The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 18, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 18Y6. SEPTEMBER 18, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daly and Bunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.15 Dafly and Sundsy CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail. 3.00 Daily snd Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sunday CALL, one month, by mall. .65 Sunday CALL, one year, by mall. 1.60 WXEKLY CaLL, one yesr, by mall. 160 THE SUMMER MONTHS. e e ing to the country on s _vacation -q‘mm frouble 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. O EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market s:n?. San ¥Francisco, California. ‘Telephone.. cereee Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone....ceveee . Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 550 Montgomery street, corner Clay: epen umtll $:80 o'clook. 889 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. EW. corner Sixtesnth and Mission streets; open watil o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until § o’clock. 116 Niuth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICB: 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICB:s Rooms 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e —————— PATRICTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohlo FOR VIOF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of Rew Jersey ELECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. — Palmer and Buckner are old, but they are not fogies. Really, the only question left is the size of McKinley’s majority. McKinley and the masses are working for one another and are bound to win. There is no confusion in Mr. Cator’s interest in fusion. He knows what he is after. Boss Rainey evidently knew it would help him to capture the Democratic don- key when he set up his headquarters in ‘“'the barn.” —_—— A clear understanding of international bimetallism is a sure cure for the silver craze and at that understanding the peo- ple are rapidly arriving. The Populists have combined with the Republicans in North Carolina to over- throw Democratic misrule and Bryan's talk to Buncombe was in vain. It seems that while Popocrat fusion in this State begins with Bryan it is directed to the election of Cator to the United States Senate. How do sterling Demo- crats like that? Sound money and protection, good busi- ness and good wages, all these you will get from McKinley, but what can you ex- pect from Bryan but industrial disturb- ance and unrest? The estimate based on the vote of Ver- mornt and Maine that the Republicans will carry New York by 750,000 majority would amaze the Popocrats if they were not too much dezed to be amazed at anything. *‘William Jennings Bryan to-night, sin- handed, out in the open, with no muz- is the wav Orator Taylor described ‘Wandering Willie and alas how the Dem- ocratic party mourns the fact that he has no muzzle, The best way to revive industry, pro- vide employment for the people and pre- pare the way for an advance of wages is to restore the protective system. We have ulways had prosperity under protection, and we have never had it when that system was broken down. Congressman Newlands said in his speech on Wednesday evening: “The true ailies of this country are those countries which have a scarcity of money.” That proposition will be denied by every busi- ness man. We do not wish to depend on the trade of people who have nothing. g The next time the Democrats have an oratorical field night in this City the peo- ple would be glad to hear them discuss the Chicago platform in fuil. The orators ought to be able to say something about free trade, the income tax, the attack on the Sapreme Court and the denial of the right of the Federal Goverment to en- force its laws. To-morrow evening at the Aunditorium Irving M. Bcott will make an address to ironworkers on their interests in the political issues of the day, and as no one has a better understanding of the iroa industry than this experienced builder of great battle-ships hisaddress will certainly be one of the most notable of the cam- paign. Every ironworker should hear it, and all in this City should arrange to do 80. According to Mr. Newlands: “While the Democratic party was responsible for industrial disturbances in the past through its reductions in the tariff, it zave aguarantee as to the future against fur- ther industrial disturbance.”” If sucha guarantee was given it has never been made public and cannot be found either in the speeches or in the silence of the Democratic candidate for the Presidency. 1f anybody has that guarantee heought to make it Enown. Mr. Taylor of Colorado told the truth at Metropotitan Hall when he said: “We have seen the farmer’s product fall until itno longer pays him to produce it; we have seen the merchant close his doors with the Sheriff inside; we have seen 2,000,000 earnest, patient, faithful wage- workers of this land tramp the highways in search of work.”” But Mr. Taylor should have added that we'did not see it until the Democratic party broke down the protective tariff. Compare the United Press dispatches in THe CALL with those of the Associated Press in the other morning papers of the City and you will see why you must take Tae CALL if you wish to get all the news, For example, the Associated Press vapers announced yesteyday that the Texas had grounded upon a rock in New- port harbor and was stuck fast, while the United Press gave in Tue CALy the com- plete news that she had struck a sand- bank, but was set free in a short time. OATOR AND FUSION, If Thomas V. Cator has not been duped and deceived by the Democrats who ar- ranged with him the terms of Popocrat fusion in tnis Btate he will be chosen United States Senator if the fusionists succeed in electing a majority of the next Legislature. Mr. Cator was nominated for Senator by the Populist convention, and as the Democrats have no avowed candidate he naturally regards himself as being the only candidate for that office before the people on the fusion ticker. An interview with Mr. Cator published in THE CAzy this morning gives a review of the situation in the fusion camp suf- ficiently clear to be understood by all Mr. Cator was asked : “Do you mean to say that the resolution to effect fusion pledged the Democrats to favor the elec- tion of the nominee of the Populists for the position of United States Senator?” To this he replied: “No, I do not mean to | say that and do not wish to be understood that way. I think you will agree thatI am the logical candidate for the United States SBenatorship from either side of the House, Democratic or Populist.” In an- swer to the question, “Why do vou think the Democrats will support you for the United Siates Senatorship?” he answered, “I find none of the leaders are hostile. I also find that the rank and file are friendly. The terms of fusion or union under the resolution took in joint action on Legislature, Congressmen and Presi- dent.” From these statements it is clear thst if the Democratic coquette has not said yes to Mr. Cator’s wooing she has at least smiled on his hopes and has not said no. Mr. Cator believes himself to be the logi- cal candidate of the fusionists, and finding the Democratic leaders are not openly hostile while the rank and file are seem- | ingly friendly, he advocates the fusion scheme with all the ardor of a frank and unsuspecting nature which in its inno- cence of guile never doubts that logic will rule in politics. The people of California will have to deal with the issue on the showing that has been made public. ' It may be possible and even probable that the Democratic managers are fooling the frank, open- minded Populist who is trusting them. If such be the case, however, it is not known to the public. The voters of Cali- fornia, therefore, in the election of mem- bers of the Legislature, will have to decide whether they wish the State to be repre- sented in the United States Senate by a Benator who will vote with Peffer, Allen and Tillman or one who will vote with Allison, Sherman, Hoar and other stal- | wart supporters of the party ef Lincoln, Garfleld and Grant; whether Califorma will aid the vagaries of Populism or stand for the well-tried policies of protection, reciprocity and bimetallism. There are reasons for believing the fusion scheme proposes that Populists shall vote for Democrats for the State Senate, while Democrats shall vote for Populists to the Assembly. By this scheme the Benators who will hold over will help White to secure a re-election two years from now, and the Populist Assem- blymen will elect Cator this winter. There is therefore a double play in the game. It is a proposition of swapping one senator- | ship for the other without regard to party principles or political measures, Such a bargain makes one of the most important issues of the State campaign. No voterin any legislative district can afford to ignore it. We cannot consent to have the great interests and industries of California mis- represented in the United States Senate by a free-trade Democrat and a fiat-money Populist. We must put none but Repub- licans on guard at Washington. W hile Mr. Bryan says: *‘My experiment of Sree trade, or all of it 1 could get, has proved disastrous; please try my experiment of a de- based currency, and perhaps that will suc- ceed,” Major MoKinley says: ‘“‘Let us return once more to the policies and the practice and the measures which from Washington to Har- rison made this country the greatest, the freest, the wealthiest, the most prosperous and the best for its people of any land in the world.’ —Chauncey Depew. A QUEER PROPOSITION. Congressman Newlands of Nevada asserted in his speech at Metropolitan Hall last Wednesday evening that “while the party (the Democratic) was respon- sible for industrial disturbance in the past it gave a guarantee as to the future against further industrial disturbance’’ by agreeing to increase the tariff duties, and as that party’s platform upon the money question is entireiy satisfactory there is no reason why every one should not vote for Bryan. Mr. Newlands possesses a very vivid imagination if he can satisfy his mind that the Democratic party declares for an increase in tariff duties to make up deficiencies in revenue. He shoula read the Chicago platform. Mr. Bryan’s whole public record shows him to be a free-trader, and before he got interested in the silver question he de- clared upon the floor of Congress that it was the McKinley tariff and that alone which kad caused the industrial depression and the consequent idleness of 50 many thousand working-people. ~When the Wilson bill was pending he denounced it because it did not make tariff duties low enough. Mr. Bryan is the leader of the free-traders in this country, and he would no more agree to increase the tariff duties than he would abandon the race for the Presidenoy. Mr. Bryan believes, and has 80 announced himself time and again, that trade between this and other countries should be free, and that this Government should levy an income-tax on the people to raise money for the Nation’s expense account. It is very curious that Mr. Newlands should denounce the Democratic party for being the cause of the industrial depres- sion which has nearly bankrupted the whole country and then ask the people to support its candidate for the Presidency, especially so because every one knows that the only objection any Democrat has to the Wilson act is that it makes the duties too high and that Bryan says he does not believe a tariff for even a little protection can be justified. The fact of the matter is, Mr. Newlands is willing to sacrifice everything to the free coinage of silver. Apparently he would rather see the fires drawn in every industry and the entire working class in idleness than to see the mints closed to the free coinage of silyer. The difference between the advantage the people would gain by the adoption of Mr. Newlands’ policy and the adoption of the policy of the Republican party is this: Mr. Newlands' policy would trust the Democrats to establish protection to our industries in the face of the fact that they have been opposing protection ail their lives. He would run the risk of Laving an income-tax law fastened upon the country and he would help assauit the judiciary for the privilege of having silver accepted at the mints for free and unhimited coinage. The Republican party’s policy would be to first open the industries to labor, so that we might have prosperity in all the walks of lite. Instead of levying an in- come tax it would obl}n foreign goods and wares to pay enough for the privilege of entering our markets to provide for the Government’s expenses, It woula open the mints to silver after it had agreed with commerce that silverand gold should be accepied as redemption money at the option of the debtor. It should not re- auire a great deal of common-sense to see that the Republican party’s policy is better every way than the policy of the Bryan-Newlands-Altgeld combine. “You know that the financial policy laid down in Chicago means individual and Na- tional bankruptey, distress and dishonor. You know that its promises are false, its prem~ ises delusive, its consequences ruinous. You know that it means the wreck of life and fire insurance comyanies, trust companies, sav- ings banks, banks of deposit, building and loan associations and monetary institutions to an enormous extent throughout the country. You know that it means vast loss to the very men it is intended to lure, and, above all others, the farmer and workingmen.”—An- drew D. White. NEW YORK DEMOORACY. The New York Democracy in conven- tion yesterday turned all the old leaders to the wall, repudiated its declarations of last June, and not only swallowed the Chicago platform, but declared it to be the most thoroughly Democratic platform that was ever written. Last June the varty declared for the gold standard until international bimetallism could be se- cured, and indorsed the administration of President Cleveland, but now it swings just as far to the other extrerhe. It can- not be said that this is an unusually in- consistent proceeding, for if the party were ever consistent it would not be Dem- ocratic. But Tamamany is smart, and its schemes | are hard to understand, but it is safe to | say that McKinley will carry the State by | & larger majority than was ever before | given to any candidate. The positive de- claration of the convention for Brvan, if | it was sincerely made, will drive all the sound-money Democrats to Palmer di- | rectly and to McKinley indirectly. Such a combination would give the Republican candidate a safe majority even if the State were otherwise doubtful, which it is not. The first plank of the Buffalo platform | is too positive in its protestations of the party’s loyalty to Bryan and his platform. It is not Democratic to stand so entirely | committed, and Mr. Bryan's managers | may be sure there is something wrong | somewhere. But whatever Tammany has in view, or whatever combinations may be offered by the Democracy, New York will give its electoral vote to McKinley in any event, for if Bryan is to be traded he will lose the BState, and if Tammany works | honestly for him the Cleveland, Hilland | Whitney following will use their power | and influence for Major McKinley. Bo far | as the electoral vote is concerned, the ac- | tion of the Buffalo convention, whether it | all was a trick or not, settles the question | of how thie State will go. The State of | New York is as safe for the Republican ! candidate as Vermont or Mains is. | '“Itis émmaterial in my judgment whether the sheep-grower has any benefit from the tariff | or not. Whether he does or doesnot; whether | the wool manufacturer collects a compensa~ | tory duty from the consumer of woolen goods | and pays it over to the wool-grower, or collects | it and keeps it himself, or doesn’t collect it at | all, and therefore doesn’t meed it, I am for | free wool.”— William J. Bryan. - HIS PREMISES ARE WRONG. In his speech at Metropolitan Hall Wednesday evening, Mr. M. F. Taylor of Colorado, a free-silver Bryanite, got his premises all wrong, and consequently | his deductions were misleading. Like a great many other people, he blames the act demonetizing silver with caus- ‘ing business conditions that are at- | tributable to other causes. it was a mis- | take to suspend silver coinage in 1873, but |it was a mistake which the Republican party is pledged to rectify and it can be relied upon to do it. Mr. Taylor said: “We have seen the farmer’s product fall and fall until it no Jonger pays him to pro- duce it; we have seen the merchant close nis doors with the Sheriff inside: we have seen 2,000,000 earnest, patient, faithful | wageworkers of this land tramp the high- ways cf this country in search of work.'” Mr. Taylor does not overdraw his pie- ture of the distress of the people, but he mistakes the cause. Silver was demone- tized in 1878, but the conditions of which Mr.Taylor speaks did not obtain until Dem- ocratic free trade prevailed twenty years later. The collapse of banks, the closing of commercial houses, the shutting down of mills and factories, and the sending of thousands of workingmen into idleness dates not from 1873 but from 1893, Until the Democratic party began to introduce its hurtful and discouraging policy into the conduct of the Government, there was peace and plenty everywhere, because every one who wanted employment could get it at most satisfying wages. It is very true, as Mr. Taylor says, that there has been great shrinkage in the value of farm products, but for the most part the shrinkage bas been sustained in very recent years. In 1892 our farmers averaged nearly $15 a ton for their grain and a little less than $9 50 a ton in 1895, This shrinkage was equal to nearly $387,- 000,000; that is to say, the farmers in what ara called the great gramn States received $387,000,000 less for their cereals in 1895 than they did in 1802. Now, if the com- parison were made to include all farm products of all sections, including wool, cotton, etc., the totals would show an enormous loss, but it was from shrinkage in value which began twenty years after the suspension of silver coinage in 1873. Between the passage of the Morrill tariff act in 1862 and the repeat of the Mc- Kinley act in 1893, the material wealth of the country multiplied itself four times over; moreover there was notonly a steady advance in wages to labor, but there was employment for all who desired it. In this same period the farming interests grew upon strong lines, and generally speaking prices for farm products were highly remunerative. The fact is,. the distress which Mr. Taylor talks about was born of free trade and not of the act of 1873, as the census reports and other of- ficial statistical information clearly prove, I am guite as much, however, opposed to cheapening the American workingman and workingwoman as I am to cheapening our doltars. [ am quite as strongly in favor of keeping day’s work at home as I am gold dol- lars.—Ew-President Harrison. OBJEOT-LESSON IN PROTECTION. A correspondent of the New York Tribune now traveling in Germany writes his paper as follows: “Wherever the traveler goes he finds contented faces. Every one seems to bave work to do. Every factory is running on full time, The streets are astir with bustle and activity. New foundries, factories and mills are in process of erection in every industrial center, and building operations are in progress on a large scale in important town, The Fatherland to-day is fairly pulsating with renewed energy. Its fortunes have revived, and it bas be- come a tremendous power in the modern working world,” In 1870 Germany decided to adopt the protective tariff system, with no subse- quent tinkering to please party factions. Bismarck had watched the operation of protection in the Umited States, and his conclusions were that it was the correct system of government to make & nation rich and powerful; but he saw, too, that when a schedule of import duties had been established it should not be made a subject of attack for political purposes, 2nd 50 no one thinks of amending the tariff act of Germany, except as new trade conditions or inventions make a change advyisable, and then it isdone to strengthen the industries. The consequence has been that there is very little social or po- litica! friction growing out of the opera- tion of the law. As in the United Btates, a very large percentage of the product of the sev- eral industrial enterprises of Germany is consumed at home, but still there is a surplus that has to seek markets in other countries. When it was discovered that there must be an outlet for the overpro- duction, the Government imwediately set to work to establish a merchant marine, and now, after about seventeen years of protection, Gerniany looms up as & great industrial nation with a merchant marine sailing every sea. But, what is more, the individual wealth of the inhabitants is growing at a pace that makes the people contented with their surroundings and correspondingly attached to the governe ment. There is no doubt at all thatto protection more than any other public policy is Germany indebted for her na- tional strergth and individual wealth. It is surprising that a citizen of this country should be found opposing pro- tection, home markets and a merchant marine when such a policy has made Germany one of the greatest industrial pations in the world with a demand for all kinds of labor that is equal to the sapply in seventeen years. The lesson that all this teaches us is that we want a protective tariff law as a principle of gov- ernment without the shadow of politics ever crossing 1ts path. PERSONAL. G. H. Cruisan of Salem, Or.,is st the Grand. The Rev. P. Smith of Merced isat the Com. mercil A. H. Buck of Mazatlan, Mexico, arrived here yesterday. W. F. Peterson, & merchant of Bacramento, is in the City. F.J. Mason, & fruit-grower of Newcastle, is on a visit nere. J. F. Fraser, a business man of Lakeport, is a recent arrival here. G. MeM. Ross, & mine-owner of Burns Valley, is at the Occidental. A. H. Ocell, owner of mining interests in Montana, 1s at the Russ. G. W. Chrisman, the well-known resident of Ventura, is on a visit here. H. A. Preston, a mine-owner of Janestown, Tuolumne County, is in town. Allen B. Lemmon, editor and owner of the Santa Rosa Republiean, is in the City. J. West, & business man of Cathlamet, is at the Occidental accompanied by his wife. Charles L Marshall, & merchant of Everett, Wash., is among the recent arrivals here. W. §. Ewing, & miner of Cooks Iulet, Alasks, is among the arrivals at the International. J. T. Smith, & mine-owner of Greenwood, EL Dorado County, is here for a few days’ stay. J. R. Hebron of Salinas, ex-member of the AROUND THE CORRIDORS ‘The people who are interviewed each day in the papers sometimes have queer experiences with men who call on them to gather further information on the subject discussed in the interview. The miners who have made big strikes, ex- plorers, hunters of big game, travelers and men of all gorts who have strange, oftentimes thrilling, experiences, such as THE CALL regu- larly publishes, are not infrequently visited by not only persons who take a friendly inter- est in them, but by the purely curious. Others, for perscnal reasons, desire to learn more by a direct meeting with the principal in the story. Yet others have personal gain as &n object. If a miner has found a ponanza and made a fortune, or if a visitor has met with & streak of luck, of any kind, he is often the recipient of calls from men who have snaps which they trivance that would enable her to see the face of her future husband. Senator George F. Hoar of Massachusetts, who is now in Germany, is 70 years of age. “Iv 1s difficult,” says the Worcester Spy, in no- ticing the anniversary, “to realize that Massa- chusetys’ senior Senator has reached his three- score and ten. If anybody in publie life has mastered the art of growing old gracefully it is George Frisbie Hoar.” . A steady, hard-working man is the Duke of Devonshire, his sole relaxation being a gullop in the morning, shooting twice a week, a couple of rubbers of whist in the evening for shilling points and the rest of the day devoted to official duties and looking after his vast estates. In 1865 four lads occupied the same room on the ground floor of the first division of cadet Selling a Claim at the Palace by Aid of Visiting Cards. are perfectly willing to divide up on for a surprisingly low amount of money—that is, provided a large sum is not to be had. Consequently the hotel clerks need grace, for when the promoters of different kinds begin the first part of their negotiations they State Board of Equalization, is at the Grand. Dave Harshfield, the wealthy pioneer mer- chant of Bakersfield, is in the Cityon a busi- ness trip and is staying at the Lick. R. G. Hart, founder of the town of Hart, Shasta County, and one of the owners in the Texas Consolidated mine and of stores and other interests, is here on a business trip. A. C. Van Dorn, who for about five years has lived in Juneau, Alaska, where he has csrried ou a large ‘merchandizing business, was one of the arrivals at the Commercial yesterday, He is here on a business trip and will stay several weeks. General Oliver Roberts, the well-known mining superintendent, is in the City for a few days. The extensive company with which General Roberts is connected has several properties under process of development, smong them being the Golden West, & promis- ing mine near Forbestown, and the Sterrett ledge, near Cisco, as well as claims in Trinity County and old Mexico. Auent a story that Lloyd Osborne, stepson of the late Robert Louis Stevenson, had been ap- pointed British Vice-Consul at Apia, Samoa, Consul-General Warburton of this City yester- day said he had no knowledge of it if such bad been done. But he added that he would not be notified of it anyway, and might be one of the last to know of it exceptfrom the consular books when printed. He shid the post would be a very poor one financially. 1. B. Cusack-Smith is the British Consul of Samos, and Sir John B. Thurston, K.C. M. G., is Consul-General for the whole Pacific islands, CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N, Y., Sept. 17.—At the West- minster, F. 8. Arnold; Continental, J. 8. Hatch: Union, L Trowbridge. MISSES' FOUR.GORED SKIRT. A graceful skirt for misses which will retain its shape is shown here. It has a front gore, one gore on either side and one gore in the back, which is gathered at the top, All materials may be made after this model which s suitable for separate skirts or for cos- tumes with waist or jacket to match. All the fullness is gathered at the back, the front and sides fitting smoothly. A ekirt of plaid is useful to wear with extra waists. One of blue and brown, with narrow lines of black, yellow and pale green, had a Wwaist of plain brown cloth, made in Norfolk shape, having two box pleats back and front. A more dren! waist, wybo worn with the same skirt, had a short bolero of dark blue velvet. Below this was a wide belt of pale green silk, With a folded collar of the same. At the open- ing in front of the bolero wasa full vest ot blue chiffon over the n silk. The sleeves o ‘%tntmlphlc, ‘with & little cape-like top of e velvet. Mixed goods are the rage this season, and one cannot make & mistake in dcemn; any fabric with a rough surface and numberless hrlfhi colors {nterwoven. Plain skiris of serge, covert cloth and ladies’ cloth are much used for skirts, with jackets to match, belng worn either With blouse frouts of with a silk waist. WORSE THAN THE DISEASE. Pasadena News. y We remember to have read in someold book, somewhere, the following epitaph, said tohave been engraved upon a tombstone of one de- parted: I was well, wished to be better; took physic and died.” This, we think, is a good Tepresentation of the condition of this coun- try, except that we are not dead by a I shot, as the 3d ber will prove. So i ‘medicine and have | been kicking and cursing myself ever since,” do it by senaing cards to such guests. It means work for the desk force. The City is full of promoters of different kinds. Some of these have mining claims to sell, so they send up cards. If one man is not in, probably another is. They keep the cards going, for it does not cost anything but time to see a man who is reputed to have a pot of money. If they catch on it pays well, and if they don’t they don’t lose anything. " Many sre the maledictions heaped on the small army of men who in a week thus invade the caravansaries. Still, that is what the desk force is paid for,so the card senders allege. Both act quietly. There are no words on either side, but sometimes thers is hard breathing, “There is one person,” sald one of the force at the Palace a day .or two g0, “who has come for days and has sent up card after card regularly. He has some sort of mining property to sell and he learns from the papers the names oi people whom hé supposes might buy. He always has a big list. If word comes down that one man isn’t in he sends up toanother. This he continues till he exhausts his list or gets to see somebody.” CAMPAIGN ECHOES. Bryan doesn’t '‘go without saying.”—Los Angeles Express. Possibly the reason Candidate Bryan doesn’t produce & beard is because the producers are so ground down by the gold standard.—Ki City Journal. Parson Stultzke has postponed the mil. lenium fifty days. That is something like it. McKinley will be elected along about that time.—Kansas City Journal. General Buckner surrendered to General Grant at Fort Donelson. He will surrender with more cheerfuluess to Major McKinley in November.—8pringfield (Mass.) Union. Another $10,000,000 deficit in the National Treasury is scored up for the month of August. If the Wilson tariff law is not a failure, won’t some good free-trade Democrat tell us what revenue law ever cost us more?—New York Mail and Express. Li Hung Chang says he is “impressed by the welfareand prosperity of the American peo- ple”; and yet these are what we call hard times. Let him return after McKinley’s elec- tion if he wants to see the country at its best.—' St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The only difference between Bryan of Ne- brasks and Opdyke of Nebraska, the crank who called at Cornelius Vanderbilt’s house and demanded $1,000,000 to ‘‘elevate the masses by free silver,” is that Opdyke is more direct in his methods.—Newark Advertiser, In 1892 Mr. Bryan declared that the protec- tive tariff was the cannibal iree eating up the substance of the farmers. It is fair to presume from his speeches of 1896 thav he is not much of a woodsman, though he always expects to find the sap running in the farmers.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. If Brother Bryan will turn to the Book of Ecclesiastes, fifth chapter and tenth verse—and the Globe-Democrat will, for this purpose, lend him & copy of the Bible if he will deposit two 16 to 1 dollars as security for the return of the same—he will find these words: “He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase; this is also vanity.”—St. Lovis Globe-Demo- crat. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Willie Hohenzollern has taken to painting pictures. The law against lese majeste pro- tects him from the consequences he wonld otherwise incur. — Cincinnati Commercial- Tribune. _.General Roy Stone, the head of the Govern- ment Road Department, who kas become ‘prominent for his advocacy of steel highways, announces that he s ready to deliver an ad- dress on roads, free o1 charge, at county fairs this fall, The Swedish composer, Ivar Hallstroem, whose “Duke and Mermafd” was the first Swedish national opers, recently celebrated the seventieth anniversary of his birth. Among those who sent congratulations was Carmen Sylva. Mr. Edison, the great inventor, receives many amusing letters. Not long ago he was startled by an epistle from & young lady, ask. ing if he could notinvent an electrical con. —~— barracks at West Point. Slace then they have made their names more or les¢ well known in current American literature. They are Cap- tain Charles King, Arthur Sherburne Hardy, John Brisben Walker snd Richard Henry Savage. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. BAN FrANCISCO MIN1—A. 8., City. During the year 1894 there was coined $1,260,000 in standard doliars and in 1895 $400,000. CALIFORNIA AND GERMANY—P. M., Sacra- mento, Cal. The area of California in square ?3§°3~3' 158,360 and that of Germany is ,670. AROUND THE HORN—F. C. 8., Sacramento, Cal. The sailing distance from San Francisco to New York via Cape Horn is 13,610 miles by the usual route. No Sucr DoNaTioN—J. P. B, Auburn, Cal. There has not been any donation of $10,000,- 000 to the National Republican Commitiee to aid the election of McKinley and Hobart. RAISE YOUR HAT — Subscriver, Ferndale, Humboldt County, Cal. If, when walking with your wife or any laddy, gentlemen friends raige their hats to {he lady in passing, etiquette requires that you should raise yours. TEMPERATURE — Subscriber, Ferndale, Hum- beldt County, Cal. The mesn temperature in London during December, 1894, was 45; in January, 1895, 37, and’ in February 83} December 6 it was 31; January 29 it was 21 HYPNOTISM — Miss M., Petaluma, Cal. By writing to any first-class bookseller you will be furnished a list of books on hypnotism. There are physicians in this city who treat by hyp- notism and who would probably help an am- bitious young lady in Investigating the sci- :gcg but this department cannot advertise em. IN BANKING BUSINEsS—Subscriber, Ferndale, Humboldt County, Cal’ The department of Anawers to Correspondents is not for the pur- pose of advising people how they can best invest their money, ana for that reason can- Dot tell you whether it would be of advantage for ydon to join the banking company pro- posed. TUOLUMNE COUNTY—C. N. D., City. Tuolumne County has a good standing as a mining county and is probably as good a one as any in the State for a prospector to work in. A rospector ought to secure an outfit for about . The fare to Sonora in that county is 3 85 by rail to Oakdale and irom there by stage $4. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE—Subscriber, City. As to eligibility to tho office of Justice of the Peace in this State, section 108 of the Code of Civil Procedure says: “No person shall be eligible to the office of Justice of the Peace in any city haviug over 10.000 inhabitants who has not been admitted to practice law in a court of record.” BEET SUGAR—A CALL Reader, St. Helena, Cal A beet-sugar factory was established in Cali- fornia before one was put in operation in the State of Nebraska, There are two beet-sugar factories in Nebrasks, one at Grand Island and the other at Norfolk. In 1895 California produced between forty-five and fifty million pounds of beet sugar, while Nebraska during the -:;.ne period produced about two million pounds. BuccessioN—Jones, City. If & woman mar- ries a man and the woman dies, there being no issue, and she not having left a will, the estate goes one half to the surviving husband and the other half to the decedent’s father and mother in equal shares. Ifthere be no father or mother, then one half goes in equal shares to the brothers end sisters of the decedent and o the chilaren of any deceased brother for sis- ter, by right of representation. THE AMERICAN FLAG IN LINCOLN, NEBR.—H. C.8, City. Aiter William J. Bryan's return {from Chicago, after being named for the Presi- dency, be was tendered & non-partisan recep- tion by the people of Lincoln, Nebr., his home city. Among other decorations used was a roughly drawn imitation of the American flag, NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Cashier at bank—You’ll have to bring some one to identify you before we can cash this check. Gotany friends in the town ? Stranger—No; I'm the dog license man.— Comic Cuts. Seribbler—What did Poctas get for his *‘Ode to Fall”? “‘Fractured skull, contusion of the neck, dislocated rib and a slight abrasion of the leit ear.”—Truth. Boy, who has been patiently watching fl.lvfl strange angler for about an hour—You ain’t caught enything, 'ave yer? Stranger—No; not yet, my boy. Boy—There wasn’t no water in that pond till it rained last night.—Tit-Bits. “Deacon, there certainly was water in that milk you soid us this morning.” “Muster been from that big yaller cow that fell inter th’ creek. Forgot all about that.”"— Detroit Free Press. “Uncle Theophilus, what is an egotist?” “He 1s 8 feliow that listens intently when he is talking to you and never listens at all when you are talking to him.”’—Detroit Free Press. “And you say that the hailstones were as large as hen eggs?”’ “No,” said the cautious person, “they were not quite that. They were, say, about the size of boarding-house cantaloupes.”’—Indianapolis Journal. Lucy—Clara’s honeymoon ivas completely spoile Alice—How? Lucy—The papers containing the account of the wedding did not reach her.—Brooklyn Life. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c Ib. Townsend's.* o SPECTAL information daily to manufactursrs, business houses and public men by the Prasi Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * e . HuUsBAND'S calcined magnesia. Four first- preminm medals awarded; more agreeable to the taste and smaller dose then other mag- nesis. For sale only in bottles with registered trudemark labels. v Seiiuoiio ool The Best Beer. Everard’s Canada Malt Beer, Everard’s Eng- lish Alf-Alf. is the best malt production on earth. Goldberg, Bowen & Co., agents. * A Tyt i el How the Chinese Will Vote. Redlands Citrograph. After all the howl about the hundreds of Cninese citizens who would vote at the coming election, THE CALL says there are just seven- teen registered. That raper also adds that the great majority will vote for Bryan and un- limited coinage of silver. China is on a silver basis and 20 cents a day wages, and these Chinese cannot see why the United States should not do as China does. Are You Gomg Kast? The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad—Sants Fa route—is the coolest and most comfortable sum- mer line, OWing to its elevation and absence from alkali dust. Panicularly adapted for the trany- portation of families because of its palace draw- ing-room and modern upholstered tourist sleeping cars, which run caily through from Oakland to Chicago, leaving at a seasonable hour and in charge of attentive conductors ana portes San Francisco Ticket office, 644 Market street, Chroa- icle building. - Telephone, Main 163l Oakland, 1118 Broadway. —————— Great Rock Island Route Playing Cards. Send 12 cents In stamps to John Sebastian, gen- eral passenger agent C. R. L and P. Rallway, Chicago, for the slickest pack of playing cards you ever handled, and on recelpt of such remit- tance for ome or more packs they will be sent you postpaid. Orders containing 60 cents in stamps or postal Dote for same amount will secure 5 packs by ex- press, charges paid. —— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup' Has been nsed over50years by milions of mothsry for thelr children white Teething with perfect sa> cess. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allagy Pain, cures Wind Colic, reguiates the Bowels aal isthe best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whethor arlsing Irom teething or other causes. Forsals by Draz- gists in every part of the world. Be sure and ast 1or Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. Z0C 4 00la. ————— CoRoXADO.—AtmOSphers Is perfectly dry. s> andmild, being entirely free from the mists com= mon further north. Hound-trip tickets, by steam- ship, including fifteen days' board a: the Hotel dal Coronado, $60: longer stay $250 perday. Apad 4 New Monigomery st., SanFranclsoo. —————— WHEN your food has mo relish the stomach needs to be cleansed and strengthened by a dose or two of Ayer's Pills. e Woodmau, Spare That Tree. Los Angeles Times. Touching the disregard of Californians for their trees Professor Brewer ol Yale College says: “When I was in California from 1860 to 1864 I was so impressed with the grandeur of the magnificent sequoias of this State that I haye been lecturing about them ever since. I have been blowing about the big trees of Cali- fornia all these years at the risk of my reputa- tion, and now I have come back here to find that the giant pines and firs which I have de- scribed many times &s towering hundreds ot feetin the air around the slopes of Mount Shasta have been almost entirely obliterated. 1 was never goshocked in my life, and as it they couldn’t get them down fast enough with the axe theyare blowing them out of the ground with dynamite.” Professor Brewer very rightly believes that there is an alarmin; need for legislation that will preserve Calg fornia forests for the benefit of succeeding gen- erations. NEW TO-DAY. Nature’s Best Tonic but not a stimulant; t.he Arefreshing‘ nour- ishing, life-building qualities of the cocoa bean put in a convenient form, GHIRARDELLY'S COCOA Made here—Always fresh; full strength and purity guaranteed. 32 cups 25c. All Grocers. |- (wiLoex & co., 8. 7.) ainted on the smooth stone sidewalks in ront of quite a number of busine houses. These were laid on with cheap red, white and blue kalsomine, and disappeared soon after the celebration. Itis probably out of this cir- cumstance that the story was created that the ple of the city named used the American ag 88 & Carpe’. FARMERS EAST AND WEST. Redlands Ciirograph. Celifornia farms are mortgaged for 24 per cent of their assessed valuation, while New York farms are mortgaged for 45 per cent of their assessed valuation. This goes toshow that, while California farmers assert their m- alienable right to growl, they are twice as well off as thelr New York State brethren. With the Nicaragua canal open to commerce, our farmers will soon wipe out their mortg; debt and be the most prosperous farmers in the world. And they should remember that the Republican party is the only party that is pledged to build and own the Nicaragua canal, - We say, “money back,” “money back,” “money back”—but nobody wants the money. If our furniture was not better than the money we couldn’t afford to “money back.” CartroRrNTA FurNiTURE COMPANY (N. P. CoLe & Co.) 117 Geary Street. say