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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03
PRICES AND WAGES.

Since the passage OF the new tariff bill a
strenuous effort is being made by the
free-traders to brighten the people by a
prediction of prices being so high that the
comforts of life will have to be greatly
curtailed and the work necessary to earn a
living will have greatly to be increased.
Fortunately a calm review of the situa-
ton will prevent the effort at alarm from
having any serious effect.
A rise in prices is not to be regarded as
an evil when it goes hand in hand with an
increasing general prosperity. The rise in
wheat, for instance, is not causing any
weeping in the land, but, rather, an ex
ultant rejoicing. The reason is that no
one will regret giving the farmer little
more for his crops, because all are conf
dent that the revived prosperity OF the
tiller of the soil will be foundation on
which all other branches of the COM
munity can build betterment OF their
fortunes.
AS it is with wheat, so it will be with
products in general. An increase in
price to the seller of each product will
enable him to buy more of his neigh Dor,
and activity will result all along the line
of trade. With increased prices wage
earners will get more pay for their work,
and an all-round revival of industrial &C.
tivity will far more than com pensate for a
little extra paid to one's neighbor for his
wares.
1t has been very pertinently asked of
what avail was it to cut down the price of
foreign woolens from So TO 81 rs, when the
wage of those who buy was reduced from
81 10 81 so. Even worse was it when from
the stagnation of business the wage-earner
lost his job altogether.
Laying all arguments from theories
aside and taking the policies of protection
and free trade by experience, we find that
in 1890 and 1892 the prosperity of the
country was far ahead OF 1898 10 1896
under the reduced Wilson tariff law. If
the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
the change back to a higher tariff need
not be dreaded. The prophets who pre-
dict harder times because of higher prices
cannot prove their words by either past OF
present experiences.
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FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT.
The Minstrel Entertainments by Courts
Kensington and Star of the
West, A. o. f,

Union-square Hall was com fortably flied
last Saturday night by an audience that had
Assem- bled to listen to the minstrel entertain
ment that was given by Courts Kensington
and Star of the West of the Ancient Order of
Foresters. The first part was given by circle
OF members OF the courts, who were blacked
up, and they are entitled to the credit of hav-
ing given very good show. The singing was
unusually good and the jokes that were given
by the endmen and the interlocutor had tho
merit of not having been taken from the
chestnut-box. The second part was made up
of specialties that were thoroughly appreci-
ated The following named were the partici-
pants in the first part:
In terlocutor, w. J. Locke; bones-J. L.
Glenn on, J. r. o. Donneu; tambos - John
Keough. Charles B. Aubry; balladists-Georee
B. Ferguson, J. j. Geary, John J. Collins, Rob
ert Ray.
The features of the second part were: Over
,ture, orchestra; specialties, Claire Eek; AMI
nal limitations, Z. J. Erickson; specialties,
Keough and Crotty; Hard Times quartet. L.
Glennon, j. J. Collins, S. j. Crowley, c. b.
Aubry.
The entertainment was far above the range
OF amateur presentation, and the following
named committee of arrangements has reason
to feel proud of its success: c. P: Stanley,
Chairman; f. G. Mcclure, secretary; w. j.
Locke, John Keough. W. ]. Thorpe, 7. Penn
berthy, Charles B. Aubry, w. G.. Conklin, H. J.
Oliver, George Nisbet, S. J. Crowley, j. L.
Glennon, E. Sirohmeier, n. j. Savage.
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THE OMAHA EXPOSITION.

Omaha is now calling the attention of
California by means of a travelling repre-
sentative to the great Mississippi
and International Exposition which is to
be cid in that city next year from June
to November. All the counties of the
State should make preparations to meet
the opportunity thus presented. The ex-
position promises to be an immense one
and it occurs at time when the whole
country is in the full tide of reaction
from the long depression. The fact that
it is distinctively Western exposition
makes it imperative that our products
should be well represented there.
Although the State did not make any
appropriation for the exposition an
equivalent for State action can be attained
by all the counties acting in concert in
raising the necessary funds. Some
agreement could be reached by which the
fair proportion for each county to con.
tribute might be ascertained.
AS the exposition opens on June ], some
of the fruits for exhibition there should be
prepared now and laid aside ready for
shipment. To leave everything for next
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THE LAW AND THE DOCTORS.

To The Cali: The present Board of Health
has surpassed its predecessors in reformatory
work.
It's recent compulsory action after a year
and a halfs delay, in executing the law
against the non-registration of Births is
commendable.
Now if they will enforce Sec. 13 of "An Act
to Regulate the Practice of Medicine in the
State OF California" viz: "Any person prac-
ticing medicine surgery in this State with
out a license shall be punished by fine of not
less than $50 nor more than $500, or by i'm
prisonment in the County Jail of not less than
thirty days nor more than 365 days for each
and every offense," then they will be en-
snrined in the grateful hearts of the 800 reg
ularly licensed physicians OF this City.
The non-registration of a few births by over
worked doctors does but a 1.-THE of mischief
to that of the 400 quacks plying their nefari-
Gus calling in a community kept in ignorance
of their true medical status by the leniency of
this same Board OF Health.
MARION THRAsHER, MD.
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ACTUAL MONEY SUPPLY.

To the Editor Of the San Francisco CaN-SIR:
In the financial department of the Bulletin
yesterday July 30) find under the heading
OF "Money Supply great array of treasury
statistics, which are wholly unreliable as
published, and yet they appear without q
word OF comment or explanation, although
the financial editor has recently admitted
editorially that including the various certif-
Gates in these treasury statements as so much
money apart from the coin and greenbacks
they represent is a sheer duplication or doub-
ling of the figures, and is therefore a false
quantity, and to that extent the result OBJ
tanned is absolutely untrue and unreliable.
The figures given by the Bulletin are here
with repor led, which were introduced as "ihe
United States treasury statement of the stock
of coined and issued money in the country on
the LIST of July, 1897" as follows:
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A NOBLE LIFE.

The death OF Miss Margaret Culbertson
ends devoted and useful life and her
passing away will be long regretted in
this City, where she la bored so bravely and
where her wisdom and experience in her
chosen line of work could still have been
of so much service.
In the noble and much needed work of
rescring slaye-girls from Chinatown she
for years took an arduous share. 1t is sad
to think that one of these should have,
five years ago in fit of anger, given
her benefactress the blow from which
she never recovered. 1t is not the individ-
uai GIRL however, but the system in which
she was train ed that we should blame for
the offense. The memory of it should fur
nish another keen incentive for efforts to
prevent Chinese iniouities from gaining
a foothoEd on these shores. If the Mon
goIs are to permanently remain in the
midst of our civilization they must be
made to amend their ideas about woman
slavery.
1t is n ordinary philanthropy which can
devote itself discretionary to an in
ferior race for a score of years as Miss Gull
bertson did. A great proof of kindness
was given by her when she resolved to give
her youth to this laborious occupation.
Wonderful endurance and patience was
shown by her persistencei in the good work,
and strongest evidence of moral greatness
of all was perhaps given when she heroic
ally stroye to resume her old active serv-
ices at the mission after being physically
disabled.
Outside of the Roman Catholic church
canonization in the literal sense is I'M
known, but fguratively speaking Miss
Margaret CulDertson will be canonized by
the loving hearts of thousands who know
of her noble work and sympathize with
her lofty aspirations.
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STRUGGLE OF THE NEGRO.

The history of the American negro, says w.
E. b. Du Bots in the August Atlantic, is the
history OF strife-this longing to attain self
conscious manhood, TO merge his double self
into a truer and better self. In this merging
he wishes neither of the older selves to be
lost. He does not wish to Airicanize America,
for America has too much 10 teach the world
and Africa; he does not wish to bleach his
negro blood in a flood of white Americanism,
for he Internationally, perhaps, but fer
vently-that negro blood has yet message Tor
the world. He simply wishes to make it pos
sible for man to be both negro and an
American without being cursed and spit upon
by his fellows, without losing the opportunity
OF self-development.
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MEN AND WON EN-,

Miss Christine Law has been appointed as
sistant clerk of courts for Ham pden County,
Mass. She is the first woman in the State to
hold tn is Office.
Captain John Klugh OF Company F, Two
Hundred aud Ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers,
was recently appoin ted postmaster of Frank
linton, Pa. Captain Klugh is "a years of age,
and probably the oldest postmaster appoin ted
by the present. administration.
The tomb OF President William Henry Har.
rison at North Bend, Ohio, is being recon
structed, the brick structure being replaced
by one Of blue limestone. There are twelve
bodies, including four children, in the tomb,
and vacant receptaeles for the interment of
others.
The Munich portrait pain ter. Franz Won
Lenbach, has finished portrait of the distin-
guished historian of Rome, Theodor Momm-
sen. The picture is now on exhibition in the
international exposition in Munich. Near it
Is shown another new work of Lenbach, por.
trait OF Bismarck in cuirassier uniform, that
was finished this year.
Mrs. Eliza D. Stewart. who organized the first
WON temperance union in the West cele-
DRAFTED her eighty-frst birthday at Springfi field,
Ohio, recently. Mother Stewart" as she is
called, organized the first union at Osborn.
0 hio, with 100 members in 1873. Since then.
up to recent years, she has employed her en-.
tire time in active crusade work.
Commodore Robert L Phythian, superin.
tendent OF the naval observatory, who has
just been placed on the retired list, entered
the navy from Ken lucky in 1853 He will be
succeeded as superintendent OF the observa.
tory by Commander Charles H. Davis, who
was the special escort of the Princess Eula1ie
on her visit to this country during the Worlds
Fair, and is now member OF the Naval In.
spection Board.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03

WITH YOUR COFFEE.

ri don't believe young Billfghter is very
happy under the matrimonial yoke"
HE amt. His wife won't buy him as good
clothes as his father used to."-Ind annapolis
Journal.
"Why this sign not to touch this particular
piece OF statusry with canes or um brellas 2"
asked visitor at the art exhibit.
Because" snapped a competing artist,
you could only do it justice with an AK
Detroit Free Press.
Perry Patettic-Please, mister, could you
help the victim OF washout-
Mister-Of washout?
Eyes. mister / amt had nothin' but VOTER
to drink for two long weeks. "-Cincinnatf
Enquirer.
"Why don't the Billions appear in mourn
ing Wasn't Charley BIffton, who was drowned
last week, a mem Der of their family?''
Eyes; but he rocked the boat. Cleveland
Leader.
"Bah!" said the old soldier "You never
saw battle, except in picture"
mo" admitted the young man, 81 never
did. But have been on the same street with
policeman who was shooting at dog. In
dianapolis Journal.
close friend is one who will not lend you
any money, and dear friend is one who Dor
rows IL you Will give hlm.-Columbus State
Journal
First Prospector (at Klondyke)-I understand
Nuggets has been arrested.
Second Prospector--Yes, the darn fool per-
sisted in heaping gold in front OF his cabin and
blocking the trail.-Philadelphia North Amer
lean.
The reason that the good die young is that
they wouldn't be good If they grew up
Cleveland Leader
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The aggregate amount of the certificates and
raoSnry ,otae Of goo in he fora0oipn +ahIa

Inc aggregate amount OF the certlncdteS ana
treasury notes OF 1890 in the foregoing table
must be from the total the money supply will
be at once reduced to 81, III, 231, sos. But is
that all the reduction that should be and in
deed must be made? Is it possible that we
green packs still in existence? That is the ex-
act sum reported by the Treasury Department
nineteen years ago, not even one OF tine lonely
$40 at the tail end of these figures having
been lost or destroyed in nineteen years IL we
are 10 believe the treasury reports with the
ohildlike faith OF the Bulletin.
All readers OF ordinary Intelligence know
that as a plain N tier of fact there cannot be
any such sum as $346, $751; 16 in green backs
in existence, Notwithstanding the solemn ar
years by each succeeding Secretary of the
Treasury. AT the extremely low rate Of an an
nual loss of one quarter oil L per cent per an
mum or % cents out of eachi$ 500 there can
not be less than SIS, 1902, 348 lost and destroyed
even within the last thirty-tive years.
Is it not likewise true beyond the shadow of
doubt that there is no such sum as $671, &c.
$50 in gold, as re ported for July i, 1897? uu-
dertake to say that it should be reduced to
half that sum, and that can show why this
reduction must be made if we stand by facts
which cannot be refuted. Then, again, the
total amount of silver coin is given as 1921
AL oil, VIII ich is more tha an SIS, 200, 600 too
much, as can be easily proven.
In word, to cut the matter short, claim,
and this is the cause of my criticism, that
there is no valid reason why these reductions
should not appear in the treasury reports, and
we should have total reduction OF $974,519,-
1876, leaving the actual oney supply not
dollar more than 81, 1913, 591 ,105, instead OF
the absurd amount OF So. 1858, Ito, 531. as re-
ported, and which the financial orthodoxy OF
the Bulletin accepts as 'fnspired'' official
inerrancy. JOSEPH AsBURY JOHNSON.
IL Essex street, July 81, 1897.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03

Professor Ramsay, scientist OF repute,
who has spent many years in the Levant,
says the Turkish men are better than the
Greeks. but the Greek women are better
than the Turkish women. From this fact
he draws. the conclusion that the Greek
race is improving, while the Turks are de-
generating. He adds that If the two
peoples would blend. the result would be
one of the strongest races in Europe, as
each has qualities which the other needs
10 make a strong manhood. The Greek
has ingenuity, but he lacks persistence,
while the Turk, who has logged courage
and determination which enables him to
fight until he is cut to pieces, LACKS intel
liRence ana resources.
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year will be to get left on many important
Ia f,1rn ct Il .Ioxx

year will be to get left on many important
features OF a complete display.
The enterprise of Omaha, the Gate City
OF the Greater West, is praiseworthy,
and should be enthusiastically backed by
every one of the trans Mississippi States.
The city claims to be il the center of a
population of 10000. 900. 1t will have
some special features, notably the grand
military spectacle of 100000 of the Ma
tional Guard, which will attract great
crowds. Times will be flush and people
inclined to travel and to extend their
business and TO select new fields of enter
prise. The chance to advertise California
properly must not be missed.
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cALIFoRNIANs IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, NY, Aug AT the St Cloud,
B. W. Dobbins; Netherland, J. Carstair; Impe-
rial. E. c. Godfrey, F. ]. Henry. C. Mcclellan,
R. B. Mcclellan, J. Martin; Murray Hill, J.
Chamberlain, S. Chamberlain; Mari thorough,
N. H. Croker, F. L. II. Noble, G. A. Rankin;
Hoffman, Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Edwards; Aston
F. j. Henry, II. B. Montague; Morton, Mr.. and
Mrs H s. Hitz; Holland, Mrs. F. w. Krause;
Gilsey. DR.. L. Stern. D. 6. Davis Liebes and
NJ. ]. Kennedy are here buying
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A GlGAN VIC PARA DOX,

Oh, what helpless lot we are
In this old world of woe!
1t Is the very worst by far
4 hat we can ever know
Each mourns because those plans OF his
Are made to call halt;
His failure to reform life is
The other peoples fault.
There never was mortal yet
Who didn't say he had
Emotions of intense regret
Because this world is pad.
But somehow man can find no way
Its andard TO exalt;
The individual all say:
"It's other peoples faultr'
Washington Star
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keystone Lodge, knights of Honor.

Keystone Lodge No. 2107, of the Knights of
Honor. has for some time past been making
arrangements for a "Wecome Home" to the
supreme representatives. County Clerk C. F.
Curry and John w. Rourkef who recently re-
turned from the session of the Supreme Lodge.
The welcome will be given in the social hall of
the Alcazar building on next Friday evening
at O'Clock, and the committee that has
charge of the affair promises something new
in the way of entertainment
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03

: The Mohammedan agitator who told the
people Of Lucknow. that Victoria exists
only blythe sufferance of the Sultan, and
butfor his forbearance "the old lady's ribs
would have been broken years ago. ex-
pressed what is undoubtedly a.wides pread
opinion among the Moslems of India, and
the British will not get the idea out of. the
popular mind by the simple process of i'm
poisoning the man who uttered it.
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FOR TEN YEARS AT LEAST.
Philadelphia Bulletin.

PhlIadeIphla Bulletin.
With the return of improving conditions Ii
is not likely that the country will hear any
thing from the tariff as political issue for
many d long day. The people have had
enough of the agitation to last them for wears
to come, and the Democratic party has little
stomach for keeping up the fight. An era of
prosperity will Practically eliminate the tar ff
from American politics for another decade at
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03

According to- the st. Louis Globe
Democrat, Nebraska haspaid off $50, 0OO,-
600 indie btedness; North Dakota has paid
of; $25, 000, 900 indebtedness; South Dakota
has paid off $50; 600, 600 indie bted ness; Kan
sas has paid off $50, 100000 Indebtedness;
Iowa has paid off $4,000, coo indebted
ness" With. showing: like that before
us it is plain. that the failure of Bryan's
calamity tour'was due 10 something else
than the hoarseness of the orator.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03

For the purpose of arranging better TRACE
relations with their colonies the British
have given notice of intention to close
their commercial treaties with several Eu-
ropean nations, and if the colonies should
now refuse to stand in John Bull would
be as isolated as man up tree with an
assortment of tigers waiting for him to
come down.
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THE. SIMMER MONTHS.

Are you going 10 the country on vacation? II
80, it's no trouble for us &c forward THE CALL to
your address, Do not let It miss you for You will
miss it, Orders given TO the carrier or left at
Busitess Office viii receive prompt attention.
NO:EXTRA CHARGE. Fifty cents per month
forsum m er months
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IN PRosPEaoUs KANSAS.
Kan sas City Journal.

Kansas farmer who simply could not get
harvest hands put this sign upon his fence:
Harvest hands wanted. Hired girl blond and
genial. Cabinet organ music in the evening
Pie three times q day. Three spoons of sugar
with every cup of coffee. Hammocks, feather
beds or leather divans at your option TOR sleep
ing. Rising hour 8 o'clock In the morning.
Three hours rest at noon. Come one come
oil - ~~>~
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Kansas counts on 6o,OOO.O 600 bushels of
wheat this year, and as the price is rising
every day her people have quit howling
calamity and are coming back to the ranks
of the party of prosperity. Even Mrs.
Lease is tending away from Populism, but
with her usual perverseness, instead of
being sociable she is setting up as
socialist.
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. The silver men of Nebraska are to meet
in three distinct conventions and make an
attempt not only to shout the same names
but to shout them in unison, so we may as
well be, on the lookout for ruction. -.
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JOAQUIN IS IN 1T.
Cincinnati commerclAl rrihuns.


Joaquin Miller has joined the general rush
to Klondyke. If there is any general rush in
which Joaquin has not figured, POLITICALLY and
picturesquely, within the memory of the old
est inhabitant, 1T may be put down as an unin-
tentional omission on the part of the silver
haired singer of the snow-crested Sierras.
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SIGNS OF FITNESS.
Chicago Record.

Secretary Sherman should be proud of these
rumors that he Is about to resign. No man
can feel that he is holding the Job of Secretary
of State down in thoroughly professional
manner until these rumors begin to be circu-
lated about him.
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the
hada
miyo and
great r Mar
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Orc Elmo ParIor at Home

Orc Elmo Parlor No. 9, Native Daughters of
the Golden West announces that it will give an
cat Home to its friends next Saturday even
ing in its hall, in the Native Sons building,
and that its committee OF arrangements is.
making preparations for most enjoyable
evening,
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Only $50 so to Washington, d.. o.,
Via Sunset route and Piedmont air line. Cor
respondingly low rates to other Eastern CT ties
For further: information call on or address
Chas. L HOPKINS; Pacific Coast Passenger
Agent 621 Market street, San Francisco. !.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03

. The Alice Barrett mystery in Boston is
an evidence that when the new woman
undertakes to lead double life che can
make it more mysterious than a Gaboriau
romance and not half try.
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:. The story that the Cubans, in sacking
several stores in the suburbs of Havana,
refused to carry off anything imported
from Spain on the ground that they are
too patriotic to use anything Spanish even
.lf;taken as a spoil. of war. is so beautiful.
that a chrome should have been offered
along with it foE the first person who be-
lieves it.