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A BOSTON OPINION.

1t has been customary for the advocates
of the gold standard to assert that the
moyem ent for the reconciliation of silver
is confined to the West, and has no sup
port whatever among the intelligent
classes of the East. This assertion, though
unfounded in fact, has been so often re-
peated that many persons have accepted
1T as truth, and 1t is worth noting. there
fore, that even in Boston itself an in
tiuential class of citizens is opposed to the
retirement of greenbaeBs, even if the
drain on the treasury should be such as to
compel resort to payments in silver.
clear declaration to that effect is
found in the report of committee
appointed by the Massachusetts State
Board of Trade to consider certain
financial resolutions offered by the Mer-
chants Association of Boston last De-
cember. The report declares ''it would
not be policy for the United States treas
ury to redeem their notes outstanding in
gold, that it would not be policy to issue
gold-bearing bonds in payment thereof" !"
After an exhaustive review of the condi-
ton of our finances as basis for argu-
ments to sustain the conclusion reached.
the committee says:
Does any merchant believe that 1t is wiser to
Withdraw Notwithstanding notes and re-
place them with those bearing interest? Would
any bank withdraw It's circulation, destroy it's
notes and remain in business? If the bankers
OF this country attempt TO emulate the "syndi-
cate" and draw blood money from the Govern
ment, and otherwise embarrsSs it, it should be
our duty, and we hope the pleasure OF the
Treasurer, to pay every demand in silver dol
lars, and the country would sustain him.
1t appears from the summary of the pro-
ceedings of the meeting given in the Boston
Journal that the report of the committee
was not altogether pleasing and several
speeches were made against it with the re-
suit that the report was tabled. 1t there
fore cannot be taken as the opinion of the
Massachusetts, State Board of Trade. We
may be sure, however, that those who
wrote tho report are not the only solid
men OF Boston who hold the views it so
tersely declares. There is not so much
difference evidently between Eastern and
Western sentiment as some people would
have US believe, and the Boston committee
was in thorough accord with the people of
the Pacific Coast in saying that under the
conditions named it should be our duty to
pay every claim against the Government in
silver dollars,
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that have made their home at Dixiana She is
one OF the best horsewOmen in Kentucky, and
II is her boast that she can ride any horse that
any man can ride. She is fond of outdoor
sports, and is one of the best rife shots in the
state. She does not belong to the ''new
woman" cotorie, but believes that woman's
sphere is home, and that her highest aim
ought to be to make man happy.
Lexington correspondent OF the New York
World tells how Miss Richardson came to be
selected to christen the big lighting ship. Her
sister is the wife of Colonel James X. Forney
OF the United States Marine Corps, and the two
sisters have received much social attention in
Washington, New York and Brooklyn. Miss
Richardson is an acquaintance of Secretary
Herbert, and when Congressman Bennett OF
Brooklyn gave little impromptu supper at
the Shoreham after the opera was over. the
Secretary proposed to Miss Richardson that
she ehristen the new battleship Kentucky. She
accepted the proposition, but insisted that it
would be the proper thing to break bottle of
old Bourbon over her prov instead of the
usual bottle of champagne. The Secretary saw
the good taste in this, and Immediately agreed
to allow Miss Richardson to have her own way
about the matter Therefore, instead of cham
pagne, a bottle of forty-five-year-old Bourbon
whisky from the cellars of Major b. G. Thomas
will be broken over the Kentucky's bow.
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KINDS OF MILLIONAIREs.

The death of the man Rippey, who shot
and tried to kill J. w. Mackay q wear or
two ego, and who for the offense was con-
vlcted OF simple assault and sentenced TO
short term of imprisonment in the
County Jail, has brought to light a story
to the effect that Mr.. Mackay had made
arrangements TO live in California and
employ his great fortune in the develop
menT of the States resources, but that he
abandoned the idea in disgust when a
jury of intelligent citizens brought in a
verdict so manifestly unjust, and deter
mined to employ his great wealth in some
country where elementary Justice is better
understood and more impartially admin
istered.
With the merits of that case THE CALL
has nothing to do. If it is true that its
determination decided a man of Mr.
Mackay's wealth, industry and public
spirit to withdraw from California the
exercise of the power which we might
have employed for its advancement the
State has suffered a grievous misfortune,
and that is something which every good
citizen will depIore, even though we may
be able to outlive it. But if that verdict
was unjust it did not represent the spirit
of the people, and it would be unfair on
the part OF Mr.. Mackay to charge it to the
intelligence, wisdom and Justice of Cali
fornia.
1t is significant fact that the million
aire who has not made his fortune by
grinding the poor or setting traps for the
avaricious and unwary, and who employs
his fortune in great industries which
afford sustenance to thousands and de-
velop those natural resources from which
the people draw their living, need have no
fear OF an assassin's s bullet or of an unjust
verdict if a crank, attracted by his promi-
nence, assaults him. 1t is the nature OF
things that strength, of whatever kind,
employed for the benefit of the race
makes popular idol OF its possessor.
Money is one of the most tangible of all
forms of power, and its wise use brings as
many blessings to its owner as to its bene-
fciaries.
The people have an instinct of selection
that IS as potent as their appreciation and
gratitude. AS every man who is very rich
must be well known, each one of them has
his proper standing in the popular esti-
nation; each has been tried by his own
deeds, and the estimate of him is founded
on sense OF common human Justice.
The people of California know all their
great millionaires; know how these i'm
mense fortunes were made and how they
are employed; know whether this en-
ployment works a general benefit and has
foundation in right conduct, and stand
as ready to reward as to punish. No man,
however rich, is above the operation of
this human pressure, and it is only the
wise use of wealth that brings its pos
SCISSOR the finest and most lasting benefit.
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TO CHRISTEN THE KENTUCKY

The honor of christening the new battleship
Kentucky has been bestowed by Secretary Her
bert on Miss Harriette B. Richardson. Miss
Richardson's is resident of Lexington and is
considered as one of the most beautiful bellies
OF the Blue Grass State. She is feet 3 inches
tall, of superb form, has hair of light brown,
gray eyes, aquiline nose, beautiful mouth
and pretty teeth Her manner is charming
She is q brilliant corversationalist and most
attentive listener. Her father William Hall
Richardson, is the son OF Marcus Richardson,
whose father was Captain William Hall Rich
ardson of, Revolutionary fame. Her mother
was Miss Jane Shore Stamps, who was one of
Bourbon County's most noted beauties and
daughter OF Captain Thomas Stamps, near
relative of Jefferson Davis.
Miss Richardson was born and raised within
few miles of Lexington, on her fathers beau
tlfu! bluegrass estate, Elk Hill, which adjoins
the famous DiXiana Farm, where Major B. G,
Thomas, the oldest breeder of thoroughbreds
in America, raised all the horses that have
made his name famous from one end of the
country 10 the other. Miss Richardson was q
great pet OF the old Major when she was
little girl and she has often ridden King Ban.
Felowcraft, Himyar and other noted horses
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the vast fields of eyer-drifting sands that are
SO abundant everywhere along the ocean shore.
They show no signs of animal lite, and only
now and then in some depression or where
there is little moisture little stunted yege-
tation may be seen,
"Yet the same dreary place is full of animal
life. The insects are nearly always hidden in
the sand, and are only seen running about
when the wind has blown them from their hid
ing-places in the loose sand. There are many
different families of insects living in harmony
there. BY brushing your hand through the
sand you expose many to view, and all will
commence to hide themselves again as soon as
they find themselves uncovered.
''They spend their whole lives covered with
sand. They lay their eggs, the young are
hatched, and the iarve or young live in the
same place. Some are carniverous others live
on vegetation. The most conspicuous insect
found always in the sand is the beautiful His
ter sellatus, which is colored with bright-red
and black markings, the red resembling sad
die, and thus taking its specific name.
"By making asweep through the sand with
your hand several are brought to view, always
folding their legs against their body and lying
still for some time though dead. Later
they commence to bury themselves again in
the sand.
"Another very pretty insect, of a shining black
color, is the Hister sexstriatus. 1t lives in the
sand with the other insects of the same habits
There are many others, none very large, but
among them one curiously marked Curculio, or
snout beetle, the Trigonoscuta pi1osa, of the
same family as the Curculio, which is so de-
structive to the plums
"The most curious of all Is the Cicindela,
or tiger beetle, so named from its
voracious habits Their curious mark
ings resemble tiger. The young ones
live in the sand. while the mature insect
may be seen on any sunny day running about
on the sand and capturing and devouripg any
insect smaller than itself. They are very shy,
and not easily taken. One must have net to
take them with facility. They lay their eggs
IN the damp sand and they are hatehed there,
the young making hole in the damp sand
and remaining there, with their head just
even with the surface of the ground.
''In that position they capture any small in
sect that comes near enough for them to seize
with their sharp jaws, and then drop down in
the hole and eat their prey at their leisure.
"The Cicindela hirticollis, or hairy y-necked
beetle, is another species that may be seen on
almost any sunny day in the sand of the dunes.
The young of the tiger beetle, or larva, is hide
Gus in appearance. It has very large head,
with very large jaws armed with teeth on the
inside, with g large hump on its back which
ends IN movable hook, which aids it in
climbing up its deep hole to near the top, when
it always lies in wait for some insect They
are so pugnacious that if you thrust a straw
in the hole they will seize it and hang on till
they suffer themselves to be drawn out. Many
others could be mentioned which live together
in seeming harmony, but of many different
families"
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-22
CLEVELAND's FOREIGN POLICY.

Reports from Washington concerning
the attitude of the administration toward
Cuba are uncertain and somewhat conflict
ing. 1t seems fairly assured, however, that
a decided step of one kind or another is
under consideration by the Cabinet and
the rapid march of events in the island
may lead to its announcement to Congress
in very short time.
1t is rather unfortunate that at this
iuncture the administration should be SO
much discredited by its home policy and
so much out of favor with the people on the
eve of a Presidential election. The situ-
alton is such that many patrioticpeople
will be led to suspect that the President
is seeking to get up something Like war
excitementin order to distract attention
from the serious blunders committed in
his tariff and financial measures. If such
a suspicion finds place in some quarters at
home we may be sure it will be accepted
as truth by not few people abroad The
natural result of such suspicious will be to
weaken the effect of the language of the
administration and make the possibility
of war more probable than il would other
wise be.
This weakness of the administration
MAKES IL imperative tnat Doth branches or
Congress should give it prompt and effec-
tive support. 1t is most satisfactory,
therefore, to note that in neither House
has there been any notable attempt either
to hamper the action OF the President or to
cast suspicion on his motive. The attitude
of the Republican leaders has been
thoroughly and constantly patriotic in the
whole matter. Without condoning in the
slightest degree the mischief caused by the
free-trade deficit tariff and the offensive
manner in which the bonded debt has been
increased, all Republicans have heartily
sustained the President in the general
policy he has adopted toward the settle
ment of the foreign question.
These facts must be borne in mind when
the time comes for Congress to act upon
any policy Cleveland may adopt toward
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-22
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
UTILIZING THE TIDES.
A San Francisco Engineer Feels
Confident That It Can Be Done.

TO the Editor Of the San Francisco CalLSIR:
An Item has recently been published regard
ing wave motor now building at Capitola,
Monterey Bay, which 1 hope-though do not
beheye-may be success.
however, whatever result may be achieved
oy TINS or other wave motors, there can be no
shadow OF doubt that current motors" fur
nlsh the cheapest power in the universe.
1t has been a matter OF wonder for quarter
OF century last past that the superb current
power OF San Francisco heads has been allowed
TO waste Its potentiality for human services.
Being practical civil engineer, acquainted
with the mechanical branch as well, serving
ior years as shipmaster, surfman and wreeker,
having beId license as s'pilot from San Fran
cisco to sea and RETURN think myself enti-
t!ed 10 express my long-settled conviction that
the daily waste of the hundreds of thousands
OF horsepower, which could be SO easily har-
messed, Is little less than sacrilegious on the
part of San Francisco.
Inc waves are uncertain, coy at times and
hard to harness always; while, on the con-
trary the tides are as regular as the stars in
their course and easily controlled.
Any navigator who knows the giant force
and the resistless rush of the outpour from
our great system of bays and tributary rivers
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viii agree with me as to the power, and any
capable and "new style' mechanical con-
structor will as readily consent am positive,
to the ease OF conversion of said power into ac-
ton for the good of mankind upon an hour S
consultation thereon.
have made success of several of the inven-
tons of Colonel A. W. Won Schmidt (ghose son
have the honor to be), and as well succeeded
with inventions of my own. My whole life has
been series of hard. practical contests with
Natures great forces. 1 simply state these
defy any 4O-year-old man to show as thorough
all-round training for such g matter as char
Messing the tides of San Francisco heads" as
can prove.
If provided with proper backing, I would
stake my life, if that were allowable, on pro-
ducing comparatively cheap and wholly eff
clent current motor that would give my ma
tive City of San Francisco the pre-eminence of
the Pacific as manufacturing center. Very
respectfully, EDWARD A. Won SCHMIDT.
Mare Island, Jan. 20, 1896.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-22
THERE Is NO EXCUSE.

If there were conceivable good reasons,
either on the score of justice or policy, for
extending the debt of the Pacific roads,
fair-minded persons could be found in
abundant numbers to support such a
scheme. In California, where OF necessity
the case is better understood than any,
where else in the country, there is unan-
unity of opinion against such scheme,
and this opinion is entitled to respect from
the country at large and particularly from
Congress.
Nothing could be more deplorable than
the bitter antagonism existing between
the Southern Pacific Company and the
people of California, for that very feeling,
acting independently of the causes that
have produced it, has been exceedingly in
furious to the State. Such condition of
affairs exists in no other State of the
Union. No other railroad in this country
is so hated and feared by the people whom
it serves.
This cannot be explained on any as
sumption that the people of this State are
unreasonable or that they cherish preju-
dice against capital. On the contrary,
some of the largest and richest corpora
tions flourish here, and some of the
strongest of them have the confidence and
respect of the people. All that have been
reasonable in their relations with the pub
lie are treated with all due consideration.
But when a powerful corporation, what
ever its business, follows the methods
which have distinguished the conduct of
the Southern Pacific, it must expect to
meet with the bittereSt opposition that a
common sense of outrage will in
spire. The people had already believed
that the company had resorted to prac-
tees of character to outlaw it, but this
impression was given tangible force by
the irrefragable testimony brought out in
two of the most famous legal Investigations
ever held in this country. One was the Col
ton suit, in which the widow of one of the
four men who built the Central Pacific
sued the surviving partners for an
accounting. In that trial disclosures of
the most astounding and staggering kind
were made--among others that G. P. Hunt
ington, over his own signature, coolly dis
cussed in letters addressed to Cotton the
regular business Of controlling Congress
sional legislation in favor of the company
by corrupt means.
That was only a small part of the infamies
discovered. The Pattison railroad inquiry
went further into material matters and
showed how the people and the Govern
ment had been grossly swindled in the
construction and management of the
property. The wonder Is less that an an
tagonism exists than that it is not far
deeper and more relentless than it is. In
comparison with the wrongs which they,
the people, have suffered, the vigor of their
present protest is very feeble and made
quate. 1t is upon their knowledge of the
past that their fears of the future are
based. They know not only that the pas
sage of a funding bill would perpetuate
the evils which have oppressed them, but
that these evils will of necessity be in
creased. The State is now carrying heav-
ier burden than it can bear, and it is call
ing upon the country to save it from de-
struction,
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THE NEW DIXIE.

Oh Dixie land is the land of honey,
Eight-cent cotton an SILVER money;
Work away,
Night an day
Work away down south in DixieI
The sun-bright fields are green with clover.
Colonels still but the war Is over;
Work away,
Night an day
Work away down south in Dixie!
The roses grow an the birds are singin'
whistles blow an the bells are ringin':
Work away,
Night an day
Work away down south in Dixie!
The night was long but the daylight's breakin,
sugar IN mine an'-what are you takir'?
Work away
Night an day
work away down south in DixieI
Atlanta Constitution
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letters that grandma writes to see his old
friend.
Lord Rosebery is believed to be engaged unon
the production of novel.
Dean Hole warns young English gentlemen
that there is no room for them as farmers in
America.
Henry Labouchere is an expert mountsinea-
and used to climb snowpeaks in the comnsny
OF the late Car of Russia, with whom he was
very intimate.
The original study of "Little Billeen of
"Trllby," William bayfield,, is studying with q
view TO appearing in light opera. Mr.. Bavfiald
is one OF Alma Tadems's best models.
Ine suggestion has been made that the house
OF Rev DR.. Samuel F. Smith, the author of
America at Newton Center, Mass, be nur.
chased and preserved as memorial.
0rabowsk1 is the suggestive name of the man
VINO made the most money on the Russian tnrf
this year. He has the best racing stable in n =
country, and cleared $50, 900.
woman OF London says that the difficu1tv of
getting fairly good likeness of the Queen in
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-22
CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Jan. 21.-Among recent
arrivals are: J. NJ. Chase, Grand Union; H. NJ.
Hamnore, Hoffman; C. w. Warwede. Everett;
g.. C. Smith, Astor; L. NJ. Simpson, West
minister; Pc. Hunt, Netherland; w. F. Wood,
st. Denis; C. Berry, G. H. Berry, NJ. Berry and
wife, NJ. Berry Jr, St James; Mrs. P. F. Bush,
Westminster; G. Edwards, w. F. Piekstoul,
w. II. Tyron and wife, Marlborough; J. P
Langhorne, Holland; L. Merrito and wife,
Hoffman.
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The cooking school maintained at the
Atlanta Exposition by the State develop
ment committee, in which lessons and
lectures on the art OF cooking the food
products of California were given, has re-
suited in largely increased demand for
our dried fruits from States where they
were scarcely known before. Through the
eagerness OF customers to purchase, the
merchants OF Atlanta are now compelled
to keep in stock all varieties of California
dried and canned fruits.
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swered: "When could sit 1 never stood. I
married late, was widower soon and never
married again." But learned Bishop, who
was married four times, thought differently,
Tor he was so well pleased with his matrimon-
ial ventures that he placed this motto on the
wedding-ring of his four tn marriage:
"If I survive,
I'll make it FIVE"
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creases every year. For one thing her Majesty Is
proverbially impatient of the camera, and abso-
lutely refuses to pose longer than few sec
onds. Then there is the difficulty of making
her look as tall as possible and, besides all this,
the photographer who has been commanded"
never knows, up to the last moment, when or
where her Majesty will consent to see him and
Che takenD
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CURRENT .HUMOR.

ethel, were you out sleighing with the arm
less wonder last EVENING""
'tWhy, papa, what q question: What put
such an idea into your head?'
81 saw your escort holding the lines in his
teeth. detroit Free Press.
He-Have you match? Iwant to light my
pipe.
she-No. Ny matchbox is in my other
bloomers.-New York Herald.
Il wish them things wasn't so high priced. -
said Mrs. Jason, as she looked longingly at
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-22
LADY'S CAPE.
''be taken

The shape of the cape shown here is circular,
the kind that is so easily made and takes SO
little material The outside and lining are
cut exactly alike, basted together face to face,
stitched together all around excepting at the
neck 1t is then turned over and pressed on
the edges and the cape is done, but for the
ueck-fnishing. This is simply straight band,
over which is sown the ruche, either OF ribbon
triple box-pleated, net with ribbons stltched
on it, also box-pleated, or OF chiffon, tour
3-inch wide pieces being doubled and gath
cred very full to the neekband:
A cape of brown velvet, edged all around
with, a fringe of sable, had 4-inch strip strip
of velvet pleated into the neck, the top edged
with the sable. This was worn over longar
cape of brown cloth, which made at once
warm and dressy wrap.
A cape of green velvet after this model was
edged with Persian lamb fur and worn over
black cloth cape. Such wrap is delightful Tor
the theater, where the heavy plain cloth cape
can be laid aside and the rich top worn. Inen,
also, it makes complete garment OF itself for
milder days and affords an easy and COM
paratively cheap way of remodeling plain
cape. 1t also makes it possible at little ex-
pense to have dressy wrap and plain one,
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