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PROVISIONS.

CURED MEATS-Bacon, 7c p h for heavy, 71ac
q h for light medium, 1Oc for light. 101zc q ID
for extra light and l2c y n for sugar cured East
ern sugar-cured Hams. l21sc NJ California
Hams. lie 2 n; Mess Beef SO p bbl: extra
mess do, SO 80: family do. $l"@10 so; extra
prime Pork, $S so; extra clear, $l4 p bbl; mess,
$12 p bbi; Smo<ed Beef l0c p ID.
RD-Eastern terces are quoted at 5s4c for
compound and 61a@7c Tor pure: pals TIC:
California tierces, 41ac for compound and &c for
pure: half-bbs, 7c: 10 h tins, 71ac; do 5-b 73zc
10 ID tins
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SAN FRANCISCO MEAT MARKET

Wholesale rates for dressed stock from slaugh-
terers are aiAolows::o
BEEF-First quality, &c; second do. 6@51ac;
third do, 4@412c {, ID.
YEA L-Largr, 6s6c; small, e@7c p H.
MUTTON-Wetbers, sig 06c; Ewes, sc p n
Handspring, 61a97Iac p D.
PORK Live Hos, 4I4143sc p n for large
and 41a@49sc for small and medium; dressed
do 500 1ac D b.
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DEcIDUoUs AND CITRUS FRUITS.
DECIDUoUs FRUITS

DECIDUOUS FRUITS
Apples 81 rs q box for choice. 1892 25 for
fancy and 81 25@l so for com mon.
CITRUS FRUITS-Navel Oranges are quotable
at So 25@3 20 y box; Seedling-. 76c@s1 2o p
oox; Mediterranean Sweets. SIG 50 p box:
Lemons, 7oc@$l 90 for common and 81 75@2 90
for good TO .oice: Mexican Lines "a = box;
California Lines. 75c. Bananas, $l@2 q bunch !;
Pfneapples, $204 q doz
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BANK CLEARINGs.

Local bank clearings in 81 arc were $55,
425, against $56, ,555s53 for March. 1896 For
the first three months of the year they were
time in 1895
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SUMMARY OF THE MARKETS.

Silver off again.
Wheat and Barley weak.
Oats Corn and Rye unchanged.
Beans and Seeds dull.
Hsy and Roned Barley weak.
Coffee depressed.
Bank Clearings still lose.
Coal unchanged.
Provisions the same.
Butter depressed.
Eggs stationary.
Potatoes steady. Onions firm.
Poultry in good shape.
Mexican Dollars lower.
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NEW YORK STOCKS.
Bonds. Exchange. Money and Railroad


Shares
Money call easy at l4aG1sA%: last loan at
11s% and closing at 111s%. Prime mercantile paper.
31.%. Bar silver. 6l34c Mexican dollars, ls@5
491ac. Sterling exchange active, with actual busi-
ness in bankers bills 81 S5sl@4 SO for go
days and 81 S7@4 S71A for demand Posted
rates, "a S41aG4 SS1a. Commercial bills. 81 S41a
o. 85L. Government bonds firm; state bonds
dull; railroad bonds easier Silver lower
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PRODUCE EXCHANGE SALES.

The sales on the Produce Exchange call during
the first three months of ] S97 were 1858, 800
ton of wheat and 65. 500 tons OF barley.
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The Time Ball.

The Time Ball.
BRANCH BYDRosRAPHIC OFFICE q. 8. M
MERCHANTS EXCHANGE
SAN FRANCISCO March 81. 1897
The time ball Telegraph Hill was dropped
exactly at noon to-day-L e.. at noon OF the l2Oth
or exactly at P NJ, Green wich time.
w. - HUGHES,
Lieutenant q. d. N. in charge.
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Apri1-IS9I.

NorE-In the above exposition OF the tides thu
early morning tides are given in the left hand
column and the successive tides Of the day In the
order OF occurrence a. to time The second TINA
column gives the second tide OF the day the third
time column the third tide, ana the last or right
hand column gives the last tide OF the day except
when there are but three tides as sometimes
sccurs The heights given additions to the
soundin8s on tho United States Coast Survey
charts except when = minus sign q prscedes tina
height, and then the number given Is subtractivs
from the depth given by rho charts
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FOR san JOSE. LOS GATOy + SiNTl cRU7

SiEAMER ALVISO LEAVES PIERl No.
- tounaays e2cepted) a: 10 A. M AIv,.o s, aiLl
tSsSa.uraay eIcepted) at p A. Freis5. ua as
A1Ssso Snc. are between San Francisco ana
a. a. saso Ms QUO; 10 San Jose 75c CLAY n p;ae
" W. santa Clara st., san Joss. ~ fiss =
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AFTERNOON sEssIoN-2:30
100 ndes lS500 Imp. 80. Oc200 Mexcn.. 22
2U0 Chollar. lO200 g &C ...27 100 savage ...25
Ivy Chaise.: 36300 HON. .....Ss l0I xJsGkss.. 26
100 CCV...-1.Ib
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STEAMERS TO ARRIVE.
SUN. MOON AND TIDE.

SUN. MOON AND TIDE
CNITEp STATES COAST AND GEODFTYC SURVEY
TINES AND HEIGHTS OF HIGH AND Low
WATERS AT FORT POINT. ENTRANCE TO
FAN FRANCISCO BAY. PUBLISHED OFF,
GAL AUTHORITY OF THE SUPERINTENDENr
NoTK-The high and low waters occur this
City Front (MssioE-strees Wharf abo Ut twenty
nve minues le:er than sc Fort Point; Inc height
OF tide Is the same At both places
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BOARD SALES.

TolIowt6g were the taIes in the San Francisco
stock Board Yesterday:
hFeuLAR MORNING SESSION. ooMMR~~uxe $3.50.
l00 @ Beloher... lSIl0o H&N.....ssllO0 9 sNv....-22
500 Con Im....0 400 Mxic. 2Yl 100 Union e.. 90
loo Crwn Pr.. 100 Occld Is 800 jack :. 26
sou i.G 2TI 40 Nv
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CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
WEDNESDAY. March 81
STOCK AND BOND EXCHANGE.

WEDNESDAY, March 3l-5P. n
UNITED STATES BONDS
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FLOUR-Steady. quiet, unchanged. Southern
hour-Quiet, unchanged. Rye four-Duil un-
changed. Winter wheat, low grades. 81 500
35; do fair to fancy, sS 1894 40: do
patents, s4 60@4 80; others unchanged: Mime
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Circulation Stimulated.

1t is asserted by the Industrelles
Echo that thousands of 5-franc pieces
are split into two halves by their
French owners every year, in the hope
Of discovering" an immense hidden
treasure. This treasure, according to
the legend firmly believed in Fralce
is an order to pay the holder 100000
francs in silver 5-franc coins. When
Napoleon Bonaparte first set the 5-franc
piece in circulation, the conservative
mind of the French reyolted against
the numismatic revolution. notwith-
standing its zeal for political revolu-
ton, and it was very difficult to induce
a Frenchman to receive or proffer the
new coin. Hence, according to the
story, Napoleon gave it to be under
stood that he had ordered check for
100000 francs, written upon asbestos
paper. to be concealed in one C.. the
new silver pieces. From that day to
this nobody has objected to the :,-f,auc
niece
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symphony. Clnrice was one on Skcsa
musicians bf instinct rather than by
training, who wander from flower to
Hover with sweet caprieieusness, steal,
ing the honey out of every blossom; now
Il joyous little bit of Mozart, rondo or
mlnuet; now an andante or an adagio
from one of Chopin's wild, wailing move
ments, half n dirge and half war cry.
What a jolly lot you know" exclaimed
Lashmar Il wish you'd sing Barbara
Allen presently. l was outside in the
corridor last night when you were sing
ing it,
Clarice looked up and smiled at him
with her sweet childish smile. The Misses
MacAllister had been far from civil to
her and she did not love them. They
resented her inordinate wealth and dis
approved of her beauty. A rich girl had
no right to be pretty. Lady Lashmar's
favoritism was also an offense. Clarice
was petted and t1attered, while they were
only to'crated-they who had cultivated
their minds and We're able to enter the
arena of argument upon equal terms with
the sterner sex.
Claricc sang her old ballads and Lash-
mar listened i'll dreamy silence Yes his
mother was right. She was IL very sweet
girl, somewhat over-childish, perhaps, for
her eighteen years. but passing lovely
Ermlne robes and Il coronet would not be
too good for her delicate beauty. He
wondered whether he was beginning to
fall in love with her.
tTO be continued.)
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Marvellous Musical Memory.

When MendelSsohn played on the
| piano or the organ the listener felt the
| great musician and composer in every
| nar. The mans musical memory was
marvellous. Sir Charles Halle, who, in
| lS42. spent several weeks with Men
| delSSohn at Frankfort, describes in his
"Autobiography,' three instances of
the composers memory. He writes:
| The greatest treat was to sit with
him ut the piano and listen to innumer-
able fragments from half-forgotten,
beautiful works by Cherubini, Gluck,
Bach. Palestrina and Marcello 1t was
only necessary to mention one of them
to hear it played to perfection, until I
came to the conclusion that he knew
every bar of music ever written, and,
what was more. could produce it i'm
| mediately.
One morning Hitler and l We're play
| ing together one of Bach's organ pieces
on the piano-one of no particular in
terest but which we wished to know
better. When we were in the middle of
lt-:l part hardly to be distinguished
from many other similar ones-the
door opened, Mendelssohn entered, and
without interrupting us. rose on tip.
toes, and with his uplifted finger,
pointed significantly at the next bar
which was coming and contained an
unexpected and striking modulation.
So. from hearing through the door a
bar or two of a-for Bach-somewhat
commonplace piece, he not only recog-
nized it at once, but knew the exact
place we had arrived at, and what
was to follow in the next bar. His
memory was prodigious and his knowl-
edge intimate.
1t is well-known that when he re.
vived Bach's Passion Music" and con-
Quoted the first performance. he found,
on stepping to the conductors desk,
that a score similar in binding and
thickness, but of another work, had
been brought by mistake He con-
Quoted this amazingly complicated
work by heart. turning leaf after leaf
of the book he had before him in order
not to create any feeling Of uneasiness
on the part Of the musicians and sing.
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SAY STRIKERS WE'RE uNARMEp
Evidence at the Coroner's Inquest in
the Lattimer Affair

the Lattimer Affair.
Coroner Mckee of IInzleton, Pa,
Thursday afternoon began the inquest in
to the deaths of the score of striking
miners who were shot by posse of shcr-
ifs deputies at Lattimer. A two hours
session was held, during which a score of
witnesses We're examined. District At
torney d. A. Fell of Luzerene County was
there, and 81. A. Fuller of Wilkes-Barre
appeared for the coroner; State Chairman
Garman, John McGahren and B. H.
Laughlin for the prosecution, and George
FL. Troutman of Hazleton for the deputy
sheriffs. DIR. Thorodovich, Secretary of
the Austro- Hungarian consulate at Phila-
delphia, and r. d. Coke, attorney for the
consulate. were also present.
Nearly all the testimony adduced was
a repetition Of that brought out at the
hearing of the deputies at Wilkes-Barre.
Most of the witnesses We're foreign
strikers who were in the march halted by
the deputies deadly fusillade. All de-
clared that none of the strikers was
armed; that Sheriff Martin pulled Il re-
volver on them, but no one attempted to
take it from him; that no violence had
been offered that official, and that the
miners had no intention Of making an un-
lawful demonstration.
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Too Much for Friendship.

Here is story which was waited in
by breezy drummer from St. Paul.
Maybe it is so old that it is new again.
but it doesn't impress me like an old
acquaintance.
A Frenchman who has not yet mas
tered the intricaGes of the English Ian
guage went to friend the other day
for information and advice. "Can YOU
tell me-" he said. vat it ees dees-vat
you call?-pole bear? Vat ees a pole
bear, eh:'
"a polar bear?"
Yes. Vat does it do?'
"Oh, it just sits ON the ice and eats
fish
Vat? And 1 shall do that. Nevaire!
Nevaire! Not at all.''
What do you mean?''
'Eell, q man in de boarding house
we're 1 leeve he die and they shall say
to me will be polar bear for heem.
Sect on ice and eat fish! 1 will not do
it! Not even for Il dead man! Not at
ALL"
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TO WORK FOR THE GOOD OF ALL
Edmunds Talks of the Objects of the
Monetary Conn ission.

The monetary commission resumed it's
sessions in Washington Thursday, with
ex-senator Edmunds presiding. Several
of the members addressed the commission
on financial topics. These discussions will
be private, as they are mainly for the pur-
pose of bringing out every phase of the
monetary question. Ex-senator Edmunds
said concerning the scope and purposes Of
the commission:
Naturally and necessarily it may be
supposed that no particular plans or
changes in the laws would at present
either be agreed upon or even proposed,
but rather that the first labors of the COM
mission would be devoted to ascertaining
the existing condition of things, as affect
ing all interests Of the people, and what
evils or dangers now exist. The people
Of the whole country may feel sure that
the commission will do nothing and rec
ommend nothing that is intended to ad-
vance any interest or class at the expense
of any other, whatever may be the pub
lie opinion in respect of the wisdom of
what the commission may finally suggest
to be DONE"
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@'(I0E1l[r1|ISE>T:ss> 5

Those who wish the climatic effect and
cannot afford to go to Alaska may fall in
with Charlotte Smiths scheme and marry
Boston girls.-Chicago Record.
Somebody has begun again the sympo.
SUM on ''Why Men Don't Marry" In
the case of good many men, why not
ask the girls?-Chicago Record.
1t is well that Spain now understands
that we are not prepared to talk CONNER
cial questions with her until that busi-
ness of Weyierism is setled.-New York
Sun.
If Spain banishes all her anarchists. as
she now proposes to do, the next census
may show a significant decrease in the
Spanish population.-New York Mail and
Express.
A careful study of the reports from
Dyea and Skaguay should be sufficient to
convince anyone that the only safe trail
is the water route back to civilization
Chicago Post.
Greece's demand for war with Turkey
is not as unanimous as it was few
months ago. The chase home has evident
~ left sore place ~ the Grecian mind
Baltimore News.
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WAR SHIPS FOR HAWAII,
United States Prepared to Checkmare
Any Move by Japan,


Uncle Same does not intend to be
caught mapping in Hawaii. Notwithstand-
ing the denials Of japanese officials, the
administration is suspicious that the willy
Japs mediate some sort of coup. There
is feeling in Washington that the Japs
deny too vigorously and protest too much.
At any rate, orders were sent to the
gunboat Wheeling, at Mare Island, to
proceed without delay to Honolulu. The
Yorktown is already on her way to the
Hawaiian capital. 1t was originally in
tended that the cruiser Philadelphia
should return to the United States very
soon, but now the understanding is that
the Philadelphia will be kept at Honolulu
till the japanese cruiser Naniwa leaves
that port for Japan, as it is reported she
is about to do. The Japanese may not
be meditating action, but the administra.
ton thinks it wise to be on the safe side.
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FIRE SWEEPS AN OHIO TOWN
Bainbridge Ravaged and Two Citizens
Burned to Death.

Burned to Death.
The village of Bainbridge, Ohio, was al
most completely destroyed by fire result
ing from an explosion of gasoline. Many
persons We're made homeless. An entire
square containing most of the prominent
business houses, several handsome resi-
dences and the Methodist Church was en-.
tirely destroyed.
The fire started in barn in the rear of
Perrin Browns general store, by two lit
tie boys who were playing with ignited
matches. The flames spread rapidly and
communicated with the main buildings
Beardsley's drug store adjoining was next
ablaZe and with the limited means at
hand for fighting fire it passed all bounds
and became uncomfortable. In the midst
of the excitement terrible explosion oc-
Cured in the drug store, and Mr.. Boards
ley, who was inside endeavoring to save
some Of his property, lost his life in the
ruins. His brother-in-law, Thomas Hig-
gins, who went to his rescue, was unable
to get cut, and was burned to death,
while several others were more or less in
jured, but none fatally.
There was Il hard wind blowing which
famed the flames to greater fury, and
getting fresh start from the burning oils
and chemicals in the wrecked drug store
the fire leaped from house to house until it
was evident that the entire town was
doomed. A message was sent to Waverly
and to Chillicothe asking for aid, and
both fire departments promptly responded
The best that could be done was to pre-
vent the fire from being communicated to
the other squares and the flames were
soon under control. But two houses were
left standing on the square. The esti-
mated loss is S1OO 600
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CHAPTER VII.

1t was October when the new Lord
Lashmar came back to the castle. with
a chosen company of bachelor friends. old
comrades of Eton and Oxford. The dow
ager was at Lashmar to receive them
She had not left the castle since her stem
sons DEATH Her presence had peryaded
the mansion like a dark and broodinr
cloud; or at least it seemed so to Stella.
who shivered even at the distant sound of
that voice. Not once had they two met
face to face since the day when those
cruel lips told the child Of her bereave-
ment; but it was enough misery for Stella
to know that the stern ruler of the house
was within its walls, to hear her deep
toned voice from afar.
Lady lashmar was not alone when her
son arrived. She had summoned two
other dowagers, one frisky and one strong
minded, to bear her company. The strong
minded dowager, Lady Clan MacAllister.
had two strong minded daughters, and
these also We're bidden. Their presence
made an excuse for having Clarice Dane
brook continually at the castle A very
feeble cousin of Miss Danebrook, who
was reading for his divinity examination.
made a fourth. The frivolous dowager
was the famous Oriana, Lady Hillbor-
ough, who had been young and ii fashion
able beauty when William the Fourth
was king. She dressed as youthfully now
as she dressed then, and skipped about
the room as gayly, rearranging the fur
niture in that bright, airy way of hers
famed for her exquisite taste in the com
position of those pictures which fashion
able drawing rooms now offer to the en-
lightened eye.
Lashmar and his friends arrived in time
for dinner. He had spent couple Of
nights in London, had arranged to meet
his guests at the station, and to bring
them down with him. There were two
newly fiedged cavalry subalterns; a
younger son who was preparing himself
for the family living, and younger man
who was nobody in particular, but who
was much better read and more amusing
than any Of the other four.
Clarice was very sweet and Lashmar
gradually awakened to an idea of her
sweetness. He began to leave his friends
III the billiard-room or the smolking-room
Of an evening, and to sit by the piano
listening to those quaint old ballads and
those melOdious bits plucked here and
there out Of the heart Of sonata or
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A Preachers Story.

The new pastor of a church near
New York told pointed story recently
at a reception rendered him soon after
he took charge. A gentleman oDsery
ing friend seated on a lawn inquired
what he was doing there Sitting on
a wasp" was the reply. why don't
you get up| continued the interrogation.
II thought Of doing that" answered
the friend, but I decided that ! was
hurting the wasp as much as he was
hurting me-" :*.Ihe moral of IT, con-
cluded the pastor, ''is that if you do no,
sit On me l will not sting you.'
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y, 'lef ni;'king good housemaid than If
Siic Is allowed to stay here. where she'll
Always remember Lashmar's idiotic indul.
scnce.'
nave told YOU that mean to brin,.
ner up Under my own eye" reioined hel
IosshlD. III a terrible voice. Il shall SO,
vi 'il't She is taught properly. and that
'poNe all she learns 10 forget her foolish
childhood. and to understand her position,
"s Il ifirndless orphan. who must learn tc
earn her daily bread''
fri"ndess orphan. repeated Stella
in faint whisper
VII. w here was Lashmar? Why did
~, ne NOT come and stop their cruel talking:
She clasrcd her hands in an agony of
uespalr. She called out in faint scream.
100 weak to cry aloud, as it were strus.
giing III nightmare dream:
Lord Lashmar, Lard Lashmar!'
a lacc--l bright Young face. handsome
as Apoiios-looNed i'll at the door. only
Tor Hash. 1t gave way at the next in
slant to the stern countenance of tho
| dowagar.
Are you awake chld:" she asked.
Please ask Lord Lashmar to come to
me-. cried the girl pitcously
on cannot see your benefactor, Lord
Lashma".' said the stern voice. You
VIII never see him again. Cannot You
understand what this black gown of mine
| meanS:'
He is dead" shrieked the child. and
then remembering that ominous word
dropped unawares hy Betsy. 1T was his
funeral"
Yes, my unhappy child, your bene-
factor was i,lled in the accident from
which You narrowly escaped with your
life. The loss for you is a bitter one in
the present, although it may be a bless
ing to YOU in the future. My step-son's S
foolish Indulgence might have i'ten your
ruin. here and hereafter"
Stella heard not Il word of this little
sermon. Dead! She had never thought
that he could die Dead! Never more to
look upon her with those thoughtful eyes;
never more to speak to her in that low,
tender voice: never more to touch her
with that hand whose gentle touch upon
her head had always seemed to Eer as Il
blessing.
"My friend. my father!' she cried. "Oh,
heaven; be good to me and let me die,
too.'
That was to be her prayer at morning
and nightfall, for many a day to come.
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Cuba and Spain.

Gen. Weyler may be putting down the
revolution, but he isn't putting up very
much of fght,-Chicago Times Herald.
1t is generally rumored in Madrid that
If Spain can only save appearances she
will not care SO much about saving Cuba.
Chicago Record.
The country knew that Minister Wood
ford went to Spain with more important
business in hand than watching bull
fghts.-Boston Journal
1t would be somewhat presumptuous in
President Mckinley to interfere in Cuba
with all these postoffice rows on his own
hands.-Detroit Tribune.
General Lee is to go back to Cuba and
the end is near. The trouble is, how
ever, that, as heretofore, nobody knows
which end it is.-Chicago News
The Spanish Government had decided
that no man under the rank of Senator
or Deputy may criticise Weyler. This
is merciful to the captain general.-Buf-
falo Express.
Consul General Lees description of the
Evangelina Cossio Cisneros stories as all
tommy-rot may not be strictly diplomatic
language, but, no doubt, it meets the facts
in the case.-Boston Herald
The K1ondike.
When the boundary line dispute is con-
sidered, it will be noted that even the
Klondike gold strike may have to be left
out to rbitration.-Duluth Tribune.
1t will be observed that the miners re-
turning with riches from the Kondike
are not half so gleeful that they have gold
as that they are home again.-Chicag
News.
The sending Of a detachment of the
United States troops to Alaska destroys
its value as possible home for the Debs
commonwealth.-De Free Press.
The latest news from Alaska ought to
be very satisfactory to those who stayed
at home. 1t ought to make them glad
that they did not go.-Baltimore Ameri-
can.
Men who come back from the Klondike
with Il few hundred dollars ought to re-
frain from the mysterious reticence by
which they Indicate to the credulous that
the hundreds are thousands. Fran.
cisco Call.