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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 26. 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 Dally and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, $1X months, by m: Dally and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. .66 Sunday CALL, one year, by mall. . 180 WxEXLY CaLL, one , by . 1.50 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you golng to the country ona _vaocation ? It #0, 1t 18 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or lefi &t Business Office will receive prompt- attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone. Main—-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: EL Telephone...... BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery sircet, corner Clay; open untll 9:80 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 918 Larkin street: open until 9:50 o'clock. 8W . corner Sixieenth and Mission streets; open until @ o'clock, 9518 Mission street; open until 9 o’clock. 116 Ninth street; open until § 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms-51 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. BUNDAY...o..ceormesesisesrsssss nJULY 36, 1898 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e e e i PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Obio FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. The Pops have busted. Who is going to ratity the thing? The only label for it is: Mixed Pickles. “Veni, vidi—where am I at?” says Tom ‘Watson. Sewall no doubt regards it as shockingly improper. Anybody who heads off the Texas steers can have them, There must have been a cavity in the middle of the road. Bewall and Watson had better draw straws to see which way the wind blows. Politics generally means business, but sometimes it plays the fool for recreation. ‘The situation wounld require a great deal of explanation if it were worth explaining. It would be interesting to know what the Populists thou ght they were trying to do when they did it. When the delegates come home they can proudiy boast that they mixed things up to beat the Dutch. The closeness with which Bryan sticks to Sewall shows that he is not altogether averse to having a barrel handy. The campaign will be smoky, dusty and hor, but you will find reports of it clear, clean and cool if you read THE CaLL. T doni It is to be noped the gold men will hurry up what they are going to do. The country is ready for the circus to open. The Populists must intend to adopt the Kangaroo as an embiem, for in the ticket they nominated all their streugth is in the tail, Among the humors of the situation is the fact that Dans and Watterson have had to join the Cleveland wing of the party and pretend they like it. As a National organization the Populists have gone a-glimmering, but perhaps they can save the pieces in some States and patch them up again in 1900. The Chicago plan of erecting a tower 1150 feet hign promises the visitor of the future a chance to look over the city with- out having to smell it at close range. Among the business men of the com- munity this will be a campaign of good feeling, as all of them can fraternize on the platform of McKinley and prosperity. The London Truth in referring to Bryan’s speech about the cross of gold says the eloguent gentleman might as well have talked about crucifixion on & thermome- ter. PR It is now said the two sons of Tariff Bul ‘Wilson of West Virginia have bolted the Chicago ticket, and the old man shows no signs of trying to lick them back into the ranks. Complaint is made in some of the prairie States that tramps have become so numer- ous they take possession of the way trains and go about the country in swarms like grasshoppers, cooonHomd Once more there is & cry for relief from Armenia and once more every civilized nation sympathizes with her ‘people enough to wish' that some other nation would go to their relief. The electric lights that went out in the Populist convention at midnight on Friaay ‘were turned on again at 16 minutes to 1, and If this was not a curious coincidence then somebody must have been monkey- ing with the Pops. At arecent sale of dress goods in New York, which was important enough to draw logether representatives of that trade from all over the country, a vote was taken and not & single man was found to support the Chicago ticket. It is pleasing to note the ardor with which the more progressive papers of the interior are supporting the cause of woman suffrage. They will not let the issue be overlooked on election day and the pros- pects of victory are bright. Ll sy According to the London Post the American colony in England has become %0 large and gives sich a variety of enter- tainments and celebrations on the Nation’s birthday that the Fourth of July has bscome in some sense an English holiday. A manufacturer in New York is said to be engaged in making thermometers that register 10 deg. below the actual tempera- ture, and has & good demand for them from summer boarding-houses that are wrying to make s reputation as cool places o spend the summer, BRYAN'S PREDICAMENT. Mr. Bryan says he will not accept the Populist nomination, and he may not, bul the chances are that he will. There appears to have been much fine political work during the last days of the counven- tion, and in the light which now shines upon the finished work one can see that those two old and cunning ex-Democrats, Governor Holcomb and Senator Allen of Nebraska, have not forgotten the tricks and craftiness for which they were dis- tinguished when they trained with the Democratic party, If it wasthe plan to nominate Bryan without reference to the platform and to sacrifice Sewall to solidify the Southern Populists it may be eaid that it worked well, but a boomerang has been hurled which is sure to return and smite thethrowers. Instead of laying the basis for harmony dynamite has been placed unde: both parties, and when the smoke clears away in November it will be found that the new Democracy is in shreds and the. Populist party ' with just enough vitality to build another effort upon. Mr. Bryan is placed in a most awkward position, as he will find after the excite- ment of the convention is over. If he sticks to the Chicago platiorm the Bouth- ern Populists will not support bim. 1f he attempts to annex the Populist platform to the Democratic platform Northern Democrats will stay at home on election day. In the South the Populists will name Bryau and Watson electors in any event, which will oblige the Democrats to abandon Sewall or run their own electoral ticket. 1n the North and West, most likely, the middle-of-the-road Populists will make the naming of Br:an and Wat- son electors the condition of affiliation. That would exasperate the Democrats, for in it they would see the extinction of their party; and, on the other hand, if the Populists should yield and accept Sewall they would be repudiating the work of their own party, and their State organiza- tions would go out of existence. In Congressional and State elections there could be no co-operation between the Democrats and Populists, for in a Presidential campaign the National ticket is expected to help pull local tickets through. It would hardly do for a Demo- cratic and a Populist orator to travel to- gother, for one would have to praise and the other denounce Sewall, which would be the same as praising or denouncing the Populist and Democratic conventions. Mr. Bryan expects to pretty nearly live on the hustings, but how will he manage with two running mates who are calling one another hard names all the time? If he defends Sewall Watson’s friends will refuse him their support, and he would be in the sama dilemma in regard to Bewall. Verily, the young but ambitious youth from Nebraska is between the devil and the deep sea, with Populists to the right of him, communists to the left of him and Altgeld on top of him. OREDIT AND REDEMPTION MONEY The declaration of the Democratic, the Populist and the National Silver parties is substantially the same on the money question. The remonetization of silver is not the paramount issue with either one of them, albeit they all so declare them- selves. Upon a careful reading of the several platforms it will be found that their chief aim is to disestablish the National banks and confer upon the General Government the sole right to issue all forms of money. It will be dis- covered, too, that the chieftain is to re- turn to the ‘‘greenback” system of a cir- culating money medium with issues sufficient for the needs of business, and which paper money shall be a fall legal tender for all debts, private and public. It may be said, indeed, that all three of these parties have adopted the financial theories of the old Greenback party that flourished and died between 1876 and 1880. That their position is untenable there is no doubt whatever if the teach- ing of experience in all ages of the world is of any value. The power of a Government to stamp anything and oblige its acceptance as legal-tender money within its own juris- diction is not questioned, but it would require a strict application of the most extreme form of martial law to oblige commodity values to refrain from adjust- ing themselves to the commerciai vaiue of the thing of which the “money” was ade. Commerce knows all about equiv- alency, but it knows nothing about senii- mentalism, and the history of commerce is that it finally asserts its supremacy, edicts of governments to the contrary notwithstanding. The trouble with the economists of the parties named is that they mistake representatives of value for value itself. At this time all forms of money in this country, except gold, are merely forms of credit, and they differ from & banker’s draft and the inaividual's check only in the certainty that they will be redeemed upon presentaticn. The greenback, the silver dollar and every other form in which the Government gives its sight draft upon the treasury for redemption in actual money is universally accepted as representing the Nation’s good faith, whicl is backed by its power of taxation to provide itself with that which it bas promised its credit money shall be redeemed in. All forms of the Government’s ‘‘money” issue, except ®old, represent the integrity of the people. Gold possessing the same value in bars of bullion as in coins needs nothing back of it to sustain its credit. The mistake these three parties make is in supposing that the credit of the coun- try is the equivalent of redemption money and hence no redemption money is needed, when, in fact, the country has no credit at all outside of the faith of iis creditors that it bas the inclinatiomrand the ability to re- deem its credit money. 1t 1s of no conse- quence to the users of money what kind of credit money they have, whether of metal or paper, nor do they want to present it for redemption, but what they do want is to know that the issuer has the ability and is ready to redeem it on presentatiou. This feature of credit and redemption is well illustrated by a man who, hearing that the bank in which he kept his earnings had failed, rushed off to the bank and demanded his deposit. Very deliverately the teller began to count out his money.to him. “But have you the money to pay me?’ asked the man. “Plenty of it. Here is your money," re- sponded the teller. “Well, if you have it 1 do not want it, but if you haven't it I do want it,” said the depositor as he walked away without his deposit. The Republican party is for sound money—money that is sound because commerce has faith that back of the Nation’s various forms of circulating medium is universally recognized re- demption monay which the integrity of ibe Government guarantees shall be forth- coming on demand. But the Republican party believes that commerce would be stronger and more aciive if the volume of redemption money were larger, and hence it proposes to agree with commerce that the volume be increased by making silver dollars coequal with gold dollars in every field that commerce enters. In other words it is the purpose of the Republican party to extend and deepen the country's basis for a circulating money medium, while it is the purpose of the three parties named to remove the basis altogether, WOW FOR THE BATTLE! Mr. Bryan says he will not accept the nomination tendered him by the Populist convention, but what of that? A large following of Povoulist leaders who are favorable to Bryan would support him anyhow, which is enough to bring the worst element of the Democratic and Pop- ulist parties under one banner. Indeed the combination is now ready to battle for the overthrow of liberty under law that there may be established in the United States a system of government based upon the principles that the Commune of France has repeatedly tried and failed to make the basis of a political commonwealth. But it is better so. It is better that the lines between liberty and law and com- munism be drawn now. It is better that the strength of the Nation as a govern- ment of the people, by the people and for the people be measured now. Itis better that it be determined now whether the Nation shall go from strength to strength in'the God-appointed work of broadening and deepening the foundations of liberty, peace and happiness, or whether it shall reverse the wheels of human advancement and turn every man’s hand against every other man, The United States has come to the part- ing of the ways. The one leads to Na- tional salvation, the other to National] damnation. There is no middle way, no place for neutrality, nothing to be com- promised. It is the maintenance of the Government of the fathers, or it is the cutting loose from the moorings which hold the people to certain God-given rights,'the chief of which are “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” ' In 1861 the body politic fell sick from in- haling the poisonous fumes of sectionalism and the spirit of liberty purged itof the de- stroying political microbes. Party lines were for the time obliterated, and in united effort unionism confronted and overthrew sectionalis:n. In 1861 treason did not demand the overthrow of the Government. It demanded a separate National organization for itself. In 1896 the demand is for a united country to annul and set aside the existing prineiples of government and substitute for them something that is far worse than those things which impelled the colonies to separate themselves irom Great Britain. The lines are drawn and the battle must be fought, and as there is not room enough in this country for Allgeldism and the Republic as it is, one or the other must be destroyed. It is for the people to say which shall survive. LABOR AND OAPITAL The natural relation between capital, so called, and labor, so called, is one of inter- dependence, and in ratio to the mainte- nance of this relation above the influence of greed and avarice are all concerned benefited by intimate association. Cap- ital is money, not wealth, but it may be- come a wealth producer in conjunction witn labor. Laboris capital, not money but skill and brawn, and it may become a wealth producer in eonjunction with money, but neither can produce wealth in the activities of life independent of the other. Labor and capital (money in em- ployment) are co-workers for mutual a vantage, and whatever hinders one re- tards the other. There is no difference in the ultimate purpose between money that buys raw material and labor that trans- forms it into finished product, but that which accrues between labor’s income and expenditure is labor’s wealth, and that which accrues to capital after paying all cost between raw material and the final income from finished product is capital- ist’s wealth. But if the division of the accruing wealth is not in harmony with the importance of each factor in the oper- ation, an injustice is done. Capital copartnerships are for the pur- pose of increasing the volume of produe- tion and reducing the costof it, and as the tendency of capital thus combined is to grow greedy and selfish, labor combines for self-protection, but these combines do not, or rather should not, impair the ethical or business force of their natural relations. It has been demonstrated over and over again that neither one can be crivpled without the other participating in the ill effects of the injury. Ircapital is attacked it retires to a place of safety. If labor is driven from its occupation its skill and brawn rusts in idleness, There- fore when capital is attacked labor should defend it, and when labor is being driven from its occupation capital should come to its rescue. When thisis done there is recognition of their interdependence and the final outcome of their standing to- gether is individual prosperity, although meanwkhile there may be very much more to discourage than to encourage. To illustrate the importance of capital and labor recognizing their interdepend- ence we need but to call attention to the industrial enterprises of California, where it is the underlying principle of the bond which holds capital and labor together in mutual good-fellowship. When the Wil- son-Gorman tariff act became operative it well nigh destroyed capital’s opportunity to secure remuneration for its employ- ment, to say nothing of the hazardous risks it was obliged to take. Neverthe- less, capital had faith in the good sense and in the spirit of right and justice in the people, and it continued the work of converting raw malerial into finished products, which, in turn, maintained its co-worker, labor, in active employment at the former schedule of wages. Capital thus shieided labor and will continue to shield it until industries are relieved by the substitution of a more friendly law for the existing tariff act, when labor will need no more defense. This has been the relation between capital and labor in Cali. fornia ever since the heavy hand of the Democratic tariff act was laid upon the country’s industries. And yet, in the face of these facts, emissaries of the Democratic party are trying to persuade this very labor to break the bonds of faith and gratitude with the capital that has tided it over these years of hard times ana join in an attack upon it. Buch impudence is amazing. besides, to make such over- tures to labor is to reflect upon its in- tegrity and to hold it up as the represen- tative of human degradation. But the labor of California is not made of that kind of material. 1t realizes its natural relation to its co-worker, capital, and it knows thatif it would have a wider margin between its income and its expenditure it must come from increases in income, which it cannot hope to haye unless capi- tal is protected against its low-wage com- petitors in China, Japan and Europe. The labor of California will vote as it works— for self-preservation. S THE HONEST POPULIST. The middle-of-the-road Populist does not know very much about politics and less about the science of government, but generally speaking be is an bonest man, an upright citizen, and is actuated by the best of motives. He fecls there is some- thing wrong somewhere in the way the| aifairs of the Government are managed, and he sincerely believes he has found a solution for every economic problem. He loves his country and would promptly re- spond toa callto arms without stopping to ask what it was all about. 1t would be enough for him to know that the Nation had been assailed. Had the St. Louis convention of Popu- lists not falien into the hands of profes- sional politicians like Allen, Holcomb and Weaver, with Aligeid pulling the wires from under cover, a ticket would have been named and a declaration of princi- ples formulated which would have re- flected the honest sentiments of a class of people who, as to personal integrity, hon- esty of purpose and patriotism, would re- flect honor wupon any - couniry. The BSimon-pure Populis: is an industrious man, a good neighbor zm a loyal citizen, but he is no mateh for such fellows as menipulated the election of Senator Alten to the ehuirmnnuh(p of vhe Bt. Louis con- vention. The real Populist says what he honestly believes, while the Allensand the Bryans say what they do not mean. The good old rural Populist wants to see the condition of the country bettered, while the Allens and the Bryans want to better their own opportunities, to gather in political honor and cash on the side. In conventions of Populists and ever after- ward the Populists “‘pay the freight,” and the Allens and the Bryans divide the “‘watermelon." e S PERSONAL. Dr. D. E. Osborne of St. Helena is at the Oc cidental. 4 Dr. B. B. Cory of Fresno is registered at the Occidental. Adam Crawford, s big srchitect of Sonoma County, is at the Russ. Herbert C. Nash, librarian of Stanford Uni- versity, is at the California. ; Dr. Laura Harris, a physician of Fresno, reg- istered at the Russ yesterday. W. H. L. Prindle, s merchant-of Visalis, is making a short stay at the Russ. W. W. Thatcher, a merchant aid hop culti- vator of Hopiand, is a late arrival at the Grand. 5 W. F. Peterson, the wholesale and retail candy-dealer of Sacramento, is at the Grand on ashort visit. Warren Sexton, ap attorney and orange orchardist of Oroville, is among those regis- tered at the Grand. J. C. Alden, treasurer of the Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing .Company at Akron, Ohio, is at the Palace. Aaron Smith, an attache of the Southern Pa- cific Railroad Company at Los Angeles, is one of the arrivals at the Grand. J. Story Brown and wife of Newport, R. came from the East on last night's overland train and went to the Occidental. P. B. Fraser, president of the Farmers’ and Merchants' Bank at Stockton, arrived at the Occidental yesterday with bis wife. A. L. Hart, the Sacramento lawyer, who was Attorney-General of this State while Senator Perkins was Governor, is at the Grand. Ormond Staley and wife, who have anen- gegement at the Orpheum, arrived at the Russ last night and registered from New York City. 8. P. Young, formerly cashier of the Union Trust Company of this City, returned to the Grand yesterday after completing an extensive tour of the East. Pedro Corea, a large and prominent mer- chant of Guaymas, Mexico, was one of the passengers by the Orizaba that arrived at the Occidental yesterday. Ex-Sheriff J. S. Gould of Sierra County reg- istered at the Russ yesterday In company with his fellow-townsman, F. M. Spencer of Gibson- ville, who owns & mine near that place. Albert S. Willis of Louisville, Ky., United States Minister to the Republic of Hawaii, ar- rived at the Occidental yesteraay with his wife and son and Miss Dulaney of Louisyille. Chauncey Olcott, the actor who is to star at the California for the mext four weeks, ar- rived at the Occidental yesterday with Mrs. P, Benman, both of whom registered from’ Buf- {alo, N, Y. Among the arrivals at the Grand yesterday was Mrs. E. W. Gaty of Santa Berbara, widow of the late E. W. Gaty, one of the proprietors of the Arlington Hotel and ex-Mayor of Santa Barbara. She was accompanied by her son-in- law and her dsughter, Mr. and Mrs, N, Truck- stone Powell. Mrs. Robinson Wright and Miss Wright ar- rived at the Occidental yesterday with the passengers from the Mexican cosst. Mrs. Wright is a literary woman, and has been act- ing as New York World correspondent at the City of Mexico. \ J. M. Dickinson of Tennessee, Assistant United States Attorney-General, returned to the Palace with his wifesyesterday evening {rom Redwood City, where they paid a short visit to friends. Ina few days they will start {or SBouthern California to complete an exten- sive pleasure trip before returuing to Wash- ington, D, C. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YOREK. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 25.—At the West- minster—C. W. Norton; Barrett—J. Morrison; Astor—F. Watson; Normandie—G. Darling; Hoffman — A. Hosberg, H. E. Wise; Grand Unjon—W. H. Humphrey, J. B. Norris, J. 5L, Chase; Hoffman—C. C. Crystal. A CELESTIAL ATTACHMENT. call up,” sald the medinm, “wy ‘he ahade of Colonel Brown; He used to be an editor 1n this progressive town." ‘The Colonel-he had died in debt— In tact, he owed them all; Apd one man, who could not forget, Rushed forward h n angel sin; “ Just hold him! "filfid’ the creditor, wing T T e o Y T Wanta Constitution, PARAGRAPHS AEOUT PEOPLE. Prince Bismarck eats well and sleeps well and goes out driving daily for two hours in the afternoon, spending the remainder of the day with his lamily, and retiring to rest at 11 o'clock. Como, in Italy, is the birthplace of Alessan- dro Volta, and will celebrate in 1899 the one hundreith anniversary of his invention of the voltaic battery by an electrical exhibition and congress, Lord Leighton’s house in London, which his admirer’s wished to turn into a museum after raising the £35,000 asked for it by the family, was bought in for £12,000 when offered at auction the other day, George Coppin, managing director of the Theater Royal of Melbourne, Australis, is about to celebrate a curious jubilee—the fiftieth an- niversary of his fareweil benefit prior to his final retirement from the stage. Lord Russell, Chief Justice of England, who isduein this country August 8, at one time had an annual income from his profession of $150,000. Heis a keen sportsman, and used to be fond of spending his vacations at Monte Carlo. Domestic pets which have endeared theme selves by long years of assoclation to the Prince or Princess of Wales are always stuffed immediately after death, and find & permanent resting-place in a corridor at Sandringham or or in Mariborough House. “Every young Japanese gentleman of means Oomes to the United States now for a pleasure tour and for information,” said Mr. 8. Hirota of Tokio, who 18 now in Washington. “This is my fiist visit to this country, and I wish I could express ta you the delight the trip has thus far afforded me.” ' ‘On the anniversary of President Carnot's death President Faure, who was accompanied by M. Meline, paid a visit to Carnot’s tomb in the Pantheon. Pupils from the Ecole Poly- technique left & big wreath of roses and pan- sien, and in the course of the day no fewer than 75,800 persons passed before the tomb. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Alonzo Bailey, a banker and merghent at Globe, Ariz, where be has lived for thelast twenty years, registered at the Grand yes- terday. “In the last eight years,” he said, 60,000 head of cattle have been taken out of our country. But for two years now there have been droughts, and grass that used to be knee high is very low, and a good deal, too, because the pasturage has been overstocked. I re- ceived a letter to-day, though, and it winds up by saying, ‘Hurrah, it's raining.’ “Tnat’s mo country for a man to live in, but it’s a devilish good place to make money. I thought 1 had worked abont enough, 5o 1 just turned the business over to the boys and told them to' try their hand, and they're doing well, 0 I'm up here for a good rest. ‘‘Globe is a nice little place, with & popula- tion of 2500; but it’s getting there that makes it disagreeable. You haye to stage it twenty- seven miles one way and twenty-four miles the Other way over a hot, terribly dusty desert. The dust is so_thick that you have to tigs handkerchief over your mouth and nose to get breathicg air, and more than half the time you don’t see the horses ahead of the stage. *In '83 there was an Apache outbreak, and we had the town patrolled and guarded. Some friendiy Indians gave us the tip that the others intended to fire the place. Well, for days no one could come into the town or leave it unless we knew mighty well who he was. ‘I was chief marshal at the time, and I had Ppickets out with orders for the first man that spotted an attempted attack to fire two shots in quick succession. That was to be followed by the next picket slong the line, and soon until five had given the alarm, “One hight things were reaching a climax. I heard two quick shots & little after mid- night, then tiwo more, and the wholesignal, I jumped out of bed, buckled on my cartridge- belt and hurried down to the armory. Every one of my men who was not on duty was there inside of fifteen minutes aiter the rm. ‘““We went out to the place the alarm started. Each picket swore he didn’t fire the first shot. “Finally we found a drank. He had been staggering along toward his home when he saw something move. He took it for an Indisn. He fired two shots in quick succession. It was only a jackass.” A CROSS FOR BRYAN. Louisville Courler-Journal. Asked If he would support the action of the Demo cratic Nation- al Couvention i it shouid fall to pue g ® Plavtora, Wilifam 9 Bryan an swered: “S0 HELP ME GOD, I WILL DIE IN MY TRACKS BEFORE I WILL SUPPURT IT.” ‘This was in & speech at Jackson, Miss, June 11, a simllar dec- laration at other s. As his friends say they wiil make a cross his campaign device, the Courfer - Jour- nal offers them tunis . one. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CRAIG—S., City. As your communication does not bear either signature or address it will not receive any attention. DrAMA—S,, City, Drama is pronounced with both first and second a as a in far, father and guard. Aryan is pronounced with the firsta asain far. , CHOYNSKI-MAHER—M. G., City. The pugilistic recoras fail to show that *‘Choynski and Maher xought twiee and Choynski defeated Maher each time.” THE SILVER QUESTION—A Reader, City. The silver question was pretty fully explained in Answers to Correspondents, in THE CALL of the 29th of June. A PIONEER—A. C. W., Oakland, Cal. The term pioneer of California is applied to all who came to the State prior to its admission into the Union, September 9, 1850. TRANSIENT—P. J. W,, C. J, W.,City, There are no statistics that will show what the aver- l".e dally transient population of San Fran- cisco, New York and Chicago is. THE CALL'S ARTISTS—N. C. McC., City. The artists in THE CALL art department use, in the drawing of their pictures, American india ink and the finest lithographic pens, THE Last SPIKE—P. P., Tracy, Cal. The last or gold spike of the Central Pacific road was driven at Promontory, May 10, 1869. The first train overland reached San Francisco three days later. AN ENGUISH GoLD PIECE—D, F., City. The intrinsic value of a £2 sterling gold piece of tne reign of George IV is $9 66 in United States gold; its numismatic value is about $11. It is not classed as a rarity. There are but few collectors of gold coi t this time. CAMPAIGN LITERATURE—C. D., City. The Na- tional Republican Committee furnishes cam- Ppaign literature in the different States through he State Central Committee. Apply to the e you may desire on the subject. ARMY AND NavVY—H. J. W,, City. Address a communication to the Congressman from the district in which you live and he will be able to procure the army publication you di All the vessels of the n}’msn DAYy, !vlur vee:lu'fi and merchant marine, listed in * ¥ Rl ) 8T8 n “Lloyd’s To THE PoLE—C. P, N., Haywsrds, Cal. In the summer of 1893 the whaler Newport was reported as reaching latitude 84 north, fort, miles nearer the pole than ever was reach before that. The h‘l"hrlt before was 83,24, to which Lockwood and Brainard of the Greely party penetrated in 1883, EMBEZZLEMENT—A. E. H,, City. Embezzle- ment inay be either misdemeanor or felony, according to the amount involved. If it is un. der §50 a complaint must be filed against the accused within six months, if it is above $50 the complaint must be filed within three years after ihe commission of the crime. - A STORY—S. F.T. C., Oakland, Cal. If you have a story you wish (o have examined by an editor, have it type-written and send it to him With an explanatory note, and inclose stamps for return in case itisnot available. written manusctipt js always given preference in the resding over that written with & pen. THE PRESIDENTIAL Vore—H. G., Oakl Cal. The populsr vote for Presidential candi- dates at the election held in 1892 was 12,136,- 568. Of this number Cleveland, Democrat, re- ceived 5,554,538, of 45.73 per cent of 'the Tholes ihn'i‘lnn Republican, o15,82, or X per cent; eaver, ulist, y Prontbiiton. 570, or 8.67 per cent; Bidwell, d w’"‘f,,“"“"“'" 2 847, or 2.17 per cent; 224, There mn 76, scattering votes. Maris To HoNoLULU—A. F., Vallejo, Cal. The receipt and dispatch of mails average about four a month. The sailing dates vary aceord- ing to circumstences, During the next six weeks mails will arrive at San ‘rml Hodolulu July 27, 30 omatla a2, nd ms it undlulu Ju! and wi itehed Jul 80, Augusi 4, 8, 20, 26, 20 and September 5. PATENTS—New Subscriber, City. An applica- tion for a patent consists ofa petition, afidavit of invention and drawings and specifications, all of which must be prepared in legal form and in accordance with official rules. A model is not required unless calied for by the exam- ot e e e . Ths o 0! r dra ANs ani paring 8| cations is about p“o more. A caveat does secare auy exclusive right of sale. Thepatentsecures thatright. The filing of a caveat has nothing to do with the paten and vo pt:non of the mone; id o) fee, $10, is appiied toward "nmun: .“"‘.‘ CaxNor VoiE TaIS TniE—A. C. W., Oakiand, Cal. The statement you present shows that you were a resident and voter of Oregon up to the 5th of December, 1895, and that you came to California a few days atter that with the in- tention of loeating permanently. Under i stances yo the next election in November because at that ';::- you will not have been one year in the te. The law says that no otherwise qualified, shall be entitied 10 yoié ubiees ho re dispaiched to shall have been a resident of the State one * next preceding the election, of the conmx D which he claims his vote ninety days, an in the election precinct thirty days. RAILWAY MArL SgRvice—A. B., City. The question, “Will you please mention in Answers to Correspondents the names of the different railroads connecting the following divisions of the Railway Mail Service: Albuquerque and Los Angeles; El Paso and Los Angeles: Huntington and Portland; Ogden and San Francisco; Portland and San Francisco; San Francisco and Los Angeles; San Francisco, Mendota and Los Angeles. and Spokane to Port- 1and?” is not very clear. The fact is that all the liues named are in the eighth division of the railway mail service. The eorporate title of all lines named is the Sonthern Pacific Com- pany, except the Albuquerque and Los Ange- ies, which is the Atlantic and Pacific and Southern California, and the Spokane and Po:‘;hnd, which is the Northern Pacific Rail- road. MARKING A BALLOT—R. C., City. When A makes the assertion that on election day in this City he has at an election for Presidential electors and other officers marked all the names he intended to vote for according to the ustralian system now in vogue in thirt; onds, he probably means that he marked only the Presidential electors. An intelligent voter who has studied the names of all the candi- dates to be voted for, when he goes mto the booth ana marks one candidate for each office cannot do it under three minutes; that is, pro- viding he marks one candidate for each office on the ticket, and is careful to mark an X op- Eo!lla the name of the individual candidate @ has determined to vote for. Possibly the marines may believe the capgcity of A to mark & ticket in half & minute, but other people will not believe him. . PorrricAr EcoNoxy—W. R. B., Oakland, Cal Political economy is the fare, as that welfare ‘ected specially by-gov- ernmental administrations in physicsl con- cerns—e, g., in labor, .irade, capital, reatal, money, credit, value of product, competition, etc., though, as by the above definition, politi- cal economy concerns itself chiefly with ma- terial interests, which cannot—dealing scien- tifically with the material welfare of such a being as man—exclude all reference to his moral and spiritual activity. A discussion to Dbe scientific must take into account all ele- ments that bear forcibly on the question; hence much thathas been advanced on politi- cal economy had at its beginning forfeited its claim to science by reducing man to a machine known es “‘economic msn.” As no such crea- tare is known as really existing, political economy need not discuss his welfare. The word economy, from the Greek for house law or house regulation, refers to the material portion of the domestic relation, and does not et‘ymoloxicully embrace, e. g., the ob- servance of religion or the communiecation of instruction. The most important part in this use is the Atyuxlmento( the expenditure of the household to the income at their com- mand. The term ‘‘political” came to he used with it as a convenjent method of expressin, the application to 4 state or & sound system o! management in relation toits affairs. “In later time, however, the words applied to a commu- nity, has taken a larger and deeper applica- tion. Political economy now means not merely the artof regulating communities in their financial and other material affairs, but also the science of those laws which Provi- dence has established for their regulation in 8il their material interests. The income and expenditure of the Government, as ex parte from that of the people of the community, are of course under regulation like those of a household, but these form a department in po- litical economy called “finance.” It is evi- dent that in a field so vast and so diversified With complex interests there is a likelihood of a formation of parties of theorizers on various separate lines. This has been the fact. The divisions mostly have been casually rather than scientifically developed, thongh there is a claim to a scientific development of political economy now prominently made by advocates on both sides of the queation whether goyern- ment shall positively regulate the proceedings of the people in all cr any of their physical interests, or instead shail trust to the great natural laws (supply and demand, ete.) to hrle? to bear through individual action all needful regulation. Thus, for i:lustration, if any were to advocate the extreme of free trade, such advocaws might give political economy whst they would deem a scientific development in the direotion of trusting ail to general natural laws; while at the other extreme socialists, and still further com- munists, actually tend to give political economy what they deem scientific develop- ment in a direction of J)nuing no faith in great natural laws, but ordering all by govern- mental control. TWO FASHIONABLE SLEEVES. Both these sleeves are very chic, when made of silk and a diaphanous fabric. The bishop shape is designed especislly for such combina- tions, but the other may be made of any ma- terial, using one fabric for both drapery and fitted sleeve or with a combination. A blue and white foulard of the large dressy design so fashionable had the loose sleeve of piece lace, the drapery of silk being edged with ‘white lace. A dress of Dresden silk had sleeve drapery of black mousseline de sole, edged with a tiny double ruche of thesame. These sameruches also trimmed the waist. The bishop sleeve was beautifully develu_Fed in a white organdie with yellow flowers. The lining was yellow silk, A very open gray canvas had the fitted sleeve of white silk, the ruffle braiding, the puff being of the silk. A black grenadine with blue and green silk lining was very stylish, the rufile at the top being of the silk, A white lawn dress had the fitted sleeve of n lawn. A silk batiste of brown color with white taffetas under sleeve was exquisitely dainty. The top rufle was of silk, and tiny ruffles to match trimmed the waist. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Isummered on the Jersey cosst, 4nd T am pozzled still, As’twixt the skeeters and hotels, Which has the longest biil. —Louisville Truth. ‘A man who stuttered badly went to consult a specialist about his affliction. The expert Do you stutter all the time?” no,” replied the sufferer; I s-s-s-stut-t-t-ter only when I.t-t-t-talk.”"—Har- per's Bazar, Grandpa—Don't be irightened, Willie; the tiger is about to be fed; that's what makes him jump and roar so. Willie (easily)—Oh, I ain’t afraid of him, grandpa; papa is the same way when his meals ain’t ready,—Richmond State. Johnnie Chaffle—~Grandma, will we all know each other in heaven? Grandma—Yes, my child, we shall know each other there. “But, grandma, we can make believe we are out when some of them call, can’t we?™—Texas Sifter. Husband (to wife in full evening ress)—My stars! Isthat all You are going to wear? ‘Wife (calmly)—All, except the flowers. Whish of these clusters would you select? Husband (resignedly)—The biggest! — New York Weekly. “Dearest,’’ she said, cooingly, “I wish you were 8 great statesman, with your picture on our greenbacks.” “I wonder if she knows ‘th man has to be dead to get his piciure on the' currency?” he thought to himself, but he didn't press the question. There are some things it is better not to know.—Indianapolis Journal. Warn't much on readin’ the papers— Said they never had any news: There was bread 10 buy, an' they all come hlgh, An he didn’t bave money to lose. ‘Warn’s much on readin’ the papers— Heap ruther walk than ride; Put up once at a big hotel— out the gas an’ died ! Atlanta Constitution. “You are a dead beat.” At the harsh words the cyclist rossed himseif and opened one eye. The policeman, bending over him, went on: ‘“You have been trying to travel on your face?” The cyclist opened the other eye. “I bave,” he admitted. “On my face and fence of public wel- | one a’lbow. But they could not stard the train.’” : And, rising weakly to his feet, he staggered toward the nearest drugstore, bearing the fragments of his wheel with him.—Wisconsin Sentinel. e E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy strest. e CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c 1b. Townsend's.* — e eprerar iniormation daily to manafacturary business houses and public men by the Prass Clippiug Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monigomary. —————————— 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, 891. -—— Jasper—I wonder why Jones whistles 50 much? Jumpuppe—Probably to keep up his courage. A man who whistles as badly as he does is in constant danger of death.—Truth. Cheap Excursion to St. Paul. The Shasta route and the Northeru Pacific Rail- road has been selected as the officlal route to at- tend the National Encampment of the G. A. R. at St. Paul, 10 be held there September 2 to 5. The excursion will leave Ssn Franciseo and Saora- mento August 26 at 7 P. M. Rates $67 90 for thy round trip. The above rate is open to all who wish to make‘the trip East. Send your name snd ad- dress to T. K. Stateler, general agent, 638 Market treet, Sab Francisco, for sleeping-car reservations. e Are You Going East? The Aflantic and Pacific Railrosd—Santa Fe Toute—is the coolest and most comfortable sum- mer Ling, owing to its elevation and absenes o alkall dust. Particularly adapted for the- trans- portation of families because of its palace draw- ing-room and moaern upholstered tourist sleeping- cars, which run datly through from Oakland to Chicago, leaving at a seasonable hour and la charge of attentive conductors and porters. Tick- et office, 644 Market streei, Chronicle building. 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