The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 19, 1896, Page 6

THE S FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1896. : MONDAY........ ..OCTOBER#19, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editoc and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 Dally and Sunday CALL, one yesr, by mall.... 6.00 Dally and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Delly and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Sunday CALL, one year, by mail WEEKLY CaLL, One year, by mail. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on s vacation ? If w0, it 1§ no trowble 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 EXTEA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone......... e Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone. Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open untll 9:80 o'clock. 838 Hayes street; open untll 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. W corner Sixteenth and Mission sireets; open until § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Minta street; open until o’clock OAKLAND OFFICE: 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 84 Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Patriotism, Protection and Prosperity. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAY McKINLEY, of Obio i ¥OR VICF-PRESIDENT— GARRET A. HOBART, avr New Jersey | Election November 3, 18%6. The fight is about over, but don’t forget the shouting. In a little white now the fusion and con- tusion will end together. Time flies and good citizens will get in and make the Popocrat fur fly also. What will we profit by the rise in wheat if the money goes abroad for foreign goods? The argument of the campaign is ex- hausted, but all the same the oratory will continue. Now is the opportunity of California. Money is coming into the State, let us keep it here. _— Do your duty from now to election day. Work for sound money, sound business and sound men. Republicans of San Francisco, now is your opportunity. A united vote will win a sweeping victor: You can help to make California safe for McKinley if you assert yourself vigorously for the welfare of you own industry. The coming prosperity will be only temporary under free trade, buta return to protection will make it permanent. Tllinois has become the storm center of the campaign, but all the straws show the wind is blowing in the right direction. Municipal politics mav not. be as inter- esting to the mind as National politics, but it touches the pocket just as closely, Do your share in the campaizn for pro- tection and prosperity. That is the way to attend to your business at this juncture. Once more we remind you to look out for the campeign roorback. It never frightens anybody who knows it is com- ing. Everybody may as well get ready for big business after the election. 1t is bound to come in with the advance agent of pros- perity. From the way the Popocrat managers have concentrated their fight in Illinois it looks as if they were more eager to elect Altgeld than Bryan. ‘With one watechword the Republicans of San Francisco can assure California to the cause of protection ana prosperity, and that word is harmony. This will be a lively week in the Re- publican campaign and every wide-awake citizen should keep up with the proces- sion and enjoy the music. The campaign of education has been pretts effective and there is reason to believe even Bryan will heve learned his lesson by the time the election is over. After the election there will be a post- mortem, and then we can learn whether the Democrat swallowed the Populist or the Populist swallowed the Democrat. It is said that some of the Watson electors on the fusion tickets in the South bave declared they will not vote for Bryan unless the Bryan men will vote for Wat- son, and so thers is another ruction in sight. As the dark shadow of disaster fell upon the country as soon as 1t was known that the Democrats had carried the election in 1892, s0 now the light of prosperity begins to shine as soon as the peovle have been virtually assured of Republican success. The speech of Senator Hoar at Boston on his arrival from Europe was most timely in every respect, for it not only clearly pointed out the evils which would result from silver monometallism, but gave convincing reasons for believing that Earope is ready to enter in'to that inter- | national agreement for the free coinage of silver which the Republican party is pledged to promote. Dana Perkins, whose death is announced in the dispatches from Sacramento, was a Californian who was widely known throughout the State, and highly re- garded by the men who knew him best. He was a Democrat of the old school and quite a successful politician. It was re- marked that the office of Librarian of the State Library, which his party friends be- stowed on him some years ago, was a posi- tion that did not accord with his training or inclinations, but nevertheless he man- aged to discharge the duties of the place in an acceptable manner. If he did not know books he knew men about the Legis- jature. His character was what may be styled the rugged tyvpe. He possessed & strong sense of justice, and people had faith in his honesty of purpose. DEMOCRACY AND ITS LEADER. The Democratic party in nominating Mr. Bryan for the Presidency broke away from its leaders, but did not violate any of its traditions. That party, while it has been for some years under the control of conservatives, has never been a conserva- tive party. 1t has tried time and again to release itself from the men who held it, and what it has accomplished this year has been simply what it thought to do re- peatedly in the past. The radical declaration for free silver in the platform of this year is not more ex- treme than was the declaration for free trade in the platform of 1892. The cry against capital now is not wilder than was the cry acainst capital then. The platform of 1892 said: ““We denounce Re- publican protection as a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few.” With this cry of fraud and robbery the party was ready to enter that year as eagerly as in this one upon a campaign of the poor against the rich and labor against capital. n 1892, howeve r, the conservative lead- ers were able to hold the extremists in check. Mr. Cleveland, in his letter of ac- ceptance, took good care not to indorse this radical cry of his party, He said in his speech on receiving the notification of his nomination: ““Ours is not a destruct- ive party. We are not at enmity withsthe rights of any of our citizens,. We are not recklessly heedless of any American - terests.” It was by that speech he rallied to his support a large portion of the con- servative element of the country and was elected President. Men said then *‘the candidate is better than the party.” They belicved Mr. Cleve- land to be strong enough and brave enough to hold the lawless Democracy in check. They did not foresee and could not know that his party would soon break away from him, and that his administra- tion would be rendered futile and disas- trous by the radical Democrats who ob- tained control in Congress. In Mr. Bryan Democracy has a leader after its own heart. Bo far from endeayor- ing to restrain his excited partisans, he has done everything which words can do to make that excitement greater still. Under his leadership the war of classes has been precipitated upon the people so far as Democracy is able to precipitate it. What will be the outcome of his leader- ship of the party 1t is not easy to foresee. Certainly he will never be elected Presi- dent of the United States, but it is not impossible that he may manage to retain the leadership of his party and continue to be a menace to the peace and well being of the Republic. The dangerous leader of dangerous men his course can hardly fail to awaken the anxiety of true patriots. There is but one way to deal with him and his followers. All conservatives, all who are interested in law, industry and social order, must unite to make head against what if al- lowed to zo on may become something more than a threat. Democracy has found its leader, and now the battle must be fought in earnest all over the Union. I favor that policy which will give the largest development to every Amer- ican interest, that gives the widest op- portunity to every American citizen, that gives the most work and best wages to every American laborer, and secures to our people the highest possib'e pros- perity in all their occupations.—McKin= ley. THE CAUSE OF THE PANIC. Nothing’ of recent occurrence more forcibly shows the value of extensive and intensive advertising thun the fact that the Bryanites have by persistent repeti- tion led a considerable number of people to believe that the depression of trade and the disasters of industry from which the country has suffered for the pastthree years have been caused by the demonetiza- tion of silver in 1873. The facts of our present condition and those which preceded it are well known to everybody. There was no depression in trade prior to the election of Grover Cleve- land and a Democratic majority in Con- gress pledged to free trade. When Mr. Harrison was elected and entered office with a Congress favorable to a tariff re- vision in the direction of an increased protective policy it injured no industry, disturbed no business, and so far from causing a panic had the good effect of promoting all linesof trade. The contrast between the effect of the election of Har- rison and the election of Cleveland was thus well and widely known, and yet in spite of that general knowledge persistent iteration and reiteration have enabled the extreme free silverifes to rzlly to their standard no inconsiderable number of the American people. Fortunately for the country, as Thomas Jeiferson has said, “‘Error ceases to be dangerous when reason is left free to combat it.”” All that the persistence of the Bryanites can do has been more than offset by the earnest activity of the more intelligent portion of the community in refuting their arguments by plain state- ments of the well-known facts in the case. ‘We have been, ever since the succession to power of the free-traders, suffering under an industrial paralysis, but for fourteen years before that our prosperity was the greatest the world had ever known. The products of the country in- creased steadily, new mills .were opened, new farms were tilled, new railroads co: structed and the wages of labor steadily advanced. If the demonetization of silver in 1878 was 1n any way the cause of the depression that has come upon us, then surely tLat cause was a long time in making its effect known. The intelligence of the country recog- nizes the futility of the arguments of the Bryanites. No iteration or reiteration of folly can lead them to lay aside the testi- mony of their senses and the lessons of their experience. They know when we were prosperous and when that prosperity ceased. They know that trouble caused by free trade cpnnot be cured by free silver. Such a remedy, as Mr. Depew has said, would be as foolish as if a man who had swallowed a potato bug should seek re- lief by swallowing a dose of paris green to kill it I put aside all this talk about the rise of the value of silver under free coin- age to meet the value of gold, and all the harmony that would come of the marriage. There is absolutely no foun- dation for that faith in either history or experience, and we have plenty of both, Tom Reed. NTERNATIONAL BIMETALLISM. Senator Hoar, who has recently returned from Europe, took occasion in an after dinner speech at 8 banquet given in kis honor, immediately afier his arrival home, to make clear to the people of Mas- eachusetts that the issue involved in this campaign is not a choice betWeen the single gold standard ahd bimetallism, but a choice between genuine bimetafism based on international agreement and the wild scheme of free silver coinage advo- cated by the Bryanites. After pointing out that the Republican party at St. Louis declared itself for bimet- allism by international agreement, and that the law of the land embodied in the statute of November 1, 1893, agserts the same doctrine, he went on to say that he does not think 1t wise to let the men who are menacing the good faith and integrity of the Nation succeed in putting the Re- publican party and genuine bimetallists in a false position before the country. The most important part of Senator Hoar’s speech was that in which he set forth the reasons which he has for believ- ing that the Republican party will easily succeed in bringing about an international agreement for the free coinage of silver. On this subject he said: Bismarck, who closed the mints of Germany to silver in 1873, has declared in & recent let- ter that he has always been desirous to open them again when the consent of other nations could be had. The present French Assembly, more than three to one, under the leadership of M. Metine, the Prime Minister, has declared itself in favor of a resolution to the same ef- fect. In England, while the prospect is not so en- couraging, it is well known thaf the great financial leaders of the party now in power are of the same way of thinking. Mr. Balfour, the First Lord of the Treasury ; Mr. Goschen, the great authority on all sueh questions; Mr. Chaplin, one of the most eminent members of the Cabiuet, and Sir Williamm Molesworth, are pronounced international bimetallists. While thus declaring himself empbat- ically for bimetallism and giving reasons for the faith that is in him of the success- ful accomplishment of such an agreement by the next administration, he was most decided in dencuncing the folly of the Bryanites who propose to establish free coinage by this country alone. That at- tempt, as he went on to show, would in- evitably result in silver monometallism. Gold would go out of the country, the cur- rency would be restricted to that extent, and disasters would result to commerce and industry more terrible than any one we have ever known. The speech of the eloquent and vener- able Senator from Massachusetts is most timely in every respect. It comes as a fair warning to the extreme gold-standard men of the East that the victory which is to be achieved at the polls this year will be a victory for them. It will be a tri- umph for general bimetallism, for the principle of protection and for the main- tenance of law and order. The next ad- ministration will carry out the well-set- tled policies of the Republican party. It will establish protection to American in- dustry, it will enforce the laws of the con- stitution, and it will lead the Nation into the pathsof bimetallism from which bene- fits will result and accrue to all the indas- tries of the earth. I stand by the platform and the pres- ent candidate of the Republican con- vention of St. Louis. I am opposed to the platform and the Presidential can- didate of the Democratic convention at Chicago. The days of Civil War ex- cepted, at no time did so great a peril threaten the country as that which is involved in the political campaign of to-day.—Archbishop Ireland. PROTECTION AGAINST TRUSTS, In that eloquent epitome of Republican- ism which constituted the salient feature of Senator Thurston’s address on his elec- tion as chairman of the St. Louis conven- tion no clause better deserves the attention of the people at this time than that which declared it to be the policy of the Republi- can party to provide for ‘‘the governmen- tal supervision and control of transporta- tion lines and rates, the protection of the people from all unlawiul combinations and unjust exactions of aggregated capi- tal and corporate power.” So much has been said by the Demo- cratic orators and organs during the cam- paign of the power and trusts and aggre- gated capital to injure the business of the American people, and so many efforts have been made to induce the credulous to believe that the Republican party ig- nores this danger to American prosperity, that it is well to recall the minds of citi- zens to the fact that the Republican party in its broad and comprehensive system of protection proposes protection against the evils of trusis as well as against the evils of foreign competition. The Republican platform of 1838 con- tained the following declaration: We declare our opposition to combinations ot capital organized in trusts or otherwise to con- trol arbitrarily the condition of trade among our citizens; and we recommend to Congress and the State Legislatures, in their respective jurisdictions, such legislation as will prevent the execution of all schemes o oppress the people by undue charges upon their suppiies, or by unjust rates for the transportation of their products to market. There is reason to believe this resolu- tion was presented to the convention by Mr. McKinley, who was chairman of the commiitee on resolations. There can be no question that he is heartily in accord with the sentiments expressed. All his speeches and all the actions of his life bear witness to the fact that he is not only a sincere, but & niost intelligent frienq of American labor, and is on his guvard against everything which even threatens to interfere with the best interests of the American peovle. There can be no ques- tion that under his administration the enti-trust laws will be enforced, and those evils which Mr. Cieveland has either fos- tered or neglected to oppose will be crushed out of Americen life. ‘When men talk about trusts they must not forget that the greatest and most in- iquitous trusts of to-day are Democratic trusts. The whisky trust is a peculiarly Democratic institution. The S8tandard Oil trust has among its supporters Mr, Whitney, who came near being the Demo- cratic candidate for President. Moreover, thers is no single trust in the country against which Mr. Cleveland’s adminis- tration has made the slightest attempt to enforce the law. The great coal trust, which is to-day disturbing the East, finds in Mr. Cleveland at least a silent ally. In the face of these facts, open apd notorious, it is folly on the part of the Bryanite organs to attempt to mislead the people into the belief that the Republican party favors trusts or that the Democratic party opposes them. C0AST EXCHANGES. The Calaveras Chronicle boasts of being the oldest weekly paper on the coast. Its publica- tion was commenced in the fall of 1851, and 1t has jusi opened its forty-sixth volume. While the Chronicle, as its editor observes, may be “scarcely a single-oared sbell compared ‘with the big crait that ply the waters of the sea of journalism,” it is something, ior all that, to be able to say that “the paper has been published right here in Mokelumne Hill for jorty-five years without missing an issue.” That the Chroniele has survived all these years, almost since the dawn of California’s State- hood, and is to-day healthy and prosperous, is the very best evidence of its merits, and the mention of such facts is the very best kind of praise. The Tracy Times has entered its fourth volume. The publication is doing excellent work in attracting favorable attention to its locality. ““When we started,” says the editor, “there were those who said, ‘The T¥mes won't run a year’ Butso far we have fooied them, and, notwithstanding we do not receive the support we are entitled to, we still exisi, and ‘we hove to continue, and we believe the peo- ple will one day apprectate our efforts and do for us what is right.” “Messrs. Anson Wilson and Charles Cissna have assumed the management of the Vancou- ver (Wash.) Register, a paper that was long suc- cessfully condycted by Taurston Daniels. The only trouble With the Register is that it has strayed from fhe path of sound and reasonable politics and become wedded to the false doc- trines of Populism, The Tulare Rgister suggests that if Califor- nia needs more fete days there is opportunity to introduce & fruit festival, after the manner of the Eustern corn carnival. These are great occasions when whole communities get to- getber foragood time. It is a revivalof the ancient harvest home. The enterprising town of Biggs has ample reason to be joyful over the success of its new cannery. The following lines from the Biggs Argus contain a lesson that may be of profit to other towns which, unlike Biggs, have not as yet laken advantage of the same opportunities to secure as many benefits as possible from their resources: ‘The Biggs cannery is still running alternate days, packing tomatoes, and will not shut down until about the first of next week. Ninety-nine employes are still on the payroll and this number will continue une til the closing day. “The cannery has shipped about 15,000 cases, containing about 270,000 cans of iruit, a large yportion being forwarded to foreign markeis, and there remsin in the warerooms approximately about 20,000 cases of fruit and tomatoes, which will be shipped as rapidly as possible. “Teking all the circumstances into consid- eration the Biggs cannery has done remark- ably well for the first season’s run. It has packed more than the contract.promised, and hunudreds of peopie have been furnished em- ployment at fair wages who, otherwise would have been forced to do without many luxuries aud necessaries had it not been for the estab- lishment of this cannery.” A mile or =0 east of Gridley there is an ex- periment being made which, if successful, will be of greatand lasting benefit to farmers in California, and especially in this section of the State. This is the production of hemp. The following particulars, as given by the Chico Chrcnicle-Record, are full of interest to our agriculturists: “An Eastern capitalist leased a tract of about 200 acres of bottom land along Feather River, and last winter planted the ground to hemp. The crop is now being cut, and the growth of the product is something re- markeble when compared with that produced in the Eastern Siates. That planted near Gridley bas atteined an enormous height, a great deal of it being about sixteen fect tall. Thisis & great success when one considers that the first three feet of the hempstalk will pay the expense of sowing, cutting, crushing and preparing the fiber for the marker. The hemp, after it has reached the proper stage for cutting, is mowed down with an ordinary mower. “It is then allowed to lie on the ground and go through what is called rotting. After a re- quired length of time has elapsed the hemp stalks are shocked up in & similar manner to corn. It is then hauled to the crushing mill where the stalks are run between two heavy cog cylinders. This breaks up the wood in the stalks which is afterward easily separated from the fiber. This fiber when propetly pre- pared commands a market price of between 7 and 8 cents per pound, and the cost of ship- ping is nominal compared with the selling value. 1f this experiment proves successful, and all indications are very flattering that it will, we will undoubtedly see, in the course of the next few years, hemp fields scattered all along our river bottom: The Hollister Bee has replaced the West Coast Alliance in San Benito County’s cupital. Harry Jonnson, the editor of the Bec, has had wide experience in the newspsper field. The paper is gotup in good style, and is both bright and newsy. The Lodi Revicw-Budget contains several very interesting items regarding wonderful vegetable growchs in the vicinity of Lodi. For instance, W. L. McDantels raised a big crop of potatoeson a small piece of land this year. On July 10 the potatoes and vines had all been cleared awey and ou the same ground was planted a lot of marfow squash seed. The paper says: “The crop is a sight. The ground is uearly covered with monster squashes, and some of them would take prizes at any agri- cultural fair. There is one which weighs more than 160 pounds, and 125-pound speci- mens are pienty. Onless than half an acre of land Mr, McDaniels will harvest from six to eight tons of squashes. A Stockton produce- dealer has offered Mr. McDuniels $1 50 for a squash weighing 150 pounds or over, and will take his entire crop at §8 a ton. Not less than $560 will be realized from the second crop on this half-acre of land. Corn plauted on the 10:h of July is already ripe, or nearly so, being too hard for table use.” Here 18 a Lod1 grape story: “D. McCoy, who lives five miles south, on the Cherokee Laue, has two acresof black Ferrara grapes which are turning out wonderfully well. The shoots were about a foot long when the frost came, April 18, and killed every one. Iheycame out again, however, and bore an immense quantity of fruit, not less than seventeen tons 10 the acre. “The cost to Mr. McCoy is not over $5 per ton when the grapes are delivered in market, and as he receives 2 cents & pound for them, or $40 a ton, his net profit is $35 a ton or $595 au acre. Two bunches brougnt into this office as samples, weighed seven pounds each.” And the Re. iew-Budget, as 1f not contented to rest with theshowing aiready made, astounds us with a bean story, for the truth of which it vquches: “F. A. Jordan of New Hope planted this sum- mer four pounds of black-eyed beans, and from that planting has gathered and clesned up eight sacks of beaus of eighty-five pounds each, a toial of 680 pounds of beans {rom each pound of seed.” The Plumas Jndependent, 1n snnouncing its entry upon its filth year of existence, remarks that “there is nothing strange avout this, the only particular public interest which attaches to the event being that the doctors who an- nounced it a sickly child with only the brief span of six months of liie before it, have proved incorrect in their diagnosis, the puny child having reached the age when it can be enrolied on the school census, in vigorous health.” THE 1MFO5SiBLE. ‘The molebill a mountain, Uh, never can ve; And of a bright raindrop You can’s make & sea, A chaplet Is never Comj.osed of a rose; ‘The rainbow Is never One color that glows. And the big hand of Fate, ‘That such wonders invents, Cl‘;:tnflever make & d':llu fLy-ihiree cen! v —Trath. THE POOR AND THE RICH. Atlantic Monthiy. But if the time is ever tocome when the poor and the rich are to be permanently ar- rayed ageinst each other at the polls, it is not yet come; for we have not passed out of the period when the poor of to-day become the rich of to-morrow. Although it essumes the guise of the supremest danger, the present ag- itation ought to turn out, as it seems likely to turn out, to be a farce; no other fact isso con- spicuous in our recent history as the very rapid increase in the number o1 well-to-do. If we roughly divide the population into the poor, the well-to-do and the rch, and could Getermine the numbper in each class at any two give: periods, say in 1876 and 1896, we should see that, while there has been & large absolute and small comparative increase alike in the number of the rich and in the number of the poor, there has been an enormous increase, both absolute and relative, in the number of the well-to-do. Never since indusirial society was organized has there been such a general rise from pov- erty Lo comfort as there has been in the United States during the last thirty years. There is 10 moré fallacious doctrine than that the rich are becoming richer and the poor poorer. The truth is that the lift from poverty to glemy has 80 engaged our thoughtthat we aVe come 100 near to jorgetting that other things than material well-veing are ni ul to make & great people, and. we are now paying one of the penaities of this forgetiuiness, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. A number of successful miners and business men from remote partsof the Yukon are at the Commercial Hotel. Of these several have put in a number of years atsuch fer frontier points as Forty Mile, Circle City and Tanana. Some of these have not had & look at civiliza- tion as it exists in this country for over a dozen years. They are therefore enjoying their visit to the utmost. Some of the hardy miners are bound to their Eastern homes, from which they have been absent twenty years or more. Joseph Juneau, the founder of tne brisk city of Juneau, is one of these. His former home was in Wisconsin. Mr. Juneau brought down with him, in addition to a good stake as recom- pense for his stay in the wilds, about $275 in nuggets, which he was taking East with him R. J. ENGLISH, One of Severa! Circle City Miners Now at the Commercial. as gifts to friends. Unfortunately he was robbed of these s night or twoago by a pick- pocket. Peter Frisk, who has sold his claim on Masten Gulch, near Circle City, for $10,600, is one of the arrivals, and he is en route to Mexico to look aiter some property which he owns there. J. B. Stravens, J. E. Pearson, W. H. McPhee, R. C. Smith and John T. Hughes, all of differ- ent parts of the Yukon, are also at the Com- mercial. R. J, English, one of the most picturesque- looking men in the lot, by reason of a long, straw-colored beard, is also one of the most popular in the throng. He pushed forward to Circle City when it first began to attract at- tention, and went into business there. He is said to be a great friend of the miners. Mr, English is also identified with mining. “The men who have reached here from the gold mines in that country,” said Mr. English yesterday, “have asarule done pretty well. They like the country, notwithstanding such hardships as they have undergone. I think well of it myself, and when I have had my visit out here I will return. It is a good coun- try if men are adapted to it.” Most of the Alaska men will remain ia dif- ferent States during the winter. PER ONAL. A. J. Rodgers of Fresno is in the City. L. Murdock of Juneau, Alaska, is here. F. A. Molyneaux of Pomona is at the Lick. B. 8. Grosscup of Los Angeles is at the Palace. Dr. C. A. Devlin of Vallejo is at the Baldwin. B. F. 8mith, secretary oi Folsom Prison, is in the City. G. B. Noble, an attorney of Stockton, isat the Lick. M. B. Lane of Lebanon, Mo., arrived here yesierday. J. D. Adams, a general-store keeper of Coluss, is at the Grand. H. B. Cornwall, an attorney of Sacramento, isa late arrival here. B. D. Worcester, owner of mining property near Angels Camp, 18 in town. T, W. Bowen, an old resident of Boise City, Idaho, is registered at the Russ, Dr. P. A. Lovering of the United States war- ship Oregon is at the Occidental. Daniel Richardson, a business man of Ritz. ville, Wash., is at the Occidental. Robert BShewan, & weaithy merchant of Hongkong, China. is at the Palace. Mr. Morehouse, the well-known politician of Tulare, is at the Cosmopolitan HoteL Nat Mahoney of Belfast, Irelaad, is touring the world, and is at the Cosmopolitan, Paymaster George G. Sichlé of the navy with headquarters at Mare Island, is in the City. F.J. Anderson, a geueral merchant of Los Angeles, is here on & business trip and is at the Russ, Charles F. Lindsey, who is connected with the Southern Pacific Railroad at Visalia, isat the Grand. W. A. Wilcox, agen’ of the United States Fish Commission, Washington, D, C., is smong the arrivals at the Grand. D. Collins of the firm of Collins Bros. of Fresno is intown on his way to visit the old country, and is stopping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. W. H. Chambers, & business man of Santa Monica, is here on his way to Santa Cruz to attend the encampment of the Independent Order of 0dd Fellows. L. A. Sheldon of Sisson, and owner ofa large Tumber-mill there which employs directly and indirectly about 100 men, is at the Graud. He is accompanied by Mrs. Sheldon. R. Van Brunt of New York, superintendent of Fred Gebhardt’s ranch in Lake County, and well known as a prominent horseman on both sides of the continent, is at the Palace. F. M. Bradshaw of Chicsgo, who is a wealthy investor and who has put gonsiderable money hitherto in California gold mines, is at the Baldwin. He has just returned from a visit to El Dorado County. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The French corvette Duguay-Trouin, al- though nearly twenty years old, is still in & 1air state of preservation, and has been one of the most useful cruisers in the French navy. She was built at Cherbourg and launched March 31, 1877. The hull is of iron, sheathed with two thicknesses of planking of a total thickness of eight inches. Her displacement is 3140 tons, and the trial speed fifteen knots. The armament consists oi five 734-inch end three 5l¢-inch rifles, and the total cost was $791.300. The Duguay-Trouin has been at- tached to the Asiatic station since 1884, ex- cepting one trip to France for necessary repairs, and participated with great distinc- tion in the bombardment of Foochow Arsenal December 24, 1884, in the-Minin River, during which the Chinese fleet of nine vessels was totally destroyed. The British cruiser Minerva, of 5600 tons and 9600 horsepower, had her thirty hours’ trial at sea last month. The vessel was down to her designed draught and developed under half-power 4919 horsepower and a speed of 17.52 knots on & consumption of 1.7 pounds of coal per horsepower. Although the French were the first to adopt triple-screws to large vessels of war, the United Btates was the first country to make a success ot the system in the Columbia and Minneapo- lis. Germany also adopted the French idea in the Kaiserin Augusts, but neither of the latter vessels nor the French ship Dupuy de Lome have come anywhere near the American cruiser. The Dupuy de Lome was upder con- strustion about six years, and after 8 number of unsuccessful trial irips, during one of which nearly twenty men were Killed or badl scaldad, she was finally accepted. The Kai- serin Atgusta barely made twenty-one Knots, d after her return_to Germauy from the naval review at New York it became neces- sary to strengthen the hull, which had shown alarming signs of structural weakness. A series of royal navy handbooks, edited by Commaader Robinson, British navy, 1s in course of publication in Engiand. Three have already come out; the first, dealing with the “naval administration” of Great Britain, past and present, is from Admiral Hamilton, late First Lord of the Admiralty. The second vol- ume, on the “Mechanism of Men-of-War,” is by Fleet Engineer Oldknow; the third, and most_interesting, on *Torpedoes and Torpedo- vessels,”’ by Lieutenant Armstrong, gives a suceinct history of this modern part of naval warfare of all countries. Nine more yolumes, treating on several matters connected with the navy, are in course of preparation. The torpedo-boat destroyer Desperate, re- cently built by Thornyeroft for the Briush navy, had a final trial September 24, extending over three hours, at which she developed 2 mean speed of 30.18 knots. The boat had on board extra weights to the amount of thirty- five tons. Thornycroft is building a torpedo-boet de- stroyer, named the Albatross, which is to de- velop a'speed of 32 knots. The vessel is to be completed next autumn. The lessons of the battle at Yalu and other sea fights between Japsn and China have worked several changes in vessels subse- quently built. The substitution of metal for wood as bulkheads and partitions and even in furniture is one of the results, snd is not alone much less dangerous from bursting shells ana fire, but adds to the space and the sanjtary comforts of cabins and staterooms. In the battle-ship Deuischland of the German navy, recently reconstructed, the woodwork has been repl aced by steel and aluminum. CAMPAIGN ECHOES. Even Mr. Bryan s solemn assurance over his signature that he will be elected has no effect on the market price of silver.—Kansas City Tournal. It will not be to the credit of a nation tosac- rifice its interests to double the wealthof a few hundred very rich mine-owners,—In- dianepolis Journal. Brother Hanna has sent out some 2,400,000 pounds of campaign literature. He is a dealer in political salyation in carload lots.— Commercial Tribune. Mr. Sewall declares that he and Bryan are “iu this fight 10 stay.”—Perhaps they are, but they are not staying the Republican tidal wave any.—Kansas City Journal, There is good reason to distrust the protesta- tions of a candidate who declares that he loves the workmngmsan and in the same breath pro- poses to cut the workingman’s wages in half. New York Fress. If Senator Hill feels the next three weeks hang heavily on his hands he can putina good word for the straight Prohibitionist ticket. That is where his heart is this year.— New York Aavertiser. If a President of the United States could be elected by “clatming,” Mr. Bryan would have a walk-over. Every Democratic manager isa Tichborne when it comes to “claiming.”—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Bryan travels in a palace car named “The Idler.” Itpassesa multitude of homes where the men are idle because Bryanism and Wil- sonism and Tilimanism are rampant in the land.—Chicago Inter-Ocean. One cannot but feel rather sad at the utter ignoring of Coxey in this campaign. He paved the way for the great Bryan movement, but is now relegated to the rear of the proces- sion.—Reaaing (Pa.) Herald. Uncle Sam is exporting lots of wheatand corn and cotton and silver and importing & big lot of gold, and yet the Bryanites and Till- manites are not happy. Such facts and condi- tions give them no comiort.—Chicago Inter- Ocean. By the time election day gets here Mr. Bryan ‘will have complimenied all our great men ot the past by comparing them with himself. That is, they will haye been complimented in the opinion of Mr. Bryan.—Cincinnati Com- mercial New York citizens, however much they may dislike the Democratic platform, should ai- ways hold the Chicago convention in kindly remembrance for the work it has done toward the disorganization of Tammany.—Washing- ton Star, Workmen whose market-baskets weigh too much on Saturday night, who have too many clothes and household necessities, who are embarrassed by one-half their wages, go in and exterminate the gold standard.—Detroit Free Press. Bryan says the present gold dollar is a “dis- honest dollar,” yet he predicts that free coin- age, by sending silver up to $1 29, will make the silver aollar equal to the gold doliar, In other words, make it dishonest, too.—Detroit Free Press. Toadying to foreigmers is what Bryan his opponents are dolng. There sre a go many foreign-born citizens whose votes he persenally solicits, who ought to return him an sppropriate compliment—and they will.— New York Advertiser. BIMETALLISM, NOT BI-STANDARD. sy Des Moines Register. In Minneapolis Mr. Bryan sought to use the Republican platform of four years ago against the Republican party in this year's campaign. Tne platform of four years ago affirmed the doctrine of bimetallism. Well, isn’t that what we have, and isn’t that whatwe propose to “continue to have? We now have bimetallism. ‘We have the only bimetallism which is prac- ticable. We have gold and silver circulating side by side, in equal quantitiesand all as good as_the Dbes We bave bimetallism with the gold standard. With Mr. Bry: ilver stand- ard we woutd not have bimetallism, except in theory, for we would have no 100-cent gold dollars circulating by the side of 50-cent silver dollars. That is not the way money circulates. The Repubiican party has nothing to take back of what it said in 1892. Mr. Bryan simply con. founds bimetallism with bi-standardism, That differonce ouglt to be plain te all. In the .{uture, as in the past, we propose to have one final standard, gold, and on that standard we will circulate the two metals, sold and silver, besides paper monmey. Could anything be plainer? PARAGRAPH ABOUT PEOPLE. Six times in half a year has a clergyman’s horse run away with him at Carthage, Mo, Archibald Forbes has written a history of the Black Wateh, and Messrs, Casseil are to ‘publish it. ‘A1l nonsense” is tne official answer to a rumor that Sir Philip Currie is to leave Con- stan tinople,. The Figaro of Paris announces the engage. ment of the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bonaparte of Baltimore 0 the Count de Hatz- feld of Paris, Joseph D. Jones, who is 99 years of age, is said to be the oldest voter in Boston. He has slready registered, and he announces that he is going to vote for McKinley and Hobart. The Hon. W. B, Dolliver of Towa, who spoke at the Republican rally in Meriden, Conn., re- cently, is using his stumping as a wedding tour. Mrs. Dolliver isa daughter of ex-Gov- ernor Larabee of Io: George Vanderbilt is master of eight lan- guages—French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Latin, ancient and modern Greek— and has a tolerable acquaintance with Hebrew and Sanskrit, John E. Bruce has given to the B;(hal Liter- ary and Historiesl Society of Washington the Plaster cast of the Fred Douglass capital that has been erected over one of the composite pillars in the State Capftol. Bishop William David Walker of the mis- sionary Jurisdietion of North Dakota, who has been chosen Bishop of Western New York, is the tallest man in the House of Bishops. When Phillips Brooks was Bishop of Massa- chusetts he was next in Episcopal stature to the giant of North Dakota. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. His financee—Are you sure you wdid love me jus tenderiy if cur conditions. were re- versed—if you were rich and I were poor ? He—Reverse our conditions and try me.— Harlem Life. Tenderfoot—What's the trouble up yonder T Cyelone Sam—We've captured the originator of de word “nit,” an’ de boys is debatin’ wed- der ter burn 'm at de stake or hang 'im.— Punch. “Did you ever notice that almost all these misers reported in the papers aresingie mea?” asked Mr. Watts. «Yes,” answered Mrs. Watts, ‘‘married mis- ers are too common to be worth mentioning.’ Indianapolis Journal. «They say your father used to drive a mule,” “Who told you so?” “One of my ancestors.” «Just what I expected. Ialways told father that mule was smart enough to talk.”—Cleve- land Plaindealer. «“May I kiss you, Miss Jane 2" «f am sorry 1o see, Mr. Briggs, that you, too, are affected by the prevailing cause of busi- ness depression.” ““And that is 7’ “Lack of confidence.” Then he kissed her.—Cleveland Plaindealer. LADY’S WAIST WITH COLLAR SIM. ULATING BOLERO. An extremely stylish design with all the . new features of the season is shown here. The waist has a yoke front from which a blouse effect depends. The back is seamless, with gathers at waist line, the fullness bagging slightly above the foided belt, which is fastened at the left side, the yoke likewise being hooked at left side, at the shoulder seam. The waist itseli hooks in center front. The Bolero effect is made en- tirely apart, being tacked to waist, or ad- juisled with hooks and eyes; it is cut in one piece. A dress of Prnne»colnred lady’s cloth had the Bolero of gui Rure in cream color over a bril- liantjgreen silk lining. The silk was of biack satin, the edges of Bolero being trimmed with ruffle of black satin ribbon half an inch wide. A brown dress with black lace over primrose satin was very pretty. The belt was of sn al- most grass-green veivet, a tiny ruffle of the same velvet edging the Bolero. A blue serge with Bolero of handsome bro- cade of flame-colored blossoms on & blue ground had a belt of black satin. ‘The edge of the Bolero was finished with three tiny puffings of chiffon, one being of bldkk, the other two of flame-color and tender Teai-green, matching the colors in the brocade. ‘TOWNSEND’S famous broken candy, 21bs23c.* S — SPrcTAL information daily to manutaeturs-y, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomasy. * ———————— “How did you feel when Charlie was pro- posing 7" “I felt sure I'd say ‘yes’ if he ever got through.’’—Cleveland Leader. ———— Through Sleeping Cars to Chicago. The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, Santa Fe route, will continue to run cally through from Oaklana to Chicago Pullman palace drawing-room, also upholstered tourist sieeping-cars, leaving every afternoon. Lowest through rates to all points in the United States, Canads, Mexico or Europe. Excursions through to Boston leava every week. 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