The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 31, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, ACUGUST 31, 1896 MONDAY CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. R ol tableai S b e SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALY, one week, by carrler..§0.15 Daily and Sundsy CALI, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. Dally and Sunday CALZ, three months by mail Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. Bunday CALL, one year, by mail.. WXKKLY CaLL, one year, by mail. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Arc -on going to the country ons vacation? If 8, 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. KO EXTEA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICB: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone.......... ...Maln—-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone......... BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open untfl £:30 @'clock. 839 Hayes street; open untfl 9:80 o'clock. 718 Larkia street: open until 9:30 o'clock. £W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 8 o'clock. 3518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 0'clocke OAKLAND OFFICE: 808 Broadway. .. Maln—-1874 EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 51 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. PRI sl o G e LR PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM HMcKINLEY, of Obio FOR VICF-PREBIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey ‘ELECTION NOVEMBER 18986. We have a great Nation and we must keep it great. No one is buying silver in the market. No one is betting on Bryan. The Democrats may fool some of the Populists but not all of the Populists this time. The country must have a revenue equal to its expenditures and none but boy ora- torsdeny it. Watson might take a noble revekga on Sewall by going to Maine and stumping the State for him. Now that good citizens have ceased to feel anxious about the resultthey can en- joy the music of the campaign. Remove Democratic legislation from the statute books and Democratic conditions will be removed from the covntry, Efforts to arouse class antagonisms be- tween labor and capital may be politics of & kind, but it is a very poor kind. It will be noted that the men who are leaving the Democratic party are the men @ho have been always considered the best Pemocrats, There is no one to whom protection is of more importance than the farmer. A prosperous home market means good prices for him. > Up to date Bryan in the East and Sena- tor White in the West are having the Democratic stump all to themselves and perhaps they enjoy it. “Vote for Bryan and get $2 for$1” would be more promising if it were not said by the men who shouted “Vote for Cleveland and get §1 25 for wheat. The campaign is now open wide enough for everybody to get in so there is no longer an excuse for not joining a Repub- lican club and keeping up with the pro- cession, If the farmers will support home facto- ries the factories will furnish a home mar- ket for farm products, money will circu- late from town to country, trade will be lively and all will be prosperous. While the Popocrat demagogues are shouting “Down with the rich,” the Re- publican party advances with the cry “Up with the poor”’ and proposes the enact- ment of measures that will provide work for the workers and prosperity for all. “I would willingly defend free trade with my life,”” said Mr. Bryan in his first speech in Congress, and as he is now de- fending free silver with his tongue only it is easy to see to which policy he is most devoted. - If the Wilson free-trade law had not taken work from Americans and given it to foreigners there would have been a bet- ter home market for home produce, less would have been sent abroad and as a conseguence there wouid have been better Pprices all round. —_——— ‘Work for wage-earners puts money into circulation and revives trade, work for wage-earners makes a good market and raises prices of home products, work for ‘wage-earners keeps the home in comfort, work for wage-earners makes the land prosperous, but there is no work for wage- earners in this country when Iree-traders rule. ‘While Cleveland has been in oftice our Government has been adverse to interna- tional bimetallism, but when McKinley is President the whole influence of the United States will be exerted to bring about the free coinage of silver both in Europe and in America and good results are sure to be obtained in much less time than many people expect. The Indiana Farmers’ Association,which has about 50,000 members, hitherto classi- fied as 27,000 Republicans, 21,000 Demo- crats, 1000 Populist and 1000 Prohibition- ists, has been recently canvassed by the president of the organization with the re- sult that qver 42,000 of them declare they will vote for McKinley and sound money. The silver sentiment said to exist among them disappeared on investigation. —_— Every producer knows that the prod- ucts of his industry need protection from foreign competition, every business man knows that trade is best under the pro- tective system, every artisan knows it takes protection to advance work and wsges in this country; and, therefore, to every proaucér, to every man of business and every workingman the tariff is ne- cessarily the issue of greatest imporiance to his interest, his industry and his pros- perity. THE NEED OF PROTEQTION. We renew and emphasize our allegiance to the policy of protection as the bulwark of American industrial independence and the foundation of American development and prosperity. We denounce the present Demo- cratie tariff as sectional, injurious to the pub- lic credit and destructive to business enterprise. We demand such equitable tariff on foreign “mports which come into competition with American products as will not only furnish adequate revenue for the mecessary expenses of the Government, but will protect American labor from degradation to the wage level of other lauds. The money question is an important is- sue in this campaign, but the facts show, as Major McKinley says, that what is most to be desired now is to have our in- dustries opened to labor, not only for labor’s sake, but to protect thé country from bankruptcy. The Government must have revenue to pay expenses, and wage- earners must have work, but the Govern- ment cannot have revenue nor can the wage-earner have work so long as the Wilson-Gorman tariff actisin operation. During the first twenty-two months of the McKinley law our foreign trade bal- ance was in our favor by $245,000,090, and only $150,000,000 under the Wilson-Gorman act for the same number of months. That is to say, we lost $95,000,000 by substituting protection for free trade in twenty-two months. The total receipts of the United States treasury in the same months was $660,~ 000,000 under the McKinley act and §553- (00,000 under the Wilson-Gorman act dur- ing the same number of months. The total treasury deficiency from July 1, 1893, to July, 1896, was $148,000,000. Thus we have a treasury loss of $148,000,000 and & foreign trade loss of $95,000,000, making a grand total of $243,000,000. During this period foreign syndicates took from us $95 000,000 of gold. For the fiscal year ending in 1893 our customs amounted to $203,000,000, for the year ending 1896 they amounted to $159,- 000,000. The yearly average decrease of revenues under the Wilson-Gorman act, as compared with the McKinley act, have been $35,000,000. Had the McKinley act been in operation during 1895 and 1896 the customs revenue would have averaged $192,000,000 a year as against $155,000,000 under the Wilson-Gorman act. As will be seen these figures represent the Government loss only. The direct loss to the people in dollars has been very much greater, to say nothing about tbe misery and distress of the hundreds of thousands of bread-winners who have lived all these years in enforced idleness. No man can outdo me in opposition to monopolies; but the manufacturers of this country should mot be thus characterized. They have no princely fortunes; in general they have no independent means. Their all is in the brick and mortar of their establish- ments, in the machinery, in the organization, in their trade. And how many of them to- day would be willing to sell out for first cost, and below first cost, if they could doit! He who would break down the manufactures of this country strikes a fatal blow to labor. It s labor I would protect.—McKinley. SENATOR WHITE TALKS. Senator Stephen M. White addressed a San Francisco audience of fellow-Demo- crats Saturday night. Either Senator ‘White did not know what he was talking about or he deliberately played upon the supposed ignorance and stupidity of his hearers. He said: “The Bland act made silver a legal tender, and thus far it was all that could be asked, but it limited the functions and power of silver to the ex- tent of its coinage.” If there is mow or ever wasa ‘‘Bland act’’ the peopleof the United States would be obliged to Senator White if he will in- form them when and where it was enacted. The records of the proceedings of no Con- gress make mention of any such act. In 1877 Congressman Bland introduced a tree- silver coinage bill in Congress, but it never became an “‘act.” His bill was revamped, however, and when it reappeared before Congress it bore little if any resemblance to the original bill. 1t was then called the “Allison-Bland” bill, and it subsequently became ‘‘an act of Congress.” Nodoubt it was the Allison-Bland act Senator White referred to, but whether so or not, it is very evident that he got him- self very much mixed up. He said the act “limited the functions and power of silver because it restricted the extent of its coinage.” Since when did silver have “functions and power’’ (of money) in any form other than as coin? The meaning of the Senator’s assertion is that because the coinage of silver bullion into silver dollars was restricted, silver bullion was deprived of the functions and power of silver dol- lars. That is what silver-mine owners complain of. The idea of the Senator appears to be that it is the duty of the Government to confer the function and power of money upon silver bullion, and in order to do that the price of silver should be advanced by law to where siiver bullion weighing 3871} grains would have the same‘‘‘func- tion and power” as that number of grains in the form of a coin. In other words, Senator White is very anxious about silver bullion, and wants free coinage of silver so that bullion will have the function and power of coins. The Senator out-Bryans Bryan. But Senator White was good enough to admit that there is no certainty at all that the Democratic party’s free silver coinage scheme would work. He said: *Never can there be a fair test between gold and silver until both are given the same chance before the law.” This is an ad- mission that the Democratic party is play- ing a game of chance with the monetary system of the country, and that no one can foretell what the outcome will be. Ex- Governor Boies is quite in accord with Senator White. He says free coinage would be an experiment, but he wants to begin and keep on tinkering with the country’s circulating medium until the “right spot is touched.” Senator White should be sufficiently well acquainted with the peovle to know that they are not interested in conferring the function and power of money upou silver or'gold bullion for the sake of the bullion, nor are they in any mood for ex- perimental work upon or tinkering with the country’s monetary system. But thanks are due the Senator for emphasiz- ing the fact that Democrats do not know enough about economics to be trusted with the affairs of the Government. The people are setiled in one purpose this year—they will not tolerats the surrender of any more of their business and will as quickly as possible recover what they have already lost. They know how they lost it and they know when they lost it, and they know how to get it back, and they mean to do it.—Me- Kinley. WAGE-EARNERS KNOW. Hon. M. M. Estes made a rattling good speech and supmitted unanswerable argu- ments to a large gathering of Republicans Saturday night. The reason why there were not more people in the Auditorium Was because there was not even standing room for more. As was to be expected, the audience was composed of business men and wage-earners, and their enthusi- asm gave plenty of evidence that they are waking an earnest and active partin the campaign—a campaign for the overthrow of a policy of governmental managemert that has well nigh closed the avenues of trade and industry. Mr. Estee’s speech was a clear and cora- prehensive analysis of the economic con- ditions of the country at this time, and with great clearness he pointed out the remedy. The sentiment expressed in the following was the central idea: If we had good times geaerally and sent no money abroad, then gold and silver would both circulate at home. But such is not the case and cannot be the case until we have pro- tection. Then the laborers will have more t0 do, and the increased demand for workers will increase the price of work. The means to pay the workers comes from the results of their toil and not from the amcuut of silver in cir- culation. Labor preduces things first and money afterward, and the p#ice these things selt for is regulated by the demand. Protect our home market and there will be a good de- mand and a good price. The things so pro- ducea are the wealth of ihe country, and when the things are soid, money, as & symbol of wealth, is paid and received for them, and to secure the producer a good price money should be both good and abundant. No doubt labor understands the im- portance of opportunity to earn money better than any other ciass of our peovle. No wage-earner is bothering himself about the country’s financial system. He wants plenty of work at good wages. He knows thas only good sound, full and complete dollars have been in use in the country since the Republican party came in power in 1861, and he knows there is no danger of any form of our money being degraded under Republican rule. He knows that when the indusiries resume again and the channels of commerce are cleared of ob- struction a larger volume of money will be required and that naturally any in- crease in the circulating money medium would be from a larger use of silver. Meanwhile, however, he wants to do only that which will create a demand for his brain and brawn. Not a demand fora day’s work now and then, but a demand for every day that shall be fully equal to the supply. The workingman knows that he must produce things to exchange for money be- fore he can expect to have money, and hence his anxiety to see mill, factory and shop swing their doors wide open and invite labor to accept permanent em- ployment. And hence, too, his enthn- siasm for the cause that is sure to secure to him that which he most desires—plenty of work at good wages—which he knows will not be secured to him until the Republi- can party is returned to power. Peaceand plenty and not a war of classes are what the American wage-earner wants, and heis greatly mistaken who thinks the labor of this country is not a keen observer of pass- ing events 1n the political world. In fact it may be said that working people are better posted on economics than ever be- fore, and one only need to see how they are flocking to McKinley’s banner to be convinced that they know where to look for a deliverer from the mire and mud of Democratic iree trade. The prosperity and wealth of every nation must depend upon its productive industry. The farmer is stimulated to ezertion by find- ing a ready market for his surplus products and by being able to exchange them without loss of time or expense of transportation for the manufactures which his comfort or con- venience requires. This is always done to the best advantage where a portion of the com- i which he lives is engaged in other C0AST EXOHANGES. Cottage Grove, Or., has a new weekly news- paper, the Moderator, of which H. W, Ross is editor and proprietor. The publication makes a very creditable appearance. Political ques- tions are discussed strictly from & non-partisan and economie point of view. H. H. Walling has retired from the Placer- ville Nugget and R. V. Robertson will hence- forth be sole proprietor. The paper is only six months old, but has prospered beyond the ex- pectations of its founders. The Nugget believes that “atall times the Republican party does that which is right and wise,” and, therefore, it will strive hard for what it deems for the best interests of the party of Lincoln, Grant and Garfield. The Marysville Graphicis s little four-page paper which has just made its initial appear- ance in Yuba County’s capital. J. M.Morrisey is the publisher, and the Graphic will preach Democracy weekly during the campaign. The first number of the Riverside Daily News is at hand. 1t is an independent paper, favor- ing free silver and advocating the Republican principle of protection, L. W. Allum & Son are the proprietors. The Orphan’s Cry, a publication issued on the first day of every alternate month atSan Jose, has been received for August. It isde- voted to the interests of child-saving and child- reform, is non-sectarian and interdenomina- tional and deserves support on account of its most worthy object. Eureka may possibly find itself the possessor of anew daily paper before the coming of an- other moon. The Western Watchman of that city 1s contemplating such a movement in the interest of free silver. What is now needed is the wherewith to start the proposed daily. The Waichmen already has an option on & tele- graph service, Fresno is to have a cream-oi-tartar factory. The Republican of that city says with refer- ence to the projected new industry: “V. Cour- tois & Co., of San Francisco, have made arrangements to establish a cream-of-tartar factory in this city and will begin operations in September. The old Dexter stables at the corner of Inyo and I streets have been rented by the compeny and will be refitted for the factory. Thecompany will invest $10,000 and will engage in the manuiacture of the product on a large scale. “The waste of the wineries will be used in the manufacture and it is undérstood that the company hus already contracted with the Eisen and Granz wineries. The wastes used will bethe pressed grapes, the lees and the argol or crude tartar of the wine vats. Here- tofore these residues have been thrown away in Fresno wineries, but the new establishment will meke use of them. The field is an ex- cellent one, which was evidently realized by the Ban Francisco capitalists.” The San Bernardino Frec Press has come out in a complete and elegant new dress. Its en- terprising publisher, H. C. Warner, is meeting with that success which always waits on push, pluck and talent. Tulare City’s fruit cannery is running with a heavy force and will be in operaticn till the end of September. The Tulare Times says, in Tegard to it: “Much of the finest brands of canned peaches will be made here from the Phillips cling and White Heath. Somewhat higher wages wiil be paid the cutters and canners while this fruit is being packed, for the great- est care in handling will be exacted. A new machine, called the gravity can-labeler, was tried at the capnery two or three days ago. The inventor, Mr. Simmons, was present to watcn its workings and keep it regulated. He claims that it will label 2000 casesin one day of ten hours with the help of seven persons. This means 48,000 cans. With the aid of six men besides himself Mr. Simmons put the labels on 3240 cans in one hour the other day. Mr. Bentley says the great objection to all these labeling machines is that they will waste labels, and handsomley lithographed labels cost too much to allow waste.” With reference to the deterring influence on oil discovery and development in this State of Ppractical knowiedge of oil regions, the Fresno Ezpositor makes these sensible remarks: ““The discovery of oil at Livermore adds one more important find to the many which have rewarded the efforts of Caltfornia petrolenm- seckers during the last few years, 'Oil 1s now produced in paying quantities at Los Angeles, Coalings, Summerfield, Santa Paula and pos- sibly at two or three other points, though it is by nomeans certain that the greater reser- voirs which undoubtedly exist have yet been tapped. The number of points where good in- dications appear are many, but in the past and, to somne extent, in the present, circum- stances which might easily be changed have retarded their development. ‘“What we refer to is the fraudulent boring that has been going on for yeers, and which, through the disappointments it has caused, has put a stop to oil prospecting in many promising localities. The Livermore discovery was deferred for a Qecade because of a well- borer who was after the money ot his backers and not after oil. He sank a pipe to 8 depth cf 200 feet, struck nothing of value, and received $4000 for his pains. With the iailure of the well popular belief in the prasence of petro- leum under their feet died out among the people of Livermore, who did notknow that an honest experiment had not been made. But for aresident who had & notion or two of geology they would yet be doubting Thom- ases. This man went to work to find oii and gotitat a depth of nine feet. Now Livermore is reported 1o be in ‘a flutter of excitement.” ““Confidence men have found no more profit- able trade for years than to start out with'a boring apparatus, conyince some farmer or community that they had found signs of pe- trolenm or gas, and then, if contracted with, proceed to sink a well in any handy place. Knowing nothing of geological formations, these swindlers usually hit & spot where a discovery of anything except bowlders or pet- rified shells would be impossible, but that mattered nothing to them. They were boring for the contract price. A mile away there may have been oil fields, or there may have been none in the county, but the record of the boring failure becoming known had its de- terrent effect upon oil prospecting all ove the State. > “If this danger of fraud could be avoided we believe a general scientific explotation of oil would follow, and that greatgood would come of it. The case isone that might well enlist a syndicate of responsible capitalists, who for a share in any paying well @iscov- ered would stand ready to investigate,through a geologistand an honest boring party, any promising oil 1and in California. In this way there would be systematic and thorough work done and no fraud attempted, while in the long run the oil resources of the State would come to be properly understood and their commercial value utilized.” K. G. Harvey Wray, an all.round journalist and short-story writer from Australia, has se- cured an interest in the Santa Clara Magazine, and will at once assume the business manage- ment of that publication. The surprising growth of Tuolumne County, as revealed by the registratiou of 1896, is shown forth in the Sonora Union-Democrat. The productiveness of its mines has made it one of the most prosperous counties in the State. An increase of 3400 in population in less than two years and during a period when depression has been more or less universal is something Tuolumne County may well boast over. Hereis what the Union-Democrat has to say on the subject: “In proportion to population or in equal ratio no county in this State, so far as heard from, can equal, much less eclipse, Tuolumne in the increase of population or in the pros- perity that it has been the good fortune of its residents to enjoy since 1894. Out of a total number of twenty-seven voting precinets twenty-iwo show a substantial increase over the vote of 1894. One remains the same and four show an aggregate loss of forty-one votes, as figured at the ratio of votes to population, which is one to five. The four precincts of Algarine, Browns Flat, Shaws Flat and Santa Muria reveal & loss in population of 205, while the twenty-two precincts thatshow an increase show a voting gain of 774 and a gain in popu. lation of 3870, leaving a net gain in votes for the whole county of 682 and a net gain in pop- ulation of 3410. “Those figures, it must be understood. are considerably under the mark, for the reason that no especial eifort was made to bring out a full registration this year, occasioned by the absence of a local ticket in the field. Inaddi- tion to the loss of registered voters such apa- thetic conditions necessarily create, there is a large percentage of the miners employed in the county who are not citizens and could not therefore be placed on the register. It is safe to estimate the number as high as 20 per cent, ‘which seems to show the conseryatism of the estimated increase of population. It, of course, goes without saying that no such increase could be possible nuless there was presented an inviting field for the business man and the miner to profitably employ themselves in the forthcoming banner county of the State which Tuolumne is destined to be.” DANIEL WEBSTER ON RECIPROCITY Speech in Congress April 2, 1824, Commerce is not a gambling among nations for a stake, tobe won by some and lost by others. It hasnot the tendency necessarily to impoverish one of the parties to it, while it enriches the other; all parties gain, all parties make profits, all parties grow rich by the ope- ration of just and liberal commerce. If the world had but one clime and butonesoll, if all men had the same wants and the same means, onthe spot of their existence, to gratify their wants, then, indeed, what one obtained from thesther by exchange would injure one party in the same degree that it benefited the other; then, ingeed, there would be some foundation for the balance of trade. But Providence has disposed our lot much more kindly. We in- habit a various earth. We have reciprocal wants and reciprocal means of gratifying one another's wants. This is the true origin of commerce, which is nothing more than an ex- change of equivalents, and, from the rude bar- ter of its primitive state to the refined and complex condition in which we see it, its prin- ciple is uniformly the same, its only ebject being in ever: stage to produce that exchange of commodities between individuals and be- tween nations which shall conduce to the ad- vauntage and happiness of both. BRYAN'S LACK OF SINCERITY. Chicago Inter Ocean. Mr. Bryan is in no small danger of forfeiting public respect by a kind of intellectual jug- glery when he makes a speech. He should know that above all things the American peo- ple demana in their President a man of sin- cerity, one who is not afraid of the shadow cast by his political opinion. Even Buchanan and Cleveland uever forfeited public confi- dence in their sincerity. Mr.Bryan has hardly .made aspeech that he did not practice a kind of jugglery. He will have to stop that or the gourd which sprang up =0 suddenly in the Chicago convention will wither and die be- fore even the frost of November nips it. The latest instance in point was Saturday at Madalin. Thatis a little village in Dutchess County, New York, on the eastside of the Hudson Ruver, a region long a stronghold of Democracy, owing largely to the influence of Martin Van Buren. Mr. Bryan delivered a forty-minute speech in the village square to an audience presumably drawn from ‘“‘among the farmers round.” He began by elluding to the Chicago platform,and then quoted in full one plunk, making that his text. The natural inference would be that the quoted piank pre- senis the main issue between the parties, cer- tainly one of the issues. Here is the citation made: . We are opposed 10 the fssuing of Interest-bearing bonds of the United States in time of p-ace. and condemn that traflicking with banking sy ndicates which. in exchauge for bonds &nd &: enormous profiuto :gu;ug:‘.’,l Supply the Federal treasury Wi gold s gold the policy of mono- The Republican party has never issued o single Government boud in time of peace ex- cept only to replace bonds bearing a higher rate of interest with one bearing & lower rate, and the banking syndicate referred to was formed under and dealt with by a Democratic administration. Some months ago Congress camrlled the administration to abandon its bank syndicate policy and throw the new ‘bonds nrlen the dgenen! market, thereby saving millions of dollars, ‘but that was done under the lead of a Republican and not s Democrat or a Populist. £ Mr. Bryan may or may not have gulled that immediate sudience. It does not matter much whether he did or not. The people at large are not to be fpoled by such chaff. They know periectly well that it isa tricky evasion of the real issue of this campaign aud they wili not trust a man in the Presidential office, with its the exploiiations of adventurers Who had no | vest powers. whose sincerity they distriste AROUND THE CORRIDORS. s s R Dr. Augustus Marques,a noted theosophist of Italian nativity, but who has for some years been living in Hawaii, has arrived here and is at the Grand. The doctor is & very interesting conversationist, and on the subject of the- osophy is unusually interest:ng. He is credited with 8 number of very im- portant discoverles in theosophy. ¥or in- stance, he holds that all human beings are sur- rounded with human emanations called human aura, These emanations are egg- shaped and give lorth & great variety of most briliiant colors. “Many persons can see these with the naked eve,” said the doctor yesterday. ‘It is well known that railway engineers and ship pilots can seej an astounding distance. Others have d ena Board of Trade and one of the directors of the Whittier Reform Echool, arrived at the Lick yesterday. ? K. Caspar, who is building an electric light plant at Vallejo, is among the arrivals here. Edward Pearce, a resident of Providence, R. L, is at the Paiace accompanied by Mrs. Pearce. 8. Jacobs, one of the owners in a large gene- ral merchandising store at Reno, 1s at the Russ. F. A. Cutler of Eureks, who has been nomi- nated for Congress from his district, is at the Grand. W. D. Toby, the extensive lumber-dealer of Carson, Nev., is among the arrivals at the Palace. J. M. and H. Harwood of the Johns Hopkins University were among the arrivals on the Alameda, and are at the Occidental. One of Dr. Augustus Marques, the Noted Theosophist, Now Here, Whose Eyes Are So Good That He Can See the Mysterious Human Aura. (Sketched from lifs by a “‘Call” artist.] been able to see so well that they have been credited with microscopic eyes. My own eyes are so good that I can see Over many persons a halo, being part of the human aura. ““With the revelations of the Roentgen ray and other discoveries which sre constantly being made the horizon of scientific study is daily growing and the human mind is en- abled to penetrate into mysterious regions— the domain of the great Unknown—which were undreamed of only a few years ago. Butit is a rathe remarkable fact that the new line of study, called theosophy, is constantly fore- stalling scientific discoveries, so that science seems to come in only of 1ate as a corrobora- tion of theosonhical tenets. “Occultism has for centurles stated that everything in nature, from the minera: up to man, is snrrounded by & sort oi special ema- nation or fluidic eloud ealled aura, which con- stitutes a kind of limited atmosphere around every being, in the same way as every star and planet is surrounded by its own special atmos- here. ® “But just as the Roentgen ray is invisible to ordinary vision, though it is powerfully ac- tive, so the human aura is also invisible to or- dinary sight, yet persons gifted with abnorm al powers, called psychics or clairvoyants, readily discerf1 it with more or less deftness and are able té describe the interesting minuteness of its division and its brilliant colors. , “This aura was described by Paracelsus 300 years ago and was studied some fifty years back by the celebrated Baron Reichenbach. Vaterialistic scientists, however, who are not very well developed in eclairvoyant vision, stubbornly refused to admit its existence until atiast it was corroborated by photography.” Two French stientists, Dr. Baradue and Dr. Lebon, have just published books and photo- graphs on the human aura which fully con- firm the teachings of occultism in the matter and their discoveries are going 10 open a new fleld for the scientific study of the aura. In the meanwhile, this subject had for years been studied by members of the Theosophical So- ciety, producing some interesting articles pub- lished in the theosophical literature. But in- dependently of all this, however, Dr. Marques has made a very special and thorough study of the subject and he has had the good fortune of obtaining the help of some very scientific seers, giited with clairvoyant sight in their normal state, without trance or hypnetic in- fluence. Thus, the result of his observations covers some new discoveries and interesting facts never before elucidated, so that his lecture will prove of considerable scientific interest. One of these facts is the action of the human aura in connection with the disease germs that float in the atmosphere, and with the pos- sibilities of contagion without direct, bodily contact, certain ailments being transmittable through the aura, which extends to nearly two feet around the physical body. Dr. Marques lectured last nightin the Native Sons’ building, Mason street. Dr. Marques is president of the Aloha lodge of Theosophists at Honolulu. £ ROSE AND JAPONICA. A rose looked over the gurden wall: Mr. Japonica, that was all ! Bu't she loved him well, and she loved him true, As is the fashion of roses to do. She stood all day in the heat of the sun, And Iooked over the wall when the day was done. She was fair, and swee , and stateiy, and tall; He was Japonica—that was all! And some perfumed night when the sweet dews fall, They shall meet forever bevond the wal —Westminster Gazette. PER:ONAL. P. C. Musgrove of London is at the Palace. F. A. Kruse, a business man of Healdsburg, is in town. H. Sylvester, & mining man of Grass Valley, 1s in the City, : W. Garr is at the Grand. L. H. Strickland of Bakersfield is among the arrivals at the Russ. E. A. Warren, one of the business men of Chico, is at the Lick. ‘W. F. Peterson, & merchant of SBacramento, is bere on & brief visit. Matthew Francis and John Leshefort of Lon- don are at the Grand. R. J. R. Aden, a merchant of Vallejo, is reg- istered at the Baldwin. G. D. Peters, one of the pioneers of Truckee, arrived here yesterday. L. 8. Michasel, a journalist of Beattle, is regis- tered at the Cosmopolitan. L. R. Steele, editor of the Tracy Times, is a guest at the Cosmopolitan. Lee Taubman, who has & Creamery at Fern- dale, is a guest at the Russ. General N. P. Chipman, the lawyer, of Red Bluff, is a guest at the Palace, J. F. Mudden, a leading fruit-grower of New- castle, is here for a short stay. James Cehill, a Nevada City mining man, is making a short stay at the Russ. J. L. Gillis, the attorney of Sacramento, is among the arrivals at the Grand. Charles Mouroe of Los Angeles, who for some time was interested at Monrovis, is in town. Charles H. Keyes, president of the Throop Polyiechnio Institute, presiaent of the Pasa- mining man of Angels Camp, them left Paris on a bicycle, and made & trip of several thousand miles. They arenow en route to Baltimore. Frank H. Short, the attorney and prominent Republican of Fresno, is among the recent ar- rivals here. T. C. Cox, & mining man of Sonora, Tuo- lumne Couanty, is in the-City, and is registered at the Russ. Mrs. H. Schmieaell, who has been visiting friends for some time, returned last night and isat the Palace. C. 5. Moses of this City, who has been absent for some time, returned here last evening. He is at the Palace. John Markley of Geyserville, so long of the Democratic State Central Committee, isamong the registered at the Lick. 8. W. Young, one of the instructors in the chemistry department of the Stanford Univer- sity, registered yesterday at the California. Morris Newton, the Front-street business man, sccompanied by Mrs. Newton, returned here yesterday after some weeks’ absence. They are at the Palace. CAMPAIGN ECHOES. Free trade means free soup, a8 wage-earners have found out under this administration.— American Economist. Even the people who are managing young Mr. Bryan’s campaign refuse to take him seri- ously.—St. Louis Star. How unfortunate for Mr. Bryan that he did not lose his voice at New York instead of Pitts- burg.—Ohio State Journal. Mr. Bryan is complaining of throat trouble. He appears to be getting it in the neck al- ready.—Minneapolis Journal. The only reason Bryan has for calling this a holy war is the fact that it is being conducted by Jones of Ark.—Ckicago Tribune. To doubt that Major McKinley will be elected President is to doubt the intelligence and in- tegrity of the American people.—Springfield News. When election day comes Bryan will have taken poor Greeley’s place as the worst-beaten candidate for President in & hundred years.— Lonisville Post (Dem.). Itis curious to notice how precipitately Mr. Bryan has drooped his free-trade notions of former years. He hasn’t a word to say nowa- days about the tarifft.—Scranton Truth. The Republican platform points & way to opening of the mills and factories without waiting for the aid or consent of any other na- tion.—New York Commercial Advertiser. A good objection to Senator Gorman as man- ager of the Democratic campaign 1s the fact that he has not been able to prevent the Re- publicans from capturing bis own State.— Globe-Democrat. ‘Mr. Bryan, as the advance agent of bank- ruptey, is & glittering success. The business failures for the first eight days of August last year aggregated $2,408,774 whereas for the first six days of August this year they foot up nearly $7,000,000.—Chicago Times-Herald. Mr. Bryan says he was not “the hired man” of nnrs’uver “arons. He only upheld their cause atso much a night, the contributions being furnishéd by the misguided victims of the silver agitation. A distinction without a difference will be the verdict of the American people.—Philadelphia Telegraph. ———ee— A MISSES’ COAT BASQUE. The coat basque is much in evidence in the new fall gowns, and is used for misses as well asladies. Theone shown here is a very stylish model, and was seen made of & mixed cheviot in whleh‘bmwn. leal [rae‘:: nx‘x‘% :M'i"ha log:a’d delightfully pretty combination. :onen‘lndqre!e]:-l wn’r.al green ulk; the blouse of embroidered linen over green si.k. A mohair of blue, somewhat lighter than navy, hed a blouse of bright plaid silk. : This waist makes up 1o the heav- jer cotton goods, such as duck and cheviots. One of blue and while in the latter fabric had cuffs, collar and revers in white piquet, with blouse of white embroidered batiste. Brown Hollands makes a most useful dress, appropriate tor traveling, general wear, and, with the proper accessories, such u{ny ribe bongcollar and dainty blouse fronts, it is quite dressy. One seen had white iinen cuffs, etc., with & white chiffon blouse, turquoise blu¢ satin ribbon and belt. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Lord Roberts is an adept at tent-pegging an§ other military sports. The Prince of Wales has his life insured for a sum equal to $900,000. Munkaczy, the famous Hungarian painter, is now writing his memoi; M. Felix Faure, the President of the French republic, speaks English fluently. The Princess of Wales on her travels is al- ways accoompanied by a favorite white cat. De Amicis, the Italian author, who was born in 1846, isa writer of one of the most success- ful boys’ books of the time. It has passed through 180 editions in Italy. It is proposed to erect a bust to Sir Walter Scott in Westminster Abbey. The proposal will probably be the first intimation to most people that Sir Walter has not yet found a place thete. Baron Halkett's horse bolted in Hyde Park recently. When it wasstopped he was arrested for furious riding and fined, the magistrate holding that if was his business to see that the horse he drove wouid not run away. The late Lord Litford in his published work on the birds of Northamptonshire, England, tells this story of a singular incident which occurred in one of his frequent visitsto Spain: I first learned,” he says, ““the news of Presi- dent Abraham Lincold’s murder from a serap of a Spanish newspaper found in the nest of the kite by my climber, Agapo, near Aran- juez.” ALLEGED HUMOR. “Doctor, this Boston visitor of ours is a very sick girl.” 1 “So I perceive. We must begin by warming her blood up, but not too suddenly. Give her a dish of icecream every two hours till I callin the morning.” “What are your politics, my man?"’ asked the portly visitor of the prisoner behind the barsat the penitentiary. “Well, replied the latter, hesitatingly, “I haven't come out for anybody yet.”—Buffalo Times. “Why do you call that station Blue Island?" inquired one of the passengers. ¢ reckon, ma’am," said the young man with thab&g age checks on his arm, “‘it's because itain’t blue and it siu’t an island. Going any further than Chicago? Wish to ride to any of the hotels or depots?—Chicago Tribune.”” Peasant Woman (noticing a man copying one of the old masters)—Why do they paint this picture twice? Her Husband—Why that’s obvious. When the new picture is done they hang that on the wall and throw the old one away.—Fliegende Blaetter. Bhe takes very little interest in' public ques- tions, and her father and brothers had dis- turbed her reading. “Dear me!” she exclaimed, “do step talking about McKinley and Bryan. Anybody would think, from the way you keep discussing them, ;xlnc they were baseball players.”—Washington ar, HE DIDN'T FIND THE POLE. Arctic Pole Nansen kept alive on dogs, but let us hope not in the shape of sausages.—Bal- timore Herald. Nansen must be credited with doing better than many of the pole searchers, He found himself.—Rochester Times. Nansen failed to prove that a ship can drift to the pole, but he proved hisgood sense by iving up the effort in time to save the lives of crew and himself.—Chicago Times-Herald. At any rate, it must be conceded that Nan- sen has been successful in renew(n'f the con- troversy as to what there is a little farther on.—Chicago Post. A NICE present—Townsend's Californis Glace ¥ruits, 50¢, 1b., in Jap baskets. 627 Market. * e SrPecrAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * 1 M. Jean Cayron of Vibrae, France, has just had his twentieth child christened. Eighteen of his children are alive and healthy. Are You Gomg East? The Atlantic and Pacific Rafllroad—Sants Fe route—is the coolest and most comfortable sum- mer line, owing to its elevation and absence from alkall dust. Paricularly adapted for the trans- portation of families because Of its palace draw- ing-room and modern nphoistered tourist sleeping cars, which run daily through from Oakland to Chicago, leaving &t & seasonable hour and in charge of aitentive conductors sna porters. Ticket office, 644 Market street, Chronicle bullding. Tei- ephone, Main 1531 Cheap Excursion to St. Paal. The Shasta route and the Northern Pacifie Rall- road has been selected as the officlal roate to st tend the National Encampment of the G. A. &3 St. Paul, to be held there September 2to3. Ths excursion will leave San Francisco and Saars- mento August 26at 7 P.3. Kates $87 90 forch round trip. The above rate is open to all who wish tomake the trip East. Send your name andal dress 1o T. K. 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