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The San Francisco call., 1897-06-08
POSTAL DELEGAreS AT CHICAGO.
Members of the Congress FarmLy Vel
canned bv Mayor HarriSon.

coined bv Mayor Harrison.
CHICAGO, ILL, June "A special
train on the Chicago and Alton Railroad
arrived here this morning with the dele
gates to the Universal Postal Congress,
their wives and friends, in all about 200
people. panying the delegation
were: Count LIchpenbclde, Minister of
Belgium to the United States; Mierza
Khan, Persian Minister to the United
States; Chin Ton Ye, Korean Minister 10
The United States.
Mayor Harrison welcomed the delegates
in a brief speech, which was responded 10
by Z. Rosewater OF Omaha and Spencer
Walpole. The delegates were driven over
the city, ending up at jackson Park for
luncheon and entertainment during the
afternoon. They will leave at $3.50 to-
night for Niagara Falls.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-08

WASHINGTON, D. c., June The
House to-day passed the Senate amend
ment to the act to authorize the construc-
tion OF steel bridge across the ST. Louis
river and to authorize the construction
OF bridge across Pearl River Miss, bv a
vote OF 81 TO 79. 1t then ad iourned until
Thursday, the Democrats opposing an ad-
lournmeDt in the interest of the Cuban
and bankruptcy questions.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-08
Kiu-d B.m.etf Bh,te Mentally Derenoed

= CHICAGO, Ill, June 7.-August Mil
ler. an election judge, shot and killed
himself this morning after having been
excused for half an hour on account of
illness. Miller had been acting peculiarly
all the morning, and was finally told TO
go home for awhile. Business reverses
are thought TO have unsettled Miller's
mind.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-08
Sentence of an En.Ro..

ATLANTA. GA. June John Tyler
Cooper, ex-Mayor of Atlanta, was to-day
convicted of em bezzlement of public
funds and sentenced 10 six months i'm
prisonment and to pay a fine of $500
Cooper was the boss of Atlanta politics
for twenty-five years
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-08

To kerOt,sttontzs Educational Hsthod..
MILWAUKEE. Wis, June This
years general meeting of the National
educational Association, which convenes
here IN July. promises to be marked by a
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-08

Ladies' tIrest TAM Ladies' ack Vici KID
Vii Kid Clo-h Top Cloth Top OK ord Ties,
South ern Ties. narroW Ipointec or medium
coin or narrow square square toes and patent
toes and tips hand leather tips, circular
turned soies. Our reg vamps and neel foxing.
lar 81 so liue--wn oe heduced to 81 90 fur
sold this weeS for 81 8 this week.
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Tho Diplomacy Of tho Japanese.

One Of the most interesting phenomena
Of the times is Japan's sudden appearance
as q full-grown diplomatist; an adversary
to be respected and feared in this field of
intellectual effort. There is nothing crude
or semi-civiliZed in such documents from
her Foreign Office as have recently come
under observation. In suavity of method.
in grace and ~finesse, in precision and vigor
of language, the diplomacy of Japan is ono
Of the many marvels which she is now
exhibiting to the world at the end Of tho
nineteenth century.
Hawaii's proposal to Japan to arbitrate
was in some respects unfortunate. The
acute diplomatists Of the youngest of great
civilized powers have not been slow to take
legitimate diplomatic advantage of the
original offer from Honolulu.
According to the Honolulu correspondent
Of the Net0 York Herald, Japan's reply, as
communicated to President DoLE's AID.
ministration by Minister SHINAMURA, is
substantially this:
I've will arbitrate. but not merely the
question of damages in specific cases of the
exclusion of our emigrants. We will refer
TO arbitration the whole question OF Ha-
waits right to limit the immigration of
Japanese subjects"
II such is in truth the character of Jnpan's
reply, it Is obvious that the part of Hawaii
is to adhere firmly to her first proposition.
Whether that offer was n mistake or not,
she cannot recede from it now. But to
extend the arbitration to a broad question
involving Hawaii's sovereign right of self
protection against immigrants regarded as
undesirable, would be a surrender of in
dependence which no self Prospecting nation
could contemplate, and no Government in
Its senses could permit.
Why, even the general treaty of arbi-
tration negotiated seven or eight months
ago by Mr.. OLNEY and Sir JULIAN PAUNcE.
FoTE, as amended by the Senate before it
was beaten, expressly excluded from the
jurisdiction of the tribunal "any difference
which in the judgment of either power ma
terially affects its honor or its domestic or
foreign policy" except when introduced by
special agreement. For Hawaii, in the
present case, to agree specially to refer to a
third party the decision of her own right
to determine for herself a fundamental
question of domestic policy, would be an
extraordinary measure of self-effacement,
and a fatal surrender of national honor.
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Tho False Way.

The Cohoes Evening Dispatch has very
little political understanding IL it thinks
that BOSS PLATT," or, in other words,
the Republican organization Of New York,
"may have to swallow Low to save him
self and maintain his political prestige In
the State and nation"
C%ompulsion of the Republican organ
iEation to swallow an outside candidate and
maintenance of Republican prestige are
Incompatible. II It should be shown that
the Republicans, who last year carried the
country, and the Greater New York by q
majority Of nearly go, cannot now put
forward their own platform and nominate
their own candidate in this city, the blow
to the party's prestige would be felt
throughout the nation. The leaders cowed
into such betrayal Of their trust would In
deed lose beyond recovery not their pres
tige only, but their reputation for party
LOYALTY,
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WASHINGTON. Aug. 24.-Awa up near tho Arctic
Circle lives an old man who Is very rich. and yet he
never sees a dollar or any kind OF money or represent
ative OF money. Some time ago DR.. Sheldon Jackson.
general agent of the Bureau Of Education for Alaska.
on board the Bear. touched at Indian Point. Siberia.
There he found the principal native OF the village,
koharri by name. q trader noted all along tho coast.
Writing OF this old trader. Mr.. Jackson says;
He has q little frame whale house filled from floor
TO ceiling with tobacco, rour. and looking glasses
which he has obtained from tho whalers and from
which he supplies the country for hundreds OF miles
around. This man has been Known to have as much
as $4,000 worth OF whalebone in his storehouse at
one time. He does n business OF probably 500. 900 a
year, and yet not n single coin OF gold or silver nor a
Hing!c bank note or bank check is used. nor are any
books kept. All transactions are by barter, furs and
whalehone being exchanged for tobacco. flour, and
whiskey. This wholesale merchant OF the north 81.
berian coast can neither read nor write. nor can any
one associated with him. Although SO wealthy. he
lives In an ordinary tent and sleeps on tho ground on
4 pile OF reindeer skins"
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Franco and Russia Undoubtedly
Allied,

In view Of the declarations made at ST.
Petersburg on Thursday by the Gar and
President FAURE there is no longer my
doubt that France and Russia are united
by n formal treaty Of alliance. 1t is under
stood, of course, that every word uttered
on such an occasion concerning q subject
30 momentous must nave been planned
beforehand anxiously by the Ministers for
Foreign Affairs Of their respective coun-
tries. When, therefore, both the Russian
Emperor and the Chief Magistrate of the
French republic publicly describe the two
peoples as allied" the existence of a docu.
ment setting forth the aims and scope of
the compact must DO taken for granted.
What the terms are as yet is unknown,
but we have a right to assume that some
light was intended to be thrown upon their
purport by the Cars supplementary asser.
tion that the allied nations care equally
resolved to contribute with all their power
to the maintenance of the peace of the world
in the spirit of right and equity"
Even at first sight these words seem
enigmatic and oracular. and the more search
ingly they are scanned. the more difficult is
1t to distinguish their exact meaning. Are
w. Shob tNS ~ Ii purely Il uc-
fensivc one, that is to say, that it merely
binds the parties to assist one another in
case either should be attacked by an out.
side power or combination of powcrs2
Russia is in no danger of attack. 1t is only
France that would profit by a purely
defensive alliance, except as it is in.
directly for the Cars interest that
France should continue to be n coun.
terpoise to Germany. Some consideration
more potent than such indirect interest,
we think, must have been offered to the
Russian autocrat to induce him, in spite of
natural antipathies and OF the pressure
exerted by the pro-German party at his
court, to enter into a coalition with the
French republic. What could have temptcd
him except what is known as an offensive
and defensive alliance, not, indeed, unlim-
tied in scope, but permitting a certain
range of Muscovite ambitions in the near
and the far East The presumption that
France has agreed to support the Cars &C.
quisltive policy on the Bosporus and with
reference to China and Japan is not ~irrecon-
cilable with the averment touching the pa
cilic purpose of the Franco-Russiau alliance.
now for the first time publicly acknowl.
edged. Thc Gar did not say on Thursday
that the aim of the two allied nations was
peace at all hazards and under all circum.
stances. Such an aim might constrain
Russia 20 remain a passive spectator of the
the massacre of Greeks in Macedonia, lest
the Sultan should resent interference, and
to forego the annexation of M~anchuria and
the procurement of an ~ice-free port ON the
Pacific, lest such reasonable acts should be
viewed by England as provocations to war.
Clearly, then, it lie not a peace at any price
which the coalition contemplates. What
the allies have at heart. the Car says, is
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-28
Cigars.
WILLIAM JOHNSTON,
sol Broadway. New YORK city.

To TIP EDITOR OF The sux-Sir some time ago saw
Ct. ars. As I have been a smoker for thirty .nine Year,
] have often wondered why the cigars we now get
arc 60 poor. | have heard various reasons. Ono
was that the ground had been worked out and tho
use OF fertilizers had destroyed the aroma OF the to-
bacco. another that the call for lightcolored cigars
a few years back nccessitated the ~plucking OF the leaf
before It was ripe to supply the demand. conse-
be got, and l want to say right here I never knew n
light cigar to be worth a d..
Twenty or twenty fve years ago you could stop at
any cigar store on Broadway and pay 25 cents for q
cigar. IL mattered not what brand you got. you
would surely get n good cigar. Now I do not know OF
a single store where one can get n cigar 1T to smoke
for the money. | claim that a man who started to
smoke fifteen years ago does not know what n good
cigar Is provided he has bought his cigars In New
York. There Is no comparison between the cigars we
got twenty i've years ago aud the cigars we get now.
The cigars you paid % cents for then could not be
bought now they are not TO be had mt any price here.
PEOPLE are fools. ] am moved to say this because a
Few weeks ago I was in Montreal. Canada at differ.
ent hotels and cigar stores. and called for n 25cent
cigar. and each time got n good cigar. better than any
the conclusion that we Of the United state, get what
other countries will not accept; that we get the
refuse. II ever there wss n I" gold brick" game played
on the American public It Is in the matter OF lin
find Is worth ABOUT So. and l say here 1t 10 about
time the importers Of Havana cigars got together and
refused TO accept tho goods they send here. They
should not be q party to the robhing OF their custom
ers; they should insist on having As good rs other
countries get. Z. h.
NEW YORK, Aug 2.
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Of international delegates on the subject,
at Washington In October.
We must take care not to exaggerate the
Importance Of that conference. Mr.. FOSTER
Is naturally inclined to overrate 1t, as the
outcome OF his own work, while our hopes
may lead us to fall in with his suggestions.
But in reality it is only a consulting and
advisory body, whose delegates will nave
no authority to make any new rules for
scaling, or even to pledge their Govern
ments to making any. Still, with DR.. JoR-
DAMS assertion that he and his assistants
have been able to Ak absolutely the rate Of
the decline of the seal herd and to trace 1t
beyond doubt to pelagic hunting only, we
can hope to make out a strong case at that
conference. DIR. JORDAN does not shrink
from the most radical conclusion possible,
namely. that the only remedy Is in absolute
ly %forbiddinG any pelaglc sealing whatever,
and in recognizing the property rights In
the seals of the nations that own the ISL
and on which they breed. Even with that
complete change, he holds that the recovery
of the Pribylov herd would be slow, since
It would continue to decline for years, as
the result of past and current %slaughters.
If the Washington conference should fail
to make q suitable recommendation, or IL
England should fail to adopt such a recon-
mendation, when made, 1t will become the
duty of our Government to act at once and
decisively In It's own interests. The re.
searches of DIR. JORDAN and his assistants
have told us all that we need to know.
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Gambler Fulton.s streak or Luck.

.DEApwooD, Aug ia few weeks ago Leo
Fulton struck Deadwood with a solitary five
dollar note in his pocket. He was not long in
changing it for "A couple of stacks of white
checks. He manipulated those checks in such
a manner that he soon had accumulated about
ten times his original capital. Fortune seemed
to smile upon him from his humble beginning,
and he soon acquired sufficient funds to open
up n bank for himself and get upon the inside.
The fortune which followed him as a. player
did not desert him rs a dealer. and while many
changed in against him, but few pulled ont win
ner. he seemed to have as good a thing as a
Klondikc placer claim. and was coming money.
He either got tired of winning, or else sorry for
the people who went against his game. SO he
turned the box over and skirmished around
O. time, but ran NJ toward the last against a lit
tic piece of hard luck and dropped quite a roll
before he dropped To himself.
He left for the East last evening and took with
him something over 900 Before leaving,
however, he paid several hundred dollars of
debts. bought his brother a threshing machine,
for which he paid $500. and the night before no
left dropped 800 against bank. and still had
the amount stated above to the good.
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The Citizens Unions chief and only
hacker among the morning newspapers,
the Nc,o York Times, which in 1896 fought
against the election Of MCKINLEY, is now
haunting Mr.. Low and pressing him to accept
Immediately the Unions nomination for
Mayor, on the ground that the evidence he
asked for, that he would prove a "unifying
force" has been provided in the signatures
to tho Low petition.
The statement that this petition is such
evidence as Mr.. Low intended is u~njusti-
fable, and it is inconceivable that Mr..
Low, the President of Columbia Uni
versity, should 30 regard it. TIT petition,
it is alleged, has been signed by a hundred
thousand persons. These hundred thou
sand signers wrote their names under the
statement, I'VE desire the nomination
and election of SETH Low for Mayor"
Among them, by the Citizens own decla-
ration, were thousands Of Republicans.
They wrote in tho light of Mr..
Lows refusal to be nominated except
Upon proof that he would be a unifying
force. AS 1t is, Republican opposition to
Mr.. Low is manifest, and even Mr.. JACoB
WORTH of Brooklyn does not dare to advo
cate MIR. Lows nomination apart from the
Republican organization. Every other anti.
Tammany political organization has vet to
be heard from.
Under these circumstances to flourish tho
Low petition rs evidence of the subscribers
desire to have him nominated by the Citi.
zens' Union in defiance of the Republicans
and Of every other organization expected to
join in defeating Tammany, would be the
fraud commonly known as "bunco," pure
and unqualified, upon both the signers OF
the petition and the general public.
To a fanatical organization like the Citi-
zens' Union many things may be possible
that a rigid sense of propriety would not
tolerate. We do not believe for a moment
that Mr.. Low will be a party to a scheme
so saturated with deceit.
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"the maintenance Of the peace Of the world
in the spirit of right and equity" 1t is
n reasonable deduction from this care
fully framed phrase that, whenever and
wherever peace shall cease to be
righteous and equitable, the maintenance
of 1t will cease to be tho aim Of France and
Russia. Such n construction Of the Cars
words evidently leaves him n free hand on
the Bosporus, for nothing could be moro
unrighteous than the peace that reigns in
the Sultan's dominions.
The question that will be discussed In
Paris most anxiously is, What bearing have
the declarations made at st. Petersburg
on the passionate desire Of Frenchmen to
recover Alsace-L orrainef Can the peace at
present prevailing between France and
Germany be described rs righteous and
equitable" so long as the provinces wrested
from the former country, in addition to a
huge money indemnity, are retainedf We
Know what answer to this query would be
made in Berlin, but what is the view taken
at st. Petersburg1 That is a matter about
which we may expect information soon.
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Stage coaches run by electric trolley power
represent the latest idea OF inventive genius in
regard 10 tho application Of electricity to pur-
poses of transportation. AT Greenwich. Conn.
is now to be seen III operation a motor carriage
running upon a highway propelled by force
taken from wires which are supported by poles
along the side OF the road. BY an ingenious de-
vice tho trolley, or rather a flexible metallic
cabic attached 10 the carriage, is conducted
along the circuit wire in such n way that two
trolley vehicles may pass each other, and each
may turn round or pass from one side OF the
street TO the other at the pleasure of the driver:
Free from the bondage OF n railway track and
the tyranny of the dispatcher and the switch
tender. the electric stage coach may stop and
start when it likes. calling for passengers at
their doors on either side OF the road. and roll
ing mcrrily along the highway, regardless OF
wind, snow, or ice, its only limitation being the
poles and wires which give IL motion. Over the
quarter Of a mile stretch already equipped it is
declared that the heavy carriage can easily run
In 40 seconds. which would mean the sufficiently
rapid pace. for a Stage coach, Of thirty miles an
hour. The trials are said 10 have been so sue
cessful that n permanent line of considerable
length will soon be operated.
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BIGGEST FREIGHT ENGINE.
It Will Haul Forty-nvo Loaded Cars Up q
Mountain.
From the Public Ledger.

From tho Public Ledger.
ALTOONA, Aug. 2I.-The Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company is constructing, at its Juniata
shops in this city, tho largest, heaviest, and
most powerful freight eneino ever designed. 1t
Is intended to haul ore from the lakes to Pitts.
burg over the Erie and Pittsburg road, in COM
petition with Carnegle's new line. 1t will not
differ from the standard Pennsylvania Rail
road freight engine except In size and weight,
but. rs it will have double the hauling capacity
OF the class X freight engine now in use, this
difference is of the greatest importance. Tho
steeI boiler, or steam generator, of the new en-
and. ii feet in length.
Tho sheet in the barrel of the boiler is 1915
Of an inch In thickness, fastened with one inch
riyets. 1t will contain sis iuos. The naked boiler
wall Weigh . nb; 45;lSo pounds; some idea Of its size
half an inch In thickness, Il, 900 to 90, 900 pounds
In weight, and contains from; $50 to 200 fines.
wheels connected. with pony truck. and viii
weigh. when completed, ninety-six tons. The
Of wheel 80 inches. The cylinders viii have a
% by % inch stroke. The guides will be of
steel two bars; The engine will carry go
constructed of steel threc.sixteenths of an inch
thick; and will have u capacity of ! 500 gallons.
1t is expected that the new engine will haul
now in use haul but twenty loaded cars up tho
and Pittsburg road it will be in connection with
100, 0oO-pound cars. The capacity of the ordi-
nary car is 80. 600 to so, 900 pounds, the greater
number being 10000. The new engine. how
ever, will only be in complete working order
with lo0-ton cars behind her. when twenty
miles an hour can be made with ease. These
cars will be fully equipped with air brakes and
every appliance insuring safety, and will not
carry q train crew, the whole duty OF managing
the train dcvolving on the engineer. In this
respect the train will not differ from a passen-
ger train. which is controlled almost entirely
Dy tEe engineer, the duties OF the conductor
and brakemen relating mainly to the passen-
gers.
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THOUSAND ISLAND PARK Aug. l9.-Yester-
day "A narrow escape from drowning occurred in
Canadian waters in Eel Bay. Mr.. and Mrs.
pockstader Of Albany and Mrs; Wright OF st.
Louis tried their luck at fishing. The tnny
morning, and they We're about to give up hope
OF catching any when Mrs. Dockstader felt a
mighty tug at the line she was holding. She
hauled In slowly until the monster was along
side the boat. and mnde such an effort to lift the
into the skifr that she capsized the little boat
and the three occupants were thrown into the
wafer. Mrs. Wright remained Coolheaded,
%clinging to the boat, but Mrs. Dockstnder, over.
come by the excitement, lost her hold and sunk
twice. As she came mp, Mr.. Dockstader caught
her and swan tu shore, II quarter OF a mile dis
tant, towing tno boat and Mrs. Wright.
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A,KINLEY's SAMOAN POLICY.
Instructions Issued TO Luther w. Osborn. II,
New enerai at Apin.

WARRINGTON. Aug. 2T.-Instructions hav,
been issued by the State Department to Luther
w. Osborn of Nebraska, the new Co~nsul.General
of the United States at Apia, Samoa, which will
form the basis for the restoration Of tho lost in.
fiuencc of this country in the Samoan Islands,
Under the Cleveland Administrator Same,
was abandoned to Germany and Great Britain,
tho tripartite agreement has since been made
by this Government. President Mckinley, how.
ever, considers the islands well worth holding
TO tho limited extent provided by tue agree.
ment, and his ideas on the subject are embodied
in the instructions which Mr.. Osborn will carry
with him to Apia. Mr.. Osborn is now in Wash.
ington studying the correspondence relating ~
Samoa on file at the State Department. He is
thoroughly in sympathy with the ideas Of ms
President, and intends to do all that can 10 dc1a
to promote the languishing American interests.
His Instructions are to make an inquiry mo
the political conditions in the islands, with par.
ticular reference to the workings OF the trt.
the improvement of the provisions OF The agre".
ment. His report will be made to Presiteu;
Mckinley, who has been impressed with tho
strategicel and commercial importance OF no
Samoan group to this country. II is pcobs us
that a United States warship will be sent 10
Apia to show the Stars and Stripes ana II !c,
the people of the islands understand that thi1
Government has not lost interest in then.
When Mr.. Osborn reaches Apia he will find a
namesake there looking after the interests o.
the United States. He is Lloyd Osborne, VINO
spells his name with a final e and is tho
stepson and literary partner Of the late Rnbe-s
Louis Stevenson. Lloyd Osborne is ce-COns
General at Apia.