Ukiah Dispatch Democrat from Ukiah, California • Page 8

DISPITCH-DEMOCRAT J. B. SANFORD CALJf RuBscRiPTiOM RATES: One Yeai $2 50 Six 1 25 Tbree Months 75 AdvertlBiug rates made known on application. From the opinion given by Attor- ney General Knox on the validity of the Panama canal title it appears the way is free for the purchase of French right and the immediate beginning of the work of construction. We are therefore in sight at last of the achievement of the long desired waterway across the isthmus.

It may be that most Americans preferred the Nicaragua route, but their main desire is for a canal, and since expert aiithority is on the side of Panama we believe that even among the most earnest advocates of the Nicaragua canal all except an ii-revocable few will accept the Panama route without further controversy. The President, then, will have an overwhelming public sentiment to sustain him in goicg ahecd with the work as rapidly as Tht Shtp Subsidy StMl. As showing how much more pow- erfiil the subsidy-tariff-trust combination is than public opinion, the Indianapolis Sentinel says: "Senator Fairbanks stood up in the Senate at Mark Haiina's dictation and voted for the $180,000,000 ship subsidy steal. So did Senator Beveridge. Public sentiment, in Indiana was overwhelmijgly against the job.

Both the morning evening Republican organs of this city denounced it. So did a number of the most important Republican papers of the State. We do not know of a single newspaper in Indiana that advocated it." Wool Fiber Under The Microscope. MARY MACLANE AND'A TIP. Among the little foibles of the remarkable young lady fram Butte Is one which is told by a former secretary of Edmund Clarence Stedman, who lunched with Mary MacLane at a restaurant recently.

After lunch was over Mary MacLane said to her friend: 'rtfow, you just let me fix the tip the way I want." Then Mary signaleJl the waiter and, producing a quarter, said blaiidly: "Waiter, I'll match you for the With a look of astoiushment on his face the waiier produced a quarter and 'aid it Mary won. Then, with the same calm air, she continued: "Now ril match you for that quarter." Mechanically the astounded waiter deposited his quarter. Again the luck favored Mary, and she quietly pocketed the coin. "You see, my dear," said she to her companion, "we really do thinga better in York Times. The election is the people have expressed their own choice as far as it can be done under popular government and under existing ditions, and it now behooves us all to bury the differences of the campaign and all go to wqrk to advance the material, moral and social prosperity of the country and its citizens.

In this county the campaign was quite decently conducted, there being very little to arouse animosity or ill- feeling ill the treatment accorded to each other by the candidates. The newspapers have indulged in no personal abuse of candidates, but have treated all with fairness and courtesy There will necessarily be some heart-burnings and regrets, but let us hope that time will heal all wounds. We have a splendid county with vast undeveloped resources, an unsurpassed climate, and an intelligent people. Let us make use of our opportunities and make a united pull for progress along all legitimate lines. 7 The result of the election in Mendocino county is gratifying to the Democratic party.

There was, as usual, a great deal of scratching of tickets on both sides, but in the general result theDemocraticcandidates have but little to complain of, except as to the office of Treasurer. Mr. Barnett got a good vote, but he ought to have run even with his ticket. There was no reason why any Democrat should have scratched him, but some did, not for any reason personal to him, but out of friendship for his opponent, Mr. J.N.

Rea. The result shows, what we have steadfastly believed, that the claim set up two ago, that Mendocino count3' had gone into the Republican column, was ill founded. The vote for McKinley and Coombs two years ago was but a temporary switch. This year the county has redeemed itself in good shape from a party standpoint. This is not saying that any of the Republican candidates were bad men.

On the contrary, found no occasion during the campaign, to attack the charac- ter of any of them. THE DISPATCH has no disposition to exult over the defeat of any ofthc beaten ones. On the contrary, we regret that in the exigencies of politics, di.sappoint- ments must needs come. The defeated ones are our fellow citizens and we are ready and willing to cooperate with them, as with all good citizens, ill all laudable etibrts for the advancement of good government and the upbuilding of state. Wich a consciousness of hav- faithfullv performed duty as we were able to see it, we congratulate the newly elected officers, and feel nothing but good will toward the unsuccessful.

There are some things connected with a certain contest on the coast may need ventilating in the future. Should the necessity arise we shall tell the whole truth fear. A story which possesses interest for every American wool grower, as well as for those manufacturers who are not already familiar with it, is told by "The Manufacturer," of Philadelphia. Shortly after the Civil War, when there was a high protective tariff" on woolen goods and a lower one on fabrics composed of cow's hair or calfs hair, on each was assessed an ad valorem duty, but in addition the importer was obliged to pay 50 cents a pound on woolen goods. Now, certain shrewd importers took advantage of the tax to bring in large quantities of articles made wholly or in part of East Indian or Donskoi wools.

These had a course fibre and looked so much like cow's hair, it is asserted, that the customs officers could not tell the difference. Domestic manufacturers were sure that these goods were not, as alleged, cow's hair, but they could not prove their case. At that time there lived in Philadelphia, a young man John Gordon Gray. He was an enthusiastic member of the Fairmount croscopical Club. Thirty or forty years ago the microscope was of some practical use in medicine and biology, but had not been tried extensively on fibres.

It was employed chiefly for purposes of amusement. However, the suspicious manufacturers employed Mr. Gray to make a special study for the purpose of identifying the nature of the questionable importations. He obtained samples of all kinds of wool that were in the market and of other available varieties of hair. When he had pleted his the, went to New York and testified in the Federal courts, cntrrv that certain importations contained $1,250 per 1 family.

Thus it will be seen tha much wool, some of them i the country on an 80 per cent. Bristow, at that! average has insurance of over Ballooning In a Thunderstorm. Two German aeronauts. Dr. Miethe and Lieutenant Hildebrandt, recently had a remarkable experience in the heart of a thunderstorm.

They ascended from Tegel at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and, passing through a mist, came suddenly into a thundercloud. From a height of 650 feet the balloon was shot a mile upward, and then as suddenly it dropped half a mile. They make the curious statement that although they Hid. not see the lightning they were deafened, by the thunder, while pelted with rain, hail and sleet. The balloon leaped and plunged so swiftly that at times the car was on a level with the gas bag and the tow rope was above their heads.

After about half an hour of this experience the balloon fell from a height of 7,200 feet, descending upon a thick wood of beeches, branches of which broke the fall and saved the lives of the adventurers. A LESSON FROM A CIRCUS. The general staff of the French army was all present at the scene Df the battle of Sedan recently for the purpose of receiving an object lesson in American organization in moving, housing and feeding an unny of people. The first of the four big trains of Barnum Bailey's circus arrived at 5 o'clock, and by 9 a hot and elaborate breakfast for 700 was served at tables. Meanwhile every tent had been erected and every seat mounted.

Costumes had been unpacked and hundreds of horses stabled, curried and fed. The stall declared that even the crack artillery regiments could not equal the performance, and the Thirty-sixth field artillery regiment was ordered out from barracks to entrain and detrain. VariouB faults were pointed out by Mr. Bailey and his superintendent. A stenographer took down the suggestions, which will later be embodied in a report to the minister of war.

The staff was served with supper in the circus tent, and then the whole circus meUcd away toward the next town in three hours. CONDENSED Insurance Figures. Few people have any idea of the enormity of the insurance business of the United States. It not only exceeds that of any other'country, but is.twice as great as that of aU. the rest of the world combined.

At the present time there is in the United States about $1.2,000,000,000 of life insurance in force, including assessment business, says Leslie's Weekly. This means over $160 for every man, woman and child in the country, or $800 for every family. The annual risks written by the fire insurance companies are estimated at $20,000,000, which tun Scheel's Prompt Reply. Fritz Scheel, director of the Philadelphia orchestra, has a fondness for American slang and colloquialisms that is far in excess of his aptness in acquiring the exact words and sense. When he first came to Philadelphia in the summer of 1899, he was struck by the exTrression "out of sight" spoken fine heartiness to indicate pleasure and satisfaction with the general order of things.

Scheel determined to make use of it at the first opportunity and to that end repeated it over and over to himself, always keeping in mind the circumstances under which it should be uttered. Mr. Elias met the musician one afternoon when the latter was pla5 'ing at Woodside park and cheerily called out: "How are you, Fritz "You don't see me!" was Scheel's prompt and amazing Times. Driving a Bargain With a Washington Street Car Conductor. "Every, time I see a large assemblage of people in a large city, such as the Grand Army encampment at Washington," said an old Washingtonian the other day, "it recalls to my mind a little incident which took place in front of the Post building some years ago.

It was during the Christian Endeavor convention, and the city, of course, was crowded. There was a large contingent of folks from the country, the real plain people, who 'form the bulwark of the "All wanted to see the sights, quite naturally, and some of them were trying to get through on a very small margin financially and besides probably had been -vvstiied the to lock out for the man with the golden brick. A party of six, both men and women, came out of the Post building one afternoon, and a tall, rawboned old man with a patriarchal beard rushed out across the plaza and hailed a passing Fourteenth street car. 'Say, he cried, brandishing his weather beaten umbrella at the driver, 'what '11 you take us up to Mount Pleasant for 'How many are there of you came the answer. 'Well, I'll take you all up for 5 cents said the driver, smiling benevolently at the bucolic group.

"'I'll go responded the DARWG AMERICAN'S FATE." The Francais containfi tKe following story of a daring American tourist in the French metropolis: "Yic- tor Evandale, an American about forty years of age, declared at a cafe table that he had lived for ten years in the wildest regions of western United States and had, never carried a weapon and was never afraid. Several Frenchmen who were present told Mm that Paris more dangerous. They asserted that he could not) go from Grenelie to Montrogue, for example, after 10 o'clock at night without being killed unless 'He wore laborers' clothes. Evandale left the cafe after a time without reverting to the conversation about dangerous localities. Next morning his companions of the night before were horrified to read of the of Evandale's body in the glacis of the fortifications near the Maison Blanche.

It is supposed he must have actually attempted to walk from Grenelie to Montrogue immediately after leaving his friends. Evidently he was attacked from behind. Tight around his neck was found a thin leather thong which had been used to "strangle him. His pockets were rifled and his shoes and coat removed." Soldiers as Automatons. To convert a man physically into.

an imitation of a machine is, we know, no difficult task. Long distance athletes clearly prove this, Soldiers, again, afford o- Liic again, afford instances, countryman, and with the triumph- Dui-ing the last army maneuvers of air of a woman who just one country a hatch of foot soldiers made a bargain counter look like i was specially trained for lonff dis- Too A X-J 1 1 4. P. time Secretary of the Treasury, then $2,000. invited Mr.

Gray to report on certain samples of "hair" fabrics in Washington. The result a similar verdict. A decision duties on such goods was now rendered by the Secretary, but this called out so violent a protest from the importers that it was temporarilly suspended. At that time Mr. Gray had not a national reputation, and Mr.

Bristow was not sure how he could rely on the expert's judgment. The matter was therefore referred hy the Secretary to a commission from the of Science, whose charter provides that it shall render assistance the government when-! ever called upon. The commission appointed the late Dr. Curtis, Dr. J.

Gibbons Hunt, of Philadelphia, and Dr. Schaeffer a special committee to review the case. The committee called upon Mr. Gray, reviewed his methods anr' finally rendered their report, which Dr. Iltint laterinformed Gray agreed with the hitter's conclusions within one percent.

Treasury decision was accordingly reaffirmed, and resulted in the recovery by the government of millions of dollars. Numerous textile and microscopic societies were organized later, but they all owe their tion to this remarkable achievement of Mr. Gray. Cutter Cefsaied. Senator W.

M. Cutter, chairman of the Republican State Central Com- a'littee, was beaten in his homecoun- ty of Yuba, by Marshal! Diggs, Democrat, by a majority of 3.50 to -iOO. And Yuba is a Republican county H-txd gave a good majoiity for Pardee. Yolo, in the same district gave Diggs majority of -AOO. Butte has not beard from on Cutter and Diggs, but Diggs has undoubtedly carried In Sutter, Cutter hardy held his Asleep Amid Flames.

Maximum Value of Land. The maximum values of land in the north Atlantic states were reached iu 1S80, and the falling off during the past decade has been specially marked. In tiie south Atlantic and south central states farm values reached a high mark in 1860. The heavy drop of ten years later reflects the havoc of civil war. Since that time the trend of values in these states has been upward.

In the west the values have rapidly advanced. The only apparent exception is the last decade. But the lower figures for 1900 are due to the large amount of cheap land thrown open to the Magazine. Menelek's Clocks. The Emperor Menelek, among his other hobbies, takes great interest in clocks, and several chronometers have recently been imported from Switzerland by M.

Ilg, his Swiss adviser, which vary no more than six seconds in two months. Ras Makonnen has also ordered several curious mechanical clocks from Swiss firms for presentation to the negus and the empress. The most remarkable of these is a great chiming clock to imitate that of St. Margaret's, Westminster, London. New Jersey's Leech Industry.

"Hirudo day" is an anniversary in New Jersey that is never heard of elsewhere. It is-the day on wHich the men who gather leeches for medical use go to town to collect their pay, leaving it till this particular day. Leech buying is not the work for a novice. The question of price is not at all involved in the game, as the leech catchers have the only trust permitted on New Jersey soil, and they fix the price per dozen at which they will sell. Their prices range from $1.80 to $3.80 per dozen this year, according to the age of the leech.

A leech under the age of eighteen months is not a medicinal leecli. His suctorial proboscis is not fully developed until he passes seventeen months, although he acquires a full set of semicircular teeth in his Jaws at the age of one year. How Russell Sage (s Guarded. Mr. Sage's office is in the building occupied by the National Bank of Commerce, in Nassau street.

In an anteroom sits his faithful guardian and confidential man, Mr. Menzies, throvgh whom the aged financier must be reached. Mr. Menzies is protected by a partition having a latticed wire top with iron spikes reaching to the ceiling. It would be impossible for a man to climb over these spikes or to throw a bomb between them.

Mr. Sage is not always accompanied in the street or in traveling between his home and office by a bodyguard or detective. Frequently he goes about entirely alone and seemingly is without fear except when in his office. York Press. three lead dimes he shouted back to his party: 'He'll take us up for 5 cents apiece.

Come And they all scrambled in among the amused passengers. "It's dollars to doughnuts that those folks who were running up against the wiles of city life never learned that the bargain thev struck cost them 5 cents more tnan six tickets would have filched out of their exchequer." Washington Post; Hjd Confidence In the Doctor. At the annual meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States Major John Van a tance marching. After traveling prodigious number of miles they were commanded to halt and says Cassell's Magazine. Not one man could bring his rifle to his shoulder and take aim.

Yet at the word "March!" all of them, tottering and unsteady as they were, started promptly to limp on again. They could not perform a fresh action, but their marching had become automatic. Dying Sensation. Dr. Foote of Kansas, who committed suicide recently by taking poison, left the following note describing his struggles: "I feel all right at the present time, but know that the poison is doing its work.

I burn, but feel a sort of soothing sensation flow over me and a desire, to go to sleep. I am sure that I have not much longer to live. It is now after 3 o'clock, and I feel I am. dying. My head is clear, and my brain works perfectly.

But now I feel the spasm coming, and then 1 will be gone. Goodby." Hard Rules For Printers. All printing establishments He is certainly defeated. Breaking into a blazing home, some firemen lately dragged the sleepinginmatesfrom death. Fancied security, and death near.

It's that way when you neglect coughs and colds. Dont do it. Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption gives perfect protection against all Throat, Chest and Lung Troubles. Keep it neaf, and avoid death, and doctor's bills.

A teaspoonful stops a late cough, persistent use the most stubborn. Harmless and nice tasting, it's guaranteed to satisfy by Mathews Drug Co. Price oOc and $1. Trial bottles free. Plucky Mrs.

Seton. Ernest Seton, whose studies of animal life have delighted so many readers, for twenty years has been noting by word or sketch every eraall fact he discovered. Among them are innumerable footprints of wild animals, most of which he gives Mrs. Seton credit for obtaining. She has often gone into an animal's" cage in the New York zoo and, with the keeper's assistance, cajoled the creature into walking to and fro on light brown paper which wou'd show its tracks.

Bloerafontein journal a.i- followinL' nntiV's- Very Like a Bull. In a pears the following notice: SECOND EDITION. APOLOOT. A series of accidents lias unfortunately necessitated an apology for the nonap- paarance o.f the first edition, Which, to say the least of it, is very Express. A Singular Competition.

A singular contest has just taken place near Birnungham. Stones were placed a yard apart for a hundred yards, and a local butcher had undertaken to pick each one up separately and return it to a basket at the end of the line. The time allowed to accomplish this performance was fifty-five minutes, and the butcher succeeded in finishing in forty-eight minutes. The task is not so simple as it first appears, for when in the seventies he was running something like 150 yards for each stone, which was increased to 200 at the finish. In this way he covered a considerable is estimated between five and six Standard.

Our Meat Exports. The total annual export value of United States meat, of which beef forms'the principal item, is in round figtires $100,000,000. If we add to this the distributive of the various packing establishments in the United States for the domestic market as well, we find that it reaches the enormous total of 1,000,000 carloads, valued at $2,000,000,000. Added to this ia the value of the many byproducts of th-; packing house, which amount to many millions Monthly. "THEEOCTOK TOLD US TO ilAKE THE COP- FIK." E.

Hofl; in the course of his speech accepting the presidency of the association told the following story: "A lady was passing through the wards of an overcrowded military hospital when she suddenly encountered two men sawing and hammering on some boards. She looked at them in some surprise and wonderingly asked, 'What are you doing there, ray They looked up at her, and one of them said: 'What are we doing Why, we are making a coffin; that's what wo are 'A she asked. 'For whom are you making a 'For that fellow over there in that bed. Don't you see The lady looked in the direction indicated and saw a man apparently in good condition and watching the operation with great interest. 'Why, that man is not dead, and, indeed, he does not look as if he were going to die.

Can't you postpone this the men said, 'we can't postpone it. The doctor told us to make the coffin, and he knows what he gave Turkey, according to a new law just passed, may have only one door; and that opening on to the street. Windows must be covered with close meshed wire netting so that no papers can be handed through. A statement must be made a year in advance of the amount of ink required, which will be supplied by the state. A specimen of everything- printed is to be kept and must be shown at any time to a police inspector on pain of a fine.

Hint to Coal Consumers. A Swedish professor, Svend Arrhenius, has evolved a new theory of the extinction of the human race. He holds that the combustion of coal by civilized man is gradually warming the atmosphere so that in the course of a few cycles of 10,000 years the earth will be baked in a temperature close to the boiling point. He bases his theory on the accumulation of carbonic acid in the atmosphere, which acts as a glass in concentrating and refracting the- heat of the sun. It Was Poor French.

When the Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis was a seminary student, it is said that he prided himself on being more proficient in modern languages than his fellows. When it came his turn to say grace in the "mess- room," he persisted in saying it in French until he was cut short by the gruff remonstrance of a wild western here, Hillis, cut that." "I suppose you object to what you don't understand," retorted "It ain 't that," replied the other, much as that I don't believe the Lord himself knows what you aw York Tunes. New Table of Values.

"Now, children," said the teacher to the class in advanced arithmetic, "j'ou may recite in unison the table of values." And the children repeated in. chorus: "Ten mills make a trust. "Ten trusts make a combine. "Ten combines make a merger. "Ton mergorii make a magnate.

"One magnate makes the American. Americans Good Spenders. Four million dollars is the sum annually left in Paris by visiting Americans, according to a writer iu the Petit Parisien. Mrs. Charles T.

Yerkes is credited with spending $20,000 a year on gowns purchased there, and Mrs. Mackay sometimes- orders $10,000 or worth at a time. Among male customers the' best are said to be Morgan, Carnegie, Schwab and Vanderbilt. Has Never Happened. "Does hanging prevent asked a friend of Deputy Attorney General Job E.

Hedges the other- day. "I think it does," replied Mr. Hedges. "I never heard of a man. committing murder after ho wasr York Times..