The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 1, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Paily and Eunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.16 Daily and Sunday CALL, ong year, by mal. ... 6.00 Daily 2ud Sua Daily and Sund: Deily and Sunday CALL, one month, by matl.. Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.. WEEKLY CALL, One year, by mail. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone. ...Main-1868 CaLy, six months, by mail. 3.00 Cavi, three months by mail 1.50 85 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. ...Maln-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 620 Montgomery street, corner Cla; £:30 o'clock. 889 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 717 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. "SW. corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets; open entil 8 o'clock. %618 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock. 43¢ Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 84 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. Telephone open uxntll SATURDA EBRUARY 1, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. This is the day to leave orders for THE SuxpaY CALL. Tillman’s speech was redhot, but thea Grover needed a roast. Huntington seems to have everything on his hands except gloves. In the funding bill fight it is about time we were hearing & Loud voice. The East is bragging on a big ice crop and we have the lemons to flavor it. “Old Kentucky Never Tires” is a good song, and may prove to be a true one. No Democratic candidate for the Presi- dency has yet been accused of having a boom. The next thing we hear from the Govern- ment will be the amount of the deficit for January. However the lobby may grease the slides the refunding scheme won’t pass without friction. Iowa joins with Kentucky in assisting California, and the team is getting stronger every day. Dr. Jameson may be punished in Eng- land, and then again he may be elected to Parliament. It is about time for Congress to recall the Bayard incidert and for Cleveland to recall Bayard. The monopoly expected the refunding scheme to be a soft snap, and it turns out to be a hard fight. Every day adds a new deficit to empha- size the need of passing the emergency tariff bill as soon as possible. The California Congressman who does not keep his record clean on the funding bill fight will surely be spotted. From the silence of the poet laureate of late it would seem he has begun to take quiet steps to get his feet corrected. It will soon be time for the Kaiser to blow his bugle horn again, for the echoes of the Krueger blast are rapidly dying out. There are several State legislatures in session, but none of them seem to be doing business enough to advertise them- selyes. e Chicago celebrated Burns’ birthday with a dance, and that was a compliment to the poet, for the biggest thing Chicago has -is her feet. At If the siiver men persist in forming a separate. organization for the campaign the only result will be a surprise party for themselves. The work of the competing road in the San Joaquin this year will demonstrate the adwisability of constracting similar roads everywhere. The canger that confronts Democracy is that when the National Convention goes it blind to pick a dark horse, it may get a wild ass of the desert. As soon as the funding bill fight is settled we shall have to devote attention immediately to the committee in charge of the Nicaragua bill. ey Cleveland, Ohio, intends to celebrate her centennial very soon, and will make it a novelty by abstaining from anything in the shape of an exposition, By an Aldermanic decree no citizen of Chicago can keep more than six dogs at a time, and asa result there 15 a howl that is heard across the continent. There will be manyissues in the cam- paign this year, but tariff reform will be the one most needed by the government and most interesting to the people. Over in the blizzard-blown East one-half the editors have had to begin writing about Presidential politics to keep them- selves warm until the cold snap passes. Although it is said Ohio is solid for Mc- Kinley, there seems to be a hollow place in it big enougn for Foraker to show him- self as a Presidential candidate if he wishes. The Senate resolutions do not directly recognize the Cubans as belligerents, but they give the Spaniards to understand that we know a war is going on and feel interested in ir. Cleveland may bave expected to get ahead of the Senate with a vigorous for- eign policy, but it Jooks now as if the Senate might have to prod him a little to make him keep up the pace. et st The Salt Lake Herald gives the newly elected Senator Brown of Utah due notice that if he is ambitious to go to the Senate again he must begin his campaign at once, as his opponents have aiready begun. Senater Stewart was right in saying the vote on the silver substitute for the bond bill would be “a dress parade,’”” and he was alzo right in adding that no silver man could afford to fall out of the ranks on such an occasion, Matthews of Indiana had scarcely got bimself mentioned as a possible Demo- cratic candidate for the Presidency before be was informed by an ambushed foe that no man whose first name is Claude will ever get a yote for President in this country. A DETERMINED FIGHT. ‘With the exception of Grove L. Johnson those of the California delegation in Con- gress who have appeared before the House Committee on Pacific Roads have made a splendid fight against the passage of a funding bill by Congress. They have done this in spite of the harrying to which they were subjected by-the membvers of the committee, whose friendly attitude toward the railroads is all too apparent. The ad- dresses by Messrs. Bowers and Barham— the one the hard-headed argument of a practical man, the other the cool, searching s of a lawyer—were masterpieces in their way. On Thursday Representative Hilborn made a point in addressing the committee that it seems impossible to answer. It was that the debt of the Central Pacific cannot be extended beyond 1911, because under the law of California the company will absolutely cease to exist at that time, without any possibility under the law of reviving it. Representative Bowers made another point of great force. Quoting the last re- port of the Secretary of the Interior, he showed that the Central Facific has earned an annual net profit equal to 6 per cent on the entire amount which the Government has paid and would have to pay if it dis- charged the first-mortgage debt. Hence he takes the ground that as a simple busi- ness proposition 1t would pay the Govern- ment to refund the two debts, represented by the first and second mortgages, with bonds bearing a rate of 3 per cent interest, and foreclose. It may pe that all these earnest efforts will prove futile in the committee and that the Smith bill, extending the debt 100 years and providing for an interest of 1 per cent for the first ten years and 2 per cent for the remaining ninety years, will be presented to the House with the rec- ommendation that it pass. This possibil- ity does not mean that the House will pass the bill or that the efforts of Cali- fornia to defeat it should relax in the smallest degree. Meanwhile those of our Congressmen who are fighting for the State will be remembered in the years to come. This is a consideration which Congress- man Johnson might ponder with profit. The sivuation in Kentucky is becoming daily more serious for the railroad. Sena- tor Goebel is pushing his bill vacating the Southern Pacific Company’s charter, and the threatened company petrays its alarm by dividing its lobby so much needed at Washington and sending some of its strongest members to Frankfort. The work at home proceeds valorously. The differences at first appearing in the committee appointed to draft a memorial to Congress have disappeared, and the voice of California will issne from it in vigorous tones, A SEVERE ARRAIGNMENT. The statement of affairs in the Trans- vaal, which John Hays Hammond has sent to Senator John P. Jones, is virtually an appeal to all civilized nations to take cognizance of the low character of the Transvaal Government and interfere to adjust its operations so as to bring them in accord with the principles of common humanity. He discloses a state of affairs almost incredible in a government con- ducted by a people belonging to one of the oldest and finest races in the world, and gives sufficient reasons for its radical re- organization or total extinction. In effect he shows that, zlthough the Government professes to be a republic, the franchise is so restricted as to prevent participation in its affairs by more than half its residents; that these unenfran- chised persons are the developers and wealthmakers of the republic and the most progressive, enlichtened and law- loving of its people; that, besides being denied the franchise, they are mercilessly taxed, denied the privilegesof the national schools and otherwise disgracefully dis- criminated against; that the Government is corrupt and its administration ineffi- cient, and that favored monopolies are created to the injury of the people, Recognizing this terrible condition of affajrs the foreigners organized a reform movement. Its proceedings and inten- tions were open and undisguised, as is shown by the fact that it made an appeal to the Boer Legislature for redress of the prevalent wrongs. This petition was treated with contempt. While this was going on, the grounds for the agitation being strictly constitutional and the mem- bers of the movement pledged to uphold the Government in any event, Jameson made his unsuccessful raid. Thereupon sixty foreigners, all of whom had belonged to the reform committee and had pledged themselves to support the Government. were arrested and charged with high treason and sedition, and are to be tried on these charges in venal courts moved by a bitter sentiment of hostility toward the suspects. It would hardly be possible to make a more terrible arraignment than this. Itis not a sufficient defense of the Boer Gov- ernment to say that if foreigners do not like the Transvaal they may keep away, or that the Boers have the inherent right to place any restrictions they please on the franchise. No civilized Government, whether republic or monarchy, has the right to conduct its affairs as those of the Transvaal are managed, and a citizen of any civilized country has the right to ex- pect there the just and humane treatment that all other civilized nations are ready to accord. Hammond’s arraignment is an appeal not alone to our Government, but to every other, to interfere in Transvaal affairs and enforce the adovtion of civil- ized principles.of government. A NEW DEPARTMENT. The bill proposed by the National Asso- ciation of Manufacturers, to be introduced in Congress, providing for the creationofa department of manufactures and com- merce, has the highest merit. It would undoubtedly fill a place in the Government not less important than the Department of Agriculture, and might be even more bene- ficial, inasmuch as our manufactures ara exposed to even fiercer comvetitions and greater vicissitudes than our rural indus- tries, and therefore have a keener need of governmental supervision and help. More than that, a comparison of the censuses of 1380 and 1890 shows that while the capital invested in manufactures in 1880 was $2,790,272,000, it was increased to $6,524,475,000 in 1890, this gain alone of $3,700,000,000 being almost equal to the total value of agricultural products in 1890. In 1890 the products turned out by manu- facturers were worth $9,370,107,624, against $3,800,000,000 wortn of agricultural prod- ucts. That is to say, if there is one reason why there should be a department of agri- culture there are nearly three why there should be the proposed new department. In the work of framing the bill the whole scope of commerce should be con- sidered. We have a scheme of laws of which the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion 1s the focus and which recognizes a necessity for the regulation of interstate transportation. The commission has done much—in fact, for its practical achieve- ments it easily stands first among the commissions created by Congress. But . interstate transportation is by no means all of commerce. It is conceivable that the proposed Department of Manufactures and Commerce might not cnly be made to exercise the functions of the Interstate Commerce Commission on a broader and stronger basis, but that it might also be empowered to foster the foreign commerce of the country. This is a phase of our National development that has never re- ceived adequate attention, and California particularly has a deep interest in the sub- ject. NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE. In the Senate on Thursday two memora- ble speeches were made during the debate on the Senate silver substitute for the House bond bill. These were made by Mr. Perkins of California and Mr. Mitcheil of Oregon. Mr. Perkins’ remarks were a spirited refutation of the charge made by a New York paper that California was not a silver State, it being necessary only to quote a resolution adopted by the last Cali- fornia Legislature declaring unqualifiedly for the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1. Mr. Mitchell’s speech was one of those rousing appeals to the patriotic sense pt our people that are too seldom héard in the Senate. He took the ground, while advocating the 'silver substitute, that the welfare of the country does mot demand the issuance of bonds or the perpetuation of the single gold standard. He said that it was time this country should assert its independence, establish its own monetary system and cease bend- ing the knee in subservience to any policy that Great Britain might choose to adopt, maintaining the doctrine that we have the power so to do. The following extract from his speech will live in the history of the country: “Has the more than century of our Na- tional life, with all the prestige and in- fluence and power and glory that have come to us in our unparalleled progress as a Nation, and in the development of a civilization than which none so grand has ever existed since the creation of man, still left us a poor, weak dependent on the British crown? Because England, since 1816, has adhered to the single gold stand- ard in the 1nterest of the gold-brokers of Lombard street, are we to forever bend the supple knee, acknowledge our impotency as a Nation, and surrender the preroga- tives that ought rightfully to attach to a free and independent people? In my judgment, the United States, as a Nation, in whatever aspect considered—whether nationally, intellectually, scientifically, commercially or financially—stand, or, at least, should stand, in the very vanguard of nations; pre-eminent in every element of greatness, in every aspect of grandeur, in every attribute of glory and in every essential or sovereign power. Resource- ful 1n physical elements of every conceiv- able character in a measure and to an ex- tent unparalleled by any country on the globe, if she will but assert herself as be- comes her as the prond, aggressive, inde- | pendent leader of nations, New York, and not London, will become the clearing- house of the world, and our country, pre- eminent over all, will no longer be slave, either in commercial or monetary sense, but the distinctive and primal sovereign, the imperial master and dictator, finan- cially as well as commercially, among all the nations of the world.” The imperious policy of England has re- ceived another shock in the remarkable speech made by A. J. Balfour recently ata meeting of his constituents at Manches- ter, England. In the course of his re- marks he said: *T may perhaps add that all this diffi- culty in connection with the cotton dnties would never have risen, nor would it even have been needful to put aduty, an im- port duty, at all in India upon Lancashire manufactures had it not been for the un- happy fall in the gold value of silver, which has been productive of such im- mense misfortunes to trade and commerce in every part of the world. Once again I express emphatically my own private per- sonal conviction that it is a misfortune for this country, a misfortune for India and a misfortune for the world that the British public is so slow to follow the teaching of economic science and to throw itself heartily into the policy of an interna- tional agreement on monetary subjects.’” It can hardly be doubted that such an assertion of National independence as that upon which Senator Mitchell insists would have the instart effect of bringing Eng- land to the terms which Mr. Balfour pro- poses. It is altogether inconsistent with our National pride, independence and wealth of native resources that we should cringe under the financial lash wielded by Lombard street and so vigorously laid upon our backs by the reflex and embodi- ment of that interest in this country—the President of the United States. “ THE SUNDAY OALL." Conspicuous among the special features of to-morrow’s CALL will be a sketch of C. P. Huntington’s boyhood career, gathered from the very few associates of his early life who still survive at Poverty Hollow, Conn, There are only one or two, and they are very old, but their memory of those days of sixty to seventy years ago is very clear, and they tell exceedingly inter- esting stories of the harum-scarum young giant who was the champion wrestler of the Hollow and who lived to become the great railroad magnate of the West. There seems to be no sentiment in Mr. Hunting- ton’s composition, for he has never visited his old home since he left 1t with a stock of whisky for California in 1849, and only a stone that was too big to move marks the site of the house in which he was born. Charles D. South has a stirring patriotic poem entitled “The Man-o’-War's Man’s Dream,” depicting a ghostly naval engage- ment off the Heads. A contribution entitled “Foreign Deco- rations Worn by San Franciscans’ will be found particularly interesting. . Other special features of value will ap- pear, besides the regular features peculiar to the Sunday issue, Among the latter may be mentioned the page devoted to re- cent advancement in science and art, the literary department, fashion and society chronicles, the theatrical world, the chil- dren’s page and others. THE SUNDAY CALL is perfectly suited as a vehicle through which Cafifornians may inform their Eastern friends concerning the State. A petition has been addressed to Con- gress by John Conway of Mariposa County urging the repeal of the Yosemite Park law on the ground that miners and set- tlers who could formerly obtain timber iree of cost are now compelled to buy it at high prices from lumber companies or let their improvements go to waste. The titioner further asserts that the law has not served to preserve the forests, and in fact has been of no public benefit what- ever. The claim of the Cleveland Leader that in the Republican National Convention McKinley will receive three-fourths of all the votes cast on the first ballot leads to the suspicion that there is a scheme on foot ta take a ballot before anybody arrives at the convention except the Ohio men, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “The reason Iam in California,” said Coun ciman B. F. McLain of Wichita, “‘is because I want to make a new business location. I have been in the lumber business in Wichita for some years, and my friend, £ R. Oliver, who 1s 8150 & business man of Wichita, wants to go in business some place here, t00. ““Los Angeles, which we visited, is a fine city. Idon’t know butit’s good enough for us. We like this City, too, but before we get through looking we will visit Stockton and Sacra- mento. ‘“There is no use talking, there is vastly more money in ecirculation in California than in Kansas. I noticed this at once. You may think you have hard times here, but you don't really know anything sbout them. The Cali- tornians buy more luxuries than any other people I ever saw. They aress better, go to the theaters, see the races, travel extensively and B. F. McLain, Member of the City Council of Wichita, Now.on a Visit Here. [Sketched from life by a “ Call” artist.] live better every way than the people east of the Rocky Mountains do. They seem to have more lejsure, too. “Now, if they didn’t have the money they couldn’t do all this. You see dollars here where you see dimes and guarters in many other States, and the dollars here are no harder toget than the dimes and quarters there. A | £00d many of the people here don’t know how well off they are. “‘Wichita is a good town. It has been & very good town. But with hard times all over. Kansas and that entire region, and the popula- tion of the town down from fully 40,000 to 23,000, there is a hard road now to live. There isno money there, so something has to be done. “The different political creeds that have been espoused in Kansas for the past six.or eight years have done the business for us. - If we had stuck to a consistent course, and stuck to Republicanism, s we did 1or so many years, ‘we would have been all right.” Mr. McLain and Mr. Oliver are both old resi- dents of Wichite. Mr. Oliver and others of his family were at one time ranked among the miilionaires of that city. J. A. Filcher, secretary of the State Board of Trade, had & select audience of friends who congratulated him yesterday on his return from the Atlanta Fair, While in the sunny South Mr. Filcher observed many peculiari- ties of the people, his newspaper instinct as- serting itself in various directions, with the resuit that he has brought back with him quite & cellection of good stories, which others 1n all prodability would have passed as mat- ters hardly worth narrating. His little audience yesterday were newspaper men and one or two public men, who thor- oughly appreciated Mr. Fileher's anecdotes of the South. . “‘Moonshine,” said he; what it is—moonshine? “Iknow you &ll think you know what it is. But you can get moonshine in broad daylight only down there in Georgia. *‘Moonshine knocks the pins from under California wine down in that country. 1t is found everywhere you go, and appears to be & household product. “‘How much does it cost? I asked a Geor- gian, “‘‘Well, you get a bushel of corn for 50 cents,’ he replied. “‘‘Water costs nothing.’ “‘Itdon’t cost nothing for labor. All you want 1s & nigga to keep the pot & boiling round thar. That’s jess all, and you have three gal- lons of moonshine, Three gallons from a bushel at 50 cents, Thai’s three gallons of good stuff for a half, ain’t it?’ “And that fellow grinned allover. Ithought liquor was cheap enongh at such a price, and saw how the people could have moonsiiine in every house and cabin.” “‘But what is moonshine 2’ “Whisky that peys no duty.” “ “How do you keep it without being caught by the revenue men? I asked this fellow. *“‘Keep it? We've never more than a gallon in any one place.’ “Can you tell me what chance wine has against moonshine? “That reminds me, too, of what happened when we were packing the exhibit. There was “do any of you know ‘some wine lying round and I gave it to the colored workmen to revive them, for the work was trying and had to be done rapidly. “Ilostthe corkscrew, and wanted badly to open a bottle for two industrious fellows who were getting tired. Igot my pocket-knife and cut the cork out as far as I could and then started to push the rest of the cork into the bottle. 1did so, but my knife followed it. “A big colored man who did not know that the knife wasin the bottle was the first to get a drink. He opened his mouth until I thought he would let the whole bottle down, but he hed scarcely taken the first gulp when that knife caught in his throat. He was almost irightened out of his wits, but e saved him from a fit by getting out the knife. “ ‘Snakes alivel’ he exclaimed, ‘I thought it ‘was something that grew in California wine.’ “It was his first experience with the native article.” LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. OUR NATIONAL BANKS. OxCE POPULAR, BUT Now THEY AROUSE Hos- TILITY. 3 To the Editor of the Morning Call—SIR: As it 1s conceded by all intelligent men that the financial issue is to be animportant factor, and by many the leading factor, in the ap- proaching Presidential campaign, all accurate information. such as no one will think of call- ing in question on any branch of this great issue, cannot fail to be valusble to all intelli- gent and honest voters. At the present time there is a great deal of adverse criticism in Congress and a number of the news- papers sgainst our National banks, and quite naturally they are fighting back with equal Vigor. As the campaign progresses it is highly Probable that this warfare will occupy a large share of the public attention. In acool and deliberate mood let us try to getat the facts, and thereby become qufiul Y form a correct Jjudgment on this branch of the financial issue. Probably nine out of every ten business men in San Francisco regard the Back of England &s just what its name implies, and will be sur- prised when informed thatit is in fact & pri- vate banking incorporation. Our “National” banks are also private corporstions,and “Na- tional” m'a.lr in'name, except in so far as they enjoy certain special pflvflt;u by favorof the Government over private banks, so called. They are based on National bonds, and if there were no National bonds there could be no Na- tional banks. It is quite natural, therefore, that they should favor a large issue of National bonds, and lone-time bonds, too, for & consid- erable portion of the bonds issued during the War of the Rebellion have matured and many more are about to fall due, after which theg cease 10 bear interest and are liable to be pai Off atanytime if the country is prosperous. The continued existence of the National banks depends upon new issues of Naticnal bonds. ‘he system under which these banks are or- and their lfl)erltions are conducted mey be thus stawed: Half a dozen men who can raise the sum of $100,000 agree to form & bank Ccorporation and each takesstock in it§propor- tionate to tne money putin by each. They draw upand sign incorporation "papers, pay over their money, which is exchanged for green- backs, and with the greenbacks they buy United States Government bonds to the amount 100,000, Now the law proyides that these bonds, bearing say 4 per cent interest, may be Teturned to the Government for safe keeging. and then the Government will issue $90,000 in bank notes to this new bank and print the Dame of the bank on the bills. In a word the bank gets back all but one-tenth of its capital, Raying 1 per interes: on the $90,000 an rawing 4 per cent interest from the Govern- ment on the whole $100,000. They are now ready for busiriess, the pank is ogened and they E?oceed_w loan this £90,000in their own bank- ills to individuals st from 6 to 10 per cent, these bankbills being redeemed by the Govern- ment if the bank should fail; but the Govern- ment does not repay depositors, and their sole dependence is upcn the bank itself for the Teturn of their money, and the bulk of the business doue by banks through loaus and dis- counts is by the use of the money belonging to depositors ‘and not by the use of their own capital, as a glance at_the sworn statements of bankers will at once demonstrate. Three months ago, on October 30, 1895, the Comptroller of the Currency reports that there were 3712 of these National banks, with a total capital of $657,100,000, and_deposits by in- dividuals to the amount of $1,701,653,000, meaking the available resources of these banks $2,358,750,000, the deposits being more than double the capital. Adding the surplus fund of £246,448,000, we have & combined total of $2,605,206,000." By using all these combined Tesources, they have loaned $2,041,846,000, leaying on hand the sum of $563,636,000 with which to meet calls of depositors for the sum of $1,701,653,000, or more than three times the amount on hand. Ifa panic oceurs and less than one-third of the depositors call for their money, they can be paid by taking the last dollar out of the whole 3712 National banks. Thus it is seen why the banks have to close their doors the moment people loose ‘‘confidence” in them, for it npgenrs that more than two-thirds of the banking businessis done on “confidence” or bank credit, and_only one depositor In three could possibly get his money if but one in three should call for it on the same day. Itisnot surprising thet so many banks fail, but that so few 1ail under such conditions. The growing hostility to National banks is not due, however, to occasional failures, but to the fact that they have grown so rich and pow- erful as to exert an a!most irresistible in- fluence 1n poitics, and are so successful in electing their friends as Congressmen, Sena- tors and Presidents. No one believes that a majority or a large minority of the American geuple is opposed to the restoration ofsilver to ree coinage, or desires the retirement of the greenbacks by rb-funding them in interest- bearing bonds, 1o be sold to bankers, that we may have nine new bank notes to replace every ten greenbacks now in circulation, The people prefer the greenbacks which bear no in- terest, but, as bejore stated, the National banks must all cease to exist in a few years un< less they can induce the President or Congress to issue 'more bonds. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON, 11 Essex street, San Francisco, THE LITTLE COMFORTER. I shall not rail at fortune or at fate, . While in the dark or light, 1 hear a footstep pattering to the gate ‘That closes on the night. But for those little foet Xach pathway shall The sad storms rimmed with rainbows, Where the paths of angels meet! I shall not rall at fortune or st fate While under Love’s own skies My little queen walks where the roses walt And wins me with her eyes, Ko in those eyes I seem To read the storms tnat stream On bright celestial meadows where the angels sing dream! 1 shall not rail at fortune or at fate While still I feel the beat Of her glad heart, and in life’s twilight late Her rosy 1ips and sweet} Lovely as still tho art, Rest on my heart, sweetheart ! st Till God’s white angel smiling kiss lips and lives apart! FRANK L. STANTON in Atlanta Constitution. LADY'S YOKE WITH EPAULETTES. Here is shown a perfectly plain waist, which 18 made to appear very elaborate and dressy by & simple accessory. A yoke like this can be worn with any waist, and is a great help when one’s wardrobe is limited. The pattern is cat with the straps in one piece with the yoke. The epanlettes are sewed on at the shoulder. A waist of plain cloth may be made very stylish with trimmings of the new Cashmere velveteen cut efter this model. The edges may be turned in or simply bound with ribbon. Another charming way to remodel a plain Waist is to have this irimming of a contrasting color in cloth—say a black waist with mign- onette, green cloth. This may be spangled along the edges, or be bordered by a fringe of fur. uTx“d silk is also used over plain clothes or s Flouncing may be used for the yoke and eglulethe!, with band lace for the siraps. Or the yoke or straps may be cut in one of piece lace, using & highly colored silk for lining. Black lace makes a very effective trimming for almost any waist. Black net, plain or the dotted, may be used, the edges turned in aad trimmed with green or black spangles sewn on close togetber. If the dotge% n‘et 1s used, a spangle mey be sewn on each dot. Piece embroidery can also be utilized for such a trimming. The natural colored grass linen or batiste makes a very stylish accessory, and is not ex- msive. Either the plain or the all-over em- roidered ones can bé used. & Plain white lawn or batiste are very dainty. All the edges to be trimmed with the narrow- est of vellow valenciennes lace. The collar to be of row upon row of lace on a plain strip of the goods. Bi%bon two and a half inches wide joined together by strips of embroidery or lace the same width can- be used, with ‘the lace laid over the ribbon for the straps. VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. The Valley Road First. Hanford Democrat. California needs the Nicaragua canal, but it will do her no good' if constructed in such a way as to be gobbled by the allied railroaa corporations. Nor will it accomplish much to relieve the people of the interior of California without the construction of competing local lines of railroad. The Valley road first; the Nicaragua canal afterward. Only During Good Behavior. Angels Camp Echo. Itisallright for the South American republics to hail Uncle Sam as the father of the American family, but they should remember that he will be father to them only so long as they behave themselves. The United States does notunder- take to defend the little but bellicose states every time they get into trouble, without re- spect to the merits of their quarrels. Honor the Teachers. Truckee Republican. Raise your hat reverently when you pass a teacher of the primary school. She is the great angel of the universe. She takes the young hopefuls fresh from the home nest, full of pouts and passions, takes & whole carload of these little anarchists, and at once puts them in the way of being good and useful citizens. In the Hands of His Friends. Pasadena News. With respect to the Presidential nomination for ’96 it seems pretty piain that President Cleveland is still in the hands of his friends. He is probably the only man living who thinks he could be elected if nominated. Expensive Schoolbooks. Vacaville Reporter. We do not think the work dene in the prepar- ation of the State series of schoolbooks has been satisfactory. In fact it is so poor that they have peen discarded wherever possible, and if used at all have been used under protest, and in connection with other schoolbooks. We do not know what the costs have been up to date, but they have been in excess of any reasonable necessity. THE YOUNGEST DRUMMER. There is a good story behind the bill which Representative Dick Blue has introduced di- recting the Secretary of War to muster and dis- charge John W. Brooks &sa drummer, says the Washington correspondent of the St. Louis Johnnie Brookes, the Youngest Drummer in the War. Globe-Democrat. Mr. Brooks is a lawyer now at Ellsworth, Kans. Thirty-two years ago he was Johunie Brooks, aged 9, the youngest drummer in the United States army. He was 100 young to be mustered, but he wore the uni- form, went upon duly st all times the same as the other musicians, obeying the orders of his Tegiment, the Fifth Veleran Reserve Corps He served from July, 1863, to August, 1865, and when his regiment was mustered out Jonnnie’s father was a fifer and the boy beat the drvm. Twenty affidavits accompany the bill. They are made by members of Company E, and tell how faithfully Jonnnis was on duty, turning out day and night, winter and summer, to beat the calls. When the remains of President Lin- coln reached Indianapolis on the way from Washington to Springfield, and were - taken from the car to the Capifol to lie in state, Johnnie Brooks wes there with his drum beat- ing the dead march. The muster and discharge will make Mr. Brooks & veteran de jure, es he is already de | facto. They will put him on the muster rolls | of s regiment and allov him the pay to which he is entitled for the two years’ service he rendered. The whole Kansas delegation is taking an interest in the bill, and it will doubt- less go through. The father of Mr. Brooks is S!iflqi\‘ing, and is a resident of Firth, Nebr. PERSONAL. R. Allyn Lewis of Phwenix, Ariz., is in the City. R. A. Hume of San Diego reached here last night. % C. R. Gilbert of Butte was among last night's arrivals. A. L. Levinsky, the lawyer, of Stockton, 1s at the Grand. George H. Koch of New Albany, Ind.,1sat the Grand. D. W. Lubeck, a bueiness man of Sacramento, is in town. John Woodburn, & merchant of Sacramento; isin town. Dr. W. M. Van of Seattle was among yester- day’s arrivals. George H.Appel, the fruit-desler, of Sacrs- mento, is here. Arthur Gibson of Queensland, Australia, is among recent arrivals. W. E. Rogers, owner of the Amelia mine, near Jackson, is at the Lick. A, B. Clements, & mining man of Helens, Mont,, is at the Occidental. George A. Martin, a business man of Sioux City, Iows, is at the Palace. Charles M. Cassin, an attorney of Santa Cruz, is here on a brief business trip. W. L. Gaylord, & prominent resident of Northampton, Mass., is at the Palace. J. R. Trainor, the extensive dealer in fruits at Marysville, arrived here yesterday. E. W. 8. Wood, an extensive land owner of San Joaquin County, is here on a brief visit. C. E. Tinkuam, manager for the Girna Lum- ber and Flume Company, Chico, is at the Grand. P. Phelan, & prominent eitizen and capital- ist of Salt Lake City, is 8 guest at the Cosmo- politan. Hon. Daniel Reilly, a wealthy and prosper- ous citizen of Merced, is registered at the Cos- mopolitan. Tom D. Lane, superintendent of the Utica mine at Angels, arrived here last night and is at the Palace. C. F. Schumaker, & business man of Superior, Wis., the new and rising metropolis opposite Duluth, is in the City. Dr. R. B. Davy, the new physician to the St. Luke’s Hospital, is registered at the Grand. He has been absent for some lltt!u time. James P. Bootn of the Report staff, who re- cently returned from a visit to friends at New Orleans and the Atlanta Exposition, has been quite ill for over & week past, at Dr. Lane’s hospital. His ailment is malarial or gastrio fever. His condition has been regarded as serious, but he is improving now. Manager John C. Kirkpatrick of the Palace Hotel is suffering with a serious case of erysip- elas. About two weeks ago he went to Los Angeles and while absent contracted the dis. ease. Ho came home as speediiy as possible and has since been in bed, with the room darkened so as to ease his eyes, for the erysip- elas is in his face. Mr. Kirkpatrick is improy. ing steadily now, and it is hoped he will soon be out again. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 31.—Among recent arrival : Mre. Kaessing, Barrett; W, Kerr, St. Cloud; A. Eoff, Hoffman. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. John Usher, who died the other day in Seot- 1and, was & protege of Sir Walter Scott in his youth. He was fond of telling that on one oe- casion when & boy he sat on Sir Walter’s knee and sang some border songs for him, in return for which he later received a white pony from the poet. Geueral Bourbaki of France is nearly 80 years of age and in precarions health. He was born at Pau the year following the battle of Waterloo. Bourbaki,'while retreating before Manteuffel's army toward Switzerland, tried to . If yon want a sure limbs, use an the genuine, tions is as good as blow out his brains, and for-weeks hovered be- tween life and death. ivere the 9th of the present month an ann! sagyn m:;w was celebrated for the Emperor Na- poleon III m the Church of 8t. Augustin, P.rl': He dled on January 9, 1878. Many uu:leren of the Bonapartisis’ cause attended the "u:i- vice, but when an old gentleman present cries out,, «Vive YEmperenr!” there wes no re- sponse from the crowd. e HUMOR OF THE DAY. Two heads are better thanone—in a barrel.— ‘West Union Gazette. Young lady (timorously)—Who was that 2 just now? scni%?:s:ifin’t be elarmed; it was & patient who is being treated free of charge.—Vereins- Blatt. Miss Passee—I understand you do handsome ork and make very pretty pictures. wPhotogr-pher—Yes,p miss; but I could make 2 natural likeness of you, if you preferred it.— Philadelphia Record. “Were there any new features in your ex- hibition of impressionist paintings?” 2 “Yes; we hung half the pictures upside down—and everyone was delighted with the effects.”—Chteago Racord. Skeptical.— Do you believe in‘second sight?” inquired Teepee Tom. . “Not fur this part o' the country, replied Derringer Dan. “Yer wanter shoot the fyu!t time ye squints over the barrel, er yer 1i'ble notter gita chance ter squeeze the trigger at, all.”—Washington Star. TOWNSEND'S California glace fruits. 50c. Ib. ® ———————————— Last day of Townsend’s “special sale” of cream mixed candies. 15 cents a pound. ————— PURE mixed candies. 10¢.1b. Townsend’s. * s L EPECTAL information daily to manufacture:s, business houses and public men by the Prass Clivping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monigomery. stoins i s “I’d like to hear you play the violin, Mr. Til- linghast,” seid seven-year-old Tommy Dillinge ham, who was entertaining the calle “But I don’t play the violin, Tommy ! “Then papa must be mistaken. I heard him tell mamma that you played second fiddle at home.”’—Detroft Free Press. Commissions Paid to State Officials. The racent disclosure of & system of pers quisites demanded by certain officials employed by the Harbor Commissioners has proved that there is an_exceedingly large profit in the printing business Howe, & job printer doing business at ay street, has gained considerable notoriety in this regard. He has refused to pay any com missions to middlemen, as his prices are 5o low that the profits will not| stand division. He does the finest kind of| commercial printing at lowest rates. Tele- phone Main 5989. e very experience of your life, my friend,” said the solemn-faced visitor at the jail, “is for you to make the right use of it. Utter no com- plaint. Bear your punishment in silence. Take things as you find them.” “T allus do,” said the dejected vagabond be- hind the b “That’s how I got here.’— World’s Comic. THE human system isgiven tone and renewed vigor by Hood's Sarsaparilla, which strengthens the organs of the stomach and aids digestion. Ia 2act, the whole body is iuvigorated by Hood’s. ——————————— THE GENUINE “BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES" are sold only in boxes. They ere wonderfully effective for Coughs, Hoarseness or Irritation of the Throat caused by cold. ALLlovers of the delicacies of the tableuse Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters to secure a good digestion. AL EVEN the balr suffers from modern ways' by growing thin and faded. PARKER'S HArR BAL~ SAM brings new hair with the old color and li NEW TO-DAY. REAL ESTAT FOR SALE BY \ Thos. Magee & Sons, REAL ESTATE AGENTS And Publishers “Real Estate Circular.” 4 Montgomery Street, 0¥ TRUST BUILDISG, CORYER MARKET. NEW PROPERTY. Downtown business investment; rents steady $450: 89000; on a progressive street. California corner_flats: just finished; built modern; rents $62 50; $8500. Jackson st., north side, near Fillmore: modern two-story residence and 1ot 25x127:8: $8000. Residence; iyon st., between Oak ana Page, overlooking the park:’ modern residence in fine order; only 87500, Page st. and Rase ave., 100king out to Market st., between Franklin and ‘Gough: 27:6x120; fronts i9g both streets; cottage and two-siory dwellings Gough and Clay fize location. INVESTMENTS %20,000 TO $40,000. Near East st. and Market; 76x119:6: two frontas rents 8295 fine investment; only $40,000. Within 150 feet of Market: downtown; 20x65 and frame building; only $32,000; a fine invest. ment; $20,000 on it and can remain ac 6y per ni Geary-st. cormer; 28 fees front; remts $123; ur. or st. Clay st., near Davis: brick building; rents 21503 age: only $28,000. sts.; corner residence; large lotg good front, X Rents $268 50: $28,000; 44 feet front; Clay st. near Sansome; steady renting; brick building, ! SMALL GROWING .INVESTMENTS, | 85000 TO %10,000, Valencia st.; store and fl $6150. , nr. 20th; rents 8353 Valencia st., south of 20th: 5. 24x80 and good 2~ u'zé:rv: rents ior $28; owner pays water, $1 857 S lfov;l‘li\i Sty vest side, bet. 6ih and 7th; 28x90¢ | -story double store and flat of 10 roo; i rents about 8700 a vear: 88750, > “00 | Sixth st., west side. nr. Bryant; 50x85 and - | story; 2 stores below and 6 tenants upstuirs: ronig low, $69; $9000; half can remain on mortgage. . ! RESIDENCES AND RESIDENCE LOTS, | PACIFIC HEIGHTS, 85000 AND! UPWARD, ! Jackson and Octavia: elegant corner: unsur pussed marine view; 60x117; $20,000 or llr'err Pacific ave., near Octavia; fine residence, 13 { mfl:\!ufllnfi modern; first-class order; fine view; Marine view: north side Broadway, bet. Devisa- dero. and Broderick; finest view on Pacific selief for =ains in the back, side, chest, or Allcock’s BEAR IN MIND—Not one of the host of Helghts and cannot be shut off; 40x137:6; on) 86400 or Iarger lot. 4 Reduced to 39000; make offer; NW. corner Pa- cific ave. and Broderick st.; 35x127:8; & very sightly lot with View of bay and one block from the cars. Corner residence: 30 feet front; in fine order: $12,600. Pacific ave., north side; any size, 25, 50 or 75 :e‘tl front; price reduced 1o $200 & foot; marine ew. Bros , north side; 35 feet fro dence: fine unobstructed view of near California; Saturday, Feb. Ist. To-day only. Genuine straight open kettle table New Orleans Molasses. New lot opened for to-day’s sale; 75¢ gal. One place In S. F. where the highest quality and lowest prices always assured SMITHS CASH STORE, 414,416, 418 FRONT ST, S, F, Porous Plaster counterfeits and imita~