The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 8, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier. .80.15 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail..... 6.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail. 8.00 Dally and Sunday Carz, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sundsy CALL, one month, by mail. .66 Bunday CALL, obe year, by mall. WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mall THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country ona vacatien * If #0, 1t 15 no trouble 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 recelve prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARC BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone .Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS 517 Clay Street. Telephone. . Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open untll 9:80 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. &W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; epen until § o’clock. 2518 Mission street; open untll 9 o'clock. 118 Ninth street; open until § o’clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rcoms 31 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York Cits. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent- JU; 8, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. The rush to St. Louis begins. This week will be warm and the next one red hot. Californians will be united this year as never before. Join a Republican club at once. going to be a marching campaign. This is No Republican will go to the National Convention with his war paint on. Democracy is clearly getting ready to do something desperate with itself. This year the Democrat and the mug- wump never speak as they pass by. About all that Democracy lives for is the hope of getting even with Grover. There is no sign, symptom or suggestion of any converts to free trade in this cam- | paign. AR The Republican ratification meetings in California should be made the most enthu- siastic in the Union. All over the State Republicans should be at work organizing and bringing in the convert to the cause of prosperity. The restoration of a protective tanff will | simplify the financial problem and go far | toward providing an easy solution of it. If Congress does not adjourn in time to attend the St. Louis Convention it might | as well stay on Grover's hands all sum- mer. If ever the old Democratic wagon gets itself hitched to the eilver forces of this country it will be a smashed wagon at the first turn in the road. The revival of industry waits for the campaign to close, but it waits with the | assurance of a victory for patriotism, pro- tection and prosperity. Just about this time in every election year the world begins to deny & man the right to have an opicion unless he has money enough to bet on it. Under the Democratic tariff wehavehad | revenue deficiencies not only every month but every hour. The bond-producing work never lets up an instant. From now until after the Republican Convention has named the next President the political pot will be boiling, and then it will cool off again for a month or so. It is reported in Missouri that Bland has declared that he is not a candidate for the Presidency, but all the same those Demo- crats who are candidates are not trusting him much. While St. Louis occupies the center of things just now, Santa Cruz has begun to show a very attractive light on the hori- zon, and a good many people have begun to look that way. It is said Senator Gorman isin doubt whether to go to Europe or come to Cali- fornia this summer, from wbich it would seem his only clearly defined yearning is to get 6at of Maryland. New York statistics show a decided in- crease of marriages this year over the cor- responding period of 1895, and some people are pointing to them as a proof of better times, but the world remembers this is leap year. Never was the prevailing sentiment of the American people more unmistakable than at this time. There are differences of opmionon many things, but there isa voice universal for a return to the Ameri- can protective system. Some Eastern merchants are complain- ing that the people of their section pnr- chase bicycles when they cannot pay for their groceries or their summer clothes, and thus does the whirligig of fashion throw trade into confusion. = Honest assessments are of interest to every taxpayer, for if one is permitted to evade his taxes the amount must be made up from the pockets of others, Thus, tax- shirking in one case means tax-robbery in another and the honest citizen is plun- dered in order that the dishonest may be enriched. In a recent debate in Parliament on the education bill one of the speakers quoted a farmer as saying that if all the money expended on public instruction in Eng- Jand in the last twenty years had been em- ployed in procuring arcificial manure for the land the country would have been bet- ter off. It would be hard to find an Ameri- can farmer who would indorse such a sentiment. The Rev. Dr. Forbes of Duluth, in com- menting on the sensational methods of some evangelists, says: ‘“In some places all you have to do is to hold up your hand and shout, ‘Come to Jesus,’ and you are caved., It will soon be thatyou may get saved by sending your cabinet photo- graph and have it baptized. Salvation witl soon be on sale by telephone and telegraph.” Had a newspaper said that it would have been denounced u.flip pancy, but coming from a pastor it ml} be accepted as the earnestness of the period. 4 | Again it says: | Once more: THE PARTY FIRST. When en-Congressman Forman was asked the other day if William R. Morn- son would accept the Chicago nomination on a free-silver platform, he said: “Well, I hardly think any man would be api to set up his opinion against that of a ma- jority of his party.” Colonel Morrison is a gold-standard man and Mr. Forman is his confidential friend and neighbor. It is said Mr. Forman’s opinion was asked to ascertain if it was worth while to try to reconcile the Altgeld and Cleveland following. Mr. Forman, no doubt, was au- thorized to say what he said, which means that Colonel Morrison would accept the nomination on any kind of a platform the convention might adopt, for Mr. Forman further said that he was opposed to the idea of holding a convention independent of the one to be held inafew days, in which the Altgeld influence will dominate. No doubt thisis a plan to harmonize the several factions on the basisof a free-silver platform and a single-standard candidate. How such a combination would work re- mains to be seen, but Morrison would come as near if not nearer satistying all sides than almost any other one of the lead- ing lights of the party, for he is a firm be- liever in the doctrine that a candidate has no right to have a policy other than the one laid down and defined by the party in convention. Bat it is the lesson Mr. Forman’s answer teaches that makes it important. There has been a growing disposition in both of the great parties in recent years to ignore the will and wish of the rank and file, and adjust the party’s declarations of princi- ples to the personal views of the individual who happens tocontrol the majority of the delegates. The principles of a party should be the outcome of the best thought and judgment of the party as a whole, but the application of them must necessarily be left to those whom the party selects to represent it in the affairs of the public. The principles of a party do, in its judg- ment, come nearer providing for all the public requirements of the people than any others. No party intends that whatever good comes of its administration shall be shared in by its own following only. It is for the betterment of the condition of all the people that parties exist, and the judgment of no man is as valuable as the combined judgment of all the party’s members. The right of a candidate to urge the adoption of his opinion on a given ques- tion is not questioned, but when he makes its acceptance the condition of his ac- cepting the nomination, he sets up his judgment as being superior to the judg- ment of the combined wisdom of all the other members of the party. That indi- vidual who thinks he is greater than his party has reached the point where his true worth shouid be made known to him. Mr. Forman is right. No man has the right to set up his own opinion against the majority of his party. - A WARNING FROM WALL STREET. The June financial circular of one of the leading Wall-street banking institutions says: “There is plenty of money in the East, but it is not at the service of promo- tion” (meaning business enterprises) “as long as there is a fear that a dollar in gold lent will be repaid by a ‘dollar’ in silver, worth 52 cents in the article borrowed.” “There will be no revival from business stagnation until this ques- | tion is settled,” meaning the final and un- alterable adoption of the gold standard. “*An unequivocal gold stand- ard is the necessity to-day as it never was before. sharper than ever before.” The circular letter from which the above quotations are taken is, presumably, not | for general circulation. The presumption is that it is sent to money-borrowers, | money-lenders and stock speculators. It | is sent to money-borrowers to call their | attention to the fact that they will get no bank accommodations to carry on their | business until the gold standard is adopted | for good and all, hoping thereby to <timu- | late them to work, talk «nd vote against | the remonetization of silver; to money- lenders to inform them to not expect to have paper rediscounted until the “silver | craze” is a thing of the everlasting past, | and to stock speculators to remind them thet ‘“deals” on the New York stock ex- change will be in gold at par and in silver at 52 cents of the face value of the coin. This circular letter further says that ad- vocates of free silver coinage at 16 to 1 are “aggressive and vociferous” and that they will “fight bard” in the St. Louis and Chi- cago conventions to fasten their ‘*delusion’’ upon the two great parties. It gives free silverites the credit of being of “average | honesty” in ‘orainary business trans- actions,” but on the money question ‘“‘the lines must be drawn about them tight and secure.”” Eastern business men, that is Eastern bankers and money lenders, are “impressing’’ gold-standard ‘“‘principles’ on their ‘“correspondents” (creditors) “thronghont the country.” The audacity of this Wall-street banking concern, and it is a representative money lending institution of that center, is sublime in its frankness. A deliberate conspiracy is formed to bankrupt the ‘West and South unless they acquiesce in ‘Wall street’s purpose to reduce the volume of the people’s circulating money to a point where they can lock it up or let it out according to its own sweet will. Verily the seed of Benedict Arnold has in- creased and multiplied to alarming num- bers, but it must not be forgotten that the people have not yet started on the war- path. The circular letter of this Wall- street concern says the people are “‘aggress- ive and vociferous,” and it will bave no reason to doubt it later on. RUSSIAN SUPERSTITION. ‘While it may be and doubtless is true that Russia is destined to be the greatest and most influential nation in tne world, next to the United States, the fact is very appareat that from royalty to peasant the people are yet dwelling in the shadow of the superstition of the middle ages. Every forced departure from the pre- viously arranged programme of coronation ceremonies and festivities is held to be a warning of dreadful things to come. The more intelligent class felt that the festivi- ties at Moscow the other week ought to be saspended for a day or two aiter the dreadful accident which cost fully 4000 people their lives, but they were afraid to let a hitch be seen in the gayeties, lest the populace should conclude that something even more frightful than the trampling of thousands of human beings to death would swoop down upon the nation, and so the | dancing and merrymaking went on, Itis reported that the young Emperor isin a state of physical and mental col- capse as a consequence of the great dis- aster coming upon the heels of his corona- tion, which itself left him physically jex- bausted. He, too, is superstitious, and looks into rather than beyond/the shadows of events. The man’s weakness as well as his ignorance was made conspicuous when he ordered that all of $20,000,000 shounld be expended in the preparations for his coro- nation, and yet, on the other hand, a present at his own expense of a bag of provisions to each of the 500,000 of his A The lines are to be drawn this year | | resent poor subjects who came to do him honor when he was crowned shows the man has a kind heart. The fact remains, however, that he was too superstitious to stop the festivities long enough to bury 4000 men, women and children who had been killed while celebrating his elevation to the throne, ORGANIZE OLUBS. Every Republican knows the importance to the party of local league clubs. For the most part political clubs are composed of young men, as they should be, for the enthusiasm of the younger members of the party, especially. of the first voters, does not subside when facing extra marching and extra work, and it is through their energy and determination that the older members are often kept active in strengthening the party’s lines of battle. It has been observed for a good many years that when the young men of the party organize themselves into clubs a much larger percentage of the vote is cast. Somehow they take hold with a quality of earnestness that inspires every one to take deep interest in the success of the party; besides, the burden of leader- ship will soon fall upon them, and the training they receive in the ctub organiza- tion fits them to plan and execute with far more accuracy than otherwise would be the case. resident Kinney of the State League of Republican Clubs has issued a ringing ad- dress to the members of the party, in which he clearly points out the advantages that will accrue to the party if all who possibly ‘can will connect themselves with & club. The party will soon be in the heat of one of the most important campaigns in the history of Republicanism. Failuretocarry the State and the country would be little less than a calamity to the business enter- priseof every one. Itistruethe Democrats are at war one with the other, but they are queer folks. They are likely to bury the | hatchet and make a united and desperate | effort to elect their candidates, and to be prepared for such a contingency our young men should make haste to organize them- selves into clubs so as to be ready as well | as determined to win a telling victory for the Republican party. Let the victory be in the nature of the annihilation of Cleve- landism on the one hand and Aligeldism on the other. Let no young Republican weit to be invited to join a club. Let him seek out one, and if there be nonein his neighborhood let him organize one. But, | anyway, let every young member of the party get himself in readiness to enter the campaign the aay after the St. Louis | Convention shall have announced. the names of the candidates, with a rousing ! ratification parade. | THE DEMOORATIO LIE FAOTORY. It was unnecessary for Perry Heath to | deny that he had given 1t out that ex- | Senator Platt of New York was engaged in | a conspiracy to have anti-McKinley dele- | gates recognized and that $1,000,000 had | been deposited in St. Louis banks to carry out the financial end of the scheme. The story is too preposterous for any sensible person to think of seriously. Mr. Heathis an Ohio man, editor of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, and a personal friend of Mr. McKinley. He is in St. Louis as | one of the advance agents to look after the | interests of Ohio’s favorite son. All stories of that kind can be run right | back to the Democratic party’s syndicate | of liars. For some weeks the syndicate | has been very busy manufacturing all kinds of stories to create trouble in the St. Louis convention, but this story of $1,000,000 having bean raised by Mr. Platt for a cor- | rupting fund is altogether the “thinnest’” that has as yet been circulated. Mr. Platt and some other leading Republicans rep- ““favorite sons,’”” and no doubt they are doing their level best to impress upon delegates-elect that Senator Allison, Gov- ernor Morton, Senator Quay, Speaker Reed or Senator Culloia would make a stronger candidate than Mr. McKinley, which they have a perfect right to do, but to say they have raised a million or more dollars to buy up McKinley delegates, or to “pack” the convention with delezates whose title is not quite clear, is to repeat a monstrous lie and play into the hands of the Democratic party. | The Democracy is all torn up, and every man is armed with a razor or gun; never- theless the leaders believe that if they can foment dissensions in the Republican party and thus divert the attention of their own rank and file from the war that is raging between the Cleveland and anti- Cleveland wings there may be a chance for i reconciliation at Chicago. Republicans | will not be caught, however, especially by such a bald-headed falsehood as the cor- ruption fund story, which is, by the way, the Jatest ontput of the syndicate’s lie | factory. 00AST EXCHANGES. The Stanford University paper, the Daily Palo Alto, has issued & beautiful sixteen-page commencement edition, containing, among its pictorial features, two full-page illustra- tions of the Varsity track team and the | Varsity baseball team. It is & creditable pro- duction in every respect. The little daily has exercised quite an influence at the university during the past scholastic year. C. B. Lillie, who for the past twelve years has been connected with the Visalia Delta, has severed his relations with that publication in order that he may engage in business in the city of Los Angeles. { Fortuna, Humboldt County, is lucky to pos- sess & newspaper s0 wide-awake and enterpris- ing as the Eel River Valley Advance. Last week was issued a twelve-page illustrated specialedi tion of that publication, containing valuable historical and descriptive matter relative to Fortuna and the country around it. Such an edition cannot fail to be of benefit to the local- ity in which it is printed, and to which itis bound to attract the attention of intending settlers. We heartily coincide with the editor of the Advance, Leon F. Stinson, that “Although the financial outcome of this venture may no be as monumental as could be wished, the pub- lisher has a right to feel that he has made a fairly creditable showing in behalf of the com- munity in which he lives, and whose interests and welfare are coequal with his own.” The initial number of the Ashbary Heights Advocate is at hand. Itisa neat little paper, full of interesting notes relating to an impor- tant and rapidly growing part of San Francis- co, and will pe issued on the 30th of every month. As one of the fruits of the reepnt session of the California Grand Lodge, A. ». U. W., the California Workman has appeared. It is an eight-page monthly, devoted to the interests of the order, and is edited by John Hoesch, who has for many years been prominent in affairs of the fraternity. The paper is replete ‘with information concerning the grand and subordinate lodges of this State. The Williams 7ranscript has changed hands, J.T. Brittan retiring from the editorial chair and J. L. Kennon settling down in the place. In sssuming charge of the destinies of the paper Mr. Kennon serves notice on certain parties in his community that *no bluffs go,” and that his “office hours are from 6 A. M. to 6 P. M.” He thus concludes his introductory note: “We feel proud of the fact that we have always ‘toed tne mark,’ and 1f there is any one who has any doubts about it just let him twist our coat tail once.” A twenty-page edition of the Fullerton Tribune is a splendid issue. Itis typographic- ally perfect, and its half-tone {llustrations are quite up to the standard of magazines. It has carefully prepared articles descriptive of the soil, climate and productions of the region about Fullerton. The Tribune gives ample evi- dence that it is receiving the blessings or & de- served prosperity. The San Diego Union says that the residents of Richland, near San Marcos, are becoming quite excited over the surface indications of oil. Some land is being leased for the work, and according to & correspondent if the “in- ide” is as valuable as has been predicted San Marcos will become what, owing to herclimate and productions of soil, she deserves to be- come—one of the most noted and best-settled Pplaces of all California. That peat land exists in Southern California in remarkable quantities is not generally known, but the Los Angeles Journal says that such is the case. Last week W. F. Phillips purchased thirty acres of this land located near Westminster, in Orange’ County, for $200 per acre. At present Mr. Phillips will use the land for rasing vegetables, but if call be hed {or fuel peat he will do his best to supply such demand. There are hundredsof acres of peat land in the vicinity of this property., California is alive with opportunities from one end to the other, only weiting for ihe hand of enterprise and industry to take advantage of them and convert them into money. Here is an interesting item in illustration from the Eel River Valley Advance : Over in the Palmer Creek woods, about & mile from Fortuna as the crow flies, a telling industry has been carried on for years, with & steady and almost amaz- ing output. James W. Rowley, & crippled vet- eran of the War of the Rebellion and & citizen that any community might claim with pride, with his four brave boys, ere in & great meas- ure responsible lor the splendid showing made below. Rowley and sons commenced sawing shingles February 3, 1889, and up to May 20, 1896, had sent 45,000,000 shingles to market. The timber is taken from the land of N. Thompson, to whom stumpage is paid. In 1893 father and sons commenced manufactur- ing boxes and up to date have turned out 37,000 apple, cherry, peach, plum and to- mato boxes, to which output fish boxes will be added. The quiet accomplishments of Mr. Rowley and sons furnish an example worthy of emulation by the croakers and mal con- tents with whom we too often come in cons tact. Rumors having been afloat recently to the effect that a new railroad was to be built from Stockton up into the mining region.and that the work was to begin before the end of the coming summer. The Stockton Mail informs us that: ““It is now said tnat the road will be con- structed to Jackson, Amador County, and that the full particulars will be disclosed before many weeks. Theline will be a broad-gauge steam railway, and the road will be built as an adjunct to mining operations in that region. Ageneral freight business will, of course, be carried on, but one of the main objects aimed at is the conveyance of ore to this city, where itis to be reduced atthe works to be put up for the purpose. The cheap coal which is to be brought here from Corral Hollow is one of the main factors making the proposed road & possibility.”” The approximate nearness of Moraga Valley to Mount Diablo, where manufacturing coal has been minea for years, lends interest to the following announcement made by the Contra Costa (Martinez) Gazette: George King discovered a vein of coal on the Ricketts ranch, in the Moraga Valley, about twelve miles from Oakland, while fishing last week. He was on the banks of a smal stream and found the vein cropping out along the hills for about 500 feet, and also found 1t cropping out on the other side of the hill on Antone Nooa’s and other ranches. It is about three feet thick and of very gool quality, Some of Lhe coal was taken to Oakland and found to burn well. It Is now be- lieved that the entire country between Moraga Valley and Corral Hollow is one vast coal field. As though this discovery were not sufficient our exchange announces the following in ad- dition: Iu the sams locality, Gus Willlams of Oakland discovered a deposit of excellent potter's clay. A sample was shown to the managers of the Oakland Pottery Works, who pronounced it the finest clay in the country, They pay $10 per ton for the clay they now use, and say tbat if {he find in Moraga i3 of sufficient quantity and the coal in the vicinity abundaut they will move. their works to Contra Costa County. These discoveries will no doubt prove of great value to this county. Gradually s systematized condition of af- fairs is being brought out of the excitement and bustle attending the development of the ofl industry in Southern California. From an exhaustive review of the situation made by the Los Angeles Times the following extracts are taken: Each day brings evidence of continued improve- ment in the petroleum merket. Less than ninety dsys azo ofl was being sold at the oil tanks in the Los Angeles tield at as low price as 25 cents per bar- rel. To-day sales are being wade at 70 cents per bar- rel at the welis. During the last few days producers have even refused (0 enter into contracts for long perfods at the latter price. Last Friday the Oil | Exchange sold 500 barrels aboard cars at 8714 cents per barrel, being 23 cents per barrel in- crease over the Exchange’s quoiation of advanced rates, agreed upon in executive session less than w0 weeks ago. Another advance 1s imminent, but will not be mede untl the ofl bark Knoch Talbot has taken her cargo. £he Is now loading and has already taken in over 7000 barrels, under contract (o the Arctic Oll Works of San Francisco. The Exchange intended to put 000 barrels into her this trip, but this amount will probably be increased to 10,000 barrels. Messrs. Martin and Burns informed a reporter of the Times yesterdsy that the market was show- ing very grea: improvement, the consumption at the present time exceeding the production. The work of developing the oil stores of Fresno County is progressing steadily, and now comes the San Diego Sun with the an- nouncement of another important discovery: After several weeks’ delay in lining and gener- ally fixing up the ofl prospecting well at Ocean Beach work on boring deeper wi 1 be resumed In & few days. A large piece of sha e taken from the bottom of the shaft yesterday, which has mow reached a depth of 900 feet, contains a liveral per- centage of asphaltum. The presence of this sub- stance Is a positive indication that & body of oil has existed in that vicinity at some time, and ot course may be accepted as encouraging the beliet that It may yet be found. In the borings that have been taken from the shaft from the 800-foot depth the most encouraging indications of oil have been found, and while those interested are par- ticularly secretive as to the result of their investi- goatlons so far the fact that they have gonetoa great expense In putting the shaft into perfect order atter reaching a depth of 900 feet shows that they have been encouraged by their prospects. The presence of alarge flow of water has occa- sloned considerable expense, and now that the work of casing in the well to its entire depth has been almost completed the work of boring will be resumed and it necessary ccntinued to a depth of at least 1500 feet. The fortunes of Arizona are closely linked with those of California, and hence it is in- structive to find the following in the Yuma Advertiscr: 1t is an erroneous idea that the land lying south of Yuma known as the Olgodones grant is all the available land in his section of the country. By traveling about ten miles north of Yuma on the Colorado River one can find in Northwestern San Diego County the finest kind of a location for & small colony of industrious people who would make agricu ture their business. Still further up the river, say about five miles, near a steamboat landing called Nortons Landing, there Is a tract of fine level land of 3000 acres. This Is Government land and can only be taken up in small tracts, hence the feasibility of a colo- nization scheme. It is desert land, sparsely cov- ered with arrow weeds and mesquite, but being nearly level can easily be prepared for cultivation. ‘The whole tract 13 crossed by the Ehrenburg stage line, and settlers would not feel Isolated, being thus able to get mail seml-weekly. Miners would rejoice to see ranches in this section, as it would obviate the necessity for coming to Yums to get supplies. -This land s bordered on the north and ‘west by the Colorado River. The soil is rich, and it I8 lefc for men’s ingenuity alone to spread water over these plains and make them with compara- tively little labor produce the wonderful crops of which our neighbor State, California, lying just &cross the river, is so proud. The Del Norte (Crescent City) Recogd is urg- ing its peovle to hold an agricultural fair, in spite of the fact that the appropriation by the last Legislature for such exhibitions was stricken ‘out by the Governor. As its argu- ment is instructive and is applicable to most cther parts of the State, it should be restated here. Our contemporary notes the favorable action by its Board of Supervisors on the ap- plication of leading citizens for an sppropria- tion of $500 toward the fair, and then. speak- ing of the Governor's adverse action on the legislative appropriation, says: ‘Who would have had to provide this additional £90,000 appropriation, had the Governor allowed the bill in full? We answer; The very ones who were advocating and anxious for this appropria- tion would have had to pay at least 95 per cent of the amount. Had this agricultural appropriation blil not met with the Governor's veto, Del Norte taxpayers would have had to contribute their pro- portion of the amount, and it would have cost them, indirectlv, more than $500 direct appropris- tion, which the Supervisors have assured the Del Norte Agricultural Association. By the ciosest possible calculation this little ap- propriation will cost the man who pays taxes on $100 worth of property just 234 cents; the man Wwho pays taxes on $1000 worth of proverty, 25 cents, and the man who pays taxes on $4000 worth of property, 1. PERSONAL. Judge William H. King of Salt Lake City s here. Dr. 8. B. Davis of Stockton is a guest at the Grand. -H. 8. Reed is at the Californis from Spring- fleld, Il v F. D. Albee, & farmer at Point Arena, is at the Russ. Max Gundlock, the Bakersfield banker, is at the Lick. C. W. Clough of Chico is & guest at the Cos- mopolitan. Charles Perry Austin of San Rafael is at the Occidental, W. L. Fleming of Simpson, W. Va., is staying &t the Russ. Watson H. Wyman of Coronado is & recent arrival at the Palace. C. M, Heintz, editor of a German newspaper at Los Angeles, is in town. E. Morgan, a hotel man of Los Angeles, is staying at the Cosmopolitan, G. E. Stiekl, a merchant of Angels Camp, ar- rived at the Grand yesterday. T. Townsend, s rancher of Salem, Or., is registered at the Cosmopolitan. T. B. Bunting, who owns a ranch near Santa Cruz, is staying at the Occidental. Sam Alexander, a merchant of Fresno, is in town and has & room at the Lick. Charles F. More, an orchardist of Niles, 1s registered at the Russ with his wife, John Gray, foreman of a mine at Hedge., Colo., arrived at the Russ yesterday. J.J. Tierney, & mining man of Cordelis, is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. State Senator John B. Allen of Washington is at the Palace, registered from Seattle. 8. W.Young, an instructor in chemistry at Stanford University, 1s at the California. W. F. George, an attorney of Sacramento, is among last night's arrivals at the Grand. Nat C. Goodwin Jr., the actor and theatrical man of New York, is a guest of the Palace. H. E. Crook, a wealthy dry-goods man of New York, is a guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Astronomer W. J. Hussey is down from Mount Hamilton and is staying at the Lick. J. Gerraghty, a wealthy real estate owner of Los Angeles, 18 staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. C. B. Badeau, a merchant of New York City, is making the California his temporary head- quarters. N. Wines, proprietor of & stage line between Santa Barbara and Las Olivas, arrived at the Grand last night. E. W. Monkhouse and W. S. Simpson of Lon- don, Eng., two wealthy tourists, arrived at the Palace last night. 5 W. W. Douglas, Deputy State Controller, came yesterday from Sacramento and took a room at the Grand, Dr. G. W. Woods, director-general of the navy medical department at Mare Island, isa guest of the California. £ir Kenneth W. Cumming of Sydney, Aus- tralia, has returned to the Occidental aftera few days in the country. Mrs. J. G. Kittle, widow of the well-known local millionaire, returned last night to the Palace after an extended.trip through the Eastern States. Edgar M. Sheehan, a young journalist of Sacramento, is at the Occidental with his bride, having returned from a wedding trip through the southern part of the State. Professor R. E. Allerdice, formerly of Edin- burgh University, Scotland, but latterly of the department of mathematics at Stanford Uni- versity, is at the California for a few days pre- paratory to taking a summer outing in the mountains, Professor Allerdice prides bim- self on being one of the few remaining mem- vers of the once formidable faculty bachelor club at Palo Alto. AT WHIST. Across the polished table there 1 see her sitting now; her hair, Her eyes, her dainty fingers, toq, Just as in years agone I knew My partner. Iled a heart—I think the king— t s around the silent riug, ‘And though it was the best one out, She paused a moment, half in doubt, Then tramped It. “Oh1 partner, that was the command,” ~hesaid, when she had plaved the hand; Then wrinkling up her pretty brow, “You will forgive me, won't you, now, For trumping?” Another night, reme; ‘We sat wh re moon No polished marble ‘We talked of other things than whist; 1 strove her fancy to enlist With all a lover’s gentle art, And once again 1 led my heart, Unguarded. 1led a heart again, my I When rourd to ber the had passed She thought it not the best one out, She paused a momeut, half in doubt, ‘Then trumped it. This time no pleading glance I canght, No trembling lips forgiveness sought, No eyes with lashes drooping wet, Told me my partner did regret mp it. tru —Philadelphia Telegraph. ALONG THE SKIRMISH LINE. Mr. Cleveland will leave the White House a rich man, but no poor man is the richer for his second term,—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. I have used the Hanna mouth-stopper one whole week and can cheerfully recommend it to my friends.”—M. 8. Quay.—Washington Post. The Senator from Colorado wants the United States Government to do & banking business on a silver basis, and he be the Teller.s-Cleve- land World. ‘The Democrats are saying very little about 1he tariff this year. In fact, if there is one thing which needs protection more than an- other it is the Democratic party.—Manchester Mirror and American. It won’tdo to bank too much on the Ver- mont Democreacy’s sound money stand. Ver- mont Demoeracy cuts mighty little ice ina National convention—or anywhere else, for that matter.—Lowell Courier. If there is any Republican in authority in New York so injudicious as to say that McKin- ley or any one else could not carry the State if nominated he ought to be disciplined by his own organization.—Philadelphia Inquirer. President McKinley ana the Congress to be elected with him will be for the gold standard with the largest use of silver consistent with that standard, the silver to be maintained at par with gold, according to the pledge of the National honor and the parity clause of the act of 1890.—Chicago Times-Herald. -PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. There are xénewod rumors in London of Embassador Bayard's retirement from the Court of St. James. The late John Stetson recently remarked: “There are more men who ere foois in Boston than there are men.” It is probable that Queen Victoria will give a garden party in thegrounds of Bucking- ham Palace in July, a day or two before the royal wedding. The late Baron Hirsch received an average of 400 begging letters & day, and never read them, though he gave away in a single year as much usxs.ooo.ooo:___ Though Eir Michael Hicks-Beach is & non- smoker and a disbeliever in the weed, the Cabinet has a large majority of smokers, The Chancellor’s companions in abstinence are Lord Salisbury, the Lord Chancellor, Arthur Balfour and Mr. Chaplin, who are all innocent of tobacco. Marshal Frey of the Baltimore police depart- ment, has been in the service of the city for thirty years and has had two week’s vacation in that time. Sir Arthur Sullivan’s full hame is Arthur Seymour Su!livan. To avoid the unfortunate combination of initials the second name has been discreetly dropped. Prince Christian of Denmark, eldest son of the Crown Prince and ulimate heir to the throne, is engaged to the Princess Pauline, only child of the King of Wurtemberg. Prince Bismarck is to have another statue. This time it is at Leipsic. The eity has com- missioned Sculptor Lehnart to execute it, and the municipality has selected a site near the park. Kaiser Wilhelm stopped at Frankfort for a few hours for the celebration of the anniver- sary of the treaty of peace, and within three days there were forty arrests for lese majeste in the town. Theodore Mommsen, the historian, has been spending some time in Florence. A reception in his honor was recently given by the citi- zens, at which he received a deputation from the University of Pisa. The Empress Elizabeth 1is responsible for the fact that the society women of Austria are highiy enthusiastic over the sport of steeple- chasing. They are all riding and looking ex- ceptionally well in the saddle. “Our finest English historian in paint, as he has been in black and white”’—that is whata London eritic calis the American artist, Edwin Abbey. Mr. Abbey’s picture of Richard Crook- back and the Princess Anne has captured Lon- don. It is not generally known that the reigning German Empress is an ardent tollower of the Photographic art. In summer hardly a day passes without her Majesty havimg added to her collection, and she never travels without her camera. It has been proposed to erect & new church at Taunton, England, asa memorial of Arch- deacon Denison. The scheme is estimatea to cost about £60,000, and already the movement has gained the suppori of several influential people, including Mr. Gladstone. Andrew Lang says: “A difference in taste in books, when it is decided and vigorous, breaks many & possible friendship.”” He indicates the passport to his faver by telling us that “He orshe who condemns Scott and cannot read Dickens is & person with whom I would fain have no further converse.” HUMOR OF THE HOUR. He can’t pay his board, for his star of success Beneath the horizon has sunk; He's an elephant now on his landlady’s hands, And that's why she's holding his trunk. —Denville Chronicle. Aunt—Why did you etare at that gentleman so rudely, Ethel? Little Ethel—Oh, he’s a dreffulman; he never goes to church or nothing. I heard father say he was an acrostic.—Judy. Applicant—I understand, madame, that you desire to employ the services of a chaperon for your daughter. Mrs. Creesus—Yes; I do. Can you ride a bicycle?—Somerville Journal. Mrs. Colonial Dame—I am proud to say that my grandfather made his mark in the world. Mrs. Rev. Lution—Well, 1 guess he wasn't the only man in those days who couldn’t write his name.—New York Herald. Miss Antique (coyly)—Dear mel I wonder who that elderly gentleman is who has been following me about all evening? Mrs. Flatly—That is Professor Sniggins, the celebrated antiquarian.—Puck. Mistress of the House (taking her girl to task)—Bridget, I am afraid you have broken your word. Bridget (absent-mindedly)—Shure, ma’am, it must have been the cat.—Yonkers Statesman, He prided himselt on speaking twelve tongues; He cound trace to Its roots any word you might name: But he read, twice through, a basebail report, And couldn’t tell what they did in the game! —Chicago Record, Josiah—Here's a sketch of Dr. Powderpill in the Shady Valley Echo. It says he has a big library, and that he’s a regular bibliomaniac. Maria—Well, now, that ain’ts6! I know he don’t go to church very much; but he believes in the Bible, for he told me so himself.—Puck. “There is something about your style of writing, Miss Urleigh,” remarked the literary editor, “that reminds me strongly of Joaquin Miller.” “indeed,” exclaimed the young woman, bighly pleased. “Yes; Ihave to hire an expert to decipher it.”—Chicago Tribune. I don’t see how you design all those lovely suits for little boys,” gushed the enthusiastic woman." “It is easy enough,” seid the ladies’ and children’s tailor. “I ury them on my own boy. If the suit makes him utterly miserable I know I have scored another success with the moth- ers.”’—Cincinnati Enquirer. She smiled at me as she swiftly passed, Over the handle bar: ' That sunny nmile was the maiden’s lasty Over the handle bar; Sne carromed hard on a cobblestone. £he took a header she couldn’s postpone— Her twinkiing heels in the moonlight shone Over the handle bar. . —Cleveland Post. A Continuous Performance.—*“You remember when I proposed to you?” said the young hus- band. I believe I do recollect something of the sort,” answered the yonung wife. “And you told me I would have to see your mother.” “Yes.” “I must have misunderstood you. I never dreamed that it was the programme that I should see your mother every day I came home.”’—Indianapolis Journal. — e ) ‘A HOUSE GOWN. R A house gown of crepon is shown here, Itis fitted, having the usual back and side forms, the under arm being cut in two with the front, The lining hooks in front center, the left side being partly gored with the goods, which hangs loose below the waist line, showing & bit of contrasting goods :lndh'tr lu‘tthbe‘:‘n(‘ nwad' ?om?h: h’t .l“hvn ps over and fastens Challis are much liked for such gowns, and iavidioly on 1 plain many in fine batiste and lawn are seenm,es ially in Dresden figures on & flax-colored p:gnnfly, with lining of plain bright colored awn. Handsome govénl nel of silk, in Dresden pat- , St checks. "mz.n:u, ity l‘i‘;ht shades, is much liked, and & trimmed with lace or chiffon. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. To THE FARALLONES—O. T. P., City. The dis- from the lighthouse at Fort Point to the me;n the Farallones is twenty-five and a half miles. THE FrLoop BuiLpiNé—P. and G., City. The Flood Building has, since 1887, when it was erected, always been known by that name, and never by another name. THE FLAG—G. W. F., City. There is no law of the United States that prevents a person from using the American flag for advertising purposes, but public sentiment is against such & desecration of the stars and stripes. MEeDIcAL— Veritas, City. For information sbout the conditions imposed on a graduate of an eclectic medical college who desires to practice in Vietoria, B. C., you will have to write to the secretary of the Board of Health of that city. : MusIcIAN'S PAY—O. T. P., City. The payofa musician in the United States army is $13 per month for the first year, the same the second year, and after thai an increase of $1 per month until the maximum is reached, $16. In the navy, musicians of the first class are Pllllg 3?)per month and those of the second class $30. VESSEL'S NAMES—Napsa, CAL The law prohib- {ting the changing of the name of United States vessels carrying passengers was passed by Con- gress May 5, 1864, and went into effect sixty days after. Subsequently a law was passed au- thorizing the chenge of the name of a vessel under certain conditions and permission of the authorities. BALVATION ARMY—S, P., City. There are sev- enteen training garrisons for soldiers of the Salvation Army in this country, seven for men and ten for women. There is none in Denver, Colo. The seventeen are located as follows: For men—In Oakland, Seattle, New York, Chicago and St. Louis. For women—In San Francisco, New York, Newark (N. J.), Brooklyn (N.Y), Hoboken, Chicago, St. Louis snd Cincinnati. DEPEW AND THURSTON. &t. Louls Globe-Democrat. John M. Thurston of Nebraska is another of the new Benators sent as a delegate to the Na- tional Convention. Eight years ago Mr. Thurs- ton was a delegate to the Chicago convention. He was temporary chairman also. He attended a dinner which Cheuncey M. Depew gave to certain Western delegates. Mr. Depew was playing a brief engagement as the candidate of New York for the Presidency. At the close of the dinner Mr. Depew asked Mr. Thi : “How many votes will I get in Nebrask: “Not one,” replied Mr. Thurston, candid! “How many delegates are there from Ne- braska?” asked Mr. Depew. “Twelve,” replied Mr. Thurston. “How many railroad lawyers are there on the Nebraska delegation?” asked Mr. Depew. “Twelve,” said Mr. Thurston. ““Then what do you mean by saying I can’t Be: any votes from Nebraska?” asked Mr. pew. “I mean,” said Mr. Thurston, “we’ll be so busy exfninmg our own records to the peoplo this fall that we won't have any time o ex- ours.” epew pursued the inquiry no further. EXCURSION TO GLEN ELLEN. Five Hundred People Visit the Warm Mr. Belt of Sonoma County. Over five hundred people went on Locke’s excursion over the San Francisco and North Pacific road to Glen Ellen and vicinity yesterday ahd bad a most enjoy- able time. The train left early in the morning, and when Soncma was reached, stopped for an hour, giving all an oppor- tunity to visit the quaint old town. The next stop was at Agua Caliente, where the train lay up for nearly two hours. The excursionists roamed over the hills, and took headers in the pool of clear warm water. At about 1 o’clock the train reached Glen Ellen and remained until 5o’clock. Ample time was thus afforded all to roam over the hills and tish in the cool mountain stream. The day was perfect, and nothing happened to mar the pleasure of the ex- cursionists from the time they left in the morning until they returned to the City at 7:30 in the evening. ———— Borr baby cream, 15¢ pound, Townsend’s, * B CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c 1b. 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