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and rich in the accumula tions of long.
realized maturity. The existence OF old
churches and castles and of various monu-
ments and collections illustrating the history
of art has given the impression that European
cities are old But for the purposes OF our
discussion they are younger than their Ameri-
can counterparts. Their cit zens are not
nearly as rich as those in our cities. They
suffer under the disadvantages OF loss lis the
productive energy and wealth through emil
grafton of hundreds of thousands OF their pest
young men after they have reared ana edu-
Gated them.
'They stagger under such heavy burdens OF
taxation and compulsory service 10 maintain
the military arm of the general government
that the tax increment which can De spared
for municipal purposes comes with pain ana
is small compared with the revenues we can
raise for local outlay in America, where taxes
Tor National and State purposes are compaI-
atlyelv light. And yet, in the lace OF alsau-
vantages far greater than we can present as
excuses, the German cities have grappled with
the new municipal problems OF the last quar-
ter OF century and have solved them lar
more promptly and completely than the Amer
lean cities have done"
At another time propose 10 give some 1n-
formation as TO the way in which these Ger
man cities have solved the municipal PROB
lens which most concern our own people, as
presented in this sterling work on "MunicipaI
Government in Europe" by Albert Shaw
JOSEPH AsBURY JOHNSON.
San Francisco, Jan. 1, 1897.
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resentation of the industries of California
at the Brussels Exposition, which opens
this spring. Preparations for making the
display are OF course already well ad-
vanced by the State Board of Trade, and
hearty cooperation should be given by all
who have the means to do so.
The trade of Belgium is well worth bid
ding for even if the entrance of our goods
into her markets ended there and did not
lead to an acquaintance with them and a
demand for the m elsewhere. A statement
recently made by the United States Com
missioners for the exposition makes that
much plain. According to that statement
the exports and imports of Belgium for
1895 are shown by statistics to have been
of value exceeding 81, ,064 100000. This
includes merchandise in transit and proves
the i'm portant place held by Belgium as q
commercial entrance to Europe.
The value of foreign goods consumed by
Belgium during the year amounted to
1924, 81, 200. OF the total trade of the
country tue United States has less than
per cent and this Notwithstanding the
fact that Belgium's leading imports
grains, raw textiles, building woods, etc
are products that the United States is es-
pecially well able to supply.
The importance of making good ex-
hibit is streng gthened by the fact that our
trade with Belgium has actually dimin-
ished of late. There has been a heavy
falling off in Belgium purchases from this
country of flour, cotton and living ami
mails. The exposition offers US an oppof-
tunity to recover the trade which has
been lost, and also to extend that of
canned goods of all kinds, dried fruits and
wines.
The Commissioners point out that the
conservatism of European p4oples is such
that We can obtain their trade only by
carrying our goods to their country and
showing them under favorable conditions.
International expositions offer the best OF
opportunities for doing that, and the one
which is to be held at Brussels is there
fore chance which no part of the United
States. and particularly California, can
afford to lose.
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COAST EXCHANGES.

C. W. Haman has disposed of his interest in
the Santa Clara Journal to his partner, N. H.
Downing The Journal is a well-managed,
conservative newspaper and is an index to the
prosperous condition OF one of the most beau
tiful towns OF the State.
year ago Editor Montgomery of the An
tioch Ledger reduced the price OF his paper
from 81 so to 81 so per apnum. He has now
showed the price back to the former figure,
and this leads the Martinez Netcs to remark
that "any well-conducted country newspaper
is we'll worth 81 so and cannot be published
for less"
Editor Fairweather of the Reedley Exponent
is an example of the desirable kind of citi-
zen in any community that values progress.
He has started a subscription list for the pur-
pose of helping to pay for the rights of way
for the Valley road. He has the genuine push,
energy and enterprise that augur success in
his under takings.
The Monterey Cypress is now in its ninth
year. 1t is newspaper that reflects credit on
its proprietors and editors and on the com
munity, which finds excellent reasons for ac-
cording 1t q nearly support.
The Cotton Netos has suspended publication,
leaving the field to the Cotton Chronicle, which
contends that one good paper is about ali the
business peopie OF Indt Town leel calleu upon
10 maintain.
George s. Nixon, editor OF the Winnemucca
(Ney. Siluer State, has announced himself as
candidate for United States Senator to sue.
ceed Senator John P. Jones of Nevada.
The Truckee Republican has changed hands.
W. P. Calkins retiring from the editorial man.
agement and being succeeded by F. NJ. Ruther-
ford, principal of the Truckee public schools,
and c. M. Ryan, e printer.
The midwinter edition of the Subur ban Quar-
terig Journal published by A. II. shirk OF San
Leandro, makes an exceedingly neat appear.
ance. 1t is the official organ of the United
Artisans, and is devoted to current literature
science, natural history and general informa.
tion. 1t is printed on book paper, has col.
ored cover and is filed with instructive and
entertaining reading matter.
The Parish Herald, of which Hugh Murphy
is editor and Frank P. Scuily manager, issued
very creditable holiday edition. 1t is pub
lished monthly in this City and began its
second volume on Christmas day.
The people of Newman have something to he
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NEW TO-DAY.

Quackery is always discov-
ering remedies which will
act upon the germs OF disease
directly and kill them. But
no discovery has ever yet
been approved by doctors
which will cure consump-
ton that way. Germs can
only be killed by making the
body strong enough to over
come them, and the early
use of such a remedy as
SCOTS Emulsion is one of
the helps. In the daily war
fare man keeps up, he wins
best, who is provided with
the needed strength, such as
SCOTS Emulsion supplies.
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THE COMFORT OF THE STARS.

When am overmatched by petty cares
And things OF earth loom large and look to be
Uf moment, how It soothes ami comforts me
To step into the night and feel The airs
OF heaven fan my cheek; and, be It of ALL
Gaze up into those aI,-uncharted seas
Where swim The stately aneta; such as these
Make mortal fret seem slight and temporal.
L muse on what of life may stir among
Those spaces knowing naught of meles and bars
Undreamed-of dramas played in outm ost stars
And lyrics by archangels grandly sung.
grow familiar with the solar runes
And comprehend of worlds the my site birth:
Hinged Saturn, Mars whose fashion apes the
earth,
And Jupiter, the giant, with his moons
Then. dizzy with the anspeakable sights apove
Rebuked by Vas on Vast, my puny heart
is greatened for its transitory part,
Ny trouble merged in wonder and in love.
RICHARD BURTON.
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RESTORING, 1HE MERCHANT MA
RINE.
washington Times.

Every statesman in the country agrees with
every other statesman that the shipping trade
OF the United States ought to he built up again.
They all concur that it is shame that the
American flag has practically disappeared
from the seas. Unless seen floating. from the
masthead of some American man-ofwar it is
rare spectacle in foreign ports. 1t was differ
ent once. The time was when the American
merchant marine outnumbered even Great
Britains, when our clipper ships were seen
everywhere. and when American exports and
imports were carried in American bottoms.
1t Is the saddest kind of comm len tary upon our
shipping laws to think thut the marvellous
progress the world has IN ade in ship binding,
and with the constantly increasing evidence
that the United States can beat the world in
construction of the fastest of vessels OF nod
ern kind, this country should stand at the foot
OF the list In respect of the size of its mer-
chant marine.
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proud of in the holiday number of the Tribune
OF that place. 1t is a yeritable magazine, re-
plete with fine features and containing a
multitude of facts concerning Newman and
vicinity that will be OF great value in an
advertising sense. 1t certainly should attract
the atten tion OF people in less favored countries
to the desirability of Newman as place OF
homes, good climate and varied resources.
The Selma Irrigdtor has ceased to issue a
daily edition, and its readers will have TO con-
tent themselves with a weekly visitation OF
the paper until such time as the daily can be
profitably resumed
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Praise Sarx,ca.

There was praise service IN St. Paurs
Episcopal Church on California street, near
Steiner, last night, when the following music
was rendered under the direction OF F. Katzen-
bach: Organ prelude (Flagler) professional
hymn 5l9 DAVID; "Gloria Patr." cantate
domino (Chandierl "Magnifcat (Tours):
"Nunc Dimittis". Tours; anthem, "Sweet
Is Thy Mercy" (Barnby); hymn 40S
(Urbs Beata): organ solo (Salome); duet.
tenor and alto. "The vesper Hour, (H R.
Shelley; anthem. "And There We're Shep-
herds" (Arthur Foote); alto solo, ''The Unseen
Kingdom, Gerald Lane); GLORIA in Ex
celsis." Twelfth Mass (dozart; offertory, So
prano solo, "Come to the Land of Rest,
lGreely); doxology Praise the Lord,': re-
cessional hymn 49l: postIude (Batistel: solo
quartet and chorus-Miss Mabel Love. so.
prano; Mrs. Maud Chappelle Henley. alto.
G. A. Katzenbach, tenor; II. A. Melvin, bass.
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PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.
Nowaday County, Missouri, has horse
dealer named Goodpasture.

Nowaday County, Missouri, has horse
dealer named Goodpasture.
The only living son of revolutionary SOL
dier in New Hampshire is Samuel S. Green of
Portsmouth, who was "a years old last week.
Henry Doel, who is now an iunkeeper in
Plymouth, England, is said 10 be the oldest
actor in England. He is nearly SO years old,
and was on the stage continuously for sixty
five years.
General Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar
colonel OF the British Life Guards, is about to
be promoted to the rank of field marshal. The
promotion is court job and causes irritation
in the army.
Henry Barnard, the well-known educator of
Hartford, Conn.,, who was the originator of
the Connecticut Reform School bill adopted
by the Legislature in 1888, will be S6 years
old on January "a.
A Cuban in New York says of Maceo that he
was man of the strictest moral integrity;
that he never drank wine, never played
cards and never smoked, even in land
where nearly everybody man, woman and
child, smoked.
1t is expected that the German Emperor will
visit Jerusalem next spring, probably at
Easter. to be present at the conservation OF a
Lutheran church there. The church is to be
erected on ground given by the Sultan to EN-
peror Frederick, the Kaiser father.
Gustav Johnson of st. Marys' Pottawa tonne
County, Kans, left his wife by will the choice
of accepting halfinterest in his estate and
freedom to do as she chose as to her future
| state, or the whole OF his property should she
be willing to promise not to marry again.
Thomas F. Bayard Jr., son of the ambassador
to Great Britain. has accepted place in the
Office of the corporation counsel of New York
| and will remove to that city early next year.
Mr.. Bayard will be connected with the depart
| ment of street opening. He is a grsduate of
| the Yale class OF 80.
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"nIrs. Ninslow.s soothing Svrnn,,

Has been used over fifty years by millions OF
mothers their children while Teething with per-
feet success 1t soohes the child softens the gums
allays Pain. cures Wind Collie, regulates he Bowels
and is the best remedy for Diarrhpas whether ars-
ing from teeshing other causes For sale by drug
gisIs in every part Of the world. Be sure and Ask
for Mrs. Minsow's Soothing Syrup 25c bottle.
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NEWSPAPER tLEASANTRY.

'Talk about eleyatin de stagei
.'Yes?"
"Wots de matter wild lowerin' de gallery?"
Chicago Record.
Dolly Swift-You may talk of the romance of
bicycle built for two, but
Sally Gay-What can be nicer?
Dolly Swlft-A buggy built apparently for
,one.-Puck.
Young Tentative-Which is the correct form,
to say man when he dies leaves wife or
leaves widow?
Old Reliable-Young man, widow is never
left.-Boston Transcript
Della Ware-Do yal believe in the Biblical
admonition of giving kiss for blow, Mr..
Westside?
Westside-Well-er-th depends, Miss Ware
How hard are you going to strike me? e?-Buf-
falo Times.
May-I wonder why it is that people always
put the record of births III the Bible.
Marie-Well 1 don't know where it is safer
from human curiosity unless in a safety de-
posit vault, do you?-New York Evening
Journal.
Customer-Your sign says you are ton
serial artist.
Barber-Yes, sir.
Customer contemplating gashes in his face)
Don't you think You ought also to specify
you are an impressionist Puck.
Bobby-Pop, what does hereditary mean?
Fond parent-It means, Bobby, something
that goes from parent to child. Now see if you
can give me an example of something that is
hereditary.
Bobby-Measles. got 'em from mother.-
Brooklyn Life.
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pointed out. For every rough work enameled
cloth or rubber are used.
Denim or blue jeans make heavy apron that
will last indefinitely.
Ginghams, heavy cambria or cotton duck are
serv iceable materials.
Made of white lawn, cambric or batiste it
forms garment much appreciated by ladies
whose only household cares consist of light
ductiOp
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THE MISSING SURPLUS
Now York Mail and Express.

NOW ork Mali and EXpress
You may go through Secretary Carlisle's re-
port with a search warrant without finding
any trace of the comfortable surplus" which
he expected to derive from the operation of
the Wison-Gorman bill. 1t must have been
m mislaid
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Professor-Say, Anna, couldn't we Just as
we'll postpone our silver wedding and cale-
brate il at the same time as the golden we'd
ding? Idont like to be interrupted in nv
work so often.-Fliegende Blaetter
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and mild being entirely free from the mists com.
mon further north. Round-trIp tickets by steam
ship including fifteen days board at The Hotel del
Coronado, $65; longer stay 50 so per day Apply
New Montgomery St. san Francisco.
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Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rio
Grande and Rock Island Railways. Through
tourist sleeping to Chicago and Boston Man.
ager and porters accompany these excursions to
Boston For tickets. sleeping-car accomm odations
and further information. address Clinton Jones
General Agent Rock Island Railway, 30 Mont.
Ronery street San Francisno.
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At last we get the welcome news that
Tom Watson has decided to retire from
politics. The new era is evidently dawn
ing everywhere.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

Some of the Senators may have been
recreating themselves during the holidays,
but most of them were undoubtedly writ
ing speeches on Cuba.
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THE BRUSSELS EXPOSITION.

Among the more important enterprises
which will engage the attention OF our pro-
gressive men during the present year will
be that of providing for an adequate rep
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

1t is said that over $1,000 deer have
been killed in the woods of Maine this
year, but it took more than $4,000 hunters
10 do il.
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WITH bottle of Ayers Cherry Pectoral (the
unrlvaled cough cure) and Ayers Almanac (tho
best calendar), we wish you happy New Year.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers.
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau (Allen'sl, $40 Montgomery. =
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

Ally-That novel of Thomson's is perfect
mush.
sally-of course. It's cereal story.-Phila
delphia Times.
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HE WAR UPON HE LOTTERIES
Los Anuaias ,rinnas

Los Angeles Times.
The San Francisco Grand Jury has begun war
upon the lotteries in that City, which do so
much to impoverish the working classes. The
good seed sown by THE CALL will yet bear fruit.
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There are abundant signs that we are to
have a new era in politics as well as in
business.
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lbs. famous broken candy, handsome bkts..
only SOC Townsend's, Palace building.
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The Senate has now its last opportunity
to lock horns with Cleveland and do
him UP.
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cALIFoRNlANS IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON. D. c., Jan. 3.-Ira D. Orton
and Louis REIN of Los Angeles are at the
Raleigh,
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

A seat IN the Cabinet for California is
in sight and almost in reach.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

Ihe coercion of the Sultan will con-
tinue to be the biggest drama on the Eu-
ropean stage this winter, but whether it
will be a farce or a tragedy remains to be
seen,
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04
LADY'S APRON

This useful garment speaks for itself. An
apron large enough to be of use and trimmed
as this is, need not have its ''ralson d'etre"
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

Everybody has an eye on Sacramento.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

A wild goose recently joined the flock
kept by the city on lake in Garfield Park
in Chicago, and now the city authorities
are in doubt whether to run him off as a
Yagrant or put him IN the census as
another settler from ST. Louis.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

A St. Louis Judge recently declared
from the bench that there has not been
in that city in ten years policeman who
had ever seen anything, and now the
force has resolved to see him the next
time he runs for office.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

From the work achieved last year the
Merchants Association can draw abund-
ant confidence for the prosecution of the
work which is to come. 1t has now
proven its usefulness and will have plenty
of people to help it.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

If the Cubans and Spaniards are left
alone much longer there won't be a man
on the island and the women will be ad-
vertising to swap sugar plantations for
husbands.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

According to the New YORK Sun Con-
gress should recognize the independence
Of Cuba at once and then discuss after
ward whether it has a constitutional
right to do so, and it must be admitted
that the plan has the merit of enterprise.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

The fact that this country, after an
existence OF more than century, has not
yet cecided whether the President or
Congress has the decisive voice in reccg-
nizing the independence of foreign
State shows how easy it is for millions of
intelligent people to live under a written
constitution without knowing what it
Eeans.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

1t is said that the basis of all our rela-
tions with Spain is an old treaty ratified
IN 1875. 1t has been addel to from time
to time by protocols. conventions, etc.
but the original remains as the m ain
treaty, and it is said to be so antiquated
that the State Department of neither
country understands it.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

The Supreme Court of Missouri has
just decided that clause in the charter of
Kansas City imposing a penalty upon
every qualified voter who fails TO vote at
q general election is unconstitutional-so
another reform scheme goes a.glimmering.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

Now for politics.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

II California gains representative in
the Cabinet and sends to the Senate
stanch, staIwart, brainy Republican she
viii have prestige at Washington Sec
ond TO none of her sister States.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

Among the bills presented to this Con-
gress is one appropriating $1,000 to be ex-
pended by the Library Committee 20
''extend aid to the stage and assist the
usefulness of the theater as an educator" :"
so at last there is hope of a reward for the
heavy villain.
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General Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar;
colonel OF the British Life Guards, is about to
be promoted to the rank of field marshal. The
promotion is a court job and causes irritation
in the army.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

Henry Watterson says that after retir-
= ing from the Presidency Cleveland should
sit quietly like a statue of Buddha with
folded hands contemplating the pit of his
stomach" but in this Mr.. Watterson has
clearly overlooked the fact that Grover
has a much bigger pit than that to con-
template.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

1HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

The Mckinley Cabinet according to re-
ports IS far more mysterious than any
cabinet ever seen at a spiritualistic seance.
The facility with which it is at one time
shown to be full of dignitaries and the
next moment empty beats anything Herr
mann ever did.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

There is great deal of work awaiting
the lawmakers at Sacramento, and for
tunately among the Legislators there are
many men who can be counted on to at
tend to It faithfully and do it rightly.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

Henry Doel, who is now an iuDkeeper in
Plymouth, England, is said 10 be the oldest
actor in England. He is nearly SO years old,
and was on the stage continuously for sixty
five vpors
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

The people of Newman have something to bs
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

The call for mothers congress, to be
held at Washington, has been met by a
counter call for a fathers congress. The
next step IN this development will be a
boys' congress after the old folks have ad-
iourned
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-04

The Parish Herald, of which Hugh Murphy
is editor and Frank P. Scully manager, issued
very creditable holiday edition. 1t is pub
lished monthly in this City and began its
second volume on Christmas day.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-04-03
NO FEVER or ENTHUSIASM
Canada VIII Not Strain HerseifOver
the Jubilee.

tlt 1uUttfts
Ottawa. Can. March 27.--So far there
are no indications that the dominion
proposes to work Itself into a fever Ok
enthusiasm over the celebration or tfc
Iucen's jubilee. Suggestions have been
made here and there concerning ways,
means and methods by which this por-
tion OF her majesty's possessions m.ght
demonstrate tho loyalty of the people
In this eventful year, but they nave
been Of a spasmod.c nature, and nave
not been prompted by people aNInB
particular standing and weight, and
have failed 10 receive any cons derable
encouragement. Perhaps the most pre-
lcnuous scheme is that Of Lady AL"r-
deem, who ~ ,Joses ths founding OF an
rider r Nurses and Homes, 20 he
/ nOwL AZ the Victorian order Of Home
Helpers. 1t is proposed to raise a min
lpum fund Of half a million dollars, or
rs much more as may be forthcoming,
Tor the purpose Of constructing build
ings In different c nters ana putting he
scheme upon its feet, the UNDERSTANDING
beng that the different localities here
furnish sufficient money 70 Keep the
order on 4 substantial basis. Under
the scheme. which has not yea be"h lui-
~ outlined by Lady Aberdeen, about
Hrty homes and a hundr i homr h.Ip.i8
~ nurses are allotted - Manitoba ana
The northwest, and 10 maintain u, -
require a yearly subscription OF
some $50, 0OO-somrthiug AFTER h pan
If the prince Of Wa.cs' \ rp"iuh IN
lJwmont fOr the London hnspIt is. Tn"
distribution OF subscription ls,s rs
been commenced. bu. ;he indications
are thai the proposition viii nor take
like wildfire.