The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 28, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprictor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally snd Sunday CaLY, one week, by carrier..§0.15 Daily and Sunday CALY, one year, by malil 6.00 | Daily and Sunday CALL, stx months, by mall. 5.00 | Dally and Sunday CaLz, three months by mail 1,60 | Daily snd Sunday CALL, oue m by mail. .8 Sunday CALL, ope year, by mail. WEEKLY CALL, 0Bo year, by mail THE SUMMER MONTHS. . Areyou golng fo the country on s vacation? Tt «®, 1t 15 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will | miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at | Business Office will recelve prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS QFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. ROOMS: 1.50 150 EDITORIAL 517 Clay Street. Telephone. Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open untfl 9180 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock, 718 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. EW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open antil § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until § 0'clock. 116 Nioth sireet; open until 8 o'clock, OAKLAND OFFICE: 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. P T e e PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAN McKINLEY, of Oblo FOR VICF-PRESIDENT- GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896, “We avoid no issues,” says McKinley, and what says Mr. Bryan? Let us start the mills running first and then we can set the mints going. The path to prosperity is never open to the people when the mills of industry are closed. Bryan continues to dodge the tariff with all the caution of a burned child in the presence of a fire. McKiniay has challenged the free-traders to combat and we shall now see how the boy orator will dodge it. - Bryan’s talk about money is not making half as much impression on the country as his silence on the tariff 1ssue. Theresponse of the people to McKiniey’s letter of acceptance will be a glad accep- tance of him as our next President. Bryan continues to be pretty free with his tongue, but he knows that when the campaign is over all will be forgotten. The business interests of the country bave no confidénce ip Bryan and without confidence there can be neither inaustry nor prosperity. McKinley's letter said the right things in the right way and set the tariff issue before the people with a directness that no one can dodge. As the campaign progresses the tariff issue becomes more and more prominent, and before long the whole country will be shouting for protection. In the proposed plan of Povocrat con- fusion we see very cleariy where the Popu- lists are to get off, but we see no place for any of them ever to get on again. If silence gives consent we may claim that even the free-traders of four yearsago are now ready to consent to protection as a means of saving the country. “The soldiers and the sailors of the TUnion should neither be neglected nor forgotten,” says McKinley, and every loyal citizen responds to the sentiment. The man who works for money isen- titled to his wages in the best morey in the world, and the American workingman will not vote for a depreciated currency. —_— Many a man who talks about the money problem on the street returns to thoughts of the tariff question as soon as he begins to consider how to get work and wages to maintain his home. ——— Every California producer knows that protection is necessary to hisindustry, and there are very few of them, even among ° Democrats, who will vote for the free- trade ticket this year. The fusionists in Michigan have adopted the name of “The Democratic People’s Union Bilver” party, and surely thatis a big name for fellows who would smell just as sweet if called Popocrats. Democratic orators and organs may evade the tariff, but the workingmen of the country cannot, for to them it presents the unavoidable issue of work and pros- perity or idlenessand poverty. In his letter of acceptance McKinley gives a manly support to the Repubiican pledge to promote international bimetal- lism and is therefore entitied to the vote of every true bimetallist in the country. The free-traders are supporting Bryan’s silence on the tariff as much as the silver monometallists are supporting his wild talk on the money question, and it will be an industry destroying time if ever he gets into office. S ‘To shift the basis of value suddenly from the gold standard to silver monometallism would overtarn every trade and industry in the country with the result thata panic wouid follow, in which thousands would be ruined and all would suffer, 8ince the gold Democrais have insisted on calling the silver fellows Popocrats the latter have begun to return the compli- ment by calling the gold gang Boltocrats, and thus does our abulary become en- riched with new mdl and our noble language grow from more to more. No passage of McKinley's letter of ac- ceptance will have more effect upon the minds of reflecting men than that in which be quoted from Harrison’s last message to show the condition of the country under Republican ruie, and from Cleveland's first message to show what followed the election of a free-trade administration. The two messages spoke for themselves. The contrast was striking. No intelligent man needs_any better argument to con. vince him of the folly of free trade. PROTECTION AND PROSPERITY. In his letter of acceptance Major Mc- Kinley discusses the tanff question at considerable length, but the Wilson tariff act has brought so much distress upon the country and the question of protection to our industries and employment for labor is of so much importance to all the peopie that Mr. McKinley might have used as much more space and still held the atten- tion of the public. No doubt his presenta- tion of the question will be accepted bv the people generally as a complete an- alysis of the whole science of protection, because Major McKirley is recognized by political friend axnd foe as a tariff expert. Generally speaking, figuzes and statis- tics are uninteresting to the average reader of the newspaper, but not so with the figures Major McKinley employs to show the difference between results ac- cruing under the Wilson law and the act of 1890. Thus ‘“the total receints under the tariff act of 1894, for the first twenty- two months of its enforcement, from Sep- tember, 1894, to June, 1896, were $557,- 615,328, and the expenditures $640,418,363, or a deficiency of $82,803,035. The de- crease in our exports of American prod- ucts and manufactures during the first fifteen months of the present tariff, as contrasted with the exports of the first fifteen months of the tariff of 1890, was $220,353,320. The excess of exports oyer imports during the first fifteen ruontbs of the tariff of 1890 was $213,972,068, but only $56,758,623 nnder the first fifteen months of the tariff of 1804, a loss under the latter of §157,214,345, % he net loss in the trade balance of the United States has been $196,983,607 during the first fifteen montts’ operation of the tariff of 1894, as compared with the first fifteen months of the tariff of 1890, This loss has been large, constant and steady, at the rate of $13,120,000 per month, or $500,000 for every business day of this year,” It was not difficult to obtain this exhibit of the disastrous effects of the Wilson act, foritisa matter of official record in the National Treasury Department, but Major MeKinley nor any other man could make even an approximate estimate of the misery and distress the elosing of in- dustries and the throwing of labor out of employment by the Wilson act brought upon the wage class. That there has been and is still great suffering because of ina- bility to get work noone doubts, nor does any fair-minded man believe that the cen- dition of the people will be any better un- til our mills and other industries are open for the employment of labor. Opportun- ity to earn wages is all our working people ask, but who will give them opportunity so long as Europe is allowed to overrun our markets with pauper labor product? It is just as Mr. McKinley says. There can be no prosperity in the United States so long as we permit Europe to manufac- ture our goods and wares for us. *We will have no prosperity until our industries can be operated at a profit so that they may give employment to all labor at good wages. When that is done there will be good times and every interest will partici- pate in the benefits accruing. Without protection there can be no prosperity. MEN OF INDUSTRY. THE CALL published yesterday a number, of interviews with workingmen and busi- ness men on the political situation. The number of interviews was not large, but each of the men who spoke was not only the representative of a large.class, but was typical of that class, and in the ag- gregate they gave what may be consid- ered a fair expression of the opinions and convictions of the great body of intelli- gent Americans on the issues oi the cam- paign. i It is worth noting that every working- man among those who were interviewed expressed the belief that the tariff issue is ot more importance to the country than that of the money problem. T.J. McCoy, an irofmolder, who has been a Democrat hitherto, said: ‘Protection is the only thing that will draw this country from the slough of despondency.” W. H. Price,a gunsmith, declares for McKinley, “Be- cause times were far better in my line of business when his bill was in operation.’ Neil C. Whyte, a brass-founder, says: “McKinley’s election will help my busi- ness, therefore I will vote for McKinley.” F. A. Bastian, a machinist, says: “In my line of business the effects of Clevelandism have been felt. I believe in protection and my faith in its goud results has never wavered for an instant.”” Martin Fuchs, a pattern-maker, says: I believe the wel- fare of our Nation lies in adhering to a protective tariff.” E. H. Black, a painter and decorator, who has a prune orchard in Santa Clara Valley, has found his trade as a painter and his profits as an orchard- ist lowered by free trade.and desires a re- turn to protection. The expression of opinion goes on the same way all along the line. John Petty, a blacksmith, says: *Ican'tsee that the silver proposition will help the working- man at all. What we want is orotection.” John Vance, a carpenter, put the whole question in a nutshell: “I am for McKin- ley, of course. How could any man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow be otherwise.”” Frank Robinson, a lum- berman, paints the situation clearly in saying: **When Cleveland went into of- fice the Democrats promised us $4 a day and roast beef; now we are content to get $2 a day and free lunch.”” W. J. Darren, a wagon-maker, says: “1 was a Democrat last election, but since tuien I have seen the ruinous effects of the Democratic policy and legislation. Thereis po hope for prosperity but in McKinley and pro- tection.” ! The opinions of business men are in ac- cord with those of workingmen. Every one sees the need of protection. To the workingman dependent on wages for the maintenance of his family a return to the protective system that made work abundant appears the imperative demand of the hour. In comparison with that the money issue seems slight, Business men see in addition to the evils of free trade the great risk of intrusting the remoneti- zation of silver to the party of bunglers and fiascps. They regard the possibility of the election of Bryan as a serious menace to the welfare of the people, and are as eager as the workingmen in sup- port of McKinley and the great principles of the Republican party. TURK AND CHRIST1AN, For more than fifty years the question has been asked nearly every day, “How much longer are the powers going to per- mit the Sultan of Turkey to murder Christians without eause or provocation ?”" The Turks are permitted to persecute OChristians until tae latter are driv-n to desperation, when they are shot down, “as Christian dogs should be,” quoting from one of the Porte’s Cabinet officers. The word comes from Constantinople that hundreds of Armenians were shot to death in the streets of that city because they were rioting, but it 13 safe to say that if they committed any overt act they were driven to it. i But for halt a century flimsy excuses have been given for murdering Christians in Turkish territory, and the powers have always accepted them as gospel truths, The report comes that the other nations are hurrying warships to the Golden Horn, but that is to prevent one another getting undue advantage, and not to protect, Cnristians. 1t 18 unfortunate for civiliza- tion that the United States is barred from participating in the affairs of Turkey, but all the people of this country can do is to hope for better things for the Cretans and the Armemans, and make Turkey pay liberally for property of Americans that is destroyed in the Porte’s frantic on- slaughts upon his Chbristian subjects. FOR BIMETALLISM. Now that Major McKinley's letter of acceptance is before them, it is to be hoped that ‘*‘without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation’ Silverites will have the manliness to admit that the Republican party stands for bimetallism. A good many Itinerant orators have been going about the country ever since the nomination of Major McKinley charging that the Republican party was committed unqualifiedly to the gold standard, and that the friends of silyer would find a bitter foe to their cause in the candidate of that party for President. Party usages forbid any one other than the candidate to interpret the party’s platform, which he does in his letter accepting the nomina- tion. Hence no ome bad authority to give positive denial to the charge of these roving orators, although sensible people have known ail the time that the money plank of the St. Louis platform wasa clear and positive declaration for bimetallism, but only by international agreement, In his letter of acceptance Major Mo- Kinley says that 8 per cent of our foreign trade is with countries that main- tain substantially the same monetary system as our own—that is, silver is coined on account of the Government in volume equal to the ability of gold to maintain silver at par with gold. He holds, and properly so, that we could not maintain trade relations with those coun- tries if our monetary system antagonized their system, or rather we should have to abandon our own and conform to their system as the condition of continuing trade interchange. It would not profit us anything, therefore, to depart from our present standard, but on the contrary it would materially injure us because the laws of commerce would oblige us to em- ploy only gold in paying our balances while balances to us could be paid 1n silver, which would operate to cause an outflow but no inflow of gold, and it would be a question of a very short time when we should have no gold to pay balances with. It does not requirea very great degree of intelligence to see that this country would very soon come to & silver basis with our mints open to the free coinage of the world’s silver and prac- tically closed to gold because of the hos- tility of such a monetary system to zold. Now, what Major McKinley proposes to bring about is an agreement between the TUnited States and the other commercial nations to open the mints of all countries to the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold on a basis that shall place silver and gold upon an equal footing in all com- mercial operations, so that a tender of silver would be jnst as acceptable as a tender of gold in the settlement of bal- ances and /in the payment for parchases.- This, and this only, is true bimetallism, and this is what the Republican party means when it speaks of bimetallism. The effect of any other plan to open the mints to the free coinage of silver would be exactly as Major McKinley says; *The owner of the silver bullion would get the it would belong to him and to nobody else. Others would get it onlv by their labor, the prodnets of their land or something of value. The bullion owner, on the basis of present values, would receive the silver dollir for 53 cents’ worth of silver, and other people would be required to receive itas a full dollar in the payment of debts. The Government would get nothing from the transaction. It would bear the expense of coining the silver and the community would suffer loss by its use.” A NEW IDEA. Mr. Bryan informed the people of a town in New York that “what we want' is a doliar that will maintain its parity with the property which that dollar is to buy.” This is a new financial proposition. It gives money a function it was never sup- posed to possess. In fact, Mr. Bryan is the inventor of the newest and latest thing under the sun. Either Mr. Bryan knows more about the science of money than was ever known by any other man in any age of the world, or he kaows less than the most ignorant man on earth. According to Mr. Bryan’s new discovery in the science of money, a dollar should always maintain its parity with the thing it buys. This means that the dollar and the thing it buys shquld be on a parity because they are interchangeable commo- dities. Ii, then, a bushel of wheat and a dollar are on a parity to-day and noton a parity to-morrow, the one or the other has lost in value, and whichever has lost must add to its quantity so as to maintain the parity, but as the dollar must maintain its parity, according to Bryan, with the thing it buys, the dollar necessarily becomes the thing that fluctuates, while the thing it buys remains stationary, hence it and not the dollar is the unit of value. Hitherto commerce has ruled that the dollar possessed the unit of value, and that if it takes more wheat, corn, cloth or other commodity to get a dollar to-day than it aid yesterday it is because the commodity is of less value; that the dol- Jar has not changed in value, because a *‘unit” does not change, and 1t is the rela- tive value of the commodity that has changed. A unitof value thing is neces- sarily immmovable. There are times, how- ever, when it takes more corn, wheat, cloth or other commodity to get the “unit of value” than at other times, and com- merce has always supposced that value fluctuations . of commodities tributable to the operation of the law of supply and demand; also that the volume of the article exchanged for a dol- lar is governed entirely by the necessity for the exchange on the part of the article and that it is the necessity of the article for a dollar that regulates the purchasing power of the dollar, Mr. Bryan says the dollar and the commodity should be kept at a parity, and so they are for the mo- ment the exchange is being consummated, but the philosophy of his argument is that 53 cents’ worth of wheat sbould be kept ata parity with a doliar. Well, it can’t be done with or without *‘the aid or consent of any other nation.” ‘When once the prosperity of the United States is restored under Republican lead- ership, it will be comparatively easy for our Government to induce the leading commercial nations of the world to join in the remonetization of silver, and the return to bimetalli-m can be thus accom- plished without disturbance to business or industry. The prevailing idea of fusion seems to be that the Populists shall swallow Sewall and then the Democrats will return the compliment by swallowing the Populists, are at-’ ad AROUND THE CORRILORS. Thomas R, Bard, the conspicuous Republican of the lower coast, whose home has been for many years in Ventura County, says the center of the petrolenm oil district is gradually moving west from Los Angeles. Mr. Bard, who was at the Occidental yesterday, stated that the product of the Saunta Paula wells, in which he is heavily interested, is from 600 to 700 barrels a day. This is keeping up with the usual amount, and rather going beyond it. Mr. Bard thinks the ofl output is destined to increase materi- elly at Santa Paula. “The product of Los Angeles has been about 2000 barrels & day, as is given by the owners there, but it is falling off & little now,” said he. “The Santa Paula district is proving very rich in oil.” Mr. Bard, who resides at Hueneme, is the heavy owner in the Hueneme Bank. He is one of the best known and wealthiest men in that part of California. ‘“AS to polities in Ventura,” said he, “it is getting very lively there. There are some free silver men, but I think that before November they will take second thought and vote for Jr. MeKinley and protéction.” Mr. Bard came up to attend the meeting of the Republican Siate Centrel Committee. He will remain for a few days. In New York when the English version of “Madame Sans Gene” was produced there was much complaint over the translation. A lynx- eved critic discovered that the translator had used expressions that were not possible in the days of the Emperor, This up-to-date Colum- bus did not stop to think that there were per- haps slang expressions in the original Sardou book that were not in the dictionary of slang at the time Napoleon lived. The ides of the author of “Madame Sans Gene” was to convey the notion that Catherine Hubscher, washer- woman in Rue Sainte Anne, was a don’t-care sort of a person, In order to do this it was nec- essary for her to carry the same 1dea to her audience both by manner and speech. The surest way to do it was through the use of slang—the nearer the people’s mind the better. Sardou or the New York translator might have used Banscrit for all the good they could have gotten from the version that would have pre- sented no street talk, The slang is of necessity that of the period, or the whole idea of the piece is lost. An example of the situation presented is best explained in thie way: Catherine Hubscher, washerwoman in Paris, is raised to a duchy through the promotion of her husband, who 'was only Sergeant Lefebvre when she married him. She carriesinto the courtof the Emperor all the peculiarities of manner and speech that had eerned her title in the Rue Sainte Anne of Madame Sans Gene. \ Bhe has a dispute with the sisters of the Em- peror, and in a moment has forgotten all she has learned of court etiquette. Aftershe de- clares that as a viyandiere in the army of France she did more to entitle her to her posi- tion than her offending superiors ever did to secure theirs she exclaimed: “And you can put that in your pipe and smoke it!" Why not? What could she have said in Eng- lish that would have conveyed theidea as well? The moment Mme. Sans Gene lapses then does she become a stale and unprofitable personage. Earlier than this in the play her husband, Marshal Lefebyre, tells her that the Emperor has been displeased with her court manners, and that he proposes to di- yorce the two and pick a new wife for his mar- shal, Mme. Sans Gene, like the real woman she is, wants to know all about it, “Iwon't tell you her name,” says Lelebvre. *You would play a trick on her,” “Oh, no, I won't,” returned Mme. Sans Gene. “Iwon't do a thing to her.” . This speaks well for the skill of the translator. He knew all of the latest subtleties of the Eng- lish. language well enough to apply them to the best advantage. IN THE.E BICYCLE DAYS. Tom, Tom, the piper’s son, He stole & wheel, and awsy he run; But a copper fleet Young Tom couid beat, And they locked bim up in Harrison street. Little Tommy Titmouse Worked %:, cycling house, Went to mes's On other men’s wheels. There was & man in our town As wise as were our sires; He ran across a plece of glass, Ard punctured bath his tires: ‘And when he saw the air was out, With all his might and main, He took his little nickel pump And pushed It in again. Ding-dong bell, There's the man who fell. ‘Who knocked him down? The meanest man in town. Who called the “cop”? A man who saw him drop. ‘What a wicked man was that, To try to kill the ayclist fat. ‘Who never did him any wrong, But kept s-pedaling right along. —Chicago Daily Tribune. A SIMPLE DRESSING SACQUE. The dressing sacque shown here is cut on ex- ceedingly simple lines: The front is seamless. The back has the eenter forms and side body cutin ore, thus makingonly three seams back of the under-arm seam. The round collar is joined to it by a simple seam, which is hidden in between collar and sacque. A blue flannel with blue zig-zag lines had a frill of black chiffon around the collar; bows of black satin ribbon were used to hold the edges of the front together. A new method of buttoning a garment and yet avoiding but- ton-holes (the bugbear of many a home dress- maker) is shown on this garment. A siik cord is sewn just inside the edge, which at inter- vals forms tiny loops just large enongh to al- low the buttons to sifp through. A sacque of mignonette green cashmere had all the edges bution-hole stitched in scallops with black sifk. The coilar was further orned by & narrow ruffle of black iace. For spring and_summer wear washable fab- rics are preferred. Pink batiste with a e of Valenciennes lace on the edge of the coliar and down the front, White and blue duck with trimmings of creamy white lace in bands set on collar and around the edges is effective and serviceable. Brown Hollands with trimmings of white is equally useful and can be brightened up by bows of rose pink, light olive green oOr tur- quoise blue. THE LAW AND THE BUTTER Chicazo Record. /SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., Aug. 6.—We were traveling in Siskiyou County, that northern part of the State which geographicaily is a part of California, but commercially is a part of Oregon. It is a wild and sparsely settled region, with only here and there a hali-culti- vated ranch and an oceasional mining camp, It was one of the latter we reached about nightiall, We were directed to the principa botel in the place, a roughly boarded, two- story bullding, of which the most prominent feature of its internal arrangement was the barroom, which was also the office, and con- teined in'one corner & wooden sink provided with & paper bucket filled with water, two or three basins and a couple of commupity towels hung on roilers. Supper was ready when we arrived, and we were directed at once to & long room wlg [ low ceiling—the dining-room—in which about twenty ronfmy dregsed men, most of them in their shirtsleeves and apparently miners, lum- bermen and teamsters, were seated at three or four long tables. The tables were covered with oilcloth, The {ableware was very thick and heavy ironstone china. much cracked and chipoed- The knives and forks were steel, with handles colored and cracked from rough usage and hot dishwater., Near each end of the table was a set.of easters, originally, doubt- less, quite showy with silver plating, but at "lll:lmlod much the worse for the wear of the plating, The l:flnlnz-mom 1rl who came to wait on us rattled off the bill of fare in exactly the same way that dining.-room girls do in 10, o;he‘r hanel- all over u:‘i]n bsrl?ad ulumgi :s‘:g: received our orders she e big butter- dish from its piace mear the middle of the table over toward us, saying, ‘‘Here’s your substitute butter,” at the same time takin from one of the casters, where they were kep like the bills of fare in cheap restauranis, pieces of cardboard about the size and lhlg: of the ordinary restaurant bill of fare. S| laid ome of these down on the table beside each ol us and started for the kitcien, Wondering slightly at this, we each picked up :}l‘a‘%boudfim before us, and this is what The butter served here is but*erine. Per- By the time we had finished reading this the girl returned with our nugper. When she had arranged the various dishes in front of us we asked her why she had givew us this chemical analysis of our buvex product. Without & word, but with a glsture of impatience, she turned the cardboards over, and we read: This notice s given in conformity with sections 3 and 7 of auactof the iegisluture of California, approved March 9, 1895, entitled “An act to pre- vent deception in the manufacture and sale of but- ter and cheese, to s:cure Its enforcement and to appropriate money therefor." Sec. 8. Each person who, by himself or another, lawfully manufactures any substance designed tQ be used @s a substitute for butter or cheese, shall prepare a gtatement, prioted in plain Roman type of a'size not smaller than pica, statwg in the Engs lish language its name, and the name and address of the manufacturer, the e of the place where manutactured or put up, and also the names and Actual percentages of the varjous ingredients nsed in the manufacture of such imitation butter or im- Ita:ion cheese. Sec. 7. No keeper or proprietor of any bakery, hotel, boarding-house, restaurant, saloon, lunch counter or aiher place of public entertainment, or any person having ch thereof or employed thereat, or any person fnrunishing board for other persons than members of his own family, or for any employes where such board is furnished as the compensation or as a part of the compensation of any such employe, shall place before such patron or employe, for use as food, any substance designed to be used as a substitute for butter or cheese, unless the same be accompanied by a copy of the statement described in section 3 of this act and by a verbal no.ification to sald patron that such substance is a substiiute for butter or cheese. The proprietor, having now complied with sl the requiremeni the law, has only this wish to express; May good digestion walt on appetite and fealth on both. i A BEE STING. Sacramento Bee. Patriotism and loyalty are dying out in this country. Thecryis all for sélf. ® * & The greed for gain is” the national disease of the American people. Patriotism is dying, selfish- ness is predominant, Every one wants to know what isin itfor him, Envy stalks about seek- ing whom it may belittle or destroy. Gentle reader, whom do you think was the author of the above? What high-minded and noble patriot, burning with love of country, himself the very personification of unselfish- ness, the apotheosis of personal and political honesty, put forsh those tender blossoms of a noble man’s regret in the rank and weedy gurd:;x of political unworth and unpatriotic greed? Look at Sunday’s Examiner, and you will see the article signed by D. M. Burns. Alfh’l' Mein Gott!” “How besutifully he do write. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “What are you going *o be when you area man, Willie?” asked the man who always asks that question. #Me? I'm going to be & policeman and stop trolley-cars right in the middle of the block.” —lndianapolis Journal “Bimpson doesn’t cut his grass as often as he did last summer.” “No, both of his next-door neighbors have gone away and left their lawn mowers locked up.”’~Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mother—Ella, you have been playing all the afternoon with these toy soldiers. That’s not & proper amusement for a big girl like you. Daughter—But, mamma, I am not playing with the soldiers, I picked out the officers and played with them.—Texas Siftings. Timely Wit. “Idon’t want the wheel. Itis t00 heavy.” / “Say, 'l throw in a lamp. That'll make it lighter.,”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. We know lots of men who say they never argue on the street, who take half an hour of your time to conyince yaqu of it.—Washington Democrat. ‘Hubby—You are worth a million to me. Wifey—Can't I get an advance of $20 on that million for a new hat?—Up-to-Date. “Johnny,” screamed his mother, “why are you sitting on your brother's chest? Youw'll kiil him.” “I know it,” retorted the urchin, “ButifI let him up he'll go swimmin’ and be drowned.” Adams Freeman. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Princess Mand had forty-eight bicycles pre- sented to her s wedding gifts. A London paver says the value of the count- less floral emblems which lay strewn about the graveside of Sir Augustus Harris amounted to over $12,500. Messrs. Chapman and Hall of London have decided to publish & three-and-six-penny edi- tion of Carlyle’s works and asix-penny edition of the works of Charles Dickens. The German Emperor has never been crowned, neither was his father, Emperor Frederick. In the case of the present Kaiser, the ceremony was omitted for economical rea- sons. Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, is still handsome, but visibly older in face and man- ner. Those who know him say that he now has no thought of the Spanish or any other throne, and that the subject of pretendership is distasteful to him. Dr. Grace N, Kimball of Bangor, Me., who is now in charge of the relief work in Armenia, and has gained the honorary title of “the her- oine of the Van,” has been chosen ut.:uu physician of Vassar College, and will enter up- on her duties in January. % Little Dorothy Drew, Gladstone's grand- daughter, has given her friends at Hawarden a few very anxious days. For nearly a week she developed & high fever with no discover- able reason. The atiack left her assuddenly as it came, and she is now rapidly recovering. THE CAT CAME BACK Philadelphia Call Tom Watson's style is breezy, He's In the fight 10 stay, The Demo-Pops can’t “shake” him, For Tom’s not buit that war. He's like that utber “Tommy," ‘Whom the neighbors tried to sack, anth t‘ney thought they'd drowned the measly ng, The Came An Object Lesson. Sausalito News. The Southern Pacific has been placed in e rather embarrassing position. Its competitor, the San Joaquin Valley Railway C(mplny, with a fine disregard for any and all*opposi- tion, hasslashed rates in the valiey, and now Mr. Huntington’s monopoly has got to meet the cut or go out of business. The agenis of the Southern Pacific have been traveling through the interior promising special rates to shippers, which is clearly in violation of the interstate commerce law, in order to keep their busivess, The position of the Kentucky corporation now presents a splendid object lesson to the farmer and other tillers of the soil. 1f itcuts the ratesitbecomes apparent to the thinking man that for all thése {em the company has been atically robbing Soaqain Vahiey Kaiiway Company. & new con aquin y 'way y, & Dew cor- poration, Can Carry % d ntm"hwex figures than those charged by its rival shows how care! Mr. Huntingion has consider- ing the me of Californis. PERSONAL . 8. D. Mitcheson of London is in town. Dr. A. E. 8mith of Portland, Or., is in the City, J. A. Carignan of Arizona is st the Occl- dental. E, B, Hornung, & druggist of Marysville, is at the Grand. H. B. Patton, a business man of Golden, Colo., is at the Lick. W. Massey, & sugar-grower of Honolulu, is at the Californi G. W. Morgan, s cattle-raiser of Dunecans Mills, is on a visit here. The Rev. Samuel Hirst of Vallejo is here, ac- companied by his family. Lord Sudeley of London went to Monterey yesterday for a short visit, Fred W. Hume of Milwaukee arrived here yesterday. He is at the Palace. Mrs. E, P. Buckingham, who owns & large fruit ranch at Vacaville, is in town. E. H. Daggett of Visalia, Deputy Sheriff of Tulare County, arrived here yesterday. J. M. McChesney, owner of a leading sugar plantation in the Hawaiian Islands, is in town. Mrs, George Milis, wife of Manager Mills of the Virginia and Truckee Reilroad, Carson, is at the Palace. Herman Schainwald, the well-known real estate dealer, returned from & visit to Hono- lulu yesterday. Attorney J. E. Richard and family returned yesterday from an enjoyable trip to the Ha- waiian Islands. Judge H. A. Wideman, the wealthy and pioneer resident of Hawaii, arrived hereonthe Alameda yesterday. D. T. Davies of Tacoms, manager of the Car- bon Hill coal mines, owned by the Southern Pacific Company, arrived here yesterday. E. C. Macfarlane and T. W. Macfarlane, for some years conspicuous in the political and business circles of Hawaii, are at the Call- fornia. The Rev. John Maher and the Rev. W. J, Madden of Queensland, Australia, arrived here on the Alameda yesierdsy, and are st the Occidental. W. B. Biddle of Chicago, general freight and trafic manager of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, is on a visit to California, Heis at the Palace. J. T. McDevitt of Cripple Creek is in the City. Lionel A. T. Johnson of Amergate Derby, England, is at the Palace, He arrived from Auckland yesterday. Among the passengers on the Alameda from the antipodes yesterday were Mrs. Mary Rosen- thal of the great gold camp of Kilgerlie and Mre. and Miss Scott of Victoris, Australia, Herman Shainwald, of the firm of Shainwald, Buckbee & Co., returned on the Alameda from Honolulu yesterday., With him was his sister, who had spent ning months traveling in the Orient. Mre, Churehill, wife of United States Consul- General Churchill of S8amoa, arrived here yes- terday from Apia, Mr. Churchill succeeded General Mulligan of Kentucky, who not long since resigned. 'W. A, Harper of Harper Bros., the publishers of Harper’s Weekly and other publications, is at the Palace, He made the trip from New York to Sydney, N.S. W.,on & sailing vessel for his health. He is much improved, and will go East in a day or two. The Hon. Frank Farwell, member of the New South Wales Parliament, who has been ap- pointed by the New South Wales Government to investigate the fresh water of California and examine into the fish interests, is at the Qccidental. It is the intention to stock vari- ous New Bouth Wales rivers with fish. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N, Y., Aug. 27.—Carl Theisen of Los Angeles arrived in on the North Ger- man liner Lahn from Bremen. At the West- minster, C. B. Headley; St. Nicholas, Miss Cupp; St. Denis, W, V. Cupp; Vendome, Mrs, Everett; Imperial, 0. C. Moore. ANSWERS 10 CORRESPONDENTS. It Was FRipAY—E,, City. The 9th of Sep- tember, 1831, fell on Friday, o BOOK-PLATE—C. D., Oity. Book-plate is the name given to a label bearing a name, crest, monogram or other design, pasted in or on & ‘book to indicate its ownership, or its position in s library. A AL DroGeNES—A, W. B, City. It was not Demos- thenes who went around with a lantern look- ing for an honest man, Itwas Diogenes, the eynic, who, when asked what he was search- ing for so diligently that he needed the light of a lantern in proad daylight, replied: “Iam searching for an hon o SEAL OF THE TREASURY—J. M. C., City. The abbreviation on the seal of the United States Treasury is “Thesaur. Amer. Septent. Sigil.,” which s.ands for the full Latin legend “The- saurus Americae Septentrionalis Sigilia,” which signifies the Seal of the Treasury of North America. There isa question as to the appropriate ness of the inseription. MourNiNG ETiquerre—W. 8, City. A writer on etiquette says: “Now about the tim quette demands mourning to be worn, The term for widows is, of course, two years, and sometimes in this country it is never thrown off entirely, Crape and bombazineor Henrietta cloth should be worn for one yesr and longer if desired, but that is the shortest time allowable if assumed at all. Then the widow’s cap ana the long veil may be thrown aside. The dress may be made of silk less hexvily urimmed with crape. The latter may be leit off at the end of eighteen months and piain black worn until the canvas and rendering it brittle and to make an even_suriace for receiving the paint, which ismixed with linseed oil with very littl or no turpentine and is consequently thicker than common paint. This is thrown or 8] lnnf upon-the surface with a brush, and tgen ith-a long steel trowel the workman spreads the dabs of paint.and produces a mod- erately smooth surface. This trowel color is Jeft for twelve or fourteen days to dry and then another ¢oat is laid on in & similar man- ner and this completes the back or under side of the cloth., While the first coat of the back is drying the front is primed and pumiced and & coat of trowel-color is laid on. As more care is required in the work in that side, the coat is scoured quite smooth with pumice and two more trowel coats are laid on and each pum. jced as the first. Anothercoat is then laid on carefully with a brush and that is the ground on which the pattern is printed. The print. ing is by means of wood blocks. The pattern is first drawn and psinted in its complete form and colors upon & plece of paper, anoiner iece of paper is 1aid under this and the out. ines of that portion of the pattern included in one color are pricked through to_the lower pa. per, In like manner pricked outlines of each of the colors are prepared. Each of these pricked sheets is laid upoh s block of pear tree wood snd dusted over with powdered charcoal or lampblack, and thus the pattern is drawn in dots upon the wood; the carver cuts away the wood surrounding the pattern and leaves it stanaing in relief. These blocks are backed by gluing them to & piece of deal and this piece again to another, with the fibers at right angles to prevent warping. Each block is then-dabbed with the required color by boys, after which the printer places the block on the cloth where it is to go, and with th> handle of & short, heavy hammer strikes in the pattern he has to print. He pro- ceeds with a repetition of this, and as he ad- vances he i3 followed in order by the printerg of the other colors, who place their blocks ac- curately over the pattern the first has com- menced. The first printer's chief care is to geg the repetitions of the pattern acourately Line. the period of two years is completed, when it may be laid aside entirely or toned up with sober colors. Mourning is usually one year for parents and the same period for brothers and sisters. It is usual for a wife to dress in black for her husband’s near reiatives precisely as she would for her own, For grandparents hlack is woin for six months, for an uncle or aunt three months and for a first cousin one month. No crape is put on for the latter, The conventional time for wearing mourning has ‘been considerably shortened of late years.”” MAsON AND Drxox’s LiNe—J. T. M., City. The Mason and Dixon line is the southern bound- ary of Pennsylvania, separating it from Mary- land and Virginia. It became famous as the dividing line between the free and slave States. Owing to the incorrect statements in the orig- inal grants of Maryland and Pennsylvania serious disputes arose between the families of William Penn and Lord Baltimore. An agree- men: was made in 1732 with regard to the boundaries of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware, the latter then belongingalso to the Penn family. Commissioners were appointed in that year to run the lines; also in 1739 and in 1750, but they could not agree. Finally the decision of Lord Chancellor Hardwick, in 1750, was_accepted in an -sreamon: signed July 4, 1760, and commissioners then ap- ointed feit the need of better mathematicians. Riter spending three years in settling the Mundnz between Delawere and Maryland, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon were sent out, and_on the 13th of November, 1763, in_Philadelphia, they commenced to revice the work of their predeces afterward ran the Philadelphia line, which they fixed at north latitude 39 deg, 43 min. 26.3 sec. They marked this line at intesvals of a mile by erecting stones having P on one side end M on the other, while every fiith mile ‘was marked by a larger stone with the arms of the Penn family on one side and those of Lord Baltimore on the other. When within thirty- six miles of the terminus the surveyors were !l?ped in their work by the hostility of the Indiansin the summer of 1767. Mason and Dixon returned to Engisnd. In November, 1782, Colonel Alexander McCiean of Pennsyl- vania and Joseph Neville of Virginia ran the remainder of the line, which was verified by astronomical observation and permanently marked in 1784. Again in 1849 Lieutenant- s, and OPINIONS OF COAST EDITORS, The Present Evil, San Jose Mercury. Mr. Bryan is an advocate of free wool, fres sugar, free lumber, free coal, free fruitand free manufactures of every kind. He goes on the theory that if the American workingman and the American producer ean't live on a decent American standard and compete with the ill-fed, ili-ciothed pauper labor of foreign countries, then so much the worse for the American workingman and the American pro- ducer. Let them exist on rice or black bread, live in huts and go half naked, and they will haveno trouble in competing with the cheapest labor of Europe and of Asia, The presentevil consequences of Democratic free trade are sui- nclenay obvious, but they are llfiht compared with those which are sure to follow the con- tinusnce of that un-American and ruinous policy. How He Was Indorsed. Fresno Republican, A Sage of Buzzards Bay who had heard from & Democratic National Convention thought long and anxiously. “Would you consider that the convention indorsed me, John G.?” he inquired of his Confidential Friend. “Well, it was a rather qualified indorse- ment,’” the Confidential Friend replied, “Yes, about one or two more such indorse. ments would make me want to go fishing,” the Sage admitted, Some indorsements are mighty fatigning. Hasn’t Even Thanked Them. Modesto Herald, Bryan hasn’t eyen thanked the Pops for their nomination, much less indorsed the platform, and the Democracy as a body simply ignores the nomination of ‘Watson. No “‘sucker” was ever more completely “done up” bya confi- dence man than the Populists have been by the Democracy, and the spectacle presented by the shorn sheep is so ludiergus that the whole Nation grins audibly. The Persistent Questioner. Crockett Record. Has Mr. Bryan yttered one word to show how one American factory is to be opened by the wdoption of the policy outlined in the Chicago platform? If not, why not? ] Best peanut taffy in the world. Townsend's.” ————————— Dr. C. 0. DEAN, dentist, formerly of 126 Kearny street, has reopened at 5)4 Kearny, * ————— SPECTAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * _—— Banta Barbara Equity. One reason why we prefer THE CALL to othe; Ban Francisco papers is that it uses the Uni Press: dispatches instead of those of the noto- riously unreliable Associated Press. Are You Gomng East? The Atlantic and Paclfic Railroad—Santa Fe route—is the coolest and most comfortable sum- mer line, owing to its elevation and absence from slkali dust. Particularly sdapted for the trans- portation of families because of its palace draw- ing-room and modern upholstered tonrist sleeping cars, which run deily through from Oskland to Chicago, leaving at & seasonable hour and in charge of attentive conductors ana porters. Ticket office, 844 Market street, Chronicle building, Tel- ephone, Main 1531 Cheap ¥Excursion to St. Panl, The Shasta route and the Northern Pacific Ratle road has been selected as the official ronte to st~ tend the National Encampment of the G. A, B. at St. Paul, 10 be held there September 2t05. Ths excursion will leave San Francisco and Ssora- mento August 26 at 7 P. . Rates $67 90 forths round trip. -The above rate isopen to all who wish to make the trip East. Send your name and al- dress to T, K. Stateler, general agent, 633 Markes treeq, bau Franc or sleeping-car reservailoas AT Sl S e “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup’ Has been used aver 50 years by millions of mothery Sor their children while Teething with perfect suo- cess. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and isthe best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising irom teething or other causes. For sale. by Drag- gists n every part of the world, Be sure 8nd asg for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 29¢ & DOiula ——— CORONADO.~Atmosphere is pertectly dry, woft apd mild, being entirely froe from the mists com- mon farther north. Round-trip tckets, by sieam- shifp, including fitteen days’ board at the Hotal lal Coronado, $60: longer stay $2 50 perday. APN7 4 Dew Mouigomery st., SanFrancisco. e —— YoUR cough was occasioned by careless expos- ure to draft. Cure 1t atoace With Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. . ————— Alameds Argus., Our esteemed contemporagy, the Chronicle, is not hurting the esteemed enomy very greatly by efforts In behaif of the Republican ticket, but our worthy and commendable con- mporary, THE CALL, is quite awake to the situation, and is putting forth honest and tell- ing endeavor. This is a campaign of educa- tion, in which the newspaper has boundiess opportunity. NEW TO-DAY. - CllX SNAPS 322 67 DINNER SET complete for 6 persons, 54 pleces. DINNER SET complete for 12 persons, 100 pieces. Best quality Semi-Porcelain Ware. DINNER SET Decorated, for 6 persons, 54 pieces. DINNER SET Decorated, for 12 persons, 100 pieces. Guaranteed Very Best Quality, PRETTY DECORATION, 47 77 Colonel James D. Graham of the United States Topographical Engineers revised the former surveys and found them practically correes. OrreLoTE—B. A., Panoche, Cal. Floor cloth, usually called in the United States oilcloth, 1s made of coarse canvas coated on both sides and partiy saturated with thick oil paint, one side ally having a colored pattern printed in oil paint. The canvas basis is required to be without seam and of sufiicient width to cover considerable space of flooring, hence spacial looms are required to weaveit. It is from eighteen to twenty-four feet in widtn and of various lengths. The first step toward converting this canvas into fioor cloth con- sists in stretching iton a frame, sometimes 100 feet in length by a height of 24 feet, the canvas being stretched as tight asa drum. The back or plain side is first operated .upon by priming it with a solution of size and scouring it with pumice. The object of this is to prevent 100 much of the paint penetraiing Will Cost You Double Elsewhere. SHEHE THHM. FRUIT { g0 e ps, JARS. U 3 i g il G (ieat American Juporting Tea (. 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