The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 8, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1596 ‘CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by earrier..$0.18 Dally and Sundey CALL, one year, by mall Bunday CALL, one year, by.mall... WEEKLY CALL, OZe yenr, by mal THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going (0 the couutry ons vacation? It 10, it Is 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 st Business Office will recefve prompt sttentions §0 EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE : 710 Marke: Street, San Francisco, California. EDITORIAL ROOMS: B17 Clay Street. Felephone......... BRANCH OFFICES: 630 Montgomery street, corner Clay: epen until $:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street: open until 8:30 o’clock. EW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open ntl 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open untll 9 o’clock. 116 Ninth street; open untll 9 o'clock. * OAKLAND OFFICE: 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 snd 33, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent- Maln-—-1874 ereseenransansinse. MAY '8, 1896 FRIDAY.....ooon. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. A — All Republicans are satisfied. The unit rule will prevail this time. The next big step takes us to St. Louis. After this there will be no question that straight politics is best. It was not only a deliberative conven- tion, but it deliberated well. California at St. Louis will stand in the front rank of free silver units. e Now then, whenever the Democrats are _ ready the campaign will begin. It wéuld be appropriate just now for San Jose to throw Sacramento a bouquet. The music in the air at Sacramento has filled the State with Republican harmony. The more the Sacramento platform is studied the more it will please the people. Take your place in the Republican pro- cession at once and don’t be left behind at the start. All the planks of the Sacramento plat- form dovetail together like a fine piece of cabinet work. Spreckels, Grant, Sheldon and Knight not only made a aelegation at large but a large delegation. The only free-trade agitation this year will consist in shaking the stuffing out of the free-traders. B o Those who wish a frolic for the rest of the week will find it at San Jose with florai trimmings. “Consistency, where is thy jewelry?” cried the orator, and the convention points with pride to its nomine We are to have such a strong delegation at St. Louis there will be many regrets that its hands are partially tied, The prophets of the Democratic predic- tion bureaus do not even make an attempt to get honor in their own country. California Republicanism has not only declared for good measures, but has put forward good men to support them. B it The Sacramento convention spoke the voice of all California on the Pacific roads’ debts when it demanded foreclosure. Now that the songs of the people are heard for McKinley we may expect the Democratic lyre to begin strumming any day. Hill’s striking opposition to the investi- gation of the bond deals may be a grand- stand play for the Democratic nomina- tion. If Aubrey Beardsley cannot draw his breath any better than he could draw a poster his pneumonia must be very bad in- deed. State conventions are more -interesting just now than Congress itself, for they seem to be more alive though they do less kicking. The Republican State Convention may be spoken of as monumental in compari- son with the bust the Democrats are going to show up. Now that it is all over the contesting delegations that failed to get seats can have the satisfaction of standing np with the rest of the party. Cleveland seems to have got the third term and Cuban independence so mixed in bis mind that he cannot recognize either and passes both in silence. The House is ready to adjourn May 18, but it will take the Senators until that time to talk the thing over before they ever think of making a motion for it. The American workingman must be pro- tected not only from the products of foreign pauper labor, but from the compe- tition of imported foreign laborers them- selves. As long as President Kruger has enough dipiomacy to keep out of the diplomatic business and stick to common-sense he will haye the British on the tenterhooks and maintain the independence of his country. One of the happy selections of the Sacra- mento convention was the nomination of ex-Speaker Lynch for the office of Lien- tenant-Governor. He is an ideal man for the position and may be counted on to have the support of many independents as well as the full party vote. In case neither Russell nor Olney suits the Chicago convention Massachusetts Democrats will offer Wiliiam C. Endicott, a member of Cleveland’s first Cabinet, who it seems is willing to take any kind of medicine in order to be restored to polit- ical life again for a little while. So many improvements are to be made in the methods of marketing California fruits this year thera is reason to belieye that whatever loss may have been occa~ sioned by the frost will be more than coun- terbalanced by the increased profits from sales under the improved systems, POLITICAL LEADERS. The thoroughness with which the Sacra- mento convention was organized, the promptness with which it settled all ques- tions of contested delegations, the sagac- ity with which it arranged a satisfactory solution of ail differences of opinion, the rapidity with which it brought order out of confusion and harmony out of discord and the excellence with which it performed every part of the work before it, were all due to one controlling cause. There were brams in the midst of things. 3 At the Sacramento convention there was & leader. That is to say there was a man present in whom all factions and all classes of loyal Republicans had confidence. Delegates no matter from what part of the State they came knew they counld safely trust in him to guard the welfare of the party because along with his untiring en- ergy, his political sagacity and his ability as an organizer there was no desire for personal gain and no seeking after selfish interest. The element of personal leadership is one of the great factors in every problem | of organized efiorts among men. It is manifest in business, the church and in society, in in government. Po- tent everywhere, it is perbaps more potent in politics than anywhere else because the /absence of all arti- ficial or legal restraints upon party mem- bership renders the discipline and effec- tiveness of the organization almost wholly dependent upon the personal influence of the leader. Ourpolitical history furnishes a thousand illustrations of this. It isa well-known truth that whenever the leader is strong the party is strong, but when the leader is weak or there is no leader, the party is confused, weak, purposeless and incapable of exerting its strength. ‘We have only to consider the examples of Pennsylvania, heid in the foremost Re- publican ranks for two generations by the Camerons and latterly by Quay, of New York carried for Republicanism against the huge Democratic majority of New York City by the leadership of Platt, of Obio kepton the right side of National politics by that brilliant coterie of leaders which includes Sherman, Garfield and Mec- Kinley, of Iowa made the banner Repub- lican State of the Mississippi Valley by | the commanding statesmanship of Allison, of Maine raised to power in the Union de- spite its small population by the force of Blaine and Reed, to see the value to par- ties and to states of great leaders. From a counsideration of these examples we can easily estimate thie benefits to ac- crue to the Republican party from the ap- pearance in the politics of the State of a man who has all the qualities of a true leager. Being no seeker for selfish inter- ests his influence will be antagonistic to what is known as “boss” politics and dis- tinctly inspiring to those loyal men who serve the party for the principles it repre- sentsand the work it can do for the wel- fare of the Republic. In this way he will draw around him first the better element of hisown party and then the better ele- ment of the whole people. There will be confidence in him and out of that confi- dence will come the strength that essures victory. One of the benefits sure to result from the new leadership will be the removal of California from the list of doubtiul States, It will become solidly Republican and its politics will cease to be shifting and vacil- lating. In place of those ceaseless discords which have destroyed the political influe ence of the State in National affairs, we shall have harmony, unity and power. Strong men will be sent to Congress, not for one or ‘two ineffective terms, but for periods long enough to establish them- selves like the leaders of the Eastern States and make the voice of California as potent in the great council of the Nation as is that of any State in the Union,and in the Senate of the United States we may have some eloquent and forceful orator to illustrate the genius of California and ad- vocate her cause. These are a few of the fair anguries to be drawn from the leadership displayed at Sacramento. The victory achieved there is but the precursor of greater victories to come. The people of California, irrespec- tive of party, can look to John D. Spreckels as one destined to be in politics as great a leader as his father has been in business. As Claus Spreckels has been a mighty fac- tor in promoting the industries of the State and the successful promoter of a competing road that will break down the monopoly of transportation, so we may ex- pect from his gifted son equal services in another field for the advancement of Cali- fornia and the prosperity of her people. A GOOD NOMINATION. The nomination of ex-Speaker John C. Lynch of San Bernardino for the vacancy in the office of Lieutenant-Governor was one of the best selections made by the Sacramento convention. It will undoubtedly receive the full approval of the party, and prove popular in all sec- tions of the State. The office is one which Mr. Lynch is exceptionally well fitted to fill by natural talents and quslities, by his training and by his experience as presiding officer of a parliamentary body. He was not elected Bpeaker of the Assembly by any fortnitous combination of circumstances. He won that position by the record of good work done in political life, and the high reputa- tion he carried into the office was in- creased and strengthened by the able, im- partial and honorable manner in which he fulfilled all its duties and responsibili- ties. He has, therefore, deserved the party promotion now offered him, and will undoubtedly be elected by a majority that his friends can be proud of. —_— A BURINESS PROPOSITION. In declaring against the proposed fund- ing scheme of the Pacific railway com- panies the Sacramento convention not only voiced the sentiments of the Repub- lican party, but of business men of all parties. The question of these railways paying their honest debts to the Govern- mentisone of businessand not at all a polit- ical one, yet it is just as well to call atten- tion to the fact that the Republican party, in its official capacitv, has put itself on record as being opposed to any iurther dillydallying . with these companies, and that if they pursist in denying to the Goy- ernment a fair and equitable settlement, the Government should foreclose its mort- gages as it would do with any other creditor. It has been apparent so long that the Pacific companies had no other idea than to evade compliance with the letter or the spirit of the claim of the Government upon them that the people now want a prompt settlement, and one that shall be accom- plished on business principles, There is no disposition anywhere to deal harshly or arbitrarily with them, but they owe a just debt, and in a very provoking way evince no disposition to either pay it or se- cure it upon any terms except those of their own making. That is not the way business men do business. 1t is very true that the Pacific railways have done great things for California and the coast generally, but the Government has done very much greater things for them, hence the railways cannot plead that they are objects of charity. They are abundantly able to pay the Government's claims, but itis evident that they do not intend to pay them if they can by hook or crook get out of it. 8o, the whole question is, Shall they be made to pay ? The Repub- lican party of California says they should pay, and the trade, commerce and indus- tries of not only California but of the Pa- cific Coast States demand that they pay or the Government foreclose its liens. It is all a very simple business proposition, and the Government has the advantage. A STRONG DELEGATION. The Republican party of California de- serves congratulations for the superior timber composing the delegation to the National Convention. It is made up of men of whom any State would be proud, and it is safe to say that no delegation at 8t. Louis will be stronger or more earnest in advancing the interests of their own section of the Union, while npholding the general welfare of the Nation and the great principles of the Republican party. The party will expect of these delegates that they will work in perfect harmony. ‘While it may be too much to hope that California’s influence at St. Louis may not be sufficient to cause the National party to adopt all the views which the Californians have expressed in their platiorm, it is evi- dent that if no earnest and united demand is made we may expect nothing. It is equally clear that an earnest fight now will go to the credit of future en- deavor, and that victory against odds comes only from persistent effort. One of the greatest misfortunes under which California suffers is the lack of Eastern understanding concerning both our needs and our National importance. Had the education of the East been as thorough as that of California we should never have heard of Republican support of the rail- road funding bill. The California delegates going to St. Louis are not only thoroughly advised, but most of them are men of influence, able and persunasive talkers, and they will doubtless say some things on the floor of the convention to delegates privately that will be long remembered. One thing is clear. These gentlemen are charged with a heavier and more com- plex responsibility than has ever been taken from California to a National Con- vention. Never before has a California party platiorm so fully expressed the needs of the State, and never was a State Con- vention more in earnest in its determina- tion that its views should be weighed and treated with respectful consideration by a National Convention. Our delegates are fully aware of this fact. They realize that men of weight, integrity and determina- tion 1n proportion to the gravity of their trust were selected to represent the State, and they may be depended on to discharge their responsibility accordingly. THE MERCHANTS WRONGED. The function of a newspaper is so dist tinct from that of a merchant that any at- tempt made by & newspaper to cover both fields must necessarily work various kinds of injury. This statemeni is made because of the length to which some newspapers, in their eagerness to secure a subscription list based on something besides merit are going in usurping the field and injuring tbe business of merchants. The singular inconsistency of such a course is manifest when it is reflected that, other things be- ing equal, the advertising space of 2 paper is valuable in proportion to the extent of the circulation, and that when a news- paper undertakes to sell articles for the advertising of which it might receive a generous income it is destroying the value of its advertising columns, But such newspapers are shrewd enough to confine their sales of merchandise to a limited range of articles, thus concentrat- ing the injury on the merchants dealing in such articles and still retaining the value of their advertising space for dealers in other articles. It is evident that the merchants who advertise under sach cir- cumstances are thoughtlessly aiding the publisher in injuring merchants in other lines of business. A thorough organiza- tion by merchants would render effective a demand that this incursion of newspa- pers into the field of the merchants will not be permitted. However different may be the lines of business which merchants pursue they have a common interest, and as a measure of self-protection they should goara it. While a *‘coupon” newspaper may be to-day selling a sewing-machine, to-morrow it may be launching pianos, clothing or anytbing else. This is the aspect of the case from the merchants’ point of view. Taking the side of the publisher it is evident that any resort to “coupons’ and lotteries in order to inflate the circulation is notonly a con- fession that the desired circulation cannot be secured by legitimate means, but is a direct violation of the faith upon which space is offered to advertisers. More than that advertisers sbould (as the more in- tetligent of them do) reflect that advertis- ing space in a paper with an inflated and artificial circulation has a wholly indeter- minate value. People who subscribe to a paper, not for what it publishes, but for the “coupons’ which it contains or in the hope of winning a prize in a lottery which it runs, cannot be expected to have that respect and affection for it that they wounld have for a paper which they have selectea for its intrinsic merits, and cannot be expected to give it close reading; nor, for that matter, can it be assumed thata majority of the ers lured by these cheap baits are the most valuable addi- tions to the subscription list from. the ad- vertiser’s point of view. An advertiser in such a paper as Tae CALy, which resorts to no such cheap devices, knows that the paper is taken solely on its merits, and that its subscription list is strong ana healthy, not only on that account, but for the further presumable reason that the class of readers who take papers for the sake of their coupons and lotteries do not appear in its list. ,HUMOR OF THE HOUR. First Savage—Isn’t she just too sweet for anythiog ? Second Savage—Yes. I'll trouble you for the salt.—Detroit Tribune. Father—Johnny, come open the door for your poor, tired father; your mother's locked e out and I want to get in. Johnny—Well, she's locked me in and I want to get out.—~Harper's Weekly. “You were embarrassed when you proposed to me, George, were you not?” “Yes; I owed over £500.”—Answers. Nell—Do you like the girl your brother Tom is engaged to? Amy—No; but Tom likes her enough for the whole family, so what earthly difference does it make?—New York Weekly. 5 Ambiguous—The Bishop (to & young widow)— My sister, I dare say you find comfort in the thought that you mede your husband happy ‘while he lived. Young Widow—Yes. Poor Jack was in heaven till he died.—London Pick-Me-Up. Tourist—But these sandwiches are disgrace- fully smalll Restaurateur—May be, but then the train stops here only one minute.—Fliegende Blaet. ter. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. George W. Dunn, the oldest and perhaps the most famous naturalist on the Pacific Coast, some days ago received a letter from Baron de Rothschild asking him to make certain unigue collections of insects from this State and the peninsula of Lower California. Since then Mr. Dunn hes received another letter from the great European banker asking him to devote :{5 time exclusively to the collection of butter- es. He wants all kinds of butterflies, he says, his ides being to make a collection of the most brilliant and beautiful insects of this sort to be found in the world. The Baron has s four- story building at Herz which he intends to fili with these beautiful vari-colored insects. He has specified the localities in California and Lower California from which he desires the butterfiles. The Baron has learned, what is the general, are to have statues in Paris on the Place Malesherbes by the side of the author of *Monte 2 Mr. Ruskin’s health—he hes just ‘passed his seventy-seventh birthday—is “fairly good for 50 advanced an age.” He takes long walks, plays chess and reads novels. Mrs. George Gould’s tiara, which she has just received from a London maker, cost $80,- 000, and is said to be one of the finest speci- mens of the jeweler’s art in America. “‘Ouida’s” hands and feef, are said to be per- fect in shape and proportion. To keep her feet from being contorted by unnatural pressure on the bones she always wears, summer and winter alike, open buckled shoes. Dominican nuns at King William’s Town in Cape Colony, where they have a farm, do their T i Tl ”;’;n i i 111 George W. chance of being nominated is another. Dele- gates to Ft. Louis will doubtless be credited with having some political sagacity. They will have sovie discretion and the opportunity as well as the privilege of exercising it. MINERAL PRODUCT OF CALIFORNIA IN 1805. Bulletin 8 of the California State Mining Bu- rean, J. J. Crawford, State Mineralogist, show- ing by counties the mineral productions of California for the year 1395, has just been is- sued. It was compiled by Charles G. Yalc, sta- tistician, from direct returns by producers. The total valuation of the mineral substances produced last year was $22,844,664 29, as com- pared with $20,203,294 44 in 1894, an in- crease of $2,641,369 85 for the year. Of this increase $1,411,035 80 was in gold and $302,- 458 15 in silver. The })mcloul metals, there- fum are accountable for $1,713,493 95 of the total increase named. ale’s figures the value of According to Mr, the mineral products of the two i- vided as loulo'w!: IR —_— PrODUCTS. 1895. 1894. Precious metals..|$15,934,107 3 220, e e #15,! 9($14,220,613 44 substances,.... 1,444, 90, ,102, Non-metallic sub- e BTN 0 1,348,280 00| 1,331,351 00 1,404,321 00| 1,492,586 00 2,718,755 00| 2,056,026 00 ..|$23,844,664 29 20,205,994 44 's Essays, Edmund Burke's Select Works, Soiles’ Self Help, Voltaire’s Zadig and Mier o megas, Goetbe’s Faust and Autobiography, Thaekeray’s Vanity Fair, Thackerays pep! dennis, Dickens’ Pickwick Papers, Lyttong Last Days of Pompeii, George Eliot’s’ Adam Bede, . Kingsley’s Westward Ho and Scotvg novels, et Try Townsénd’s soft chewing Molasses Taffy » ———————————— CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c Ib. Townsend'ss ————————— SpeCIAL information daily to mng“flolfm'rm' houses and public men by the Presy 3‘1’%3&?} Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. « ——————— Herbert Spencer is an expert at billiards. ————————— FINE eyeglasses, 15¢ to 40¢. Fourth, nr.barber, Sundays, 738 Market (9 to2), Kast'sshoestore.® o TrE N. P. C. R. R. via Sausalito ferry is the route which nature has iavored x_nosr,:h(re i and private parties can enjoy a day in :?:';‘l‘t:‘:'mry without the aNMOYANCe Of Sunday picnics and overcrowded boats and trains. —————————— Dr. Talfourd, a younger brother of the author of “Ion,” has given $250 to mefi wnuo‘n 1;em. ce Hospital ‘‘as a thank offering for hav- fi;‘?omple!‘;d fifty-six years of abstinence from intoxicating liquors.” Dr. Talfourd is in his eighty-ninth year. ————————— HuspAND's Calcined Magnesia. Four first- premium medals awarded. More agreeable to the taste and smalle; dose than other mag- nesia. For sale only in bottles with xegls&er_ed trade-mark label. These figures show that there is quite a re- spectable and growing mineral industry in California outside of gold and silver. The de- of amount and value of each substance, as shown in bulletin 8, are as follows: et Miss Mabel Kennedy, & woman not yet 20, is the cashier of the Merchants’ Bank of Forsythe, Mont. She passes upon all the securities offered, makes the loans, receives the deposits, AMOUNT AND VALUE OF MINERAL PRODUCTS IN CALIFORNIA. 33 tons $1,485 00 25 tons 1,000 00 25,525 tons 170.500 00 38,921 tons 121,586 00 5,959 tons 595,500 00 16,283 barrels 32,330 00 1,740 tons 16,795 00 181,772 M— $672,380 37,660 tons— 39,685 _— 712,045 00 195,790 00 21,900 00 15,334,317 00 £ 224,329 00 5,158 tons 51,014 00 592,400 pounds 49,364 00 394,764 barrels— 386,094 71,336 tons— 71,640 i 457,734 00 700.957 00 17,000.00 850 tons 8,200 00 14,864 cubic feet 56,566 00 250 tons— 2,250 2 3,375 E 280 8,425,00 Mineral waters. 291,500 00 Natural gas— Carbonic acld. . 12,000 Fuel gas.... . 100,000 — 112,000 00 00 cubic teer 112,000 60 32 M 1 carou0 00 ,000,235 00 900 00 36,104 flasks 1,337,181 00 414,08 tons 394,952 00 53,031 tons 150,576 00 R . 85,242 cupic feet. 5,873 00 Dunp, Who Will Catch All Kinds of Butterflies for Barom de 000 super feet 4,000 00 Rothschild, feree et S iei e feoree 6U9,78870 e ‘; e 3 1,350 sauares 9‘}$§,‘ 00 S) a “Call ist. 28 tons 375 00 Ry egint.} 19,000 tons 47,300 00 pretty well known in this State, that the foot- hills of the Sierras fairly swarm with all kinds and sizes of butterfliesat certain seasons of the year. The County of Mariposa, for instance, takes its name from the Spanish word mean- ing butterfly, on account of the enormous numbers of these moving insects to be seen there. The Baron de Rothschild has written that he especially wants all the varied kinds of butter- flies from Mariposa and from other localities along the Eierra Range. Hebalso desires that Mr. Dunn eollect for him in the vicinity of La Paz the many specimens he may find there which are valuable from a scientific stand- point. Mr. Dunn, who hss been collecting specimens in Californis and elsewhere on the coast for forty-seven years, will leave for La Paz in a day or two. He will be gong several weeks, and when be returns will meve upon the myriads of butterfiies in Mariposa. Governor W. J. McConnell of Idgho, the new State, known as ‘“‘the gem of the mountains,” is a familiar figure these days at the Grana Hotel. He is an ardent silver advocate and won’t have it any other way than that silver is bound to be on top. “What I want the Government to do,” said Governor McConnell yesterday, ‘‘is to carry out the laws in regard to silver money. Iam not asking for any new laws, nor for anything unusual in any way. Iwant just so much sil- ver coined as was provided for in the laws years ago, which laws yet stand unrepealed. I have written a long address in regard to this and have sent copies of it to McKinley, Matt Quay, Tom Platt, Senator Allison and all over. 1do not believe Ihave missed a single promi- nent Congressman. S0 far as my infiuence goes in Idaho and out of it, this is what I want: I want the Gov- ernment to enforce the law—that is all the sil- ver men need want.” Governor McConrnell was for many vears & resident of Oregon. He was in the Legislature there and held other prominent political posi- tions. He was a candidate for the Senate not long ago in Idaho, and no doubt will be again. A COQUETTE. I am never in doubt of her goodness, I am always afraid of. ber mood, 1am never gnite sure of her temper, ror willfulness runs fn her blood. She is sweet with the sweetness of springtime, A rear and a smile in an hour— Yet [ ask uot release from their slightest caprice— My love with the face of & flower. My love with the grace of alily, That sways on its slender. fair stem, My love with the bioom of the rosebud, White pearis in my life's diadem ! You may call her coquette if it please you, Enchantiug, if sby orif bold, 1s my dazling, my winsome wee lessle, ‘Whose bi \days are three when all toid. arper’s Bazar. A NEW SHIRT WAIST. The feature of this waist is the sleeve, which is somewhat different from the ordinary shirt walst sleeve, as the cuff and sleeve are seamed and do not fasten as usual with buttons. The sleeves are full in the bishop shape. Any washable fabric may be employed in making these waists, with cuffs and collar of the same or of white, Some of the new fabrics that are gayly flow- ered have cuffs and collars of a plain color to match a leading color in the goods. Omne in wfhgv.h blue predominated had cuffs and collar of lue. igured batistes of flax color have sometimes cuffs and collar of plain batiste. Plain batiste waists in national linen tints have cuffs and collar of white. Others have the cuffs and of the same, with un; lace mmuomnd frills of the same lace, being worn unstarched. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Ex-Governor George W. Peck of Wisconsin will appear at the rostrum next season asa professional leeturer. Senator Butler of South Carolina is the chief promoter of & new organization to collect Southern historical msterial. Alerander Dumas fils and his grandfather, built their own buildings, do the carpentry and all the blacksmith work, besides teaching [‘own outdoor work. They plow and hoe, have the boys and girls in their school. Antonio de Navarro, husband of Mary Ander- som, has an interesting collection ot photo- eraphs of his wife in & room in their home at Tunbridge Wells. They represent her im all the parts she has played, and Mr. de Navarro has arranged them to meke a frieze around the entire room. PERSONAL. A. M. Toug, a mining man of Shasta, is at the Russ, A. Abrahams, a business man of Reno, isin town. John E. Raker of Alturas is among recent ar- rivals here. Captain W. H. Patterson of Portland, Or., is in the City. Dr. E. N, Wilson of Los Angeles is at the Cosmopolitan. The Rey. D. G. Mackinnon of Stocktom is at the Occidental, Thomas G. Keaneé of Portland is registered at the Cosmopolitan. W. W. Newell ot Tacoma wes among yester- day’s arrivals a¢ the Palace. H. A. Preston, & mining man of Jamestown, Tuolumne County, is at the Grand. ¥ James B. Moon, a wealthy resident of Hart- ford, Conn., arrived here yesterday. Mrs. Phil 8, Beel has returned from Paso Robles, where she has had an enjoyable visit. J. A, Sargent, the wealthy resident of Sar- gents, is in the City, accompanied by Mrs. sSargent. I.N. Hyde, & prominent real estate and in. surance man of Fresno City, is staying at the Cosmopolitan. M. H. Walker, J. H. Walker and J. M. Bar- rett, wealthy mining and business men of Salt Lake, arrived here yesterday and are at the Palace. Mrs, Annie B. Andrews, & prominent busi. | ness woman of Los Angeles, aguest of the Woman's Congress, is registered at the Grand. Mrs. Andrews is the district manager of the World’s Benefit Association. ‘William C. Land, the wealthy pioneer cattle: man of Arizona, arrived here yesterday and is at the Russ. He lives on the Barbacoma rancho, near Tucson, and ships many cars of cattle annually to this City and elsewhere. E. 8 de Golyer, the mining man, of Salt Lake, who some months ago became interested in mining property near San Andreas, has re- turned here from a trip to inspect other prop- erty on the mother lode, Mr. de Golyer at one time had a bond on the rich Golden Gate mine of Mercar, Utah, but Senator E. 0. Wolcott and other Colorado mer, who were interested in it with him, were averse to closing for it, and the purchase fell through. Since then several millions of dollars worth of ore has been un- covered in the mine. Hugh McDonald, who left here about a week ago to examine mines in the northern part of the State, got as far as Pitt River and was forced to retarn. The river was so filled witn waters from recently melted snows that the Silverthorn ferry was unmanageable. *At Andreas Ferry,” said Mr. McDonald, at the Palace, “a man with his team and wagon and two little boys attempted to cross. It was & cable ferry,and the current was so swift that the boat was overturned and the man and team thrown overboard. The two little boys crawled up on the side and mansged to keep on the boat, but the teamt drowned and the man hed a narrow escape for his life, but he finally swam out.” CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 7.—At the Astor, J. C. Bauer. Grand Union, P, Moyer. Sin- clair—C. H. English, Mr. Kolligs. Sailed per steamship Columbia, for Plymouth, Cherbourg and Hamburg—Mr. and Mrs. Black, J. M. Christianson, P. Clandius, Albert Drasdo, Osro F. Groppengeisser, Hans Raon, E. Trampe, Mrs, Trampe and child. A GOOD MOVE. Berkeley Gazette. The San Francisco CaLy, which is 8 most ex- cellent newspaper, is not slow to obserye the signs of the times and the justice of any cause, consequently on Baturday last it did what the Gazette did one month ago—came out flat- footed in favor of women’s suffrage. From a financial point of view this is a good move for THE CALL, but from our scquaintance with Editor Shortridge we are convinced that he has made his announcement from purely con- sciantious motives, He knows that an injustice has been done to the women of this land in not giving them the right of ballot, and he has determined to use his influence in righting the wrong that has s0 long been done the women of our land. We hope that his example will be followed by .| every paper in the State right away. —_— NOT CAST IRON. Napa Register. apa “‘Cast-iron pledges” are one thing, instruc- tions to support McKinley so long as hlhuq/ The bulletin is on the form of a large table, 80 arranged that the total amount and value of each substance is shown, as well as the amount and yaine produced in each county in the State. The lower footings show how much of each substance was mined and its value. The side footings show the value of the entire mineral product of each county— gold, silver and everything else. In this way a record is k:gt of the progress of the mineral industry of the respective counties, as well as that of the whole. The figures are made up from direct returns from producers, except those of gold and silver, for which _the United States Mint figures are accepted. In no case is the identity of any mine or company revealed, 50 that while no private business is made public, the table shows our entire mineral product with a decree of accuracy far bgyond Wwhat could he attained by mere estimates. The total value of the mineral products of the different counties of the State during tne years 1894 and 18953 is given on the bulletin as follows: 1895 Value, 1894, Value. $212,050 00 1,894,042 81 & 73,672 85 2,192,029 47 ,800 94,000 00 8000 00 386,763 67 12,902 00 247,776 86 327,076 91 587,960 91 COUNTIES. 167,790 00 216,620 46 150 00 189, 00 153,746 26 1,500 00 50 648,527 31 371,873 68 9,500 00 861,527 00 1,843,965 31 6,000 00 1,946,578 89 499,358 83 uba. 107,480 20 ‘Unapportioned (n) 348,682 57 Total.. .1$22,844,664 291$20,203,294 44 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. TrE CoNvier SHIP—R. L. W., City. “The Con- vict 8hip,” a serial published in THE CALL some time ago, is by Clark Russell. ‘WHERE THE SHOE PINCHES—W. H., Alameda, Cal. The expression “Where the shoe pinches’” is traced back to old Rome. Plutarch in his life of Emilius Paulus, a Roman who had been divoreed from his wife, has it that Paulus was greatly blamed by his friends for his course, and L‘ly said, “She was chaste, she was fair, was she not?’ Paulus, holding out a new shoe, said in reply, “This is new, yet none of you can tell where it pinches me.’ Best 100 Books—J. W., City. Sir John Lubbock, the well-known publicist, sci- entist and philosopher, in his book *The Pleasures of Lafe” names the following as the best 100 books worth reading: The Bible, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Teachings of Epictetus, Aristotle’s Ethics, Analects of Con- fucius, St. Hillaire’s Le Bouddha et sa Re- ligion, Wake’s Apostolic Father, Imitation of Christ by Thomas & Kempts, Confessions of St, Augustine, Portions of the Koran, Spinoza’s Tractacus Theologico-Pol iticus, Pascal’'s Pae: sees, Butler's Anal of Religion, Taylo: Holy Living and Dying, Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, Keble's Christian Year, Plato’s Dia. logues, Xenophon® Memorabilia, Aristotle's Politics, Demosthenes’ De Corona, Cicero’s De omchl\?‘m Amicitia, and De Senectute, Plu- tarch’s Lives, Berkeley’s Human Knowledge, Descarte’s Discour sur I Methode, Locke or the Conduet of the Understanding, Homer, Hesoid, Virgil, Mababharata, The Shanemen genh‘n poem), The Nibelungenlied, Maloray's A schylus’ Prometheus and of -Orestes, ‘oelel’ Edipus, Eu- ’ The Knignhts and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, 3 Lost, Comus an g e 'n’s Poems, Words- B\unlfi:ow- Essayon Criticism, Essa; an, of the Lock, Byron's R R Cy¢ Gibbon'’s :Decunn isto) f Growllfimo of Gmm"(}.‘x'lylfl ry Revolution, Gréen’s Short Lewe’s History of Philuxphy An:‘hfi%:flh ;can" Enf t, Gullivar’s Travels, Robinson Crusoe, Viear of Wakefleld, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Boswell’s Life of Joh: 5 M re, ler’s William Tell, Bhlrio d-:‘.:?:rm:, School for Scan and Rivals, Carlyle’s Past and t, '8 N Organum, Smith’s Wealth of Nations, 's Political omy, galmr‘l;lo:.‘h".l wmw-n-mn#gey uralist’s qulfl.,lml'- ?-“&“;: Montaigne's y8, Addison’s Essavs, Emer- draws exchange, keeps the books and, in fact, does all the work of the bank, its owner being a non-resident. = st The death of Sir Edward Dering, in his eighty-ninth year, removes one of the few re- maining members of the pre-Reform Parlia- ment of England. 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