The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 29, 1896, Page 6

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dafly and Sunday CALL, one weck, by carrier..$0.15 Daily end Sunday CALL, one year, by mall..... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALY, six months, by mail. 3.00 Daily and Sunday Caxvi, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, oue month, by mail. .65 Bunday CALL, one year, by mail. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, Ohe yesr, by mail THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyon going to the country on & vacation ? If 0, it 18 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do pot let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier of left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market sm:;, . San Francisco, California. Telephone... . Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. ... Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 3 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open untll 9:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street; open nntil o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open wntil § o'dlock. 2518 Mission street: open untll 9 o'clock. 118 Ninth street; open until 9 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. Telephone... FRIDAY MAY 29, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e ] The whole world seems to be a death center, So long as justice is mocked at there will be crime. ey The roaring cyclone is a calamity howler of the worst kind. Murder is becoming a little too common even for sensational purposes, —_— The disasters of the season are appall- ing, but the crimes are more terrible. With all our public teaching we shounld teach the criminal to respect the majesty of law. Crimes, cyclones and disasters are mak- ing mystery stories seem very tame reading. It may be true we are approaching the millennium, but we seem to be going the other,way. ‘We are sorry for the people of the windy States, but all the same they ought to come West. A climate that breeds a cyclone every week would seem to be a very good climate to get away from. St. Louis boasted that everything is coming her way this year, but she did not count or the cyclones. After the news of the last three days vven a Cleveland message would be & relief as a change of subject. ‘Why call it the “carnival” of the Golden Gate when festival is just as fine a word and fits the occasion better? It is about time to revive the expression “carmagnole of crime” and relieve the strain on the over-used carnival, It is about time to remember that courts were established for the protection of the innocent and not the aecquittal of the guilty. The next time Chicago brags of her big fire St. Lonis will tell her of a wind that could have blown it out like a tallow candle. There will be no need of & schoolteacher after this to teach Victoria there is such a thing as too much economy in bridge building, Between the administration and the people there is great difference of opinion as to what is meant by “offensive parti- sanship.” No enterprising journalist ever thinks it worth while to ask a Democratic Pres:- dentjal candidate what his position is on any subject. Itishard to believe just at this season that this is the best of all possible ‘worlds, but all the same no one now living has ever seen a better one, It goes without saying if the stricken districts need help to care for their suffer- ing people, San Francisco can be counted on to respond promptly. Half the Democratic organs which are making so much clamor over McKinley's views on the financial question could not explain their own if they tried. 5 Democratic sentiment at Washington is said to favor Russell of Massachusetts, and it may be inferred from this that the administration hoodoo is about to fall on him, The East can never check the disasters of windstorms, but our recent calamities have been murders, and there ought to be a way of getting a string on the cause of them that would shut it off. There is nothing of Democracy visible in this City just now but the Federal bri- gade and the Buckley gang, and if there is anything of it invisible it must be up the sleeve of one side or the cther. Maryland Democrats have about aban- doned all thought of defeating the Repub- licans of the State in this campaign, but the more independent among them have great hopes of being able to turn Gorman down again. The best way to assure party harmony during the campaign is to organize at once. When men are working together for a common purpose they soon learn to agree upon a plan to earry it out, but when they are not working they are very apt to de- velop differences of opinion and begin dis- puting. Senator Brice is quoted as saying that while there may be a majority of silver men in the Chicago convention there will be mno silver plank in the platform. The Senator evidently believes that in the hand of the statesman who is truly great the gold dollar is mightier than the dele- gate, g Haying put all his henchmen into office and being now about to go out of oifice himseif, Cleveland’s recent civil service order was about the biggest bunko game ever pluyed upcn the American peopie. The issue of such an order was in fact “offensive partisanship’’ of the worst kind. 1t was an effort to thwart the popular de- mand “turn the fools out.” 1.50 ! SOCIETY AND CRIME. A study of the criminal statistics of Eu- rope led Buckle to assert that the law of crime was as regular in its operations as any other in tLe domain of sociology. A given environment produces in a given rice of people a number of crimes every year that fluctuates hardly more than the death rate. It seems evident from this that crime is not the freak of irresponsible individuals so much as the outcome of social conditions. Where it occurs fre- quently there is something wrong in the community as a whole as well as in the criminal class. It is time for the people of California to give serious consideration to this philo- sophic view of crime. There has been enough of horror of recent occurrence in this State and particularly in this City to force the subject upon the attention of even the thost- indifferent. Murder after murder has occurred with an appalling frequency. It has fallen upon the inno- cent under the most diverse circumstances and in the extremes of social conditions. ! One day the victim is tbe degraded in- mate of a brothel and another day she isa woman of gentle breeding and high char- acter. One day murder slinks through the slums of the City and on another it rages through the orchards of smiling valleys. ‘What is the cause of this fearful record of frequent crime? Are we to attribute it to the madness of men raging with a i homicidal mania—a thing that can be checked only by the interposition of heaven—or are we to regard it as the dire outcome of certain defects in our social organism which we can cure ourselves if we are resolute to do it? There can be no question in the minds of serious men that much of the crime that occurs in this State is the direct re- sult of evils which as a community we deliberately tolerate. The processes of our criminal law are slow, and are by no means certain in their results. Juries with us are too often swayed by sentiment rather than by justice. A thousand tech- nicalities of precedent and practice check the execytion of law, and justice, with the best intentions in the world to draw her sword for the protection of the-innocent, finds her hands bound by euch endless bands of red tape that she is as powerless as if under a hypnotic spell. ‘With such calendars of crime as are now before them the law officers of the State should need no urging to enter upon the work of vindicating justice with an ex- alted ardor. District Attorneys and Judges should set aside civil business and press criminal cases to an immediate hear- ing. The law must be swift if it would be terrible. It should not be vindictive, but it should be free from false sentiment. It should “‘allow no guilty man to escape.” It should hold every murderer responsible for his crime and summon him to imme- diate trial. There may be some insanity in every wanton criminal, but thete is more in a community that allows crime to go unwhipt of justice. OUR STORM-SWEPT NEIGHBORS. This is no time 10 attempt to trace from effect to cause in search of purpose nor to speculate on sucn operation of natural law as changes with blunt abruptness air cur- rents that bear to man peace and health and joy into merciless life-destroying agencies. It is enough to know that storm-swept communities of our kinsmen in St. Louis and elsewhere in the East are crying out in their distress for sympathy, and in streams as broad and as deep us human affection sympathy goes ont to them from the heart of every Californian— to these victims of angry winds and waves and flames. May has been 2 month of dire disaster, end many are the neighborhoods, urban ana suburban, that have been forced to submit to the fury o! unbridled storm, and death and wreck and rauin have reigned supreme—not because a power higher than they decreed that it so be, nor that the vengeance of nature was invited. The mysteries of nature are in the realm of the unknown and no man by searching shall find them ont. The purposes of the Eternal Mind are all for good and what- ever is is. The rushing of the mighty winds that sweep away the handiwork of man aad the gentle atmosphere that fans the infant's cheek are one, as the fury of the rushing torrent and the mildness of the moss-en- circled spring are, and so also are the breeze that bears away the sweet perfume of the orange blossora and the mad-riding tornado one. They are all manifestations of one supreme force and they all work to- gether for good. 1t has been said that but for those things which crush and destroy and kill there would be no human sympathy; that trib- ulation is the cord which binds man to man in good will, and that a sense of the need of the help of our fellows is the seed of the tree of righteousness which in turn bears the fruit that is called the Golden Rule. But we do know that in the economy of na- ture’s ultimate purpose our neighbors be- yond the mountains lie bound in the gloom of bereavement. Let us without the asking extend to them our deepest sympathy and our best wishes—and our strong arm, too, with ready help if they need it. SOME IMPORTANT TFACTS. TUndoubtedly it is of great importance to the Western wool-producing States that silver be remonetized, but they should not lose sight of the importance of restoring their sheep industry to the position it oc- cupied prior to the substitution of the Wil- son act for the tariff law of 1890. There are so many large and commanding indus- tries in the United States that it is hard for the public to keep sufficiently in touch with them all to note the injuries that are inflicted upon those that are removed be- yond the more prominent highways of ob- servation, so to speak; but it is true, never- theless, that the havoc Cleveland’s free- trade policy “has wrought among those outlying sources of National wealth has not only been great, but it bas, silently it may be, woven threads of inherent weak- ness all through the entire industrial fab- ric of the country. ‘When President Harrison vacated the White House to make room for Grover Cleveland, the sheep industry of Montana, Idaho, Washington, Utah and Oregon was valued at $13,000,000, and before the ex- piration of the following twelve months it had decreased to less than $7,000,000. To this loss of nearly a half in sheep valne must be added $3,000,000 represent- ing the depreciation in the value of wooi, making the grand total of the losses forced upon the wool industry of the five States mentioned mount up to the enormous sum of $10,000,000 in & single year. It will be seen, hence, that those five wool-producing States have quite as much interest in the tariff ques- tion as they have in the question of the remonetization of silver, and what is true of them is equally true of the entire coun- try between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean, The sheep inaustry is nec- essarily an isolated one, but it is none the less important, and every person who uses ‘woolan goods is at least indirectly inter- ested in it. But if we turn to the statistics we shall find that when Grover Cleveland was in- augurated, on March 4, 1893, there were nearly 48,000,000 sheep scattered over the United States, representing $126,000,000, and that on December 31, 1895, there were about 42,000,000, valued at only $66,000,000. In two years, therefore, the sheep industry was compelled to sustain a loss of over 5,000,000 head of sheep and a loss in sheep value of over $60,000,000, besides the loss which the depreciation in wool value chliged. In this connection it is timely to mention the surprising as well as alarming fact that the depreciation in livestock value in the whole country in the vears 1893, 1894 and 1895 amounted to the almost fabulous sum of $664,000,000. How, much other industries have lost since March, 1893, no one can tell, but to say that Cleveland has been and is still a most destructive eyclone in the channels, high- ways and by-paths of the commerce and industries of this country would not be putting it a whit too strong. CONTRASTED REPORTS. The reports of the great disaster at St. Louis afforded another illustration of the superiority of the United Press as a news- gatherer over the rival Associated Press., The dispatches of the United Press were displayed on the bulletin boards of Tux CarLfully an hour earlier than our con- temporaries showed those of the Asso- ciated Press, and moreover those of IT'HE CArr were much more full and complete. Promptness of service and fullness of report were not, however, the only points of superiority in the United Press service. Its reports were accurate, while those of the Associated Press were full of sensa- tional misstatements and errors of fact. They announced among other fakes that several towns had been wiped out of ex- istence, that the steamer Great Republic with about 1000 passengers had been sunk and that a cigarette factory had been destroyed, overwhelming 200 girls in the ruins. The damage done was bad enough without all of these rumored horrors piled on top of it, as was seen in accurate reports sent by the United Press to THE CaLL, and the incident is an evi- dence of the yalue to the community of having at least one morning paper whose news can be relied on. HYPOCRITICAL REFORM. The full text of Cleveland’s recent civil service order shows it to be much stronger and more sweeping than was supposed from the digest sent by telegraph. It will affect nearly the whole Federal brigade in this City and go far to confirm in office the whole horde of Democrats whom Cleve- land has been gathering into his camp during the past three years. Never has a greater bunko game been played under the garh of hypocrisy in the whole course of politics than this. For three years Cleveland has been President | of the United States, and be is now ap- proaching the close of his term of office, with no chance of ever having another. He made no move to extend the civil-sery- ice rules when such exteasion would have put any restrictions on his use of patron- age to advance his interests or those of his friends. On the contrary he used the in- fluence of patronage to an extent unheard of before. 1t has been one of the great scandals of his administration that he so used it to carry through Congress the re- peal of the silver purchase act. This patronage broker now becomes all at once a civil seryice reformer. His henchmen are safely in office, and with a smirk of hypocrisy he assumes now to play the role of one who wishes to free our politics of the “spoils” system. Such an order coming at sucha time from such a man has of course moved the people to derision and disgrst. There is not an intelligent man 1n the country who has been deceived by it. The motive of Cleveland has, in fact, been too plain for any one to make a mistake. He has turned the whole civil service of the coun- try into a bureau for the propagation of Clevelandism ana the gold standard. He has his bosses and his gangs at this time trying to capture the Demo- cratic State conventions for the gold ring, and yet he has the impudence to pose as a reformer. Such civil service regulation as this proposes can bardly be esteemed any- thing else than “offensive partisanship” itself, and should be treated assuch. The duty of the people is to turp the fools out. —_— CHANG AND CLEVELAND. 1In one respect there is a great similarity between Li Hung Chang and Grover Cleve- land. When en route to Moscow Chang leit his coffin in London. When Chang goes off ona long journey he takes his coffin with him, because, no doubt, it would be “handy to havein the house,’” as Mrs. Toodles would say. Thereis a good deal of politics mixed up in Chang’s jour- neyings, and political as physical death is likely to occur at almost any time. Cleveland’s political coffin is under con- struction and will be escorted to Chicago by Boies and Bland in July. Unlike Chang, however, who has had no intimation that he will need his coffin in the near future, Cleveland knows exactly the day on which he will need his box. . But in any event Cleveland will bave the aavantage of Chang. He will have the satisfaction of seeirg his party similarly cared for. He knows, too, that the estate of the Democratic party will be divided up—the real valuable belongings going to the Republican party and the pinchbeck jewelry and Pittsburg diamonds going to Boies and Bland, who will probably sell them to the Populists. How things do sometimes come out even and balance themselves. This is the Democratic party’s centennial, and now that human slavery in the United States is *‘done gone,” and the brains and the brawn of the country are advocating pro- tection to our industries, political coffins should be in demand. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. Bobby—Say, mamma, was the baby sent down from heaven? % Mamma—Why, yes, Bobby—Um. They likes to have it quiet up there, don’t they?—Truth. Miss Fright—Now, then, I want you to meke this picture of me just as pretty and stylish ag you know bow. Photographer (absent-mindedly)—Certainly, mldn:‘. Did you bring s veil?’—Somerville Journal. ‘When Jonah setiled {n the whale, The latter did berate His taking in, because he found He'd not assimilate; 4And as he bolted for the shore, ‘Thus did his whaleship spout: . “Although he doesn't ai-gest yet, I'd better lay him out.” ~Yonkers Gazette, Boy—Ain't sister and you going for a ramble this afternoon? Suitor—We are, sonny; but why do you ask? Boy—Because sister’s had the corn doctor here all the morning.—The Waterbury, Cunliffe—Did Roarer ever realize any of his political ambitions? Bookey—No, poor fellow; he never got eny higher than the position of & favorite son.— Philadelphia North American. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. " Among those who registered at the Grand Hotel yesterday was ex-Superior Judge R. J. Hudson of Lakeport. Mr. Hudson was on the Superior bench in Lake County for eleven years. . He is here on legal business. ‘When a CALL representative saw him yester- day the ex-Judge was lying propped up in bad. He had ridden all night over & wagon road, he said, in order to catch the train and felt con- siderably shaken up on account of it. He says the latest enterprise in that part of the Stale and one which has in the last few days aroused a great deal of interast is the or- ganization of & company on the basis of $1,- 000,000 to build a railroad from Napa via Pope and Coyote valleys to Lakeport, using the ‘waters of Clear Lake to develop the electric POWer necessary to run it. ““Fhough the capitalization is $1,000,000,” Sherman was rudely shaken. A man for whom I had great respect, before he became a *‘crank’ on the financial question by, joining the Farmers' Alliance, nhl‘finnm me”to read a littie book Wwritten by Mrs. Emory, ng the title of “Seven Finaneial Conspiracies.” That little book utterly destroyed my faith in Jobn Sherman by a merciless exposure of the delusive fallacies of his financial system. The hypnotic spell under which I was led to ad- mire him and applaud his financial system soon passed a , and in due time, after furiber inyestigation of the money question, not from the bankers point of view, butas one of the people dependent upon dealers in money who control the money mnketl; I too, became, thonfh quite reluctantly, a Populist and a financial “crank” and caught the ‘‘craze,” some five years ago, when it was not ?“1‘“ 28 pleasant to be known as a Populist as € is now. While hypnotized, s many thousands still are, by idolizing gold as a ‘“redeemer” of paper money it never occurred to me that the beauti- ful and fascinating hundred millions 1n good Ex-Superior Judge Hudson of Lakeport on the New Railroad, Rush of Tourists and Latest Suit Against the Southern Pacific. [Sketched from life by a “Call* artist.] aid he, “it is thought it will take about $1,- 500,000 to build it. Richard Wiley of Napa, E. Clendenin, Tax Collector of Lake County, and Captain J. X. Fraser of Big Valley, Lake County, are among the incorporators, “I understand they had offers of all the East- ern money they want to complete the road. A meeting of the officials was held the other day. “There is a great surplus of water in Clear Lake. It rises every winter eight or ten feeg and the proposition is to use it to develop elec- trical power as it falls, ““There is so much of this power that it is proposed to sell it to San Francisco, Oakland and other cities. There is an enormous amount of power there going to waste all the time. fhte road proposed will be of great value to the people. ‘‘The frost has affected the fruit some in Lake County, but ot to the extent that it has in some of the adjoining counties. It isex- pected that there will be a fair crop. The grain looks exceedingly well, especially wheat and barley, which will be & big crop. “Lake County resorts are now filling up with people from San Francisco and elsewhere. There are hundreds of them up there already. “I came down on some important legal busi- ness; namely, in the case of Chris 8. Studer of Cordelia, Solano County, against the Soutliern Pacific Company, for killing his child in July last, at Cordelia, on the line of the California Pacific Railroad, between Vacaville and Suisun. “The little fellow, who was but 12 years old, climbed up between two flatcars of a {freight train standing on the track. He, it seems, stood on the coupling, and when the cars backed one of his feet was crushed and tne child died. The bell was not rung, nor was there a warning of any kind, so that the little fellow might know what was going to be done. “We are suing for $25,000 damages. Itis to be tried before Superior Judge A. J. Buckles of Solano County on June 3.” Ex-Judge Hudson will be in this City seven or eight da THE PROBLEM OF LIFE. The jewel outlives the setti: And ilkewise does the he; The buckwheat cakes of the morning Will never rise again. The can outlasts the lobster, ‘The goat outlives the can— You can't be behind the procession And still be in the van. You can’t keep a horse and wagon While liviog in a flat: Ob, many a this year's caput 15 in o last year's hat. good pair of cowhide uppers Two sets of souls will outlast; You can’t with a comb of the present Part the front hair of the past. But here's the question that puzzles my soul And fills it with wild disaster— Does the porous plaster outlive the hole, Or the hoie the porous plaster? —Buffalo Express. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. COST OF THE GOLD RESERVE. One Good Reason for the Existence of the People’s Party. Editor San Francisco Call—Ste: The extent to which the veople of this country are beginning to understand the false pretenses and down- right iniquities of our present financial sys- tem may be inferred from the reading of the following eaitorial article clipped from a San Francisco daily newspaper which has never been accused of having any lym;:th or even patience with the Populist or People’s party view of the nature and function of money: Some one ought to teach Mr. Carlisle how to do & simpie sum in interest, and then supply bim with brains or honesty enough to ate Its signifi cance. If the proposed issue of $100,000,000 S Dor comia 1 i vae sitn ot & overees bearing securities 1ssued for the ostensible pu; of maintaining the gold reserve will be - ,000. Roughly ing, these bonds will cost % ple in the form of interest about $350,- That is to say, for the of maintaining a reserve to keop $546,000,000 of greeabacks from £0Ing 10 & discount the Government 18 going 10 ex- Ppend $4,000,000 more than it would take to redeem them outright, and then, after having done so, re- turn to thé hoiders of the bonds & sum nearly double the amount of outstanding greenbacks. As the ostensible purpose of oblainin, W88 to keep the greenbacks from goiDg to & dis- count, aud, as since the issuance of the bonds the tary Of the I'reasury has been steadily with- drawing greenbacks from circulation, would it not have served the same purpose and have been in- fiitely cheaper 10 huve retired the sreenbacks permanently by increasing therevenue sufficiently o compel their automatic return to the treasury. But that would not have suited the Wall-street coutingent, and so we are treated to the farce of 80id with e e purpose of maintaining the t of a currency which is tightly locked up in the treasury and not permitted to circulate. Before proceeding to make any comments on the above exosure of the cost of the gold re- serve and the folly of maintaining it, I'may as well confess that for many years I was found admirer of John Sherman, g med ol e 0] AN o] garding bim as un"num financi mo times, and once wanted to vote for him for President of the United States; and I was proud es a peacock to think that our 80 great and so opulent that we could keep a hundred millions in gold lying in the vaullsof the Government treasury 1o re- deem at & moment’s notice its green- and thus keep them always at a parity Wwith the yellow gold. At that timeI'wasa full believer,with nnjwrlz of my coun- trymen, in what we y best financial system in the world,” and we de- ?h':? 10 d.mmr John Sherman as the father ‘wonderful One day my faith in that system and in John vellow gold held as & reserve for the “redemp- tion” of greenbacks which nobody wanted re- deemed for twenty years, had been bought with greenbacks or promises to pay in coin, the only difference in fact being that green- backs called “bonas” bore interest and the other greenbacks bore no interest. Yes, there was _another difference—the reenbac! “ were mearly all of high denomi tions—§500. $1000, £10,000—aad did not cir- culate as money. In other respects both bonds and greenbacks ere just the same. They rest on the same basis or security—that is, the promise and faith of the Nation, backed by the taxing power of Congress, whigh ex- tends to every dollar's worth of property and even to the toil of seventy miilions of people in these United States. Hence the greenbacks were just as good s the bonds, and even bet- ter, for they were & prior lien or first mortzage on'all of Uncle Sam’s property and were, moreover. due and payable before a single bond was 1ssued. Not 10 make this letter too long, let us call it a first installment on the bond question, while the reader ruminates a little on the figures given in the clipping above quoted from an or- thodox newspaper which seems to be getting ‘“‘onto” Sherman’s little joker of the gold re- serve. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, San Francisco. LADY'S WAIST WITH FITTED SLEEVE AND YOKE FRONT. An exquisitely dairty gown is illustrated be- Jow. It is of white and black striped silk. The battlemented yoke is edged with narrow black velvet. The frill is white mousseline de soie with black dots. A ruffle of this is also set in the top of the collar, which, like the belt, is of shaded green ribbon. This belt is one of the latest fancies, being much wider than those lately worn, wrinkled sbout the form and ending in bows in the back. A striped lawn e after this model was very pretty and exceedingly stylish, for the new sleeves and beit with the novel yoke front make it exceedingly striking. A gown of brown canyas cloth over a shot blue and n silk lining had the yoke of white satin covered with lace. The belt and collar wers of the green and blue silk, with & frill of the same lace at the top of collar. The waist fastens in the center front, the ke and collar hooking on the left side. There s & fitted lining which may be omitted for wash dresses, cutting the gathered one, sewin itto yoke and fastening at under arm seam. shallow facing cut after lining makes the stay to which sleeve is sewn. ‘The skirt has eleven gores, which is specially adapted for silk or goods only twenty-two inches wide, PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. In Robert Graham, a clerk in Brooklyn, has been discovered the person of Sir Robert James Stuart Graham, tenth Baronet of Esk. The Prince of Wales wears a No. 7 boot; Mr. Gladstone, Lord Salisbury and Mr. Chamber- 1ain a No.9 boot, and the Queen a No. 2 boot. Major-Genersl Fred Carrington, who is to take charge of the military forces in South Africa, believes the fighting will be confined to the Matabeles. Dean Stanley’s letters, now being prepared for publication by the Dean's biographer, will make, says the Westminster Review, one of the most interesting of forthcoming books. Bir William Priestly, grand nephew of Dr, Joseph Priestly, the discoverer of oxygen, is the Unicnist candidate for Parliement from the universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrew. Lady Ulrica Duncombe, the most beautifal of the Earl of Faversham’s daughters, nas en- tered Newham College. Her older the late Duchess of Leinster, Lady Vincent and Lady Graham of Netherby, were all famous beauties. - High prices were paid for the pavers of the Brentano family recently at Frankfort. An- tonta Brentano's autograph book was sold for 6000 marks, $1500; twelve letters of Beetho- ven brought 3990 marks,and twenty-one let- ters of Goetho 5786 marks, The Goethe cor- respondence, which has not been printed, will be edited by Dr. R. Jung and published before the close of the year. In Boston there resides Miss Elizabeth C. Adams, granddaughter of the first President Adams. She lived in the White House during the term of her uncle, John Quincy Adams. She and her brother, I. Hall Adams, are the only surviving grandchildren of the second President. Ex-Congressman Bellamy Storer of Ohio is said to be slated for the mission to France if McKinley snall be elected. Mrs. Storer, who was one of the Longworths of Cincinnati, is several times & millionaire, and Mr. Storer himself is also the possessor of e comfortable fortune. PERSONAL. T. H. Maguire of Mexico is in the city. ‘W. Rosenburg of San Salvador is here. Jesse D. Carr of Salinas is again in town. Dr. W. A. Phillips of Reno ison a visit here. Eugene Jacobs of Nashville, Tenn., is in the City. W. Crichton, & business man of Laurel, is in the City. Enrique Herman of Guatemala reached here vesterday. H. W. Walker, 8 merchant of Willows, is at the Grand, John L. Hudner, an attorney of Hollister, is at the Lick. A. C. Cabel, s mining man of Butte, Mont., is at the Russ. E. 8, Cuborly, a large property-owner of San Diego, is at the Russ. F. J. Giese of Lima, Peru, was among the ar- rivels here yesterday. ; H. M. Yerington, the railroad man of son, Nev., arrived here yesterday. W. H. Perry and W. A. Morgan, owners of a lumber-mill at Los Angeles, are in town. H. Nieberding, & prominent resident of Fort Bragg, is a guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. E. Thompson, & noted business man of Fresno, is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. A. Booz, & capitalist of Philadelphia on a pleasure trip West, is staying with his family at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Major 8. W. Arbuckle left last night for Santa Monica, where on Saturday at the Old Soldiers’ Home he is to deliver an address. Alexander P. Brown, & wealthy retired mer- chant of Philadelphia, who has been on a visit to the Yosemite, is at the Occidental. N. H. Wilson, superintendentof the Yosemite Stage Company, which runs its stages from Merced via Coulterville to the Yosemite, is in the City. S. Horrocks, an extensive and wealthy mer- chant of Ogden, is at the Russ, accompanied by his wife. Mr. Horrocks is one of tie pio- neers of Ogden. Louis R. Brewer, the coffee-planter of Tapa- chula, Guatemala, whose wife and children were lost in the wreck of the steamer Colima last year, arrived here yesterday, and is at the Occidental. ¥ J. 8. Todd, United States Vice-Consul at Guatemala, w. imong the arrivals on the San Blas yesterday, and is at the Lick. Mr. Todd isaway on a leave of absence which may last several months. James O’Brien of Marysville, owner of a rich hydraulic mine in Plumas County, arrived here yesterday from the mine, bringing a num- ber of gold bricks, worth in all some $20,000. Mr. O’Brien is at the Russ. Alejandro Nowell, who for many years has been an extensive grower of coffee in Guate- mala, arrived on the San Blas yesterday. He has sold his big coffee plantation. for which it said he received about $750,000. Consul-General Manuel Corrillo, who repre- sents Guatemala here, is not friendly toward General Barillas, now visiting here, and only has to do with him in an official way. Baril- las imprisoned him when he was President and he is sore at the remembrance of it. C. F. Fearing, brother of George H. Fearing, who accompanied Depew and Vanderbilt on their recent trip to San Francisco, has arrived here after a visit to. Johannesburg, South Alrica. He says he was dining with Cecil Rhodes at Cape Town, the night of Jameson's raid, and that when Rhodes got and reed a telegram announcing the failure of the raid, he said: “Gentlemen, you will doubtless hear that the career of Cecil Rhodes is ended, but I tell you that it has just begun, and the con- firmation of my prediction will be seen in the development of the years which are to come.” CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 28.—At the Hol- land—Miss Bassa, M Crockett; Cosmopoli- tan—Dr. J. F. Brooks; St. James—L. J. Hanc ett; Imperiul—F. M. Prindle; Sinelgire—G. Lyons; Murray Hill—R. B. Bolton, B. L. Good- sell, Misses Goodseil, Mrs, Goodsell. ALONG THE SKIRMISH LINE. It really looks now as though the most prom- ising victim on the Democratic side is Russell of Massachusetts.—Buffalo Courier. Car- During his term as Governor Mr. Altgeld has \ pardoned nearly everybody except the man who perpetrated the crime of 1873.”—Chicago Times-Herald. “An honest dollar and a chance to earn it by honest toil” is the McKinley tocsin of victory that has drawn the masses to his standard.— Chicago Times-Herald. The death of the only man who ever spanked Grover Cleveland is announced. Wait until the Chicago convention, and there will be others.—St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald. - Itis to be a fight to the finish and from the word “Gol” in Chicago. One of the organs says: “We will organize as a hollow square to fight silver.”—Chicago Inter-Ocean. One of the strongest arguments in favor of McKinley's nomination is his manifest ability 1o avoid the traps set for him by unfriendly politicians.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. When a man declares himself a Democrat nowadays he does not give any definite i formation with regard to his political views and intentions.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Politicians will be interested in a platform recently adopted in Munich. It revolves, and the scenery can be changed ina quarter of a minute. It is in operation at the Opera- house.—Cleveland World. William McKinley respectfully calls atten- tion to the fact that & band wagon isonly a band wagon end cannot hold all the feliows that try to clamber into it at the eleventh hour.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The outlook at Chicago now is for & free- coinage Democratic platform, with such as Boies of Iowa standing thereon. The prospect is that honest-money men must vote the Re- publican ticket if they really want 100 cents in their dollars more than they want the com- pany of Jackson's ghost.—Lewiston Journal, There is a boy in & hospital in New York City Who has been asleep for twenty-two days, and the physicians cannot arouse him. That is nothing. The National Democratic party was in a comatose condition for thirty-two years before it woke up. It is now in a condition which clearly foreshadows another long period of catalepsy, beginning on Marth 4, 1897.— Wilmiagton News. The election of Quay to be Vice-President Wwould settle one curious point. It is whether it 1is possible for a Vice-President to be en in- fluential man in public affairs, Quay is the most influential politician i the country, purely as a politician, to-day. No Vice-Presi- dent for fifty years has had any appreciable infiuence in politics. Could Quay achieve the political miracle of continuing his power after he had entered the Vice-Presidency?—Boston Herald. —_— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. OLD CorNs—Mrs. J. F., Windsor, Cal, No pre- ity o1 906 wad e I Soeat 1852, noe . A coj 1857 is worth from 3 to 10 cents, i PETRIFIED KIDNEY—Mrs. J. F., Windsor, Cal. SiTboke 51 voh hon TaklaneY st zon wish to T communica t] the Academy of Sciences of this city. 1s French for harves! t-fly or cricket. It is als the name given to l]!ll, < 5 adapted irom Dick- ens’ popular story of home, in three chirps, en- titled, 'EThe Cricket on the Hearth. CraNs—A Constant Reader, City. When you want to dig for clams, find out the'time when it is low tide. You can ascertain this by watching the tide tables published every day in THE CALL. 4 THE OREGON—L. S., Seattle, Wash. The new battle-ship Oregon will be put in commission in about two months. For information about the crew she is to have, address the command- ant at the navy yara, Mare Island. A WiLL—Subscriber, Berkeley, Cal. A will that is written by the testator and signed by two witnesses need not be acknowledged be- fore & notary public to make it legal. If writ- ten wholly by the testator it need not even be witnessed. PLACER MiNING—H. A. M., Woodside, Cal. This department cannot advertise the pub- lisher of any book on placer mining, or any other book, unless it is & State, City or Govern- ment publication. You had better communi- cate with the California State Mining Bureau, this City. ILLUSTRATIONS—A. 8., City. Some of the papers outside of San Francisco that use pen and ink drawings for reproduction are the Sacramento Bee, Stockton Mail, San Jose Mer- cury and Los Angeles Times. A number of the country papers ise what is termed the chalk process. To Vore—G. 0. W., City. To vote at the next Presidential election held in this State the cit- izen must have been a resident of the State one year, in the county in which he desires 10 vote six months and in the election precinct thirty days, and his name must have been en- roiled on the great register fiiteen days prior to the election. A RIGHT 10 SELL—Subscriber, Calico, San Bernardino, Cai. There is no law in this State that will prevent an English or any other syn- dicete organized for the purpose of producing silver from engaging in mercantile business, providing they pay a license for so doing, nor is there any law that can preventsuch a syndi- cate from underselling other people im the same line of business. “JOSTAR ALLEN"—E. G. §., Livermore, Ala. meda County, Cal. The writer whose produc- tions have-appeared under the pen name of ‘““Josiah Allen” is Marietta Holley. B)_Je was born at a country place between two villages, Adams and Pierpont Manor, N. Y. She com- menced to write at an early age, her writings at first being signed ‘Jemyma,” and-were ¥rinled in a country newspaper at Adams. 'hen she wrote for the Christian Union and the Independent. Aiter that she wrote for Peterson’s Magazine, signing herself “Josiah Allen’s Wife.” ~Among the works she has writ- ten_are “My Opinion and Betsey Bobett (1872), “Samantha at the Centennial” (1877), “The Wayward Pardner” (1880), “The Mor- mon Wife” (1882), “Sweet Cicely, or Josiah Allen’s Wife as & Poiitician” (1885), “Sa- mantha at Saratoga” (1887), and “Samanths Among the Brethren.” MoLAsses popcorn candy Townsend’s. * ——— CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. Townsend’s.® e 2 SPECTAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Pm‘l Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. g e SAUSALITO FERRY connects with trains pass- ing through the most beautiful part of Cali- fornla, with rough mountains, green hills seamed with! wooded canyons and rippling streams, The paradise for camping or a day's outing. No boisterous Sunday picnié crowds to mar the pleasure of families and private parties. * The State Mining Journal, Edited by James Robbius, “State Mining News”; “The Mother Lode,” a lecture byjHenry S. Durden of the State Mining Bu- reau, and many articles of interest to miners. Office, No. 628 Montgomery street. > —————— It Combines Wisdom With Wit. The leading writers on the coast contribute to the San Francisco News Letter. Among other live topics discussed editorially this week are the following: The Silver Lunacy; Cheap Car Fares; Medical Confidences; Trade With the Orient; The Woman's Suffrage Farce; Mixed Local Politics; A Disgrace to the City; Catholic Injustice. A special feature in tnis week’s issue is & poem by Dan O'Connell, enti- tled “Decoration Day.” " Pleasure’s Wand De- partment bristles with bright theatrical talk, and all the other departments are all wide- awake and excellent. The Picturesque San Franciseo series, started some months ago by this enterprising journal, still continues and promises {0 be the finest series of local illus- trations ever issued here. = ————— “Is this hot enough for you?” asked Satan. “Purty warm,” sdmitted the newly arrived oldest inhebitant: “but I remember some fiity years ago, when it was so durn hot that—"" The attendant imps, at signal, seized him and shoved him down seven stories nearer the bottom which isn’t there.—Indianapolis Jour« nal “THE OVERLAND LIMITED” Via Union Pacific. 814 DAYS TO CHICAGO—3 oviy ik PAYS 10 SEW YOBKxél% Pullinan double drawing-room aleepers and dine ing-cars, San Francisco to Chicago, dally without change. Composite buftet smoking and library cars between Salt Lake City, Ogden and Chicago. Upholstered Pullman tourist sleepers, San Fran. cisco to Chicago, Gsily without change, and per- sonally conducted tourist excursions to St. Paul and Chicago every Friday. For tickets and sleeping-car reservations apply to general’ office, 1 Montgomery street. Steamship tickets on sale to and from all parts of Enrope. D. W. HITCHCOCK, General Agent. —_———— Yellowstone Park Excursion. Watch this ad for full particulars regarding our great excursion to the Yellowstone. Party leaves here the 12th of July. Weekly excursions in up- holstered tourist cars. No change. Lowest rates to all polnts East. T. K. Stateler, agent Northern Pacific Rallroad, 638 Market street, San Francisco, —————— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup’® Has been used over 50 years by miliions of mothars for their children white Teething with perfect suc- cess. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrheas, whether arising from teething or other causes. Forsale by Drug- gists in every part of the world. Be surs and asc for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, 25¢ a bottla, ————— CORONADO.—~Almosphere is pertectly dry, soft and mild, being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip ticKets, by steam- ship, including fifteen days' board as the Hotel et Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 50 perday, Apply 4 New Montgomery st., San Fraucisco. ——————— A potato pateh is different from & patch on & worn garment. The former is planted, but the latter is sewed.—Pittsburg Chronicle Tele« graph. . NEW TO-DAY. G TEA HOUS tives Frog Beautiful articles richly decorated. Also white porcelain and china ware. 3 cups and saucers, 3 plates, 1 vegetable dish, 1 saiad bowl, 'l:bo'w{.dl meat di:é], 1 honey dish, ustards, mustard pots, cream pitche; 8 table tumblers, blRlet dish, % o Sugar bowl, berry dish, rose bowls, Celery and olive dishes, knives, Forks and spoons, 6 berry dishes and A large lot of other usetul dishes. YOUR CHOICE FREE With Each Pound. B50c TEAS, any kind. Colima Pure Spices, Colima Baking Powder, —AT— (ireat American [mparting Tea (. MONEY SAVING STORES: 1344 Market st. 146 Ninth st. 3348 Miseton st. "8 Third st. 140 Sixth st, 2008 Fillmore st. 617 Kearny st. 965 Market st. 1419 Polk st. 3006_Sixteenth st. 521 Montgomery ave. 104 Second st. 333 Hayes st. 3259 Mission st. 52 Market st. (Headquarters), S. P. m1 ‘Washington st. 616 E. Twelfth st. 3 Pablo ave. 917 Broadway, 1355 Park st., Alameda.