The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 24, 1896, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY. MAY 24, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Emf“i"‘{’ Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mai Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail, ., three months by mall 1.50 | .1, One month, by mail 5 Bunday CALL, one year, by mail WELKLY CALL, One year, b; THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the couniry oh a_vacatlon * 1f | #0, it is no trouble for us to forwanl THE CALL to o2 885 as & your address. Do not let it iniss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the Carrier or left al | Business Office wili receive prompt attention. NO EXTKA CHARGE BUSINESS OFFICE: | 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone....... 5 ....Main—-186% EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay - Maln—1874 | Telephone BRANCH OFFICES : 530 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open until oclock. 359 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street: open nuntil 9:30 o'clock. &W. corner Sixieenth aud Mission streets; open 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open nutll 8 o'clock. 115 Ninth sireet; open nntil § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE : Rooms 81 snd 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. LTZ, Special Agent. ! THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Tue Carn speaks for all, and all should speak for it. There is a liberal education in reading a | liberal newspaper. Why tatk about harmony any more? Let us make it a melody. Among the favorite sons the Vice-Presi- dency is regarded as a booby prize. It must be conceded that as a Nation we are no longer proud of our Senate. The music of the R publican campaign has begun. Close up and keep step. | Let us give thanks to the Czar that he | did not call his coronation a carnival. | There are no humors of the campaign | more humorous than Harrity’s hopes. | g | It 1s a sure thing this year thatif you | join a Republican league you will be in 1t. Silence may be good in many cases, but on the third-term question it won’t answer. Senator Hill may now say “Not only | am I a Democrat, but I am the only Dem- ocrat.” THE CaLs not only speaks for all, but gives everybody a chance to speak for themselves. Whatever Cleveland may have up his sleeve just now we may be pretty sure it isn't a laugh. There are some of those goldbug States that haven’t life enough in them tobea mining camp. | party’s work. | gree. |THE ST. LOUIS CONVENTION. The managers of the Democratic party are counting on disagreements at the St. Louis convention to open the way for a Democratic victory, but their wish is father to their expectetions. There will be disagreements at first, as there should be, and harmony will finally prevail as it should. This is a great country from every point of view. There are business interests that are wide apart and more or less conflicting. Naturally, and therefore vroperly, strong efforts will be made by this, that and the other section of the country to secure the greatest number of advantages. Thera will be strife for the supremacy of interests here and interests there, and great and powerful speeches will be made in which the importance of | muking this or that economic principle paramount will be set forth, and the con- vention and the country will be all the better for it because of the ocean of infor- mation that will be given; besides, it is right that each section of the country should have opportunity to make its needs known. But when jt comes to building a final declaration of principles it will be found that the platform was born of a har- monious adjustment of all interests upon the broad basis of the greatest possible | good to the whole country. The Republi- can party was commissioned a third of a century ago to carry the United States from level to level of solid and permanent advancement, and that commission has never been revoked by the spirit of the purpose of the Nation's existence. The requirements of the country are not wholly as they were a third of a century ago. They are more complex and far- reaching than ever before, which requires the application of the clearest and most comprehensive system of economics. Com- mercial and industrial expansion and the development of new trade commodities and distribution agencies 1n recent years has enlarged the fieid of the Republican Ilence there will be plans and suggestions submitted to the Louis convention that will antagonize one another, but out of it all there will arise ways, means and measures which will cement all factions in one solid, har monious and determined whole. Every State, the whole country, the world and humanity need the Republican party, and it will continue the one great ethical, sccial, economic and political agent of the process of man’s advancement to the higher planes of existence. The Democ- racy may watch and pray for the disrup- tion of the Republican party, but it will wait in vain. RECIPROCITY TREATIES, A reciprocity treaty is to establish closer and more profitable trade relations be- tween two countries whose merchantable commodities are not competitive in the markets of either country to a hurtful de- Hence, in charging protectionists with being inconsistent and contradictory when they advocate the principle of reci- vrocity, free-traders only expose their | own ignorance of the law of trade inter- | change and accumulation and distribu- tion. Reciprocal commercial relations provide the truest, least obstructed and most profitable conditions known for mar- keting the products of a country. They are based upou the old trade and barter system. They do not contemplate the use of money excent to settle balances. Reci- procity is, in short, true free trade, be- cause it carries the product of a country to another country whose product is wholly | @issimilar, and there exchanges one for - It becomes more evident every day that | the other on the basis of the cash value of in getting rid of Buckley local Democrzacy | each in other markets. haslost its head. But there is another object involved in reciprocity treaties. It is the question of 11 you believe the world now every por- | transporting the commodities for inter- tion of it that bas a hotelor & room to rent | change. The party to a treaty that isin is a summer resori. Asilisto be called the Carnival of the Golden Gate it should be wide open to the biggest swim on earth. position to carry the commodities between the countries is bound to have the best of the bargain, for every ship becomes an ad- | vertising agent and a traveling salesman | for the country to which it belongs. Not The political straw shows the way the | OnIY 80, but the transportation agencies wind blows, but not the fellow behind i | 2180 become the supporters of the banking who is raising the wing. Perhaps Quay went to see McKinl, v to | balances, institutions of the two countries by fur nishing facitities for transferring trade These advantages are highly ask him to accept the Vice-Presidency in | beneficial to the side that is the controller the interests of harmony. What grinds Moscow 1s that she cannot | of them in many ways. The right and | responsibility of carrying the inter- | changeable vbroduce enables the tra have a coronation as an annual show and | portation facilities to divert trade to their make herself a tourist center. Surprise at the things that come out | | own markets that would or might go else- where, and ifit wereordered elsewhere they | still would control the avenues of inter- f a predicti reau i | of ayp on bureau is not so great 23 | change. the wonder how they ever got in. | et | We must wait for the Chicago conven- | tion to see whether the Democratic gold- | bug can be held by a silyer thread. [ The fact that we do not get a rest from the transfer nuisance even on Sunday is | what breaks the aay all up in this town. It is about time to inquire whether the | Market-street Railway Company has a | franchise to facilitate street traffic or blockade it. When the commencement season is over | and the voices of the graduates are out of | the air, pernaps the weather will cease to feel so fresh. Don’t leave town for the summer with- out having Ter CALL sent to your new address. You will wish to know the home | news every day. | The Cleveland period has brought the country to a full stop, but the Republicans will soon start a new chapter that wil! be | full of prosperi — | Now that we are told the public schools | are out of politics, we may reasonably in- | dulge the hope that politics will soon be out of the schools. The nomination at the St. Lonis con- vention will not be made withont the most serious deliberation. Ths enthu- siasm will come afterward. Supposing the Western States were in- deed no more'than mining camps, would that be any reason why Wall street shoula | have a monopoly of the Government ? Among 350,000 people, says Mr. Vining, there ure some thieves, and alas! we cannot deny the fact, but we hope the proposed Dimond ordinance will check them alittle, In the Republican Executive Committee we have the right men in the right place at the. right time to do the right thing. ‘What’s the matter with them? They are all right. When in a debate in the Senate on a vital issue of National politics we find Sherman and Hill, Lodge and Vilas on one side, and Dubois and Daniel, Teller and Vest on the other, we may be sure the next step to be taken in the political theater is to recast the play. A student at Brown University eribbed an article Written by the president of the institution, signed his name to it and turned it in as an original essay, and now while the entire undergraduate world in the East is thrilting with admiration for It is for these reasons that our Govern- ment iz urged to establish a marine ser- vice on the basis of a gratuity. The com- merce of San Francisco would grow enormously if a fleet of vessels were plying between here and the Pacific coast cities of all countries. Such a marine service would very soon make San Francisco to | the Pacific Coast and the Orient what New York is to the Atlantic Coast and Europe. The question of reciprocity treaties and an ample marine service is a business proposition that is based upon common. sense business principles. THE SUMMER SEASON. The time has come, when 1n accordance with the established custom of the fash- ionable world, society plumes itself and makes ready for a flight from town to country. A thousand fair localities by the | seashore or in the mountains entice the dwellers of cities to leave the noise of busy streets and find a recreation in the fresh- ness and the peace of those sweet retreats that are near to nature's heart. Each of these fair scenes where summer dwells has some special charm of its own, | some beauty or delight peculiar to itself, | that wins votaries to its shrines of pleasure and joy despite all other allurements, Drawn by their varied and diverse attrac- tions society divides, disperses and scatters far and wide. All the groups snd cliques | formed during the winter are broken up and their members widely separated. Those who have been meeting almost daily at clubs, receptions and in social visiting will soon be parted not to meet again for months and -never again under | the old conditions nor in the same combi- nations even when returning winter brings them home again. In this wide dispersion, however, there will be no forgetfulness of friends nor any lack of interest in their movements. Wher- ever any may go each will desire to know where the others are and in what scenes of enjoyment they are disporting them- selves. To supply this information will be one of the pleasant tasks of Tue OALL during the summer season. It will be a feature of the paper to carry to every reader not only that news of the day which may for distinction be called public, but also that’gossip of the movements and doings of California society which is ina certain sense private, since it concerns only the mdividuals themselves and is interest- ing only to their acquaintances. All who wish during the summer wan- derings to keep in touch with their friends without the fatigue of an extensive corre- spondence will find THE CALL invaluable to them. It will come tothem with a his nerve he has gone into the country to Fusticate agd blushea to find it fame, record of the coming and going guests, | the sayings and doings of all the summer resorts. All readers can learn from it where their friends are and what groups are gathered at any particular place in the mountains or by the sea. Whatever else may be taken along for the summer out- ing TuE CALL should always be includea. It will be needed every day. OIVILIZATION. Civilization and government are not necessarily synonymous. Bees, ants, beavers and many tribes of the animal kingdom maintain a government, and from the evidence we gather from their habits and customs it is severely auto- cratic. The form of government that is maintained by the lower tribes or commu- nities of the human family is an improve- ment upon that of the highest of animal tribes, but not conspicuously so in all cases. This difference obtains, however. The resentment that is shown in the animal when it feels that it is being op- pressed is wholly vicious, while the feel- ing of resentment in the lower human being has a thread of determination to have certain individual rights recognized. 1t is the broadening and strengthening of this thread that enables humanity to un- fold upon ethical and intellectual lines. It is held by some evolutionists that un- foldment buds into civilization when the human being feels he has personal rights which he must defend to the death, and that from the bnd onward civilization is comparative. The lowest form of civiliza- tion is under principles of government which make might the supreme law, but those principles yield to principles of right as humanity unfolds and civilization ad- vances in ratio to the recognition by hu- manity of the principles of justice and to the growth of inclination to make right the rule and guide of conduct. Greed, avarice and selfishness are tie predomi- nating characteristics of the animal; and man, though he revel in wealth and stands an intellectual giant, possesses the animal soul and heart in proportion as his nature is greedy, avaricious and selfish. The leaves of the bud do not open and stand apart in the deep shadow of the thicket. Ascompared with former periods the civ- ilization of the nineteentb century is like the bud grown into flowerhood, but, in fact, it is not the full flower. The inmost leaves and their fragrance are stili held for future unfoldment. Even the free and intelli- gent people of America still hold on to many of the methods, customs, suspicions, superstitions, and much of the intolerant spirit of the earlier noursof civilization. but as a whole the world is wiser, happier and better than in any former period; | still, do not let us forget while boasting of our high civilization that the people of the | fortieth century are likely to speak of us as the heathen of the niueteenth century, as we speak of the barbarians of the first | century. But we can boast that the world never before had so many institutions for caring for the poor and sick. There are more big-hearted philanthropists than ever be- fore, and never before in the history of the race did so many of the common people | own their own homes, and never before | was humanity on so nearly a political level. We have a higher and truer sense of the right than had our ancestors, but, | on the other hand, the responsibility that | rests upon the veople of the nineteenth century, with reference to theages to come, is far greater than had to be borne by the people of all previous stages of advance- ment. SUSPICIOUS TRANSACTIONS. In trying to prevent an investigation of the bond sales, the friends of the adminis- tration tacitly admit that probing might | put President Cleveland and Secretary | Carlisle in an awkard position. It is not understood that any irregularity is sus- pected in connection with the first issue which was made in 1894, It is the inside history of the Morgan syndicate’s pur- | chase of the issue of $62,000,000 thirty-year | 4 per cents at 104}, when they should have brought nearer their market value, which was abous 119}, that is particularly | asked for. Of course no one would expect that a large block of bonds could be sold at their retail price in tbe security market, | but certainly some explanation should be | forthcoming why as much as $15 per $100 bond should have been thrown off. It1s not seriously thought by many, if by any one, that either Cleveland or Car- lisle profited in a private or personal way by the sale, but there is reason to believe that because of their gross incapacity to | handle a business affair of such magni- | tude the Morgan-Rothschild syndicate pulled the wool over their eyes, so to speak. And most likely the syndicate threatened to organize a run upon the treasury gold if it was not allowed to make a profit of §10,000,000 from the trans- | action, which 1t did make. In view of the demaad of the public for more light on the transaction the admin- istration certainly puts itself in an atti- tude to invite suspicion of something akin to crookedness when it refuses to give up the secrets of the deal. Another thing which the President appears to think is none of the public’s business is the sale to Morgan of nearly $5,000,000 of the iast issue of bonds that subscribers failed to take at 1103{ when there were other bids onfilein the Treasury Department of 11434, It is unfortunate that the administration considers itself above respousibility to the people for its act, for it does our system of government no good to have the news go ! abroad that the conduct of the Nation's affairs and the administration of law has 10 basis of certainty higher than the cap- rice of Grover Cleveland. It is to be hoped that the Senate will make life a burden to | the occupant-of the White House until he reveals all the tricks, secrets and methoas connected with the Wail-street bond transactions. IDLE MONEY. Yesterday’'s New York bank statement shows that the money concerns of that center have a net surplus of nearly $22,000,- 000, which they would like very much to find employment for, but which nobody wants. The meaningof this enormous sum of loanablé money lying idle is that the business interests of the country do not care to launch out until all danger of Clevelandism being injected into 'the business situation is over. There are very many lines of trade and manufacture that will incresse their operations the moment they feel safe to do 50, but just now the almost certainty of another bond deal between the adminis- tration and Wall street and a run on the treasury’s gold meanwhile is creating con- ditions that do not invite the employ ment of new capital. Immediately after the St. Louis conven- tion 1s over the atmosphere in the business world will begin to clear itself of the black specks of doubt and Lesitation, and money will again seek the avenues of industry and commerce. But meanwhile let busi- ness concerns be preparing for the trade expansion that will follow the exit of the Democratic party, an event that is as sure to come as there is an election next | November. There may be some Americans who doubt the value of protection to this coun- try, but there are none among the British, THE “KING PIN” OF PASSENGER AGENTS. George H. Daniels, who is now on this coast, has been dubbed the “King Pin” of general passenger agents in the United States. He is the general passenger ageut of the great New York Central Railroad, with which such well-known capitalists as Chauncey M. Depew and the Vanderbilts are so intimately identified. Mr. Daniels is on a little tour of over 10,000 miles In his special car. His watchwords are: “Knowl- edge of the line,”” “industry,” “affability,” “promptness,” “honesty.” AROUND THE CORRIDORS. E. Jacobs, the millionaire of Visalia, is among the arrivals at the Occidental. He was once a general storekeeper, then a banker, and since 1876 has peen a farmer and stock-grower on & large scale. He raises no less than 9000 acres of grain alone each yesr, to say nothing of the alfalfa, grapes and froit. But besides all this he raises every year an enormous quantity of beef, pork and mutton. He considers Tulare County the best in Cali- fornia for stock-growing. “When I went to Visalia, thirty years ago,” he said yesterday, “I had to go in througha heavy forest of oak trees. Where Visalia now stands was all grown over with great oaks. It was & settlement made right in the timber. Visalia now has about 4300 inhabitants. There were precious few people there when I went and located among those oaks. “Ithink the grain crop of Tulare and that region of the State will be about oune-third of & crop. The first yield will be good. “Qur people are very much interesetd now in the Valley road. Itisthe topic thatisup- permost. Right-of-way men are going through there and they are given every encourage- ment. It is expected the road will be finished to Visalia some time next year. “In Kings County the greatest excite- ment is over the discoveries of petrolum made sometime since near Coalinga. Almost every mean you mee* has some vials of the oil with him. Itissomething like the early gold ex- citement. The oil is said to be quite extensive. Iam told that many Pennsylvauia oil men are on the ground. “I mided the first immigration enterprises in the Tulare district and have all along main- tained my interest in immigration. It has done a great deal for us. “We have such an abundance of water that we have a county remarkable for its steady products. Iconsider it the finest county for pork in the Stute and it is not surpassed for sheep and cattle. The fact is tinat it is hard to fina a county as good 1n every way as it is. “Inote that THE CALL has got & lot of new blood in it. It is & fine paper, is read with con- fidence and deserves the recognition of the public. There has certainly been & great change in it. It is read s great deal in Tulare County and everybody likes it.” Mr. Jacobs’ stay from this on will be very short. He has completed his business and is about ready to return home “HAIL TO THE CZAR!” “ Hail thou (by heaven elected) Czar to be™ Minions and armed myriads] bid thee «Hail!" What joy s thine since’twixt thy slaves and thee Range warlike ranks, like mountalns 'gainst a sea, Breaking the waves that else must overwhelm ! And bear'st thou not far oft the gathering gale Which, sweepiug o'er those mounts, ‘Lwere vain 10 flee— The storm of revolution 1n thy realm®— That realm whiere Lonest thought's jalled in the brain That gave it birth, and may not trust the tongue For fear of perils in the Czar's decree That bans free speech, free press—the weapons twain *Neath which shall tyrants sink their thrones among, While serfs ungyved praise God tnat they are free, CHARLES D. SOUTH. San Francisco, May 23, 1896. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. IN FAIRNESS TO DR. CAMPBELL. Impressions of a Visit to the Southern California Asylum. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIe: To my report of the case of Judge Huse against the Southérn California Insane Asylum, pub- lished by THE CALL some two weeks since, I desire to &dd the following reference to the medical director, Dr. Campbell, and the asy- lum: Although my testimony before the court was pointed in regard to the apparent animus toward Judge Huse in the unexplained deten- tion of both of his letters to me, Dr. Campbell ave me an urgent invitation to visit the asy- um as his guest and spend the night and the following day there, and I gladly accepted his courtesy on'the ground, s 1told him, thatI was always governed in all my relations in life by a fixed purpose to do no person or institu- tion or occupation or party any injustice and also because I was conscious of a prononnced hlu; against him and his management of the asylum. Accordingly I went there on Saturday even- ln', after the close of the trial, and remained till Sunday afterncon. In company with Dr. Campbell I went through the wards after 10 o'clock at night, including the sick wards, and noon on Sunday we bej econd visit to every wardin the asylum; and in the course of an hour I saw nearly every inmate (some 400 of them, males and females at of them \while they were at the table “dnfi- it noon meal, and among them my poor friend Huse, Wwho was seated at the table with his back toward me and was unconsclous of my pres- ence. 1 also attended thechapelservice at2 o'clock ». ., where about 300 were assembled, to whom I was introduced by Dr. Campbell an whom I addressed, in the absence of the clergy- man, for about ten minutes. It is not the place here to give an account of whatIsaw in Getail at the asylum, but it is my duty to make a generai statement in regard to the character of this great State institution as I found it, and of its officers and aitendants. 1 can find no fault with anything I saw, and I can give the warmest praise to Dr. Campbell as arare and wige man for the place—s place so full of perplexity and soexhaustive of patience and symoathy, which he so successfully fills. ¥or quietness, cleanliness, kindness and sym- petbetic attention, this insane asylum exceeds anything I deemed possible in such an institu- tion, while a thorough inspection of the f Piaced beiore the inmates, of the storerooms andof the kitchen in which the food is pre- pared, as well as of the laundry and the clothes on the inmates and on their amply justi- fies all the praise I have At this time—May 22—1 desire th foregoing reference to Dr. Campbell and the asylum that I hed an ?ptmnnn for 8 free and full conference with Judge Huse in the asylum, and entirely slone, during which I became fully satisied that at the present time he is not likely to_take jper care of himself if released from the uyg?m without a compe- tent, faithful and honest attendant when he is off his guard and his mind is not occupied with important business; though it is proba- ble that in time, away from all ations and influences of the asyium, to which he has been subject for so many years, he will recover eutire command of himself and shake off the eccentricities and habits now so noticeable in his couduct; but there can be no question whatever that he is clearly competent to at- tend to any businessor law matters which now Tequire his immediate attention. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, San Francisco. & PERSON Dr. J. Finegann of San Jose is in the oity. Ex-Governor L. A. Sheldon is at the Grand. Robert Smith of London is at the Occidental. The Rev. James W. Dolan of Boston s at the Grand. Dr. B. A. Knopf of Los Angeles is at the Palace. Robert Moore, a butcher of Healdsburg, is in the eity. T.J. Field, the banker ot Monterey, f1on a visit here. Captain W. H. Patterson of Portland is at the Grand. 4V. T. Smith, a business man of Elko, Nevada, isin town. L. B. Seymour, & business man of Petaluma, is at the Russ, - Matthew W. Blanchard of Santa Paula is vis- iting the City. J. W. Oatman of Sacramento is one of the re- cent arrivais here, William H. Redfern, a8 mine-owner of Weav- erville, 1s in the City. James Vivian, a business and mining man of Leadville, is at the Grand. M. J. Todd, a business man of Buftalo, is among the recent arrivals here. E. K. Stevenot of Nevada has decided to make his home in San Francisco. Robert Cameron Rogers, a wealthy business men of Buffalo, N, Y., is in the city, W. Richardson, a mill-owner and lumber manufacturer of Truckee, is at the Russ, H. G. W. Dinkelspiel has gone south on a business trip, accompanied by Mrs. Dinkel- spiel. Stephen V. Elliott of this City intends to take an extensive trip through Calaveras County, visiting Esmeralda, during the summer months. Louis Einstein, the wealthy resident of Fresno, who is interestea in banking, raisi: growing and other enterprises, is here on a business trip. T. W. Enos, the banker of Tacoma, and C. L. Heilig, manager of the Northwestern circuit of theaters, are at the Palace, having returned {rom a visit to Los Angeles. John H. May, who was for four years Prose- cuting Attorney of Chicago, is among the re- cent arrivals at the Lick. He is on his way to the City of Mexico and will remain there seve- ral weeks. Hon. J. J. Brice, United States Fish Commis- sioner, has determinea to establish a sub- hatchery on Eel River, near Sanhedrin Heights, and will send an agent to inspect the location socn. A. D. Bowen, formerly one of the owners of the Ventura Free Press, and for some time past until lately, interested in the Los Angeles Herald, was among yesterday's arrivals. He is at the Occidental. M. G. Tonini, the well-known Italian agent of the Union Pacific Railroad, has returned after & four months’ European visit. While abroad Mr. Tonini spent most of his time in Switzerland, Frauce, Italy and Austria. Colonel C. W. Griggs, principal owner in the St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Compary, Ta- coms, ana for a number of years a partner of President Jsmes J. Hill of the Great Northern Railroad in extensive railroad interests, is at the Palace, accompanied by his daughter. They have been visiting Southern California. Maurice O’Connell, the old-time and wealthy resident of Grass Valley, has been in the City for the past few days. Mr. O'Connell is in. terested in gold mining there, as well as busi- ness, and he speaks enthusiastically of the progress that is being made in the develop- ment of large bodies of ore. He has no doubt that Grass Valley is one of the best districts in California and believes that the town will much increase in activity verysoon. As it is, the district is thrifty. Mr. O'Connell left for home yesterday. 5 CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 28.—At the Grand Union—R. Hanford; St. Cloud—W. H. Wright; Everett— tton; Hoftman—M. Levy, L. S. Sherman; Warwick—Miss L. Royce; St. Denis —E. P. Slosson; Murray Hili~Mrs. Little, E. McCarthy. DO NOT GROW FROM THE SOIL. Chicago Post, The crait of man has tound food products which do not grow from the sotl, and science, no less than experiment, has approved their utility. Long ago the golden scepter of butter was wrested away by the mightier product of a factory, with which neither farm nor creamery could compete. Retorts yielded a culinary a1d that was better than lard. Scientific young men produced jellies fairer in appearance than that which came from natural fruit. In meat production the margin of profit nar- rowed with the narrowing “range.” As free pastures disappeared with the Territories to make room for the States the price of beef soared. Instantly thatfood product became the target of inventive attempt. The inevitable law of commerce was obeyed. Big profitsat. tracted big attempt and imitation meat fol- lowed imitation butter into the fleld—no, into the mart. For along time potatoes held a place pe- culiarly their own; but the maiu reason was that potatoes could still, three years in five, be chieaply produced. But the two uncertain years would come, und the rapid rise in price provoked attention. Experiment made short work of the potato. A thin, Water at the best, its combinin, matter, and farmers hung up the bought potatoes ut the factory—ready for n, and at a rate which” undercut their cheapest effort. Corn was more complex, but 1t surrendered. After all, what is it but & combination of chem- ical properties which could be found else- where? It was far less trouble to combine them in a substitute for maize than to find the light by which that substitute for maize might, on winter evenings, be inspected. Bread products were matter of habis and tra- dition. Give the race a food which answered all the requirements bread had supplied and the race was too intellectual to gecline it. Laboratories took the nlace of fallow land. FPestle and mortar were as resper and mill. The hand skilled at combiting and compound- ing wielded at once the executioner’s ax by which the head of the baker was sundered. A thing of steel, wiih handle bars and chain, elastic tread and lamps-by-night had pedaled buzzing pastthe horse, and a creature which had served man well for ninety cen- useless away. And with him elds which had maintained him, No need for osts since this better than horse did not eat them; nor of hay, since the ani- mal to which hay was one day a feast had rOWR 100 rare to eat it. and the ALONG THE SKIRMISH LINE. If President Cleveland wants to write some- thing that will be read let him write a letter declining & fourth nomination.—Minneapolis Journal. We are told that the country is drifting toward Reed for Vice-President. Think of the czar adorning the tail of a kite,—St. Louis Post- Dispatch. Noman has caused as much excitement by what he has said in American politics as Mc- Kinley is causing to-day by what he does not say.—Wichita Eagle. Major McKinley would like very much to offer the people who are clamoring for opin- ions on currency sometiing equally as good as tariff.—Washington Star. If McKinley’s record bothers nis enemies ss much after his nomination as before half of them will be in lunatic asylums before the November elections.—Chicago Inter Ocean. A careful perusal of Czar Reed’s manual on parliamentary tactics does not reveal any feasible pian for preventing the Ohio Bill from going through.—Chicago Tiwmes-Berald, Perhaps Mr. McKinley feels that he hasa right to remain silent on the financial ques- tion as long as Mr. Cleveland has nothing to say concerning the third term.—Washington Post. . There is still one vacant ,’'ace on the Na- tional Republican ticket. Dou'c all speak at once, gentlemen, but be sure you z0 early and thus avoid the rush.—New York Mail and Ex-’ press. The ticket of McKinley and Reed would arouse Republican enthusizsm as no other that has occurred to us would. Itwould be a great ticket—and how it would sweep the country!—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. “Old girl.” said Mr. Matthew Bagnet of Bleak House, *‘tell him my opinion.” The St. Louis convention is the old girl to whom Major McKinley has delegated the responsi- bility of declaring his senttments.—Boston Herald. 1f Joe Manley has been right in his count of the Reed delegates and General Grosyenor has been right in his count of the McKinley delegates the hall at St. Louts will be about half big enough to accommodate the conven- tion.—Chicago Record. It is provably true, as a New York paper claims, that McKinley represents the tarift iden of the “wild and woolly West.” That’s the reason the Western farmers, who haven’t looked & sheep in the face for four years, are all for McKinley. They want another woolly tariff.—Chicago Times-Herald. LADY'S WAIST WITHOUT FITTED LINING. Dresses of washable fabrics are made after very simple models, and, as in the one above, often without a lining. When the elegance of a silk lining is desired, combined with the pos- sibility of laundering the dress, a slip of colored silk or a plain-fitted walst and skirt of silk are worn, being made entirely separate. Wash silks also make up well after such a model. One of gray, with white stripes, ha white ribbon collar. The round yoke wi made of white guipure over white china silk, edged with a white ribbon lafd in folds. A white kid belt finished the waist. A daintier or cooler looking gown for midsummer it would be hard to find. A dress of striped batiste had & yoke of em- broidered batiste. The collar and belt were of turguoise-blue satin matching the stripe. A plaid batiste had a yoke of very open em- broidery on batiste. The collar and belt were of reseda green velvet, and a green silk under- waist was worn. Very simple dresses of dimity are seen. One, a rather light blue ground, with stripes and spots of black, had a frill of black lace around the yoke. This necessitates some work when laundering is necessary, but it is repaid by the stylishness of the combination. Black satin stock collar and ribbon belt with a bow and long ends worn at the back. A white dimity with exquisfte natural-look- ing violets strewn on its surface had a yoke of white embroidery. Violet-colored ribbons formed trimming. The waist is gathered both back and front to a round yoke. The sleeves are puffs over a fit- ted under sleeve. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. Miss Gushington—How did you feel when you found that the ship would surely go down in ten minutes? Captain Salted—I felt for a life-preserver.— Melbourne Times. They stood, hand fonaly clasped in hand, Beneath the front porch awning, And said “Good-night”" in accents bland Until it was good-morning. ~Detroit Free Press. “Now, Johnny, do you understand thor. oughly why I am going to whip you?” “Yes'm. ‘You're in bad humor this mornin’, an’ you've got to lick some one before you'll feel satisfied. "—Harlem Life. Passenger (on a branch line, to guard)—Say, why does the engine alw set up such a piteous howl at this particular spot? Guard—Ah, it was here the engine-driver first met his wife.—London Tit Bits, 01d Doctor—No, sir; I never have a patient die on my hands—never. Young Doctor—How do you manage it ? Old Doctor—When I find & man is going to die I get him to call a specialist.—Harlem Life, ‘‘You can’t keep a good man down,” said the proverb-loving boarder. *Not,” said the typewriter boarder, “unless he has a seat in the car. Then you can't get him up.’—Cincinnati Enquirer. ‘The new arrival stared aghast, ‘“What do mine eyes behold ? St. Peter, are those bicycles Upon the streets of gola 2 8t. Peter coughed. “Ahem! Bicycllng isno stat Y They wouldn’t come withous thelr wheels, And so—we let them in1" —New York Tribune, Getting Serious.—Johnnie's Ma—W! you home for so early? AN Johnnie—Teacher suspended me. Johnnie's Ma—What for ¢ Johnnie—'Cause I said the Sk s 5 00ter wheel was Johnnie’s Ma—But what's that KOL 1o o with yn;:; lnqnn‘:vion 3 nnie—Why, tencher's just hought Skooter.—Cleveland Plain Du:tr. . S— PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. “'::amlo::..pamr Willtam (s partfoularly fond of William Black, the novellst, was once » leader writer for the London News. The Pope has conteibuted £1000 fowrd the :o::muou of the new Westminster Cathe. I A. J. Baltour has u;\\ Ehakespenre aa an amateur, his roles being those of Romeo and Hamlet. Pederewski is so wearied after his long American tour that he has resolved to take complete rest. Longfellow sold his early poems for a song, but he lived to receive $4000 or $20 a line for “The Hanging of the Crane,” and when he died he was worth $350,000. The wife of Senator-elect Foraker of Ohioand her three daughters are enthusiasts on the bi- cycle. They will take their wheels with them to Washington when the Senator’s offieial term begins. Mrs. Olney, wife of the Secretary of State, is already weary of Washington life, and says she will be glad to return to her Massachusetts home at the expiration of her husband’s career in the Cabinet. Mme. Emma Nevada has had the misfortune to lose & diamond and pearl shell of great value at & soiree given in Paris by Mme, Laborde. The shell was presented to Mme. Nevada at her debut at the Opera Comique, and bore the touching inscription, *“Une Perle a Une Perle.” Gladstone, in & recent speech to a gathering of his neighbors, said: *“Iam aScotchman by blood; {am & Lancashireman by birth. Ism akind of Londoner by living so long there. I belong to most parts of the country, but my wile, as most of you know, is a good Welsh woman, and I think to a great extent has ine fected me.” At the booksellers’ dinner in London the other day, 8. R. Crockett told how he was re- cently introduced toa lady to whom his pro- fession was mentioned. ‘Mr. Crockett,” she saiG during the eventng, “I hear you are sn author. Have you published any of your works yet?” Mr. Crockett enjoyed telling the story, thougb it was at his own expense. Zangwill has raised a general laugh over London by reviewing Hardy’s ‘‘Jude, the Ob- scure,” and Meredith's “An Amazing Mar- riage” in one article and referring to “The Amazing Hady” and “Meredith, the Obscure.” Zangwill is very clever at these hits, It will be remembered it was he who referred to Trilby and Little Billie as the American Romeo and Juliet. | | | CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. Towneend's.” — BEST peanut taffy in the world. Townsend’s.* e S i Among the Kondeh people who live on Lake Nyassa, in Africa, the favorite form of suicide is to enter the water and allow one’s self to be devoured by a crocodile. —————— E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. * e e Scorpions are so numerous in Durango, Mexico, that there is a bounty of 60 cents (about half a crown) a hundred for them. The persons who are legalized to nunt them are authorized to enter and search private houses. L Dox'r forget big auction High Grade Bicycles, 844 Market, Monday, at 2 P. 3. J.T. Terry, ————————— MARK HopxINs Institute of Art organ re- citals Sunday afternoons. Otto Fleissner, or- ganist. - e A burglar has confessed that dogs inter- fere with housebreaking, but babies are, of all living creatures, most dreaded. No sooner does a burglar get inside a house than the infant wakes up, and that rouses at least one slumberer. T R e e SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * - ALL classes and conditions of society will be gratified to learn that Putzman & Schurman have the exclusive coast agency of the famous “Golden Gate” brand of Kentucky whisky. Their Prussian Stomach Bitters cure all stom- ach and nervous troubles. 341 Pine, corner Montgomery, telephone, red, 391. . ——————— Bismarck isonly a strong man by fits and starts now, and shows unmistakable signs of his age, though his mental facultfes are unim- paired. His worst foe is his neuralgia, and his hardest battle is to keep his daily number of Ppipes of tobacco down to & minimum. “THE OVERLAND LIMITED" Via Union Pacific. < 33, DAYS TO CHICAGO- 3 oNLy I8 PAYS 1O SEW YOk, Puliman double drawing-room sieepers and din- ing-cars, San Francisco to Chicago, daily without change. Composite buffet smoking and library cars between Salt Lake City, Ogden and Chicago. Upholstered Pallman tourist sleepers, San Fran- cisco to Chicago, daily without change, and per- sonaliy conducted tourist excursions to St Paal and Chicago every Friday. For 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, G The Nobles of the Mystic Shrine will meet at Cleveland, June 23 and 24. For this occasion the B. & O. &. R. Co. will ell tickets at reduced rates from all points on its lines west of the Ohiv River, for all trains of June 21 and 22, valid for return passage until June 26, The fare from Chicago will be $8 50 and corre- spondingly low rates from all other points. Tickets will also be on sale at all points throughout the West. The B. & O.1s the only line running Pullmsn Sleeping Cars between Chicago and Cleveland. For full information write to L. S. ALLEN, A. G.P. A, Grand Central Passenger Station, Chi- cago, Tl ———————— Stanford Excursien. Join our Stanford Excursion, which leaves San Francisco at 7 . . Thursday, the 28th inst., via Northern Pacific kallroad. Special cars, stopping at the Yellowstone Park. T. K. Stateler, General Agent, 638 Market sireet, San Francisco. e THE faghionable ladies’ corrective tonic is Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters, the renowned South American invigorator. ————————— Ir amicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp- son's Eye Water. Lrugsistssell it at 25 cents. —————— Watts—How much is Tedspat worth? Potts—Really, I don’t know. I did hear that. he brought $68 75 once when he was a dele- gate, but I don’t think he was really worth it. —Indianapolis Journal. e e NEW TO-DAY. i IG TEA HOUS SELLS China Ware —AT- MONEY-SAVING PRICES. Cups, Saucers and Plates, decorated, 7o each. < Decorated _Ditohers, Porcelain—1c, 20c, 25¢ each. B Cry:al Glass Berry Sets, per set, 250, 85c, Table Tamblers, per set, 200, 25¢, 30c. Decorated Dinner Seq, complete, 80 pieces, $465 and $3 25, Dacorated Toilet Set, complete, $1 65, Riehly Decorated Thin China Dinner Set ol 100 pieces, $15, AT ' (ireat American [mporting Tea Co. MONEY SAVING STORES: 146 Ninth st. '“: ton :lfl 'h‘ll‘d st. doeby st 208, Markae wi. earny » Yl ok st = 006 Sixteenth i‘u Second :m - 3259 Mission st. a2 Market st. (Headquarters), S. P, Washington st. 616 E. Twelfth st. 15T han Pabio ave: 91y Broadwa Oakiand 1358 Park st Alamada. 21 Montgomery ave. 833 Hayes st “There it is, in a Nutshel You noed an engine, we have one to sell; YOUTAK® N0 ChANCOS. hecause e guarantee Ihe HERCULES GAR AND GASOLINE EX- GINK, RuUns 8 steadlly as & steam en~ T, no englneer. Send for Price List fne; no da List to A RS o . talogie