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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-08
Mr.. NAT Gray Knows a Good
Thing Sfhen He Sees IT.
and When He Uses
It--and He Writes:

~ have used MRS. JOE PERSONS
REMEDY for the blood, and found il
has 10 equal for asthma and chronic
bronchial troubles Of long standing as
a morning tonic do not think it has an
equal. If one win take it before break
fast they win certainly have an appetite
to eat and ability TO digest their food.
When commenced taking the Remedy
| weighed 1is pounde; now my weight is
40 pounds, aud attribute my general
good health altogether to the use Of Mrs.
Joe Per on's Remedy.
"NAT. GRAY"
Charlotte, N. c., Dec. 20, 80.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-06
FOR THANKSGIVING.

The Presidents proclamation,s setting
apart day for Thanksgiving, follows SO
close upon the defeat of Bryan that it will
seem to many people like an expression
of gratitude for that event. This impress
sion will be augmented by the fact that
among the things which the President
calls upon us to give thanks for is 'our
preservation as Nation and our deliver
ance from threatened danger"
The American people, however, will
hardly construe the proclamation as an
expression of Mr.. Cleveland's delight st
the result of the election. Certainly, If it
should be go construed there would be
universal condemnation of the President.
Thanksgiving day has become to us so
truly a National patriotic observance that
no man likes to associate it with partisan
triumph. No matter how great or how
important may have been the issues in
VOWED in party contests we look upon the
day of Thanksgiving as day of rejoicing
in what has been bestowed upon rs by
Providence rather than by what has been
won by the people at the polls.
This country has certainly been favored
above all the nations of the earth during
the past year. We are rejoicing in abun.
dant harvests at time when famine
threatens other lands, and when the rising
price Of wheat, which signifies prosperity
TO us, means the distress of the poor in
other parts of the world. We have also
abundant evidence that our people have
been endowed with that wise common
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-06

TIE PASSING OF ALTGELD.

One of the best features of this cam
paign has been the utter defeat of Altgeld
and the forces back of him in Illinois.
This man has represented the worst ele-
ment IN American politics. He has not
only represented it, he has been its leader,
its agitator and its champion. The oppo-
siton to him has sprung from no ord mary
party feeling. The American people have
refused to recognize in him normal
political foe. They have learned from his
speeches and from his actions that he is
the enemy of law and os civil society, the
pardoner of anarchists and the advocate
of riot.
To the power of this dangerous man was
due all the most pernicious features OF
the Chicago platform. Itwas his domina-
tion that caused the Democratic conyen-
ton to adopt resolutions denouncing the
enforcement of the law by the General
Government, condemning the Supreme
Court and threatening a campaign which
would have involved had it succeeded
strife between labor and capital and the
excitement of mobs and riots in every
city of the Union.
The people of Illinois did not under
stand Altgeld when they elected him
Governor of their State. They soon
learned to know him however from the
course he pursued as soon as he became
the chief executive. He showed himself
from the start tc be the friend OF crimi-
mails, and so many convicts and con-
demned murderers did he pardon that
bad men ceased to fear the law and good
men no longer trusted to it with conf
dence.
1t will be remem bered that not long ago
the men who took part in lynching
criminal in one of the rural districts of
Illinois excused their action on the ground
that Governor Altgeld had pardoned so
many murderers that they were not will
ing to trust the enforcement of the law
into his hands any longer. Thus the
favor shown to criminals by the Governor
led to lawless violence among the people.
1t is in this way that one bad action leads
to another, and the law is assailed from
both sides.
The experience with Altgeld's gov.
ernorship has converted the people of IL
llnois from any tendency they may have
had to support of radical reformers
He has given them an object-lesson which
even the dullest could understand. He
has made it clear that. whatever other re-
formers may aim at, he is aiming at revo-
luton and anarchy. He personifes all
the hates, enyies and jealousies OF the
lowest class in the community, ana is
more dangerous than his followers, be-
cause'he has been gifted with more brains,
more energy and more dominant will.
1t is a source of qualification to the
whole country that he has been defeated.
With his overthrow the people have put
condemnation upon all for which he
stands. The Democratic party may be
relied upon TO return hereafter to the
paths marked out by its great conserva-
tive leaders, and no future campaign will
show any strong following of the discred-
tied anarchist.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-06

sense which enables them to bear adver-
slty with fortitude, and prosperity with
discretion In material things, in mental
strength, and in moral excellence, there
lore, we have been blessed sufficiently
10 make our homes secure and to confirm
the prospects of coming prosperity.
Men OF all parties will unite in giving a
cordial welcome to the proclamation.
Ihose who voted for Bryan will observe
the great day with as much thankfulness
and rejoicing as those who voted for Nc
hiniey. The heats of the campaign are
past, political antagonisms are ended, and
once more we feel the sentiment of a COM
mon patriotism. Once more we meet our
friends and neighbors without disputes
over differences of opinion and unite in
laying plans for the prosperity which is
to come. The publication of the proclama-
ton for Thanksgiving will stimulate the
return OF these better feelings, and will
revive IN the hearts of the people the
thoughts of all those things for which
they owe gratitude and thanks to the
Giver of all good.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-06
MAYoR-ELE PHELAN.

While THE CALL regrets the defeat of
Colonel Taylor, it feels some satisfaction
in the fact that his successful opponent
has been James D. Phelan. The Mayor
elect has not had the experience in public
life of Mr.. Taylor, but his antecedents and
his environments rs are such as to give rea-
son to the general hope that he will ad-
minister the affairs of the City with good
jud gment, fidelity and unquestioned hon.
esty.
The power of Mayor in San Francisco
is not great. Nevertheless the man who
holds it represents the people and the
City, and community is largely Judged
by his personal character. His influence,
also, if he is man capable of exerting an
infiuenceQsargely compensates for the lack
of official power. 1t is therefore fortunate
that IN this election we have secured as
Mayor of the City man who represents
the better element of its people and who
has shown an interest In public matters
which attests his earnest desire 10 pro-
mote administrative reform, municipal
economy and civic progress.
The people will not demand much of
Mr.. Phelan in his new office. but they will
reasonably expect him to exert his official
and personal influence on the side of good
government. 1t is 10 be hoped that these
expectations will not be disappointed. it
depends upon himself whether he is to be
regarded as Mayor Phelan, or as the agent
of Dem oeratic bosses.
For ourselves we have no fear of the re-
suit. Mr.. Phelan is man of large prop
erty and has been trained in the manage
ment of business affairs. He has been an
earnest worker in the promotion of many
reforms and OF many enterprises in the
City. So far as his efforts can control the
course of municipal administration we
may reasonably expect that it will be car
ried on in the direction of good govern
ment, for the welfare of the City and the
interests of the people.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-06
PERSON AL.

E. ]. Dubois of Paris is at the Palace.
DIR. H. Freud of Boston is at the Occidental.
town. '-'A' Oh 1fi' 0'n'' AoS''anA' Is IN
J. Buswell F. Lee of Virginia is on visit
here.
captain b. E. Boyes of LonoXay is at the
Grand.
A. J. Racine, a business man of Delano, is In
the City.
John Haskins of sandusky, Ohio, is at the
Commercial
Hon. J. NJ. Tfllotson of New York is at the
Occidental.
The Rev. A. L. Mitchell of Salinas City is at
the Occidental.
J. Healey, mining man of Circle City,
Alaska, is in the city.
H. D. Stellar, q business man Of Kalamazoo
Mich, is at the Palace
James F. McLowden of Victoria, B. c., is
among the arrivals here.
DR.. Siam bach of Santa Barbara was among
yesterdays arrivals in the City.
l. L. Delano, who is interested in the large
quarries at Rocklin, is at the Lick.
ID. n. Caldwell, prominent resident of Chi
cago, Is in the City, accomp anied by Mrs. Cald-
we'll.
John A. Thompson and George Steller, WELL
to-do residents of Juneau, Alaska are at the
Russ.
r. c. Miner. the attorney of Stockton who
came near being elected Superior Judge, is
among the arrivals at the Russ.
f. d. Frazier and George P. Cornell, owner
OF gold-mining property at Happy Camp, in
Slsktyou County, are at the Russ
Edgar S. Wallace, who is engaged in gold
mining at Yuba, is among the arrivals at the
Palace He formerly resided at Tacoma.
w. Fl. Clary Jr. of Stockton. who is superin-
tendent OF gold mines belonging to him
self and an Australian syndicate, is at the
Lick.
E. Green, the old-time and wealthy resident
OF sacramento, who was at one time Alderman
and at another superintendent of Streets
there, is at the Russ.
n. II. Barton OF San Bernardino was in the
City yesterday. Mr.. Barton is one of three
veterans residing in California who served
throughout the war in the celebrated Fourth
Iowa Infantry Volunteers.
Mrs. Ellen NJ. Haig of Hyde Park, Ontario,
has arrived here and will spend the winter at
the home of her brother, Donald Ross. of Ross
d Hewlett. Crossing the Rocky Mountains,
Mrs. Haig was for some hours snow bound.
Chester A. Arthur of New York, son Of the
late President, G. a. Arthur, who has been in
California for over week in company with
his sister, returned from trip to suburban
places yesterday. They are both at the Palace,
c. S. Young, the agent of the Valley railroad,
who has been here for over a week past, will
probably leave to-day for Fresno in the inter-
est OF the road. Right-of-way men are work
ing south OF Fresno for Mr.. Young and he will
join them to work for and aid in the extern
sion OF the popular line.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-06
A CELESTIAL TRAVELLER.

hcdtsoocery of the Companion of SIRIUS
at the Lick Observatory.
The bright star Sirius has small companion
which was discovered by Alvan Clark Jr. in
1882. 1t is es pecialy interesting because its
existence was predicted in 1914 by Bessel
from consideration of the irregular motion
of the larger star The small star moves about
Sirius in an orbit whose circuit is completed
in about fifty years. The mass OF the small
star is about one-half the mass of Sirius,
though 1t has only one ten-thousandth part OF
its light. The mass OF the companion is sub
stantially the same as the Suns mass. 1t was
last observed by Professor Burnham, at the
Lick Observatory, in 1890 in angle $50 de-
grees, distance seconds 1t then approached
so close to Sirius as TO be lost in its rays. Its
temperance was looked for with interest.
Professor Hussey examined the system care
fully during February and March of the pres
ent year, and the companion was not to be
seen. IL was still too close. 1t should have
appeared in angle 100 degrees approximately
On August 31st DIR. See reported that the star
had been rediscovered at the Lowell Observa-
tory, Flagstaff, Arizona, and later published
measures by himself, DR.. Douglass and Mr..
Cogshall, which placed the star in angle 22O
degrees, a. distance of seconds. Mr.. Lowell
and MIR. Drew also repor ted that they saw DR..
Sees companion.
strange thing that this discovery was made at
the Lowell Observatory, and not at the Lick
observatory. 1t was, however, not possible for
the observers at Mount Hamilton to report any
object which they had not seen.
Recent observations at Mount Hamilton by
Professor Aitken, on October Oath, 29th and
3lst, and by Professor Schaeberle, on October
29Ih and 31st, show conclusively that there is
no object in the place reported by the astrono-
mers OF the Lowell Observatory, and that
Clark's companion TO Sirius is in its predicted
place-namely, in angle 189 degrees, distant
33Z seconds The observations in rull will be
printed in the astronomical journals. The
present note is written to announce the redls-
covery at the Lick Observatory of the object
first found by Mr.. Clark in 1862.
EDWARD s. HOLDEN.
Lick Observatory, Oct 81, 1896.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-06

the fusion forces and leaves them hope of
success hereafter. 1t is hard. therefore. to
oyerrate the evil which has been caused
to the Republican party and the injury
done to the great cause OF protection,
sound money and conservative govern
ment by these party traitors.
The one benefit to be drawn from
the result is that loyal Republicans
will make a note of the traitors, study
the effect of their treason and be pre-
pared to guard against it in future.
Mr.. Laumeister has committed political
suicide. and the Chronicle will no longer
be regarded as representative of the Re-
publican party in California.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-06
NOT THE ONLY TURTLE IN THE
TANK.

From the Jacksonville (Fla.) Times Union.
When you think tho worlds your oyster, and
feiicitate yourself
On your standing and your balance in the bank,
Just remember there are others as respectable as
you.
You're not the only turtle in the tank.
The colonel OF militia is a very mighty man,
His epaulets will tell you of his RANK,
But there's captains, and there's sergeants, and
corporals besides
He's not the only turtle in the tank.
Don't think because you have views on politics
and such,
That the man who differs with you is a "crank. -
It's within the bounds of reason you may make
mistakes yourself,
You not the only turtle In the tank.
The self made mans wonder. he will tell you 80
himself,
AND there's one but himself to really thank
But when he dies there's some one who can fill
the gap he leaves,
He's not the only turtle in the tank.
So take your honors easy and be lust like the rest
For whether you're prize blank
The world can do without you, can forget you In q
day,
For you're not the only turtle in the tank.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-06
LAUMEISTBR's HARI-KARI.

Charles S. Laumeister has committed
political hari-kari. He has retired him
self from politics and crawled into the
hole which is the grave of his political
fortune. He has done this deliberately
and apparently from no motive save that
of assisting the Chronicle, Martin Kelly
and few other soreheads to crafty their
personal spite against the organized Re-
publican party of San Francisco.
Mr.. Laumeister is a man who owed
much to the Republicans of this City. They
have honored him repeatedly by election
to Office and in other ways. They had
reason to expect from him loyal support
of the party in all its battles, even when
the odds against it were great. They have
therefore, weighty reasons 10 condemn
him for party treason at time when a.
complete Republican victory could have
been won had he refused to make himself
the tool of party traitors.
Two Republicans of eminence had re-
fused the thankless and dishonorable task
which Mr.. Laumeister undertook to per-
form. Horace Davis and H. P. Sonntag.
who had been chosen by the party traitors
to lead them in the fight against organized
Republicanism, had positively declined to
do so. Mr.. Laumeister accepted the work
rejected By these honorable gentlemen
and thus put himself in shameful contrast
with their party loyalty and civic patriot
ism.
At the time Mr.. Laumeister consented
to lead the conspirators in their efforts to
divide the Republican vote, it was clear
he could not by any possibility be elected.
All that he could expect to accomplish
would be to defeat Colonel Taylor and
prevent clean and sweeping Republican
victory in the City. This much he hoped
to do, and backed by the Chronicle and the
Kelly gang he has succeeded in doing it.
1t is easy to see from the vote cast what
has been the result of this party treason.
The vote OF the City was given by small
majority for Mckinley and Hobart. The
vote given for Republican Presidential
electors would have been given for the Re-
publican candidate for Mayor had not the
dissensions in the party stirred up by
Laumelster, the Chronicle, Kelly and others
OF the gang discounted and discouraged
Republicans in the municipal campaign,
These dissensions led them to despair of
| success, and many of them and their con-
servative Democratic allies, who would
otherwise have voted for Colonel Taylor.
cast their votes for opposing candidates.
Had it not been for Laumeister and the
Chronicle the Republican vote in this Citv
would have been so large as to have car
ried California for Mckinley and Hobart
by a majority of which the party could
have been proud. As it is the victory has
been lar from sn overwhelming defeat OF
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-06
NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. :

"seems to me this is pretty steep charge
for few hours work"
s'oh, we amt chargin' you fer tn work;
we're a-chargin' fer them six days we stayed
away after we come and sized up the job"
Hoax-Has wigwag's new place much
grounds around it? Joax-Groundsl should
say SO. Why cup Of boarding house coffee
isn't in 1t with Wigwag's place.
No, Maude, dear, we do not know how long
girls should be engaged before getting mar
ried' Probably the same as short ones.
Blobbs-Poor Browni He literally worked
himself to death; always in q hurry. Slobbs-
Yes, they say he was out Of breath when he
died.
"Higby is going to lecture on The Finances
OF Other Countries"
"Whars that fort"
because the finances of this country are too
much for him."-Chicago Record.
shivering Passenger-why don't you have q
hre in these cars, conductor?
Conductor with frigld dfgnity,-We expect
the heat OF the campaign to warm these cars,
sir.-Chicago Tribune.
"What shall order for dinner to-day, lover"
asked Eve, as she absently plucked q green
apple.
"Oh, any old thing" retorted Adam. wearily,
"as long as 1t isn't sparerib. I'm sick of spare
ribs"
He savagely swatted rock at q garter
snake.-New York Press
''since the crime of 1873" said the argu-
mentative boarder, "there has been no money
in wheat" "Really," said the Cheerful IDIOT
81 thought lots of fellows were making dough
out OF 1t right along.'-Indisnapolis Journal.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-06
CALIF0RNIANS IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK. N. Y, Nov. Sat the st.
Cloud. n. Walker; Grand Union-A. Bar
.ney. ]. NJ. Chase, e. P. Foster; Metropole B.
Bradley; Imperial-O o. Howard Jr.; Abe
marle-J. B. Marlborough; Grand-F NJ. Tay-
lor, Mrs. F. NJ. Taylor; ST. Denis-Mrs. .. s.
Stewart; Broadway Central-M. Fcwden, c. H.
Hittell: Brett-F. I. o'Neil, J. E. Rice; Astor-
Mrs. J.. B. Norris
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-06
YEAR.
ne. Expenses.

SIX PREsIDENTs-Philomath, Philo, Mendo-
cino County, Cal. The President of the United
States who had attained the greatest number
OF years at the time he was inaugurated was
William Henry Harrison, who had reached
the age of 6S. He was born in Berkeley, Nor
folk County, Va, on Tuesday, February g.
1773; Franklin Pierce was born Thursday.
November %, 1904, at Hillsboro, Hillsboro
County, N. H. and was lnaugurated at the
age of 40; Abraham Lincoln born in
Elizabe thtown. Larue County, KY, Sunday,
February IL, 1909, and was inaugurated at
the age of So; U. s. Grant was born at Point
Pleasant Cleremont County o., Saturday,
April 27, 1922, and he was inaugurated ct the
age OF AZ; James A Garfield was born Satur-
day, November 10, 1881, at western Reserve
(Orange), Cuyahoga County, o., and was 1nau-
gurated at the age of 40; Grover Cleveland was
born Saturday, March IS, 1887, at Caldwell,
Essex County, N. J.. and was inaugurated first
term at 48 years of age.
STAR ROUTE FRAUDs-A. C. K, Auburn,
Placer County, Cal. ''Star routes" is the
name applied to postal routes over which the
mails cannot be carried by railroad or steam
boat. In 1881 Second Assistant Postmaster
Thomas J. Brady and others, including Sena-
tor S. w. Dorsey of Arkansas, were accused of
ombining with certain mail contractors to
defraud the Government. The combination
had originally 134 routes upon which the COM
amounted TO $143, ,169. By increasing the
number OF trips per week and shortening
the contract time and allowing Ior
each trip. the compensation was raised
to 1922 ,s0s. Dorsey was brought to trial in
1882. He made complete denial OF all the
charges and the jury 1ailed TO agree. On the
second trial he was acquitted NJ Q. Rerdell,
a clerk for Dorsey, and John r. Miner, who
had made the bids tor the contracts, were
convicted, but all the others were acquitted.
KwAs1Np H. W., sebastopol, sonoma
County. Cal According to Indian tradition
Kwasind was the strongest man that ever
lived, the Hercules of the American Indians.
1t is said of MIN that he could pull up pine
trees and cedars by the roots and hurl large
powders about like child would pebbles. His
wondrous strength was seated in his crown
and there of course lay his point of weakness.
The only weapon that could injure him was
the blue cone of the fir tree, but this
a secret known only to the pig
mics. These little folks determined to kill
the strong man, so one day when he
asleep in his boat they pelted him with fir
cones till he died. When the tempest RACES
through the forest and the branches of the
trees creak and groan and split it is said that
Kwasind is gathering frewood. Longfellow in
Hiawatha says:
Dear, too unto Hiawatha
Was the very strong Kwasind;
He the strongest of all mortals.
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-06

weather. 1t is said that the Lighthouse, or
more properly lighthouses, at one point fur
nishing the most powerful light in The world
are those at South Foreland, a promontory on
two fixed lights, respectively $50 and 275 feet
above the sea, visible twenty-five and twenty
tWc miles Each light is equal to 100000
al which ght from lighthouse has been
visible is that OF the holophotal light of Allie
pey, at Travancore, which has been seen from
an elevated situation at a distance offorty-ive
mics. mics. The holophotal revolving light at Bac-
calleu, Newfoundland, is seen every night in
ciear ei weather at Cape Spear, forty nautical
PosToFFIcE ExPENsEs-E. S. F. City. The
revenue and expenses of the United States Post
9lnce 9 department for the fiscal years ending
June so, 1891, 1892, 1898, 1884 and 1895
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-06

with charming bolero effect in front of
pleate ribbon or silk.
dress of fancy silk in somewhat gay color
ing was toned down by black velvet ribbon
which was used for the bolero and was worn
as a belt
heavy woolen fabric in black wove with a
very open mesh was made up over green and
blue silk. Bolero was of silk.
brown camels' hair gown with bolero of
yellow ribbon overlaid with black lace was
very chic
The San Francisco call., 1896-11-06
Through sleeping Cars to Chicnrn-

The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, Santa Fs
route, will continue to oaIy through from
Oakland to Chicago Pullman palace drawing-room,
also upholstered tourist sleeping-cars, leaving
every afternoon. Lowest through rates to all
points in the United States. Canada. Mexico or
Europe. Excursions through TO Boston leave
every week. San Francisco tickes Office. 644 Mar
ket street, Chronicle building. Telephone MAN.
1881: Oakland, 11lS Broadway.