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Evening star., 1898-03-12
An Orator and Hi. Boomeranx.

Charles j. Bronston is a senator in the
Kentucky legislature representing the Lex
ington district, and one of the leaders Of
the new democracy of that state. Aggres-
sive and oratorical. he stumped the state in
the campaign of 1896, and ''set the pegs
in the denunciation of the gold democrats.
He singled Mr.. Carlisle out for some of his
choicest filings. In his eyes the men who
had bolted the action of the Chicago con-
yention were simply traitors. They hal
deserved the stigma, and should be made to
wear it. They could not excuse themselves
on the score of having convictions of their
own on the money question. A good party
mana good democrat particularly-must
rot set up individual convictions against
the deliverance of the majority when
formally made. The action of the Chicago
convention. both as respected platform and
candidate was binding on all democrats,
because. through it, the majority had
spoken.
Mr.. Bronston has been participating in
the work of the body of which he is a men,
Der. The whole session has been one long
revel in foolish legislation. The silver men
have been in complete control, and have
sought to write into laws the most ex-
travasant of their stump deiiverances
against corporations and other business in
terests. Some of the measures proposed
have been so extreme that caucus action
was found necessary to pass them The
voice of the majority had to be invoked in
order to force them through
Now who should appear to resist even
caucus action on these extreme measures
but MIR. Bronston. The voice of the major
ity has not sufficed to force him to the SUD-
port of measures which he thought inimicai
to the public, and to his party's welfare.
He has had the courage to- stand out
against them, speak against them, point
out their dangers and defects And his
Judgment has kept pace with his courage.
lie mas picked out the worst bills with un-
erring accuracy, and some of his speeches
against them have been worthy of the best
days of his state.
But will Mr.. Bronston concede now that
Mr. Carlisle and Senator Lindsay had the
right to disobey the voice Of the majority
at Cnlcago two years ago in a matter
which they thought involved the public's
and the party's welfare? A national con-
vention is but larger caucus Its power tn
plnd Is no greater than that of a caucus
A man of conscience and courage NAV re-
sist one with the same propriety that he
may resist the other. The bolter as Mr.
Bronston has demonstrated In his own case
is not necessarily traitor
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Owning Postal Cars.
From the Kansas City Star.

The express companies have found it
more profitable to own their cars and pay
mileage for having them hauled than to
use cars run by the railroads. and 1t seems
as though the government should do the
same thing. Then there could be no op-
portunity for the frauds which, 1t Is al
legged, are practiced by the railroad COM
panies at each annual weighing Of the
mails in transit, the government would
know definitely what it is paying for. and
it's payments to the railroads could be COM
pared with charges made for similar serv-
ices to individuals and corporations.
A revision of railroad contracts and the
purchase Of postal cars seems to be the
reform in the postal department that is
needed more than any other.
Evening star., 1898-03-12
The Defense ODeus.

Captain PeraL president of the Spanish
court OF inquiry into the causes and cir
cumslances of the Maine disaster, has as
suned the role of chief counsel for the de-
tense ana has presented mis- opening arcu-
ment. The statements attributed to him in
an interview that seems to have every in
dicadon of genuineness-though pronounced
to be unofficial to be likened to moth
ing else than the plea OF a counsel II can
not be taken as the opinion of a Judge for
Captain Peral distinctly declares that the
inquiry is not yet concluded and that the
work of the divers and the investigating
Spanish officers will be continued with
vi2or.
Notwithstanding the incomplete nature of
the inquiry, this Spanish officer puts forth
IN assertion of opinion that the Maine was
destroyed by an internal explosion. He
deprecates any suggestion of careiessness
n lax discipline board and insinuates
hat the accident was due to unavoidable
causes. working unseen and unheard He
seeks to fortify this opinion, which he
claims to be based upon the evidences thus
far disclosed. by citing instances of ex-
plosions from similar causes
This action on the part of the Spanish in
yestigator is of course highly improper
and when judged by American standards it
can be considered only as a gross breach of
official etiquette and even a breach of in
ternational courtesy. The American Off
GERS detailed for a similar duty have been
exceedingly careful to withhold their per-
sonal or official views. There has not been
the slightest intimation. even in the course
of the most sensational dispatches, of direct
quotation Of the sentiment of tnese officers
Such q course Is in accordance with all
the doctrines Of naval administration and
In line with the ethics of the American ser
vice. In view OF the extremely important
nature OF the investigation and the grave
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An Instructive Connecticut Incident.

An Instructive Connecticut Incident.
The little town Of Windsor Locks, Conn.
is blessed with an administration of which
1t may be proud without any display of
egotism. The selectmen Of that little mum
icipality are of the right SORT. They are
worthy of transportation 70 some larger
sphere of action. Men of their stamp are
needed in practically every large city in
the United States. The test that developed
their qualities came the other day when
the local telephone company sought to
erect poles for which it had no legal per-
init. The company stole march on the
authorities and actually put the poles in
the ground and strung the wires, but the
lines had not been put in service when the
seiectmsn determined to flank this move
They gave strict orders to the town con-
stable to remove the poles BY force and
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France in Shame.
From the London Times

Tom tne LOnuOn Ilme6.
Put in the language of English courts.
M. Zola libelled certain persons and pleaded
Justification. He was called upon to Justify
what he had said and at the same time
prevented from dealing with the material
facts of the case. Yet at the same time
these facts were freely dealt with by way
of assertion damaging to NJ. Zola's case
by the very persons whose conduct was in
question. Thus the civil trial, like the
military ones, degenerated into a travesty
OF justice, and the court, sitting with open
doors and administering the civil law, was
as absolutely dominated by the military
element and by military ideas as the
courts-martiai themselves. That Is the ap-
palling outcome of the whole affair which
must today cause the profoundest mis-
givings among all Frenchmen capable of
serious reflection. Their thoughts will as
suredly be none the less sombre for the fact
that the undisguised dictation of gen.
erals, not ashamed to threaten the jury
with the resignation Of the general staff,
was hailed with acclamation by the mob
which in it's zeal for the army broke the
heads of those who had the audacious
loyalty to cry vive la republique.
Evening star., 1898-03-12

From the Springfield Republican.

The Judgment comes from the District
court at the national capital that the sale
Of newspapers on the streets Is leglti-
mate business, and that newsboys have a
right to enter street cars and sell papers to
passengers provided they behave them
selves and leave the car when their busi-
hess is finished. One newsboy was forcibly
elected from a car In Washington some
time ago and had a leg crushed by car
running on the other track. He has Just
obtained an award of 5000 damages from
jury under instructions to the above ef-
feet by the judge.
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The average American citizen will not
trouble himself very greatly about Wall
street negotiations, but be content to OBJ
serve that practical patriotism has reached
the fifty-million dollar mark and is still
rising.
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Cruel.

"Yes," said Miss Passeigh. IT enjoy the
;ociety of Mr.. Airylad. He keeps me IL
crested He is always saying something
hat one never hears from anybody else.''
Really" rejoined Miss Cayenne. Has
lie been proposing to you, too?'
Western Hemisphere Fashions.
It's kind of understood. l know.
To be the reglar thing
To watch the way the fashions go
An foller 'em each spring.
I never studied coats an gowns;
But you kin bet your pile
I'm right when 1 predict that crowns
Is goin' out of style.
Fur gals there's feather bonnets queer
An silk hats fur the men.
The kinds IL change from year to year
And all come back again.
But all the various ups an downs
That shift with fortunes smile
Won't never bring 'em back wher
crowns
Is clean gone out of style.
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His Hope.

Il think" said the fond mother, "that
Algernon will be very long-headed boy
after he completes his studies.'
WELL" replied the severe father, 'if the
length of his hair is any indication of the
length Of his head we won't have any
cause to complain
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SHOOTING STARS.
Yarioua Tnctica.

"Did you know" said the Spanish stu
dent, that when the Chinese go into war
they beat gongs and send Off fireworks?'
How foolishv' unused the general
when they get anything on their minds
why don't they write it?''
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1t is remarkable that nation which
can be so skeptical as Spain with refer
eEce to the Maine explosion should be so
credulous in connection with charges of
American filioustering.
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There is not the slightest room for doubt
that the sailors on the monitor Terror are
men Of iron nerve. They put in their leis
ure time listening to the music Of an ac-
cOrdecn
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The kaiser is said to have declared that
Yankees shall not take possession of Cuba,
with gravest emphasis. 1t is seldom that
the kaiser does anything, no matter how
trivial, except with gravest emphasis.
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1t is only in some emergency, or in an
ticipation of one, that the American people
are apt to see what great powers may be
lodged In the hands Of their chief execu-
tive. powers which exceed those of any
single public officer in other lands and are
only surpassed In the case Of autocratic
sovereigns.
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UncertaintY.

Again it comes, the jocund spring
When man forlorn must roam;
The kinds of clothes
We need are those
Which we have left at home.
Evening star., 1898-03-12

The safe arrival of the Paris today on the
other side of the Atlantic after three days
Of delay occurs in good season to prevent
some excited imagination from conceiyins
he possibility that she night have fouIed
aith a Spanish mine
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The sultan has not the slightest objec-
ton TO seeing European powers interest
themselves in Asia and the West Indias
so long as their minds are kept off mat
tiers nearer home.
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The fact that the jury in Sheriff Mar
tins case was willing to delay the verdict
for few hours speaks well for the hotel
they were patronizing.
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Mr.. Wanamaker has evidently detected
signs of demand for a stock of political
experience which he has been carrying
over for some time.
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IL II were not fer the excessive charges
General Weyler would doubtless undertake
TO regulate affairs in Cuba by long-dis-
tance telephone.
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If Spain can be forced into a few more
loans it will be kept too busy
raising the interest to have any time to
fgh
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Force Necessary.

"Why don't you let your mustache
grow?" inquired Willie Wibbles' friend.
why don't let t?" was the echoed re-
sponse. you mean Why don't 1 make
it?
Evening star., 1898-03-12

Possibly the German emperor feels that
it is a case of lese majestic for anybody ex-
cept himself to talk of war.
Evening star., 1898-03-12

DIn order to avoid delays, on nc
count Of personal absence, letters to
THE STAR should not be addressed
to any dtvidual connected with the
once, but nimply to THE STAR, or to
the Editorial or business Depart.
ments, according to tenor or purpose.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-09
SEALSKIN CARPETS
 on HER PARLOR FLOORS

It has been said that the average woman is never really happy until she has a sealskin jacket. If that is the case Mrs. c. A. Lutz, who lives out in the Mission, should be the happiest woman in the world. for she has more sealskins than she knows what to do with. That is, she has more than she knows how to use, as they are gen. orally used by the fair sex of all the world where the skins can be obtained. And so she uses them for carpets.
 Mrs. Lutz is pleasant voiced, cheery little woman, and when I asked her to let me see her wonderful collection she readily compiled and led the way to her parlor.
 If you had seen as much of seals and sealskins as I have" she said, as she saw my look of wonderment, you wouldn't be so interested in these"
 But I was interested and surprised with the richness of it all And who would not be? Priceless skins were scattered about as if they were so much old rag carpet. In the center of the room there was the skin of crea- ture that must have been monster of his species in his day. About on all sides were others of different sizes and beauty. But all were really beautiful. Some were dark and some were of a soft brown. All were as soft as the finest silk, and as they were spread about the room and covered the differ ent articles of furniture they formed a sight of the rarest kind. Certainly it could not be duplicated in San Fran cisco.
 I asked how many rugs she had, but Mrs. Lutz shook her head and said she had not counted for so long that she really did not know. You see, lived up in Alaska at one time" said Mrs. Lutz, and sealskins have become rather commonplace to me. l really care very little for them" So you see one can have too much of a good thing, even if that thing is such costly af- fair as a sealskin.
 The room itself where the Sealskins are is a pretty little affair, and is fur nished, perhaps. as oddly as it is car peted It is full of surprises. and curios of all kinds. from almost every nation under the sun.
 Here, for instance. hideous Chinese god peers at you in a rather unpleas- ant manner when you. come in. No wonder the Chinese fear their gods. After you've overcome your desire to turn tail and run, and look at him closely you will appreciate at once the value of a marvellous bit of carving The Chinese can carve if they can't fight.
 The mantel is covered with a soft, pretty, glittering bordering material. Pretty, isn't it?" asks my hostess. You'd hardly think to look at it that it is made from the intestines of sea lions. See these pretty, soft little feathers on 1t; these are the feathers
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than man. AS only the upper portion of the skull was found, however, there has always been a possibility that it might belong to some distinct species of gorilla. At any rate the greatest scientists in the world have given it a distinct position and have named it the Philocanthropist.
 It is in comparison with this skull that the Coulterville skull reveals it's most wonderful resemblance. Looked at from the side the Coulterville skull shows considerable lowness of forehead but not more than many other skulls that have been found. But it is when looked at from the top that the strong est resemblance comes out. This will he seen by a careful comparison of the two accompanying pictures. The prin- cipal difference between the two skulls is the greater length of skull of the missing link" The enormous ridges of the eyebrows and the narrowness of the skulls at this point are wonderfully alike. The heaviness of the eyebrow ridges in the Coulterville skull give it a distinct characteristic that cannot be duplicated in any known skull in Cali fornia.
 Professor Marion of the State Uni versity is greatly interested in the Coul- terville skull and contemplates giving much time to studying it and the To- cality where it was found during the coming year. ''It is the most inter esting skull I ever saw, from a crani- | ological point of view" he said, after a careful examination of it.
 | Dr. Gustav Eisen rates the skull as one of the most important ever found i in California. That varnish on the skull is little confusing" he said, ! when speaking of the matter, "but I am firmly convinced that the skull is older than anything that has ever been found in California"
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of the shagg, a very pretty bird that frequents St. Paul Island. The nat ives kill them just for these feathers. It seems rather pity, too. for there is very little tuft on each bird. They say they are the only feathers in the world that will bend without breaking.
 My husband had these rugs made while we were at the island Dr. Lutz was for six years in the employ of the Alaska Commercial Company, and the natives would always do their best for him. See, they have put his initial in the center of almost every one.
 'I had box of odd things sent to me just before Christmas The natives were rather fond of my little girl and I guess they liked me, too, so every year they send us box of things. Here is a baby seals head, all ready to be stuffed. Feel the whiskers; stiff, are they not? The Chinese mount them in silver and carry them fer toothpicks These baskets please me just about as much as anything I've received this year. You know the art of basket making is dying out now They no longer teach it to the young.
 "Yes, I've had some novel experi-
 
 that if one can but reach the end of a rainbow they would surely discover the fabled pot of gold, too, only couldn't take it away. It was this way. Colonel Murray, one of the Gov ernment officials, invited my hus- band and myself to go to the seal rock cries on the island. No one but a Government official has the right to go there. Of course, we were only too de- lighted to accept his invita- ion, and were soon there. The seals were in good humor, for they allowed us to move among them and even to pat them as we passed.
 Tt had been raining that morning, and just as we reached the rookeries a rainbow formed just over the island. I walked right to where it ended, among the rookeries I found the pot of gold. The sad part of it was that although the legend entitled me to the gold, l couldn't have it. The gold was in the seals, you see, who were literal- ly worth their weight in gold. Disap- pointing, wasn't it? "
 told her that I thought it was, and she continued:
 ''The only ride I had while I was there was a ride to Northeast Point, where the largest seal rockeries in the world are. We drove a mule team and had a jolly time of it. It was an inn pressing and never to be forgotten sight, for as far as the eye could reach one could see nothing but seals, seals, seals. We stayed there all night and returned home next day"
 After looking at a few more curios said good-by and took my leave. Be sure you call again, and I'll show you some ether odd things" called Mrs. Lutz as I descended the stair G. s.
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been buried at that depth by any com paratively modern nomadic tribe. To have moved the gravel bed for the surface over which the bones were spread would have been a herculean task that Californian Indians would not attempt. At the point where the bones were found the gravel bed was being removed by the action of the elements, and the indications are that the removing process had been going on for ages.
 Judging by the topography of the locality, it is most apparent that the bones were buried only a few inches beneath what was the surface at a time when mammoths roamed over this country and that the stratum of gravel was ages in being deposited.
 Granted that the geological signs about the bones are correct, there can hardly be a question but that the skulls are of the oldest human remains in existence.
 Mr. Curtis secured about forty skulls. He says they were all exactly the shape of those he has just given to the Academy. For time he kept his collection of remains in his own home, but gradually parted with them to friends, who wished them for curi- osities. As time passed his collection was reduced to two skulls and a mammoths skull and tusks.
 Seeing that they were likely to be in- jured, and as curio- hunters were con- stantly asking for them, he took them to Coulterville and placed them in the Odd Fellows Hall. As they showed signs of going to pieces, they were vanished with a common varnish. This one act has been of incalculable injury to the skulls, as it has filled 1 the structure of the bone, making it almost impossible to determine the ex- act amount of organic matter still re- maining in it, if, indeed, there is any.
 The skulls and mammoth bones re- mained unrecognized in the hall in Coulterville until last June. At this time Dr. Eisen of the Academy of Sci ences happened into the locality while on an expedition in search of speci- mems. As soon as he saw the bones he at once recognized their value and made efforts to secure them for the Academy. With the assistance of T. J. Goodman and Phil Hope he has at last
 
 and skull are safe in the Academy of Sciences, where they are likely to re- main as long as humanity has any in- terest in the peoples of the past
 The finding of the Coulterville skull and the mammoth's remains is only another link in the long chain of evil dences of mans existence on what is now the Pacific Slope ages and ages ago-so long ago that no chronology can compute it.
 Although it is not generally known, California has produced more undis- putable proofs of mans early existence than any other part of the world of the same area.
 The proof of this would require vol umes. In the auriferous. gravels along the western slope of the Sierra foot hills skulls and utensils have been found in strata of the oldest forma- tion together with the bones of extinct animals. Had this only occurred in one or two instances there might be a possibility that the human remains had been washed in among the mammoth bones by some convulsion of nature of which there is no record. But it so
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may be that the bones were once a hundred feet or more beneath the sur face.
 The stratum where the bones were found was the stratum of the pliocene age-the age of mammoths. But grant ing that the bones were never more than twenty feet beneath the surface, it is impossible that they could have
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WONDERFUL PREHISTORIC BONES FOUND IN THE SN=IQP\S

found in the foothills of Table Noun tain some years ago. Its exact loca- tion was over a hundred feet beneath the surface and with it were also found some mammal bones that have never been identified. There were also a num- Der of utensils. The age of this skull is, of course. mostly conjecture, but
 granting that it lived at the time of
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the rnammoths scientists claim that it must be at least 10,0 900 years old.
 In comparison with the Calaveras skull the Coulterville skull is of a much lower order. So, granting that both belonged to the mammoth age, it is much older. But how much older no man can say.
 The oldest human skull ever found
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demonstrated Darwin's theory of the survival of the fittest. While man was much smaller in size and infinitesimal in strength to the mammoth, yet he was able by his superior brain to over power the monstrous beasts.
 The oldest California skull that has ever passed the scientific ordeal is known as the Calaveras skull. It was
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on the globe is the so-called missing link that was unearthed in the island of Java a few years ago by pr. Eugene Dubois. Thousands of scientists have studied it and have given it a place higher than the apes and much lower
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Green rests the eye, the resting the eye often means to rest the nerves, and the refreshment of the eye is as necessary to comfortable life as the re- newal of the other bodily forces by food.