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The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12

fairy opuence He Oriental"
velOp? asked the clerk Put it, responded
Uncle Billy down she'll The
smiled but affixed the stamp, and Uncle Billy
shortived triumph The disappointment finding
address
10 his identity
He Lher The furniture decorationven these early
building
Billy
handsome
half
the teverish meeting At
He
the pared dnngroom filled with dressed
bedroom,
fed his modest lodgings
his lis cheap
this quaint double existence Three would
could
On the fourth
Jim couched
He important and profitable business
but he welcome his old
He So for the first time ocose and hoped Uncle Billy
all the
this procrasinaon Uncle Billy
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12

brdged gulf
Francisco question: alluded of In r
old For Uncle Billy, all his simTc had been
fedged city such he in the streets would
ought not tell him at of his changed fortune But like all weak
unssoning dung desperately deahe could foreSo
strike intimation doubted with
psrhHps Jim would him of his For
docedIv accent the esnonsiniv Of hi. cant stake At
With educating Unce Jm's
the sights stupid child
might great curiosity
I nadly
times rewarded rewarded virtue there
esnos still exant San Francisco Of his arsess certain who
need not lie which startled them sentimental
the arrival the Sacramento and Stockton steamers at the NhaTV
the hope of discovering his old the the
OF the the resemblance Uncle m
on no account have omd and certain extent revived each day
his mind the ole He would
himself "Its look m-and off what he
In this singenes purpose
quanances did he mp the his fortune 10y
perhaps
OF his devo ion When h. the
ae his partners letter. his humber
address, the lockoox of his without false
rea uhueky ana returning miners 10 ohher ana Vs TO 'h pa
theser sympathy with
dersanding humbe Uncle Billy years had
degradation in inconsistency rriaed menia
Of them in Ii, ma1ne Canine from the teae one nht
turning hastily before knocked ty
ing carriage
still that this
kind mental occupation often profitable and that the
principal crossings the sweepers aiready rich
a later brought notable
Montgomery coen smartly
dressed equenerS man who had before of
Uncle Bys chldsr delight which
seemed to bridge over his old partners absence was however only ha
examiner and
un his emotion Uncle Billy cOnhdd him that he seeking
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12
trade ~
"Wot trader asked Uncle Billy.

Uncle Jim pointed the where stood large heavy crossing
Gertnsly 'G - snd Uncle Billy with laugh -. .
g01 nb a bt % U @p0sy % IN m G'h ] anu a a t d
taings rake. onywot with broom
sluice gushn IFS trim back.
"Cernngy be' said Uncle Billy enthusiastically, wha
glad ye yer howy you'd
tumble doing itunl I'd made pile And if hadn't made
wouldn't hev set again, old pard-never!'
DO you mind my unnn out minit2 said Uncle Billy rising
M and send him off kin talk conf Bile
"Ye amt anybody you're OWN money
earnestly anybody erin you to get paid eh? For kin jest set
rNo said Uncle Billy He slipped # the door and
said noarsey: koidg just now
kin drive
ana then come and walt " me at the top the hill
DRAFT and his story over But
speak pectedIy stopped
Now look yOu Billy boyr Uncle Jim;
yeand well clear my m
startar Now he wasn't
H Te 6d s a 0 hF a nd
get YIN
ns 5n sss Me his ss gs % you think
sg 1901 h 10 on yen h es e MADE h0uSh s the
S1 we m T the Good de Do p 3 1 h6E T dg Ss6 % a4
dnd our on you longeaTed jackass rabbit
sbt Hn the his lace fixed
y m an1 IG Tim w yoa 6fss Ss made BIZ
them ou Wa jest nd o any u dn
S s oa S
would hev don2 sai1 Uncle Billy after
Out Ga9S assn ss s ss4s S 5
il Pert iasE
6gy his ea%f a ms
bsli9d s
& AT s m and nf SaasHt S G & f" Has had a s % 3 ter
ss ;s:; sas;
ss 5 III ts1 s II: K
UonIin,t
said Unsls Billy Xssl I've got He stopped
20 ho SAID unce jim tsseny He paused and then added
anes,; M ~ say You AIM go! Left over and above foolish
and % % said 9s 9s 5 @ @ s @ saa frs.
gazing S Wa " @ @ Da5 Te. y % 1 at 5"a 5ns Then
& h s' 5 dRsa & ranch ns We I've S got 1 % o gr % s se
@ s sn Rs "a. my Ga5 @ 6 sms M % sePi s
ho% can D He ct Eend En G his ad and Just make
But a uns B clear 1p" aG vo % & hand
ye have % s Po Old a0iS @ sa % o be @
z KEEPS
a So Tqf R By o @ d% Sp f
% to and wen AZ % a % h s % IN
s s
& ''@''D
Uncle Billy eediabe blush at
%P4y" %P34myr
He An s The The his & ;e Tnf ss
10 the SP Of a M n 6 yBfIs & me Oun @ the the
b5ssess
thrift miner though perhaps had
Dey de Polka de E Dorado and de Arcade
said fckinc
de Polka dey dancing wild gals rown in But
buckin' an
dc
like thundeP Billy leaping
riage
True 10 his Uncle Billy
He a had
which,
Uncle Inn
also sell for small profit His domestic arrangements
Sa
Billy
lief toward
threehild What Uncle BLY,
thinking OF the
ing suddenly whistle and moved closer
listen
ai-rusin hard
O. ortiz ears,
while thing I've the
make tn m
it-must seed 1t, RELY !"
holding
read oud
o recalled
the Arcade stranger
Pike spree
he
The morning times., 1897-01-15
CoLoRED RACEPRoGREss.

The visit 20 Canton, a few days ago, of
q delegation or coiored citizens who de-
sired to solicit the active interest of the
President in the reform Of the lynch
ing habit in some portions OF the country,
brings TO mind several matters of interest
in connection with the situation and prog
ress OF the African race in the United
States To begin with, it deserves well
of Major Mckinley, in that ii greatly as
sisted his CANDIDACY and his election, and
there is little doubt that he fully appreciates
the fact, and when in office will do some
thing to show it. Major Mckinley will
agree with The Times that the material
and other progress of our coIored citizen
ship entities it to admiration and respect,
especially when we consider the difficulties
under which that advancement has been
achieved In the course of a recent Eman-
cipation Day address in Georgia a dis
tinguished colored leader presented inter
esting statistics Of the present status of
OF African descent is taxed on more than
$500. 100000 worth Of property. Its edu
cational life is reflected by thirty
normal and seventy-one secondary schools,
twenty-two universities and colleges, TWEEN
ty-rour theological, five law and five medi.
cal schools, and fourteen institutions for
public schools are attended by 100000
persons. Negroes are represented in the
learned professions by 500 doctors, 200
lawyers, and a cloud of clergymen. There
are 800 coiored editors. All this is graft
tying in the extreme and affords us reason
to believe that still greater progress is
In store for this important national ele-
nent.
The morning times., 1897-01-15

in spite of the fact, made apparent, by
the way, by the written pledges OF a ma
jority OF the Republicans of the Buckeye
legislature, that Mr.. Foraker must surely
be winner.
1t ought not to be said, probably. that
the Junior Senator from Ohio cherishes
deep and lasting resentment for these po-
liticalchastiscments but ifhe has cherished
them it would be wholly natural, for al
most any man is human enough for that,
and we rather like him for ii il he is.
1t may be that Mr.. Foraker Will consider
that the tIocile and smooth way win be to
urge Gov Bushnell TO appoint Mr.. Hanna
tothe Senate, trusting the Hanna combina-
ton to re-elect, or to help TO re-elect his
friend TO the goyernorship. But can he
trust them? Shall a man who lives in a
State where he must guard his own political
interests, because surely 10 one else will
guard them, take these chances?
Christian spirit is good, though we be-
lieve It has ros been common in politics
anywhere 10 turn the other cheek orermuch
and to give the cloak also; for shall man
take pains to ship case of stilettoes TO
the last known address of his old-time AMI
recent enemy?
The morning times., 1897-01-15
WASHINGTON. D. C. JANUARY Is, 1897
DESIRABLE ARMY REFORMS.

The House Committee on Military AT
fairs has reported a bill providing for the
reorganization OF the Army which rep
resorts a greatly needed reform, is adj
nirable in its provisions, and deserves
prompt consideration and adoption. The
measure provides for a small increase in
the number of enlisted men from $4,000
TO 80. goo. which increase is necessary to
the vital purpose of changing our regi-
mental form from the two To the three
battaI on organization. The progress OF
rnilitary science for a generation past has
been cutting down the size of the grand
tactical unit The ten company regiment
aervcd well enough as that unit in the days
Of flint locks, smooth bore and infantry
slasscS hut under modern conditions the
Did styIe regiment becomes unwiedly. and
years ago it was abandoned i'll Europe for
ihe three battalion formation. AS readers
Of The Times are aware, the reform was
introduced 10y gen. ordway in the organ
oration of the District National Guard, a nd
has worked cxcellently. We cannot be too
sIduSrrious in the matter of placing our
skeleton regular army upon the plane that
Eecent experience in the at of war warns
as il must occupy in order TO cope on equal
Terms with the troops or other nations,
bhould that become necessary.
The morning times., 1897-01-15
Shows and Show People

We have not had much in the way OF
minstrelsy so far this season but all at once
it breaks out virulentiy. The amateur idea
of it we had Monday night, and the Carroll
Institute Minstrcls were joyful surprise,
too, not amateurish in the least Tuesday.
at the Lafayette Square also, Polk Miller
gave us his sketches OF the real negro. and
told us that the MINISTRIES were parody,
and not a very good one, either. Polk
Miller is the man who has real, live
coon hidden in his banjo somewhere" :"
Next week. at the Columbia, is the Fields
minstrel troupe, representing the very
latest products of civilization in the min
strel problem. Dan Rice, the father OF
the stage negro, gives the benefit OF his
years OF experience and of his most recent
Investigations. Al Reeves, besides being
q bantoist and nionologue cork artist OF no
mean attainments himself, brings to Ker-
mans several genuine negroes, who don't
see why they shouldn't initiate themselves
to pecuniary advantage, and who find that
they can.
The morning times., 1897-01-15
CIoakroom and Gallery

Representatives William Conwel, of
Pennsylvania, was on the floor yesterday
afternoon and also call ed on Senator
Quay. He is very wealthy manufacturer
and is the recognized Quay leader ia
Northeastern Pennsylvania He succeeds
tie erratc Joe Scranton, who had such
long and curlously broken service i'll Con-
gress. Scranton is the editor OF the lead
ing Republican paper of Scranton and has
been the chronic Republican candidate
in that district for many years. He was
elected in 1880, 1884, 1888, 1892, and
1894. He also ran i'll all the Intervening
years and was each time defeated. He
has not been very prominent in politics
since the closing days OF the last session
OF the Fifty-third Congress, and failed
Of denomination for the first time in many
years last fall.
The morning times., 1897-01-15

Senator Lodge is back from Canton. He
says nothing, but it is not TO be inferred
for that reason that he was not pleased
with his visit. MI Lodge fought the
nomination of Mckinley as hard as any
body, but Presidents-elect have a way of
drawing to themselves more or less
gfaciously those who have antagDniZed
them, and this is fair piece of political
management, especially when these an
tagoniSts are United States Senator's 1t
is commonly understood at the Senate,
where the importance OF Gen. William Nc
Kinley Osborne is not yet appreciated ut
the ful. value which he places upon himself,
that Mr. Lodge and Gen. Osborne have
not gotten on especially well in politics
together. That isnot SO strange when it is
considered that Gen. Osborne cannot be
said to have gotten ON at all A any
rate, the circumstance illustrates how the
whirligg of politics has a way of setting
all things even. II il was true that Os-
borne didn't care for Lodge after the nOIni
nation of Mckinley h;td been brought about,
it is probably true at the present moment
that Lodge does not care a hang for Os-
borne. A vote in the Senate is a great
big thing
The morning times., 1897-01-15
"Nearer TO Thee

They were singing, sweetIy singing,
And the song melodiousIy
On the evening air was ringing;
Nearer. o my God, to TheeF'
In my eyes the teardrops glistened
As it stirred the twilight dim,
And 1 wondered as / listened
II it broJght them nearer Him.
Were they like the wanderer. weary
Song and life in sweet accord,
Resting in the darkness dreary,
In that ncarness TO the Lord?
Had His Spirit ever sought thernI
To be sighted or denied,
Had that dear song ever brought them
Closer to the Savior's side?
I have heard It's music often,
Felt it's meaning deep and sweet,
And my weary heart would soften
Singing at my Masters feet,
NEARER Thee''-O precious feelingI
Nearer Thee in gain and loss;
Nearer Thee when I am kneeIIng
In the shadow OF Thy cross.
Nearer Thee when love descending
Falls III blessing on my head,
Nearer Thee when / am bending
Ger the graves that hide ny deadl
Nearer Thee in JOY, in sorrow,
'Tis the same where'er roam,
Nearer Thee today, tomorrow,
o, my King, my Christ, my HcIneI
Prank l. Stanton,
The morning times., 1897-01-15
Odd Items from Everywhere.

Florida drygoods dealers attract atten-
ton to their display windows by the eXhibi
ton in them of live snakes and tarantuIas.
During the past year New York exported
124, ,121 cattle and 1885 sheep, while
Boston exported 81 o0Scattle and "a, 1S5
sheep.
A big hearted lawyer at Pratt, Kan,
whose name is with held by the local paper,
bought a fine Christmas dinner for every
widow in town.
Michigan alone has 500 900 mich cows.
Enough butter fat goes to waste, by the
ordinary methods of butter making, to
every year pay the State tax.
On December 81, Thomas Burns, diver,
leaped from the Firth Of Forth Bridge,
Scotland, distance of $50 feet, into the
sea, and was picked up uninjured.
The value of the mineral output of Mon
tana for 1896 is as follows: Copper, S22, :
400 900; silver, S10,725, 900; gold, $4,-
SOC, 600; lead, $675, 200; total, $3S ,30O,-
900.
A Port Huron man has received a CON
signment OF featherless fowls, with the
intention Of introducing the breed into
Michigan. The birds do not know what
feathers look like.
Snowballfng in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich,
is taboocd, and the small boy will have
to look a little out in the future. The fine,
if caught, is $50, AID the alternative /.
thirty days in the coop.
The buekwheat crop OF southwestern
Michigan was the largest this season for
many years, and in some localities the
flour is being sold at lower price than
that charged for wheat flour.
The morning times., 1897-01-15
JUST AN ORDINARY THING.

One or two OF the New York news
papers are already beginning to object TO
the publicity which has been given to the
Seeley dinner, so-callcd. This was an
affair in which number of sweis OF
more or less consequence, together with
a number ofsvariety actresses, or dancers,
or very coIneiy women OF such proclivi-
ties. participated one evening at Sherry's.
the host on this occasion, and the affair
was made the more interesting to the
readers of the newspapers OF two conti-
nents by tile fact that the chief guest
was about to he married the next day, or
perhaps the next.
There is no doatt that the significance
exaggerated. These are common occur
rences in the metropolis, so the place is
chosen well-and it is said there are
plenty of places. II is quite usual to sit
down to dinner, and not uncommonly
ladies who are supposed to do their dancing
and ask no questions, are also present;
and Just as the gentlemen eat and say no
more aboutit, sothe ladies dance and sayno
more about it. This Seeley dinner was
| rather ordinary New York racket. 1t
| is not to be supposed that any OF the Four
Hundred were present, nor, indeed, any
| OF the still more mystic One Hundred and
4 Sixty. Perhaps several of the guests may
of their lives Were members OF the Four
Hundred or of the One Hundred and Sixty,
or they may have shaken hands at one
time or another with friends who had
previously shaken hands with one or more
members OF the -Four Hundred or OF the
One Hundred and Sixty. They seem to
have been simply group OF gay boys,
| who, instead OF diyerting themselves for
| two or three hours on the Bowery, pre-
ferred to gather where the eating was un-
doubtedly more enjoyable.
Those VINO have the welfare of New
! York city at heart, if there are any such,
need not worry about the supposed evil
| effect which the publication OF all this
news about the Seeley dinner is likely to
have. New York is not easily Manageable.
| Some maintain that no harm ca ever come
TO it-this, perhaps, because hardly any
body Except DR.. Parkhurstl has ever been
found who has desired, in a general way,
| TO improve the morals of that community.
! Mr.. Godkin might possibly be added to
| this well meaning category, but even he
| fell into the common error. and into the
common crowd, by trying to bribe
| policeman on one occasion. The average
people, so-called, of any town are pretty
! sure to he just tas good as the better element.
so-calIed; and the better element often
needs to be sharply on its guard lest it
should fall below the general level. If
| good society in the true sense, if whole
some civic spirit, are wanting in some
particular community, that community
must suffer. If it is too commercial, it
must also suffer.
The morning times., 1897-01-15
District Reform Bills in Congress-

Arrangements are now completed for
great union mass meeting next Sunday
afternoon, at O'Clock, in the interest
OF District bills relating 70 Sunday, age OF
protection, and liquor selling, n tho
Metropolitan Methodist Church, under the
auspices OF the Reform Bureau. whose
president. Hon, Charles Lyman, will pre-
side and speak, and the superintendent
OF the bureau will review the reform
victories OF S96 in all lands Bishop
Satterlee VIII make the principal speech
onthe proposed District Sunday law. Short
addresses are promised also from Rev
DR.. Hugh Johnston W II PeaneH, T. L.
Ewin, Mrs. III B. Plat, and Mrs NJ d.
Ellis Rev. DIT. Butler win also partici-
pate in the service
The morning times., 1897-01-15
WILL FORAKER PERMIT rre

1t is now positively announced that Hon.
John Sherman is going to be Secretary OF
State. Some will not yet believe this,
because they have grown to know he habit
OF the venerable Ohio Senator so well and
have such wcll-grounded doubts that he
cannot surely arrange for the appointment
Of his successor. Thelatest dispatches from
Cleveland have it that Mr. Hanna believes
Tor perhaps it ought, in politeness, to be
said that Mr.. Mckinley believes), that
Gov. Bushnell wants reelection so much,
and realizes so well thet this cannot GER
tainly DC had except with the assistance
of tic administration people, that he ca.
bc depended upon TO otaige the President
elect ana his manager In this very serious
business.
How about that, we wonder? Can Gov.
Bushnell Ice depended upon to oblige Mr..
Hauua? VIII he believe that his own
reelection, which he is entitled to de
Sire, will depend upon the coed will
Is true that most politicians do every
thing possible to avoid factional
controversies, but is there not in
ONO today, and must there not inevi.
tably he for years to come. party guarreis
among the Republicans which can never
be suppressed or Modified? Past and
present events Indicate that this is so.
1t is admitted on all hands that the anti
Foraker people in Ohio Mr.. Hanna himself
being chief among them, not only brought
about the defeat OF Senator Foraker
when he lastran for Governor, but that they
also took complete pains to defeat his
first aspirations for the United States Sem
>sorship. This last result was conpassed
The morning times., 1897-01-15
Snap Shot Interviews

The children are to take quite pronli-
nent part in tie convention OF the Daugh-
ters OF the American Revolution. to be
held here during the week OF February
%. at tie entertainment on Washing
tons birthday at the Columbia Thcater
several Washington girls and boys will
greet the other children OF the American
Revolution in short speeches. Other plans
are being made for them The young people
are intensely Interested in their share OF
this movement Mrs. Daniel Lothrop, Presi
dent of the Children OF the American
Revolution.
The morning times., 1897-01-15

Cornelius n. Bliss has probably been more
discussed as a Cabinet possibility at this
present day than ever before in his life
and that though he has been a Cabinet
possibility for at least twelve years, Major
Mckinley undoubtedly likes him, and un-
doilfrtedly he ought to do Sc, for Mr.. Bliss
has been for long time president of the
American Protective Tariff League, and
while a number ef rich persons are vice
presidents of that organization, and they
are supposed in consequence to subscribe
literally to it's expenses, Mr. Bliss has
usually had a good amount of them to pay
He is wholesale WOODEN merchant N
Worth street, typical New York business
man OF large affairs. He has been pretty
Good to the Republican party, which party.
it is said, owed Mr.. Bliss, through the ma
t,onal committee, at lea st $S1 ,o0e for some
thing like four years He was on this oc-
casion the angel of the Republicans, much
as Mr.. Brice was the angel of the Demo
Gratis.
The morning times., 1897-01-15
BRYAN MESSENGERS IN Luck.
They Get the Largest Amount OF
Mileage Of All.

Up to date Mckinley has a phenomenal
majority in tie electoral college so far as
tie returns have been officially made 10
the Vice President. The figures as they
now stand are Mckinley 113, Bryan 2f
These are about such results as We're pre-
dicted in some OF tie brilliant bulletins
put forth by Col. Perry s. Heath from
Chicago in october. The States that re-
ported yesterday and the messen gers who
brought the official returns are as follows.
Connecticut-James Graham. I
Maiue-John f. Hill.
New York-JameS @. Cutler.
ohio-Isaac r Tudor.
Rhode IsIand-Alfrcd w KENYON
Firginia-H. V Streyer
The Old Dominion was the only Demo-
cratic State that was represented in yes-
terday's returns.
There is little or no ceremony in the
reception of the returns. The messenger
is formally presented and introduced to
the Fice-President, generally by one Of
the Senators from his State. He then
hands over his certificate, receives a re-
ceipt therefor, and then steps to the
private secretary to the Tice-Presidrnt
and secures an order for his mileage. Tas
messengers receive % cents per mile ore
way, on which they net quite com
Portable profit over actual expenses. They
receive no per diem or other allow ances.
The messenger who receives the largest
mileage viii be the one from Washington,
who Will be paid something ike STOO.
1t is an interesting fact that the twenty
two Bryan messengers will receive an
aggregate OF about four times as much
mileage as the tweuty-three Mckinley
messengers
The morning times., 1897-01-15

The Lords day is no successor of the
Jewish Sabbath, but church holy
day, on the same basis as Ascension Day,
having immemorial usage, the common
consent of Christians, convenience, and the
eternal fitness OF things superadded. Be
sides, the Holy Ghost, on Pentecost, hon
ored the choice, and the risen Saviour
ushered it in, frequent Easter. We
keep Ascension Day once a year, but
Easter Day every week. To associate
Sunday with the Saturday of the Old
Testament is unhistoric, unreal, and I'M
scriptural. The boys Will II OF lose n
ha' penny; ict them all be good and
obey the powers that be.''-Rey. r. w.
LoWrie, d. ID.