The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 1, 1896, Page 6

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. BSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: end Sunday CALL, one week, by carrler..$0.15 and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 £nd Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 8.00 &nd Sunday CALi, three months by mail 1.50 and Sunday CALx, one month, by mail. CALL, One y > WEKKLY CALL, OBe § THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you coing to the country ona vacation * If tis no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to o not let 1t miss yon for you will s given to the carrier or left at Office will receive prompt attention. RA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone........ Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: lay Street. B E Uyt Telephone... BRANCH OFFICES: | 530 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; epem untll £:30 o'clock. 320 Tiayes street; open until street; open uni er Sixteenth and Mission streets; epen OAKLAND OFFICE §08 Broadway. SASTERN OFFICE: h'l’li"L tALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. 1s and now the cry is “on to It will not be long now before we know who is to be next Pres One by one the prediction bureaus are i ilently slid out of sight. be To the British bog the free trade tarift is a swill trough and he isin it with both feet. - One of the most completely wrecked and lost things of the season is the Carlisle boom. Is it possible we are to have this McDag and Nabi: combination inflicted on us all summer? e summer that begins to-day will be a yus one for patriotism, protection and he ing show in Europe will now | t from Moscow to Budapesth and the | will be brighter. there was no appropriation for Buzzard’s Bay in the harbor b nocrats in the East are now there is such a thingasa { The treasury reserve is rapidly sinking to the danger limit, and Wall street begins to feel its appetite revive. The defect in the criminal procedure of our law is that it allows too much license to the ceedings of criminals Is there any Democrat in sight in any part of the country showing a desire to cut bait for Clevelana this summer? The Italians and the Abyssinians haven’t made vpeace yet, but neither side shows any desire to do the other thing. Another agitation is getting a move on to strike Congress at the next session. In- dian Territory wishes to be a State. It is time for Republican clubs to begin making preparations in earnest for the grand rally of the ratification meetings. The trampling to death of so many per- sons at the Czar’s banquet to the people will go on record as the crowning horror. It is the popular chorus of protection, prosperity and patriotism that is going to make life in this country one grand, sweet song. Already those who are willing to bet on the result of the first ballet at St. Louis are beginning to content themselves with prophesying. It would be a neat and popular move if the Market Street Company would drop the transfer nuisance without waiting for the law to force them. At the present time neither faction of the Democratic party is denouncing bolters for the simple reason that neitheris quite certain it will not be a bolter itss Pattison of Pennsylvania says he will not be a candidate on a free silver plat- form and it is more than even betting that he will not be a candidate on any plat- form. Congress should not only pass the river and harbor bill over Cleveland’s head, but make the passage feel to him something like that of a club with a bunch of knots on the head of it. St. Louis need hardly trouble herself to put a roof on the convention hall. If she will put the material somewhere in the vicinity the first California orator that comes along will raise it. The electric fans which were expected to be so beneficial in cooling the heated Easterners during the summer months are said to have the defect of overdoing the thing. Nearly everybody who sits in the dranght of one catches a cold. The Democrats will hold their Btate Convention at the samé time the Repub- lican National Convention meets, with the idea, doubtless, that they will be over- shadowed and thus enabled to get in some shady work without being noticed. There are rumors that Cleveland will drop a bombshell message on the Cuban question just in time for the report to make & noise in the Chicago convention, and then an effort will be made to carry the administration programme through before the smoke clears away. The Philadelphia Record notes with pride that the Nurses’ Training School of that city hasattracted a student all the way from California, thus showing that the very presence of one of our girlsis sufficient to cast a luster on‘a school, even when situated in so secluded a locality as the one in question, The Sonoma festival in celebration of the raising of the bear flag will be one of the bright incidents of California life dur- ing the month of June, and pleasure- seckers who arrange to attend it cancount on a delightful holiday, as well asa chance, to take part in the observance of a patri- otic ceremony. AN IMPORTANT QUESTION. From a very small beginning Mr. Carnegie has accamulated a fortune which he courts by the tens of millions. It was his right to do that; besides, the public admires 8 man who makes a great suc- cess in any laudable enterprise, and, gen- erally speaking, his advice is worth listen- ing to when he does not depart too far from the fiela in which he achieved suc- cess. But Mr. Carnegie makes a great mistake when he assumes that a fortune has an inherent understanding of every- thing in all fields of human action which it confers upon its owner. Knowledge does not come that way. A man may make a great deal of mon business, for instance, and still know very little aboul the science of government or the philosophy of economics. Hence when Mr. Carnegie says that *‘the dollar of the Republic shonld mean a dollar in gold, worth its face in all parts of the world,” he shows very distinctly that he knows a good deal more about converting iron ore into finished product and gathering in the accruing profits in dollars than he knows about what it is that makes dollars money. This becomes all the more apparent when he says that all other economic questions should be subordinated to the work of establishing the gold dollar as the standard of valoes and money of redemption. Mr. Carnegie is a creditor in the commercial world, and if he could have his bills receivable paid in money that is always at a premium, but which he receives at par, he would be the gainer; but, as an ethical proposition, it is faulty at both enlls and in the middle. Why Mr. Carnegie is so interested in having our doliar “worth its face in any part of the world” is clear enough. From 95 to 97 per cent of the entire trade and traffic of this country is with our own people. It is easy enough, too, to understand why England skould adhere to the gold stend- ard. Her trade is with other nations. She exchanges finished products for dol- lars all over the world, and if dollars that are at a premium come to her at par she secures an additional profit, besides the advantage which she secures from paying for raw material in money that commands a premium. Great Britain and Mr. Carnegie know that so long as the gold standard can be maintained there will be a scarcity of money and that their debtors will have to pay them in dollars that rule at a premium. But here in the United States, where our commerce with the outside world is only from 3to 5 per cent of our total business transactions, it is really of no consequence whether Europe, Asia and Africa like our | monetary system or not. The point for us to consider 1s, Shall our volume of cir- culating money be equal to the re ments of producer and consumer, with it always at par, or shall we hold it far enough below a sufficiency to keep it above par? If it were kept above par the great middle class, which is all of 80 per cent of the population, would have to pay the pre- mium, thus decreasing the commodity purchasing power of their labor. If the volume were sufficient to meet all de- mands, the business of the country would be done with dollars ruling at par, which | would give the creditor no advantage over the debtor. Mr. Uarnegie belongs to a class of pro- dacers who are to the industrial world what the money-lender is to the financial world. The people are obiized to have money and they are obliged to have the products of industries that are owned by the Carnegie class. The money-lender wants & premium on his money and a high rate of interest for its use. The Car- negies want pay for their commodities in money that commands a premium because of its scarcity, so that they will have double profits on their products. By making gold the standard of values and redemption money, the money-lender and the Carnegies would be masters of the sit- uation. By the free and unlimited coin- age of silver at the old ratio the volume of money would be expanded to where it would rule at par without variation. Then noindividual or combine could be master of the situation. The question, then, which confronts the people and is waiting for the people to enswer is, Shall the silver dollar be reinstated, that there may be a suffi- cient volume of money to do the business of the country, or shall 80 per cent of the population be obliged to continue to pay a premium in addition to high interest rates for money by limiting our circulating money medium to gold dollars? THE BONDOCRAT'S ORY. No one should be alarmed over the cry of the bondocrats that *‘bankruptey” and “repudiation” would swoop down upon the country the moment it is decided not to issue any more Government bonds. It is a Wall-street scheme to scare the public. The Morgan-Rotbschild syndicate is get- ting hungry for another block of bonds, and, knowing how dJetermined the pnblic is in itsopposition to needlessly increasing the National debt, the cry is raised that it is more bonds or bankruptcy and National degradation., The quickest and easiest way to squelch Wall street would be to enact Senator Butler’s bill into a law to prohibit the issuance of Government bonds, or any other kind of interest-bear- ing obligations without first being author- ized by Congress. To be sure, Secretary Carlisle could stop the outflow of gold by paying the Govern- ment’s obligations in silver, except inter- est on bonds, which are payable by con- tract in gold; but as he refuses to do that, and insists that in selling bonds for gold he is obeying the resumption act, there appears to be no way to prevent another issue of bonds early in the coming fall, and still another about the first of the new year unless Congress shall provide against it. The way that Wall street and Europe are taking gold from the treasury the re- serve will be below the required sum by the middle of this month. In fact, that is expected, and preliminary negotiations are already under way, it is said, to market another block of bonds before autumn if the raids on the treasury are kept up as they have been the last two months. The country appears to be in the hands of Wall street instead of an administration at Washington. But the cry of “‘bank- ruptey’’ and “repudiation’ is nonsense in any event. A TUTILE APPEAL. It is amusing to listen to the appeal of the old wheel-horses of the Democracy to stop the internal strifes that are raging in the party lest the party’s chances to carry the country next fall be destroyed. The faith of these sincere but blind old- timers is sublime. If they could only see how the land lies they would know that their party bas not a single chance to carry anything but the condemnation of the people. This does not mean that the Chicago convention will not be a pictur- esque affair, for it will be all that, ana it will attract the attention of the whole country. Those who have not been watching the storm center of the Democratic party mov- ing in the direction of Chicago can have no idea how terrible and destructive the faction war will be. Gavernment office- holders everywhere who are loyal to Cleveland are working to prevent theintro- duction of a resolution denouncing Cleve- land’s administration, and the opposing factions appear to be determined to be sat- isfied with nothing less.. No doubt a ma- jority of the delegates thus far elected in the several States that have held conven- tions are decidedly opposed to giving any quarter at all to the President or Secretary Carlisle. An effort is almost sure to be made to practically read Cleveland-and his following out of the party if they do not wheel into linein the rear rank and obey orders. 2 It is reported that in Towa and Missour! more particularly not a few Postmasters have come out flat-footed against the ad- ministration’s financial policy, and dare the President to remove them because of holding views that are not in accord with the past and present theories of Cleve- lJand. Itissurmised that many of tbem would rather be removed than not for the political capital they could make of it. But anyway, no administration ever had as many disloyal appointeesas the present one. To be sure, ingratitude is one of the basest attributes of the human heart, but somehow it isin the air that the correct thing for Western and Southern Demo- crats to do is to join in the crusade against the President. No chance for carrying the country will be destroyed, however, for the party has not even the ghost of a chance 10 be destroyed. WORDS IN COLOR. Edwin Arnold 1s one of the most bril- liant newspaper correspondents of our times, but he “fell down,”” as newspaper men say, at Moscow the otlier day. That is to say, he fell down in his own estima- tion, but not in the eyes of the public. Arnold has traveled all over the Orient time and again as a newspaper corre- svondent, and his descriptive letters have never been surpassed, but at the climax of splendor of the spectacular exhibition which was given in honor of the corona- tion of Nicholas he threw down his pencil and exclaimed, **Why cannot one write in colors?” He wrote in “‘colors’ when he concluded. his description of the pageant by longing for something that would give to his read- ers a better understanding of the magnifi- cence and glory of the scene before him. In his description he carried the reader through camp and street and palace to the throneroom of the great autocrat. From first to last his pen pictures were so clear and so graphic that when the climax was abont to be reached the reader's mind was lost in what was transpiring in Mos- cow. He saw it all through Edwin Ar- nold’s eyes, and when the glory, the pride and the chivairy of all the Russias were concentrated before the mightiest throne upon the earth, and the crown of the Romanoffs paused for the moment in midair before transforming young Nich- olasinto the authorized vicar of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and absolute ruler over more than one hundred million veo- ple, scattered oyer and holding vossession of one-sixth of the land of the globe, the imagination of the reader painted the scene in color more brilliant and more lasting than any words of Arnold could have done. In fetching his reader by roads and ways that were lined with events and scenes of increasing interest to the dizzy height of wild, intense expectation, Ed- win Arnold did more than *‘write in col- ors.”’ He satisfied the imagination of his read erfrom afar. Wken a writer makes his reader stand in his gwn place there is no beyond in description waiting for him. KATE FIELD. Not only readers of newspapers, but the newspaper fraternity, will lament the death of Kate Field. She was a descrip- tive writer of unusual ability, and she could dig as deep into problems of science and political economy as many of those who had made it a life study. No doubt she made enemies, but strong characters always do, especially when they attack the public as fearlessiy as Kate Field did. She was a radical thinker and condemned right and left, but not un- justly, she thought. Although pretty well known before, it was Kate Field’s Washington that revealed the true character of the woman to the public. Tt was a weekly journal, and not long after its introduction to the public was it that Kate Field was regarded as a woman that America might be proud of. She marched close to the front of the column that was pushing aside those things which impede humanity’s onward march, and if she did get ahead of the procession once in a while good came of it. 00AST EXCHANGES. The Trinity Journal reports that work on the construction of the Weaverville-Douglas City Telephone line 1s progressing. The line has been staked out, the poles are now being cut and all the holes will be dug by the time the poles are ready. The results of th e new census of Santa Mon- ica occasions the OQutlook of that city to point with pride to the fact that the place has in- creased 87 per centin population since the United States census of 1890. Then Santa Monica had 1600 people; now it can boast of 2928, D. A. Coddington of San Bernardino has dis- covered a new vegetable fiber which is causing no little interest among those who have seen it, and the discovery may prove to be an im- portant one. The San Bernardino Times-Index furnishes the appended description : 1t consists of vegetable fiber which looks very much like horsehair, and which is double the strength of hemp or any other vegetable fiber known. One strand of it is as strong as thread of the same size, and when five or six are twisted It forms a cord which {8 not easy to break with the bhands. Mr. Coddington bas not made public the name of the plant from which the fiber is ob- tained, but says it grows luxurianty with but Iittie irrigation, and from the length of the fiber it must produce an unjointed stalk nov less than four feet in lemgth Mr. Coddington found the fiber in water, the “pethy” part of it being decomposed by the water, and leav- ing a bunch of fibers, which are perfecily smooth, somewhat elastic, and hich may be twisted or doubled without being brittie enough 1o break. When the bunch is rolled or twisted with a cord it will sustain & surprisingly Iarge welght, and is probably twice as sirong as a hemp cord of equal size, which wonld at once suggest that it migiat be used to advantage in the munufacture of rope. Of course the question of its durability would be something stiil to be tested, but atter the rotting process by which the vegetable matter 15 removed, the strength Is uninjured and it would seem to be lasting. It is suggested that it might De used in the mannfacture of bags, whieh would be almost indestructible, while a dozen methods of using it have already been suggested. Mr. Codd- ington is experimenting with the fiber and will de- termine what uses it may be put to and how his discovery may be turned to agvantage. A.H. Chessmore, having purchased an in- terest in the Sonoma News, will hereafter be associated with Nicholas ten Bosch in the pub- lication of that paper. He is convinced that Sonoma is an excellent field for a live, newsy, reliable weckly, and mekes this declaration: “We have no political aspirations, enemies to fight or friends to laud, but will be indepen- dent and outspoken on all subjects, political and otherwise, pertaining to the pubilc wel- fare.” Oakiand has another morning publication, the Observer, the proprietor of which is Frank H. Robinson, & former city editor of the Oak- land Times and recently connected with the Alameda Telegram. Mr. Robinson has plenty of ability and will without doubt issue a paper that will commend itself to the favor of pro- gressive people in the Athens of the Pacific. The Fresno Republican is mow printed by electricity, supplied from the waters of the San Joaquin River, thirty miles distant. The paper says: The lamps which will light the city will soon be inplace. There has been some delay on account ot inability to get poles for the lamps. The poles come from Mendocino County and re now on their way. The motors for the Hughes Hotel, Madary’s mill and several others are in piace. Since the hot weather set in a number of people have ordered fan motors, by which to keep cool. From present appearances Fresno will soon be- come What 1t has already been named—the Elec- tric City. More electric power is promised the mines of Tuolumne. According to the Sonora Union- Democrat, Captain Youngren and Lester E. Walker have filed notice that they have located and claimed 50,000 miner’s inches of water on the Tuolumne River, the same to be diverted therefrom through a canal for the purpose of generating electricity for power. “The point at which the notice is posted and from where itis proposed to start the canal is 500 feot above the Moffit bridge. No indication isgiven in the paper as to the location of the power station. It is generally understood that the gentlemen can raise plenty of money to carry the project through. They are evidently more or less enthusiastic over the success of the plant recently put in on Kings River in Fresno County, and are casting about for a good loca- tion in which to become interested in such an enterprise. With the Mammoth, Shawmut, Eagle, Blue Gulch, Wheeler & Hill and other mines opening up near them, the site would seem to be a good one, Says the Pasadena News: A. R.Smiley is credited with a purpose to build an electric railway from Redlands to the top of the San Bernadino range north of that city at an ex- pense of $175,000. Mr. Smiley isable to build and pay for the road if he chooses to doit. It would be a great card for Redlands and South- ern California in general. Any one whoshould make the mountain ascent at Redlands would be all the more bent on taking in Mount Lowe. San Diego s to have & new gas company. The Sun says that the intention is to begin supply- ing gas there within ninety days or four months at the latest. Contracts have already Dbeen made with many consumers. The proposi- tion is to capitalize the company. at $200,000 and bond it for $100,000. The citizens of San Diego are asked to take $35,000 of the first mortgage bonds onl; The first carload of oil from Coslinga to Fresno amounted to about 6500 gallons and was shipped from the wells owned by the Pro- ducers and Consumers’ 0il Company, of which Captain Barrett and Captain McClurg of Selma. are prominent members. “This new industry,” says the Fresno Watchman, *“will prove the re- demption of the West Side country, which has heretofore been at the mercy of the fickle wind. Fresno will hail the day with great rejoicing when the output from the West Side oil wells will require numerous refineries to skirt the western foothills. The Yreka Union is in its forty-fourth year. 1t is one of tae carliest pioneers of newspaper- dom on the Pacific Slope, and despite the fact that it is uncompromisingly Democratic, it isa paper that, like wine in bottles, grows better with age. Riverside has & big shoe manufactory in prospect, the stockholders of the Los Angeles Shoe Manufacturing Compeny having under consideration the establishment of such a plant there. The Riverside Enterprisc has the following concerning the matter: They propose to bring their shoe factory here and reorganize, or rather organize an entirely new | company with a capital stock fronr $25,000 to $50,000. The gentlemen state that there is a good opening for the manufacturing ot shoes n Califor- nia, as about 95 per cent of all our shoes come from the East. A greatdeal of tue leather used in the East is manufactured here, shipped East and then returned in shoes. This brings up the price, as freight has to be paid acrossthe conti- nent both ways. This shoe factory would stimu- late tanning, and that would give employment to more men. aigre tanned leather is good, and with the facilities the city has for that business, wou'd add another ze branch of industry to this city’'s resources. The movers in the matter pro- pose to organize an entirely new company, with Riverside people holding a controliing interest. The Sunset Telegraph and Telephone Com- pany isabout to extend its lines over Amador County and that portion of Calaveras County not already reached by telephone. In this re- gard the Stockton Independent furnishes this information: The entire distance to be covered will be about 156 miles, and the double wiring for the copper circuit for all bat 40 miies of it means 272 miles of wire to be used. It will not be an easy line to build, but 1 will be a good liae for Stockton and for Stockton business men. Inall of the sections into which the line will run there is but poor com- munication with the Gas City. The telephone line will open up the desired communication, and much business for Stockton dealers will be the re- sult. At present the communication even by tele- graph Is slow and business will seek the other channel because it will be quicker. The Visalia Times states that Z. D, Johns, a plumber of that city, has applied for a patent on an apparatus for heating water for domes- tic purposes. A coil of about twenty-four feet of inch iron pipeis placed within a cylinder, through which the stovepipe passes. The heat of the pipe keeps the water warm. Mr. Johns has already been offered & goodly sum for an interest in his patent, but he will place it in the hends of a company, already partially formed at Hanford, for introducing it intogen- eral use. ALONG THE SKIRMISH LINE. Prosperity coming—why, the Canton hotel keepers are already feeling the effect of the McKinley boom.—Wichita Eagle. A large number of Democrats must either bolt the Chicago convention or bolt unlimitea quantities of crow.—Kansas City Journal. The imperative demand is for a fair and square statement from McKinley in snswer to the question: “Are you in favor of the gold standard ?”"—Buffalo News. McKinley’s dignified reticence is increasing public respect for him every- day, because it proves that he isa s.atesman who cannot be stampeded.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. We are convinced that McKinley’s strength is greatly overrated and that the exercise of common sense at St. Louis will scatter his forces and clear the political atmosphere.—Har- per’s Weekly. A contemporary inquires: “Are the Demo- crats alldead?”’ A careful survey of the field would seem to warrant the belief that a good many of them heartily wish they were.—St. Joseph Herald. We infer from some more remarks by Thomas C. Platt that he has not yet been invited to Canton. Also that he is not likely to be in- vited thither. He will see the major in Tophet first.—Boston Herald. Senator Brice is said to have given up the fight for gold in Ohio, believing it is impossi- ble to get the Democrats to declare for sound money. The party has always been honey- combed with financlal heresies in that State. Brooklyn Eagle. Tne McKinley band wagon has been filled and thereis no sign of Cullom or Bradley among its occupants. The battered appear- ance which they presentad after the conflict in their States would be a sad disfigurement to the procession.—St. Louis Republic. Mr. McKinley has not been backward in meking & platform on protection. He hasnot been at all afraid to enlighten the people upon the tariff. Why should he shun silver? He has practically indicated the platform except in regard to this one question.—Philadelphis Inquirer. . Since Mr. Cleveland has exercised the influ- ence of a President in directing the Democratic party the duty and the credit of defending American institutions and of preserving Amer- icen sentiment has more and more manifestly been transferred to the Repubiican party.— New York Sun. THEY NEVER WILL. Porterville Enterprise. THE CALL is a very consistent paper in one thing. Its editorial columns are filled with protection, protection, protection. Will the people ever get tired of the old song ? PERSONAL. Dr. D. Campbell of Butte is in town. E. E. Biggs, a banker of Gridley, is here. H.J. Wylie of Washington, D. C., is in town. Mayor W. H. Carlson of San Diego isat the Grand. John W. Howell, a Merced banker, is a guest at the Lick. G. M. Gouyard. an assayer of Everett, Wash., is at the Palace. F. D. Kendrick of Bismarck, N. D., is among the Grand arrivals. John T. Gearin, ex-District Attorney of Port- . 1and, is at the Baldwin. George F. Horne, a manufacturer of Nash- ville, Tenn., is at the Russ, A. S. Flournoy of Los Angeles is staying at the Baldwin for a few days. A.J. McGowan, an attorney of Carson City, Nev., is staying at the Russ. C. A. Warfield ot Merced, the County Sheriff, is at the Lick for a few days. S H. W. Crabb, an orchardist of Oakville, ar- rived at the Grand yesterday. L. A. Spitzer of San Jose, Treasurer of Santa Clara County, is at the Grand. D. W. Blamer, U.S. N., is down from Mare Island and registered at the Palace. Jauvier Zampella, a wine merchant from New Orleans, is a guest at the Grand. Among the recent arrivals at the Palace is C. B. Pitbiado of Winnipeg, Manitoba. R. P.Quinn, a real estate dealer at Watson- ville, has apartments at the Baldwin. Dr. W. A. McCormack of Mendocino arrived at the Russ last night, with his fam1ly. John F. Doyle Jr. of New York City has re- turned to the Palace after a visit to Del Monte. J. J. Trabucco, District Attorney of Mariposa County. is registered at the Lick with his wife. Douglas Hall, & wealthy English tourist, is at the Palace with his wife, child and two serv- ants, John J. Pearce, who is interested in mines at Pearce and at Brisbee, Ariz., is & guest of the Russ. Otis M. Halstead, a prominent resident of Ix.ost Alngnles, is & guest at the Cosmopolitan otel. Among the latest arrivals at the Cosmopoli- tan Hotel are G. A. Brown and wife of Port- land, Or. F. B. Jack, the 8an Luis Obispo banker and capitalist, was among yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. James Yoman, a weslthy landowner and stockraiser of Sutter Creek, is registered at the Cosmopolitan. C. W. Waldron, one of the proprietors of the Santa Cruz Sentinel, is at the Occldental, ac- companied by Mrs. Waldron, . Mrs. L N. Payton of Santa Cruz returned yes- terday from a visit to Santa Barbara. Sheisat the Palace, accompanied by Miss Payton. W. A. H. Cleary Jr. of Stockton, who recently bought & mining property in Calaveras County for $800 and sold it for $28,000, is on a visit here. Judge C. E. Mack, Superior Judge over five counties in Nevada, is among the recent arri- valsat the Russ. He is registered trom Vir- ginia City. States Marshal for Southern California, is in town on official business. He is making the Palace his headquarters. J. G. Waterman, a young capitalist and former society man of Santa Barbara, is at the Palace with his wife and two children. They are on their way to Egypt, after & sudden de- parture from Santa Barbara, that proved a sur- prise to their friends. John A. Gill came down from Sacramento yesterday and registered at the Grand. He has been appointed joint Pacific Coast freight agent for the Vanderbilt system, with head- quarters in this City. He is an old railroad man, having been with the Union Pacific for fifteen years, with the Southern Pacifie for three years, and with the Armour Car Com- pany for one year. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 31.—R. 8. Stewart, Los Angeles; H. C. Wood, San Francisco; T. Somes, Sacramento, are in Washington. KEEP GOING. 1t you strike a thorn or rose, Just keep colug! 121t halls or if it suows, Just keep going! "Tain’t no use to s ¢ and whine ‘When the fish ain’t on the line; Bait your hook and keep on tryin'— Just keep going! ‘When the weather kilis your crop Just keep going! When you tumble from the top, Just keep going! 'Spose you're out o’ every dime? Gettin' broke ain’t any crime; Tell the world you're feelin’ prime— Just keep going! ‘When 1t looks like all fs up, Just keep golng! Drain the sweetness from the cup— Just keep golng! See the wild birds on the wing— Hear the beils that sweetly ring! When you feel like sighin'—sing! Just keep going! Atlanta Constitution, PARAGRA PHS ABOUT PEOPLE. The German Emperor will visit Cowes during regatta week. Harry Furniss has arranged to lecture in the Unitea States in the autumn. Captain Lord Charles Beresford is spending some of his leisure time mastering the bicycle. Charlotte Bronte’s husband, the Reyv. Arthur Bell Nicholls, is still alive, though he isin {feeble health. Ebenezer Nelson, the senior editorial writer of the Boston Transcript, who has just died, was connected with that paper for forty-five years. The present King of Denmark was so poor during his early married life that he used to give drawing lessons under the rose in the families of the rich Frankfort merchants. The postmistress of Gibraltar 1s Miss Mar- garet Cresswell, who receives the handsome salary of $3500 a year. She isalso superin- tendent of the various postoffices on the North African coast. There has probably never been such a large sum of money spent in wreaths in the case of Colonel North's funeral. There were nearly 100 anchors, crosses and wreaths, and the total cost is computed at $25,000. Willard C. Goups of Hartford, Conn., has un- earthed an important document in the shape of a deed signed by Jefferson Dayis. The deed records the transfer of land at Harpers Ferry in 1857 by Jefferson Davis to the father and uncle of Willard C. Goups. The name of the new Assistant Commis- sioner of Patents is Napoleon Jackson Tecum- seh Dana. It is related that when Lincoln signed his commission as brigadier-general he wrote in the full name and remarked that it “would certainly frighten the enemy.” ‘Thomas Nast, the famous cartoonist, recently painted a picture of Sir Henry Irving, which Mr. Nast called “The Immortal Light of Genius.” It is said that when Sir Henry saw the result of Mr. Nast's labors he was so pleased N. A. Covarrubias of Los Angeles, United | | election, sent the following order to a supply that he at ouce sent the artist a check for $1000 in excess of the commission. The hovel in which the Marquis of Salisbury lived while he was goid digging in Bendigo, Australis, in 1852, the year before he entered the House of Commons, is, it seems, still to be seen. On the place being pointed out to Lady Hopetoun and some anecdotes related to her about Lord Robert Cecil’s adventures, she is reported to have remarked: 0, the dear old man! Isuppose it was the digging that made him so round-shouldered.” “SPEAKING FOR ALL” The Redaing Searchlight. The late convention received notice from all City papers, including very favorable editorial comment from some of them, but it remains fer the San Franciseo CALL to take a new stand with the avowed purpose to speak for all by admitting sound People’s party doctrine from so able and eminent a writer as Joseph Asbury Johnson to appear regularly in its columns. We have received assurance from a source, the reliability of which ean only be shaken by a complete backdown on the part of THE CALL itself, that this departure will not be of an ephemeral character; therefore, we deem it the duty of all Populists to encourage so broad and Iiberal & cause by tuking THE CALL 1n preference to any other City daily. So unusual is the avowed course of this jour- nal, when misrepresentation has been the keenest weapon wielded by the opposition, that it is not surprising when many earnest workers in the ranks of reform are inclined to doubt its sincerity. Those feeling thus in- clined, and all Populists, will remember the editorial of May 17, from which we clip the following: “During the whole course of the'clmpllfin now apyrm\ching it will be the aim of the editcr of this paper to keep it true and faith- ful to the motto, ‘Tie CALL speaks for all.” The heat of the counflict will not warp THE CALL from its established course of publishing the truth, and it will give the public the full- est and fairest reports of the proceedings of all parties at every stage of the great canvass. “The fair, accurate and Complete reports glven by usof the Populist State Convention | uring the past week may be taken as an ex- ample of the method in which we shall treat every important feature of iocal news. * * * The readers of THE CALL will get the news from both sides on every issue, and will get it &3 eccurately &s our Own reporiers or the United Press can obtain it 1n the rush of daily events.” While the sbove g\)ouuon simply substan- tiates the charge made by reform papers that old-party journals and the Associnted Press misrepresent the party of the people, itis also & promise that THE CALL will not do so. While this promise remains inviolate Populists can- not afford to divide their paironage with such as will not be fair 1n return, CURRENT HUMOR. Bess—If I were in your shoes— Madge—Don't talk of impossibilities,—Boston Courier. Nothing makes a man quite so mad asto have a man of about his own age call him “‘uncle.”—Atchison Globe. “That is a réemarkably ugly Panama hat you have on.” “¥e had to get an ugly one so my sisters wouldn’t wear it all the time,”—Chicago Rec- ord. The bold, bad caterplllar soon, All snugly hid from view, Will murmurto the summer girl, “I have a drop on you.” Pittsburg Dispatch. Agnes—Jt seems wicked to eat those dear little spring lambs that gambol on the green! Paul—Don’t worry, dear; they are never eaten while they are able to gambol.—Detroit Free Press. “I was so disappointed I was out the other day when you called, Miss Percival.” “So wasI. Ifelt sure I'd find you, because as I turned the corner I saw you go in.”—Har- per’s Bazar. Dick—You know that fellar workin’ shaft 17 who was always kickin’ for a raise? Mick—Yes. Dick—Well, he kicked over & can of dynamite to-day, and got it.—Up to Date. Mother of the Only Baby on Earth—Aren’t you going to kiss him, George? Brother of the Mother, ete.—Why not stick a pinin him? He'll howl just as loud for that as he would for me kissing him.—Irdianapolis Journal. A newspaper published in an Oklshoms town, where the women recently carried the in house: “Please send us one small cut of & hen. Women carried the election here, and I sup- pose we will have toswing outa hen instead of a rooster.” “1 never seem to be able to agree with you,” she said. “Yet,” he retorted, “I distinctly remember your being on my side upon one occasion.” S0 saying, Adam threw & triumphant glance at Eve and took a turn around the garden alone.—New York World. ““Come, old man,” said the kind friend “cheer up. There are others.” “Idon’t mind her breaking the engagement so very much,” said the despondent young man. ‘But to think that I have got to go on paying the installments on the ring for a year to come yet. Thatis what jars me.”—Indian- apolis Journal. A DAINTY NIGHT GOWN. The lingere to-day is affected most decidedly by the prevailing styles, adding much to its picturesqueness and detracting none from its comfort, ior the large sleeve is in night dresses a great comfort and certainly wears well, sav- ing the strain on the yoke often occasioned by fitted dresses, The gown shown here is made with a yoke bac! very shallow yoke in front holds the gathers in place. This is finished in some gowns by a small turn-over collar, which may be made of embroidery or the goods. The yoke points may be edged with a ruffie of the same embroidery. Other gowns have a large round or square collar of the goods or of all over embroidery, or of alternate stripes of lace and the goods. For ordinary use a gown of white muslin is most sensible. This may be made very pretty by makine the large collar of lawn, or'the col- Iar may be of colored batiste, which washes very'weil. ‘Very elaborate gowns of neinsook are tucked auwn the front or trimmed with narrow inser- on. This same shape is seen in misses’ lounging robes, which may be of any material from the cheap outing flannels to silk wadded or lined with flannel. A dainty gown of pink flannel had the large collar of white batiste trimmed with a narrow edge of Valenciennes lace and insertion to match brought but half an inch from the edge. An outing flannel of blue with white stripes had a round collar of white China silk, edged with a rufile of lace. Another of wool challie with a yellow flower on a white ground had a collar of yellow China silk with lawn and insertion of Valenciennes. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. AN ACTOR'S ADDRESS—E. J. 8., San Jose, Cal. The address of Thomas W. Keene, the actor, is West New Brighton, Staten Island. ARCHBISHOP ALEMANY—A. 8., City. The late Archbhhosp Alemany resigned his see in De- cember, 1884, and went to Valencia, Spain, where he died April 14, 1888, FATHER YORKE'S ANsWER—J. H. M., City. The answer of the Rev. Father Yorke to the charge that “Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by Roman Catholics,” appears in the Monitor, January 11, 1896. P MIDWINTER FAIR FUND—H. 1., City. The bal- ance of the Midwinter Fair tund has been used in part by the Director-General in the pur- chase of many curios which are to be placed in the Park Museum. STATE PRINTING OFFICE—A. B. W., Lathrop, Cal. The building in which the State printing office is Jocated is called the Goyernor’s man- sion because it was originally intended asan executive’s residence. FREE COINAGE OF SrLvER—W. H. W., Delano, Cal. Free cqlnl{e of silver is the taking silver bullion to the mints in the United States and having it coined on the owner's account the same as gold bullion 1s coined. ELAINE—F. H. J., City. The painting of «“Elaine” by Toby Rosenthal was cut out of its h'n;e nnd’ltole{n from a picture-store, corner of Kearny-and Morton streets Igrthis City, on the night of the 1st of April, 1875. ATLANTIC CABLE—Theo, City. The first cabla across the Atlantic was finished in 1858, and - the first message sent over it was one of con- atulation mgm Queen Victoria to President i‘\‘whnnnn. This cable proved a failure. The first successful cable wes completed in 1866. Gorxe Up—R. O.T., City. In going along Sixth street from Bryant to Market it is per- fectly proper to say, in .umni from Bryant street, ““I am going up to Market street,” for the reason that Market street is twenty-four feet higher than Bryant on the line of Sixth street. ‘WoMEN's RigaTs—H. T., City. In this Statea woman has the right to engage in the saloon business if she chooses to do so. Section 18, Article XX of the Constitution of this State says: “No person shall, on account of sex, be disqualified from entering upon or pursuing any lawful business, vocation or profession.” A Cowarp's Acr—L. B., Benicis, Cal. C. L. Stone of 8 Dale place, this City, informs this department that ‘Sergeant Mason's Reply,” by A. H. R., in whichoccurs the sentence, “It is & coward’s act to shoot et one that can’t resist,” appeared in the Post of this City some years ago, that he has a copy of it in his scrapbook, and that L. M. B. may send to have it copied. FIRsT PAPERS—A. W., Dixon, Cal. If you ob- tained your first papers in San Francisco, and have lost them, you can obtain a copy of the same by writing to the court out of which they were isstied. 1f issued out of a department of the Superior Court, you can obtain a certified copy by addressing the County Clerk, giving the name of the court that issued the papers, and the date. NEW YORK CITY—A. 8. G., City. The area of the city of New York south of Harlem River is 12,575,810 acres. The area of the Twenty« third Ward 4,276,023 and that of the Twenty- fourth is 8,050, , making a total of 24,8 156 acres. The area of the eutire city is 63 equare miles, The area of London is 122 square miles, that of Paris is 30 square miles; that of Chicago is 189 square miles, Philadel- phia 129, and San Francisco 42. COLLECTION Day—Reader, Lathrop, Cal. At one time—that was before the advent of the railroad across the continent—the merchants of San Francisco were in the habit of making their collections on the day before the de- arture of the steamer of the Pacific Mail line or Panama, and the day on which bills were presented was known as *‘steamer day.’”’ In after years it was found that what was known assteamer day would no longer answer busi- ness purposes; therefore the merchants agreed upon certain days on which collections should be made, and these are now known as “collecs tion days.” UNITED STATES FINANCE.—C. E. R., Waterloo, San Joaquin County, Cal. From figures pre« pared by the Treasury Department at the ine stance of Senator Cockrell it appears that when Grover Cleveland entered the White House on the 4th of March, 1885, the public debt was $1,196,149,600. During his first administration the debt was reduced $338,. 043,380. The interest pald during the first Cleveland administration was $188,258,905. In interest, I)remiumu and principal there was paid in the four years of the first Cleveland administration £551,000,000. When Harrison entered the White House he found the public debt to be $858,106,220. When he left at the end of his term it had been reduced to §585,034,260. The reduction of the principal during the Harrison admin- istration was $128,521,43 The payment on principal, interest and premiums during Har- rison’s term was $423,000,000. Last March Cleveland completed the third year of his second term. When he was in- luinrl!ed the-second time the debt was $585,« 034,260. At the end of his third year— March 3—it was $822,000,000, an increase of $237,000,000. The interest paid in the third presidential year of Cleveland’s administrs tion was $£34,000,000. In the third presi- dential year of Harrison’s term the interest charge was $21,000,000. In the first fiscal ear of Cleveland’s second administration the ncrease of the debt was $50,000; in the second it was $81,000,000. 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