The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 25, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1%96. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, 0ne w: » One year, by mali. 'ALL, 81X months, by mail. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on & vacatlon? If #0, 1t is no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to Four address. miss it Do not let it miss you for you will Orders given to the carrier or left at Office will receive prompt sattention. A CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Felephone......... . ...Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: ] Street. Telephone ....Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 630 Montgomery gtreet, corner Clay; open umtil #:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open unt!l 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. €W, corner Eixteenth &nd Mission streets; open ntil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open untll 9 o'clock. 116 Nibih street; open untll 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 90S Broadway. EASTERN OFFIC Roome 31 and 34 Park Row, New York City. ——————————————————————— After this—the sunshine. We can all be haymaking before long. At the call of the hotel men every Cali- fornian comes to the front. Los Angeles seems to be satisfied with herself and will @o it again. Our hotel visitors will have no cause to complain that we gave them a dry time. Sternberg should not be sent to jail with- out the company of his wicked partners. The festal movement will now come north and the dance will bs nearer home. Sternberg stuffed the register, but who put up the joband worked it out for profit? Republicans of the Fourth - District shounld drop Kelly and Mahoney into a cavity. Leave orders for THE SuxDAY CALL to- day and good reading will be yours to- IMOrrow. In the hands of a Congressman who is truly Democratic the inkstand is as mighty as the brickbat. The funding scheme seems to be side- tracked, but it is just as well to keep a watch on the switch Before you start out for your Saturday purchases read our advertisements and see where the bargains are. Whether our visitors saw the Cliff House in storm or in sunshine they saw a view no other city can equal. There were more registration stu ffers than one at the last election and more than one should be punished. In trying to dodge the rock of Protec- tion in the campaign, Democracy will fall 1nto the abyss of the defici The British are still talking about Vene- zuela as if they did not understand that we are to settle the question. Delaware and Georgia promise to break the record with a peach crop this year, but they haven’t passed the saiety line yet. California inte: s are good cards to draw to at St. Louis, and it would be folly to discard them before the draw begins. It is said we have now had the last storm of the season and let us hope the ‘Weather Bureau will live up to the promise. Before Kelly and Mahoney find a turn- ing in the long lane they are walking they may find it leading to the doorof a prison. California cannot afford to neglect her own interests at St. Louis for the purpose of booming the favorite son of some other Btate. The glad hand to every candidate is what California will show at the St. Louis convention, and therefore they will give her a show. There has been no Democrat of note up to date who has ventured to declare that he sees even a glimmer of possible victory for his party this year. ‘Weyler’s proclamation to the Cubans demanding & surrender in twenty days is one of those mud bluffs that will cave down at the first storm, If the Missouri Democrats get the Chi- cago convention 10 nominate ‘‘Silver Dick” for President, they won’t care who writes the platform, nor what it says. If Congressmen Hall and Money intend any further ink slinging at one another they should be put out of the committee rooms of the Capital and furnished with pens. When it comes tothe money question in the Chicago convention, there will be either a noise like hades broke loose or a silence disturbed only by the sound of a plank dropped in the mud. - London has got far enough along in civilization to start a movement for the suppression of street noises, and we trust she will give it such a send-off that it will get to San Francisco before long. The political situation will not shape itself definitely until the convention meets at Bt. Louis, and to pledge our delegation to a particular candidate beforehand would be taking a stand before we xnew what to stand on. Democrats have been so quiet regarding the Presidential campaign this year, it is worth noting that one of them has found nerve enough in his tongue to call the friends of McKinley “volatile vulgar- ians,” and thus the first alliterative roor- back of the canvass has been started on its rounds. Because New York had a snowstorm on April 7 with the thermometerat 30 degrees and then a series of alternations ending with the hottest April day on record on the 14th, that city is putting up a claim to be the greatest weather manufacturing center on the continent, but Chicago is to be heard from and even Boston may putin & protest. A WORD TO FARMERS. Protection and reciprocity are as neces- sary to the material well-being of @he people oi the United States as sunslpna and rain are to their physical weli-being, and it may besaid that of the innumerable lines of accupation no class of progucers are more directly interested in such tariff lasrs and reciprocal trade reiations with cutside peoples as would establish and mamtain home-consumption markets than our farmers, especially those who produce cereals. It may not be generally known but it is nevertheless true that the price of bread- stuffs at every American ralway station and river and ocean wharf is fixed by Liverpool grain and flour merchants. It is also true that the surplus wheat of Russia, India and Argentina exerts a greater infiuence in measuring the world’s available supply than that of America, For iwenty-five years the food centers of Europe have given India and Argentina every possible encouragement to extend their wheat acreage, and for some time past the farmers of the United States have been a mere convenience to Liverpool and the grain markets of the Continent to the extent of being called upon to provide only for any balance in the demand that is left over after the countries named have marketed their surplus. More than a third of a century ago Liverpoo!, which is the leading center in the world for the accumulation and dis- tribution of breadstuffs, ascertained that grain might be raised in South America and Asia and laid down in her storage- houses cheaper than it could be fetched from the United States, and the steadily increasing imports from those countries in recent years testify how well that great grain market has succeeded in shifting the leading source of breadstuffs supplies for Europe from America to regions where farm lavor and the other items of expense which enter into the cost of farm opera- tions are to be obtained ata very much less expense than in this country. Thus it 18 that prices of American farm products in Europe are fixed in these days by the cost of production in Indiaand Argentine, where the cost of labor is considerably lower than is paid to pauper labor in Europe. That is to say, the American farmer is obliged to sell the surplus product of his acres at prices that are de- termined by his competitor in Asia and South America, who pays very much less for labor and the other items of expense than our farmer pays; besides the cost of reaching the markets of Europe from the countries named is materially less than from any of the grain-producing country of the United States lying west of the Missouri River. These things, together with the destruction of the home market by Democratic tariff legislation, explain why grain farming in this country is not now remunerative. The American farmer ought to under- stand by this time that the salvation of his calling depends upon the re-enactment of a protection law that will justify put- ting the machinery of ourindustries again in motion, that they may give employ- ment to the thousands and thousands of farm-product consumers whom Demo- cratic free trade has sent into enforced idleness. The farmer should know that if our industrial strength were developed by protection against pauper competition a satisfying market for his product would spring up in nearly every community, and that he would then not only receive good- paying prices for his produce but he would save the expense of reaching distant mar- kets. Surely the American tarmer needs to be protected quite as much against the pau- per farm labor of india, Russia and Ar- gentina as the American producer of man- ufactured commodities, And it may be said that the California farmer has no ex- cuse for not seeing very clearly that there can be no adequate compensation for his efforts until consumers of his produce come from mills and factories of his own State. But there will be no mills and fac- tories in California until capital is assured of the kind of protection that protects against a pauper-labor competitor wno, when left free to come and go at his own will and pleasure, is as hurtful to the con- sumer and the agriculture of America as the locust was to ancient Egypt. As we have said, the salvation of the American farmer, especially the farmer of Califor- nia, is in & permanent home market for the products of his acres. THE CALIFORNIA LIAR. The fact that no one acquainted with California dares tell the truth about the State to strangers lest he be deemed a Jiar is an interesting comment on the intel- ligence of the Eastern States, and an ex- planation of many of the hardships im- posed on California by reason of this ignorance. The idea has been admirably expressed by Jewett Wilcox, superinten- dent of the hotel service of the Iilinois Central Railroad. He is one of the 600 hotel men who are visiting California, and as 2 person of large experience and ability his remarks are worthy of special atten- tion, This is what he has said in an in- terview about California: ‘“We have found everything that we did not expect. We have been interested and surprised ever since we crossed the line at Barstow. Eastern people don’t know any- thing about this State. Most of us thought it a sort of desert with an occasional oasis. One trouble about this tripis that we shall all be set down as liars when we get back East. They will say that we have acquired the Chicago habit—even in Chicago, where they are pretty good talkers themselves.” The very fact that California is so warmly praised and so devotedly loved by all who have come within the influence which it exerts prejudices even some casual visitors against the State. Gener- ally the first thing thatevery such traveler does I3 to belittle the value of what he actually sees. This is inténded as a re- buke to our enthusiasm and as an ex- hibition of superior wisdom. Our winds, which make malaria and all other zymotic and epidemic diseases impossible, and which make our men so robust and our women so beautiful, are declared to be ‘“‘borrible.” And vet during the whole winter callas and heliotropes bloom fr eely, and banana trees grow without damage in Golden Gate Park, where even the dullest may see them and be able to under- stand the lesson which they teach. It is Eastern ignorance of California and its value to the Nation that has made it possible for a railroaa lobby to turn the serious attention of Congress to a shame- less scheme for perpetuating the evils of railroad crookedness and monopoly; that by neglecting to subsidize an American steamship line to the Australisn colonies has enabled English transportation com- panies to divert the Australian traffic from the western gateway of the United State: that has compelled the arid West to re- main undeveloped by forcing upon us the English idea of riparian ownership of water in streams, and that has held in abeyance a necessary Government support ot the Nicaragua canal. The “California liar'’ must for a time yet possess his soul in patience and wait for the birth of a true National spirit in America. California should, and eventu- ally will, be a common ground for the mesting and harmonizing of all conflict- ing interests. Meanwhile those people who are already established ‘here are so well aware of their own blessings that they can afford to be misunderstood when they exhibit a desire that all their coun- trymen should be equally well endowed with nature’s blessings. A UNITED DELEGATION. There seems to be an opinion, doubtless of very limited extent, that unless the California delegates to the Republican National Convention are sent pledged to support some particular candiaate they will not bg able to unite on any candidate. Thus Paris Kilburn, an eminent local Re- publican, says: “Let any one study the history of the unpledged California dele- gation at the Minneapolis convention four years ago. Our delegates were divided into three factions. There was no instruc- tion or concert of action, so no influence was exerted and no laurels were gained.” Mr. Kilburn argues that an instruction to the California delegates to act as a unit at St. Louis would be tantamount to an in- struction te support some delegate who is very popular in this State. ‘We do not see why this should follow. Assume, in the case of an unpledged dele- gation, that all the delegates would be favorable to a particular candidate, it by no means follows that they would neces- sarily support thut candidate. To expect them to do so when it might easily be that such a course would work a distinct in- jury to the State and to the Republican party would be to assume the aelegates to be possessed of less ability and patriotism than they certainly should have, The ob- stinate support of a candidate who cannot be nominated might well be expected to cripple the State with the National party. Again, to assume that the California delegation could not act asa unitin the absence of definite instructions concerning some candidate will hardly be regarded as a compliment by the Republicans of the State. It is unrortunately true that the lack of unanimity on the part of Califor- nians has been their besetting sin in the past, but there is unmistakably a deter- mination on the part of Republicans to make the most of the extraordinary op- portunity that has now presented itself. The advantages to be secured by concert of action are greater than they have ever been before in the history of the party in this State. The earnest movement which is now on foot to rescue the party organi- zation from unworthy hands shows the temper of the voters. Politics which shall be both clean and intelligent i1s now the order of the day. There seems at present to be no reason for assuming that a dele- gation pledged for no particular candidate would be so lacking in appreciation of the advantage to be secured by harmonious action as to be unable to agree on some intelligent policy for the common good. “THE SUNDAY CALL." Horticulturists will ke interested in an exhaustive article in to-morrow’s CavrwL dis- cussing means for averting damage by frost. Had this important subject been better understood the injury suffered this year would have been unnecessary. This is only one of many special features that will make THE SuNDAY CALL instruc- tive and interesting. A glimpse of the high civilization existing in Arizona over two centuries ago will be afforded by an article devoted to the noble ruins of an an- cient mission that is hardly known, with illustrations showing the grand propor- tions and excellent preservation of what still remains standing. The Fort Point and Alcatraz lighthouses will be described and illustrated and will constitute another of the series devoted to California lighthouses. A contribution entitled “How Two San Francisco Women Achieved Fame in Japan” will give an exceptionally inti- mate and interesting view of life in the land of the chrysanthemum. The wonderful variety of the shipping in the bay of San Francisco will be indi- cated in 2 special study of the subject. Denis Kearney, who has been a sailor in his day, will furnish a thrilling experience entitled ‘‘Overboardin the Indian Ocean.” “Whist Cranks” will not likely agree with W. C. Morrow’s rather sayage attack upon the game that is now so popular, or with his reasons for denouncing 1t. William Abrens will tell the remarkable story of his recent explorations in the hitherto unknown wilds of German New Guinea. “Courting Made Difficult” and *“The Deed of a Hero’ are two charming tales, Minor contributions in variety will ap- pear, all specially prepared for to-morrow’s issue. One will describe an odd local char- acter who makes his living by fishing up things from the bottom of the bay. An- other will tell of a historic cannon that now serves at one of San Francisco's street corners as a curbstone fender. Another will record the achievements of a wonder- ful rat-terrier, and still another will de- scribe a splendid waterfall in the near-by mountains. The foregoing list is merely a sample of the good things to be found in to-morrow’s Carr. There are many others, as the in- creased size of the paper has made neces- sary a more varied and abundant selection than was formerly the rule. The depart- ments peculiar to the Sunday issue will be full of meat. These include literature, society, fashions, the children’s page, new things in the sciences and arts, the drama, music, etc. In addition to all these will be special telegrams from correspondents in the leading cities of the world. Tk SUNDAY CALL is the ideal paver to send to Eastern friends. SHALL WE INSTRUCT? San Bernardino Times-Index. The San Francisco CALL advocates an unin- structed delegation to St. Louis from Califor- nia and urges many cogent reasons for its po- sition. The Bulletin is equally strong in its advocacy of an instructed delegation, that the position of the State in relation to Presidential possibilities may be unmistakably defined. It is possible that the proper action for the Congressional and State conventions to take on this question will be found to be between the positions taken by these two papers. The Times-Index is not prepared to say that it is either wise or good political policy to elect and send to St. Louis a body of men, be they never 50 able and representative, without any ex- pression whatever from the conventions as to choice of candidate for President. Neither do we believe that it wounld be wise to send & delegation to 8t. Lonis hampered by iron.clad instructions and rendered incapable of exercising that judgment necessary 1o deal with facts and conditions of which it is impossible for the conventions sending them to have knowledge. Marked changes in the political situation are liable to occur in the month that will elapse between the nolding of our conventionsand the National Convention at St. Louis, and the delegates should not be, compelled to violate pledges in order to cofform their action to such cnanges, when 1t is for the best interest of the party and State, The Times-Index believes that the proper course to gunue is for the Reémblmm of Cali- fornia in Congressional and State conventions to express their choice for Presidential candi- dates in unmistakable terms, elect delegates in full sympathy with their preferences, but leave them otherwise free to act. We believe Ih‘t.t !!nc‘l‘:..l course wfll‘lil:t lubie'r:w:. il’:ll:b ests o party State, can be affected by political action. £ AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Not long since & medium-sized man with raven-black ringlets and dark eyes arrived here and registered at the Occidental Hotel as Salva de Capdeville of Havana, Cuba, He zave out that he was a Spanish Count and exhibited a copy of a Portland paper wherein he was in- terviewed as the Count Capdeville, and the en- terprising drummer gave his “views” on the war in Cuba. His blue blood boiled at the ides thata lot of negroes should try to build up & republic in the ‘“pearl of the Antilles,” and he warmly commended Emilio Castelar for his course in the war, Inan elaborate interview he repeated that he was a Count and let it be understood that the castles of the Capdevilles extended from POLITICS AND POLITICIANS. In celling Quay and Platt political babies Hanna may have alluded to their being always wide awake.—Philadelphia Times. If the Pattison and Cerlisle booms should combine they might make enough noise to keep alive, anyhow. — Philadelphia North American. The Government is running behind half & million dollars'a day in its receipts. Thatkind of housekeeping will stop next year.—Fond du Lac Commohwealth. It looks now as if the Democratic nomina- tion for President would have to be sold as unclaimed bagguge. Its chief value to the purchaser will be as & curio that was once e Topacto Salvador Capdevilla, the Cigar Drummer Who Claimed to Be a Spanish Count. Seville to Salamanca. His family was accord- ing to the entraneing tale extremely old and famous for hundreds of years. The Spanish Consul read the fairy tale, and could not recollect that he had heard of the renowned family of the Capdeville before. He got down his record books and thumbed through them patiently. Never a Capdeville could be found. “I knew at once, when I read the story, that the fellow was not a count,” said the Consul. “He could notbe. If he was his name would be down in the volumes relating to famous families.” Confronted wilh this statement, the thriity drummer still persisted he was acount. He said the Consul of Spain wouldn’t know. To others he said the story had helped him in dis- posing of his cigars, and he has been much amused at his position in the role of & count. He has been at the Grand and Baldwin, as well as the Occidental. The fact that he has represented himself as & count has been dis- cussed from time totime. “Count” Capdeville, as he writes himself, is reported also to be a gay young gentleman among the ladies, con- sidering himself to be & great breaker of hearts. THE NEW ERA. She rides on her bike In astonishin’ clothes; The little dogs bark when a-cycling she goes— She’s partial to plaid And 1ooks just like a laa Ora page on the bill boards of vaudeville shows. Ob, Sairy, Contrary, You've got ter be, very. I'm gettin’ clean sour where I used ter be merry, T've jes’ got ter hustle the best thet I can, Fur she’s the gew woman and I'm the old man. T've learnt to do mendin’ an’ darnin' and such: T'm bendin’ ter tasks thet I once scorned ter touch; The flapjack I turn So's the breakfast won't burn. And I don’t go out nights ter the lodgeroom—not muchs T'm worried, An’ hurried, An totall; Tell sometimes But I'm peggin’ away on the popular plan, Fur she's the new woman an’ I'm the old man. —Exchange. flurried. wisht 1 was well dead an’ burled; PERSONAL. C.E. Newton of Los Banos s at the Cosmo- politan. Sam J. Gorman, & business man of Portland, is at the Occidental. Charles B. Hurley of Tacoma weas among yesterday’s arrivals here. Hugh McGillis of Rosslyn, Wash., is regis- tered at the Cosmopolitan. The Nevada journalists and their families last night attended the California Theater. J. F. Shaeffer, & merchant of Gridley, was among the arrivals at the Grand yesterday. H. H. Wait, a wealthy farmer and cattle- raiser of San Luis Obispo County, is in town. James £. Bell and J. D, Brown, business men of Everett and Olympia respectively, are at the Grand. James P. McCarthy, the well-known real estate man, is iz Los Angeles on a short busi- ness trip. George Butler of the Great Northern Rail- way Company of Portland, and family, are staying at the Cosmopolitan. Professor Douglas Archibald of the British ‘weather service is here in the interest of a ‘weather station for Honolulu. James Taman, & prominent mining man and mine-owner of Sutter Creek, with his famiiy, are guests at the Cosmopolitan. R. C. James and Professor D. P. Todd, of the Amberst expedition to Japan, came over from Sausalito yesterday and are at the Palace. Albert A. Burleigh of Houlton, Me., presi- dent of the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, is at the Russ. He is one of the wealthy men of the Pine Tree State. Colonel W. S. Stone, one of the largest land- owners and mine operators of Yreka, is at the Russ, Heis a brother of Captain Stone, for- merly of the 8an Francisco police force. George Graham, an extensive manufacturer of flour at Walla Walla, the center of the wheat- growing country of Eastern Washington, ar- rived here yesterday and is at the Russ. Frank A. Miller, proprietor of Glenwood Tavern, Riverside, and president of the South- ern California Hotel Association, i among those who came with the hotel men’s excur- sion. He is at the Lick. James Clark, owner of the hotel at the sta- tion of Humboldt, in the Humboldt Valley, Nev., on the Central Pacific Railroad, and of 8 large area of land and herds of cattle, isat the Russ. At Humboldt is the only green place in the desolate sand and sagebrush for several hundred miles. —— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 24.—At the Marl- borough, W. Crane; Grand Union, W. Hunt- ington; Astor, M, J. O’Neil; St. Denis, J.J. Wooley; Imperial, M. I. Cahn, Mrs.Wonnauck, —_— . Wizwag—Jazrey says he pays halfa dollar for his cigars, Do you believe 1t? Gizmog—Certainly. He told me the other day that he always buys them by the hun- dred.—Roxbury Gazette. e —— * The first white woman who ever entered Kansas died last week at Iols, in that State, Bhe was known as Granny Cowden and was 82 years old. Bhe went to live at & trading post near Fort Scott in 1839, owned by Andrew Jackson.—New York Mall and Express. Some of the cartoons of Secretary Carlisle make him look like an idiot. This is wrong. Mr. Carlisie is not en idiot. He simply isn’t & financier.—Kansas City Journal. The count made by Mr. Reed’s friends shows that if one McKinley were out of the way Mr. Reed would be as certain of getting the nomi- nation as any other man in the field.—Chicago Record. Some of the gallants who are industriously plucking posies for that third-term bouquet for Mr. Cleveland should be closely watched or they are likely to slip in immortelles enough to form the coupiet “At Rest.”—Cleveland Press. Pattison has not struck the Democrats of the country outside of Pennsylvama favor- ably. Yetit would not be at all singularshould he be nominated. If nobody wants the nom- ination except Pattison, what on earth is the convention going to do unless it takes him?— Philadelphia Inquirer. LITTLE GIRL'S DRESS WITH JACKET A dainty little frock for girls of 3 to 8 years is shown here. Made of dark blue mohair with the full bodice of embroidered batiste it is exquisite. Of gingham in stripes of pink, blue and white, with a white lawn bodice, it 18 very pretty. Cotton cheviots in brown and white or blue and white are serviceable and stylish. The full waist may be of the same or a Contrasting fabric or color. taffeta dress of Dresden design had the bodice of pale blue silk crepe. A white pique dress had a full bodice of &(nk lawn. A dress of green mohair had the jacket of all over embroidery in flax-colored batiste, with a narrow edging of the same around it. ‘The waist buttons in front, buttoning to the skirtband around the left side. The jacket may be made separate and the waist may fas- ten in the back. The skirt is straight, simply gathered to the band. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. “A friend in need is a friend indeed.” That|certainly seems funny, For instance, how could a friend in need Advyance a fellow money. —New York Herald, A bridegroomn is never ofas much importance as his bride, and she is of no importance at all; it is her dress.—Atchison Globe. Rooter—A friend of mine had a load of bricks dumped on him the other day and escaped without the slightest injury. ‘Baseball Magnate—You interest me. can he be found? Rooter—Why, what do you want with him? Baseball Magnate—He’s just the fellow for a good umpire.—Philadelphia North American, Where Artist—There you are, sir! I've painted you a full line of ancestors, and I'll warrant you that no one will know that they are not genu- ine. This is your father, that your grand- father, this your great-grandfather, and Mr. Newrich—Hold on! Good heavens, man, you've made my great-grandfather a much younger-looking man than I am!—London Tid- Bits. “Ithink bicyclers ought to have & patron saint.” “Yes, and 0ld Nick would do for you fellows who want to scorch all the ime.”—Chicago Record. De Safety—I once held thirteen trumps in whist and only took one trick. Boftleigh—Nonsense. De Safety—No, fact; my partner led an ace, I trumped it and they threw me out of the win- dow.—Judge. *‘Charity,” said the proverb-loving boarder, “begins at home.” *‘And,” said the Cheerful Idiot, “so also do divorce cases as a rule.”—Indianapolis Senti- nel. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. FERDINAND VII—O. C. L., City. Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, reigned from 1814 to 1833. HALF-DOLLAR OF 1832 —Little Jim, City. There is no premium on a halt-dollar of 1832. DIFFERENCE IN MILEs—W. L. M., Cloverdale, Cal. The American mile 18 1760 yards, and the Bohemian mile is 8296 yards. B'NE B'RITH—C. M. F., North Temescal, Cal. B'ne Brith, sometimes written B'nai B'rith, means Sons of the Covenant. The letter ‘‘e’ is the one omitted from each word. THE NATIONAL CONVENTION—J. D, B., City. Each State sends to the National Nominating Convention two delegates from each Congres- sional district and four from the State at large. A MorroN—J. F.,City. If at a meeting a motion is made, seconded, stated by the chair and afterward withdrawn by the mover, the same ought to appear on the minutes as a part of the proceedings. Dg. MeyErs—North Beach, City. Dr. R.C. Meyers, s North Beach druggist, at one time chairman of the Republican County Commit- tee, is a graduate of medicine and a duly licensed physician. A Bre DoLLAR—H. J. D., Mojave, Cal. While dealersin old coins do not offer any premium for & dollar of 1884, if you want t6_buy from them, they will charge you $2 25 for one in first-clase condition. Dr. HARTLEY—A correspondent asks for the resent whereabouts of Dr. Hartley, if still Pivln'. He was a prominent figure in this City a number of years ago. Can any of the readers of this department tell? LOWER CALIFORNIA—J. L. G., Corning, Tehama County, Cal. Any bookdealer will procure for ou a map of Lower California. As often be- ore announced, this department does not ad- vertise any firm, consequently cannot give the name of any such. BURNT COBE—P. H., Fresno, Cal. The mix- ture that professionals use in making up as negroes for the stage is soft soap and lamp black or burned cork. The soft soap in the mixture enables the person using it to wash it off with less trouble than when burnt cork alone is used. Two DOLLARS AND A HALF—Reader, Alameda, Cal. The answer fo the question, “Will you please tell me the value of a $2 50 gold piece?’’ 18 2 50. There are some of certain dates that command a premium, but as the correspondent does not give any date it is impossible to give any other answer. OPERA-HOUSE PEOPLE—A. M. B., City. Coul- ter Brinker and Miss Maud Edna Hall have closed their engagements at the Grand Opera- house and are now playing in Sult Lake City. Leslie Morosco is still traveling in Europe, and will be absent about two months longer, when he will return to the stage of the opera-house. THE TROLLEY CURRENT—W. T. K., City. The power that moves electric cars is thus ex- plained: The electric current producea at the central station travels out through the over- head or trolley-wire down through the trolley- pole, thence through the motors under the car, and from there it is led to the car nxl? through the wheels on the track, from where it finds its way back to the other pole of the dynamo, ‘which is connected to the tracks. OF CHINESE PARENTS—M. McK., Livermore, Alameda County, Cal. A male child born of Chinese parents in the United States, there be- ing no law to the contrary, can, when he at- tains his majority, vote, being & native born. A number of such have voted in this City. The npaturalization of Chinese is expressly pro- hibited by section 14, chapter 126, naturaliza- tion laws of 1862. A boy born of Chinese parents in the United States would, 1f after at- taining the age of 21 he exercised the rights of & citizen, be eligible to the Presidency. AcNosrics—J. D. 8., Napa, Cal. You will ind about as much as you wish to read about agnosticism if you will consult the works of Herbert Spencer, those of Thomas Henry Hux- ley, ““The Way Out of Agnosticism,” by F. E. Abbott, “The Doctrines of Evolution in Its Relation to Theism,” by W. B. Carpenter; “Theistic Conception of the World,” by C.F. Crocker; “Theistic Argument as Affected by Recent Theories ” by J. L. Diman; “The Idea of God as Affected by Modern Knowledge,” by J. Fiske; “Theism,” by R. Flint; the works of Immanuel Kant, in which are included “Re- ligion Within the Limits of Mere Reason,” “Der Streit der Facultaten,” <Critiqtie of 'Pure Reason,” ‘‘Critique of . Prac. tical Reason,” the works of B Frothingham, Dr. Krauth, the latest work, ‘“‘Agnostics and Other Essays,” by Fawcett; also the works of Bob Ingersoll, the writings of David Starr Jordan and the works of Rev. Henry Longueville Mansel and of Sir William Hamilton, PoLL TaX. EXEMPTION.—Information, Mill- wood, Cal. The constitution of this State im- poses poll tax on every male inhabitant of this State over 21 and under 60 years of age, ex- cept paupers, insane persons and Indians not taxed. As members of the National Guard and Naval Reserve are not mentioned in the ex- cepted class they must pay, but they are ex- empt from the payment of road tax. On the subject of collection the law says: The Assessor must demand payment of poll tax of every male person liable therefor and on the neglect or refusal 10 pay the same he must collect by selzure and sale of any personal broperty owned by such person. Eovery person indebted to one who neglects or refuses after demand to pay poll tax becomes liable therefor and must pay the same for such other person after service upon him by the collector of & notice in writing stating the name of such person. On the subject of road tax the law of this State says that the Superyisors of every county in this State are authorized to impose such on every male inhabitant in the county who is over 21 and under 55 years of age “exceptin, all persons who were honorably discharge from the service of the army or navy of the United States between 1st day of April, 1861, and the 1st day of May, 1865. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Clark McDavis of Colorado, 19 years of age and six feet nine inches high, is the tallest bicycle-rider in the United States, A citizen of Biddeford, Me., who failed to be elected Mayor of the town at a recent election, has accepted the janitorship of the city build- ing. Mark Twain’s tobacco account must be a large one, for he consumes ‘over 3000 cigars in ayear. Heissaid to allow himself 300 cigars & month, Daniel Baugh of Jeffersonville, Ind., is 107 years of age. He celebrated his birthday last ‘week by a dinner, at which six generations of the family were seated at the table. Anold Amherst man recalls the tact that Rey. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst was & member of the first glee club ever sent out 'by Amherst. He played the accompaniments on & piano or organ. Colonel Hunter, who is acting as Sir Horatio Kitchener’s chief of staff in the advance to Dongola, also served in the Nile campaign un- der Lord Wolseley. He has a high reputation among military men as a solid, useful; good all-round soldier. [ e, CREAM mixed candies, 25¢1b, Townsend’s, * ——————— BOFT chewing molasses candy. Townsend’s.* —————— FRESH buttercups, 25¢ a pound. Townsend’s.* ————— BOFT baby cream, 15¢ pound, Townsend’s., * & e e R STRANGERS, take home Townsend’s California Glace Fruits, 50c 1b. 627 Market, Palace Hotel, e 3 Bx;ncnn :‘nlnmluon daily to manufacturers, usiness houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montyzomery. £ ———————a THE North Pacific Coast Railroad via Sausa- lito ferry runs through the most. charming coun- try in California. No overcrowded boats and noisy Sunday picnic crowds to mar the Ppleas- ure of families aud private parties. L; ———————— M. Piet de 1a Fauderie, a well-known French stamp collector, has just sold two Mauritius stamps of the “‘postoffice’” ‘variety for the sum 0138,000 francs to Mr. Morse, the well-known English eleotrician, who, between his hours of scientific labors, is a stamp collector. The day after the purchase of these two stamps Mr. Morse wus offered 44,000 francs for them. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. AN UNFPLEDGED DELEGATION. A REPUBLICAN WHO VOTED FOR FREMONT AND LINCOLN GIVES GOOD COUNSEL. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: 1 claim to be about the oldest Republican on the Pacific Coast, having voted for Abraham Lincoln for the Legislature in Sugar Crgek precinct, Sangamon County, IIL, in 1854; afterward supported Fremont for President in 1856 and Lincoln in 1860. THE CALL is taking the proper course on in- structions, or pledging of delegates. What power will a pledged delegation have at St. Louis? Oregon has already jumped into the political band wagon and has got all the seats, and, of course, will be the beneficiary of that action. If California sends an unpledged del- egation Washington will follow suit, for she is more likely to follow California than the little commonwealth of Oregon. Twenty votes in Californis, if united, will be a power; then add eight more from Washington, and all candi- dates and their friends will call around at St. Louis to interview the twenty-eight, ask their wishes, desires, consult their judgment; but with pledged delegates the political manager of & certain candidate will regard them as his own property, end rightfully; others, or iriends of others, will take it for granted that the collars about their necks are too tight to allow the chained animals any freedom and will pass them by. THE CALL is right. This State will not_instruct, whatever Cali- fornia may do, but I believe I express the wishes of the large mnjomg of Republicans in this State when I oppose the pledging of dele- gates and desire co-operation from the Golden State. Yours, etc. R. H. BALLINGER. Port Townsénd, Wash., April 21, 1896. REPAVE MARKET STREET. IN THE MEANTIME REPAIR THE CROSSINGS AND TAKE Ot THE COBBLESTONES OF 1849, To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: The demands of the Cycle Board of Trade and the Merchants’ Improvement Association for the repaving of Market street ought to be supported by all good citizens. There are other matters, however, that might well be at~ tended to in the meantime. I refer particu- larly to the proper care of the City’s main thoroughfare under present conditions. Superintendent Ashworth ought to know that there 1s not a block from the ferry to Valencia street in good order. Itis the duty of the Superintendent of Streets to repafr these defects or compel property-owners to do so. But this is not the worst feature of this great roadway. The streets that lead into Market street from the north have had their junctures payed in a hali-decent way, but the cll;ossmgs on the south side are in miserabla shape. Just take alook at the south side crossings et the corners of Fourth, Fifth and Sixth streets, if you want to see what our municipal officers permit in the way of silurianism. At those points you will find the original clam. shaped, razor-edged cobbles that were adopted in 1849, and that have been wobbling about in the sand ever since. The authorities don’t even put down basalt blocks, which would be something of a relief, but allow the aangerous cobbles to stick up like the teeth of &n in- verted harrow, threatening alike vehicles, pedestrians, wheelmen and the drivers of vehicles. The tracks of the different car lines leadin, from the south are also neglected and will ever be so unless the City’s officers perform their duties and compel needed improve- ments. Repave Market street with asphaltum or some other acceptable substance, by all means, but pending that extensive improvement, which will involve the expenditure of & great deai of money and time, the Superintendent of Streets ought to enforce the law and_place that street in such a condition that it will not be.a menace to the lives and limbs of those who travel over it. K. B. BROWN. Sat Franeisco, April 22, 1896. Mrs. Mary E. Lease, speaking of John J. In- galls of Kansas,says: “I don’t really believe there is any danger of his being elected United States Senator. I will say, however, that the Republicans might do worse. I will not attempt to prevent his election.” —_——————— It is stated in Royalist circles at Paris that the Pope will present the golden rose this year to the wife of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria. ‘WHEN 50 many people are taking and deriving benefit from Hood’s Sarsaparilla, why don’t you try it yourself? It will build you up. Hood’s Sarsaparilla will make you strong. ————————— IMPORTANT CHANGE OF TIME.—The 12th fnst. the Northern Pacitic Railroad inaugurated a doabls daily passenger service between Portland and St. Paul, making u saving of ten hours between Port- land and Chicago. These are the fastest and finest equipped trains that ever were run out of the Pa- cific Northwest. The superior accommodations In our passenger equipment recommend our line to all. Ours is the only line that runs dining-cars out of Portland. T. K. STATELER, general agent, 638 Market street. San Francisco. —_———— For COUGHS, ASTHMA AND THROAT DISORDERS “Brown’s Bronchial Troches” are an effectual rem edy. Sold only in boxes. - NoTHING contributes more toward a sound di- gestion than the use of Dr. Slegert’s Angostura Bitters, the celebrated appetizer. NEW TO-DAY. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE BY Thos. Magee & Sons, REAL ESTATE AGENTS And Pnblishers “Real Estate Circular™ 4 Montgomery Street, UNIOY TRUST BUILDING, CORYER MARKET. NEW PROPERTY, Only $4500: cor. Devisadero and Vallejo st.; $7:6x100: unsurpassed marine view. Very cheap; marine view; lots 25x100; $2500; Devisadero st., near Broadw: Van Ness ave.; $7:9x275: $3500. ‘Washington st., N. side; fine marine view, near Tocust: 50x127:8. Tremont, ave.; 75x80; $3000. INVESTMENTS. Fine investment on Geary st.; 5O feet front: brick building; 314 blocks from Market st.; 351,- O vath 5. bet. Market and 3 Vinth st., bet. Market and Mission; 50x1 frame buiidings; cheap. 20 Polk st.; brick building: in the best business %%mox the street; 3-story and basement; $20,- Howard st.; 45:10x187:6; N. side, close to Steu- art; short block from water front: only $13,000; very cheap. joteuart st bet. Market and Mission; $5%x 37:6; cheap. Offer wanted—Sixth st., W, €0x85 and 3-story; upstairs; rentslow; mortgage. LOW - side, near Bryant; 2_stores below and 6 tenants $69; $4500 can remain on PRICED MISCELLANEOUS PROPERTY. Very cheap; only $130 a foot; marine view; N, side Broudway, bet. Devisadero and Brod. erick: finest view on Pacific Heights, and cannot be shut off; 40x137:6, or larger size. Reduced to_$6250; California st., N. side, near Webster; 25x182:6, and good 2-story house in first-class orcer. Fine new residences, just finished; ment aud attic; basement has bill:ard-room and laundry; main floor has saloon pariors, dining- room and kitchen; upper foor, 4 bed rooms und bath, porcelain-tiled; attic, 2 bearooms; facing public square on Steiner street, bet. Hayes and Grove; street bituminized; price $8000: terms to suit. Reduced 0 $4650; Shotwell st., W. side, near 23d; 56x96:6 and 2 cottages; 5 rooms aud bath each; rents $30; fine street. Liberty-st. house and lot 25x115; comfortable 2-story. bet. Valencia and Guerrero; one of the Tinest residence streets of the Mission’; reduced to $3760. 37 NW. comer Fillmore and Filbert; lot 24x1/ and eottage: $3000. i Reduced 10 $9000; make offer: NW. cor, Pacific ave, and Broderick st.; 56x127:8; very sightly lot, with view of bug and a block from theé cars. 26000—Very fine house and lov 25x100 MeAl- lister st., near Baker; very easy terms; only $1600 cash. Reduced to $4000; 3 flats and lot 2513 Filvert st., near Fillmore; house built 1 yea st.; 3 d ; good view; streets in order. robnted 1. i, cor. Broadway and Steiner $4504 5 If you want a sure relief for ~ains in the back, side, chest, or limbs, use an Allcock’s tions is as good as the genuine, Porous Plaster BEAR IN MiND—Not one of the host of counterfeits and imita~ (