The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 25, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1896. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALY, oue week, by carrler..§0.15 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. .65 Bunday CALL, one year, by mal . 150 WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mail. . 1.50 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country ona_vacation * 1 | #0, it is no trouble for us to forward THE CALL 1o your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given 10 the carrier or left st Business Office will eive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARG. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, £an Francisco, California. Telephone. ... Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. 2 Telephone. ...Maln-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until :30 o'clock. pen until 9:30 o'clock. : open until 9:30 o'cloc &W . corner Sixteenth snd Mission sireets until 9 o'clock. 2618 Mission street: o 118 Ninth street; open | T | OAKLAND OFFICE : | 908 Broadway. | EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 3 and 3 Park Row, New York City DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. ; open en untfl § o'cloci atil 9 o'clock. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. ¥OR PRESIDENT- WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Obio FOR VICE-PRESIDENT— GARRETT A. HOBART, of New Jersey 1896. ION NOV ER Whitney writes well, but Altgeld gets there. Every factory bell rings for McKinley and prosperity. Altgeld pardoned the anarchists, but he draws the line at Grover. By this time Senator Teller begins to feel that he was too previous. It will avail Whitney nothing to go to Chicago, unless he takes his barrel with bim. Demoeracy will not fuse with Popalism. It has reached a time when it wants to be alone. The soldier candidate who went to the front in 1861 will be at the front in Novem- ber, 1896. The deficit tariff will go right along making figures for Republican campaign documents. 1t Is now believed the Chicago conven- tion will fuss around for about two weeks and then sphit. The tariff plank at Chicago will bea straddle so wide that it will look hkea suspension bridge. Sound money is the money that sets the wheels of industry moving and fills the country with prosperity. The Democratic party has mortgaged this country to the bond-dealers, but the Republican party will redeem it. The report that Cleveland may vote for McKinley is the worst attempt yet made to slander the Republican candidate. The party of Thurman and Hendricks has become the party of Attgeld and Till« man. What kind of evolution is that? Free trade, free silver, free buncombe and free bosh make a combination that won’t wash when the tidal wave comes. 1f you wish San Francisco to be a home market for howe goods join a Republican club and work for McKinley and protec- tion. “White silver savages” is what the Bos- ton Herald calls them, but the term seems to imoly that the Herald is a trifle savage itself. There are a great many men who do not understand the money question, butevery- body understands the need of work and wages. As Boies has long been the artful dodger of Jowa politics, he may be fairly consid- ered the logical candidate of Democracy this year. The gold reserve is rapidly sinking and Cleveland will have the satisfaction of pleasing his Wall-street friends with & new loan before long. There is no eathusiasm displayed in Democratic conventions until somebody denounces Cleveland and the crowd makes the welkin ring. Cleveland brought forward the money issue to hide the tariff deficit, and he may now try to bring up the Cuban question to head off the money issue. Some Democrats are trying to uphold the gold standard and some the silver standard, but as for the Cleveland stan- dard there is none to do it reverence. As a gold-producing State California has little to gain by the free coinage of silver, but the welfare of all her industries de- pends npon protection, and therefere her people must vote for protection first and {ree silver afterward. Ask the average Democrat whether he fayors Bland, Boies, Blackburn, Camp- bell, Carlisle, Cleveland, Gorman, Hill, Matthews, Morrison, Pattison, Russell, Teller or Whitney, and_ he wiil give you a vacant smile and answer, “There are others.” 1t was noled at Washington that the telegraph at the White House was shut off during the St. Louis convention and the President received no private dispatches. It is'easy to draw from this the conclusion that Cleveland has reached the condition of Abner Dean of Angels when “he curied up on the floor and the subsequent pro- ceedings interested him no more.” In his recent:peech to ‘l‘:‘iu fellow citi- zens at Canton McKinley expressed the convictions of the people of the whole country in saying: ‘“We have come to appreciate that protective tariffs are better than idleness ana that wise tariff legisla- tion is more business-like than debdts and deficiencies,” That is the substance of the whole matter. The people want McKinley, protection and prosperity. INVOLUTION OF BRAINS. The degeneracy of the Democratic party is to be lamented. It is a reflection upon our system of government and an excuse for the enemies of republican institutions to say, as they do, that a system which inclines one to lower levels of political in- tegrity and patriotjsm exerts a pernicious influence everywhlere. In a measure that is doubtless true of the conduct of many of the leaders of the Democratic party, but the rank and file are trueto the ethical princi- ples of the Government, only that too many of them have permitted party pride to keep alive a degree of enthusiasm for the tradi- tions of the party that is not justified by the history of its going and coming in the last forty years. The party of Douglass, Benton and Seymour bas fallen into the hands of political brigands. Yesterday's gathering of the Democratic party of Illinois in State Convention fairly represented the personnel of the leaders of the party of to-day. The giant who towered above them all as a true repre- sentative of modern Democracy was Gov- ernor Alfgeld. For years he has been charged with being in full sympathy with the doctrines of Herr Most. How far the charge is true may be judged by thefact that immediately after he was inaugurated he pardoned the Haymarket anarchists who had been convicted of murder. In announcing their pardon, Governor Altgeld took advantage of the occasion to charge the court that tried them with be- ing a foul nest of persecutors of good peo- ple, such as the Haymarket dynamite bomb-tirowers. He was renominated for Governor yesterday by acclamation, after deliver himself of a coarse and brutal speech, in which he roundly abused every respectable Democrat in the land. Alt- geld would be the choice of the silver wing of his party for President were it not that Providence so shaped events that heshould not be born in the United States. Next to Altgeld comes a long list oflead- ers of modern Democracy. Boies wasa rabid Republican until some ten yearsago, when, growing tired of waiting for his party to recognize his transcendent states- manship, he joined the Democratic party and was elected Governor on a Democratic- anti-Probibition platform. He was called the *‘whisky Governor,” though he never himself touches whisky or tobacco and never swears. Whata Democrat! Bland, who was patted on the back by Altgeld’s convention, thinks that the ‘“‘crime of 1873" furnishes the sum total of the science of government in the direction of rascal- ity, and he dwelt upon that one idea so long that his district, after keeping him in Congress for twenty years, turned him down by sending an obscure country phy- cician to Washington in his stead. Bland is honest enough, but he hasnot found out yet that the sun does not reyolve around the earth. The best that can be said of Goverror Tillman is that he rattles around in the seatthat John C. Calhoun used to fill. His greac delight is in attacking the Republi- can party, but the performance so resem- bles the effort of a dyspeptic child trying to batter down Gibraltar with a pop gun ihat he only amuses. Ex-Congressman Clark of Missouri, who was recognized as one of the great leaders of the Democratic | party at Altgeld's convention, was de- feated of re-election by a Republican itin- erant singing-school teacher. And so it is. Calhoun’s mantle upon Tillman's shoulders; Benton’s breeches hiding Bland’s nakedness; Douglas’ big hat on Altgeld’s little head, and Seymour’s spurs jingling on Boies’ heels. The spectacle is rather worse than the noble dust of Alex- ander stopping a bunghole. DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF. Undoubtedly there is discord in the ranks of the Democratic party. There is evidence that the bosses are at outs with one another. The party is divided into two wings, and it is very evident that the silver or anti-administration wing 1s not bowing down before “Moses,” as they called Cleveland awhile ago. In Altgeld’s convention the chairman devoutly and sincerely hoped that Goa would forgive the Democrats of Illinois for their share in foisting Grover Cleveland upon the coun- try in 1892. Any reference to the Presi- dent was hissed unless his name was connected with something vile or dread- ful, when the speaker was apolauded, and “Say it over again!” and ‘Hit him again!” was Leard ringing throughout the convention hall. Such demonstration of hostility to a public man is not often wit- nessed. Had the convention stopped at that a good point would have been made, but the Altgeldites paraded their own true Democracy just enough to be disgusting. ““We are the seints” is a little too brazen for either wing of that party to sing. In the Ohi6 Democratic Convention, vesterday, Reuben Turney, an old wheel- horse of the party, spied Cleveland’s pic- ture among the decorations as he mounted the stand for a speech, and pointing his finger at it he shrieked like a madman, “That arch-traitor, that Benedict Arnold of Democracy, Grover Cleveland.”” He demanded that the picture be removed. And so it goes from bad to worse with the old party of treasons, stratagems and spoils. The leaders have fallen out, and they are telling the truth concerning the true inwardness of one another’s methods, aims and purposes; but they only confirm what the public has long suspected. But good will come of itall. The party is di- vided on lines of personal hatred, and the country need not fear danger from it for many years, if ever again. OUR MERCHANT MARINE. A pamphlet of few words, but of much force and meaning, has been issued by Frederick S. Samuels of this City in ad- vocacy of a bill “to provide for an aux- iliary navy, ocean mail service and to promote commerce.”” The object of the bill is to advance our merchant marine to the position it ought of right to occupy, and to enable it to maintain itself against the competition of the subsidized mer- chant marine of other nations. The chief objections to the existing law is that it invests the Postmaster-General with almost autocratic power over the aid given to shipping, with the result that pri- vate enterprise is entirely subordinated to his opinions, and that the provisions for the classification, speed and remuneration ot steamships are inadequate to encourage shipbuilding or meet the varied require- ments of different trades. The essential features of the proposed legislation are that some consideration must be given to our merchant marine in return for Government support, that rea- sonable security shall be given by the Gov- ernment for the capital invested and labor employed against changes in administra- tive policies; that freedom should be given in the selection of trades in which vessels may engage without vitiating their right to compensation; that no diserimination shall be made in favor of dny individual or corporation, and that liberal provisions of governmental support shall be made in order to induce capitalists to engage in the enterprise of shipbuilding, and thus produce immediate benefical results to our shipping interests. That something should be done to pro- mote our merchant marine service is be- yond question. All the greater nations of the worid grant subsidies to their steam- ship lines and as a result have built them up at the cost of our commerce. It isby reason of her liberal grants to ships that England has made herself virtually the mistress of the commerce of the world and added so much to her wealth and power. While the British have been extending their mercantile marine in that way, we have been doing practicaily nothing and as a consequence American goods are car- ried in English vessels to foreign markets and our rightful trade has been lost to us. San Francisco has much at stake in this issue. This City should be the center of Pacific Ocean commerce, and American ships should carry and bring from and to this port the goods that are interchanged between the Orient and the West. At the present time, however, cotton from the fields of Texas is carried to Japan by way of Liverpool, when a route through San Francisco would save a journey of thou- sands of miles. So, also, we lose the great trade of South America by reason of the lack of American ships to carry American goods to those markets on terms that can compete with British goods. Mr. Samuels has made his argument so brief it can be read by even the busiest men and so clear it can be understood by even the least comprehending. He makes it plain that the object to be attained is one of patriotism as well as business, in- asmuch as a merchant marine of fleet steamships would be of great use to usin time of war, and on this double plea rightly and justly urges the importance of immediate action on the part of the Gov- ernment in patting our shipping on equal terms with that of any other nation on the globe. OOUNTRY VS. CITY. The Registrar-General of London, Eng- land, has submitted the census of the great city and his figures show an increase in population of 200,528 since June, 1891, making the population 4,411,271, One liv- ing right in London could hardly con- ceive how so many people could live in one municipality. It is not so difficult, however, to understand why all the cities of civilization have increased in popula- tion so fast in recent years. The time was when suburban life was considered the more desirable, both for health and pleas- ure, but the improvement in the construc- tion of houses, means of rapid transit and sanitary engineering have added so many conveniences that city life has become very desirable, especially since church, amusement and library facilities have kept pace with the advance in hy- gienic and other health-giving agencies. It may be said, in fact, that the city is very much healthier than the town or village. The growth of American cities and towns is, however, attributable for the most part to causes that are not at all con- ducive to moral health at least. This comes from an idiotic idea that farm life is somehow under a social cloud; that horny hands and brown skin are barred out of fashionable society, and that to *‘hold the plow or drive” is not nearly so lofty an occupation as a clerkship in a city. Farmer-boys do not like to admit ihis, butiv is pevertheless true, and the census of the first occupation of a large percentage of “city’”” men would prove it. The young man makes & great mistake in quitting the farm as statistics show. Iiis very rare that a farmer fails to come out more than even at the end of the year, and he never has to worry himself balf to death over bills payable, but less than five out of every one hundred commercial or any other kind of business venture in the city becomes a firmly established concern whose rating is Al. Some years ago an Arkansas land-owner advertised for tenants to cultivate his farms. He announced the terms, whicn were that he would furnish as much rich cleared land as the tenant might want,a comfortable enough house, & team of mules, farm implements, necessary seed and furnish table supplies for the first year on cradit. At the end of the crop year the tenant should first pay for his supplies. After that he should take out enough of the crop to provide seed for the next year. Then he should give the land-owner one- half of what was left of the crop, his own share being the same less the cost of his table supplies, which the land-owner was security for. The land-owner had enough land to supply about sixty families. He got enough, hut out of the hundreds of letters of inguiry there were less than a dozen from es, and only three accepted his proposition. Thatis one of the rea- sons why there are so many impecunious men in the cities. *“I had rather go hungry in the city than live well on a farm,’”’ one man wrote. REDUCED FREIGHT RATES. ‘The new schedule of traffic tariffs, which is effective on and after to-day on the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Rail- way, applies to all points on the line. The reduction is greater than is indicated on the rate sheet, as compared with the charges of the Southern Pacific. The Val- ley road absorbs all switching charges in its rate, so that the rate quoted in the sheet includes all charges for transporta- tion between initial and destination points. The saving thus afforded shippers on the line of the road will be considerable, be- sides there will not be the annoyance that has often arisen heretofore because of separate charges. Undoubtedly the opening of the Valley road will work a great relief to the San Joaquin Valley, both in additional facili- ties for reaching outside markets and as a permanent rival of the Southern Pacific, thus insuring rates that are not only fair and reasonable, but which do not discrimi- nate for or against any individual or lo- cality. The mileage of the Valley road is a little less than ninety miles, but con- struction is being pushed southward. The fact, however, that it will always form a strong competitor of the Southern Pa- cific, and a regulator of rates on the basis of sharp competition; is of great im- portance. IS SPAIN PLAYING “BLUFF?” Spain is preparing to send 100,000 sol- diers to Ouba. They are to be shipped be- tween the first of September and the mid- dle of December, and Weyler promises to make short work of the rebellion when they arrive. 1t is doubtful, however, if anything of the kind is seriously contem- plated by the Madrid Government. A lit- tle while ago the captain-general said he had troops enough, and that as soon as the wet season was over he should move against the insurgents and crush them at one blow, and nothing has transpired since to suggest the need of more soldiers. According to his account of the daily bat- tles the insurgents are being killed off so fast that there- will not be one left by the time the new levy of 100,000 reaches the island. Then why does he give it out that he will be re-enforced by 100,000 of the flower of Spain’s army in the fall ? 1f it be true another army of 100,000 is to be thrown into Cuba in the near future it can be relied upon that it is simply a move in the direction of preparing for a war with the United States. A large standing army in Cuba would come handy in the event of a runture with this country, but it would only prolong the inevitable. The presumption is, though, that Weyler is simply playing a “bluff”’ game. Doubt- less he thinks this country would go a little slow in the direction of recognizing Cuban belligerency if it knew that 100,000 fresh Spanish soldiers were about to form a base of offensive and defensive opera- tions, but if it is a “bluff” game he is playing he is wasting a great deal of gray matter. There are iwo things General Weyler should inform himself of. The sympathy that is going out to the insurgents is not prompted so much by a desire to see the rebels succeed as by the brutal methods that Weyler employs. His conduct of the war is 80 infamously cruel and his encour- agement of the most diabolical attacks upon non-combattants has so embit- tered our people against him per- sonally and as the ° representative of the Spanish Government that they would espouse the cause of Cuba, right or wrong. The other thing of which General Weyler should inform himself is that any attempt at “bluff”’ with the people_of this country would make any settlement of the differences now existing between the United States and Spain im- possible, except that his country should submit and obey any demands that this country might see fit to impose. ‘Weyler is altogether too fond of leaning defenseless men up against adead walland shooting them to death to commend him- self or his cause to any feeling of the people of this countiy, except the feeling which creates an intense desire to go to Cuba and wind up the earthly career of every one of Spain’s hirelings, from the captain-general down. <The Spanish official who said the other day that after the inauguration of William McKinley Spain would have todo right by Cuba or fight isa pretty wise man. PERSONAL. F. P. Wickersham, the Fresno banker, is at the Lick. W. C. Good, a merchant of Santa Rosa, is at the Grand. Dr.G. F. Mohn, a Los Angeles physician, is at the Russ. A. C. Maude, & journalist of Bakersfield, 1s at the Grapd. Dr. T. 7T. Tebbets of Sacramento is a gues; at the Baldwin. L. H. Frankenheimer, a Stockton merchant, is at the Grand. Fred Brye of Auburn is registered at the Russ with his wife. A. C. Rosendale, & merchant of Pacific Grove, is now at the Grand. J. A. Durant, a Modesto attorney, is one of the late Lick arrivals. De Vries Van Doesburgh, & vineyardist of St. Helens, is at the Lick. C.F. Martens of Hamburg, Germany, isa guest at the Occidental. Sheriff 8. D. Ballou of San Luis Oblspo regis- tered at the Grand yesterday. Raleigh Barcar, an attorney of Vacaville, is making a short visit at the Lick. N. E. de Yoe, a prominent merchant of Mo- desto, is among the Lick's guests. ‘W. W. Bradbury, & mining man of Oregon, is staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Colonel Thomas Malloy, National Guard, is at the Lick registered from Petaluma. John Weil, a big crockery dealer at Sacra- mento, arrived at the Grand yesterday. J. Windsor, an English resident of Indis, is among yesterday’s arrivals at the Palace. John W. Howell, ex-cashier of the Merced Bank, took a room at the Lick yesterday. Thomas E.Johnson, a Santa Clara County orchardist, is at the Lick registered from San Jose. R. R. Bulmore, owner of mines at New Alma- den, is at the Lick with his son, D. A, Bul- more. Will E. Grant, THE CALL’S enterprising agent at Santa Cruz, is visiting friends in this City. G. E. Roper, ‘the well known capitalist of Los Angeles, is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Otto Grunsky of Stockton, Treasurer of San Joaquin County, is & late arrival at the Grand. B. H. Upham, proprietor of the Gloriana Vineyard, near Martinez, is among the guests at the Lick. W. H. Spencer of Fresno has returned from a trip to Portland and is registered at the Cos- mopolitan Hotel. Charles A. Mclver, a vineyardist and wine- producer ot Mission San Jose, arrived at the Palace yesterday. Charles W. Main of Peorls, Ill., is at the Lick. Heis traveling in the interests of the locomotive engineers. Colonel C. T. Sivalls, & war veteran and gen- eral manager of Robinson’s & Forepaugh’s Circus, is at the Baldwin. Dr. W. H. Patterson, a physician of Reno, Nev., is making the Lick his headquarters dur- ing a short visit in the City. Mrs. W. F. Anderson and the Misses Mabel Winnifred and Wireeme Anderson of Salt Lake City, are at the Occidental. John A, Mclntire of Sacramento, a mining man, but formerly & wholesale grocer, is mak- ing a short visit at the Grand. W. C. Edes of the engineering corps of the Valley Railroad returned from the San Joaquin yesterday and is at the Grand. Dr. and Frank J. Ives of the United States army and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene S. Ives of Los Angeles are guests at the Palace. T. M. McNamara, the attorney-at-law of Bakersfield, is a guest of his friend, Major Fahey, at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Among the latest arrivals at the Cosmopoli- tan Hotel are H. V. Malmburg and wife, prom- inent residents of Efingham, Kan. C. L. Ruggles, one of the proprietors of the Stockton Independent, is in town for business and pleasure. He has a room at the Grand. B. Chaboya, who has charge of the pictur- esque Cook ranch, where fine horses are raised, near Danville, Contra Costa County, is a guest at the Grand. H. L. Hirst of Denver, Colo., a medical stu- dent of Yale University, is at the Occidental, on his way to Australia, whither he will go on the next steamer. 0. U. Hotting, proprietor of the Hotel Arthur at Lompoc, the town where saloons are tas booed, was among the guests that registered wt the Grand yesterday. 8. Edkins and wife and W, Philip and wife, who recently arrived in this City from Johane nesburg, South Africs, have returned to the Palace after visiting the Yosemite. Earl H. Daggett of Visalia, the Deputy Sher- iff injured by a shot at the time of the at- tempted train hold-up near Goshen some time 8go, is at the Lick, having recovered from his injuries. Mejor L. W. Juillard of Santa Rosa is at the Lick. He came down to the City for the Na- tional Guard court-martial, held at the Cali- fornia Tuesday night, and for the funeral of General Dimond yesterday. Charles C. Perkins, son of the Hueneme cap- italist, banker and oil-well owner, is staying at the Palace during the entrance examinaticns for Yale University now being conducted at the Urban Sehool on California street. Clement Wilder of Wilder & Co. returned last evening from a short vacation tour to Deer Park Inn and Lake Tahoe, He reports splendid fishing in Tahoe and Donuer lakes, but says the Truckee River and tributaries are yet too high, Snow 1in that section is disap- pearing rapidly. Hon. 8. W. Lamorenx of Washington, D. C., Commissioner of the Land Department, is at the palace with & party of friends, consist- ing of his wife and two children, Frank B. Lamoreux, wife and child of Stevens Point, Wis., Charles Hathaway Webb and wife of New York and A.T. Britten, wife and two children of Washington, D. C. Curtls W. Welch, a student in the Yale Medi- cal School and a resident of New Haven, Conn., srrived on the Umatilla Wednesday irom the Northwest, after a trip throngh Canada. He contemplates entering the Cooper Medical Col- lege in this City. He is at the Occidental, and will soon pay a visit to Los Angeles, where his invalid father is reenperating. Judge J. H. Pryor of Sausalito, the proprietor of the Sausalito News, and the Judge before whom the recent anti-pool room test cases were tried, will start today on an overland ride by private conveyance to Willow Camp, Marin County, for a two weeks’ outing. He will be accompanied by his family and by J. B. Davidson, Principal of the Sausalito Gram- mur School, and his family, and by Professor Heuston and family of Nevada. Their com- plete camping outfit was shipped vesterday on the gasoline steamer Jennie Griffin. Editor Travers of the Alameda Encinal pub- lishes the following journalistic paragraph: “Our esteemed predecessor, F. K. Krauth, who for more than a quarter of a century manfully and honestly controlled the columns of the Encinal, and who, on the Gth day of this month, celebrated the seventy-third anniver- sary of his birthday, desires to stender his heartfelt thanks to his newspaper friends in various sections of the State for the highly complimentary words and kind wishes extended to him through their columns, backed with the earnest hope that they may live long in the land and ever enjoy all the blessings that can fall to the lot of humanity.” e — CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 24.—At the West- minster, C. E. Barrett; Broadway Central, Mrs. Johnson A. Louderback; Grand, F. J. Batchelor; Grand Union, F. G. Adams; Bruns- wick, R. J. Ferrer; Imperial, J. J. Gottlob, T. H. Ryan; St. Cloud, M. Marcuse. WOMAN'S WAYS. Dear summer maid, I'm hal? afraid, Despite my store of reason, Aguin you'll take my heart to break, Just as you did last season. For be you fair or dark of hair, 1 find myself enraptured; Your sidelong glance cuts like a lance, And I straightway am captured. At other times, wed to my rhymes, 1 well may laugh at Cupld; Content that girls should shake their curls And pass me by as stupid. But when the haze of warmer days Announces summer burning, I'm out of sorts and feel my thoughts Loveward go lightly turning. And while I know you’ll bring me woe, With heart light as a feather, At your dear call I give up all, So we may be together. How time will fly!” You say good-by With some word lightly spoke For well you may be blithe and gay— 1t's not your heart that's broken. JAMES J. O’CONNELL. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. WHEAT AND SILVER. WHY WHEAT-GROWERS WOULD LOSE BY THE FREE COINAGE OF SILVER, To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: The other day in one of the Examiner’s edi- torials it was intimated that the free and un- limited coinage of silver would raise the price of wheat. This is the fallacy which has given Populism its greatest hold. That wheat can- not be raised in price by the free, unlimited and independent coinage of silver may easily be shown. We all know, or should know, that as we produce a surplus of wheat for export, the price of wheat in the United States is the foreign, or Liverpool prica, less the freight, insurance and necessary commissions of the commission Merchants—only this and nothing more. But this foreign price is based upon gold monometallism, the only money of inter- national trade. The wheat-grower, therefore, is, and will be, subject to the falsely !llé)pose price-destroying single gold standard. No matter what character of currency we have in the United States, the farmer will be paid in the United States for wheat only on the basis of gold monometallism. _Ii, therefore, we adopt the free and unli ited coinage ot silver aund obtain the sumed benefit of bimetallic prices, these prices will be only for goods of our own production— not the subject of export. Our wheat farmer will then pay bimeiallic prices for what he buys_and be compelled to take gold mono- metallic prices for all he sells. He will further have his return diminished, because he will be paid only in the currency of his country— the cheaper metal, silver. But as the ship- ment of wheat will take some time to reach Liverpool and as silver bullion is subject to changes in value, susceptible of being measured daily, the foreign purchaser to in- sure himself against the possibility of a fall in the value of the fluctuating silver during the transit of the wheat will, to save himself, be comrelled to take something off of what he would give if the payments were on the non- fluctnating basis of gold monometallism. Surely no observant person will dare assert that gold changes in value in the short period of the transit of wheat from San Francisco to Liverpool. For two reasons, therefore, the farmer will receive less for his wheat. For a lke reason European . merchants must charge a& little moreé on what they sell us to insure themselves against the rising of silver by the time of our payment for the imported goods. We shall, iherefore, pay more than we now do, while on a gold basis, for what we buy from the rest of the world, and get less than we now do for what we sell. This is the permanent evil of silver monometallism. When we considerjthat in the quickened state of modern commerce a difference of one-half of one per cent will drive one metal out of the currency and into the metal market, he must be a bold and wanton man who will assert that tne two metals will remain in concurrent circulation, and that we shall not have silver monometal- lism. From the foregoing reflections it may be readily perceived why the wheat grower can but lose by voting for the free coinage of silver. Very resepctfully, JOHN HEENAN, LADY'S DRESSING SACQUE. A delightfully comfortable and stylish gar- ment is illustrated above. It is cut with a loose front which is shirred from a yoke top. The back is cut with a back form and an under- arm gore. The sleeves are the comfortable and plcturesque bishop sleeve. The sailor collaris stylishly cut off in front to give the effect now sought after. A most dainty sacque after this model was of white batiste. The sailor collar had a deep hem, at the top of which was let in the nar- row embroidery to give the effect of hemstitch- ing. The rufflé around the collar, which was also of batiste, had the same finish at the top of the hem. Another sacque was of blue and white dim- ity, with a collar of plain blue edged with a ruffie of Valenciennes lace. A yellow dimity might be trimmed with a collar of yellow and white striped dimity. A pink’lawn, with white dots, might have & white collar trimmed with white or yellow lace. A blue Japanese silk with collar of white batiste trimmed with inserting of yellow Va- lenciennes lace, with & ruffle to match, would be very cool and stylish. Pale green wash ‘silk with a_canary stripe {nlgnz have the collar of natural colored grass inen. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. «“Qh!” she said, “your conduct is enough to make an angel weep!” I don’t see you shedding any tears,” he re torted, and his tact saved the day.—Pearson’s Weekly. S Nearsighted 014 Lady—Goodness me! Here's aman coming down the street with 8 brick in each hand. Her Daughter—Don’t be frightened, mamma. It's only Charlie Pluggine with his russet glovés on,”—Roxbury Gazette. 'MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Grand opera has recelved a severe blow in the death of Sir Augustus Harris, in the very height of the London musical season. He was one of the few impresarios who could make grand opera pay, and that was owing to his wide experience and dauntless energy. A dozen years ago opera was becoming a lostart, as far as London wes concerned. ‘‘Augustus Druryolanus,”” as he was popularly called, after his theater of Drury Lane, declared that he would revive the opera enthusiasm which had been ruined by thestarsystem. He se- cured a fine company, but his troupe did not include Patti, and the public haa been edu- cated to consider that Patti was grand opera, and grand opera was Patti. The immediate result of his venture was that in six weeks he lost £16,000. At first Augustus Harris con- cluded that he had buried grand opera, and that the ceremony was rather costly, but the nextseason he was persuaded to make another venture, and that time London began to see possibility that she will sing “Carmen” at Covent Garden this season, and an autumn tour with the Carl Rosa Company is also on the tapis. Le Temps, one of the best newspapers in Paris, is authority for the statement that Offen. bach’s operas are to be splendidly mounted in New York next winter with Calve and Jean de Reszke in the leading roles. If & less se. rious and reliable journal had made the state- ment one would feel inclined to treatitasa joke. Ernest Gillet, composer of “Loin du Bal,” «The Mill,” etc., has just completed writing an opera-comique in three acts, entitled “Lo ¥il de 1a Vierge.” The libretto, whichis said to contain both sentiment and gaiety, has been written by Charles Chincholle, and the music is remarkable for its melodies. More then two hundred wreaths were laid SIR AUGUSTUS HARRIS, that opera was possible without Patti. For several years there was little profit in the opera seasons, but the impresario was edu- cating the public, and in these later years he | very much more than made back what he had | previously lost. | Considering that his earliest memories were | associated with the operatic stage, it was not surprising that Augustus Harris should have turned his attention to the production of | opera in London. In a recent interview he | said: “My first remembrance of opera dates back to the time when, as a boy of six, I saw | ‘Martha’ given at Covent Gerden—the mew | theater had just been built after the fire. | After that I was frequently behind the scenes there, and when I went to Paris I used to meet all the great artists and composers, either at Faure’s, Patti’s or Carvalho’s, where I passed my Sundays. At Hanover, too, where I lived for & time, for the purpose of completing my education, I had the entrce to the opera- house; so yon may imagine that from my earliest years I have taken a deep interest in | matters operatic.” sir Augustus Harris was knighted for his civic services, not for what he had done for | musie. The Elms, his home near London, isa | beautiful place, containing many priceless | treasures pertaining to the operatic world. Apropos of Saint-Saens’ jubilee concert in | Paris, I’Illustration gives the following ac- count of the French master’s early passion for music: “His infancy offers many similarities with the first years of Mozart. At22 months of age he was brought home to Paris from the country, and all the impression he received from the city seemed to be those of sound and music. The ticking of the clocks, the noise of the door-bells, the various peddler’s cries, rendered him mute with astonishment, and he spent his time in running from one room to another, to compare the different sounds. The first time that he heard & piano, the delighted child put one finger, then an- other on the keys, and finally began to form chords. He wanted to know the relation be- tween the black and white notes, and his friends promised to satisfy his curiosity when he could read. Atthe age of two and & half he was a fluent reader, and at three years of age he could write down music, which he was already beginning to compose. A few of his earliest musical efforts have been preserved, notably some waltzes, written at five years of age. He was very fond of improyisation, and it was especially by religious themes that he felt himself inspired. The child, however, was not only remarkable for his musical or- ganization he showed an equal aptitude for the sciences, natural history and mechan- ics.” Giuseppe Verai is setting an example of noble charity as well as of gratitude o the artists who have sung in his operas, ana have | 50 helped to make him famous. The magnifi- cent home for old and indigent artists which he is builaing in Milan, and which wili absorb & large portion of his fortune, will be one of the finest charitable institutions in a city which is remarkable for possessing some of the most splendid charitable institutions in the world. In Milan the biggest hospital is a perfectly ordered city in itself. There is scarcely any class of indigence which does not find some well-organized charity ready to stretch out a helping hand. But strange to say the singers who congregate there in such numbers have hitherto been overlooked in the | charitable arrangements of the city. Miss Margaret Reid, & clever young Ameri- can singer, has made & great hit this season at Covent Garden Theater, London, as a member of Sir Augustus Harris’ company. She will be remembered as the dainty little prima donna of the Bostonians. For the last two years she has been studying in Paris. In Londen her greatest success has been es Nedds in I Pagliacci.,” Miss Reid expects to sing in grand opera at the Metropolitan Opera-house next winter if Abbey & Grau go on with their present plans. The younger Coquelin, who played here with his father a few yearsago at the Grand Opera-house, has yearnings to become a lyric artist. It is said that he seriously con- templates abandoning the comedy stage for opers, and to this intent he has been studying singing very seriously of late. He Is shortly to make his debut as & singer at a grand musical festival to be held in Amiens, France, to cele- brate the twenty-fifth anniversary ot the foundation of the Amiens Harmony Society. Thea Dorre left the Tavary Opera Company suddenly just before the disastrous New York season. She had been billed to,apper in New York, but the internal strife in the company, ‘which centered round Guille, had a good deal to do with her sudden determination to leave. She went immediately to London under con- tract with the impresario Vert. There is a on the grave where Clara Schumann was re- cently laid at Bonn beside her husband. It is nearly forty years since Robert Schumann was buried there, but these two people, who loved one another so much in life, have finally been united in death. A Clara Schumann memorial evening is the fashion in Germany. Pauline Joran, the San Francisco diva, has now played her fourth engagementat Covent Garden. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Bishop Joyce of the Metbodist Church will soon start on an episcopal tour in foreign lands that will occupy two years. He expects to travel 50,000 miles. J. W. Bradbury, the oldest living ex-Senator of the United States, celcbrated the ninety- fourth anniversary of his birth last week at his home in Augusta, Me. Professor Roentgen’s great-grandfather was a cabinet-maker, whose works were so famous that Goethe alludes to them in_his fairy story, “The New Melusina,” written in 1770. The revolutionary relics captured by General Stark at the battle of Bennington now rest in & handsome black walnut case in the office of the agjutant-general at Concord, N. H. Miss May Abraham, the new English super- intendent of factory inspectors, is a besutiful woman of the Semitic type. 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