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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Ediror and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CaLL, one week, by carrier..§0.15 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday Cavx, six months, by mall.. 3.00 Dally and Sunday CALZ, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CaLL, one month, by mail. .65 Bunday CALL, one year, by mall. 1.50 WEEKLY CaLL, one year, by mall. 1.50 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on & vacation * It 0, it 18 no trouble for us o forward THE: CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders 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...... ... Maln—1868 | EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone...... ...Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open mmtll 9:80 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street: open until 9:30 0’clock. 8W. corner Sixteenth snd Mission streets; open uatil § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Eooms $1 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Speclal Agent. SATURDAY ...JULY 18, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. ¥OR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohio YOR VICH-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. ————————————————— In international bimetallism there is safety. Bryan does the talking and Sewall hires the hall, G It will take a thorough protective tariff to put idle money into circulation. | Republicanism does not mean gold mono- | metsllism, you. Don’t let the demagogues fool Join a Republican club and work for the party of financial honor and industrial in- dependence. No workingman in this country hasany- thing to gain from free trade, coated by free silver. Even in the Solid South the business men are breaking away from the party of repudiation and disaster. Agiiators may threaten, but they are not dangerous, for the people will not be fools enough to follow them. The gold Democrats might as well put up their little ticket, for McKinley stanas neither for gold nor for iree trade. Either there will be no Populism this year or no Democracy in 1900 and it is for the St. Lows co [t matters not what Bryan promises. His party cannot be trusted on any promise so long as its present leaders are to the front. The Cleveland L eader sizes up the Chi- cago ticket as “‘a windstorm and a barrel,” and that is ebout the way it appears at this distance. metallism mean busi. hile & combination lver monometallism Protection and bi ness and prosperity of free trade and would be ruin. Henry Watterson says Bryan has “a talant for what passes as oratory,”” and it will be remembered that Watterson is an orator himself. The Republican party is pledged to re- monetize silver by international agree- ment, snd what more can any intelligent, conservative silver man ask? If our workingmen are to have wages our industries must have protection. It is on that platform capital and labor stand together for a mutual benefit. Bryan’s rhetoric may excite a crowd here and there, but McKinley’s record ss a soldier and a statesman rouses thé en- thusiasm of the whole country. There is reason to believe that Million- aire Sewall regards his campaign for the Vice-Presidency as only a pleasing varia- tion from his usual summer outing. The Democrats voted for Clevelana knowing him to be a representative of Wall-street goldbugs, and now they have the impudence to declare themselves a Iree-silver party. The experience of the last three years bas made it ciear to all intelligent people that the abiding issue in our politicsis the choice between Republicanism and plenty and Democracy and destitution. Whitney is making himself absurd by fretting and fuming over the political situation. If there is no Presidential ticket in the country that snits him he has the liberty to take a ticket to Europe. Under the leadership of a Republican edministration the United States will be able to rapidly advance the cause of bi- metallism, and the record of McKinley shows that he can be counted on to do it. Under the Republican system of sugar bounties California could produce all the sugar needed 1n America, and derive there- from a revenue that would go far toward making her one of the empire States of the Union. No Californian should overlook the fund- mg bill fight at any stage of the campaien. We should send to Tongress from every fistrict a stanch Republican who will stand for the people against the ereed of the monopoly. If the Democratic gang manages to sapture the Populist convention at St. Lounis there will be the biggest boit on ‘ecord. The stalwarts in the middle of the road do not intend to be stampeded nto the woods. The Democrats are making strenuons sfforts to get the people to believe that even 1f | FOR NATIONAL HONOR. There was 8 notable scene at Canton on Thursday when five hundred veterans of the war went to congratulate their com- rade, Major McKinley, upon his nomina- tion for the Presidency. In the person of those veterans the Republican party of to- day is identified with that of Lincoln and of Grant. They arethe men who saved the Nation in the days of Demdcratic treason and disunion, and it must be in the highest degree gratifying to their loyal bearts to know that one of the rea- sons why the great mass of the American people will support McKinley is because he also was a soldier of the Union and one of its patriotic defenders during the long course of the war. McKinley's address to his old comrades was on the highest plane of patriotic politics. “We have reached a point in our history,’” he said, “‘when all men who love their country must unite to defend by their ballots the forces wbich now assail the country’s honor.” Even among the men who fought against the Union, as he went on to say, there are now thousands who are patriotic and loyat to the flag and to the Nation. These men value its prosperity and its financial in- tegrity. “The struggle which is upon us,”” he declared, “involving National good faith and honor, will enlist their | united and earnest seryices until those who are arrayed against the public faith shall be ronted and dispersed.” These are noble words. Spoken by a veteran of the war to bis comrades who wore the blue they breathe the sentiment of atrue and generous confidence in the brave men who wore the gray. He ap- pealed through the Grand Army to honor- { able Southern men to stand together with Union soldiers in this struggle against the forces of repudiation and disaster. “The future,” he exclaimed, *‘is the sacred trust of us all, South as well as North. Hon- esty like patriotism can be bounded by neither State or sectionallines. Financial dishonor is the threatemed danger now, and good men will .obliterate the lines of party in a united effort to uphold Ameri- can honor. This you have always done and you must strive to keep the Union worthy of the brave men who sacrificed their lives for it.” These words are not like those of the shallow rhetoric of the boy orator. They ring with the genuine eloguence of noble thoughts and a true grandeur of senti- went. They will find a response in the South as well as in the North and in the West. It will be in vain that the agitators will try to weaken the |effect of such words by clamoring | that McKinley is’ the advocate of Wall street gold monometallism. The people know that the Republican party is pledged by its platform to bimetallism, that Me- Kinley has always been a consistent bi- metallist, and that he stands for the money of the constitution—gold and sil- ver—as firmly as for patriotism, loyalty | and National honor. THE PROBLEM OF BIMETALLISM. | Commerce is barter whether the trade interchange be between | articles of con- sumption or between articles of consump- tion and what is calley money, and all barter is effected npon ‘supposed equiva- lency. Money is jtself a commodity, and when money i exchanged for another | article the transaction is merely an ex- | change of commodities, although money is always in addition thereto a common | medium of exchange, which other articles of commerce are not. This gives money | the double function of commercial com- modity and article for the settlement of the difference in the value between two other commodities exchanged, but money ; does not fix values. Supply and demand does that. | The actnating principle, which is wholly & mentalone, of every business transac- | tion is to receive as much as is given, and any trade exchanges are mace possible only because each party to the transaction wants something he has not, but which he | can pbtain by excbanging that which he {has for it. Nevertheless, there must be one article for & common medium of exchange which is notan article of con- sumption so much asitis an article that can be exchanged for any commodity— thatis to say, if one has a bushel of po- tatoes which he wishes to exchange for | their equivalent in turnips and he cannot | effect the exchange with the owner of the turnips, he exchanges his potatoes for their equivalent .in an article whichisa common and universal thiog of exchange and exchanges that for turnips. The faith of the o #ner of the potatoes in | the stability of the character and the uni- | versality of the function of the thing he will exchange his potatoes for and will re- exchange for the tnrnips must necessarly be unclouded by doubt, else he would not for prudential reasons undertake to put in motion the processes required to conduct the several exchanges necessary to secure the turnips. The essence of all commer- cial operations is contained in the desire and purpose of the man with the potatoes to exchange them for turnips. However extended the ramifications may be, or bowever complicated and multiplied the intermediate transactions, they il resolve themselves in an effort which shall at last convert the potatoes into turnips. The article which is called money or dollar is not, 2s we bave said, 8 consump- tion commodity, yet because it is inter- changeable with every other commodity and is accepted in settlement of balances in trade interchange instead of merchant- able commodities it follows that it must possess enough stability of character and inherent worth to make it acceptable with- out waiting for a brief to be filed for or against its fitness for the work assigned to it. It must be accepted for a dollar as a matter of course and without question when ils quantity and quality, as per agreed standard by commerce, is guaran- teed by the commercial nation that stamps “‘dollar” upon it. " Now, tnis is the kind of money that is meant by “sound money’’ in the Republi- can platform. The question very natu- rally arises here, “What material is pro- posed to be employed in making this ‘sound money’?” Silver and gold being the only metals possessing the needed qualitles for such a purpose it needs no argument to prove that by ‘‘sound money"’ the Republican party means silver and gold dollars. But how ‘shall they be is- sued so that the owner of the potatoes will know that the owner of the turnips will accept whichever is tendered him ? It is right here that the far-reaching statesmanship snd thorough honesty of purpose of the Republican party comes into conspicuous play. It proposes to call together in joint conference the owner of the potatoes, the owner of the turnips and some of its own most distinguished econo- mists for the purpose of agreeing upon a basis for the interctiange of the silver and the gold dollar, the one with the other, upon an absolute parity, of worth, impor- ‘he Republican party is pledged to the | tance and function—a basis which shall :stablishment of the single gold standard, | continue and pe unalterable until the par- sut inasmuch as McKinley ‘has been a | ties in interest themselves shall agree to :onsistent bimetallist, and the St. Louis | alter, change or amend the basis of the slatform declares for international Bimet- interchangeability of the dollar. This is illism, such efforts will be as futile as they | the only true basis for a bimetallic cur- ira foolish, rency, It is the only basis for 1ssuing two or more kinds of money which shall always be one in essence,in function, 1n purpose and in value, but which are independent the one of the other in the fields of employ- ment. The difference between the Republican end Democratic platforms is very wide. The latter declares that it will call no con- ference of the parties in interest; that it will not wait to establish a basis of parity so that silver and gold dollars would vol- untarily be interchangeable, but it will assume that the gold dollar is trespassing in the held of commerce and will order the siiver dollar to go forth and compete with it without consulting the likes or the dislikes of the owner of the potatoes or the owner of the turnips. He is very blind indeed who cannot see that such a policy would drive either the gold or the silver from the field. This is Bryan’s way of securing *‘bimetallism,” and those who believe that to be a better way to secure the circulation of the iwo metals than to put them in the field together upon an exact parity and then treat them in a way that antagonisms would be impossible, are surely joined to false gods. TEMPTING THE POPULISTS. The Populists have spent several years in building up their party to a point of numerical strength where it could com- mand a respectable hearing, and in all reason it should hold on to all that it has acquired, especially so now that it sup- plants the Democracy as the second of the two great parties of the country. It advo- cates some very wild and foolish theories, but as yet it has not been contaminated by the touch of the red hand of anarchism, as has the Democracy. Of most Populists it may be said they are honest and sincere, and are conyinced in their own minds that the condition of the people would be bet- ter every way if the Government were con- ducted in harmony with their economic theories. Perhaps it is the unostentatious way the leaders have in presenting their theories that commends the party as an organjzation as being moved by honest intentions, but anyway it surely is en- titled to be called one of the two great political parties of the country. Itis when one considers these things that he is surprised that ‘any serious thought'should be given by the leaders to the overtures of the Democracy to abandon their all that has been gained and help fur- ther the cause of men who have hitherto been their party’s bitterest foes. It would be different if the Populist party could lay their cause aside for a season and help Bryan and his party, but the in- dorsement of the Chicago nominees, or any kind of an affiliation with that party would necessarily disintegrate the Popu- list organization. It could never again muster a corporal’s guard, and, moreover, whatever it had gained in the past would become the heritage of the Democracy. Mr. Taubeneck of the Populists’ National Committee sums up the disadvantages that wounld accrue from accepting the Chicago nominees and platform. He says the People’s party would lose its identity and become an annex to the Democracy, and gives the following reasons for his belief: First—Whenever one party indorses tne National ticket of another, it has no further excuse to exist. Second—All the State, Congressional, legis- lative and county candidates in the People's pariy, with the exception of a few Western States, will bave to resign, because it will be impossible for the Populist candidates to make a fight for their local tickets when the pary nationally indorses the Chicago nominees. Third—The Populist and Silver parties will lose their organizetions, and willgo to pieces after the November eiection and become s part of the Democratic machine. Fourtn—The Populist press, which is a powerful factor with an organization behind it, would disappear &nd be displaced by a Democratic press and the Populist editors turned down. Mr. Taubeneck might have adaed that under the laws of several States, the Popalist party after fusing with Democ- racy this year could not have a ticket independent of the Democratic ticket, except by petition, which would be an acknowledgment that the party no longer had a legal existence. It so happens that in nearly ail the States that Bryan is counting on the Populist vote is larger than tbe Democratic, but of coarse, if the St. Louis convention indorses him, they would be counted as representing the real Democratic strength, and the Populists would not have even so much as a news- paper notice of thedemise of their party. But Altgeld and company are persuasive talkers, and they will be in S8t. Louis in force and with money. ‘Lead us not into temptation,” should be the prayer of the honest Populist. THE “SUNDAY CALL” To-morrow’s issue of THe CALL will be another splendid example of the height to which modern Californian journalism bas attained. While presenting the news of the world more completely than any other newspaper on the coast, because of its unrivaled telegraphic facilities, the fact is continually noted and commented upon that TmE CALL is particularly and peculiarly a Californis newspaper. This fact becomes more apparent in its Bunday issue, perhaps, for heére there is greater latitude permitted the editorial function ir the selection of attractive and novel features. As is well known, it is far more economical to buy Eastern syndicate articlesand illustrations, or to manufac- ture a freaky and sensational journal by distorting, exaggerating and Sensational- izing the more hideous and ghastly points in the current week’s budget of news, than it is to present each week a fresh series of novel and attractive features in wholesome and entertaining literature, art and science. The latter can heither be faked and rehashed in the office, nor the expense of procuring them shared among forty or fifty other newspa- pers. And, what is far more tothe point, they may be and are very largely of o homelike flavor that makes them of ab- sorbing interest, first to ail Califor- nians and next to all the world be- sides, for the truth 1s that the whole world still retains at least ifs sentimental and romantic interest in California. No other Sunday newspaper is so largely quoted and covied from by the newspapers of New York and the East generally as Tue Suxpay CAvLy, and this is because Tux Carn is always keenly alive to the things of human interest in all departments, that lie at its own doors, and 100ks abroad only for the news, or when the possibilities of the City and SBtate have become exhausted. Scme of the more important features of to-morrow’s issue are the following: *‘A California Boy at West Point.” This is a graphic description of the experiences of a Ukiah lad who went to the great mili- tary academy, took the examination suc- cessfully, was hazed every day by the cadets, and then finally rejected for a slight physical flaw that was largely caused by the hazing. Somewhat as a foil to this, though quite a feature in itself, are the experi- ences of Colonel Stewart of Berkeley, who was a classmate of General Long- street at West Point more than fifty years ago. “In the Shadow of Windsor Castle,” scenes on and off the besten path in Merry Old Engiand, Eton and the Lord High Chancellor, written by a San Francisco woman. Some picturesque and rather startling studies of child life on the streets of San Xrancisco, ‘‘An Evening With the Street Orators of San Franeisco.” “Camp Life in the California Sierras.” "'The Oddest Trunk Linein California.” ““The Oldest Honse on Jackass Hill,” that was once inhabited by Bret Harte, Prentiss Mulford and Mark Twain. g ‘‘San Diego’s Great Irrigation System.” Plans for a submarine railway between San Francisco and Qakland. This is a feasible project. Fully illustrated. These and many other features will ap- pear in TiE Suxpay Cary, and in no other newspaper. —eee C0ST OF DEMOORATIO RULE. If it were not so expensive to the country the results thus far from applied *‘tariff for revenue only” and Democratic incompetency generaily wounld be lsugh- able. Whnen Cleveland and a Democratic Congress took hold of the Government it Wwas given out that a Simon pure for reve- nue only tariff law would be enacted im- mediately, and everybody was told to get ready to enjoy the blessedness of the new order of things. Well, the new law came and tariff for revenue began to pour in, but after an experience runuing through twenty-two months the impression pre- vails pretty generally that the quicker the country abandons the revenue only tariff misfit the better it will be for all con- cerned. During the first twenty-two months of the operation of the McKinley act the cus- toms receipts amounted to $347,829,925. In the corresponding period under the operation of Cleveland’s for-revenue-only law $291,186,600 was received, which gives a decrease of $56,648,325 for fooling with Democratic theories. But that is not all. During the same months of the operation of the McKinley law, in- ternal revenue receipts mggregated $273,- 918,369 For the same number of months under Demdcratic rule the total internal revenue receipts amounted to $237,198,215, which gives another spéeimen of Demo- cratic incapacity in the shape of a decrease of $36,720,144. When ‘Mr. Cleveland ‘was inangurated the interest-bearing debt of the Nation was $585,034,260. He has mansaged to in- crease it by $262,329,630, making the debt stand $847,363,800. President Harrison reduced the bond debt $244 819,730, and so far President Cleveland has increased 1t to over $18,000,000 more than it was before Mr. Harrison paid any of it. Be- tween 1865 and 1898 the average monthly decrease of the public debt was $5,701,114. Mr. Cleveland has managed to increase the debt at the rate of $5,558,240 per month. Of course the country has reason to be proud of Democratic rale! A PLACE FOR THE BOYS. What can a boy do, and where can a boy stay, Ifheis nlw:‘ya told 1o get out of the way? He cannot sft here, and he must not stand there, The cushions that cover that fine rocking chair Were put there, of course, to be seen and admired. /A boy has no busiuess to ever get tired. The beg::m roses and flowers that bioom On the fl00r of the darkened and delicate room, Are not to waik on—at least, not by boys; ‘The Louse is no place, anyway, for their noise. A place for the Boys, dear mother, T pray, As cares seitle down around our short esrihly way, Don’t let us forget by our kind. loving deeds, To show we remember thelr pieasures and needs; ‘Though our souls may be vexed with problems of And worn with besetments and toiling and strife, Our bearts will keep younger—your tired heari and mine— 1f we give them a place In their innermost shrine. bour *twiil be. And 1o life’s Iatest s That we keep asmall corner—a piace for the boys. —Boston Eveniug Transcript. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Tommy—Pop, what's a eritic? Tommy's Pop—A eritic, my boy, is & man who gets paid for telling other people how they ought to do things that he couldn’t possibly do himself.—Philadeiphia Record. Walker—Your cleim that you save from 60 cents to $1 carfare every day is simply ridicu- lous. You never ayeraged more than two car- rides a day. Wheeler—My dear boy, you don’t understand. Every time I go out on my wheel—and that comes to ten to twenty times—I just imagine that I would have taken a car.—Indianapolis Jourpal said the dear girl, “I knew he was an fmpostor, though he did wear the college colors.” “And how?” asked the other dear girl. “Easily enough. He didn’t seem to think he was any petter than anybody else.”—Cincin- nati Enquirer. “When they mean a silver dollar why don’t they say so, instead of calling it wheel testily asked the man who detests slang. “Itis called & wheel to catch the bicycle vote,” alleged the man who just won’t take things seriously.—Indianapolis Journal. “The Germans always play the ace as the lowest card in the deck now.” “Why?” “‘For fear of belng arrested for lese majeste.” Truth, “Bprintly broke the long-distance running record, did he not?” “Hedid. We told him just as he started that his wife had sent for him to beat & carpet.’”— Judge. : He—I'm sure I don’t kmow what to say to him. She—Just say, “Mr. Smith, I want to marry your daughter.” Papa will say the rest.— Pick-Me-Up. +'30 Jessie Westside married him at last.” *‘Yes; he promised her a wheel if she would, you kanow.” “'30 she took him for wheel or woe.”—Buftalo Times. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. General A. B. Lawton of Savannsh, Ga., who bas just died, was one of the oldest gradnates of v;en Point, having left that institution in 1838. Bishop Temple of London says that during the 1ast thirty-five years Anglican churchmen have contributed about $400,000,000 to re- ligious objects. One of Lord Kelvin's many distinetions is to bave the shortest pedigree in *‘Burke.” It be- gins and ends with his father, James Thom- son, professor of mathematics in the Univer- sity of Glasgow. It might, however, have been considerably extended. A Irish lady who possesses a most valuable Telic of Burns has revokea a clause in her will in which she bequeathed it to the trastees of the Burns institution in Ayr, because they hnve refused to rent or lend their coliection of Burnsiana to the Glasgow Exhibition. Moses Adams Sr., who has just died at his home, at Rock House Creek, Ky., at the age ©of 102, was one of the early settlers of Ken- tucky. For sixty vears he was a leading politi- cal character in Eastern Kentucky, and was k.nown all over the country as “Rock House e An sunt of 8. R. Crockett, the Scotch writer, hes lived in Springfield, Ohio, for thirty-three years. She says that among the boyish traits which excited comment was his willingness to make eny sacrifice for books. Every penny was saved with that object in view. As he grew older he would spend days upon the hills studying the landscapes. German papers record the death of an inter- esting personage, Herr Albert Joly, who was | sorted formerly confidential messenger of Prince Bis marck, who intrusted him with the carriage of specislly important documents and telegrams. He was well known in Berlin as “the Black B iR o g in w) @ CAr! the missives, of that hue, : i ' PERSONAL. 8. T. Godbe of Salt Lake is a guest at the Baldwin. John G. Hinkel, the San Diego brewer, is at the Grand. H. W. Child, 2 mining man of Montans, is at the Palace. G. M. Francis, the Napa journalist, is at the Occidental. . J. H. Graven of Los Angeles arrived at the Baldwin yesterd capitalist of Los Angeles, is registered at the Palace. N. P. McFaul, the contractor at Ukian, is at the Grand on a short visit. Louis Meyer of the Healdsburg Tribune is registered at the California. J. M. Haley and Augustus Ehle, mining men, ©of Chicago, are at the Grand. P. Mclntyre, & mining man of Sonors, is reg- isterea at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. W. F. Allen and wife of Virginia City, Nev., are at the Russ on their bridal tour. Msjor N. B. Kennedy of the United States army arrived at the Palace yesterday. Mrs. M. J. Claff and daughter of Stockton are registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. A. 1. McSorley, 8 business man of San An- dreas, is among those registered at the Grand. J. Copeland, a mine expert and mining man of Sacramento, is making a short visit at the Lick. Lieutenant Bader of the United States steamer Alert arrived at the California last night. H. A. Getz and wife, prominent residents of Los Angeles, are guests at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Broad Barnar, s mining and civil engineer from London, Eng., is & late arrival at the Grand. Miss Dorcas Wheelock, & veteran school- teacher, is at the Grand, registered from Santa Barbara. . Senator Stephen M. White of Los Angeles ar- rived here yesterday for a visit of several days in the City. George L. Arnold of Los Angeles, a member of the State Board of Equalization, is on a visit at the Lick. D. W. Blamet, W. H. Allderdice and W. 8. Hughes, officers of the United States navy, are among the Palace guests. J. W. Winton of Los Angeles is at the Palacs on his way to the Bradbury mine in Mexico. His wife was a Miss Bradbury. E.L. Lomox of Omasha, general passenger agent of the Union Pacific Railroad, errived at the Palace last night from the East. _ W. H. Barr, an ' old-time boatman, accompa- nied by nfs son, W. G. Barr of Newark, N. J., will leave this City to-day on & trip around the world, Abe Leach of Oakland, the young attorney and society man, will leave for the East on Monasy for a three montns’ pleasure trip and visit to friends. Hon. John W. Gass, City Justice of San Jose, is visiting friends in this City with his sisters, Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Farnans of St. Louis. Judge Gass' stenographer, Mrs. Alexander, is With the party. They were taken on the Gen- eral McDowell yesterday to points of interest on the bay. Horace S. Clark of Mattoon, Ill., arrived at the Palace last night, with his wife and daugh- ter. Itis his first visit to this coast, and isone {for pleasure. Judge Clark occupied the bench in Mattoon for several years; he was a State Senator, and later ran for Govenor. Now be is & Republican nominee for elector at large in Illinois. Three or four years ago he was department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in that State. He isa member of the Mattoon law firm of Clark & Scott and of the Chicago law firm of Clark & Clark. He will remain here several days. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 17. — Wilhelm Kretchman arrived in on the North German liner Trave. At the St. Cloud—J. J. Hall; Windsor—A. H. Smsll; Belvedere—G. Collins, Mrs. Imperial—A. Walter; Marl- borough— bste LADY'S ROUND WAIST WITH SURPLICE FRONT. The folded overlapping or surplice fronts ere always pretty for wash dresses. For silk waists the style is also very good and adwmits of & pretty trimming of batiste. This may be used for the V-front, for the lower sleeves, with & narrow edge to match to lay over the collar in the new style. Stripes make up effectively if used as shown in the illustration. A plain material may be trimmed with rows of lace or braid around the lower sleeve and across the V at neck. White lawn or dresses of washable silk are daintily trimmed with a ruffie of lace on the edge of the overlapping front. A rufile of lace at the waist, dee; cnofin to reach the knuck- is very stylish. ¢ back may be made rate, with bands of ribbon from the waist the shoulder, where they end in bows that the front. seem also to adorn Dresden ribbons are beautitul on white or lai; hi lslnlrihbnn- ere preferred plain colors, wi mnA l;fipedo})r hflrrl mate! a " ress ‘own crepon had a plai with & waist aiter this mp:GQX. 'hl\!l?'l‘l’l:lklg: entirely of the crepon, except the surplice g, e Tt o, sy W) for the front. The lining 15: the waist l‘::fi 1k and showed through the em- i bon VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. It Was the Gab. San Bernardino Times-Indeéx. Great s the gift of Gab. No Exouse Needed. San Jose News, The fact that s man trades off a '95 bicycls fora make of '96 does not furnish hiswife an excuse for trading the piano and - chine for an up-to-date ‘;lyle. fexinndy Straws That Turn Scales. The Pacifc. Think of the imperial State of New York be- ing hissed in convention and a twenty min- utes’ speech for free silve ighing more than gold and Tammany to:&h':f-x ot e The New Feature, Pasadena Star. A ‘‘baby department” is now one of the at- tractions of the Santa Monica chureh, says the ‘West Oakland Sun. A kid departmen a feature of the Dem p:r‘z?. s 111-Matched Wings. Fresno Republican. A Democratic Crow who hed one _wing broken by a load from a Cleveland shotgun or- dered a nice new wing from a Populist Hen, but when h;mkw fly on the gely as- tion of wi " he It Time for a Change. Oskland Tribune. For the past two and a haif years European ‘menufacturers and producers ran our custome —————————————————————————————————————————— houses, while European bankers ran the treasury, and while our own people have been iale, mills closed down or running on hali- time, European manufacturing concerns have been declaring large dividenas. While hard times and no business has been the cry from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Europeans who have captured the American markets are in high elover, rejoicing in_their prosperity, the result of the Wilson tariff law. He Stands Well. Angels Camp Echo. Should Samuel M. Shortridge decide to run for the Senate we think that his prosvects for winning would be very bright. He stands well with the Republican party and can be consid- ered a representative man allround. The sue- cess that has always attended his efforts is not likely to forsake him in his new undertaking. A Cartoon Appreciated, Oakland Enquirer. “Retouching the family portraits” is the title of a striking cartoon in to-day’s CALL. The portraits referred to are those of Jefferson and Jackson, the patron saints of the Demo- cratic party. Perched on a chair Altgeld is represented as putting some embellishing Tonotios b these ;fievure: with material taken from a vessel labeled “Anarchist paint,’” held by Herr Most, the imported socialist who hid under a bed when the New York police went to arrest im. On a bust of Tilden, in the rear of Most, is hung a string of bombs. California’s Platform. Los Angeles Record. Out here in California our situation is so isolated and peculiar that we should have no Ppolitics but Californis politics. First, the great canal. Second, . protection for California. Wijthout protection we can’t hold our own with Europe on fruits. With protection or a bounty on sugar we would astonish the world in sugar-beet cul- ture and in the production of T, With the canal we could get along without protection. Is the man who does not make these things first and who does not work for_them with all his might a friend of California? A MEDAL OF HONOR. New Decoration Devised by the So- clety for the Provention of Cruelty to Children. The annual meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Cbildren held yesterday afternoon was attended by Presi- dent Charles Sonntag, Secretary Charles P. Welch and Directors Gilbert Palache, the products of New Decoration for Friends of the Children. G. A. Newhall, A. Roman, S. C. Buckbee, 1. T. Milliken and Horatio Beveridge. The session was executive. It was re- vorted that much good work had been done by the officers of the society during the year, many wrongs to children having been averted, even in families where the society might not have been expected to interfere. Mr. Welch was confirmed in his post as secretary, and thirty-five new members, residents of Alameda, Berkeley and Oak- 1 land, were enrolled. The society has caused a handsome bronze meaal to be made, which will be presented to all persons saving the life of a child in danger. The workmanship of the medal is most artistic, and the society hopes that the prospect of gaining it may inspire adults to do their best to aid its work. THE RUSSIAN RIVER. Railroad People Say That the Water Is Pure and Absolutely Free From Poison. Some days ago a statement was pub- lished that horses had been poisoned by drinking the waters of the Russian River and that men who had bathed in the stream complained subsequently of an ir- ritation of the skin. Henry C. Whiting, general manager of the San Francisco and North Pacific Rail- way Company and Mr. Ryan, general superintendent of the line, do not know how the rumor started. They have in- vestigated the subject by having inquiry made as to the quality and condition of water at various points on the stream. They are convinced that the water is as pure as ever and that no poison exists in the river. The Russian River is formed by a great number of small tributaries that take their rise from springs and melting snows in the mountains of Mendocino and So- noma counties. The current of the river isswift from the mountains to tidewater, as the fall per mile is consideral Mr. Whitiug is sure that the sources of the Russian River are as pure as those of any other stream on the continent. The snows which fell last winter are still dis- solving and replenishing the little lakes and brooks in the high mountains. e MERCHANTS' NEW MEMBERS. Twenty-Eight Business Firms Joined the Association Yesterday. The Iroquois Club will hold a meeting to-night at its headquarters, 909 Market street, for the consideration and discus- sion of the new charter. J. Richard Freud, secretary of the Merchants’ Association, has been specially invited to speak upon the charter and has consented to do so. The Continental League, one of the lead- ing Republican organizations of the Ciuy, bas sent a committee with its president to uest J. Richard Freud, secretary of the Merchants’ Associstion, to address that organization upon the new charter at an early date. Agreeable to the wishes of the board of directors of the Merchants' Association Secretary Freud will address .| the Continental League upon the new charter. Twenty-eight new applications for mem- bership 'in the Merchants’ Association were received yesterday at the offices of the association in the Mills building. This makes the present total membership of cflha Merchants’ Association 608 business rms. New Mining Company. The Emery Drift Gravel Mining Company was yesterday in rated by L. J. Kimball, Frod Hiller, . L. Benton; Ohatios Hiowhad and G.T. Em 0 2 with i f 000, ot which $400,000 hab bes petd im0 S L Electrical Supply Company. The M. Kollman Company, dealers in elec- trical Mluaflhamm«mum with a - DEATH OF A FORTY-NINER John " Dennis, an = Old-Time Miner, Passed Away in To- ronto, Ontario. Left Property in Ca'ifornia and Can- ada Valued at Many Thousands of Dollars. John Dennis, an old-time California miner, died December 31, 1895, in Toronto, Ontario. A copy of his will was filed vesterday in the County Clerk’s omo_e by F. H. Burke, who asks to be appointed administrator of the local property of the deceased, which is worth $3000. The papers from the Canadian courts, in which the testator is described as John Dennis, gentleman, are in the nature of 8 curiosity to oneacquainted with California probate methods. Dennis must have died pos:e_saed of con- siderable property, for his will provides for the payment. of $3200 per year to his wife for family maintenance, $100 per year additional to each of his daughters, and a liberal allowance to his sons. A clause in his wiil also bequeaths his watch and chain to his eldest son. It is as follows: I give and bequeath to my som, Joseph Browne Dennis, my goid watch, purchased with the gold I dug from the mines in Califor- nia in 1849, and also the gold chain worn therewith, and it is m?’ wish that the watch shall not go out of the family. An idea of the state of the }'enl estate market in Canada is also given in another clause in the document. {t is recited that the testator owns a number of pieces of real estate in various portions of Toronto, but knowing the demand for such prop- erty to be dull, the executors of the will are requested not to attempt to dispose of any of it untii better prices can be ob= tained than at present. Fiig ey Saved ¥rom Imprisonment. There was & marriage in Police Judge Camp- beli’s chambers yesterday. The bride was Nora Curran, 17 years of ege, who lived st 713}4 Clementina street. She had not been particular in her choice of associates and re- cently fell into the hands of the officers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 1o Children, and she stood & good chance of be- ing sent fo the Magdalen asylum. The groom was Frank Frazier, a messenger boy whom she had deserted. He came forward at the last moment and saved the girl from imprison- ment by making ber his wife. —_——————— New Company for Oriental Business. The American Mercantile and Banking Com- pany, with e capital stock of £600,000, was incorporated yesterday. The objectistodoa general commercial business with China, Japan and Kores, and the head office will be in San Francisco. The directors are: J. P. Grant, W. J. Sutherland, L. W. Howe, Edmund Tauszky and George . Wells. Attorney Wells esterday said tne future of the company ung on the Asiatic contingency, and declined to make public any particulars of the com- pany’s business. ——————— A Bright Weekly. Thoroughly abreast of the times in every re- spect Town Talk presents this week to its readers s handsomely printed and carefully edited number, which, together with pictorial attractions, contains an interview with Miss Maxine Eliiott, entitied *‘In the Boudoir of a Beauty”; news from the art studios of Amedie Joullin and Miss Lon Wali; where the smart set is recuperating—told in chat from various out-of-town resoris where society congregates & story by the “Idler,” entitled “A Summe: Dream’’; some comments upon the individusl- 1ty of the Carmen kiss, as osculated by Rose Coghlan and Frederick Warde; dramatic crit- icisms; smusing anecdotes concerning well- known people; editorial thrusts at mnniclrnl management; musical notes, and a pleasing variety of miscellany, entertaining, breezy, reliabie and clean. Read Town Talk: o ———— CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend’s. —_———— BEST peanut taffy in the world. Townsend’s.* TOWNSEND’S famous broken candy, 2 Ibs. 25¢* .. SorT Baby Cream 15¢. 1b. Townsend's. * CREAM mixed candies 25¢ und in Japanese | baskets. Townsend’s, 627 arket st., Palace. * — e IF you want fine service, fine carriages, com- | petent drivers, ring up1950. Pac. Carriage Co,* S st et i FPrCTAL iniormation daily to manufactursre, business houses end public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Allex’s), 510 Montgomery. * ———————— Trunks Moved 25 Cents. Commercial Transfer Co., 43 Sutter street. Telepnone Main 49. Keep your checks for us.> “Park Playce is always preaching economy, yet he never practices it.” “‘Oh, yes, he does.” “In what instance ?” ““When he gives money to his wife.”—Buffalo Times. Cheap Excursion to St. Paul. The Shasta route and the Northern Pacific Rail- r0ad has been selected as. the official route to at- tend the National Encampment of the G. A. . at St. Paul, tobe held there September 2to 5. The excursion will leave San Francisco and Sacra- mento August 26 at 7 P.3. Kates $67 90 for the round trip. The above rate isopen to all who wish to make the trip East. Send your name and ad- dresa to T. K. Stateler, general agent, 638 Market treet, San Franclsco, for sleeping-car reservations. ——————— Are You Going East? The Atlantlc and Pacific Rallroad—Santa Fe route—is the coolest and most comfortable sum. mer line, owing to its elevation and absence of alkali dust. Partioularly adapted for the trams- portation of families because 0f frs palace draw- ing-room and modern upholstered tourist sleeping- cars, which run daily through from Oakland to Chbicago, leaving at a seasonable hour and in charge of attentive conductors and porters. Tick- etoflice, 644 Market streer, Chronicle building. Telephone, Main 1531, ———————— No buffet shonid e without a bottle of Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters, the South American appetizer and invigorator. aa G “WOULDN'T be without it for worlds!’* was the emphatic declaration of & lady in reference to Ayer's Halr Vigor. —_————— When Queen Victoria is robed for such a state oceasion as & drawing-room, it is not un. usual to see her display over $750,000 worth of jewelry. NEW I6 TEA HOUS TO-DAY. Teas Coffees Spices o Good So gure A Beautiful Piece of Chinawars Given to Each Customer, GreatAmericanEpurfinu'l‘ea K MONEY SAVING STORES: 1344 Market st. 348 Mission w5 e 140 Sixth st. 2 Fillmore st, 617 Kearny st. 68 Market st. ;‘;?Mp:& st. 3006 flh:n‘nm st. 335 Hayes st 3% ‘Mission st. :-n::mu. (Headquarters), S, p. 10} ington st. 616 E. Twelfth ufiu Pablo ave. w,Bnuny.O:'t-h- 1355 Park st., Alameda.