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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-26


Cleveland, July 3.-Cleveiand lost two
games to the PhHIIes today by reason OF
errors and careless Playing. In the nrst
game Wallace dropped ny In the fourth
inning and let In three runs. In the SEC
ond game the visitors had IL all their own
way. Attendance. 6.soo. First game:
Score r. Is. II. r.
Cleveland ...... .............
Philadelphia 1880 ..-...-..-.- Id IL
Baiteries-wiison. cuppy and zlmmer:
Taylor and Clements.
Second game:
Score r. B. a e.
Cleveland ....- .............- IS 2
Philadelphia ........... 10 u
Bat,eries-.cuppy ana O'Mcara: Gumhert
ana Grady.
Louisville. July 3.-The colonels defeat
ed Washington City IN very interesting
game In the second inning by Umpire
Belts for using insulting language Hill
pitched the last inning. Attendance. 800
Score r. Is. III. f..
washington city ............ .
Batteries-Fraser. Hin and Dexter. Ger
man. Mcguire ard AcAufay.
Chicago, July &--AItho9Sh the Colts
made fifteen hits and had but two errors.
the Brooklyns won cut by a margin OF
one run on nine hits. With seven msplays
charged TO them. Three OF the visitors
runs were due to Terry's gifts. Attend
ance T.ooo-
Score II. 3. II. T..
Chicago .-...-...-- ..-....---s Is :
Brooklyn -.......--. .s......-.
Batteries: Terry and Donohue: Payne
ard Grim.
s. Louis, July @-The Orioles had ire
browns shut out up TO the ninth. when
she latter eassed out three runs and won
E~per pitched a good game and the sup-
port given him by the visitors was per-
feet Hart did even better in the box.
but owing 80 errors by fhe Browns the
Orioles were enabled 20 score twtoe. At
tendance. SEQ.
Score r =. III. T..
So. Louis .....................- 5 }
Bsfserses-E~per and Clark: Hart and
Murphy.
t.incsnrzs<i. July @.-clnsnnaa won t~o
raneS from Boston to-day. both through
s~ ~.sr s>ppsre MrEarlar.., frightened BY
sae xscking % Boston. left tie field after
The first xame. and Bud Ially urps-ed.
Attendance Eaaa.
Ffrst ganss.
Cincinnati ....--.- .-.....-.-.-le 9
batteries: szhres. Fisher ard Pets
stivetxs and Camel
Second game:
score r 3, Il. =.
s s,I.l,, .....-.. -.....-s = :
1sstevses: Dwyer and Peitxs Nichols.
Safsfvan ard Bsrgen-
psstsaurg, July S.-T7e FIRST game Was
Won because Of Hastings poor work In
the box HaxIsy asd very little better.
In the second xslse Sullivan wers snf1 ths
R.r IN TIE seyentA ard Clark WAS s1ssts-
.utss lie usa6e q poorer showing than
sa.AyarA The feed IN the Allegheny river
cArss into she park ard n@cessasated cali
ing cAA game IN the eighth inning.
srzSe hzS heer eonSsx-nmszteE hy whsca
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-26

Cleveland. July 3.-Cleveiand lost two
games to the PhilIles today by reason OF
errors and careless playing. In the hrst
game Wallace dropped fly In the fourth
inning and let In three runs. In the SEC
ond game the visitors had II all their own
way. Attendance. 6.soo First game:
II n
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-09
Orders Have Been Received for
2oo,o Jute Sugar
Bags.
A LIFE-TERMER DISCIPLINED.
George Bullock Attempted to Scale
the Prison Wall in Broad
Daylight.

The monthly meeting of the Board OF
State Prison Directors was held at San
Quentin yesterday, Directors Hayes, Neff,
Devlin and Fitzgerald being present.
Chairman DePue is in the East and in his
absence Director Fitzgerald presided.
Warden Hale reported the sale OF 10000
sugar bags and the receipt of orders Tor
200. COO more within two days. The mill
has started up again and next week will
be running at full speed, turning out $1,000
sugar bags daily. Messrs, Hayes, Fitz-
gerald and DePue were appointed jute
committee, with power to fix the price of
bags in the intervals between meetings, if
necessary.
The applications of Osgood, Staley and
Craddick, the Lake County whitecappers,
for commutation of sentence were laid
over for one month, at the request of Sena-
tor Seawell, their attorney. The applica-
tion for the parole of Mary Wilson, SEN
fenced from San Francisco for arson, will
also be considered at that time.
The board tried three refractory prison
ers on charges preferred by the Warden
and found them guilty.
George Bullock, who was sent up for life
from Santa Cruz in 1893 for murder, was
charged with attempting to escape over
the wall in daylight. Bullock is rather
intelligent Swede, but although he had
owned up to Captain Edgar when brought
before the board he pleaded not guilty and
refused to make any statement, because
it would get into the newspapers" Cap
tain Edgar told the story.
Bullock had secured rope with an iron
hook at the end. He had thrown ittwice
attempting to hooA it into the wall
and draw himself up. If he got over the
wall he intended to take to the water, and
he had fashioned an ingenious life pre-
server of oiled canvas which lie would in
fate at the proper time.
The prisoner wore red shirt, the badge
of one who had attempted to escape be-
fore. His former attempt was made in
April of last year, when he cut through
the roof of his cell. For this he spent
twenty days in the dungeon.
The board found Bullock guilty, but
scarcely knew how to discipline a life
termer who had no credits to lose. So
they turned him over to the Warden, and
that official ordered him into solitary con-
fine ment.
Thomas Vickers, serving life sentence
for murder in the second degree commit
ted in Santa Clara and Thomas Kelly Of
San Francisco, serving seven years for as
sault to murder, forfeited three years and
three months respectively for having
opium in their possession.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-09

object 1t is hemispherical in shape, about
five inches in diameter across the base
and made to appear of interviewer leaves
OF grapevine. The leaves are most deli
cately and accurately modelled, all the
VEINS showing plainly on both sides. Little
punches OF grapes are scattered over the
surIace. These are in fact the most Curl
Gus part OF 1t. They are purple in color
ana made or substance that looks like
Bohemian glass. Each grape is fastened
In the proper place by a tiny wire and ali
are bound together into perfect bunch.
An analysis OF the metal forming the
leaves shows it to be composed of gold,
SILVER and copper, gold being nearly one
haii OF the composition. There must be
nearly S1O0 worth of the precious metal
in it.
Professor Van der Naillen, although well
posted about such subjects. could form no
IDEA Of the origin of the object. He
showed 1t to several persons in this City
VINO are familiar with all the big curio
collections in the world, but none of them
could reeollect ever having seen anything
that looked the least bit like it. ALI agreed,
however, that II was crown.
The only possible solution of the prob
lem is that it was made by gypsies from
leaves have slight appearance of Hun
garian workmanship, and were evidently
made by more skillful hand than the one
that put them together into their present
form. But how or when the crown came
onto the ranch in Tuolumne County is one
or the mysteries that would be hard to
solve. Perhaps the Indians stole it from
the early Spaniards and buried it after
covering it with clay.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-09
READS LAW AT FOURTEEN.
Youthful Disciple of Blackstone and Devoted
to His Ideal.

Master German is conscientious, willing,
faithful and earnest in attention to his du-
ties. He has already read several law text
books, Blackstone's Commentaries, Robin
sons Elementary Law, Thompson on
Negligence, and considerable case law.
Attorney D. A. Ryan, the legal assistant
of General Barnes, has taken deep inter-
est in Willie, and delights in explaining
complicated points of law to the "Chief
Justice, "as Master German is styled by
some of the barristers who have made his
acquaintance.
II shall be examined in Blackstone as
soon as Mr.. Ryan finds time," said Willie
to representative of THE CALL. "In
studying l make notes of propositions in
which there is anything the least obscure,
and when l understand the matter well l
destroy the notes. Oh, expect to go to
school again, probably next year, and then
l will take up Latin and Greek. Latin, in
particular. am anxious to learn.
Exercise? l ride bicycle out to the
Cliff House once in a while, and / like
football. l used to play football great
deal at school and have seen some of the
big games between the colleges. There is
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-09

to the poor and rich alike on a Saturd ay
morning. When the treasurer counted up
that Saturday night he found the people
had, inside Of eight hours, brought him
Raising big loan in France is always a
big event for Frenchmen, and French
women, also, have great confidence in
their country's credit. They consider that
there Is no money so safely invested as
That which is intrusted to the care of the
state-could there possibly exist better
or more patriotic reason Rand they seem
TO be sufficiently rich to do without out
side assistance.
In France no one is even told of what
German banks or English banks may do
about public loan. simply because those
foreign concerns are not permitted to have
anything to say about it. There are no
bonds for persons outside of France until
after they have all been subscribed for at
home. No matter how large the amount
asked for by the French republic, rich
and poor flock in crowd, some with pock-
et-books bulging out with banknotes,
others with stockings full of gold and sll-
yer. The day following the German war
Thiers said: "We require $500, GOO to lib
crate the land" Then subscriptions
poured in to nearly a, 600, 600, and the land
was free.-Paris Correspondence Boston
Herald
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government by representative legislation.
think it must be evident to all that represen-
tatives in many cases do not really represent.
BY the system commonly in vogue, known as
the majority system, very small majority
may totally deprive great minority of repre-
sentation. TO remedy this, a system known as
proportional representation has been devised
and has been adopted in Denmark and other
European states. Illinois has adopted sys-
tenn OF somewhat the same nature.
Ii we can present a system which will eff
fectually and perpetually eliminate the boss
think we nave rendered our country great
service. In the preferential system of proper
tional representation think we have attained
this end We know that reforms of all kinds
grow by degrees. Parties do not spring full
grown into being, and it seems to me as soon
as party has gained sufficient size to be en-
titled TO representation it should have 1t, and
It's members should be granted chance to ex-
plain their ideas in the halls of Congress-.
Mr.. Sanborn explained the actual work
ings of the system he advocated as demon
strated in the elections for trustees of the
Mechanics Institute. In the last two elec-
tions the proportional system has pre-
vailed.
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recognition says it to them. The same
word passes between every storekeeper or
clerk, and the customers and the different
members of the family salute each other
with it when they sit down to the table
and agcin when they rise to leave.
In Berlin the restaurants are always full
OF people, no matter what hour of the day.
Between 10 and II o'clock in the morning
they are having their second breakfast of
rolls, cold meat or cakes and chocolate;
at O'Clock dinner; and in the evening
meals and drinks of every desc ription
about the small tables which crowd the
salon. In the winter time, with men and
women alike, tea perhaps is the next
fayorite beverage after beer, but they are
seldom induced to take it straight, and the
least bit OF cognac or rum must be added
to give it tone. The tea is never served in
cups and saucerS, but in glasses resem-
bling those from which Americans drink
soda. Hot soda of any kind is unknown,
but one can drop into plenty of little shops
for cup of hot chocolate, with delicious
whipped cream and small sweet cake
thrown in. White beer is a beverage pc
culiar to Berlin, and found nowhere else.
1t is a great drink with the students, and
foams and sparkles like champagne when
it is first drawn. 1t is made in Berlin
from the water of the River Spree, which
accounts for its excellent flavor, so 1t is said.
Cafe Bauer, on Unter den Linden, is the
most popular restaurant, and through its
immense windows gay groups can be seen
ever chatting, drinking good deal, eating
little, reading papers, smoking and
watching the crowds of people pass by on
one of the prettiest streets in the world,
with its promenades, carriage drives, rid
ing paths and rows of beautiful trees. At
this season Unter den Linden is at its gay
est, and the lines of shop windows are
gorgeous with wonderful jewels, bric-a-
brac, costly furs and dainty Partisan
gowns.
Suddenly there is a great commotion,
policemen catch horses by the head, the
crowd collected on the sidewalk is pushed
this way and that, and amid the general
confusion the white-plumed body guard
OF the royal family appears and the i'm
perial carriage dashes by with some men,
Der of royalty inside. Many times the
crowd is unable to ascertain who it is, and
the curiosity of all is at high point.
When any one belonging to the royal
family goes into store two soldiers are
Immediately stationed at the door to pre-
vent any one else from entering, although
those already inside are allowed to remain
if they so e.-Correspondence of
Providence Journal.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-09
THE LATEST MAP OF MARS.
CAMILLE FLAMMARIoN DISCUSSES THE RECENTLY Com
PLETED CHART.

The new chart of Mars, lately perfected,
is a TASK of which the completion may be
termed an astronomical event Of the first
Importance, says Camille Fiammarion in
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. For if the
iurroWed lines, as shown in this chart,
cross the waters of the planet as well as
the continents, we shall be constrained to
modify our received hypothesis with ref
erence to Mars generally, and TO consider
IL no longer cut up by means of watery
masses.
FOR all that there is water upon this
neighboring globe. The ciearest proof of
tnls is the SHOWS which in winter
extend all around the poles to a
latitude equal TO that of st. Peters
purg, and sometimes to that of Paris
and which beneath the rays of
the, planets summer sun are almost en-
tirely melted. This melting of the circum-
polar SHOWS is far more complete on Mars
than on the earth, no doubt, chiefly because
the seasons, though similar to our own,
are, nevertheless, twice as long. There
remains, therefore, but one permanently
irozen point which is not at the geograph-
lcal pole, but at the pole of frigidity.
Whence all this water, then, and what
becomes of it?
1t fills the canals and is distributed over
the whole surface of the continents for
purpose OF irrigation. 1t never rains on
Mars, or very rarely. Fair weather is prac-
hcaily perpetual. There are neither SHOWS
nor rams, nor springs nor streams, nor
rivers nor floods. The currents of water
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-09
Left-Handed Parrots

Superintendent Sol Stephan of the Zoo
has made all sorts of curious discoveries
in the habits and characteristics of ami
mails, the latest of which is that wild
creatures are mostly left-handed. Mr..
Stephan has been endeavoring to yerify
this observation on two parrots lately
brought from Mexico. He found that in
grasping finger offered as a perch the
parrot always put the left foot forward.
Usually the finger thus offered is that of
the right hand. But when the left finger
Is offered to the parrots they put forward
the right foot There is, however, appar-
emily small residum of preference for the
LETT loot. This seems to be due to the fact
that men are usually rieht-handed and
offer the right hand to the parrot
The left foot is the one naturally put tor.
ward by the parrot in this case. and
through repetition of this action species
OF left-footedness is induced. Mr.. Ste
phan's general conclusion is that there is
no evidence that the parrot is naturally
left-footed.
The appearance of that left-footedness
IS due entirely to the fact that those who
offer the finger or food to parrots do go, as
a rule, with the right hand. Repetition OF
this process makes the parrot more or less
left-handed in time.-Cincinnat ENQUIRER.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-09
when he got IL. There is no record of any

when he got IL. There is no record of any
one except Indians ever living in the
vicinity, and there is not the vaguest posi-
bility that the work was done by them.
The place where the crown was found
was most curious one, and the circum
stances connected with it are strange and
interesting. Mr.. Buehler states in his let
ter that he was digging out large sage
brush that was in the way of his plow. At
o depth of about four feet from the sur
face his shovel struck what appeared TO be
bowlder about the size OF mans head.
AS the ground about the roots was soft he
picked up the lump and was astonished at
its Eghtness. A close examination showed
a piece OF shining metal sticking out at
one side. Taking his knife Mr.. Buehler
scraped away portion, and could hardly
believe his eyes when q perfectly formed
grape leaf. made of bright yellow metal,
came to view.
The work of removing the object from
its encasement was a task that occupied
several days. The substance surrounding
it proved to be a composition of clay and
gypsum, and incessant boiling and scrap
ing with bits of soft wood was necessary to
get 1t off. Great care was necessary, as
the intricate mass was soon found to be
very delicate.
When Mr. Buehler at last had the object
in his hand he had not the least idea of
what it was, but his few neighbors agreed
that it was crown of some kind, al
though nobody would attempt to explain
how it came to be buried among the roots
of sagebrusL. Since then hundreds oil
people have examined it. but SO far no
satisfactory explanation of its origin has
been given.
Taken altogether, it is most nusual
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-09
HOW FRANCE PLACES A LOAN.
People Anxious to Lend Their Money
to the Republic.

People Anxious to Lend Their Money
to the Republic.
do not think that the French republic
has placed national loan since 1891, and
l remember its being shown at that TIME
by some of the political economists that
man with an annual income Of sc, GOO francs
was paying the state, department and
city, year in and year out, total of $4,000
francs, or over II per cent of his annual
revenue in the way of taxes. Still. and not
Wlthstanding this heavy taxation, it is
seldom that any one complains and, more
over, the people are always ready to loan
their money on the same burdensome con-
ditions.
Before arranging for an emprunt the
M Mlnister of Finances holds frequent con-
situations with three or four of the lead
ing members of the chief banking estab-
lIshment; that is to say, with the Director
of the credit Lyonnais, with the Roth
schllds' sannaa' etc. 1t is thus finally
selves guarantee to place whatever
part OF the loan the public fails
to subscribe for; further, they agree to
help the Government in the work of tax
ing In the money. Then their commits
sion-generally one-half OF 1 per cent OF
all that they handles arranged, and last
OF all they are told what part of the loan
they may themselves subscribe for.
1t is not often that the state permits
these moneyed advisers to have more than
one-fourth or one-fifth of the to tai en-
prunt the great majority being reserved
for the public subscribers; that is to say,
the people themselves. Besides, the max
lmum price of each ssrente" is fixed, and
beyond this figure no person, banker or
other mortal, may advance the price until
| after the new bonds have been quoted on
| the Bourse by the~Agents de change of
| Paris; This enables poor subscriber to
one share to benefit by bull movement
as much in proportion as it benefits the
richest capitalist who happens TO own
many bonds.
| There is not much chance, however. of
great fortunes being made by speculating
IN rentes on the Paris Bourse or elsewhere.
In March, 1898, French rente that is,
government securities-reached the high
est price they have attained during the
present century. That month the per
cents touched 81 francs, but then, as on
otner occasions this ascending movement
was stopped by economical complications
or by political events, and rentes soon fell
10 their average price, which is usually
ABOUT 81 francs to SO francs.
AS have stated, the last time the French
republic asked her children for loan was
only few years back, and then it was a
loan for nearly $3.50, 900, 900, though
Sne only wanted a part of it paid cash
down. at the time appointed the public
Hooked apd subscribed the total amount
seventeen times over. The first payment
required was, if / remember correctly,
| zo,0O0,0OO, and the windows were opened
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are established through quite different

oAO Cot@bAASAON thEIhEa 0Altt
means.
In accordance with the conditions estab-
ished by these recent investigations, the
waters accumulated as result OF the melt
ing snow give rise, first to melted areas.
which we take for seas. From them are
distributed water lines, which give life to
meadows and fields, TO woods, perhaps,
and the verdure OF which varies with the
seasons. Thus is it further transmitted
through the geometrical network of rec
tllinear canals to the most desert-hke
steppes.
The series of circular disks at the inter-
sections of the canals are oases purposely
created and fed by the waters.
1t is known that upon this neighboring
planet man weighing on our earth
seventy-five Kilograms would weigh but
twenty-six; that the specific gravity of
matter is far less than here; that the at
mosphere is very thin, and that the con-
dltlons of existence vary sensibly from our
own. 1t is very probable that humanity
on that planet, such as it is, is created
upon scale vastly superior to our own
Mars being much older than the earth
and immensely higher in intelligence.
This general unity of organization, so to
speak, conforms to the theories we have
formed respecting our heavenly neighbors.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-09
The worlds before US. Well make it ours
by degrees"
TRUE REPRESENTATION
Advantages OF the Preferential Proper
tiona1 System Explained by
A. HI Sauharn.

a. II. Sanborn lectured to the mem bers
of the Mechanics Institute at Library Hall
last evening upon "The Efforts for Secur-
ing Representative Government"
think all of US in our thinking have been
in the habit of considering that the direct
method of government is the better, but on
more mature thought we are apt to conclude
that the indirect method is the more effective
AS the country becomes larger and its affairs
more intricate it becomes more and more diff
cult to put the direct method in operation
When we come to government as large as a
is manifestly impossible and vastly more so
when we come to consider National Govern
ment
So we are brought to q necessary form of
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who tries to depart without depositing the
requisite nickel in Fifne's bank. Ii more
than one loaf is taken, an equal number
OF deposits must be made in the bank or
Fifine will know the reason why. She
knows very well how to use her teeth in
ca Sc of necessity, though she is usually as
mild as lamb and quite favorite with
her customers, but if her master should be
needed the has only to pull the bellrope
which communicates with the bakeroom
and he is on the spot.
Occasionally an ugly customer comes
along. Last night, for instance, tramp
tried to work Fifine for supper, but the
dog grabbed his ankles as he was making
for the door without the formality of de-
post, pulled the bell and kept him safe
and sound till Albert appeared and po-
liceman could be summoned .-Phila-