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strated that there can be at least
a degree of assimilation between
domesticity and bohemianism
While enjoying all the freedom of
the man-about-town they have also man
aged to provide for themselves many of
the comforts of home. The club has
become ore of the fixtures of Stockton
But the wise young manageable
women of Stockton declare most emphat-
ically that it won't live long. They have
Joined hearts and hands TO disrupt 1t. and
the married women are with them. With
such a combination against them the
chances of bachelorhood and club life
seem to be wholly against the members
Of this Stockton club.
The bachelors club was formed over
two years ago by the ten young men,
with a. view of combining social pleasures
with better living comforts than they
could obtain in boarding houses. The
charter members of the organization were
Harry H Hewlett, with the First Ma
tional Bank; j. A. Edwards, with Hale
& Co.: Horace Vincent, of the Savings
and Loan Society; A. T. Baum. A. P. OPP
orator; A. H. Harlin, advertising solic-
itor; W. H. Harrison. photographer: e.
H. Charrette, druggist; R. w. Elsom, pos
tai clerk; H. j. Lewis, merchant, and J..
j. Campbell, musician.
A comfortable place to roost, good
grub and plenty of latch-keys" is one way
Of summing up the desires of the young
men. They made no vows against women,
drew no iron-cad rules for the operation
of their club, and while never overstep-
ping the bounds of good form, the dining
room has been the scene of some merry
gatherings. The members figured out
how much the per capita cost would be
to run the establishment, the assessments
were agreed to, and the handsome Berg
mann house on San Joaquin street Sc
cured for the club. A man TO act as
chambermaid was secured and Japan
esa cook installed In the culinary depart
fnent.
The members learned early the trials
and tribulations to be encountered in the
management of servants. They finally
solved the problem by getting Japs in
their raw state" and taking them
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Now comes this metallurgical doctor with
renewed declarations that ne has cracked
the centuries hardened cocoanut Of the
alchemists. In the tenth century such a
claimant would have been made King or
executed.
DR.. Stephen H. Emmens is the inventor
of the high explosive called emmensite
From his ingot making laboratory on
Staten Island he has been sending gold
bricks to the United States assay office,
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~ AN silver be changed into gold by
chemistry? This is the problem for
the last years of the century to
solve.
~ DR.. Emmens claimed twelve
months ago that he had discovered
the secret of the alchemists And
now Uncle Sam buys this alchemist's gold
and pays good money for it day after day.
To manufacture gold in a laboratory was
the widest dream Of the Middle Ages.
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And the Government has

IN Wall street And the Government has
bought them.
According to the records there DR.. EN-
mems has been doing a land office business
IN selling the mint ingots of his Staten
Island gold.
me following are the official figures of
the lngots of argentaurum gold sold to
the United States assay office in New
York City:
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Concerning these statistics a Govern
ment official said:
Ihey do not prove that the gold was
really manufactured by DIR. Emmens'
processes. For all we know it may have
been ordinary gold of commerce remelted
and restamped with the word 'argentau-
rum the name which the doctor has
given to the metal.
He can call it what he pleases 1t
bears all the tests of pure gold. But the
great question is: Did he manufacture it
out of silver as claimed?
Another fact which may or may not
have bearing on the discussion is this:
One lot of gold purchased here by the
doctor was followed later by nearly the
same amount in weight and value stamp
ed 'argentaurum from the doctors lab
oratory.
This fact struck US as somewhat Gu
rious though it may only have been a
coincidence"
How to Make Gold From Silver
And how does man go to work to turn
silver into gold? OF course it is more or
less secret. but the genial inventor
kindly volunteers many tips in that direc-
tion.
One way to increase the small amount
of gold already in a Mexican silver dollar
is to hammer the coin at low tempera-
ture-as far below zero as you can freeze
it.
On this point DR.. Emmens writes in the
Anglo-American Magazine:
Let us consider for a moment what
cold and impact mean from a molecular
point of view. To abstract heat causes
matter to contract, or. in other words to
become of greater specific gravity. To
hammer piece of metal causes its mole
cules to approach closer and, for aught
we know TO pulverize each other
I'VE are, moreover. aware that parti-
cles of matter which adhere together
very slightly may by III infinitesimal ad-
ditional conveyance become so closely CO.
herent that an extraordinary degree of
force is required to subsequently tear
them apart The process of welding is a
case in point.
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Sort of Cold Welding Process.

Lay two pieces of redhot iron in con-
tact and you can separate them with the
utmost ease; strike them while in con-
tact and they form one solid body. Sure
ly. then, it is conceivable that an aggre-
gate of any silver mole ecules exposed to
cold and impact may be partly resolved
into urstoff, which in turn becomes weld
ed into molecules differing in structure
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!, = . UooUU Uooo . . . o

y HE young men of the Naomi Bach
Nelor Club of Stockton have demon
strated that there can be at least
a degree of assimilation between
domesticity and bohemianism.
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Marked argentaurum.
Gold in Silver Dollars.

Dr. Emmens says that the argentau-
rum examined in the laboratory of the
United States Mint, in Washington. D.
c., when Mr.. R. E. Preston was Direc-
tor gave this result:
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The Chronic Pessimist.
Gunton's Magazine for September.

There is a class of people who occupy the
whole of fair-weather periods in prophecy
ing storms. When there Is nothing really
serious to alarm anybody the chronic pes
simists give US scarecrows OF their own Gre
alton. Whenever the country is enjoying
a period OF business prosperity they are
sure to be heard laying down the law Of
the periodicity of panics and predicting one
of unusual severity within year or two.
If crops are good for two or three sue
cessive seasons, lest We should become over
confident somebody prepares an elaborate
magazine article p-oving that the world s
wheat-producing capacity has been reached,
ana that from now on population is going
to outrun the means Of subsistence, until
we shall have to look to wars and pesti-
lences for relief. and Nautilus will be vindi-
Gated. When this idea is exploded, or Its
repetition becomes too monotonous for any
body to read, the habitual alarmist takes
the reverse tack and proves by statistics
of decreasing birth rates I'm this or that
country that the race is degenerating and
will become extinct at no very distaD
period. Finally, il nothing else sufficiently
gloomy suggests itself, they figure out the
rate at which the earth Is cooling, and how
soon we shall all be frozen up, or proceed
to unfold some mathematical calculation to
the effect that in hundred years or two
this planet will be hit by comet and
broken into fragments.
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MAY BAR CONSERVATIVES.


SAN FRANCISCO. Sept 14.-California
may establish quarantine against con-
sumptives. The State Board of Health to-
day passed the following resolution, intro
duced by Dr. d. d. Crowley:
Resolved, That the State Board Of
Health considers the propriety of quaran-
timing against human beings and domestic
animals with tuberculosis entering the
State
DIR. Crowley said: 1--WE are morbidly
afraid of diphtheria, scarlet fever, smallpox,
cholera and yellow fever. We quarantine
these cases because they kill so quickly, but
the lingering tubercular disease that eventu-
ally kills twice as many as all these to-
gether Is permitted to continue unchecked.
Patients, / think, ought not to attend
churches or theaters or general public or
social gatherings. Nor ought they occupy
public conveyances without special provision
being made for them. ] may say further"
continued DR.. Crowley, In answer to a ques-
ton. that L do not believe that patients
suffering with consumption should be per-
mittad to enter hotels without the rooms
being protected by the health officer of the
community, acting in accordance of the
State. / further believe In state SANTA
rum. This sanitarium should be away from
any city LOCO to 1900 feet above the sea
level where patients could enjoy dry air
and undergo scientific treatment for tuber-
calosis." .,x.-...
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BURIED In TWO COFFINS.
Mystery Surrounding the Remains al
a Soldier Probably Solved.

CHICAGO Sept. H.-Pigeonholed among
the records of the War Department, at
Washington, 1t developed to-day, are docu-
ments which may establish the lost iden-
tity of Private Ernest Baltzer, Of the First
Illinois Volunteers, who died in Cuba last
September, and whose supposed remains
are legally buried twice in Graceland Gene
terry. According to Sergeant Frederick c.
Walther, Company F.. First Illinois. who
went to Washington to solve the mystery
If possible, and who returned to-day, this
paper, which is part of the report of the
government commission for retaining the
dead of the Spanish war is said to indicate
positively that portions of the corpse of
Ernest Baltzer are in each of the baskets
name; that the head and trunk of Private
BaltZer occupies one coffin, with the lower
limbs Of regular named Munger, whose re-
mains had been buried In the same trench
near the field hospital at Santiago. The sec
ond coffin contains the remaining portions
of both bodies. Thus, it appears, ii was not
the identity, but the remains themselves
returned from Cuba. one of the caskets be-
ing brought here under the contract by a
Chicago undertaken. the other by the gov
eminent commission six months later.
Sergeant Walther also discovered that the
report that there was third body buried
in Arlington Cemetery under BaltZer's
name was an error. Mrs. p. p. Baltzer the
Is said, employ expert PSYCHOLOGISTS to ex-
hume the bodies and articulate the bones in
the two collins in order, If possible to re-
unite the portions of her sons skeleton.
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COLUMBUS, o., Sept. H.-Congressman
John ]. Lentz is being urged by some of
the most prominent anti-imperialists of the
country to go to the Philippines and make
a personal investigation of conditions there
preparatory to leading the Democrats in
Congress in the attack on President Nc
Kinley's policy toward the Philippines. The
trip was the subject of a conference In New
York few days ago. When asked about
the matter tonight Mr.. Lentz said: THE
matter has been discussed among some of
the most prominent anti-imperialists of the
country and i have been asked whether,
If my expenses were paid, would give up
my time and go to the Philippines in time
to return early in January and be prepared
to state facts as / found them in speeches
on the floor of Congress and give to the
country the real conditions. At present /
am undecided and for the time being have
nothing further to say. except that / shall
not leave Ohio until after / have made a
few speeches in behalf Of the Democratic
ticket"
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Miss Elizabeth Heber has returned to In
dianapolis after summer spent in the
West.
Miss Bertha Bacon and Miss Belle Ward
ere expected to return Saturday from Bay
View, Mich.
Joseph Helen was hanged at Helena yes
terday for the murder of j. s. Reynolds.
near Helena, last year.
Cornelius Spragpe, jockey, who fell from
Julius Caesar in the hurdle race at Grave
send yesterday, died last night His home Is
at Long Branch. n. j.
The Westinghouse Electric Company to-
day declared the regular quarterly dividend
of ia per cent on the first preferred stock
payable Oct. 3, to stock OF record Sept. q.
Richard Honeck and Herman Hundhausen
who are charged with the murder Of their
former schoolmate. Walter Koeller were
held to the grand jury at Chicago yesterday
without bail.
The Western Insurance Union, in conven-
ton at Niagara Falls. elected the follow
ing oftcers for the ensuing year: President
George T. Cram st. Louis; vice president
j. Montgomery Hare, New York; secretary
Joseph H. Kelsey, Chicago.
Secretary John Willis Baer, of the Society
of Christian Endeavor, addressed a letter
yesterday To- F. w. Clark. of Boston, Sec
rotary of Wednesdays Massachusetts Pro-
Ginning its nomination for Governor. Sec
rotary Baer gives no reason for his deciina-
ton.
Mrs. Katherine Kennedy was burned to
death yesterday IN a fire which invaded a
fve-story tenement in Atlantic avenue,
Brooklyn. Mrs. Kennedy's sons, David and
Peter, suffered painful injuries. as did also
Thomas Freeman and August Schwartzner.
who lived in the tenement. Mrs. Kennedy
was fifty-fve years old
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not forsaken the conference. An Eastern
delegate slept through the entire session. a
pronounced example of an ennni which az
fected many others TO lesser degree.
PINGREE OPPOSED TO TRUSTS.
Governor Pingree was in attendance. and
at the close responded to a clamor from the
pit to speak. He merely observed that he
was opposed to trusts for reasons. he said.
which he would tell those who attended in
the evening. The Michigan Governor. to-
gether with Governor Atkinson. OF West
Virginia. Governor Scofeld, of Wisconsin,
and Governor Stanley, OF Kansas. upon the
invitation Of the chairman took seats on the
stage
Samuel II. Greedy. of the Chicago Board
OF Trade. spoke on THE Protection or
American Grain Markets from Railroad and
Warehouse Monopoly"
J. c. Hanley, OF st. Paul. delegate from
the National Farmers Alliance and Indus
trial Union. spoke on Foreign Markets
and American Shipping and the Effect and
Influence Of these on Agriculture. Trusts
strict business competitive system, would
be blessing rather than a curse.
But the operation of many Of these gigantic
monopolies as conducted at present are a
menace to the existence and stability OF
cur Nation / am convinced that legfsla-
ton cannot control this evil without strik-
Ing at the root Of Il. and that the govern
ment own and control all means of trans
perfection and public utility" Mr.. Hanley
t1e1 went deep INTO STATISTICS. showing the
effect of enlarging our market and extend
ing Il 10 foreign countries on our agricul-
ture.
Aaron Jones. OF South Bend Ind. master
OF the National Grange declared that the
farmer was opposed to no other branch OF
Industry. including trusts He said: 1t
occurs 10 me that the first step In remedial
legislation Is TO pass q well-considered anti
trust law by the Congress OF the United
States defining the powers and limiting the
privileges OF these corporations, and supple
trent this law by enactmentS OF the several
state Legislatures TO apply to such phases
as could not be reached by the federal law.
The last speaker of the afternoon was
Major BENJAMIN r. Tucker. of New York,
editor Of an Anarchistic paper He gave
his view of trusts from the view point OF the
Anarchist. At the close OF his speech he
said: Free access 70 the world OF mat
ter. abolishing land monopoly: free access
20 the world of mind. abolishins idea OF
n0DOpoly: free access to a free and untaxed
market. abOllshing tariff monopoly and
money monopoly: secure these and all the
rest shall be added unto you. For liberty
+ the remedy OF every social evil, and TO
Anarchy must the world look at last for
any enduring guarantee OF social order.
The speakers. with one accord. over
stepped the twenty minutes allowed for
each speech. At the close an opportunity
for discussion was offered. but n motion to
adjourn was overwhelmingly favored and
was carried.
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ANTITRUST DeIegate. Organize.

CHICAGO. Sept. 1.-THE antitrust dele
gates TO the conference organized their
forces I'm earnest tonight and declared in
open meeting that they will place the dele
gates to the convention on record as anti
or pro trust This plan of procedure was
decided on at a meeting at the Sherman
House. where a steering committee and
committee on resolutions were appointed
The steering committee was named 80 fol-
lows: Ambrose q. McGuirk, Iowa: NJ. L.
Lockwood, Pennsylvania; Lawson Purdy
New York: l.. T. Post. Chicago; p E.
DOVE. New York. John u. White. Chicago.
and r. j.. Prince. Chicago. The committee
was instructed to sound all the delegates
and to line the ants up for fight. The COM
mittee on resolutions includes the following
NJ l. Grogan. Texas; NJ. l.. Lockwood.
Pennsylvania: w III. Claggett. Idaho; Law
son Purdy, New York; Cecil Smith, Texas
Henry Johnson. Colorado. and w. S. Nc
Comas, Chicago.
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DISASTROUS FLOOD.
Widespread Damage I'm Southern Ger
many and Austria.

BERLIN Sept. H-The floods are caus-
ing widespread damage in southern Ger
many and Austria The north part of
Zwickau is inundated Owing to the under
mining of the railway bridge over the Isen
between Muehldorf and Rohrbach a train
fell into the river and five persons were
killed. All the tributaries of the Danube
in Austria are flooded. A bridge over the
Schwartz at Payerbach collapsed and ten
persons were carried away.
LONDON, Sept. 1.-THE Standard pub
fishes the following dispatch from Vienna:
The floods in Austria are most serious.
No doubt not tenth part of the damage
Is yet officially reported Nothing definite
is known as to what has happened at
Ischl, which is entirely cut off, all railway.
telegraph and telephone communication
having ceased. Many towns have been
flooded. 1t is rumored here tonight that
the water works of Vienna, at Semmering
Pass, are in danger.
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DENNY and Worcester tn Return.
MANILA, Sept. 14--Col. Charles DENLY
and Prof. Dean Worcester. members of the
Philippine commission. have received in
structions from President Mckinley asking
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OF Course They Laugh.
North American.

Jules Guerin. the gentleman who has
scratched the French government off his
visiting list, has thrown proclamation out
of his window announcing: Though we are
dying, we are merry We laugh at our De-
siegers.
Naturally Anybody would laugh at be-
siegers of that kind. They constitute the
most humorous spectacle on view in Paris
in the present show season. The French
government. with an army OF half a mil
lion men at its disposal, allows itself to be
defied and insulted by a handful Of cranks
In its own capital. II gives them the honor
of subjecting their house to a formal siege.
1t holds parley with their friends. nego-
tiates for an honorable equalization and
promises to refrain from violence for speci-
fed periods. 1t drills the fire brigade with
the object of drowning out the rebels with
streams Of water, and then refrain because
of fear that the soaking might undermine
the walls.
No wonder the Guerin crowd laugh at such
a government even when dying. They
could hardly help laughing II they were
dead.
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THE OPTIONS EXPIRED
WINDOW GLASS aCOMBINE' At THE
MERCY OF THE INDEPENDENTS.
Glass Blowing Begins To-Day i'm a
Number Of Factories Outside the
Trust-Busin .ss Items.

PITTSBURG, Pa, Sept. 14.-It was an
nounced to-day that the options held by
the promoters of the window-glass COM
bination on a number of plants will ex-
pire tomorrow and that If they are not re-
newed the owners will at once begin 10 pre-
pare to put the factories in operation. The
promoters of the combination have nothing
10 say the subject and 1t is evident that
the plan has not been abandoned and may
yet be successfully carried out. If the COM
bination Is not formed IL is said there will
soon be drop i'm prices and trade will be
demoralized. The jobbers are taking an in
terest in the formation of the proposed COM
bination and using every endeavor to main
tain the present profitable prices on glass.
Reliable information received at head
quarters CT the three organizations OF WIN
dow glass workers is TO the effect that glass
will be blown at fully two hundred pots to-
morrow. The various wage scales have
been signed at these plants and everything
is in readiness for start. Other inde-
pendent and cooperative factories are to
be put In operation as soon as arrange
ments can be made. No request has yet
been made by the American Glass Com
pany's wage committee for another confer
ence on the scale
The recently formed glass tableware COM
withdrawn all quotations on prices. The
statesmen employed by the individual con-
Germs have all been called in and instructed
to make no sales on the way home. A stiff
advance In prices is expected and may be
announced in few days.
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Shy of the Dreyfus Verdict.
New York Letter.

must again call attention to the anomaly
of the methods of the French press in this
city. The Courier des Etats Unis had not
a single line editorially on the Dreyfus case,
but used all its editorial space for a very
elaborate article on La Crise Anglo
Africaine." a theme which just now is ex-
ceedingiy immaterial to French readers OF
newspapers. In the two columns that are
given up to the dispatches from Rennes, the
largest part of the space isrdevoted to the
quotations of the anti-Dreyfus organs OF
Paris. Papers like lie Matin and Figaro are
not quoted at all, whereas every unimpor-
tant Nationalist sheet is given space. 1t is
certainly abnormal, when the leading
from comment on the Dreyfus case and
gives the legitimate news as little space as
possible. 1t reminds one OF the great feat
of the Paris PStit Journal, which managed
to print the attempted assassination OF
Maitre Labori hidden away among the day 8
proceedings at Rennes. so that no one ever
noticed Ii.
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OHIO DEMOCRATS.
John r.. Mclean to Open Their Cam.
paign on Sept. 30.

COLUMBUS, O., Sept. 1.-THE Demo-
cratic state executive committee this after
noon met and elected James p. Seward, OF
Mansfield. chairman. Mr.. Seward will ap-
point as secretary John p. Edison, ex-
auditor of vanwert county, and as treas
urer G. II. Barger. of Columbus. It was de-
cided to open the campaign on Sept 80,
at a place to be determined later. JOHN r.
Mclean the Democratic nominee for Gov
ernor will be the principal speaker. There
will be but few meetings held during the
campaign. 1t was decided to take as head
quarters the building which has been occu-
pied for a similar purpose by the Republican
state committee.
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Gunton's Magazine for September

Now this Is exactly the state of the case
There is not trust left in the United
half a dozen, and they have all been dis
solved and converted into large corpora
tons. In reality. then, the war on trusts
Large corporations may be very bad thing
for the community, and il so they ought 10
be abolished. but an agitation for their
abolition should be conducted honest
principles. IL should be definitely under
stood that 1t is a crusade against large COR
porations. To call IL crusade against
trusts is TO practice a fraud upon the peo-
pie. At least let Us have the people who are
to vote these business concerns out OF ex-
istence know what they are voting against.
Certainly before the people of this country
can be expected to support such a crusade
they have a right to know something about
what IL will accomplish.