The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 25, 1896, Page 6

~— THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 ¥ and Sundey CALL, one year, by mail... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail. 5.00 Daily snd Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sundsy CALL, one month, by mail 65 Bunday CALL, one year, by mail. 1.50 WEkKLY CaLL, ODe year, by mall.. 1.50 THE SUMMER MONTHS, Are you golng 10 the country on & vacation ? If 80, it is no treuble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it, Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone. Maln—188% EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone. Maln—~1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 580 Montgomery street, corner Clay: epen until 9:80 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. EW, corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open wnti] 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street; open until 9 o'clock. 118 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent MONDAY... ... MAY 25, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. To the extremist ¢on any issue all mod- eration is a straddle. 1f the unexpected happens Congress may do something this week. A divided Democracy is what Populism is counting on for a dividend. e The St. Louis Convention is a conundrum that can be answered only by itself. The next step for Republicans is to get ready for the ratification meetings. The most popular dissolving views at present are on the financial question. Democracy has no platform, no candi- date, no watchword and no band-wagon. It is said if Congress adjourns early Cleveland will call it back. He has a string on it. There 18 no longer any question of har- mony in the Republican partv, and the thing to be attended to now is organiza- tion. The Russell boom has got so far ahead of othersin the Democratic swim thata good many people have begun to call him Billy. Thne average Democrat doesn’t mind the humiliation of having to eat his Cleveland record, but what grinds him 1s that itis 80 tough. Three years’ experience with Democracy bas convinced the people that a party which cannot govern right has no right to govern. Cleveland may have thought that under the circumstances the best way to get a note on the third term to his party was to drop it in the dead letter office. - They do not call it **Greater New York™ in that city. but “Grander New York,” with a tone which implies that mere great- ness is the least of their ambitions. A bill bas been introduced into Con- gress to forbid excursion steamers from interfering with yacht races, and thus the Dunraven episode promises some good result after all. It has been discovered that the city pay- rolls of Chicago are frequently stuffed, thus showing what may be expected of a town where sausage-making is the pre- vailing industry. The transfer-check system is a circus for the Market-street Railway Company, but if the Supervisors pass the Dimond ordi- nance they will give the people a show that will even up things. Boies and Tillman are still sitting on the Democratic fence, but they are keep- ing a close watch on the Populist proces- sion, and nothing would please them better than to get a chance to lead it. Ifany American should be shot in Cuba the responsibility will rest with the ad- ministration that should long ago have acted in accordance with the voice of Con- gress and given Cuba peace and freedom. The announcement that the flying squadron is to be disbanded will cause nine men out of ten to wonder where and when they ever heard of that squadron be- fore, and what it was supposed to be flying from. Young men who are to cast their first Presidential vote this year should be among the earliest to join a Republican League Club so as to be in a position to study intelligently the whole course of the campaign from start to finish. Under a newly adopted sanitary ord- nance in New York any one who spits on the floor of a public building, a railway car or a ferry-boat, is liable to arrest and im- prisonment. 8o the average American citizen in that metropolis will have to travel around with a pocket cuspidor. The latest step in the way of civic reform in the East is a demand that all city pay- rolls shall be published monthly, giving a classified list of names, addresses and sal- aries or wages of all persons employed in each department. It is believed such a course would frighten payroll stuffers and save big money. LRy The absence at this stage of the cam- paign of any of those free-trade documents which were scattered about so plentifully in the last three Presidential elections is Iairly good proof that we are about to en- ter a new era in which the protective sys- tem will be accepted as the established policy of the country. Blowly across the continent has come a wailing voice, complaining that no one invited Congress to attend the unveiling of the Hancock monument, but, as it is known that Cleveland made the principal speech of the occasion, it is hardly neces- sary to say that it is not Congress that is doing the complaining. ——— 3 The lower house of the Massachusetts Legislature, by a vote of 88 to 84, appro- prieted $50,000 to erect an equestrian statue ' to General Butler, and thus the doughty id warrior is likely to geta true monu- fnenul revenge on the Boston aristocrats b to who thought be was not good enong! be recognized while alive. THE OLD CRY. The old cry of the Democratic party that under protection the wealth increase of the country goes to factory proprietors is being put in running order for the ap- proaching campaien. It is a device to play upon the credulity of people who al- low their party leaders to do their think- ing for them. It has done the party good service hitherto and doubtless will hold a good many in line in the coming struggle, and it is Lardly worth the while of any one to iry to eet them right. It isthe busiress and the duty of Republicans to demonstrate with facts, figures and expe- rience the fallacy of the charge that pro- tection enriches the few at the expense of the many, but it is not incumbent upon them to undertake to supply Democratic idiocy with common sense wherewith to apprehend so simple a proposition that it would be absolutely impossible for factory owners to absorb the wealth increase of the country. There is equal participation in it from the producer of the raw material to the retail merchant. That is to say, each factor in the process receives in pro- portion to his importance and investment. Itis true, however, as has been demon- strated over and over again, that under free trade the wealth increase of this coun- try goes by a very short route to the pock- ets of foreign factory owners. Our farm- ers know somewhat of the fallacy of Dem- ocratic economic theories by experience. In 1892 they exported breadstuffs amounting to $299,363,000, and last year they had hard work to sell $114,604,000 worth of their products to foreign con- sumers. But our farmers are not having all the deadly results of Democratie free trade. Under Clevelandism we are buying annually about $80,000,000 worth of mer- chandise from Brazil and we sell in the markets of that country about $15,000,000 worth of our goods and wares. Meanwhile England is selling Brazil about $47,000,000 worth of goods and buys about $5,000,000 worth, This leaves an annual trade bal- ance in favor of England of $42,000,000, which this country pays. > In view of these facts the stupidity of some of the rank and file of the Democratic party must be very dense, else the leaders would not so boldly deny the official figures of exports and imports under the administration of their own party. But no doubt they overestimate the credulity of even the most stupid of their followers, for the experience of wage-earners since the repeal of the protective laws has been largely 1n the line of job-hunting and en- forced 1dleness, with & painful scarcity of money to buy bread and meat. In other words, the Democratic party has been running an economic school the past three years and the people are very much better educated now than they were. Hunger and idleness have made their judgment dangerously keen for Democratic use, and no doubt they will right the wrongs that have been heaped upon others by Cleve- land’s free trade monstrosity SPANISH GENERALS. The generals of no nation in the world ever made such a record for stupidity, in- capacity and lying as the epauleted frauds who have commanded the Spanish troops in Cuba since early in the year 1395, The Spanish political year-book for 1595, which has recently been received in this country, gives the following authentic account of the number of soldiers the Madrid Govern- ment sent to Cuba last year to crush the rebellion: Troops in Cuba February 24, 189! First expedition from Spai, Second expedition. Third expedition. Fourth expedition.. Fifth expedition.. Sixth expeditio Eighth expedition . Ninth expedition. Troops at Porto }ico sent o Caba ry paid by Havana. 2 25 a0 1 infantry incorporated in the srmy.. ,000 unteers of Havana 2,000 Volunteers sent from Spain 3 2,500 Criminals pardoned and enlisted . 2,700 Ress es called out to replace the 000 N reserves called at the end of 1595. 8.000 Total men 172,295 In addition to these 172,295 soldiers from Spain Cuba has furnished, under compul- sion, of course, fully 50,000 for garrison duty in Havana and other cities. ‘This gives a grand total of 222,295 weil armed and well drilied soldiers, who, after fight- ing for fifteen months, find themselves huddled up in towns and cities for safety. Meanwhile, the rebels have captured and now hold all of every one of the six prov- inces of the island except the towns and cities, and no doubt they would hold those situated out of reach of the Spanish navy if it were to their interest to hold them. Bat the singular part of it all is the five corps which constitute the rebel forces do not number oyer 45,000 all told and most of them have been poorly armed until quite recently. Hitherto the Spanish gen- erals have referred to the insurgents as an army of invaders, but now that the rebel General Gomez has issued an order calling his “troops “The Republic’s Army of Occupation” General Weyler will probably work himself into a fit of long-range exasperation and shoot a batch of old men and women. However, Spain is hurrying to dispatch 40,000 more men to engage in putting down the rebel- lion, which will make the grana total sent against the 45,000 rebels mount up to 262,295, ‘When it is remembered that, according to Spanish reports, there has been a battle every day for nearly 400 days and that the rebels have invariably retreated after los- g about ten men to Spain’s two, one is disposed to ask whether the rebels have the power to reincarnate the next moment after death or whether General Weyler and bis officers do not know how to tell the truth. Anyway, if President Cleve- land does not hurry up and recognize the bellizerency of the Cubans the opportunity may slip him. They may not want it later on. HOPELESSLY DIVIDED. The Democratic party is hopelessly divided on the money question, and the report is that each fnction will appear in the Chicago Convention under the leader- ship of a kind of Jack the Ripper. Itis said, however, that the Cleveland wing or gold standardites are beginning to experi- ence about the same feeling that vertigo imparts to the human organism—dizziness and swimming in the head. It is hinted that Cleveland himseif is now perfectly willing that the other side shall have the organization, platform and- candidates if the convention will spare his administration the humiliation of being denounced for betraying the party. Mr. Cleveland knows his interpretation of the money plank.of the platform of 1892 was not only not warranted by the traditions of the party, but was diametrically opposed to the spirit and meaning of the plank as understood by the convention and that there is no escape for his reputation for unfair dealing except by covering it up in seeming forgetfulness by the coming con- vention. Boies, Bland and Altgeld, however, re- member the snubbing the administration bas given them, and now that things are surely coming their way they are not dis- posed to hold the hand of their Jack the Ripper. Itisfair to assume that the op- position to Cleveland’s administration is born of & sincere belief that he ana his co- adjutors delibesately and for a purpose de- parted from the rut in which the party has always traveled, and that the shades of Jefferson and Jackson would torment them were they to fail to administer a telling re- buke to the would-be aestroyer of the party. But anyway, there will be a big row, which will so weaken the Democracy that the business interests of the country will be so firmly rooted in Republican princi- ples of government that if it should ever again show strength it could do no more harm than any other ghost. CAUSE OF LUNAOY. Dr. L. Forbes Winslow, the eminent London neurologist, is out with a com- parative statement of the percentage of insane to the population in various coun- tries. He finds that France gives the low- est and Ireland the highest percentage, which is a great surprise. The people of France have been supposed to be degen- erating mentally and physically for sev- eral generations. The average Frenshman has the reputation of preferring a life which contemplates nights and days of high and riotous living, mostly in the di- rection of those things which bear heavi- est upon the nervous system; butif Dr. Winslow is right either the character of the French people is misunderstood or their habits are conducive to results quite the opposite of lunacy. 1t 15 no less a surprise to be told that the people of Ireland furnish a larger per- centage of insane than America, England or Scotlana, for as a race they are a happy, fun-making and fun-loving people. Itis an old saying that trouble must be great when an Irishman cannot throw it off at his heels, but Dr. Winglow says that 1 in 308 Irishmen and 1 in 747 Frenchmen “go daft.” For America his figures are 1 to 623, for Scotland 1 to 430 and England 1 to 400. These figures are remarkable in that they upset all neurological data on the subject and con- tradict the theory that licentious luxury and dissipation are conducive to lunacy. But the good doctor must be mistaken, just as he was in many of his statements before the Medico-Legal Society in New York last year. Puiting aside the exces- sive dissipation in America, the rush, whirl and excitement of our business life is a strain upon the mind and nerves such asno other people invite or indulge in, and yet Dr. Winslow says the quiet and fun-loving people of Ireland turn out more than twice the percentage of crazy folk. If the doctor knows what he is talk- ingabout, the way to keep out of the lu- natic asylum Is to limit one's excesses only to bhis physical and cash ability to keep in the whirl. If Dr. Winslow will tell how he arrived at his conclusions he may convince the world that he is right, but meanwhile people generally will keep on believing that “early to bed and esrly torise makes a man healthy and happy and wise.” COAST EXCHANGES, The Redlands Citrograph says that the ex- citement regarding the oil fields in San Tim- oteo and Reche canyons is not abating, but is on the increase, There isa huge rush to se- cure locations, and claims are being located in some cases & half & dozen times over. The canyons and sagebrush-covered hills bristle with location notices, some of them reported 10 be & mile or two off the land they are sup- posed tocover, That there is oil underlying the section referred to there is no doubt. Just how much will prove paying property remains yet to be proved. Santa Rosa bicyelists are now burning Coal- inga oil in their bicycle-lamps with satisiac- tory results. The Republican of the first-named city, having received a sample of refined coal- oil from Captain Frank Barrett's wells near Coalinga, observes that ‘‘the oil is brilliantly clear, has the odor of the best kerosene and burps with & bright flame and little smoke. The wells in the western part of this county are producing the finest grade of otl found on the Pacific Coast, if not the best in the United States. The prospect of practically uniimited quantities being found, and of such superior quality, means the development of a new and vast industry 1n this part of the State.’’ The Stockton Mail reports that Robert L. Ed- wards, former Public Administrator of San Joaquin County, has discovered an asbestos mine which he thinks will bring him a fortune belore long. Itis situated about fourteen miles east of Raymond. Bays the Mail: The fact that there was a deposit of asbestos there was first suggesied by the croppings of the ma- terial. Investigation soon convinced Edwards that there was a valuable deposit beneath the ground and he was not slow in locating. The ledge is one and a half feetat a depth ot twenty feet and after taking out about two tons of the valuable material he found no in- dication of any lessening of the ledge. A sbaft was run down et an angle of about forty-five degrees and showed the exceedingly fine char- acter of the ledge. According to the owner the material will bring about $75 & ton and as it is easily mined there will bean immense profitin the working of the mine if the supply is what it appears to be, The asbestos at the Edwards mine 1s not of the finest quality, but it is good enough for all purposes of packing, for which it is used about machinery. In spots it runs to a very high grade. Two big irrigation systems sre destined to work wonders in the extensive Salinas Valley. The San Lorenzo Creek main canal is nine miles long, twenty feet wide in the bottom end five feet deep, and has a capacity to irri- gate 250 acres every twelve hours. The Sa- linas River canal will be fourteen miles long, thirty feet wide on the bottom and five feet deep. With reference to the matter, the King City Settler says: Too much cannot be said of the advantages of irrigation with water from the Salinas River, as it carrles a fine sediment composed of gypsum and lime, which, distributed over the land, acis as & splendid fertilizer. With these two systems in operation, who can estimate the benefit that will accrue to this valley? Within six months 8500 acres of the richest and best land the sun ever shone on will be under irri- gation, every acre of which will grow all kinds of decidnous fruits, sugar brets, alfalta and cereals. Already the effect of irrigation is seen. Two hundred acres of orchard and 185 acres of sugar beets were planted on the San Lorenzo rancho alone, which is a small percentage of what will be planted the coming season. The Salinas Valley Orchard Company 1§ preparing to plant on a por- tion of the San Benito rancho 200 acres in winter apples, and will sced 135 acres Lo sugar beets this winter. . While no fault can be found with the railroad tariff on beets from King City to Watsonville, it being only 75 cents per ton, we should have a sugar factory where the beets are grown. With the large acreage under irrigation, the time is not far distant when we will have no: only s sugar factory, but canneries to preserve the fruits grown here. In calling attention to the fact that the vast sandy wasted'lying between the Colorado River and the coast are unprovided with means to give the traveler his bearings and direct him to the nearest water, the San Diego Union de- clares that the absence of sign-posts is a seri- ous drawback to prospecting on the desert. The paper in question suggests relative action in the premises by the interested counties: Many a man who would put money into & mine 1t he could see it for himselt declines to undergo the perils of & trip over the desert. Even good miners whose field has heretofore been in less dangerous regions shrink from prospecting over theunmarked sandy wastes. Still, desert mining will in foiure be one of the grectest sources of Southern Calfornia’s wealth. It would be won- derfally stimulated, hfwever, were the counties that are chiefly Interested to take uniied action to remove what is at present the great drawback to the industry. Four whales have been caught in Monterey Bay aiready this year and the Monterey New Erais led to remark that - whaling promises to become once more one of the leading indus- tries of the town,” A whale which will yield 450 gallons of oil was captured there last week and Captain Jose Pedro states that he expects :: excellent season. The New Era reports him us: He said that the most whales should be caught during the months of August, September, October, November and December, when they should be in prime condition, During these monibs. he ex- Plained, a good-sized whale should vie'd all the way from 500 to 2000 gallonsof oil. Spesking of Past experiences the veteran whaler (old of ove notable day, eight years ago, when four enormous whales were caught here in one day, the ol from Wwhich amounted to more than 7000 galions. Discussing the bad roads question in the light of a local campaign issue, the Los An- geles Times makes the pertinent suggestion: By way of & star.er in this matter how would it dothis fall to make canaidates for Supervisors take a castiron pledge o faver a comprehensive system of road improvement tbat will put an end to the present extravagant method of tinkering roads and give us the beginning of & firsi-class eystem of public highways? Our present metbed, or rather lack of method, of costructing roads is extravagant aud ridiculous, and would bave ex- clted the derision of those early road-builders 000 years or more ago, whose work still remains 1n &ood preservation cn the continent of Europe. The American idea of a country road appears to be to level off the soli and wherever there is ahole Toad that will last as it qoes to put up a building, yet it is taken for granted that the first man you meet on the street can bulld a road. Conse- quently It i3 no wonder that the roads of this country cost every five years almost as much as the courthouse, and then we have nothing to show for it. The Oakdale (Stanislaus County) Leader has opened its eighth yolume. A newspaper so faithful and 5o beneficial to the best interests of the community in which it is published de- Serves success, d it is gratifying to note that the Leader gives evidence of & good measure of prosperity. The Current Topics of Pasadens, recently pur- chased by W. 8. Gilmore, has been materially improved, and has its name changed to Town Talk. The new proprietor will endeavor to make an up-to-date paper of live local interest and devoid of plate matter. Contra Costa County now has eight news- pepers, the latest addition being the Danville Sentinel, published by W. C. Lewis, formerly of the Walnut Creek Sentinel. The Gilroy Gazette is sixteen years old, Itis &n excellent exponent of the advantages of the southern partof the famous Santa Clara Valley. «The Paso Robles Leader has just celebrated its tenth anniversary. The Leader has grown up with the town, and is an index of the pros- perity of Paso Robles. ‘The Riverside Refiez isan authority on Soutn- ern California agricultural matters, and its value seems to be appreciated in the liberal support accorded it. The paper is now in its ninth volume. J. H. Lindsey and Will D.Stevens have as. sumed control of the Placer Republican. They are bright, energetic young men, and they pro- pose to make their journal a strong heiper in the Republican cause during the coming cam- paign. The Biggs (Butte County) Notes appears this week in a fine new dressand enlarged form. The editor, Frank F, Carnduff, intends that at all times the Biggs Notes shall be fresh, “full of vim, vinegar and enterprise.” That attractive little newspaper, the Gilroy Telegram, having passed its third year, its editor, R. G. Einfelt, rises to remark: “With hope for continued support and encourage- ment we launch forth for another mile-post with brave hearts and renewed industry.” The rapid progress which Porterville, Tulare County, is making is shown by the fact that the Advance, which weekly did so much to forward the interes of the community, has become a daily. The Santa Ane Herald has branched out as a deily. Messrs, Shaw & Wallace, the publish- ers, declare their aim to furnish a daily that will be esteemed and patronized for its busi- ness worth. To correct an impression that the Herald is simply & campaign enterprise the editors make this statement: “The paper is here to stay, and we hope and expect it may live to fight many a campaign through in the ranks of America’s grandest volitical organi- zation—the Republican party.” The Cycling World, & semi-monthly maga- zine, elegantly printed on sized paper, has made itsadvent in San Jose. I P. Mill editorand A, C. Eaton the business manager. The initial number contains, as & frontispiece, a photogravure of Miss Lillian Rea, Queen of the Sauta Clara County Carmival of Roses. The publication is not the organ of any club, and willdepend upon the entire cycling fra. ternity of California for support and encour- agement. All branches of the cycling sport are promised equal attention. PERSONAL. F. Harris of Shanghai, China, is here. ‘William Pigott of Seattle is in the City. Dr. A. 8. Hudson of Stockton is in the City. R. K. Shelton of Arizouna is on & visit here, Dr. C. Grattan of Stockton is here for a short stay. F. C. Lusk, the attorney, of Chico, is at the Palace. Louis Bpeldge, & business man of Shanghai, is in town. J. Lowengast, 8 merchant of Portland, is at the Palace. N. Johnson of Los Angeles is a guestat the Cosmopolitan. Ex-Judge Charles T. Lamberson of Visalia is paying a visit here. Charles King, the extensive grain-grower of Hanford, is in town. C. E. Rhoades and wife of Portland, Or., are at the Cosmopolitan. L. J. Maddox, who has long practiced law at Modesto, is at the Grand. W. W. Wright, one of the early residents of Los Banos, is in the City. D. Alexander, a business man of Watson- ville, is at the Occidental. C. 8. Yates, a prominent insurance men of Los Angeles, {5 at the Lick, James Lengshore Jr. of Sacramento is regis- tered at the Cosmopolitan. Amos H. Richardson of Boston was one oy the arrivals here yesterday. W. H. Hatton, the attorney, of Modesto, ar- rived in the City yesterday. Among the arrivals here yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. 8. H. Dunbar of Ceylon. W. J. Dwyer, & merchant mining man of D AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Agent J. B, Crowley just before sailing on the Homer a day or two ago for the rookeries, “I would killall the seals on the Pribyloff Islands. We would then see 8 scattering of the seventy- five or hundred schooners that have been for the last several scasons regularly poaching on the possessions of the Government. “The schooners would then have to go out of the business and into some other occupation. We have tried everything else up to date and none of the plans work to keep the poaching vessels off the sealing territory. “It is true we capture some of them once in a while, but there are always plenty more to carry on the work. They have harassed us, “metropolitan’” newspapers of Democratic and Mugwump persuasion in New York.—Cleve- land News and Herald. Mr. Tillman’s declaration that he cannot remain in the Democratic party and cannot go to the Populist party is causing the Prohibi- tionists some uneasiness.—Kansas City Journal. Mr, Aldrich is authority for the statement that Speaker Reed is not cut of the Presiden- tial rece. It Mr, Aldrich wishes his statement credited he would do well to secure the services of a notary public and make an afidavit.—Chi- cago News. The Democratic candidate for President will have to be a straight-oui gold advocate or a straight-out free silveras well asgold advocate. Special Treasury Agent J. B. Crowley, Who Wants All the Seals of the Pribylo ff Islands Killed and the Business Wound Up. [Sketched from life by a * Call " artist.] embarrassed us and put the Government to lots of cost. “As they won't desist, after being treated as considerately as it is possible for a Government to treat interlopers, I think we would do well to kill the seals at once , harvest the skins and shut up shop. “In this case the skins woula be ours, for we would have them in our clutches all solid and tight. Nobody else could get them. As it is now our property wanders around in the water and finally goes to the rookeries to breed the young. “On their way there and back they have to run the gantlet of the guns of the piratical hunters. These hunters swaym around in the neighborhood of the rookeries. Sometimes they come close up, but not even the officials on the islands can always be aware of this, for the fog often setties down heavily there. It is 8o thick that you can’t see twenty feet before you. ““You understand, therefore, something of the difficulties we have to contend with on the sealislands. The Government oughtto kill its seals, stop the expense and force the piratical schooners out of business. In -apout ten years there would be some more seals, the result of the accumulated increase of the few that had escaped death. “Then we conld go to work and take care ot them and do what we have been trying to do for ten years or more past.” WHERE THE POLITICIAN IS AT REST At the county seat of Cherry, Where the rolling Nlobrara Glves to all the scene a very ¥ine, enchanting, gorgeots 0ok, Not a single man IS seeking For an office worth the speaking, ‘While some other are squeaking Clear from Louglas to McCook. Almost every other section Has an eye in this direction, Men who wait the fall election Now in feveris! There's & mighty Among the rural population Ot good people gecking station Of reward and consequence. Politicians now as fying ’Round the State, each fellow trying, . By close, lyal-&’m ic lying, As it were, o kick the goal; ‘The persimmon is a treasure They will look upon with pleasure Waich will fall in o the measure Of the one wiLh longest pole. Cherry County In this action Is not driveu 1o alstraction, But with quiet satistaction Views the conflict right along; Her great people do not rattle All about In this old batule: They are raisiug corn and cattle ADd thelr pockel-books are strong. ‘When old age my system shatters, And my clothing s in tatters And I've squared my earthiy matters For a journey to the Styx,’ Let my people kindly bury Me beside the Niobrara, Bpokane, was among yesterday's arrivals. F. H. Sisson, a hotel proprietor of James- town, Tuolumne County, is among the arrivals at the Grand. J. Ferguson, a wealthy resident of Rock- hampton, Australis, is at the Palace, accompa- nied by several friends. F.P. Nye, a general goods dealer of Arcata, was one of the arrivals from Humboldt Bay by yesterday’s steamer. Among the latest arrivals at the Cosmopol- itan is James Gallagher, the newly elected president of the Y. M. L. J. W. Henderson, the pioneer banker of Humboldt County, who is interested in timber lands and various industries of Eureks and vielnity, is at the Lick. Among the latest arrivals at the Cosmopoli- tan Hotel are the Rey. J. F. Findley of Indian- apolis, Ind., and H. L. Tubbs of Chicago, the latter connected with the Missouri Pacific Railroad, ‘W. T. Blake, the newspaper man of Stockton, who as city editor of the Independent while onavisit here over a year ago was shot on New Montgomery street by a footpad, arrived here yesterday. He isat the Grand. W. V. Powell of Peoria, IlL, grand chief of the Order of Railway Telegraphers, and George Daniel, grand secretary, are at Baldwin. They are inspecting the various lodges of the coast. Mr. Daniel is connected with the staff of the Atlanta Constitution. —_— ————— The Wave made its appearance last week in a new and very attractive form. The issue is brightened by the addition of numerous half-tone illustrations, showing the McKinley family and tne various inci- dents of the recent trial trip of the Oregon. The literary departments of the Wave are up to the usual high standard, and are tt:pl:menhly improved by timely illustra- 101 Near the county seat of Cherry, Where they @ave no politix. —Nebraska State Journal. ALONG THE SKIRMISH LINE. By this time next month we shall be just about knowing whether General Grosvenor's figures are right or not,—New Haven Palla- dium. Otbers may verbally fight about how McKin- ley stands on the money question, but he's having no words over it bimself.—Philadel- phia Times. All the silver chinchbugs and straddlebugs will suddenly turn into tumbiebugs when the McKinley wagon reaches St. Louis.—Chicago Times-Herald. In the sort of opposition that now is shown to Mr. McKinley there is for him only strength. His friends grow in numbers. His support in- creases in might.~New York Press. The only danger to Mr. McKinley and his boomers lies in the possibility of a revulsion of public sentiment. We have it on good Repub- lican authority that the people cannot be fooled all the time.—Philadelphia Record. All the delegates to the St Louis convention have been elected. Tae forecasters from now on must leave off figuring with dummies and base their calculations on the expected action of men whose identities are known.—Omaha Bee. Whether Mr. Reed succeeds at St. Louis or is defeated, he will have the sotisfaction of hav- ing maintsined throughout the canvassa sin- gularly dignified attitude and having refused 1;' stoop in the least to conquer.—Portland ess. Major McKinley ought to be able to strike a pretty good bargain with the paper rag man for the purchase of the varied assortment of questions that have been sent to him by the An equivocal record on this question will dis pose of any man’s chances at Chicago.—Evans- ville Courier. McKinley has never assumed to be greater or wiser than the Republiean National platforms, and he is not the sort of man to be forced into an attempt Lo forestall the statement of prinei- ples to be adopted by the party in St. Louis next month.—Globe Demacrat. The false pretense of having assurances that McKinley is “all right” on silver, that he is for “sound money,” no longer helps the case of the New York supporters of the Ohio man. He is not all right; Le is not sound. His rec- ord proves it.—New York Times. With McKinley as a candidate the tariff issue will be as live as it has ever been, and McKin- ley’s nomination at St. Louis seems assured. But the Democrats are wrangling among them- selves over the currency issue, seemingly for- allhe answered was that he knew my former husband. The man must be an idiot. ! Mrs. Hyde Park—Why so? Mrs. Lake Front—I've had four former hus. bands.—Cleveland P! Boston mamma—Suppose you have four bunches of grapes, Willie, and eat three, then what would you have? Boston boy—Appendicitis?>—Up to Date. Marks—Yes, thal boy. of mine is bright enough in his studies, with the only exception of his spelling. He can’t spell two consecutive words correctly. Parks—Oh, well, you can make a typewriter or sign-painter of him. There isaliving in either business.—Indianapolis Journal. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. From the estate of the late D. T. Mills of Boston the Museum of Fine Arts of that city will receive nearly $750,000 upon the demise of his immediate heirs. It is possible for the trustees to anticipate the bequest in auy one of several ways. Viscount de Santa Thyrso, the new Minister from Portugal to the United States, is only 32 years old, a young man to OCCUpY §O promi- nent & place. He belongs to & wealthy and aristocratic family, and was created a Viscount a few years ago because of services in connec- tion with his diplomatic work. Armond and Raymond Forest, the two foster children of Baron and Baroness de Hirsch, are Tespectively 18 and 16 years old. They are both Protestants, and were not legally adopted, it is said, owing to some technical difficulty, but the Baron and Baroness regard them as their own children. They will, of course, ine herit a large amount of money. Mrs, Daniel P. Woodbury, who died at Middlesborough, Ky., last week, was the daughter of the late General Thomas Childs of the United States army, a hero of the Mexican War, who also fought in the Indian wars in Florids. Her husband, General Woodbury, was a prominent ofiicer of the engineer corps of the United States army. There is at least one successful Irishman in Spain. He was William Murphy when he left the Emerald Isle, but is now His Excellency the Count di Morphi, privaie secretary to the Queen Regent of Spain and Chamberlain to King Alfonso XIII. He is a grandee of the first class; he is known as & musicai composer, and has published a sonata and several minor pieces. . Several of the Czar’s Cabinet officers are self- made men. The Minister of Finance, for ex- ample, started lifc as a clerk in a railway sta~ tion at a sulary of $18 a month, and Prince Helkoff, who is Minister of Ways and has charge of all the imperial railroads, served an apprenticeship in & machine-shop. At\one time he worked at boiler-waking in Phila- delphia. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢c 1b. Townsend's.* ———————— SoFT chewing molasses lumps.” Townsend’s.” - Dox'T forget big auction High Grade Bicycles, 844 Market, this day, at 2 p. . J. T. Terry. 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Steamship tickets on sale to and from all parts of Europe. D. W. HITCHCOCK, General Agent. ONLY R s i Stanford Exeursion. Join our Stantora Excursion, which leaves San Francisco at 7 P. . Thursday, the 28th inst., via Northern Pacific Kailroad. Special cars, stopping st the Yellowstone Park. T. K. Stateler, General Agent, 638 Market street, San Francisco. prid foateiiat, “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup'’ Has been used over 50 years by millions of mothery for their children while Teething with perfect suc- cess. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and getful that there was ever a McKinley tariff.— Nashville Banner. The Chicago Inter Ocean says McKinley is a bimetallist and the Chicago Times-Herald says he is for gold. The editor of the Inter Ocean is a delegate to St. Louis and the editor of the Times-Herald is one of the Ohio candidate’s most intimate friends. You pay your money and take your choice.—Washington Post. 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A green mohair gown had the puffs of mo- hair, the lawn sleeves and a round yoke on the waist being of embroidered batisté over a vio- let silk lining. — CURRENT HUMOR. When & girl's pocketbook looks fat and bulky you can bet she has ner handkerchief in it.— Atchison Globe. Passenger—That young lady over in the cor- ner is very fair? Conductor—She? Why, she ain't no fare at all! Shelsa director's daughter, riding on a pass.—The Waterbury. Nor “Ros: claim: Plaln “Sarah” is my heart-beloved’s name; And when with song I woo the modest maid she coyly asks, “Is that & ‘Sarahenade? » Clucinpati Enquirer. The hostess hunted up the host and whis. pered to him snxiously: ‘‘The reception’s a dead failure. Everybody is sitting as mute as a statue. Nobody is talk- ing to anybody else.” ‘What do you suggest?” he asked in reply. “Shall we get some one to play the piano, or shall we start & few games of whist?''—Detroit Free Press. Mrs. Lake Front—I know I've met that Mr. Jaybird somewhere before. 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