anaheim-gazette 1896-09-17

Anaheim VOLUME XXVI. PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. CHARLES E. LEE (Successor to Dr. Bullard.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office and Residence—Corner Hermine and Chartress Streets, Anaheim. Office Hours—7 to 9 a.m.; 1 to 3 p.m.; 7 to 8. Medical College of Ohio. New York Post-Graduate. Physician, Surgeon and Accoucheur. Dr. J. A. Champion Office and residence, on Center street, near Clementina. Calls Promptly Attended Day or Night. sept5f Paul A. Derge. Graduate in Pharmacy. DRUGS, MEDICINES, Perfumes and Toilet Articles. BEST 5-CENT CIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BLOCK. PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICE. W. A. CONNOLY. GENERAL BLACKSMITHING! Horse-Shoeing —IN ANY STYLE.— Bad Feet Carefully Attended To, and Shod Properly. NICK HUGO BLACKSMITHING, Great Sacrifice Sale OF ... CLOTHING AND STRAW HATS THE SAN FRANCISCO CHEAP CASH STORE Calls the special attention of the general public to its Sacrifice Sale of Clothing and Straw Hats. It will pay you to call on us and get prices on these articles, as they will be slaughtered Regardless of Cost. We also call the attention of the public to the fact that we keep the best School Shoes in Anaheim, and our prices are so low that you will save from 25¢ to 50¢ on each pair. Ladies' percale waists...Reduced to 40¢ German knitted worsted...from 25¢ to 20¢ Saxony yarn...from 12½¢ to 8¢ Dimities...from 10¢ to 7¼¢ Percales...from 12½¢ to 9¢ Lonsdale Muslin...from 10¢ to 8¢ Ginghams...from 6¢ to 4¢ Reductions in our Shoe Department: Ladies' Dongola Oxford Ties...$1 50 to $1 00 Ladies' Dongola Button...$1 75 to $1 25 Men's working shoes...$1 75 to $1 25 Children's Dongola Button...$1 00 to 75 Remember, when you want to purchase GOOD AND FINE SHOES At low prices, call at the SAN FRANCISCO CHEAP CASH STORE —OUR STORE IS LOCATED IN — ODD FELLOWS' BUILDING, LOS ANGELES St., COR. O CHARTRESS, ANAHEIM. GENERAL BLACKSMITHING! Horse-Shoeing IN ANY STYLE. Bad Feet Carefully Attended To, and Shod Properly. NICK HUGO BLACKSMITHING, WOOD WORK, HORSE-SHOEING, AND A GENERAL JOBBING BUSINESS. Schauman's old stand, Los Angeles street. Having purchased the blacksmithing and wood work business heretofore owned by John Schauman, I take this means of informing the public that I shall continue the same and be ready to give satisfaction in all work entrusted to my care. The best workmanship and most reasonable prices. Give me a call. L. NEMETZ. Carriage Painting & Trimming New Buggies for Sale. Shop on Center street, near the opera-house. Anaheim, Cal. GO TO THE Dak Barber Shop FOR A IRST-CLASS SHAVE OR HAIR CUT. TWO DOORS WEST OF BANK. HUSMANN BROS. J.M.Griffith Company A CORPORATION LUMBER DEALERS Near Railroad Depot ANAHEIM. eep constantly on hand Doors, Blinds, Windows, MOULDINGS. Posts, Shakes, Shingles, LATH, HAIR, PLASTER OF PARIS ANAHEIM GRIST MILLS OPERATING; ON Wednesdays and Saturdays of each week. Grain, Feed, Meal, Etc., of all varieties Corn shelled and shipped. W. T. BROWN, Agent. CHAS. S. ROGERS Civil Engineer. Irrigation and Hydraulic Work a Specialty. Surveys and Estimates made at Reasonable Rates. OFFICE—East of Santa Fe Depot, Anaheim. H. W. CHYNOWETH, Attorney-At-Law. Helmsen Building, Center street. NOTARY PUBLIC. Real Property Law a Specialty. ANAHEIM, CAL. GOOD AND FINE SHOES At low prices, call at the SAN FRANCISCO CHEAP CASH STORE OUR STORE IS LOCATED IN ODD FELLOWS' BUILDING, LOS ANGELES St., COR. O CHARTRESS, ANAHEIM. E. B. MERRITT & CO., DEALERS IN FURNITURE Wall Paper, the Latest Patterns. Heatn and Milligan's House Paints, the Cheapest and Best for all uses. Agent for The Majestic Steel and Malleable Iron Range, an Cooking Stoves of reliable manufacturers. You Will Find our Prices Low and the Quality of our Goods the Best. Center Street, Opposite Postoffice, - - - Anaheim, Ca Ernest Bentz. Rudolph Benz. (Successors to Bentz & Bailey.) Wholesale and Retail Butchers Anaheim, Cal. Dealers in Beef, Pork, Mutton, Veal, Sausages and Lard Of Our Own Make. Highest Market price Paid for Live Stock Mrs. G. Davis Groceries and Seeds Civil Engineer. Irrigation and Hydraulic Work a Specialty. Surveys and Estimates made at Reasonable Rates. OFFICE—East of Santa Fe Depot, Anaheim. H. W. CHYNOWETH, Attorney-At-Law. Helmsen Building, Center street. NOTARY PUBLIC. Real Property Law a Specialty. ANAHEIM, CAL. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Center street, Anaheim, Cal. Special attention given to PROBATE matters. GRAY BROTHERS & WARD Cement Contractors Shillinger Patent. Contracts for RESERVOIRS, IBRIGATION MITCHES, Cellar and Stable Floors, Sidewalks, ETC. OFFICES—No. 125 N. Broadway, Los Angeles, Cal. Telephone—236. No. 316 Montgomery St., San Francisco, Cal. THE WOODBRIDGE FERTILIZERS ARE RELIABLE FOR Fruits, Lawns and Flowers. Made by the Agricultural Chemical Works 901 to 907 Macy St., Los Angeles, je254f GEORGE BAUER BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. Center street.....Anaheim. Making and repairing at the lowest cash price. All orders promptly attended to. All work guaranteed H. P. LARSEN, CONTRACTOR & BUILDER. Estimates given, Contracts made and do a general obbing Business. CENTER TREET — ANAHEIM. Highest Market price Paid for Live Stock Mrs. G. Davis Groceries and Seeds Informs her customers and the general public that she is prepared to sell goods at the smallest margin possible. She buys for cash therefore can sell for a very small profit, giving her customers the benefit of low prices. No charge for showing goods or answering questions. Come one, Come all! All Kindsof Produce and Poultry Taken in Exchange Anaheim Bakery PETER SYRE, PROP. FRESH BREAD, Pies and Cake. Free Delivery Wagon to all parts of the city. A share of the public patronage respectfully solicited. BAKERY, on Los Angeles Street, corner of Cypress. Stephen Kistler, BOSTON BAKERY Announces to his friends, customers and general public that he is now located in his new building on Center street, one-half block east of the Postoffice. The Bakery will have in connection a Launch Room and Ice Cream Pailor, in first-class style. Ice Cream will be served every day, also Launch and hot coffee and cake. The finest stock of Candles in town. He also has a Soda Pountain, and will serve Ice Cream Soda. Compressed Yeast and Condensed Milk and Cream. L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT & SHOE MAKER. Corner Adele and Los Angeles Streets. Bicycles Bicycles! At McCollum's Cyclery, Center at Anaheim. All kinds of wheels to sell, $10 up. All kinds of bicycle supplies and second hand wheels for sale. Will to rent. All kinds of repairing done. Do not experiment in so important a ter as your health. Parify, enrich and vitize your blood with Hood's Saraparilla thus keep yourself strong and healthy. Hood's pills are the best after-dinner assist digestion, cure headache. 25 cent. Church Notices. Methodist Episcopal Church, on Philadelphi street—Services every Sunday at 11 a.m. m.p.m. Sunday school at 10. Epworth leas 7 p.m. Midweek prayer meeting Wednesday at 7:30. Rev. D. R. Collings, pastor. This Is Your Opportunity. On receipt of ten cents, cash or stale a generous sample will be mailed o most popular Catarrh and Hay Fever (Ely's Cream Balm) sufficient to destrate the great merits of the remedy. ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren St., New York Rev. John Reid, Jr., of Great Falls, M., recommended Ely's Cream Balm to me emphasize his statement, "It is a vital cure for catarrh if used as directed Rev. Francis W. Poole, Pastor Central Church, Helena, Mont. Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowlledge cure for catarrh and contains no medicine nor any injurious drug. Price, 50 cents. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1896. PICE SALE STRAW HATS AP CASH STORE Public to its Sacrifice Sale of you to call on us and will be slaughtered The fact that we keep the prices are so low that on each pair. Reduced to 40c from 25 c to 20c from 12½ c to 8 c from 10 c to 7¼ c from 12½ c to 9 c from 10 c to 8 c from 6 c to 4 c $1 50 to $1 00 $1 75 to $1 25 $1 75 to $1 25 $1 00 to 75 E SHOES O CHEAP CASH STORE EDITED IN — GELES St., COR. OF HEIM. The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. SUBSCRIPTION, - $1 50 Per Year. Six months... 1 00 Three months... 75 Payable invariably in advance. Transient advertising rates, $1 per inch per month. The Gazette is issued every Thursday morning, and is sent to subscribers by the early mails. It is delivered by carrier in Anaheim on the morning of publication. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. Items of news and correspondence on all live subjects are solicited by the editor. 16 To 1. A FURTHER CONTRIBUTION TO THE CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION—WHEN THE ACT OF 1873 WAS DISCOVERED TO BE A “CRIME.” Although most readers are coming to be familiar with the 16 to 1 proposition, it may be well to briefly outline the facts for the benefit of those who are only now awakening to its importance. The pure silver in the big silver dollar weighs about fifteen times as much as the pure gold in a gold dollar. The exact weights are 23.22 grains of gold and 371.25 grains of silver. Hence “sixteen to one.” When the mint was founded Hamilton and Jefferson agreed that a pound of gold was worth in the markets about fifteen pounds of silver and accordingly the ratio for the coinage at first was made fifteen to one. Anybody could bring as much of either metal as he pleased to the mines and have it stamped into coin. This free or unlimited coinage of both metals is called bimetallism, and the country was said to have a double standard of values. The bullion in either dollar was intrinsically worth as much before being coined as afterward, but the government’s mint stamp was a guarantee of the weight Major McKinley to the Editors It was Bulwer, I think, who commanded: “Take away the Swat States can be saved without it; bring the pen.” This is a year press and pen. The sword has been sheathed. The only force needed is the force of reason, and the only power to be invoked is of intelligence and patriotism. Major McKinley to the Ohio Republican editors from his doorstep, Sept. 8 — Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Republican Press Association of Ohio: I have been deeply moved by the gracious words of your venerable spokesman. You could not have chosen one of your membership to give expression to the sentiments of your association more pleasing to me than my old and honored friend, Mr. Hopley, whose efforts in behalf of the Republican party have been unceasing for more than forty years. (Applause.) Defeat has never discouraged him, nor victory unduly elated him. Indeed, I think he is at his best, and does his best work when the party to which he belongs is under temporary defeat. I can only wish for him continued good health and the full measure of those blessings which he has so much enjoyed during his long and eventful career. It gives me great pleasure, gentlemen, to welcome you, one and all, to my home. I feel sure that you are familiar with Canton and need no assurances from me as to the cordiality of its hospitality. You have done Canton a great honor by your visit, and for one I highly appreciate it, as I know all our citizens do. Canton just now, I judge, is a very fair newspaper town, and no newspaper writer or publisher ever comes here who is not warmly welcomed, whether he gets what he comes for or not (laughter), and no matter what he may say when he goes away. (Renewed laughter and applause.) General Sherman and some of our other old officers used to have a way, during the war, of sending certain newspapers out of camp occasionally, and perhaps often wished to send them “across the lines.” We have no sectional or partition lines now. (Applause.) They have been happily obliterated, and no part of this great republic can now be justly Islam and national honor. (Applause) are welcome, thrice welcome, and they try owes them a debt of gratitude for unfinishing loyalty as against party sound money and public morals. (Applause.) This is a year, gentleman political contention without bitterness, intelligence and investigation are taking place of passion and partyism. Partly induce little in a crisis like this; must not indulge in asperation or criminia against those who may have differed us in the past, but who are now with patriotic effort to preserve the good faith the country and enforce public and pious honesty. (Applause.) We must not any body out of camp, but welcome our body in. You doubtless have grown up of being told of the greatness and power value of the press so many times styled “preserver of our liberties and the best mankind.” It was Bulwer, I think commanded, “Take away the sword,” can be saved without it; bring the This is a year for press and pen. The has been sheathed. The only force needed is the force of reason, and the power to be invoked is that of intellect and patriotism. (Great applause.) people have always extended to them the most generous patronage and accuse it the greatest deference, so that they has grown with our growth and advance with our advancement. There are as many newspapers and periodicals listed in the United States as in all that of the world besides. To me the newspaper is so vast and comprehensive that I can never contemplate its possible without becoming both interested and enthusiastic in the subject. Why, to be a real capable and wise journalist, wise, honorable and efficient to attain the highest plane of human curiosity and usefulness. To love and praise truth, for truth’s sake, to discuss knowledge and useful information, to owe When the mint was founded Hamilton and Jefferson agreed that a pound of gold was worth in the markets about fifteen pounds of silver and accordingly the ratio to the coinage at first was made fifteen to one. Anybody could bring as much of either metal he pleased to the mints and have it stamped into coin. This free or unlimited coinage of both metals is called bimetallism, and the country was said to have a double standard of values. The bullion in either dollar was intrinsically worth as much before being coined as afterward, but the government's mint stamp was a guarantee of the weight and fineness of the metal and made it legal tender. Subsequently it was found that fifteen pounds of silver were not worth as much as one pound of gold and in order to conform to the relative market value of the metals Congress decided that the silver dollar should weigh sixteen times as much as the gold dollar. In doing this Congress went to the other extreme and put too low an estimate on silver. The European nations composing the Latin Union made their coining ratio fifteen and one-half to one, and the owner of silver here would not exchange sixteen pounds of it for a pound of gold because he could obtain the same thing in Europe for fifteen and a half pounds of his silver. In other words, the quantity of silver in a dollar was worth more than one hundred cents. Consequently holders of silver bullion ceased to send it to the United States mints and the silver dollars previously coined were hoarded. When the mint laws were revised in 1873 the provision for the free coinage of silver dollars was dropped. This attracted little attention at the time because none of these dollars had been in circulation for a generation; and, in fact, only eight millions of them in all had been coined from the foundation of the government up as that time. Owing to the discovery of new mines the world's production of silver began to steadily increase, and the price consequently began to decline, and the European nations were in self defense compelled to close their mints against the further free coinage of the depreciated metal. While silver was high the mine owner cared nothing about the mint, but when it got so low that a pound of gold would buy seventeen pounds of silver in the market these gentlemen began to clamor for a restoration of the privilege of selling to the American people, through the mint, at the old ratio of sixteen to one. It was then that they discovered that the act of 1873 was a "crime." As a concession to them the Bland law was passed, under which nearly four hundred million silver dollars were coined, the Treasury, however, buying the bullion for this purpose at its market value. In 1890 the Sherman law was passed, compelling the Treasury to buy 140 tons of silver every month and issue notes in payment. This produced the panic of 1893, and was then repealed. As a result of these laws we have coined or issued nearly six hundred million dollars of silver. Despite all these purchases by the Treasury the price of silver steadily fell. To-day it takes about thirty pounds of silver to buy a pound of gold, but the free coinage advocates demand that the government—that is to say, the people—shall take sixteen pounds of silver as the equivalent of a pound of gold. When the 371 grains of silver that go to make a big dollar were worth more than a hundred cents the mine owners sold their product in Europe. Now that 371 grains are worth about fifty-three cents they insist that the government shall stamp it into a dollar and shall open the mints to all the silver in the world at this ratio of "sixteen to one." GOT MORE DOLLARS. BUT THEY HAPPENED TO BE OF THE cordiality of its hospitality. You have done Canton a great honor by your visit, and for one I highly appreciate it, as I know all our citizens do. Canton just now, I judge, is a very fair newspaper town, and no newspaper writer or publisher ever comes here who is not warmly welooomed, whether he gets what he comes for or not (laughter), and no matter what he may say when he goes away. (Renswed laughter and applause.) General Sherman and some of our other old officers used to have a way, during the war, of sending certain newspapers out of camp occasionally, and perhaps often wished to send them "across the lines." We have no sectional or partition lines now. (Applause.) They have been happily obliterated, and no part of this great republic can now be justly called "the enemy's country." (Great ap plause.) Newspaper men, like everybody else, can go freely and speak freely and write freely on every spot of ground beneath our glorious flag. I feel that I know something of the Republican editors of Ohio. I cannot recall a time that they have not been faithful and friendly; nor can I forget that in some of the closest campaigns in the State their intelligent and unfaltering support have brought victory. This year they are more in earnest, more aggressive, more thorough and more efficient than they have ever been before. They appreciate the overmastering importance of the issues involved in the present contest and are leading, gloriously leading, in the educational work which is indispensable to a proper understanding of the questions which divide us and right action ultimately at the polls. Gentlemen, it is a post of singular honor which you occupy to day. I cannot remember any period, save and except the war, when the Republican press so signally represented national honor and national welfare as now. (Great applause.) It is not often given to a political party, as it is this year given to ours, to stand between national honor and disobey; public faith and repudiation; and order and disquietude. It is the good fortune of the Republican party to stand in this contest for what is best in government, for what is patriotic in citizenship, for what tends to the support of the financial integrity of the government, its credit and its currency. It is a vast responsibility to put upon any party, but the Republican party is not without trial amidst grave responsibilities. It has performed supreme duty before. It has met great trusts before. It has discharged them too, with wisdom, courage and fidelity, and it will meet the new ones with an honest and unfaltering purpose to serve the best interests of the people and all the people. Fortunately, in this contest, the Republican party is not alone in the support of law. Our journalism is not alone in me; its strongest allies many of the powerful Democratic newspapers, cast and west, which are doing yeoman service for patriotism. Orange County Commissemen. Republican. Anabeim, Beena Park, Delhi, El Modena, John R. Powers, El Toro, L.K.Scott, Fullerton, W.L.Hale, Garden Grove, Newhope, Newport, Newport Beach, Olive, B.C.Barker, Orange, J.J.Gray, San Juan, M.A.Forester, San Josequin, J.W.King, Santa Ana—Istad Ward., John McFadden, 2d Ward., James McFadden, 3d Ward., G.S.Smith, 4th Ward., E.D.Waffle, 5th Ward., Z.B.West, Silverdo., Charles S.Mason, Trabco., N.M.Barnes, Democrat. H.A.McWilliams, B.C.Archibald, Irvin Caster, A.D.Biehop, Wm.Hoyle, N.C.Wa, Populist. J.D.Bean, D.M.Baker, C.C.Monaghan, H.N.Short, W.B.Tedford, E.P.Powers, V.E.Squires, Chas.Edelman, James Doyle, N.T.Newland, People have always extended to this most generous patronage and accuse it the greatest deference, so that they have grown with our growth and advance with our advancement. There are as many newspapers and periodicals listed in the United States as in all those of the world besides. To me the newspaper is so vast and comprehensive that I can never contemplate its possible without becoming both interested and enthusiastic in the subject. Why, to be a real capable and wise journalist, wise, honorable and efficient to attain the highest plane of human tunity and usefulness. To love and truth for truth's sake, to discover knowledge and useful information, to critic misimpressions, to enlighten the mind ed., to "feed an expectant and anxious ple" with the occurrences of the world—indeed, almost hourly—to discover correct abuses, to fairly and honorably vocate a great cause—in short to make direct public opinion which is always mission of journalism, is surely the most professions. (Great applause.) He may be in some parts of the world, dear it may be by the intolerant and agitely everywhere, but degraded it never can long as its aim is for good of the paper. Ohio has always been prominent field of journalism. That she has prominent in politics she press can claim a share, and it is entitled to no credit for a long line of deserving servants. I need not remind you of You know well the glorious history of State and its contribution to the course every field of statemanship. The paper Ohio has proudly held its own in this field of journalism. The younger men—and are many of them before me to-day high models before them. Their predate honest in conviction, powerful in ment, and contributed much to ma-glorious State what it is, and our cation and citizenship to the best in this (Applause.) From your ranks have gone forth as the ablest journalists whose influence learning have impressed other States enriched the literature of whole countries Some of the old editors still remain with pen of power—may their lives be ended and their splendid example be labeled by their younger colleagues plaque.) I congratulate you upon rank of newspaper press of Ohio wish for you still higher achievement your chosen work in broader fields never had an opportunity for higher needs now and you never had an opportunity for best use of your faculties than in the support of theseples and policies which are involved contest now upon us. I congratulate upon the great work you are doing to prepare more than I can tell you these facts and courtesy of this call applause.) GOT MORE DOLLARS. BUT THEY HAPPENED TO BE OF THE 53-CENT VARIETY—AN INTERESTING EXPERIENCE. NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 10.—Harry Lockwood, a clerk in the general offices of the Southern Pacific Railroad, to-day returned from Eagle Pass, Texas, after one month's residence there, a good deal the wiser concerning the money question in the United States and with a practical example of what the free and unlimited coinage of silver really means deeply imprinted upon his mind. A little more than a month ago General Passenger Agent S. F. B. Morse of the Southern Pacific received a message from the general railroad office at Ciudad Porferio Diaz, just across the river from Eagle Pass, asking for a clerk thoroughly versed in the passenger business. Mr. Morse wired the agent asking him what salary was attached to the position. The reply was that it would offer $160 per month. Passenger Agent Morse took the telegram to one of his clerks who was then drawing $100 per month and laid it down on the desk before him, telling him of incidents leading to the offer. The young man said he had no choice of where he worked and the extra $60 per month would readily take him to Mexico. He caught the train out that night and in a couple of days was established in his new position in the town of Diaz. He preferred to board over in Eagle Pass, and thus lived in the United States and worked in Mexico. At the end of the first thirty days young Lockwood was well into the work and getting on nicely. Pay day came around and he drew his $160 for the month's work. That night when he crossed over the Rio Grande to his boarding place and went to pay his month's board bill he found that he had but $80 with which to settle the month's accounts in place of the supposed $160. Lockwood said it was enough to satisfy him that he did not want to work in Mexico and get paid in Mexican currency, so he set out for New Orleans, arriving here to-day, perfectly satisfied with his old salary of $100 per month. THE KITCHEN. STUFFED VEGETABLES. Stuffed Tomatoes—Have as many round red tomatoes as you will require and cut out the heart from each. Then for six or seven tomatoes prepare the following filling: Pass four ounces of rump steak through a mincing machine, cut up an onion very small, chop one clove of garlic finely, and well bruise eight cloves in a mortar; fry all these in two ounces of salt butter, put to it one dessertspoonful of the best curry powder and half a teaspoon of ground allspice; fry a minute, then add the minced meat and stir; fry altogether for about ten minutes, stirring. Fill the cavities of the tomatoes with this mixture, grease a baking dish well, and put the tomatoes on it, with a tiny dab of salt butter on top of each, and let them cook through. Cut some rounds of bread, stamping them out in neat rounds a little larger than is required to hold the tomato, so that there is just a rim round the vegetable. Butter these and put them into the stove till quite crisp; put a tomato on each piece. Chop a hard boiled egg very small, put a rim of this round the tomato on the toast that projects, sprinkle the tomato itself with finally chopped green parsley, and insert a stalk of parsley into the tomato so that it looks like a handle. This can be served hot or cold. Stuffed Cucumbers—For this dish small cucumbers are needed. Peel them very thin and with a vegetable scoop take out a portion of the inside. Mince half a pound of chicken or rabbit, and pound the meat in a mortar. Chop one small onion and one small clove of garlic, bruise eight cloves, chop two green or red peppers; fry the onion; garlic and cloves in two ounces of butter, add the meat and peppers and half an egg-spoonful of mixed spice, fry till the meat is done, sprinkle with salt to taste, and fill the onions with this mixture, lay them in a steamer and steam till they Take them out with care and lay them in half, lengthways, scoop inside, leaving the skin whole. Onion very small, one clove of garlic or two green peppers; fry these but do not let them color; add the egg plant after shopping them all cool till quite soft. Mix with it boiled eggs chopped very fine, juice of a lemon and salt to taste; back into the half skins, smooth over sprinkle over a few fine breadcrumbs. Few dabs of butter on the top of bake till of a pretty golden brown. With green parley and little mollusk yolk of a hard-boiled egg passed through a sieve. Serve on a dish paper, hot. Peter Warner, a well-to-do farmer near Edwardsburg, Mich., lost money recently by the failure of that place. A few weeks ago he of some real estate for $12,000. His faith in banks, he placed his money keeping in a store in the parlor where been unused for the summer. Last night his wife, who did not know was in the store, built a fire and age of bills was destroyed. W frantic over his second loss. SNAP SHOTS AT THE NEWS. The Second Missouri Congressional District Democratic convention, in session last week at Chilicothe, broke all records in lengthy conventions, having been in session over four days and taken 1057 ballots without result. A recess was taken until Wednesday next, the 23d. Mrs. Esther German, wife of a Russian furrier living in San Francisco, has plunged into the sea of matrimony thirteen times, but that she is not superstitious is evident from the fact that she is vigorously resisting the suit for divorce now being instituted by her thirteenth spouse. German claims that at the time he married her he had $600, but after securing his money, she turned him out of the house, and when he attempted to return, caused his arrest on a charge of battery. The sub-committee on legislative candidates appointed from the Democratic State Central Committee, which has been in session in San Francisco during the week, is urging the interior districts to nominate Democratic candidates for the Legislature. However in many counties the local Democrats have traded legislative nominations with the Populists for county offices, for which the Populists are to make no nominations. It is said that a general fusion plan of this nature has been suggested and partly carried out, under the direction of Thomas V. Cator, Populist candidate for United States Senator. Jesse R. Grant of San Diego has made public a letter which he sent to his father-in-law in San Francisco setting forth in detail why he changed from a Republican to a Populist, and also admitting that he had aspirations for the United States Senator. D. L. Withington, State Senator of San Diego, has made a public statement shedding more light upon Grant's Senatorial ambition, and shows that up to three days before Grant wrote his letter to Judge J. Wade McDonald, announcing that he was a Populist and free silverite, he was an out-and-out Republican, and hoped to be elected United States Senator from California as a Republican. For several days reports have been received at Ione, Cal., that a woman, with long black hair and piercing black eyes, had been seen in the woods above town entirely nude. On Monday evening about dusk J. S. Amick and wife, while driving home some ends to be attained by the election of William McKinley. But a greater opportunity for the rapid growth of that industry than will immediately occur again has been lost by neglect during the devastation of the Cuban sugar fields by war. The misgovernment which allows our fields to lie bare at such a time differs only in degree from that of Spain, which lays its fields in ashes. William J. Kearz was shot and instantly killed by his father-in-law, Captain J. M. Morris, at the latter’s residence at Santa Monica last Thursday evening. Kearz had been on a debauch since Sunday and had repeatedly threatened his wife’s and father-in-law’s lives, his wife being compelled to flee from home to her father’s house for protection several times recently. Monday night Kearz followed her and threatened her life with a carving knife. Morris attempted to dissuade Kearz from violence. Kearz persisted in annoying his wife and her family, and the affair culminated Thursday night in Kearz approaching the family residence at the rear door and forcing an entrance. He was met by Morris, who shot him twice in the right breast with a double-barreled shotgun. Kearz dropped to the floor of the rear porch and expired after a few gasps. Matthew Roach, a missing San Francisco dry goods salesman, made his appearance on Saturday just in time to interrupt his own funeral services and to prevent the interment of a corpse that had been identified by a score of former associates as his own. The body had been picked up on the ocean beach early Friday morning, and as Roach had been missing for some days, was out of work and despondent and given to drink, his employer and several of his friends who called at the morgue identified it as his and made arrangements for its decent burial. While the cortege was on the way to the cemetery Roach telephoned from the City and County Hospital to the Coroner’s office to the effect that he had just read in the papers an account of his death, and that as he was alive yet, some one had made a mistake. The funeral was promptly stopped by the Coroner and the body taken back to the morgue, where it now awaits identification. The dead man is said to closely resemble Roach in figure, features and age. A. J. Dearborn, the Missouri State president of the A. P. A., was found lying in the street near his house in Kansas City at 5 o’clock Saturday morning, unconscious from wounds inflicted by an unknown assailant. He was badly battered about the head and stabbed. At 9 o’clock Dearborn regained Committee. Democrat. Populist. A. McWilliams, C. Archibald, in Carter. D. Biehop, Hoyle, A. Vail, M. Kee, C. McDowell, H. Tedford, P. Powers, E. Squires, H. Edelman, Jas Doyle, T. Newland, J. Rowan, M. Baker, C. Monaghan, N. Short, B. Tedford, D. E. Smith, Issae Harding, Rewell, D. L. McCharles, The vintage of 1896 is already well under way in Fresno, Madura, Yolo and Sacramento counties, and in early localities in the bay counties. Heavy frosts in May followed by other unfavorable climatic conditions caused coulure in all sections, so that the yield will be much below the normal of 16,000,000 gallons of dry wine. Present estimates range from 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 gallons. Better weather for the vintage than that which now prevails could not be desired, and on its continuance depends in large measure the quality of the wine of 1896. Some winemakers are offering only $18 a ton for grapes, but no purity why he changed from a Republican to a Populist, and also admitting that he had aspirations for the United States Senatorship. D. L. Witherington, State Senator of San Diego, has made a public statement shedding more light upon Grant's Senatorial ambition, and shows that up to three days before Grant wrote his letter to Judge J. Wade McDonald, announcing that he was a Populist and free silverer, he was out-and-out Republican, and hoped to be elected United States Senator from California as a Republican. For several days reports have been received at Ione, Cal., that a woman, with long black hair and piercing black eyes, had seen in the woods above town entirely nude. On Monday evening about duk J. S. Amick and wife, while driving home some three miles from the town, encountered the woman who sprang from the brush by the roadside and seized the bridles of their team. Amick left the wagon and grappled with the stranger, who was frothing at the mouth and gave vent to fearful shrieks, but she broke away and escaped. A systematic search for the supposed maniac is being made with bloodbounds. Mary Cronin, an Oakland domestic, lost $50 of her earnings because she was told that the election of the Democratic candidate for President would mean the sweeping away of her savings, which she had untrusted to a loos bank for keeping. She was further counseled that she could do nothing better than withdraw her gold and hide it away until after November 3. The distressed girl was impressed with the idea and drew out her money and hid it beneath the carpet and mattress in her bedroom. A night or two ago $50 was stolen, and next morning she re-deposited the balance in the bank. The police are looking for her adviser. An address to the people of the United States has been issued from Populist headquarters in Washington. It declares that the People's party is the champion of the masses who labor and produce wealth. Bryan and Watson, it declares, are the true cooperative ticket for silver voters of all parties. It is pointed out that the People's party forced the Democratic party to turn down the Cleveland administration and adopt the principles of the People's party, and as the action of the Democratic party in future is uncertain, all citizens who believe in government "as administered by Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln," are urged to uphold and strengthen the People's party. The address closes with an appeal for contributions of $1 to the campaign fund from every individual able and willing to contribute. Mayor Carlson of San Diego, the independent candidate for Congress from this district, addressed a large and enthusiastic meeting at Modesto Saturday night, opening his buckboard campaign in the San Joaquin valley, amid the firing of anvils and music by a band. Carlson is accompanied by his wife, and will travel over three hundred miles in San Joaquin valley, making speeches at from four to five towns daily. He was well received and frequently applauded. He said what the American people want is more money, not a certain kind of money. To create more money for the people is the need of the hour. It must be sound, reliable and good for the payment of all debts, and its purchasing power must be the equal of 100 cents for one dollar's worth of labor or material. The vintage of 1896 is already well under way in Fresno, Madura, Yolo and Sacramento counties, and in early localities in the bay counties. Heavy frosts in May followed by other unfavorable climatic conditions caused coulure in all sections, so that the yield will be much below the normal of 16,000,000 gallons of dry wine. Present estimates range from 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 gallons. Better weather for the vintage than that which now prevails could not be desired, and on its continuance depends in large measure the quality of the wine of 1896. Some winemakers are offering only $18 a ton for grapes, but no purity why he changed from a Republican to a Populist, and also admitting that he had aspirations for the United States Senatorship. D. L. Witherington, State Senator of San Diego, has made a public statement shedding more light upon Grant's Senatorial ambition, and shows that up to three days before Grant wrote his letter to Judge J. Wade McDonald, announcing that he was a Populist and free silverer, he was out-and-out Republican, and hoped to be elected United States Senator from California as a Republican. For several days reports have been received at Ione, Cal., that a woman, with long black hair and piercing black eyes, had seen in the woods above town entirely nude. On Monday evening about duk J. S. Amick and wife, while driving home some three miles from the town, encountered the woman who sprang from the brush by the roadside and seized the bridles of their team. Amick left the wagon and grappled with the stranger, who was frothing at the mouth and gave vent to fearful shrieks, but she broke away and escaped. A systematic search for the supposed maniac is being made with bloodbounds. Mary Cronin, an Oakland domestic, lost $50 of her earnings because she was told that the election of the Democratic candidate for President would mean the sweeping away of her savings, which she had untrusted to a loos bank for keeping. She was further counseled that she could do nothing better than withdraw her gold and hide it away until after November 3. The distressed girl was impressed with the idea and drew out her money and bid it beneath the carpet and mattress in her bedroom. A night or two ago $50 was stolen, and next morning she re-deposited the balance in the bank. The police are looking for her adviser. An address to the people of the United States has been issued from Populist headquarters in Washington. It declares that the People's party is the champion of the masses who labor and produce wealth. Bryan and Watson, it declares, are true cooperative ticket for silver voters of all parties. It is pointed out that the People's party forced the Democratic party to turn down the Cleveland administration and adopt the principles of the People's party, and as the action of the Democratic party in future is uncertain, all citizens who believe in government "as administered by Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln," are urged to uphold and strengthen the People's party. The address closes with an appeal for contributions of $1 to the campaign fund from every individual able and willing to contribute. Mayor Carlson of San Diego, the independent candidate for Congress from this district, addressed a large and enthusiastic meeting at Modesto Saturday night, opening his buckboard campaign in the San Joaquin valley, amid the firing of anvils and music by a band. Carlson is accompanied by his wife, and will travel over three hundred miles in San Joaquin valley, making speeches at from four to five towns daily. He was well received and frequently applauded. He said what the American people want is more money, not a certain kind of money. To create more money for the people is the need of the hour. It must be sound, reliable and good for the payment of all debts, and its purchasing power must be the equal of 100 cents for one dollar's worth of labor or material. The vintage of 1896 is already well under way in Fresno, Madura, Yolo and Sacramento counties, and in early localities in the bay counties. Heavy frosts in May followed by other unfavorable climatic conditions caused coulure in all sections, so that the yield will be much below the normal of 16,000,000 gallons of dry wine. Present estimates range from 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 gallons. Better weather for the vintage than that which now prevails could not be desired, and on its continuance depends in large measure the quality of the wine of 1896. Some winemakers are offering only $18 a ton for grapes, but no purity why he changed from a Republican to a Populist, and also admitting that he had read in the papers an account of his death,and that as he was alive yet,some one had made a mistake.The funeral was promptly stopped by the Coroner and the body taken back to the morgue,the where it now awaits identification.The dead man is said to closely resemble Roach in figure,f features,and age. A.J.Dearborn,the Missouri State president ofthe A.P.A.,was found lying inthe street near his house in Kansas City at 5 o'clock Saturday morning unconscious fromwounds inflicted by an unknown assailant.His badly battered aboutthe headand stabbed.At 9 o'clock Dearborn regained consciousness long enough to say he was assaulted at 11 o'clockthe preceding night，when returning home,bay a man who struck him onthe forehead with a blunt instrument.The blow sent him tothe ground.The assailant,drawing a dagger.stabbedthe prostrated man three times inthe regionofthe heart。Then,believing himdead,here throwhim overthe fence intothe adjacent yard.He lost consciousness,and was not discovered till next morning after having lain onthe wet grass six hours.An examination ofhis wounds showedthe dagger stabs were not serious,但the blow onthe head may resultin concussionofthe brain和prove fatal.Dearborn relapsed into unconsciousnesswithout having givena descriptionofhisassailant.The police protestto believethe attack was instigatedbysome one opposedtotheA.P.A.doctrines,theDearborncarnesty advocated.Noneofhismoneyorvaluablesaremissing. J.H.Buckman,一ofthe most prominent farmersinLincolncounty.Wash,,was killednearSpokane last ThursdayeveningbyWalterFairman.AthreshingcrewwasatworkonBuckman'splace,andFairmanwasmeasuringgrain,BuckmanacusedFairmanofswindling.whereputhmicalhiredhimaliar.LatterstruckFairmanwhoretaliatedbyknockingBuckmandown.HenjumpedupontheprostrateformofBuckman.chokedhimuntilhecriedforhelp.Buckmanwalkedaway,aparentedly satisfiedwiththethrashinghehadreceived.Tenminutes laterFairmanlookedupand sawBuckmancoming towardhimwitha knife.Toprotecthimselfhegrabbeda pitchfork.Buckmanmadea rushatFairmanwiththeupliftedknife,howthenraisedthepitchforkandstruckhima blowovertheheadwiththehandle.Buckman fell likealog,the blood rushingfromhisears,noseandmouth.Without recoveringconsciousnessheexpiredwithinhalfan hour.Fairmanmadenoefforttoescapebutremainedinthevicinityuntila deputyaberriffarrived.Hewaslookedup.Hexpressorsorrowatthefall terminationofthequarrel.He sayshehadnointentionwhateverofkillingBuckmanbutwasforcedto strikehimtoprotecthisownlife. WhileLocustandBroadstreetsinneighborhoodofHotelWaltoninPhiladelphiawere crowdedwithmanywhoarenxioustocatchaglimpseofVicoroyLiHungChang,andthepolicestruggledtokeepthecrowdinorder,fiveyoungwomenstoodinthefrontlinenearTheLocuststreetentrancetothehotel,a littlethereworseforthecrowdingtheyhadreceived,但 stilldeterminedtoseteyouupetheyellowjacketoftheillustrousChinnaman.ThehavenbeenlookingwiselytowardtheswingingdoorsofthehotentranceforabouttenminuteswhenCapt.Malin叫mentoone sidetogivefurtherinstructions.Justatthis momentoneofyoungwomenspairedthevictoryofVicoroyLiHungChang,andthepolicestruggledtokeepthecrowdinorder,fiveyoungwomenstoodinthefrontlinenearTheLocuststreetentrancetothehotel,a littlethereworseforthecrowdingtheyhadreceived,但 stilldeterminedtoseteyouupetheyellowjacketoftheillustrousChinnaman.Thehavenbeenlookingwiselytowardtheswingingdoorsofthehotentranceforabout tenminuteswhenCapt.Malin叫mentoone sidetogivefurtherinstructions.Justatthis momentoneofyoungwomenspairedthevictoryofVicoroyLiHungChang,andthepolicestruggledtokeepthecrowdinorder,fiveyoungwomenstoodinthefrontlinenearTheLocuststreetentrancetothehotel,a littlethereworseforthecrowdingtheyhadreceived,但 stilldeterminedtoseteyouupetheyellowjacketoftheillustrousChinnamen.Thehavenbeenlookingwiselytowardtheswingingdoorsofthehotentranceforabout tenminuteswhenCapt.Malin叫mentoone sidetogivefurtherinstructions.Justatthis momentoneofyoungwomenspairedthevictoryofVicoroyLiHungChang,andthepolicestruggledtokeepthecrowdinorder,fiveyoungwomenstoodinthefrontlinenearTheLocuststreetentrancetothehotel,a littlethereworseforthecrowdingtheyhadreceived,但 stilldeterminedtoseteyouupetheyellowjacketoftheillustrousChinnamen.Thehavenbeenlookingwiselytowardtheswingingdoorsofthehotentranceforabout tenminuteswhenCapt.Malin叫mentoone sidetogivefurtherinstructions.Justatthis momentoneofyoungwomenspairedthevictoryofVicoroyLiHungChang,andthepolicestruggledtokeepthecrowdinorder,fiveyoungwomenstoodinthefrontlinenearTheLocuststreetentrancetothehotel,a littlethereworseforthecrowdingtheyhadreceived,但 stilldeterminedtoseteyouupetheyellowjacketoftheillustrousChinnamen.Thehavenbeenlookingwiselytowardtheswingingdoorsofthehotentranceforabout tenminuteswhenCapt.Malin叫mentoone sidetogivefurtherinstructions.Justatthis momentoneofyoungwomenspairedthevictoryofVicoroyLiHungChang,andthepolicestruggledtokeepthecrowdinorder,fiveyoungwomenstoodin.thefrontlinenearTheLocuststreetentranceto.thehotel,a littlethereworseforthecrowdingtheyhadreceived,但 stilldeterminedtoseteyouupetheyellowjacketoftheillustrousChinnamen.Thehavenbeenlookingwiselytowardtheswingingdoorsofthehotentranceforabout tenminuteswhenCapt.Malin叫mentoone sidetogivefurtherinstructions.Justatthis momentoneofyoungwomenspairedthevictoryofVicoroyLiHungChang,andthepolicestruggledtokeepthecrowdinorder,fiveyoungwomenstoodin.thefrontlinenearTheLocuststreetentranceto.thehotel,a littlethereworseforthecrowdingtheyhadreceived,但 stilldeterminedtoseteyouupetheyellowjacketoftheillustrousChinnamen.Thehavenbeenlookingwiselytowardtheswingingdoorsofthehotentranceforabout tenminuteswhenCapt.Malin叫mentoone sidetogivefurtherinstructions.Justatthis momentoneofyoungwomenspairedthevictoryofVicoroyLiHungChang,andthepolicestruggledtokeepthecrowdinorder,fiveyoungwomenstoodin.thefrontlinenearTheLocuststreetentranceto.thehotel,a littlethereworseforthecrowdingtheyhadreceived,但 stilldeterminedtoseteyouupetheyellowjacketoftheillustrousChinnamen.Thehavenbeenlookingwiselytowardtheswingingdoorsofthehotentranceforabout tenminuteswhenCapt.Malin叫mentoone sidetogivefurtherinstructions.Justatthis momentoneofyoungwomenspairedthevictoryofVicoroyLiHungChang,andthepolicestruggledtokeepthecrowdinorder,f五youngwomenstoodin.thefrontlinenearTheLocuststreetentranceto.thehotel,a littlethereworseforthecrowdingtheyhadreceived,但 stilldeterminedtoseteyouupetheyellowjacketoftheillustrousChinnamen.Thehavenbeenlookingwiselytowardtheswingingdoorsofthehotentranceforabout tenminuteswhenCapt.Malin叫mentoone sidetogivefurtherinstructions.Justatthis momentoneofyoungwomenspairedthevictoryofVicoroyLiHungChang,andthepolicestruggledtokeepthecrowdinorder,f五youngwomenstoodin.thefrontlinenearTheLocuststreetentranceto.thehotel,a littlethereworseforthecrowdingtheyhadreceived但 stilldeterminedtoseteyouupetheyellowjacketoftheillustrousChinnamen.Thehavenbeenlookingwiselytowardtheswingingdoorsofthehotentranceforabout tenminuteswhenCapt.Malin叫mentoone side.togivefurtherinstructions.Justatthis momentoneofyoungwomenspairedthevictoryofVicoroyLiHungChang,andthepolicestruggledtokeepthecrowdinorder,f五youngwomenstoodin.thefrontlinenearTheLocuststreetentranceto.thehotel,a littlethereworseforthecrowdingtheyhadreceived但 stilldeterminedtoseteyouupetheyellowjacketoftheillustrousChinnamen.Thehavenbeenlookingwiselytowardtheswingingdoorsofthehotentranceforabout tenminuteswhenCapt.Malin叫mentoone side.togivefurtherinstructions.Justatthis momentoneofyoungwomenspairedthevictoryofVicoroyLiHungChang,andthepolicestruggledtochecka glimpseofVicoroyLiHungChang,andthepolicestruggledtochecka glimpseofVicoroyLiHungChang,andthepolicestruggledtochecka glimpseofVicoroyLiHungChang,andthepolicestruggledtochecka glimpseofVicoroyLiHungChang,andthepolicestruggledtochecka glimpseofVicoroyLiHungChang,andthepolicestruggledtochecka glimpseofVicoroyLiHungChang,and cucumbers with this mixture, lay the cucumbers in a steamer and steam till they are soft. Take them out with care and lay them on dish in which they are to be served, pour over them the following sauce; Cut up small onion, one clove of garlic and two leaves; bruise twelve cloves and fry in no ounces of butter till golden brown; pour it half a pint of water, adding one teaspoonful of beef extract; let it simmer for ten minutes, then add the juice of a lemon, with salt to taste; strain and decorate the cucumbers straight down center of each with alternate slices of keeled cucumbers and red peppers. Over whole sprinkle some chopped parley or whower of the yolk of a hard-boiled egg passed through a sieve. Stuffed Egg Plant—One-half of this fruit is considered sufficient for each person. Cut them in half, lengthways, scoop out all the inside, leaving the skin whole. Cut up an onion very small, one clove of garlic and one two green peppers; fry these in butter, do not let them color; add the inside of an egg plant after shopping them, and let cool till quite soft. Mix with it two hard-boiled eggs chopped very fine, the strained juice of a lemon and salt to taste. Put it into the half skins, smooth over the top, shrink over a few fine breadorambs, put a dry dabs of butter on the top of each and take till of a pretty golden brown. Decorate with green parley and little mounds of the milk of a hard-boiled egg passed through a sieve. Serve on a dish paper, hot or cold. Peter Warner, a well-to-do farmer living near Edwardsburg, Mich., lost considerable money recently by the failure of a bank in that place. A few weeks ago he disposed of some real estate for $12,000. Having lost it in banks, he placed his money for safekeeping in a stove in the parlor which had been unused for the summer. Last Friday night his wife, who did not know the money was in the stove, built a fire and the pack-age of bills was destroyed. Warner is still over his second loss. The vintage of 1896 is already well under way in Fresno, Madera, Yolo and Sacramento counties, and in early localities in the bay counties. Heavy frosts in May, followed by other unfavorable climatic conditions, caused coulure in all sections, so that the yield will be much below the normal of 16,000,000 gallons of dry wine. Present estimates range from 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 gallons. Better weather for the vintage than that which now prevails could not be desired, and on its continuance depends in large measure the quality of the wine of 1896. Some winemakers are offering only $18 a ton for grapes, but no purchases at that price are reported. On the other hand, many sales have been made at from $20 to $25, the latter figures for the choiceest varieties. If anybody has any doubt that the campaign of the Populist-Demoorata is being run by and in the interest of the silver mine owners and syndicates, that doubt will be dispelled by the following facts which have come to the knowledge of the Republican National Committee within the last twenty-four hours. The silver mine owners of Colorado have agreed to furnish $500,000 for the Bryan campaign fund. Utah, Montana, Idaho and Nevada are to supply as much more. Subscription papers have already been circulated among the mine owners in those States; and such sums have been guaranteed as to make it absolutely certain that these totals will be furnished to Chairman Jones and his committee. Everyman named, as well as every corporation named, is directly and largely interested in having an increased demand and price for silver. It is a little irritating to note that the failure of the Cuban sugar crop is being made up in this market from the cane sugar of Hawaii and the East Indies and the beet sugar of Germany. Thus a current dispatch from Philadelphia, to the effect that 162,000 tons were afloat for that port from the former quarters and more from Hamburg to supply the deficiencies of the Cuban output, should have been a dispatch, or a series of dispatches, from Orange and San Bernardino counties to the effect that the beet sugar refineries were running day and night to fill their orders. Such certainly would have been the case had the McKinley law remained in operation. A great forward step would have been taken toward the planting of this industry firmly in our soil, thus bringing to this country a larger sum of money than does the tobacco crop; thus enabling the farmers of this country to whistle at the ups and downs of the wheat market. We look to the fostering of the sugar beet industry as one of the great substantial sound, reliable and good for all debts, and its purchasing power must be equal of 100 cents for one dollar's worth of labor or material. The crowding they had received, but still determined to set eyes upon the yellow jacket of the illustrious Chinaman. They had been looking wistfully toward the swinging doors of the hotel entrance for about ten minutes when Capt. Malin called his men to one side to give further instructions. Just at this moment one of the young women spied the Viceroy's chair of state in the hotel corridor. In a second she had breathlessly informed her companions of this fact, and with a dive and a rush five bad skipped by the policemen and were up the steps and in the corridor. Each sat upon the plush-covered seat upon which the Viceroy reclines as he is carried about the streets, and then turned their attention to relic hunting. The police still had their backs turned, and the laughing eyed rosy cheeked vandale proceeded to tear off little pieces of the cuchlons and hangings. They broke off several inches of the bamboo about one of the legs, and were about to help themselves to more when the policemen, having received their instructions, returned to duty. One of the big bluecoats saw the girls and started toward them, but he had been seen first, and to a chorous of little shrieks the girls fled down the steps and out into the crowd, still clutching the relics of the Viceroy's visit they had purloined. The treasury officials at Washington are daily in receipt of a large number of requests asking for silver dollars of this year's coinage in exchange for silver certificates or other lawful money. Many of these requests come from persons who seem to doubt the truth of the monthly coinage statement, while others ask for shipments of 1896 dollars with a view of refuting statements that no silver dollars are being coined. These requests have been complied with as fast as received. The treasury officials desire to call public attention to the fact that when silver dollars are ordered in sums or multiples of $500, they are shipped at the expense of the government, but when smaller sums are ordered the shipments are made at the expense of the person ordering. There is now in the treasury $10,506,399 in free silver, that is, silver which may be obtained in exchange for any lawful money, but the demand just now is so keen for 1896 dollars that it seems probable that by the beginning of October the department will be compelled to decline to pay out silver dollars except in exchange for silver certificates or treasury notes of 1890. The law requires certain amounts of silver to be held in the treasury to cover outstanding silver certificates or treasury notes, and when the minimum is reached silver payments will be refused even in exchange for gold or in payment of warrants on the treasury. The coinage value of the stock of bullion now on hand and on which the mints are now at work is $166,745,200, and it is said to be altogether probable that coinage will be continued at least until the stock on hand of standard dollars of 1890 has been increased to about $30,000,000 where it stood when the present administration came into office.