The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 19, 1896, Page 22

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Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open uatil 9:30 o'clock. 339 Mayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:80 o'clock. &W . corner Sixteenih and Mission streets; open wntil § o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open untll 9 o'clock. 116 Minth street; open nntil § 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : $08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 84 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. ULY 19, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKIRLEY, of Obio FOR VIOF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey MBER FLECTION NO As this is leap year in society and a holters’ year in politics it is bound to be Tively. Senator Hill insists he is still a Demo- crat, but he cannot deny that he is badly disfigured. To get all the news of the Populist con- vention accurately and impartially you must read THE CALL. It can haraly have escaped the attention of the poy orator that the gold Democrats are fixing up a buzzsaw. Tom Reed is to open the Republican campaign in Nex York, and Tammany | has begun to hunt a hole. It will avail the people very little to have free silver if they are to have bad business and no wages along with it. The whole country should take a good rest to-day, for the Populists will put a big strain on it during the coming week. Never were the business interests of the country so united as now, and those who prophesy calamity are foolish alarmists. Tammany stays with the party while business men leave it, and that is the re- sult Democracy gets from the Chicago spasm. Make up your mind to vote for the woman’s suffrage amendment. Itis time for Californians to be doing the fair thing by the fair sex. International bimetallism is the middle of the road between the silver extremists and the gold extremists, aad the Republi- can party holds it. Genuine bimetallists, like all good busi- ness men, will vote for McKinley, and Mr. Bryan will have to content himself with the scattermg vote. It woun!d be folly for Uncle Sam to play a lone hand for the free coinage of silver when he can get European bimetal.ists to assist if he asks them Mr. Dana deelares the Chicago slopover was the result of a spasmodic effort on the part of Democracy 1o get rid of Cleveland, no matter what happened. All natious that have demonetized silver | should be compelled o remonetize it. We cannot afford to rake the chestnuts ont of the fire for the benefit of Europe. Bayard's speeches may awaken friendly feelings in England, but they are irritating to Americans and add nothing to the har- mony of the international situation, An arbitration treaty with Great Britain will be a good thing, provided we havea thoroughly American administration at Washington 1o hold up our end of it. The trouble into which young Balfour has led the Conservative ministry in Eng- land is another proof of the folly of en- trusting party leadership to boy orators. If tha gold Democrats should whirl in and give Cleveland a renomination the campaign would begin with smiles and ripple with laughter all the way through. Once more Spain is reported to be will- ing to give home ruie to Cuba, but the Cubans are as averse asever to accept- ing as a gift what they can establish as a right. ‘When ship-owner Sewall sees the record his sailors give him he will wish he had bolted the Chicago convention as soon as he saw the nomication for Vice-Presdent coming this way. It is asverted that the women in Wash- ington City who are preaching against women riding bicycles are too old to ride, but it is not reported that any of them have acknowledged it. The last Congress passed a resolution in- viting an internationzal conference for the free coinage of silver, which was to be at- tended by nine men from the Unitea States, three to be appointed by the Pres- dent, thres by the Senate and three by the House. Cleveland ignored the resolution and nothing was done. That is the Dem- ocratic record on the subject, and it shows why international bimetallism bas made no progress under this administration. The News Letter celebrates its fortieth anniversary this week by the publication of an edition attractive in many ways, and partieularly so in the republication of edi- torials, poeras and pictures of former days, which besides being entertaining in them- selves have a further value for old resi- dents in the revival of memories of times past. Mr. Marriott deserves credit for the high standard to which he has kept the News Letier, snd his work in this regard merits #ll the success he has accomplished, | i { | | { BEFORE THE BATTLE. It is already evident that this is to be an aggressive campaign on both sides. It will be fought with anintense earnestness, and will engender in some quarters no little bitterness. Out of thisexcess of feel- ing there is sure 10 come a good deal of reckless assertion and invective. CUrim- ination and recrimination will be com- mon. Exactly in proportion as stump orators and unlearned editors find them- selves incapable of arguning the ab- stract problems of money and the tariff and their relations to one anotber will they indulge in personality and abuse. It will be well, therefore, for intelligent people to put themselves on guard at the start, so as not to be misled in the ex- citement that is to foilow. An evidence of tne extent to which poli- tical slander will probably be resorted to during the campaign is already apparent in the reports that the gold men are offer- ing bribes to members of the Populist con- vention to refuse to indorse Bryan, while silver miliionaires are offering bribes to support him. There is not the slightest reason for trusting either of these stories. That some delegates at St. Lous will be susceptible to the influence of courteousiy suggested rewards may be conceded. Such men are to be found in every political party. The Populist convention, however, will not be contrclled by brbery. It will act as honestly as did the Republican convention at St. Louis or the Democratic convention at Chicago. Whether it acts wisely or unwisely it will sincerely try ‘o carry out the will of that portion of the American people it has met to represent. The last two Presidential campaigns were comparatively free from personali- ties. It is perhaps too much to expect this to be so clean in that respect. It has divided the people on new issues and led to the breaking of old party ties. Under such circumstances it is easy for the ac- tions of men to be misconstrued whether they stay with their former party or leave it. Senator Teller may seem to some men as the hireling of the silver miners and Secretary Carlisie may appear to others as { the hireling of Wall street. Denunciations of that kind will soon be uttered from a thousand voices, to swell on every gale, and the land will be so filled with them that the traveling foreigner among us will come to the conclusion that our statesmen are the most corrupt bribe-taking rascals on earth. Itshould be the duty of every sincere man to counteract this rising chorus of idle slander as far as possible. The poli- tics of thiscountry is in the main whole- some and sound. Corruption exists here and there, but it is local in its nature and has no appreciable effect upon the Nation asa whole. We are in the main an honest people, perhaps the most honest on’earth, and our representatives are not inferier to those whom they represent. keep the atmosphere clean of all foul charges and countercharges of bribery and corruption. Let us bear in mind that where two such great issues as the protec- tion of American industry and the re- sumption of free silver coinage without waiting for international agreement areat stake in one coutest, there is ample room | for the widest differences of opinion among the most honest of men: and let us, Re- jublicans, Democrats, Populists and Pro- hibitionists,reason with one another as best we may and carry the campaign on with “malice toward none, but with charity for all.’” TEE POPULIST CONVENTION. True to its claim of speaking for all Tex Cart has arraneed to give reports of the Populist convention at St. Louis that will be thoroughly comprehensive and abso- lutely accurate and impartial. In addi- tion to the dispatches of the United Press, which TuE CALL will be the only morning paper in this City to receive, we will have full reports cf all stages of the proceedings from our special correspondents, John Paul | Cosgrave and Frank McGuire, each of l whom has already established a reputation i second to none among the active jour- | nalists of the country. 1 It will be remembered that in our re- ports from Chicago we gave the views taken of the proceedings from day to day | by two eminent Democrats, Judge Maguire | and John P. Irish. In those lettersan in- side view of the situation was daily pre- | sented to our resders, and they were kept ; posted on the staie of feeling that pre- vailed at the convention in both wings of | the party. This feature of our news ser- | vice will be repeated in our reports from | St. Louis. We will bave daily communi-| cations from several men who rankamong the foremost Populists of the State, and will be thoroughly aware of every import- ant move made at the convention by either side. 1tis wetl known that Tre CALrL makes no attempt to spread on sensations, and ! regards quality as much as quantity in its | news service. Qur reports from St. Louis will not be stuffed or padded with mere verbiage or tiresome repetitions for the sake of filling a great number of pages. ‘We shall give all the news of each aay with pictures and sketches of prominent | men in the convention and interviews with them on important subjects, but we will not weaken the general accuracy of our reports by the introduction of fakes | or idle gossip to fill space. The reader, therefore, will find ourmews service to be as compact as possible as well as compre- hensive, and 80 impartial and fair in the | recording of what is said and done for or| against fusiop with Democracy, that it will be satisfactory to ali who wish to know the full truth concerning the convention and its leaders. EMPLOY YOUR MONEY. Mr, Claus Spreckeis indulged in no sen- | timentalism, suggested no philanthropy, and injected no “ifs,”” but just flung a great chunk of solid common-sanse at the public when he said: *“‘There is plenty of money in the country. What is really needed is its employment. Men with money should employ it. That, to my mind, is the whole matter. The proper employment of money means the em- ployment of men.” it is true that for three years there has been so much uncertainty in the channels of commerce and industry that capital had some justification for hesitatinz to launch 1nto new or extend old enterprises, but the people are thoroughly alive now to the importance of changing the conduct | Letus try to | | paign it is particulariy desirable that the of the affairs of the Nation, and since it is only a question of a very few months when the present tariff and financial poi- icy of the Government will be made to give way to one that is sanctioned by true business principles, it would seem that capital is holding back without any rea- sonable excuse. But not all are waiting until the change in the administration at Washington is actually made. Mr. Spreckels himself is in evidence with his money that the time has come for idle capital to go to work, not only for itself, but to make places for workmen who are lying in enforced idle- ness. There is no doubt at all that the present time offers unusnaliy advantage- ous opportunities for the profitable em- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, .JULY 19. 1896. —_— true of California. The prosperity of Cali- fornia is largely in the hands of capital- ists, and it they will start the ball rolling by undertaking new industrial enterprises they may be sure that every interest and individual would be more determined than ever that a sound and safe policy shall pre- vail at Washington after the existing order of things is set aside. e FOR ARBITRATION. Although the recent efforts of the United States and Great Britain have not resulted | in reaching a basis for the arbitration of international disputes in which they both have direct interest, the work bLas pro- gressed far enough to warrant the belief that a satisfactory way will be discovered which will make war between the nations almost an impossibility. The correspond- ence between our State Department and the English Government reveals a strong inchnation to settle differences by com- missions rather than by armies. The position of our Government is that it would not submit a matter to arbitra- tion which would involve a principle of right, but when it did submit a dispute to arbitration it should insist that the parties to it agree in advance to acquiesce in the decision, whatever it might be. In this England takes the position that the right to accept or reject the finding should be reserved; but as that would not be arbi- tration at all, our Government declines 1o consider the proposition. Enough prog- ress has been made, however, to justify the belief that both nations would look upon war as a crime 1f resorted to before every possible means of peaceful solution of the differences had been exhausted, and that may be considered a long step in the direction of truly making war the last| resort. It has been suggested thata permanent board of arbitration composed of the Chief Justice of the Federal Supreme Court and the Lord Chief Justice of Eng- lana for members, with the right tochoose a third member for each case, would com- mend itself to the confidence of the people of both countries. But anyway, the best evidence that the spirit of arbitration is | growing is that it is being favored by very many prominent army and navy officers. Inventions and discoveries in the art of war in the last few years make a col- lision on water or land something horrible to contemplate, to say nothing of the ax- pense of going into battle with ships that cost several million dollars each. And, besides, the world is getting into an age of commercial warfare, and commerce wants nothing to do with men who are in hostile array. THE POLITIOAL BOYOOTT. | The boycott, hitherto supposed to be the | exclusive tactics of organized labor to bring offenders to terms, is becoming | quite popular in politics. The intro- duction ot the boycott is, 1t is said, what | | the Eastern Democrats had in mind when | they refused to bolt the Chicago conven- | tion, and color is given to it by the deter- mination of Hill and others to stay in the party and work for the party’s State and local candidates, bu t boycoit the Natipnal ticket. Between the lines ot the threats | j of the middle-of-the-road delegates to the Populist convention to do ali sorts of things if the Chicago nominees are in-! | dorsed may be seen shadows of the boy- | cott. | Justhow much barm a well-organized | | plan to boycotta ticket would do will al- | ways remain a mystery, but there is no | | doubt it could be worked to do an im- | | mense amount of damage. In the case of | | Bryan, speakers all over the country could | preach the gospel of Democracy from the | | stump and at the same time cause the boy- | | cotters to grow in numbers and in flerce- | | ness. In politics a candidate could not i tell who would or who would not boycott |him at the polls, for boycotters make known the fact that a boycott has been | laid, but the influences which undermine the boycotted from day to day go and come in secret. With such cunning and crafty politicians as Hill and Gorman to | engineer a boycott it would come pretty | near sending the boycotted into bank- ruptey. Itis to be hoped, however. that nothing of the kind-will be attempted. Our politi- cal battles should always be in the open | field, where there are no trees to shield | skulkers, that they may kill without en- | dangering their own lives. In this cam- fight be made open and aboveboard. The issues are clear and well defined, and the battie should be so much to the finish that there would be no guestion as to the choice of the people between Altgeldism and patriotism, protection and prosperity. Of course, the latter will triumph, but the re- suit would be more far-reaching in in- fluence forgood if notone of the opposing forces escaped a sound thrashing. Give over the boycott and be openly for or against candidates. That is the manly way. \ THE DIFFERENQE. 1f Mr. Bryan would divest his logic of buncombe and demagoguery his speeches | would read very differently. When he teils a great political or economic truth it is so covered up with rhetorical rubbish that its beauty and force is lost sight of. The other day he informed the multitude that the St. Louis platform of the Republican party declares for bimetallism, which is absolutely true, and had he left the ma ter right there there would have been | point and meaning to his words, but be flew off at & tangent, and with all the vehe- mence of a portable steam engine at high vressure demanded to know if the legisla- tive power of the United States must be delegated to some foreign nation. As far as we know nothing of the kind is con- templated by the people of this country, ana we might add that so far as we know no foreign nation is thinking of delegating its law-making power to the United States. ‘What Mr. Bryan undertook to skow was the difference between his kind of bimet- allism and the kind the Repablican party is advocating. Mr. Bryan asserts that the United States is big enough and strong enough to declare for bimetallism and act upon the declaration without conferring with any other nation. Mr. Bryan's as- sertion is confirmed by public opinion, and were he todeclare that the United States is big enough and strong enough to tell the people of the other nations that if they or their ships come within the marine limit they will do so at their peril public opinion would confirm that, too. But it so happens that our peoplearea money-loving as well as a literty-loving people. It happens, too, that they have a surplus of their products after supply- ing their own wants, which they have to carry to the markets of other countries to find buyers. It is likewise true that the people of other nations produce articles which our people want. Our people want money for the articles they sell abroad, and foreigners want money for the arti- cles they sell our This brings up the question, ““What is money?” Money in this age is composed of things that are ini between themselves with- out compulsion and are exchanged for articles of commerce without hesitation ployment of capital. and this is esoecially | on the part of the one or the other. Com- merce everywhere demands a monetary system for its use whicn shall everywhere be the same. 3 il s Among the leading commercial na- tions a monetary system prevails on the b: of a given quantity of gold of a given fineness as the unit of value. It is called “dollar.” But the com- merce of the commercial nations de- mands a greater volume of redemption dollars, and by common consent silver is the proper metal from which to 1increase the volume, and the commerce of the na- tions by common consent asks that a con- ference be held to change the present monometallic basis of the monetary sys- tem to a bimetallic basis in a way that shall cause the two metallic moneys to be exchangeable betwesn themselves upon their own individual merit. The com- merce of the nations holds that a confer- ence is necessary so as to give the two metals the stamp of ‘world-wide parity ana quality in purchase and in redemption power. This is the kind of bimetallism the Repuklican party is pledged to, and, furthermore, 1tis pledged to represent the commerce of the United Statesin the forth- coming conference for the express purpose of changing the monetary system of the commerce of the world from a monome- tallic toa bimetallic or a gold and silver basis. Mr. Br.yln proposes to snub the foreign markets in which we sell our surplus prod- ucts and buy such articles of consumption as we do not produce, and establish a monetary system for tbe commerce of the world according as he thinks it should be. The Republican party thinks our interna- tional trade of nearly $2,000,000,000 annu- ally is worth consulting and worth adjust- ing upon & monetary basis that shall not only be mutually satisfactory, but which shall increase the foreign commerce of the United Siates. " PERSONAL. William H. Coffin, U, S. A., is & guestat the Palace. C. W. Fielding, & mining man ot Kesmeek, is at the Pelace. Raleigh Barcar, s lawyer of Vacaville, isa guest at the Lick. Frank H. Smith, the Stockton attorney, is at | the Grand with his wife. Jacques Gronmer ot Paris is one of the recent arrivals at the Baldwin. D. R. Oliver, the real estate broker of Stock- ton, is at & downtown hotel. State Senator 8. M. Androus of Pomona ar- rived at the Grand yesterday. Dr. H. G. Leisenving of San Diego is among those registered at the Grand. W. B. Rucker, & merchant of San Jose, is one of the recent arrivals at the Grand. L. 8. Newcomb, a hotel proprietor of Vallejo, is making a brief visit at the Grand. R. C. Sargent, a capitalist and landowner of Stockton, is & late arrival at the Russ. G. W. Taft, & prominent business man of Fresno, is at the Grand with his famiiy. D. H. Ostrom, the ex-State Senator from Yuba City,is among the late arrivals at the Grand. Edward Swinford, who has served as District Attorney at Colusa, registered a: the Grand yesterday. Judge Charles J. Cresswell and wife of Phila- delphia returned to the Palace yesterday from the Yosemite. P. A. Buell, who has at Stockton one of the largest planing-mills in the State, arrived at the Grand yesterday for a short visit. Levin Chase, the San Diego attorney, is at the Occidental with Charles A. Chase and wife, eand Mrs. Sarah A. Bell, sll of whom arrived from the South yesterday. Among the arrivals st the Lick yesterday were George F. Buck and R. C. Minor, two at- torneys from Stockton, who came here for the meeting of the Democratic State Central Com- mittee. A. Gopdman, & whisky merchant of Memphis, Tenn.,§s registered at the Lick with Mrs. J. Goodman and Miss Rosa Gronouer. It is their first visit to California and they are hereona pleasure trip. J. G. Hinkel, the San Diego brewer, whois establishing a very large brewery in the south- ern city that has so recently voted for addi- tional water works and better drinking water, is among the guests at the Grand. James T. Langford, son of Senator Langford of Lodi, and Alfred P, Fraser, son of the Stock- ton bank president, arrived at the California yesterday to attend & reunion last night of the first class that went through Stanford Ubni- versity. Among those that registered at the Cali- fornia yesterday were Professor Herbert C. Nash, librarian at Stanford University, As- ant Professor 8. W. Young of the chemistry department, and D. Davenport, all of Stanford University. 8. J. Stevens, a wholesale cheese and butter merchant of Cincinatti, 0., arrived st the Palace yesterday with his wife ana child and his two sons, D. J. and C. S. Stevens. The party has just returned from a trip to Alaska, and will soon start for Los Angeles on the way home after & three months’ pleasure trip. Miss Lucile Eaves, teacher of history in the San Diego high school for the past two years, arrived at the Occidental last night for a short visit. Miss Eaves was graduated from Stan- ford University with the class of 94, and was one of two students up to that time who com- pleted the four years’ course in three years. Justice Stephen J. Field arrived at the Palace yesterday morning at 7 o'clock, having been hurried up from El Paso de Robles on a special train sent to convey him here for the attention of the most skijlful physicians. The aged jurist looked very ill upon his srrivel and was taken at once to his apartments, from which special orders were issued that he should not be disturbed. He was accompanied by his wife. Yesterday the following party startedffor Seattle, whence its members will go on the City of Topeka for a four weeks’ trip to Alask Mrs. Dan Haskell, wife of Captain Haskell Misp Carrie Beckwith and Miss Ada L. Fogl guests of the St. Nicholas Hotel; Mrs. G. A. | Scott, Mrs. Sherman, Miss Hulse and Miss Alice Hulse of this City, Mrs. H. L. Collier and Henry Latimer Collier Jr. of Atlants, Ga., and Mrs. L. J. Chipman of San Jose. R. H. Wright of Memphis, Tenn., returned 10 the Baldwin yesterday from a trip to Tucson, Ariz. He owns a plantation of 1300 acres near Memphis. 1000 acres of which is in cot- ton. The average yield, he says, is a bale to the acre, which generally speaking means about 400 pounds. Mr. Wright forces as many 23 670 pounds into his bales becanse thereisa tax levy of 1 on each bale and transportation and warehouse rates are sll reckoned by the bale. He thinks San Francisce bas the finest climale he has ever experienced snd he takes pride in asserting that he never wore &n over- costor carried an umbrella no matter what the weather. Rear-Admiral William Evashintsoff of the Russian navy left the Palace iast night for the East, He came here a short time 8go to inter- est San Francisco capital to the extent of $250,000 in tne establishment of & salmon cannery on Avasha Bay, on the coast of Kamschatks, & virgin fishery, where big salmon teem in millions. The Emperor of Russia gave him the exclusive privilege to catch salmon there how and in whatever number he might wish for a period of ten years. The admiral has gone to New York. Thence he will go to St. Petersburg by way of Berlin. He will return to this City in Feb- ruary. In the meantime, he says, his big salmon-canning company will be formed everything here, as he has arranged to that end. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., July 18.—At the West- minister—W. C. Hogg; Ashland—H. Bradley; Astor—Mrs. S. Febian; Grand Union—D. F. Rayan; Holland—G. E. Raum and wiie; Eroad- ‘way Central—W. Huntress. ey - CALIFORNIANS IN W ASHINGTON. 'WASHINGTON, D. C., July 18.—Among Te- cent arrivals a G. W. Lynch, San Diego, Hotel Shorehem; J. Jackson, San Jose, Wil- lards; J. J. Dwyer, San Fraucisco, Page's Hotel THE SALEM BOY. ¢ Intears. wi'h hasky voice, he talked To peopie of his native town. His childhood memories broke him up, And nearly broke him down. He talked of viriues that were drilled 1nto his boyhooe's being there; Of greatness, the first dranght be got Was breathed in Salens’s air. At railway towns and water-tanks The curious gathered, as & rule, To see the tongulst who beslew The Democratic mule, And o'er the country by the mile He sirewed th e talk that practice long Had made off oily tongue to flow, Just iike a liquid song. And people. having beard that volce And started on their homeward walk, Had this much satisfaction—they Had heard young Bryan talk. But what he meant or what he sald That, analyzd, would something mean They couldn’t tell. The Salem boy Had just been heara and seen. We'll ring a change November next; Rung out will be that boy absurd. *Neath reason’s sway the Salem boy ‘Will not be seen nor heard, And Salem schoolboys on the board This simple maxim then will chalk: “You can't get to be President By talking empty talk ! PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. At the present time the Princess of Wales’ holding of pearls cannot be worth less than £50,000. Princess Helene, the Duchess of Sparta’s baby, is Queen Victoria’s twenty-second great- grandchild. Rudyard Kipling’s greatest ambition is said to be to serve as & war correspondent, The nexi big war will take him into the fieid. Shortly before the death of the late Emperor of Russia, he ordered that seven wild boars and twenty wild sows should be sent as a presen: to the Emperor William. E. U. RERA. “Hungry Joe,” the famous bunko man, re- cently released from a Baitimore prison, must report to the New York police every morning as long as he remains 1n that city. It is & curious circumstance that Queen Vic- toria has never seen her “faithiul Commons” in session. She isdenied & spactacle that may be witnessed by the humblest of her suLjects. The Right Hon. A. J. Baliour and J. A. Penn, M. P., recently played & match at golf on the course of the Honor Oak and Forest Hiil Goli Club at Honor Oak Park. The former won after a hard struggle. Jusn Garcia, an sged Mexican, residing in New York City, is cutting a new set of teeth. He claims to be 91 years old, and says that na- ture provided his mother with four seis of teeth during her life of 103 years. Jonn R. Green, who resides at Ellsworth, Obio, is one of the few survivors who wit- nessed the battle of Waterioo, which oecurred eighty-one years ago. Though 98 years of age, Mr. Green is in full possession of all his facul- ties, except that his eyesight is failing. He was born at Bolton, England, on July 25, 1798, and at the age of 16 entered the British army. A PLAIN SHIRT WAIST. The special features of the shirt waist shown here are the high turn overcollarand the five box pleats in front, the center one serving for the buttonhole flap. The cuffsand collar may be made detachable by finishing neck and wrist with straight bands an inch wide when finished. Make but- tonholes at the ends and one at the center back of neck. Finish the cuffs and collar by turning in st the edges where they join gar- ment and place corresponding buttonholes in em. The new batistes with lines of bright color2 In stripes or crossbars make very stylish waists. When made with detachable collars and cuffs, ribbon collars and trimmings may be worn with the same weist, thus giving variety to a limited wardrobe. The new fabrics for shirt waists show con- ventionalized flowers in gay colors. These are o{un mede up with collars and cuffs of a plain tint. Plain pink, blues and yellows are used. These have either self-colored or white cuffs anl collars. Some have detachabie collars on)lly, while many have cuffs also detachable. any sleeve fabrics are used for shirt waists this season, such as batiste, lawn, eic. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “Alas!” she mused, as she contemplated her- gelf in the mirror, “there are already purple threads among the pink.” However, age was a thing with which even the poster girl bad to grapple.—Detroit Tribune. “H’m!” said the man with the inconvenient memory. “The paper says that Miss Footlites swept the house with her charming smile. When I knew her eighteen years agoin rity’s boarding-house she used a broom.” Cincinnati Enquirer. “Gold-beaters’ establishment overhead?” asked the inquisitive guest as a continued thump! thump! echoed through the room. “No. A Belasco school of acting.”—Philadel- phia North American. “I am tired to death,” declared Mrs. Ma- tronly as she reached home from downtown the other evening. “What's the matter?” asked her husband. “Been having baby’s picture taken. They have a way of taking them instantaneously now, you know.” “How long were you at it ?"” “Three hours and s half.”—Detroit Free Press. Noah—Well, my dear, we seem to be on land at last. Mrs. Noah—Thank heaven! And now, when the water goes down a little more, I wish you would put these carpets on the line and give them a good beating. A little exercise will do you good, after six months sitting still— Somerville Journal. He—Which did you like best of my verses? She—Why, the one on the first page. He—Let me see. Which one was that? She—Don’t you remember? The one in quo- tation marks.—Harlem Life. A.—Now, if I understand correctly, the first principle of socialism is to divide with your brother man. B.—Then you don’t understand it correctly. The first principle of socialism is to make your brother man divide with you.—Birmingham Post. “Is this a sixteen-to-one town?” asked the drummer. . 3 “It air on Sunday,” answered the native. “On Sunday " “Yas. Sixteen goes fishin’ to oze goin' to church.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. Blodds—Here’s & rather clever little book— “Don’ts for Club Men.” S “Slobbe—It isn’t the don'ts that worry me; i's the dues.—Philadelphia Record. ¥ ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Tar Pustic Dest—P. P. P., Ontario, Cal. The following figures from the report of the | Comptrotler of the Currency for 1895 shows the interest-bearing bonded debt of the United States from 1863 Lo 1895, inclusive: { diences of women on “Duties of lv::g:::"“:vficn Jectures were translated into French, Italian and Danish and had a very 1arge eirculation. She devoted time to direct- ing the Vietor.a-street Society for the protec- tion - . _an! from vivisection which she joundad, and of which the late Lord Shaites. bury was president. In time she gave up the T . Date. percent. | Bpercent. |43 percent.a| 4 percontd | Gpercéntc Y irad | | | 8,000 §1,109,568,191 Aug. 811865 $908,518.691 $199.792,100| | L an000| 1. June 30, 1866 1.008,388.469 $O5000| 1835 408154 June 80,1867 1.4¥1,110,7.9| 210821199200 June 30, 1868 | 1,841,521,800] 20| 2,168,568,920 June 30,1869, | 1.886,311.300 | 21050,978/920 June 30,1870. | 1,764.93 | 1,952,752.682 June 30,1871. | 1,513.897,500 1.845,074. June 30, 1872.| 1,874,553,800 1’ 80‘29 62 June 50,1878 | 1281238651 788,876,362 June 30, 1874. | 1.213/624.700 X 12| 1,772,621,812 June 30,1875 1,100,865,550| 607,132,750 | 1761308982 June 20,1876.| '984,999,650/ 711.685.800 | 1,761,512,012 June 80,1877.| 834.6.1,850| 703 5 000,000 < 1/845,359,162 June 30,1878, 738'619:000 240,000,000( " $98.850,000/ 1/952,339,622 June 30,1879.| $10,932500 250,000:000, 679,878,110 | 1774.616:812 Juve 30,1880 | 235.780.400 250, 739,347 8001 1500355 a2 June 80,1881, 196,578,800 250,000,000, 738,347,800, 90,191, Continued at Csonunm‘d llg per cent. reent. | June 30, 1882. 57,150, 401 50a.000 250,000,000| 739,319,350, 64,628,512 1614433812 [_32/082'600 Fundedinto| | June 30,1883, ... z 3percents.| 1250,000000| 757,942.200) 64628512 1,885,852,662 June 30,1884.|. 324815350, 250,000,000| 737.661,700| 64,623,512 e phe sl June 30,1885 | . 194,190,500 250,(00/000| 737,719:850| 84,648.512| 1.246,638.362 June 30, 1886. | . 144,046,600/ 250,000,000 737,759,700/ 64,823,512 120,612 June 30, 1887 19,716,500, 250,000.001| 737,800,600 64,623,512 001 W'.DUE June 30, 1888 o 050 714:177.400 28,512| 1, 1987,865 June 30, 188 000 676,095,350 35242764 June 30,1880 - 5,750| 802,198,500/ 675,088,712 June 30,1891, . 50,889,200] 559,566,000/ 673,088, Contlnued at| June 50,1892 |. 559,581,250| 64,623,512/ 649,569,262 June 30, 1893. | . 559,604,150, 64,623,512| 649,592,162 June 30, 1894. 25,364,500| 559,618,400, 64.623,512 €99,606,412 | 2 Oct. 30,1894...|. 25,364,500 559,621,250 64,623,512 609,609,262 [[Fundeal) 1 June 80, 1895. |. | 54,525,512‘1 780,771,462 Oct. 31, 1898.. . 100,000,000 25,364,500 64,623,512 811,984,113 i ! 4 : authorizing act July 14, 1870, and January 20, 1871 5 Tunded loan 1007 Sathorizing act Jaly 14, 1870, and January 20, 1871 b Funded loan 1907: ; date of maturity, 1891 date of maturity, 1907, ¢ Pacific Railroad bonds: authorizing act July 1, 1862, and July 2, 1864; date of macarity, 1895 to 1899. d Loan of 1925; authorizing act January 14. 1875, date of maturity, February 1, 1925. The refanding certificates. Edounting to $50,960, are not (ncladed {h the table. The pebtic debt reached the maximum August non-interest bearing obligations amounted to $48 033,315, 31, 1865, and amounted to $2.844,649,626. The ,616,311, the interest-bearing debt deing $2,383,- CAPTAIN LEEs—M. 8., City. Captain L W,] Lees of the detective force of this City is & | native of England. CHOPIN—M. E. F., Vallejo, Cal. The biograph- ers of Chopin do not make any mention of his having written anything explaining the use of pedals of the pianoforte. CoLORADO MINES—Constant Reader, City. The shares of the Colorado Mining Company are not listed in this City, consequently the ques- tion asked cannot be answered. You should | wx;:’e to Denver, Colo., for the information de- | sired. RAmSING WHEA' farmer raises wheat or other grain he can scll the same without having & lcense to doso, but if he raises wheat and_then buys more to | sell with that which he raised he would have to pay a commission broker’s license for the | amount that he purchased to sell. | VALUE OF SiLvEr—J. J. H., City. The price | of silver fluctuates. You can asCertain its | value from day to-day by reading the finance | report in the commercial department of THE CaLL. The average bullion value of a silver dollar in 1873 was $1.004. From that date it decreased until it reached .491. . A B, Poso, Cal If a | ENGINEER—W. H.O.,City. A person wish- ing to become & locomotive engineer for the | Southern Pacific would in the first place have | to serve &n apprenticeship as a fireman unless | he had served in the capacity of engineer be- | fore. The applicant can address his com. munication to the Southern Pacific Company, and it will be referred to the proper paity, and if the company should desire to employ the | applicant he would be notified of that fact. THE ALBION—J. C., Brynmawr, San Bernar- | dino County, Cal. The Albion, Frank Dusy, master, with eighty persons on board leit, San Francisco for Alaska on the 20th of last April and returned 1o this porton the 27th of iast May. The vessel encountered stormny weather, | Dbut she sailed well and all the passengers on return to port presented the captain & letter commending bis seamanship and handling of | the vessel during the trip. Z16-zAG LiETNING—B. F. H., Amalie, Kern County, Cal. It is doubtful if any one can ex- plain why “artists and painters almost invari ably, in depicting lightning, representit as traveling in straight zig-zag lines.” Probsbly | in the very long ago someartist designed light- ning in the “straight line zig-zag™” form, and it | being effective in & picture, has been accepted asa model, and followed ever since. Artists and painters, like poets, sometimes warp truth for elect that is Ppleasing. GIRL IN THE BiBLE—Reader of THE CALL, City. The statement in Answers to Correspondents last week in relation to the word “girl” in the Bible was correct. The correspondent asked bow many times the word: appeared in the Bible and the answer was that it appeared but once, which is a fact. The verse to which you refer in your communication mentions “girls,” not *‘girl,” and that word appears but once in the Bible. Itis to be found in - ariah, chapter vili, verse 5: ““And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and giris play- ing in the streets thereol” NaroLeoN III—C. C., City. Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, whose titulardesignation was Napoleon I11, was born in the Palais des Tuflleries, April 20, 1808. He died at Chisel- lurst, parish.of Kent, England, eleven miles | southeast of London, January 9, 1873. Eu- genie Marie de Guzman, the wife of Napoleon 111, was born in Granada, Spain, May 5, 1826. Eugene Louis Jean Joseph, Prince Imperial of France, was born in France, March 16, 1856, and died 1n the Zulu campsign June 1, 1879, The ex-Empress Eugenie is still a resident of Chiselhurst. PER CaPrTa WEALTH—W. A, City. The fol- lowing is the estimated amount of per capita | weslth of the principal nations of the world: | Argentine Republic, §16 99; Australia, fn- cluding New Zealand and Tasmania, $25 20; | Austris-Hungsry, $10 44; Belgium, $30 29; vis, ; Brazil, $9°99; British Ind e Doinfaion bf Cansds and Newfoundian $35 551 Cape. of Good Hope. $22 40; Central America, $1 51; Ceylon, 0 73; Chile, $12 22; | Chinese Empire (there is no estimate); Repub- | lic of Colombis, $1 81; Danish Kingdom, | £18 10; France, $52 09; Germany, $16 71; | Great Britain and Ireland, $23 23; Greece, | $13 32; Guadalupe, $9 86; Harti. $4 98; Ha. waiian Islands, $204; Italy, $1769; $6 21; Luzon. 94 cents; Mexico, $4 49; erlands, $35 90; Peru, $5 72; Roumania, $498; Russia. £532; $15 42; Cuba (before the present war), $48 70 Sweden snd Norway, $636; Swiizerlam 12; Turkey, 3 80; United States, $25 Uraguay, $17 79; Venezuels, Max-0F-WAR—R., City. The phrase m-n-cl-; war is traced back to the Bible. It first oceurs | in Exodus xv:3—The Lord is & man of war.” | It s also found in Joshua, Samuel, Chropicles | end Isaiah. In modern times the phrase has been applied to line-of-battle ship, contrary to the usual rule in the language, by which all ships are feminine. The origin of .pgfiyi“ the phrase to vessels probably arose in the tol< lnwlll):g manner: At one time soldiers were called men of war, and they were heavy and heavily armed, 0 when it became necessary to transport them from one point to another b water they were placed on the largest an strongest vesselt. Such & vessel was called a man-oi-war ship. In course of time the word Ship was discarded. and there remained, as to the present day, man-of-war. Shakespeare, in “Titus Andronicus,” IV:3, says: ou gone, and pray be carefal all, i Teave 300 Dot & maD-0f war unsearched: Tiis wicked Emperor may bave shipped her nce. The term man-of-wars’ man is applied to ‘man serving on board of a nmy ment “‘ .:,1 of war. Fraxces POwER CoBBE—T. A. P, Richland, San Diego County, Cal Frances FPower Cobbe was born in Dublin, Ireland, December 4, 1822, nf:‘ was educated at Brighton. She was & juent contributor 0 periodicals, wrote man: to ameli tion of ner’-ex and & nu‘mber‘:!‘pnmnhol:: $120. | 521 against vivisection. She resided for some in Bristol, whe with the late M . she worked for their re Atory and schools. Sul uently she in- teres! erself in for befriending young servants and destitute incursbles. if;rn residence in Italy she settled in London and was e in litersry work aund in moting the act of 1 pro- @1 Vie), whered: ‘wives whose husbands hu( been m:vi)' M& sggravated assanits upon them are enabled 1o obtain se tion orders. She was also llnfllgor there active in the move- ment Hamen! | womea. During and m'i'.’.:"'em'w"" { editorship of The Zoaghflu! and took up her residence in Wales, where she spoke at meet« ings neld in thecause of humanity. E. H. BLaCK, painter, 120 Eddy street. e CALIFORNTA glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. Townsend's.* et S FrECIAL iniormation daily to manufactarsrs. business houses and public men by ths Prass Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monigomery. * — ——————— ALL classes and conditions of society will be gratified to learn that Putzman & Schurman have the exclusive coast agency of the famous “Golden Gate” brand of Kentucky whisky. Their Prussian Stomach Bitters cure all stom- ach and nervous troubles. 341 Pine, corner Montgomery, telephone, red, 391. - e ——-—————— Mrs. Jones— When do you expect your daughter to visit you? Mrs, Brown—It's uncertain. Her husband is a baseball umpire, you know, and she can't very well leave her home without running s risk of missing the funeral.—Cleveland Leader. Cheap Excursion to 5t. Paul. The Shasta route and the Northeru Pacific Rail- road has been selected as the official route Lo at- tend the National Encampment of the G. A. E. at St. Paul, to be heid there September 210 5. The excursion will leave San Francisco and Sacra- mento August 26 at 7 P. ). Kates $67 90 forthe round trip. The above rate is open to all who wish tomake the trip East. Send your name and ad- dress to T. K. Stateler, general agent, 658 Matket treet, San Francisco, for sleeping-car reservations. I Are You Going East? The Aulantic and Pacific Railroad—Santa Fa route—is the coolest and most comfortable sum- mer Ime, owing 1o its elevationand absencs ol alkali dust. Particularly adapted for the trans- portation of families because of its palace draw- ing-room and moaern uphoistered tourist sieeping- cars, which run dally through from Oakland to Chicago, leaving st & seasonsble hour and in charge of attentive conductors and porters. Tick- etofiice, 644 Market siree:, Chronicle building. Teiephone, Main 1531 e No buffet should pe without a bottle of Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters, the South American appetizer and invigorator. e e “WoULDN'T be without it for worlds!’* was the emphatic deciaration of a lady in reference to Ayer's Hair Vigor. ————————— Ir afflicted with sore eyes nse Dr. Isaac Thomp- son’s Eye Water. Druggists sell it at 25 cents. e e Marie Corelli, the novelist, plays well on the mandolin. She is petite, the embodiment of gentleness, and cultured toa fault. She knows Shakespeare by rote, but her mystical tenden- cies incline to make her a greater favorite of Dante. Fruit Jars PINTS QUARTS 45¢ PER DOZ. 55¢ PER DOZ. 75c PER DOZ. HALF GALLONS 80c PER DOZ. JELLY GLASSES DEDE CcUT PRICES Crockery, Chinaware and Glassware, Come and Get Posted. (sreat American [mporting Tea (. MONEY SAVING STORES: 1344 Market st. 6 Ninth st. 2310 _Mission 218 Third st. o Sixth st Fiflmore st 1410 Polk st. N . 1053 Washingten st. 616 E. Twelfth st. 131 San Pablo ave. o7 L Oskisad 1355 Park st., Alameda. CHEAPPOWER FOR— MINING HOISTS, MILLING, PUMPING AND ALL OTHER PURPOSES, FROM 1 TO 300 HORSE POWER. HERCULES SPECIAL $185 2} Actual Horse Power DISCOUNT FOR CASH. HERCULES GAS ENGINE WORKS, BUILDERS OF GAS AND OIL ENGINES, OFrrem: Works: 405-407 Sansome St. 215-331 Bay St. San Francisco, Cal ADWAY’S P