The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 25, 1896, Page 6

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MaIn-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 580 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open natll 9:80 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. EW, corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets; open until § o'clock. 2618 Mission street; open until § 0'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE ¢ 908 Brosdway. EASTERN OFFICB: Booma 51 sud 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. TUESDAY AUGUST 25, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e e e e et e PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT- WILLIAN McKINLEY, of Oblo FOR VICF-PREBIDENT-— GARRET A, BOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. e s e i e Where there is thorough organization there is sure to be harmony. Democrats and Populists may pull to- gether, but they cannot organize together. Getting together means harmony first, organization second and victory in the end. The Republican who kicks against the party now will be kicking himself before long. The country is still waiting to hear what Mr. Bryan or his party promises the work- ingman, What troubles Cleveland more than anything else is the degeneration of his Cabinet. Men who work for American industry may be counted on to vote for American industry. The free-traders are not talking much this year, but they will vpte for Bryan just the same. The best way to support Republican principles is to make yourself a part of or- ganized Republicanism. Is California Populism a cat that it should be made to rake out of the fireall the chestnuts for Democracy ? It is said that Hill has invited Bryan to dinner, but it will be remembered Hill in- vited Jones to dinner. Dinners are cheap. California will march in the Republican column in November provided the Repub- licans of the State will furnish it a true harmony to march to. The first step 1n the campaign of all loyal Republicans should be to join a Re- publican club, for that is the way to catch step with the procession and keep it. Democracy says nothing in this cam- paign about sugar, wool, lumber, raisins, fruit, borax—in fact there is no California industry about which Democracy does say anything. There should be a Kepublican club in every school district of the State, for this is to be a campaign of education and should have a center wherever there is a schoolhouse. Major McKinley hasaiready made over fifty speeches during the campaign and every one of them carries to the country a promise of prosperity with an assurance of statesmanship. S e Free trade may suit some people, but it suits none who wish to develop the re- ' sources of America, to keep up the price of American products and advance the rate of American wages. Mining counties, farming counties, woo! counties and fruit counties are all inter- ested in protection; and all should have strong Republican clubs to work for Me- Kinley and prosperity. The magnificent organization of the Re- publican party in the great States of the East should rouse the emulation of Cali- fornia Republicans and inspire them with a determination to equal it. No Republican dislikes Mr, Bryan; no one has said a word against him. So far as we are concerned he may go through the campaign on flowery beds of ease, and console himself after it is over by frolic- ing among the chrysanthemums, £ The pledge of the Republican party in California in favor of woman's suffrage puts it in the van of a great movement for equal rights, and that is another reason why progressive men and women should ally tbemselves with it ana champion its cause. The Republican party has pledeed it- self to promote the free coinage of silver by international agreement, and the peo- ple know that Republican statesmen have both the honesty to keep the pledge and the ability to carry it out without disturb- ing business. L. C. Bateman, Populist candidate for Governor in Maine, has given the fusion fixers a pointer in saying, ** Apropos of Sewall, we beg to remind our Democratic friends that cutting off the ears of & jack- ass and pinning a few feathers on his tail doesn’t make him a canary bird.” ‘While we are sure of carrying Califorma for the great principles of protection, reciprocity and international bimetallism, we must not be so sanguine as to neglect organization nor so indifferent as to per- mit the development of a factional spirit in the party ranks. We must organize; we must harmonize; we must work to- gether for victory. PARTY HARMONY. The contrast between National Republi- canism and Nationa] Democracy in this campaign is most striking. 1Inthe central orgnn}‘ntion of the Republican party there is harmony of sentiment, unity of action and a well-disciplined co-operation every- where that gives to the party the coher- ence of a well-ordered army confident in its leaders and inspired with enthusiasm for a great cause. In the central Demo- | cratic organization there is discora, con- fusion, demoralization snd the mutual criminations and recriminations of men who have neither contidence in one an- other nor in themselves, and whose fac- tion fights not only assure defeat in the coming election but presage the destruc- tion of the organization as a political party. 5 This contrast between the National or- ganizations of the two great parties em- bodies an important lesson to the Repub- licans of California. On the one hand there is harmony and the assurance of victory, on the other is discord and the certainty of defeat. No argument in favor of party discipline in the State could be more effective than a consideration of the attitude of the two parties before the Na- tion. We cannot expect the National ticket to save the State, Congressional and county tickets for the Republican party unless the Republicans of California show as much loyalty to the local organization as they do to that of the Nation; and that loyalty must be ade manifest in the one case as in the other by harmony of senti- ment, unity of effort and thorough dis- cipline in the ranks, In every large aggregation of men there are always those who are ambitious of a | leadership they have not the ability to ex- | ercise, those who are discontented unless they have their way in everything, those | who are disposed to magnify every petty | evil in their own. party while overlooking | gross .ones in the opposition, and those who by reason of some personal spite or dissatisfaction with chosen leaders seek 10 | every way to weaken their influence and | if possible to prevent victory under their | management. Such men are, of course, to be found 1n the P oublican party of Cali- fornia and it is the duty of ioyal members | to be on guard against them and ever | prompt to baffle their efforts to breed dis- cord in the ranks during the campaign or scatter the vote on election day. Mischief-makers in themselves are pow- erless. Their numbers are always few and they rarely have courage enough to make an openly aggressive fight. The in- fluence they exert, however, is always { harmful and in critical moments may be disastrous. They sneer at the local leaders of the party, they mock at the plan of campaign, they misrepresent the truth to the injury of party interests, they draw the doubtful from the ranks, make the timid hesitate, confuse the public mind, turn away independent voters who do not know the truth, and thus lose to the party many votes in every locality where such mischief-makers are listened to or trusted. California has too much at stake in this campaign to run any risks, She must give her electoral vote for McKinley and | she must send to Congress a solid Repub- lican delegation to uphold his adminis- tration and support him in carrying out the measures of protection and interna- tional bimetallism. To effect this the Re- publicans of the State must work in unity and in harmony. Let us lay aside petty differences. Let us stand together for great principles. TWO PLATFORMS. . The Republican platform says: “We are unalterably opposed to every measure | calculated to debase our currency or im- pair the credit of our country.” The Democratic platform declares for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation. The meaning of the Democratic plat- form is that the mintsof the United States shall be thrown open to the free coinage of the silver product of all the world, and that the Government of the United States will undertake to keep and maintain 50 cents’ worth of anybody’s silver ata pur- chasing and debt-paying capacity of 100 cents, in opposition to the demands of commerce and the wish of other nations. The meaning of the Republican plat- form is that this Governmentshould avoid everything that is caleulated to debase our money at home or abroad, and that open- ing our mints to the free coinaze of the silver bullion, the silver spoons, the silver dishes, the silver plate and the silver in other shapes of the entire world to be ceined, into American dollars would de- base the American dollar. The Democratic platform means that our gold. our commerce, our agriculture, our industries and the weli-being of the people shall be made to submit to a mone- tary system that Horace Boies says is at best an experiment. The Republican platform means that there shall be the largest possible use of silver dollars; that they shall be the equivalent of gold dollars the world over, and that this Government wiil not permit discrimination against any form of the Nation's money. The Democratic platform means that the country shail be put upon a silver money basis, thus requiring two standards of value—one for National and one for inter- national business operations—and that gold shall be entirely eliminated from the channels of American commerce. The Republican platform means that the enormous volume of trade our people have with the people of other countries shall meet in conference with the- commerce of other nations and come to a mutnal agreement as t0 how best mints of the several nations may be opened to the free and unlimited coinage of silver to the end that commerce may have a larger volume of redemption money to meet the demands of its con- stant growth—redemption money com- posed of dollars which shall stand the one the equal of the other in all the uses that dollars are put to. The Democratic platform means that commerce at home nor abroad nor the best good of our home or international busi- ness interests shall be consulted, but that the people of Europe, Asia, Africa and South America shall ‘conform without question to our monetary system—a sys- tem that is condemned by our own busi- ness men—or cease commercial intercourse with us, The people should analyze these two party platforms and see for themselves how the Democratic platform proposes to obstruct the highways of trade and iraffic, and bow the Republican platform pro- vides for the widening gnd the deepening of all the channels of colnmerce with gold and silver. Sun THE SUGAR . INDUSTRY. The annual consumption of sugar in the United States is now, in round numbers, 2,100,000 tons, which is about sixty-five pounds per capita. . Of the total consump- tion we produce a little over 350,000 tons, leaving mearly 1,800,000 to be imported. ‘We pay annually over $108,000,000 for for- eign sugar and §20,000,000 for domestie. From authentic sources we gather the following, which shows what advantages would accrue to this country if the Repub- lican policy of protecting the suzar in- dustry were permanently operative, the figures being in round numbers ana the estimates based upon the home produc- tion, foreign production and consumption | in the 1ast year of the McKinley act: To produce the amount of sugar now imported would require 920 factories with a capacity of 850 tons of beets each for every working day of twenty-four hours. Each factory would work up the product of 2000 acres of sugar beets and the 920 factories would utilize the product of 1,800,000 acres, Atan average of ten tons of sugar beets per acre this would equal 18,000,000 tons of beets, which would be the amount of beets necessary to produce the sugar now imported. The total num- ber of men employed in the factories and in the beet fields would represent a popu- 1ation of about 2,500,000 -people. The average cost of construction of each factory having a capacity of 350 ‘tons is $400,000, or for 920 factories $368,000,000, which would be distributed among our machine-shops_and the building trades. Since 90 per cent of nearly all our fabrics represents labor it would follow that $331,200,000 would go directly into the hands of our mechanics and of labovers. The annual expenditure for materials and factory axpcnueu, including labor, would amount “to over $120,000,000, of which $30,000,000 would go to farmers for beets. It would seem that all classes of people should give their hearty support to a proposition that 18 based upon so much good colnmon business sense. BRYAN AND THE POPULISTS. Bryan’s wing of the Democratic party is beginning to realize what a mistake it made in capturing the Populist National Convention, or rather by failing to take it bag and bagegage. There is no doubt at all that the middle-of-the-road Populists were given to understand that 1f the con- vention wounld nominate Bryan his man- agers could be relied upon to pull Sewall off the ‘track and make ihe ticket read “Bryan and Watson,”” The leaders of the radical wing of the Populist party arenow pretty well convinced that 1t never was the intention to drop Sewall, and thatthey bave been wickedly and unmercifully played upon. The Democracy made & great mistake when it let slip the oppor- tunity to Bryanize the Populist National Committee, and now it has a bitter family quarrel on its hands. L. C. Bateman, Populist candidate for Governor of Maine, probably voiced the sentiments of the radical wing of his party when he said the otber day, speak- ing of Sewall, “We beg to remind our Democratic friends that cutting off the ears of a jackass and putting a few feath- ers on his tail doesn’t make him a canary bird.” This means that Sewall cannot be given a thick enough coat of veneering to make him pgss for a Populist. But what is exasperating the Populists rather more than anything else is Bryan's refusal to appoint a time to be notified of his nom- ination by their party. They interpret bis actions as meaning that he will get most of the Populist vote anyway, and does not propose tc be put in a position where he would have to recognize Wat- son’s candidacy. But the indications are that Bryan is himself being sold out by local comvina- tions of Democrats and Populists. No one who has watched the way ‘‘fusion” is accomplished in most of the States conld have failed to see how all deals are made with reference to Congressmen and State officers. The Populists espeeially do not seem to care so much how the electoral ticket is divided if they can make combi- nations to indorse their State and Con- gressional nominees. In many of the Southern States overtures have been made to the Republicans by the Populists with the view of giving the electoral vote to McKinley in consideration of Republican support to their State ticket. In the North Populists would naturally fuse with the Democrats, but, as we have said, neither party is taking as mucli interest in Mr. Bryan’s candidacy as in the State and Congressional tickets. No doubt the Populists are actuated largely by a desire to punish Bryan for re- fusing to recognize Watson, but the Democrats are fusing in the interest of local leaders, because they know that not enoueh Populists will vote for Bryan and Sewall to make good the loss occasioned by the bolt of the sound-money wing of their party, and that whatever can be se- cured in a local way would be a clear gain. Bryan’s failure to enthuse the people of the East has weakened him very materi- ally in the West, so much so, indeed, that even middle-of-the-road silver Democrats are beginning to express the belief thata fatal mistake was made in throwing Bland and Boies overboard. In short, Bryan grows weaker, the Porpulists more angry and fusion for locsl advantage more popular, FREE TRADE AND RUIN, It is shown in the iocal columns of to- day’s Cann thav England and the Conti- nent are prosperous by reason of the many goods they manufacture for export to America; that they are running their factories day and night now for fear Me- Kinley will be elected, when they know their career is ended. Mr. R. Techau, a well-known San Fran- cisco business man, confirms the views expressed in the foregoing, while a study of statistical reports proves that labor prospered under the McKinley bill even as it is waning now. The most comprehensive study of the question confirms the idea that protection and prosperity are as much synonyms as are free trd¥e and ruin. ORGANIZE! ORGANIZE! The Democratic party has never won a victory in California when the Republican party was well organized, and if the State. goes for Bryan and the nominees of that party for Congress and State offices this § year it will not be because the Democracy is the stronger, but because the Republi- cans did not do their duty. California is naturally a Republican State, but it takes work to keep it in fine. There never was a campalgn that ap- pealed more earnestly to patriotism and party pride thao the one weare now enter- ing upon; nor was there evera time in the history of the party when the necessity for thorough organization was great>r. The | Democracy is very wide awake, and its leaders are counting upon Republican apathy to give it the victory, It is for Re- publicans to say whether or not the enemy is counting without its host. But aside from party pride, there is much to stimulate the rank and file to en- thusiastic action. Great economic issues are to be settled, and in many of these Cal- ifornia 1s deeply interested. The platform of the Democratic party declares war upon the agricultural and industrial wealth of California, It insists that no interest should be protected from the cheap labor of China and Japan. It insists that if our mills, factories and farms cannot maintain themselves against foreign competition they should go to the wall. Every Califor- nian knows that protection is absolutely essential to the upbuilding of the State. The duty of Republicans in town and neighborhood to perfect organizations is apparent and: wherever there is failure to organize it may be said the hands of the Democracy are strengthened, It is abso- lutely necessary that the Republican party should carry California, but it will not carry it if Republicans do not take ‘snough interest in their party to organize for battle. It matters not if there are not more than adozen Republicans in & community, let them organize. A dozen well-organized and enthusiastic workers are worth two dozen indifferents. And especially should first yofers get in line. Aside from the influence they would exert if organized in clubs they will be needed to lead in a little while and the experience they will get in local organizations is what will fit them for larger fields of party activity. —— PERSONAL. Dr. C, H, Castle of Merced is on & visit here. J. C. Bull Jr. of Eureka arrived here yester- day. A . W. N.Speegle of the Eureka Standard is in the City. Judge 8. M. Buck of Humboldt County .is at the Lick, i Senator Bart Burke of Santa Cruz is at the California, Arthur P, Herbert of Colima, Mexico, is at the Palace. Dr, Thomas Fliat and Mrs, Flint of San Juan are at the Grand. Foster 8. Dennis. the general merchant, of Kingman, Ariz., is at the Lick. G. P, Castle, Mrs, Castle and Miss Margaret Castle of Honolulu are at the Occidental. Dr. R. Cameron, the extensive fruit grower and packer of Hanford, arrived bere yesterday. F. E. Dalzell, a prominent resident of Santa Barbara, is & guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. B. G. Pratt, a traveling salesman of Orange City, Fla, is a guest at,the Cosmopolitan Hotel. G. H. Hahn, & prominent business man of Sacramento, 1s at the Cosmopolitan Hotel with his wife, J. L. Gillis, the prominent railroad man of Sacramento, is here on & business trip, and is atthe Grand. T. J. Donohue, an attorney of Willows and proprietor of the Willows Journal, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. T. Cloke, one of the pioneer residents of Grass Valley, who is interested in mining there, is at the Russ, . J. M. Fulton of Reno, the general agent of | the Reno and Amadee Railroad, is smong the recent arrivals in town. Alexander McCone of Virginia City, one of the early residents and owner of iron works there, is at the Occidental, J. J. Nunan, the editor and large owner in the Stockton Mail, was in the City yesterday, and called at the Democratic State Central neadquarters, Charles F. Hillman, a wealthy resident of Bantiago, Chile, and thg Misses Caroline H. de Hillman, Blanca Hillmen and Edouard Hill- man, are at the Palace. Z. 8. Eldridge, the United States Bank Com- missioner, returned here yesterday from Ta~ coma and other places in Washington, where he went on official business. W. F. Prisk, editor and proprietor of the Grass Valley Daily Union, one of the most flourishing mining papers in the interior, has been visiting here for the last day or two. 8. Iwange, president of the Great Nippon Yusen Steamship Company, who has estab- lished a monthly steamer between Jspan snd Seattle to connect with the Great Northern Railroad, arrived here from San Diego yester- day. He will sail on the Coptic to-morrow. Mr. Twanga says it is now little less than a cer- tainty that his company will establish a steamer line to San Diego in connection with the Atchison road, San Francisco, he says, offered him no inducements, and he says the Southern Pacific does not want another line to come here. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 24.—Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Loaiza, Miss Lola, A. C. and W. J, Loaiza arrived from Bremen on the North German liner Spree. At the Westminster, J. 0. Campbell; Everett, Q. k. Casewell; Metropolitan, R.E. Gustbich; Imperial, A. G. Hows. “SIT UP STRAIGHT.” 0 youth, who. bending forward, rides apace With méiancholy stamped upon your face, Pursuing pleasure with a frenzied eve, Yet mocked by her however 1ast you fly. Are you aware how horrible you look? No guy invented for. lgl‘fl"lm Was ever more a pafnful gigh Lord of the bent back and the “ Oh, sit up straight and try to wear a smite! Be less intent to pile up mife on mile. Enjoy the prospect as you glide along, The trees, the sunshine and the robii’s song, To us who view you scorching day by day, Bent on your bar in such an awkward wa. Yo are the homeliest thing on earth, my 1ad, Oh, B-‘I :d‘:'p siraight, and make the landscape . . ROBERT GRANT In Harper's Weekly. — LITTLE GIRL'S DRESS. e This charming little gown is made with & round yoke, as shown in the little design on the right-hand side, from which the skirt por- tion hangs in graceful folds. Or the dress may be sewn to a band at the top, over which the collar is sewed, making a pretty evening dress; or a day dress to be worn with guimpes. I is pretty with the yoke and star collar. It the other collar is preferred, square pieces of the material may be used with dainty effect. A dress of ‘bluet crepon, with collar of ecru linen, i8 exquisite and extremely stylish. A glogham gown could be daintily trimmed by edging the pointed collar with wide Valen- ciennes . Or make the collar of white linen or lawn and edge it with narrow Valen- ciennes lace of the yellow tint. A Jnimpa of the seme white goods, tucked and trimmed with the same lace, is thelatest fad, and would be dainty with a best dress of silk, which should also have a white collar. Tardy Naturalization Susplcious. § Stockton Indepdndent. An Englishman in San Francisco, who de- clared his intention of becoming a citizen of the‘ I‘Inni:eid States thirty-six years ago, uu‘u ::: out that intention during the present re; tion sariod. There is 'aln% stspicion a'- tached to these tardy naturalizations that should be expiained o relievethe citizen. The almy of citizenship so long delayea. must very much dflnufi. Since ‘ne had lived under ‘8 weak inteniion thirty-six years he should have remsined a half alien the re: mainder of his life. et iy The New Doctor. 8an Bernardino Times-In dex. Dr. Cycle cures more ilis than Dr, Powder or Dr, Pills, 1896. AUGUST 25, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Hugh McDonnell, who has made some large mining sales of California properties during the last year, has returned here after several weeks in the East. Since arriving he has vis- 1ted Tuolumne County, and salso the Copper City mines, owned by him and James Salee, at Copper City, Shasta County. These properties are gold and copper, with a little silver. At present Mr. McDongpell says he is working but twelve men and is doing de- velopment work solely. The property is twenty-twb miles northeast of Redding. “Qriginally Copper City was an hmportant placer mining distriet,” sajid Mr. McDonnell, “gnd in the early days from 3,000,000 to $4,000,000 in gold was taken out. Then the camp sort of lapsed. In 1872 the ledge was teresting to note Mr. Black’s confession that nota few of his readers have remonstrated with him upon the “sad endings” which he has glven to several of his novels. Even the Inte President Garfield, it seems, was not supe- rior to the amiable weakness. One summer, hearing from Mr. Carnegie tnat he was_going to Scotland and would call upon William EBlack, the President asked him to take a_mes- #age to the novelist. Garfiel for the conclusion ol. 'B&I“Pw:fhend-?el.lfi eod athetically adding, *] xl')ow arirg bty ,g, Is there not enough sor- —— HERKOMER'S FILIAL PIETY. Loncon Home Messenger, Here is an interesting story of Professor Her- komer, The artist has an old father who lives with him in his splendid home at Bushep. In his early life he used to model in clay. He — Hugh McDonnell on the 0dd Transformation of Copper City From a Placer to a Ledge Mining District. [Sketched from life by a * Call'* artist.] struck, but there was a lot of base ore uncov- ered, the better not having been reached, and it was slow again for awhile. “Now that part of California is looking well, and we believe thatwe will develop a great camp there. The development made through- out the district indicates this in the strongest way. yt fsan attractive region in which to mine. 1 like it very well and my partner and myself will do all we can to make a great mining country of it.” Mr. McDonnell left last night for a few weeks’ stay at Ogden, Utah, He has recently spent a good dealof time in Boston. He had extensive experience in mining in Montana, Colorado and Utah prior 10 becoming inter- ested in this State. Owen G. Kreiger, with Sells Bros. & Adam Forepaugh’s Circus, while at Portland, Or., on the 20th inst., in speaking of the political out- look this fall, said: “Since the nomination of Mr. Bryan we have showed to nineteen large cities in eleven States, and the tremendous applause at the mention of the name of Wil liam McKinley in the ring indicates that the people are decidedly in favor of a sound do- mestic currency and home prosperity.” —_— PARAGRAPLS ABOUT PEOPLE. A London paper says the value of the count- less floral emblems which lay strewnabout the graveside®of Sir Augustus Harris amounted to over £2500. M. Edovard Drumont has taken the initia- tive in opening a subscription for the erection of a monument in Paris to the memory ef the Marquis de Mores. A miniature of the young Duchess of Marl ‘borough has recently been painted by Miss Kussner. The Duke has ordered two copies of the portrait, the total cost being some £300. Dr. Conan Doyle has been speechmaking in London and has been telling his auditors how much he owes to Sir Walter Scott and Lord Macaulay, 8 queer combination.to which he says he is indebted fox the inspiration of his romantic stories. The citizens of Weisbaden intend to buy the neighboring hunting seat of Platte and present it to the German Emperor, who recently ex- pressed great admiration of the forests that clothe the Taunus Mountains, and intimated a desire to spend some time there every year. Miss Fannie Crosby, the hymn writer, is now more than 70 years of age. Thoungh she has been blind-almost from birth she is always happy and cheerful. For thirty-two years she has been in the employ of & firm in New York, Among the hymns which she has written are “Safe in the Armsof Jesus” and “Rescue the Perishing.” Queen Victoria's new Royal Victoria order seems to be intended to reward personal serv- ices to herself. There are five classes at least in the order, go that she canreward every one, from Dukes to railway porters, and give up presenting brooches and tips, It isastrange return to the early idea of knighthood for service to the king. Representative Henry M. Baker of New Hampshire, a graduate of Dartmouth College, offered to the alumni and students of Dart- mouth & prize of $100 for the best original short poem appropriate for a distinctly Dart- mouth song. The prize has been awarded to Richard Hovey, '83, but the prize of $100 for music adapted to the song has not yet been awarded. WOMEN VO iERS CF NEW ZEALAND Auckland Times. The women voters of New Zealand have been holding a convention in the Provineial Coun- cil Chamber at Christchurch. They expressed by resolution the desire to abolish capital pun- ishment, to nationalize the land and create s stem of old-age pensions and to make judi- cial sentences reformatory as well as punitive. For their own sex the members of the conncil claim the privilege of sitting on juries and the right of election to the islature. On the subject of divorce, they insist that the grounds for lution of marriage should be the same for both sexes. A resolution was 8lso passed declaring that “in all cases where nwogum elects to xpcnnund her household I.a:‘ tlo be ‘t.h:. ‘mol.her of chilaren there shall ————— . GARFIELD'S LITERARY LIKES. London Young Man’s Journal, William Black, the novelist, knew John Bright very well, and at the Reform Club played many a game of billiards with the statesman. Their love for salmon-fishing was another bond of friendship between them. “During his last illness,” Mr. Black says, “Mr. Bright would often take a rod and preend to throw s line in the effort to realize the pleas- ure of his favorite sport.”” By the way, it isin- has taken to it again, but his fear is that soon his hands will lose their skill and his work will show the marks of imperfection, It is his one sorrow. At night he goes to his early rest, and when he has gone, Herkomer, the talented son, goes 10 the studio, takes up the father's 1eeble attempts and makes the Work as beauti- ful as art can make it. When the old man comes down in the morning he takes the work and looks at it, and rubs his hands and says: “Ha! Ican doas well as ever I did.”” ANSWERS 10 CORRESPONDENTS. THE TRAINING SHIP—G. 8, City. If you wish to place a boy on the receiving ship In- dependence nddress vour_application to Cap- tain Frank Wildes, Mare Island.” CorNs oF NINETY-FIVE—A. 8, City. If there is any premium on dollars and kaif-dollats of the vear 1895 the price catalogues of coin- dealers fail to disclose such information. BROKEN NECK—A. and B., Vallejo, Cal. The recérds fail to show that any person with & broken neck ever recovered. There have been some cases where, under treetment, the patient has been carried along for a time, but there is no case of recovery. DURRANT'S CasE—C. W. 8,, City. Theodore Durrant was sentenced to be hanged on the 21st of last February, but he took an appeal to the Supreme Court, and his case is still pending there. There is no teiling when his case will be reached in the appellate court. THE CLOCK TURNED Back—H. 8. W., Ray- mond, Ci The clock in the House of Repre- ‘sentatives and in the Senate at Washington has been, on occasions, turned back for the purpose of gaining time at the approaching close of a session in order to dispose of impor- tant business; but this department has not been able to discover when that was done for the first time. IN, AFRICA—E. A., City. The Statesman’s Year Book for 1896 gives the following as the area of French colomies in Africa: Algeria, 184,474 square miles; Senegal and Riviere du Sud, French Soudan and Niger and Gaboon and Guinea Coast, 386,000; Congo re{’on, 258,620; Reunion, 1000; Mayotte, 143; Nossi Be, 113; Ste. Marie, 64; Obock, 46,320; Mada- gascar, 228,500. Total of possessions ana protectorates of France in Africa, 1,105,234. OLD FoLkS AT HoME—J. L. T., Lindsay, Cal. The following words are trom the best-known song of the world, “The Old Folks at Home": All upand down de whole creation, . Sadly I roam, Still longing for de 0'd plantation And for de old folks at home. Four hundred thousand copies of this song were sold, and E. P. Christy, of minstrel fame, paid $400 for the privilege of having his name printed upon a single edition as its suthor and composer. The true author and composer was Stephen Collins Foster, who was born in Pitts- burg, Pa., July 4, 1826, and died in New York January 13, 1864, and was buried in Alle- ghany Cemetery, near Piitsburg. For this the socfety. There were published & number of articles on these subjects by individual members of the organization in the ‘“Nine. teenth Century’” and the “Fortnightly Re. vieyw,” notsb! ’by Edmund Gurney and Fred- eri h‘ H, ers. The an Society, with headquarters at Boston, published re- rts on ail these subjects except spiritual- m, which 1t declined to investigate. Thers are records of 713 experiments in mind read- ing, of which 318 were successful, 145 par- tially successful, 143 misdescriptions and 109 failures. RATIO OF SILVER-T0 GoLp—P. K., City. The ratio of the value of silver to gold varies, viz.: 1000 B. C., 12 to ¥; 500 B. C., 18 to 1; com- mencement of the Christian era, 9 to1; 500 A.D., 18 to 1; 1100, 8 to 1; 1400,11to1; 1554, 6 to 1; 1561, 2 to 1; 1600,10 to 1; 1727,13 to 1; 1800, 15.5 to 1. This ratio was maintained until 1872, when it began to rise. The following shows the range of silver quo- tations in London, the chief market of the world, and the dollar value and the ratioof silver to gold for the years given: “nopuor E **pro3 0y | ‘gouno EEODDDD it s . ZERRSESEELRH |01 oBurany, I2ATIS 0 OV g i i | S P When pure silver sells for 1.2929 per ounce, then parity has been reached and silver is Wworth 100 cents. From 1834 to 1873 the silver dollar was at a small id o 11 premium over the gol song he received $15,000. He was also the author of *“Old Dog Tray,” ‘Nelly Was a Lady” and *“Come Where My Love Lies Dream- ing. THE NAVY-YARD—W. 8., City—The law in re- gard to the employment of men within a cer- tain time before an election at the navy-yards is as follows: No facrease of the force at any navy-yard shall be made at any time within sixty days before an electon to take place for President of the United States or members of Congress, except when the Secretary of the Navy shall certify that the needs of the public service make such increase neces- sary at that time, which certificate shall be imme- diately published. ” That is the law that was passed in 1874. Up to this time no certificate of necessity of in- creasa has been received at Mare Island. Should, bowever, a certain number of men be discharged before election, say fifty laborers and fifty painters, the contractor would be al- lowed to put on 100 men of some other trade, MIND READING—G. W. B., Sacramento, Cal. In the latter part of 1882 the Psychical Re- search Society, in England, under the presi- dency of Professor H. Sidgwick of Cambridge, appointed $ix commitiees to examine (1) the nature and extent of any influence which may be exeried by one mind upon another ot wise than through the recognized channels; (2) hypnotism and mesmerism; re relations betyeen living organisms and electric and ma; c forces; (4) haunted houses and ghosts; (3) spiritualism} zs) for the collection of existing evidence in connection with these subjects and especially in cornec- tion with apparitions at the moment of death or otherwise. The mh‘i published reports which are to be found iu the works issued by THE ComsTock LonE—O. 8., City. ' The follow- ing shows the output from the Comstock lode from 1859, the year of its discovery, to 1891 inclusive: Gold. Total. 30,000 50,000 2,450,000( 1,050,000| 3,500,000 4,690,00)| 2,010,000| 6,700,000 4,960,000/ 7,440.000 (132,400,000 6.400,000| 9'600,000/16.000,0.0 5,133,487 7.700‘231‘1‘&.538.719 5965107 g 34375814 9078 5 , 143 ,243,164/18,738,608 8,391,907| 5,087,8 8,3 2,062,231 #,481,73 These figures are without fractions of dollars, but the total is gold $140,771,979 28, $197,674,649 69, ‘mak: ng a grand total of 8,446,628 97 produced from the Comstock lode during the years given, NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Seia little Fannie Chaffle: amma, this is the place where some little girls were walking and one of them fell down and hurt herself, and they all laughed except me."” «“And why didn’t you laugh, Fannie?"” «Because I was the little girl that fell down and hurt herself.”’—Texas Bifter. Tommy (at the hotel)~Why, mamms, see what those people are going to have for din- mer. It'saspring bonmet. Mother—No, it isn’t, my son. lish pheasant.—Harper's ar. «Have you watered the cattle yet?” asked the farmer of his son. “Not & head of’em. I heard you say atthe grange last night that any of those fellers caught watering stock ought to be sent to the penitentiary. I'm takin’ no ¢hances.”—De- troit Free Press. «“Descartes,” said the girl graduate, reading from a pink essay book with blue bows at the corners, ‘‘was great, Bacon greater, while ‘Hege—" She paused that the erescendo of herrhetoric might be the more marked. “_ literally ripped the cover off the ball.”— Detroit Tribune. Aunt Mary—But tell me, how did you happen to marry him? Bertha—Why, you see, everything was ready, He had asked me to have him, and I had con- sented; he bad procured the license and en- gaged the clergyman, and I had sent out cards and ordered the cake; S0, you see, we thought thst we might as well go throngh with it There, aunt, that is the reason as near as Ican remembar it.—Boston Transcript. “And are you sure,” she asked in fearful anxiety, “that you will always worship meé as you do now—that . your affection for me will never grow cold?” “Darling,” said he, forgetting himself, “Iam sure. ‘I'll buy an overcoat lined with seal fur as soon as I get hold of your bankbook.”— Cleveland Leader: That’s an Eng- CALIFORNTA glhce fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend's.® ——————— Ir you want fine service, fine carriages, com- petent drivers, ring up1950. Pac. Carriage Co,* — e e DR. C. 0. DEAN, dentist, formerly of 126 Kearny street, has reopened at 5)¢ Kearny. * ————— SpEcrAL information daily to manufacturers, ‘business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —————— Free Silver Won’t Cure It. Fresno Republic, A Merced man committed suicide because he could find no work tcdo. At the same time there are thousands and thousands of acres in that county that need cultivating, and they are held, as bare as God made them, by a fow men. If anybody supposes that free silver is & panacea for this sort of condition, let him hold 1o the pleasing theory, but as well mighta leech bé applied as a remedy for typhoid fever. —_— T, Cheap Excursion to St. Paul. The Shasta route and the Northern Pacific Ri road has been selected as the officlal rouse to tend the National Encampment of the G. A. B. ‘St. Paul, to be held there September 2to5. Tha excursion will leave San Francisco snd Ssora- mento August 28 at 7 P.. Rates $67 90 forihs round trip. The above rate is open to all who wisa tomake the trip East. Send your name and al dress to T\ K. Stateler, general agent, 638 Marke: treel, San Francisco, for sleeping-car Feservacioas. ——————— - Grand Army of the Republic. ‘The Atiantic and Pacific Railroad, Sants Fe route, will make for the encampment at 8t. Paul & one-way rate for the round trip. Tickets on sale Auvgust 25 and 28. Ticket office, 844 Market street, Chronicle buliding. Telephone Maln 1531. ———— Use Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters, the world- renowned South American appetizer and invigora- tor of axquisite flavor. YouR cough was occasioned by careless expos- ure to drafl. Cureitat once With Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. THE CIRCUS SEASON. Galt Gazette. The circus is announced to shortly resume its snnual devastation of the monetary re- sources of Sacramento, There promises' o be quite & number of circuses in this county be- tween now and next November, and & §00 many smateurs are now in training 10 make clowns of themselves. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S, Gov't Report oYal v = Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE