The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 29, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JUNZ 29, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Preprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Fi Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.15 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 8.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, three months by mafl 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Bunday CaLL, one year, by mall. . ::3 WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mail. THE SUMMER MONTHS. S Are you ing to the couniry on s vacatien 00, it @ 2o tronble for ns to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrler or left at Business Office will receive promy: attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. seee veeseseen MaIN<1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: Clay Street. e veee Maln=1874 Telephone.... - BRANCH OFFICES: 630 Montgomery sirest, corner Clay; open nntil :80 o'clock. < 39 Hayes street; open untl 8:30 o’clock. 713 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until § o'clock. N 9518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clook. 118 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock: OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Roems 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Clty DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent- MONDAY. . ...JUNE 29, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohlo FOR VIOE-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. —————————————————— Register to-day and don’t postpone the thing. If you wish prosperity now is the time to work for it. The home industry should’ have the bome market. e All that Whitney gained by his letter is a reputation as a quitter. 8o long as the tariff is kept to the front Democracy will be kept to the rear. Young men who cast their first vote for McKinley will always be proud of it. The deficit tariff makes more than half the trouble in the National treasury. Join a Republican ciub and do your share in the work of organizing victory. In the Democratic camp the plot is rapidly thickening to the curdling point. Read TrE Caru during the camoaign and get the news of all parties impartially reported. If Henry Watterson bad stayed at home he might have been mentioned for the Presidency. If the Cubans can stand Weyler off antil Cleveland leaves the White House they will be all right. Presidential candidates will jostle one another at Chicago, but not one of them will give another a push. ‘What the people of this country need is less financial discussion and more work on a good financial basis. Carlisle has been the first Democrat to go up Salt River this year, but thers are others who will go further. This is a good time for young men to leave the old Democratic hulk and get in with the party of prosperity. A RO R If Cleveland was steering the Demo- cratic ship at a rock he has the satisfac- tion of knowing that he hit it. Grover may be said to be still in the ring, but it is only the extreme gold-bug | ring and it won’t count this year. The issue of work and wages does not sound big, but it reaches every home and affects the welfare of every family. This year we sweep the Democratic party off the face of the earth and give the Populists a chance to fill the vacancy. The people do the shouting for Mec- | Kinley, and it will be remembered in this connection that the people also do the voting. The gold Democrats of the East may sbuse Teller now, but when they get to | Chicago they may have to imitate his example. The money question is but one phase of the great issue of restoring prosperity, and is so understood by the common sense of the people. It is kind of Chicago to prepare an extra lot of ambulance wagons for the Demo- cratic Convention, but perhaps a garbage- cart or two would have suited the occasion just as welL The more the money question is debated the more the peovle understand that what we need most is a tariff that will yield abundant revenues and provide work and ‘wages for the people. California wants protection for her industries and governmental aid in pro- moting her commerce, and as a conse- quence she must vote for the party of progress and enterprise. It is worth noting that every time the country begins to prosper Democracy weakens and whenever Democracy gets strong the country weakens. It is a calémity party whichever way you take it, The free silver Prohibitionists in Rhode Island are reported to have captured the party organization and acquired the party organ, and as a result the residents of the other States are complaining of the noise of the music. The Sultan has recently declared the troubles in Crete would ed if the Cretans would lay down their arms, and thereisa general belief g¢hat under those circum- stances the Cretans would end about the same time as their troubles. ‘By a typographical error the Phila- delyhia Enguirer announced the name of our uext President as Mcinl Key, and while of course any name will do when yon mean the right man it must be ad- mitted that it is no fit spell to conjure with. FIGET ONE BATTLE AT A TIME Carl Schurz is of the opinion that ““with- out an active spirit of enterprise there can be no prosperity.” Mr. Schurz always did say wise things, when he felt like it, and his long association with the Democracy— since 1884—has not impaired his under- standing nor abated the flow of words of wisdom, when he will allow them to flow. Now, if Mr. Schurz will add to the wise words quoted above “and without confidence in the ability and willingness of those who are directing the affairs of the Government there can be no active spirit, no enterprise nor no prosperity,’” be will have uttered a great truth, but he will do nothing of the kind. Will Mr. Schurz tell us what it is that creates an active spirit of enterprise, and what it is that makes for prosperity? If pressed for an answer he woutd say ‘‘Ap. plied Clevelandism.” The people of the United Btates are noted the world over for enterprise, but they have not been very prosperous in recent years, nor will they be until the iron chains which applied Clevelandism has wound about them are removed. The spirit of their enterprise found pretty full play for over thirty years, and during that time no people on earth were so prosperous, and during the operation of that great and wise industrial legislation of 1890 their prosperity was phe- nomenal. This Mr. Schurz knows very well. But when that legislation was forced to give way to applied Cleveland- ism the active spirit of enterprise of the people was so circumscribed and handi- capped that not only had they no pros- perity, but they were forced to stand and see what they had gained in other years go from them. The same old spirit of enterprise which Mr. Schurz talks about is still alive, though it cannot be said to be very active, nevertheless it is watching and praying for the passing of applied Clevelandism and the returning of applied common business sense as it was before the indus- trial props and defenses were removed by applied Clevelandism. But Mr. Schurz must not be misunderstood. What he means by “active spirt of enterprise” is the adoption of the gold standard of re- demption money, once for all, and thus put the seal of the Nation’s disapproval upon any plan or proposition that winks at or harbors anything that contemplates the restoration of silver to the monetary system of the country by international or any other kind of agreement. Mr. Schurz, like Mr. Cleveland and every other Democrat, be he a silver man or goldite, believes that the present tariff is too high and that very many more arti- cles should be put upon the free list. There is no division at all in the Demo- cratic party on that question. Therefore, it matters not how divided the party mey be on other issues, the rank and file and leaders everywhere are of one mind as to the tariff question—that there should be reducgions all along the line so as to give fore countries a stronger footing in our markets. Now, in the face of the indis- putable fact that the Democracy is schem- ing behind all quarrels in its ranks over the money question to reach an actual free- trade basis for the country, is it not tha duty of Republicaus to drop all other is- sues for the moment and see that the foundation of the country’s industries is not carried away? There never was a time in the history of the Republican party when the best inter- ests of the country demanded more imper- atively that it close up its ranks and de- fend the great American principle of protection to the people’s farms, shops, factories and mills. The Democratic party, by its threat to destroy our industries, obliges the Republican party to come to their rescue, and, as Mr. Schurz would say, let us engage in the defense of our wealth-making agencies with “an active spirit of enterprise.” Let us fight one battle at a time. FIFTY YEARS AGO. The fftieth anniversary of the taking formal possession of California by the United States will be celebrated at Mon- terey one week from to-morrow, July 7. Although the idea of celebrating the an- niversary of theevent in a way that should include participation in the festivities by Californians generally originated in Mon- -| terey the plan was caught up and ap- proved by all localities, so it will be a State rather than a local affair. It is | doubtful if Commodore Sloat realized, indeed no man could have realized, what the hoisting of the stars and stripes over the Custom-house of Monterey at that time would mean to the United States in future years. It was one of those events in the history of a nation in which the hand of Providence can almost be seen. There seemed to have been a combina- tion of circumstances which turned Cali- fornia over to the keeping of the United Btates—a combination so far-reachingin in- | fluence and of so much significance that it iseasy to believe that a power higher than man was directing the course of human events in those days to the end that brouder and better ways might be opened for the advance of that civilization which is the pride of the world and the glory of America. The history of the leading up to the act of taking possession of California by hoist- ing the stars and stripes over the Custom- house at Mornterey is well known to every school boy and girl, but there is a deeper meaning to it all than the mere history facts reveal. Had not the shipsof the United States navy been fleeter, better officered and the crews more enthusiastic than those of the Englisn navy the flag of Great Britain and not the stars and stripes would have claimed California, and it is just possible that instead of being one of the grandest of the confederation of Btates California would be a British province to-day. But, however that may be, there is no doubt at all about whal the people should do on this occasion. Every county and municipality of California shou!d be repre- sented at Monterey on July 7, that the celebration may have the dignity, charac- ter and importance of what might justly be called the fiftieth anniversary of Cali- fornia’s independence; besides, it will be a very proper time for the societies of the first settlers and Native Sons and Daugh- ters to gather their hosts and join in fra- ternal greeting. FIRST-BALLOT OANDIDATES. Democratic newspapers are trying to make it appear that Mr. McKinley's nom- ination on the first ballot is evidence suf- ficient that there was a controlling inner wheel in the machinery of the Republican party at St. Louis, otherwise it would bave taken a score or more ballots to nominate. The fact is, it is a very com- mon thing for Republican National Con- ventions to nominate on the first ballot. The first convention, held 1n Philadelphia in 1856, nominated Fremont on the first ballot. In 1864 Lincoln was nominated oh the first ballot. Grant was nominated on the first ballot 1n 1868 and again in 1872, In 1892 Harrison was nominated on the first ballot just as McKinley was nomi- nated on the first ballot in 1896, Eieven National Republican Conventions have been held and at six of them the can- A didate was named on the first ballot. 8o, after all, there was nothing so wonderful in Mr. McKinley carrying the St. Louis Convention on the first call of Btates. In this connection it might be well to observe that when Fremont was nomi- nated the voting population of the United States was, in round numbers, 4,000,000, In 1892 it was 12,000,000 and it is estimated that there are now over 13,000,000 voters. The voting population between 1856 and 1860 did not increase materially, so it is safe to say that the voting strength of the country increased under Republican rule between 1860 and 1892 fully 8,000,000. Be- tween the same years the wealth increase of the country was from about $15,000,- 000,000 to nearly $70,000,000,000. No other argument is needed to prove that the country needs to have the Republican party in power all the time. FORLOBRN DEMOORATS. In its long, tempestuous and more or less disgraceful career, the Democratic party has -always managed to keep and maintain some sort of resting-place to which it could ratire during periods when it was under the condemnation of the people. Even during the long years be- tween 1860 and 1892 it had its own cabin, albeit it was located in the swamp of public opinion, where the party fed upon such crumbs of comfort as it could gather from recollections of days when it was in better circumstances, but never before did any one consider the party so homeiess and forsaken that it would have to submit to the humiliation of receiving an invita- tion from a Taubeneck to accept the doubtful hospitalities of a Populist party. No doubt the Democracy is hungry enough, but bad and friendless as 1t is there is no charity in offering the thm and tasteless consomme of Populism. Dives did not treat Lazarus that mean. But the Tellerites offend quite as deeply as do the Populists when they invite the Democracy te surrender every principle it ever had and follow their banner. Were the Democracy to do that or accept Taube- neck’s offer it would be nothing more than an exchange of swamps. It would still be poor and distressed, besides it would bave the added disgrace of having sold its birthright. The Democratic parcy has done some very idiotic things in its day. but it has never let go its hold upon certain alleged volitical principles, and what is more, it could not without admit- ting that it never should have come into existence, which. is true, by the way, whetber it admits it or not. Senator Peffer is the manliest man of them all. He is a middle-of-the-road Pop- ulist, and wants no going to the right or totheleft. He saysit was Taubeneck’s im- pudence or impertinence, and not the wish of the party, that overtures of any kind be made to silver Democrats or Tel- lerites. His pesition is that while re- cruits from all parties are wanted they are not wanted unless they renounce with- out persuasion all allegiance to their old faith and come as obedient disciples of a great cause. And Peffer is right, for what would it avail himself and the other founders of the Populist party if the glory of their labors is to be turned over to Teller or any one else? Peffer knows, as does every other nonest Populist know, that there isa scheme on foot to use the People’s party to help build up something, anything, to defeat William McKinley, and he is to be commended for employing every possible means to preventit. It is evident that Taubeneck, Teller and certain renegade Democrats are doing their best to organize a new party for personal politi- cal advantage, but they will fail, poor, for- lorn and hungry as the Democracy is. THE VETO POWER. A man may be the constitutional Presi- dent of the United States and still bean autocrat, and he may be the constitutional President and bea patriot. The President cannot deal directly with the people, but he does indirectly, through Congress, for its members are the direct agents of the veople. The Presidens has the legal but not the moral right to refuse to obey the will of the people by using the veto power, as Cleveland has done sev efal times. Itis a power that seems to be necessaryto have lodged in the President, but it was originally conferred for prudential pur- poses, and never to be used as a means of coercion or revenge. The presumption is that if Congress enacts a law it is enacted because the people want just such a law, and when the President refuses to let it become an operative law he assumes that he is wiser than the people. In selecting a man for President it is well enough for the people to consideér the veto-power question. The best way to do that intelligently is to study the candi- date’s public and, as far as may be, his private record. The Democrats have not yet named their candidate, but we may be sure if the Cleveland wing wins the candi- date would, if elected, follow in the foot- steps of Cleveland in all official acts. If Bland or Boies should be nominated the country would have to run the risk of future developments, but with McKinley there is no room for doubt. He is a patriot by nature, and ke cheerfully recognizes the people as the sovereigns and that their willislaw. We know in advance, there- fore, that the will of the people would not be ignored by employing the veto power if he were President. 00AST EXCHANGES, P. H. Millberry has disposed of the plant &nd business of the Mountain View Register to George 0. Kinney and George S. Walker, both formerly of Los Gatos, and the new propries tors announce that the paper will be inde- pendent in politics, and that it will be devote | primarily to the best iuterests of Mountain View and the tributary country. ‘The Mariposa Miner celebrated its first birth- aay anniversary last week. The editor, W. W. Booth, takes oceasion to remark that the AMiner has done no inconsiderable part of the work of building up the town of Coulterville and the mining industry of that section of California, and concludes: “It may not be amiss to point out at the present time that the prospects of this goldfield were never brighter than they are at present. New mines are opening up and old ones are being reopened. The coming twelve months promise to be very prosperous ones for all in the community.” That high-grade weekly journal, E! Bar- bareno, is now the property of Leverett H. Mesick, the late senior partner in the firm ot Mesick & Selover. Frank M. Selover has been icompelled to retire from business on account of i1l health. The policy and tone of the paper will remain unchanged. El Barbareno is a pronounced success. A. E. Hadley has purchased the interest of J. C. Oliver in the Alturas Plaindealer, and the vaper will henceforward be published under the firm name of Thomas & Hadley. Mr. Oliver will devote his talents and energies to the up- building of the Lakeview Rustler. The Guadaloupe Standard has also changed hands, G. W. Edrington taking the place of Faunt Leroy in the proprietorship. The Standard is Going commendable work in at- traciing attention to the advantages of Northe ern Santa Barbara County. The Ojai, published at Nordhoff, Ventura County, will be edited during the summer months by Randolph R. Freeman, who will act for Shermar: D. Thatcher while the latter isen- joying his annual vacation, 5 The Ventura Independent is about to enlarge, inorder to accommodate theé increasing de- mand on its advertising columns. This is evi- dence of both enterprisé and prosperity. A gigantic scheme for the generation of elec- tric power and the irrigation of farm lands in Yuba County has been set on foot, by the or- ganization of the Marysvilleand Nevada Power and Watef Company, with & capital of $2,000,- 000. The principal place of business is Smarts- ville, and the Plumas Independent gives these further particulars: “‘The company will commence business with the right to 70,000 inches of water, and in ad- dition will own over twelve miles of ditches already in use, with clear title to the rightsof way for sufficient difches to supply a large area east of Marysville. This company also owns the land where their dam will be built, and have acquired the entire system of water- rights and ditches of James O’'Brien of Smarts- ville, who is one of the teading promoters. “It is the intention to generate power forany purpose that may be marketable. The com- pany intend to erect a dam like the one at Folsom, and to furnish electric power, as' they would be able to develop over 7000 horse- power. The ditches will be used for irrigation purposes. It is one of the most available sites on the Pacific Coast for the purpose intended. They will be able to transmit power to Browns Valley and many other places. It1is the inten- tion to erect & rock dam 200 feet high which would cost from $80,000 to $125,000. The site of the dam will be 1000 feet above tidewater, thus affording emple fall to irrigate adjacent territory.” Experiments in hemp-growing in the vicin- ity of Gridley seem to indicate that an indus- try of much importance to this coast is about to be developed there. The Gridley Herald furnishes this information: “N. 8. Kirk’s ranch, about two miles east of Gridley, consists mainly of rich bottom lands. It has heretofore been devoted to grain, but this year Mr. Kirk, who is from Illinois, deter- mined to try & more profitable crop. Two hun- dred acres were thoroughly plowed and culti- vated and planted to hemp. Ithas mades marvelous growth and now stands on an aver- age nine feet high, and by the time it is ready for cutting it will reach a height of fifteen feet. Mr. Kirk expects to cut the crop by har- vesters, the plant then being left to cure in the field. When itis dry it will be hauled to the river or reservoir and there soaked until rot- ten, when the fiber is separated and shipped East for manufacture into hempen produets. A large lot of machinery has been brought from the East for the purpose of breaking the hemp and is now being placed in position by employes.” The Copperopolis mines are to be opened. ““They have been shut down for several years,” says the Stoekton Mail, ‘‘as at the time of thelr closing the price of copper was 50 low that it did not pay to work them. Now matters are different, for the increased demana for copper caused, among other things, by the great de- velopment in all sorts of electrical devices, has sent the price up tosuch a figure that the Ames estate, to which the mines at Coppero- polis belong, has decided to open them up once more. “If the Copperopolis mines start again, as now appears to ke certain, it will redound to Stockton’s advantage, for when they were in operation before this city was made tne base of supplies for everything used by the miners. They did a great deal more buying here than the gold miners farther up slong the roed. For this reason the local merchants will be in- terested in the statement that copper is again to be minea there. “There has never been any doubt as to the richness of the mines at Copperopolis. They are said to be far richer in copper than the great Anaconda mine in Montana that was re- cently sold to a Parisian syndicate fora fabu- lous sum. The great difficulty has been in operating them and getting the product to market. The mines are some distance from the railroad, and it is possible if they are opened up again on any iarger scale, as i con- templated, a branch road may be run from the Milton line to the mines. When copper was very low the mines were found to be un- profitable, in spite of their richness, but now that the price of the metal hes advanced so materially there is a fortune for the owners in the mine.” At La Grange, Merced County, an electric light and power plant is to be established and the current transmitted to Stockton for manu- facturing purposes. Commenting on this mat- ter the Hanford Journal observes: “The con- stantly increasing number of plants applying the millions of horsepower of wasted energy of the Sierras promises very shortly to bring about a development that has for years been retarded by an absence of cheap power. With the advent of cheaper power wili come & man- utacturing population that will create a mar- ket for the many products of our farms with- out interveniug railroad charges between pro- ducer and consume PERSONAL. Judge Edwin H. Lamme of Los Angeles is at the Palace. S. M. M. Ross, a mining man of Globe, Ariz., is at the Occidental. E. C. Smith, a merchant of Pacific Grove, is a guest at the Grand. Archibald Yell, a promiment attorrey of Hanford, is at the Grand. W. A. Ensign, a merchart of Tucson, Ariz,, is at the Russ with his wife. John E. Jackson, the Los Angeles banker, is among the Grand's guests. C. J. Beers of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, is & guest at the Cosmopolitan, George W. Brown, a mining man of Jack son, 1s a late arrival at the Russ. T. L. Flanegan, a lumber-desler of Reno, Nov.,, iz a guest at the Grand. W. F. Detert of the Zeila mine, Amador County, is registered at the Lick. Jauo Pedro Ismael, an East Indian from Monier. arrived at the Lick yesterday. J. F. Wardner, founder of the town of Ward- ner, Idaho, is among the latest arrivals at the Lick. C. H. Schiverley, a banker and mining man of Oroville, is making & short visit at the Grand. Robert J. Devlin, the ex-Prison Commis. sioner, is at the Grand, registered from Bacra- mento. Park Henshaw, the Chico lawyer and ex- colonel of the Eighth Regiment, is at the Occi- dental. 1. Hayoshi, & merchant from Japan, arrived on the Gaelicand has a room at the Oceci- dental. R. Jensen and N. L. Hagen, business men of Portland, Or.. ere registered at the Cosmo- politan. A. McDonald of Seattle, who owns rexl estate in that place and in Walla Walls, arrived at the Lick last night. H. M. Smith of Washington, D. C., is staying at the Grand. He is connected with the United Btates Fish Commission. Captain S. B. Randall of the United States army is at the Grand with his wife. They are registered from Benicia. H. Prince, a merchant of the historic town of Monterey, is making the Grand his head- quarters during a short business visit. Miss Harriet M. Broome, who has been en. gaged in missionary work at Chafi, Japan, was a passenger on the Gaelic. She isat the Ocei- dental. Sherift Ed A. Baxter of Sagamund County, Illinols, is at the Russ. He has come from Springfield after a prisoner now held for him in Solano County. Dr. E. Rudeil, who arrived recently from Deli on one of the Pacific Mail steamers, re- turned yesterday to the Occidental, after hay- ing visited the Yosemite. A party of forty-one persons, consisting of civil engineers and their wives, arrived at the Palace at 2 o'clock this morning to attend the convention that opens here to-day. Captain I L. Zalinski, & retired officer of the United States army and the inventor of the celebrated pneumatic gun, arrived on the Gaelic and is a guest af the Palace. J. M. Welch, proprietor of the Crown Flour Mills at Stockton, arrived from Walla Walla last night with his wife and the Misses Grace, Beatrice and Maud Welch. They are at the Lick. 0. R. Pihl and A. 8. Kiffie of Portland and G. B. Hegurth of Fort Stevens, Or., arrived {rom the north last night. They will attend the Civil Engineers’ Convention to be held here. Among the arrivals at the Palace yesterday was an Eastern party consisting of Mrs. P. A. Hearst, Mr. and Mrs. N. Robertson, Miss Ap- person and Miss Lane, of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. C. Anthony and Miss Anthony of Boston. C. C. Babb, a member of the United States Geological Survey, arrived at the Occidental yesterday and joined his co-workers, who will soon begin their summer explorations in this State. They collect data during the summer and work it up at Washington during the winter. PERSONS OF PROMINENCE. Vidal, one of the most famous sculptors of AROUND THE +CORRIDORS. Colonel John Lane of Spokane, Wash., fell asleep as he sat in the office of the Ocecidental yesterday afternoon, and his identity for the time being was lost in the small army of chair boarders, men with gchemes and pelitical hangers-on that dally ana wearily linger in ihe comfortable hotel lobbies of the City. But the colonel's name was on the registor and he had just completed & long journey, so he chme honestly by the privilege he was en- Joying. Some one had pinned on his chair a card on ‘which was written, ‘‘Wake me at 6 o’clock and come and dine with me.” Fortunately for him COLONEL JOHN LANE. France, was stone blina at the time when he executed some of his most famous works. Colonel 7. W. Higginson has presented to the Boston Public Library his unique eollection of books relating to the history of women, com- prising about 1000 volumes. The books are in a variety of lJanguages. Among the major-generals of the British army is J. B. Richatrdson, who is remarkable as the only officer of his rank who has no medals. He is 58 years old and has seen forty-one years of active service. Difficuities have arisen with regard to the administration of Baron Hirsch’s estate. More than ore of the executors named by the testa- tor have refused to act, and complications have also arisen from the manner in which the will is drawn. It is expectzd that the property in England, which will pay duty to the Chaneellor ot the Exchequer, will fall little ghort of £3,000,000. A druggist of Winnimac, Ind., received an- other order the other day from President Cleveland for three boxes of fish-hooks for bass fishing in the sea. With the order is a letter from the President stating that “the lasthooks ordered had been received and used by him- self and Secretary Thurber with good results.” This is the third order for fishing tackle that the druggist bas reccived from the President. The eight women colonels of the German army, who draw swords on!y occasionally and their salaries regularly, are: The Empress of Germany, the Dowager-Empress (wife of the late Frederick III), the Princess Frederick Charles of Prussia, the Queen Regent Sophia and the Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, the Duchess of Connaught, the Duchess of Edicburgh (sister of the Emperor of Russia), and Queen Victoria. Lecky, the historlan, is an object of mueh interest to his fellow members of Parliament, who like to see him struggle with the practical details of political work. The other day he bhad to act as teller while & vote was taking on one of the clauses of the benefices bill, and is deseribed as appearing so “helpless and child- like” as to be quite out of keeping with his surroundings. Theway he hugged his hat was pathetic to look upon. LOVE'S TRANSFORMATION. No more unto the myths of old Sweet Love delighied ¢lings, For Love rides on a bicycle, And Love has lost his wings. No more the romance of the past A pleasing thrill imparts, For Love upon a bicycle Now chases human hearts. Alas! the happy, happy days! But—cool my burning brow; For Love wheels down the dusty ways, And Love’s a scorcher now ! —Atlanta Constitution, NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. New arrival (at summer resort)-- What does a day’s fishing cost here? Boarder—The grocer asks §1 50 a quart, but it’s mighty poor stuff.—Puek. She—We women go to the seashore in order to have as little as possible on our minds, He—Then youare ready to admit that women think only of dress?—Detroit Tribune. “] wonder what that man is so angry at him- self about?” said the mosquito. “During the balf hour I have been flying around his head he has done nothing but hit himself in the jaw every half minute or so.”—Indianapolis Journal. Tagleigh—What do you think of this 0ld man marrying that young girl hot yet 17 years old? ‘Wagleigh—I suppose it is what you would call asilver wedding. $ Tagleigh (puzzled)—How so? Wagleigh — Sixteen to one.— Philadelphia Bulletin, “Well, Uncle Rasbury, how did you like the sermon?”’ “Pow'ful fine sermon, Master John.” “Where did the preacher take his text?” “Frum dat potion of de Scripture where de Postol Paul pints his pistol o de Fesions.”— Washington Times. “This 18 the littlest fifty pounds of ice I ever see,” said the kitchen lady. “Permit me to inform you, madam,” said the high-browed iceman, “‘that the apparent small- ness is due to theintense cola to which we sub- ject our ice in the process of manufacture, thereby producing contraction.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. Dobson—Bungster is the meanest man I ever aW. Hobson—What has given you that opinion? Dobson—I invited him to take dinner with me at the hotel yesterday and he said he couldn’t do it because he paid for his board by the week and got no rebate for meals that he didn't eat.—Cleveland Leader. Boy—Do you want a boy here? Man—Yes. Boy—What kind? Man—A nice boy that doesn’t swear or say naughty words, or smoke cigarettes, or play tricks, or get into mischief, or— Boy—That's enough, mister. I guess it’s a girl you want. Good-by.—New York Sun. Mrs. Brinkley—Where d1d your husband stop in 8t Lonis? Mrs. Easy Pickens—I think he intended to stop with an aunt of his. At least I judge so from what he says. Her name is Aunty Platt and I guess she must keep a hotel. I know that husband said that he would be in the anti- Platt crowd to the bitter end—and I suppose that must mean to the end of the convention. —Cleveland Plain Dealer, he was the first to bestir himself, and the pos- sibilities of a dangerous rush of the long- undined vanished. The colonel is Unitea States Indian In- spector and has been during the presentad- ministration. He has come to San Francisco to take charge of the warehouse in which are 10 be stored the supplies to be aistributed later to the various reservations in the Pacific States. His father was Senator Joseph Lane, known after the Mexican War as ‘Fighting Joe” Lane. Among the Indians Colonel Lane is eaid to be an object of admiration, and & man to whom they appenal 8s & just arbiterof all their disputes. “The Indians,” said he yesterday, as he at- tempted to mufile 8 yawn, “are getting so they take care of themseives. They are improving and becoming more civilized. Contrary to the general belief they are also increasing in num- ber. “I have just come from the Klamath region, and before I visited the Indians thereIwas among the Nez Perces. They are’ an interest- ing tribe. Why, some of the Nez Perce girls are so nearly new women that they ride bicycles to school. ““Tne Klamath Indians are perhaps the most inteiligent as a tribe, and the Bannocks —. Well, I'won’tsay it. They are the worst In- dians there are. They ltve in Idaho, and numter only about 500, but mean, disagree- able—yes, squaivs and all, although they have to work and don’t find so mary opporiunities as the bueks.” The best known and most traveled cat on the water front is 'fom of the Alameds. For thirteen years he has been making voyages between San Francisco and Sydney, New South Wales, and in that time has made forty-six round trips and traveled 667,550 miles. He is known in Homolulu, Apia, Auckland and Sydney almost as well as in San Francisco, but as he is now growing old and fat he very rarely ventures ashore. Wnen Tom was & kitten he one day strayed trom the bark Alden Besse aboard the Ala- meda. He would make friends with no one, but roamed the steamer at his own free will. Chief Engineer Little tried to make friends with him, but failed, and not even the most dainty tidbits could coax him into the engine- room. As he grew older Tom began hunting rats, and he soon had the upper part of the vessel clear of the pests. While chasing one of the vermin it took refuge in the galley, and Tom in his eagerness to get at it jumped on the hot stove. His feet were badly burned and he at once made for the hold, where he hid himself. When the cat did not appear for twenty- four hours the chief began to make inquiries. The sailors told him of the accident and said the cat was hiding in the cargo. For nearly an. hour Little crawled about in the lower hold and finally found the poor brute. He carried him to his room and fixed his paws up with vaseline. For over a week he doctored and fed him and now Tom and the chief are in. separable. There are three other cats on the Alameda, but not one of them dare set foot in the cabin or on the poopdeck. In that part of the ship Tom is master. He is also master of the chief engineer’s room and isa great deal better than a watchdog. No outsider can get in while Tom is on duty, and that is almost constantly. On the last trip of the steamer from Australia Tom and his master were photographed by one of the pas. sengers. The picture is prized as Mr. Little expects the cat to finish his million-mile run by water before he dies. This will be a world’s record. Colonel Carlos Gonzales, a retired officer of the Mexican army, is at the Lick. But he is not alone. When he arrived the other night it took three carriages to bring his wife and family from the ferry, and as he marshaled his forces in the hotel office the curious loiterers drew beck against the wall and whispered to one another that an orphanage must havé burned down. The colonel is from a very productive part of Mexico. His principal haciends, La Concha, twelve miles from Torreon, in the State of Coahuils, is surrounded by eight or nine square miles of cultivatea land, all of which belongs to the man of numerous family. Cotton is one of the products, although no less than 500 other families live upon the colonel's broad acres; so it is a well-settled country. In addition to this estate. on which he employs so many men, he hasa lot of land let out to different individuals, He ownsland sll along the Nazas River, the best lands in the country. The colonel does not speak English, but he has an interpreter in -the party. He is a short man, about 55 years of age, and wears a long black beard, fierce military mustache and a high silk hat. 1t is his intention to place some of his chil- dren in the College of Notre Dame at San Jose and others in & school at Los Angeles. He will, however, take five of the inger ones back with him to Mexico after h’.mllnl visited Monterey and other coast towns dear to the heart of every Mexican who thinks of what might have been had the Mexican war never occurred. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. DXIIEA.hs.,l:J.vlmua, Cal. During the 3ot to the amount of #11z,000, ® *ined WINTER GARDEN—Villa, City. The Winter Garden that stood on the corner of h-nud! Btockton streets was destroyed a fire that broke out at 1:11 A. M. Auuz.t t?"lsss. THE SILVER QUESTION—Subscriber, Repub- licay, M. K., H. D. P., A. R. and 8., City, Reader, Riverside and P. H. M., Modesto, CalL—All these correspondents want an explanation of the silver question, free silver coinage, the coinage laws prior to 1873, bimetallism, ratio of 16 to 1,and one writes: “Will you please explain in'100 words, for the benefit of young voters. the silver question?” To this corre- ndent the answer is, “It cannot be done.” 'he eminent men of the age have grown gray« haired in their endeavors to solve this ques- tion_and explain it ia_many thousandas of words, 80 that the generalmass of people could understand it, but they have not as yet been successful. The question whbether it is the wiser policy of the United States Government to admit the free coinage of silver in unlimited quantities on_the established ratio with gold, or to restrict the minting of the cheapermetal, has for many years constituted an important factor in party politics. Bimetallism is the doctrine that two metals can and ought, at the same time, in the same country, be adopted as standards of value, and to bear to each other a fixea ratio, established and recognized by the Government. Bimetallic money is money constituted by admitting both gold “and silver to “free coinage and making each an unlimited legal tender at a certain relation in value to the other. Mono- metallism is the use of only one metal as the standard of value. . Free silver or iree coinage of silver is to have the mints coin silver bul- lion for individuals the same as it does gold butlfon. The Government coins gold for indi- viduals, making no charge thercfor except the cost of the alloy. The desire of those who de- mand free silver coinage is to have silver coined, as gold now is, for any one who brings it to the mint at merely nominal charge, al- lowing the owners of the silver bullion to se- cure the profits which go to the Government when it coins silver aollars. An advocate of {ree filver coinage says: ‘‘Measured by com- modities, gold has risen 50 per cent since the demonetization of silver in 1873; silver, as compared with gold, has fallen not more than 30 per cent. Silver, therefore, as measured by ‘commodities, has not fallen, but, on the con- trary, the weight of testimony shows that there has been a slight appreciation of silver in spite of its demonetization. The free use of silver will lessen the demand for gold and in- crease the demand for silver, thus caunsinggold to fall and sliver to rise, and in this way the par of the two metais can be brought about without injustice to creditor or debtor.” On the other hand, the opponents of silyer say that the free coinage of the white metal cannot be demanded as a matter of justice, as all contracts since 1873 have been on s gold basis; that the Government cannot main- tain the price of silver; that free coinage could Dot restore its value; that it would resultin overproduction, an unloading by other nations and a further decline in price; that it would not_establish bimetsllism, but would drive gold out, bring the United Stetes o the sil- ver basis and result in the inflating of prides, and increase the cost of living. The meaning of the expression 16 to 1 is that a silver dollar shail, by weight, contain sixteen times as muech bullion as_does a gold dollar, and that both coins shall be legal tender at equal value, By the law of 1792 any person could have gold or silver coined at the mint into lawful money, recelving therefor coins of the same specie of bullion, weight for weight, of the pure metal contained therein. The gold standard was 11 parts pure to one of alloy, the silver was 1485 ure to 179 alloy. The ratio was 15 to 1. In 795 24 cents per ounce was retained for sil- ver below the standard, and 4 cents for gold. 1In 1828 & sum was retained fromsilver bullion uiring the test for materials and wastage. In 1834 there was 8 deduction of one-half per ent from all standard gold and silver deposited for coinage, if paid for in coin, within five days from deposit. In 1837 the standard gold and silver coin was made nlaomnthl pure and 11-10 alloy, and legel tender for any sum. In 1853 the weight of half dollars was reduced irom 2064 to 192 grains, and lesser coins in the same ratio, and mede legal tender to the amount of §. No private deposits for coinage in these coins were received, and charges of per cent were_made_for reflmng. By the law of February 12, 1873, the weight of the trade Jollar was to be 420 grains, of the half dollar 193 grains, and legal tender to the extentof $5. Silver bullion could be deposited for coinage into trade dollars only; gold for coin- age for the benefit of the depositor. One-fifth of 1 per cent was charged for converting standard gold bullion into coin and silver into trade dollars. Silver coins, except trade aollars, were to be exchanged for gold coins at ar in sums not exceeding $100. Seigniorage L the difference between the cost of a mass of builion and the face value of the pieces of coin from it. It is a percentage upon bullion }:ron(Ft to the mintto be coined or exchanged for coin. A POPULAR SHIRT WAIST FOR LADIES. ‘This will be found a very becoming w the fullness below the flat yoke making it & good shape, both for slender and stout figures. Made of a colored chambray, say plain pink, or pink and white stripe, with cuffs and collar of white, is the latest fancy. The collar and cuffs may be made detachable, one of the features of the season’s waists, simply binding meck and sleeves, and making the necessary buttonholes in bands and the cuffs and collar. Make a set to matcn,and another of white linen, and twice the amount of service can be g0t out of one waist. Plain natural colored linen is much used this season, some show a piping of white around cuffs, collar and voke. The pattern is No, 7834 and cuts in seven sizes, for 30, 32, 36, 38, 40 and 41 inches bust measure. A medium size requires three and a half yards of 27-inch goods. BEsT peanut taffy in the world. Townsend’s.* BPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Buresu (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ——— “Where are you going, Johnnie, with that gun?’ : “Iam going over to establish my right te dig bait in Jones’ garden.”’—Texas Sifter. Offcial Route to Democratic National Convention, Chicago. Central Pacific, Union Pacific and Chicago and Northwestern lines. Train cerrying California delegates will leave San Francisco July 1 at 6 ». & Bpecial rate for the round trip to Chicago $72.50. Tickets on sale June 30 and July 1. . Sleeping-¢ar reservatlons now on sale at Unfon Pacific office, 1 Montgomery street. Call early so 88 to secure best accommodations. D. W. Hitch- cock, General Agent, San Franclsco. Excursions to Grand Canyon of the \ Colorado. An excellent opportunity for seeing this wonder- ful scenery at a nominal expense is afforded through the excursions to leave San Franciseo June 20 and July 1 over the Atlantic and Pacific Raliroad. Fare includes stage trip from Flagstaf, meals en route and hotel expenses at Canyon, $75. For full particulars call on or address Thos. Cook & Son, excursion agents, 631 Market street, under Palace Hotel, or any sgent Atlantic and Pacific Raflroad. H. C. Bush, assistant general passenger agent, 61 Chronicle buflding, 8. . ———————— Northern Pacific Railroad. Parties attending the Democratic National Con- vention at Chicago, the Chrisiian Endeavorers at Washington and National Educa:ional Assocla- tion at Buffalo should go or return via the North- ern Pacific Rallroad, For particulars inquire of T. K. Stateler, Gen. Agt., 638 Market st., S. 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