The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 14, 1896, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 Daily and Sundey CALL, One year, by mail 6.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 8.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALr, one month, by mail. .65 Bunday CALL, one year, by mail.. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, OB year, by mail 1.50 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the conntry on a vacatlon * s0, it is 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 receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone.... reeersneeees.Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay reet. 2 Telephone........ - Main-1874 BRANCH OFFICI | 630 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o'clock. 39 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street: open u &W . corner Sixieenth an wntil 9§ o'clock 8 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. L street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. Eooms 31 and DAVID M. FOL NDAY THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. The trouple with life at present is it is conventionai. Th without a sag in it somewhere. strain in the Republican strain of harmony. There is a big camp, butitisa Whatever the financial plank at St. Louis is it must not be a deal board. Whenev u find a place that isn't a convention center it is a summer resort. The rest they get in St. Louis to-day will pe only s little more of the same thing. Those who said all is over in St. Louis but the shouting e¢idently forgot the platform. It will be hot in Sacramento this weekif she intends to temper her weather to the shorn lambs, The Santa Cruz festival will be some- | thing of a convention where all parties will | be in the swim. Before long the air of Sacramento will be full enough of fur and feathers to be used as a bed lounge. This is the only State in where tfestivals are mixed with and everybody has a good time. the Union volitics Whether we have & single standard or a double standard is of less importance than to have work, wages and prosperity. Democrats will figure largely at the summer resorts this season. The whole party seems to be taking to the woods. The name given to the Santa Cruz fes- tival is only a Venetian blind. There will | be a real ifornia frolic on the inside, | There is no use fretting over the Repub- lican convention. It issure togive us a prosperity candidate on a prosperity plat. form, What perplexes society girls this season is to hear so many fellows calling them- selves good party men when they can’t dance. As the Sutro administration is to leave the City in darkness for two weeks it can- not be said to even hold a candle to its pledges. party The Democratic is not nalf so much troubled by a lack of leaders as the | Democratic leaders are troubled by the lack of a party. Democracy could straddle the money | It is the attempt splits it question easy enough. to straddle Clevelandism that clear up to the neck. As a matter of fact this Democratic swap from Buckley to Daggett is about the noisi- est and worse transfer nuisance we have ever known in this town. It is strange there should be any dispute over the platform to be adopted at St. Louls, What is the matter with the R publican record as a platform? After all the real issue before the people is to turn the Democratic fools and faction fighters out of office and restore to power the party of statesmen and patriots, A return to protection will revive the industries of the country and put money into circulation, and that will be as good as gold and ought to satisfy any goldbug. Bear in mind, Tue CaryL is the only morning paper in ihis City that publishes the United Press dispatches, aad if you wish to keep posted you must get Tur CarL. The British are no longer talking of any manifest destiny to annex the Transvaal. They are now looking round for some kind of special providence that will enable thera to let go. It is all well enough for Flower of New York to talk of the Chicago convention “drafting some good man to make the race,” but sappose the good man insists on his right to hire a substitute? A short time ago the political experts prophesied the contest at St. Louis would be mainly over the candidate and at OChi- cago mainly over the platform, but at present they are experting it the other way. There is ho reason why silver Repub- licans should boltthe St. Louis ricket, even if tre platform declares for- goid. Let us re-¢stablish the industries of vhe country thi? year and we can settle tlie financial quéstions later on. : Congress being off his hands and his fanaly at Buzzards Bay Cleveland has ample time to decide whether he will deal with the Cuban question, try {o boss the Chicago convention or just go lishing and let the world take its course. The Governor of Maine is accused of having misquoted Moore’s line into **Shout the loud timbrel o'er Egypt’s dark sea,” and now so many people are ssking him how to “shout & timbrel” that he would doubtless be relieved if he could shoot the whole business. 11 | never was a boom in the world | SEE SANTA CRUZ The great convention at St. Louis and the less important but not less noisy one L to be hetd at Sacramento will engage the greater part of public attention during the coming week and will fill most of the space of the nagapapers. This, however, should, not cause any one to overlook the festival at Santa Cruz, which, beginning on Wednesday, will close the week with merriment. | The Santa Cruz fete is unique among | the newly established festivals of the State | and is destined to becorze one of the most | tamous as it is already one of the most | enjoyable. Conducted mainly upon the water it has all the giamor of beauty and | poesy inseparable from that element. Launehed upon the waves, whether of lake or river or open sea, man seems to ! leave behind with the land more than half | the heaviness of life. Borne up on buoy- antwaters that yield everywhere and yet | everywhere give support there conies that sensation of floating which is one of the most delightful that mortals know. Thus it is that festivals upon the waters have been more attractive io the imagination, more often pictured and more often sung than any other. Itisthe subtle charm of Ler canals and lagoons more than her art or her history that has made Venice dear to men, ‘“‘the sweet spot of all festivity; the revel of the earth, the masque of | Italy.” At Santa Cruz the charm of wateris to be heightened by every accessory of adorn- ment and of pleasure that is known to the holiday-makers of our generation. Flowers, flags and maidens fair, bands of music, parades and dances, far-flashing lLights of a thousand hues and rockets that | will fill the air with a rain of fiery stars— all these wiil combine and blend to form a | glittering panorama around the central scene where over the crystal lake will | sweep the stately pageant of pleasure as | the Queen of the festival moves amid the | plaudits of the crowd to take her place upon herthrone and rulethe joyousrealm. Of what occurs at St. Louis or Sacra- | mento the average man and woman can learn all that interests them well enough by reading Tue CaLr, but we advise every- body to see Santa Cruz. The exultant | barmony that swells along the Mississippi and the noisy chin music that will make | discordant echoes on the banks of the Sac- ramento can be well enough expressea in | our reports, but it will be but poorly in- | deed that the eloquence of words trans- lates the raptures of the low, sweet strains that float in the perfumed air above the softly gliding currents of the San Lorenzo. | Those who go to the convention cities will | pant with heat and fret and fume amid | the dust and uproar of clamorous crowds, but those who go to Santa Cruz will dwell amid delights and pant only with joy as they ‘‘chase the glowing hours with fly- | ing feet.” Soon there will be enough and more than enough of political excitement for everybody. Before the summer passes the | whole United States will be a political | convention with every voter a delegate, and half of them rearing on the stump or the street-corners bellowing for a hearing. | Before that time comes it will be well for all who can afford it to recreate them- selves. The Santa Cruz festival comes at 2 most apt and fitting time for that pur- pose. "1t will relieve the tension of the popular mind over the conventions by its present pleasures and its suggestions of good times to come. *‘There will pelilting ! there,”” as the old song says, and for every one who comes a welcome, a frolic.and a California time. OAMP ROACHE, The good accomplished and the success achieved last year by the farmers’ summer school, conducted by the State Grange at Camp Roache, in the Santa Cruz Moun- tains, are sufficient advertisements of its excellence to assure an even larger at- tendance and better resuits this year. The first term was, of course, an experiment. This term will be something more, The directors, profiting by the experience of last summer, will know how to make the arrangements of the camp and the con- duct of the schoo! more pleasant and more profitable in many ways to the visitors and students. The school at Camp Roacke differs from | most of the kind, inasmuch as it alms to | be thorough and scientific rather than popular. It offers no enticements to those who desire to pass a week or two of sum- | mer idleness in the woods with light and | agreeable lectures to entertain their | leisure. It appeals only. to those who | wish to give serious study to problems | affecting farming industry. The lecturers . are professors of our universities and their lectures are like parts of a university | course, requiring attention and genuine ‘[menlal work to follow, but yielding due | profit and recompense to those who do follow them with comprehending minds. Summer schools of science, drawing their attendance from a narrow class of profeesional or semi-professional students, | are held in many States, but we believe California is the only one that maintains such a school for farmers. This of course is due to the fact that farming, and par- ticularly horticulture, is more scien- tifically studied here than eisewhere. As a rule our farmers are more highly edu- cated than those of the East and better fitted to study all the problems that affect their interest in a true scientific and philo~ sophical manner, Camp Roache is likely, therefore, to be. for some time to come an institution peculiar to California, and it will be a matter of State pride to see it grow from more to more and flourish in every way. NOT A LOVE-FEAST. Some years ago & traveler in Arkansas en route to Fort Smith was in donbt as to which one of two roads was the better way | to reach his destination. He appealed to a native for the desired information, and was told that “it don’t make no difference |which road a feller takes, for whichever | one ne took he'd wish like the dickens | he’'d took t’other one afore he’d gone fur.” | This is about the kind of advice one | would have to give California Democrats as to which road they had better take to lead them 1into the confidence of the peovle. It looks now as though the Junta would control the convention, which | means that Frank Gould will be chair- man. Mr. Buckley will be allowed to re- main in the party if he behaves himself, but will he? . The fight between the factions is bitter and desire for revenge among the Buck- leyites appears to grow keener as the con- vention day approaches. It is not denied that Mitchell of Los Angeles and Buckley have been ridden over roagh-shod by the Junta, but it may transpire at Sacramento that the Gould following have left a good many gaps open which will be taken ad- vantage of to some purpose by the other faction. In any event, however, there is too much bad blood to make very much har- mony possible, and none at all so far as tate politics and local offices are con- cerned. It is possible that the gold stand- ard delegates will let a free silver resolu- tion go through by default, as they are days of pleasure and nights of revelry and 3 = perfectly well aware that the Chicago con- vention will declare for bimetallism at the old standard, but in letting that issue go by default the inference is that, like a great many other Democrats, they will support the St. Louis candidate on the Indiana platform in preference to the Chicago man on a 16 to 1 silver declara- tion. But, anyway, factional hatred will be greatly intensified at Sacramento next Tuesday. THE FRIDAY SUPERSTITION. This is the nineteenth century, and the very best end of it at that, but who has grown entirely away from the influence of “signs’’ and other forms of superstition? Not very many of us. At St. Louis the question of the importance of the conven- tion completing its work before Friday has entered the head of the superstitious: The party would have ‘‘bad luck,” a few believe, if any important work were done on hangman’s day. Fremont was nomi- nated on Friday, as were Blaine and Har- rison when the latter was defeated by Cleveland, and these incidents are pointed to to show what a mistake it would be to defer tbe nomination until Friday. Other- wise strong, wise and capable men find themselves under the influence of old superstitions, and in every walk of life they may be found. As ‘for McKinley, he should avoid Tuesday as tbe day of the opening of the convention, for Tuesday is hangman’s day in Ohio. But no one, it may be said, is entirely free from ‘‘the bonds of superstition,” whether it takes the form of dread of ‘‘fatal | aays” or a desire to peep into the future through the eyes of a clairvoyant. From the night that Saul importuned the Witch of Endor to resurrect Samuel down through the ages man has been ranning after Witches of Endor to ascertain what he had best do and best not do. Any one who is thought to have the power of know- ing that “‘By the pricking of my thumbs something wicked this way comes” has patrons in all grades of society. Itisa mistake to suppose that only the poor and illiterate are superstitious. Indeed, it is what is called the better class who support “‘mediums’’ and welike; nor is it only the ignorant who hesitate to undertake a jour- ney or an enterprise on Friday. Try as we may we cannot help being in- terested in the delving into the unknown by those claiming a *‘gift” for pulling aside the curtain which separates the seen from the unseen. It would surprise the public to know how many distinguished professional and capable business men consult astrologers, mediums and other alleged agencies for opening the way into the future that glimpses of coming events may be had. In fact there are more augurs, soothsayers, mind-readers and spiritual mediums in the world to-day than ever before in the history of the human family, and, moreover, officers of the law become supersitious, if that is a good word to use. Early last year a wealthy gentleman was murdered in Brooklyn, N. Y., in a very mysterious way, and after the detectives had failed to find a clew, astrology, spiritualism and kindred keys that are alleged to fit the lock of the door which opens into the un- seen were appealed to to solve the my tery, and the public appeared to think that was exactly the thing to do. It is not surprising after all that there should be found plenty of men attending the St. Louis convention who would turn | pale at the suggestion that nominations be made on Friday. No doubt a good many would be thoroughly disheartened if such a thing should occur, and go into the campaign with grave doubts as to the success of the party. Such men are to be pitied rather than blamed, for they were born that way—could not help feeling so however hard they might try. But whether the nomination is made on Fri- day or not, the nominee of the convention will be the next President of the United States. DEMGORATIO PROSPECTS. The personal side of the work’of the convention that is to be held at St. Louis next Tuesday seems virtually settled. Wil- liam McKinley will head the ticket. This leaves the platform as the only question of interest, and even in that it is conceded the convention will make protection to our industries the objective point of the struggle against Democratic rule. As a consequence political speculation is now turning mainly to the affairs of the Demo- cratic party. There is nodoubt at all that at Chicago the free silver wing will dic- tate the organization and platform. The remaining and most interesting question is, Will the silverites be strong enough to nominate their man under the two-thiras rule which prevails in the party’s National nominating conventions? If they cannot no doubt a move will be made to suspend the two-thirds rule, which the majority can do, but it would be such a glaring departure from a time- honored custom that it would almost be equivalent to changing the name of the party. Moreover, such a course would give the minority a valid right, according to Democratic custom, to retain the name of the party, should the wings separate. To nullify for the time for a specific pur- pose the rule of rules would be an exhibi- tion of tyranny that would be most vigor- ously resented; besides, the parties to it would practically read themselves of the convention. It was the dropping of a hint in St. Louis the other day by a Bland man that the two-thirdsrule would be suspended that is causing all eyes to turn toward Chicago. Those who have watched the maneuver- ing of the bosses of the wings could not have failed to see th at great importance is attached to the word ‘‘regular’ in contra- distinction to the word “bolting,” should the war between the factions result in the holding of two conventions. There is very much less independence of indi- vidual thought and action in the Demo- cratic than in any other party, and a ‘“‘bolter’’ has always been considered as a creature who had reached the lowest point of political degradation. It is admitted by the Cleveland wing that the silverites will have a good working majority of the whole, but it is denied that they can mus- ter two-thirds of wne delegates when it comes to balloting for a candidate. If the goldites shall have enough delegates to prevent the nomination of a silverite under the two-thirds rule they will be masters of the situation, because they would prefer no nomination at all to see- ing a silver man win, while the silverites are bound to have a candidate or go into political bankruptey. The present out- look is, therefore, that the anti-gold standard following will have to be the bolters. Verily the party of Jefferson and Jackson is composed these days of Demo- cratic degenerates. POOR OLD DEMOCRACY. Democrats are straining their gray mat- ter needlessly in their effort to gathercon- solation from the absurd idea that the Republican party will go through the campaign in a perfunctory sort of a way. it is safe to say that the party was never more determined to get hold of the ma- chinery of the National Government. The public affairs of the people have reached that condition of weakness and uncertainty under Cleveland’s administration that the kind, quality and intensity of the enthu. siasm in the defense of the country which the firing upon Fort Sumter aroused 1s coursing through the veins of the party. The necessity of harmonious concert of action was never more keenly felt by the party from rear rank to general-in-chief, and if the Democracy is relying in the smallest degree upon lukewarmness in the Republican party to elect its candidate for President, it is leaning upon the weakest kind of a weak reed. One need not be a close observer to see how determined Republicans everywhere are torid the Government of Democratic rule. The wish of Democrats for a rupture in the St. Louis convention is father of the thought, but they grossly and igno- rantly misinterpret the * loud talk ” of some delegates to the convention. There are contesting delegations, of course—that is always the case in conventions of all parties, but at St. Louis it is merely playing for position, and is in no way related to the purpose of the party to ‘‘turn the ras- cals out”; besides, every member of the party, wherever he may be, feels that the time has come when his patriotism com- mands him to enter the ranks and not leave them until there is not a Democrat in. Government service anywhere, and Democrats everywhere are notified that not only is the Republican party en- thusiastic on its own account, but it is pleased to know that the Chicago conven- tion will send recruits to it in droves. Not since 1861 has the country been in greater need of the application of Repub- lican principles to the affairs of the Gov- ernment. The question of ample protec- tion to our industries is paramount, of course, for the first thing for the party to do when it takes hold of the reins of gov- ernmert will be to start the wheels of indue- try hat the great wage class may again have opportunity to employ their skill and brawn. This of itself is quite enough to enthuse the party to most determined action. After that, work will begin all along the line to repair the damage the Democracy has done, and there are many places to be repaired. How could anything but harmony prevail in the face of such pressing duties? In California the enthusiasm of the party is already conspicuous for its vehemence, and it is growing from day to aay. No other conditions could exist in this State— a State that so much needs to have her wool, her sugar, her fruit and her manufacturing protected from the in- vader. In fact, California is setting the pace for the Republican party in all t{he States, and there is no more intention of permitting the Democratic party to continue in power at Washington than there is of annexing the common- wealth to Mexico. If the Democratic party can draw encouragement from such a condition of things it is as credulous as the man who hoped to save himself from drowning by holding on to a straw. CONVENTIONAL LIES. David had rare opportunity to fathom the deep places in man’s churacter, and from the fact that he never apologized for saying it it may be taken for granted that it was not until after calm deliberation that he said, *“All men are liars.” Itis true he claims to have made the sweeping charge “in my haste,” but it needed those three words to round out the rhythm of that particular song of confession and thanksgiving. But, anyway, David uttered & great truth when he said all men are liars, however much it hurts to have to stand face to face with it and acknowledge the corn. It is true that the humsan family 15 a family of liars, and it isalso true that the advance of civilization to higher levels of right conduct intensifies the desire, or necessity if you like that word better, to lie, and 1do not hesitate tosay that it is altogether right that it should be so. ‘Whether we like to admit it or not it makes no difference. Every man and every woman isa Jekyll or & Hyde, as occasion requires, and I say they should be, for they are not only bet- ter themselves for being so, but those to whom they appear are better for the deception that is practiced upon them. No doubt, my good readers wiil say I am paradoxical,but I am not soatall. There s no such thing as entire and perfect sincerity in speech or in act at all times, nor should there be. Itis no exaggera- tion noris it any reflection upon the integrity of any one to say that the cement which holds together the several parts of the social and po- litical edifices of the community is composed more or less of rank hypocrisy. In fact, it has o be so composed, for society could not sur- vive the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth a single hour. But I like Max Nordauw’s way of telling the members of the human famiiy that they are liars better than I do David’s. Nordau i8 no more & respecter of the forms and customs of society than David was, but he qualifies his bold assertions sometimes, which David never did. David made the direct charge that every man is & liar, while Nordau, though saying the same thing, administers & small dose of soothing syrup before saying it. Still it may be best, s David thought, to call a spade & spade. But David nor Nordau never thought of being an enemy of humanity, and no truth- teller should ever be so considered. Imean the kind of truth-teller that truthfully tells society all about its lying and hypocritical manners, methods and customs, not to have them banished, but to confine all that sort of thing within the bounds of conventional lying and hypoerisy. There is a great difference be- tween the conventional lie and the lie of the degenerate; but society harbors degenerates, @8 it has to, still it can guard itself against them, but not by ways and means such as blunt truth at all times and under all circum- stances. Lies and hypocrisy are better than truth and sincerity sometimes. Perhaps it is u trifie paradoxical to say that the employment of the methods of the hypo- crite to protect one’s self against what might be the consequence of his own speech or act is not only right, but is commanded by the law of self-preservation; but it is true, anyway. That is & very old aphorism which says “Hypocrisy is the nomage that vice pays to virtue.” As a matter of fact in society hy- pocrisy and lying are simply the conforming to conventions that are in themselves distaste- ful, but which have to be observed to main- tain harmony. For the moment one lives and acts a lie, but is not the thread upon which the beads (customs) of society are strung made of lies, woven and interwoven? Why, of courseit is. On the other hand, eynicism should be kept bound by chains of considera- tion for the peace of others. Unrestrained cynicism sets brother against brother and friend against friend. Infact the unbridled cynic rather delights to array every person against every other'person in fierce onslaught upon character and all else; but the true cynic never dissembles, never lies. 1do not mean that there could be conditions or environment that would justify one to “‘smile, and smile, and be a villain,” but I do mean that there are times when a lie is better than the truth; but this every one admits by action and speech. It is hypoerisy of speech, but not of the heart, when one woman tells another that she admires her new gown or bonnet very much, when she herself would not be caught wearing either. Butis it not better to be hypocritical than to wound the feelings of your friend, especially if sbe thinks her dressmaker and her milliner have reached the summit of art in her gown and bonnet? It surely is. Of course it is hypocrisy to extend & hearty greefing to a caller when she comes at the most inépportune time possible, but good- breeding quickly suggests that the caller must not know how her call disturbs, and so, out- wardly, the greeting is not only warm, but it is made to give the impression to the caller that she has done exactly the right thing exactly the right time; but all the same a lie is being acted. But the hostess is eritirely justified, for had she acted the un- varnished ‘ruth her caller would have been deeply wounded. The hypocrisy of the host- est made her caller happy. Good, snd no harm at all, came of the deception; therefore did she s when she acted a lie? Certainly not. Itisabrand of lie that is required in every walk of life—in soclety, in church, in trade. An ultra fashionable New York lady stopped en route to church at & friend’s house and sent her footman in with an invitation to her friend to go with her to worship at the Cathe- dral. The answer came, “I cannot go to the Cathedral to-day, for Iam already dressed for St. Mark’s.” There was no hypocrisy there, but it came very near excommunicating the woman who said it; besides, she was charged by society with being a.vain. woman of the world. A small white lie seut down to her {riend in the carriage would have saved her a world of trouble and many & heartache. Thus it 1s, hypocrisy and Ues are the maintainers of the peace in the social world, and in so far as they perform that duty and ouly that duty they are better than honestly expressed senti- ments and the unveneered truth. Moreover, it is not because society is degenerating that hypocrisy and lies are employed, but quite the contrary. ‘It shows that civilization {sadvanc- ing; that people are beecoming more careful of the feelings of their fellows, and that in “covering up” they are actuated by sincere affection and lofty purpose. The world is growing wiser and better. But hypocrisy and lies that create mischief— that stab character in the dark—are born of wicked if not totally depraved hearts, and the sting of such wretches is worse than that of the Egyptian asp. Such liars and hypocrites are the serpents of society. They are the most hateful and the mostdangerouscreatures upon the earth. With such, however, I am 1ot now dealing, but with the game of deceit thatis played by society for society’s best good. Be it remembered, though, that the hypocrisy and lies—honesi hypocrisy ‘ana little white lies, it you like those terms better—that are the props of society are not for use in the pri- vacy of ofie's life—when one is alone with him- self. Prudential or no other kind of lies should enter there. To, deal faithfully and honestly with one’s own self is to strengthen the moral nature. Let the moods of one's mind, when alone, shift hither and yon, but never in grooves of duplicity and falsehood. The individual who lies to himself is not as near goodhood as the beast in the jungle. Stand before your inner self as before a mir- ror and see yourself as you are when divested of the mask, gilt and tinsel you wear in so- ciety. If you discover wrinkles and blotches on the face of your moral character, know that you have been playing the hypocrite and the liar with your own self. ARMOND. PERSONAL. C. E. Dutcher of Juneau, Alaska, is at the Ramona. James Gallagher, the Fresno attorney, is at the Grand. Judge E. V. Spencer of Susanville is a guest at the Russ. State Senator J. C. Halloway of Cloverdale is at the Russ. Judge §. Solon Holl of Sacramento is a guest atthe Grand. Dr. W. B. Rogers of Memphis, Tenn,, isata downtown hotel. E. B. Webster, United States navy, is staying at the Occiaental. E. T. Earl, the Sacramento fruit-shipper, isat the Palace with his wife. State Senator Frank McGowan of Eureka ar- rived at the Lick yesterday. Charles W. Seymour, an attorney from Ta- coma, is staying at the Ramons. Judge J. F. Coonan of Eureka is among the judicial guests now at the Grand. Dr.J. W. Hays, a physician of Grass Valley, is among the Grand’s latest arrivale, W. W. Douglass, Deputy State Controller, is at the Grand, registered from Sacramento. Rockhold I. Barr, & journalist trom Frank- fort, Germany, is registered at the Palace. Lieutenant C. A. Clarke of the United States ship Thetis is among the Occidental guests. Superior Judge R. McGarvie of Ukiah arrived here yesterday and took a room at the Grand. Dr. G. W. Wood, medieal director at the Mare Island navy-yard, is a late arrival at the Cali- fornia. E. C. Apperson, the Santa Clara County cat- tleman, is at the Lick with his wife. They are on their way to the Yosemite. W. W. Woodhull and P. V. Mohun, two United Stales navy officers, were among yes- terday’s arrival at the Palace. J. K. Armsby, one of the Chicago firm of truit packers and shippers, is here on a visit to the local agency. He is staying at the Palace. E£x-Mayor B. U. Steinman of Sscramento, who is a prominent figure in the Lubin divorce suit, is among the recent arrivals at the Pal- ace. E. K. Stevenot has removed to this City. He was for many years the “borax king” of San Francisco, the first manufacturer of borax on the coast. ; Egerton Davies of England arrived at the Palace last night. He is related to Attorney Wright of London, solicitor for Sir Edward and Lady Hesketh. John Buckingham, Internal Revenue Col- lector at Ukiah and & newspaper proprietor in that place, is making the Grand his headguar- ters for a few deys. C. H. Leadbetter and family of Stockton are guests at the Ramona. Mr. Leadbetter isin- terested in some of the most extensive irriga- tion systems on the coast. Alvinza Hayward. the capitalist and owner of a third interest in the great Utica mine, came up from San Mateo last night and took apartments at the Palace. Raymond Benjamin, an attorney of Vallejo, is in town making arrangements for the Fourth of July water carnival to be held at Vallejo next month. He is enthusiastic over the idea and points with pride to the unrivaled advan- tages his town possesses for such a fete. Mr. Benjamin is registered at the Baldwin. The Rev. L P. Lytton of St. Louis is at the Occidental awaiting the departure of the Aus- tralia. He was a classmate of Bishop Nichols at the theological seminary in Middletown, Conn., in '72, and will visit Bishop Nichols to- day at San Mateo, Mr. Lytton is going to Hon- olulu at the request of Bishop Nichols toact as his chaplain for two months, and at the same time to seek a mild climate, for only a week ago, after having escaped the St. Louis cyclone, he had four hemorrhages that have left him in a very weak state. Brigadier-General George A. Sternberg of Washington, D. C., surgeon-general of the United States army, is registered at the Palace with his wife, He is an old chum of General Smedberg of this City, and three or four years ago, before being promoted to his present high office over the heads of a number of senior offi cers, he was medical purveyor here and had his headquarters near the Palace Hotel. Gen- eral Sternberg is reputed to be one of the most scientific bacteriologists in this country, He and his wife have gone down to Monterey for & short visit. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 13.—Mrs. C. C. Clay, Miss Annie Clay, Phillip Clay and Mrs. Margrett St. Clair left the Albert to sail per steamship Etruria for England. At the Con- tinental—M. P, Hammatt; St. Dennis—D, M. Harlan and wife; Metropole—G. T. Lamar and wife; Stuart—W. R. Bernard; Albert—N. C. Hawks, J. Leibes; Westminister—Miss ¢. E. Hughes, F. G. Sanborn; Metropolitan—A. Boy- ert, F. Stuart; Netherlands—Prince Pontia- towski, W. H. Humphrey, J. F. Nugent, Mr. and Mrs. J. Rodda. Sailed for Englond to-day— Mrs. Alfred Salono of Los Angeles sailed on the Etruria, o PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. English reviewers have suggested both Her- bert Spencer and James Bryce as the possible authors of the.anonymous reply to Max Nor- dau, entitled “Regeneration.” The inventory of the estate of William W Storey, the seuiptor, just filed in the Probate Court at Boston, shows that he left property valued at $212,839, $163,000 being in real estate. - One of the wealthiest heiresses in England is the Hon. Ella Williamson, the eldest daughter of Lord Ashton. Lord Ashton has no sons and only one other daughter. Miss Willlamson wiil one day inherit about $350,000 a year,and a fine place in Lancashire. A French engineer has conceived the idea of reproducing the house in which Napoieon lived in St. Helena, as an attraction during the Paris Exposition of 1900, The house will be an exact copy of the original, with pano- ramic canvasses representing the natural sur- roundings. * King Humbert of Italy is, after the German Emperor, the most erratic of European mon- archs, and up to the last moment the move- mentsof Italian royslty are uncertain. The King hates public functions of every kind. The Germen Empéror has 350 carriages in his stables in Berlin. Of these 100 are for the use of his suite. The broughams, victorias and 1andaus used by the Emperor and by the mem- bers of the royal family are all painted alike and are never used by any one else. A Congregational Church, as a memorial of John Robinson, the pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers, is to be erected at Gainsborough, Eng., where Robinson gathered his first congrega- tion of dissenters. The church will cost 30, 000, and Embassador Bayard will 1ay the cor- nerstone. The Duchess of York since her marriage has come into some valuable possessions, Her dressing - table at York cottage is com- posed entirely of the most delicate china, fashioned in a design of cupids supporting wreaths in white roses (the badge of York); in the heart of the flowers are tiny electric-lights, which throw a soft radiance on the large oval mirror. The brushes, trinket-boxes, etc.,which lie on the fairy-like table are all of dull gold, and in every instance “May” is written across them in turquoises and diamonds. Emm——— A DAINTY MORNING SACK. A luxurious, dainty dressing sack appeals to all women, especially if the shape itself be simple, and may be easily made at home by the amateur dressmaker. (The model shown here is seamless in front. The back has but one form joined to the front by an underarm gore.) White silk, figured all over with sprays of yellow blossoms, with & lining of yellow eider- down, is one of the most dainty combinations. A jabot of white lace, with- an edging of the same around the collar, forms the trimming. A white flannel with blue stripes lined with blue China silk had a ruffle of blue ribbon around the collar with an immense bow of the: same at the front. A white challie with pink figures was lined with pink China silk, of | which the collar was also made. The latter was edged with white lace, which also formed & jabot in front. The sleeves of this were cut just below the elbow and trimmed with & raftle of lace. | A violet silk was lined with white flannel. | The collar was of violet and white striped silk, of which the cuffs were also made. A five- inch accordion-pleated rufile of chiffon edged the collar, formed a frill down the iront and hung over the hands. For simpler sacques eiderdown and flannel Times describes the oil men as “*struggling of producers.”’” Why struggling? They have re- cently raised the price irom 65 cents to §1 25 a barrel. Was there any struggle about that? From this distance it appears that the oil- producers are going along as if everything wae greased for the occasion. Bonds for a Nomination. Los Angeles Times. «“How would it work,” asks the Cleveland World, “should Mr. Cleveland turn over all his plans for a third term to the bond syndicate and let them secure it for him?” There is no bond syndicate or any other kind of a syndi- cate that would look at such a proposed issue. Tt is already so double-discounted as to be be- yond all hope of redemption. A PERNICIOUS EVIL. San Francisco News Letter. The nickel in the slot machines constitute one of the most pernicious evils of the hour. They awaken in the young mind the gambling instinet, and are profitable only to their pro- prietors. The best way to get rid of them is to 18X them out of existence. Not until thisis done should parents feel that their children are beyond temptation to acquire & habit which may prove disastrous to them in later years. APPRECIATE BY COMPARISON. Modesto Herald. Here in California we don’t half appreciate our ciimate. Hardly have the Eastern and Middle-Western States emerged from the snow and ice of winter than cyclones and tornadoss have swept down upon them. Portions of Michigan, Iliinois nnff!own were ravaged by cyclones on Sunday night, and a hundredlives and much property were wiped out of exist- ence. E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. 3 = Sl oy BEST peanut taffy in the world. Townsend's.* ————— Dr. Tholozan, who for thirty years acted as the late Shah’s physician, had served for a quarter of a century in the French army, when, in 1865, he was sent on a mission to Teheran. The Shah took a fancy to him, retained him as his private physician, and could never be per- suaded to let him go. EpEcIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * LT DRI S R ol ALL classes and conditions of society will' be gratified to learn that Putzman & Schurman have the exclusive coastagency of the famous “Golden Gate” brand of Kentucky whisky. Their Prussian Stomach Bitters cure all stom- ach and nervous troubles, 341 Pine, corner Montgomery, telephone, red, 391. * N “Mike,” said the superintendent, “there is & dead dog reported in the alley between Illinois and Meridian streets. I want youto look after its disposition.” An hour later the intelligent officer tele- phoned: “I have inquired about the dog, and find that he had a very savage disposition.”'— Indianapolis Journal $99 75 to Washington, D. C., and Re- turn. The official excursion to the fifteenth annual convention of the Young People's Society Chris- tian Endeavor at Washington. D. C., July 7, will | lenve Los Angeles Monday, June 29, at 2 p. M. | and San Francisco Tuesday, June 30,8t 7 A. M. The route will be via the Central Pacific, Union Pacifi¢, Chicago and Northwestern, and Baltimore and Ohlo railways, and the excursion will be made under the personal supervision of G. W. Campbell, president of tho California Christian Endeavor Union, 18 North Second Street, San Jose, and William G. Alexander, ex-president of the Cali- fornia Christian Endeavor Union, 21 Nortn Fourth street, San Jose. For further information and reservation of berths apply to either of the gentle- men orto D, W. Hitchcock, 1 Montgomery street, San Fraocisco: C. E. Bray, 2 New Montgomery street, San Francisco; G. F. Herr, 23 South Spring street, Los Angeles, or to any ticket agent of the Southern Pacific Company. e Low Rates to Cleveland The Nobles of the Mystic Shrine wili meet at Cleveland, June 28 and 24. are used without linings. A simple trimming (“onsms of three bows of bright ribbon in | ront. THE FILLED-CHEESE BILL. There are many great issues before the | Senstors, but they prefer to talk about the | filled-cheese bitl.—San Francisco CALL. | i 1 Some million freemen workless 50; Some million women sup with woe: Some million children lack for tread; Some million eyes their tears have shied; And yet the men whose duty Jeads | To meet the great Republic’s needs | Do chatter, chatter, chatter still And bicker o'er a filled-cheese bull. Oh, petty men of petty ways, We view your folly with amaze. Haveyon no brain to understand That want stalks down the weary lan §® No heart to feel, no soul to know The sting and pain of others’ woe? That, while the hosts of famin drill, You chatter o'er a filled-cheese bill. Kind nature gives us royal wealth; John Bull absorbs it for his health. We sup with peace, her manile don, Put Cleveland's bonds still drizzle on. He binds the burden we must bear ‘And e'en our children’s children share, While you In drooling folly siill Do bicker o'era filied-cheése bill, From iall to jail an army tramps, { While Shylock faster binds his clamps. Our palaces of pleasure stand ‘With hovels hedged on every hand. How answer ye the Nation’s needs? | How bind the public heart that bleeds® | List to their answer, ye who will: #We dnivel o'er a filled-cheese bill."” —Eresno Republican, HUMOR Or THE HOUR. “And you will never forget me?"” asked the girl of her lover, a grocer’s assistant. “Never,” he said sbsently. “Is there any- | thing more to-day.”’—London Tit-Bits. “You have been living too high,” said the physician. *You'll have to stop it.” “I realize that,” was the reply. “That's why 1 sent for you. Now I won’t be able to afford it.”—Washington Star. Stone—It is a little odd that one of the most famous French generals should have borne the name of MacMahon. isn’t it? Graves—It may te odd, but it is not uniaue My wife’s French maid is named Moriarity.—, Cincinnati Enquirer. His First Round.—The New PastorI beg pardon, but in what walk of life are you en- gaged? The Brand—None. sir, 1 am a sprinter!— Cleveland Plain Dealer. “I should think,” she said sympathetically to the young man who acts, “‘that you would get tired of saying the same thing over and over.”" ‘‘No,”” he answered with pensive sadness, “it isn't that that makes us tired. It's hearing the same thing over and over when we ask for the safaty that never came.”—Washington Star, She—How nervous you were when you pro- posed! He—Yes, I'm always that way when I'm get- ting engaged.—Indianapolis Journal, VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS, A New Kind. Fresno Watchman, When women become lcgislators there will be & new kind ef committee clerk. No Hard Times in Monterey. Fresno Republican. Monterey takes the lead in big fish stories, with a report of three whales taken so far this season. It i not hard times that th fishermen are blubbering lboll:. et A Very Live Issue, Stockton Mail. We should like some of our esteemed gold- standard contemporaries to say in their erst- $1 50 Child’s Tan Goat But! while gleeful mi 3 dead.” 'We‘d lik:n!:ehre An Appropriation for Houses. Los Angeles Times. The Chicago Post expresses great surprise to learn “‘that Huntington has not asked the “The silver craze is United States to build houses for him at Santa | *“Drives.’ Monica, als0.” 1t would be safe to wager that how it would sound. llug For this occasion the B. & 0. K. R. Co. will sell tickets st reduced rates from all points on its lines { west of the Ohio River, for all trains of June 21 and 22, valid for return passage until June 25. The fare from Chicago will be $8 50 and corre- spondingly low rates from all other points. Tickets wiil also be on sale at all points thronghout the West. The B. & 0. is the only line running Pullman Sleeping Cars between Chicago and Clevelan r full information write to L. S. ALL P. A., Grand Central Passenger Station, Chi- cago, TIL. - Excursions to Grand Canyon Colorado. An excellent opportunity for seeing this wonder- ful scemery at a nominal expense is afforded through the excursions to leave San Francisco June 20 and July 1 over ihe Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. Fare incindes stage trip from Flagstaft, of the | meals en route and hotel expenses at Canyon, $75. For fall particulars call on or address Thos. Cook & Son, excursion agents, 621 Market street, under Palace Hotel, or any sgent Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. H. C. Rush, assistant general passenger agent, 61 Chronicle building, S. F. St. Louis Convention. Parties taking advantage of the cheap rates to the Republican Convention can secure tickets re- turning via St. Paunl and the Northern Pacific Rallroad. T. K. Stateler, general agent, 638 Mar- ket street, San Francisco. “THE DELINEATOR,” the leading fashion maga~ zine. July edition with colored plates. The But- terick Publishing Company (limited), 124 Post street, S. F. o r— MorHERS give Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters to their children to stop colic and looseness of the bowels. Ir afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp- son’s Eye Water. Druggists sell It at 25 cents. ————————— She (sentimentally)—What poetry there is in fire! He (sadly)—Yes; a great deal of my pretty poetry has gone there.—Toronto Record. NEW TO-DAY A N (8] T H E R This week smashes the record. We crowded lots of bargains into ‘last week’s sales, but-it only taught us how to do better this week. Here they are: “Bent’s” $3 Men’s Genuine Calf, Lace or Congress Razortoe, This week only $1.95. $2 Boys’ Veal Calf, Lace, Button or Congress, ' This week only. $1.15 76c Infants’ Tan Kid Button, with tips, sizes 2 to 6 $1 25 Child’s hand-turned soles, sizes 4 107 50 ton, stout ‘soles, ring heels, 660 1034 ...ovoe'eeeren.nnn 15 5 Misses Tan Goat Button, spring heels, narrow square toe and up. .../81.30 $2 50 Ladies’ Fine Vil Kid Button, patent leacher trimmings, narrow square or Ppointed toe, patent tips .. 81,50 Can’t ,pay charges to country on Headquarters for Buckingham & Hecht's 1.1; Uncle Collis had made such & request | Fine Shoes. Send for catalogue ; mailed free. essrs. Frye, Hooker, Hermann et al. woul atonce setabout securing the passage of a bifi making the necessary aporopriation for the houses. Prosperous 0il-Well Owners. San Diego Sun. Referring to the oil fire at Los Angeles, at which 3000 barrels of oil were consumed, the Kasts 738-740 Market Street.