The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 22, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1896. M. SHORTRIDGE, nd Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: and Sunday CALL, one weelk, by carrier. $0.15 00 ‘AL, three months by mail 'ALL, one month, by mail.. .65 v . 1.50 . 1.00 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going fo the country ona vacation * 1 80, it is no trouble for us to forward THE CALL 10 vour address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARG! OFFICE : ket Street, co, California. g .Main—~186% San Franc Telephone. EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay St ... Maln—1874 Telephone...... BRANCH OFFICE! 530 Montgomery street, corner € open until £:30 o'clock. 339 Haves street; open until 9:30 o'clock. street: open until §:30 o'clock. §W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o'cloek. 1138 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 8U8 Broadway. SASTERN OFFICE: F H Rooms 31 and DAVID M. FRIDAY THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Tillman may yet beat his pitchfork into a tomahawk. Boies, after all, may prove to be a bigger man than old Grover. What a beautiful thing it is tosee Demo- crats reformine one another. The Santa Monica job has clearly slipped from the Frye pan to the fire. Low tariff and low wages came in to- gether and will go out together. The letter declining to be a candidate for a third term is no longer needed. The proverbial March hare won’t be in it for madness with the June gold bug. The popular cry of this campaign will be the simple one urn out the fools.” The transfer nuisance is raising a squall every day and befcre long there will be s storm. In spite of the Cleveland bosses the tone of the Chicago convention will have a sil- ver ring. It was a great show at Moscow—in fact a much greater show than Europe likes to contemplate. If Vining doesn’t begin to feel the pulse of San Francisco pretty soon he may have to feel its Grover’s attitude toward a third term is that of Deliberation on a monument smil- ing at a phantom. The Czar with a crown on is no more of an autocrat than he was before, but per- haps he feels bigge There is an improving prospect that free silver will be a winner this yearin the conventions of all parties. Cleveland’s inaction on the Cuban ques- tion may be due to the fact that he is building a very gorgeous castle in Spain. Eastern baseball teams are so expensive this year the games are unprofitable if the | attendance falls below the thousand mark. ke Comptroller E commends the Alt- geld machine in Illincis, but neglects to say whetherit is & gangplow or a thresher. Full, fair and accurate news of the pro- ceedings of all parties and all factionsis what you get in Tue CarL that speaks for Since the election of 1892 this country has not grown much in wealth, but it bas grown enough 1 wisdom to make up for it. Every Czar alway s makes it a point to talk throueh his new crown in a more golden tone than he uses throueh his ha- bitual hat. In selecting a candidate for the Presi- dency this year the Democrats might as well take the one they can get the most fun out of. South Carolina Democrats could nof divide the Union, but they always win when they set out to split a Democratic convention. It is ten chances to one that as the light streamed over the Czar at his coronation his shadow behind him looked very much like a nihilist. Wilmerding intended his school to be established in San Francisco, and his in- tentions should have for the regents all the force of law. The annnal outgo of tourists to Europe has begun and what is worse these foreign clime seekers are taking gold from home folks to travel on. Local Democrats will never succeed in producing barmony until they learn to know the difference between a gang boss and s band-master. Populists would be foolish to combine with Democrats when they have oniy to wait until after this election to capture the whole demoralized gang. Olney might as well open up a regular correspondence with Kruger as the brave old man evidentiy needs a good deal of education on the way to treat American citizens. fei oy Massachusetts Democrats are receiving much unmeritea praise in the East for ‘“setung the pace for the party.”’ Itisa thing that they can do without risk. What responsibility have they? The latest thing in the way of theater mechanism is reported from Munich, where the opera-house has been equipped with a rotating stage by which any scene can be shifted in twelve seconds. Now that an American company has obtained .a concession to construct a rail- road in Korea the question of the sov- ereignty of the country may be consid- ered settled. The railroad will own it. Up to date the Morrison Presidential boom has carried one county in Illinois, but as it has not been able to carry it out of the commonwealth the boom may be ow, New York City. | | | THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. If Michael Romanoff, the founder of the present dynasty, is cognizant of events in the material world, he must have been well satisfied with the splendor and magni- tude of the display at his old capital yes- terday, where his youthful descendant, Nicholas Romanoff, will be crowned Em- peror of All the Russias. And it musthave been especially pleasing to him to see hundreds of thousands of loyal subjects of the throne journeying from all parts of the empire by private and public conveyance to participate in the corona- tion ceremonies—ceremonies which will culminate in crowning a man who shall rule over one-sixth of theland surface of the globe, and whose subjects number more than 100,000,000. The Emperor of Russia is, by what Rus- sians are pleased to call "divine right,” the autocrat of every inch of the vast na- tion, besides he is the supreme head of the church, thus being the vicar of the Al- mighty in all matters appertaining to the materialand spiritual welfare of all the peo- ple of the land over which God has given him dominion. That this power has been abused many times since Michael Roman- off, a youth of 16, ascended the throne in 1613, no one will pretend to deny, nor will apologists be found for such disregard for buman life and human liberty, but since 1861 reforms have been instituted fully as rapidly as the people were ready to appre- ciate them. In 1861 Alexander II issued a proclama- tion which emancipated the slaves, or serfs, but not without indemnifying those who had claims upon them. That event was the beginning of a new era in Rus- sia’s social 2nd commercial life, and no step backward has since been taken. Al- | though nihilism has been rampant, even conspiring to overthrow the system of gov- ernment, and often resorting to murder, the empire has moved forward. The edu- cational system has steadily improved until it now compares favorably with neighboring countries, and no more lib- eral patron of art, science and music will be found in the Old World than the Rus- sian antoerat. Still, his life 1s threatened because be cannot do in a day what re- guires a year to accomplish. Russia is essentially an hgricultural country, and so helping has been the pol- icy of the Government in recent years that Russian cereals now exert a powerful influence in all the breadstuffs markets of Europe. American farm machinery may be seen in all the agricultural distmets, and in many localities farming is carried on as scientifically as anywhere in the United States. Afthe export points gram elevators, patterned after those mammoth concerns in Chicago, have been erected, and whatever other appliances are cal- culated to reduce the cost of production and marketing grain have been or are be- ing introduced. To be sure, private capi- tal has doue ail this, but under conditions that were made favorable by the central power of the nation. The Czars have not, therefore, been inimical to efforts to ex- pand the agricultural interests of the peo- pla in recent years. But these things are not all the Czar has been doing for Russia in the last third of a century. Railway construction has been steadily pushed between the more important trade centers, and although the country is not gridironed by rail lines of transportation as America and some parts of Europe are, it doubtless will be when occasion requires, The Siberian railway is one of the greatest enterprises of modern timesand when completed it will have a total mileage of nearly 5000 miles. Several hundred miles are already in successful operation, and by it new and valuable mining and agricultural districts have been made profitable and accessible. Over 6,000,000 bushels of high grade wheat were exported from these new regions last year—regions that are, as vet, necessarily sparely settled. The em- vire and the railway company are offering great inducements to farmers of other countries to settle on the line of the Si- berian railway, and not a few Scandi- navians have already gone to the Siberian country. Russia has the population, the material resources and the money to become in the near future the leading country of the 0Old World, and if one may judge by the | progress the empire has made in the last three decades it would be safe to say that the people are determined to excel in time in all that goes to make a rich and power- ful nation. The Government is encourag- ing the erection of manufactories of every kind that can find the raw material in the empire, and boasts are already made that the time will come when Russian-made goods and wares will be found in active competition with the manufacture of other countries in all the markets of the world. It isa mistake to think of Russia as a country whose people and rulers are still groping in the shadow of barbarism. “SOUND MONEY." The leaders of both parties are every- where declaring for “sound mopey,” and the rank and file say thev will have no other kind. Inasmuch s the Government does not now nor is it likelv to ever issue unsound money, it would seem that there is no occasion to talk about either ““sound” or “unsound’’ money. No sensible man would ever question the ‘‘soundness” of money issued or permitted to be issued by the United States. Until the mints go to turning out counterfeit money no one need be afraid to take the Government's promise to pay or its money of redemp- tion. The fact of the matter is, all this talk about “souna money” is idiotic clap- trap, and it is intended to create a suspi- cion in the minds of the people that there is a deep-laid scheme to turn the National treasury into a kind of green goods print- ing establishment. The natural “soundness” of silver for redemption money purposes was not ques- tioned until 1873, and then the attack was made upon 1t under cover, but the Cleve- land administration has bolaly deprived it of its legitimate place in the monetary system of the country, so that its coin value is derived from the Government’s promise to redeem it in gold. Thisradical and brutal attack upon the legitimacy of silver’s qualities for money of redeinption was followed by denouncing it as *‘un- sound money,” but, in fact, it wasstripoed of its function as a money metal and its own redemption in gold made a condition of the privilege of being coined into dol- lars. The conspirators who committed this dastardly offense againstthe bone, the sinew and the main dependence of the Na- tion in its battle against the efforts of money-ienders toward the centralization of the political and social power of the country into the little circle in which they move are the influence that is behind the ery of “‘sound money."” What the people really mean by “sound money” is silver and gold dollars of equal redemption power. They hold, and rightly so, that they have nothing to do with gold bullion or silver bullion, as such. As bullion, these metals are a merchant- able commodity, but when converted in- 0 coin by authority of the Government they are redempiion money, and neither one couli be called unsound without made to drop it by the State Convention. | relieving it altogether of its duty as money, when it would not be redemption money at all, which is the position of the silver dollar to-day, except that it is permitted to do duty as token money under & prom- ise that it will not claim the function of redemption money, but recognize its own dependence upon gold to give it a purchas- ing quality. But the meaning of the common people’s cry for “sound money’ is very different from that of the money-lenders and bond- coupon clippers. They know that silver possesses every requisite quality for re- dempiion money, and they demand that its soundness be edmitted and recognized in the monetary system of the Nation. That is the long and the short of the peo- ple’s demand. That is to say, the wealth- makers demana that silver be returned to its legitimate position of co-worker with gold in supplying the channels of trade ana traflic with a sufiicient volume of money, or, in other words, the people de- mand that the Government call the gold standard “dishonest money,” the silver standard ‘“dishonest money” and a bi- metallic standard “honest money,” if the words ““honest,” “‘dishonest,” “‘sound’’ and “ansound” are to be used to designatereal from unreal money BOIES TRIUMPHS. The victory of ex-Governor Boies over the Federal office-holders in Towa is a stinging cut to Cleveland. Of all Western men Boies is the most disliked by the adminis- tration. He has never been in accord with Cleveland’s tariff, money or foreign policy, and being the recognized leader of his party in lowa the condemnation which the President received at the hands of the Dubuque convention yesterday may be considered an open declaration of war upon any aspirant for the Chicago nomi- nation who is under suspicicn of being friendly to Cleveland. Ex-Governor Bozes is in no sense a great man, but having carried Iowa twice againet the usuat Republican majority of 50,000 he is accepted as the Moses of the party and wherever he ieads the rank and file are pretty sure to foilow. But what made the Dubuque convention so deter- mined to repudiate Cleveland’s kind of Democracy was the trick the Federal of- fice-holders played upon the party in the State Convention last year. Early last spring holders of oflice under Cleveland in Iowa were given to understand that the administration would expect them to not only nominate a goldbug for Governor, but see that the convention praised Cleve- land’s ‘‘wise and patriotic policy.” When the convention assembled at Mar- shalltown it was found that it was under the control of Cleveland’s appointees, who proceeded to turn Boies and all other opponents of the President’s Wall-street methods out of doors. Judge Babb was put at the head of the ticket, not because there was any chance of electing him, but to keep the machinery of the party in the hands of Cleveland’s friends so as to send a delegation friendly to him to the Na- tional Convention. In the light of these facts the triumph of Boies and his follow- ing is significant. It means that under no circumstances will the Iowa delegation to Chicago pledge the vote of the party to any one who is under the influence of Cleveland. On the money question prac- tically all the rank and file of the lowa Democratic party agree with Boies that ‘‘as between gold monometallism and silver coinage at 16 to 1 without safeguards of any kind I am for the latter.” Then, for the most part, Jowa Democrats are ultra free-traders. GORMAN'S DEFEAT. The debate and the vote on the motion of Senator Gorman to amend the coast defense bill by a clause authorizing the issue of $100,000,000 of 3-per-cent treasury certificates was one of the most interesting episodes of recent proceedings in Congress It seems, furthermore, to foreshadow a veto of the appropriation bill, and a not distant call for another loan to replenish th e gold reserve. Gorman’s argument in favor of his pro- posed amendment was that as the revenues of the Government are not equal to its expenses, it will be necessary to ob- tain money in some way to carry it out. The condition of the treasury, which is bad enough at present, will be made worse by the large appropriations which are to be voted for needed pu blic improvements, naval expansion and coast defenses. Two ways are open to obtain the required funds. Oneis to increase the revenues by enacting a better tariff of customs duties, and the other is to borrow the money. Gorman argued that asit seems impossi- ble for the Senate to pass a tariff biil at this session it would be better and cheaper to authorize the issue of treasury certifi- cates than to force the administration to undertake a new loan. That the position taken by Gorman was correct in the main is beyond question, but he made the mistake of trying to reap a partisan advantage out of the situation by alleging that the Republicansin Con- gress are responsible for the condition of the treasury, inasmuch as they have not enacted any measures for its relief. This allegation was promptly refuted by Sen- ator Sherman. As a matter of fact the Republican majority in the House did pass an emergency tariff bill and it was defeated in the Senate because all the Democrats and Populists voted against it. 1t was Democracy that enacted the deficit tariff. It is Democracy that keeps it in force. It is Democracy that has forced the country into debt, and it is still Democracy that now threatens through its President, Grover Cleveland, to veto the appropriation bill and thus add stag- nation to depression. It is worth noting that for the Gorman amendment only nine Senators voted. This is almost as bad a showing as that made by Senator Hill when he undertook to organize a fight against the bond deals. The two men, Gorman and Hill, scem to be as completely discredited as Cleveland himself. In the Senate, at any rate, Democracy is completely demoralized and its ablest and most ageressive leaders are unable to rally even a dozen men to help the administration in its hour of need. A JOSEPH'S COAT CONVENTION. The first duty of the Chicago convention will be to determine what the word “Democrat’” means. No business can be transacted until that is done. The Cleve- landites declare Biand and his following are not Demacrats, and Bland and his following are posiuve that the Cleve- landites do not know the first principles of Democracy. The necessity, therefore, of agreeing upon the meaning of the name of their alleged party is apparent. The convention call says it is to be a gathering of Democrats, but until it is ascertained what constitutes a Democrat there is no other reason why Herr Most should not be admitted to the convention hall as a good Democrat. Bland says Cleveland should go over to Governor Morton’s standard, and Cleveland says Bland belongs in the Populist ranks. Gor- man says it is not Democratic to put coal and iron on the free Jist, and Vest says it is Democratic to have out and out free trade. Olney says that the man who is not in favor of the gold standard knows nothing about Democracy, and Altgeld says thatethe man who believes that Democracy stands for anything in the money line but bimetallism should buy himself a dictionary and find out what the meaning of the word is. But, anyway, the convention will resemble Joseph's coat, politically speaking. PERSONAL. “Will Ashe is on a visit to Fresno. John H. Besse of Kings City is in town. 3 T. T. Millan of Tacoms arrived hero yester- ay. . H. May, a manufacturer of New York, is in the City. W. C. Swain, an architect of Marysville, is on a visit here. Judge J. 0. Clark of Mott is among the guests of the Russ. W. Newman, a business man of Fresno, is at the Occidental. J. B. Cooper, & mining man of Butte, Mont., isat the Grand, James Meagher of Fish Rock, Mendocino County, is in town. J. A. McKenzie, a merchant of Merced, ar- rived her yesterday. Frank Mattison, a business man of Santa Cruz, is in the City. The Rev. and Mrs C. S. Farkenthall of Pacific Grove are at the Occidental. V. 8. McClatchy, one of the owners of the Sacramento Bee, is in the City. James Geraghty, a capitalist of Los Angeles, is & guest at the Cosmopolitan. L. Baker, & prominent mining man of Los Angeles, is staying at the Cosmopolitan. Thomas Kay, a manufacturer of woolen goods, Salem, Or., is among recent arrivals. The Rev.A. P. Granes, D.D., of New York, :ls one of the conspicuous arrivals here yester- ay. The Baron E. de La Grange of Paris, who isinterested in mines at Weaverville, is in town. D. E. Knight, the wealthy ploneer resident of Marysville, arrived here yesterday and is at the Lick. N.Z. Osborne, of the Los Angeles Express, and Ex-Judge Hervey Lindley of Los Angeles, are at the Palace. L. C. Morehouse of San Leandro, chairman of the State Board of Equalization, is among the arrivals at the Lick. Bishop Nichols is confined to his room at San Mateo, the result of a severe cold. Entire rest has been ordered. C.S. Webb, & general commission merchant of Seattle, who was for many years a leading l(::usmeus man of Des Moines, Iows, is in the ity. Dr. Richard Parquoy of Munich, Germany, who arrived her over a week ago, aiter a long stay in Java, left for New York and home last night, E. R. Ayres, & wealthy millowner and lum- ber manutacturer of Saginaw, Mich., who has been on the Pacific Coast several times hither- to, is at the Grand. Matthew Gage, the well-known orange- grower and irrigationist of Riverside, who has resided there fifteen years and been engaged in many enterprises, is at the Occidental, He has lately been on a visit to the East. Mr. (Gage says that business appears to be on the mend in Southern California. It is so about Riverside and it looks like itall over tneSouth, “The outlook for oranges at Riverside,” he said, “is very good. There willbe s big crop. Ithink Riverside alone will ship 2500 car- loads next year,” CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK ., May 21.—St. Nicholas— E. H. Backbee; New Amsterdam—F. F. Boy: Park Avenue—Mrs. C. J. Swift; Belvidere—B, Dryckoff. A CHILD'S PRETTY APRON. Here is an apron which combines pictur- esqueness with utility. It isdeveloped charm- ingly in any of the dainty white stuffs, such 88 nainsook, dimity, lawnand cambric. - An inexpensive decoration consists of a very nar- 0w Valenciennes insertion let in at the top of the hem on sleeves and revers. Another trim- ming which is dainty and not costly is a nar- row frill of Valencienne lace of the Italian mesh set on the edges. Narrow edges of em- broidery set on flat recommend themselves on the score of easy laundering. Aprons of pretty light coiors are a possi- bility, for the colored nainsooks wash admir- ably. It may be had in meny colors—pink, couleur de rose, blue and pale green. Ghingham in checks and stripes makes very serviceable aprons and need not of necessity be in colors which do not please a child’s eye. Stripes of pink and white on blue and white wash quite as well as the dull grays and browns. A pretty contrast is obtained by using ‘tv‘-m color for the reyers. Or make the apron of piain pink, with sleeves and revers of striped pink and white. CURRENT HUMOR. She—No, I don’t prefer men who are known to be rich. He—How can that be? She—They don’t spend their money as freely asmen who want to be known as rich.—New York World. “Do you think that we shall suit each other?” “Splendidly! You possess & very fine, lond voice, and she is terribly hard of hearing.”— Plauderecke. Gent—If you insist, mein fraulein, on break- ing off ourengagement I will publish the let- ters you have written me. Lady—As you please. Thereisnothingabout those letters I need be ashamed of—barring the address.—Verkenrzeitung. Alady who suffers terribly in her molars, but lives in mortal dread of professional tooth- extractors, one day rang the bell at the den- tisU's. A man in livery answered her inquiry: “‘Master is not in.” The lady (visibly relieved)—Ah, how fortu- nate.—La Lanterne. First commercial traveler — The bootblack told me this morning that the room you slept in last night has the reputation of being haunted. Second commercial traveler—Well, Ishouldn’t be surprised if that were so. I killed a few there last night myself.—Sommerville Journal. Cornby—What do you think of my new shoes? S Bunier—They look all right, but I don’t like the key they are pitched in.—Roxbury Gazette. E. F. Benson, of dodo fame, is now in Egypt. He is writing a romance, the scenes of which are laid in Greece during the time of the War of Independence, and filling up his spare time by excavating ruined temples. A clergymen in Brooklyn intimated the other day that he was not getting salary enough, and his congregation immediately cut him down 50 per cent. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “‘There is more activity in and about the gold mines of Grass Valley,” said George Fletcher of that place yesterday at the Pal- ace, “than there has been for many years. I have lived there almost steadily ever since :.8613. and have kept track of everything e “‘Though I am a railroad man I was once the owner of the old Banner mine, and have been in mining more or less ever since. “I expect that before a year from now there Wwill be 1000 more miners at work in the mines of Grass Valley than now. There is & lot of hurry and bustle sround there, com- pared with what there used to be. Every- where you go you see a certain activity, It looks as though we are going to have very Pprosperous times. “They have found in the old Brennan shaft of the Rocky Bar a new and rich ledge. are to be thoroughly disappointed.—Lewiston Journal. The fight in the Democratic National Conven- tion onfree silver willbe between the South and the old North States, with the West about evenly divided. There will probably be acom- promise, the North writing the first part of the resolution and Tillman dictating the last. The delegates can then all go home happy, assured of satisfying their constituents.—Topeka Capi- tol. It is urged, in extenuation of Mr. Bland’s boom for a Presidential nomination, that “he is a great-grandson of Monroe, a near relative of Jefferson and a first cousin of Lincoln,” but, of course, they are not to blame for that. That the descendant and kinsman of so many sound money Presidents should turn out a sil- verloon knocks the doctrine of heredity higher than the late Mr. Gilderoy’s kite.—Cincinnati Times-Star. George Fletcher, Erstwhile Owner of the Banner Mine, Tells About the Efforts to Get Gold Out of the Ground in Grass Valley. [Sketched from life by a “Call” staf artist.] It is & back ledge and was found almost at the bottom of the old shaft. The ledge is about eighteen inches in size. The ore is very good. “A company has been organized there, too, to work the Kentucky mine. This is an old property and has a very fine prospect. “The old Gold Hill mine that has not been worked for thirty years is to be started again, &nd on a great scale. The owners are going to put in a 200-horsepower electric plant there and work the mine for all it is worth. That is a very important thing for Grass Valley. *The Allison’s Ranch mine is also starting up egain. The owners, who consist of San Francisco men, including Mr. Flood and his {riends, have not decided yet whether to put on water power direct or use compressed air. “The district is all right. The veins are good, and there are many of them, and I ex- pect to see times pretty lively around there in ashort time.” THE MEN WHO LIVE ALONE. Ho, 1o, ha, ba, the jolly men Wholive alone—why, yes, We have our homes—that is, I guess The rest adopt & den % That's like to mine, and have a place—" Up bish sometimes, you know, ut thai's a splendid thing to brace A fellow up who's slow At climbing—and they're not too small, Nor yet too large. Now, mine 13 snug and warm—except when all The oll’s burned out—and tine. But, say, my view &cross the street Is—well—disturbing—nay, Not quite 50 bad, because i’ And good. but every day Or evening I can look across, Through windows clear and bright, And see a father romp and toss His youngsters in the light That glows from out his fire; and see His wife ook smiling on And kiss the bables lovinely, Until the picture’s gone ! They pull the curtain down, and then I'm cheerful as a stone, And lasugh—ha, ha, the jolly men Who live in “rooms” alone. —Vauity. weet ALONG THE SKIRMISH LINE. Thomas Brackett Reed’s record supplies no inconsistencies to his foes.—Norwich Bulletin. Pink Scarletof Georgia is going to run for Congress. Whata hue he will give to Wash- ington some night.—Clevelana World. There’s no doubt that General Horace Porter would make & good Vice-President. Besides, Porter is strengthening.—Boston Herald. A good deal of *hot shot” simed at Major McKinley seems to be cold shot by the time it gets there.—New York Mail and Express. This is the hour for positive candidates who have the courage of their convictions—for men who are all on one side or all on the other.— Chicago Tribune. There 18 no reason why McKinley should not say that he is in favor of sound money. Sound money and protection go well together this year.—Des Moines Register. Mr. Reed isno trimmer and never has been. No safer man can be named to stand &t the head of the Government when her economic interests are at stake.—Lowell Republican. We are advised that the St. Louis auditorium will seat just 15,601 people. The Mcl(mlqyl people are certainly very kind to provide that 0dd seat for the favorite son delezation.—Min- neapolis Tribune. Washington dispatches announce the ap- pearance of the Carlisle campaign button. The Blackburn contingent wiil undoubtedly see thatit is put into ahole without delay.— New York Mail and Express. Nominating a man for & third Presiden tial term in this country is about the greatest po- litical absurdity possible, butall the same it grows more and more probable that itis to be the very blunder the Democratic party will commit next.—Wilmington News. The proof of the pudding is not inchewing the string. McKinley should remember this; the string js all coming his way, but it doesn’t follow that he will capture the pudding. Grant had it all his own way once on a time, but he didn’t get the nomination.—Denver News. If Mr. Cleveland is not renominated the mugwumps will be without a candidate for the Presidency. They will practically be with- out a country, asthey have been, in fact, for many years, and they will have either to emi- grate or hereafter figure as political ciphers,— Cleveland Leader. Only one free sllver State—California—has declared for McKinley. If Colorado, Montana, Idaho and other silyer States had made him thelr candidate, with some declaration to the effect that his views on the financial question ‘were satisiactory to them, that would have been a hard blow.—St. Louis Star. The fact is that the McKinley managers have given Mr. KcKinley a good deal of unneces- sary trouble. There is neither wise diplomacy nor patriotism in turning oue’s back to the music. Meantime the men who would like to see the Republicans fool with the silver calf ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. BY SteaMEr—F. C., Oakland, Cal. The fare from San Fran $11. WiLTzING—T. F. K., City. A good waltzer never touches his heels on the foor while waltzing. WINNIE STANTON—R. P., San Luis Obispo, Cal. Winnie Stanton was released from the penitentiary on the 1st of last April. No PremruM OFrerep—T. F. H,, City. No frvmlum 18 offered for half dollars of 1821 and 861, or for quarters of 1856 and 1857. SAYS—A. 8. G., City. In pronouncing the word “says” follow the pronunciation of “say,” which is spoken with the & sound of & in fate, mane and dale. VieGINIUs—H. B. W., Oskland, Cal. The tragedy of “Virginius” was written by James Sheridan Knowles in 1820, but it was recast subsequently for Macready. Quartz CrLAmMs—A. D., Gazell, Siskiyou County, Cal Every mimng location must have & separatenotice. The district 1aws regu- late the placing of such notices. A RUBDOWN—M. 8. H., City. An all-aronnd athlete says that one of the best “rubdowns” to be used by athletes after exercising is cam- phorated alcohol after a bath, ot too cold. Corper CENT—F. C., Oakland, Cal. As your communication does not state in what coun- try “a copper two-cent piece of 1802” was coined, it is impossible to tell if there is a pre- mium on the coin. NEW YORK'S GOVERNOR—A. and B., City. The Governor of the State of New York is elected for & term of two years. The term of the present Governor, Levi P. Morton, expires on the 31st of next December. A PoEM—J. J. R., Benicia, Cal. The poem by Cornie L. Bartlett, entitled “A Tribute to Our Heroes,” was_published in THE CALL on the 30th of May, 1891. It is t00 long for re- production in this department, GOAT ISLAND ScHOOL—Mrs. N. B. B,, City, and F., San Rafael, Cal. As yet nothing has been done to establish the training-school for boys on Goat Island. As soon &s anything is done in that direction the matter will be noticed in THE CALL. TROLLEY—A. 8., Orland, Cal. If you have a patent for an electric system that will do away with overhead wires, and that isas simple as “the opemng and shutting of & jack-knife,” foimimunh:ale with companies that use elec- ricity. THE CUBA JUNTA—S. P. B, City. The head- quarters of the Cuban Junta is in Florida, sometimes at one point, sometimes at an- other. It has no representation in San Fran- cisco that this department has been able to discover. TROUT-FISHING—Subscriber, Murphys Camp, Calaveras County, Cal. During the close sea- son in the State of California no one has a right 1o catch trout, not even in a stream that may be the property of the individual migh(dnlro{o shi; it. YAk who To THE CLIFF—W. H. F., Oakland, Cal. If,in the matter of the distance from the ferry to the CIiff House in an air line, you prefer the measurements as shown by the map you name to those recently published in this depart- ment, you are at liberty to do so. HoLDAYS—J. M. N., Mohler, Was¥. There are no National holidays in the United States. Good Friday is not a National holiday in the United States, but it is a bank holiday in Eng- land. “What are the legal holidays?” is too indefinite to admit of an answer, as esch State has its holidays. “If you will name what State or States you wish o be i aniwer will be pives be informed about,an RAZZLE-DAZZLE—M. P., City. If you have been playing razzle-dazzle dice with six dice, some one has been ringing in a “cold dicebox’’ on you for the game is played with only fi dice. In playing this game the one who thyrov‘: the dice may elect to call an ace anything he chooses. If on the first throw an ace and two :g;:l ma&ual{: ::uthe second a six and a b R ed & pair of sixes and THE CITY H. ALL—A. 8. G, City. The area covered by the City Hall of San Francisco is about four acres. The top of the Hall of Records 1s 140 feet from the ground to the top of the cresting; the top of the square tower is 151 feet above the ground and the main to is, from the ground to the top of the pedestal. on which the' Statue of Progress rests, 519:6 feet. From the ground to the extreme top of the ?fi';‘x‘»:‘:‘. the hand of the statue the height is POETRY—M. 8, City. “Which of the poets, Shakespeare, Milton or Dante, is the beuptr" is 8 question that is answered by the individual taste of the reader of the works of each. What to one reader would a; r inferior to -noth%g.”l’;:fr;:'l:k‘;olflgull‘; 8 & matter of individual taste.’ If you will read the works of Rosenkranz and of Zimmer- 3:','.’";«‘:.'. h‘l:‘lgrhm of poetry, you will ob- rmatior you in regard to the 'b‘:rut‘:;:t.l’?” i STEEL TUBING—A. R.,Summerland, Cal. The latest method in manufacturing steel tubing for bicycles is that patented by a mechanic in Freeport, Il. He takes sheets of steel just the length the tubing is to be, turns inwardly a narrow flange on each of the two ends that are sco to Ventura by steamer 1s | to come together. The sheet is then rolled into the lhn%e of acylinder. That brings the two flanged edges together. A specially curved, very narrow piece of steel is slid over the two flanges, and then in the hououhn is formed a special wire is run and whe® the tubing is heated this wire melts and brazes the flanges and jacket that cover it, making a perfectand strong joint. FOREIGN PARENTS—W. A. F., City. Ifanalien couple come to this country and settle without the intention of becoming citizens of the United States and they have sons born to them those sons when thev become of age are en- titled toall the [vrivileges of citizens, being native born. Children of Chinese born in this country, if of the male sex, have, when over twenty-one years of age, in this State been registered and have voted without having taken out naturalization papers. MUSIC AND OPERA—M. ., City. It is impos- sible to absolutely state who was or is the “most eminent musical composer of the world.” John Sebastian Bach might perhaps be entitled to that aistinction, but it must be remembered that Beethoven was the greatest composer of symghunies. and the symphony is generally considered the highest form of musical composition. There are many who consider Richard Wagner the greatest of all composers. have been classed as follows: Haydn, Carl The ten greetest oratorio writers Handel, Bach, Gounod, Palestrina, Mendeissohn, me, Scarlatti, Graun and Hasse. The named are classed as the ten greatest symphonists: Beethoven, Wagner, Mozart, Haydn, Spohr, Schubert, Thalberg, Schu- mann, Maschelles and Paderewski. Distinc- tion in the composition of grand opera is to & great extent a matter of fashion, what one age re’}eus, the other accepts. Fifty years ago “Tannhauser” was hissed off the stage and Ros- sini’s works were adored. Itseems now asif Ros- sini is in danger of being forgotten, while Wegner needs 1o societies to propagate his works. Several generations have considered Mozart’s operas the acme of good taste, put it is the fashion in some musical circles to decry them &t present. It is imi\osmhle t0 say who is “the supreme composer of grand opera,” but a glance of the repertoires of the leading opera- houses will give an idea of those who are con- sidered “supreme” at this time. The names which occur most frequently are those of Wag- ner, Verdi and Gounod. A few years ago the ten greatest writers of opera were classed as follows: Mozart, R ni, Wagner, Meyerbeer, Beethoven, Gluck, Picini, Verdi, Gounod and Donizetti. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. The Duchess of Fife delights in gymnastics and is an accomplished mistress of the art of fencing. In Robert Graham, a clerk in Brooklyn, has been discovered the person of Sir RobertJames Stuart Graham, tenth Baronet of Esk. Kentucky has a colored new woman, who is & bricklayer and stone mason. There is also & white woman 1n that State who, though 77 years old, shegrs Ler own sheep. The painting of Christ, by Jerome, exhibited at the Paris Salon this year, is creating a great deal of comment. It is called “Renan’s Christ,” and in realism is said to outdo Tissot himself. Queen Victoria has sent & donation of 3000 franes for the poor at Nice. A number of officials have received handsome presents, and the new Royal Victorian Order is to be conferred on the Prefect. The British Museum will soon lose the sery ices of Sir Wollaston Franks, K. C. B., the head of the department of British and Medi®val An- tiquities. He has been an officer of the mu- seum since 1851. The king of Denmark and Sweden will visit England early in July to attend the wedding | of Princess Maud of Wales and Prince Charles | 8 Denmark. King Christian istostay at Marl. borough House with the Prince and Princess of Wales. ANICE present for Eastern friends—Town- | send’s Cal. glace fruits, 50c1b. 627 Marketst, * BPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —_————— The Soar family of Ambaston, Derbyshire, England, have & curious heirloom in the shape of & loaf of bread which is now over 600 years old. — e NO OVER-CROWDED boats and trains by noisy Sunday picnics on the N. P. C. R. R. via Sau- salito ferry, it being reserved for families and private parties. . e ee—— HuspAND'S Caleinea Magnesia. Four first- premium medals awarded. More agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other mag- nesia. For sale only in bottles with registered trade-mark label. i Senator Cameron is trying to forget all about free silver, apparently, in the City of Mexico. He has been the object of much soeial atten- tion there. A review of one of the cavalry regiments was held in his honor the other day. ¢“THE OVERLAND LIMITED* Via Union Pacific. 315 DAYS TO CHICAGO—314 433 DAYS TO NEW YORE—414 Pullman double drawing-room sleepers and din- ing-cars, San Francisco to Chicago, daily withont change. Composite buffet smoking and lbrary cars between Salt Lake City, Ogden and Chicago. Upholstered Pullman tourist sleepers, San Fran- cisco to Chicago, dally without change, and per- sonally conducted tourist excursions to St. Paul and Chicago every Friday. ¥or tickets and sleeping-car reservations apply to general oftice, 1 Montgomery street. Steamship tickets on sale to and from all parts of Europe. D. W. HITCHCOCK, General Agent. ————— Take the Northern Pacific to All Polnts East. 11 you are going East call at 638 Market street, San Francisco, and get our figures. Finest service in the Northwest. All trains vestibuled and equipped with dining-cars, upholstered tourist cars and elegant Pullman sleepers. Through sleepers once a week. T. K. Stateler, agent. ————— ONLY “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup’* Has been used over 50 years by millions of mothers for their children white Teething with perfect sao- cess. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Paln, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and isthe best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Drug- gists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25¢ a bottle. ———— CorONADO.—Atmosphere 13 pertectly dry, sofy and mild, being entirely free from the mists come mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, including fifteen days' board at the Hotel dal Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 50 perday. Apply 4 New Montgomery st., San Francisco. Szt e There are living at the present time eleven ex-Governors of Vermont. The vener- able war Governor of the State, Frederick Hol- brook, is still living at Brattleboro. He was elected to office thirty-five years ago and is the oldest of those who have filled Vermonv's executive chair. NEW TO-DAY. e MONEY-SAVING PRICES. Cups, Saucers and Plates, decorated, 746 each. Decorated Pitchers, Porcelain—15¢c, 20c, 25¢ each. Cx-ya,ll Glass Berry Sets, per set, 25c, 35¢, C.. Table Tumblers, per set, 20c, 23¢, 30c. Decorated Dinner Set, complete, 60 pieces, $4 65 and $5 25. Decorated Toilet Set, complete, $1 65. Richly Decorated Thin China Dinner Set of 100 pieces, $15. —AT— (rreat American fmportng Tea (. MONEY SAVING STORES: 1344 Market st. 146 Ninth st. 2510 Mission st. 8 Third st. 140 Sixth st, 2008 Fillmore st. 617 Kearny st. 965 Market st. 1419 Polk st. 3006 Sixteenth 521 Montgomery ave. 104 Second st. 333 Hayes st. 3259 Mission st. 52 Market st. (Headquarters), S. F. 1053 Washington st. 616 E. Twelfth 131 San Pablo ave. ~ gi7 Broadway, Oaklan 1355 Park st., Alameda,