The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 10, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Prnprlefor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrler..§0.18 Dafly and Sundsy CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Dafly and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Dally and Sunday CALZ, three months by matl 1.50 | Dally and Sunday CLx, one month, by mail.. .85 Sunday CALL, 0ne year, by mail - 130 WEEKLY CALL, ORe year, by . 150 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on 8 vacation * It | 40, it s no trouble for us to forward TEHE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given 10 the carrier or left a: Business Office will recelve prompt attention. | NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFiICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California, Telephobe..... Maln-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS 517 Clay Street. Telephone.. BRANCH OFFICES 630 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open untll 9:30 o'clock. 389 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 6W . corner Bixteenth and Mission streets; open catil 9 o'clock. 2618 Mission street; open until © o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. MONDAY. AUGUST 10, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohlo FOR VICE-PRESIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey FLECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. This is to be a campaign of organized conservatism against disorganized discon- tent and tomfoolery. It is reported that Cleveland doesn’t like Hoke Smith any more, so it seems Mr. Smith must have done something to be proud of. Democracy stands for free trade as well as for free silver coinage, and if Bryan should be elected the country would be as apt to get the one as to get the other. In the flush of its folly at Chicago the silver Democracy hooted Cleveland out of the party and it now turns to him with the cry, “‘Save me, Cassius, or I sink!” As Bryan says that eloguence is the speech of a man who believes what he says and knows what he is talking about, we shall have to discount the reports that he is eloquent. The most pleasing and cheering feature of the campeign so far has been the speeches of McKinley. Kvery one of them proclaims the coming of a new prosperity and rings with the fervent faith of a true patriotism. A conservative Democratic ticket would be a benefit to the country, as it would save at least a portion of one of the great historic parties of the Republic from the disgrace of the Chicago platform and the Chicago ticket. You will take notice that Republican clubs are working right along for protec- tion to your iadustry and prosperity to your home, and you will understand therefore why you ought to join them and help the work. Every loyal Republican can find a source of satisfaction in the manner in which the arrangements for the campaign have been made, and all therefore should take an active part in it as far as their opportunities permir. The idle money now locked up in banks will be put into enterprises and afford em- ployment to every idle man in the country as soon as the protective tariff is re- established and made the permanent pol- icy of the Government. The union of all the conservative busi- ness elements of the people in one party this year should be carried into municipal as well as National politics and thus bring about a reform in our whole political system from fop to bottom. Before this month passes the fusion scheme between Democrats and Populists may have vanished like a mist and then the situation will be cleared up, each party will stand for itself and every voter will know what he has to vote for when he goes to the polls. No Republican, however ardent he may be in support of the free coinage of silver, can afford to bolt the party this year, for by doing so he not only would endanger international bimetallism, but would en- courage the heresy of free trade and the taxation of incomes. A Democratic gold ticket would get the support of all gold monometallists, the Bryan ticket will get all the silver mono- metallists, and then the people would see clearly that the Republican party stands in the middle of the road as the only genu- ine advocate of bimetallism in the Nation. 1f the gold Democrats would only get in and meet the silver wing of the party half way by nominating Sewall for Vice-Presi- dent with a goldbug for President so as to equalize matters by putting a donble head as well as a double tail to the ticket, the sivuation would be all that the occasion re- quires. 7 According to the statistics about 300,000 more books were faken from the Chicago Public Library than from the Boston Public Library for the last fiscal year and Boston people are now explaining that they own libraries and do not borrow books as they do in Chicago and other un- cultured places. In response to a statement that the business men of New York were all for McKinley, a Western Democrat is reported to have answered flippantly that there were votes enough in the Bowery to over- come them; and now the people have to decide simply whether they will vote with the business men or the Bowery boys. As the campaign progresses and men begin to consider more seriously the re- sults that woula follow the free coinage of silver by this country alone, the enthusi- asm for the white metal weakens, senti- ment gives way to sense, and the sincerest advocates of free coinage agree that the only safe way to bring it about is to adopt the Republican policy of international agreement, .Maln—1874 : BRYAN AND THE PEOPLE Mr. Bryan is now journeying to New York to be notified of his nomination and naturally enough there is an *“‘outpouring of the peopnle’’ at every stopping point. Nothing is more easy in this country than to “‘raise a crowd,” but crowds do not in- | dicate anything. No itinerant office- seeker ever drew such crowds as General Scott did when he was a candidate for the Presidency, but he carried only four States. The people like to be amused, and they like information, too, concerning the affairs of the Nation, buc the Ameri- | can voter is as cold as a frog when he | goes to cast his ballot. Sentiment, ties of | personal friendship and even the bonds of | consanguinity are held as secondary to | the voter's opinion. This'would not be so were voters not capable of determining for themselves the courseto take. Hence it is that any outpouring of the people in campaign times counts for little or noth- ing, except when they assemble to further the cause of a particular party, and then they do not turn out to be converted, but to show their earnestness for the side they { have championed. 1t is true, nevertheless, that the people are quick to see the difference between po- | litical quackery and logical argument, and | because they are it would be good practi- cal politics for the Republican campaign | committee to pay the traveling expenses | of Mr. Bryan, and & bonus besides, to { keep him on the hustings. Between Lin- | coln and Chicago he made very many | speeches, and no better campaign | work for the Republican ticket could be done. | He made just two propositions the bur- | den of every speech. One was the entire independence of the United States in the world of commerce, and the ability of this country to do exactly as it likes in its dealings with other commercial nations. The other proposition was that advan- tages would accrue to labor if it would assume a hostile attitude toward its co- laborer, capital, on sectional lines. Mr. Bryan could not advocate a theory of government that would arouse greater | opposition to his candidacy, and it is well that the people turn out in crowds to hear his gospel of brother against brother and section against section, for they would know what to expect should he be elected. Mr. Bryan is particularly fond of asking the crowds in a highly dramatic fashion: *Is not this country big enough to re- | monetize silver? Must we beg Europe to first give us permission and then aid us in opening our mints to silver?”’ For the moment that kind of taik stirs the patriotism of the people and sends & | whirlwind of enthusiasm through the crowd, but before Mr. Bryan is out of sight the current of thought changes. The people see that the man is trying to entice them into paths that lead to repu- diation, ‘sectionalism and dishonor, and all for his own personal political advane tage. Hence we say that Mr. Bryan should be encouraged to remain upon the hust- | ings until the close of the campaign, for | no one could persuade the people as well as he can himself that his election would be a National calamity. The people do not want our foreign trade destroyed, nor do they want this country thrown into sectional strife, and the more they hear Bryan explain his un-Americanism the more determined they will be to defeat his aim and purpose. | WAR VETERANS' LEAGUE. No doubt the attempt will be made by managers of the Democratic éampaign to discredit the Union Veterans’ Patriotic Leaguj by charging that it is a Republican | organization in the guise of war veterans, but the answer will be that were it a Re- pablican volitical machine, 1t would not | have such stanch Democrats as Generals Sickles and Siegel for leaders. The fact is, the League is composed of veterans of the war of the republic irrespective of party afiiliation, who are impressed with the gravity of the economic and financial situation. They are men who believe that the Altgelds and Bryans are preparing to attack the.good name and credit of the Nation, and they are coming to the rescue of the republic, just as they did a third of a century ago. Itis mo more a political question with the war veterans now than it was in 1861. Then there was a conspir- acy to divide the Union, and now there is a conspiracy to bring discredit and dis- honor upon the republic. The soldiers of the war of the republic reunited the country upon a broader and firmer basis than it was before, and now they are falling into line to protect the good name and the credit of the republic against a conspiracy that is formulating its plans under cover of the stolen mantle of the party of Hancock, McClellan, Sickles and Siegel. It is justasincumbent upon loyal Republicans and Democrats to join in the rescue of the Government from dangers that threaten it in 1896, as it was incumbent upon them to go forward as one man to its rescue in 1861. The oneness, the unity of the country was assailed when Sumter was fired fipoon, and now not only is the commercial honor and business integrity of the country at- tacked, but there is a conspiracy to deprive the country's wage-earners of oppor- tunity to employ their skill and muscle, except at such remuneration as will con- form to the wage schedule of Europe and the Orient. Isita crime, in view of these facts, for the survivors of the struggle which restored the unity of the country to now rally to protect the country from financial and commercial degradation? It will not do for the Altgelds to cry out against these Revublican and Democratic war veterans, nor will it do to question their honesty of purpose. No doubt there is a thread of selfishness running through { that which is moving these veterans to fall in line. There are nearly 1,000,000 names upon the Nation’s war pension roll, which call for an annual distribution of about $140,000,000, and it behooves the old soldier to see to it that his own and his comrade’s vension money is not tampered with or played upon until its purchase power is redueed by half, or in any amount. These veterans are not laying down a policy. They merely demand that the integrity and honor of the Nation be maintained, and without reference to politieal ties and associations they are fslling into line to battle on the side that is for the mainte- nance of the credit of the Nation. Natur- ally they are advocating the election of Major McKinley, not because he is himself a war veteran, nor because he isa Repub- lican, but because his candidacy stands for the preservation ot the Nation’s good name in the world’s channels of trade, commerce and finance. A DEMOCRATIO TFALLAOY. The St. Louis Republic, once the leading protection newspaper in the Mississippi Valley, and in recent years the organ of the Democracy and free trade in the same region of country, has degenerated into | this kind of economic philosophy: *“When Republicans introduce the question ot wages and cite the condition of the workers in Mexico as a sample of the in- fluence of silver legislation, why not bring into evidence the condition of the worker in China or Jupan? Itsproductive capacity 18 the standard of the value of labor. Re- place Mexican labor by American, and Mexican wages would-at once be raised to the American scale.” The theory that the productive capacity is the standard of the value of labor is so fallacious that even the janitor of the Re- public building should know better than to assert it. In 1885 the total exports of Japan amounted to $77,000,000 and in 1895 to $296,000,000. The export trade in tex- tiles alone increased from $511,990 in 1885 to $22,177,626 in 1895, but meanwhile the standard of the value of labor—skilled labor—remained the same. That is to say, textile mill wages between 1885 and 1895 remained an average of 17.4 sen per day for males and 9 sen ver day for females. The American dollar is the equivalent of 180 sens. As to the productive capacity of the Japanese, an eminent authority says: “The Japanese are gifted with powerful eves, hands and brains and the Americans are terror-stricken at this. The cotton spinners of Manchester are known to have’ said that while the Anglo-Saxons had passed through three generations before they became clever and apt hands for the spinning of cotton, the Japanese have ac- quired the necessary skill in this industry in ten years’ time and have now advanced to a stage where they surpass the Man- chester people in skill. The Japanese are unrivaled in the world for cleverness and their future is truly awe-inspiring to con- template.”” The official figures of the productive ca- pacity of Japanese labor in the textile in- dustry show that production of finished product from 1889 to 1894, both yearsin- clusive, increased ten times over while the demand for labor increased only five times over, and what is true of textiles is true of all other industrial production. As we have said, during this period wages were not advanced at all, but the cost of provisions—rice, sugar, tea and also fuel— increased very materially in price. It would seem that just the reverse of what the Republic says is true in Japan, and what is true of Japan is true of every country that is on a silver monetary basis. The theory that if Mexican ldbor were replaced by American labor the American scale of wages would prevail is too silly to be seriously considered. If it is the skill of labor that fixes wages the mechanics of China and Japan should have the highest wages paid in the world for certain kinds of labor; and since it is universally admit- ted that as a whole the mechanics of Eng- land, France and Germany have no supe- riors anywhere, they should have as high if not higher wages than are paid in America. If the Republic means that the mere fact of labor being American would insure high wages it means then that American labor would overthrow the Government and establish one similar to that of the United States. The Republic should know that the only thing under the shining sun that keeps up the Ameri- can scale of wages is protection against cheap-labor countries, EARNEST REPUBLICANS. The mass-meeting held under the au- spices of the Oakland Republican Alli- ance last Saturday night was so successfal in point of numbers and enthusiasm that its influence cannot help being felt else- where. It was nota wild and boisterous gathering, but rather an assemblage of thoughtful men who grew in enthusiasm as the speeches unfolded and held up to view the importance of overthrowing the dangers with which the Bryan foilowing are threatening the business situation. It was the enthusiasm that is born of a determination to protect the country from wreck and ruin, and if the same spirit of patriotism which moved the multitude at Oakland shall pervade the rank and file of the party throughout the State, the elec- toral vote of California can be set in the McKinley column right now. It is not often that onme sees so much earnest- ness depicted on the faces of an saudience as was seen at the Oakland mass-meeting, but it is not often that the commercial and industrial inter- ests of the country are confronted by so many threatening dangers. The feeling was general that the salvation of the coun- try is involved in the present struggle for politica! supremacy, and hence every one in that vast assembly felt that he had a personal duty to perform in the approach- ing campaign. California is, perhaps, more deeply in- terested in the election of Major McKinlev than almost any other State. This com- monwealth has vast resources which must be developed to make ber a great State. There needs to be industrial plants all over the State, and there needs to be close com- mercial relations with other nations and a well equipped and amply subsidized mer- chant marine to facilitate international and coastwise trade interchanges, but none of these things can be hoped for unless the McKinley ticket is elected, for Bryan stands committed to oppose whateyer is calculated to extend the commerce and the industries of the United States. He denies the right of California to have pro- tection.against ruinous foreign competi- tion. COAST EXCHANGES. Following the example sét by Sacramento, Fresno and other cities north of her, Los An- geles is about to harness the waters of the river that has been running unbridled a short distance from her door, and convert the power now going to waste into electrical energy. The undertaking in this instance is the most magnitudinous of the kind that has yet been commenced in the southern part of the State, and the Pasadena News has this to say of it: “The plan of the capitalists at the back of the scheme is to tunnel through the mountains back of Azusa and tap the San Gabriel River, bringing the water across country to the mouth of the canyon, where an immense elec- trical plant, capable of generating 4000 horse- power, will be located. “The matter was first taken under consid- eration about four years ago. Some idea of the magnitude of the undertaking may be re- alized when it is known that it will necessi- tate something like 30,000 feet of tunnels and pipe, the latter to be fifty inches in diameter, ‘with & carrying capacity of about 4000 inches of water. The company Is eapitalized at $500,- 000, and it is expected that this sum will be used to complete the works. It comprises such well-known capitalists as W. G. Kerckhoff of the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill and Lumber Com- pany, J. H. Shankland of the law firm of Graves, O'Melveny & Shankland; A. C. Balch, recently of,Portland, Or., under whose charge the work is st present; Mr. Dodworth of the Azusa Ice and Cold Storage Company, and Mr. Haas of the wholesale firm of Haas, Baruch & Co. “When questioned regarding the possible effect npon irrigation, Mr. Kerckhoff said that it could not be otherwise than beneficial, asin all probability the tunnels will increase the supply of water, besides doing away with about nine or ten miles of seepage and evap- oration, which must necessarily occur in the bed of a river like the San Gabriel. . As the water is to be turned back into the original chennsl above the present place of diversion for irrigating purposes, there can be no possi- ble injury in this line. “The purpose for which the power is to be used could not be ascertained, but there are various conjectures. Some believe the im- mense electrical power is to be transmitted to Pasadens and Los Angeles and applied to the street railways, while others think the pro- moters have a road of their own in contempla~ tion. “At any rate, the power ontained will exceed thatnow in use In the city of Los Angeles, and will be.obtained by utilizing the force vrovided by nature, and at a great saving over the present method.” The Penny Press-of Santa Cruz was resur- rected last Wednesday, and now appears as an evening instead of a morning daily. Phil Fraucis does the editing and his wife the re- porting, and they make an excellent combina~ tion. Here s the characteristic manner in Which the clever namesake of the author of the “Letters of Junius’’ winds up his first trumpet-blast in the second coming of the little paper: “When a job shows its head the Penny Press will hit it—and bit it hard. The Penny Press loves its friends and hates its enemies, and it wiil continue to fight for the one and to lay the whip on the other. When it gets done laying the whip on some of these other fellows it will enjoy an idle day rubbing pepper and vinegar into the welts.” Los Angeles boasts of another new, novel and very promising industry. According to the Journal of that eity, some time 8go & com- pany was organized for the purpose of utiliz- ing the yucee palm in the protection of trees of tender growth from the rabbits. The ven- ture was & passive success until-lately under new.management it has assumed large pro- portions. “The factory is located on Santa Fe avenue, and is to-day not only producing thousands of tree-protectors and minor arti- cles, but the discovery has been made that the plant when green is susceptible of being molaed into any shape and retaining it when dry, and at the same time being slightly elas- tie. These qualities it 1t in an eminent degree for the use of surgeons for splint purposes. The porous interstitial nature of the wood provides air circulation and an opening through which perspiration and other excre- tions of the body may pass off. These favor- able qualities have so strongly appealed to the medical fraternity that now the company is #hipping these splints to all the large cities of this country and some foreign citles. The yueea plant is s semi-shrub growing some- times to a height of twenty feet and having a diameter of six to eight inches. These plants are sawed into various lengths and received by the company just as & mill receives saw logs, only in shorter lengths, and the woody portion is peeled and spread out in thin sheets like paper, then molded while green in the form required, giving it the shape of the arm, chest, leg, foot or any portion of the human anatomy desired. Itis verylight in weight.” The SBonoma News believes that the much- talked-of electric road between, Sonoma and Santa Rosa is certain to be built. A franchise has already been applied for. “The plan of organization is unique, but sim- ple and Intelligent,” says the News. ‘‘Between #$250,000 and $300,000 worth of bonds will be issued, but the capitalists wishing to insure the interest on them for at least two years will issue ticket books, each good for 500 miles of travel at 1 cent a mile, or $5 for the book, and the sale of these among the farmers will easily insure & good intsrest on the bond issue. These tickets will be transferable and the holder and all his family and a carload of his iriends can all travel on the one book. The projectors of the enterprise state that they an- ticipate little difficultyin procuring a fran- chise and that they hope to get to work within sixty days.” The San Bernardino Sun has again changed hands. The new management wili fight cor- ruption and jobbery and be loyal to all Re- publican principles. R. C. Harbison is the editor and in his salutatory he declares that the Sun not only believes in sound money, but “in protection &s the cardinal doctrine of the party’s faith, and in season and out of season it will urgeareturn to the tariif legislation which brought prosperity to the country— East, West, North and South—which protecied American labor, and which for thirty years not only provided the Government with reve- nue sufficient to carry on the work of its vari- ous departments, but during which period few years passed in which the National debt was not reduced.” The people of Livermore are jubilant over the prospect of a mew and adequate water system, the supply being the natural artesian wells known ss Las Positas Springs. The Livermore Herald thus spesks of the big project: “For several weeks past John Aylward has been exploring the fountains of Las Positas. With the aid of a gang of workmen, & 20-horse- power engine and a big centrifugal pump he has put & spring on the Livermore place, two miles northeast of town, to the test and proved its capacity to deliver 600,000 gallons in twenty-four hours. This spring is nothing more nor less than a natural artesian well flowing up through & bed of clay from an immense gravel reservoir, probably the bed of some prehistoric creek. Mr. Aylward has put down & curbing fourteen feet, about five feet square, and is about half way through the gravel. There are twoother springs near by, and it is the purpose of Mr. Aylward and his associates to develop them as well, and com- bine their flow. He is authority for the state- ment that this water proposition is a sure go— that eight, seven and six inch pipe has already been purchased and will soon be here to con- Quct the water the two miles into town. This plan involves the building of a storage reser- voir on the Sangmaster hill north of town. The water will be pumped into this reservoir from the natural flow of the springs, and the elevation will give a pressure of 100 feet upon the 1hains, enough to give the town a splendid defense against fire. The water from these springs is cold, clear, pure and comparatively soft. “*If Mr. Aylward and his people develop this enterprise for all it is worth, Livermore will have boodles of water of the finest quality, for all necessary purposes. Insurance would thereby be reduced one-half, our streets and outlying avenues could be sprinkled at a nominal expense, and our flower gardens ‘would never famish in the summer for the life- giving lignid. The water is at hand. The only other requisite is pipe big enough and strong enough te meet requirements.” The wonderful benefit to & locality of a beet- sugar factory is shown by the experience of every section wherein such a factory has been established; but the Chino Valley Champion furnishes a few figures that may serve as an eye-opener to parts of the State which may not know that & sugar factory is almost synony- mous with a prosperous eondition in its vicin- ity even during these close-money times: “‘Chino ranch lands are rated high in value, and properly so. Six years ago our soil was not more valuable than that in many other, though smaller, bodies of land in Southern California, approximating it in fertility. The change wrought has been a wonderful one and explains the wide scale of land values in this valley. After Richard Gird acquired this property he recognized the fact that if he would enhance the value of the lana heé must use some means to increase the producing power of the land or make a more available and certain market for the soil prodncis as they were. To this problem he turned his at- tention, and finally decided that these ends would be accomplished most successfully by establishing the beet-sugar industry here. He accordingly secured. by & large expenditure on his part, the erection of the present sugar isctory. The result has fully justified the means. Land tbat before was worth $40 an acre isnew worth $200 an acre. Good land can be had, however, on the Chino ranch for $100 per acre and less. “This increased value is brought aboutby two means. In the first place the improved, thorough and scientific culture which is given the soil has increased its producing capacity to a large extent. This is evidenced by the fact that all the new land cropped to beets has produced better the second year than the first, and the third year than the second. “The presence of the sugar factory, as a matter of fact, provides unvarying, stable and certain market for all that the land can pro- duce. No middleman eats up the profits; no railroad taxes the farmer to carry his crop to market and his price is guaranteed in advance. These are factors which enhance ihe value of land. They have enhanced the value of every acre of land within ten miles of the Chino sugar factory.” ¥ The plums sometimes fall into the baskets of the smart men who contribute intellectual capital toward the scheme of acquiring the political orchard. F. P. Thompson, formerly of the Standard, Eureka, has been appointed commissary of Folsom prison, while John Me- Gonigle, editor of the Venturs Democrat, and Harry Patton, editor of the Los Angeles Cap- ital, have been appointed trusteesof the High- lands Insane Asylum. : W. 8. Walker, the pioneer journalist of Los Gatos, has repurchased the Mail of that city, changed the day of publication from Tuesday to Thursday, and i {resh vigor into the paper. . E. B. Woodworth has retired from the man- agement of the Santa Monice Signal, which Ppasses under the control of E. E. Barackman and W, C. Folsom. The Signal will continue, as before, to discuss politics from a position on the fence, and to put in telling licks forthe benefit of Santa Monica. PERSONAL. Ralph Halloran of Albuquerque, N. M., is at the Palace. W. H. Hatton, & Modesto attorney, is staying at the Lick. A. H. Ashley, a journalist of Stockton, 18 reg- istered at the Lick. A. Weilheimer, & merchant of Fresno, has & room at the Grand. L. L. Chamberlain, an attorneyjof Auburn, is staying aithe Grand. Dr. J. W. Baker, U. 8. N., is registered at the California with his wife. C. H. Campbell, a Stockton merchant, isone of the guests at the Rass. E. L. Smith, a Merced lawyer, is one of the latest arrivals at the Lick, E. J. Jones, a mining mgn of Nevada City, is & late arrival at the Russ. J. C. Bilverstein and wife of St. Helena are 2t the Palace on their bridal trip. James Toman and wife of Sutter Creek are guests at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. F. 8. Merchant, a merchant of Healdsburg, is among those registered at the Russ. Dr. Byron F. Dawson of Cayucos, is making the Russ his headquarters at present. Henry Veit, a rancher of San Lucas, is stay- ing at the Russ with his wife and son. Ex-Judge A. W. Davis, a lawyer of Tulare, is among those registered at the Grand. George D. McLean, a mine-owner of Grass Valley, arrived at the Lick last night. J. F. Clapp, & mining man whose home is in Chicago, 18 a late arrival at the Grand. ‘W. Horkan, a well-known business man of Petaluma, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. A. W, Barrett of Sacramento, adjutant-gen- eral of the N. G. C., is at the California. J. Hall, a mine-owner of Commanche, Sonora County, is making a brief stay at the Lick. Sheriff T. M. Brown of Humboldt is in town from Eureka. He is registered at the Russ. 0, M. Van Duyn, a capitalist of Portland, Or., is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel Dr. George Ivancovich of Petaluma, came to town yesterday and took a room at the Lick. J. B, Peakes, proprietor of the Yosemite House at Stockton, is registered at the Palace. Robert M. Clarke, a well-known attorney of Carson, Nev., registered at the Grand yester- day. R. H. Carter of Salem, Va., interested in the coal business, is among those registered at the Russ, J. Steinhardt, a general merchant of Stock- ton, has apartments at the Cslifornia with his wife. C. H. Hussey, who is interested in a cream- ery at Point Reyes, is at the Russ for a short visit. M. C. Dreshfield, a manufscturer of New York, is one of the recent arrivals at the Grand. ‘W. P. Hilton, & vineyardist and rancher of Glen Ellen, is at the Grand with W, H. Hil- ton Jr. Miss M. A, Fahey of Sonora is a guest of her sister, Mrs. William Fshey, at the Cosmopoli- Hotel. L. A. Richards, the land-owner and race- horse breeder of Grayson, is among the Russ arrivals. Walter Wyman of Coronado, manager of the Coronado Water Works, is at the Palaceona short visit. <~ Among yesterday’s srrivals at the Rusawas Mrs. M. McMillan, proprietor of the Pn{ Hotel at Chico. P. C. Jones, a merchant of Honolulu, came up from the islands yesterday. He has a room at the Occidental. Mark E. Brounsill, a bank clerk of Santa Bar- ‘bara is at the Grand, having returned froma visit at Lake Tahoe. F. W. Babcock of the Babcock Carriage Com- pany of Watertown, N. Y., 1s one of the late arrivals at the Palace. J.T.Chambers and M. Simpson, of Fresno, who are interested in vimeyards, are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. L. T. Garnsey of Los Angeles, president of the Redondo Beach Railroad, is visiting at the California with his wife. George Standart of Plumas, store-keeper and and ex-mine superintendent, is one of the latest arrivals at the Lick. C. L. Donohue, an attorney of Willows, has returned from a pleasure trip to Alaska and iy registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. 8. K. Higgins, who is representing Chicago capital interested in mining ventures, arrived here yesterday and went to the Lick. Count G.de Kergorlay, who was here about three years ago, and Baron de Boutray, buth of Paris, France, are guests at the Palace. J. D. Culp of San Felipe, the man who has made & success of growing tobacco in Cali- fornis, is steying at the Lick for a few da; A. 8. Cooper, a Councilman of Santa Bar- bara and an expert on asphaltum and oil, is making the Grand his temporary headquar- ters. Mrs, E. B. Dole of Honoluiu, wife of the Presi- dent of the Repubiic of Hawaii, arrived here yesterday on the Peru and is staying at the Oc- ecidental. J. C. Lynch of San Bernardino County, Speaker of the last Assembly and the present Republican candidate for Lieutenant-Gover- nor, is a guest at the Baldwin, Bishop Henry W. Warren of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Colorado is at the Ocei- dental, registered from Denver. He is up from his summer home at Santa Cruz., : G. A. Garcelen of Chicago, recently promoted to the general superintendency of the Pull- man Palace Car Company, is at the Palace. He will go in & few days to Los Angeles. B. H. Bauman, a real-estate owner of Pitts- burg, Pa., is at the Russ with his family. He was here three years ago on another pleasure trip and now his objective point is the Yo- semite Valley. Captain M. F. Taylor, manager of the Hirst ranch near San Simeon, San Luis Obispo County, was a passenger on the wrecked St. Paul, and arrived at the Occidental last night Dby train from Monterey. General Wade Hampton of Washington, D. C.. United States Inspector of Railroads, re- turned to the Palacelast night from Del Monte, accompanied by Captain R. Lowdes and Dr. B, W. Taylor of South Carolina and Charles E. Thomas of Washington, D. C. Sylvester Johnston ot Colorado Springsis at the Russ with his wife and threechildren. He owns resl estate about Colorado Springs and mining interests in Cripple Creek, having been one of the first to enter that district. Heisa prominent G. A. R. man of his partof Colo- rado. CAMPAIGN ECHOES. Mr, Thomas Watson is evidently going to stay in the middie of the road.—New Haven Palladium. The country is now suffering under the free and unlimited coinage of boy oratory.—New York Press." Mr. Bryan is trying to dodge the crown of thorns known to him as the Populist plat- {form.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Graating the Chicago and St. Louis Populist platforms are tarred with the same stick, the thing is to knock the tar out of them.—Phila- delphia Times, The Brysn democracy begins its campaign by denouncing the only Democratic President the party has elected for thirty-six years.— Chicago Inter Ocean. With & Vice-Presidential candidate on each side and the woods full of bolters Bryan must feel as if he was in the middle of the road him- self.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. The closeness of a brother is & vague and feeble comparison by which to indicate the tenacity with which Sewall and Watson stick 10 their Vice-Presidential nominations.—New York Tribune. The indorsement of Bryan and iree silver by ‘Tammany Hall is another first-rate cause for ‘voting a sound-money ticket this year. Wher- ever Tammany stands is sure to befthe wrong place.— Brooklyn Esgle. Perhaps Mr. Watson and Mr. Sewall could fix this matter up by flipping & penny or using a dice box, employing some disinterested per- son like the Hon. Garret A. Hobart to act as referee.—Chicago Record. There seems to be nothing the matter with | the Republicanism of Tom Reed. Like the big man he is Mr. Reed rises to the emergency, and will from now until election day put in the hottest kind of work tor the Republican ticket.—Haverhill Gazette, Neither the Republican party nor the coun- try wants any tariff truce; on the contrary, they want a protective tariff put on the statute- books at the earliest practicable moment. The men who are now advocating a tariif truce are the men who have for years been advocating free trade. A protective tariff victory is what is wanted, and what will be had next Novem- ber.—Pawtucket Gazette. SOME PECULIAR METAPHORS. A Few Elecutionary Gems From Mr. Bryan's Friends. Wash ington Post. Shooting the chute from the sublime to the ridiculous is becoming frequent with Mr. Bryan’s friends. The ‘“crown of thorns and the cross of gold” business opens up great pos- sibilities in that direction. He was ajleader of the Populists of Missouri, who concluded an impassioned speech in the Sedalia Convention with: “You shall not thrust the dagger of suspicion through the intervalsin this crown of thorns.” ‘The orator was repelling theinsinuation that there was any danger of Tom Watson being :hrm by the Democrais in the proposed usion. Mr. Bryan having set the pace, his emotionat followers are bound to indulge in fantastic &nd sacrilegious use of biblical metaphors and illustrations. It was at the Bedalia Convention that delegates cried out, “Amen!” -‘Amenl to such declarations for political reform as ap- ‘pealed especially to them. One orator, some- what mixed as to his biblical recollections, shouted at the close of his thrilling peroration: “I tell you, brethren, the golden calt must come down off his roost.” Another, in placing his candidate before the convention, said: "Genuen}en the man I am about to name has withstood what is, in my opinion, the strongest test of loyalty to Populism. You re- member the story of Job. You recall how he was tried and tempted by the loss of friends and of property. t was inflicted upon him finally as the supreme test, as the straw which ‘was to break his pack ?” s "Bnfl;{ bawled a delegate in a rear seat. “No, brother,” said the speaker, ‘you’re wrong. It waswhen his wife turned against him that Job was called upon to meet the supreme test. Brethren, the candidate I am about to offer you has met the test of Job. He is a Populist, notwithstanding the %ponmon of his wife. His name is Oscar Woods of Chariton.” BUT IT WILL COME. New York Press. Prosperity will come only with increased business, Increased business will come only with increased revenue. Increased revenue will come only with protection. Protection will come only with Republicanism. Republi- canism will come only with McKinley. A SUMMER SONG. Sing & song of summer— Suns that hotly rise; Every star a firebrand That blages in the skies! Every lily yearning For winter's cool embrace, All the roses burning And crimson in the face! Sing a song of summer— Scarce a drop of d Lily looking ed and And violet feeling blue; Stormelouds whirling, swirling And growling overhead, Charge the world with lightning Like anarchists in rodlu‘ = Sing a song of summer— Stag Itloud and long; . Word o’ me, it's sure to be A very mélting song! Ol that some cuunin Would make the steeples icebergs, The Lot bricks blocks of ice ! FRANK L STANTON, NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Mrs. Gazzam—Why is the ringing of a bell made obligatory upon bicycle riders? Mr, Gazzam—It gives their victims time to make an ejaculatory prayer.—~Truth. Mzs. Newlywed (reading)—Here’s & poor fel- low arrested for manslaughter the day before he was going to be married. Mr. Newlywed—Well, some fellows are born lucky.—Judge. Ballinger—It will be a sweltering summer at the shore. How will you manage to keep cool? Manhattan—I shall limit my engagements to Boston girls exclusively.—Town Topics. pale, Jinks—The greatest man to treasure a grudge is my barber. The other day an enemy of his died, and he was called to shave the corpse. Minks—What did he do? Jinks—He cut him dead.—New York Press. “‘That minister is the most. absent-minded man! I took him through & hospital ward yes- terday where all the patients happened to be asleep.” “What did he do?” “Forgot himself and began to deliver a ser- mon,”—New York Herald. \ LADY'S WAIST, WITH DRAPED SLEEVE AND DEEP BELT. A graceful sleeve of the latest style is shown here. The deep winkled belt 1s another stylish feature of this charming bodice. A blue and white foulard had the full vest and revers of white lace over cream satin. A collar of white satin ribbon finished tne neck. The belt was of black satin. A foulard of black and white had a beltof n satin, the collar being of white atin. ress of canvas had a vest of dfilgn over el:u satin, with a belt o!‘ru.az satin. A dress of mixed wool ot greenish tone had a vest of green and white gma. The belt and revers were of en satin, the latter be- ing edged with lace in white. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Abont £500 has been subscribed to the fund for the erection of s memorial to Thomas Hughes at Rugby. A Mrs. Post, who was born in Prussia and saw Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, now lives in Dearborn County, Ind. Bhe is 102 years old. A thief stole a diamond stud from the shirt front of the clerk of a New York police court the other day while the court was in session and the clerk at his duties. Charles McPherson, the well-known eyelist who was chiefly instrumental in introducing eycle racing at athletic sports in Ireland, was recently killed by s machinery accident ina A museui tn Berlin has secured possession of Luther's Bible which he used in his study. Its margins are covered with notes in the re- former’s handwriting. It was printed in Basle in 1509 and is in'excellentstate of preserva- tion. % e St. Augustine’s Benedictine priory at Rams- gate has been made an abbey by the Pope, be- ing the first English abbey of black Bene- dictine friars since the reformation. The new abbot has the old title of Abbot of St. Augus- tine’s, Canterbury. The venerable Aubrey de Vere is one of the very few men now living who talked with Wordsworth, and from him Wordsworth first heard Tennyson’s lines, “Of old sat Freedom on the heights.” Though not an u‘ngrudging admirer of contemporary talent, W ordsworth allowed that the lines were “stately.” i A ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, A HALF CENT—E. A., City. There is no pre. mium on & half cent of 1828. A Notary's FEE—B. A., Panoche, Cal. By law, a notary is not allowed to charge more than 50 cefi for administering an oath or at- testing an affirmation. MINERAL I¥ LAND—M. L. B., Benicia, Cal. No one has a right to enter on private lands to search for minerals that may be in such land without the consent of the owner. SILVER ON THE MARKET—E. A, City. Trade dollars coined for account of the Government are placed on the market through the United States treasury and the sub-treasuries. STANDARD DoLLARS—S., City. On tha25th of last January orders were issued for the re- sumption of the ecoinage of silver dollars to the amount of $1,500,000 monthly until fur- ther orders, THE MAYOR'S SECRETARY—W. R., Philo, Men® docino County, Cal. James Taylor Rogers, at present secretury to Mayor Sutro of this City Was at one time a resident of Mendocino Coun- ty and practiced law in Ukiah. 1IN CASE OF DEATH—S., Ci In case of death of either of the present candidates for Presi- dent or Vice-President before election, the vacancy would be filled by the National Com- mittee of the party. If the death occurred on the eve of election or at any time before the electoral college - opened, then the election would rest with the Presidential electors. TARIFF FIGURES—S,, City. During the first nineteen montbs of the operations of the Wilson tariff bill the expenditures were $557,- 581,385, and the receipts $451,423 500, leav- 10g & deficiency of $76,157,884. During the first nineteen months of the operations of the McKinley tarift law the receipts were $566, 914,004, and the expenditures $541,930,78: leaving a surplus of $24,983,221. PAPER CURRENCY—J. W., Oakland, Cal. On the last day of April, of the current year, the amount of paper currency ouistanding was: United States notes, $374.681,016; treasury notes of 1890, $133,069,280; National bank notes, 273,789,438; gold certificates, $43,817 - 469; silver certificates, $350,412. . Total, $1,098,769,707. These figures are furnished by the United States Bureau of Statistics at Washington. COLOR OF GOLD—Ambitious Tenderfoot, City. Gold in its natural state as a general thing is yellow, but its color is notably affected by small quantities of other metals. The tint is sensibly lowered by small quantities of silver and heightened by mfif"' The surface color of particles of gold is often apparantly reddened by translucent films of brown iron ore. In thin leaf gold the metal is transparent, and the transmitted light is of a green color; when heated it changes to ruby red. PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION — 8everal Sub- scribers, City. The constitution provides for the succession of the Vice-President in case of the deatn, removal, resignation or disebility of the Presicent, and gives Congress power to provide what officer shall suceeed in case of the death, removal, etc., of the Vice-President. In 1793 Congress provided that in such case succession should pass next to the President of the Senate and then io the Speaker of the House of Representatives. This wasof doubt- ful constitutivnality and atiended with some inconvenience and danger. Hence Congress, in 1886, provided that in case of the death, r moval, etc., of the President and Vice-Presi- dent the succession should next pass to the cabinet officers, in the following order, pro- vided the officer on whom it devolves has been confirmed by the Senate and is by birth and otherwise qualified to hold the office: Secre- tary of State, Treasury, War, Attorney-Gen- eral, Postmester-General, Secretary of the Navy and of the Interior. The officer thus elected serves out the unexpired term. BEST peanut taffy in the world. Townsend’s,* Srgspth i3 SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ————— Her Father—Has my daughter given you any encouragement, sir? Suiter—Well, she said you were always a very generous parent.—Philadelphia American. Cheap Excursion to St. Paul. The Shasta route and the Northern Pacifig Rall- road has been selected as the official route to at- tend the National Encampment of the G. A. R. a: St. Paul, 10 be held there September 210 5. The excursion will leave San Francisco and Sacra- mento August 26 at 7 P. . Rates $67 90 for tha 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, 638 Marke: treet, San Franclsco, for sleeping-car réservaiioas. ———————— Are You Going East? The Atlantic and Pacific Rallrond—Sants =3 route—is the coolest and most comfortable sum- mer line, owing to its elevation and absence ot alkali dust. Particularly adapted for the trans- portation of families because of its palace draw- ing-room and moaern npholstered tourist slesplng- cars, which run dally through from Oaklaod to Chicago, leaving at a seasonable hour and in charge of attentive conductors and porters. Tiok- etofice, 644 Market street, Chronicle building ‘Telephone, Main 153 v “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrun’ Has been used over50 years by millions of mothery for their children while Teething with perteot su cess. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allayy Pain, cures Wind Collc, regulates the Bowels and isthe bes; remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or other causes. Kor sale by Druz- g18ts in every part of the world. Be sure and asc for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25 & bOitla. ———— CORONADO.—Atmosphers 13 perfectly dry, st and mild, being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Roundstrip tickets, by steam- ship, including fifteen devs’ board at the Hotel al Coronado, $60: longer stay $250 perday. ApN7 4 New Jonigomery st., SanFrancisco. S Gt SENSIBLE.—AD old sea-captain writes to J. C, Ayer & Co. that he never goes to sea without & supply of Ayer’s Pills. Restful Raggles—Yer don’t know wot it ig ter lose a good husband, do yer, ma'am? Mrs. Farmer—No, sir. Restful Raggles—I'm glad uv dat! I'm sick uv havin’ his ole clo’es offered to me w'en I ask fer grub.—Puck. 6 TEX HOUS Profits Divided S o -Cusv::)l;ners. BIG CUT e i Crockery, China and Glasswars A HANDSOME PRESENT GIVEN EACH CUSTOMER FRUIT | foprbo pun, JARS i Bt B G (et American [mporting Tea [, 218 Third st. 2008 Fillmore st.