The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 6, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1896. TUI 8DAY. OCTOBER 6 1896 CHARLES M. SHORIRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, oneé week, by carrier..§0.15 Deily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 8.00 Dally and Sunday CALi, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sunday CALL, one month, by mall. .65 Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.. .. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, 0ne year, by mail. 150 THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou going to the country on s _vacation ? If e, it I8 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will recelve prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARG! BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, Ban Francisco, California. Telephone. ..Maln—-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. enee.. Maln—1874 Telephone, BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 9:30 o'clock. 539 Hayes street; open untll 9:30 o'clock. 713 Lerkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 0'clock. 116 Minth street; open until 9 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICB: 08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Speclal Agent. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Patriotism, Protection and Prosperity. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Oblo FOR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey Election November 3, 1896, Stick to straight politics. Republican unity will win. Get out and work for Colonel Taylor. Let Republicans unite and victory is cer- tain. To divide Republicanism is to multiply Buckleyism. Republican loyalty is appealed to and will respona. _— Who can have confidence in a Non-Yar- tisan pleage? If Mr. Phelan is a Non-Partisan what is he doing on the Rainey ticket? Four more weeks of waiting and then we will put an end to Bryanism. The campaign music good citizens are calling for is Republican harmony. The people are still waiting for some one to explain what is meant by a Non-Parti- san legislator. The movement to bring Bryan to Cali- fornia is a good one. We ought to have our share of hippodrome. A united snd ageressive Republican party in San Francisco will make Califor- nia a sure thing for McKinkey. Buckley the Populist, Rainey the Non- Partisan and Willie Hearst the reformer are too many fakers for one town. The only way to save San Francisco from the Democratic tricksters is for all Repub- licans to unite and work together. From this time on the campaign will be redhot, but the heat will vanish pleasantly in the blaze of Republican bonfires. If there were a rich man in this town whose leg cculd be puiled you would see the Ezaminer gang licking his boots. Tom Watson has most conclusively re- futed the report that he was simmering down by getting up and boiling over again. The monopoly has lost its hold on the San Joaquin and before long San Fran- cisco will be able to shake the shackles off. Loyal Republicans should unite to si- lence the wranglers in the ranks. Letus bave no dissensions in the face of the foe. The end of the campaign will not bring Mr. Sewall an office, but it will take Tom Watson off his back, and that is some- thing. Czar Nicholas is saying nothing during his tour of Europe, and so instead of stumping the country he has stumped the diplomatists, Study the municipal situation and you will see that the only straight ticket is that headed by Colonel Taylor. Allothers are blind leads. Just before the hurricane Bryan advised Tillman to go to Florida and take the stump and is now probably very sorry he aid not insist on it. Comptroller Eckels makes a good show- ing of money in the banks, but under a Republican administraticn there would be more of it in circulation. Free trade depreciates American indus- try and free silver would depreciate the American dollar and thus both work and wages would suffer by the election of Bryan. The efforts of the Buckley, Rainey and Willie Hearst thugs to weaker: the influ- ence of John D. Spreckels shows how much he is doing for good government in this City. Fresno was right in making a notable celebration of the arrival of the first train of the Valley Railroad. She has now the competition that will enable her trade to live and flourish, ——l When Tom Reed arrives in Callfornia he should find the Republican party as united in this City as in his own State of Maine, and receive assurances ths State will vote for protection and prosperity. As Tom Watson says, My idea of the campaign was to be perfectly honest and make the issue a sectional one,”’ it is easy to see why tie was dropped. The fusion- ists were willing to make the issue sec- tional, but they do not wish to be honest about it. There may be a Democratic ticket marked on the official ballot, but there 1s no Democratic party in this City. There is a Populist fusion, 8 Non-Partisan fusion and a general confusion in which Democ- racy has been lost to sight like a schooner in a fog bank. THE FRESNO OELEBRATION. The people of Fresno have rightly made the opening of the line of the Valley Rail- road to their city the occasion of a forma! ceremony of public rejoicing. It is an event which marks the beginning of a new epoch in the history of their city and of the great valley in which it is situated, Competition is never more truly the life of trade than when it causes a reduction in transportation rates, and in this in- stance it is doubly beneficial, inasmuch as it has broken down one of the most crush- ing monopolies tnat ever held an Amer- ican community within its grasp. In her celebration Fresno has the sym- pathy and congratulations of all Califor- nia. Every portion of the State has suf- fered more or less from the blight of the Southern Pacific domination and monop- oly, and all see in the emancipation of the San Joaquin an augury and promise of a coming emancipation for themselves. Certainly San Francisco can look with eager expectation for release from the bonds which have bound her energies and hampered her trade. The rapid advance which took place in Los Angeles after the completion of a competing line which gave better transportation rates to her merchants and to the producers in the region round about her will be repeated here when like advantages are obtained. These facts are recognized everywhere, and as a consequence the celebration at Fresno is regarded not merely as a gratifi- cation over things accomplished, but as a rejoicing in the prospect of greater things to come. ¢ While much of credit and praise is due to many men for the successful accom- plishment of the line which carries pros- perity to all the region, of country between Stockton and Fresno, the people of Cali- fornia will not forget that the success is mainly due to one man—Claus Spreckels. At the time when the long projected plan to construct a competing line down the San Joaquin was about to be abandoned he came forward to save it. His very name gave conhdence to the public and his personal influence was an inspiration to enterprise. He did not content himself with that. His wealth, his time, his en- ergy and his sagacity were given tothe work freely and without stint. He made the prompt beginning and swift construc- tion of the road possible, and it is not too much to say that it stands to-day an evi- dence of his public spirited industry and his regard for the welfare of the State. The road was designed, constructed and will be operated as a business proposi- tion. Like all the great industries con- duocted or promoted in this State by Mr. Spreckels, its aim is the increase of wealth and the advancement of the material prosperity of California. It has already effected a vast gain for the people of the San Joaquin. It has carried a profit to every shipper in the valley, and will con- tinue to yield profits to them, as well as to the stockholders. Lower freight rates means more money for farm crops and cheaper prices tor all goods brought into the valley. This implies an ability to employ more labor and pay more wages, There will be more comforts in the homes, as well as more prosperity in the stores, shops and factories of Fresno, and the people there have a thousand reasons for rejoicing that California has such a pro= moter of enterprise as Mr. Spreckels among her citizens. e There is no property in this country that does not represent the concentrated labor of the American people. Any policy which seeks to depreciate the value of labor destroys in the same degree the value of property, and every povicy which seeks to depreciate the value of property destioys in the same degree the value of labor. Property and labor are children of one flesh and blood. A policy that diminishes the consuming power destroys values. All laws should be made with a view of harmonizing their differences and equalizing their values, and when em- ployment s given to everg idle hand there will be no surplus of farm products. Con- suming power is increased in the proportion that men are employed and receive liberal compensation for their labor.—Mayor Pin- gree of Detroit. REPUBLICAN OPPORTUNITY. Party loyalty, which is at all times de- sirable in the Republican ranks, was néver more important both to the party and to the people of San Franciseo than at this time. .The Buckley faction of the Demo- cratic party havine captured the Populist municipal convention, and the Rainey faction having secured the indorsement of its candidates for Mayor and for several other offices by the Non-Partisan conven- tion, it 1s clear that if the Republican party should be divided the administra- tion of the City will almost surely pass into the hands of either Buckley or Rainey. ‘W hile there are these important reasons for Republican unity, there is no reason at all for party dissensions, All contro- versies which existed between Republi- cans in this City bave been appealed to the Republican State Central Committee and have been by that committee decided. No one questions the impartiality of the committee; no one questions that it de- cided according to law, precedent and the universal practice of political parties in this State and throughout the Union, It upheld the regularly organized party, as it was bound to do. Therefore all loyal Republicans are in honor bound by that decision. There can be no party disci- pline if there should be any widespread revolt against the decision of the State Central Committee. Only by obedience to such decision is party organization pos- sible, Only by such obedience can the party be a self-governing body. Only by submission to the authority of BStiate Central Committees can there be any such a thing as party success. It should not be necessary to appeal to the loyalty of Republicans to support the decision of the committee. That loyalty ought to respond of itself, and without appeal, in 8 case where party unity is so important as now. What can any Repub- lican expect to gain by dividing the party in San ¥raneisco in the face of such oppo- sition as is arrayed agamnst it? Would it profit any Republican or any citizen to defeat Colonel Taylor and elect the candi- date nominated by either Buckley or Rainey? As was pointed out by Mr. Sonntag in his letter declining to be a candidate for Mayor, when such candidacy meant the division of the Republican party, if the new charter should be carried, the next Mayor of this City will haveextraordinary powers in the municipal government. Can any Republican or any good citizen afford to take the risks of deleating Colonel Taylor under such circumstances? . The issues involved in the contest are too great to be set aside on account of p:tty differences of opinion or minor questions of party or- ganization. The time calls for Republi- can loyalty. There should be no slightest attempt made to carry the past unfortu- nate dissensions in the party any further. Let us one and all give cordial support to the State Central Committee and to the ticket which it has declared to be regular, rightful and just. Let us work from this time on to carry San Francisco by such a Republican majority as will not only elect Colonel Taylor and his ticket but make California safe for McKinley and Hobart. The Republican platform adopted at St. Louis pledges the party to the time-honored principle of protection. No other platform does. This has always been a fundamental Republican principle. To abandon it would be to commit this Nation to the present policy of the Demaocratic party, which policy, I be- lieve, has been largely instrumental in bring- ing us to oar present condition. Can we con- sent to such an abandonment? I asa business man cannot,.—Mayor Pingree of Detroit. SILVER AND WHEAT. The silver men have all along claimed that the price of wheat follows the price of silver, and that so long as silver falls in the market, there wiil e falling prices for agricultural products. They have claimed therefore that the remonetization of silver is essential to the improve- ment of the farming interests of the world. By these reasons they have ral- lied to their support many farmers, and no doubt a large portion of their strength elsewhere has been due to the persistency with which they insist on this relation be- tween the price of sitver and that of wheat. Events now ocourring effectually dis- prove all the arguments based upon this assumption. Wheat is at this time rising in the market, and has already advanced something like 20 per cent. Meantime, the price of silver continues nearly sta- tionary, and with a downward tendency. Itis clear, in the face of existing condi- tions that the relation between silver and wheat assumed by the silver men and be- lieved in by the farmers is false. Wheat and silver stand each upon its own basis. The price of the one does not affect the other. With the present rise in wheat, farmers may safely vote for the maintenance of the existing gold standard, until such a time as international bimetalllsm may be brought about. They can see for them- selves that the price of wheat does not de- pend upon the price of silver. Letthem vote for protection and sound money and they may count upon a return of pros- perity at once. The greatest creditors of this country to-day are the workingmen. Aside from what is due them upon investments and savings, their cur- rent wages make them the largest creditor class in the United States. The employers of this countrg owe their employees every thirly days, in good times, more than the bonded debt of the United States. Nearly $500,000,000 i paid annuady to the railroad employes alone. Does the railroad employe propose to aid any party to.enact legislation which will cut his payroll from 25 to 50 per cent in the name of a cheap dollar?—McKinley. TOM WATSON'S FIGHT. The report that Tom Watson, despond- ent and despairing, was ready to abandon the fight for recognition as a candidate for Vice-President on the Bryan ticket has been refuted by Watson himself in the most effectual way. He has made upon Sewall and the fusionists an attack more vehement and more bitter than ever. He has given notice to friend and foe alike that he is still in the fight and proposes to make it as disagreeable for the other fel- low as possible. When Tom Reed called Watson “the colt of a wild ass’ he gave a picturesque prominence to one of the salient charac- teristics of the man, but he did injustice to another. Watson’s voice is something more than braying. He isa fighter, this fellow, and evidently honest. Itcannot be doubted he could make good terms with the Popocrat managers to retire or be silent, and that he nas done neitheris pretty sure proof that beneath his wild- ness of language and his lack of personal dignity there is some really manly stuff in him. It would tax the decorum of the most self-contained of men to maintain a posi- tion like that of Watson without being ridiculous, and the half-tutored, vocifer- ous Georgian is not wkolly responsible for the fortune that nas made him the laugh- ing stock of the campaign. His bharangues have been foolish in manner only. The substance of them has shown more courage, honesty and consistency than have those of the very dignified leaders of the fusion who have betrayed him. There is none of the trickster, trader or political faker in Tom Watson. If the Populist party is swallowed up by Demoe- racy it will be through no fault of his, On the contrary, he is doing much to force the fusion tricksters to show their hands. - He will have none of their kind of politics. '“If those who have been false to the mandate of the Populist conven- tion,”” said he on Sunday, “really desire to kill the. party they vpicked out the wrong man when they named me. I will make no compromise: On that ground he stands, and whatever fun may be made of him the people have more respect for him than for any of the Populists who nave betrayed their party to the Demo- cratic bosses for the sake of getting an office for themselves. I do not believe that the mere question of a change in our standard of value is involved. Behind the forces advocating the free and un- limated coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 lo 1 and the reorganization of the ,United States Supreme Court are arrayed repudiation, defiant contempt of established authority and the exponents of expediency, rather than of principle, whose radicalism 1s a threat to the stability of our institutions.—Hon. James A, Donnelly of New York. A TORLORN HOPE. The proposal of the silver men to bring Mr. Bryan to California may be taken as an evidence of the complete desperation of the silver party. Their attempt to achieve success by a fusion of Democrats and Populists seer:s to have been a com- plete failure. Neither party to the fusion has been contéent with the other, and if they are to be held together in this State it can be done only by a personal appeal from the man who has chosen to be the standard-bearer of both in the Presiden- tial race. ? Never was the futllity of political fusion more élearly shown than in this case. When the campaign began there was every prospect that Democrats, Populists and Republican free-silver men might be brought together to support a candidate on the single issue of the remonetization of sliver. As time has passed, however, it has become more and more evident that the attempt under such leadership as that which r'as tried to organize the pres- ent fusion is impossible. No lead of National fame has taken the field to assist Mr. Bryan. He has been left to make the fight alone, and everywhere in the ranks there is apparent nothing but discord, confusion, wrangling and demoralization. ‘Where are the Democratic silver lead- ers? Where are Bland and Boies, and Senators Morgan, Vest, Voorhees and Daniel ? Where are the Populist lead- ers—Butler, Peffer, Allen and Simpson? Where are thb free-silver Republicans— Teller, Dubois and others? Where are the Democratic leaders in this Btate— Budd, Foote and English? Why is it that in California none is left to fight the bat- tle for silver except Mr. Cator and such Democrats as are willing to make trades with him for the spoils of affice ? Surely it is time to bring Mr. Bryan to California and see if he can do anything ta rally the demoralized forces. It is not certain that even his presence could bring harmony out of so much discord, or recon- cile stanch Democrats to the election of Cator to the Benate, or stanch Populists to the betrayal of their party by Cator for Democratic votes. Nevertheless, the thing is worth trying. It is a forlorn no;plel,. but without that there is no hope at How will free silver stop the importation of Joreign wool? How can free silver check the appalling importations of woolen goods from the Old World? How can free silver preserve the home market to the wool producer and the woolen manufacturer? |Renewed criesof ‘It can't do it!”] How ean free silver increase the demand for American labor and Ameri- can products? Answer me that.—McKinley. SEWALL'S GOLD BASIS, Uur}dmsta Sewall admits that he req;zh-as those who charter his ships to stipu- late in the contract that payment shall be made in gold, He says he would be perfectly willing to take silver or cur- rency in payment “if custom permitted.” As Mr. Sewall’s ships are in international trade he refers to an international custom which does not sanction the payment of freight charges in anything but gold. But why does such a custom prevail? Thatis the question. Mr. Sewall knows, but to answer the question would be to flatly contradict the platform upon which he thinks he is running for the Vice-Pre: dency of the United States. In the first place Mr. Sewall inserts the gold-payment ciause in charter contracis to prevent the possibility of tenders of silver in payment, and in the second place he prefers gold to silver. It follows, there- fore, that Mr. Sewall is a “‘golabug” when transacting business for Mr. Sewall, and a silverite when playing politics. Mr. Sewall says he is well satisfied that the Bryan and Sewall ticket will be elected, but he admits by demanding gold for the use of his ships that Bryan’s election would not give silver any better standing than it now has in international com- merce. Then why does he advocate the opening of the mints to the free coinage of silver? It must be that Mr, Sewall believes with our own T. V. Cator that American silver dollars wouid be no good in international trade under free coinage independent of other countries. If so, it is easy enough to see what Mr. Sewall is after. Accord- ing to Cator independent free coinage by this country would not advance the bul- lion price of silver abroad, and foreign owners of silver bullion would have to spend the American dollars they had iv converted intoin this country. Now letus see how such Bryanism would work for Mr. Sewall. He could have his ships return to America from foreign ports with bullion silver at a cost of about 65 cents an ounce. Then he could have the bullion run through an American mint, where it would be legal tender for $1 29 per ounce. With his legal-tender silver he could buy Ameri- can farm products, paving for them in silver at the rate of §1 29 an ounce, but which cost him only 65 cents an ounce. Evidently Mr. Sewall knows what he is about when he puts his ships on a gold basis, but what do Ameri- can farmers think of his scheme? It is highly important to American producers that they should look into this matter, and as Mr. Sewall is so far away perhaps Mr. Cator would be kind enough to ex- plain to California farmers the mysteries of Sewall’s free-silver gold-basis propo- sition, g THE SAD, SAD SEA. ““What makes the sea 50 sad, mother?” Whispered a little chifd. *Why do the blilows sigh and break, And why are the waves so wild?" “/The rivers run down to the sea With all their grief, m lad, And flood the sea with their misery, And that’s why the sea is sad.” “The Hudson goes with Gotham's woes, And Paris chokes the Seine: ‘The Danube biuve and the dark Thames, too, All hurry to the main: Losing the song of the running rill, But keeping all that’s bad; They flood the sea with their misery, And that's why the sea is sad.” CY WARMAN in New York Sun, LADY'S JACKET WITH REEFER FRONT. Jackets this season are short, extending only eight to twelve inches below the waist. Jacket sleeves will necessarily remain large, but will be closer fitting on the forearm. French ree‘er fronts are much liked and are faced with the cloth, 80 they may be turned back and worn dpen. Some of the most stylish show only one row of buttons, though two rows are still used. et shown here is made with the rms in the back; the fronts are seam. ess. Very fine whipcordsin tan gre much liked for young ladles, and are made quite dressy w the use of white cloth for revers and collar, hite pearl buttons are shown on these jack- ets. Light brown covert cloth makes a useful garment for wearing with other colors. The model {s an excellent one for making suits of serge or tweed. The skirt should be plain and stiffened only ten inches all around the bottom. Braid as well as velveteen is for finishing the foot of such skirts, v{nfllnh are usually about four and a half yards wide, Blue serge holds its own for such suits, and is as n'rzi‘;.:u'bu !dor traveling and general wear as any found. Mixed cheviots are much used for skirts and Jackets, but there preference for plain :‘ l:h jackets, with skirts of mixtures or ecks, DO WORKMEN FEAR HIGH WAGES ’ San Diego Tribune. ‘Who ever before heard of workmen striking against too high wages? That is precisely what they are going to do if they vote for "l.v y e complai; d doliar. It will ‘buy just half as much, Every wageworker who thinks his earnings too high may comsistently vote for Bryan. Gadzooks—Did the play go last night? . Zouuds—Well, hardly; but ‘yon ought to have seen the audience.~New York Tribune. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. General Willlam Ward Duffield, superintend- ent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, hasleft for Washington, having been called thither by a telegram cutting short his atay in this City, where he was the recipient of many courtesies. He has been recently engaged in an inspection of the Coast Survey parties in Alaska,and more especially interested in connection with the location of the boundaries between that Territory and British Columbia. Many of the citizens of California are un- aware of the fact that the general isa pioneer of the Pacific Coast, having, while in the military service of the Federal Government, made a trip across the plains in 1849. Start- ing from Fort Laramie in May of that eventful year he commanded a cavalry escort of twenty- five picked men to convey Paymaster Major Leonard and treasure with which to pay off troops at the several statious en route. In the train were four wagon-loads of specie, three containing silver and one gold. dians were encountered, and in one Duffield, then & young officer of 25 years, had his arm pierced by an arrow. One of three friendly Delaware Indians in the party, named Black Beaver, played the part of *‘medicine man” with such success as to ex- tract the weapon from the wound, which speedily healed after suppuration. The cavalcade marched trom Fort Laramie to Fort Dedance, thence to Fort Independence, to Walla Walla on the Columbia River, to Asioria and finally down the coast to San Francisco. In October, 1849, Duffiela returned overland to Washington. His subsequent career as a brave, gallant and honorable officer culminated in hisap- pointment to the onerous and responsible position conferred upon him by the General Government in 1894, The Soclety of California Pioneérs hope ere long to have the pleasure of electing him to 1life membership in their fraternity. Richard P. Miner, the attorney and ex-mem- ber of the Legislature of Mono County, is smong the arrivals here. Mr. Miner has lived there for many years. He went to Bodie when it wasa booming mining camp in the seventies. “There are seyeral new things under way up there,” said Mr. Miner last evening. *One ot the very important things is a new sixty-stamp millin the town of Bodie. That mill is des- tined to do a whole lot for the place. Then, besides that, the Goleta, Sterling and Montecito mining companies, superintended by Steve Roberts, is going to build a forty-stamp mill. These claims are between Lundy and Bodie, at Copper Mountain. “In addition to this the Dunderberg mine, twelve miles from Bridgeport, is building a twenty-stamp mill. You can guess that all these things help us out a good deal. *‘By the way, they are going to nominate me for County Judge up there in about a week. Ie there any oppesition? No, none at all, they are going to give it to me unanimously; they’ve all got together and agreed to do this. Yes, I will take it, I told them I would, if they would do this. I have nodoubt that I will be elected.” PER-ONAL. Dr. Keith of Salt Lake is at the Palace. William Earl of Chico is on a visit here. Juage 8. Solon Holl of Bacramento is here. J. A, Perry of Merced is here on & brief visit. Klaus Reimers of Bergen, Norway, is in town. The Rev. T. E. Nugent of Ferndale is at the Grand. H.P. Wyant of New York is at the Occi- dental. F. A. K. Miles of Prince Albert is at the Ocei- dental. - John Stone of Butte, Mont., is at the Com mercial. - W. A. Gett, an attorney of Sacramento, isat the Lick. Dr. C. W, Weaver of Healdsburg is visiting this City. I N. Moore of Los Angeles arrived here yesterday. R. A. Iverson of Antioch is among recent a; rivals here. Congressman J. A, Barnam of Santa Rosa is in the City. D, F. Warnock, & businéss man of Chicago, is at the Palace. Congressman James McLachlan of Pasadena is in the City. J. Bruno and wife of Banta Rosa areat the Cosmopolitan. The Rev.F. A. Reynolds of Willows came here yesterday. John W. Mitchell, anattorney of Los An- geles, is at the Palace. E.J. Cabill, a ranch-owner of San Martin, is here on a business trip. John Drake, & land-owner of Bakersfield, is stopping at the Cosmopolitan. W. B. Hepburn, an attorney of Osborne, Idaho, arrived here yesterday. George T. Baldwin, & business man of Klam- ath, Or., is here on a brief stay. E. M. Mannion of Los Angeles was one of the arrivals from the south yesterday. John C. Scott, a wealthy planter of Hilo, Hawaiian Islands, arrived here yesterday. A. D. Remington, the paper manufacturer, of Watertown, N. Y., arrived here last night. Dr. and Mrs, Thomas Flint Jr. of San Juan arrived here yesterday and are at the Grand. Dr. C. W. Fox and James Gillen, the banker, have taken up their residence at the Palace. L. C. Fletcher of the United State Geologleal Survey, Washington, D, C., arrived here yester- day. W. N. Perry, a heavy lumber-dealer and manufacturer of Los Angeles, is on & visit here. Deputy State Controller W, W, Douglas came down from Sacramento yesterday and is at the Grand. » Henry J. Crocker and Mrs. Crocker came up from San Mateo last evening. They are at the Palace. Timothy Hopkins and Mrs. Hovkins of Menlo Park arrived here yesterday and are at the Palace. D. N, Weir Loudon, & veteran mine-owner of Modoc County, is here on & businesstrip and is at the Russ, » David Starr Jordan, president of Palo Alto University, arrived here last night and isat the Occidental. Captain Hart, formerly of the steamer Zelandia, will take command of the Mariposa on her next trip out. Among the arrivals at the Palace last night were W. P. Fuller, Mrs. Fuller, William Pamor F uller and Miss Ada Douglas. John F. and Mrs. Francis are stopping at the Occidental. Mr. Francis was director-general of La Fiesta de Los Angeles in 1896, L. L. Judd, who owns & quartz mine at Mam. moth and who has long been engaged in dif- ferent mining enterprises, is in the City. 'W. H. Nolan expects soon to leave for Paso Robles. He will be accompanied by his wife and two sons, They will go for the benefit of their health. John Lee, who owns and manages a large general merchandise store at Wadsworth, Nev., is here on a business trip and is regis- tered at the Russ. C. W. Ditmering and Mrs. Ditmering of Los Angeles are at the Ruse, en route home from the East, after spending the fiftieth anni- versary of their marriage among old friends and relatives. T. V. Brown, for four years past superin- tendent of the German Hospl tal, has resigned, and will be succeeded by Captain E. Pohlman, for many years of the steamship Oregon, run- ning between here and Portland. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 5.—At the West. minster—G. W. Buffington, L. Lloyd; Ashland, 8. Benall; Gllsey, H. P. Frear, R. P. Schwerin; Morton, C. Hirsc etherland, Mr. and Mrs. I W. and Miss Hellman; Imperial, A. Kutner; Savoy, Mrs. M. F. Ryer. PARAGRAPH> ABOUT PEOPLE. Queen Victoria has a great liking for sim. plicity in everything pertaining to the sanct- uary in which she worships. The prtvate chapel at ®sborne is particularly typical of her tastes in this ditection. o Edwin Lord Weeks, the American artist,who was adopted a chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France recently, is & Bostonian. He. s as great a traveler as & painter. He has lived in Paris for twenty years. Dr. Grace N. Kimball of Bangor, Me., now in charge of the principal relief work in Ar- menia, whereshe has gained the honorary title of the ‘‘Heroine of Van,” has been chosen assistant physician of Vassar College. President Diaz of Mexico was in the prime of life when first eiected to the office ot President, and now, when 66 years of age, and after all his varied experiences, ‘his features retain their early shape and his eyes are as bright as ever they were. Frank Pickering of Saco, Me., who is more than 60 years old, climbed up a flagpole sixty feet high last week, and used no climbers, either; just simply “shinned” rieht up, fixed the top of the pole and slid down with the agility of a boy of 16. The Queen, through United States Embassa ,! dor Bayard, will send an‘ expression of her thanks to the citizens of Ocala, Fla., for the kindly sentiment contained in an address accompanying some leaves from a magnolia tree which the people of Ocala recently plant- ed and dedicated to her Majesty. The venerable Aubrey de Vere is one of the very few men now living who talked with Wordsworth, and from him Wordsworth first heard Tennyson’s lines, “Of ola sat Freedom on the heights.” Though notan ungrudging admirer of contemporary talent, Wordsworth allowed that the lines were “stately.” Miss Caroline Ticknor, one of the daughters of Benjamin H. Ticknor, who is the oldest son of the late Willlam D. Ticknor, for his whole life the head of the firm of Ticknor & Fielas of Boston, is a writer of much promise. Her first book, under the title of “A Hypocritical Romance and Other Stories,” has just been issued. Ex-Senator James W. Braabury of Maine, who has just bolted the Democratic ticket, has voted for Democratic candidates for seventy- -three years. He is the oldest ex-member of the United States Senate and the lastof the Northern pro-slavery Senators, He was a mem- lber of the famous class of '24 of Bowdoin Col- oge. - The Chicago Tribune reiterates the story that it is the general belief in Indiana that Senator Daniel W. Voorhees will soon retire from public life because of the condition of his health. His trouble is understood to be an affection of the heart. His term in the United States Senate will end in March next. He has served in that body uninterruptedly since November, 1877, having been appointed by Governor Williams at that time to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Oliver P. Mor- ton. CALIFORNIA FARMERS NOT BLIND. Santa Rosa Republican. Every fruit tree in California will be more valuable if McKinley is elected than if Bryan winsand yet there are people who claim that California farmers will vote against their own interests. We will chance the good sense of the fruit-growers and general farmers of So- noma county on this proposition. TWO SOUNu MONEY DEMOCRATS TALK. THEY TELL THE TRIBUNE WHY THEY ARE FIGHTING BRYANISM. Chicago Tribune. C. A. Dana—I, shall vote for McKinley be- cause it is the only means of defeating Bryan and saving this country from ruin. Bourke Cockran—I shall continue to main- tain an uncompromising opposition to Till- manism and Bryanism until the end of the campaign, as I jeel that I will thus be expiat- ing in some degree the follies and excesses of the party to whose success I have contributed in the past, but whose strength has become a menace of the peace and the prosperity of the country. — W.J. BRYAN'S LOSELY CAMPAIGN BRAINS OF THE DEMOCRACY ARE AGAINST HIM. New York Post. The Nashville American complains that “the big guns of the Democratic party” are not stumping for Bryan, and suggests that “it “it is about time they were entering the cam- paign, getting to work making speeches, and in other ways helping to encourage the people in the support they are giving to the Chicago nominees and platform.” This disinclination on the partof the big gunl is remarkabl It is unprecedented. he repudiation campaign now rests almost solely on the feeble shoulders of Bryan alone. Nowhere do we hear of any leading Demo- crats who are meking themselves prominent init. Evenif they accept the Chicago plat- form with actual or assumed belief in silver- ism, or support it and its candidate on the plea of “regularity,” they are wholly silent, Or the words of encouragement asked Jor from them by the Nashville Bryanite paper are few and cold. We see no reports of great speeches made by any of them in his behalf. Altgeld and THiman seem to have monopo- lized the oratorical campaigning, with the single exception of Bryan himseli. The can- didate is leit to bear the chief burden of the canvass alone, and it is putting a cruel strain on him. Bryan is working too hard, but how can he do else when there seems to be no one of his mal professed followers williug to lend him assistance in the stumping, at Feut no one of consequence enough to command public attention. On the other side the ar- tiliery of “big guns” is of greater power than ever before in our political history, including, as it does, the largest guns of both Democracy and Republicanis It is & very remarkable situation, but the reason for it is plain. As Sam Small remarked 8 few weeks ago, the brains of the conntry are against Bryan, and there is nothing leit for him but weak intelleets, pretentious igno- ramuses, selt-advertising humbugs, social in- cendiaries like Altgeld and Tillman and po- litical hypocrites who are ashamed to show themselves before the people dvocates of octrines in which they make pretense of belleving, but which really are abhorrent to their convictions and insulting to their intel- ligence. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Hicks—Smeddie always speaks well of every- body. Wicks—Mere force of habit. He worked at cutting out tombstone epitaphs for several years.—London (Ont.) Advertiser. +And shall I then look daggers?” asked the ingenue. The stage manager tore his hair. “No!” he shricked. *This is a modern play, Look hatpins.”—Detroit Tribune. “I found a fishworm in my hydrant this morning,” said the wrathful citizen. “Yes,” said the official of the water com- pany, “that is the best we can do just at pres- ent. We can’t afford to furnish fish; all we are able to furnish is beit.”—Indlanapolis Journal. “Ishould think you'd be afraid to take such long walks with your wife in such a dangerous section of the town.” “‘Me afraid? I guess not. My wife used to be the strong woman in a side show.”—Cleve- land Plain Dealer. Aunt Esther—How are you getting on with your housekeeping, Charlie? Charlie—Oh, well euough; only Ethel has given me mainly Biblical cooking so far, Aunt Esther—Biblical cooking? How so? Charlie—Oh, I ask for bread andshe gives me a stone.—Somerville Journal. The very positive man had alluded®so some- body as “a crank,” when his patient au- dience of one interrupted him with the in quiry: “*What is your idea of a crank, anyhow?” “Acrank! Why, a crank, sir, s somebody wno insists on trying to convince me, in- -uu: of letting me convinee him.”—Washing- ton Star. “Yes,” sald the Harlem “Slugger,” “I've put lots of men to sleep in my time, but when it comes to that baby of mine I'm out in the first round.”—Philadelphia North American. Looking up suddenly, shebeheld the bearded face of a-man witha gleaming knife between histeeth. Thenshe fainted. It was no won- der, for she had been carefully reared and had never seen any one eat pie, In that manner.— Indianapolis Journal. / “Is Miss Cahoots in ?” inquired the caller. “That depinds on you. Are yez Misther Jones ?” said Bridget. ) “Yes.” +She’s gon' out.”—Harper’s Bazar. ANSWERS 10 CORRESPONDENTS SHORTHAND WRITIX A., Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras County, Cal. None of the court re- porters of this ‘City use a shorthand type- writer, ¢ THE Dog—H. 8,,City. The poem you want is JInseription on the Monument of & New- foundland Dog.” Byron wrote it, and it cau be found in his works. TAXES—W. J. B., City. A person owningland inLassea, or any other county of the Siate of California, believing that he has been assessed too high for taxes, they should apply for re- duction to the Supervisors of that county. THE SHERMAN BILI—T. A. R., San Miguel, Cal. The vote for the repeal of the silver pur- chasing clause of the Sherman bill wes as fol- lows: In the House—Avyes, 130 Democrats and 72 Republicans; noes, 74’ Democrats, 20 Re- pubiicans and 7 Populists. In tne Senate— Ayes, 48 Bepublicaus ana 22 Democrats ; n0es, 11 Kepublicans, 22 Democrats and 4 Fopu- Sts. JANTTORS AND CLERKS—W. F. M., City. The question “What is the salary of janitors and clerks in the City Hall and who appeints them ?” is a very broad ome. 1f you will specify what patiicular clerks or janitors you wish to know about, the information may be given. Some are appointed by the Super- visors, some by the County Clerk and others by the heads of departments. The janitors of the School Department are appoinied by the Board of School Directors. Their salaries amount in the aggregate to about $50,000 & year. FRENCH WAR DEET—W. R., Santa Ross, Cal. The indemnity which France had to pay after the close of the Franco-Prussian war in 1871 was five milliards of francs, equal to ome bil- A lion of our doliars. One milliard was paid in 1871 and the remainder was paid by the end of September in 1878, The indemnity ‘was met altogether in bills of exchange drawn against exported merchandise. These bills of exchange, in their turn, represented the sub- scriptions to the exiracrdinary loan suthor- ized by the Freuch Government and taken by the Frénch people to liquidate the debt. EYESTONE—A. T. C., City. The eyestone is taken from a certain species of small seashell found principally on the South American, coast. Itis the mouthpiece, or front door, 80 to speak,of the shell and is shaped with & convex surface on one side, while the otber is flat, and the largest specimens are notmore than one-third of an inch in diameter. Hum- boldt, the great traveler, found this stone used by the South Americans to remove for- eign substances from the eye, hence the name. When put under the lid of the eye the stone is moved by the motion of the eyeball and lit- tle particles which it touches adnere to it and may be removed with 1t. There is a belief that these stones are alive, because when placed in any weak acid, as lime juice or vinegar, they will move about. This is owing to the evoluiion of carbonic acid gas by the dissolving of some of the carbonates of lime in the lnell%y contact with the acid, and the lit- tle bubbies of forth in the flui THE CENTURY—J. N. D., City. This corre- spondent like many people is troubled as to the century. He asks if tnis is the ninety- sixth or ninety-seventh year of this century,” and adds that ““a friend claims that the twen- tieth century will commence on the 1st of January, 1900, and that another claims that it will not commence until January 1, 1901.”" The following irom a recent editorial in the Boston Herald is a very full and clear answer to the question: Already the discussion has taken shape. and arguments have been put forth on_elther side of the question at ixsue, which is: Wil the nine- teenth century end with the closing of the year 1899, or must we walt until December 31, 1900, has passed before we can we come in the to be wonderful twentieth century? There are dis- tinetly 1wo sides 10 this question, and each side i3 10 a position to bring forward quite a number of argnments in support of its own method of con- struciion. Under the ordinary conditlons of numeration a full hundred is not completed, or, rather, a new hundred s nov begun, until the tull tule has been counted. If A agrecd to take the first hundred apples gus move the stone back and from a tree and B the second bundred, B con'd hardly demand the right to begln his count when A had droppel his ninety-ninth appie into the barrel. The new huudred, or the new ceutury, would, under such a contruction, begin not witn an,0. but with & 1. ihe O woud represent the Wik ling up and closing of the ol century, aud -ve 1 the beginning or opening up of a new century, On this basls of caiculation the tweutieth century would not begin until atzer midnight on the $1st of Decemver, .900. OUr, to siate the same mstter n other words, the twentleh century wouid begln on January 1, 1801 This secems to be a reasonaole setting forth of the proposition untll we come o consider the other side of the cage, which Is that our system of caiculating time is based upon the birtn of Christ. We speak of the present year as A. D. 1896; in other words, assuming this basis of calculation, we are now in the 1897ih year of our Lord, just 88, in speaking of a chi.d who has passed its (welfth birthday, we say that he is now in his teens; that Is to say, he bas completed his twelfth yearand Is in his thirteenth. 1f a child is 1 year ana elghth months oid we say he is in his second year, These calculatious are based on the reason- able ground that, In coucrete reckonings of time and space, we do not begin with 1, but with 0, and there is a space between 0 and i, as there is between 1 and 2, 1n & word, the difference Is found In the use of & cardinal in’ contradistinction to an ordinal num- ber. 1f a man can be sald to be in his fiftfeth year after he has passed forty-nine, 80 the century may be sald to be he twentleth century after the clock has rung out midaight on the cember, 1899. But, a8 (his led to wi sion a century 8go, it Is not improbable & will be equaily a subjec of dispute auribg the next three years. It s not, it is true, & matter of welghty importance, baviog much less practical bearing upon the weifare of mankind than the setilement of the silver conten.ion, but it merely indicaies how persons may arrive ai different con- clusions from & statement of the same set of fagls. ‘MoLAssEs crisp popcorn, 5¢ box. Townsends.* — SPecrAL information daily to manufacturars, business bou: and public men by the Press Clipping Burdau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * — Aclown in Barnum’s circus who for thirty years had personated a crazy man has actually become insane, and is now in an asylum. Here's a warning to silver spouters who have harped on “the crime of '73" until they actually begin to believe in it themselves.— Minneapolis Tribune. Through Sleeping Cars to Chicago. The Atlantlc and Pacific Rallroad, Sants Fe route, will continue to run aaily through from / Oakiand to Chicago Pullman palace drawing-room, also upholstered tourist sleeping-cars, leaving every afternoon. Lowest through rates to ail points In the United States, Canads, Mexico or Europe. Excursions through to Bosion leave every week. San Francisco tickes offl ket street, Chronicle bullding. 1531; Oakland. 1118 Broadway. Phillips’ Rock Island Excursions Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rio Grande and Rock Island Raflways. Throngh tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boston. Man- ager aud porters accompany these excursions to Boston. For tickets, sleeping-car accommodations and further information address Clinton Jones, General Agent Rock Island Railway, 30 Moat gomery street, San Francisco. Dr. STEGERT'S Angostura Bitters, the celebrated appetizer and invigorator of the digestive organs, is now used all over the world. I As an emergency medicine In croup, bronchitts, sore throat aud kiudred diseases, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is unsurpassed. —————— The free coinage of siiver would not put an. otber dollar ip circulation, but would destroy the value of the dollar we now have. Restore the protective tariff; make our goods at home; restore the home market to the iarmer; set the unemployed to work, and prosperity is ase sured.—Muncie (Ind.) Times. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report ol - Bakin .Powde%’ ABSOLUTELY PURE