The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 13, 1896, Page 6

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It may be overwork that fatigues Cleve- land, but it is his apparent lack of vigor that makes the people tired. Until the 8t. Louis convention has done its work there will hardly be anything else worth talking about in this country. Colorado will go to St. Louis resolute for free silver, and she will find California ready to stand with her in the fight. This is a good year for political revivals, as sll the converts will come into the party of patriotism, protection and prosperity. Sacramento may be proud of two of her political conventions this year, but over the third one she may have to draw a veil. If Senator Frye would take a look at the map he would see that after ail Mr. Hunt- ington is not so big as the whole of Cali- fornia. It is high time for some Senator to make a speech and tell the country what the Senate has done to earn its salary this session. The proposed fiesta is beginning to assume the shape of a definite promise, and we may get it in September as a relief from politics. From this time on whenever a Chicago man goes to New York he will speak of it a8 a rustication among the truck gardens and dairy farms. The fiesta idea in San Francisco should be realized before this year’s flowers fade even if we have to make it a fiesta of chrysanthemums, =cod L R It is very difficult to find just now in any part of the country a Democratic news- paper that is giving any of its valuable space to Democratic politics. Now that a plan for a park for the Mis- sion district has been brought forward it should be kept to the front until it has Been successfully carried out. It is becoming more and more evident that if Olney should make a good strike before the Chicago convention meets Cleveland would try tor the third base. Now tnat the proposed early adjourn- ment of Congress has become uncertain the defeat of the funding bill is also un- certain, and the thing needs more watch- ing. The tittle flurry with Spain comes just in time to point out the folly of the Senate Jan trying to cut down the appropriations for the navy from four new battle-ships to two. With Populists as with Republicans, straight politics is the best policy this year. It is only demoralized Democracy that can gain anything by crooked com- bines. The Queen Regent says Spain will not abandon the mission of civilization she has taken upon herself, but really it would be better abandoned than turned into a Cuban buteher-shop. Wherever Californians meet in any assembly in these days the funding scheme is denounced, and, still there are people who profess to doubt if that is the real sentiment of the State. It was quite appropriate in the Super- visors of the State at their good roads con- vention to denounce the refunding scheme, as the best way to improve the Central Pacific road is to foreclose the mortgage and break down the monopoly. Over $2,000,000 in gold was withdrawn from the treasury for export on Monday and the surplus in the reserve is rapidly diminishing. We may have another bond issue to reckon with before we get through with the one more year of Grover. Benator Hill has arranged that the Dem- ocratic State Convention in New York shall be held after all other State conven- tions are over, and it is easy to understand what he did it for. Nobody is going to make him leap before he looks this time. —_— It is reported from Berlin that the Reichstag has decided to limit the output of sugar this year to 17,000,000 double cent- ners. This is intended, of course, to keep the price up, but it won’t hurt us. While they are raising prices we can be raising sugar. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1896. A METROPOLITAN FETE. Stirred at last to activity by the bril- liancy and success of the carnivals which nearly every other city and town in the State has held, or is preparing to hold, San Francisco has begin a movement to have a great carnival of its own. Very properly the sentiment ot the initial meet- ing was that the event be set for tle au- tumn, as all the other cities hold theirs in the spring, when flowers are in the height of their glory. The San Francisco affair must be essentially different from all the others by reason of the fact that a floral festival would not be as abpropriate here as in the interior cities, which have more room for the cultivation of flowers. The bodies represented at the meeting held Monday evening at the Baldwin Hotel were the State Development Society, the State Board of Trade, the Commercial Travelers’ Association, the Native Sons of the Golden West, the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association, the California Hotel Association and the Geographical Society of the Pacific. That was an excel- lent start. In addition to these, the com- mittee appointed to arrange a plan of per- manent organization and to report at the meeting to be held at the Baldwin next Monday evening contains members repre- senting the Merchants’ Association, the Half-million Club, the Chamber of Com- merce, the Liquor-dealers’ Association and the San Francisco Stock Exchange. Doubtless the central managing commit- tee, which the permanent organization will appeint, will include still other civie bodies working for the general good in va- rious directions. The great problem to be solved is the kind of festival to hold. Manifestly it would be neither wise nor appropriate to have a flower carnival. An industrial fete would be an incongruous idea, and that point has been already covered by arrange- ments for the great joint exhibition in September. As considerations of spectac- ular effects cannot be left out of the ac- count a grand carnival in which games would be a leading feature would seem to be appropriate, with such incidents as splendid fireworks and a night of masquer- ade jollity. Or it might be well to make the cele- bration of the National holiday the central idea of the fete. By a fortunate accident the Fourth of July this year falls on Satur- day, which is the proper day for bringing such a carnival to a close. The only diffi- culty would be that as carnivals keep their masquerade feature for the close there might be objection to winding up theevent with a masquerade on the evening of the Fourth after a grand patriotic celebration in the daytime. Besides all that, San Francisco is usually more windy and foggy in July than in any other month. The pleasantest days of the year fall in the late autumn. Whatever may be the decision of the managers, they will assume a great re- sponsibility, though no fear that they will overlook that fact need be entertained. A COMMEROIAL PESTILENCE. The Wilson-Gorman tariff act has proven itself to be a veritable commercial pestilence—a pestilence that eats into the vitals of the country’s trade, traffic and industries. Practically every line of busi- ness has been seriously weakened by its poisonous touch, bat none have suffered more at its devouring hands than the farmer and the industrial operative. Itis claimed by the friends of the bili that by putting the one item of wool on the free list a great saving is made in the cost of woolen goods to the consumer, which is true as far as it goes, but they fail to point out how losses are incurred by the opera- tion of the bill in other directions, which a great deal more than counterbalances the alleged saving. The fact is, by reason of the Democratic tanff, or rather because of the absence of a proper tariff, which permits British-made woolen goods to enter our markets, our home mills do not get orders for more il as much as 75 per cent of their capacity. The consequence of this is that our woolen-mill operatives are on one-half to three-quarters time, which in turn reduces their income exactly in the same ratio, which in turn again is reflected in the markets where they purchase their sup- plies. Does it pay a man to lie idle from three to six months in the year to save probably $20 in a year’s supply of woolen goods? Does it pay a farmer to let his surplus produce rot in the field or in the granary in ‘order to save perhaps $25 on his woolen goods purchases in a whole year? Bui that is exactly the way the Wilson-Gorman bill works. And what is true of woolen goods is true of nearly eyery other line of manufacture. Foreign manufacturers are not only in- vited by the Wilson-Gorman act to come in competition with our home industries, but they are enabled to fix the price at which our mills shall sell their product. Now, the inevitable consequence of the continuation of the Democratic alleged tariff act will be to either shut up our in- dustries or reduce the wages of their oper- atives to a level with the wage schedules of the old country. In fact, that would have been done on the very day that the present tariff act became a law but for the faith manufacturers had in the good sense of the people of America to right the great wrong done them by the Democratic party at the very next National election. That the people will overthrow free trade and again place the country where Presi- dent Harrison left it there is mnot the shadow of a doubt, but what is every- body’s business is nobody's business, hence THE CALL urges those who are more anxious about the prosperity of their own country than about how Europe is getting on, to begin now to organize for the No- vember battle. —_— A PROPOSED REFORM. The Merchants’ Association of Los An- geles, supported by the Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce of that city, has begun an agitation in favor of a reform in the method of assessing and collecting taxes In this State. The object of the re- form is to remove evils in the present Bys- tem and provide for greater equity in assessments and greater simplicity, direct- ness and economy in both assessing and collecting. The plan favored by the association is the adoption by California of the tax Bys- tem now in use in Ohio. It has been tested there by the practice of many years, and is reported to be on the whole more satisfactory to the taxpayers and more economical to the government than that which prevails in most other American commonwealths. For the purpose of edu- cating the people on the subject, a small pamphlet by T. W. Brotherton of Los Angeles has been published, giving & brief outline of the proposed reform, and is be- ing widely circulated. Under the plan proposed the County and City Treasurers act as tax collectors for their respective corporations, and the County Auditor acts as Assessor. When the returns of the assessments are made they are open for inspection at the Audi- tor’s office, and any exceptions to valua- tions can be appealed to the Supervisors. A Btate board revises the tax returns of all eounties so as to equalize them, and the valuation thus fixed remains the same for ten years unless some special canse oc- curs for making a change. If ten years should be 100 long a time for California a five years’ term could be fixed. Where any cause for change in valuation, such as a fire, the erection of mew buildings, the opening of new roads, occurs, a board con- sisting of the County Auditor and the Superyisors acts as a board of equalization in revising it. The benefits to be derived from the change are the decrease in the number of officials, the simplicity of the work, the economy it establishes and the relief of the taxpayer from the labor, confusion npd loss which now results from a search in various offices located in different places to ascertain how much he may owe to State, county, city or assessment districts. The subject is one thatcan hardly es- cape the consideration of intelligent tax- vayers and the Merchants’ Association of Los Angeles has certainly done well in bringing that consideration to the pointof regarding the subject as one of practical volitics at this time. We are about to elect a new Legislature ana the Jawmakers of the State will assemble next winter. If we are to have relief from the existing evils of tax assessments and collections this is certainly the time to discuss the form it is to take. A CLEAR RESOLUTION. With but two dissenting votes the State Convention of Boards of Supervisors of California has passed a resolution pro- testing against the passage of a railroad refunding bill by Congress. A significant feature of the matter is that this subject was not embraced in the call for the con- vention, and that although an effort was made to shut it out on that ground the convention decided that it had a right to assume the privilege of expressing its opinion. The value of such an opinion from such a source must not be underval- ued. County Supervisors, more clearly than any other public officers, represent the producing classes, the men of brawn and character who regard politics as a means to a worthy end and who constitute the backbone of prosperity and sound public sentiment. They are directly con- cerned with public affairs bearing on the fundamental principles of the general welfare. In California they fully under- stand the railroad question, having no delusions, cherishing no prejudices and serving no private or political interest as 4 class. The men whom they elect as Supervisors are strictly representative of them and are selected with great care. These boards are composed of men repre- senting all parties. In every phase of a broad question they reflect the opinions held by the sober jntelligence and earnest patriotism of the State. For such a gathering of public officers to pass such a resolution as that which was adopted at San Jose last Monday is the most significant of all tke indications which have appeared to make known wishes of the people of California. It was as follows: WHEREAS, A bill is now before Congress to refund the debts of the defaulting Govern- ment-aided overland railways; and whereas, the enactment of the bill will work a hardship | on the State of California and on the territory tributary to said railways. Resolved, That the boards of County Super- visors of the State of California in convention assembled strongly protest against the enact- ment of said refunding bill, and request all members of the Fifty-fourth Congress friendly to the Pacific Coast to vote against it. What ever may be their opinions as to the policy of permitting the Government to ows and oper- ate railways, there should be mno difference of opinion as to the impartial treatment of cor- porations or citizens in our courts of law. To recognize by legislation that there isone law for the poor and another for the rich is to in- vite anarchy and bloodshed. The courts should be permitted to settie the question in accordance with the law, and it does not follow that foreclosure must be followed by Govern- ment operation of the raflways thus acquired. On the contrary, it is evident that they can be sold or leased to far better advantage than as now operated, both to the United 3States Gov- ernment and to the people who are dependent upon them for transportation. Resolved, That attested copies of this resolu. tion be sent to the President of the United States and to the California delegation in the Fiity-fourth Congress. It will be interesting to note how Mr. Huntington will attempt to explain this resolution on the ground already taken by bim that only a few “professional agitators and irresponsible newspapers’” in Califor- nia offer any objection to the scheme which would give him complete domina- tion over the welfare of California for a century to come. The farmers of this State, who are strictly represented by the Boards of Supervisors, know too well what that would mean. They can judee future burdens by those which they have been compelled to bear in the past. The digni- fied tone of the resolution and its manly reasons for declining to ralse the issue of Government ownership deprive funding advocates of every possible excuse to charge ‘‘professional agitators’’ with its inspiration. “THE WEEKLY CALL" The most important telegraphic news will always be found in a condensed form in Tue WeEkLYy CaLy, in addition to editorials and local news. In nearly all other departments the Weekly represents the result of a week's newsgathering, in a comprehensive manner. The agricultural department is prepared with a view of treating inteiligently con- ditions pecutiar to California, supple- mented always with the result of agricul- tural experiments in other States. This department is peculiarly complete, and, by reason of its treatment of local features, of unusual merit. All departments of farm work are treated, and attention is given to the orchard, the farm, the dairy, the apiary, the garden and the poultry- yard. The page devoted to mining news is also comprehensive, and presents more infor- mation concerning California mines and minerals than may be found in any other paper on the coast. The issue for the current week appears this morning, and a study of it will show how thoroughly it covers all points of the news and topics of interest to city and country. Itisan ideal paper to send to Eastern friends to give them information concerning the conditions and advantages of life and industry in California, and all who are willing to assist in advertising the State cannot do better than to send a year's subscription to the friends they have left in their former homes. . The Merchants’ Association of Los An- geles has started an agitation for reform in the my*hod of assessing and collecting taxes in ihis State, and proposes the adop- tion of the Ohio system, which having been thoroughly tried has been proven to be simple, direct and thoroughly efficient and economical. Senator Hill bas so frequently declared that he is no friend of the administra. tion a suspicion is naturally raised that he opposes an investigation of the bond deals bocanse he is a friend of the Wall- street syndicate. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Captain Guy Howard of the United States army, son of General 0. 0. Howard, arrived at the Oceidental Hotel from the East last night. Captain Howard, whose father made such a notable record as an Indiap fighter and in the War of the Rebellion, is a tall, athletic appear- ing man. His bair is brown and his mustache e demi-vlonde, while his features are clear cut and what may be called handsome. He wears 8 long overcoat, moves with a sweeping stride and carries s healthy looking walking stick. He is very tall, Captain Howard gets around like 8 man who has many things to do and was thinking of ripe age of manhood can be ideal young, towers of strength to the State and so- cietg. Men for whom & pure woman will not need to blush, whose cowardice she will peither need t0 scorn nor to pity. We are not politi- cians, but reformers. Our present strength as a National and worldwide society has been attained along the line of rinciple, not policy. Our constancy and faith iave kept pace with growing needs. We know the strength of the “lions. in_ the wey.” We know of a higher power; in this we trust. We seek to save each new genera- tion and keep it from blasting every hope of & true and noble life. We aim to establish the character of the young u‘ron ‘the principles of self-control, self-preservation, self-respect. To build up a strong and noble manhood and womanhood which shell be the country’s for the Captain Guy Howard, the Son of General O. 0. Howard, Who Arrived Last Night. |Sketched from life by a *‘Call” artist.] % many things. things that were new on the coastsince he left. It is said that he is interested in mining in Colorado and also in the Sierras and altogether is much like Jesse R. Grant in his tastes for digging for silver and gold. He 1s credited with being a skilled mining engineer. He will be in San Frano!sco for some time. Manuel Casin, the bold freebooter who safled some months ago with Antonio Ezeta on the Barclay Golden on & conquest of Salvador, is keeping out of the way of the multitudes in this City and lamenting his losses on the re- cent filibustering trip. Casin nolonger haunts the corridors of the leading hotels, as afore- time. His exchequer is said to be in a sadly depleted state. Casin says himself he sank twenty thousand dollars on the trip. Time was when Casin was in it big in Balvador. He had all the concessions for making aguadiente. and he made a lot of it, and soid- it at big prices. Aguadiente is the Spanish liquor which in Salvador is as much prized as bourbon is in certain parts of this fair land. Many was the gooa dollar that Casin raked in from his big distillery monop- oly, but Casin could give the people cards and spades on several other things besides the aguadient» business. He had the whole con< cessions for furnishing guns and uniforms and other supplies to the troops of Salvador. He knew how to make hay when thesun shone, and according to the gossip afloat he made & large harvest. Some two years ago Casin, fresh from the scenes of his triumphs in Salvador, put up at the Palace Hotel. An en- emy ot the bold Casin was also in this City, named Andres Ameyo, and the two gentlemen soon had the town notified that they were looking for each other’s blood. Casin’s quar- ters were fortified by a couple of gleaming Win- chesters and a brace of blazing pistols. The ter- rible Amayo was quartered in a house on Cali- fornia street. Both breathed forth threaten- ings and slaughter and went into the daily press to emphasize their contempt for each other, but they never shot, and those who were hourly looking on and anticipating a tragedy ‘were forced to swallow their disappointment. Now Amayo is on top in Salvador, and Casin, whose rich red blood boiled within him, is ly- ing low in S8an Francisco, waiting for a turn of the wheel. SHALL WE? ‘When we all have made our millions, and on terra. pin sup, And play st stocks and railroads instead of seven up, Do you think our thoughts will linger with persist- ency intense On the time when we were dining for the sum of fifteen cents 7 fore the When we stored our few possessions in & six-by- seven room ? Do you think we'll linger sadly st the Greenback Club to quote Reminiscence of dinners at the side-street table d’hoe? Do you think we'll feel a yearning for the days be- boom, b 3 hlv:mkno-n them do it ofien—in a novel, it is e— Weep for days when coats were threadbare and the bills were always due; And my fond anticipation is that some day you and Shall be in the proud position where we'll have a chance to try. —Washington Post. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. THE Lio% Iv THE WaY. President of the Tri-County W. C. T. U. Criticizes Joaquin Miller. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Mr. Miller’s lecture on ““The Lion in the Way,” given at Pacific Grove under the auspices of the W. C. T. U., was very severely criticised by the convention and the audience. Knowing that Mr. Miller had been giving lectures before teachers' institutes which were well reccived, he was invited in good iaith to lecture at the grove. Mr. Miller promised a “suitable lec- ture,” and from his standpoint it might seem 80, but from the standpoint of the W. C. T. U. it was a direct blow to their work, the purpose and spirit of which he most certainly does not undersiand or appreciate. A letter from Mr. Miller in reply to one ask- ing some explanation says: “An easy thing it has been to cry against wine; my war cry is against intemverance. I have worked long and bard, nrwnuy in Great Britain, on this and as | have the approval of g and B men there, as well as my own conscience :!n‘fl-:r:_ly, Tam content to leave the rest to Mr. Miller's war against intemperance ‘Was greatl’ mhund?r’lwod by the audience. 1t sounded like a plea for the wine industry. he greatest “‘lion” in_our wng.ls man him- self—not ‘“barley fields,” nor “bankers,” nor “brokers,” but men. Barle ds and wheat flelds and vineyard could give work to the unemployed througn whose industry the littlo ones could be fed, without turning their products into a home destroyer. Banks wonl% become distributin agencies but for the injustice and greed ler was right in saying “we must reach the hearts of these men as Jesus did,” snd if ever a band of fearless Christian worl ;_nwvm seeking the Christ way it is the W. C. Man governs himself by lehlfllg&n because Seek 1o protsct i by toetiaddonTre.meves ation. e T say & u;’? shall not d{inx, but we seek to pro- hl‘bl‘nmhum and death-dealing instrument- alit We seek to inspire men who in the full With his friend, Mr. Frost, la<* ! night, he walked to and fro and discussed the | pride, instead of its peril. We work lDKroucl, preserve and maintain the home and all insti- tutions caiculated to enncble society. 3 But the temperance war cry of Joaquin Miller is not the one at which we rally. Mzrs. E. G. GREENE, President Tri-County W. C. T. U, Santa Cruz, May 11, 1896. PROMOTION IN THE ARMY. Apparent Injustice of the System asat Present Practiced. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—Sim: In looking over the list of officers in the army in active service one can but be struck forcibly by the vicissitudes in promotion there shown. We can sympathize with the artillery subal- terns in their complaint of unfairuess to them of transferring cavalry and infantry officers to their corps in any scheme proposed for an in- crease of the artillery arm. Through the pres- ent system of promotion there are six first lieutenanis of artillery that graduated from West Point in 1867, while among the grad- uates of 1884 there are four captains in staff departments, and of the class of 1881 there are six eaptains and one major in the staff. There are three first lieutenants of artillery graduates of 1868, two of 1869, five of 1870, one of 1871, two of 1872, six of 1873, nine of 1874 to two in the infantry, six of 1875 to two in_the infantry, seven of 1876 to six in the infaniry and cnvllr{. while every other graduate of those classes in both infantry and cavalry are captains or have higher rank. This apparent injustice seems the more curious from the fact that at their graduation the highest in class rank next to filling ¥acan- cies in the engiueers’ department are selected to fill vacancies in the nn.mar{y, and some of the latter are * scholars—that. is, the first five. This star-scholarship does not seem to bene- fit so very much when a No. 31 of & class thir- teen years later outranks not only two star scholars entering the engineers st graduation, but aiso every member but two of the earlier class. In the list below the first column gives the rresent relative rank, the second the class rank and year of graduation, the third the relative rank in 1890 of a few of the higher officers of the army on the active list. 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Customer—Yes, if noone else is using it.— Tid Bits. “‘And shall T speak to your father?” asked the young man. “Never mind about papa,” said the young woman; “I'll fix him.” For the first time he noticed the width and squareness of ber inferior maxillary.—Indi- anapolis Journal, PERSONAL. Judge W. J. Dowley of Merced {sin the City. W. a. Bailey, a mine-owner of Denver, is in town. F. A. Chapman of Cripple Creek is at the Palace. J. 8. Slauson of Los Angeles was among yes- terday’s arrivals. Don A. Sweet of Albuquerque was among yesterday’s arrivals. W. H. Hurlbert, the railroad man, of Port- land, is at the Palace. Jay Benson of Toledo and a large party of friends are at the Palace. John J. Byrne, the railroad man,of Los An- geles, arrived here yesterday. J. A. Muir, the railroad man, of Los Angeles, division superintendent of the Southern Pa- cifie, is at the Palace. T. 8. Knoles, a prominent lawyer of Ontario, Cal., and delegate to the Grand Lodge of I O. 0. F., isstaying at the Cosmopolitan. Count Neko was among the arrivals by the steamer China last night. He has been seeing Japan and other countries of the Orient. General George B. Williams of Washington, D. C., arrived here on the steamer China yes- terday sfter several weeks’ absence in Japan. Charles F. Crocker has started for Europe. His three children are being educated in Paris, and he will bring them home, returning about July 15. Those who came with Secretary J. Sterling Morton yesterday were as follows: Mr. and Mrs. Jo R. Morzow, Mr. ana Mrs. Paul Morton, Misses Caroline and Pauline Morton, Miss Howard and Lowell Morton, all of Chicago. They are all at the Palace. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YOREK. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 12.—At the Im- perial—J. J. Gottlob, F. L. Siocum; Grand Union—»sfiss La Chuaz Gerlach, S. Gamble; Holland—J. M. Platshek, M. J. Platshek; Mur- ray Hill-W. Babcock; Belvidere—E. Newell. Sailed per steamship Paris for Southampton— Mrs. James Dunn, Master James C. Dunn, Miss J.T. Dunn, Mrs. P. L. Dunn, John Henry, Miss Annie Henry. PROGRESS OF EQUAL SUFFRAGE. Santa Barbara El Barbereno. It must be with feelings of gratification that the noble women, fighting so bravely for suf- frage, view their success. True, their rights have not yet been accorded them, buton every hand recruits are found; and it has remained for California to furnish the first great metro- politan daily paper that dares come out and take a firm stand for equal suffrage rights for all the people. The San Francisco CALL, one of the most influential journals of the West, has declared that woman’s suffrage is the com- ing issue; and, moreover, it states the follow- ing: “The Republican party should give a helping hand to the woman's suffrage move- ment.” Woman's suffragz is becoming popular; the old, worn-out objections that “women do not ‘want to vote,”” that the better class of women would not go to the polls, are heard but sel- dom now, and it is generally acceded that woman is interested in the government of our country, which includes herself as well as her brother; that as property-owners and tax- payers they should share political privileges equally with men. n recent conventions resolutions indorsin, the movement have been passed by severs California counties. in San Diego recently the Republicans gave yoice to the following sentiment: “Resolved, That this convention cordially favors the proposed amendment to the constitution of California, whereby it is sought 1o extend the elective franchise to all citizens, otherwise qualified, without distine- tion of sex, and we hereby pledge to it our support at the polls in the November general election.” Thus it seems that woman’s cause is by no means a 10st. cause, but every day is gaining ground. WAIST WITH FICHU COLLAR. AND LINING THAT MAY BE OMITTED. Two extremely stylish ana novel features are shown in this waist. The sleeves are fitted with a very short puff at the top. The collar is square in the beck, with fichu front. It may be sewn to the waist or finished with a bias band to be made removable. A waist of white lawn had a ruffle of em- broidery on the collar. Green China ribbon formed a belt and collar. A waist of brown mohair worn with’a plain skirt of thesame had a collarof embroidered batiste over a lining of green tafieta. The same silk formed two narrow knife-pleated frills all around the collar, and also finished the neck and belt. A waist of Dresden silk had collar of black mousseline de goie with pleated ruffles of the same. The collar was Gecorated with clover leaves formed of three leaves of white lace braid as fllustrated here. The waist is gathered both back and front over a fitted lining, For wash goods the lining may be omitted entirely. but the result Is more satisfactory if a yoke lining is put in the back. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Rider Haggard as a rule writes only about 1500 words at & sitting. The Marquis of Salisbury prefersto stand ata high desk while working. It issaid that General Lew Wallace recelves higher pay for his writing than any other living American author. M. Remier has bequeathed $400,000 to the Belgian Government for the foundation of & medical institute, to be called the “Institute Rommelacre.” Charles H. Hackley of Muskegon, Mich., has added $25,000 to his original gift for & manual training school in that town, muking his total g1ft $135,000. Gladstone is under & pledge to his physicians to uever make another public speech. He has more than once asked to have it set aside, but ‘without success. Dr. H. C. Nichoison, whose death at Inde- pendence, Ky., has been reported, was 74 years old. He claiined to be the inventor of quadru- plex telegraphy, by which four messages can be sent on one wire at the same time. — e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mes. SuRRATI—J. A, M, City. There life of Mrs. Surratt yubllsheg s LITTLE BREECHES—P., author of £ Placerville, Cal. The “Little Breeches” is John Hay. ELGIN To CHICAGO-F. distauce from Chicago, same State, is thirty-: from Chicago. ' SE H., Napa, Cal. The I, to Elgin, in the miles west by north THE SECRET SERVICE—W. M., Oakland, Cal. If 70u Would obtain a position in® ths Metrer Service of the United States send your peti- Yion with recommendations to the Treasu: Department, United States, Washington, D. - GERMAN PENSIONs—H. T., City. Soldiers of the German army who draw pensions, if they :v;:; in n:a .w&n prior to 1864, do not lose pension the become gj::l'eg’s.t:&c‘% tint‘u:ggle who w:x:ul?:h:fw‘l“ orfeit thei ization as citizens of -um.l:upre ::\'&ltr‘;f S ml::::r::::;nax:?. M. C., City. At thistime courts open in the evening to ac- commodate those who may wish to be natural- of the courts may be keptopen in the evening. In the Stat2 courts of California there is no fee for naturalization, butin the Federal couris a fee of $1 is charged. CoATs’ THREAD — Subscriber, Sacramento, Cal. The original Coats’ thread was made in Paisley, County of Renfew, Scotland, by James Coats, who was a native of that place. The business was subsequently carried on by his sons, who were natives of the same place. CALIFORNIA PURPLE FINcH—M. 8. R., City. The California purple finch which is found near Santa Cruz has its habitat on the Pacific Coast from the Straits of Fuca on the north to the vicinity of Monterey. It hasnot been met oelow that line. The first quill is ususlly shorter than the fourth in the adult male, with sides and flanks usually strongly though not sharply streaked with dark. The back is very indistinctly streaked, the feathers being less dark than the edges. The red of the crown is darker than that of the rump. The special characteristic is the head, with broad su_F - orbital lateral band of lighter purple. This finch isa very fine singer. It has a general resemblance to the Western chipping sparrow, but the latter is much smaller than the finch. PoLLTAX CoLLECTION—Lumberman, Millwood, Fresno County, €al. The law permits one who is indebted to another to pay the polltax of the person to whom he is indebted. In your communication you say that ‘‘we are lumber- men, the men are in the woods during the day, and scatter at sight of the tax collector.” Ina case of that kind how is a collector to make demand on the parties for their tax? It is be- cause of men, who know that they are in- debted to the State for polltax, sneaking away when the coliector approaches, that the col- lectors make a demand on employers for a list of men in their employ, and give notice when the men are at meals that he wants the poll- tax. If they do not pay he makes a demand on the employer for the amount of the tax. If this practice was not within the law it would have been stopped long ago. CHINESE—F. M., San Pedro, Cal. The first Chinese exclusion bill, passed March 24, 1882, was vetoed by President Chester A. Ar thur April 4, and drawn anew to overcome the objections of the President. It became law on the 6th of May, it being signed by the chief executive on that day. It is impossible to tell what the Chinese po{:lflnlion was in San Fran- cisco at that time, but it was estimated at irom 50,000 t0 85,000. Two years later the Board of Bupervisors undertook to find out the number of Chinese in the City, and this is what the special committee reported: “No known method of census-taking hus ever yet sufficed to furnish an approximate ides even of the number of our Chinese population.’” The committee as a result of its investigation stated that at that time, two years after the exclusion law had been in operation, the low- ossible estimate it could reach was est 30,34 TRANSVAAL TROUBLES—Subscriber, Sacramen- to, Cal. The recent troubles in the Transvaal arose from the desire of Cecil Rhodes to bring about certain reforms; the suppression of the existing Dopper-Boer domination as exempli- fied by President Kruger and his Hollander allies; the installation of a buffer government with an executive composed of advanced pro- gressive Boers, to be transitory, with ‘the object of establishing liberal reforms and the Emn'.lng of the franchise to all duly qualified itlanders; the advent of a more enlightened class of legislators composed of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Dutch element, whose mission it would be to bring the Transvaal within the orbit of the customs union as now existing between the Cape Colony, Natal and the Orange Free State, as & first step toward local federation; and while retaining its local inde- pendence of form of goverament the political, commercial and social union of the Transvaal within the area from Tanganyika on the north to Capetown on the south, and from Delagoa Bay on the east to Damaraland on the west, the whole to be under the sgisof imperial British suzerainty. It was against this propo- sition that President Kruger took excefion. FRIDAY—N, N., City. Every country has special unlucky days. In Christian countries Friday of every week is the pre-eminently un- lucky onme, probebly from the fact that the crucifixion is understood to have taken place on that day. That and the consequent fasts have made it a marked day in the calendar. To siart any undertaking or commence a journey on a Friday is, 1n the minds of many, to dourt failure and disaster, but why, those who pre- dict aisaster cannot tell. Sailors are particu- larly superstitious as to thatday. There was a man who had an idea that he would turn that superstition, and he had the keel of & ves- sel laid on a Friday, masts alepned in her on Friday, ber cargo shipped on Friday, found a man named Friday to command her and started on the voyage on & Friday. The vessel never returned to port.and never was ireard of again. In old rhyme “Friday’s child is loving and giving,” “Cut nails on Friday cut them for woe,” “‘Friday for losses” and many others. A great many {mportant events have occurred on Friday, and meany successful undertakings have been commenceéd on that day of the week. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c 1b. Townsend’s* Cenmias s BEST peanut taffy in the world. Townsend’s.* - SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * e “Oh, dear,” sighed the hippopotamus, “Iam so tired of this circus life. I wish some nice little boy would buy me for a pet. I'd love to sit in a little boy’s lap and have him call me Fido, and let me crawl into his bed and bite his toes every morning like a puppy dog.’'— Harper's Round Table. Take the Northern Pacific to All Points East. If you are going East call at 638 Market street, San Francisco, and get our figares. Finest service in the Northwest. All trains vestibuled and equipped with dining-cars, upholstered tourist cars and elegant Pullmsn sleepers. Through sleepers once a week. T. K. Stateler, agent. ———————— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrap'? Has been used over 50 years by millions of mothers for their children white Teething with perfect suo- cess. It soothes the chlld, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, reguiates the Bowels and 18 the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising trom teething or other causes, Forsale by Drug- gists in every part of the world. Be sure and asi for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25¢ & bottle, ———— CORONADO.—Atmosphere i3 perfectly dry, sots and mild, belng entirely fres from the mists come mon turther nor:h. Round-irip tickets, by steam- ship, including fifteen days’ board a: the Hotel dai Coronado, $60: longer stay $250 perday, Apply 4 New Montgomery st., San Francisco. ———— Customer—Are these eggs fresh, waiter? ‘Waiter—Can't you tel}? Customer—No. Waiter—Then what difierence does it make?— New York Evening World. NEW TO-DAY. THE OWL DRUG CO., CUT-RATE DRUGGISTS. <\il! g 2| OUR GUARANTEE On all RUBBER GOODS purchased in our establishment, i3 perfect satisfaction or money refunded. We guarrutee a 76c Syringe or Water Bottle the same as the higher grades. Alpha Syringes.... Alpha Fountain Sy ringe: 2-quart Fountain Syringes. 2-quart Water Bottles.. “Goodyear” Kubber Gloves +$1 00 each WOODBURY’S g&:!l.AL 50c size we sell 3 cakes for 50¢ Mgnox's 5c ME 2i DIES slze we cut to 15c. CRENRY COMPOUND 100 size we cut to 60c. FRENCH g&gl]‘lfi 50¢ bars we cut to 25c. 1128 MaREET ST. SAN FRANCISCO. 1zed. As the time for election approaches l;x‘n: Corner Tenth §St. and Broadway- Oakland,