The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 6, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 6, 1896. Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.15 Dally and Sunday CAL, one year, by mail.. Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3. Daily and Sunday CALi, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. .65 Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.. " WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mail. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country ona vacation? It 50, 1t is no troubie for us 10 forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Onders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will recelve prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone, +veees. Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. eesesases Main—-1874 Telephone....... BRANCH OFFICES : 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open untfl 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. open until 9:30 o'clock. nth and Mission streets; open Larkin street . corner Sixe until 9 o'dlock. 2518 Mission street; open nntil 9 o'clock. 116 Miuth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. 718 EASTERN OFFICI Reoms $1 and 82, 84 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. NONDAY JULY 6, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohio FOR VIOF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey TBER 3, 1896. ELECTION NOVE All aboard for Monterey. At Chicago everything seems to be over but the bust up. The chief objection to Silver Dick Bland is that he is a chromo. What a surprise party this convention must be to Tammany Hall. The McKinley button fits every Ameri- can coat as if it were made for it. ‘We do not need more money so much as more circulation of the money we have. Calling free silyer “Populism” will not. catch Populist votes for a mossback Demo- crat. Some men are born great, some achieve greatness and others are mentioned at Chicago. Sa far as California is.concerned, pro- tect is not only the main issue but the only issue. While the heated East talks politics, Californin recreates herself with a testival | of patriotism. Every Republican club belps to restore the of good work and good wages for American Jabor., Cesar had his Brutus, Charles I his Cromwell and Mr. Cleveland has heard of a man named Altgeld. Begin the week by getting your name on the register and urging your Republi- can friends to do likew Monterey promises us something more than a fr There will be patrioiism as well as beauty in her festival. Russell and Pattison may have thrown their booms away, but Grover has packed his in cereful preservation for 1900, Don’t forget that this is to be a cam- paign for bome industry and that the wel- fare of every home is concerned in it. Every Republican club includes a good many converts to the protective system, and the campaign has hardly begun yet. It is wise in the Democratic leaders to get out of the way of protection sentiment. It is a case where they must either dodge or be crushed. Practically speaking the country is about as much concerned in the wrangle at Chi- cago as it is in a Corbett and Fitzsimmons jawing match. McKinley never speaks without using the word “*prosperity.” It is the object of his thoughts and his policies and his elec- tion will mean i After the Chicago convention we shall have to look to St. Louis apain. The Populists will have to pop before all the fat will be in the fire. Some of the Democrats who are now seeking a Presidential nomination will be glad of acbance to run for poundmaster in the next campaign. The repeal of the protective tariff pre- cipitated the industrial depression, and the re-establishment of protection will cause an industrial revival. ‘When the votes are counted after elec- tion day it will be seen that California has understood the situation clearly and cast her ballof for a business revival. It is hard to tell why Cleveland’s friends are going to the Democratic Convention unless they think it proper to treat the offair as a faneral which they ought to attend. When a Democratic National Conven- tion deliberately ignores New York we can safely say a new era has begun. Such a thing as this has never been known before in all our history. All California industries need protection in order to yieid fair profits while paying good wages, and it is for protection there- fore that business men and working men will unite in this campaign. Cleveland may bave been sincere in say- ing be has no higher ambition than to bea private in the ranks of Democracy, but it remains to be seen whether his adminis- tration bas left any ranks in that party. “Our appeal,” says McKinley, “is not to a false philosophy or to vain theories, bat to the masses of the American peo- ple—the plain, practical people whom Lincoln loved and trusted, and whom the Revublican party has always faithfully etriven to serve.” That appeal this year will be responded to as it was in the days of Lincoln. The people are for America against the world, hold its sixteenth National convention to nominate candidates for President and Vice-President. The party has weathered many internal and external storms since 1832, when it named Andrew Jackson for the Presidency. The severest test of strength tre party ever had before the present battle of factions was in 1860, when it was divided into two wings, one under the leadership of Douglas and the other under Breckinridge. But the wedge which split the party at Charleston was not driven with the vicious vigor and de- termination to destroy as it is being driven at Chicago. Some of the greatest men the country ever produced directed the fac- tions in 1860, but at to-morrow’s conven- tion the most conspicuous feature will be seen in the array of brainless asses who will control the majority and lead the party to its eternal damnation under the generalship of Altgeld. | At Chicago to-morrow Altgeld will stand the personification of the Democracy in 1896 as Jackson stood the personification of the Democracy at Baltimore in 1832. ‘What a spectacle of poliitical degeneracy! Jackson was inspired by the loftiest prin- ciples of truth, right and justice, and his patriotism was pure and true. He was sincere in what he did, and his purpose was to better the people’s condition. The light of events reveal his mistakes, but who is perfect? But Altgeld is a very dif- ferent type of a man. He knows nothing of the principles of rizht or of truth or of justice. His sympathies are with those principles of government which the Jeffer- sons, the Jacksons, the Bentons and the Douglases spent their whole lives in con- demning. They sought political power that they might wield it for the pub- lic good. Altgeld seeks power that he may wield it to destroy that principle of government which stands for freedom under law and adopt in its stead the principle of liberty without law, and the majority of the Democratic party cheerfully acquiesces and licks the boots of the destroyer of their political honor. No political party ever reached such depths of degradation. The bope has been all along that the better element of the party would be able to exert an influence for good, but the in- dications are that Altgeldism will sweep the convention like a tornado. Altgeld is trying very hard to set the West and South against the East, and whatever is calcu- lated to engender hatred between the sec- tions he may be relied upon to employ to the uttermost. He said the other day that “the East is not worth saving.” The idea that he intended to con- vey was that the West and South should array themselves against the East and deprive it of political rights, and strange as it may appear he was applauded for making the suggestion. The surprise that citizens of the United States would permit a man to publicly use such treason- able language will be all the greater when it is remembered that it was this same Altgeld who referred to the.murderous Haymarket anarchists as “patriots,” and denounced the courts for punishing them for killing people. It is difficult to tell what will be the outcome of a convention that is dominated by such a character, but there are those who firmly believe that there will be a revolt against his authority. One of the puzzling things about Alt- geld’s programme is that he refuses to commit Illinois to the candidacy of any one, but those who know his political methods to their sorrow say his plan is to so manipulate the convention that his delegates will hold the balance of power and then throw it to the candidate who will give the largest mortgage on himself for Altgeld’s personal use, not { only in the way of shaping the policy of the administration, should his man be elected President, but in the control of patronage. Altgeld is not himself eligi- ble for the Presidency, but it would make no difference to him if he were, so far as| his ultimate purpose is concerned. The overthrow of the existing order of things and the practical application of anarchism appear to be the chief object of hislife. For that, as well as for many other rea- sons, the proceedings of the convention will be watched with deep interest. counld accomplish his purpose better by abandoning the free silver platform, he would do it. He has no fixed principles except such asarein harmony with the doctrine of liberty without !aw, and he is just now a political power in the land be- cause he is the supreme autocrat and dic- tator of the Democratic party. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S PLAN. The annnal expenditures of the Govern- ment, however economical the adminis- tration in charge may be, are considerably over $500,000,000, and instead of growing less they are likely to grow larger from year to year. For some years to come there | will bhave to be larger expenditures upon our rivers and harbors and coast defenses. In the matter of protection against attacks by foreign warships it may be said that the country has none. The United States would have a very large mileage of sea- coast to defend in case of war, and the country is unprepared for self-defense in that direction. The pension claims are necessarily and properly very large. There will need be large sums of money expended aa- nually to put our waterways in con- dition to give commerce wider oppor- tunity to accumulate and distribute the produce of the country. The de- mand for American merchant ships is so imperative that by common consent the Government must provide the neces- sary financial encouragement. These are by no means all the avenues of expendi- ture. They areonly the more important ones. 5 The question is them, How shall the Government provide for these public ex- penses? It may be done by issuing bonds from time to time, but the interest thereon would increase the annual expense ac- count, to say nothing of a sinking fund to provide for the redemption of the bonds at their maturity. A general income tax which would require every citizen to hand over to the Government a certain per cent of his earnings could be made to provide enough, but neither one of these proposi- tions would meet with the public’s in- dorsement, especially an inco me tax, for such a tax is the father of the meanest of economic iniquities. The policy of the Democratic party as represented by the present administration appears to be to vile up deficit after deficit and trust to luck, so to speak, for something to turn up and pro- vide for their payment, and meanwhile to issue bonds to keep the treasury sup- plied with gold for the money speculators of Wall street and London to draw upon. It will be observed that the Cleveland plan of financiering does not provide a sure and certain income for expenditures upon internal improvements nor for sub- stantial aid to a merchant marine of our own. Now, the plan of the Republican party o provide, and provide amply, for present and prospective public expenditures is to derive it, or a great deal of it, at the several custom-houses from such foreign made goods and wares as are not profitable If he | | for us to make, but which we consume. The Republican party proposes to make importers of merchandise contribute most liberally at the Custom-house for the privilege of doing business in our markets. But although not enough revenue could be derived from that source to supply the demands of the Nation's expense account, it wonld come so near doing it that a rea- sonable income upon beer and intoxicents would notonly be ample for the current expense and internal improvement ac- counts, but there would be a balance every year to be applied to the liquidation of the Nation’s bonds. This is the Re- publican party’s policy and plan for the administration of the affairs of the country. 1t is upon the same business principle that good business men manage their own enterprises. NOT RIGHT, BUT WRONG. Had Alexander Pope been as much of 2 prophet as he was a poet, and had allowed his propnetic eye to iake a look at the United States as they turned out to be after Grover Cleveland and a Democratic Congress were put in charge of the Gov- ernment, he never would have remarked that “Whatever is is right.” Nothing has been right since Benjamin Harrison moved out of the White House and Cleveland moved in. Even the weather has been wrong & great deal of the time. Tens of thousands of good and true working people have been in enforced idleness, and the question of getting enough to eat has been a serious one with many of them. Industrial, com- mercial and mercantile enterprises have been wrecked in every community, and banking institutions all over the country have been forced to close their doors. Farmers have not received enough for | their produce to pay the cos: of raising it, while more railways have been placed the hands of receivers than in any like period in the history of rail transpor- tation. More river steamboats have been lashed to wharves and dismantled than in any other three years since the steam- boat was invented. In short, nothing has been right in any field of occupation ex- cept the one in which Government bona syndicates sow and reap. The only thing that is that may be con- sidered right is the determination of the people to get rid of Democratic free trade, bond syndicates and hard times. What- ever of a public character Cleveland has done the people know is wrong and no good whatever has come of it. His *‘tariff for revenue only” has impoverished our industries ana left a deficit of nearly $140,000,000 for the people to make good. Not only so, but he has obligated the peo- ple to pay over $500,000,000 in principaland interest. This additional indebtedness is in the shape of bonds which he signed in the name of the people. And still more, he sold $62,000,000 of bonds at $104 when the market price for that kind of Govern- ment securities was $119. The treasury gold reserve is again close to the danger point, and another block of the people’s obliga- tions will have to be marketed to pre- vent the treasury from putting up the sign, “No Funds.” No, Mr. Pope was greatly mistaken. Whatever is just at this time in the affairs of the Government and ail lines of business is not only not right but radically wrong. ALTGELD VS, TAMMANY. The most complex problem that is con- fronting Whitney, Hill and the other auto- craticand aristocratic golabug Tammany Democrats is bow they may escape from the party’s old ship without drowning. Altgeld has been keeping them dancing “on the burning deck’ for some days and they want to ge: away. The shore 13 not far off, but how to reach it is the question. Still, they should not forget that when they were in command the Altgelds, Blands, Tillmans and Haymarket rioters made a good enough crew. In fact, they made exactly the kind of crew that was wanted. The fact of the matter is, Altgeld has in- troduced Tammany methods to Western Democracy and in many ways he has added improvements which make his machine grind finer than the New York Sachems are used to, and he has also managed to get a good many of Tam- many’s braves into the hopper of his mill. There may be only just retribution in all this, and no doubt there is, for Tammany has turned out more finished political bosses than any other institution of the kind on earth. Krom its birth, which was in the year 1789, it has been turning such men as Tweed into the highways of politics, and it the Democracy of Illinois combined to raise up a man who should out-Tammany Tammany Sachems Whitney and Hill should not complain too much, seeing that their own close corporation has been encouraging the employment of Altgeld’s kind of convention methods for more than 100 years. But Tammany never calls anarchists ‘‘patriots,” and Altgeld does, which makes & difference that is alto- gether in favor of Tammany. COAST EXOHANGES. The Sacramento Bee has entered upon its eightieth volume, and commenced the latter haif of its thirty-ninth year of existence. The Bee very modestly calls attention to this fact, and very truthfully remarks that its name ‘“has become a household word in Northern Californie, and its excellent record in the past should be a sufficient guarantee of its course in the futuore.” The California Fruit-Grower, which is doing valuable service in its study and discussion of the problems involved in the great and grow- ing fruit industry of this State, has begun its nineteenth volume. The Newsboys’ Calamity Howler, 8 newspaper published weekly in Portiand, Or., in the in- terests of the Populist party, has enlarged and raised its subscrivtion price. It announces that it is in & state of progression, and feels assured “that a daily output is in store” for the paper. The introduction of an electric-light system into Los Gatos is hailed by the Mail of that city as marking a new epoch In the history of the place. Henceforth, remarks the paper, Los Gatos *“will take its place as one of the modern and progressive towns of California.” A promising deposit of asbestos on Mount Diablo isone of the important recent discov- eries. We learn from the Concord Sun that George Condie, & bright young man from the vicinity of Clayton, is the lucky individual, &nd the paper continues: He has deepened his mine in his spare hours, and the fine speci- mens of asbestos he has unearthed give him assurance that it will not be long before the vein will widen out before he descends many more feet. The indications are for an im- mense deposit of this valuable mineral, and as he intends to devetop this mine and interest capital in the project there are many who wiil be benafited should it be & successiul under. taking. Porterville now comes to the front with the information, through the Enterprisc of that go- shead town, that some valuable magnesite mines located in its meigborhood are to be opened up and worked. “S. G. George has suc- ceeded in interesting some partiesin the mine, which is the property of W. P. Putnam, who informed the Enterprise that he had decided o accept the propositions made him and give the parties the concession they asked. It goes without saying that it will bea fine thing for P and give employment to a large number of men and teams, as & furnece will be erected for calcining the megnesite preparas tory to shipping it away. There are very few Places where magnesite can be found, and the reports which have been made at different periods have mentioned the fact that that which abounds at Porterville is of very fine quality; therefore every one will be pleased to hear of another addition to the many indus- tries of Porterville and vicinity. The initial number of the Weekly Independent, published by J. H. Stewart at Santa Barbara, has been received. It prints at the head of its editorial columns a Presidential ticket of Its own choice, with.J. C. Sibley ir the first posi- tlon, 8. M. White for his running mate anc H. M. Teller for Secretary of the Treasury. With reference to movement now in Progress toward a division of large ranch prop- erties in Santa Clara County prompted by the fact that the overland railroad connection by Way of San Jose, Santa Barbars, ete,, will be made within six months, the San Jose Hera'd remarks that the Garden City and Santa Clara County “have been sidetracked all these past years of railroading in California. They have been off through linesof travel, They have grown and prospered by virtue of their natural advantages and attractiveness, helped in some measure by propinquity to San Frameisco. But the settler who had any curlosity sbout the Santa Clara Valley place of residence had to make a special trip to satisfy himself. With through rail connection established this will become the favorite passenger route. The tourists will come to visit our pleasure resorts of interest and the immigrant Wwill keep his eye open for & good place to set- tle. The men who are cutting up the big ranches evidently have these considerations in view. When the immigrant is offered his choice of half a dozen tracts of land divided into homesteads of just about the right size with good soil, ctimate, water, roads, schools, churches and social advantages he will realize that he has indeed struck the garden spot of Celifornia; that it has been prepared for his Teception, and that he has only to pay his money, enter in and take possession. This means an advance in land values in country snd city, extended trade and added prosperity. It may be well for landholders not to antici- pate and check this movement by putting fancy prices on their property. That would be to defeat their own purposes.” Large sums of money are being expended in the development of the mines of Trinity Coun- ty, and the Redding Free Press reports that the McLean Brothers, contractors, who completed the grading of the lron Mountain Railway, have secured a contract to run 8000 feet of tunnel for a French syndicate, who are oper- ating great hydraulic mines near Weaverville. ““The water supply for the mines,” says the pa- per, “is at present inadequate and the syndi- cate is now at work upon a plan to take water from Stewart's fork and convey it by means ef ditches, flumes and pipes to its mines. In order to avoid a long detour of the ditch around the mountain & tunnel two miles in length was begun. About 1100 fest of the tunnelis completed, and the McLean vrothers have taken the contract to complete the remaining 9000 feet. The conveying of the water isa great undertaking. The coun- try is exceedingly rough. The wagon road runs to one end of the tunnel, apd from that end to the opposite end, & distance of seven miles, all supplies must be packed on horses. The original survey showed that about three miles of the flume could be used to advantage, but on account of the high price of iron it is now proposed to considerably increase the length of the flume, reducing the quantity of pipe. Itis estimated that the tunnel will not be completed before January 1, 1897."” The Winchester Recorder, after congratulat- ing San Jacinto on the completion of its pump- ing plant, says that whatever their former | views of the Wright law may have been, San Jacinto people now will probably wish to see it upheld. “In an irrigation district,” ob- serves the Recorder, “there are always a few who receive less value for taxes paid than the majority, yet, as a general proposition, the law is just and should be sustained. An Irrigation district of the people, for the people and by the people is founded upon the right principle, and for the sake of the small farmer, who can- not afford to develop his own water or submit 10 the exorbitant demands of an autoeratic pri- vate water company, it is hoped that the dis- trict law will stand. This wish will probably be shared by every municipaiity as well which has voted bonds for a water system.’” Stockton hopes toreceive incidental aid from the Government for its protection from flood- water. Captain C. E. Gillette, United States engineer, has been inspecting Mormon Chan- neland Calaveras River with the object' of ascertaining whether it would be possible to prevent the depositing of debris in Stockton Channel, and _thereby save the Government | the expense of dredging it out continually. “It requires no engineering,” says the Stock- ton Mail, “to see that the disposal of debris carries with it the disposition of the water which brings it down, and so it will be ap- parent to everybody that Captain Gillette's visit may be of great significance to Stockton in the matter_of protection from ficod-water. To prevent debris from depositing in the streams hereabouts, it must be delivered into the San Joaquin River through a channel which 1s large enough to accommodste it and yet small enough to keep itself scoured. There are several ways in which the water that comes down the Calaveras,and from that stream goes into Mormon Channel. can be conveyed to the San Joaquin River without leaving any debris behind, and Captain Gillette's object will be to escertain which is the cheapest and most feasible of those ways.” According to the Los Angeles Times the crude oil outlook in that city is now more en- couraging for both producers and consumers. Present development “promises abundant oil for future needs at no higher figure than pres- ent prices, which gives Los Angeles the cheap- est fuel of any city in Southern Californis, if not in the State. Under such stimulus manu- Iacrories should spring up in this city and add largely to our revenues and properties.” Enterprising Fresno citizens are investing money in & petroleum-retining plant for that city. “They intend,” says the Expositor, “to ship the product of the Coaling oil fields to this eity and here reine it. Therefining works will not at first be a very large concern, but 1f its proprietors meet with the success they de- serve it will without doubt be enlarged. The works will be completed and in operation within thirty days.” ——— SUCCESS AND FAILURE IN LIFE. . New York Sun. In a speech which Lord Kelyin, better known in this country as Sir Willlam Thom- son, recently made in reply to the congratula- tions offered him at the jubilee of his first ap- pointment as professor of natural philosophy in Glasgow University, we fina this striking passage: One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of sclence that I have made perseveringly through fifiy-five years; that word is fallure; I know 1o more of electric and magnetic force, or of the reiations between ether, electricity and ponderable matter, or of chemlc;l .:in;u. sn: phklll.‘" ;nyd n"c'v‘;, 0 teach my students of natu osop] years ago in'my first session as professor. - Commenting on these words the London Times the next day summed up Lord Kelvin's achievements thus: He has given us the<theory of the speed of elec- tric signaling through submarine cables, and has rendered the most effective assistance to the estab- iishment of electric tels hs to the most distant Pparts of our planet. He bas investigated all the causes of the distu ice of the mariner’s com- pass and shown how to allow for them. He has effected the most signal improvements in the art of deep-sea sounding. He has Shown bow 1o pre: e e © has altogether revoiutioni e ments for electrical measurements. and made the mod- ern electroscopes Wwhat they are. He has discovered electric currents and for meast electric power and en- e mathematical theory Lord Kelvin is not the first grest man to whom his own work, highly as it was es- teemed by others, has been insufficient to con- teat himself. His self-depreciation recalls the we:likno'n ayiug of Sir w):ewm:w‘:xb do not know what I may appear e worl ut to myself Iseem m‘h’“‘: been only a boy g. ing on the seashore and diverting m i’; flnd'l;:. :g:uu\‘g then & lnooth::lre&m ora re! an ordin Wi Docan of trath 1ay sl wadisaas farasoey. who are lent at their Sr'melr tolions: hnn-'ry:: e ot w-laborers have S5 the - oppressed AROUND THE CORRIDORS. N. A. Covarrubias, the United States Marshal of Los Angeles, was sitting in the Palace the other day, engrossed inanewspaper account of Democratic prospects, when A. S. Cooper, ex-County Surveyor of Santa Barbara, came up and interrupted him with, ‘Hello, Nick, what are you looking so d— sour about? Let’s go have something.” The Marshal folded THE CALL up carefully, tucked it away in an inside pocket and, with deliberate, exact enunciation, replied: “Well, Cooper, the old party isn’t all like you, to be UNITED STATES MARSHAL N. A, George McFarland, physician in charge of the hospital at Bankok. The old gentleman will make California his future home. Dr. H. M. Smith of the United States Fish Com- mission, with headquarters in Washington, left the Grand yesterday for Eureka, near ‘which port he will make investigations. Gabriel M. Burbaus of Guatemala, & cousin of ex-President Barillas, arrived at the Occi- dental yesterday with his wife and Justo Gavarrete, They were bassengers on the Colon. W. 8. Wood, & popular young journalist of Vancouver, B. C., and his bride are at the COVARRUBIAS OF LOS ANGELES. elected Councilman where Republicans were so thick that three of them contested for Mayor.” And as they sat down to one of the small tables in the court and gave their orders an old gentleman in clerical garb looked up dis- approvingly from the open pagesof a black book with gilt edges. ““Well, Cooper, how is my old friend La Vies, the Joaquin Miller of Santa Barbara?”’ “The what!” sald Cooper. *“I mnever heard him cailed that.” “:Oh, you know they say the poet of the Sierras hasn’t cut his hair since he took a batn, and La Vies must have been letting his hair grow ever since Dr. C. C. O’Donnell first began running for Mayor of 8an Francisco. I remember when La Vies was Postmaster dur- ing Cleveland’s first term, and all the Re- publicans used to worry the life out of him kicking if the mail arrived late. When a train ‘would be behind time they would stand out- side the partition ana talk loud and keep un- Jocking their boxes and saying, ‘It wouldn't be this way with a Republican Postmaster.” “But I heard a good one the other day, Cooper. Iwescoming up on the train from Los Angeles and two girls were sitting in the car. One says, ‘What do you do when you get to Santa Barbara, isn't it awfully dull?” ‘No, indeed,’ says the other. ‘You go seabathing, borseback riding; you visit the old Mission and El Montecito and you are proposed to by some young fellow who lives in El Montecito, descendant of an old South Carolina family, brother to a judge ir. San Francisco, and all that. Anyway that's what all the girls say have beer there.”” “I know & better one than t,"” sald Cooper, as he launched into a story that cansed the clerical-looking old gentleman to glance about eautiousiy and then edge his chair up & little nearer behind a friendly pillar where none of the spicy yarn might be lost. PERSONAL. Judge J. R. Webb of Fresno is at the Lick. Rev. Samuel Hirst of Vallejo is among the Grand’s guests. D. P. Pierce, & mining man of Butte County, is at the Grand. A. G. Smith of Deadwood, 8. D,, is registered at the Occidental. J. F. Hink, a Woodland merchant, has a room &t the Grand. Lieutenant W. H. Allderdice, U.8. N., isa guestat the Palace. H. H. Pitcher, a banker of Livermore, is reg- istered at the Palace. s J. Stone, a fruit-raiser of Napa, is & guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. R. E. Hyde, a banker of Visalia, is makinga short visit at the Palace. Rev. A. Bayley and wife of Haywards are registered at the Califorma. C. M. Weber of the Weber estate is at the Grand registered from Stockton. James E. Flood, s business man of Stockton, is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. C. Steenbergh, who is at the head of the agri- cultural colony at Brentwood, is at the Lick. A. M. Lumley, the newspaper proprietor and orchardist, of Porterville, is a guest at the Grand. J. B. Peakes, proprietor of the Yosemite House at Stockton, is among the guests at the Palace. Colonel A. B. Hotchkiss, attorney for the Southern Pacifi¢ at Fresno, is at the Lick with his wife. William N. Hollister, & wholesale butcher &nd rancher of Sants Barbars, has & room at the Russ. 'W. Ewald, E. Gras and W. V. Tucky of Singa- pore arrived on the City of Peking yesterday and went to the Occidental. Ex-Judge E. B. Hall, an aged capitalist and long & resident of Santa Barbara, arrived at the Palace yesterday with Mrs. Hall. Among the latest arrivals at the Cosmopoli- tan are J. Brown and J. McMahon, prominent real estate owners of Santa Cruz. Isaac Copeland, superintendent of a mine at Dow; ille, isat the Lick on his way to his home in Vallecoto, Calaveras County. James H. Perkins of East Saginaw, Mich., and C. A. Watrous of Bay City, Mich., are among the recent arrivals at the Lick. J.G. Earle and R. H. Earle of Liverpool, England, were passengers on the Colon from Central America. They are at the Palace. Montague Kirkwood, a barrister of Tokio, Japan, arrived at the Occidental yesterday. He was a passenger on the Oity of Peking from the Orient. Frederic Hurdy Balfour of Florence, Italy, arrived from the Orient yesterday, stopped for a short time at the Palace, and. started East on an afternoon train, . J. G. Woodworth of Portland, Or., is at the California. He is assistant receiver and gen- eral mansger of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company. W. M. Brekenridge of Tucson, Ariz., for- merly a detective for the Southern Pacific Railzoad Company and stiliin its employ, is a late arrival at the Grand. George H. Warfleld, cashier of the bank at Healdsburg, returned to the California last night with his bride after spending the honey- moon in Southern Californis. W. W. Dimond, son of the late General Di- mond of this City, arrived yesterday at the Occidental from Honolulu,where he hzs s large hardware and crockery business. Rev. Dr. 8. G. McFarland, & resident of Ban- kok, Siam, for thirty-six years, arrived at the Occidental yesterdsy with his wife and Dr, f Grand. Mr. Wood denies that the practical settlement of the school question at the recent election is responsible for the large number of weddings which have lately occurred in British Columbia. . Duke T. Baxter of Santa Barbara arrived from Central America yesterday on the Colon. He was met here by his wife, formerly Miss Hilda Macdonalé, now on & visit to her parents in this City. Mr. Baxter has for several years past been in charge of Croeder’s large lemon ranch in Ei Montecito, near Santa Barbara. L. Gei Aureus of New Guinea was among the City of Peking’s passengers that went to the Occidental yesterday. He says that recent ex- plorations of the interior of the southern peninsula of New Guinea have disproved the belief that there was a large interior popula- tion. There are no natives further than ten to twenty miles from the coast. W. H. Carlson, the San Diegn Mayor, who though only 32 years of age, is serving his fifth term, and a8 an independent candidate, arrived at the Grand yesterday. He wasone of the principal leaders of the water-bond fac- tion that recently won the day in San Diego after the wildest excitement. Mr. Carlsod has | been mentioned as a possibility for Congress from the southern district. A party of six Guatemalans arrived on the Colon yesterday and went fo the Baldwin. They propose to spend about two months’ | time enjoying themselves in this City, as they say things are dead and dull in their part of the country at this season of the year after the coffee crop has all been harvested. Manuel Rivera and his brother, Concha Rivera, own & big finca, but they are not particularly elated over the amount of coffee it proauced this year. Harureano Urrutia was pointed out by | one of his companions as & very rich lawyer, | but Juan I. Argueta isa judge and president | of the tribunal in the town of Los Altos. Dr. Yorge Arroyo is a dentist and Dr. Yorge Avila | isa physician. They speak no English, but | rely for the accomplishment of their purpose in coming here upon the theory that money talks. E. Harrow, whoarrived at the Grand recently | from New Zealand, where he has lived for the | last fourteen years, started yesterday for the | Yosemite. He will go thence to New York and eventually to his old home in England. Mr. Harrow took with him the live apteryx or kiwi, the curious wingless, nocturnal filleyloo-like bird native only to New Zealand. He had hoped to sell it here for $25. The Park Com- missioners, inasmuch as it was the first live one ever brought to America, offered to take it for nothing. Some one elsesaid he would give #$15 for the bird dead, that he might stuff it. But the old gentleman, with a tenacity of pur- Dose characteristic of Johnny Bull, is detex- mined to get his priceif he has to carry the unattractive-looking, carnivorous, odoriferous pet all the way to England and pay more than that amount for its keep and its transportation, for he says that if it dies on his hands he can still get the $15 for it. He paid a native $10 for the bird and then, with infinite patience, taught the ugly thing to eat meat that it might live away from its native island. FOR THE LITTLE TOTS. A dainty little gown for infants is shown here. The waist is cut with a round yoke. which is of tucked nainsook with insertions of Valenciennes lace. The epaulette ruffies of em- broidery are on the edges of this yoke. The gathered back and’front, and is se band from which the skirt also hangs: :l::k :]\;u bishop sleeves are aiter the latest sor ::'1‘ occasions liutle dresses of white \PADS 8 wi ruffles of the sam¢ vin 10kertions of Velenciomans e ios ac» having e MY g NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “TIs she still of tender years?"” “Thirty.” “That's tough.”—Detroit Tribune. As a general rule, we have noted, ‘The way that most people get shot Is either by men who are loaded Or else by the guns that are not. —New York Herald, “I like summer; my wife is always so gentle and amiable in hot weather,” . o 50 is Wine; itzust be becsuse all the pro- waist is to s gressive euchre clubs have shut down.’ cago Record. Briggs—I believe Brown is insane. Diggs—Why? : Biggs—He has brought suit against th_e New York Central Railroad for killing his mother-in-law.—Harlem Life. Mr. Ferry—I'm afraid Bobby isn’ta very earn- est student these warm days. Mrs. Ferry—How can you say s0? He puts in eight or ten hours every day studying new tricks on his wheel.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Tyre—Did you hear how shabby Newcoaster treated his family physician? Biker—No; what did he do? Tyre—Postponed paying the doctor’s bill so that he could buy a wheel and become vigor- ous.—Philadelphia North American. Jinks—My wife holds an lndlgnltion’ meet ing and adopts resolutions whenever I'm out late. Filkins—Well, that helps to pass away her time. Jinks—Yes; but hang it! she insists on reading the minutes siter my arrival.—New York World. o SUPERIORITY. The litule birds that gayly fit it'rin days 0’ 3 Doms Tan emsetves, ‘cept p''aps with wings, Don’t whistie out 0’ tune. They ain’t a-swiggin’ soda down, Or lemonade—with stick— An’ never say: “Ef this holds on We'll all be dead or sick.” An’ see’em ona winter's day ¥1y round in slosh an’ sleet, ‘Without no “sweaters” round thare throats, No arctics on thare feet. Ef you an’ I so keerless were ‘We'd half the time be ili, A takin’ ile, a soakin’ feet, An’ gulpin’ liver pill. Them little things ain’t got much brains To reason or to plan, Yit thay hev got th’ bulge on me— Yis, sir; & *'godlike man.” — Boston Transcript. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. The future town residence of Prince Carl of Denmark and Princess Maud will be a flatin the palace in Copenhagen. Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is a scientist, a musician, speaks hall a dozen languages fluently, and does all sorts of other things equally well. “ Bir Joseph Barnby’s successor as principal of the Guildhall School of Music at London is to be W. H. Cummings. He began his musical career at the age of 6 years in the choir of St. Paul's. M. Vigne has suggested to the French | Chamber of Deputies a tax of 1 centime on every published book. The Government, for instance, would have received $200 from M. Zola’s “Rome” alone. The engagement is announced of Countde Moitke, son of the Danish Embassador to Paris, and Miss Louise Bonaparte, daughter of the late Jerome N. Bonaparte, a graduate of the West Point Military Academy class of '52. Lillian Russell wrote nearly a full page in a New York paper recently in an attempt to tell the public “how to get rich.”” The Springfield Republican says Mr. Abbey would perhaps add this brief pointer for managers, “Don’t engage Lillian Russell.” Sir George and Lady Baden-Powell will soon start for the Arctic region in their yacht. | Their first intention was to follow in the track of Nansen, but they have sltered their plans and will tirst take some eminent astronomers to Nova Zembla to observe the coming eclipse of the sun. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. No PREMIUM—M. 8, City. No premium has been offered on & silver dollar of the United States of 1895. COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS—“Drummer.” Oak- land suthorities do not allow commercial travelers to transact business without a license. BOOK ON MINING—A. S., Cayucos, Cal. For information as to the best book on gold min- ddress a communication to the Mining u, this City. GREENBACKS—J. M., Diamond, Cal. None of the greenbacks issued during the War of the Rebellion maintained their parity with gold during the continuance of the war. THE DUKE'S RELIGION—G. V. R., Angels Camp, Cal. A friend of this department con- veys the information that the Duke of Marl- borgugh is & member ot the Church of Eng- and. INITIALS—H. W., City. The letters that ap- pear at the base of the neck of the head of Liberty on the doliars and on the half-dollars of the United States are the initials of the dc- signers of the dies. PEOPLE'S RELIGION—E. B. C., Constant Reader and others, City. A man’s religion is his pri- vateaffair, and this departmrent respectfully in- forms its readers that it will not answer ques- tions as to the religion of private individuals, THE CENTURY—H. W., City. In the answer Tecently giver in relation to the coming cen- tury it should have been stated that the present century &lhe nineteenth) closes wsith the year 1900, and that the twentieth century commences with the year 1901, POPULATION—A. 8., City. According to the census of 1890 the population of California was 1,208,130, Oregon 313,767, Washington 849,390, Idaho 84,385, Neyuda 45,761, Ari- zona 59,620, New Mexico 153,593, Utah 207,- 905 and Montana 132,159. The estimates of the Governors of the different States and Ter- ritories of population on_the 1stof last Janu- ary was: California 1.220.000, Orezon 400, 000, Washington 415,000, Idaho 130,000, Ne- vada 60,000, Arizona 77.000, New Mexico 185, 000, Utah 254,743 and Montana 185,000, FoLpING A BarLor—W. R., Philo, Cal. The law of this State does not require that a ballot offerea by an elector to an officer of election shall be folded in any particular manner, fur. ther than that it shall be =0 folded that only the number on the outside shall appear with- out displaying the marks on the face. No uni. formity in the ballot-folaing is required. If the voter presents his ballot in such & manner that the face of it cannot be seen and that the numberon the outside is visible, it becomes the duty of the officer receiving it, after he has :?;n off the :uaxlber, to fold hhlglin and again ecessary until small enou the hole l;ylhe blllol-box.o e —_— —_—— CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c 1b. Townsend's> —_——— EPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Presi Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —_——————— Brardman—Don’t you think Footlight isa clever actor? Hashley—Clever? Well, I should say so! He hasn’t paid the landlady any money for six weeks!—Yonkers Statesman. ————————— Are You Going East? The Atlantle and Pacific Railroad—Santa Fe route—Is the coolest and most comfortable sum- mer line, owing to its elevation and absence ot alkali dust. Particularly adapted for the trans. portation of families because of its palace draw- DnE-Toom and modern upholstered tourist sleeping- cars, which run daily through from Oakland to Chicago, leaving at a seasonable hour and in charge of attentive conductors and porters. Tick. etoffice, 644 Market streer, Chronicle bullding, Telephone, Main 1581. Northern ¥ fic Railroad, Parties attending the Democratic Natior vention at Chicago, the Christian Endenv::lvz?: Washington and Natlonal Educational Assooia. 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. 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