The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 2, 1896, Page 6

, 1896. ; : THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 2 — sel oot e s enen s s THE SANUNRANCISCOPCATL, SATURDAL, M Sy s e e e ey 2 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 Dally and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Daily and Sunay Caz, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. .65 Bunday CaLY, one year, by mail... 1.50 WXEKLY CaLy, one year, by mail. .50 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on a vacatfon? It 10, it 18 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Ofice will receive prompt sttention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Californta. Felephone........ -...Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Eelephore........... BRANCH OFFICES: 630 Montgomery street, corner Clay; epen umtl) $:80 o'clock. 889 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:50 o'clock. EW. corner Sixteents and Mission streets; open mtil 9 o'dock. $518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clook. 118 Ninth street; open until 9 o'cloek. OAKLAND OFFICE : 968 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Roems g1 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Speclal Agent. veene Maln-1874 BAPURDAY... veeeees. - MAY 2, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e Mr. Cullom didn’t eull 'em—he was culled. Order the Sunday CALL to-day and make sure of good reading to-morrow. It begins to lock as if the favorite sons would .have 1o content themselves with back seats. ‘What kind of politics is the Kelly-Ma- honey-Rainey push and pull trying to give us anyhow ? Ola man Kruger may not know many things, but the British have found that he kno ws his business. About all the House of Representatives can do now is to sit round and wait for the Senate to quit talking. Intrying to annex the Rand the South Africa Company seems to have got itself annexed to a buzz-saw. Tre Cary supports no favorite for the | Presidency. It stands for Western inter- ests and the winner at St. Lonis. Every State that sends instructed dele- gates to St. Louis will increase the power of those States whose delegates are unin- structed. From the coldness it produced in the Chamber of Deputies. it seems the new French Cabinet is only a species of re- frigerator. The ward boss woula take the grandest principles of National politics and throw them into the mud to pave his way to a city office. Califorma Democrats are willing to favor & Western man for President, but there seems to be no Western man who cares for their favor. Gorman has joined the list of those who prophesy that the Chicago convention will declare for the gold standard, and to that extent Gorman is a cuckoo. If Huntington cannot carry a little job like the Santa Monica scheme, what hope is there for him to rush through such a Iump of iniquity as the refunding bill? The results of the Illinois Convention show that the contests in the Republican party, so far from producing bad blood, serve to warm it up and generate enthu- siasm. Senator Peffer has decided!y more beard than backbone, for he has allowed his motion to mvestigate the bond deals to be dropped into a cavity without even mak- ing a row about it. The fellows who passed the Wilson bill are now pleading for. economy. Having failed to make a suit big enough for Uncle Sam they now propose to cut him down to make him fit the suit. The path of Republican politics 18 too straight for Martin Kelly and Jerry Ma- boney to follow it long. Their crooked- ness will separate them from the party long before the election comes. Tt appears there were forged signatures to the Huntington Santa Monica petitions as well as to those for the funding bill, and it is becoming evident the monopoly literary bureau is being overworked. oSl It is believed Cleveland will rouse him- self from his stupor long enough to veto the appropriation bill when it passes, and it seems, therefore, that even in his desuetude he never becomes innocuous. As the Kelly:Mahoney combination is trying to attach itself to the McKinley movement in National politics while join- ing the Sam Rainey pull in local affairs, it is evident it will be split wide open assoon as the strain comes. Nominating a man for a third Presiden- tial term in this country is about the greatesi political absurdity possible, but all the same it grows more and more probable that it1s to be the very biunder the Democratic party will commit next. Cleveland is often denounced for the number of his vetoes, but it is safe to say his chief regret is that he did not add an- other to them by vetoing the Wilson bill and saving his administration from the dismal record of deficits and bond issues, As Senator Allen declares that within a year both the Republican and the Demo- cratic parties will be united under the Populist standard it is evident that as a prophet he could not pass a civil service examination even for the Weather Bureau, Had Olney dealt directly with Kruger &8s soon asit was known that American miners in the Transvaal were in trouble it would have been a vigorous policy, but his action came so late it hardly seems more than repentance and an appeal for mercy. The Ezaminer claims to be a better judge than Te Carn of the Republican Presi- dential contest, because, as it says: *‘The man on the fence is able to appreciate the good points of the bear better than the one that is being hugged.” In this case, how- ever, the fence happens to be of barbed wire and the Examiner mistakes the points it feels for those it thinks it sees, OUR POSITION. The State of California is about to enter upon a political campaign which, while it means much for the Nation at large, should be of especial interest and advan- tage to the Pacific Coast. Every prophecy of the election is in favor of a signal and sweeping victory for the Republican party. It is to be a contest, not of men, not of versonalities, but of principles. Neither is it to be a campaign of or for a single principle. The condition of the country demands that several co-ordinate and consistent principles shall have the pledge of party fealty, and the promise of versonal favor and support by that candi- date who shall be accorded the honor of nomination for the Presidency at the hands of the St. Louis convention. These vrinciples are expressed by the words Protection, Reciprocity, Silver, Internal Improvements, Irrigation, and American Commercial Supremacy. The State of California is, in & peculiar sense, interested in these principles, and in tbeir positive adoption and assertion by the Republican party and by its candidate in the coming campaign. It demands the { protection of its industries, the establish- ment of reciprocal trade relations with the South American States and with the islands of the sea; the speedy and ample improvement of its rivers and harbors; the re-establishment of silver in the system of American finance; the adoption of a National plan for the ‘irrigation of the waste places of itself and its contiguous commonwealths; the encouragement of the ship-building and ocean commerce interests of the Pa- cific Coast, and the completion and con- trol of the Nicaragua canal. The State of California has a_right to require of the candidate who is to be accorded its sup- port in the St. Louis convention that each and all of these principles shall be given his express and unqualified support. Tee CaLyn is in faver of no particular candidate. THE CALL is for the success of the Republican party. TeE Carnn is for protection, for reciprocity, for silver, for the encouragement and up- building of local industries, for the in- crease and extension of American com- merce in American ships, for river and harbor improvement, for irrigation, for the completion and opening of the Nic- aragua canal. And last, but by no means least, TaE CALL is for the candidate who, when the St. Louis convention meets, will give to California and her delegation evi- dence of his devotion to these principles, together with a positive assurance that, in the event of his election, this State will be accorded a place and a representation in the Cabinet council of himself and of the Nation. SILVER AT ST. LOUIS. It is becoming every day more evident that the battle for bimetallism at the St. Louis convention will not be won easily. The advocates of the Cleveland doctrine of a single gold standard and the complete discrediting of silver will go to St. Louis flushed with success in the East and de- mand the adoption of a resolution over- throwing all the precedents, declarations and traditions of the Republican part and committing the Presidential nominee to a strict gold policy. Against this onslaught of the gold forces the bimetallists must be on their guard. The fight for silver will be made under Western leadership, and the California delegation should be made up of men capable of taking a ‘prominent and vigor- ous part in it. We must guard this great interest of tha West, which in & broad sense is the interest of the whole] Na- tion. We- should send w St. Louis no man who will not fight to the last for a silver platform and a silver candidate. This contest will be the greatest at the convention, for it involves the most far- reaching results, and it is in consideration of the part California is to play in the con- test that our delegation should be selected. The issue is too vast, too important, too far-reaching to be overlooked -for any other issue whatever. Protection is safe, reciprocity is safe. Silver is in danger. It is for silver we must fight. To that our delegates must be pledged. No man should be sent to St. Louis who is not the advocate of silver. No man should be supported there who is not the friend of silver. Free coinage at the ratio of 16to 1 should be demanded in the platform. The time for compromise is past. The battle is forced upon us. California,is for free silver coinage. THE CaLy, speaking for the toiling masses of the State, demands the free coinage of silyer. A. K. . HARMON'S DEATE. The death of A. K. P. Harmon was a misfortune to California. The story of his career as it has been told in the news col- umns of THE CAuL contains an uncommonly wide range of dramatic incidents and- im- portant interests even for & pioneer Cali- fornian. The hardships of his boyhood days, his meager education, his plunge into a great Eastern city to fight his way with men far better equipped in some re- gards, his struggle to reach -California as soon as the news of the discovery of gold reached his ears, his immediate departure from San Francisco for the gold fields of Coloma, his cleaning up of an ounce of gold on the first day, his swift movements and rapid accumulations, his retura to the East for a cargo of merchandise which he sold here at enormous profits, his rise to the position of one of the men who brought law and order out of the chaos of early days, his identification with leading banks and mines, his rich endowments for educa- tional and charitable purposes, his wide popularity and the cleanliness of his pri- vate life constitutea record which few men are able to hand to their posterity. He is an extraordinary man who can pursue wealth and. acquire a vast fortune without suffering so grievous a crippling of character as to unfit him for making those wise beneficent uses of wealth which make it most valuable to humanity. Mr. Harmon was one of those exceptional characters. He represented that happy balance between severity in business ex- actions and generosity for human needs and shortcomings that distinguishes the highest type of the citizen. A DISGRACEFUL JOB. The exposure of the shameless forgeries committed by the agents of the Southern Pacific Company in the matter of the peti- tions for the improvement of Santa Mon- ica harbor has created one of the greatest sensations that California bas ever ex- perienced. The practical unanimity of the preference for the improvement of San Pedro seemed to force a resort to methods which henest -men cannot countenance. Affidavits have been made to the effect that an agent of the Southern Pacific, em- ployed to secure petitions for the Santa Monica appropriation, induced irrespon- sible persons to sign large numbers of fic- titious names. These petitions were sent to Washington as expressions of the citi- zens of Los Angeles. The worst feature of the scandal is that there is no apparent way of punishing the crime in the courts, and yet the acts were intended to influence the use of millions of dollars and to affect the interests of thousands of people. Had it not been for the fact that there were Californians in Washington conversant with the methods of the Southern Pacific, and that they diligently watched every step taken in the struggle, the crime might never have been discovered. These fraudulent petitions might have done their work and no one been aware that they were bold forgeries. It would be useless to argue that the Southern Pacific Railroad Company was or was not cognizant of the fraud thus per- petrated. The fact appears to be that a re- sponsible agent of the company baving charge of its affairs at Los Angeles em- ployed a man to secure signatures to the petitions. Whether the agent took the trouble to ascertain the genuineness of the signatures is a matter upon which 1t would be idle to speculate. The scandal reacts directly upon the company, as it cannot be excused for employing un- scrupulous persons to forward its interests. How Congress, in view of this discovery and of the notorious fact that an appro- priation for Santa Monica would be strengthening the monopoly of the South- ern Pacific and that the Government en- gineers have on several occasions reported against the improvement and in favor of San Pedro harbor, can now insist upon the Santa Monica appropriation, is something that an ordinary citizen cannot understand. The situation is rendered all the more se- rious by the rumor that by reason of the Santa Moniwca sappropriation President Cleveland proposes to veto the entire ap- propriation for the improvement of our rivers.and harbors. The attempt of the Kelly-Rainey com- bine to assume something of dignity by posing as a *McKinley delegation” and pretending to be interested in National politics is absurd. There is not one in the gang with a political idea beyond that of stuffing bailot boxes or a political aspira- tion higher than that of getting a soft snap under the City government. District politics is the full extent of their thoughts and their ambitions. The claim that they stand for any grezt statesman is as absurd as the claim that they stand for Republican principles. Imagine Martin Kelly discussing National politics before an intelligent audience. Imagine him ap- pearing before a newly elected President of the United States and asking to be recognized as the leader of the Republican party in California. An attempt at such imaginings will show the absurdity of the whole fraudulent farce. The rascality of these bosses has just enough stupidity mixed with its cunning to think that it deceives somebody as soon as it begins lying. They will pose at Sac- ramento as the bosses of a Fourth District delegation not from impudence merely. They are persuaded that they can win something, not in National politics, for they do not care for that, but something in the City with boodle in it. This in plain words is the whole game so far as the Republican party is concerned. They have however, another game to play when they lose this. They will join the Democrats and do business at the old stand. “THE SUNDAY OALL" The eagerness with which Americans read everything concerning Abrabam Lin- coln wiil give a special interest to an article which will appear in to-morrow’s issue. Itisan interview with an eminent San Franciscan who knew the great Re- publican and wno tells some instructive things concerning him, Colonel Baker and matters of historical interest. The Mineral King mining district in Tulare County was famous in the early days and it had an equally famous sa- loon. It had a bloody history, and that will be told in to-morrow’s CarL. Lovers of horseflesh will find solid in- struction in & contribution by *Miss Rus- sell” concerning some of the ailments to which these noble creatures are subject and the best way for treating them. The first of an instructing and interest- ing series of articles on athletics will be another good thing to read. These con- tributions wil! be found full of valuable hints and a wholesome inspiration to im- prove the physical being by rational means. The question as to whether the lower animals have souls and as to whether their souls, if they have any, are immor- tal, is one deserving of the serious atten- tion of every intelligent person. It will be discussed in to-morrow’s CALL by a number of able local scholars and thinkers, There will doubtless be great surprise to discover the serious regard in which these thoughtful contributors hold the subject and the prevalence of the belief among the most enlightened persons that the poor dumb creatures which serve us are perhaps as sacred in the Divine scheme as we. A graphic and brilliant pen-portrait of George Francis Train will be given by an able local writer, who perhaps knows the eccentric and picturesque philosopher more thoroughly than any one else com- vetent to present a lnminous analysis of his character. ‘“When Love Is Omnipotent,” is the title of a strange story of love, music, mys- tery and tragedy which will appear from the pen of W. C. Morrow. The naval training station on Goat Island will be thoroughly discussed by a competent writer, The value of this ac- quisition by California gives a strong in- terest to the subject. In “Pictures That Never Grow Old" we | shall find a discussion of a pleasant theme. These will serve as samples of what THE SuNpAY CaLy will give its readers in the way of new and original matter prepared especially for it. Of course, the Sunday departments, such as those concerning music, the drama, the children, literature, the arts and sciences, society, fashions and all the rest, will be crowded full of the best things procurable. THE SuNpAY CALL is the very paper that Californians want for sending to their Eastern friends. TUBERCULOUS COWS, The movement which is steadily growing in this State for the careful inspection of milk and the slaughter of consumptive cows-should receive the most active assist- ance of all citizens, It would be a strange anomaly 1if the people of California should encourage consumption in view of the fact that the climate of their State offers the best preventive and cure of the disease in the world. When it is reflected that in Japan, where cows are not kept, there is no consumption, and that cows are largely responsible for ‘the disease in countries where they are used, there is an, intelli- gent reason for giving the subject careful attention. Dr. Bollinger, an eminent German phy- sician, has recently published the startling results of his investivations on the line here suggested. His tables cover a long series of yearsand embrace a number of German cities. He notesa distinct diminu- tion of the death rate in Vienna, Berlin and Hamburg, the rate being one-fourth of that which prevailed before attention bad been drawn to the milk supply. Ina single year 21,000 cattle found to be afflicted with tuberculosis were slaughtered in the Berlin slaughter-houses, and in Saxony one ox in seven and one cow in four were found to be similarly dis- eased. This indicates the necessity for strict attention to the quality of beef as well as that of milk, for although the cook- ing of beef destroys the germs a great deal of beef is consumed that is not well cooked. It has further been ascertained that the prevalence of the disease among cattle not well fed or e: d to disagreea- ble weather or herded in wet or filthy pens is far greater than when they are abund- antly fed and comfortably housed. Professor Delephine, another careful stu- dent of the subject, says that at least 16 per cent of cattle are afflicted with tuberculosis. It was greatly to the credit of the Health Board of Ban Francisco that it discovered and ordered the destruction of a large number of cattle afflicted with consump- tion at the Almshouse, but the matter should have received attention long ago. The energetic crusade which was recently begun against adulterated milk has been expanded to include an inspection for con- sumption, which represents a far greater evil than milk adulterants. This move- ment has spread to San Jose, which is always alert to its duties. Consumptive milk cows are being thoroughly extermi- nated there. Every community in the State should take the cue and begin a warfare against this most insidious and implaca- ble of enemies. PERSONAL. Dr. Thomas Flint of San Juan is in the eity. William Forsyth of Fresno is at the Occiden- tal. Thomas Fraser of London reached here yes- terday. B. H.Upham, a business man of Martinez, is in town. William B. Maddox of Cheshire, Eng.,is at the Baldwin. M. F. Freeland of the United States army is at the Occidental. J. Walter Smith, a wealthy mining man of Colorado, is at the Palace. S. Asukawsa of Jepan came in on last night's train and is at the Palace. Morris Sellar of London was among the arri- vals via the Orient yesterday. W. H. Hatron, proprietor of the Geysers, the well-known resort, is at the Grand. W. L. Coulter, a wealthy manufacturer of St. Louis, Mo., arrived here yesterday. Henry L. Ford of the United States Survey, is &mong recent arrivals at the Occidental. R. L. Fulton, the agent of the Central Pacific at Reno, Nev., is among recent arrivals here. N. W. Heath, an attorney of Chico, who is connected with the Bank of Chico, is at the Grand. Frank L. Coombs of Napa, ex-United States Minister to Japan, arrived here last night ana is at the Grand. Dwight Hollister, the big rancher and old- time Californian of Courtland, is spending a few days in the City. Among the arrivals at the Baldwin yesterday was Oscar Robbins of Phenix, Ariz., who is here on & business trip. ‘William H. Bliss of New York, accompanied by Mrs. Bliss, Miss Baines and Miss Mildred of New York, are at the Palace. J. J. O’'Brien and wife leit last nightona short trip to Los Angeles, where Mr. O’Brien’s firm has a large branch dry-goods house. Paymaster E. H. Mohun of the United States gunboat Petrel is at the Occidental. He had' the smallpox after the ship left Shanghai, but has completely recovered. General Walter Turnbull, president of the Gold Mining Exchange, and one of the ex- change’s mining engineers, will leave on Sun. day morning for San Andreas. A prominent party, consisting of Mrs. Horace Farnham and Mrs. George H. Farnham of New York, and the Misses E. E. and Louise Farn- hamof Boston, are at the Palace. Navigating Officer T. D. Griffin of the Petrel is at the Palace. Lieutenant-Commander W. H. Emory, late of the Thetis, will remain with the Petrel and take her on Monday to Mare Island. 2 A FANCY. I wonder where the voices are of those we've lost and loved. Forever hushed and passed away, nor leaving sound or trace? I wonder where the glances are of those who 'moDest us moved— Forever dimmed as dreams we've dreamed or dew sunbeams efface? £ kaow not, yet 1 fain would think the tones that we have known Still linger in the world and make earth's chan- sons still more sweet; And somewhere glances from the eyes of tender ones now flown Are mingling with the beauties here our earthly gnzes greet. WiLs T. HaLe DESERVES THE HONOR. San Francisco Mission Mail. In the selection of delegates-at-large to St. Louis by the Republican Convention at Sacra- mento there is no one in San Francisco so de- serving of the honor as John D. Spreckels, the Ppresent Republican leader. As an honorable citizen he has no peer, always looking toward the elevation of mankind. Ass politician he is not forgetful of his true station in life as & business man, owing his advancement to those who have reposed so. much confidence in his | success. As San Francisco will have only one delegate-at-large, it would be very appropriate to show to the State that his own City is with him every time. — SHOULD BE FOR SILVER. Petaluma Argus. The Ssn Francisco CaLy asks: “Shall Cali- fornis send to the St. Louis convention & pledged or an unpledged delegation?’ Yes and No. The delegation should be pledged to carry out the wishes of eight-tenths of the people of this State and vote for no candidate who favors the single gold standard. Our delegation should certainly not be instructed to support any one of the prominent candi- dates. Two are against free coinage of silver and the others are either on the fence, on both sides or for silver with a string to it. THE ONLY CHANCE. The Republicans of California will make a bad mistake if they send & pledged delegation to the National Convention. They might just as well stay at home and send their proxies 8s 10 go and speak the words that are put into their mouths. Let them make “silver” their battle cry and go prepared to fight. Then, if there be a close contest, they have a chance to do something; otherwise, California will take & back seat as usual, A GOOD IDEA. - Kingman (Ariz.) Miner. ‘THE CALL advocates sending of an un- pledged delegation to the St. Louis convention. This is a good idea. The usefulness of a dele- gation is always hampered by pledges. —_— HUMOR OF THE HOUR. ‘“‘And you actually aver that you learned to ride a wheel without once swearing?” ‘“Yes. Ifelt too nearan awful death to dare to profane.”—Jnaianspolis Journal. Mras. Hatterson—How did you teach your boy not to go in swimming? # Mrs. Catterson—Easy enough. Everytime I caught him at it I gave him a bath.—Ex. change. Brown—You shouldn't let little things worry you. Jones—You would if the little things were twins.~Truth, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. J. E. Bell, one of the lumber kings of Puget Sound, who owns a large mill at Everett, at the mouth of the Snohomish River, is at the Grand. Mr. Bell’s mill is in the lumber combine known by the general neme of the Central Lumber Company. He says all the big mills of the coast are now standing together for a small raise in price. The raise is $1 a thousand. “There a few small mills outside,” said Mr. Bell, “but they do not cut any figure. I hope San Francisco will stand with the lum- bermen and thus aid the industry, which has had uphill work for the last three or four years. It will put the business on & much better basis and won’t hurt anybody. “I am at Everett, where there are 6000 peo- ple and three railroads. There are the Canadian tten- ments wholly to hard study and close af tion while filling diplomatic places abroad. N il The late Rabbi Asron Wise of New York Justrated the law of heredity He was the sixth Wise in direct descent to hold the rab- binical office. As Queen Victoria was in France theother "day when the French census returns were taken her name will be included among the residents of France. «Brethren,” said Bishop Boyd Carpenter of Ripon, England, the other day in the course of a sermon. “I beg of you take hold of yourown heart and look it straight in the face.” The Bishop is an Irishman. If Turkey should go to war the man ‘who would direct her forces would be Gazi Osman Pasha, the famous defender of Plevna, now 58 yearsold. He has fought in any number of J. E, Bell, the Lumberman of Everett, on the Lumber Combine and Other Matters [Sketched from life by a “Call* artist.] Pacific, Northern Pacific and Great Northern and terziinal rates are given by all. “The demand for lumber has increeased some lately. You would be surprised to know probably that Duluth is sending out there for lumber. Thatcity is building a great many docks and is meking other improvements, and demands heavy stuff. The sound region is sending from 6,000,000 to 7.000,000 feet a year to Duluth, and the demand is increasing. “It 13 0dd to thus send our building material right through their premises, but the fact is we can send them better stuff than they have ot. 8% erne narvor at Everett, which is the western terminus of the Grest Northern Railroad, is being improved. It is the kind of & harbor that only needs a little improvement. We spent $10,000 on it 1ast year and the Govern- ment has appropriated $20,000 for it this year. “What we pride ourselves on is the manu- factufing. We have a very large smelter, & paper-mill for making paper out of fir wood and with a capacity of twenty tons a day, a nail works with & capacity of 1000 kegs daily, besides other factories great ard small. The nails are going to Japan in large quantities.”” LADY'S HOUSE GOWN OR WRAP- 12 Loose, gracefully flowing gowns of lawn, dimity, gingham or any of the numerous wash- able fabrics are indispensable to the woman who desires comfort at home in the summer. The one shown here is made- on exceedingly simple lines, having a bias back seam to sup- ply the necessary fullness in the skirt. Neither shirrings nor pleatings are needed. It hasno seams but shoulder and under-arm, besides the bias one in the back, so it appealsto the wo- man who wishes to make itherself. Thesieeves are of the ularand delightful bishop-shape, unlined. They are uupylied with drawsiring at the wrist, Which, being withdrawn, facili- tates x.nndertngf. the large collar may be made separate. The neck being finished with & band, over which ribbon-collars are worn. A pink and white nmd lawn had the col- lar bound with pink washable ribbon an inch wide. A collar of the same ribbon, th inches wide, finished the neck. Ruffl sleeves were also bound with ribbon. A white lawn wrapper with cherry-colored ribbons was a dainty-looking garment. The Collar and sleeves were trimmed with ruffles of lawn, egged with narrow Valenciennes lace, a half inch insertion being set in half an inch from the lace. Ablue end white gingham had a collar of blue lawn edged with white Valenciennes lace. The collar was sewn to the neck of wrapper with no pand or folded collar to add warmth. China or Japanese silks are delightful for these for they launder beau ly, both white and colors. A frill of white or creamy lace makes a charming decoration. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Mme, Carnot st the Pantheon frequently spends long hours in prayer before the tomb ot her late husband. Ex-Governor George W. Peck of Wisconsin will appear on the rostrum next season ass professional lecturer, John Hay, though he has long spoken and written French, German and Spenish fluently, disclaims modestly that he has any aptitude for languages. He ascribes his lingnal attain- engagements, and is covered with glory and medals. i The oldest physician in France, Dr. de Bossy of Havre, celebrated the other day the one hundred and fifth anniversary of his birth. Recently he had been confined to his room for the first time in twenty-eight years. Victor Napoleon Bonaparte is deseribed in a journal of Brussels, Le Petit EBleu, as & “Bruxellois” who may, if he wish, become a Burgomaster. The writer says that the Prince is well fed, in the Belgian fashion, “with beer and dreamless contentment,” that he is a member of the fashionable clubs, and that he is & polite pretender to the throne of France, who goes on horseback “for hygieniec reasons ouly.” ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. OPERA OF “FALSTAFF’—D., City. The opera of “Falstafl’’ was wr.!un py Balfe in 1838. AGAINST FOREIGN NaTIONS—N, N, City. It is the boast of the United States that she could defend herself against any European nation. XYLOTECHOGRAPHICA—Inquirer, City. In 1875 & man named A. F. Brophy invented and patented a process for staining wood of various colors, and he called that process xyiotecho- graphica. AN ALIEN'S VOTE—C. L., Lompoe, Cal. In the State of California an alien who has declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States cannot vote until he has obtained his second papers. STIMULANTS—M. City. This department late the ants will find their way to ?:l n‘ns in their greed will advance into the mass and be caught there. Al that is necessary then is to place plates so prepared Where the vests abound and then when a number have been caught to clean off the plates and set them affesh. This method iy said to be the best to rid a house of ants. CONSOLATION OF WEALTH—G. R. City. The question as to where the consolation of weelth comes in, is one of those that does not admit of general answer, for each indiyidual who has Wealth finds enjoyment in it as his tastes direct. It is doubiful if those who are possessed of great wealth give thought to indirect sources from which it comes. RABBIT'S FooT—A. O. D., City. The legends of the rabbit among certain Classes about his clever devicesin outwitting his natural ene- mies—the dog, fox and wolf—and thwarting every scheme designed for his own punisi- ment are almost without number. From the Jegends of the preternatural sagacity of the liy- ing rabbit the idea has grown that the-dead Tabbit had certain magic powers. There isa belief that to carry & rabbit’s foot in the pocket is not only a talisman for good luck, but a specific for disease. The left hind foot is be- lieved to have the most efficacy. If taken from a rabbit that runs in & graveyard iws supernatural properties are believed to be quite irresistible. WEDDING ETIQUETTE—G., City. Invitations to & wedding are all sent from the bride’s family, no matter whether they are acquainted with the friends of the groom or not, and the reception of such cards gre not to cause surprise, if the groom is known to the recipient. If the re- cipient lives in the locality where the \vemhu.i is to take place no answer is necessary, but if at a distance, the recipient incloses card and sends by mail to the fam addressing the envelope if the bride has one. ¢ not attend the wedding either s leave their cards for the hostess within a f¢ days thereafrer. An invitation to & weddin should always be accepted if possible. It not obligatory to send a wedding present, but a person receiving an invitation should send knows no law that regulates the amount of stimulants that & woman may take in a day. A number make & law unto themselves and take stimulants according to capacity. NECESSITY—A. 8, City. The quotation is not ““Necessity knows no law,” it is *Necessity has no law,” and is credited to Benjamin Frank- lin in Poor Richard’s Almanack for 1734. The phrase appears in maxims in the almanack. CALIFORNTA VULTURES—A. S., Santa Maria, Santa Barbara County, Cal, There is no law to prevent any one in the State of California hay- ing in possession eggs of the California vul- ture. Such eggs ‘© no commercial value. THE PRESIDENCY—P. F., City. The candi- dates for the Presidency of the United States nominated in 1891 were Benjamin Harrison, Republican; Grover Cleveland, Democrat;. John Bidwell, Prohibition, and James B. Weaver, People’s party. COLONTAL NATIONAL 8OCIETY—A. E., City. Ad- ditional information about the National Colon- ization Bociety, about which an editorial a ared in THE CALL on the 14th of April, clE had by referring to the files of thi; ' March 11, under the heading o1 Wil Baned aColony.” . CANARIES—Reader, City. The Campaninica- naries are considered the best singers arnd are :;ne: in Germany. Experts say that they are e finest song canaries known, haviog long, silvery trills, high and low bells, evex"y loxsa mellow and ‘the 8oit, long motes | > with flutelike whistlings, = - rorerersed THE CUBAN, RESOLUTIONS—J. B. M., City. It is ;ugaxnd dn:h the resolution of the Senate an ouse on the subject of recognizing th bellizerency of the revolutionists cf( Bulu‘doe.; not require the signature of the President, and that the resolution is merely advisory to the President as to the course he ought to pursue, . CALIFORNIA SAVINGS BANK—A., §., City. There |. is no telling at this time when the Cahfornia Savings and Loan Society, in liquidation, will rfly another dividend. Hm‘l?s have been col- ected and some proseny sold, and the officers claim that they are doing all they can to wind up the affairs for the best inferests of the creditors with all possible haste. TO YOSEMITE VALLEY—A. 8., City. T) —A. 5, City. There are four roads leading to the Yosemite Valley—via Big Oak Flat from Stockton, via Coulterville from Stockton, via Mariposs from Merced, and via Raymond from the terminus of the railroad. It 1 snid tha the best-kept road is the one via n by one road and recutn by another 10U 8 ‘A JAY TOWN"—F, J. P., City. It was Blanch Walsh who first declared that San Francisco 'Was a ‘“‘jay town,” so far as theater gOers were concerned, because they did not like her per- formance ana did not patronize her show. The San Francisco theater goers thougnt she. was & jay actress, and she retaliated by saying that this was a jay town for actresses and actors. To DESTROY ANTS—L. M. H., City. Ants are very fond of pure lard. If such is spread something, if only a bunch of flowers. If the bride on her return irom her wedding tour has a reception day, all who were invited to the wedding must call, and it 18 also impera- tive to do soupon the mother who extende the invitation. A declination of invitation need not be followed by & call, but one may bs made, one of congratulation on the bride's first day home, after the formal reception. CrEAM mixed candies, 25¢ a 1b. Townsend's.* — STRONG hoarhound candy, 15¢. Townsend's.* —————————— SoFT Baby Cream, 15¢ lb., Townsend’s. > —_————————— After a woman bas her picture taken with her first baby, she doesn’t sit before & camera again until she figures in a family group as & grandmother.—Atchison Globe. ————— TOWNSEND'S Cal. glace fruits, “our make” 50c 1b. in Japanese baskets. 627 Markat st. * S e—e— BUY your hosiery, underwear, bedspreads, etc., at Pioneer Dry Goods Store, 105 Fiftnst. % ————— o — SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ———————— A wife has no business sewing for the heathen when her husband wears & heavy long-tailed coat in summer to avoid embarrassment.— Galveston News. Sl S S O T To make more room for our wholesale notion department we are selling off several hundred ready framed pictures at exactly hali-price. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. > — e FLOWER fete surpassed by the wild flower carnival along the route of the N. P.C. R. R. via Snusalito ferry, which families and private parties can enjoy without annoyance of Sun- dey picnics and boisterous crowds. - —————— The Wheelbarrow Man. “Man Fridey,” the wheelbarrow man, will arnive from Chicago to-day as 13 o'clock,and will be met at the Market-street ferries by the San Francisco Pedestrian League, who will escort him with fife and drum to the site of the old City Hall, where be will hold & public reception. * —_— “Whenever I look at you I think of Daniel Webster,” said Chauncey to his iriend Cholly. “How do I remind you of him?” responded Cholly. ‘;?Vh)’, you are so different.—Philadelphia Call IMPORTANT CHANGE OF TIME.—The 12th Inst. the Northern Pacitic Railroad inaugurated adouble dally passenger service between Portland and St. Paul, making « 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 os of Poriland. T. K. STATELER, general agent, 638 Market street San Francisco. — A _SLIGHT Corp, 1¥ NEGLECTED, OFTEN ATe TACKS THE LUNGS. “ Brown's Bronchial Troches' give Immediate and effectual relief. ————— DE. SIEGERT'S Angostura Bitters, the most effi- eacious stimulant to excite the appetite, keeps the digestive organs in order. — She—Will you please hold my giove? He—What! Before you have put it on?— Judge. NEW TO-DAY. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE BY Thos. Magee & Song, REAL ESTATE AGENTS And Publishers “Real Estate Circular.” 4 Montgomery Street, UNIOY TRUST BUILDING, CORYER MARKET. PAYING INVESTMENTS. A step from Market st.: rents $335; lar and brick building: $55,000. - Californiast.: best wholesale investment: large lot and brick building; rents $585; $95,000. Downtown brick bullding: rented to‘one tenant for 15 years a1 8235; 14 blocks north of Market st.: $36, Near Lost st.and Market ; 75x119:6: two fronts ; rents $225; fine investment: only $40,000. Clay st., near Dovia: brick building; Tents $150; 00d frontage; only $28,000. Rents §268 50; price 825,000: 44 feet front; Clay st., near Sansome; large lot and building. Downtown business investment: rents steads £450; $90,000; on a progressive street north of Marget. Low Priced Pacific Heights Lots; View of Bay: 81500 to $15,000. Very cheap. only $130 a foot; marine view; north side Eroadway, bet. Devisadero and Brod- erick; finest view on Pacific Heights, and cannot be shut oft; 40x187:6, or larger lot. % Only $4500; cor. Deévisadero and Vallejo 37:6x 100; unsurpassed marine view. Very cheap; marine view; lots 25x100; $2500; t., near Broadway. Pacific ave. and Plerce, southwest corner, 68:3x 127:8, $13.000: or 3435X127:8, $7800; good view and fine surronndings. 2 Broadway. north side, 34:4x18 7000; grand marine view; bet. Filimore and Stefver. Pacific and' Baker. northwest corner; 50x132:4; $14,000; one of the finest residence lots on Pacific Heights! W. cor. Broadway and Steiner st.: 27:6x110; view; streets in ords de; any si; 50 or 75 teet front; price reduced 10 $200 a foot: marine view. NE. cor. Vallejo and Steiner sts.: fine mafine view: 87:6x137:6; $4250: or iarger size. Union_st., N. 1 magnificent view; 27:6x 127:6: $2100 only; bet. Scott and Devisadero, in Baldwin Park. Scott st:, W. side, near Green; fine view; 3ux SN ey side,. neat. Sooht: fine vi G . side, net : fine view; 10776; #3450: or 60X107:6. bl Broadway, near Fillmore; 25x127:8; $3125; or any llu,e; View. Steins any size front by fine view of the bay; Green and Union; will ide, bet. Devisaderoand Broderick; $1830; ay: ;lew:lg;hl‘:can me:. ots left; 6; onl; each; bet. Fillmore and Ve bt ero st., W. s 84x100, or larger size; be sold Cheap. limbs, use an tions is as good as the genuine. \ If you want a sure relief for ~ains in the back, side, Allcock’s 'BEAR IN MIND—Not one of the host of counterfeits and imita~ chest, or Porous Plaster