The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 7, 1896, Page 6

. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY; APRIL 7, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor- SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Psily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 Datly and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by math. 3.00 d Sunday CALs, three months by mail 1.50 nd Sunday CaLL, one monih, by mail. .63 Cary, one year, by mail . WELZLY CALL, one year, by matl. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Fraucisco, California. Telephone.... Main—1888 EDITORIAL RO 517 C JOMS : t. ... Main-1874 630 Montgome: #:30 o'clock. street: open until &W . corner Sixteenth and Miss sntil 9 o'clock. 2618 Mission street; open until 8 o'clock. 116 Diuthsiree pen until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : $0S Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Reoms 81 and 34 Park Row, New York Ofty. . FOLTZ, Special Agent. nu streets; opem ess has spoken and we shall now in is going to do about it. n is wise—a honeymoon in han a campaign all summer. Co see what Spa Ay Congress has called the President on the Cuban question and he must make a show down ing scheme takes many forms to take everything else The re! and somehow of late his jobs seem to be big for L There are no longer any bosses visible in the Republican party—the leaders have come to the front. The Republican party isin control of the political circus, but Democracy is furnish- ing the menagerie. g his hook for an indorsement Carlisle evidently lLopes to catch a Presi- dential nomination. The political frying-pan bas at last be- h to make Democracy get expected to be a quiet week in e may as well prepare for a roar reciprocity treaties. in favor of Cuba are good as on of her own. There may be gold in Alaska and Death Valley, but for the average citizen it is safest to hunt for it somewhere else. Instead of standing for anything this year the Democratic varty wiil pass the campaign sitting down on its record. The San Diego World may be correct in saying the State division movement is not dead, but it must admit that it is para- Iyzed. If Bradley is wise he will limit his boom to the Vice-Presidency and call out the National Guard of Kentucky to head off his fool friends. As a substitute for Cleveland in the coming campaign Carlisle would be just as satisfactory to the public as any other man, except the boss himself. When Rainey comes back and gets his department working the aspiring Mr. Lanigan will bave bis choice of taking water or being fired out. There are so many funding bills erop- ping up in Congress it would be hard to keep track of them all if it were not that allof them follow the same trail and heaa for the same end. The only way for San Francisco to keep up with the city extension movement that prevails elsewhere is to start a move- ment for a cheaper and better streetcar service to the suburbs The festival spirit in San Jose has set business to moving, and she is now talk- ing of building a grand opera.house where she can be gay and have a good show all the year round. Democratic aspirants for the Presidency who are holding back t yearin the hope of getting the nomination in 1900 are not so far-sighted as they think themselves. There may beno Democratic party by that time. The Roentgen ray has been brought into court as a witness to show the amount of damage done to a man’s bones by a rail- road accident, and at last we seem to haye expert testimony that will be worth some- thing. The rule of the Interstate Commerce Commission that railroads have a night to baul imported goods cheaper than home £Qods can be proven to be a good rule only by turning it round and making it work the other way. Colorado Democrats, having nothing else to fight about, have begun scalping one another over a proposition to invite Till- man to come out and make a speech to them, and in the meantime Tillman has never said whether he would come or not. In each festival county the contest at present is not so much to decide which woman shall be queen of beauty asto de- termine which one of the many queens of beauty in the county shall be trumps when the joyous game opens during the festival week. The statement in Congress that in the last six months aver 1200 illicit distilleries have been seized and destroyed in this country shows the extent to which that kind of traflic is carried on, and proves tuere must be pretty good profits in moon- shine. Those who are interested in Democratic possibilities might as well keep a casual watch on Governor Matthews of Indiana. The stalwart Voorhees is said to be going about telling the silver men that his friend the Goveruor is their ideal candidate for the Presidential race. Huntington may be as big a boss as ever, | | | . bat as a matter of fact Cuba | | | THE FUNDING AGREEMENT. The last news from Washington is that the joint sub-committee of the Sepate and House Committees on Pacific Roads has accepted and agreed to report to the re- spective houses of Congress the bill already outlined in these columns, with this modi- fication: The annual payment on ' the principal for the first {en years is raised {rom $300,000 to $365,000 a year. The an- nual payment for the succeeding ten years is to be $500,000; after that theannual pay- ment is to be §750,000 until the debt is ex- tinguished. The familiar features of mak- ing the impact interest a part cf the debt and funding the whole at a rate of 2 per | cent are retained. The scheme applies to both the Union and Central Pacific lines, and in the case of the Central Pacific the | Southern Pacific is made responsible. In this shape the bill will be reported to both houses in a few days. Its grossly un- fair character. is so well understood on this coast that nothing can be said which | might prove instructive to the people here, The one hope is that the presentation of this bill will lead to such a ventilation of the matter in the Senate and the House as will lead to the final defeat of the dis- graceful measure. Mr. Huntington is by no means in sight of victory, and the peo- ple of California still may cherish a hope that this great Nation will preserve itsin- tegrity and give consideration to the im- portance of this State. The job which the Southern Pacific bas so deftly manipulated to shut out an ap- | propriation for San Pedro harbor should be a suflicient indication to Congress of the policy of this powerful corporation. The | spectacle of the National legislature serving | the interest of a private corporation at the | expense of principles so vital to the whole | country is not a pleasant thing to contem- | plate. “The explanation that the Eastern | States cannot comprehend the gravity of | the matter will not lessen the burdens | which it is proposed to place upon us nor | diminish the harm whbich the precedent will wprk. The ignorance of Eastern sen- timent can be dispelled in great measure by the California delegation in Congress. Such an opportunity to make a brilliant record comes rarely, and California will } expect 1ts representatives to do their durty. CUBAN RESOLUTIONS. The Senate and House have passed a Joint resolution recognizing the belliger- ency of the Cubans, and thus in a sense throw the gauntlet to Spain, which may be expected to take it up with- out a moment’s hesitation. Astheresolu- tion is concurrent, the President may or may not tell Congress what he thinks of it, as he pleases; with reference to its pur- pose, he may exercise a similar discretion. Inother words, the resolution is not a com- | plete recognition of the belligerent rights | of the Cuban insurgents. That matter re- mains as fully in the hands of the Presi- | | dent now as it was before the resolution was adopted. It amounts to no more as a | National policy than would a similar reso- lution by a National convention of dele- | gates representing all classes and called for | | the purpose of expressing the American | sentiment. As this is a republic, and as the wishes | of the people are represented, formulated | and enforced by persons selected for that | purpose, the action of Congress may be | construed as an expression of the American wish that the Cuban insurgents should be given a fair chance in the struggle which they are making. It remains for President Cleveland to say whether in bis calm judg- ment this is best not only for the United States, but aiso for the principles repre- sented by their union. This is not 8 light | task for him to assail. As the chief execu- tive of the people, he is charged with re- | sponsibilities immeasurably greater than | any resting upon a private citizen. In the discharge of these he is required to possess ‘ arange of information covering everything | that in its operation makes this Govern- ment possible. The aggressive side of Mr. Cleveland’s character has had a curiously divided manifestation and this fact raises an ele- | ment of uncertainty in regard to guesses | of his conduct in the present emergency. ‘When the Venezuelan question was raised | he shouted defiance at England and yet | he continued to accept the financial and | tariff policy of England as his guerdon and depended on English capitalists rep- | resented by Pierpont Morgan to buy the bonds which he caused to be issued to cover the export of American gold to England. Again, he had not a word to say when Embassador Bayard violated all the ethics of diplomacy and incurred the censure of Congress by making Democratic free-trade speeches in England. These curious inconsistencies render idle all speculation with regard to his probable course under the concurrent resolution | of Congress concerning the recognition of Cuban belligerency. Perhaps our Demo- cratic contemporaries may be able to make an intelligent prognosis of Mr. Cleveland’s case. We shall await these disclosures with an acute interest. REDWOOD TO EUROPE. 1t has taken along time for Europe to discover the beauty of the California red- wood for the interior decoration of houses, but England bas at last made the dis- covery and is loading ships at San Fran- cisco with the Jumber. It is sent in the form of thick, broad slabs, presumably green, and is_to be worked up in the de- sired forms by English artisan: The more familiar Englishmen become with the strange qualities and uncommon beauty of this remarkable wood, the more abundantly will they order it. They will probably make a great many blunders in handling it before they have learned its peculiarities, but wisdom will come with experience. They will learn that, unlike all other woods, its shrinkage in drying is longitudinal rather than transverse: that while it is very light when dry, it is exceed- ingly heavy when green; that though soft, it dulls edged tools rapidly, being in the latter regard different from all other coniferous lumber, and that it splits easily and in straight lines. If it is not thoroughly dried before working, it loses the smoothness left by the piine, but once well dried, it can be easily given a surface as smooth and as easily polished as ma- hogany. In color it resembles that wood more than any other, and though not. so deep and rich, has a softness of tone that no other wood can equal, Under varnish, it looks bold and harsh, while careful hand-finishing gives it a gentle luster of 1n- comparable beauty. After our English cousins have learned the beauties and peculiarities of straight redwood. they. will seek the wonderful pieces of wood that lie in the base of the tree. This is called burl. Timothy Hop- kins has the finest collection of this for- mation that exists, and at all the fairs where it has been exhibited it hasat- tracted eager attention. In the burl the ordinar{ straight grain of the tree is com- pressed into a tangled mass of twisted and interlocked lines and has great density and hardoess and a rich, deep color. It is susceptible of a polish equal to that of glass, and this reveals ita remarkable dis- torted texture, Transverse sections made into table tops are surpassingly handsome. The introduction of redwood into Eng- land will be followed by # demand for it throughout Europe. This makes it timely for us to consider the wise use and con- servation of the redwood forests of the State. As the tree exists nowhere else in the world we have here a treasure of ines- timable yalue, and although the tree will £row; in many parts of the world if planted it will be thousands ot years before it can have attained a size equal ‘to that of the California trees. It isan exceedingly for- tunate fact that the reawood easily repro- duces itself by suckers and that it is very difficult, except by the persistent intro- duction of fire, to exterminate a forest. The development of American forestry should include the vropagation of this handsomest as well as most useful of trees and its extensive planting in its native home, California. WHERE PROSPERITY BEGINS. It may not be far from the truth to assume that the current high rate of taxa- tion in San Francisco was necessary to cure in part some of the gross errors which have been committed in the past. An analysis of the expenditures required to overcome the evils of fraudulent contract work in the construction of pavements ana sewers might be made to show that the City is now required justly to suffer for an inexcusably lax management of public affairs under old conditions. These were the result of corrupt boss rule. What- ever may be the right or wrong of the present burdensome tax, no intelligent citizen will deny the fact that it is emi- nently deserved. Hardly a month passes without a discoyery that a street has been improperly paved, that sewers have been laid to drain up hill, or that either the municipality or private owners have been swindled. Vye are paying for all this now in the shape of an onerous tax. Patching is an expensive indulgence. Magee's Real Estate Circuiar for March indirectly calls attention to this matter. After noting a normal demand for fine business property, it declares that buyers expect to secure it at low prices, and then says: ‘‘Net rates of interest that are quite unattaineble in other equally safe securi- ties are expected from real estate. Buvers insist, too, in their calculations of income, on reckoning. as high a rate of taxation continuously as that which disgraced the City and State last year and from which real estate has not yet begun to recover.” This simply means to.say that a betrayal of public trust and a squandering of public funds affected the value of every man’s property in the City. A great part of the work accomplished by recent grand juries has been the discovery of incompetency and fraud in the execution of public im- provements. Thanks to a recently awakened public spirit the end of this order of things seems within reach. The money that has been recklessly squandered under former ad- ministrations would have made just such improvements as are now so greatly need- ed had it been honestly and intelligently expended. San Francisco is still a young | ity, and must be supposed to have com- | mitted serious blunders to retard its prog- | ress. Recently it has become so alert to | its importance and so quickened under contact with the forces which are moying | the Nation onward that a realization of its shortcomings in the past is causing poignant regrets, The search now is for the guilty. This gives every inteiligent citizen an opportunity to stand up and plead as his conscience may dictate, and to make earnest resoluiuions for the future. DEMANDS OF SAN PEDRO. There can be no donbt remaining in the mind of any one who is sincerely de- sious of knowing whether Santa Monica r San Pedro should be given Government aid for harbor improvement. That the sentiment of the people of Los Angeles, the city most interested in the matter, is virtually unanimous for San Pedro has al- ways been understood by the people of the entire State, but the situation has evi- dently not been so well known at Wash- ington, or else the committee having the matter in hand has allowed itself to be governed by the wishes of C. P, Hunting- ton. So far the committee has decided to re- port no appropriation for either, owing to the contest made before it by representa- tives of the two places named. A com- promise has been proposed whereby both places shall receive appropriations, and, rather than lose that for San Pedro the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce has virtually agreed to the deal, under pro- test, of course, by which C.P. Hunting- ton will be enabled with Government money to build himself a harbor at Santa Monica in order to make more profitable his railroad property there. But the industrial classes take a more determined stand and declare in favor of g harbor for San Pedro alone or nothing. In a telegram sentto Senator White and Con- gressman McLachlan the labor unions ask support for an appropriation for the im- provement of San Pedro harbor and “op- position to the efforts of a monopoly to secure the improvement of its harbor by Government funds at Santa Monica."’ That Congress will be able to find a con- sistent excuse for ignoring the well-defined wishes of the people seems impossible.- Whetker it will do soand obey the be- hests of Huntington will be a matter that will be watched with intense interest by the people of the Pacific Coast. MELODIES. 2 A rovin sang. The dull world wakened from its sleep, Cast oft ius robe of winter sadness; The leaves from bondage 'gan to peap, The brooks o’erflowed in jolly madness. All nature listened to the warning, ‘And lsughed with glee in springtime’s morning W hen robin sang. A poet sang. It was a song that reached the heart Of many a man, of every woman. It was the fruit of perfect art, It showed a power divinely human. His name was known to all: and then TFame on her tablets wrote it, when The poet sang. A mother sang. Two littie eyelids blinked and drooped, And bright curls nestled on her breast, Contentment’s bou nty richly trooped : Sweet innocence found loving rest. The slumber fairies tiptved near, And all the angels stooped 10 hear ‘When mother sang. CHARLES EMERSON CooOK. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. 1t is fifty-four years since Sims Reeves began to sing in public. Miss Lottie Collins, now in London, has re- covered her health and spirits. Oneof the mostcomplete and yaluable col- lections of bymn books in existence is said to be that which Mr. Gledstone has accumulated at Hawarden, Holman Hunt, the English artist, who is now three score and ten, is absorbed with the 1dea of raising $500,000 to send the Jews back to Palestine in order that the Scriptures may be fulfilled. The trousseaux for the royal brides—Princess Maud of Wales and her cousin, Princess Alex- andra of Coburg—are slready in course of preparation. Both are being made almost ex- clusively in England. Prince Albert of Prussia, second cousin of the German Emperor and colonel of a regiment of dragoons, is the tallest man in the German army, with one or two exceptions. His high- ness stands 6 feet 6 Inches in his socks. AROUND THE CORRIDORS, Leonard §. Calkins, editor and proprietor of the well-known journal, the Nevada City Transcript, und ex-Postmaster at Nevada City, is among the arrivals at the Lick. Heis companied by Mrs, Calkins. They are here for o few days’ stay, and are enjoying themselves meeting old friends. o Mr. Calkins was. born at Nevada City, as was also his wife, but the editor has not spent the whole of his life there. He went East in his youth, and at Cleveland, Ohio, began his news- paper career. After being there a few years he returned to Nevade City. There fora long time he has been running the Transcript. Editor Calkins tells an interesting story of the thrift of Nevada City and surrounding places, because of the additional work in the mines. Hesays a stimulus has been giyen to the development of the many valuable quartz were heard on every, side. The press cut me up, or rather tried to cut me down, advising me to leave the stage. Continual taunts from actors and journalists niearly broke my spirit. Lslept but little, and. then only toward morn- ing, from .the exhaustion of, wegping all the night. There was no one with whom I could share these sufferings, for pride kept me from nting my real state of mind by word or look, £ven to my mother. The effort to smile and seem hopeful before others was as wearying as the giving vent to sorrow and humiliation when alone. The engagement, with. the ex- ception of the last two. nights, had come to an €] ..whe?\"Meg Merrilies” was given and. re- ceived with genuine enthusiasm by actors and public. - But this suecess came too late. Only one night remained, and I could not hope to retrieve for Mr. McCullough all I lost for him, -For the Iast performance, I played Par- thenia for the_first time.to his Ingomar, This was also bighly successful.—From *An Act- ress’ Memories,” by Mary Anderson. Leonard S. Calkins, the Widely Known Editor of the Nevada City Transcript. [Sketched from life by a * Call ” artist.] properties there that is very gratifying. Sev: eral large enterprises are on foot, he says, that mean much ior that section of the State. “There are a number of things under way there,” said Mr. Calkins, “that promise well for Nevada City. To begin with, the Champion mine, which has for & long time had thisty stamps running, hes now about completed forty more. Twenty of the new stamps, as & matter of fact, and the thirty established long ago are now running, makiug fity going, and in a little while there will be twenty more, or seventy altogether. “Besides this the Providence mine will soon probably add forty more stamps to the forty it now has, Other mines are proposing to enlarge thejr capacities in one way or another and in- crease their output. A company of men from Virginia City have obtained & bond for two years on the Chap- man’s Ranch mine for $45,000, and while de- veloping it are paying.the owners.$300 a month for the bomnd. Theyseem to be doing well, but it is understood they are satisfied with the mine in every way and will take it. “The annusal output of Nevada City and vi- cinity is nearly £2,000,000. “The most important thing in Neyada County now, is the Dew eleciric-power com. pany lately organized, The ecompany baught out the two plants, the one at Nevada City and the one at Grass Valley, four miles away, and consolidated them. The two towns are now as well lighted as San Francisco. It issupposed thatin the next year or two there will be an electric railway connecting the two places. +One enormous advantage to be gained from the recent consolidation is the power for work- ing the mines above the water. Hoisting works &nd mills can be put up atany altitude, and the mines high up can readily be worked. The South Yuba Water Company is constantly im- proying its system. Hitherto many good prop- erties above the water could not be reached. Now valuable properties can be opened high in the mountains and made steady producers. “On the train from Nevada City with me was Charles L. Fair, Richard V. Dey and other min- ing men, who had gone up to examine the Wil- son Ranch mine, They are going to start up work on the mine again.” BLOUSE FRONTS. The charming blouse fronts of lawn and nain, 800k 80 much worn are delightfully cool and comfortable. The design given here makes it possible to get them up at home at ridiculously low figures. Lawn and nainsook can be bought for from 20 cents a dozen yards up. They may be eleborately trimmed, asshown on the figure, or made perfectly plain. If tucks are desired tuck the material first, then cut. Wi Washable silk blouse fronts are Emch worn -?r} :’:d" be trimmed with lace, tucked or box- plaited. & ~The plain colored Japanese silks make ve: dainty blouses, and n’: more often mmmfi witn Iace than left plain. Grass linen and batiste in flax color are much l“i;nai, both the plain and embroidered being ed. MARY ANDERSON'S MEMORIES, SHE TALKS OF HER FIBST APPEARANCE IN SAN My appearance in San. Francisco at John McCullough’s theater soon followed, and was the most unhappy partZof my professional life, With but few exceptions the members of the numerous company continually ridiculed my "";‘uu’ poor wardrobe was & subject of special sport to the gorgeously dressed women, and unkindly remlrhrsnbout the “futerloper” A STEVENSON SHRINE. The literary world appears to have conceded toSan Francisco. the privilege and honor of erecting a Stevenson shrine. This seems to be agreed upon by all who love the memory of Robert Louis Stevenson, and it includes allwho speak the Epglish language. A band of de- voted souls recently suggested the erection of & drinking fountain near the edge of the Latin quarter, in which neighborhood he lived while among u Several designs have been proposed, but none that the Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco deemed adeqnately artistic and suggestive of the genius whose memory they evidently revere. It speakswell for the literary elevation of the community when even the public office-holders have so much, apprecia- tion of this master in the world of letters. The delay in putting up the fountain instead of discouraging has emboldened the Stevenson devotees and they have decided to put forth even greater efforts to secure a fitting monu- Seisceula 1 (LS 3 nsv'::sl_.u&...;a‘. ME N WM - NG SENTENCES OF ONE 'S LETTERS, FAC-SIMILE OF THE CL ment. The words of encouragemen wafted across the continent, and even from far off yet sympathetic England, have. led our people 10 hope for more generous coutributions and a more expensive bronze than wasat first con- templated. : In'a recent number of the London Sketch Emily Soldene gives a description of what was known_ as Mr. Doxey’s Stevenson, window, which for a time attrasted attention on Market street, 1In thisarticle the wriier breathes the sentiment which appears to be so general, namely, that Stevenson belongs to San Fran- cisco more than to any other American city, and more than to any British city, except it be that fortunate city in Scotland where he first saw.the light. The local committee is about. to renew its work of securing funds, and when this effort is earnestly undertaken there will be expressed a willingness to accept Eastern and European contributions in consonance with the spirit so heartily exflessed in those quarters. Walter Blackburn Harte recently wrote of “that sacred isle, the only one of im- portance in the ' Pacific; the . second one to the left after leaving San Francisco,” and predicted that it would in years become a mecca for those whose souls are attuned to the true and beautiful in nature and art. Itisthe nbf'zct of those Stevensonians who . live on this eastern edge ot the majestic ocean which surrounds his grave to erect here a shrine which may serve as & preparatory chapel for such pilgrims us may cross “miles. o'er.the ridges of the rolling sea’” to pay their, devo- tions to the memory of the dead magician. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. THE SILVER FORCES ENROLL. ENLISTING FOR THE WAR TO SAVE HOME AND COUNTRY. To.the Fditor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: A higher order of courage than that which sustains silver men in bosh the oid parties, as well as in the ranks of the People's party, has not often been digclosed in the pages of his- tory. With what are they conironted?, The Roman empire, in the consummation of its power, was a transitory aggregation of brute force compared to the subtle world-enfolding, sll-pervasive, ever-encroaching money power. Ignorant men only will doubt the truth and fairness of this statement, and the men who are too busy in trying to save their business from bankruptey to take the needed time to master ‘the causes which make their daily struggle necessary are included nere as ignor- ant men, however wise they may be in. matters of trade. The farmers of to-day know far more of finance and the causesof business depression and industrial stagnation than the shrewd “business men,” as they complacently regard themselves, who are engaged in trade—that is, in. buying and selling the Emdmm of other men éngaged in the slavish work.of produe- tion. “The yeomen of the country,” nat its shrewd and pushing ‘“‘business men,” are the h:{pe of the Nation in the present crisis,.a crisis race. without a parallel in the history of our As one witness of National teliigence and sagacity of the gold standard &) i 3 cannot for a moment be suspected of desirin; or designing to intimate any expression (5 sympathy with Populista and silverites by.ac- cepting their view of the measureless influ- ence of the money power, let Un:ted States Benator.Lodge of Massachusetts take the stand and repeat what he said, in his really grea, humane and manly speech in_the Senate Feb- tuary 20, when he, p) ed for the interven- tion of our Government on behalf of the Armenians, the unprotected victims of Turk- ish fanaticism and ferocity. In explanation of t.h“eo: ex‘n';ndi_‘l‘!er;gee M—B‘n'téi‘ to the a 8 of the Turks. against. the Christians, o the 1 eling ‘&?%?fi nance, who ervor o! “But, Mr. President, Lord Salisbury obeys a stronger force, fmigmier will than his own. In the 1ast resort the power-which controls in Europe is the great power ,of money and the money- lender.” Tm autocrat of Europe, “the great sowe.,nf money,” which reigns over all the overnments. of Europe, ‘‘does not care,’” Mr, Md% lells us, *‘how many Armeniaus are butchered,” but he adds, “It does care very much that nothing shall be done to impair values,”” and.¢if nd moved to rescue the d"NRched Armenians Ottoman bonds might ecline.” i i 1 It is this money power that “rules the court, the camp,” the commerce and industry of Eu- Tope, and that controls the President, the Con- gress, the Supreme Court, the greatnewspa- pers, magazines, universities and colleges, as well .as boards of trade, chambers of com- merce, manufacturers’ associations and the railroad corporations of the United States, and finds conjederates in the vast predatory trusts that batten into monsters neverdreamed of in fable on the daily bread of the people—itis this titanic, satanic remorseless money.power of the world that the Populistsand their brave and patriotic ailies, the silver men, havedared to confront aud to meet in battle at the ballot- box next Novemher; and they will wage a re- lentless wariare, fired with a holy ardor to de- fend their homes and country, fixed in_their high resolve to secure and perpeiuate better conditions for . their children gud coming gen- erations, inspired by a deep sense of . the eter- nal justice which is the basis of the cause they have espoused, and. sustained by their faith in the god of battles, who cannot be indifferent to the issue of such contest, for even the stars in their courses will fight A’_ga.hlst this gold god of the money power as of old they jought against Sisera and . destroyed his dominion {rom the face of the earth. True, the money power is always.ready for war, with its forces organized and tully equipped with the ablest of skilled generals in. command, ready at a signal to engage in bat- tle; and .the pian of campaign ior 1896 has D made, and marching orders have been issued, which were fully set forth in my last letter; but the silver forces are actively and eay erlgoamomng for the campaign, while 2, Populist voters are already under arms and abundantly supplied_with smmuni- tion, including silver bullets that never miss their mark, and which no magical influence can ever turn aside. Populists.and . silver Yolunteers are coming in from every quarter. The -manufacturers pegin to realize what it means for the gold power to rule the country, and they are rallying to the silver, standard in large numbers, those only holding back who, 85 a.5trenuous newspaper advocate of -silver has suggested, “are under pressure”. of -the money power on which their business is de- pendent for “accommodations.” But eyen those who are “nnder pressure” can vote their convigtions in November. Within a few days a mighty host, numbering more than two millions, made up of working men, have declared for’ free coinage of silver and for union with .the silver forces, through their leaders at & meeting in Chicago which in- cluded all the great labor organizations of the country, and they are enlisted to do active and vigorous campaign work in all the large cities of the Union. . Debs, Gompers. Sovereign, this unwise and dnnuflng admission: Hayes, McBride, Arthur, Trenor, McGuire, mhlnson. Bargent and Arnold inaugurated s g;lnd movement of the toilers March 21, and began ‘‘a campaign of education” for lib- erty and prosperity. All over the eountry the silver forces are enlisting for the war to save homeand country, The line of battle is drawn. “To your tents, O Israel!” JOSEPH ASBURY. JOHNSON, 11 Essex street, San Francisco. PERSONAL. J. F. Church, the capitalist of Fresno, is in town. Dr.J. 8. Queen of Bishop is at the Russ House. { E. S. Tomblin of Shasta Springs is at the Grand. James Joyce of Alaska is at the New Western Hotel. D. W. Baird of Seattle has arrived here on & brief visit. Dr. Ernest Concher of Great Falls, Mont., is at the Lick. A. F, Avarez of Havana, Cuba, is among re- cent arrivals. W. D. Barnes of the New York Hotel Gazette isin the City. Sergeant Martin of Angel Island is at the Cosmopolitan. Cherles J. Vanicek, a lumberman of David City, 1s in town. Among the arrivals here yesterday was E. J. Delauo of Roeklin. Charles E. Elliot of Cambridge, Mass., is vis- iting San Francisco. Alfred Letnart, a business man of Yokohama, is at the Occidental. John Besse of Kings City was among the arrivals here last night. L. A, Sheldon of Pasadens, ex-Governor of New Mexico, is in the City. William Mietzschke and Nans G. Hinling of Berlin arrived here last night. J. Spellenberg, a mining man of Sierra County, is at the Cosmopolitan. Edward, N. Buck of San Bernardino was among last night’s arrivals here, G. W. McConnell of Hollister was among those who reached here yesterday. H. M, La Rue of Sacramento, the State Rail- way Commissioner, is at the Occidental. R. P. Helmbold, & business man of Portland, has arrived here and is at the Occidental. Rev. James Jackson of England, a missionary who is bound for China, is at the Occidental. E. A. Vance, the railroad man and lumber- man of Eureks, Humboldt County, is in the City. E.J. Moss of Foochow, China, arrived_ here yesterday and is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. General Benjamin H. Bristol of the United States army, New York, is at the Palace, ac- companied by several friends. J. 8. Copeland of Honcut, Butte County, dele- gate to the Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order United Workmen, is at the Cosmopolitan. Senator J. C. Holloway of Cloverdale is here on a brief business trip. He is an extensive farmer and one of the earliest residents there. Judge R.J. Kelly of Alpina, Mich., and Don- ald McRae, a wealthy business man of the same place, are at the Grand, They have been on & visit 1o Southern California. The following persons are at the Interna- tional and will leave to-morrow for Cooks Inlet, Alaska, to mine for gold: Thomas Barth, John Barth, James H. Merithen, L. N. Wilson, John L. Wilson and J.V. Venhan, all of Sis- son, Cal. William Waterhouse of Honolulu, whose brother, J. T. Waterhouse, recently died in the Hawaiian Islands, has arrived. here from Pasa. dena, where he has been for some time, on his way home to assist in settling up his brother’s large estate. Among the prominent arrivals at the Palace Hotel yesterday was Anson Phelps Stokes of New York. He is accompanied by John Sher- man Hoyt and the Misses A. McLean and V. McLean and H. G. McLean, of the same city. They are on & pleasure tour of the State. J.J. McGrath, the pioneer of Juneau, Alaska, and for severasl years proprietor of a hotel there, who has been in this City during the winter, will leave in a day or.two for home. He will probably build & large aunex to his hotel this year to satisfy the demands of ihe Alaskan travel. James P. Booth of the Daily Report staff, who, for.a long time was seriously ill with typhoid fever at Dr. Lane's Hospital, has so far recovered that he has been able to go to the home of his brother, Attorney Booth, in Oak- land. Mr. Booth h had & long, bard struggle. For a week or more it was thought not possible for him to recover. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 6,—The Spree takes out to-morrow. August Ahrna. L. Weil is in town buying and is stopping at_the St. Cloud. Among recent arrivals are: Grand Union, Mrs, Ayers; Imperial.J. Madison; Hoffman, Mrs J, Marteo; Windsor, Mr. Callahan; Metropole, Mrs. B. French; Everett, C. H, Gardiner.and J. Newton;. Gilsey, A..L. Jefferson; Murray Hill, J. Newton; Hoftman, J. F. Dunne aud wife. — CURRENT HUMOR. Mary had a little Jamb, Likewise an oyster stew, And ere the rosy morning dawned She had a nightmare, too. —Judge. Perry Patettic—I wonder. how the jackass came to be called such a fool? He has got more sense than a horse. Wayworn Jackson—Shouldn’t wonder ef the jackass was the first animal what learned to work.—Cincinnati Enquirer. . “When do you expect to havt ration for & poem, Mr. Languid ?" miring young woman, “I haye onenow,” was the prompt response. *Ob, 1s0't that nice! Would you mind tell. | ing me what_the inspiration is? Ihopeitisa werful one.” ” p?'lc is. One of the strongestIhavehad for some time. It’s an offer from an editor of $5 per stanza.”—Weshington Star. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. DRESSING-RooMs—There arg 517 private dress- ing-tooms at the Sutro baths. Lours XIIJ—J, B., City. Louis XIIlléolilnz n‘: C September 27, 1601, an 51'55’ ‘fi:nyw 1';, 1"55:'3'. o reigned from 1610 to 1643. THE GODDARD-SMITH Fuim—l:; R., thny.G Odn the 3d of March, 1893, Ed Smith beat Joe God- dard in a glove fight for $10,000 in 1 hour and ten minutes, at New Orleans, La. SwWEETLAND—J, W. P., Oakland, Cal. Ews:’: land is in Nevada County, Cal. It can reached by going by rail to Wheatland, 129 miles, then by stage thirty-two miles. PoxPADOUR—J. B., City. Jeanne Antoinette Poisson le Normant d’Etoiles, Marquise de Pompadour, was born in Paris, France, Decem- ber 29, 1721, and died April 13, 1764. A LEGAL OPIN] M. J. C,, Oakland. Your question in regard to mortgage is one that re- uires a legal opinion. Such are not given in this department. - You should address your question to & reputable attorney. ONE OF MaN ty. The copper plece with head of liberty on one side and “Army and Navy” on the other is one of the many war tokens issued by merchante during the War of the Rebellion. They are offered at the rate of fiiteen for a quarter. THIRTY-SIXTH DisteictT CLUB—A. O. 8., City. There is in the Thirty-sixth District & Repub- lican Club that was organized some time since under the auspices of the Republican Execu- tive Couneil. ; It meets, when it does meet, in Twin Peaks Hall, corner of Seventeenth and Noe streets. THE Yosemite Exerosion—W. D. K., City. The river stcamer Yosemite exploded one of her boilers just as she was leaying the landing at Rio Vista, on her way to San Francisco, on ihe evening of the 13th of October, 1865. Sixty-two persons were killed, thirty-one were scalded and_ threo wero reported missing. Among the killed were William Stephensen, M. Fallon, treasurer, of the manager, d J. S nd J. F. Meyer, opera-house at Virginia Cit & comedian. TAMALES-O. 8., Placerville, Cal. Tamales are made of & paste of cornmeal and chicken, veal or other meat stewed in a sauce of tomatoes highly seasoned with cayenne epper. The, cornmes! paste is rolled, placed tween corn shucks, asmall portion of the meat and sauce is placed on the inner layer. The whole is then rolled _moderately tight and tied at each end and in the center and allowed to boil until the paste is cooked. Burre Couxty Laxp—C. T. W., Occidental, Cal. The thermal belt in the northern part of the State is undoubtedly a good one in which to raise oranges and -lemons, but whether the particuiar land alluded to in your communication as “‘nine miles from Oroville” is as represented is somethiug that Answers 1o Correspondents cannot answer. You should visit the place yourself and make your inquiry of peoplé in the vicinity, who will be able to give you the best kind of information. GENERAL MONTGOM —R. M. 8., Tulare, Cal. You are not a close reader; if you were you would bave seen that your question was answered in THE DATLY CALL of the 26th of February and in the weekly of the week fol- lowing, and you would not have felt called upon to ask why your question was not an- swered. So far as his biographies go thereis no meution that General Montgomery left any relatives but his widow. There is nothing said in them of children or brothers or sisters. & SECOND-CLASS MATTER — Antipodean, Kese wick, Shasta Couunty, Cal. A publisher who wishes to avail himself of the advantages of second-class rates will have to make applica- tion to the Postmaster in the place in which he lives, who wili furnish him a blank con- taining nineteen questions he will have to an. swer, and if he does so satisfactorily he will be rermumd 1o print on his publication that it 1as been entered as second-class matter. The Toutine to be followed by a publisher in secur- ing that right cannot be given in this depart- ment, as it would take up more space than is allowed to any one answer, butany Postmaster wilt exg]ain the whole matter to any party in- terested. - CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c Ib. Townsend's.* ——————— EPECIAL information daily to manutsctura:s, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —————— Missionary—So you have been married al- ready three times? Native—Yes, but each time I managed to eat myself back into a state of single blessedness.— Sketch. “I HAVE fourd Hood's Pills unequaled. I always keep them in the house and recommend themto my friends.” Mrs. Vernon Upton, 735 Pine st., San Francisco, Cal. ——— Take the Northern Pacific to all points East. Lowest rates to Minnesota and Dakota polnts, Upholstered tourist-cars, Puliman palace and din- ing cars on all trains. Two fast through trains daily; time to Chicago shortened six hours. For tickets and information call on T, K. Stateler, 638 Market street, San Francisco. ALL persons afiicted with dyspepsia will find immediate relief and sure cure by using Dr, Siegert's Angostura Bitters. —_————— “BROWN’'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES” are an effect. ual remedy for all Bronchial Affections. —————— Mrs. Cumagain—What time does the train leave for Yaphank? Ticket Agent—Ten-thirty. that six times within an hour. 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