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Postal Cards Often Wasted.

Women often send messages to
their dressmaker or to dry goods shops
on postal cards." says the Ladies'
Home Journal" attaching a bit of
cloth, ribbon or lace as samples. This
makes the card 'unmailable,' SO it is
always sent to the dead-letter. office
and invariably destroyed. Men-pre-
sumably-not infrequently paste clev-
er joke or a telling political fragment
upon a postal and send it to friend
at least, start it; but it never arrives
Nothing may be attached to a postal
card, nor may one word be written on
the address side except the address it.
self"
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to distinguish between principle AND
temporary expedieney: between ma
tional faith and national dishonors be-
tween the welfare of the people and the
exaltation of aspiring political charla-
tans; between patriotism and party
servility, will the national Democracy
consent to- be merged with the motley
supporters of that mosaic Populism.
anarchy and public dishonor known as
the Chicago platform of 1896
TERRIBLE NEWS.
Merced Star: Under the Republican
Administration and the "robber tariff
comes the terrible news from bleeding
Kansas" that the poor houses in forty
five counties in that State are empty,
and in thirty-seven counties there is
not case on the criminal docket
There seems to be very gratifying
change taking place in Kansas since
that State has been wrenched from
Populistic mismanagement and restored
to Republicanism.
DID NOT HEED.
Stockton Record: Within a very few
years the United States has doubled her
expectations. Somehow manufacturers
and exporters failed to give much heed
to the frantic appeals and prophesies of
the Democrats that the enactment of
the Dingley protective tariff would kill
our export trade, but kept right on ex-
porting and capturing new markets
abroad. In the first seven months of
1899 our exports of manufactures alone
were nearly $212, ,0O0, 900, or 81, 900, O0O a
day, while in the corresponding months
of 1895 they were in round numbers
$110,000,000, or half million dollars
day.
WHICH SHOULD DO IT?
Santa Rosa Republican: The Los An
geles Times antagoniZes the project
inaugurated for the storage Of flood
waters in reservoirs of State construc-
tion and control. That paper thinks the
work should be done by the general
government and declares the proba bill
ity that an appropriation for this pur-
pose will soon become permanent fea-
ture Of the National River and Harbor
bill. The Times insists that the State
enterprise has been started to head off
that of the General Government. This Is
| certainly a mistake. Nobody in Cali
fornia would oppose the nation doing
great things for us. 1t is the belief that
we shall have to help ourselves if any
| thing is done that has prompted the
State movement Our conditions are
peculiarly favorable to action by the
commonwealth. The waters to be used
are generally confined to the State and
would be wholly under State control. 1t
is an enterprise in which there are
great probabilities for the State and her
people, and we do not consider the crit
icism of the Times" just or polite.
OUGHT TO HAVE IT.
! Redlands Citrograph: The California
State Board of Trade has asked Presi-
dent Mckinley to appoint a Californian,
or at least a representative man of the
Pacific Coast, to the vacancy now exist
| ing in the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. The large and important rail-
road interests existing west of the
Rocky Mountains, and the growing
trade of this section of the United
States, makes the request a reasonable
one. We hope it may receive favorable
consideration at the hands Of the Presi-
dpnt
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plest truths of natural philosophy, and
murder the official tongue in vain at
tempt to explain their crank and
threadbare notions about matters of
sanitation, sewage disposal, water sup
ply, purchase of supplies, construction
and maintenance of streets, etc. The
Republican ticket presents to the voters
of the city men who will not make our
Board of Trustees a bull pen of bad
English, absurd notions and erratic ex-
hibitions of distorted glimmerings of
knowledge concerning matters upon
which even school boys are supposed
to be well informed
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NOTICE TO ARCHITECTS.

OFFICE OF STATE CAPITOL COM
mission, Sacramento, September q, 1899.
IAN Act providing for the construction
and furnishing of a residence Tor the
Governor of the State OF California. aid
erection and furnishing of said residence,
and of all expenses connected Herewith"
Statutes 1899, page 73), the State Capitol
Commission hereby invite and advertise
for plans and specifications in detail for
the erection and construction of a resi-
dence for the Governor of the State OF
Said Governors residence shall he
erected in the City of Sacramento and on
the grounds of the State Capitol Park
set apart for such purpose by the State
rise Of ground east Of the State Capitol
building, near Thirteenth street, which
residence shall front toward N street
The amount to be expended in the
erection and construction of said Gov
ernor's residence including the payment
for the necessary plans therefor, and all
necessary expenses therefor shall not ex-
dollars & 9 as p provided ID in Section Of Se SoSe Ae2
above entitled, which said Act, and the
whole thereof, is hereby referred to and
made a part of this notice. the same as
If written at length herein.
DRAWINGS
In accordance with resolution hereto
fore duly adopted by said State Capitol
Commission the plans and specification
of architects to be submitted to said COM
mission for said proposed Governors res
drawn to any scale or scales and in any
color that competing architects may de-
sire.
COMPENSATION
The architect whose plans shall be
chosen shall. receive a commission as
architect to be paid for his services as
compensation as follows-that is to say
He shall receive five per cent g per cent?
of the cost of the work for plans speci-
fications, details and supervision of con-
struction.
The plans specifications and details ul-
tuna tely to be prepared shall conform to
all legal requirements of buildings of the
character above described.
The plans and specifications herein re-
ferred to must be delivered to the State
Capitol Commission, or to the Secretary
thereof, at the office of said commission
in the State Capitol Building, at the city
of Sacramento, State of California, on or
before IL o'clock noon, on the ELEV-
ENTH q1th) DAY. OF NOVEMBER. 1850.
For further information competing
architects are hereby referred to the Sec
retary of said Capitol Commission at his
office as last above set forth.
The State Capitol Commission reserves
the right to reject any and all plans and
specifications submitted.
BY order of the State Capitol Commits
HENRY T. GAGE, President
w. II. Davis, Secretary. oc11-15t
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The Republican municipal ticket has
proposed for the Legislative branch of
the city government honesty with in
telligence. The latter without the for
mer might accomplish very little, and
suffer as the dupe of shrewd men. What
this city wants above all else at this
turning point in it's career, is men in
the Board Of Trustees who have solid
business sense with experience in busi-
ness life, and with Intelligence capable
OF grasping at least the commoner
truths of discovery, art, science and
the progress of the ages. We assuredly
cannot afford repetition of the old-time
modification of having men arise ip
that board and sneer at the demonstra-
tions Of scientific world, scout the sim
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is proverbial. There was a ludicrous
exemplification of 1t at the Ros-
common Assizes recently at the trial. of
a man for robbery and assault. An
Old woman named Mrs. Cosgrave was
the presecutrix. On being asked If she
saw in court the man who had assault
ed and robbed her. she turned around,
and, pointing. to the prisoner In the
dock. said, most politely, There's the
very gintleman, yer honor."-Cham-
bers Journal.
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She Doesn't Really Think So.

''Boresome spoka for nearly an hour
at the meeting last night"
Yes. l left when / heard him say
that there was really nothing new to
be said upon the subject. I knew that
meant that he would go on indefinitely -
Boston Transcript
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though l must
tell about it. A
year ago / was
taken very sick.
Doctorscou Go
me no good only
to deaden the
pain which l
had almost con-
stantly. I got
some of your
Compound and
took one bottle
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Weather Forecast.

For Northern California: Fair Tues
day, with increasing cloudiness and show
ers in the afternoon on the coast from
Cape Mendocino northward; light north
west winds, changing to southeast on the
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VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS. +
State and Coast Opinions ON Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

Fresno Republican,: None of my
business is a phrase that has no place
in public affairs. If it is not your busi-
ness, whose is it? And if you consider
it of too little concern to care whether
it is anybody's business, you are simply
showing that you are too stupid TO
understand. Questions of government
are not trivial; they are everybody $
business, and ought to be everybodys S
chief interest. The greatest weakness
of democracieS is their tending to fall
apart into self -centered individuals who
do not appreciate this.
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LETTER TO MRS. PINKRAM NO. o4,3oSl
s'Iam so grateful to you for what
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound has done for me that feel as
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OUR INTERESTS IN CHINA.

Sir Charles Dixie, in the current
North American Review" expresses
the belief that the interests of America
and England will not clash in the East.
Why should they? We have nothing
| in the East Of which England should
be jealous By Withholding her hand
she helped us to the Philippines. Know
| ing, as her statesmen must when they
refused sympathy to Spain, that the
possibility Of our planting the Amer
lean flag in the East existed.
| We have no territorial pretensions in
China and are not likely to prefer any.
But when Sir Charles suggests that we
should unite with England to prevent
other powers from shutting UP China
to the free commerce Of the world, he
presents a question of grave import
ance.
| It is quite certain that the United
States will never take part in any par
tition of China For the reasons that
will restrain US, should we not join
hands with any civilized influence to
prevent greedy powers from putting a
new wall about China, beyond which
all States save those interested in the
loot shall stand afar off.
We have rapidly growing mercantile
interests in China threatening even
English commercial interests. We wish
to find enlarged markets for our ma
Lob J.
ucts in that land. Shall we then COM
placently witness the closing of the door
against us? That is the question the
English statesman puts in the course
of his paper. He is sound in expression
of belief that on no sentimental ground
will this country ever NEEDLE with
China politics. What it might do under
the pressure Of commercial interests
no man may now say.
Anglo-Saxon interests unquestionably
are coming more closely together, they
are more nearly related now than those
of any other nations. If, then, by wholly
peaceful means We can prevent the
closing of China against us as is now
threatened, it is a possibility that we
may take with England a position that
would effect that end
If similarity Of interest and posi-
tion should produce similarity of policy
it will not be difficult to show that our
interests in China are more with the
English than with the Russians. Ger
mans or French. So far as japan is
| concerned, she has interests in Chinese
development very like our own, but far
more vital TO her national integrity.
But whether, under any state of the
| case, America shall form such an al
lance with England as Lord Charles
Beresford preached throughout this
country last year, is a question that
would divide the American people as
soon as squarely put, with the great
majority opposed to any such arrange
ment
Yet, as we have said, so greatly are
our commercial interests in China in
creasing in Importance and volume,
that If we find ourselves likely to Sc
riously suffer by indiscriminate parti-
tion of China, and an exclusive policy
on the part of those dismembering her
We may be driven into some under
standing with England and Japan and
demand that the doors shall not be
shut in our faces by the claim of ex-
elusive privileges.
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The Democratic party points to the
trusts as the fruit of the Republican
party. That is disingenuous. The
country was never more prosperous
than under the present Republican
Administration, despite the trusts.
Fact is, there are but one or two trusts
left. They have been transformed into
new corporations. They are creatures
of the States. and as such subject to
State control and regulation.
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As. 79e .7e7 S6,6O4 $40, 473

Total 40 79G, 767 $6,6G4 SAG, 473
The most notable and satisfactory feature
of the statistics is the enormous amount OF
deposits in the savings banks Of the United
States not only relatively, but actually, be-
ing almost 2S per cent. of the aggregate OF
the savings banks of the world. Second to
the United States in amount OF deposits IS
Prussia. France Is first, and the unlteu
Kingdom second in number of deposltors-
Tn tire former country it Is said that moro
than one-half of the depositors are women.
Including her dependencies, the United
Kingdom holds 16 per cent. of the total de-
posits.
The postal savings bank system is in OPP
eration in England, France, Netherlands,
Sweden, Austria Hungary Italy, India,
Canada and number of English colonies,
but nowhere does it attain the Importance,
either in magnitude of transactions or rela-
lively to other institutions Of saving in
those countries that 1t does in Great Brit
ain In France the system was established
in 1892. Its growth has been so rapid that
in volume of deposits 1t stands second to
the United Kingdom, though in number of
depositors it is third, being exceeded by
Italy. The minimum deposit received Is
fifty confines (ten cents) and the maximum
800 francs (about 5000. In 1896 the ac-
counts number 21a million, with deposits of
s150,000,00o.
The following figures give some idea Of
the proportionate extent to which savings
banks are used in different countries In
Denmark the percentage of population who
are depositors is 45.5, and in that country
also is the largest average deposit per in
habitant, SIS. As. In Switzerland the percent
age is 40, and the per capita average $685..
In Great Britain the percentage is q, and
the average $2l.50; in France 1871 per cent.
and the average SIT 80; in Prussia 1876 per
cent, and the average $3.50; in Austria
Hungary lis per cent, and the average
500. e5; in Italy 1874 per cent, and the avec
age 81 .05; in the United States 7.2 per cent,
and $26. 10 average. With the single excep-
ton of Newfoundland fs44075) the United
States has the highest savings account
average viz. $372SS Canada follows, with
an average of s32S: austria has $3.50, Den
mark $780, Prussia s15O.25, Switzerland $780,
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so, Great Britain s102.45 France s9243, Italy
sSO.17.
OF all the schemes designed for small
savings and to encourage the poor to lay
by small sums. the penny savings stamp
system esta blished at Frankfort Germany,
in 1899, is unique. This system provides for
the sale of stamps, which are pasted in a
box provided for the purpose, and when a
page is filed then representing the value OF
two marks, it may be deposited in the reg
ular way and the amount entered in the
regular bank book The Postoffce Saw
ings bank of England adopted the stamp
system in 1880.
1t is not generally Known that the stamp
system is in operation in the United States,
having been adopted in June, 1890 in De-
troit, by the Citizens Savings bank of that
city. The stamp book is similar to those
used abroad, and the stamps are somewhat
larger than the ordinary two-cent postage
stamps, and each page when filled with
stamps represents the value of one dollar.
Some of the charitable societies have
adopted this system for savings. The
Penny School Savings bank system was
established in this country in March, 1885.
1t originated in France, where it has be-
come remarkably popular, the children in
the common schools depositing with their
teachers various amounts from one sou
upward, and once a month savings bank
agent comes around to collect these little
boards. This system is growing in favor
in Germany, England, Belgium, Austria,
Italy, Spain and other countries.
The rate of interest paid on savings de-
posts in different countries of the world
varies from l to per cent. The postal
savings banks of Great Britain and France
pay % per cent; of Austria and Hungary,
Italy, New South Wales and Queensland.
per cent; Natal, South Australia and New
Zealand, per cent. In Canada, Bavaria,
Switzerland, India, Cape Colony, Western
Australia and Tasmania the prevailing
rate is about 315 Per cent. In the United
States the average is from 49, to per cent.
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which Is often misrepresented, in smooth
descriptions of this m9nstrous evil and blot
on western civilization. The authors init
mate acquaintance with Brigham Young,
the 'tProphet of the Latter Day Saints,
enables her to write authoritatively of
these unique people. The present agitation
in regard to the seating of Mr.. Roberts,
Utah's representative, makes this intimate
description of Mormonism quite apropos
The book is charmingly written with an
easy and graceful style.
"stones Rolled Away"-By Henry Drum
mond.
This delightful little volume, just feom
the press, is a collection of addresses de-
livered to young men in America during
the distinguished authors presence in this
country Though Henry Drummond" has
passed on to his great reward, the beauty,
strength and sweetness of his life still lives
in his splendid books. So much of the SIM
plictty and earnestneSs of the man is IN eY-
idence in the essays which are all so full
of tenderness, human pity and suggestion
He drew young men as few men can, for
he loved life and nature. The first four
lectures were delivered to students of Har-
ward University, in April, 1898. The remain
ing ones were delivered at the Worlds BIZ
Bile Students conference at North1eld
Mass. His lecture, zone Way to Help
Boys tells of the wonderfully successful
work of the Boys Brigade, which was orig
inally started near Glasgow, Scotland The
interest of the boys is secured through
military discipline and it is proven that
cap and belt will secure a degree of atten-
ton and good behavior which nothing else
can do. These lectures are not only of in
terest to young men, but to all classes of
readers, because of their strong persua-
sive and human sympathy.
At the request of the heirs and publish
of the late Grant Allen Mr. E1Wl rd
Clodd has undertaken to write a memoir
of the dead author. Mr.. Allen was very
prolific writer. A new book of his, "Hilda
Wade" will soon be published.
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Washington Cor. of the Chicago Tribune.
In order to post himself more fully upon
the armor plate controversy, Representa-
tive Foss will leave tomorrow for Bethle-
hem, Pa, where he will Visit the steel and
iron works. During his trip to Europe the
Chicago man went through the Krupp
works and learned great deal about the
new armor plate. He says he Is in favor
of using armor of the German composition,
but he has not decided that he would vote
for the Krupp armor at the difference be-
tween that and the Harveylzed armor At
ter making an inspection at Bethlehem Mr..
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Henry wOhngton eistBy Mar where he makes number Of The most
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om the New York Journal.

From the New York Journal.
man has 100 shares of stock and wants
to borrow $4,000 on them for a few days.
If he cannot borrow he must sell his shares
at a heavy loss. There are many other men
in the same fix. He offers u per cent
day premium in addition to the legal 6 per
cent That means on his $4,000 Loan
One year.. ........ .................$lS $4,000
one month";. .......... ........... 1,o0D
one day.. ...... .......... Dl. 90
The merchant who needs money in his
business borrows at the same moment on
his credit at per cent. as before.
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WONDERFUL PROGRESS
OF SAVINGS BANKS

From the Boston Evening Transcript.
The present volume and extent OF saw
ings banks business, though marvellous, is
but little generally known. Some idea may
be had of the enormous sum that is now
held by the savings banks of the world
when it is stated that the deposits OF these
institutions at the beginning of the present
year were reckoned to have almost reached
the sum of 1000 million dollars, while the
individual deposits number just about A.
600 900.
The statistics for 1898 show there to be
$50 banks, 5,2O1 192 deposttors and $685.
&c. OBS on deposit, an average of $372.SS due
each depositor and an average per capita
in the United States of $3.50 The New
England states have 2,229,10S depositors and
$50 ,971,09O in deposits, an average to each
depositor of $363S1 The eastern states
have 2375,1O9 depositors and 1894. 7S2, S14 in
deposits, an average to each deposttor of
$376.n. The southern states have 6S,S71 de-
positors and $10,479,0S0 in deposits, an aver
age to each deposition of $152.16. The middle
states have 331 sos depositors and s92, 959 ,532
in deposits, an average to each depositor
of $2S0.31. The Pacific states. ETC., have
1876, 439 depositors and 3O24O,019 in deposits,
an average to each depositor of 1868.
over so per cent. of the savings banks
and savings deposits of the United States
are IN the New England states. This fact
is accounted for by some on the ground
that the people in that section of the coun-
try are more economical and thrifty than in
other parts, but the advocates of postal
savings banks say that the people of the
south and west would be equally saving
if they were given the opportunity and the
encouragement which the postal savings
banks afford
The following figures show the number of
depositors and the amount of deposits in
the savings banks of the principal coun-
tries of the world
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Has been used for over FIFTY YEARS by
MILLIONS of MOTHERS for their Chill
DREN WHILE TEETHING. with PER-
Feet SUCCESS 1t SOOTHES the CHILD,
SOF"rENS tho GUMS, ALLAYS all PAIN;
CURE WIND COLIc, and is the best REM
edy for DIARRHOEA Sold by druggists
In every part of the world. BE sure and
ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup"
and take no other kind twenty-five cents
q bottle
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WHEN TAKING YOUR BEST GIRL OUT

to the theater. or when escorting her to
church or any public place, be sure that
your linen Is irreproachafble. as 1t raises
man in the esteem OF the ladies and the
world generally to have his linen neatly
done up and in perfect condition, and you
can always rely upon its being artistic In
color and finish. and with no frayed edges,
when done up at the Ayondale Laundry.
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What .nInncr al 1Sa Per rent,, Means

Foss will leave for Chicago, where he will
spend the holidays