The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 24, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1896 " CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free Daily snd 'ALL, one week, by carrier..§0.15 Daily Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mai Dally and Sunday CALi, three months by mail Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. Bunday CALL, 0DE mall SR WXEKLY CALL, one year, by mail. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on s vacation? 1 40, 12 Is no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to ur address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Onders given to the carrier or left at ness Office ive prompt attention. THA CHARG BUSINESS OFFICE; 710 Market Street, 3 YFrancisco, California. nierncn:...'.l S : Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. und Telephone .. Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open nntll $:80 o'cloek. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. SW . corper Sixteenth and Mission sireets; open until 9 o'clock. s 2518 Mission street; open until 8 o'clock. 118 Ninth street; open until § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Pooms 81 and 32, 24 Park Row, New York DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent ;’ATRIOTISM. PROTECTION | and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Obio ¥OR VICE-PR GARRETT A. HOBART, of New Jersey R v 1898. TION The qaestion of the campaign: Do you wish work and wages? ork for McKinley is a home industry in every sensg of the phrase. Every American workshop will be a | McKinley headquarters this year. With the Democrats anything is good | that helps to hide the Cleveland record. | For the present the center of the United States is at Canton, Ohio, and all roads | lead there. Now that the people no longer wish him at Washington, Cleveland won’t leave even | to go fishing. came in with the| The financial cr L Cleveland deficit administration and will go out with it. Democracy may be ready for 2 new de- parture but she has only old back-number chromos to lead it. way to read the Demo- cratic party out of itself Daggett will do it. He remembers Stockton. It seems even Cieveland has begun to wilt a little, and is now willing to talk bimetallism as a compromise. There is a possibility the gold men may start a party of theirown just to give Wall street a chance to ratify something, Democracy and Populism will never fuse until they can agree which is to ride in the cart and which is to do the pulling. It looks as if New York Democrats would play a lone hand in this campaign and sacrifice everythin In this campaign there will be no ele- | ment of confusion. The people know what they wish and they know how to ge The only way Chicago can get a profit from the convention is to take a census while 1t i3 in town, and she will be sure to do it. All the Democratic Presidential candi- dates are as busily tal king as if they were afraid a relapse into silence might be con- strued as golde: The personal factor of McKinley’s noble life will have a ereat influence in this campaign and win many a vote for the soldier candidate. —_————— One by one the leaders of the Cleveland Democracy are rising up to declare they do not wish the Presidential nomination and never expected it. 1f Cleveland sees no chance to get =at- isfaction out of this country he may be just mad enough to whirl in and take it out of the hide of old Spain. Silver Republicans who think of bolting the party will change their minds when they see the sort of leaders who will be nominated by Democrats and Populists. General Weyler can make promises of an active campaign just ae easily as the Democratic party, and the promises in the one case are just about as valuable as in the other. The free-traders will resort to every trick their ingenuity can devise to detract the people from the tariff issue and beat McKinley, but it is a forezone conclusion their tricks will be in vyain. From the welcome given to Hobart on his return home it seems certain that the Jersey voters intend to follow him into the Republican party, put their State in the Union and keep it there, President Diaz seems to have a walk- over for re-election in Mexico. Like Mc- Kinley in his country he stands for the protection and promotion of home indus- tries and the people are with him. When every industrious American can find good work at good wages free from the depreszsing competition of pauper labor the Republican party will be first and foremost to go forward to new fields and deal with new issues. Among the novelties of the season are McKinley umbrellas, McKinley pocket- knives, McKinley envelopes and McKin- ley canes, all of which of course are for Republicans, and the country is now wait- ing for sorie kind of McKinley soothing syrup for Democra The proposed badge of the silver party in the campaign is to be a daisy with six- teen silver petals around a golden center, and while the thing will be lovely it will be too rich for the wear of men who are Jooking for a joband need bread in the home more than a flower in the button- bole. to save Tammany. | THE WAY IT LOOKS. 1t looks as though the silver wing of the Democratic party would have more than enough delegates to the Chicago conven- tion to control under the two-thirds rule. In fact many of the leaders of the other wing admit that the gold standard will have no voice in the proceedings. It will be a silver and practically a free-trade platform, but during the campaign every- thing will be subordinated to free silver coinage at 16 to 1, independent of other nations. That is the programme now, and there is no reason to believe 1t will be changed. The issue at all the State and district conventions has been the money plank, and more than two-thirds of those returned thus far claim to be silverites, ana unless, as Altgeld feurs, money is used lavishly to buy up delegates, the convention will be a gathering of men of one idea. But one clearly defined idea is a good many for a Democrat to entertain. Anyway, the gold standard delegates will be tolerated and that is ail. The belief which prevailed a few days ago that if Teller were nominated by the Chicago convention he would draw silver- ites of all parties to him is giving way be- fore the sober second thought. The Dem- ocracy is an adept in making things seem what they are not, but to veneer Teller's record on the tariff and the Monroe doo- trine guestions so that it could be passed off on the people as good Democracy is rather too much of an undertaking; be- sides Boies and Bland are plunging the knife into the Colorado Senator on every occasion. Brvan has no confidence what- ever in Boies' doyalty to silver, and he would very much prefer Teller to the Jowa political shuttlecock. Bryan is really a Populist, although he trains with silver Democrats. He managed to have the Nebraska Democratic State Convention in- dorse the Populist State ticket from top to bottoni two years ago, and for his reward he got an unmerciful snubbing from Gov- ernor Holcomb, the very man in whose interest he betrayed the Democratic party. Bryan's relations with the Popu- lists—he has forgiven Holcomb—will be used for all they are worth to prevent a fusion between the Populists and siiver Democrats if Boies grows dangerously strong. Next to himself, Bryan would take Teller for his first and Bland for his second. State Chairman Warcall of the Califor- nia Populist party no doubt voices the sentiments of his party everywhere. Silver coinage at the old ratio is not all nor is it the leading thing the Omaha platform { declares for; besides, the party has been struggling along for years waiting for something has turned up in the shape of the Democrats getting ready to disinte- grate, why should it throw up its- hands | when s0 good a field for gathering recruits from is open to it? That is the question the leaders put when asked if the party { will indorse the candidate of any other party. At this time the indications are that the Democrats will have two Presi- dential candidates, the Populists one, the Independent Free-silver party one and the Prohibition party one. Anti-Republicans | can pay their money and take their choice. CONTI‘EMPT OF COURT. There is at the present time a wide- pread discussion of the limits of the powers which Judges may rightly exer- cise in punishing for what is known as contempt of court. In California the discussion turns mainly upon the recent action of Judge Catlin in subjecting the editor of the Sacramento Bee to a fine for alleged contempt and refusing him a right to prove the truth of the publication in dispute. In the East the discussion is an outgrowth of the Debs case, and covers much wider ground than that involved in the Sacramento case. In both, however, the vital point is the issue whether the courts have not carried the practice of punishing for contempt to a point where it has become a danger to popular liberty. It is not denied that our courts must have power to compel respect and keep order. That has been an established principle since the very beginning. In the original theory, however, contempt of court was an indignity committed within the precinets of the court itself, and cal- culated to disturb or interrupt the peace- able and orderly administration of justice. Latterly in the United States there has grown up a belief among a certain class of Judges that they can punish as con- tempt alleged offenses committed miles away from the courtroom. 7The form of punishment is of course summary. The accused is not put on trial beforea jury and has no opportunity to defend himself. It can be easily seen that in the hands of unjust Judges the possession of such a power would be totally destructive to the tull enjoyment of liberty of speech and action by the people as well as by the press. That public opinion is adverse to this dangerous exercise of power is beyond question. The Inter Ocean in comment- ing on the subject cites in proof of thisa case which occurred in Chicago when the Evening Press of that city criticized with some severity the action of the Supreme Court of Illinois in connection with a murder case. The Inter Ocean say *Those comments were construed by that court to be contempt and the proprietor and editors were compelled to apologize or g0 to jail for an indefinite time, as long in | fact as the court mav see fit. That case aroused a great deal of indignation. It was looked upon as a dangerous violation of the freedom of the wress. Neot long aiter the Chief Justice was a candidate for re-election, and although a very able and upright jurist, running in a district ordi- narily good for a majority of nearly two to one, he was beaten. That was inter- preted as a popular rebuke of the abuse of the judicial right to punish for contempt of court.” If a similar question were submitted to the people of California the resuit would be the same as it was in Illinois. The whole issue is in fact the simple one of whether the old-fashioned trial by jury can be denied by Judges at their pleasure whenever they fancy they have been un- worthiiy treated. No one denies thata matter occurring in the presence of a Judge, under his very eyes, and of a na- ture to interfere with him in the perform- ance of his judicial duties, should be sum- marily punished. In all other cases, how- ever, where Judges feel themselves offended, the accused should have a fair trial before a jury. There can be no real liberty of speech or action on any other terms. OUR TRADE WITH MADAGASCAR. It is just possible that France may find out later on that she made a mistake when she arbitrarily changed her relatioas to Madagasear from protectorate to annexa- tion. . Hanotaux cannot divert attention from the outrage with wit and jingoism. ‘When asked why France makes a colony of the 1slana be said: * A door should be either open or shut.” That may sound very funny to France, but the fact remains that the door was open to traders of all nations until French soldiers closed it a while ago. The Hovas protested against & French protectorate, but they bhad to “something to turn up.” and now that | submit, but it was not long betore the Paris Government framed an excuse to go to war with the natives, and now annexa- tion comes. But what concerns the United States most is the attempt of France to control the commerce of the island. Hitherto our merchants have enjoyed a very lucrative trade with the Hoves, but France pro- poses to impose an import tax of 7 per cent, which is intended to give French merchants just that much advantage. When it is said that with a large portion of the inhabitants not much more than half civilized the export and import busi- ness of the country amounts annually to nearly $10,000,000 it will be seen that the possibilities of the island are very great and that this country should not be ex- cluded. England has a larger interest in the matter than this country, and she has served notice on the French Government that she will resist the abrogation of all or any commercial treaties there may have been made between Great Britain and Madagascar prior to French annexation, As far as is known, this Government has taken no steps to protect our treaties. It will be remembered that Consul Waller was tried and imprisoned by the French Government, ostensibly for aiding the Hovas, but in fact for an excuse to invali- date the large and vyaluable concessions which Waller has secured. But other Americans and Englishmen have simifar concessions, the title to which the French Goverrment intimates will be declared in- valid. In view of the high-handed man- ner in which France has laid bands upon the commerce of that country it would seem to be the duty of our Government to at least protest against the abrogation of the commercial treaties between the United States and Madagascar that were made before France proclaimed ownership of the country. PROTEOTION AND INTELLIGENCE. It is a mistake to supvose that the only influence the operation of protection ex- erts upon the people is to inspire them with a burning desire to gather riches. A manufacturing establishment is an edu- cational institution as well as a conyerter of raw material into merchantable prod- ucts to swell one’s riches. With rare ex- ceptions inventions come from where the rumbie of machinery is heard. A mechan- ical contrivance for increasing and cheap- ening the cutput of man’s hands inspires to other inventions, and not only does the intelligence and learning of the peopie of a manufacturing community range higher than in strictly commercial centers, but a more independent and self-reliant spirit is seen. Our public school system may be sald to have had its real strength imparted to it by the Morrill tariff law of 1861. The milland shop give birth to desire for Fnowledge, and desire for knowledge de- mands schools, colleges and universities. In a recently delivered address Governor Lippitt of Rhode Island showea that in the manufacturing countries of Germany, France and the United Kingdom the num- ber of people in a hundred able to read and write well enough for ordinary pur- poses ranges from eighty-five to ninety- six, while in Italy, Spain and Russia, where no effort is made to encourage man- ufacturing, the percentage is from fifteen to forty-seven. The difference between manufacturing and non-manufacturing towns in this country is notso marked, but it is the fact that the people of the first named generally show quicker and more accurate mental activity, perception and conception. One need only to visit a manufacturing and an altogether com- mercial village and make comparison to show that. Next to the store that “keeps’’ the postoffice the blacksmith-shop is the chief loafing place in the quiet little vil- lage. It is the roar of the forge and the hammering of the iron that make it so, because they are inspiring. 3 But what is true of popular intelligence is equally true of wealth, especially when the whole country is considered. Gover- nor Lippitt has taken the trouble to gather the following figures, which show how in proportion to a coeuntry’s manu- factures is the volume of its wealth. His figures are as follow! United Kingdom . France .. Germany Russia Ttaly... 12,000,000 Epain ©12/244,000,000 Since the tariff act of 1861 there has been a marvelous growth of mannfactur- ing concerns in the United States, and with it has come a broader and higher intelligence than any other nation can boast of, and in the same time the wealth of the people has increased nearly five times over. The academy and the manu- facturing establishment are co-partners in educational work. HE DID HIS DUTY. Ex-Attorney-General Benjamin H. Bris- tow drew all eyes to him when he de- nounced the proposition that Kentucky should assume the attitude of armed neu- trality as between the North and South, In most vigorous language he told the people of his native State thac there was no middie ground. Men were 1n armed rebellion against the life of the Nation, and there could be no such thing as armed or any other kind of neutrality between loyalty to the flag and treason. Being a native of Kentucky and an un- compromising Union man, Mr, Bristow did not hesitate to tell the people that any man who would hesitate to declare for his country was not fit (o be a citizen. He was a young man then (only 29 vears of age), but he had already acquired reputa- tion as a good lawyer, and it may be added that most of his associates were in sympathy with the Southern cause, but he did not hesitate to prove his loyalty by enlisting in a voluntesrcompany. Subse- quently he was commissioned a colonel, but whatever capacity he was assigned to he did nis best to save the Union. As Attorney-General, Mr. Bristow dis- covered the great whisky ring anéd moved down upon it with all the power of his office. He unearthed the greatest frauds that were ever perpetrated upon the Gov- ernment and not a few of the offenders were landed in prison, but it made him bitter enemies evervwhere. The crusffie against him was not at ail poiiucal. The ring was composed of as many of one party as of another, but the breaking up of it cost him all further political pre- ferment. War was waged ageinst him from every direction, but be had the consolation of knowing that he bad broken up one of the most powerful combines to rob the Govern- ment the country ever had to confront, and that satistied bima. The best that can be saic of Benjamin H. Bristow, now that he sleeps the sleeps that knows no waking, is that he served his country honestly ana faithfully from a sense cf duty. Georgia has a prominent citizen who combines the occupations of banker and fisherman, but reverses the usual rule in such cases by fishing as his main business and nsing his surplus capital and leisure moments in banking. Thus on days when he has no capital fishing he rests on the bank and finds interest in his fishing capital, PERSONAL. Dr. Thomas Flint of San Juan is at the Grand. 3 Judge E. A, Bridgford of Coluss is at the Grand. W. J. O’Brien of San Jose is at the Baldwin with his wife. W. E. Rogers, a minipg man of Amalie, is registered at the Lick. C. Steenbergh, an orchardist of Brentwood, has a room at the Lick. H. Thomas, an attorney at Redding, arrived a1 the Grand yesterday. Lieutenant C. H. Couchheimer of the United States navy is at the Palece. J. C. Lewis, son of the well-known Portland chemist, has arrived at the Palace. Mrs, . H. Keefe and daughter, of Sonora, stopping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. E. C. Loftus, & mining man of Railroad Flat, is among the Iate arrivals at the Grand, Dr. D. Smith, & physician at the Napa State Insane Asylum, isa guest at the Palace. J. P. Melville, 8 mining man of Grass Valley, is among the latest arrivals at the Grand. G. P. Manchester, editor of the Tulare Citi- zen, is in 8an Francisco for a brief sojourn. D. H. Arnold, a large ranch-owner of Colusa, is at the Occidental on a short business visit. M. Simmons, 8 wealthy fruit-raiser of San Jose, is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Fred Searls, son of the well-known Judge Bearls, is at the Palace, registered from Nevada City. G. A. Lung of the United States Navy is & guest at the Palace in company with Mrs. Lung. R. B. Marshall of the United States Geologi- cal Burvey 1s staying at the Occidental for a few days. James Barlogi, 8 wealthy rancher and wine- owner of Nevada, is a guest at the Cosmopoli- tan Hotel. George Campbell, for many yesrs 8 mining man at Grass Valley, arrived at the Baldwin last night. J. W. B. Montgomery, a prominent politician at his home in Chico, registered at the Grand yesterday. Ed Kelly of the Berlin Machine Works at Beloit, Wis., is & guest at the Grand, registered from Chicago, B. F. Hudelson, State president of the A. P. A.,is a guest at the Lick, and is registered from Oakland. William W. Terry, proprietor of Hire's root- beer, is at the Occidental. He is registered from Philadelphia. Mme. Saint-Dizier of Paris, wite of & min- ing engineer now in Celifornia, arrived at the Occidental last night. J. B. Waldmore of Los Angeles, a well-known merchant of that vlace, is making a shert busi- ness visit at the Grand. T. J. Field, a Democratic delegate from Mon- terey to the recent convention, is registered at the Palace with his wife. H. P. Goodman, the Nepa banker, with his daughters, Miss Claire and Miss Ruth Good- man, is staying at the Palace. W. J. Simonton of New York City, son of one of the former owners of THE CALL and Bulletin, is making a short visit at the Grand. State Senator F. L. Coombs and Sheriff George H. McKenzie came from Napa yester- day and went to the Grand in company. A. P. Halfhill of Los Angeles, one of the stockholders in the fish packing-house in operation, is at the Grand for a short visit. James Yoman and wife, prominent resid ents of Sutter Creek, have returned from Santa Cruz end are registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Fritz Zix of Saarbrenken, Germany, and Virgilio Vianello of Triest, Austria, have re- turned to town and taken up their quarters again at the Lick. James E. Mills, who is extensively interested in mines in Plumas County, and whohas other mining interests in Mexico, is at the Occi- dental, registered from Quincy. Hervey Lindiey of Los Angeles, chairman of the California delegation at the National Re. publican Convention at St. Louis, returned from the East last night and took & room at the Palace. Dan Stewart, one of the earliest residents of the little town of lone, where he has lived since 1853, came to town yesterday and took a room at the Grand. He conducts a general merchandise business in the small valley, 1n which agriculture is the principal occupation followed. Emery A. Donahoo of Fresno, who 1s a great admirer of the “noble art of seif-defense,” is in town on ashort visit. He received a good deal of fistic training himself as & member of the Olympic Club, and during several years at Stanford University was recognized as the leading exponent of the fistic science. Major-General R. Blundell of the British army returned to the Occidental yesterday from Riverside, where he and his wife went re- cently to view the grave of their son. They will now resume their journey eastward to England, the general baving completed a ser- vice of forty years and given up his command in India, minster— F. Zak; Hoffman—E. Abramsons; Sturtevant—Mrs. M. J. Baker; Imperial—C. A. Douglass, A. Hocheimer; Astor—G. D. Kort; Grand—H. McDonnell; St. Cloud—E. D. l’eix-l otto; St. Denis, Dr. T.J.Turner; Everett—. Veiton; Albert—S. M. Wood; Murray Hill—L. O. Kelly, H. Levis. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Max- well are stopping over for a woek at the Castle- ton, Staten Island, New York Ba; THE BEGINNER. Oft has the lyre been tuned to tel About the wondrous grace Of one. saluted as the belle i admires her dainty pose, From foot to cur'y head, Of course, jrovided that she goes Sereuely siraight ahead, But while we wish that youthful charas Forever might endure, There comex a hos: of s'range alarms With r.ders immature, And e’en the most polite of men 1s filled with rage profound, More bitter in its silence, when w s y e e W, qieh b1 id b da TR & u ! a r 1 o ? —Washington Evening Star. BRIEF, BUT POINIED. Placerville Nugget. What? You have not registered? Get there. KNEW WHEN 10 QUIT. Los Angeles Times. Mr. Quay was very grateful for the oppor- tunity to let go. GOOD DOCTRINE. _ Stockton Independent. “‘Free silver and free women” is a California Republican doctrine. AND AN ORCHARD. The Wave. California was first a rancho, then a gold mine, later & vineyard, and now a flower garden. THE COUNTRY COULDN'T STAND IT. National City Record. Mr. Cleveland might be indueed to standa third term but the country couldn’t and that settles it. CLEVELAND'S TRUST POLICY. San Jose Mercury. It was Mr. Cleveland who declared that public office is a public trust, and the country has been going on trust ever since he w elected, It is only under Republican Presi- dents that public ‘office 1s co conducted that the Government can do business on a cash MATRIMONY AND MAMMON. San Bernardino Sun. In the ordinary matrimonial arrangement between American girls and titled foreigners there i6 10 reason to believe that the contract- ing parties are animated by any of the mo- tives and sentiments which belong to the most important relation of life. Itis essen- tially n sordid affair, without a suggestion of romence to relieve its strictly commercial na- ture. The bride is willing to exchange a large sum of money for a foreign husband with a title attached to his name; and the bride- groom is willing to take an American girl for & Wwife simply because she is wealthy. FACTS MORE POTENT THAN S0 PHISTRY. Stockton Independent. The sword was mightier than the pen in the case of Colonel T. A. Nerny of Los Angeles. He was a Democrat and believed all the teach- ings of his party, but he is a dealer in military goods. When he jound that the Japanese could make dress swords by Cheap labor and sell them in the United States jor 20 per cent of what he could sell them for he was converted from free trade to protection. He is helping to shout for McKinley as a natural result of his conversion, A PLEA. Oh, give me not the “marble heart,” N t the “ley mitt, Nor treat me to the “frigid fist,” Nor answer me with *'nit.” Don’t make me “stand upon my head,” _Nor “t'row me in the air,” Nor “pass me up” nor “turn me down,” Nor give the “glassy stare.” But it you must reject my suit, Why, please to let me Know The sorrow of my lonely fate By simply saying “No."” —Detroit News. MISSES' ROUND WAIST. The waist shown here is made with a fitted lining, over which the goods is 1aid in one piece for the back, and in the front is likewise seamless, with gathers at neck and belt. The sailor collar is adjustable, so that other trim- mings or accessorles may be worn. A dress of white mohair designed for even- ing wear had a sailor collar of primrose yel low velyet, with applique of guipure lace. The belt and collar were of Dresden ribbon in white with yellow lines; rose-colored flowers and bleck edges. These latier being made ad- justable, the gown could be changed entirely by a fichu of blue chiffon, with velvet belt and collar of the same shade of blue. A nar- row pleating of chiffon trimmed the edge of the fichu. A dress of cheviot showing many bright col- ors had a collar of drab-green velvet, with sev- eral rows of black soutashe braid for trim- ming. A brown serge dress was brightened by a collar of velveteen in black and green and brown checks. A blue alpaca had a collar of black and white checked velveteen, trimmed with gold braid. A gilt belt was worn with this. A waist of Dresden silk in brown was made with & collar of the silk. Pale green velvet formed a belt and stock ccllar. A batiste dress of the new plaids, showing blue and yellow threads, had & collar bluede soie, the soft silk with a satin finish, A belt aud stock collar completea this dainty gown. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Freming—F. M., City. If you will step into any first-class store that sells sporting goods, you will be furnished the different kinds of hooks required to catch the fishes you name. TrE Hixpus—J. C., Newberry, San Bernardino County, Cal. The Hindu is one of that aative race in India descended from the Aryan con- querors. The present representatives belong to the two great historic castes of Brahmans and Rajputs. They belong to the Indo-Euro- pean stock and are ciassified with the Cau- casians. “UNIQUE CoLoxY"—J. F. X., City. Thisde- partment has not been able to discover any- thing about ““the Unique Colony,” said to be “situated in the northern partof Peru, 100 miles from the coast, and where the members are not required to work more than four hours & day and where there is great liberalirm in regard to religion, marriage and divorce.” AN INCORPORATED SOCIETY—W. A. V. G., City. If tor any good and sufficient reason an incor- porated society should see fit to dissolve it would have to file an application in the Su- perior Court, if in this State, and that would nave to show that at a meeting of the mem- bers called for thet purpose, the dissolution | was resolved upon by a two-thirds vote of all the members and that all claims had been satistied and discharged, Then in all prob- abllity the court would, there being nothin to prevent such action, order a distribution of the property pro mong the members. THe NEwW NAvY—H.T., City. The following table shows the new navy of the United States, but does not include what is known as the old | nayy vessels, or the ‘‘wooden-sides,” as they are called. Italso shows the class, when the keel of each was laid and other information. The abbreviations are: M., monitor; 1-t, 2-t, one turr t, two turrets; B. 8., battie-ship; C., cruiser; A. Cr., armored cruiser; P.C., pro- tected cruiser; D, C., dynamite cruiser; G. B., gunboat; *cost of hull and machinery; ** the appropriation for the five vessels designated with ** is §3,178,046. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. B bl S Dr. Jameson denies the report that he is go- ing to marry a peeress. Mr. Sexton says Ireland is overtaxed for Im- perial purposes by nine mitlions. The young King of Sw;;llnnd last week shot six of his servants for rifle practice. Another prodigy, Paula Szalit, 8 Polish pian- ist of 9,will shortly make her debut in London. H. M. Stanley, M. P., who has been staying at | Madrid, has recovered from his indisposition. It is stated that the Emperor of Germany has just presented a bustof himself, executed in bronze, to Dr. Joachim. At the time of its great popularity Brick Pomeroy’s Democrat earned its proprietor as much as $1 600 a day. The Democrat’s letter mail was the event of the day at the La Crosse postoffice. Queen Victoria’s absenting herself from Eng- land every year at Zaster hasled Frenchmen to believe that she is secretly & Roman Catho- lie. La Figaro has thought it necessary to dis- prove this. Baron Rothschild includes in his “Personal Characteristics” the reply of the Marquis de Bievre to Lounis XV. I hear that you make jokes on every subject; well, make one on me.” “Your majesty is not a subject.” A lady cyclist in Battersea Park, London, carries a large open sunshade, while another | is followed by & groom, mounted like herself | upon a handsome bieycle. He keops even pace at & respectful distance behind his mistress. Judge B.J. Peters of Mount Sterling, Ky., said to be the oldest free silver advocate in the country, is 91 years old. He was personally acquainted with Henry Clay, went toschool with Thomas F. Marshal and often heard Rob- ert J. Breckinridge speak. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Stranger—Is the submarine diver at home? The diver’s wife—He’s down at the river, but Idon't think you can see him this morning. “Why not?"” “He's immersed in business.”—Port Jarvis Gazette. Billy—Blest if I think that lastlithograph agrees with me, Nanny—Serves you right! I told you not to eat the pink trees or yellow sky, but to confine yourself to the blue grass.—Puck. “Is it true that young Wilson hasgone ona polar expedition?”’ “Yes; he has gone to Boston to see his girl.” —Detroit Free Press. “Do you intend to take your wife with you to the senside?”’ “No; she is all run down and is not equal to the exactions of a vacation.”—Boston Courier. Pushpen—Iam glad you like my story; but don’t you think I ought to write some sort of | an introduction to 1t? Slydig—My dear fellow, that story needs no introduction. It is an old friend.—New York Herald, Teacher—Why did Freedom shriek when Kos- | iusko fell? H Tommy—Mebbe he fell on her new hat.—In- dianapolis Journal. Citizen—What are you doing? Clergyman—Praying for rain. Citizen—Why don’t you have a Sabbathe school picnic?—Detroit Tribune. Hargreaves—I met Buffalo Bill when I wasin Chicago the last time. Ferry—He is about the only bill you ever met, isn’t be?—Cincinnati Enquirer. Long vears ago A maiden fair ‘Would riding go In a sedan chalr. In bloomers now She's dressed, and ltke The wind she files Astride a bike. —New York Herald. Ienvy Dings when e'er hesings, So much does he deserve: *Tis not his voice makes s rejoice— Ienvy him his nerve. _____ —Emporium Echo. Jim—That man Dinwiddle is a friend of hu- manity. Joe—How 80 ? Jim—He has invented a pocket flask that looks like a whisk broom anda corkscrew that resemblesa nail brush.—Cleveland Post. Reginald—Time brings about some odd changes, doesn’t it? Harold—I should say it did. Look at the matter of costumes. Wby, when we played tennis we turned our trousers up at the bot- tom, and now that we play golf we turn our stockings down from the top.—Woonsocket Re- | porter. OPINIONS OF WESTERN EDITORS. Dunham’s Quickstep. Halfmoon Bay Advocate. Dunham’s favorite song is said tobe “They’re After Me.” Easier to Catch. Pasadena Town Talk. Spanish soldiers will find it easier to catch yellow fever than Cuban revolutionists. Nothing Else Will Answer. San Jose Mercury. ‘The country will be satistied with nothing short of Republican protection, and any at- | tempt to befog the main issue is destined to prove futile. Costly Education. San Bernardino Times-Index. The United States, it has been estimated by & contemporary, lost $250,000,000 by the elec- tion of Grover Cleveland four years ago. For a campaign of education the amount of knowl- ;c}gg acquired would seem 10 come pretty gh. Asphalt Roads Good Roads, Oakland Tribune. Tt is to be hoped thatthe “Good Roads’” As- sociation will again materialize and make themselves felt not only 1n the matter of good NAME. Armored Vessels— Ajax (1) Amphitrite Brooklyn. Canonicus (1-). Cutskill (1-6). Camancbe (1-t).. Indian: Massachuse Miantonomoh Mohovac (1-1) as: Puritan (2-). ‘Terror (2-1). Te as (2 Wyandotte (1-1). Unarmored Vessels— Atlanta. Baltimore.. Bancroft Bennington. Boston Castine. . Charleston. . Vesuvius. ... Wiimington. Yorktown. Torpedo Bodts— 4 (not yet named) No. 5 (not yet named) | 8 | Keel | £2 | Speed,| Horse- Class. | paiq, | 55 | Knots. power,| Cost-* | 8| ‘ = f—— M | 1862 | 2,100 5106 310/ $626,582 M | 1874 | 39mo| "13% | 130! *O%8 ACr | 1898 | 9271 20 |16.000/ 2,986,000 M| 1862 | 21000 6 340 622,968 M | 1863 | 1875 o B40| 4277767 M 1862 | 1,875 5106 340 613,165 BS | 1891 | 10,288 " 15.6 | 9,000/ 020,000 BS | 1893 11,410/ 18 | 11,000/ 3,010,000 M | 1862 | 1875 5to6 | 340 422767 R | 1881 | 2185| 3 4,800 980.000 M | 1862 | 1,876 G108 | '34v| 292726 BS | 1888 | 6682 17 | 9.000| 2,500,001 M o|ged | Al e 340| “'828.879 BS | 1891 10,288 15 9,0 0/ 3,020,000 M | 1874 | 8990\ 10.6| 1426| ¥+ M | 1¥62 | 2,000, 6 340, 635,375 M | 3990 145 3,000 o M 1,875/ 51086 | 840 423,027 <D 4084 186 5244 1,628,950 M i 5106 | 3 418,615 M | 5t07 ACr | 1890 | BS | 1891 M| 1882 | M | 1875 M| 1874 BS | 1889 M | 1882 rc | 1883 PC | 1887 | 4,418 SS | 1891 uB | 1888 | 1. PO | 1883 | 3 GB | 1891 | 11 PC | 1887 | 8730 PC | 1888 | 4,500/ PC | 1890 | 8213 PC | 1890 | 7475l GB | 1888 | 1710, C | 1890 | 21094 DB | 1x83 | 1,486 G B | 1894 | 1392 GB | 1891 | 1,177 C | 1890 | 2,089 Pe | 3891 | 7,575 C_ | 1800 | 2,094 GB | 1844 | 1,71 PC | 1887 | 4,008 PC | 1890 | 58 0 G B | 1887 S92 PC | 1888 | 4324 pe | aveg | el : 4 DO | 1887 929 GB | o4 | 1,392 @B | 1887 | 1710 106 120 31| 142 42 roads, but good streets. In this connmection their nmnz{on is called to the material that has made the- cities of Paris and Washington noted the world over as the finest in any land. Asphalt is the material, and California pro- dufes the best asphalt in the world. It should be investigated. England’s Farmers. Santa Cruz Sentinel. A writer in the Fortnightly Review describes the conditign of the 210,000 British farmersas almost desperate. The thriving herds have disappeared, cottages and country mansions are closed, “while rural laborers, flocking into the towns, further swell the ranks of the un- employed.” As & contrast there exists in Eng- land, according to this writer, “an appalliug commercinl wealth,” whose yast accumlations are 1nvested with difficulty. The British farmers demand protection, but their number is comparatively small, and there s little pros- pect that what they ask will be granted. Circumstances Have Changed. Los Angeles Times. California is competing in the Eastern mar- kets for new honors. Augustin Daly, the cele- brated theatrical manager of New York, has engaged six attractive young women from this State to participate in the coming cramatic season at the Metropole. Times have changed mightily since the days of '49. Then there was & demand for Massachusetts schoolmsrms and other girls in carload lots to come West and become the wives of worthy pioneers. And now the tide has turned. The charming femininity of the Pacific Coast is eagerly sought by the East. ifornia has come to the fore with mighty strides in almost all walks of life. CrEAM mixed candies, 25¢ a 1b. Townsend's.* . . The Duke of Argyll, the sole survivor of Lord Palmerston’s Cabinet which forty years ago drew up and contracted the treaty of Paris, the basis of Britain’s subsequent deal- ing with Turkey, has, in a small volume soon to be issued by John Murray, supplied the want of a brief narrative of the chain of events which has led to the position now held by Britain with regard to the Eastern question. e ———— EPRCIAL inlormation daily to manufacturers. business houses and public men by the Pres: Clippiug Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * - Dr. Homer Virgil Miller, formerly United States Senator from Georgia, diea s few days ago, aged 82 years. He was one of Georgia's foremost physicians, was a brigade and divi- sion surgeon in the Confederacy, and after- ward was medical director of the State of Georgia. Eloguence gave him the sobriquet of “The Demosthenes of the Mountains.” He Wwas very active in political affairs in the forties and fifties. He was a strong Union man until his State seceded. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1868, serving one term. ————————— - We have some new tints in plain and crepe tissue, also a lot of pretty flowers. Lessons given for making any article required, San- porn, Vail & Co., 741 Lll‘ke!. 2 ———— “Have you a magnificent wardrobe?”’ asked the menager, addressing the actress who had just applied for an engagement. “Why, no,” she replied. “I have mo ward- robe at all. I'm in the burlesque line, you know."” 2 And she was engaged on the spot.—Texas Sifter. Official Route to Democratic Natiounal Convention, Chicago. Central Pacific, Union Pacific and Chicago and Northwestern lines, Train esrrying California delegates will leave San Franctsco July 1 at 6 . x. Special rate for the round trip to Chicago $72.50. Tickets on sale June 30 and July 1. Sleeping-car reservations now on sale at Union Pacific office, 1 Montgomery street. Call early so s to secure best accommodations. D, W. Hitch. cock, General Agent, San Francisco. e — Excursions to Grand Canyon of the Colorade. Ap excellent opportunity for seeing this wonder- ful scemery st & nominal expense is afforded tbrough the excursions to leave San Francisco June 20 aud July 1 over the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. Fare includes siage trip from Flagstaft, meals en route and hotel expenses at Canyon, $75. For full particulars call on or sddress Thos. Cook & Son, excursion agents, 621 Market street, under Palace Hotel, or any agent Atlantic and Pacific Lailroad. H, C., Bush, assistant genersl passenger agent, 61 Chronicle building, S. F. —————————— Northern Pacific Railroad. Parties attending the Democratic National Con- ventiop at Chicago, the Christian Endeavorers at Washington and Nationat Educa:ional Associa- tion at Buffalo should go or return via the North- ern Pacific Railroad. For particulars inquire of T. K. Stateler, Gen. Agt., 638 Market st., S. F. . “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup’ Has been used over 50 years by miilions of mothery for their children while Teething with perfect suo- cess. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allavy Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and isthe best remedy for Diarrhaas, whether arising from teething or other causes. Forsale by Drug- glsts in every part of the world. Be sure and as< for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrap. 25¢ & boitla. ————— CoRONADO.—Atmosphere is perfectly dry, sof And mild, being entirely free from the mlsts com- mon further north. Round-trip tickets by steam- sbip, including fifteen days’ board a: the Hotal dal Coronado, $60; longer stay $250 perdaz. Apply 4 New Monigomery st.. San Francisco LT R WHEN you feel “as cross asa cat,” adose of Zyer's Plils will make you as good-natured as a kitten. [ry them for biliousuess. ———————— Prince Victor Napoleon innerited 10,000 francs a year from his father; his aunt, the Princess Mathilde Bonaparte, gives him an in- come of 20,000 francs, and the ex-Empress the sum of 30,000 francs yearly; but, as both these royal ladies are fond of France, and like to live there part of the year, they give their sums on the condition that the Prince does not use any of it for political agitation. NEW TO-DAY. Great Hit! Last 'weck's drive sale was & great hit, But we're ready for another one. Lots of bargains left—we'll always meet an ap- reciative public half- way. K at these: Child's Cloth-top, patent tip, spring beel, button. sizes 5 to 713 and 9 to 1014 (n¢ 8or8%). This weex only. - 15e Ladies’ Turkish Siippers, red, black snd tan. This week only. 35¢ 215 pairs Ladies’ Extra Quality French Kid Lace Oxfords, tip or plain toe, as- sorted styles, sizes 2 to 8V, widths AA, A, Bund c, worth $2 & pair. This week only... $2 50 Ladies’ Tan Kid Button. only. 65° $1.65 $2 50 Men's Russet, lace or congress. Thi week only.. e 8185 $250 Men's Calf, lace or congress. This Wweek Only.............. 81.50 $2 00 Boys’ Veal Calf, lace or button (same a3 proved such & seller list week). ......$1.15 an’t pay charges to country on *Drives.” Headquarters for Buckingham & Hecht's Fine Sooes. Send for catalogue ; mailed free. Kast's 738-740 Market Street. MITCHELL'S MAGIC LOTION. PRICKLY HEAT,