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Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-04-21

for better and more comfortable
houses For this reason the estimated
value Of all the school property in the
State is s5S595 more than in 1894.
Under the law atolishing the school
districts and placing all the public
schools under the control of the towns,
the old system of supervision either by
committee of three or by supervisor
as each town might elect was changed,
and the active management of the
schools of each town placed in the
hands of a superintendent chosen by
committee. whose province in mainly
that of an advisory council
The effect of this change cannot be
fairly judged without further trial.
The result thus far. as shown by the
figures of the returns. has been that
while the cost of superintendent has
increased sl2.141 there has been a de-
crease of 314 in the number of schools
that were rot visited as the law re-
quires.
The amount available from town
treasures in any year IS the amount
raised by the town in the given year
plus the unexpended balance of the
previous year, or minus the amount
overdrawn The large decrease in the
amount available from town treasures
in 1895 is due largely to the fact that
the unexDended balances were less and
the amounts raised in excess of amount
required by law much less than in the
previous year.
THE amounts derived from town
treasures and from local funds were
considerably less than in 1894 while
the amount from the State treasury
was slightly more. making the net de
crease in the total current resources of
| 1895, 1922 903. while the decrease in total
| current expenditures was $128'05.
THE amount voted by towns for the
support of common schools was $5O.11l
less in 1895 than in the previous year.
while the total expenditures fell off
| $22. .131. An item appears in these 'ig-
ures never before shown in the school
report. viz: the percentage of valuation
assessed for common schools.
''The tabulation in detail; shows that
there is wide variation in the per-
centage raised by the different towns,
which would seem to be hardly in ac-
cord with the theory of our republican
form Of government and would seem to
furnish an argument in favor of some
change in the maner of assessing the
fund for the support of common schools
which shall make it bear more equally
on all sections Of the State and on all
| classes of property
The general effect of the new law
upon the character and condition of
our common schools cannot be fairly
| judged until after it has been in opera
ton for term of years. That changes
and amendments will be found neces-
sary is to be expected and these
changes can be made as experience
shows where they are needed.
1T would seem that on the whole,
despite the friction and dissatisfaction
caused by certain features of the new
| law. that under it's operation we are
getting more and better schools at a
less cost. Should this prove to be the
case, the law will certainly make itself
acceptable in the main and amend
ments can be made when they appear
to be necessary.
| High Schools.
| The number of towns having free
high schools has increased from 22S in
1894 to '247 in 1896. being a net gain of
10 towns. The number of schools sup
l y iv~, o<4N IL
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-04-21
Visit To Rural Schools.

During the summer and fall of 1895 the
State Superintendent visited two hundred
rural schools in eight different counties
Of the State. This tour was undertaken
because it is believed that the schools,
cannot he improved until it is known
what they are. and that this knowledge
can only be gained by careful study of
the schools themselves. 1t was felt that
no one had right to pronounce judg-
Continued on page 6.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-04-21

The Erskine Grocery Company. State
street are offering enough soap for one dol
lar, to make soap suds in the river: also
large bottle tomato ketchup l0c, and nice
toilet soap, cakes in box, all for 7c.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-04-21

The street sprinklers will be out to-
day. They will be most welcome The
sweepers were out. last evening, get
ting the dust cleaned up as far as pos
sible.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-04-21
High Schools.

The number of towns having free
high schools has increased from 22S in
1894 to 247 in 1896. being a net gain of
10 towns The number of schools sup
ported by towns has increased 81. show
ing that eight at least of the schools
formerly supported by districts or pre-
cincts, have been adopted by the
towns. This is probably due in a large
measure to the change from the dis
trict to the town system of schools.
The increase of 379 weeks in the aggrc-
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-04-21

The members of the Cecilia Club are
preparing recital, to be given, May I.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-04

legal tender except for debts where no
mention is made for payment in a specific
thing. Gold nor silver nor paper money
could be made legal tender in current
transactions. Mr.. Bryan appears to under
stand, If he tells the truth, that under free
coinage the Government would have to
take all offerings of silver on the basis of
parity between silver and gold as to their
purchasing and redemption value, but
nothing of the kind would or could obtain.
The only way under the shining sun by
which silver can be put into the operations
OF commerce on a parity with gold in cur
rent transactions is for those who conduct
commerce to agree that ii shall be done,
and that is what the Republican party
proposes to do. You can lead horse to
the river, but you cannot make him drink,
any more than you can make California
farmer accept money that he does not
want for his products.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-04
DUTY OF REPUBLICANS.

Although the belief prevails every where
that Major Mckinley will have fully three
fourths of the electoral votes, it is the
fact, nevertheless, that Bryan's wild and
reckless threats are disturbing business
very seriously. The Edgar Thomson
Steel Works closed down yesterday, not so
much because there is really any danger
OF Bryan ever having an opportunity TO
put his theories in practical operation as
because of a disposition which runs all
through the business world to prepare for
the worst. It is unfortunate that this is
So but it would be foolish to try to make
ourselves believe that the situation is
other than what it is. Capital is always
tlmid when threatened, and while Bryan s
attacks upon the country's industries and
commerce will fall harmless, the fact re-
mains that they are doing immense harm
just now.
The industries of the country could not
afford to be caught with large stock of
either raw material or finished product
when November comes if the election
returns should show that Bryan was
elected, and hence it is only business
prudence to keep near the shore. There
is no doubt, however, that if all who are
opposed to the revolutionist would organ
ize themselves into clubs and thus show
an enthusiastic determination to give
Organism its deathblow at the polls there
would be a speedy revival in all lines of
business, for then commerce and trade
would know for sure that the people un-
derstood the dangers that threaten and
were prepared to meet them.
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Robert
Railroad
hed ronlJ Big a artist

will then go to Oakland, Santa Clara, Mon
terey, Los Angeles and San Diego.
Mr.. Mcdonald is pioneer railroad man in
tGuatemala- He superintendent the construc-
ion of much of the Guatemala Central Rail-
road.
He says Guatemala is enjoying very unusual
prosperity, something singular when the dull
ness pervading most of the world is considered
"It grows largely out of the arranging for
the exposition and the building of the North
ern Railway to the Atlantic side, suppose
he said. ''Tnere is more than 100 miles OF this
road already completed ana the work is being
pushed right along.
''Since General Regina Barrios became Presi-
dent there has been prosperity all over Guata-
mala. He is young and enterprising and
anxious to do all he can for his country.
There is very good coffee crop down there
this year. 1t is considerably over the average
and, though it may seem strange. prices are
higher there than here. The best coffee costs
90 cents pound and common coffee is worth
from 25 to 81 cents. This is in silver money,
the only money we have there. Gold is very
high. 1t is worth 118 per cent. had to pay
$21S for 800 in gold. The exchange is very
heavy.
"Prices for everything in Guatemala are
high. But things are active and altogether
everybody is well satisfied with the condition
of business"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-04
BRYAN's IGNORANCE.

No doubt this is a campaign of educa-
ton, but it is very clear that Mr.. BRYAN is
not being greatly benefited. He told some
Ohio farmers the other day that 1.-The free
and unlimited coinage OF silver at Is to l
viii maintain the parity between gold and
| silver" Of course what he was trying to
prove was that the free and unlimited
coinage of silver would advance the price
of bullion to the coin value, and to clinch
the argument he said: "If any person in
your community would stand ready TO
take all the wheat brought to his office at
a dollar busheI nobody in this commu-
nifty would sell for less than a dollar a
| bushel."
1 Either Mr.. Bryan believes the farmers
1 OF Ohio to be too thick-headed to under
stand plain business proposition or he is
| himself devoid of reasoning faculties, and
it is the latter most likely. Hitherto Mr..
Bryan has insisted that it was not cues
ton of value of silver as a commodity. but
merely question of declaring by legisla-
tive enactment that so or any other num-
Der of cents worth of silver is the eduiya-
lent of 100 cents worth of gold to main
! tain the parity between the metals, but
now his position is that of the ultra gold
| bug, though he probably does not know it.
Admitting that it would be necessary to
advance the market price of silver he takes
| the bullion in the gold dollar as the unit
| as well as the standard of value by which
to determine how much silver shall adj
vance to establish parity between them.
That is what he told the farmers of Ohio
really means, but he did not mean that it
should be taken that way, although he
stated fact. However, the word "paritv''
is not to be found in the Chicago platform.
and hence Mr.. Bryan has no right to en-
ploy it when referring to the coinage ques-
ton. The declaration of his party means
| silver monometallism and the expulsion
of gold from all American channels of
| business.
When Mr.. Bryan asks if any person
would sell wheat at less than a dollar
when some one stood ready to pay a dol
lar, he is exposing his own ignorance or is
| trying to mislead. He gives the impress
sion that free coinage means that the Gov
eminent would become buyer of silver
bullion, whereas the Government would
not buy the metal at all. 1t would simply
| convert 1t into disks and put its stamp
upon them. The Government relation to
! the transaction would correspond to that
OF a public inspector and weightmaster of
commodities who certified to the quail
ity and quantity of the thing inspected
| and weighed, and the Governments
stamp upon silver disks or dollars
would no more fix their purchasing
power than would the inspector and
weightmaster's certificate fix the value of
the commodity he handled. If Mr.. Bryan
knows this to be true he deliberately
misrepresented an economic fact to the
Ohio farmers, and if he does not know it
to be true he should retire to an economic
kindergarten.
Every schoolboy knows that the Gov
eminent could not declare anything a
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neer who arrived here with Commander Stock
ton, is among the guests of the Occidental.
A. p. Perry of Round Valley, Mendocino
Comfy. who was one of the witnesses in the
recent murder trials at Weaverville, is in the
City.
VII. Mckenzie, formerly cashier OF one Of
the savings banks at Fresno and now inter
ested in the abstract business there is IN the
City.
6 C. Shale, who is interested in mining in
Sierra County and IN arizona, is in town. For
some time past he has been developing his
mining properties near The Needles.
Steve Brodie, the bridge jumper and sporting
man. who is now q member of the "On the
Bowery' Company, is at the Baldwin, accom-
named by Charles Barton. manager OF the
company.
Fred Cook, who for some years was engaged
in gold mining in Ecuador, and VINO Is now
superintendent OF the App mine, Tuolumne
County, owned by W. A. Nevills and others, is
on visit here.
Ex-Governor Percy l.. Sherman OF Illinois,
who is interested in some gold properties at
Mokelumne Hill, CalaYeras County, is at the
palace He is in California in connection
with his mining interests.
P. Pinelli, gold mine owner of Chihuahua,
Mex, is at the Commercial. He says the
Rothchilds have recently purchased three
miles square of placer and quartz mines there,
and that they will work them extensively.
Sam Harris, known as the king of pearl fish
ers on account of the large quantities he has
taken from the waters of Tahiti in recent
years, and who has been here buying goods
for some time past, has sailed for home He is
said to be worth nearly million dollars, all
made in the last few years.
Judge John F. shaffer, the discoverer of the
irst mine in White Hills, Ariz., and the
founder of that camp is on a visit here. The
Judge is an old-time mining man on the Pa
cifie Coast, and has discovered three or four of
the best mines in Utah and Nevada. He has
been rich and poor several times.
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masses are not complaining about our
forms of money. 1t is because they have
no opportunity to earn money that they
complain. Capital is not complaining be-
cause of any inherent or acquired weak
ness, but it complains that it has no oppor-
tunity to engage III business with safety.
Home capital does not feel like going to
work in competition with capital OF coun-
tries whose wage schedules enable them to
bring their products to America and control
our markets. Our farmers are not bother
ing their heads over financial problems.
They want our industries in operation
ana giving employment to our hun
dreds of thousands of working people so
that they may have money to buy farm
products. 1t is only the Bryanites Who
are bowling for a radical change IN our
form of money. Tie country's business
enterprises need protection against foreign
competitors who have the advantage oil
pauper and other cheap labor. Our banks
want revival of business so they may
md customers for their idle money.
Wage-earners are demanding work and
not new styles and shapes OF money.
These are the things the people OF the
United States want, and had the Indian
apolis convention been more patriotic and
less partisan it would have Endorsed the
Presidential candidate who can and will
give the people what they desire.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-04
PERSONAL.

D. A. Russell of Iowa Hill is in town.
DR.. J. T. Stanton of Chicago is at the Palace
DIR. G. A. Case of Fresno arrived here yester-
day.
Postmaster G. II. Callen of Williams is in the
City.
VIII. Hoopers of the Falcon mine is at the
Grand.
DR.. H. T. Thornton of Portland is at the
Grand.
District Attorney E. swinford of Colrsa is at
the Grand.
NJ. E Flaherty, a business man of Cornwall,
is in the City.
J.F. Carlson, cashier of the Bank of MERGED,
is at the Lick.
VIII Williams of Williams, Colusa County,
is in the City.
J.H. Whitehead of Modoc County is at the
International.
Crosby Dorkins of Jacksonville, Fla, arrived
here yesterday.
). o. Jillson and wife OF Hornbrook are at
the Cosmopolitan.
F. A. Him, the millionaire OF Santa Cruz, is
at the Occidental.
NJ. Rahilly, wealthy farmer OF MERGED, is at
the Cosmopolitan.
William Collins of Alaska is among the ar
rivals at the Russ.
-
Colusa is in town.
Rev. E. j. II. Van Deerlin of Grass Valley ar
rived here yesterday.
I'll. Vinchhoffer of Bremen was among the ar
rivals here yesterday.
Otto Grunsky, the Recorder of Stockton, is
here on business trip.
Lieutenant A. C. Baker of the United States
Navy is at the California
w. S. Godbe, the weslthy mining man, of Salt
Lake, is at the Occidental.
william A. Seaman of Santa Monica has ar
rived here for short stay.
R. B. Butler of Fresno, the extensive fruit
raiser, is on q visit to the City.
A. Burrows. the attorney, OF Grass Valley, is
among the arrivals at the Grand
Mrs Johnson, a resident and landowner of
Centeryille, is at the Cosmopolitan.
Superior Judge A. P. Catlin OF Sacramento
came down to the Bay City last night.
The Rev. L. B. Ridgely of Salt Lake is at the
| Occidental accompanied by his bride.
D. B. Keiser, prominent official of7tbe
Southern PACING, at Houston, Tex, is in the
City.
John West of Cathlamet, on the Columbia
River, is in the City accompanied by Mrs.
West.
DR.. j. S. Barrett, autopsy physician at the
Morgue, is confined to his home with the
rheumatism.
Charles Rule, who Is interested in an ex-
tensive ranch near Dunesns Mills, is regis
tered at the Grand.
Alexander Mcdonald, of the Atlantic and
Pacific Railroad and who owns mines in
Moiave County, is IN the City.
The Rev. Henry G. C. Halleck Of steuben-
vile, Ohio, who is bound to Shanghai, China,
as missionary, is at the Occidental.
E. F. Schumacher, the original locator and
owner of the Bald Eagle mine, fifty miles south
OF Juneau, Alaska, is at the Commercial.
DR.. James I, Ord of Pacific Grove, the pio-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-04
A SUMNER JINGLE.

When the sun is blazing and blistering down
And roasting your very soul,
Don't walk through the world with sigh and q
frown,
For isn't ice cheaper than coal,
My dear:
All, isn't ice cheaper than coal?
Suppose the red roses were under the snow
That the billiards. of winter should roll;
That the mules to the music of sleigh-bels should
Would there not be a corner in coal,
MY dear:
Would there not be corner in coal?
mourn not that summer is summer indt
Nor shirk the wild weather control;
The SUMS in the summer 10 freshen and feed,
And ice it is cheaper than coal,
My dear.
Now, isn't ice cheaper than coal?
Atlanta Constitution.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS CONVENTION

The WORK of the Chicago convention
must be nauseating beyond all endurance
when Democrats turn away from it. How
ever, the platform, aside from the money
question and the attack upon the ederal
judiciary, is fully in accord with Demo-
cratic principles and traditions, and hence
it must be the convention so overloaded
the ticket with Altgeldism that the old
wheelhorses of the party refuse to pull.
But, anyway, the single gold standard
members of the party held convention
at Indianapolis, Ind, yesterday and NOM
mated ticket to their liking, and now
they are going before the country to ask
for votes-and they will get few.
Had they been less partisan and more
patriotic they would have indorsed the
nomination of Major Mckinley, which
they could have done very consistently.
for according to their own utterances II
should be the chief end of every lover
of American institutions to pre-
vent Bryan's election. They say his
election would be National calamity.
and they admit, that Major Mckinley
would at least give the country an honest
and safe administration But they are 40
intensely partisan that they will listen to
nothing that does not begin and end with
Democrat"
The nominees, Senator Palmer of Hi.
nois and Ex-Governor Buckner of Ken
lucky, are undoubtedly men of high char
acter and imbued with spirit OF patriot
ism that cannot be questioned, but thew
are faulty in judgment. No one who is
disposed to put the safety of the country
above party politics will dispute with the
National Democratic party" when it de-
clares that Bryan's election would be a
terrible misfortune to the country, but that
is ali the more good reason why the en-
tire opposition to Altgeldism should con-
centrate upon Major Mckinley.
The mistake the promoters of the
Indianapolis convention make is in mis-
experimenting the real needs of the coun-
try. 1t is not now so much a question of
a monetary system as it is a question of
putting the industries and other business
enterprises of the country in shape to
require the employment OF money. The
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-04
CALIFoRNIANS IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, N. ", Sept. 3.-The Misses
E. B. and H. A. Costle, Mr.. Ferdinand Prick,
Mr.. William Wallace, Mr.. and Mrs. Il. Levi
and Master Milton L. Levi LETT for Plymouth,
Cherbourg and Hamburg on the Hamburg
American packet Normannia. At the st.
Cloud-H. o. Buck: Amsterdam-Miss P.
Campbell; Normandie-W. NJ. Randall; Ash
land-J. f. Sheridan; Metropolitan-L. Stagge
and wife; Imperial-H. a. Clarke, Mrs. I.
Clarke; Windsor-E. Room and wife. Mrs.
Susan ]. Fenton, Miss Catherine Phillips and
Miss Freda Krose left the st. Cloud to sail for
Eurone
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-04

The Chicago platform has the stamp of our
party and claims its allegiance, bat 1t as a
mere simulacrum, a form a0ithout the sab
stance Of Democracy, and no Democrat as
bound By IL, nor as 1t entitled to his tealty.
II IS the Ishmael Of platforms. 1t rails es
its hand against some of the prin ciples OF
both parties and nearly all the principles OF
the Democratic party. 1t IS begOttem of the
enhalloeced uniOn bet,ceen so-cGHed Democ-
racy, Populism and anarchy, and that the
Scriptures may be fulfilled It ,oiH be a fttqi-
tige and a 'conderer on the face Of the earth. -
Senator CdferV.
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AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

Robert s. Mcdonald, paymaster for the last
eighteen years OF the Guatemala Central Rail
road, for long time owned by the Southern
Pacific Company, is at the Occidental. He
came up on yesterdays steamer.
1t is the first time in all the eighteen years
that Mr.. Mcdonald has been out of Guatemala,
assiduously has he attended to business.
Besides this he has lived in Guatemala con-
tinuously since 1860, with the exception of q
brief trip to England years ago.
In consequence of his long stay and his un-
remitting attention to business his health has
become impaired, and he will remain in Cali
for mia for some time and try and recover it.
He will be here for little while, he says, and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-04
PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE

There would be very few windows broken If
they waited for the man without sin TO cast
the first stone.-New Orleans Picayune.
Silver men who want to "argue" with US on
the streets must carry chairs; we are tired OF
arguing NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Globe.
The Paris "Matin" states that NJ. Gambon,
Governor Genefsl of Algeria, proposes to come
forward as candidate for the Office of chair
man of the suez Canal Company.
A college chum of Tom Watson says that the
Populist nominee for Vice President was the
hardest student he ever saw. He would read
SO persistently through the night that often
the next day his eyes would be contracted and
bloodshot, giving him the appearance OF a
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II IS not an Increase IN the rolune of money
Uhich as the need Of the time, Jl9 an increase
an The vOlume of business; not an increase of
coin, but an increase Of confidence; not more
coinage, bat more active use of the qnoney
coined; not open minis for the unlimited
coinage of sitrer, but open mills for the full
and unrestricted tabor of american tDorking-
men. The employment Of our minis for the
coinage Of sitver mould not bring the necessa-
ries and comforts of lfe back to our people
Mckinley.