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BRANCH OFFICES : 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open untfl 9:30 o'clock. ° 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 5W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open ntil 9 o'clock.” 2618 Mission street; open until 9 o’clock. 116 Minth street; open until 9 o’clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway, EASTERN OFFICE: Row, New York City. 2 PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo ¥OR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey ECTION NOV BER 3, 1898. McKinley’s talks to workingmen win | votes every time. The Buckley lambs might as well go to Livermore and gambol on the ranch. There will be no benefit from free silver under a free-trade rule, and that is what Bryan is after. The defect of Bryan as a plagiarist is that he never plagiarizes anything with any sense in it. s is the day to leave orders for THE Suspay CALs aud make sure of good read- ing for to-morrow. The campaign in the East has already begun and it is high time to start the move- ment in California. Whoever it is that has persuaded Bryan to keep his mouth shut for awhileisa dangerous Democrat. When free silver raises prices and free trade lowers wages where will the work- ingman find a living? If the courts can find a senfence that will do justice to the Solid Seven the people will be satisfied. Between the tax-shirkers and the tax- eaters there is sho for the tax- payer unless he fights for it. no By the time the Democrats get their band wagon barnessel up the campaign will be over and the battle wou. Corporations that shirk taxes have only themselves to blame when the people re- gard them® as hostile to the public wel- fare. to Sewall the Porpulist v enough, but can it | be possible they thought Watson was a trump? Public indignation against corrupt offi- cials speaks eloa ly at mass-meetings, but to speak with force it mu the polls, t speak at Colorado Republicans will support Me- Kinley and Hobart on the platform of protection, and another Bryan bubble has burst in the air. If the Eastern people could read their weather signs aright they would seein every cloudburst and every cyclone a warning to come West. The Repubiican National Committee has wisely decided to begin the campaign early. The enemy is demoralized, and now is the time to knock him out. Toe admirers of Bryan are fond of call- ing him a broad man in the hope probably of getting the people to believe he is broad enough to cover two platforms at once. Eastern inventors who have been ex- perimenting with rain-making machines will find it more profitable this year to in- vent something to prevent clondbursts. As the choice for President lies between a soidier statesman and a boy orator the American people hardly need a campaign of education to teach them how to vote. Those feliows who are predicting an end of the world in 1900 are undoubtedly basing their prophecies upon the unwar- ranted assumption that Bryan will be elected. It will be noted that the delegations that call on McKinley are mainly made up of workingmen who are interested in American industry and the revival of good wages. Democracy, that fooled the peo\gla with free trade, cannot fool them again with free silver. The American workingman will not be caught twice by the same bunko-steerers. The record of disasters in the East is rolling up at a fearful rate, and before long we may have to vary our subscrip. tions to Oalifornia festivals by getting up an Eastern relief fund, Just about the time the campaign gets the minds of the Eastern people heated np to a point that will make the atmosphere seem cool the weather will take a twist on itself and hit them with a blizzard. In this contest to maintain the honor of the Nation against the repudiationists the sentiment of patriotism is united with the interests of business in infusing the supporters of McKinley with a true sn- thusiasm. Intelligent advocates of free silver coin- age are beginning to see that the surest way 1o promote the cause is by the estab- lishment of international bimetallism, and as a consequence Republican bolters are coming back into line even in the great silver Btates of Colorsdo and Nevada. | they stri ve for luxuri jof the counntryv. | ley’s candidacy for the Presiaency. THE DIFFERENOCE. The Merican Financier, an industrial and financial journal published in the City of Mexico, says: ‘‘As for luxuries, our working people do not strive for them— they are not used to them and do not de- mand them.” The Financier adds, by way of explanation, that the working peo- ple, including skilled labor, are not ambi- tious for homes and the higher comforts of life as the wage-earners of the United States are. ~ow, what the Financier really means is that low wages paid in cheap money is calculated to dull the natural appetite of a man for a comfortable existence, and that when a man is ‘‘educated” to not crave luxuries or even the ordinary com- forts of life his ambition is too nearly crushed to death to inspire him to want a home of his own, or to aspire to be any- thing higher than a mere human labor- performing machine. The Financier does not say whether or not Mexican working people are supposed to have souls, but the presumption is that they are not supposed to have anything of the gind. Any way, the Financier gives a very correct picture of the condition of the working class in the silver monometal- lic country of Mexico. The other day a large delegation of working people from that immense indus- trial district of which Pittsburg is the cen- ter called upon Mr. McKinley at his home dn Canton to assure him that not only themselves but the werking class gen- erally fully appreciate the bold stand he has taken 1o still further advance the in- terests of the wage-earners of the United States, These men who waited upon Mr. McKinley are not the kind the Mexican Financier refers to. They demand and and they are am- bitious to be in a position where they may participate in the wealth accumulations Did Mr. McKinley teil them that they should not get used to living like human beings and then they would not strive—would not be ambitious to enjoy the comforts of life? Mr. Mc- Kinley assured them, but they already | knew it to be true, that the party he rep- resents aims to conduct the affairs of the Government in line with the policy that “will serve the highest and best interests of American labor, American agriculture, American commerce and American citi- zenship.” Mr. McKinley told them, inferentially at least, that they should demand oppor- tunity to strive for whatever is their dne as Amerlean citizens, The burden of Mr. McKinley’'s speech to the delegation of workingmen was that the head and front of the strength of our system of govern- ment lies in honest effort on the part of the Government to protect, encourage and strengthen the hands of the Nation’s wage-earners., Head Mr. Bryan addressed the delegation of working people he would have said that our wage-earners do not want protection against the pauper labor of other countries, but that they do want Mexico’s monetary system, which is sil- ver monometallism “‘without waiting for the consent of any other Nation."” ENGLAND AND M'KINLEY. On general principles it is safe for this country to do in & commercial way exactly what England advises shou!d not be done. At this particular time British news- pavers and manufacturers are volunteer- ing a good deal, of political advice to the people of the United States, especially concerning what the attitude of this country ought to be toward Mr. McKin- The Daily Argus, a newspaper published at the great nglish manpufacturing town of Breadford, bewails the almost certainty of the United States returning to protection, and it refuses to be comforted. It saysthe re-enactment of the law of 1890 would surely revive business in America ana give the country a very much stronger in- dustrial and financial position. Quite a number of other British journals are of the same opinion, and they all ‘agree that the election of McKinley would be a notification to English industrial plants that their products are not wanted, be- canse American plants would keep the maykets supplied with their own make of goods, The wool-dealers as well as the manu- facturers of woolen goods are very much and not without cause. During the last year of the operation of the McKin ley tariff act our factories took only 33,500,000 pounds of Liverpool wool, and in the first year of the Wilson act they took 109,500,000 pounds, and our dealers in woolen goeds imported $41,000,000 more of them in the first year of the Wilson tariff than in the last year of the McKinley law. In view of these facts it is not surprising to see England advocating the defeat of Mr. McKinley. Bat wool and woolen goods are only two items of the long list of British made articles of trade that will have to pava good round tax to enter our markets when Mr. McKinley is President. The list in- cludes practically every industrisl pro- duct, but not one article that we cannot manufacture in this country, and largely, oo, from our own raw material. But all Englishmen are not complain- ing about Mr. McKinley's chances for election. On the contrary, there is a very large ermy of Britishers who are praying for his election very much to the disgust of their industrial mneighbors. They are Englishmen who are investors and who have a great many million dollars in- vested in American railways, and they argue that with protection the volume of domestic business would bz multiplied, which in turn wonld largely increase the traffic of the roads and thus insure them larger returns on their investment. They have no interest in British industries, but they have money in employment in America, and they know from experience that protection in the United States makes business lively, and that the livelier it is the more their investments in this country will earn.” 8o it would seem England has become a house divided against itself, so far as a protective tariff in America 1s concerned. SINNED THREE TIMES. Horace Boies is the champion political letter-writer. He writes in season and out of season, but he generally says some- thing worth thinking about, albeit he is nearly always on the wrong side of the question he discusses. His latest epis- tolary effort is to the young lady who made herself unduly conspicuous at the Chicago convention by shouting for the Iowa candidate, and he tells her how it was that the convention turned him down. Mr. Boies tells the young lady that he had sinned three times against Altgeld, Bryan and company. He went into the race for the nomination under the condemnation of the bosses and, of course, was handai- capped by them. Mr. Boies’ first offense was committed in a speech before the Jackson Club of Omaha in March, 1895, when he suggested that there should be limitations as to the legal tender of silver. For that attack upon Bryan’s plan for an unlimited vol- ume of silver coinagey war was :nmedi- ately declared againstthe Iowa statesman averse to the election of Mr. McKinley, | (ot by the Nebraska Democratic silverites, Altgeld, Bland, Tillmau and the othe‘ radical silverites approved of Bryan’s at- tack upon Boies, which made the combi- nation of the ultras against him very jormidable. Mr. Boies was, in fact, dropped from the list of advocates of ofree silver coinage of dollars without limit or bust,” and he received no invita- tions to address free-silver gatherings in other States. Hé was not sound enough on the unsound money question to com- mend him to the Bryan wing of the Demo- cratic party, and he was too unsound on the sound inoney question fo be trusted by the Bourbor wing of the Democratic party. The next sin Mr. Boies committed was in suggesting that “the party should not be committed irrevocably to silver coin- age at 16 to 1, for that ratio **might prove destructive of the present parity between gold and silver,” and, if so, ‘‘that ratio shonld be abandoned and another adopted.” But, perhaps, the greatest sin Mr. Boies committed and which exasper- ated Altgeld to a higher pitch of frenzy than either of the other sins was condemn- ing the destructizn of property by the Chicago rioters. Mr. Boles does not give his young lady friend to understand that he is at all sorry for committing the three sins, but, rather, that he would like an opportunity to commit them again. Itis very evident that the defeated Iowan has no use for the Chicago platform, nor for any one who would indorse it, and were it not that Mr. Boies is such a vacillating, reeling and inconstant sort of a politician he could do a great deal of good for his State by returning to the party he aban- douned for Democratic promises and stump Towa for Major McKinley; and he may do it, or, at least, he is likely to do a good deal of damage to Bryan. MONETARY FACTS. “Popocrats’ is the name that has been given to the Democratic-Populist com- bine, and a very good name it 1s, too. Well, the Popocrats are unfortunate in making the free coinage of silver in any event the paramount issue. The coun- tries which they expected to ‘‘pount with’’ as substantiating their claim that all a country has to do to make silver dollars is to go to work and make them are turning State’s evidence very fast. Mr. Bryan more especially has been calling attention to the prevalence of silver as the standard of value in SBouth Amenca to show how easy it is for a Government to do as it pleases in the matter of issuing or coining money; but somehow his South American witnesses are testifying the other way. % To be sure the South American States are not tumbling over one anotherin their haste to adopt the monetary system of-the United States, but-they are doing it very fast. Quite recently the Republics of Chile, Venezuela, Salvador, Costa Rica, San Domingo and British Honduras have abandoned free silver coinage and estab- lished their money system on the basis | of gold as the ultimate redemption money, { exactly as it is done in this country. These republics expect, however, to become parties to an international monetary con- gress to establish an international stand- ard of gold and silver money, but, mean- while, they will make no further effort to establish bimetallism independent of the other commercial nations. This leaves China, Japan, Mexico and India as the only important free-silver countries. Russia is still on a silver basis, but the Government is getting ready as fast as possible to revamp the system, somewhat on the lines of our own. In ad- dition to the six South American republics which have just changed the basis of their money issues, France, Holland, Switzer- 1and, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, Germany, England and Austria-Hungary are making the yellow metal the standard money, and, with the single exception of England, every ope of them is anxious to join with the United States in establishing a bi- metallic standard of value. In this connection the significant fact appears that in the so-called ‘‘gold coun- tries” silver is nsed for money in larger quantities than in the strictly silver coun- tries, as the following table shows: Sliver per capita 1n gold-|Silver per capita Lo sllver standard countries: | standard countriess 2 74| Mexic %404 | 12 10|india.. 321 500 cm'zml America... 214 | . 208 | 8 H! . 208 | 871 83 Portugal 4 88! Russia. 38 Germany. 420 England. 2 96/ Austria-H 278| As to the difference in the volume of circulating money in the so-called “gold- standard” and silver-standard countries, the following table gives all needed infor- mation: Money per capitain gnld-‘llnney per capita in sil- standard conntries: ver-standard countries: $846 France.. .$35 78 Russia. 3 Belgium. .27 82| Japi L 602 Australia.. 3 . 511 Holland America... 366 . 866 “THE SUNDAY CALL. Among many other attractive features there will be discassed in the columns of Tue Suspay Cann the guestion: “Can Trouble Be Killed by Suicide?” Thisis not presented as a new issue. It isasold as mankind, but tbere is no more im- portant, no more fascinating, no more sensational question before the people to- day—nor will there ever be. It involves the question of the human soul, the ques- tion of a hereafter—the one question in the world that at one time or another racks the heart of every man and demands an answer. You will find that Tue Suspay CaLy will at least present the symposium in & new manner. The opinionsexpressed will be brief and to the point, and reasons for and against the justification of suicide will be given by thinking men and women. You will not find this a dry page of THE Susxpay Carr. But if you should—well, there are others, many others, and each one of them contains several bright things, strange things, things of human interest, picturesque things and good literature. Following is a partial list of good things to be found in THE SUNDAY CALL: Some of the Curious Ways in Which Men and Women Earn Their Bread. Tne Los Angeles Man Who Is Building a Brownstone Mansicn for Himselt Un- aided. Every Bit of the Work on the Big Structure Is Being Done by but One Pair of Hands. The Indians of Hoopa Valley and Their 0dd and Picturesque Habits and Manners. Some of the Natural Curiosities That a Cary Man Found in Mendocinn County. ‘Where Every Man Can Gain at Leasta Living. Some Peculiar Tuble Manners Noted by a Lady from Borneo. The Queer People Who Botker the Mayor. 2 How They Hazed 1n Siskiyou County. There 1s a Hotel for Dogs in Ban Fran- cisco. Should Women Work for Less Money Than Men? - How Women Do Walk, and How They Should Walk. How the Athlete Becomes a Good ‘Walker. The Coming Total Eclipse of the Sun. The Possibilities of Cheap Iilumination. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “Uncle Collis seifish eh? Why, the philos: ophy of life is nothing but the quintessence of selfishness,” said 8. H. Howland, the mining 10en from Jackson, as he moved into a little group that had formed round the register at the Grand. “Years ago six Senators and two Repre- sentatives happened to be talking one evening in the office of Willard’s Hotel in Washington. and the conversation somehow drifted to a discussion as to what is the philosophy of life. They talked and they talked and each one presented some of the oid theories, but all agreed that they had not heard a satistactory explanation. Over ina corner all by himself sat an insipid-looking dandy. A dude they would call him nowadays. had rings on his fingers, a waxed mustache and hair parted in the middle. He was & general ob- jeet of contempt, particularty to the Congress- men. Coming over to where théy sat he said: ‘Pardon me, gentlemen, 1 have not the honor of your acquaintance, but I have been an inter- ested listener to your discussion. If you will permit me I think I can explain the philoso- phy of life.” “The men looked from one to another, their eyes twinkling in expectation of making & foos of the fellow and one of them said, ‘Very well, young man, go ahead.’ “‘The philosophy of life,” he said, ‘embraces three propositions: One, never aska man to drink; two, never refuse a drink when you are asked; three, never mind what happens as long as it doesn’t happen to you. Those are principles, gentlemen, that when viewed in their broader significance, constitute the philosophy of life." “And as the young man walked quietly ;ruy‘he left a silent, thoughtful group behina m,” PERSONAL. Hervey Lindley of Los Angeles is a guest of the Palace. ; G. McM. Ross of Petaluma is & gueat at the Occidental, Ex-Judge S. F. Gefl of Salinas Cityis at the Oceidental. R. L. Fulton and wife of Reno, Nev., are at the Baldwin. L] G. Brown of Greenock, Scotland, is at the Cosmopolitan! Dr. W. H. Davis of Los Angeles arrived at the Grand yesterday. T. J. Field, a capitalist of Monterey, s at the Palace with his wife. C.F. Mason of Worcester, Mass., is registered at the Cosmopolitan. H. M. Crabb, a wine-maker of Oakville, is staying at the Grand. Congreéssman J. A.Barham of Santa Rosa isa guest at the Occidental. E. 8. Churchill, the Napa banker, is making & brief stay at the Palace. W. J. Carter, an engineer of Klamath, Or., is & guest at the Cosmopolitan. Alva E. 8gow, an orchardist of Fresno, 1s at the Occidental with his wife. C.T.Jones and W. F. George, attorneys of Sacramento, are at the Grand. J. F. Cowan, & business man of Fulton, Mo., is a guest at the Cosmopolitan. Henry Atwood, 8 mining man of San An- dreas, is visiting at the Grand. George F. Hooper, a big rancher of Sonoms, is at the Occidental with bis wife. G. M. Francis, editor and proprietor of the Nape Register, is at the Ocetdental. . D. M. Adams and family of Visalia are in the City and are guests at the Ramona. Dr. T. N. Wood, a physician and mining man from Silver City, Mexico. 1s at the Russ. Hon. Valentine Koch, Mayor of the city of San Jose, was in 8an Francisco yesterday. C. H. Bernheim, a merchant of Santa Cruz, is one of the recent arrivals at the Baldwin, Caprtain William H. McMinn, a capitalist of Mission San Jose, is a late arrival at the Lick. C. W. Fielding of the Iron Mountain mine at Keswick, Cal., is a recent arrival at the Palace. W. J. Robinson, & mining superintendent of Mokelumne Hill, is at the Lick with his family. Albert 8. Hoyt and wife of Baltimore, Md., arrived at the California last night from Salt La¥e City. o Fesi Captain James Senpett, a retired sea captain living at Santa Clara, is a late arrival at the Occidental. H. J. Small, superintendent of the Southern Pacific Railroad shops at Sacramento, has a room at the Grand. Ex-State Senator E. 8. Voorheis, & mining man of Sutter Creek, registered at the Palace yesterday evening. 8. 8. Fulton, city passenger sgent of the Southern Pacific Company at Sacramento, is visiting at the Lick. John H. Albert, cashier of the Capitol Na- tional Bank of Salem, Or., is in the City, ac- companied by his wife. Among the arrivals at the Palace yesterday were W. E. Arthur and Congressman James McLachlen of Pasadena. J. R. Chase, proprietor of the Sea Beach Hotel £t Sauta Cruz, is making a short visit at the Palace with his wife. W. H. Allderdice, U. 8. N., returned to the Palace yesterday. He has been ordered East and will start in a few days. Robert Devlin, the State Prison Director; William H. Devlin, the attorney, and E.J. Devlin, all of Sacramento, are at the Lick. Ex-Judge Van R. Paterson and Charles 8. ‘Wheeler ot the local law firm of Bishop & Wheeler returned yesterday from a fishing trip. P. D. Bebunetz, a director of an fron works in Paris and & brother of a well-known Parisian physician, arrived at the Palace yesterday on & tour of the world. D. N. Betts and wife from the Indian Reser- vation School at Wadsworth, Nev., returned to the Grand yesterday from Southera Californis, where they spent their honeymoon. Hon. 8. F. Ayer of Santa Clara County, for many years & member of its Board of Super- visors, is in San Francisco for the purpose of attending the Fifth District Republican Con- vention to-day. J. B. Treon and wife of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Wilmont Grant Pierce and wife of St. Louis, Mo., are guests at the Occidental. They are on their way home in the course of a trip around the world. Major Levi Chase, a banker at San Diego, re- turned to the Occidental yesterday from a visit to Lake Tahoe. He was accompanied by his son Charles A, Chase and his wife and Mrs. A. Bell of San Diego. Among the guests at the Lick are: S, T. Black of Sacramento, State Superintendent of Public Instruction; Charles H. Keyes of Pasa- dena, president of Throop Polytechnic Insti- tute; J.F. Greely, Superintendent of Schools of Orange County; J. A. Foshing, City Super- intendent of the Los Angeles schools; -W. N. Seaman of Stoector, Deputy State Superin- tendent of Public Iustruction; J. B. Brown of Eureks, Superintendent of Schools of Hum- boldt County. They have been attending committee meetings in Oakland and dis- cussing amendments to the school law. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N.Y., July 3L.—At the Ven- dome—P, Liebes; St. Denis —E. C. Seavey; Metropole—G. Uhl Jr., L. Toser. Mrs. Johanna Knacke left the St. Cloud to sail for Germany. Sailed for Hamburg on the Hamburg-American Palatia Grand—Mrs, Iver Iverson of Paso AP ————— NEWSPAPER PLEASANIRIES. Willing to Divide.—Teacher (sternly)—Willy Waflles, give that chewing gum to me! Willy—I'l) let you have half of it.—Puek. Mechanic—T've just been married and I would like a raise in my wages. Employer—I am sorry, but the company is only respousible for accidents that happen to men while in the factory.—Brooklyn Life. First Wheelman—I slways get rattled when Isee a woman crossing the street ahead of me. Second Wheelman—So beve I They have so many pins in their clothes that it a fellow col- lides with them he {s almost sure to puncture & tire.—New York Mereury. Mrs. Upley—What an ignorant chiid Willie Cinch is. He told our Johnnie to-day that two ones make eleven. 5 01d Upley—Well, that's the result of home training. His father is s politician and helps count the votes on election day.—Philadelphia North A-‘lhn..n i e : ' JAMES W. BRADBURY OF MAINE, The Oldest Living Ex-United States Senator, Who Refuses to Support Bryan and Sewall. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. AN APPEAL TO TRUE FPOPULISTS. THE Sr. LoUIS BELL OUT REPUDIATED AND EARNEST ACTION CALLED POR. Editor San Francisco Call—DEAR SIR: A m jority of the delegates 1o the People’s party National Convention, held at St. Louis July 23, under the leadership of Thomas V. Cator and others, have sold out the Populisis to the Democratic party. Now it is the duty of every Populist to prevent the delivery of the goods next November. To do this we must act at once. We have fourteen delegates who stood true to their principles. We must rally around them and hold our orgauization or the “People’s’’ party is as dead as the monopolists could wish. Our National Convention has given us & Presidential candidate that refused the nomi- tion, one who is the nominee of the Democratic party, one who says he does not believe in all of our principles, without stating which ones he does indorse, and who has so little respect for tie would'be Arnolds and so much con- tempt for us poor betrayed dupes that he does not consider it worth his time to even recog- nize the honor (?) bestowed. Fellow-Populists, are you going to submit to this disgrace? I for one answer no. 1 call on every Populist who has the man- hood 1o stand square for principle to send his name to one of our delegates who has stood true, and to hurl the gage of truceless resist- ance in the faces of the returning traitors to Ptu)ullll(o principle. Ve must not allow them to break up our State and National organization. action can save them. To hesitate is to lose all. . J. GAYLORD, Corning, Cal., July 28, 1896. Late delegate to State Convention, held at Sacramento, May 12, 1896. WILL 0' THE WISP. She went that way with shining feet— Over the twinkling fields of wheat, And all the world grew strangely sweet. She went that way all merrily, ‘Where brave snips plumed their wings at ses, And all the world was light to me. She went that way where flags unfurled Streamed red, and battie-clouds were curled, And joy illumined all the world. She went that way: *twas winter I know not! Time stays not to Lost, in the dark I grope my way! But sure, ber changing face w. No vision made my wild heart And left it—aghes at her feet! FRANK 1. STANTON. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEQPLE. The parents of twins recently born in But- ler, Mo., have named them Goid and Silver, weet— - The sword of Napoleon I has been piaced in the museum of the Military Hospital, Paris. Count Leo Tolstoi thinks that the English and the Zulus are the two most brutal nations on the earth. Charlotte and Emily Bronte have been com- memorated {u their native town at Thornton, Eng., by a $5000 organ placed in the church by their admirers. Rudyard’ Kipling was ' recently offered a handsome price for his Vermont residence, but refused to sell. He intimated-that he would occupy it permanently after next year. A remarkable individual named Fontenay has just died at Montpelier, France. Despite the fact that he possessed 25,000,000 francs he was disgustingly miserly. In-the streets with his rugged, dirty clothes he looked like a beg- gar. He was nearly 70 years old and had never been married. Prince Ootomski, the confideniial adviser of the Czar, is specially entrusted with the mis- sion of everywhere following the footsteps of Li Hung Chang as the chief pursues his way from one European court to another. It will be the function of Ootomski quietly to undo the diplomacy of the old Chinaman. William Bryan, the great-grandfather of the Democratic nominee for President, came to Culpeper, Va., in 1772, from the lower part of the State. “ John T. Bryan, grandfather of the candidate, moved from Culpeper to Illinois about 1885, when Silas Bryan, the candidate’s father, was & boy some 12 years old. The Princess of Wales presided recently ata private meeting at Marlborough House, hav- ing for its object the discussion of & project for establishing some permanent memorial to the late Lord Leighton. A strong committee comprising Royal Academicians with Mr. Val Pinsep at their head and other prominent per- sonages interested jn the scheme attended the meeting. Senator Daniel of Virginia, who was the temporary chairman of the Democratic Na- tional Conventior, bears a striking facial resemblance to the late Edwin Booih, the actor. The lithographs of Thomas W. Keene, the tragedian, would serve for pictures of Willism J. Bryan, though the back part of Bryan’s head very closely resembles thatof Wilson Barrett, the English actor, VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. A Little Philosophy. “Nevada Siiver Tidings. 1f you want your wife to be an angel treat her like one. The Main Question. Ontario Record. The question now is which way the Populist gun will be pointed when it pops. Confidence, Not Silver. Modesto Herald. , 1t's confidence, not silver, that the United States is most in need of. et A Altgeld Got His Substitute. San Bernardino Times-Index. Altgeld was barred from the Presidential nomination by his birth, but he managed to secure a substitute. et An Impolite Audience. Fresno Republican. A Democrat died and went to heaven. (Silence in the galleries!)—A Democrat died and went to heay—What are you laughing about?—He died and went to heaven, and— These storieg will be discontinued right here. If a man cahnot tell a simple tale without re- ceiving & general ha-ha, the public will have to pull along without a tale, as the Populist party remarked to the Democracy. A Practioal Example. Oakland Enquirer. A dispatch from Seattle tells of the return to that city of J. E. Chilberg from South Amer- ica with 8800 Chilean and Peruvian silver do- lars, which he was trying so sell at 50 cents splece, though they contain more silver of eTul fineness per dollar than do the doliars of this country. He says that Guatemala is paying gold inierest on s million-dollar loan made ten years ago, and in order to procure the yellow metal with which to make the in- terest payment they have to give 206 silver dollars for $100 in gold, and that Salvador has to put up $2385 in silver for $100 in gold. Alas! How Changed! Marin Journal. ‘Well, it is odd, but we do miss that dear old foe, thié Democratic party. Through all these years of toil and struggle jt was ever before us, ready to give and take hard blows. We never knew how much we loved it. No doubt it etill claims to be in the fray and to cry, “‘Lay on.” But we cannot feel so. The g&rly Wwhich nomi- nated Bryan at Chicago did not come away with the old front. It wentin the same dear old foe, but it came out transformed, changed, etherealized, disguised. We haven’t seen a familiar feature since. We say it in sorrow. We feel a sense of loss. A Lapse of Memory, or What? California Fruit Grower. The State of Utah is either trying to work un a little scheme against the goldbugs of Wall street, or else is axming to play a joke against herself, and it is hard to tell which, After bolting from the St. Louls convention, and se- ceditig from the Republican party, because of its adoption of & gold standard, Utah issues an official circular calling for proposals for State of Utah gold 4 per cont twenty-year funding bonds, payable in United States gold coin. It woula be interesting to know just what Utah meant by this. Did she forget the position she had assumed before the whole country on the gold question, or wes she just looking for a chance to greenback Wall street by saying: This is a legal tender, and a legal tender goes. A BELTED BASQUE. The belted blouse or weist with a basque is one of the latest developments of the season and fis very stylish. It is made of various materials, either to match the skirt or of con- trasting goods. Beparate waists of silk are very stylish. One of dull sage green, with black satin lines, hud a collar of black silk muslin, edged with & two-inch knife-pleating of the muslin. A waist of plain house serge was worn with a skirt of cheviot, in which brown, blue and white blended to mske e medium-toned iabrie. A narrow gilt belt was worn with this, and the collar was made separate, 10 be worn when a little more dressy effect was desired. It was of embroidered batiste, with o narrow edge of the same put on with just enough full ness to make it set well, not in ruffle effect. For wasnable fabrics this model is delight- ful, when the gowns are really designed with a_view to washing, for it launders well. A lain skirt and such & waist of brown hollends a boon to any woman, being stylish and rea- sonable and suitable to wear on many ocea- sions. A gilt belt of an inch or an inch and a half wide is the Eruper width. Narrow white leather belts ook well with such a costume. The heavy cotion and the thinner ones as ‘well develop nicely after this model. The uninz is fitted with darts and under- arm gore and a seam in the center back. The s being seamless back and front is gath- ered at the waistline, and in the iront at the neck also. The basque is cut cireclar. This pattern is a most simple oue, as it may mneflwu}u:ut !‘l-le bl!q*\:fi.dll\\l! making two nct waists. For wash dresses th may be omitted if desired. ol TARIFF A FACTOR OF CURRENCY. To the Scranton (Pa.) Times belongs the credit of instituting a comparison of the im- ports and exports of gold during Democratic ul;l l:fp“‘gm: administrations, uring the fifteen years between an 5 clusive of 1878 and 1892, all but four of w‘u:n were years of Republican administration—and during the four years of Cleveland’s first Pres- m.bnucy Ccn:g]:eu was Republican, so that Re- publican policy prevailed—th 5“" greater than the ex :t‘-‘:;o?ll(:‘l',b‘so&f '10; that is to say, the Unmd States received this vast sum of gold from foreign countries. But, taking the statistio Unitelt States for 1895 a8 akthot|ts: and 1t 1o report published by & Democratic Secretary of the Treasury, we find that during the second term of Mr. Cleveland, dm"s"" greater part €O legisiative and executive mmfi:l:l',ol l:'l :hx.l excess of imports, have stood 5, ‘that Is to say, from June 30,1895, to Mav, 1896. Thus there has been & net loss of $197,531,106 in gfld during three yearsand ¢leven months of Democratic rule. During fiiteen years of protection tariffs ad- ministered -by Republicans the United States was made richer by $101,568,310 ot foreign o!d left in this coultry after its current in. §btedness of gold was paid to foreign coun. tries. During less than four yesrs of Demo- cratic tariff aaministered by Democrats foreign Gountriés were enriched by $197,581,106 of United States gold paid by the United States to them after all foreign current indebtedness of gold was paid to the United States. ‘nat is to say,in less than four years the Democrats dissipated the net gain of $101,. 568,310 won by the Republicans in filteen years, and in uddlti&n ‘;?::(ello sent $95,962,. 796 rican gold abroad. > “Rhia shows that protection to American in. dustries protects that American “gold reserve of which we hear so much nowadays. Lll;d!r protection we seil more than we buy, and are paid for it in goid. Under Democratic tariffy e buy more than we sell, and have to pay for 2tin gold, for Europe will not accept siiver. ‘Hence, it is plain that ‘‘iree coinage at 16 to " or at any other ratio, canuot nelp us greatly unless it be accompanied by profec- tion. For our silver will not be accepted vy Europe, and specially not by Great Britain, and without protection we are and must bede- pendent on Great Britain. — HARDLY FILLS 1HE BILL. New York Maii and Express. g Mr. Bryan is a good enough Populist for a month. Democratic year, and & good ex;‘qux_h De?‘t‘;flm far & Populist year, but as this is neithera l;gpnllst ;;ear nor a Democratic year, he isn't good for anything. dmive- RS e UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION. Kennehec Jonrnal. : How many of the 750,000 pensioners in this country does any one suppose_can be induced to vote for free silver coinage? — ANSWERS 1710 CORRESFONDENTS. BACK DaTes—H. W., City. Tho department of Answers to Correspendents is provided with calendars for a number of centuries, and that is the way it accurately finds out back dates. SILVER—CALL Reader, City. Silver has not been at par since 1873. What is meant by “‘par, 129, silver,” is that when bullion silver sells for 129.29 per ounce in the market then s standard flol?ar is worth 100 cents. MISTAKE IN REGISTRATI An Old Reader, City. If a citizen in having his name placed on the register should make an honest mistake in answering & question, he could go before the registration officers, make an explanation, have the originel registration canceled and be registered anew. Licexse—H. W., City. To canvass for sub scriptions for. a mewspaper in this City a | license is mnot required. Nor isa license re- | quired from a person who would go from place 10 place announcing thatata certain store pic- tures were for sale; that Is, if he did not carry samples with him on his tour. 'WOMEN IN SALoONs—H. W., City. There is no law that prohibits women in the State of Cali- fornia from serving as waitresses or being em- ployed in saloons, for the constitution of the State says: “No person shall, on account of sex, be disqualified from entering upon or }m:;uu!g any lawiul business, yocation or pro- ession.” REGISTRATION—Subseriber, Collinsville, Cel. If a resident of one county happens to bein another county and cannot reach his own county in time to have his name placed on the regisier, he will have to lose his vote. He cannot go before a registration officer in the county in which he happens to be and make an affidavit to send to his own county. The elector mnst be personally present woen he is registered. \SWrTzERLAND—H. W., City. The language spoken in Switzerland is German, French, Italian and Romansch. On the 1st of August, 1291, the men of Uri, Schwyz and Lower Un- terwalten entered into a defensive league. In 1353 the league inciuded eight cantons,and in 1518 thirteen. ' Various associated and | protected territories were ecquired, but no sd- | ditions were made to the number of cantons forming the league until 1798. In that year, under the influence of France, the Helvetic Republic was formed, with & regular constitu- tion, This failed to satisfy the cantons and in apoleon, in the act of mediation, gave a new constitution and inereased the number of cantons to nineteen. - In 1815 perpetual neu- trality of Switzerland and the inviolability of ber ferritory were guaranteed by Austrim, Great Britain, Portugel, Prussia and Russia, and the Federal Pact, which had been drawn up at Zurich, and which included three new cantons, was accepted by the Congress of Vienna. The Pact remained in force till 1848, when a new constitution, prepared with- out foreign interierence, was accepted by gen- eral consent. This, in turn, was on May 29, 1874, superseded by the constitution which is now in force. TOWNSEND’S famous broken candy, 2 1bs. 25¢* e —————— CHOICE cream mixed candies 25¢pound in Japanese baskets. Townsend’s, 627 Market st.* i g iger o BEsT peanut taffy in the world. Townsend's.* e ————— California glace fruits, 50c a pound, in Japan. ese baskets. Townsend’s, 627 Palace Hotel.* ST S Ir you want fine service, fine carriages, com. petent drivers, ring up1950. Pac. Carriage Co,* e i SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Montgomery. * ———————— Tha Guest—You seem to have the same style of ple for dessert every time I dine with you. The Entertainer—I thought you'd motice that. Our landlady bakes her pies by the square rod and cuts them out with a steneil. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Cheap Excursion to St. Paul. The Shasta route and the Northern Pacific Rail- road has been selected as the official route to at- tend the National Encampment of the G. A. B. at St. Paul, to be held there September 210 5. The excarsion will leave San Francisco and Sacra- mento August 26 at 7 P. M. Kates $67 90 for the round trip. The above rate is open to ail who wisa tomake the trip East. Send your name and ad- dress to T. K. Stateler, general agent, 638 Market treet, San Francisco, for sleeping-car reservaiions. R A s Are You Going East? The Atiantic and Pacific Rallroad—Sants e ronte—is the coolest and most comfortable sum- mer line, owing to its elevution and absence of alkali dust. Particularly adapted for the trans- portation of families because 0f its palace draw- fog-room and modern upholstered tourist sleeping- cars, which run daily through ifrom Oakland to Chicago, leaving at a seasonable hour aud ia charge of attentive conductors and poriers. 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