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The herald., 1896-08-09
THE FRENCH PRISONS

I turing enterprises whose profits are
known are paying from 10 to 20 per cent
and private concerns who do not publish
the per cent of their profits are known to
be prosperous. ,
I think as rule land owners here are
of more intelligent class than the
farmers Of the United States. AS a
rule the 1abOrers are of a less intelli-
gence, except where Americans employ
ignorant foreigners, in which case the
Mexican laborer is of better class and
higher intelligence.
Passenger conductors are paid a SAL
ary of $3.50 month. Freight conduct
| ors are paid by the mile, and their sala-
ries run as high as 5000 month. En-
gineers are also paid by the mile. and
are paid from SITS to 5000 Der month. in
few cases a little more. Firemen are
paid about $l0O per month. The salaries
or depot agents vary greatly, ranging
, from $50 to $3.50 per month. Telegraph
! operators receive from $40 to $125 per
month: Clerks in the general offices re-
ceive from $25 to $3.50. The smaller SAL
| aries are paid to boys and the largest to
the chief clerks. Division superintend-
ents receive $3.50 per month division
| train masters $175. Carpenters and
joiners from 81 to 81 per day. Brick ma :
sons from 81 to SO per day. Street car
| conductors 81 and drivers 10 cents The
wages indicated above are given to both
native and foreign artisans The less
experienced receiving the lowest figures,
the largest amounts being paid to the
! skilled workmen.
| Wheat is worth $11 per $50 pounds Cor
s1s5 per busheD. Cotton IS cents per
| pound; wool from Sc to 81 an arroba of
25 pounds (or 25 cents to 35 cents per
| poundD Hay is not used In its stead,
we utilize green fodder mixed with
wheat and barley straw. Corn ST. 80 per
100 pounds. The normal price of corn
is about l cent per pound, but, owing to
drouths In various parts of the coun-
try. the present. price is unusually high.
White sugar IL cents per pound; ma
tive brown about 4 cents. Butter 75
cents per pound; eggs rs cents per doz-
en-; bacon. imported. about 60 cents pei
pound; native. 30 cents; beefsteak Is
cents per pound.
Beef cattle from about $50 to $35 pei
head. Beef cattle are not sold by the
pound. The price of hogs is regulated
by the Kansas City prices.
Horses-Fine. carriage horses are
worth per pair about $1,000 or 5000 t.
$130e. Common horses about $3.50 per pair
The herald., 1896-08-09
SCENES

the work rooms are damp and dark, but
in winter the enormous fires make the
work room a little nearer supportable.
THE YOUTHFUL CRIMINALS.
Tho young offenders of Paris form, of
course. an interesting part of the whole
long list of prisoners. At all times there
are between seven and eight hundred
sentenced for the most part from one to
six months in prison. The greatest va
riety OF employments has been devised
for these Juveniles, who are confined in
the Petite Roquette.
The prison is divided into sections rad
iating from the famous chapel school,
where the prisoners closely locked in
their cells, see the master and the priest,
and are often seen by outsiders without
seeing each other. The isolation is COM
plete. Never do the young people hold
any communication, never do they see
each other. Frequently during, the day
they are visited for few moments by
the superintendent, the priest and the
| school master, who break in upon the
l,desolation of complete loneliness.
| The young children make beautiful
| designs in stamped and hammered
! leather; funeral crowns and wreaths give
employment to many, while the artificial
| flowers, arranged in pillows and hearts
| and crosses keep many little restless
/ hands busted with string beads of var
| ious colored glass on thread and wire
and then forming the strings into'lilies
| and roses.
| Repairers of chairs can easily cane
| two and half chairs each day. and
many are the toys, rats, pigeons BIRDS
| trees, Noah's arks and Swiss villages
that the little prisoners send out each
day to the busy merchants, to be bought
by the happy, free, little Parisians, who
| scarcely know of the great prison, with
| it's sad littlD toilers.
IN THE WOMEN'S PRISON.
| In conclusion, we must tell just lit
| tie of the great women's prison, Saint
Lazare. This prison. of so much public
interest. is a vast sort of convent, which
has little appearance of a prison during
the day. The women are seen together
in their work rooms, watched over by
the sisters; at night they sleep in great
dormitories. They are not nearly, so un-
happy as one often wishes to believe.
There are three special quarters-one
for first offenders and for those whose
term is less than one year: a second for
| serious offenders. who have long terms:
the third, IN -indrua9fy rather than Q
The herald., 1896-08-09
RUS IN URBE

From Chioe's hat OF startling size
Vast clumps of vegetation rise;
A realistic structure towers,
Upon her head, of leaves and flowers.
Here, where fictitious foxgloves blow.
Deluded bees pass to and fro,
Examining, with drowsy boom,'
Each velvet bud and silken bloom.
About the brim thereof you find
Some lifelike ivy intertwined,
In which, with rapt contentment filled,
Mistaken sparrows roost and build.
From the expanse of sprouting corn.
Which on the crown CT 1T is borne,
We hire an urchin by the day
To scare inquiring rocks away.
Nature. it seems, may be believed
To frankly own herself deceived,
BY art so rare, and to applaud
The issue of this specious fraud.
What need for me from town to roam?
] nave my country here at home,
Delightful rural sounds I hear
Whenever Chloe's hat Is near.
st. James Gazette.
The herald., 1896-08-09
But There Won't Be

1t won't do at ALL Ordinary common
sense applied to study of the political situ-
alton in this state will convince almost
possible to carry California for Mckinley
under a gold banner. There is but one
ground on which support of the Republi-
can nominee can be secured from the sill
yer Republicans, and that is, that Nc
Kinley will not veto silver bill backed by
decided majority in congress. The at
tempt to carry California for Mckinley on
gold plank will prove disastrous. There
must be a change of tactics.-San Bernar-
dino Sun (Rep.)
The herald., 1896-08-09
prison. looking exactly like the resula.

prison, looking exactly Ike the reEula'
tion hospital
The prisoners are not forced to work
but 1t is rare indeed when one refuses
Some of the unskilled sew sacks ano
coarse cloths: some embroider exquis-
ite handkerchiefs and underclothing for
babies and ladies; others make and KEEP
in repair the clothing worn by the pris-
oners. =.
1t would seem, at first sight, that II
would be hopeless task to preserve or,
der among so many different grades and
classes of women, but the woman ir
prison comes to be almost like a little
child, and the good sisters declare ina,
the prisoners committed for the most
atrocious crimes are the sweetest, gen.
tlest, and give less trouble than any
Othera
The herald., 1896-08-09
THE opENnEARTEDNEss OF HANNA

st. Louis sleeps in quiet now
Since Hanna's gone away;
But there are those who miss. trow,
The checks that marked his stay
Those massive checks for board and hunks
And drinks for all who came
He spent hundred thousand plunks
To open uD the game.
McKinley's combination now
Is fairly under way.
While Hanna mops his classic brow
And twines a wreath of bay.
He mops his brow and packs his trunks
With greenbacks. tried and true;
He'll spend million goodly plunks
To see Mckinley through.
And when at last the strife is past
And William is the lord.
What pleasant task will Hanna ask
OF him his reward?
Will he command our gallant junks?
Seek diplomatic fame?
Or will he merely gather plunks
On Williams little game?
"A. b. Paine in New York journal.
The herald., 1896-08-09
FOR YOU, O DEMOCRACY

Come. will make the continent indissolu-
BILE,
I will make the most splendid race the sun
ever shown upon,
l will make divine magnetic lands,
With the love of comrades,
With the lifelong love of comrades.
I will plant companionship thick as trees
along the rivers of America,
And along the shores of the great lakes,
and all over the prairies.
I will make the inseparable cities with their
arms about each others necks,
BY the love of comrades
By the manly love of comrades.
For you these from me, o Democracy to
serve you, ma famine!
For you for you am trilling these songs.
Walt Whitman.
The herald., 1896-08-09

Now. last night" the high school boy
went on, after a moments pause. think
ing perhaps that he had not been very
lucid, "he introduced me to fellow that's
visiting him. and what do you think he
said? Mister Hendryx. this is my friend.
Mister Slosson,' as IL we were dudes.'
What would have been the proper, un-
kiddish way of putting it?' was his moth
ers next venture after information.
Oh. that was proper enough, | suppose.
and we all do II sometimes. but most any
other fellow would have said: Say, Dick.
this is Mr.. Tom Slosson another chump just
like you, DIR something Alike that"
But woulllt you have resented being
called a chump?'
Not that way. don't you see? You can
call fellow a chump to his face"
oh, yes, do see. It's behind his back
that it's not permitted"
Yes-that is. not always-oh. 1 can't
explain 1t all out to you. buff you were 2
fellow you'd understandable. Y. Times.
The herald., 1896-08-09
A LjbelOus Sketch

The San Francisco Call publishes flashy
sketch of a man with dilapidated hat and
a rakish air sitting at a handicapped
table in a beer garden and labels 1t prof.
c. H. Keyes, the newly appointed trustee
of the Whittier reform SCHOOL" The hand
some and dignified professor should sue
the Call for libel. as the picture looks about
as much like him as pile of bricks is like
the Venus de Milo.-Riverside Press.
The herald., 1896-08-09
She viii Never Understand

''He's q chump' said the high school
i.iust what is a chump?" asked the boys
mother, who heard the remark
ooh. don't know exactly. A fellow
who can't play ball and is kiddish with the
other fellows"
ssKiddisi?' again. interrogatively.
ssYes, too polite and lah-de-dah, and all
that sort of thing. you know"
The. mother did not kuow.s but she
waited. -
The herald., 1896-08-09
Carneaie for Gold

The fact is being paraded through the
gold papers that Andrew Carnegie is firm
for gold. Can anybody name a day when
puted to have accumulated some twenty
five million dollars worth of it already
Salt Lake Herald.
The evening times., 1896-07-28

out to the grounds and he would give him
| n job. Billy will likely. sign with the
Beaneaters. never received better
treatment in my life than did from Man.
ager Hanion,' said Earle at tue psIsx ,es-
trrday afternoon. i 'waS only with the
Orioles six days and dtmyls treatment was
not only Kind and cousiderate, but my
pay exceedingly liberal. Here is some OF
the wad they paid me,' continued Earle,
showing bundle of money, and they
paid my fare home as Well didn't get
on to any OF the signs used by the Bal
timore players. In fact, l didn't try, be-
cause did not intend to stay, but did
get on to some OF their methods
.What did you find out?" -, '.'''7
'Well, in those six days saw that what
the Baltimores did was Just what the OPP
posing team thought they would not do
The Baltimore players are linked to neither
the sacrifice game nor the hit and-run
game. II they are hitting hard and lucky
then they lace IL out. If they fall off in
their hitting then they go to bunting.
When base runner reaches first II he rext
batter generally waits two balls. BY that
time the base runner, by feinting starts,
can tell whether the second baseman or the
shorts.op is going to cover second base in
case OF a throw. Ir IL is tie shortstop
then dump is in order. Without a man on
base they will fcint to dump, and then
when the infielders are pulled in, soak the
ball good and hard. They are working the
unexpected gag all the time. They have
no set rules to play by. The more saw of
Hughey Jennings the more think he Is tie
best in the business. Perhaps he can't
handle thrown balls. He is the only player
l ever saw who can pick them up off the
ground while diving head first and touch
the runner. A catcher has to lie very.
rotten that can t throw with such a man
to take bis thrown balls'' r,--.
The evening times., 1896-07-28
GENERAL SPORTING NOTES.

The ninth annual championship games of
the Amateur Athletic Union will be held at
Manhattan Field, New York, on September
12.
sturges. the famous English walker,
broke the British record on Saturday at
Yarmouth by walking mile in minutes
SO 2-5 seconds.
Robert Arthur, the actor and wingshot,
who is summering at Long Branch, will at
tempt to break the worlds record killing
live pigeons while riding awheel.
The eighth annual Foresters' Day cele-
bration and games, under the auspices of
the Associated Foresters of America, will
be held in Philadelphia on August 8.
DR.. w. 8. Mcdowell, OF Chicago, who rep
resented this country at the Henley re-
gatta In the contest for the "Diamond
shell events at the National regatta at Sar-
atoga.
Charles II. fitzpatrick, who holds the
worlds amateur record for running ~ half
mile, is in trouble with the Amateur Ath-
letic Union, for competing at games in AL
bany, N. Y, on July 4. where Sweeney,
the famous high jumper, gave an cxhi-
bition.
According to Stroke Sanford, of Yale's
Henley crew, it Is not likely the blue will
be represented at the English regatta next
year. The oarsman doesn't favor entering
the Poughkeepsie race, either, but would
prefer contest with one crew at New Lon.
don.
The evening times., 1896-07-28
coRBETr MUST BE FIT.
Bill Delaney Thinks Sharkey Tough
Customer.


Customer.
New York, July 2S.-The many sporting
men who are speculating just now over the
possibility Of the battle between Tom
Sharkey and jim Corbett Coming off, and
th e ultimate result of the same will read
with interest letter which was received
m this city from Billy Delaney, Corbett's
trainer. Delaney, who has been with Cor
bett for many years, and who has trained
the ex-champion for all OF his principal
battles, gives good opinion of the fight
and incidentally has something to say about
Sharkey, Of whom he seems to know con-
siderable. Delaney's letter, which is dated
Oakland, Cal reads as follows:
II am working at the race track, but it
is closed until October. am very much
interested in having the Sharkey-Corbett
fight come to head. 1 have got chance
of getting club room that used to run.
Well, now about the fight, which I'm sure
you must be anxious to hear about. We
were out there, of course, to win, but
found before we went very far that we
lacked steam Sharkey is a tough Gus
toner of the Goddard and Jim Burge, the
iron man. type. I saw him stop Joe
Choynski in two rounds. After resting
bali an hour they tried again, and at the
finish OF the eighth round he had Choynski
pumped out, while Sharkey was fresh.
He is a big, innocent fellow, and he is in
good hands Lynch and Danny Needham,
who are friends Of mine, are looking after
him, and they sincerely believe that he can
win from Corbett; and il the go can be
pulled off, I am sure Sharkey will be there
when the bell rings.
Now If Corbett can get into conditi,>i
again he ought to win, but he IN ust be fit
to finish the sailor. 1 have no idea where
the fight will come off. They are making
a play for Nevada. Should the fight Come
off near New York, may go and see the
old village again, but New York is long
way from here"
The evening times., 1896-07-28

This table includes all the games played
on the two Western trips and those played
on the single trip of the Western clubs TO
the East. II one thing more than an
other is patent from this table it is that
the Western clubs have sprung a surprise
on the Eastern ones. 1t was expected that
Cleveland would do well, but the Spiders
have not done SO well as last year. The
CiDcinnatis and Washingtons are the sur
prise packages. The former are going at
a terrific pace, while the Senators are
sliding almost as fasta a snow avalanche
in the Rockies. Then Chicago is playing
higher than usual, while Pittsburgis is main
taiDlng steady gait. The slump of the
Pmllies and Bostons has thrown all cal
culations on I of gear. Brooklyn and New
York were not expected to do much, but
So far they have done better against the
West than any of the other clubs. Balti-
more has had the fight alone against the
menfrom the wild and woody West and they
nave fought hard and well, with the result
that they are at the top of the heap.
The evening times., 1896-07-28
METALS ON THEIR METTLE
Uncle Sam Wavering Between Nickel
and aluminium.
Not Yet Determined What the New
One and Five-Cent Pieces Shall
Be Made OF.

Director Of the Mint Preston is making
experiments to determine what alloys, or
what metals, are best adapted to use for
the coinage OF 1-cent and 5-cent pieces
A resolution OF the last session OF Con-
cress directed Secretary Carlisle to do
This, and he has turned the matter over to
Mr.. Preston. The main experiments Will
probably lie made in September or octo-
bcr at the Philadelphia mint by officers
there; for that is where all the 1-cent
coins are now made.
There is an objection to the proposed
change, in the fact that as soon as then new
coin appears the old is left in the Treas
ury and goes out Of use This would rem
der valueless the work spent on SEQ ,OoG
nickles now in circulation in this country,
and on 800 600 1-cent pieces.
-. MIR. Preston has already had a number
OF blanks struck from pure aluminium and
pure nickel to try the effect OF wear upon
them. The experiment is rather homely
ore- 1t consists in carrying the blanks
around in the pocket for several months to
see what is the effect upon them of wear.
Mr.. Preston and several OF his friends and
employees are now carrying these blanks
in their pockets, along with copper cents,
silver COIN, keys, etc, 10 determine now.
they will stand use. .
The aluminium blanks so far show .
little dulling of their polish, but other
wise are unchanged. Mr.. Preston thinks
they may be too easily scratched and
broken to be entirely satisfactory The
nickel shows mainly little discoloration.
1t is claimed that the pure nickel will be
superior to the one fourth nickel and three
fourths copper used in the current nickels
in hardness, durability ami distinctness
Of impression. The metal for the nickel
is now obtained from Canada. There used
to be a mine near Lancaster, Pa, but it
Is not now productive. The refineries in
this country from which the metal in use
would probably be drawn directly are at
Cleveland, Ohio, and Camden, n. j.
The aluminium is produced at Chicago
principally, though other works are located
at several points throughout the country.
The coinage of gold and silver will not
be interfered with in making the new small
coins. Secretary Carlisle has ordered that
5000 600 standard silver dollars shall
be struck, while the production of subs;d-
iary silver coins goes on steadily at New
Orleans and Philadelphia. Gold bullion
is constantly being received at San Fran
cisco, and is turned out in double eagles
usually, and that is the form Of coin OF
in favor OF this coin is that large amount
L the bullion is put in form for use St
small expense.
The evening times., 1896-07-28
Sta nding of the Clubs.

The game at Capitol Park yesterday af-
tcrnoon between the Mascots and Inde-
pendents resulted in surprise party for
the Mascots, who were walloped to the
tune OF II to 3.
The Independents played good game
and deserved victory, while the Mascots
could not connect with the ball at the prop
,er time, and made misplays which were
very costly.
There will be a meeting of The Times
League tomorrow evening at o'clock on
the third floor OF The Times building. All
the clubs were not represented at the
meeting called for last evening, and as it
was desired to have full representative,
those present requested that another p,eet-
ing be arranged for.
The evening times., 1896-07-28
LOST IN THE DESERT.
Two AdventurousAme Believed
70 Have Met Death

Two oAdventurousAm Believed
to Have Met Death.
Pomona. Cal, July 2s.-Edward NJ
Clark, of New York, and his companion,
Henry Sanford, of Columbus, No., have un-
doubtedly been lost on the Mo jave Desert
while prospecting for gold. The two men
left Banning few weeks ago, and ariast
accounts their provisions had given. out
and their horses had succumbed to the heat.
prospector who returned from the
desert yesterday reports finding two tol-
les answering the descriptions of Clark
and Sanford, lying On the desert twenty
fivemiles from Volcano Springs, near which
point the missing men were last seen.
The dead horses of the prospectors were
also found, and their trappings tally with
those purchsed by Clark and SANFORD ~
Clark was member of one of the best
known families in New York State, and his
cousin is State Treasurer Colvin of Glenn
Falls, N. Y.
Clark came to California two years ago
with an invalid wife, and by an unfortunate
speculation in mines lost all he had. He
was too proud to ask his Eastern relatives
for assistance and determined to make his
pwD fortune over again. Sanford has wife
and four children at Columbus, Mo.
The evening times., 1896-07-28
FUTURE OF FARMING.
A Continued Decrease in the Rural
Population.


Undoubtedly the best crop that the old
farmers produced was men. They sent
forth these hardy young children OF tne
soil TO strengthen and energize all the
highest forces of our civilization. 1t might
be unjust to say that they are not doing 10
still, but it is to a less extent, relatively,
than III what are now called the good DID
days.
The advantages of education extend 20
the boys on the farm more than ever befor-.,
it is true, and they grasp them more gen.
orally and more eagerly. But, for what
purpose? To escape from their hundrurn
environment and enter that larger and
more active world where the prizes as
well as the failures are greater.
The passion TO see and enjoy life as 10
is lived in the great centers of population
and business is more intense than 1t ever
was in the days that are past, and eduea-
ton rather stimulates it than otherwise.
Even the farmers themselves have the in
lection, and if they do not encourage they
only weakly restrain their educated CHI.
dren from turning their requirements to
what seems to them better account than
tillage of the soil.
Only u small portion even OF the gradu-
ates OF our agricultural colleges, though
given a special technical equipment for
tnat service, return to the farm. II they
can gain fortune and reputation and expert.
ence in some other calling they frequently
like to resume farming as an avocatiou,
but only in comparatively rare Instances
is it adopted as life work.
These are hard facts, but we might as
well face them. The census reports show
steady decrease OF population and pro-
duction in the rural portions Of the State,
yet educational opportunities were never
before so general or available as now. II
would be sad confession that there waa
no remedy for this, but the remedy haS
not yet been found
Education benefits the farmer as much
as the lawyer, both in his business and
his citizenship, and 1t should not be-
held responsible for the depression In agri.,
cultural industry; but the social pace is:
such that the husbandman cannot follow
it. There must enter into the business
the elements that make success along
other 1ines-co-operation and capitaEbs-,
fore 1t will becdnie attractive to the edv'
caied and ambitious Il
The evening times., 1896-07-28
BR1GHrwooD CLUB RACES.


First Matinee of Series Will Take
Place Tomorrow.
Tomorrow afternoon at 2:3O O'Clock
the Brightwood Driving Club will inaueu-
rate series Of summer matinees for the
harness horses. 49,
Two events are scheduled for tomorrow,
the first one, the 2:2O pace, having three
entries, j. Wells E. H. s., F. w. Sheele's
Lillian Purdy and c. Forney's Nina Noble.
The second race, the 2:37 class, has five
starters, R. Rapley's Trlnket, G. Forney's
Gray Jack, R. G. Bedford's Cleoyice, H.
Bought's Marooner or Longfellow and Geo.
P. Zurhorst's Mr. Happy.
The horses are all well known to fol-
lowers of the turf in the District, and
an afternoon Of interesting sport is an=
ticipated. Future meetings will be an
nounced from time to time.