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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-09

The funeral OF ROBERT EMMETT
JENKINS viii take place THIS ffhnfer
day. MORNING at 10 o'clock. nom ~
Patr!ck's church, with requiem ma<R
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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-09
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Mr.. John Lamb. son Of Congressman
Lamb. and his bride and Mr.. Lucien
Tatum and wife. left by yesterdays
Afternoon train for Richmond. Mr.. Lamb
and bride were returning from their we'd
ding tour o,,- =,
Representatives Fowler, OF Clinton, n.
q and W. w. Kitchen. OF Rockingham,
n C.. are at the National.
c. p. Janney. Leesburg, Va.-Nationai.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
NOW FOR THE ERA OF PROSPERITY.


Wilson
of
be
which higher tariff has placed As surplus
wisea ion in
of he
gallon She demanded
will
country,
adv
flying
prosperity
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
TOM REED ON McMILLIN.
Washington Post.

POSI.
Congress men Benton McMillin and James
d. Rich ardson are candidates for the Sena-
torial appointment to succeed the late Ishsm
g. Harris of Tennessee, and there is much
speculation in Washington relative to the re-
suit. McMillin has served five terms in Con-
gress and is So years old, the right age for
Senator. Tom Reed, Speaker cannot stand
McMillin. Richardson is one of his pet aver.
sions, but he can manage to get along with
him. He would like to see McMillin dis.
patched to the Senate end of the Capitol, for
the Tennesseean is worse than nagging old
woman with thirty children Richardson
talks good DEAL" Mr.. Reed said on a certain
occasion, "but he is a good-natured fellow,
and what he says doesn't make the least d IL
ference one way or the other. McMillin is dif-
ferent. He never says word without sub
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
AS VIEWED BY A FRENOHMAN

M. Emile Levasseur OF the National In.
stitute of France has recently contributed
an article to the press on American work.
men, the wages they receive, the machin-
cry they operate and their standard of
living While he found great differences
in the earnings of wageworkers in the
various sections OF this country, neverthe-
less, on the whole it was demonstrated
that the American wage rate is exceed
ingly high as compared with that OF
France, or even of England, where wages
are higher than those OF any other
European country.
The writer disputes the doctrine that the
increase Of so per cent IN wages during the
last thirty years is due wholly to the pres
sure which trades unions have been able
to bring to bear on employers by means of
strikes, and directs attention TO the fact
that the wages of agricultural laborers,
who are not organized, have increased
nearly in the same proportion as those OF
most of the workers in other industries,
while the wages of domestic servants both
IN this country and in France, have risen
more in proportion than those of the or
ganized workers. Notwithstanding all
trades unions have influence. He asserts
that they are very strong in mum bers and
have taken an active part in the efforts of
workers TO secure shorter hours, higher
wages and better conditions in general for
the laboring man.
The marvellous development of machin-
cry in America is treated of by M. Levas-
seur, who declares that progress in me-
chanics has been more rapiu in the United
States than in any other country in the
world, '.because the Americans have a
genius for invention combined with bold
ness in undertaking new enterprises - be-
cause their population has increased from
four millions a century ago to more than
seventy millions, while the wealth of the
country has increased faster than the
population, and because this great mum.
Der OF people furnishes an immense mar
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25

which makes Canada solid mass of territory
extending to the north pole, but the truthful
map, which shows the geographical distr1bu-
tion and relations of our several provinces.
You will then see what the construction OF
lines of traffic in Canada, entirely separate
from the rest of the continent, means 70
keep 100000 of North Americans out OF
North America will be q difficult and costly
undertaking. To the few the experiment may
bear fruit in peerages or knighthood; 10 the
many it will bear fruit in increase OF taxation.
"There are people who from social fancy as
well as for political objects. want to build up
barrier of hatred between us and our klns-
men to the south, while England, 10 whom we
are all so loyal, is courting American friend
ship by all the means in her power.
There does unfortunately exist feeling
against Great Britain in the United States.
That feeling is likely TO continue, and when
any friction arises TO show itself so long as
Great Britain remains political or military
power on this continent. You would have the
same thing on the other side II the United
States were political and military power on
the flank OF England. But against Canada as
an Am 'rcan community there is no feeling
yyhatPVer
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
MAP OF THE GOLD FIELDS.

THE CALL presents this morning the
first complete and reliable map of the in
terror gold region of Alaska that has been
published anywhere.
1t has been compiled and drawn for THE
CALL by Professor George Davidson, than
whom no higher authority could be ap-
pesled to. Professor Davidson was for
over generation the head and director
of the United States Coast and Geodetic
Survey on this coast, and his own astro-
nomical and geodetic work has at various
times taken him into the snowy Alaskan
ranges. The Government boundary sur
veys have been under his immediate direc-
ton, and besides his intimate personal
acquaintance with the subject he com.
mands mass of charts. reports and other
information mac ssble to most people.
Professor Davidson 3 map represents a
large amount of care and labor, and is
intelIigently prepared. 1t admits of no
com par son with the hastily thrown to-
gether outline sketches, full of absurd
inaccuracies, which flock to the public
vision as maps of Alaska. 1t is by mas
ter geographer, and is a long advance on
the best that have gone before. The latest
and best OF its rivals are bare of the names
and geographical features that are now
of universal interest. These are shown
accurately and readily, and the overland
route from Juneau to the gold fields is
shown in correct detail.
The map is accompanied by information
which will help make it by far the most
complete and reliable exposition of the
country that it is possible to obtain. 1t
will provide an invaluable chart to those
making the journey, and will enable read
ers OF Alaskan events to acquire under
standing OF the localities which are now
the centers of public interest.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
SPEAKER REED.

The hero of the season not in Washing
ton only but throughout the country is
Speaker Reed He has been the most
conspicuous figure of the extra session in
Congress. Noteve the newly elected Pres
ident, SO justly popular with the masses,
stands higher to-day in the esteem of the
people. The main success of the admins
tration thus far has been due to him. 1t
was the President who called the extra
session and who recommended the adop-
tion of a revenue-producing tariff, but il
was the Speaker who directed the com bat
and achieved the victory.
The new tariff is Mckinley measure.
1t is the Dingley bill. Allison and Aid
rich have done great service in revising it
and procuring its passage through the
Senate. Nevertheless its enactment is the
victory of the Speaker more than any one
else. This is everywhere recognized by
friend and foe alike. The cartoons of the
comic weeklies picture Speaker Reed
more often than any one else and the
papers of the great cities direct their praise
or blame toward him more than toward
any other man.
The triumph OF the Speaker has been
of his Office, and by a masterful control of
stormy legislative body. He has held
the unruly elements in check and enabled
the House to do business. Democrats and
Populists have been prevented from
delaying the work of the majority and i'm
peding the performance of the task in
trusted to it by the people. Without this
strong and wisely directed control Con-
gress would have been wrangling and de-
batting to this day and the business of the
country would still be uncertain of the
outcome.
1t is gratifying that the commend alton
given 10 the Speaker comes not altogether
from Republican sources. Business m en-
OF all parties unite in expressing their ap-
probation of the work performed by him
IN fastening the passage of the tariff bill
and putting an end to the uncertainty
which harasses industry. This commen-
dation is the more valuable because it
atones IN some respect for the abuse in
vective and denunciation with which he
was assailed when during his first speak
ership he undertook to make the House a
legislative body instead of wrangling
and tumultuous debating society. 1t
comes late but not too late, and does JUS
tice at last to one who for long time has
been the most grossly misrepresented of
our public men.
The grateful recognition which has been
everywhere given to the work of Speaker
Reed is significant of the value which the
American people place upon the service of
a statesman who serves by deeds even m ore
than by words. There has been no event
OF the session out of which he has made
an opportunity for personal display. He
has had no part in the tariff debate. He
mas had no occasion to show his firmness
and parliamentary skill in ruling noisy
revolt as in former sessions. What he has
done has been accomplished without
stress or strain, and it is the silent record
of work achieved which wins for him the
honor of the American people.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
SPEAKER REEDS AvoIRDUPoIs
Washington Post.

Washington Post.
Although Speaker Reed is seriously con-
cerned over the outcome of the tariff bill,
there is something which weighs even heavier
on his mind
He is growing corpulent
Years ago Reed was big man, broad-shoul-
dered. heavy lfmbed. but he was well-propor-
toned Then he began to grow stout This
did not trouble him, because upon his large
frame the accumulatfng flesh was well dis
tributed. Now, however, he has reached the
point where his fatness is becoming annoying.
Nothing that he can do w,ll decrease the load
that ne seems doomed to carry. He exercises,
though not a great deal. he walks, even in this
hot weather, and he carefully avoids all fat
producing foods.
Notwithstanding all these precautions, the
inches are being added 10 his girth and his
weight continues to increase. Just where IT
VIII end he does n OF know, although he would
like to do so. Not only is his bulk inconven-
lent, but he has been compelled TO discard
suits that fitted him well enough not so many
months ago. Last summers clothes seem to
have shrunk when he attempts to get into
them.
His increasing size attracted the attention
oil Congressman the other day, and he was
asked how much ne weighed.
1.-Two hundred pounds" promptly replied
the Speaker.
''Why, Mr.. Speaker" lid the Congressman,
honestly surprised. II weigh 200 pounds my
sell, and you surely are one-third heavier
81 don't care what you weigh" replied Mr..
Reed instantly, "but no gentleman ever
weighs over 200 pounds"
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
THE NEW BONANZA.

The stimulating reports reaching us
from the klondyke mines are but nursery
tales compared with those which reused
the sturdy pioneers of California wno left
home at period in our history when il
was an undertaking of great magnitude to
reach this coast. The argonauts of As
came to California and dug gold out ol
every creek, bank, bar, ravine and river
bed from Oregon to Mariposa, and from
the Coast Range to the Sierra Nevadas.
Here they found climate that offered
them the poss ibility TO work 365 days in
each year, easy OF access, entirely free
from climatic seventies, supplemented by
that greatest of Gods blessings, another
home under the American flag.
There was no extensive journalism at
that time to publish the exploits of for
tunate individuals or boom the unknown
richness of any restricted locality. Each
different district in those days advertised
itself by the daily procession returning
from the mines with their well-flled sacks
and belts en- route to their nome in the
States" and there was plenty left for
those who would take the trouble to 60
and dig it out.
Yet, that was only the dim twilight of
CALIFORNIA; prosperity. The permanent,
self-sustaining. greater California came
after the Arabian Nights" feature had
ceased to be an attraction.
The large emigration from California
and Canada to the sterile lands and the
1nhospitable climate of the Arctic during e
the Cariboo and Fraser River excite
ments have entered into the legendary
lore of the past, leaving no permanent
monuments behind dedicated to success,
progress and civilization.
The moose and the cariboo are to-day
silently following the trails and cross
roads marked out by those venturesome
spirits, or possibly taking shelter under
the ruins of their once populous villages.
An occasional headstone doubtless re-
mains to record the sorrowful fact that
near that once eyentful spot youth, energy
and ambition reluctantly became weary
and gave up its tiresome search for gold.
That large quantities of yellow metal
have lately arrived from the KIondyke
placers is unquestlonably true, but the
possibility that the rich deposits are not
confined to small and already occupied
locality must remain undetermined until
the commencement Of another prospect
ing season in April or May next.
Let us confidently hope that the pros
poets of next year will develop new and
larger fields containing enough gold for
all who are now going and those who may
hereafter follow. Shonld it prove other
wise the future outlook would be alarm
ing. While we are compelled to patiently
wait for period of eight or nine months
it seems to be more economical and GER
tainly safer to remain in California during
that period than rush away to country
where one must necessarily be confronted
with enforced idleness and confinement
while the thermometer ranges from 80 to
go degrees below zero.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
MEN AND WOMEN.

Mantle Comm woman has taken and pre-
| served New York paper for forty-one years
Professor Samuel Brassal of the University
! of Klause berg, in Hungary, led recently,
soon after celebrating his hundredth birthday.
A lock of hair of Agnes Sorel, the mistress of
! King Charles VIII of France, tawny blonde
! lock, taken from her tomb at Loches, was sold
| in Paris recently for 40 francs.
There is negro man working near Dublin
! Ga. who says he is one OF forty children by one
| mother. He says his mother was married four
| times, and gave birth to twenty-seven boys
! and thirteen girls in North Carolina, and is
| yet living.
| Preacher Moody at Northfeld the other day
| took up the scriptural story about the whale
swallowing Jonah. He accepted no theory of
illustration or allegory, but he told the papers
to put it down that he would never let man
come on his platform to speak If he did not be-
lieve that the whale swallowed Jonah.
Bessie Potter. the young Chicago sculptor
whose portrait statuettes in plaster have been
seen in recent Boston, New York and Chicago
exhibitions, spent the past winter In Florence
where her most ambitious work, 1.-THE Young
Mother" has been put into marble. special
exhibition of her sculpture is to be given in
Boston next season.
Colonel Watterson is fighting the silver can
didate tor Clerk of the Court of Appeals in
Kentucky with much intensity. local con-
temporary unkindly says tnat the colonel is
getting up sham fight; that he rushes to the
front OF the stage, wraps the flag about him
fires off "hoss pistol with an apostrophe to
God and his native land and falls in a dead
faint"
To a question put to Justin Mccarthy by the
Independent the well-informed historian of
"Our Own Tines has replied: To my mind
the one most impressive characteristic OF er
Majesty's reign is the fact that she is strictly
speaking, the first really constitutional SOW
| ereign who ever ruled over the British empire.
If that does not make an epoch know of
nothing that possibly could"
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
PERSONAL.

Walter Tryon, mining man OF Angels, is at
the Grand.
H. Mcdonald of Fresno is staying at the Cos
mop politan.
Dr. F. Walton Todd of Stockton is guest at
the Occidental.
H. Rapelje Deputy Sheriff of Fresno, is at
the Cosmo opolitan.
A. NJ. Mcdonald, mining man OF Sonora, is
stopping al the Lick.
d. P. Pierce, mine-owner of Placerviile, is
a guest at the Grand.
General kemper and family of Virginia are
at the Occidental Hotel.
F. A. Booth, prominent lumber merchant
OF Red Bluff, is a guest a the Grand.
H NJ. Gorham, prominent mining man of
Gold Hill, New, is registered at the Palace.
Captain Whiting, commander of the Monad-
mock, reg stored at the Occidental yesterday.
W NJ. Sutton, prominent business man of
Pacific Grove, is registered at the Russ House.
Among the guests at the Russ House is ]. C.
Erickson, q cattle-raiser of Hum boldt County.
B. T. Mccullough of Crows Landing, the
well-known cattle-raiser, is registered at the
Grand.
Ex-Congressman James A. Louttit of Stock
tom is visiting the City. He is stopping at the
Grand.
R. E. May, Wels-Fargo's agent of Sonora,
Tuolumre County, is a guest at the Cosmo-
politan.
f. p Wickerson, prominent in Fresno poll
tics came to town yesterday and put up a. the
Lick House.
A. w. Perkins, well-known mining fore
man of Gold Hill, New, is stopping at the
Russ house.
Among those who registered at the Occi-
dental yesterday were w J. Dickey and DR.. J.
D. Davidson, both of Fresno.
Frank Morrato, the well known represen ta-
tive of Notary & Morrato of Denver, Colo, is
registered at the Golden West.
H. E. Pickett OF Placerville, largely inter-
ested in mining operations in Ell Dorado
County, is registered at the Lick.
F. W. Swan ton, who has charge of the big
electric plant at Santa Cruz,is on q visit to
San Francisco. He is at the Palace.
Paul May, the secretary of the Belgian Le-
CATION at Toxic Japan, arrived on the steame T
China yesterday. He is stopping at the Palace.
Dr. ]. NJ. Proctor of Placerville was among
the arrivals at the Palace Hotel yesterday.
He is largely interested in mining In his
county.
Joseph P. Durkin, superintendent Of the
Bunker Hill mine. Sonora, Tuolumne County,
is down with his wife on his honeymoon at
the Cos mopolitan.
Baron Won der Grattz and Baron Won der
Bruggen are guests at the Palace. The former
is registered as coming from Peking, China
and the latter from Belgium.
A. B. Woods of Detroit, who is q wealthy
coppermine owner OF Michigan, and who is
also interested in gold mining properties in
this State, arrived here yesterday and is STOP
ping at the Palace.
Theron Geddes, auditor of the Rio Grande
Western Railway Company, whose head
quarters are at Salt Lake City, arrived yester.
day. Mr.. Geddes is con nsiderable of a mine
owner, He Is at the Occidental,
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
THE MINERS REMEMBERED.
Seattle Post Intelligencer.


"Do you see those nuggets" With the fore
going remark Tom Cochran of this city handed
a Post-Intelligencer reporter a small Jar al
most full OF yellow chunks. DWELL, that is
gold from the Klondyke, and 1t typefies the
proverbial generosity. That gold is a present
to me because sent few copies of the Post
Intelligencer into Alaska last season. You see,
my friends Dick Butler and Charley Meyers
had been prospecting in that country, and one
day L bundled up the papers and dropped
them in the mail Sine, the Portland got in l
nave received this bottle OF gold. Butler and
Meyers, through having those papers, had the
only library in the Kiondyke, and the miners
congregated from all the creeks and read
everything in those papers, advertisements
and all One day crowd was in the cabin
and Butler said
Boys, don't mind your reading he pa
pers, but think you ought TO remember the
fellow who sent them. Pm going to put up a
little contribution box and ne left the bottle
near the papers,"
The miners did not forget, and to-day Mr.
cochran has the dust. 1t is worth $400.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25

ket for all kinds of goods, market IN
which the per ca pita consumption is much
larger than in European countries"
The standard OF living of the American
worker is higher than that of any other
country on earth. With the exception OF
iuxuries, it was found that the average
price Of goods consumed by the working
classes was very little higher in America
than in France, while provisions are
slightly rover here. The one item OF ex-
pense which is nearly always heavier Tor
the workers of American than for
those of France is rent. But the Ameri-
can laborer. however, requires lar better
accommodations than the French iaborer.
His home Is larger, better furnished and
more comfortable.
AS to the causes of high wages, M. Le-
Vasseur opines that they depend on sew
eral, OF which the principal is "the total
amount of wealth previously existing or
produced at any given time by labor and
The average quantity OF wealth produced
by the individual worker"
There is always question as to the rate
in which the distribution of this wealth
shall be made as between capital, man.
oSSiS ouo AduOI, Dtlt Vie w aSoS SoAAt 80 .'O
case. under penalty of ruin for the INDUS
try, equal the total valne OF the product.
1t is, therefore, concluded ''that the pro-
ductlvity of labor is one OF The prin nclpai
causes which regulate wages" And M.
Levasseur, had he looked further into the
matter, would have discovered that an
other leading cause of higher wages IN TINS
country during the past thirty years is
the American protective policy, to Whlch
is also due very largely the wonderful
progress made by the mills aad factories
of the United States
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
AT TWILIGHT.

Out OF the dusk, wind blown and thin,
The shadowy wood boats gather in.
And twilight bushes the harbor's din
sleep, little head, on my shoulder
The gold LIGHTS wake through the evening gray
In the little village beside the bay,
And few cold stars cam Tar away
sleep, little head, on my shouiderl
The sailor turns his face once more
W here his sweetheart waits at the opened door;
The lone light washes the wave-swept shore
Sleep little head, on my shoulder!
Here where the dancing shadows swarm
Our dIiflwood fire is bright and warm;
Beyond our window wakes the s. orm-
! hen sleep, little head, on my shoulderl
WILLIAM CARMAN koBERTs in July Century.
The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
GLOsE SIGHTS.
A tchlson Globe.

No woman who smokes has a right to be
jealous OF her husband.
After woman has had two husbands and
realized on their life insurance, that ought to
be enough.
We are afraid 10 ask what's the matter with
Hannah at this season of the year, but Jamaica
ginger is good for it.
Though clothing is cheap, every one
chershes the hope that If he should drop lead
no one but his family will see the quality OF
his underwear.
This is the season of the year when we would
rather have the mo;h eat up all the woolen
goods in the house than go downtown in the
sun for camphor balls.
A woman who has married as often as three
times is bound to have trouble. She may
escape it with her first and second husbands,
but her third husband is pound to cause
scandal of some sort