The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 17, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: | daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.15 dafly and Sunday CALL, one year, by ma 6:00 d Sunday CALL, six months, by mail. 3.00 snd Sunday CAL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. .65 junday CALL, One year, by mail.. ;23 | WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mail. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on & vacation? If | o, it is no trouble for us to forward THE CALLt | rour address. Do not let it miss you for you will uiss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at 3us: Ofice will receive -prompt attention. SO0 EXTRA CHAR! BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. falephone........ ......Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOM 517 Clay Street. Celephone.......... 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Next to seeing the conventions, the best thing is to read of them in THE CALL. ‘ This will be a great week for oratory, and possibly there will be some eloquence in it. | Join a Republican club at once and be ready to take part in the great ratification rally. There was once a Democratic conven- tion at Stockton—but why pursue the theme. The Federal brizade w dorsement ior Grover. him dry. 1 not ask an in- They have sucked The Buckleyites left San Francisco as lambs but are showing ‘up in Sacramento ar tigers. The Buckleyite is not particular about getting a convention seat in a conven- | tional way. It begins to look as if after this campaign there would be hardly enough Democrats left for seed. The first session of the St. Louis conven- tion was short, and it goes without saying | it was sweet. The Republican candidate will be first in tbe field, first Th the canvass and first on election day. One thing al a time is a good rule in politics, ana protection has the right of way this year. Those who win at Sacramento will lose on election day and the country wiil have | its consolations. After the sweat of the convention Sac- ramento had better go to Santa Cruz and get in the swim. Daggett was once read out of the Demo- cratic party and now he seems to have the party in his pocket. If you wish fair, accurate and reliable reports of what is going on, and no fakes, you must read THE CALL. The gold standard, with work and wages, is better than free silver with a tariff that destroys wages. There is no doubt the affair at Sacra- mento is going to be carried on in a very Democratic party manner. It seems the Vice-Presidency is the one office in this country that has to seek the man, and seek him far and wide. Nobody will object to the golden ring in the tone of the platform that demands a return to protection and prosperity. It will be pleasant at the close of this week to turn from conventions to the freshness and beauty of Santa Cruz. The Republican party will occupy the middle of the road, and others will have to sit on the fence or take to the woods. As a sideshow to the great National convention at St. Louis the gathering at Sacramento is a pretty zood menagerie. Other issues may do in other States, but Delaware seems preparing to make her bottest fight on the single-tax proposition. The hay crop in France is reported to be a failure, and the man who goes to grass in this country this year may find money in it, There seems to be a very degenerate breed of Democrats at this convention, for while a few take it straight most of them take mint in theirs. Even the earliest delegate among the Democrats at Sacramento gets his Morx- 186 CALL before breakfast, and reads the news as an appetizer. gl g 1t is asserted the only Evropean mon- arch whose life is not insured is the Czar, and probably be hasn’t revenues enough to pay the premium on his risk. There is no need to get alarmed over the noise that comes from Sacramento. A Democratic fight is hardly ever anything more than a picnic for the boys. The vigor with which the friends of Alli- son, Morton and Reed have supported their favorites for the nomination is an evidence of the vigor with which they will support the nominee when the campaign begins. There is no weakness anywhere n the grand old party this year. | tion is held. | early in the morning. | FIRST AT SACRAMENTO. ‘ LARAOH | To no person is convention news more | interesting than to the delegates and to | the people of the city where the conven- It is important, moreover, that it should be delivered to such readers Others may read the reports at their leisure during the fore- noon, but in convention cities the news must be read before the work of the day begins and before a new session opens and new events take place to occupy public at- tention. In recognition of this fact arrangements | have been made to deliver THE CALL at Sacramento at an hour so early that even the earliest riser may find it at his break- fast table. Yesterday THE CALL was in Sacramento an hour and a half ahead of its speediest contemporary. Every dele- | gate to the convention and every resident of Sacramento interested in the conven- tion work was enabled to read of all the talk and gossip and all the preparations of the previovs day before any other San Francisco paper had reached the city. This work, of course, was not accom- plished without considerable cost of time and energy. The money and labor, how- ever, were well expended. The employ- ment of a specia} train to carry THE CaLL to Sacramento at that early hour was no fake enterprise. It is a part of the duty of a newspaper manager to deliver the news to the reader as well as to pub- lish it. That special train, therefore, rep- resented the enterprise of legitimate jour- nalism, and was done as a part of the service of THE CALL and not merely to | make a sensation. So long as the convention continues the people of Sacramento can count on getting TrE CaLL, with full reports of news from ali parts of the world up to 2 A. M., deliv- ered in their city in time to be read in bed | before breakfast if they wish it. Every delegate can post himself on all that was said and done not only in his own con- vention but in that of St. Louis before he takes an early breakfast and gets out to | begin the work of the day. Let him rise with the lark if he chooses, THE UALL will be ready for him. It is to be noted, moreover, that not only is THE CaLy delivered promptly, but it contains the fairest and most accurate reports of the proceedings at St. Louis and | at Sacramento. It doesn’t publish fakes, | but it publishes all the legitimate news, and what is read in its columns can be countea on. THE CaLL speaks for all, speaks the truth and reaches the people first. THE WAY IT IS. | If there be any Republicans who are | thinking of going over to the Chicago | nominee if he makes the race cn a free | silver coinage platform and the St. Louis | convention declares for the gold standard, | they should stop and consider what such | a step would mean. Assuming that if re- | enforced by.all the free-silver Republicans | the Chicago nominee would be elected and | the mints opened to silver on a parity | with gold, what would be gained? The election of such a Democrat would mean |to the farmer the consequences of still | sharper competition with the grain and livesto k raisers of South Amer- ica, India and Russia; or, in other words, it would be still further reduction in the market price of his produce. No kind of money, even if made of diamonds, would or could compensate the farmer for the reduction in the price he would receive, which the acceptance of Argen- tina's basis of cost of prodnction would force upon him. What would the un- limited coinage of silver avail a Califor- nian wheai-grower if Canadian or South American or Indian wheat were laid down in San Francisco at a lower price per | bushel than he could deliver it for? Yet, the nominee of the Chicago convention will be pled_ed to accomvlish that very | thing by withdrawing protection to our farmers against the wheat-grower of those countries. What would it avail our great wage class if the Government operated the mints night and day in {urning out silver dollars if there was nothing to prevent foreign labor supplying our markets with goods and wares and thus destroying all oppor- tunity to secure work? Would they have | any more doliars if our industries were closed and themselves out of employment | than they would with steady work and the mints partially closed against silver? ‘What would it avail our merchants to have unlimited silver coinage if their customers were driven out of employment by work- ingmen who work and spend their wages io other countries? What would it avail our wool-growers to have free and unlimited | coinage of silver under free trade? Would not eur own woolen-mills draw their raw material from Australia and other foreign sheep-raising countries unless American wool-growers would accept the low price prevailing in those foreign markets? What would free silver coinage avail any of our industrial class if free trade obliged our factories and furnaces and mills to close down or conform to the wage schedule of Europe and Asia and the Latin American States? Surely this is an aspect of the political situation the people should an- alyze pretty thoroughly before forming a copartnership with free trade. FUSION IMPOSSIBLE. It is believed by some who favor the joining of the Republican and Democratic free-silver forces that such a union would { draw all anti-gold standard men to it, but they count without their host. No doubt if all free-silver Republicans and all free- silver Democrats and the Bimetallic League and the Populists were to unite upon any candidate they could elect him, but suci a combination would be more difficult to make than it would be to merge the Republican and Democratic parties the one into the other. The Popa- list party is for free silver, certainly, but that is the least of its demands. It stands for Government ownership of eyery public means of conveyance, trans- portation and message transmission; the wiping out of all banking institutions; the unlimited issue of paper money by the Government; the right of every man to borrow mouey of the Government at a merely nominal rate of interest; a system of Government free warehouses to store farm and other products in until prices satisfy the owner of them, and last but not least the immediate purchase of all public highways of travel and shipping by the Government, which would oblige the creation of a new public debt of over $11,000,000,000 to pay for the railways alone. The Bimetallic League is utterly opposed to any kind of legislation until the mints are opened to silver. After that it is of no consequence to it whether there be free trade or high tariff; a communistic form of government, a republic or a monarchy; but what the league is really after will be | | 1 better understood when it is said that it is composed largely of promoters of silver mining companies and speculators in min- ing stocks. They bear about the same re- lation to the financial world that grain pit option traders do to the agricultural interests of the country. The futil- ity, therefore, of etrying to form a copartnership between silver advocates upon any kina of a basis that would not be diametrically opposed and antagonistic at every point to the best interests of the country should be too apparent to every thinking person to be worth his while to consider the question a moment. The Populist party will have 1ts own candi- date, the Bimetallic League wili have its own candidate and the free-silver Demo- crats will have their own candidate, and were every free-silver Republican to cast his vote for the candidate of either one of these three parties the candidate of the St. Louis convention would still be elected. Better stick to the old ship, for the old ship is all right, and will get there whether the navigator’s chart suits us or not. A MERRY DEMOCRATIO ROW. Although the St. Louis and Sacramento conventions have a monopoly of the atten- tion of Califo rnians new developments of trouble in the Democratic party’s National organization are not to be lost sight of. A new explosive in theshape of Boies' inordi- nate jealousy of Teller has been hurled into the camp, and there is great confusion and loud swearing as the consequence. The old mossbacks continue to 1nsist that Boies presumes when he essays to put himself at the head of the procession; that he devoted the energy and strength of his middle life to abusing Democrats; that he is a Democrat only because the Republican party refused to measure him by his own estimate of his greatness, and that while his conversion to Democratic principles may be all right his apprentice- ship has not been long enough to make him a capable boss for the whole job. The anti-Cleveland ring of the party in Towa is so hungry for office that it is mak- ing altogether too much of Boies for its own good, but that fact has not been dis- covered yet, except by those who had oc- casion to face his tactics and his inordi- nate egotism when he was a R:publican boss ina small way. A year ago Mr. Boies announced that he should re- fuse to serve as a delezate to the National Convention. Later on he conciuded that he might be induced to go if the party thought it could not get on without him. After a few months he expressed a desire to go, and finally he announced that he must not only be a delegate and head the State’s delegation, but that he should be a candidate for the nomination. He 1s now in that peculiar frame of mind which makes a man feel that divinity ordered him in the begin- ning to accomplish a work that could not be accomplished by any other mortal; that, indeed, if he were to die all wisdom would die with him. This is the evolution of Boies' ambiiion in one short year. But his unfolding on economic lines is equally marvelous. A year ago he advo- cated the opening of our mints to the free coinage of silver, accompuanied by & press- ing invitation to the other nations to join the United Statesin a monetary confer- ence. Some months later he advocated the free coinage of silver independent of other countries, but retaining the parity and 1nterchangeable character of the two metals, Now he says, that as between the gold standard and silver mometallism with no goid at all in circulation, he prefers the latter. These are the several changes of views on the money question which Mr. Boies has indulged in twelve months. He has been fairly consistent, however, on the tariff question by giving up ‘*‘tariff for revenue only,” whatever that means, for out and out free trade. Out of this evolution of political and economic principles there has come bound- less ambition, wide and deep self-conceit and bitter hatred for every one who hesi- tates to give preference in all things. The rumor that Senator Teller might be in- duced to accept the Chicago nomination and the refilled boom for Bland have so ‘exasperated the [owa man that he froths at the mouth if the possibility of selecting either one of them for the figurebead is suggested. Boies gave a sketch to an lowa newspaper the other day of the kind of a man whom the Chicago convention should nominate, which tallies so well with his own estimate of himself tnat a very pretty exhipition of mud-throwing may be seen all along the road that Presidential aspir- ants are traveling Chicagoward. The latest charge against Boies is that every time he has been elecied to office it was because of a combine with the ultra free whiskeyites on a prohibition issue, which makes him a psalm-singing hypocrite. But anyway there is a very pretty and a very merry war raging in the anti-Cleveland wing for and against Boies. THE VOICE OF TRUTH. Tem porary Chairman Fairbanks’ speech was a clear and comprehensive exposition of the principles of the Republican party yesterday, to-day and forever; but in one short sentence he summed up the ethics, the philosophy abd the science of every thread and factor of the entire fabric of American Republicanism as woven on the loom of events from Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin Harrison. The Republican party stands for “what is everiast- ingly right.” And his analysis of the underlying principle and eternal purpose of the party whose past history is written in such material wealth, social advance- ment and personal liberty as no other nation ever achieved in years five times the number that have elapsed since the HKepublican party came to save and strengthen the people ought to be made a textbook for our youth in making their preparations to assume the direction of the affairs of the Nation in the years to come, The effort of the Democracy to pull aown in three years the'Nation's defenses, which the Republican party has been a third of a century in puilding up, was re- viewed, but no spot in it reveaied an excuse or, reason . for withholding the condemnation of a deeply wronged people. With the official facts and tigures before him the chairman showed how during the adminis- travion of President Harrison the Government reduced the Nation’s bond debt $236,000,000, and bow President Cleveland bas added $262,000,000 to the country’s interest bearing obligation be- sidas a deficit of $150,000,000 in the or- dinary expense account of the Nation. These items showing Democratic in- competency and extravagance were re- ferred to merely to show by comparison the difference betwe:n results accruing under Republican and Demacratic gov- ernmental policies. It is needless to say that the chairman pointed out how it could not be otherwise under two such systems of government, the one the result of honesty of purpose and the otber the fruit of inability to master so great a bvroblem. The necessity for the speedy overthrow of the Democracy was demonstrated with too much clearness to be misunderstood | Omaha platform and if the Populists wish | party's ! I'able people in the town, and they managé to by any one, but, as though inspired to do so by the inrushing of a naiion’s wish and thought, Chairman Fairbanks pointed to the thousands of silent factories, thie tens of thousands of idle men and women and to the unprofitable fields of the farmer for them to tell the people everywhere that the salvation of their prosperity rested, first, upon protection against devastating invaders, and, second, upan a stable monetary system. BUNKER HILL. The American pecple will celebrate to- day the anniversary of the battie of Bunker Hi!l. To the ordinary and unre- flecting mind, the amount of patriotic ardor which will be expended all over the Nation in commemoration of this event may seem rather out of proportion to the importance of the event it- self. The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought during the early morning of June 17, 1775, between a company of raw American militiamen, led by Colonel Warren, and a body of trained regulars of the British army, upon the heights overiookine Boston town. It was not fonght upon Bunker Hill at all, but upon Breeds Hill which adjoins the sum- mit bearing its name. It resulted in the death of the brave Warren and in the de- feat of the Americans. Itsimmediate resunlt was quite inconsequential; and yet, ever since its occurrence the heart of the Ameriican people has turned to Bunker Hill and to its battle with greater affection and prouder remem- brance than to any other conflict of the early days of the revolution. It was, in fact, the Thermopyl® of our history, and Warren was its Leonidas. His bravery and his sacrifice fired the hearts of his compatriots all over the colonies with a renewed ardor for liberty, and with an increased confidence in their ability to wrest it from the strong hand of Great Britain at the point of the sword. This is why there stands on Bunker Hill to-day a lofty and enduring monu- ment toward which the eyes of the Ameri- can people are annually turned with pride and reverence at each anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill. It is virtually assured there will be har- mony in the Republican convention on the platform as well as on the candidate, There will be no straddie on the money issue, but the financial plank will be in ac- cord with the record of the Republican party and wide enongh for all loyal Re- publicans to stand on as they tight the de- cisive battle for patriotism, protection and prosperity. The Chicago convention may declare for free silver, but it will not declare for the to join the Democratic procession they will have to get out of their own band- wagon to do it. Vice-President Stevenson is reported to have discovered taat he is favorable to the free-silver sentiment, but he has yet to discover any great amount of that senti- ment favorable to him. Economy in municipal government must not be carried to the verge of parsi- | mony. When needed public improve- ments are postponed there is a loss to the community every day Some of the finest efforts of American oratory have been made at National con- ventions, and we may expect notable ad- | ditions to them from the orators at St Louis. THE CURRENT (BEN) BOLT. | How sorry you’ll be if you do it, Ben Bolt, You'd betier sta1d pat while you may: But quic in & huff and you'll rue it, Ben Bolt, When we harvest po‘itical hay. You're shouting for silver—I know it, Ben Bolt. I'm with you! Then tip us your hana, And we'll whoop up the cause till it ripens, Ben Bolt, Wiile we stop the misrule in the land. | Then here’s to a front good and so'id, Ben Holt. Pratection we'll get while we can. Who sald that you'd quit? Not aprophet, Ben Bolt; You're bu.lt on a diffe ent plan. We'll get there with both of our Trilbys, Ben Bolt, The free-trade Svengali is dead ! The people 100 long have gone hunsry, Ben Bolt: ‘I tariff means butter and bread. The soouer we get bread and butter Ben Bolt— ‘The sooner make business hum— The soouer we'll got all the balance, Ben Bolt. Then silver—tree silver—will come. METAL WHITE. San Francisco, June 16, 1896. AROUNy (HE CORRIDORS. Charles T. Manning of Matagalpa, Nicara- gua, who went to Central America from the United States three years ago and siarted a coffee plantation, says that President J. Santos Calaya of Nicaragua recently putan end to a rebellion so completely that it is likely to be many a long day before the disturbing element. again attempts to overthrow the Governmeut. For neariy two decades the Nicaraguans, unlike the more turbulent ne.ghboring repub- lics, haa not suffered from internecine war- fare. Then the rebellion of 1893 broke the spell of peace and J. Santos Calaya emerged from the fray the new President by more than mere political right. Calaya was an accom- modaung man. Little by little he made ap- | pointments to suit his friends. Finally every | office within his power te fill was occupied by | appointees suggested by his supposed friends. | Then, when they had all the positions, they politely axked Calaya himself to vacate. | Armed forces collected in several of the larger | towns, but the President, whose position was | threatened, acted hastily and with determina- tion. There was some fighting, but the Gov- ernment forces soon routed the revolutionists, and Calaya maintained his office in the same way that he originally secured it—by superior generalship. That was oniy & few weeks ago. Now President Calaya is the most popular man in the country. Mr. Manning says that the climate at Mata- galpa is the most nearly perfect he ever lived in. The town is 150 miles inland from the | port of Corinto, and is at au elevation of 2200 feet above the sea. During the threeand a half years he and his wife and his brother and family have lived there none of them have been ill even for a day. Matagalpa bas a pobulation of 4000. There is an American colony of about 100 very agree- have social times, music and fun in addition to the hospitable entertainments given by the native residents, Nicaragua away from the sen coast is, de- clares Mr. Manning, a nice place for an Ameri- can with a little capital, but, he says, it is de- cidedly not the place for & laboring man. The natives work for 50 cents a day, and a foreigner couid not compete with them and live on that. Mr. Manning is staying at the Palace with his wife, having arvived here on the,latest steamer from the tropics. LETTERS FROM IHE PEOPLE. DID NOT SELL HIM A GUN. THE STORY PUr ForTH BY W0OD WADANMS IS DENIED. 7o the Editor of the Call—Sir: 1 notice in the | morning papers an affidavit m defense of Wood Wadams. Permit me to say through your columns that all the ridiculous state- ments made by Wadams about me are entirely false, and that nothing he can say will make amends or justify the wrong. Your having contradicted the wild-brained story of Wadams the next dayled me tolet the matter drop, but said affidavit revives the subject and gives Wadams’ statements about me the semblance »f trath, which they deserve not. Those who know the Coe brothers are well awure we would not sell a 5Iln to Dunham, but would do all we could to aid in the capture of the fiend and murderer, who, I trust, will be :Peeduy apprehended. Yours most sin- cerely, _CHARLES W. COE. uflsgmo Ranch, San Felipe Valley, June 14; | are stopping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. | yesterday with his wife and five children. | his suite. | | on their way to England. Taey are accompa- 1 world before settling down as one of its ac.ors. | such a great connoisseur of ari?"” | in1t,” said the sweet-faced little boy to the | “Sometimes Ikinder o’ wish Maria 'ud take PERSONAL Afade Bemrose, an English traveler, is at the Cdlifornia. Jonn Irwin Jr., United Statesnavy, is staying at the Palace, F. J. Solinsky, an attorney of San Andreas, is now at.the Grand. William L. Breyfogle of Louisville, Ky., is 8 guest at the Palace. G. H. Fancher, & banker of Merced, ar1ived at the Lick last night. Dr. F. M. Reith, a Sacramento physician, is staying at the Grand. P. A. Buell, the Stockton jumber-dealer, is & late arrival at the Grand. C. Jacobsen, a business man from Santa Ana, is among the Grand arrivals. H. Prince, o merchant at Monterey, isin town on business. He is at the Grand. Géorge E. Goodwin, the Napa banker, is regisiered at the Palace with his wife. 8. W. Burnham, who is managing & lumber business at Chico, is a guest at the Grand. State Controller E. P. Colgan is in town from Saeramento. He is registered at the Lick. J. H. Martin, the wholesale stock and cattle buyer, is at the Ruse, registered from Wood- land. -Among the latest arrivals at the Cosmopoli- :,‘1“ Hotel is Captain C. M. Turner of Kansas City. Superior Judge George H. Buck of San Mateo County is staying at the California for s few days. W. C. Watson and H. Barber of London ar- rived at'the Palace on last night's overland train. C.S. Wight, a railroad president frem Ha- wail, is at the Occidental, registered from Hon- olulu. W. Hamilton, a well-known liquor merchant of Chicago, is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, H. H. H. Meyers, the Healdsburg rancher and merchant, took a room at the Grand yes- terday, 3 Superior Judge E. V. Spencer of Lassen County is down from Susanville for & few days’ stay at the Russ. Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Jackson and George W. Noll of Shanghai are at the Palace. They were passengers on the Coptic. J. W. Houston, a merchant of Portlang, Or., is making the Grand his temporary headqua: ters during a business trip. Rev. Hule Kin arrived at the Occidental yes- terday from the Orient. He is on his way to his old home in New York. Johin Naffziger, Justice of the Peace for Mer- ced, is a guest of his old triend, Major Fahey, at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Among yesterday's arrivals at the Palace were U. H. Wyman of Montreal and W. R. Milligan of Toronto, Canada. Fred S. Goodwin of Goodwin Bros., New York, proprietors of the Turf, Field and Farm, is at the Baldwin with his wife. M. Manning and wife of Chicago have ar- rived in the City on their wedding tour and U. Yanaguja and S. Hayakawa, two Japanese business men of Tokio, were among the Coptic passengers that went to the Palace yesterday. Three naval officers from Mare Island regis- tered at the Palace yesterday. They were John Irwin, T. F. Burgdorff and W. H. Allar- dice. Rev. H. B. Johnson returned from the Orient They are going io Kingston, Pa., their former home. 8. Edkins and wife and John W. Philip and wife of Johannesburg, South Africa, are at the Palace, having arrived from the East last night, Rey. R. W. Munson, president of the Anglo- Chinese school at Hongkong, is at the Occi- dental, Heis accompanied by his family and returning to Toledo, Ohio. A. B. Bowers is at the Palace registered from Chicago. A vear ago Mr. Bowers lived here and was one of the builders of the large dredgers used about the bay. T. Hosho, Japanese Minister to Washi ngton, is at the Palace with his family. He arrived on the Coptic yesterday and Is secompenied | by K. Sorado and T. Yamamote, members of Major-General R. Biundell of the English | army is at the Occiden‘al with Mrs. Blunds=ll They arrived on the Coptic vesterday and are nied by Captain Buayley, also of the English army,and Mrs. Bayley. Dr. John S. Fairbairn, & young English physician and a graduate of Oxford College in 1894, arrived on the Coptic yesterday and registered at the Palace from Oxford, England. He is traveling around the world on a pleasure trip with L. 8. Denny, son of Denny, the great shipbuilder at.Dumbarton on the Ciyde, Scot- land, The Monowai, one of the trans-Pacific steamers known to this port, was built by the Denny’s. Young Mr. Denny has just com- pleted his education at Clifton College and with his friend is seeing something of the They spent some time in New Zealand. Dur- ing the five days they will remain here they purpose to visit Stauford University, Cooper Medical Colleze and the University of Califor- nia. They are tall, striking looking young men, and, as they laughingly remarked, they would not be at all averse to following the ex- ample of the Duke of Mariborough. HUMOR OF THE EOUR. He—I don’t see how you ¢an kiss that dog. She—No? Well you would if you were Fido.— Brooklyn Life. “Why did he empioy suchpointed remarks?"” “Well, I suppose he found it hard to. get nis meaning through their heads.”—Detroit Tri- bune. “How did you get the reputation of being “Whenever 1 sow a picture that seemed to me particularly ridiculous I declured that it was sublime.”—Fliegende Blaetter. & Briggs—The new preacher hesitates dread- ully. Wngner—Yes, and he doesu’t know what to do with his hands. Briggs—Thav's what I referred to—his gwk- ward pause.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. ““I hope you are saving your money for the heathen,” said the good deacon to the sweet- faced little boy. “Sure; circus that's coming’'s got Ayrabs, wild African niggers and all sorts of heathen good deacon.—Cincinnati Enquirer. “Shall we go to the seashore or mountsins this year, Henry?” “Whichever you please, dear.” “How good you are, Henry! Doesn’t it make any difference to you?" ‘Not the least. AsI am dead broke, you can have your choice.””—Detroit Free Press. “The trouble is,” ssid the man with the loud voice and the positive manner, ‘that women read too many novels nowadays.” “Oh,1 dunno,” replied Mr. Meekton, as he put his dyspepsia medicine. in his yest pocket. her Ouida an’ the Duchess an’ let the cook ‘book alone.”—Washington Star. — A Poker Story. Captain John A. Duble, an old Missis- llppl steamboat man, tells a story of a game of cards played by a cotton broker named Weed during the war. ‘‘He boarded my boat,” he says, ‘‘at Cairo after he had made a successful trip off a cargo of cotton for the landing. He placed in the clerk's office of the buat a box about the size of a candile box, but securely nailed and strapped _with iron pands. Weed hailed me as I was passing through the cabin. ‘Captain,’ said ie 'send me a boy and your carpenter.’ ‘When they were on hand he told the boy to bring the box out and the carpenter to n it. It was full of crisp greenbacks. Chen he proceeded to run up against the aroes of & gang of old river sharks, and y the time we got down stream he did not gl“ a dollar. He told me he_lost $500,000 etween St. Louis and New Orleans. The last time [ saw Weed he was river reporter in New Orleans, and he seemed as ver- | ceed to the titles and dignities of the Duke of fectly ha as though he still had his OSOO,M.’P—pfiuhington Post. MAY KEEP TO THE DOLLAR LiMIT, Grand Jury So Assured by the Board of Super- visors. IN GRAVE CONFERENCE. Indications That the Mysteries of Street Work Will Be Probzd. SOME EXCESSIVE ESTIMATES. The G:neral Sentiment Sczems to Desire a Curtailment of Prod:gality. The Grand Jury’s campaign for a re- duced tax levy meets with the general sup- port of citizens and taxpayers. Orally and by written communications the jury is assured that the people commend the movement for reduction in municipal ex- penses. Assurances have been received from the Supervisors that the estimates presented by the various departments will be so cut down that the local levy will but slightly exceed one dollar. Yesterday afternoon Theodore F. Payne, acting foreman, Frank P. McLennan, sec- retary, and Horace Dunn, expert of the Grand Jury, held a conference at the Dis- trict Attorney's office. Preparations were made for the meeting to-night, at which Thomas R. Ashworth and other represent- atives of the Street Department will attend. The city’s expert, Mr. Williams, and the jury’s expert, Mr. Dunn, have prepared statements showing that the Street De- partment demands are excessive for the work outlined. The Grand Jury is in pos- session of information that Army-street sewer-cleaning, estimated to cost $20,000, can be done for §.000. At a recent meeting Edward Malley, a contractor and a member of the jury, de- scribed how money was wasted under the system which prevails by law in the Street Department. For example, a hole in a straet pavement, which could be repaired at an expense of 75 cents, is visited by two workmen, an inspector, a man with a horse and curt, and the little job is made to cost the City $12 or $15. This is simply cited as an index to the manner in which public work is conducted. The Grand Jury may not waste time in details, but will. probably give serious at- tention to the large estimates of $150,000 for repaving Market street and $400,000 for repaving the'cobbled streets. The proposed water-front work, for which so much money is asked, will be carefully estimated. The School Department estimates will be taken up in due time. An effort will be made to convince the directors that no more money shounld be expended for new schoolhouses until the charter is adopted or rejected. The Street and School Department esti- mates are the big items to consider and will first receive the attention of the jury, but the investigation will not stop bere. This Grsnd Jury was impaneled by Judge Sanderson and there has been an impression that Judge Slack, who 1s now the presiding Superior Judge and under the law entitled to impanel two Grand Juries during his presiding term, is anxious for the jury to finish its work. Judge Slack appreciates the importance of the work in hand and will not embarrass the jury by suggestions of an early ad- journment. The sessions will therefore continue until the tax levy order is passed. LEE-HUBBELL WEDDING. Two Prominent Members of Western Addition Society to be Married This Evening. A prominent event in the Western Ad- dition social circles will take place this evening, namely, the wedding at 2231 Geary street, of James Richard Lee and Miss Elizabeth Hubbell. Mr. Lee occupies an important pesition in the firm of J. D. Spreckels Bros. & Co., and is well ana favorably known throughout the City and in Berkeley, of which place he isa resi- dent. The bride is a native of this State and a. gradnate of the Normal School. She is an estimable young lady, and a favorite in the circle of her acquaintances. Fred W.Lee, a brother of the bride- groom, and Miss Warren of Oakland will support the high contracting parties. Rev. W. D. Williams of Plymouth Con- gregational Church will be the officiating minister. The newly wedded couple will visit Seat- tle, to be gone several weeks. e PARAGRAPHS' ABOUT PEOPLE English reviewers have suggested both Herbert Spencer and James Bryce as the pos- sible authors of the anonymous reply to Max Nordau, entitled “Regeneration.” J.N. Baldwin of Council Bluffs, lows, who has been chosen to make the speech nominat- ing Senator Allison at the St. Louis conven- tion, is looked upon as (he greatest orator in lowa. The inventory of the estate of William W. Storey, the sculptor, just filed in the Probate Court st Boston, shows that he leit property valued at $212,839, $163,000 being in real estate. The German Emperor has 350 carrisges in his stables in Berlin. Of these 100 are for the use of his suite. The broughams, victorias and landaus used by the Emjperor and by the members of the royal family are all painted elike and are never used by any one else. Francis Joseph, who succeeded to the Aus- trian crown in 1848, has now outlived three heirs. From 1848 to 1858 his heir was his brother, the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian. From 1858 to 1889 his heir was his son, the Archduke Rudolf. Then, till the other day, his heir was his brother, the Archduke Charles Louis. Now his heir is his nephew, the Arch- duke Francis Ferdinand. Felix Faure, the President of France, has sought popular favor more persistently and to better purpose than any other Chief Execu- tive of that republic, and the latest sign that success has crowned his efforts comes from a far-off corner of the world. He has consented to the request of the citizens of & town in the New Hebrides that he become goaiather and lend his name to their tiny municipality. By the Queen’s permission the sisters of the new Duke of Hamilion—/Helena, Constance and Flora Douglas—are henceforth to enjoy the same rank, title, place, pre-eminence and precedence as if their father had lived to suc- Hamilton dnd Brandon, premier Duke of Scot- land and Duke of Chatelherault in France. They are therefpre authorized to prefix from mnow on the title of “lady” to their Chrilfilnl names. AN ATTRACTIVE SHIRT WAIST. b The high turnover col is a stylish feature of this season’s shirt waists. | The one shown above has a pointed yoke Hack, the fullness being gathered into the collar-band. When detachable collars are desired the neck is simply finished with a straight band an inch wide when made. Thisis supplied wn‘ but- onholes, corresponding buttonholes being made in the collar. The cuffs can be arranged in the same way. There is a fancy for different cuffs and collars to be worn with one waist. These may be white, pink, blue or any color that tancy dic- tates to harmonize with the figured goods which is chosen for many waists this season. Some of the handsomest waists are made of all over embroidered batiste. The detachable children, was playing in a barn, when one of stiff cuffs and collars may be left’ off snd sub- stituted by a soft crash collar of ribbon. An Incautious Critic. Almost the last work that Sir Edwin Landseer was engaged on was a life-sized picture of Nell Gwynn passing through an archway on a white palfrey. This picture, in which the horse alone was finished, was bought by one of the Rothschild family and given to Sir John Millais to complete. One morning a celebrated art critic called, and was much impressed with his work. *‘Ah, to be sure,” he said, going up close and ex-miuingl deerhound, which almost breathed, in the foreground of the picture; “how easily one can recognize Landseer’s dogs! Wonderful, isn’t it?’ *“Yes, it is wonderful,” remarked Sir John, lighting another pipe; *“I finished painting that dog yesterday morning, and have done the whole of it myself.” That critic was sorry he spoke.—Magazine of Art. —————— In several European countries butter is sold by the yard. The rolls are a yard in length, and are sold in sections to suit purchasers. Fudtast A L = A NICE present for Eastern friends—Town- send’s Cal. glace fruits, 50c1b. 627 Market st. * A7 B S Paper teeth are made by a dentist in Lubeck. One of the patrons has u set which has been in use for thirteen years, and gives comvlete satisfaction. ————— EPECIAL iniormation daily to manufacturers. business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Alleu’s), 510 Montgomery. * S D S0 Frau Dr. Jur. Emilie Kempin, who began to practice law in Berlin about six months ago, is doing an excellent business and has lately been avpointed official interpreter at the Ber- lin law courts. Though she is German by birth, she studied in New York City. $99 75 to Washington, D. C., and Re- turn. The official excursion to the fifteenth annual convention of the Youngz Peopie’s Society Chris- uan Endeavor at Washington. D. C., July 7, will leave Los Angeles Monday, June 29. at 2. and San Francisco Tuesday, June 30,8t 7 A. X. The route will be via the Central Pacific, Union Pacific, Chicago and Northwestern. and Baltimore and Ohio rallways, and the excursion will be made under the personal supervision of G. W. Camobell, pres.dent of tho Union, 18 North Second Street. San Jose, and Willism G. Alexander, ex-president of the Cail- fornia Christian Endeavor Union, 21 Nortn Fourth street, San Jose. For further information and reservation of berths apply to either of the gentle- men or to D. W. Hitchcock, 1 Montgomery street, San Francisco; C. E.Bray, 2 New Montgomery street, San Francisco; G. F. Herr, 25 South Spring street, Los_Angeles, or to any ticket agent of the Southern Pacific Company. ———— Excursions to Grand Canyon of the Colorado. Ap excellent opportunity for seeing this wonder- ful scenery at a nominal expense is afforded through the excursions to leave San Francisco June 20 and July 1 over the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. Fare includes stage trip from Flagstaff, meals en route and hotel expenses at Canyon, $75. For full particulars call on or address Thos. Cook & Son, excursion agents, 621 Market street, under Palace Hotel, or any agent Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. H. C. Rush, assistant general passenger agent, 61 Chronicle building, 8. F. RS SO d— Yellowstone Iark Excursion. ‘Watch this ad for full particulars regarding our great excursion to the Yeliowstone. Party leaves here the 12th of July. Weekly excursions in up- holstered tourist cars. No change. Lowest rates oall points East. T. K. Stateler, agens Northern Pacific Rallroad, 638 Market street, San Franeisco. Al i Sl “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup'* Has been used over 50 years by millions ot mothers for their children while Teething with perfect sux- cess. It soothes the child, sofiens the gums, alla Pain, cures Wind Collc, regutates the Bowels and isthe best remedy for Diarrhceas, whethar arising from teething or other causes. Forsale by Drug- gists In every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25¢ & boitle. e e CoRoNADO.—Almosphere I3 perfectly dry. vk andmild, being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip ticKets, by steam- ship, including fifteen davs' board at the Hotel dai Coronado, $60: longer siay $2050 perday. Apply 4 ew d.onigomery st., SanFrancisco. e ————— The Queen of Abyssinia is described as a woman content to take no mean place in her husband’s household. She kndéws what is go- ing on in the kingdom even to the most pro- found of state secrets and_advises the King to some purpose. 1f not universally liked by the subjects of the kingdom, she is yet respected for her ability. NEW TO-DAY. + ARGONAUT 0K WHISKEY Is Five Years In Wood Before Bottling. E, MARTIN & CO., 411 Market St. San Francisco.