The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 23, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1896 WEDNESDAY.. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: and Sunday CALL, one week, by oarrier..§0.18 ;::; 2nd Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, &Ix months, by mail. 3.00 Dally snd Sunday CALi, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sunday CaLL, one month, by mail. .68 Sunday CALL, one year, by mall... 1.80 WxkRLy CaLL, one year, by mail.... .50 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going 10 the country on & _vacation * If &8, 1t 13 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss ft. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will recelve prompt attention, NO EXTHA OHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICEs 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Califoraia. Telephone aln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS3: 517 Clay Street. BRANCH OFFICES: 680 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open umtll #:80 o'clock. 889 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin s open until 9:30 o'clock. EW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open entll § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until o'clock. 126 Ninth sireet; open until 9 @'clock OAKLAND OFFICE 3 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICB: Rooms 3} and 52, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. B ———— PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. ¥OR PRESIDENT- WILLIAM McKIRLEY, of Ohlo FOR VIOF-PEESIDENT— GARRET A, HOBART, of New Jersey FLECTION NOVEMBER 3, 1896. America is for McKinley. Europe has begun totalk for Bryan. It is now Lord Salispury’s turn to make a speech for the Bryanites. Bismarck would like to try free coinage | on us but not on Germany. We are not going to pull the silver chest- nuts out of the fire for Europe this year nor any other year. We are willing to heip European nations to restore bimetallism whenever they are willing to do their share. From the amount of advertising the Ez- aminer is giving the Popocrat fusion it would seem to regard the thing as a lottery. Do you know any trade or industry in this country that was injured by the Mo- Kinley tariff? Do you know any that was not injured by the Gorman tariff? ¥ McKinley's regard for the welfare of workingmen is proven by every act ot his life, but what has Bryan ever done to improve the industry of any man in this country ? Although Bryan makes some form of attack on McKinley almost every day, even his own organs do not think they are sufficiently important to be worth backing up. The American farmer needs no advice from the European farmer as to how he shall cast his vote, for he has a pretty level head of his own, and moreover he understands the situation. Now that so many European statesmen are advising the American people to vote jor Bryan there is a cnance for Sackville West to come to the surface again and write another letter to Murchison. ‘When such stalwart old Democrats and war veterans as General Sickles and Gene- ral Sigel take the stump for McKinley we can justly suy the soldier candidate in this campaign is the candidate of the whole country. It is strange the Democratic organs should take so much trouble to tell us that European statesmen favor Bryan's election when we have always known that Europe is ever eager for a Democratic vie- tory in this covntry. We know what conditions prevailed in this country before the free-traders ob- | | i THE MUNICIPAL OONVENTION. The Regular Republican Municipal Con- vention met yesterday in the Auditorium and organized for the transaction of busi- ness. The business which this convention is to transact is of the utmosat political importance. to the people of San Fran- cisco and especially to those of its citizens who by reason of iheir material interests are immediately concerned in seeing the offices of the City filled by honest men and in having its affairs wisely and justly administered. The attention of all such citizens is called to the fact that this convention is the only regular and legal representative of the Republican party of San Francisco. Its claim to this title rests upon the un- broken and unquestioned descentiof its power from the convention and campaign of 1894 and through the regular County Committee then called into being in the usual and legal way. It therefore repre- sents the integrity of the party organiza- tion and every loyal Republican should so regard it. The fact that there are certain persons in this City who claim to be Republicans and | to be loyal to their party, and yet who do not submit to its regularly constituted authority, is a matter of serious concern to every Republican who is honestly de- sirous of party success. It is almost an axiom that discords and dissensions within a political party during a cam- paign bring only a harvest of disaster and defeat. In the light of these resulits those who foment rebellion and encourage dis- cord are guilty of little less than treason to their party and its nominees. Every factional dissension loses votes for the entire ticket and hence should be discouraged by all Republicans who be- lieve in pariy loyalty and labor for party success. The most practical ana effective way to discourage such disloyalty is to join hands heartily and openly with the regular and rightful party organization and actively support both its convention and its nominees. This especially if the character and standing of those who com- pose the convention give assurance of the nomination of men for the various offices whose private integrity and standing in the community guarantee honesty and fidelity in the fulfiliment of their public trust. The convention at the Auditorium gives ample promise of the nomination of such | |a ticket. The expressed purpose of its dominant members is the selection of the best possible material for the offices to be filled. Such a purpose should have the approval and support of the entire Re- ipubliun party of San Francisco, and in its presence all discords, dissensions and disloyalties should fade away. The only road to success in this munici- pal election is through party harmony and the only proper place to harmonize is beneath the banner of the regular and legal party organization represented in the Regular Republicau Municipal Con- vention which met yesterday and will meet again to-night. If our present policy is adhered to and the coinage s kept within reasonable limits the means heretofore employed for the main- tenance of the parity will doubtless be found sufiicient i the future, and our silver dollars and silver certificates will continue'to circu- late at par with gold, thus enabling the | people to use both metals instead of one only, as would be the case if the parity was de- stroyed by free coinage.—Secretary Carlisle. BRYAN'S EUROPEAN ALLIES. A lot of dukes, counts, barons and other brands of sharp European statesmen have cabled that they are very decidedly in favor of Bryan’s election on account of his advocacy of silver monometallism, and Bryan and his managers are so proud over being retognized by dukes and connts and the like that the earth trembies (in their mind) when they walk. The interest that these titled gentlemen take in Bryan’s election would be an amusing episode of the campaign were it not for the fact that they are playing upon Bryan’s vanity. It is humiliating to Americans to know that Europeans think a man whois big enough to be a Presidential candidate is also stupid enough to be played upon. These dukes and counts and barons are exceedingly solicitous concerning Bryan’s candidacy, and if he is elected we may be sure that the great joy of tbeir hearts will find expression in congratulatory cable- grams. The reason why these European tained power, we also know what condi®§ gentlemen sre so anxious to have Bryan tions have prevailed since, and in this election we have had ample experience to teach us how to vote. It is customary in tbe East to refer to the Chicago platform as a combination of “repudiation, riot and ruin,” and the phrase seems to strike everybody over there as being accurate as well as alliter- ative and picturesque. The Ezaminer's support of Bryan is in- consistent with its often expressed views in regard to the free coinage of silver with- out international agreement, butis thor- oughly 1n harmony witik what it values more—its devotion to fakes. “The free silver movement in Illinois,” said the Ezaminer on June 7, 1895, ‘‘has not been helped by its identification with Governor Altgeld.”” The question now arises whether it has been helped in Cali- fornia by identification with the Ezam- iner. Since the statesmen of Europe are so favorable to the remonetization of silver it would seem there will be very little trouble for the incoming Republican ad- ministration to carry out the pledge to promote free coinage by international agreement. The Popocrat fusion is as much in faver of free trade as was the old Democratic party. It will be remembered that when the Dingley bill to raise a revenue by a duty on wool was before the Senate the Populists—Peffer, Kyle, Allen and Butler —voted with the Democrats against it and thus prevented the wool men from having the protection the Republicans would have given them. In reply to a correspondent the Ezam- iner said on June 27, 1895: “The eoinage of silver under proper international agree- ment would belp our trade with all the world, but free coinage by this country alone, unless it succeeded in bringing both metals to a parity, which would hardly be possibie, would cartainly injure our com- merce with countries having the gold standard.” As the FEzaminer now urges elected is this: They know that Bryan is for free trade pure and simple, and they know that if free trade prevails in this country they will supply our markets with their own goods and wares, and that if Major McKinlay is elected our markets will be supplied with American-made goods and wares, American politics this year presents no aspect to Europe other than one of business. European states- men understand very well that free trade in the United States means employment for their own wage-people to supply the American demand for manufactures, and they know that Bryan will put this coun- try upon a free-trade basis and that Major McKinley will not. Hence they are for Bryan. 1t will be observed that no European dukes or counts or barons are expressing any desire by cable or otherwise to see Major McKinley, protection and sound money carry the day in November. This i count and duke business is a good thing for onr workingmen to look into. They will find it worth their while to do so. When foreign farmers, millmen and land- lords espouse the cause of a candidate for President of the United States 1t is very safe to conclude that it is their own and not our interests they are looking after. —— e The Republican party at St. Louis con- structed a platform which placed us well in the field. 1t stands jor ample revenue, for protection of American industries, for honest money, against debasement of the currency, againsé the repudiation of just debts; it stands for law and order—in short, it repu- diates the repudiators.—General Horace Porter. OONSIDER YOUR OWN INDUSTRY. Producers and wage-workers, in this election it is your duty to consider your own industry. There is no selfishness in such politics. If you do that which 1s honestly best for you your action is sure to be that which is best for your neighbor and your country. Your work is an American industry, and all American in- terests are so closely bound together that whatever legislation advancesone will ben- the free coinage of siver without inter- | efit others. As Shakespeare said, “To national agreement the only possible in- thine own self be true and it wili follow ference is that it is willing toinjure our | as the night the day thou canst not then commerce for the purpose of increasing the value of Mr, Hearst’s silver mines. be false to any man.” Bryan began his political career as an advocate of extreme free trade. The Wil- son bill did not go far enough for him. He would have put all American produce as well as wool and lomber on the freclist. All that he could do to reduce American industry and American wages to European levels he did. He is now in favor of re- ducing our money to the purchasing power of that of Mexico and China. Have you profited from his free-trade leg- islation? Do you see any prospect of profiting from his free-silver scheme? ‘When the Wilson bill was under discus- sion Bryan said: “I think the dutiesall the way through are higher than neces- sary.” These duties, however, cut down protection on ali American products aud removed it entirely from some of the most important, Californians suffered severely. The duty on prunes was reduced from 2 cents per pound to 1, on beans from 40 cents per bushel to 20 per cent ad valorem, on walnuts from 4 cents to 2 cents, on shelled walnuts from 6 to 4 cents, on almonds from 5 cents to 8, on shelled almonds from 74 t& 5 cents, on barley from 30 cents per bushel to 30 per cent ad valorem, on honey from 20 to 10 cents per gallon, while wool ana lumber were put upon the {free list, and the sugar bounty, under which that great industry was being built up in the State, was abolished. It may be you were not engaged in pro- ducing any of these things either asan employer or as a workingman. You have therefore lost nothing directly by the ae- crease in tue duties. Is it not a fact, how- ever, that you bave lost something by your neighbor’s loss? Has not the market for your products been duller, your profits less, your wages smailer and more irtegular? Have you not had your share in the de- pression produced by this breaking down of the protective system? Have not the cities suffered from the loss inflicted upon farmers? Have mnot the farmers suffered from the loss inflicted upon the manufac- turers and workingmen of the cities? Issues occasionally arise in the history of nations when men rightly turn aside from self-interest to consider some great vatriotic or moral principle. We have had side 1ssues in our country, but they are not before us now. Freetrade and free silver affect business ard must be dealt with like other matters of business. Consider your own industry and that of your neighbor. Vote for a renewal of trade and good wages. Bear in mind that protection means prosperity and that to restore prosperity is patriotism. If the *'gold” candidate, Mr. McKinley, is | successful we may expect to see American wheat, corn and barley held very stifily, gwing us in England higher prices in De- cember; but the victory of the “silver’’ candi- | date, Mr. Bryan, would tend to throw all the American surplus of grain on the English market at 5s to 10s per quarter (of eight bushels) under current prices for wheat and at 2s to 4s per quarter less money for barley | and maize. Thus, abstain from politics as | we may wish to do, it is impossible to avoid | considering them in market estimates.—The | London Mark Lane Express of August I7. THE “ EXAMINER” AND SILVER. The publication in our columns a few | days ago of the inventory and appraise- ment of the Hearst estate openea the eyes of the people of California to the real rea- son for the recent action not to say selfish interest of the Ezaminer in the cause of silver. In ourissne of yesterday appeared an- other interesting collection of equally authentic extracts showing that within a year that “journal of civilization” has been an active partisan on both sides of the question. We present to-day additional and even more interesting data, drawn from the editorial pages of our contempo- rary and furnishing an excellent plummet by which to sound the depth of its pres- ent sincerity in advocating the cause of silver. A year ago both the Ezaminer and its Eastern double, the New York Journal, advocated the present standard. To-day both are garrulous and vehement in the forlorn cause of silver monometallism, which they denounced last year, and, in the case of the Journal, even as late as last July. The excerpts from Ezaminer editorials which were reproduced in our columns yesterday were written with more feeling and ability than is usnal with our incon- sistent contemporary. They expressed that paper’s emphatic protest against such vagaries and dangerous doctrines as are embraced in the Democratic platform and advocated by the Presidential candidate it now supports. The further extracts from the files of our contemporary which appear in our local columns of to-day are even more radical in their de- nunciation of the Bryan policy than were the excerpts quoted vesterday. Ir what appeared in the quotations printed in Tue Cavr of yesterday the Ezaminer contented itself in denouncing the silver mono- metallicidea as unsound, and in predicting that it wonld cause the worst financial crisis ever known in this country. It will be seen by the quotations reprinted to day that the Ezaminer's editor grew so weary of the vociferations of the silver men that he called them children of the “Windy West,” and in another editorial, speaking of President Cleveland’s views on money, the paver says they *‘might be echoed by every man of ordinary sanity in the coun- try,” which implies by negation that ad- vocates of any other policy than Cleve- land’s were insane in 1895, But the Ezaminer went further than criticizing the Silverites of the West and commending President Cleveland’s views. It entered the field of constructive politics ana boldly advocated that this country’s only escape from the gold basis, in the event of a failure to make an international agreement, would be free coinage at 25 to 1. On May 4, 1895, it said: “To maintain parity alone it might be necessary to make the proportion 25 to 1. Our experience has not encouraged us to believe we could do this alone at16 tol.”” It might be interesting to know by what logical processes the silver mine owner who now conducts two journals favorable to free coinage at 16 to 1 reached the pre- posterous conclusion that such a course would save the country and make univer- sal prosperity. On June 27, 1895, the Ezaminer put the case as follows: “The free coinage of silver under proper international agreement would help our trade with all the world, but free coinage by this country alone, unless it succeeded in bringing both metals to a parity, which would hardly be possible, would certainly injure our commerce with countries hav- ing the gold standard. We see the same effect now in countries that are on a silver basis. The flactuations in the price of silver so disturb inter- national exchange as to make trade be- tween gold and silver using countries par- take of the nature of a gamble. All the vrofits of a transaction may be wiped out by a change in the silver market, or, on the other hand, they may be doubled. This is a discouragement to legitimate com- merce and tends to put trade in the hands of speculators.” 1f that monometallic silver journal be- lieved frea coinage at 18 to 1 would “‘put trade in the hands of speculators” when it treated the question In 1895, and if it be lieved the instability of silver would make trade a gamble, why does it now see the rainbow of promise in the political halla- cinations which the wisest men of all parties now denounce? e Experience has taught me that manufac- tures are as necessary to our inde; as to our comfort. The duties we lay on all articles of foreign ‘manufacture which pru~ dence requires us to establish at home, with the patriotic determination of every good citizen to use no, Joreign article which can be made ;.t home, secures us against a relapse into foreign dependency. My own idea is that we should enconrage home manufactures to the eztent of our own consumption.— Thomas Jefferson. OF INTEREST TO WORKINGMEN. The official figures of the Tressury De- partment for the twenty-four months of the operation of the Wilson tariff act ended August 31, 1896, show the expendi- tures of the Government to have been $104.062,328 more then the income. But these figures have their greatest value as indicating the degree of depression which has prevailed in all lines of trade and in- dustry since the Wilson act became opera- tive. The figures have been received showing the effect of the Democratic free- trade measure in the industriesin July, 1896, as compared with the same month in 1862, The report covers 550 plants in thirty- six States and may be accepted as fairly representing the entire industrial situa- tion. In July, 1892, these 550 plants gave constant employment to 114,231 hands, and the payroll aggregated $3,927,200 for the month. During July, 1896, these same plants gave work to 78,700 nands, with the payroll aggregating only $2,469,712. Thess figures show not only a decrease in the force employed, but a decrease in per capita wages, and the same conditions ob- tain in a greater or less degree throughout America’s industrial world, This exhibit should be enough to satisfy every fair-minded wage-earner tbat the country is very much more in need of open industries for the unlimited employ- ment of labor than open mints for the unlimited coinage of silver. And yet Candidate Bryan says a tariff of 10 per cent that is levied to give American labor an opportunity to earn & good living is as indefensible as would be a tariff of 1000 per cent. He beliaves, so he says, that it is vastly more important that silver mine owners should have a salisfying market for Lheir ore than that workingmen shoula have opportunity to earn bread and butter. “I do not recall a time since the days of the Civil War that there has been so much solici- tude for the rightful outcome of a National election as in thevear of 1896. All the people are reading and studying and informing themselves in a larger degree than ever before. Popular inquiry was never so great and popu- lar interest was nmever so profound. Itis gratifying, too, that the masscs of our coun- trymen are seeking the right for the sake of the right; that they may pursue the right. They want to know only what is best for their country, what will truly promote their own welfare and insure the grandest results for the common good."—McKinley. WHY THEY TURN TO M'KINLEY. It was expected that public sentiment would turn against Bryanism time enough before the election to remove all doubt as to Major McKinley receiving a substantial majority of the electoral vote, bit the furning began a month ago and it is now going with a rush. There are two causes for this. Major McKinley has been re- ceiving delegations of voters from all parts of the couantry, and to each and every one he has discussed the issues before the | people in a broad, liberal and thoroughly unsectional way., He has shown that he | is actuated by a sincere desire to help | better the conditions under which our people live. He talks like a patriot who- | holds all the people and their interests in high esteem, and whose only thought is the good of his fellow-citizens. He never talks politics, but his theme is the pros- perity of the people. The people have watched Major McKinley and they have read every one of his speeches. They have come to like him for the singleness of his purpose and his lofty Americanism. They see in him the manliest of men, and they are turning to him without reference to party ties because they believe they need him at the head of the Government. He grows in the confidence and in the esteem of the people as few men do. The other cause of the people turning to Major McKinley tolead them to a stronger commercial position, that they may have that degree of prosperity to which the natural resources of the country and their energy entitle them, is the threats which Bryan makes daily against the very basic principles of the Government itself and his desperate efforts to set class against class and neighbor against neigh- bor. The people see that Bryan isone of the most intolerant of men; that he regards all who are not for him as his personal enemies; that every Siate voting against his theories he looks upon as an enemy of every one of his followers, and that he thinks his election so essential that the end justifies any means that he may choose to employ. The people see that he is not only a fanatic, but a fanatic whose ambition would involve the country in most alarming situations both at home and sbroad. Indeed, Mr. Bryan has dem- onstrated to the people that one idea dominates all his thougnts and purpose, and that idea is Bryan's own importance. The people, the country, commerce, in- dustry and social life appear to him as mere agencies to be employed to further his personal aims. These things the peo- ple see in Bryan and they turn away from uim becanse they know a more dangerous man couid not be put at the head of the Government. SOMETHING OF A SWAPPER. Fresno Republican. A Democratic Sage and a Populist Philoso- phber met on the political highway. Each car- ried & bundle. ‘“What have yougot in your pack?’ inquired the Democratic Sage, “My principles and my votes,” responded the Populist Philosopher. ~I don’t give & darn for your principles,” quoth the Democratic Sage, “but I'd like to swap for your votes.” “What will you give for them?” “I will give my principles and some offices— if you ean get them."” “What are your prlnnl‘l:f" “They are—they are—iree silver. Those are my principles.” What will you do with my votes?" “Have them cast o :.,‘b-;a wh‘:' ;;:1:51"" my President. “For my residen . “But Thaven Vice-Presicentie! candidate of shi» my “‘What's the mattert" Don’t mention it.” “Well, I guess I'll trade.” Aiter the Populist Philogop! ceeded on .hll‘n way nhbt'l s time he sudden! the matter?” inquired a passer-by. led n}_v;:.v#ncl N:" Votes for Democratic free- *‘And I had a darned hand before I traded.” But the nnmer.-dfie used p."Whll'l ‘“T've %004 stock of them on hands togetner gleeiully and said: ~Im some. | thing of & swapper myself, A AROUND TEE CORRIDORS. Adolf Fikelof Berlin,an importer who has been on a tour of India, the Straits Settlement, Java and other countries to buy what he could at & profit, arrived here on the City of Yoko- hama on her last trip and is at the Palace. Mr. Fikel spent a great deal of time in Java. It is colonized by the Dutch,as everybody knows, and the Berlin man felt a good deal at home there. only did I buy goods,”” he said, “butl #old a good many. I included in my sales all the general supplies that could be thought of except warm clothing. It is too hotin Java for anything except verylight wearing ap- parel. “Iwasin Java for the first time six years ago. Businessis not so good now as it was then. The trade has got into the hands of the Chinese. They have been able to obtain big ADOLF FICKEL, Who Has Been Selling Goods to Dutch and Chinese Traders in Java and the Straits Settlement. [Sketched from iife by a “Call” artist.} credits ffom the European importers. When the time for settlement came around they could not pay. There has been stagnation and plenty of failures, “They have got what they call Dutch-Indla money there. They have the gold standard, with & silver dollar which is made by the Chinese from the Mexican dollar. In the Straits they use Mexican silver and it fluctu- ates. Three years ago the Mexican dollar there was worth 75 cents, and when I was there recently it was worth 50 cents. Now it is worth about two shillings and twoeanda half pence, or something over 50 cents. “The Dutch doilar in Java is of the same but is worth the same as gold, “The principal business place in Java is not Batavia, the capital, but Sourabaya. This place has a population of about 200,000, while Batavia has only about 100,000 people. ““That is & good country to go to, and it is an interesting one, but tili business improves there will be no pickups or snaps out there for men who buy or seil. It is close business to make a dollar.” " PERSONAL J. R. Williston of Buffalo, N. Y., is at the Cos- mopolitan. Frank H. Short, an attorney of Fresno, is at the Palace 8. Yamads and K. Kajiof Tokio are at the Cosmopolitan. Dr. G. M. Freeman of Butter Creek arrived here yesterday. K. Kitajima, a merchant of Tokio, is stop- ping at the Cosmopolitan. & Burton O. Squires, a silk manufacturer of Yokohama, is in the City. W. H. McGee, a business man of Toronto, Canada, is on a visit here. G. M. Francts, editor and proprietor of the Napa Register, is in the City. Lyndall Miller, a real estate dealer and broker of Stockton, is in town. Charles Richardson, an attorney ot Tacoma, is among the guests of the Grand. Brad Bamar, a mining man, representing a London syndicate, is at the Grand. R. Robertson, the proprietor of Paraiso Springs, Monterey County, is at the Liek. Colonel de Wogack of St. Petersburg was among last night’s arrivals at the Palace. Sub-Treasurer C. P. Berry has gone to Marys- ville, where ke will remain for several days, Lieutenant Fichborn and Mrs. Fichborn were among the arrivals on the Doric from Japan yesterday. Dr. Soule, surgeon of the ship Australia, who has been ill for some time here, resumed his duties yesterday. Joseph Church, a landowner of Lakeport, who has just returned from a visit East, is at the Cosmopolitan. G. Stafford Northcote of England was among the arrivals on the steamer Doric from Yoko- hama yesterday. He has been in the Orient for several months. Baron de Batz of Paris, France, arrived here yesterday after a tour of the world, and is at the Palace. He will probably be in California for some little time. Mrs. McNair, wife of Admiral McNair, of the United States navy, arrived bere yesterday, naving left her husband on the flagship on the China station. Her son accompanies her. Commander W. W. Resinger of the United Btates warship Monocacy, on the China sta- tion, arrived here yesterday on the steamer Dorie, and is at the Palace. Ill-health has brought him home. CALIFORNIANS IN ' NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Beot. 22.—At the St. Cloud—T. E. Simpson; Imperial—W. F. Goad Jr, A, L Kittle, C. R.Page; Albemarle—Misses Younger; Gilsey—L. Jenks and wife, T. Thomp- ton, F. C. Roberts; Holland~T. Cunningham, H. F. Scott; Park Avenue—S. Howard and wife; Murrsy Hill-R. Boyle; Sinclair—Rev. P. Keane; Grand—D. A. Hulse; Netherland— Miss Apperson, Mrs. D. Cahn, Miss E. Cahn, E. H. Clark and wife, Mrs. Sage, Mrs. Kincaid, CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 22. — Among coast arrivels are: L. D. Leeds, Los Angeles; R. M. Broom, San Francisco. LOVE'S FINANCIAL SCHOOL. She gald, “I'm only just sixteen, Bui, George, I'd like to know ‘What all these funny phrases mean Men 0 And fro— “Free silver,’ ‘Paritv with gold,” And whsas gold-bugs have done; And will you kindly just unfold ‘What means ‘Sixteen 10 one?’ " My dear,” said George, and took her hand, “Those terms I can't explain, ncnlwnlm-hrn.:y.'qmn. To ali eternity.”” ~—Puek, PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Mrs. Helen M. Gougar has been nominated for Attorney-General on the National ticket in Indiana. : General Tracy, ex-Secretary of the Navy, is an enthusiastic farmer and hés earned bucolic Celebrity as a breeder of fine cattle and pigs. A London postman, with his ten sons, five ot whom are in the postoffice service, made one side in a recent cricket match on Thornton Heath and beat their opponenta. ‘There is not a peer in the House of Lords who was there at the beginnir.g of Victoria’s reign. The Earl of Mansfield has been there for fifty- six years and the Earl of Kimberly for fiity. Professor Nathantel Schmidt, who has bsen sppointed to fill the chair of Semitic lan. guages at Cornell University, was born in Sweden, of German parents, and educated in Stockholm, Berlin and New York. He is familiar with the Ethiopian, Assyrian, Arabic and many other languages. Mrs. Flora Patterson, sister of Professor Eugene Wambaugh of the Harvard Law Behool, has lately received the appointment of assistant pathologistin the Department of Agriculture in Washington. Richerd Harding Davis came over to America on the same ship with Li Hung Chang and told Li that he was writing a novel. This dis- wusted the Viceroy. “Writing a novell” he exclaimed. “You ought to be ashamed of yourself! Writing & novel, indeed! A big, strapping, able-bodied fellow like you ought 10 be at work. Why don’t you go to work?"” THE VOICE FROM MAINE Speaking of- Maine—, Hello, what's your hurry 7—Burlington Hawkeye. Maine has flung & wet blanket upon the al- ready limp and bedraggled Brysn canvass.— Philadelphia Record. Maine voices the verdict of the voters of the United States. Itisall over but the shouting.— Springfleld (IlL.) Republican. The Maine victory isa straw of large dimen- sions, indicating unmistakably the drift of the political current.—Chicago Tribune. Maine has been a hard hitter over since 1840, and has given it to Mr. Bryan this time on the point of the jaw.—St. Louis Globe-Dem- ocrat. Messrs. Reed, Dingley, Boutelle and Milliken were triumphantly re-elected to Congress. BSomehow their names sound familiar.—Boston Herald. Now let the business men take heart. They can read their title clear to safety. They have no need of worry. The end is assured.—Cleve- 1and Leader. Never. before did a million Democratic voters and 200 influential Democratic papers derive satisfaction from the report of a great Republican plurality in Maine.—Detroit Free Press. Corrected returns from the State where the pine trees give out thelr healthful perfume are to the effect that something dropped hard and that Sewall was under it when it fell.— Philadelphis Inquirer. The logic of this situation is that Sewall must go, and that quickly, and then Watson will be for & week or two a truly great man, and then he will be a howling terror to his own party.—Brooklyn Standard Union. Chairman Jones arouses one’s admiration for his nerve when he says that his confidence in Bryan's election has been literally forced upon bim. He didn’t want to believe it, but he simply had to.—Springfield Republican. The Vermont election showed plainly enough that the tide had turned in the right direction, and with the astonishing figures from Maine every one can see how the tide is running now. All hail the State of Blaine and Reed.—Chicago Inter-Ocean. Maine reiterates with unexpected emphasis the verdict of Vermont against the free coin- age of silver and the Chicago platform. There is no room for doubt that all the remaining States of the East will in November concur in the judgment of these typical Eastern States.— Boston Globe. What education and organization have effected in Maine they will effect eisewhere. The Middle Western States can be carried for McKinley and honest money by the same thor- oughness and aggressiveness. Maine is the model for the grand National campaign.—New York Advertiser. We take off our hat to you, Mr. Joseph H. Manley. We knew you would do it,and do it well; but we did not know it could be done so well as you bave done it. Our congratulations to glorious old Maine. Our distinguished con- sideration to ‘her brilliant and valiant son.— New York Press, Along in the early days following the St. Louis convention somebody said that the State of Thomas B. Reed would be & sulker. In view of the result in Maine the anonymous prophet of evil should call on the political fool-k1ller and receive his proper reward—New York Mail and Express. All things considered the resultin Maine is most satistactory and inspiring. A State in wkich a large majority of the voters are small farmers hes declared against Bryanism, re- pudiation snd revolution with an emphasis which indicates the drift of popular sentiment in the country and what its verdict will be in November.—Indianapolis Journal. Maine and Vermont are mere showers presaging the coming deluge. At no time since the adjournment of the Chicago conven- tion has there been a possibility of any other result. The recreant Democrats who sought to betray their party did not even have a gambler's chance of winning. They pub- lished their treachery without the possibility of reward.—Chicago Chronicl NEWSPAFER PLEASANTRY. Miss Watson—Didn’t Mr. Sark say to you as Tentered the drawing-room last night, Clara, “Js that the beautiful Miss Watson?” Clara—Yes, dear, with the accent on *‘that.” —Tit-Bits. “My papa,” said the Senator’s son, proudly, “helps to make the laws.” “My papa,” retorted the Federal Judge’s son, “‘unmakes the laws, and nobody lelps him either.”—Twentieth Century. “Why don’t you play ‘high, low, jack’ with the boys.any more?'’ “Oh, I've been sick, you know.” “What has that to do with it?’ “I'm not strong enough to thump the table when I put down a card.”—Chicago Post. Clerk—That young Binks is outside, sir, who made application. Shall I put him two work ? Employer—Yes, let him begin at $9 a week. Clerk—But he’s a college graduate. Employer—Well, in that case, start him in at $3.—New York Commercial Advertiser. He (at parting) — On, Edithl You have broker my— She (interrupting)—Not your heart surely. He (sadly)—No; my whole pocketiul of ci- gars—Somerville Journal. “T gee that your coachman has left you, Jokely. “Yes, 1 was one of the few things he couldn’t steal.”—Detroit Free Press. Choily—Ever been in love, Chappie? Chappie—Ys-as. Cholly—How does it feel? Chappie—Asif you hadn’t smoked a cigawette faw a week.—Puck. Mother—Do you think baby will ever talk? Father—Heavens, yes. It's a girl.—Detroit Free Press. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Gorp Prece—S. A., City. No premium is offered for a §5 gold piece of 1837, Nor o MorMON—W. B. E,, City. Not a Presi- dent of the United States was ever a Mormon. CHEAP DoOLLAR—A. H., Ophir, Utah. The term *‘cheap dollar” is applied to ot which there isa disconat: Sy To CoLLECT A Nore—E. K. G, City. If you hold & note against & party outside of the City and wish to have it coilected, turn responsible collector. & dEOmE D Not ConmEcT—A. J., City. Itis not proper to say “McKinley is our next President,” !g: the simple reason that he has not been elected and sworn {n as such. In th ¥ refers o an existing fact. sl s Oxrs—J. 8. W., Elk Creek, Cal. Okra or gumbo, or, as it is called by botanists, Hibiseus esculentus, may be preserved by cutting into slices a quarter of an inch t) slices n?d hanging th:m nph ::‘ dr.ym S the THE INCOME TAX BiLi—L. D., City. Tn bill known as the Wi Fraan bl whien included the income tax, became a law with- :;xv.‘t::mn;m flrthh- {luuhnt on the 27th 804. e _incom into effect January 1, 1895, ;:r:-ll‘ ‘l'o'e'o:f tinue in force until January 1, 1900. On the h, 1895, & suit was commenced to T O e titutionality Of the law as it ap. lied to the leyying of an income tax, and E was declared’ umconstitutional on the 20th of May by the United States Supreme Court. A “BosTON SHAKE"—P, 8. L. This department has not been able to ascertain anything nbou;. “the origin of the new and popular game o Boston sxflke." It is a game played with dice, similar to razzle-dazzle, with the exception that sixes count high and aces are low. BRYAN AND THE CHINESE—A. D. R., Los An- geles, William Jennings Bryan has not taken any particular stand on the Chinese question, but there is no telling what he might do if he got into office. His only record is thathe intro- duced a petition in the House in favor of the Chinese, and at the time stated that he “intro- duced it without comment, at the request of 2 body of Methodists.” MARKET STREET—A.J., City. If you bhad a store on Market street opposite to the O0dd Fellows' building, which is at Seventh and Marget streets, your store would be on the porth side of the street, and as the streets from ibe northern part of the City connect with Market you could only describe it as being be- tween Jones street and City Hall avenue, or as being nearly opposite Seventh. You could not say that it was between Jones and Leaven- worth_streets, for the reason that the last named street does not run to Market street. WAIST WITH FIC4U COLLAR AND LINING THAT MAY B¥ OMITTED. Two extremely stylish and novel features are shown in this waist. The sleeves are fitted with a very short puff at the top. The collar is square in tge back, with fichu front. It may be sewn to the waist or finished with & bias band to be made removable. A waist ot brown mohair worn with a plain skirt ot the same had a collar of embroiderea batiste over a lining of green taffetas, seme silk formed two narrow knife frills all around the collar, and also the neck and belt. A waist of Dresden silk had collar of black mousseline de soie with pleated ruffies of the same. The collar was decorated with clover leaves formed of thres leaves of white lace braid as illustrated here. The waist is gatnered both back and front over a fitted lining. 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