The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 17, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1896. _NOVEMBER 17, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: CaLy, one week, by carrier..$0.18 CaLx, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily and Sun CALL, six months, by mafl.. Deily snd Sunday CAL, three months by mail y and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. Eunday CaLy, one year, by mall W ¥LKLY CALL, One year, by mail.. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Selephone. Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone..... as BRANCH OFFICES: 627 Montgomery sircet, corner Clay: open untll ©:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. EW . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; opes mntil § o'clock. 2518 Missidn street; open until 9 o'clock. 11# Diuth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: £ooms 31 snd 53, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. Main—1874 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. A Secretary of Mines would be popular. The great industry of the great West deserves recognition. Public confidence in McKinley is shown by the way business talks, The McKinley Cabinet ought to be larger than Cleveland’s as well as greater. The good prospect for railroad building means good prospects for all other kinds of building. Business is better than charity, but all the same at this season charity should not be forgotten. Make your home a market for home goods and you will help to make other homes prosperous. Bismarck does not talk as much as the Kaiser, but all the same the Kaiser thinks he talks too much. Bryan’s speech on Saturday opened the new campaign for free silver with a sound as if the hinges were worn out. The entertainment to be provided Bryan on his visit to Senator Jones of Arkansas will probably be a ghost dance. Democracy may possibly get together | again, but it will require the service of a street sweeper to gather up the fragments. A little while ago we were all expressing a desire for a wet winter on this coast and now Scattle wants the whole thing to | dry up. McKinley is certainly a magnetic man. The business of the whole country feels the thrill of a new movement since his election. We have once more reached the season when the affairs of Turkey excite in American minds only pleasant and jocose feclings. If the assessors’ convention does no more than arouse pubiic interest in the subject of tax reform it wiil do good work and justify its calling. People who delight in guessing contests may now amuse themselves in guessing how many turkeys will be sent to the Mc- Kinley family this year. However good the poultry show In San Jose may be it will serve to remind ns we ought to make a better show of the poul- try industry in this State than we do. Senator Jones congratulates the Bryan- ites that the late campaign rid the Demo- cratic party of barnacles, but he overlooks the fact that it smashed the ship to pieces in doing it. There is no danger of war with Spain, but all the same the coast defenses of the Nation will be put into better condition at once. Uncle Sam: must be ready for sur- prise parties. Cleveland is writing his message, Mec- Kinley is making up bis cabinet, Con- gressmen are getiing ready their bills, and before long we will be up to the neck in politics again. Cleveland’s Commissioner of Navigation will recommend the adoption of a free ship bill, but as the people wish ships of home builders the recommendation will go to the wastebasket. Currency reform will be one of the big problems of the immediate future, and fortunately we will have an administra- tion which can be counted on to solve it promptly and properly. Impatient charter-makers may console themselves with the thought that those who go slowly go safely. The next time we frame a charter we should frame one the people will support. e Cleveland will spend the rest of his term trying to get his friends into life positions, and while there are not many places of that kind, there are probably enough for what friends he has left. If no partisan legislation can be enacted this winter there will be all the more time to attend to matters which are notof a partisan character. Now is the time to press the Nicaragua canal bill. There seems to be no possibility of the passage of an adequate revenue bill at the coming session of Congress. Democracy has still power enough in the Senate to play dog in the manger, and is evidently determined to do it. It is to be hoped Milk Inspector Dockery will be able to completely refute the charges made against him. He bas done such good work that the people trust nhim and expect him to show himselt worthy of their confidence to the end of his term. Despite the big apple crop in the East the demand for California fruit has been 80 great that nearly the whole of this sea- son’s product has been shipped already and the crop of next year will probably have a clean market and good prices wait- ing for it. A fear that the end of the world is coming in 1899 has so disturbed Germany the Kaiser has thought it worth while to jssue a proclamation to his subjects de- claring it is not so, and so far as the Germans are concerned that settlesit. It will never occur to them that the Kaiser hasn’t the determining voice as to whether the world is to end or not. A NEEDED OFFIQIAL. The interviews published in Tne CALL yesterday and this morning on the subject of the appointment of a Secretary of Mines portance of this subject is understood by leading men in the State. It is clear therefore that if a resolute effort is made by the Miners’ Association to obtain the appointment of such an official they will not lack for support from their fellow- citizens. The time is propitious for making a vigorous appeal for this enlargement of the Cabinet. With the accession to office of President McKinley there will begin a | new era in the mining industry as well as anew administration. It will of course be the ambition of the new Gaovernment | to promote every industry of the country, and therefore the inclination will be favor- able to the appointment of the much- desired official. Every reason points to the conclusion that the Miners’ Association and those mainiy interested in the subject should be diligent at this time in pressing their de- sires upon Congress. If the work is once fairly started Califormia will not be left to prosecute it alone. We can certainly count upon ihe whole of the greater West to act with us, and there will be strong in- ducements for the mining States of the East to co-operate. The industry of miningis so vast, so varied and so widely spread that all the great sections of the country and almost all important States have an interest in it. The existing condition of affairs 1s cer- tainly not satisfactory to the miners of any portion of the couniry. They have and work together for the appointment of a representative in the Cabinet, and with such inducements to the industry gen- erally it seems clear that nothing isneeded for success but a vigorous and competent leadership. That leadership it devolves upon Cali- fornia to provide. This is in many re- spects the greatest mining State in the Union. Our hydraulic miners have more to ask and more to expect from the Gov- ernment than the miners of any other State. They have undoubtedly more care- fully studied the subject than those of other sectiors, and it is from among them therefore that the leader should come, We repeat that whatever the miners may do in this direction will have the cordial support of Tue Carn. We will give to the contest ali the space needed to attract public attention and to concentrate porular sentiment on the issue. We de- sire to see the great mining industry of this country advanced rapidly to its full- est possible development. We believe that result can be effected best under the supervision of a Cabinet officer backed by ail the powers of the Government, and we therefore, not less than the miners, desire to bring about the appointment ot such an official. The task of securing such a Cabinet offi- cer is not one of easy accomplishment, but it can be effected if the right means are used. Let all the mining States be brought to act together and their combined force will be too powertul to be resisted. To secure this unity of action is the first step to be taken. Let that step be made this winter and it is within the limits of prob- ability that President McKinley may have the satisfaction of apvointing to his Cab- inet from Cali‘ornia, or at least from the great West, a Secretary of Mines and Mining. THE WRIGHT LAW. The lon g vexed question of the constitu- tionality of the Wright irrigation law has been settled by the decision of the Su- preme Court overruling Judge Ross and maintaining the constitutionality of the act. The decision is based upon principles which are as firmly founded upon com- mon sense as upon law, Justice Peckham declared substantially that whether an ir- rigation law is constitutional or not de- pends upon tbe condition of the district where it is applied, and that the Legis ‘ture and the courts of any particular State are the best judges of the necessity which constitutes the element of validity in the law. In the case before the court the Justice said: *‘The people of California and the members of her legislative body must in the nature of things be more familiar with the facts and circumstances which sur- round the subject and with the necessities and occasion for the irrigation of lands than can any one who is a stranger to her soil.” The law as thus stated is exactly in accordance with the common-sense view of the case. Irrigation iz now deciared to be constitutional wherever it is necessary | for the cultivation of the soil, and the Legislature and the courts of each State are the judges of that necessity. There is no attempt to make one law for the whole of our diversified Union. The variation of conditions is recognized and justice is done to all. 5 | Itis well known that the Wright law has not been altogéther satisfactory in its working. Many complainis have been made of it and some of these have been undoubtedly well founded. It will now be in order for the opponents of the law to them by getting the law amended. It ought not to be difficult to do this, for cer- tainly the promoters of irrigation do not intend to wrong anybody. Whatever may be the defects of the present act there can be no question of its important thing for California that the constitutionality of the general principle of the iaw has been established.. We may now look for the rapid development of many sections of the State which other- | wise would have to remain barren forever. GOVERNOR BUDD'S INFLUENCE. The vote of California in the recent alec- tion has now been so thoroughly can- vassed that but little change can be ex- pected from the official count. The State will cast its electoral vote for McKinley, but by a popular majority mich less than it should have been. When we recall how vast is the interest of the people of California in the main- tenance of sound money and the estabiish- ment of protection, it can hardly fail to be a matter of surprise to intelligent men that the popular majority in favor of those poli- cies was only about 3000. We ought to bave polled at least twice that amount, and it is a matter of disappointment that we did not. Scarcely another progressive State in the TUnion made so poor a showing as Cali- fornia aund it is worth while to inquire into the cause of this failure to roll upa rousing majority for McKinley and Ho- bart. Nor will it be necessary to inquire far. In other Btates every Democrat of influence, whether derived from personal charaeter or official position, refused to give aid or support to Bryanism. In Cali- fornia it was aifferent. No less a person than the Governor of the State came out on that side and made a personal canvass for Bryan and the fusion ticket. ‘While this action of the Governor met | and Mining show bow thoroughly the im- therefore every inducement to combine | point out the evils and seek a remedy for | generai benefits,to the State. It is a most | | with deservec rebuke during the came l_"umoun paign he and his friends may have re- garded the rebuke as an outcome of the political agitation of the time. Itis there- fore well tc return fo it now in order that a calmer and more effective condemna- tion may be pronounced upon it and pub- lic disapproval brought home both to the Governor and to those who were partly reaponsible for his course, The campaign was essentially oune of well ordered prosperity and the main- tenance of law against discontent, finan- cial folly and class prejudices and pas- sions. The whole conservative element of the people was arraycd on one side, and the victory promised to be as over- whelming here as it was in the Bast, when the Governor, forgetting official propriety and the non-partisan character of his high office, entered with extraordi- nary energy and impassioned “zeal into the contest. It is beyond question that to this action of Governor Budd was due the doubtful character of the struggle in the closing days of the campaign, and to him is to be attributed the fact that California dia not give the Republican ticket a majority that conservative citizens would be proud of. The truth is made clear by the vote in this City, where a Ifrge majority was ex- pected, but where his influence was sui- ficient to reduce it to the very verge of defeat, The people of California will know how to pass proper judgment upon this action of their chief executive. It will not take them long to aecige whether it is per- missible fora Governor of California to play the part of a stump orator and exert his influence in advancing a purely par- tisan cause. Governor Budd was the most potent force on the Bryanite side in this State, and had the electoral vote been lost to the great cause of prosperity and good government it would have been due almost wholly to what public opinion will regard as the ‘‘pernicious activity” of an official who should have kept out of the canvass altogether. A TWIOE-T0LD TALE. The speech delivered by Mr. Bryan on Saturday, and which was announced as the beginning of a new campaign of edu- cation, has been perhaps the most com- plete failure ever made by any orator who possessed anything like a National re- pute. 8o far from reviving interest in the subject, it fell as flat as a twice-told tale and palled upon a public mind al- ready sated with overmuch of Bryan, as well as of Bryanism. In the whole speech, from beginning to end, there is hardly a sentence worth quoting. There is not a sentiment which could revive tae drooping spirits of his followers nor one wuich could win him sympathy from even the most tender hearted of his opponents. It lacks fire, force and eloquence. It was the most commonplace oratory imaginable, and will have no effect whatever in increasing his reputation or advancing his cause. The whole speech was a plea for a con- tinued agitation of the monetary question. It was made up of iterations and reitera- tions that a cause is not crushed by being defeated once. Such trnisms as this are so well known that they can hardly be called anything else than platitudes. It devolved upon Mr. Bryan to show his followers some reason why they should expect success hereafter or why their cause is one which people should continue to fight for. He daid neither of these things, nor did he attempt to do them. His talk was that of an exbausted man, who speaks simply because he feels that he must say something, and not thut he is conscious of having something which he must say. The country can well afford to dismiss Bryan and Bryanism from'its thoughts. Long before the next Presidential election approaches all our monetary problems wiil have been solved and weil settled by the McKinley administration. We shali then be prepared to look forward to new things. What issues are to arise it is im- possible to forecast, but we can be very sure of what issues will not arise. There will be no longer any assaults upon the protective system of industry or the Republican system of finance. These things have been appealed to the people and the people have responded by en- trusting their management to able and sagacious statesmen. So far as they are concerned, therefore, they have passed be- vond the domain of Presidential politics and will soon take their piaces among those measures which are regarded as the settled policies of the American Republic. There is every reason to believe, more- over, that Bryan will cease to be a National leader as soon as Bryanism ceases to be a political issue. The boy orator has not shown during the campaign or in his last speech any of that versatility of statecraft or innate force of character which en- ables some men to rise after a crushing defeal. He is little more than a doc- trinaire. His fortunes are linked with one idea, and now as that 1dea has no longer any large followins among the people the man who advocates it will soon cease to be regarded as a leader of a great political party. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. The Duchess of York is exceedingly fond of earrings, and is doing her best 10 bring them into fevor again. In matters of court etiquette Queen Vietoria is punctilious to a cegree, and her memory for pedigree, as for faces, is unrivaled. The Crown Princess of Denmark is noted for her height, 6 feet and 2 inchcs being her stature. She is the granddaughter of General Bernadotte, who became King of Norway and Sweden. Miss Grace Fairweather is believed to be the champion lady billiard-player of the world. She is & native of Newcastle, England, and is described as tall and 1udylike, and not yet 21 years of age. Major Josiah Pierce Jr., chief ordnance offi- cer of the First Brigade, Maryland National Guard, is giving & course of lectures on map- making and map-reading to the officers of the State militia in Baltimore. Mlle. Cavaignac, daughter of the French Minister of War in the last Cubinet,1s to marry M. Paul Dubois, son of the sculptor of the same name. Her brotner recently mar- ried the daughter of Taine. Dr. Maillot, whose statue General Billot, the French Minister of War, will soon unveil at Briey, was the first surgeon to employ qui- nine in the French army. He made his ex- periments with the drug in Algiers. Joseph E. Smith of Pittstield, Mass., whose death is announced at the age of 74, wrote a number of historical works on Berkshire County, Mass., and its people, which are re- garded as authorities on the subject. Acting urnder the authority granted by the South Carolina Legisiuture, General Hugh L. Farley is collecting and will publish in per- manent form the rolls of all the companies ed in that State for service in the Confed- erate army. By order of the Czar a new bell will soon be sent from St. Petersburg to the Church of st. John the Evangelist at Chatellerault, France, where, shortly before the death of Emperor Alexander 111, 500,000 rifles were manufac- tured for the Muscovite army. Henry Tibbe, & wealthy eitizen of Washing- ton, Mo., who died recontly atthe age of 87 years, was born in Enschede, Holland, and emigrated to this country in 1867. He was the inventor and aten| of the so-called mmu'\.\m"genmbmn e PERSONAL. L. J. Rose Jr. of El Rio is in the City. L. G. Nesmith of San Jose is in town. B. Schriber of New York 1s at the Palace, Warren Sexton of Oroville is on a visit hete, C‘Ex-ludge J. D. Goodwin of Plumas is in the ty. 2 J. M. Moorehead of Santa Clara is visiting ere. F. H. Prince of Las Vegas is a late arrival here, 2 T. A. Widrig and daughter of Newport, Ky., arein town, Joseph R. Grismer and Phabe Davies are at the Baldwin. County Surveyor Preston R. Davis of Sonoma is at the Russ, J. ¥. Watkins, the newspaper man of Madera, is visiting the City, D. M. Otis, an attorney of Mendocino County, is & recent arrival here. William O. Spieres, » wealthy business man of Salt Lake, is at the Palace. A. Howard, one of the cattle and sheep kings of Mendocino County, isat the Russ. J. R. Sanderson, a prominent citizen of Fresno, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Dr. G. B. Bowlbey of Denver, accompanied by his wife and daughter, is 1n the City. W. H. Hallet of St. Louis was among yester- day’sarrivals. Heis at the Occidental. T. G. Yaney of Newman, who is engaged in merchandising there, is on a visit here. R. G. Eskies, a general merchandise dealer of Kingman, Ariz., is here on a business trip. Charles B, Hopkins, a leading business man of Spokane, is a recent arrival here andis at ce. the Pal Rev. Father M. Brown of New Zealand is visiting the United States and is & guest at the Cosmopoliten Hotel. L G. Ballentine and 8 E.Johnson, tourists ofChicago, are among the latest arrivals at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. J. D. Pransford, owner of a large general store at Quincy and engaged in mining in Plumas County, is in.town. Frank L. Coombs, ex-Minister to Japan, and recently re-elected to the Legislature, 1s among the recent arrivais at the Grand, Mrs. George Standahe of Dillon, Mont., ar- rived in the City yesterday and will spend the winter at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. E. M. Preston, the prominent attorney of Nevada City, for whom the Preston. Schoel of Industry was named, is at the Grand. Thomas B. Wilcox, a prominent Republican of Portland, Or., who was once interested in the publication of the Portiand Daily News, 15 in the City. N. L. Lufkin, J. W. Hamm and E. J. Carter, all of New York, who have been visiting dife ferent parts of California for the past two Wweeks, are at the Palace. Samuel McMurtrie and J. A. McMurtrie of Denver, who for two or three years have had railroad contracts in the eoast mountsins of California, are at the Palace. The Rev. Sebastian Dabovich, who has spent several montbs in Europe and the East, ar- rived at his home in this City after his pro- Ionged vacation last Sunday. Brigadier-General A. W. Greeley, Chief of the United States Signal Service, returned yester- day from San Jose and is at the Palace. After a few days he will go to Fort Grant, N. M. Ed Quinlan and his bride are stopping &t the St. Nicholas. Mr. Quinlan is one of the most popular business men oa the Southside in Chicago. They will spend the Winter in Cali- fornia. Ex-Congressman Rollin M. Daggett, who is noted in mining circies, has been Minister to Hawaii and author of several books, has opened a mining office in ihe Western Union building. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Nov. 16.—At the Man- hattan, Mrs. Hawns: Hoiland, R. L. Coleman, J. B. Levison; Netherland, Miss F. Dean; St Denis, J. McMillen and wife ; Windsor, W. O'B. Macdonough; Imperial, Mrs, Butle Nor- mandie, Mrs. G.T. and the Misses Dgyis; Hoff- man, A. D, Levy, C. Wieger, D. and 5. Living- ston; Ashland, J. F. Valentine; Murray Hill, G. M, Shielas. IT CANNOT The dyiog 1ips of a dear friead AL parting spoke to me, Saying heresoe'er your path may trend There ever I shall be. +E “Go walk where over Egypt’s sand The burning simoons blow, Or in Alaska's sunless land, Your wake my wings shall know. “When winter's night's are long and dark 'l 1ead you by the hand, And when the waves beat on your bark Will beacon you to laad."” He died. T watched his spirlt go Across death’s darkening seat He came not back, and now I know Of things that cannot be. LY WARMAN In New York Sun. LADY'S FIVE-GORED SKIRT. A graceful skirt of medium width is much used alike for silk, woolen andother fabrics. The two back gores are laid in, box-pleats, or they may be gathered. The width of the me- dium size is four-and-a-half yards, When nar- row fabrics are used it is necessary to plece out each gore. Wide materials, which are not twice the width of the goods, should be opened out and doubled across the length, In this way the back and side gores may be cutout of one length, if there is no up and down to pattern. The side gores are cut with a straight edge o mee: the front gores. The back gores are bias on both sides. If striped oods is used, and one wishes to have the stripes meet at all seams, fola the side gore through its length, making the edges meet the conter on a straight thread at all sea: fold the side gores, mak- Ing edges mee: d crease down the center. Then place this crease on tlonnhwln thread or atstripe, and cut: thi§ briugs both seams on the bias. % NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. He ran down the gangplank and kissed her. “Henry!” she exclaimed, “where is the poedle? “‘Dearest,” he said, “it fell overboard.” She wrung her hands. “Why did the steamer not stop to rescue it?” “They only stop to save human life,” he ex- plained. “Then, Henry, why didun’t you jump over- board?’—Lafe. Author (describing play)—Then in .a scene where you trample on all the ties of affection, you— Actor—Cut that out. Vi Author—What 1s the matter with it? It'sa very strong scene. Actor—I don't care. I don’t propose to tramp on 'i;y ties. It's too suggestive.—New York World. “Flee!” cried she. “You mean fly, don’t you?” he asked, “Never mind what insect I mean; justgit. Pa’s coming.”—Harlem Life. = s that your oldest inhabitant 2" es. He's a political curiosity.” “How?” : “He voted against Andrew Jackson.”"—Puck. ““The good die young, you know,” said Bil- ger to Sddboy, the pessimist. “Yes,” said Sadboy, “that’ because it’s the -ouly time people are good.'—Roxbury Guzette, ) ) /‘/ S Y. ' = CANILL GENERAL JOHN S. RUNNELLS, Chief of the Legal Department of the Pullman Car Company. IS RETAINED BY BIG CORPORATIONS Arrival of General J. S. Runnells of the Pull- man Company. Governor Altgeld, He Says, Can Never Dig Himself Out of the Landslide. Attorney Runnells Has Been on Legal Business in the Northwest—His First Trip Here. Among the arrivals here yesterday was General John 8. Runnells of Chicago, general attorney of the George M. Pull- man Palace Car Company. General Run- nells is one of the most notea attorneys in the country. He used to practice law in Des Moines, Iowa, but went to Chicago a few years ago because of a greater field. He is the author of legal works, and a heavy-weight in the land. His salary is probably not less t: an $50,000 a year, and maybe more. General Runnells came over the North- ern Pacific Railroad. He is accompanied by Attorney William B. Peutit of his | | tura Bitters. Try it. office. They are here, so General Run- nels says, on minor business matiers, their larger business being in the North- west. They will be bere fora few days. General Runnels has never been in Cali- fornia before. “I came over on the last train of the Northern Pacific, through a snowstorm,” said he, ‘‘and consider myself fortunate. The rains in the mountains and along the Sound have caused great floods every- where. We only made one stop, and that was at Tacoma. *Qur business here is not of much sig- nificance. There are one or two Littie mat- ters, but not of public interest. I have never been in this State before, and am glad to bhave had the opportunity of com- ing here. I have traveled a greatdeal and been in Europe severai times, but strange to say I have not previously been any fur- ther west than Topeka ana Lincoln. “I see you have had an election here. It was close compared with what it was in Illinois, where we buried the Democracy under an avalanche of more.than 160,000 votes. No; I donot believe that Altgeld can ever get to the front again and win in Illinois. He is buried completely. ““Well, it is just tnat he should be, for he is, if not a communist, at least a ley- eler. He doesn’t want any man higher than another. Then he is so bitter in his denunciations and so persistentin putting them forward that heis, all things con- sidered, the kind of man that ought to be kept in the background. Idon’t think he can ever climb up agam in lllinois poli- tics.” General Runnells is only as yet of mid- dle age. He1s an able speaker, as weéll as author, and has great reputation as an orator throughout th+ East. During the great strike at Pullman General Runnelis’ name figured much in the news that was sent out from Chicago. TO PAY OFF THE DEBT. A Monster Entertainment to Be Given by the Catholic Ladies’ Aid Society. Preparations are being made by a com- mittee of ladies of the Catholic Ladies’ Aid Society to give an entertainment for the purpose of raising funds with which to raise a mortgaze of §6000 on their prop- erty in Santa Cruz County. It had been decided to give the entertaittment, which will be a monster one, at the California Theater, on the 27th insf., but at a meet- ing of the commitiee, held yesterday afternoon, at which Mrs. M. H. deYoung gruided’ it was anunounced that the date ixed was not agreeable to certain persons who have volunteered, therefore it was changed to the 24th inst., and it was also decided that the entertainment shall e given in the Auditorium. A number of tickets have already been sold for the first E!ven date, but these can be exchanged y application to Miss Matel Curtis, sec- retary of the aid society. The society secured the Hotel del Mar, intending to use it as a home for invalids, butifound that they could not use it for the purpose until the debt of $6000 was paid, therefore they are working ener- getically with a view to pay off that in- debtedness. A New Club. The organization known es the New Woman's Club is about to consolidate with the Thirty-second District Suffrage Club, with New Delegates. The Federation of Women resolved yester- day to petition the various societies of which 1t is lergely composed to appoint new aele- gates, as some of those at present holding office are remiss in attending meetings and a Iupnuntnxlvn_pl one-fourth is necessary in H. —_———— the object of making a specialiy of suffrage | propaganda and organization. Both ladies and gentlemen will compose the membership. e ———— order to obtain a_quorum. The board of di- reciors announced that the Home of Refuge would soon be opened. On December 2 a con- cert will be given in Golden Gate Hall for the benefit of the Rescue Home. A number of local artists will give their services. R CALIFORNIA Glace Fruit Pudding. Townsend's.* e e EPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * .. — HUSBAND'S Calcined Magnesia—Four first- premium medals awarded; more agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other magne- sia. Forsaie only in bottles with registered trade-mark label. i —_—————— Mixed—* ‘George, have you and Jimmie been fighting again ?’ “Well, Jim hit me.” “I didn’t nuther. He hit me first.” Yo such a thing. He hit me before I hitted him. *‘He’s telling you a big story, mamma.” idn’t you hit me first 27 ‘“No, I didn’t—you dodged!” — Cleveland Plain Dealer. Through Seeping Cars to Chicago. The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, Sania m route, will continue to run oally through from Oakland to Chicago Pullman palace drawing-room, also vpholstered tourist sleeping-cars, leaving every aiternoon. Lowest through rates to all points In the United States, Cuuada, Mexicoor Europe. Excursions through Boston leave every week. San Francisco tickes office. 844 Mar- ket street, Chronicle building, Telepnone muy, Phillips' Rock 1sland Excursiong Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rin Grande and Rock Island Railways. Throngh tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boston. Man- ager and porters sccompany these excursions :> Boston. For tickets, sleeping-car accommodatlons and further information address Clintoa Jouas General Agent Hock Island Hallway, oV Moaw gomery sireet, San Franclsco e SLEEPLESSNEss, Indigestion and Pain are hor. Tors that PARKER'S GINGER ToNIC will abate. PARKER'S HATR BALSAM aids the hair growth. ShSe e s Sy THE best regulator of the digestive organs and the best appetizer known is Dr. Siegert’s Angos- it SR THE MOST SIMPLE AND SAFE REMEDY for a Cough or Throat Trouble is ** Brown’s Bronchial | ZTroches.” They passess real merit ———— THE first gray hair should be a warning that the scalp needs the swengthening appiications of Ayer’s Halr Vigor. Don’t delay. B Lawyer—John! Clerk—Yes, sir. Lawyer—Take this morning's paper, find the marriage list and send one of my cards to each of the persons whose name appears there and be sure to underscore the words, “Divorce business g specialty.””—Cleveland Leader. NEW TO-DAY. The desk fad has come to stay. A fad that is only a fad is short-lived. Desks. have something to recommend them besides fad. Price depends on style,how it’s made—and who sells it. Like picture above, in solid oak finished antique and neatly polished, $10.50. '(Sama in mahogany finish, if you'd rather nave it.) Christmas is coming | 100-page catalogue, full of Ppictures, free, California Furniture Company (N P Cole & Co) Carpets 117 Geary Street et HOTEL RAFAEL. TPTY MINOTRS FROM §a AN FRANC E:u Winter resors or Lome It has 5o equs L OPEN ALL THE YEAR. &pecial rates for Fall and Wi B WARSE 1 TELb & co | NEW TO-DAY. Matchless Prices - GROCKERY, CHINA, GLASSWARE sSET o 100 PicES Very Pretty Light Biue Colors. These Sets e Richly. e NS $12.50 Running 100 Stores Enables Us to Save You the DIFFERENCE., Come to cur stores, see them, You can then be THE JUDGE, (ireat American [mparting Tea (o MONEY SAVING STORES: 1344 Market st. 146 Ninth st. 348 Mmission st. 218 Third st. 140 Sixth st. 2008 Filimore st. 617 Kearny st. 065 Market st. 1419 Polk st. 3006 Sixteenth sty k21 Montgomery ave. 104 Second st. 833 Hayes st. 3285 Mission st. 52 Market st. (Headquarters), S. P. s053 Washington st. 616 E. Twelfth st. B Pablo ave. 917 Broadway, O 1355 Park st., Alameda. HANDSOME PRESENTS GIVEN AWAY. 2 “The Scotch are very clannish.” True—so should Californians be, Buid up your own State. Buy her products and manufactures. Spend your money aere. ASTANDARD SHIRTS” Are made in California. THE HERALD of GHRISTMAS TIDE 26th ———— Annual-—— 718 MARKET ST. DON'T MISS IT! EVERYBODY WELCOME. GRAND DOLL FETE The Attraction of the Season. NOTE.—Santa Claus’ Letter Box ready to receive LETTERS FROM ALL HIS LITTLE FRIENDS. and to ALL GOOD CHILDREN who write to him he will send his Secial Publica- tion, “Princess Sweetpeas aud Gottlicb The Hunchback.’” 1896-TAXES 1896 FFICE OF THK TAX COLLECTOR, CITY and County of San Francisco. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS Notice s hereby given. in accordance with the reguirements of the Political Code. Section 3746, “That the taxes on al personal property secured by real proper.y, and one-ha!f of the taxes on all real property, will be due and payable on the first Mondav In October. and will be delinguent on_the inst » onday in November next thereafter, at § o'clock . ac.. and tha unless paid prior thereto 15 per cent wili be added to the amount thereof, and that if said one-half be not paid hefore the lasg Monday in Ayri nex: at § oclock ¥ . a0 addis A ent will be added therat all reat property will be pavabie on atid af et the Dt on IS 1nst Moadas 10 April next thersatier d_that uuless pald prior will be added Lo the amount quent on the last ) ut 6 o'clock P. thereto 5 per cent 1. T all taxes may be paid at the time the firsy installment, as therein provided, is due aud pay- B rxes payable at the office of the Collcctor, first 3 City Hall. O ponta 1ew Widening Assessment now due a: d payable. ¢ from 9 A. 3. t0 4 P. 3. Cifice open daily PR ALK Tax Collector of the Ciiy aad Couaty of ‘San Data oy Eranciaco. October 15, 1698, THE SUCCESS _o_f_ ‘THE SEASON The GRILL e ROOM PALACE HOTEL. Direct Entrance from Market St QREN UNTiL MIDNIGHE.