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That the sentiment about which Mr. Bryan wound threads of pleasing rhetoric isshallow no one who carefully analyzes his speech will deny, but like as in all shallow waters dangers to craft lurk everywheire. The central thought of Mr. Bryan's speech and that which sustained the burden of his argument makes the pur- pose of that wing of the Democratic party clear and certain, At the very outset Mr, Bryan declared that wealth is trespassing upon the rights of the individual. War was then and there declared against capital and labor invited to take up arms against it. He saia, *“*we welcome such opposition,” meaning the industrial and commercial enterprises of the Unitea States that are | opposing his free trade and unsound money theories of government. Mr, | Bryan quoted from Andrew Jackson to fortify his communistic aims, but he | neglected to say that Andrew Jackson — | called down Calhoun and others for advo- FRIDAY THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e e - ot e s PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McXINLEY, of Ohio ¥OR VIOF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey RE ELECTION NOV 1896. e boy orator has bust: Cleveland did not even send pis regrets. It was a scattering speech and it scat- tered the crowd. All agree that Bryan’s spesch was long, but who says it was The New Yorkers heard Bryan out, but they wouldn’t wait for Se The deficit continues to rise, but fortu- nately Uemocrac; ing down. The Nebraska spellbinder did not work any better in New York than a hayrake. Every Republican should join a Repub- lican club and take part in the work of the | canvass. Democracy and panic are becoming synonymous terms in well-informed busi- ness circles. All the well-known Democrats of New | York seem to have been out of town when Bryan arrived, If a multitude of words can cover up a platform, Bryun’s speech has done the job for the one he stands on. There are very few men in the Demo- cratic camp who can explain even to| thkmselves what they are there for, From the crowd that greeted Bryan at Madison-square Gardens it seems evident the Bowery must have been deserted, The Democratic National Committee knows that Gorman is slick and some of them remember that he is also slippery. The middle-of-the-road Populists will observe that Bryan did not accept their vlatform or even give thanks for the offer of it, Accorging to the reports the audience that greeted Bryan in New York was very enthusiastic at the start, but he talked it tired before he quit. Elliott Danforth in{roduced Bryan to the New Yorkers, and now some one should introduce Danforth to the coun- try; the people don’t know him. It is certain that Bryan's speech was a sad disappointment to the crowd that went to hear it. They expected a great oration and they got a verbose manuscript. It is not certain yet whether that Madi« son-square Garden affair was intended to be a revival for silver Demaocrats or a Juneral for Whitney and David Bepnett Hill McKinley was nominated because he was known and bonored throughout the land, while Bryan is becoming a little bit known because he happened to be nomi- nated. 3 The expenditures of the Urited States are not too great for the wealth of the Nation, but we need a tariff that will yield a better revenue and we also need able men to administer it. The cry of the Democratic organs that the Republican party is opposed to silyer has died out. The thing was too plainly contradicted by the Republican platform ;o live even the ordinary life of a campaign ie. Sound-money and sound-business Demo- crats who will vote for McKinley, but do not wish to join Republiean clubs, should organize clubs of their own ana bring the voters of their faith together. can be done by scattering, but much can be accomplished by organization. This Nation will never repudiate an obligation, it will never depreciate its coin- age, it will never wrong its creditors nor lower the value of the wages of its work- ingmen. It will maintain its honor as its life and seek prosperity by providing hon- est mouey for honest labor, instead of trying to evade a debt by juggling with its currency. McKinley's statement to the veterans of his old regiment on Wednesday: “I be- lieve it is a good deal better to open up the mills of the United States to the labor of America than to open the mints of the United States to the silver of the world,” contained 'more pith, point and good sound sense than the whole of Bryan's long harangue. The Republican weeklies of the interior are domng noble work for the good cause and should be widely circulated during the campaign by the Republican clubs of their localities. The best campaign docu- ment that can be designed to convert Democrats is a live Republican paper that tells bim the advantage of protection to his own county. Nothing ! | cating a political doctrine far less in oppo- sition to the spirit of the National Govern- ment than was imvplied in bhis own utter- ances. Mr. Bryan likened the men of this coun- try who have gridironed the land with railways for the benefit of commerce, and who have erected mills and factories everywhere to highwaymen, and by inti- mation at least he urzed his hearers to combine against capital—against the very cavpital that is the co-worker of labor in transforming the material resources of the country into merchantable products. Is it good for wage-earners who operate rail- | ways of the country to have Mr. Bryan try to set them in hate against the source of | their income? 1s it good for aperatives in tbe shops, the mills and the factories of the country to have Mr, Bryan going up } and down the land denouncing their em- | ployers as bighwaymen and calling upon them to declare war against the capital | that pays them their wages? Neverthe- less that is what Mr. Bryan’s speech | means. Mr. Bryan has removed all doubt as to what influence dominates him, Hisattack upon capital and his effort to inangurate a war of classes is Altgeldism, and should Mr. Bryan be elected Altgeld will be the | staff upon which the President will lean, | Aside from the attack upon those who | conduct the great business and transporta- | tion interests of the country Mr. Bryan's speech is a rehash of what he has been | saying for twe months, only that the re- | hashing of it dulis many of the sharp points. Tosum up Mr, Bryan's speech. On the money question he contradiots the ablest | political economists and statesmen of all | parties. On the tariff question be contra- | dicts the experience of the country for | more than a century, On the question of internal improvements he believes Gov- ernment expenditure of money should be- zin and stop with the Mississippi Riyer. | On the question of agriculture he believes the American farmer should have no pro- tection against the cheap-labor countries of Europe and South America. On the sugar-bounty question he believes it no | better to demand a bounty on sugar than to rob s man on the hizhway. On the sil- ver question he believes the Government should double the price of the silver- miner’s product, “I AM FOR FREE WOOL.” | When Bryan was in Congress he an~ nounced with all the force he could wring out of words, “I am for free wool!” Al- ready the sheep men of Nebraska and other Western States are forming organi- zations to work against his election, and very many of them were ardent free- | silver and Bryan men a fortnight ago. | They are still for silver, but as between free silver and protected wool they prefer the latter; besides, the idea of Mr. Mec- Kinley that this country needs to have the industries opened to labor very much more than to have the mints opened to silver just at this time is finding favor in all the sheep States. Sheep-raisers are beginning to see that free-silver toinage would not increase the demand for wool, but that the opening of woolen factories under proper protection would not only incresse the demand, but very materially advance wool values. Had Mr. Bryan known what & boomerang he wes casting forth when he declared ‘I am for free wool,’” he probably would have been a little more circumspect, but his record on the tariff question 1s being dis- tributed pretty freely in all the States, and the wool producers of the West are not the only silver men who are deserting his flag. The man, whatever his oceupation may be, is unwise if he thinks the tariff ques- tion is not paramount. There can be no | prosperity until the business situation is relieved of the obstructions which the Wilson tariff bas putin the way. When they shall beremoved and there is activity throughout all the highways of trade and traffic the Republican party will see to it that the mints are opened to the coinage of silver in a way that the question of the parity of a silver dollar with a gold dollar will never be thought of, because every dollar will be 100 cents and excbangeable for any other kind of a dollar on a basis of jpar. “Iam for free wool” is doing a noble | work for protection and prosperity every- | where, A FRANK ADMISSION. It was very good of Mr. Bryan to con- tradict himself by asserting that Blaine, Sherman and other distingnished Repub- licans had always been bimetallists. A moment before he charged that the Re- publican party was wedded to the gold standard, but to prove that bimetallism is the proper thing he quoted from Repub- lican authority. Of course he did not stop to think that he was not only contradict- ing himself, but was actually commend- ing the Republican party for adhering to the bimetallic monetary system. Hereafter Democratic speakers, and 'newspapers will be a little careful when they talk about the Republican party being a *‘golabug’ party, for their can- didate for President asserts positively that the leading men of the Republican party, and whko are enthusiasticaily supporting Major McKirley, are good enough bimet- allists for anybody. ButMr. Bryan tells no news. The Republican party is now and has always been for a bimetallic cur- rency. The difference b¢tween Demo- cratic and Republican bimetallism is that Democratic bimetallism would immedi- ately lead to silver monometallism, while Republican bimetallism is absolutely sure to lead to the use of both metals to the full extent of their production; and not only so, but the Republican plan will keep all kinds of dollars right up to 100 cents. In admitting that the Republican party is committed to bimetallism Mr. Bryan practically admits that his own plan of re- instating silver is not tenable. At least in quoting from the leaders of the Republi- can party, who are for a bimetallic cur- rency, he tacitly admits that their plan is the correct one, and in that he is justified by the facts. Mr. Bryan is young and in- experienced in the practical npmicutipn of economic theories, but the Republicans whom he quotes have been engaged in directing the affairs of the Nation for more than a quarter of a century. 1t fol- lows, therefore, that as between them and Mr, Bryan they should know best how to open the mints to the coinage of silver. In adhering to the theory that we copld resume silver coinage on an unlim- ited scale jndependent of the people_ of other nations with whom we doan im- mense business, Mr. Bryan tacitly admits that his position is not at all in harmony with the opinion of Republicans who have been making the money question a study since before he was born, and as be- tween the two it is safe to believe that the people will follow the advice of Senator Sherman, Major McKinley and other dis- tinguished Republican bimetallists. THE DUTY OF LABOR. There are over 5,000,000 spindles stand- ing idle in New England alone, But what is true of cotton and woolen mills in the East is true of every industry, no matter where it 18 located ; and when it is remem- bered that when a mill or factory shuts down the influence is felt all along the line down to the raw material, the mis- fortunes which have come upon the coun- try through the Wilson tariff act will be better appreciated, The relation between labor and capital bas been severed, and capital is in hiding while labor is idle and hungry. There pever wasatime in the history of the country when labor was in such distress as now, and it is a severe commentary on the supposed excellence of our system of goyernment. If the country had never been blessed with the advantages of protection we would not know what elevated and intelli- gent labor was, but until the tariff act of 1890 was repealed labor was in the habit of enjoying life to the uttermost, besides putting aside a few dollars every month for a “rainy day."” Now, however, all the days are ‘“rainy” for labor, there are no savings to draw upon, and labor feels the change very keenly. Butabor must not forget that it constitutes a majority of the population and that it has itin its power to reinstate the tariff act of 1890, which gave it so much prosperity. 1t would seem that labor, knowing its own political power as it does, would perfect club and other organizations so as to be able to throw its entire vote in November fora governmental policy that would secure it plenty of work at good wages six days in the week, A good many wage-earners have got an idea that it is the money question that most interests them, but they make a great mistake by not demanding a tariff that will guarantee them steady work as the first step toward prosperity. The present monetary system makes one dollar as good as another, and there is enough money to put the industries in active operation and give all kinds of labor steady work in pay that isas good as gold, After the mills and factories and shops are in full blast, then let labor turn its atten- tion to the money question and demand a himetallic system that shall make a silver American dollar as good as a gold dollar anywhere in the world. First, however, let Jabor put things in shape to give it work, and that it can do by simply de~ claring that it wants and will have protec- tion against tha cheapand pauper labor of other countries. If labor is in earnest in its cry for employment, let it organizeand participate in the campaign against Bryan’s cheap money and repudiation theories, schemes and plans, JAPAN AND FREE TRADE It isshown in to-day’s CALL that Jap- anese goods are made et a cost that Americans cannot compete with. While the importations of such goods are not yet large enough to cause serious trouble, a study of the situation shows that factories are being extended througbout the realm of the Mikado, and the day is not far dis- tant when the American wage-workerand manufacturer will feel the competition keenly. Japan furnishes a fine object lesson, a splendid example of the way Bryanism would work, Witbout a taritf the goods of the Japanese, like those of other cheap labor countries, would prove a menace to American labor and capital alike, Ina land where little children work for 5to 8 cents a day, and where artisans do not get more than ten to twelve times that sum for a day of ten hours, goods can be made at prices ruinous to competition in a lana like the United States. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. @larence Holt, the veteran English actor, is about to publish his reminiscences. Lord Roberts has been gtented $30,000 for the purpose of the military maneuvers in Ireland. Li Hung Chang during his stay in Paris generaliy lunched with M. Hanotaux on the Eiffel Tower. The London Daily News savs: “We have to congratulate the veteran tenor Sims Reeves on the birth of a son. Bims Reevesis 74 years of age.” John Morley has rented Hilders, Hasle- mere, from Mr. McLaren, M. P., for several ‘weeks, and will go there as soon as Parhament is prorogued. Eighteen years ago J, B. Robinson, the South African 1aillionaire, kept a small grocery-store in the Orange Free State. He is said to be now worth $25,000,000. According to London papers there is no truth 1n the report that Sir H. Johnston in- tends to retire from the post of High Commis- sioner in Central America. It is rumored that the will of the lateLord, Clonmell, who has left all his property away from his family, is likely to become the cause of a good deal of litigation. 3 Benator Patrick Walsh of Georgia says: “As to bloomers women can best decide. Ihavea secret hope that they will stick to skirts and remain sweet and womanly." A dinner party pt Windsor Castle’ recently 1ncluded the Marquis and Marchioness of Salis- bury, the Bishop of Peterborough,the Duke and Duchess of Mariborough and the Earl and Countess of Lathom. # Massenet's “Manon” was given in Frenchjat Covent Garden recently betore a erowded audience, which included the Prince and Princess of Wales and their daughters and Prince Charles of Denmark. Elizabeth Blackwell, M. D., who at the age of 75 has just published a baok of autobio- graphical notes entitled *“Ploneer Work in o was the first woman to receive a megical di- ploma from any medical college in this coun- try or Europe. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. George D, Moore, & wealthy general mer- chant of San Antonfo, Tex/, who for many years did business in Iowa, where he was long the intimate friend of Senator Gear,is at the Grand, Mr. Moore is here to await the srrival of some friends from Salt Lake, when they will proceed to the islands of the Pacific, across the Indian Ocean,and probably around the world. For over thirty-five years Mr. Moore has been continually in husiness, and he now wants io give himselr a little rest. “‘Texas i3 50 big a State,” he said last night, “that for a long Ume I aidn’t know whether I would ever get far enough away to get out of it. However, here I am at last. “I presume it is hardly known here that San cial republic for over 400 years. In 1667— .over 200 years aiter tne capture of Constanti- nople by the Turks—the subjection of the whole island to the Ottoman power was accom- plished by the fall of Cendis, which had stood a slege of over twenty years. For 229 years following the crescent emblem of Mohamme- danism has waved over Christian Crete. In choosing a flag to replace the symbol of fanaticism and oppression and to mark them among the family of the nations it is very natural and entirely appropriate for the braye and unconquerable islanders to go back to the Byzantine era and choose the emblem placed over them by the Great Constantine, and un- der which for over 500 consecutive years an again after an interval of 137 years of Sara- cenic rule—for 244 vears more—they enjoyed & period of peace and prosperity that théy have never known since: Crete still retains the name she had under the Byzantine Government, The Byzantine eagie was the only emblem of authority ever raised on the island which the people wel- George D. Moore of San Antonio, Now at the Grand, Who Tells of the Great Ranch of Mrs. King, the Texas Cattle Queen. |Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] Antonio s yet the greatest cattle mart in the country. Most people think that the daysof the great cattle-growers, what you call the booms, are almost over. But if you go to San Antonio and thereabout you will find great ranches and hundreds of thousands of cattle et. y'-’rhu cattle queen of the couptry is Mrs. King, who has an enormous ranch, sixty-five miles across, and how long [ don't know, but an enormous principality in itself, and having on it many hundted thoussnd head of cattle. ‘Some time since a sale was on tapis for this ranch, and the agreement was made down to the saddle horses that were to go With it, but on them they stuck, and a sale for millions failed to go through. “I know another cattle ranch there thatis 120 miles around. There are many other great ranches there. *As for Ban Antonio it has about 60,000 in~ habitants. It is a little quiet now, but in the main is as good & business point a8 I know. The climate is good, too. Iam very well satistied with it, How is politics in Texas? Well, you know, things usually go one way in Texas, and I suppose it will go that way this year. No, Ishail not leave here for a week at least. I want to stay and see more of this city and the surroundings, of which I have long heard.”” THE NEW FLAG OF CREIE. The flag recently adopted by Crete has some resemblance to that of Greece, & nation tnat stands nearest to her in racial and religious ties, From the earliest time to 67 B. C. the Cretans had maintained their independence against the various monarchies by whom they were surrounded. In that year, however, the peo- ple were subdued by Quintus Metellus, who thereby earned his surname Creticus, From that time until the reign of Constantine the Great, A. D, 323, Crete was under the adminis- tration of the Roman Governor on the oppo- site coast of Africa. Under Constantine it was made a separate prov.nce under & Governor of consular rank, and so continued to form a part of the Byzantine Empire until the year A, D. 828, when it was captured by the Saracens,who successfully resisted all efforts to recapture it until the year A. D. 960, when it again passed under the Byzantine eagle, and s0 continued untl A.D."1204, when Contantinople was taken by the Latins and the Byzautine Empire WA overthrown, 3 Crete fell to the Iot of the Marquis of Mont- serrat and was by him sold to the Venetians, and continued under that powerful commer- comed and approved and in time came to love and regard as their own. Noother nation that onee formed a part of the Byzantine Empire and acknowledged the authoriiy represented by the Byzantine eagle claims or uses it as its standard, Crete is the logical atd historical heir to the emblem. She has never recognized any other as her own. LETTERS ¥ROM THE PEOPLE. THE FIRST PLOW. ONE MADE IN OREGON WEHICH Was USED IN 1846. To the Editor of the San Francisco Cgli—DEAR SIE: As there appears to be a Controversy as to the date of making the first plow on the Pa- cifie Coast and as to who made it permit me to say that both Mr, Capp and the claimant for Mr, Balbach are “away off” in their state- ments. Upon my arrival on the Pacific Coast in 1845 1 found & large number of plows in use by the farmers in Oregon that were made on the Pa- cifie Coast, Itistrue the plows in question were made in Oregon, but upon consulling the maps I find Oregon to be a portion of the Pa~ citie Coasi. The first American settlers in Ortinn ory missionaries of the Methodist piw&p‘ Chureh, and nearly ail hailea from the New England States. They brought their Yankee thrift and enterprise with them in the same %h‘m that brought their prayer-books an 0. 1in that party of missionaries was a Conmnee- ticut blacksmith by the name of Alanson Buss. 1t did not take Buss long to discover that plow- meking psid better than convert-making, so to plow-making he went, and in a few years he acquired what in those days was regarded as a handsome fortune. 1 used oneof the Buss plows—made in Oregon—in 1846 on the farm of Hon, W. H. Reese in Oregon, and again in the spring of 1850 on_the Amerlean River, near &crnmemo, Cal. Tt was along in the late thirties when Buss e his first p) nvu(?‘n‘tl!.m coast. Modesto, August 9, 1896. TOMMY WATSON'S PART. Cleveland Leader. Mr. Bryan can now arrange it so that, while Mr. Sewall is carrying the cross of {:\d. Tom V\;n 'l.lson ‘may trot along behind with the crown of thorns, (NEVER MIND, MR. SEWALL. Chicago Post. Never mind, Mr.Sewall, the silverites say you may play in their yerd, anyway. The flag just adopted by the Provisional Government of Crete con- sists of nine stripes (five blue and four white), taken from the Grecian flag, with the Byzantine eagle in the center. i The Greek flag, which appears immediately below the Cretan en- ming the Medical Projession to Women," | sign, has five blue and four white stripes, running longitudinally, with a white cross on a blue field in upper left-hand corner and a golden crown in the center of the cross. PERSONAL. G. G. Kimball of Red Bluff is at the Palace. Dr. H. H. Clark of Santa Cruz is in the City. Wiliam R. Rowland of Los Angeles is in town. Dr. T, B, Read of Sacramento is here fora short stay. * George Waite, 2 business man of Los Angeles, on & visit here, A. Michaelson, an artist of London, England, is at the Occidental. L. J. Maddox, an attorney of Modesto, is registered at the Grand. J.¥. Deafendorf, a real estate operator of 8an Jose, is at the Grand. W. H. Clary Jr., son of & rich mine-owner of Sheep Ranch, is at the Lick. Ogden Mills, the well-known busines man of Balt Lake, is at the Occidental. C. W, Thompson, owner of a large general store at Tomales, is at the Russ. E. C. Cuip of Kansas, who is interested in California gold mines, is in the City. F. W, Yokum, & mining manand extensive | 1andowner of Le Grand, is at the Russ, Cecil B. Burkham, son of Postmaster Burk- ham of Bodie, is here on a business trip. Mrs. W. J. Scott and family of San Luis Ohispo are guests at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, 8. H. Barrett, general agent for Forepaugh and Sells' circus, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. A, D. Remington, the psper manufacturer of ‘Watertown, N. J., is among the recent arrivals here. Lieutenant R. B. Belknap of the United Btates navy arrived here from the Orient yesterday. Thomas Clark, owner of a rich gold mi near Placerville, is among the recent arrival at the Grand. Charles K, MeClatehy of the Sagcramento Bee and Mrs. McClaichy and children are vis- iting friends in this City. Dr. James A. Hart of Colorado Springs, who who has been on a two months’ visit to Japan, arrived here yesterday en route hom: M. V. Vanderhoof, ex-Deputy Sheriff and now Assessor of Santa Cruz County, s here ona brief visit and is registered at the Russ. Ex-Governor James H. Kinkead of Nevada, who is now superintendent of some of the leading Comstock properties, is at the Palgce. L, Samael Montague, a banker of London, was among those who reached here on the steamer Coptic yesterday, He is at the Occi~ dental, Morris U. Bates, who for iwenty-one years has been editor and one of the owners of the Commercial Daily News, is danzerously ill at his residence, 403 Clayton street. Physicians are trying to aid him so that he can be got to the country. His iliness is said to be causea by an affection of the kidneys, Andrew Wasson, Collector of the Port at Port Townsend, Wash., and in 1890-91 a mem- berof the Legislature of that State, is at the Palace. Mr. Wasson is an old Calitornian and was formerly Sheriff of Monterey Countv. In this capacity he ran some of the most des- perate characters to earth and succeeded in ridding the State of them. He will be in San Francisco and other perts of California for pome little time. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 13.—At the St. Cloud, Mrs. J. Hubert; Holland—Mrs, L. H. Ellis, A. Rutherford, R. Weill, O. Black; Im- perial, €. €. Moore; St Denis—W, H. Stanley, J, J. Wirtner; Park Avenue. C. H. Ball; Hoff. man, L, Stagge snd wife; Metropole, E. New= man, NO WHEEL FOR HIM, Give me = pair of sturdy legs And fair outfit of fesr, Ana T'll forego the bicycle, However light and fleet. For where's the wheelman knows the wood, Or views the cloud-flecked sky? Or leaps the fence to meet a 1ass A-comin’ thfough the rye? loveliness To every glimps And should he meet 8 maid a-whee He can't think aye or no Fre he or she have whisked apart A dozen ieagues or 80. Then give me my convenient legs, That go where'er I bid. Heaven keep them aiways tireless As when I was 8 kid. ~ —Buffalo Courler, NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Domestic Economy in the Spelling Class— Teacher—Tommy, spell napkin. Tommy—N-a-p, nap, k-i-n, kin; napkin. Teacher—Right. Define napkin, Tommy. Tommy—Napkin is something we use when we have company.—Browning, King & Ca.’s Monthly. Henry Peck—Does your wife scold you for coming home late? Crabbe—Not a bit of it. Henry Peck—How do you manage it? Crabbe—I don’t have any wife.—Philadelphia North American, ‘Mabel,” said the man who favors free sll- wer, “that young man who calls to see you re- mains altogether too late. It was after half- past 12 when he started for home last night.” “Ican’t help it, father.” “Can’t you give him some kind of a hint?" I did. But he said he had too much respect for your sentiments to think of leaving untiy 16 minutes to 1.”’—Washington Star. “Our agreement was that you were to have half if we won the guit,” declared the client. «Exactly,” responded the lawyer, “but you got only half what you sued for and thatis justmy share.”—Detroit Free Press. Teacher—What was the reason our ancestors did not haye any knowledge of the earth being round? Speak out, Johnnie. Johnnie—Perhaps it was because they didn’t have any school globes ip those days.—Tam. many Times, “Why have Ashley and Miss Gushington broken off ?"* “He thought to compliment her by saying that she reminded bim of his mother.—Cleve- land Leader. " “What's this I hear you're going to do, Jen- pie?”’ said an Aberdeen lass to another women. “Well, Maggie, lass, I'm just going to marry that farm over there and live with the little chap on it,"—London Tit-Bits. T'm as happy as a lark in May, What is it makes me so? T've asked my love to be my wite And she has apswered #No.” Then why should I be jubilant? Me thinks I heard you say. Still I'm as bappy as a lar) ‘That sings Its song in May, For when 8 malden says she won's ¥ou know she means she will. Therefore, though I have been refused, Hne Is my dagling still. 2 —~Cleveland' Leader. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. mmm‘rh—!‘. T.W., City. Chemistry is not ugot at the evening sessions of - e Kt hdieal '_ 6 e Fole Forry-F1ve—W, T. 8, City, In the game of forty-five, if two or four engage, the firss side making forty-five wins. . (‘::urmul!&-:). ?« City, Company H, Fifth nfants B s at thil tatio! Fort lre’l‘hunnn, eor.l:.h i gl Ay TWENTIETH CENTURY—A. C. K., Auburn, Placer County, Cal. The t commences w{u: the yu: ufi'fifm"h ntery ):‘d.ml “:‘imumol c“li. W., 8an Diego, Cal, nds in the Sta fornia, both munieipal, are payable in lol; coin. ks “THE WRITER''—C. W, City. “The Writer,” & publication for the use of li ker u’pumun in the city :t Bollu::':‘ u:ax ad e A VALUABLE FIVE—E. W, T, City. A five dollar piece of 1832 commands a preminm of from $4 50 10 $7 50, rdi i $7 50, according to the state of PREPARATORY SCHOOL—F. T. R,, City. In the Lincoln Evening School there is & ¢lass from which the graduates can ‘admisslo! fa the Univarsity of Caltornla - CORBETT-SHARKEYF, C, J., City. The fight betwesn Corbett and Sharkey took placsin st s Clty on the 24th of last June. The next fight yme off some time within e e rom June 36, the date of the signing of the articles, but the date has not yet been fixed. 2 ARCHITECTURE—A. J, S., City. At thistime there is no class in architecture in the Lincoln Evening School. There is such aclass at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, but it is not di. rectiy connected with the School of Design. Xlg is under the supervision of the Architects Guild. TaE RATLROAD K1XG—A. 0. 8., City, William Henry Vanderbilt, son of Cornelius, died De- cember 8, 1885. He succeeded to the bulk of the paternal estate. By his will he left to each of hiseight children $10,000,000; to Cornelius, Dis eldest son, $2,000,000 additional; the resi- due went in equal shares to his two eldest sons, but charged with an annuity of $200,000 10 his widow. DoustruL ViLue—W. J. 8, Angel Island, Cal. A $10 bill issued by the State of Ala- bama, payable to bearer and redeemsble in five per cent coupon bonds of the State, or in Confederate treasury motes, at the o n%nloi the State,” is a piece of paper of very doubtfu. value. As there are no Confederate notes at this time, and the State of Alabama has not made any provision for the cancellation of war debts, it 18 hardly probable that the bill in question *‘would be redeemed on | resentation at the State treasury of Alabama.’ ENAKES IN IRELAND—S., City. Snakes arenot indigenous to Ireland, yet there is nothing in either soil or climate to prevent their natural. ization. To test this snakes were introduced in County Down in 1831. They were of a harmless species. They were pl.:;c:’lneddnt Co- t Garden market, numbered six and were :::nagon! in the garden of Rath Gail House. One of these was killed at Milecross a week after being liberated. Three more were killed within six weeks, but the other two were not traced, although a reward was offered for their capture. In 1834, according to a Beliest cor- respondent of the Dublin Penny Post, snakes were again introduced in Ireland and they thrived. BisHoP, THE NovELIST—C. R., San Diego, Cal. 'W. H. Bishop, the novelist, was born in Hart- ford, Conn., January 7, 1847. He graduated at Yale, studied architecture in New York City, passed some time in the United States architect’s office in Washington, D, C. After that he edited s ne\v:gnper_ in Mil- waukee, Wis., and then retnrn, tn New York City, where he remained from 1877 to 1888, when he went to Eurore for an extended tour. His first story, *“One of the Thirty Pieces,” ap- peared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1876. His books are: ‘‘Detmold, a Romanee'’ (1879), “The Household of a Merchant Prince” (1883) “Choy Susan_and Otber Stories” (1884), ¢ Mexico and Her Lost Provinces" (1884, ¢ Golden Justice” (1886), and “The Brown Stone Boy” (1888). THE FIRsT RAILROAD—A. C. R., City, The first railroad projected in the United States was that built by Gridley Bryant in 1825. It ran from the granite quarries of Quincy, Mass., to nearest tidewater, the Neponset River, distant four miles. It was used to carry granite for the building of the Bunker Hill monument. The rails were flat, wooden ones, laid on woodea nlee_gorl and covered with s of iron piates. The motive power was D o rO e acond road was 'one whioh extended from Mauch Chunk, Pa, to the Tehigh River, s distance of _thirteen miles. That road was commenced in 1827. Stephen- son’s locomotive came into use in 1829 and b 1830 there were twenty-three miles of rail- road completed in the United States. Now the United States represents one-half of the rail- road mileage of the world. ———————— A SEASONABLE COSTUME. The waist shown here has & fitted Lning which fastens in the center front. Over this the goods is seamless but for the under-arm gore, where the bodice fastens at the left side. The skirt is eut eircular in front, and has two gores in the back which arelsid in box- pleats, A costume of biue serge had yoke and sleeves of bright plaid silk. Across the top of the bodice was & band of spangle trimmings an inch wide, and the same trimming formed a narrow belt. A new mohair had sleeves and yoke of natural-colored batiste, with lines of gay colors forming crossbars, A dark-green mohair having a design in the weave had the yoke and sleeves of two-toned taffetas in green and viclet. The trimming consisted of violet velvet rolled on the upper eXx. of bodice, and also used belt. bandsome gown oi black grenadine over pale reseda silk had the yoke of black lace in a very open design over the green silk. Green ribbons formed stock collar and belt, the top of the bodice being edged wish a narrow 'p“f:d band in green and gotd. A boule canvas in brown had the yoke of white lace over pale-blue silk, the border was trimmed with piping of velvet at the top, snd each of the points was apparently held in place by a handsome button of filigres gold over pearl. A giit belt was worn. FRESH buttercups, 25¢ & pound, Townsend" el i A g Glasses 15c. SBunday 738 Mrkt. Kast shocstore.* ——— FrEsH lot of halibut from Alaska at foot of Howard street, 5¢ a pound. - ——————— Dr. C. O. DEaN, dentist, formerly of 126 Kearny street, has reopened at 5§ Kearny, * ————————— SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —_———— A Happy Day, Visalia Times. ©Oh, happy day, when the Valley railroad eg Visalia and rescues us {rom the grasp of the “‘octopus!’ —_— Cheap Excursion to St. Paul. ‘The Ehasta route and the Northern Pacific Ralls road has been selected as-the official route to at tend the National Encampment of the G. A. B. at 8t. Paul, 10 be held there September 310 5. Tha excursion will leave San Francisco and Saora- mento August 26.at 7 .. Rates §67 90 forihe round trip. The above rate 13 open to all who wish tomake the trip East. Send your name and ad- dress to T. K. Stateler, general agent, 638 Marke: treen, 5ab Francisco, for sleeping-car reservacioas —————— Are You Going East? The Atiantic and Pacific Rallroad—Sants =+ route—1s the coplest and most comfortable sum- mer line, owing o its elevation and abssnoce of slkali dust. Particularly adapted for the traas- portation of families because of fis palace draw- Ing-room and moaern upholstered tourist sleeplag- cars, which run daily through from Oakland 1o Chicago, leaving a: & seasonable hour and ia ebarge of attentive conductors and porters. Tick: etoffice, 644 Marker sireen Chronicle oulldiag “Telephone, Main 1531. B T “Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syran'" Has been used overg0 years by millions of mothery for their children whilo Teething with perfec sao- cess. It s0othes the child, softens the gums, all Pain, cures Wind Colic, reguiates the Bowels an: Inthe best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or other causes. 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