPPLE CREEK.
The Best Way TO Get There is Over the
santa Fe Route.

The Best Way 10 Get There is Over the
Santa Fe Route.
The fabulously rich gold mining dis
triCt of Cripple Greek, Colorado, is at.
tracing hundreds of people. Byspring
the rush bids fair to be enormous.
That there is an abundance Of gold
there is demonstrated beyond doubt.
Fortunes are being rapidly made.
To reach Cripple Creek, take the
Santa Fe Route, the only standard
gauge lire direct to the camp. Through
Pullman sleepers and chair cars. The
Santa Fe lands you right in the heart
of Cripple Creek.
For routes, rates, sleeper reSerVs-
tions, ETC., call at depot-toot of Fifth
street, or Bell phone 682.
w. G. GARvEY, Agent.
The advocate., 1896-10-07
Uneuualed Service

Denver to Chicago, via Kansas ity, is
given via the Union Pacific and { ago &
Alton Railways.
Through Pullman Sleepers, Pul an Din
ing Cars and Free Reclining G .r Cars
leave Denver daily. The Union ..cihc is
the great through car line Of the West.
Ask your nearest ticket agent for tickets
via this line. E. L. LOMAx,
Gen. Pass. and Tkt Agt.,
Omaha, Neb
The advocate., 1896-10-07

Emanating from some other sources
the figures given by Mr.. Alvord might
reasonably be subject to doubt, but
Mr.. Alvord is not one who would know
ingly send forth false information nor
base an official statement on mere guess
work, and being in a position to know
whereof he speaks his figures may be
relied upon as correctly representing
the situation. But it will be genuine
surprise to nearly all who have given
the matter thought to learn that IS
per cent. of all butter produced in this
country was, as late as 1890, made on
the farm. Here Is what he has to say
on the subject:
"The most noteworthy fact in connec-
tion with the production of butter on
farms is that, Notwithstanding the
great extension of the creamery system
and the decline in the amount Of butter
annually exported, such production
has increased even more rapidly than
population. To go back to the census
of 1850, it is found that the total pro-
duction of butter on farms in 1849 was
S13,346,3O6 pounds, or 1851 pounds per
capita Of population. In 1860 the
amountreported was 456, ,681, ,372 pounds,
or 1852 pounds per capita. In 1870
the amount reported was 514,092,693
pounds, which gave an average of only
1888 pounds for each inhabitant. Up
to this time there had been no cream
cry butter reported, but in 1880 the pro-
duction of farm butter averaged 1880
pounds for each inhabitant, and that of
creamery butter 0.5S pounds for each
inhabitant, thetotal average being thus
1903 pounds. At the eleventh census,
however, the production of butter on
farms alone averaged 1888 pounds per
capita Of the population, and such had
been the increase in the production of
butter in creameries that the total pro-
duction Of butter averaged no less than
1924 pounds per unit of the population"
AS no creamery butter was reported
until 1880, when only little more than
one-third Of one per cent. (.O36, to be
exEct) was thus produced, it follows
that Of the Is per cent. shown by the
eleventh census, nearly all was gained
during ten years. There is no doubt thar
the ratio of gain has been much greater
of late, and 1t Is probable that 30 per
cent. q the buttermaking at the present
time Il done at the factory.
The advocate., 1896-10-07

When wEitang aayoEslslE1 meatlOn Advocate
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-16

self that his recovery was seriously re-
tarded.
Finally, however, he was able to sit up
and his wife told him of the cha nges that
bad been wrought on the farm.
Silva listened with staring eyes until she
had finished, and then, with wild cry,
sprang to the door and looked out toward
the south.
The immediate landscape was so changed
that he did not recognize it and he contin-
ued to stare in vain attempt to locate the
landmarks that had formerly led him to
his treasure. Suddenly he turned to his
wife with vacant laugh and said:
''The earth has got it and she Will
keep it,
The suffering he had endured ard the
fear that his treasure was lost had turned
Silva's brain.
Careful nursing bro ught him back some
degree of physical strength, but his mind
remained weak. Day after day he roamed
about the farm shaking his head and try
ing to remember some clew by which he
could trace bis gold, but though his wife
and friends did everything to assist his
memory he never sufficiently recovered
this reason to find the money. In the silent
watches of tie night, when nothing but
the beating of the waves on the sandy
S hores OF the island broke the stiffness, he
would leave his bed and wander for hours
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-16

ing-house master, which amounted to
about $4,000. After a long absence the rela-
tive returned with the cash, which Silva
added to his hoard. These sums, with the
accumulations OF his years of WORK on the
ranch, made up the contents of the great
box that he took across the estuary when
he made his night trip to his island farm.
How much more he accumulated be-
fore cath called halt on his labors is a
matter of conjecture, though it must have
been considerable. He not only farmed
his own place, but assisted his neighbors,
and even helped with the loading and un-
loading of the vessels that came into the
estuary when his services were asked. He
made much more money and spent very
little and his neighbors knew that he was
saving it.
1t became an open secret after Silva had
lived few years on the island that his
hoard was buried in the ground. He made
no denial of it and only laughed when
advised to put his money in the bank.
"De groun is my bank" he said.
'Banks break-de groun' never"
Silva's only bills of any consequence were
those for the shipping of his produce to
San Francisco. When the accounts came
IN each month he scanned them carefully
to see that they were correct and then
asked the collector, whoever he might be,
to call again the next day and get his
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-16

money. During the night he dug up his
box. obtained the necessary funds and
again gave it to the keeping of mother
earth. After several years OF single life on
the island Silva took a wife, a young Port
uguese girl, the daughter of a neighbor,
and his friends thought he would give up
his previous habits and live like the rest of
them, but they were mistaken. The wife
proved to be as close and saving as her
husband and rather assisted him in his
accumulation of wealth than proved a
source of expense.
Then came time when typhoid fever
found lodgment on the island and Silva
fell a victim to it. He reluctantly took to
his bed and still more reluctantly bade his
wife call in q man to work the farm dur
ing his illness. She found helper in a
stout, industrious Portuguese, who worked
faithfully from early morning untf1 the
setting of the sun.
In her constant attendance at her hus-
bands bedside Mrs. Silva had no oppor-
tunity of watching the man, and not being
satisfied with the manner in which some
OF the fields were arranged he speedily
arranged the fences and other landmarks
to suit himself and within the space of a
few weeks so altered the aspect of the
farm that even its owner would hardly
recognize it.
In the meantime the sick man on his
bed of pain moaned and talked of his
buried hoard and, according to the physi-
clan who attended him, SO worried HIM
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-16

confusion, apart from its bombastic char
acter, is reducing the title to literal ab-
surdity as well as absurdlty in fact.
There are some unusual titles that are
interesting on analysis. Take Review of
Reviews. We cannot infer from the title
whether the paper is a review that reviews
reviews or is the chief of all reviews.
Hence, it is obscure. Independent may
be either political or religious, and hence
is indefinite. Commercial cannot be any
thing but an adjective, and yet in news
paper titles it is used as a noun.
paper which calls itself Democrat or
publican, or by the name of any other
political party, has smaller commercial
value than one not SO named, for the rea-
son that II the owner wanted to sell it his
probable purchaser either must belong to
the party bearing that name and willing
to advocate its principles, and thus be one
OF class, or must belong to some other
party and therefore stand in position to
demand heavy discount by reason of the
necessity for changing the name. A few
years ago it happened in st. Louis that
two papers of opposing political names
passed into the hands of owners whose
politics were exactly reversed; they had
to change the names of the papers.
Some titles are simply and BADLY mawk-
ish, among them Golden Moments, Sun
shine, Happy Hours, Home Treasury,
AO"SShOAN SCib, Ouliiy oluC NhOiC ciLy
than mawkish), Sea Shell, Phoenix. Rays
OF Light, Golden Rule, Home Defender,
Myrtle, Cheerful Letter, Pansy, Breeze
and the like. The most extraordinary
title in the country is borne by paper in
New York State. 1t is Radii. 1t ought 60
have been satisfied as one radius, or
if it wanted to be two, it might have called
itself diameter; though what any of the
elements of circle have to co with a
newspaper is the puzzling thing.
A curious custom has arisen among
some papers. 1t is their emphasizing the
definite article as part of the title when
they speak of themselves. This is inde-
fensible. An altogether unnecessary in
accuracy is for papers published in the
afternoon to call themselves evening
papers. They are not published in the
evening. But why announce that it is
either an afternoon or morning paper
Descriptive adiectives in titles may be
made very useful. and it is an interesting
fact that the best-named papers in this
country are those devoted to technical
subjects; it is because they employ adjec-
tives intelligently.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-16

with a countryman of his, who kept a
sailors resort in New Bedford, sailed
again in search of blubber and wealth.
He made several voyages in this way, and
was gradually accumulating a sum he had
set his heart on saving for the purpose of
returning to his childhood's s home in
sunny Portugal, when an event occurred
that changed the entire course of his life.
The captain decided to sail to the south in
search of sperm whales, and after encoun-
tering storm that caused damage to the
ship necessitating repairs to the vessel,
put into Rio Janeiro to have the work
done.
In the harbor was another vessel which
was bound to California, and the stories
which those on board told Silva of the
wonderful land of gold so worked upon
his imagination that he deserted the
whaler, and joining the gold-seekers
sailed away for the Ell Dorado.
Surviving the dangers of the deep he
reached San Francisco early in 1852 and
with his companions on the ship rushed
away TO the diggings. For some reason he
did not remain long, but returned to San
Francisco and later crossed the bay and
settled on large tract of wild land near
where Clinton station. Oakland, now
stands. In those days Silvas place was
wilderness, but il gradually enhanced in
value until, in 1858, he disposed of it for
$4,000. Previous 10 this he sent q relative
whom he had run across here to New Bed
ford to get the money LETT with the board