The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 11, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1896. ........... SEPTEMBER 11, 1898 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, or and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dafly and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.16 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mal 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, stx months, by m 3.00 Dally and Sunday CAL, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sunday CALY, one month, by mall. .65 Sunday Cary, one year, by mall.. 1.50 WXEKLY CALL, one year, by mall. 1.50 THE SUMMER MONTHS. 3 i to the country on a_vacation * n‘:u’:: fl:‘ma for us to forwaré 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 EXTEA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Stréet, San Francisco, California. Telephone.. ....Maln—-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. - wreees Maln—1874 Telephone BRANCH OFFICES: 680 Montgomery street, corner Clays open untll 9:30 o'clock. 39 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o’clock. 718 Larkin street: open untll 9:30 o'clock. &W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open watll § o'clock. 2618 Mission street; open until 9 0'clocks 116 Minch street; open untii 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 905 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 51 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. —io—————— PATRICTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of Kew Jersey LECTION NOVEMBE; The strength of Hobart's letter shows that it came from a strong man. ‘What California workingman found any profit in the Cleveland administration? Bryan may well be silent on his free- trade record, for the record itseli speaks loud enough. We have tried one step in the direction of free trade, and no intelligent man wishes to take another. Let the wage-earner ask himself, What isthere in all Bryan’s promises that prom-= ises anything for my welfare? There is no defender for the Gorman snd Wilson tariff. Even Gorman and Wilson themselves are silent. We bave celebrated the greatness of California, and* now let us resolve to ad- vance her welfare by protecting her in- dustries, The deficit in the National revenue for the month of August was about $10,000,~ 020, and still Mr. Bryan jauntily declares there is no issue in that. Democratic leaders seem to have aban- doned Bryan’s fight and are now trying to secare their own election to Congress with- out regard to the boy orator. Bryan so completely exbausted himself in his speech at Madison-square Garden that his letter of acceptance was about as limp and loose as a wet dishrag, It is not clear what kind of wine Hill furnished to Bryan at that famous dinner, but it seems certain that he took Mumm himself and is still sticking to it. —_— San Francisco prospered under protee- tion and has been injured by the Wilson tariff. Let us vote for McKinley and pro- tection and advance San Francisco. “How can I best help my trade, my State and the Nation by my vote?” is the question every patriot is asking himself, and the only answer is, “by voting for McKinley.” If Cleveland bad any vim and vigor in him he would take some action in the Cuban question just to let the country know he has some ideas above those of a lone fisherman. The importance of the tariff issue to all the industries of California will not be overlooked by the people notwithstanding the efforts of the Democrats to get them to look the other way. From the letter of acceptance of Garret A. Hobart it is clear he isa good running mate for McKinley, and the people can see that his nomination for Vice-Presi- dent was no accident. The letters of acceptance of Bryan and of Hobart appeared on the same day and were published yesterday side by side to the great injury of the boy orator, whose effusion seemed stale and flat by the contrast, In his letter of acceptance Bryan said: “Itis not necessary to discuss the tariff question at this time”; and he was quite right in saying it, for the experience of the last three years bas taught the people all they wish to know about that subject from the free-trader’s point of view. Li Hung Cheng has everywhere shown a great interest in railways, but as he has not asked to be shown through a bicycle factory it is clear that the Chinese intel- lect hasn’t yet reached the full develop- ment of the enlighiened man of this cen- tury. —_— The curious thing about this campaign is that no one of any note is going to help Bryan. He has to do all the traveling, all the talking, all the dodging, and there is an increasiug probability that before he gets through he will have to pay his own expenses, Study the effect of the Gorman tariff on your own home and your own trade and you will see pretty clearly what has been its effect on the people generally; and you will also see why you shouid vote for the varty which is pledgea torepeal that tariff and restore the protective system under which we enjoyed the greatest prosperity as a Nation known to history. The Republican platform on which Lin- coln was elected declared/in fgvor of “that policy of National exchanges which se- cures to the workingman living wages, to agriculture remunerative prices, to me- chanics and maaufacturers an adequate reward for their skill, labor and enterprise, and to the Nation commercial prosperity and independence.” On the same plat- form-McKinley stands to-day, and rightly asks the support of all wno, like Lincoln, believe in promoting American industry against the competition of the world, M IWOBKINGMEH OF OCALIFORNTA, The time has come when the working- men of California should give a most care- ful and serious study to the issues before them in this campaign. It is folly for any wage-earner to believe that his own per- sonal welfare is not concerned in the result. All the issues of the day are economic. All of them deal directly with the industries of the country and every industry that pays wages will be affected by the measures to be carried out by the next administration. There is no evadiag the force of an economic law. No man or nation can violate such a law and prosper. The Republican and the Democratic par- ties propose economic measures of directly opposite tendencies. The Republican meas- ures justly pear the title of protection. They are intended to protect American industry from the competition of other countries, ana the value of the American dollar from a disastrous depreciation. Democracy proposes to throw down the barriers of protection, to expose the American worker to the competition of Europe and the Orient, and the American dollar to whatever fluctuatious may come from the free coinage of silver without any governmental safeguards whatever. These directly opposed measures cannot be equally good. If one tends to the wel- fare of the country the other must tend to its injury. If one guards the interests of workingmen the other must be to those interests adverse, hostile, dangerous snd destructive. The American workingman has not to jndge these measures by theory only. He has had within the last four years ample experience in the practical operation of a free-trade tariff in sharp contrast with the operation of protection. We had during the war an experience with fluc- tuating money as compared with the steadfast money of to-day. We know how eager all men were after the war to return to specie payment. We know how eager all American producers and employers are no¥ to return to a protective system. From these things every intelligent work- ingman may learn how to vote. Expe- rience is the teacher of the wise. For a proper nnderstanding of the oper- ation of the economic law of free trade or protection the workingman need not study the conditions of the whole world, nor éven those of all the Union. He can find facts enough to justify a conclusion within the limits of his own horizon. He need not look beyond his own city. He need hardly look beyond his own trade. The chances are he will find enough in his own home. Nothing is required of him but to profit by the lessons of bis indi- vidual experience. ) We have published in Tae CArL inter- views with many workingmen of different trades in San Francisco and all have told the same tale of prosperity under protec- tion ana disaster under free trade. All recognize that the free coinage of silver without the co-operation of other nztions would lower the purchasing power of wages without giving any compensating advantages to the wage-earner. These men have many of them affiliated in former campaigns with the Democratic party, but they have learned the lesson oi experience and will vote hereafter for pro- tection to industry. In the nature of things we cannot publish interviews with all the working- men of the City. They, however, can interview one anotkher. They can talk over together their exp-riences of the last four years. They can learn from one another how the economic force of free trade has worked on the 1ndustry of San Francisco and the wage-earning power of its men and .women. They can see what effect has been wrought in the shop and in the honie, and as the past is always the best lamp to light the future they can see by what has been what will be in San Francisco when it has been de- cided whether for the next four years we shall continue present eonditions or return to protection and prosperity. It is a known fact that more than 80 per cent of the commerce of the world is settled in gold or on a gold basis. Such free-coinage legislation, if ever consummated, would dis- criminate against every producer of wheat, cotton, corn or rye—who should, in justice, be equally entitied with the silver-owner to sell his products to the United States treasury ata projit fized by the Government—and against all producers of iron, steel, zinc or copper, who might properly claim to have their metals made into current coin, It would as well be a fraud upon all persons forced to accgpt a currency that stimulated and at the same time degraded.—Garret A. Hobart. A RINGING LETTER. In his letter accepting the nomination of the Republican party for Vice-President Garret A. Hobart says: “‘For the first two fiscal years of the so-called McKinley tar- iff the receipts from customs wera $380,- 807,980. At this writing the Wilson tariff act bas been in force for nearly two full fiscal years, but the total receipts, actual and estimated, cannot exceed $312,441,947. A steady deficit, constantly depleting the resources of the Government, and trench- ing even upon its gold reserve, has bronght about publicdistrust and business disaster. It has, too, necessitated the sale of $262,- 000,000 of bonds, thereby increasing to that extent the National debt.”” A good deal has been written and spoken to prove the destructive effect of the Wii- son-Gorman tariff act upon the income and disbursement accounts of the Govern- ment, but Mr. Hobart puts the whole mat- ter in a nutshell when heshows how there has peen, tnere is still and there will con- tinue to be deficits under the operation of that law. The Democratic party’s tariff failed to receive from revenue sources in the first two years of its operation as much as was received in the first two years of the McKinley tariff by nearly $7¢,000.000, and, moreover, in the same two years President Cleveland increased the bond debt of the Nation by $262,000,000, which, when added to the interest that wili ac- crue during the life of the bonds, makes the total of the Government’s bond obli- gations over $500,000,000 more than they were when Cleveland wasinaugurated. By the time the Republican party can get the macninery of the Government to running as it should'run the deficit in revenues will be fully $150,000,000, and it would not be surprising if Cleveland would not have to sell more bonds to keep the gold reserve up to thelegal requirement before he steps down and out. Just how long the people will be willing ‘o let that kind of financiering go on they themselves will have to say, but if they are not already very tired ot it they should read Mr. Hobart's enalysis of the opera- tion of the Wilson-Gorman act, But the failure of the act to provide expense money for the Government and the issue of $262,000,000 of bonds are very imall matters as compared to the losses which trade, commerce, agriculture and industry haye sustained in the last two and a haif years. There are official figures which give the number of commercial failures and the losses to business enterprises by reason of Demoeratic tariff tinkering, but there are no records of the misery which it inflicted upon the industriat millions. Nevertheless, Mr. Bryan says, *‘it is not necessary to discuss’” at this time the cause of all this misery. He does not ap- pear to regard the deplorable condition of our wage class and industries as of much consequence. But vastly more than a mere assertion of a purpose to reconstruct the National carrency s suggested by the Chicago platform. It as- sumes, in fact, the form of a revolutionary propaganda. It embodies a menace of Na- tional disintegration and destruction. This spirit manifested itself in a deliberate propo- sition to repudiate the plighted public faith, to impair the sanctity of the obligation of private contract, to cripple the credit of the Nation by stripping the Government of the power to borrow money as the urgent exigen- cies of the treasury may require, and, in a word, to overthrow all the foundations of financial and industrial stability.—Garret A. Hobart. HILL'S INDEPENDENCE. Mr. Bryan lunched with Senator Hilla week or so ago, and ever since there has been a suspicion that the worthies had some kind of a private understanding which would be of advantage to the Presi- dential candidate, Yesterday, however, Hill positively refused to go to the State Convention as a delegate pledged to sup- port the Chicago platform. This would seem to indicate that Hill will support Palmer and Buckner, but all the same Hill 50 worded his communication that it can be twisted to mean anything. He simply refuses to be a pledged delegate. He does not say that he is for Bryan, nor does he say he is against him. Senator Hill 13 a New York Tammany pelitician who is very anxious to serve another term in the United States Senate. It may be accepted as a fact, though, that Hill is arranging for some deals, eise he would bave accepted the position of delegate under the conditions imposed, for that would have been Democratic. Tam- many cares nothing for National polities, but it does care to control the elective and the appointive offices in New York City, and its fondness for Hill would make it do pretty much as he asked 1t to do for his own political interests. It is very clear, therefore, that Hill knew he would not offend Tammany by refusing to be com- mitted to indorse the Chicago platform, althbough Tammany is supposed to be working very faithfully for Brvan. In view of the peculiar methoas®of Tam- many, Hill's action with reference to the Buffalo convention may be accepted as'| meaning that Bryanis to be traded for anybody or anything that will strengthen the local Democracy. The Republican party has always stood for the protection of the American home. It has aimed to secure it in the enjoyment of all the blessings of remunerated indusiry, of moral culture and of favorable physical environ- ment. It was the party which instituted the policy of free homesteads, and which holds now that this policy should be re-established, and that the public lands now vacant and sub- ject to entry in any part of the National ter- ritory should be preserved against corporate aggression as homes for the people.—Garret 4. Hobart. A CONSPIRACY BREWING. The air all over the country is full of rumors to the effect that there is a move- ment on foot in Democratic and Populist circles to make the election of Congress- men and State legislators the nitimate of their effort. It appears that the leaders are discouraged over the outlook for Bryan’s election, and they believe it would be the safer plan to put in their best work | and best money, too, to secure a few cer- teinties, such as Congressmen and Sena- tors. How many Democrats are in this conspiracy would be hard to tell, but there isno doubt at all that Populists every- where are ready to trade off Bryan for supvort for local and Coniressionnl candi- dates. The plan of the combine appears to be to shape matters now so that they will be in position in the off year and in 1900 to make themselves feit in a way that would be worth something. Brvan has become so much of an extremist since he took to the hustings that his managersare getting alarmed. -They know that public senti- ment is conservative and that while great crowds may greet Bryan everywhere there is a vast difference between being moved by curiosity and by honest convictions; be- sides, the more the people turn out to see Bryan the more he thinks he is bigger than his party, and in the same propor- tion is the advice of his managers dis- regarded, But, anyway, the feeling is growing in Popocratic circles that a bird in the hand is worth twoin the bush, and hence the scheme to make the election of Congress- men and BState legislators the center of effort; and there is good political sense in the game the conspirators are looking to two and four years hence for full re- ward. But it is a shabby way to treat the young man from Nebraska. No doubt Sewall’s candidacy is having a good deal to do with the combine. He is a national banker, a very wealthy man, an enemy of labor organizations and is decidedly in favor of the Government subsidizing his merchant ships. Bo, altogether, there is some basis for the ramor that more Con- gressmen and Senators and less of Bryan is wanted. The Democracy of Bath never dared to run Sewall as a candidate for any important office for fear of ruining their party. Once or twice he had been elected an Alderman by the Republicans. Every time he had since been a nominee he had been snowed under by Demaocratiw votes. How could men of any principle vole for such a man? The Democ- racy believed in free trade. Sewall was a rampant high protectionist. The Democrats had made asses of themselves in nomwnating him; now they expect the Populists to follow suit.—L. C. Bateman, Populist candidate for Governor in Maine. OAPITAL AND WEALTE. “Labor creates capital,” saya Mr. Bryan in his letter of acceptance, but he is very much mistaken. Labor is itself capital and it creates wealth. Capital is a pro- ducing agency, while wealth means leis- ure. The skill of the mechanic and the muscle of the laborer are capital, exactly as are the dollers of the one who employs them. There is wealth accumulation when expenditure is.less than the income, as there is debt accumulation when expen- diture is greater than the income, but capital enters into the transaction only to the extent of producing the income. It is true, however, that the producing power of either form of capital, labor or dollars, may be imphired; and it is equally true that neither one could becrippled without the other sustaining injury. They are interdependentand their natural relation, the one to the other, is one of harmonious co-operation, and in ratio to the msinte- nance of this relation, which is a purely reciprocal one, is their productive power maintained and sustained. - The relation between these two forms of capital, labor and dollars, in the Ugited States is by reason of natural causes more intimate than in any other country. The United States has'the raw material, the mechanical skill, the machinery, the labor and the dollars to supply nearly every known commercial commodity which gives capital, labor and dollars an extraordinary opportunity to accumulate wealth, It so happens, too, that our con- sumptive demand is equal to fully 98 per cent of our production. That is tosay, after supplying our wants we have a sur- plus equal to about 4 per cent of our total production which we put upon the world's markets for sale. The philosophy of the situation is, then, Shall our own cupital, labor and doliars, resume work and manufacture and otlier- wise prepare for our food and our othercon- sumptive requirements from material that we have at hand, or shall we rely for the most part upon other countries and let our capital lie idle? But if we conclude to look to our own resources we shall find ourselves confronted by markets full of articles of consumpticn from countries where the standard of living and the degree of individual liberty is very much lower than we wish to maintain, and which enables those other countries to supply us with goods and wares cheaper than we can supply them from our own raw material. Theoretically, it would seem that we should get our supplies where they could be had for the least money, but the practical operation of such a policy would be to keep our capital, labor and dollars, in enforced idleness, which would not only reauce the earning power, but deprive it of all opportunity to maintain a margin of difference between expenditure and income and thus prevent it from accumulating wealth. Undersuch a con- dition of operation whatever profits our labor and dollars might earn would be quickly absorbed by those of other coun- tries who supply our markets with com- modities—commodities we could produce even better than those who supply us. American labor being American capital and American dollars being American capital, it would seem to be only fair and right that these capital factors should be protected against hurtful invasion when they try to increase the general and individual wealth of the country by sup- plying our markets with sl articles of consumption that can be produced from our own meterial, The Repubiican party believes that American labor being Ameri- can capital should not be deprived of con- ditions which would enable it to get enough from its employment to insure the widest possible margin between what it earns and what it consumes, so that there may be a satisfying and encouraging increase of wealth. The whole demand of American labor is, and it has a natural right to demand as much, that it shall have continuous opportunity to employ itself at wages which shall enable it to live from day to day as it becomes a citizen of the greatest nation in the world to live, and not exhaust its entire income. PERSONAL. W. D. Kendall of Boston is at the Palace. Dr. A. W. Trafton of Dixon is &t the Grand. Judge 8. F. Geil of Ealinas is at the Occi- dental. Dr. P. H, Thornton of Lakeport is at the Com- mercial. George H. Tolbert of Washington, D. C., is at the Russ. 2 J. G. Houghton of Hollister is a guest at the Cosmopolitan. James F. Dennis, a leading lawyer of Reno, Nev., is in town. G. Brown and son of Greenock, Scotland, are at the Cosmopolitan. Mrs. H. D. Anderson and son of Sonora are at the Cosmopolitan. John R. Tregloan, & mine-owner of Amador County, is in the City. T. M. Church, one of the officials of Amador, arrived here yesterday. L. Grimmercy, a business man of Yokohama, reached here yesterday. E. A. Cadoni, & dairyman of Tocaloma, is among the arrivals at the Commercial. C. L. Culbert of Jackson, Clerk of Amador County, s among the arrivals at the Grand. George E. Baldwin, manager of the tele- phone company &t Los Angeies, arrived here yesterday. C. H. Merchant, a wealthy lumber manu‘ac- turer of Marshfield, Or., is among the arrivais at the Lick. Among the latest arrivalsat the Cosmopoli- tan are A. E. Williams and M, slair, business men of Sonora. H. J. Small, master mechanic of the exten- sive shops of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company at Sacramento, is here on & brief ‘business trip. William Forsyth, who has 160 scres of raisins at Fresno, and who is an extensive raisin packer as well as grower, is on a visit here. Heis at the Occidental. Alan D. Whittaker, the civil engineer, of Philadelphia, who was married at Santa Rosa recently to the daughter of R.A.Thompson, editor of the Santa Rosa Democrat, is at the Palace. Michel Soutret, a rich silk merchant of Lyons, France, was among the arrivals from the Orient yesterday. He was for some time in Java, and on arriving in Japan purchased large quantities of silk for the French market. William G. Brigham, curator of the Bishop Museum at Honolulu, was among the arrivals here on the City of Peking yesterday and is at the Occidental. The museum was founded by C. R. Bishop, the bunker of Hawali, 85 8 monu- ment to the memory of his wife. F. ® Tuttle, a prominent attorney of Auburn, Piacer County, is in this City, Mr, Tuttle says that the Republicansof Auburn are jubilant over the bright prospects of suc- cess at the polls. McKinley and protection is & slogan that awakes increased enthusiasm ag the days go by. John Muir, the noted author and discoverer of the Muir glaciers, who has been on an ex- tended trip through the mountain regions with the United States Forestry Commission, has for the last day or two been yisiting his home near Martinez. He will retirn to join the expedition to the coast mountains to-day. George H. Craft of Bakersfield, treasurer of the Kern County Republican Committee, is in town. Hereports that McKinley and protec- tion are enjoying & boom in Kern. Many of the inhabitants are raisers of sheep, who have been Democrats, but they are opposed to free wool and free wool’s champion, Bryan, and this year their votes will go to the Republican candidates. John Nelson, a pioneer of Forty Mile, Alaska, is at the German Hospital, where he is receiving trestment for disease of the kid- neys. Mr. Nelson is said to have directed T. Muller to the advantages of Miller Creek asa place for mining. Mullér went there, and the tesult is that he recently arrived here witha large fortune, accumulated froma placer prop- erty which he then staked out. Captain H. L. Read, lately appointed general manager and financial agent of the New Zea- land Mines Trust, a powerful Euglish com- pany, with headquarters in London, left last night for London to assume his duties. This company owns the leading mines in New Zea- land, & number in West Australis, and lately bas ecquired several in Briiish Columbia. Captain Read will, after consulting with the officers in London, return vie San Francisco and proceed to New Zealand to make that his permanent headquarters. Think a Little. Anderson News. The laboring man who gets $2 a day now can hardly expect $4 under free silver coinage. But if free coinage doubles prices as its advo- cates claim it will, then the laboring man will have to pay more for what ne buys without his wages being increased. Wherein then does he expect to be benefited? Self-Evident Truth.” s Ealinas Owl. You ean’t sell goods unless you tell people ;3?)9& ‘:lha‘m. The more you tell the more AROUND THE CORRIDORS. The familiar figure of genial Paul Neumann | was observable at the ce and Grand ho- tels fora time yesterday, and General Neu- mann was soon surrounded by a coterie of old- time friends. The ex-Attorney-General of Hawaii recounted many reminiseences of his experiences, both s the chief factotum of the erstwhile Queen Lil and as a member of the bar of San Fran- cisco. As ususl hus stories were pleasantly re- ceived. Mr. Neumann is not looking so rotund and hale as on some of his former trips from the islands. He lays it to his long stay among the paims. “I usually get up here about once a year,” hesaid toa CALL reporter, “but this timel & man wears his hair whether he's a poet or & Populist.”—Washington Star. The Professor—You ere now gezing, sorr, on that wonderful planet, Saturn. The Seeker After Science—And what 18 that smooth, broad belt running all round it? ‘The Professor (rising to the occasion)—Hem! That, sorr, is the track of the Saturn Bicvele Club.—Pick-Me-Up PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.= Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, England’s Secre- tary of State for the Celomnies, smokes ten big cigars each day. Miss Lucy E. Ball, who has just received from Collector Keily of Brooklyn the place as chief of the spirits departmewut in the Brook- i A\ Y i P ey EX-ATTORNEY-GENERAL PAUL NEUMANN of Hawaii, Who Is Here to Recover His Health, - |Sketched from life by a “Call™ artis’.] put it off two years, so I have to stay here long enough to make up for whatis due. Iam over at San Raifael now, and have notbing to do but to receive what Whittier calls the ‘bene- diction of the air.’ Thave been there four weeks and am liable to stay some months yet. *‘About the sugar crop down there in Ha- wali I can say that it will this year run from 180,000 to 200,000 tous, or say 180,000 to make the estimate conservative. It will be probably a fourth largersas a crop thau last ye 'The crop and the price suit us first rate. This condition which has been existing in Cuba is first rate for us. I wish it would com- tinue next year. “Ithink from what Icansee thatthe crop will be as big next yesr as now. We will not be troubled by any 16 to 1. Our coin is Uncle Sam'’s gold and we are well sfied with it.” THE NEW SMALL SLEEVES. Two of the most graceful of the new sleeves are snown here. In one the fitted sleeve is cov- ered with sleeve goods which is gathered into the seams. This is particularly pretty for silk and chiffon, in fact, any material not too neavy, The lighter-weight silks are made ng after the model with very good results, an some gatin so treated is excaadmgly pretty. The new canvas cloths,which are thin enough to allow a bl’ifiht silk lining to show through, are exceedingly picturesque in this wrinkled r gathered sieeve. The fitted sleeve is snitable for all fabrics. A combination of materials may be employed in making it. One was of Dresden silk, with the puff of dark thin canvas cloth of which the ‘Waist was made, having a bolero front with a blouse vest of the silk. The back of the waist Wwas smooth overa fitted lining with a coat basque laid in pleats and reaching only to the under-arm seams. A green mohair gown had the puffsof mo- !ablir, tlh: 1}:"" u!hevr:bl nlgd a roun‘ia‘ yoke on e walst being of embroidered batiste over a violet silk lining, ERYAN'S TWELVE STAGES. Peroration, Jubilation, Nomination, Preparation, Noification! Peregrination, Argumentation. Trepidation, Condemnation, Consternation, eatation, Extermination. nsas City Star. — NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “Uncle Simon, what is living it down?" ell, it is doing something mean and then hanging round until everybody who knows about it is dead.”—Chicago. Record. “The New Pastor—I beg pardon, but in what walk of life are you engaged ? The Brand—None, sir. I am a sprinter.— Cleveland Plaindealer. He—How is it that we never see Rusticus with that pretty young woman any more ? She—Why, they have been married for more than & year.—Detroit Free Press, * . Mrs. Talgalot—What does make you talk so much in your sleep, Joseph ? Joseph—Gosh! It's the only chance I ever get.—Truth, 0ld Gentlemen—You want duughter ? w‘x}y, nu':( only‘ l:;;flldnhd?’ se ‘oung Map~—] W, 8ir; but she’’ T that.—Puck. e s Tommy—Per, what made Noah take all kinds of animals in the ark? Father—So as you could strike me for & quar- ter to go to the circus.—Up-to-Date. % ‘Somebody to see you, sir,” said the Doy to the editor. 3 Foan “What kind of & man?" “1 can’t say for sure,” “Where &re yonr eyes? Haven't powers of observation "’ tend “Yes,sir. ButI've guessed wrong so often that I'm afraid to try sny more. "‘nmu are getting 50 NOW that you can't tell by the way lyn Internal Revenue Office, began her work {or this department in Greenshoro, N. C., and bas fitted herself for her present post by sev- eral years' service in the Internal Revenue De- partment, Alma Tadema’s studio in London {is reached by a flight of seemingly golden stairs, the steps being entirely covered with plates of polished brass. Colorado has & new millionaire in the person of a Mr. Stoiber, who has expectations of rival- ing the famous Mr, Stratton. Mr. Stoiber isa mining engineer by profession, and for a long time lived yery humbly with his wife, who is his partner in business, in a.little cabin near | Silverton. He now has an income of $800,000 ayear and has one of the handsomest houses in Colorado. Miss Kate Wheelock, the well-known whist teacher, began her successful professional career ten or twelve years ago. At first she taughts class for nothing, but she was soon struck by the idea that she had a money- making occupation at her hand, and began charging s regular fee for her instructions. Ever since then she has hed all she could do in the way of conducting classes, has traveled from place to place wherever classes have been organized, and has lately introduced an in- vention in the shape of a stereopticon, by means of which she is able to teach large classes to better advantage. “TEARS, IDLE TEARS” A little frown becionds her brow, Her thoushts seem far away; 100k in vain for dimples DOw ‘Where they were wont to play. Why sits she thus, with downcast eyes, ‘And Jips 50 tightly pressed? ‘What cause is there for such deep sighs From one 50 richly dresscd? 1s some dear friend, you ask, lald low, That she sits musing now? Islove the cause of all the Woe That rests upon her brow? Nay, "tis Dot news from over the seas, Nor love thay is unfair; : She sits and mopes (0-duy for she's d her first gray bair. Juat found et A veiand Leader. THE DELIGHIFUL EAST. Wisconsin Agriculturist. A recent bulletin of the Weather Bureau gives the following directions for governing one's actions in a cyelone: “Go to the cellar on the first intimation of the appreaching storm. Don’t move east, northeast or southeast. On reaching the cel- lar, place yourself against the west wall, or if that cannot be done, get as near the southwest corner as possible, face to the wall, Then, in case the building is carried away, it will be carrfed over and above you, and there will be aanger from the debris, which is moved aniwad. | Under no circumstances seck an east wull or corner. O prescod by the advancing cloud, throw yourselt on the ground, head cast &nd hands over it to protect. 1f a stump or other firm body likely to endure the storm 1s in the vicin- | ity take a position on the esst side of it, iying prone on the ground witb the head toweard it. Never take refuge in a forest grove or orchard, or iu & building or behind a fence. Do not re. main in the house if you can getout; if obliged toremain in avoid Contiguily to doors, wine dows, stoves or heavy pieces of furniture. — —_— THE VOILE OF VERMONT. #No, that noise wasn't 8n earthquake: it was simply Vermont remarking that she hasno use for clipped dollars.—Waterbury Repub- lican. The loyal Republicans and Democrats of Vermont have done well. Carry the news to Bryan and the repudiators everywhere.— ‘Wilmington (Del.) News. The Green Mountain State voiced the senti- ment of the Nation when she elected the Re- publican caadidate for Governor by a plurality of about 35,000.—Springfield Union. It is a most significant victory. It indicates that the tide has set in in the Northern States against the Chicego ticket stronger than it ever began in any campaign.—Indianapolis Journal. It is tremendously encouraging that the yoice of Vermont is so decisive. A smailer majority would have been satisfying, but the one given is glorious.—New Haven Journal and Courier. The first gun of the campaign thunders from the green hills of Vermont. It is a roarer, Vermont epeaks the voice of the American people. 1ts vote is the first leap of the tidal wave which is (o sweep over the country next November.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. Vermont has given the biggest Republican majority in her history, That means some- thing! It means that the farmersup in the Green Mountain State have not been tainted with the free silver heresy.—Poughkeepsie Eagle. Vermont, one of the most distinctively ag- ricultural States in the Union, makes haste to assure the country that the American farmer is neither the fool nor the revolutionist that Mr. Bryan would have the people believe. The trouble with Mr, Bryan is that he has never acquired & speaking acquaintance with mo‘ real sentiment of the American people.—New York Mail and Express. Vermont tells the story of the dodm of Bryanism. True, Vermont is ounly & small State, and {t is always safely Republican, but its Republican majority varies within con- siderable limits. These variations mark the direction and strength of the partisan cur- rents in the country at large.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. The Republicans of Vermont are to be con- gratulated on their magnificent victory. The significance of the vote is not difficult to dis- cern. Itindicates the overwhelming defeat of | Bryant next November, and the triumphant indorsement of McKinley's slogan: “An hon- est doilar and the right to earn it by honest toil.”—Kansas City Journal. ANSWERS TO CORRESFONDENTS. A WEDNESDAY—B., City. The 28th of Au- gust, 1878, fell on o Wednesday. THE SHERMAN ACT—A. B. and C,, City. What is generally known as the Sherman act be- came & law on the 14th of July, 1890. WORTH FIFTY CENTS—A Subscriber, Weatly, Cal. A 50-cent piece of 1830 does not com- mand & premium. It 1s worth only 50 cents. KEARNY-STREET BLOCKS—Cyelist, City. The blocks on the line of Kearny street, between Geary aud Cultfornia, bave & {ron tage of 273 eet. THE TeXT—Reader, Vallejo, Cal. The Rev. Father J. H. Nugent says that the needed text will be found in St. Mathew, xvi:19, and xviii: 18; also St. John, xx:! Nor WorTH THE CANDLE—H., City. The ex- pression “‘et le jeu, comme on ait, n'en vaut pas les chandelles” (the business, as the prov- gl says. will not pay the expense), i {rom the French of Corneille in “‘Le Menteur,” i:1. FARE 10 ENGLAND—8., Ross Valley, Cal. The lowest fare from San Francisco to London, England, is sccording to the route and line of stesmer. The railroad fare from San Fran- cisco is from $61 to $66, and the steamer fare from New York is from $22 50 to $27. SELLING—S. 8., City, ‘‘He sells shoes cheap” signifies that the dealer is selling them ata Jow price; “sells shoes cheaply” implies that tha dealer is selling them in & cheap maner, and not that he sells them at n low price. Both sentences are correct in the senses in Which used, but both do ROt mean tie samo thing. To THE CLIFF—Cyelist, City. The distance Irom Lotta’s Fountain to the Cliff House along the following described route is seven and one-fifth miles: Lotta’s Fountain, along Mar- ket street to Golden Gate avenue, to Devisa- aero street, to Fulton, to Baker, and along the main drive of the park to the boulevard and thence to the Cliff. DE YOUNG-NAPTHALY—A. O. S, City. ‘The shooting at Benjamin F. Napthaly oy the late Charles de Young near the Postoffice in this City, occurred at 11 o’clock iu the forenoon of June 16, 1874. A that time the only party wounded wus Henry Mitchell of 707 Howard street, a messenger for the Western Union Companv, who was slightly wounded in the calf of the right leg. JOCKEYs—S., City. If a boy wishes to appren- tice himsel! to a stabie in order to learn to be & jockey, itisoptional with the parent, guar- dian or boy himself asto the time he hasto remain, During his spprenticeship he gets money on _outside mounts, but no yny from bis employer, uniess the employer is generous enough to make him a pres- ent. A boy of 16 weighing 97 pounds would stand a chance of being accepted. Johnny Griffin has been riding for about five years. He receives $16,000 a year, but he is ouly one among & great many who get auything like such money. ParrTy—J. H. L, City. The free coinage of sliver as proposed by the Democrats and Popu- lists will not bring silver to a parity with gold. That will occur only when the commercial value of silver rcaches 1.2929. Whether a per- son can be forced to pay interest on'a loan in gold in case gold is at & premium depends upon the contract. As a rule in California there is a stipulation in the contract that the principal and interest shall be paid in gold coin of the United States. If there is no such stipulation in the contract the loan and the inferest may be E“d in silver standard dollars a8 the law stands now. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c Ib. Townsend's," ——————— SpecTAL Information daily to manutacturars, business houses and public men by the Presy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ————————— HUsBAND'S calcined magnesia. Four first- preminm medals awarded; more agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other mag- nesta. For sale only in botiles with registered trademark labels, o ———————— President White’s farewell address to the students of Cornell University was replete with common sense, but there was one bit of sdvice which was pre-eminently sound. “Do not try to be smart,” ne said, ‘‘but do every- thing that comes to your 1ot in a faithful and satisiactory manner. Are You Gomg East? 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