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THE SAfi' FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1896. ‘ CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. —_— SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Pally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALY, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Dally and Sunday CALI, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Sunday CaL1, one year, by malil. 1.50 W EEKLY CALL, one year, by mail 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone.... < cser. MaiN—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. veeee . Maln—-1874 Telephone.... BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 30 o'clock. ves street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 7 in street: open until o'clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open ntil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 167 Miuib street; open until 9 0'clock. 4 Market street, open till 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 52, 84 Park Row, New York City: DAVID T7, Eastern Manager. HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. —es Seattle has had a change of weather, but ps it was from ruin to snow she calls it a cold deal. Don’t be too flippant in ridiculing the airship; you may w}xh to be in it your- gelf some day. Thanksgiving and charity were born twins, and never look so well as when traveling together. British ship captains assert that Califors nia weather isa conundrum, and we are prepared to' admit it. 1f the assessors can give us a good tax reform scheme they will fill a very long felt want and the public will rejoice. Cahinn-mak;;g is-a pleasant task for the outsider, but it is safe 10 say McKin- ley is not finding it an unqualified snap. 1f the people in the country have had enough rain they can count on us in the City to join them in agitating for a change. It will be quite proper for Cleveland to take his body abroad when he leaves office, for his ideas have been very much abroad along time. Since Bryan has declared the results of his hunting trip were satisfactory let us hope he will stick to the sport. The country can spare him. There can be no conservative protection, as the American Economist very justly says, except a protection that conserves every American industry. According {o thre official count M¢Kin- ley ran behina the Republican State ticket in Indiana, but a!l the same he dis- tanced Bryan by about 18,000. The collapse of the nail trust is another vproof that competition is more effective than Government supervision for the breaking down of monopolies. t seems conceded that the Dingley bill will not e in it this winter. Neither side is in a mood for compromise, and we may expect an extra session and a straight fight. B R As Secretary Morton has saved $180,000 in bis department this year he will have thanks for that much, but all the same the country would rather have had the department run better. If the Kaiser has nothing else to fret about than insults to his uniforms he must be a happy man, but the chances are he is using that merely as a counter- irritant for deeper evils. The Alabama legislator who has pro- posed a bill ‘to forbid women wearing bloomers or shirtwaists is a living proof that the fool-killer has not visited his sec- tion during this generation. The only consolation we had yesterday was in the fact the Weather Bureau pre- dicted fair weather for San Francisco, and accordingly we had warning to take our umbrellas when we went out. Although Philadelphia claims to repre- sent the sobriety and honesty of Ameri- can life, she is making more charges of election frauds against bher own people than any other city in the Union. Carlisle’s scheme of increasing the rev- enue by raising the tax on beer will find very little support from Congress or the country. We can raise revenue best by raising the tax on foreign 1mports. A Kansas chicken canning factory has received an order from Rhode Island for wishbones in lots of 1000, and now the Kansans are wondering what the Rhode Islanders are wishing for at that rate, The gold-standard free-traders will please take notice that the Republican party is so grateful for their assistance in the campaign it will not put them to the further trouble of offering advice about the tariff. According to the repert of Miss Clara Barton, there are upward of 200,000 peo- vle in Armenia who are destitute of rai- ment, fire and food; and still the powers of Christian Europe are quarreling over diplomacy instead of uniting for human- ity. It is reported that in Topeka, a8 town of 35,000 inhabitants, there are 400 aban- doned wives who have applied to charita- ble institutions for support, and it would seem that the men of Kansas are getting altogether too gay with matrimony as well as politics, NG The members of the Armenian Revolu- tionary Bociety who engaged in a free fight with knives at Lynn on Sunday ought to be sent home by the Armenian Relief Society of New England. There is a pressing neea of knife fighters in Ar- menia and none at all here. The report of a Russian scheme to or- ganize an international board to regulate the price of wheat is the biggest diplo- matic novelty of the season, but discus- sion of it in this country will be confined to those who do not care how much wear and tear they put on their hats, ey The report that Japan wishes to take the Philippines from Spain has probably very little foundation beyond the fact that the Japanese know Spain cannot rule them much longer and are determined to take them before any one else does. The case is not widely different from that of the United Btates and Cuba. SECRETARY MORTON'S REPORT. The advance information given of the annual report of Secretary Morton shows that he covers a large variety of subjects, some of which are of value to our farmers and others are no more than a restatement of his well-known opinions in favor of the gold standard and free trade. It will be left for the people themselves to gather from the report all which concerns them and throw the political passages to the waste basket. - The first subject of importance in the report is that calling attention to the need of a scientific director in charge of the Bureau of Scientific Investigations, who shall serve as acting Secretary of Agricul- ture in case of the absence of both the Secretary and Assistant Secretary. Mr. Morton recommmends further that the chiefs of the scientific bureaus should have larger compensation, inasmuch as they do most of the actual thinking and reasoning for the department. The Secretary urges that Government inspection should be extended to all animals intended for human food, whether for consumption in the United States or abroad. This recommendation is in line with the growing public sentiment in favor of pure food laws, and will, no doubt, receive cordial support from the people generally. With reference to our foreign trade in meats, attention is called to the fact that while reports from abroad show that American cattle and beef are well received n England, our packers are not partici- pating in the profits of the growtn in the consumption of hog products in Great Britain as they should. Danish and Canadian packers are increasing their shipments every year, while the Ameri- cans are comparatively remaining station- ary. This condition of trade is attributed to the fact that the American pork pack- ers do not cure their meats to suit the British demand. One of the notable features of the report is the showing made of the rapid increase in the export of American horses to Eng- land. The report says: In 1893 Great Britain took 13,573 American horses, near- ly 23,000 in 1894 and 34,000 in 1895, but dur- ing the first nine months of 1896 more American horses were shipped into Eng- land than in any previous twelve months. The remsainder of the message is largely taken up by the Secretary in fighting his political battles over again. He renews his old controversy with Congress on the subject of the free distribution of seed. He points out that during the present fiscal year enough free seed was sent out to plant 115 square miles of garden, that each Congressman received enough to plant over 163 acres, and that the cost of carrying the seed through the mails re- quired an outlay from the Government of over $70,000. After reviewing the condition of farm mortgages and the rates of interest on farm lands, the Secretary concludes the American farmer is not so badly off as has been represented. With the most favor- able conditions for varied and snccess- ful agriculture and the lightest burden of National taxation, what country, he asks, can compete with this in developing the best resources of human toil with the minimum of human effort. AERIAL NAVIGATION, The manner in which the Sacramento story of an aerial ship has been received strikingly illustrates the condition of the public mind in regard to the possibility of an early accomplishment of success in navigating the air. The story came upon us so unexpectedly that comparatively few people believed it, and yet the con- sciousness of the great strides that have been made toward success in this enter- prise was such that very few were found to aeclare an absolute skepticism con- cerning it. It is beyond question that we have been for some time on the verge of success in this much sought after system of naviga- tion. The project has long since passed from the hands of quacksand eccentrics into those of learned scientists and accom- plished inventors. What has been done by Maxim, by Langley and by Lilienthal is sufficient to make it evident that hu- man ingepuity is capable of dealing with the problem and successfully mastering it. The strange part of the story from Sac- ramento is that it brings the airship home to us in California when we were looking for it in the East or in Europe. Models of airships have been on exhibition in nearly all the great cities of the world and some of them have shown remarkably good re- sults. Had the story of the airship come from London, or even from Chicago, it would have been much better received. | It was too much of a surprise, however, for the general public to learn that tae great ship had been built and had sailed forth from Oroville. ‘We have in this another illustration of the old question, ““Can any good come out of Nazareth?” Itis hard to believe in an airship coming from a place where no- body expected so much as a balloon. Nevyertheless, if it proves true and the zir- ship shows herself visibly to us all it will then be remembered it is not the first time that great discoveries have come from places whence they were least ex- pected. It was from the litile obscure village of Philadelphia, in the wilderness of Penn- sylvania, more than a century ago, that came the discovery of electricity and the invention of the lightning-rod. It was from a poor barber-shop in a British vil- lage came the invention which enables sea captains to determine with accuracy their exact location upon the ocean at any hour of the day or night, no matter how far they may have been drifted from their course by winds and waves. A hundred instances of a similar character could be cited. If therefore the airship has come forth from Oroville it will not be an extra- ordinary thing in the history of invention. THE NAIL TRUST. The collapse of the nail trust will not be accounted as an offset to any part of the revival of industry which began immedi- ately after the announcement of the elec- tion of McKinley. On the contrary, it is one of those failures which tend to pros- perity rather than disaster, and the news wiil be well received in all parts of the country. The trust was one of the most powerful and apparently one of the most avaricious of the time. It undertook to levy tribute upon every industry that uses nails, and for a long time was successful in doing so. Like every other monopoly, however, it overreached itself at last and raised prices 50 high that it defeated its own ends and failure was inevitable. The report from Chicago giving an ac- count of the failure stated that the last advance ordered by the trust raised the price of nails to Western consumers so high tbat an immense curtailment of the demand resulted. In consequence of the falling off in the demand the trust was compelled to close up 90 per cent of its mills and throw its workmen out of em- ployment in order to reduce the ountput to the limit of the demand. The extent of the falling off is shown by the fact that | while the trust had arranged for an out- put of 60,000 kegs in August it was able to* sell only 20,000 kegs, whereas in March, before the advance was made, the output | reached 950,000 kegs and the demand con- tinued good. In order to mamntain the cinch which it had upon nail consumers, and to prevent members of the trust from breaking their agreement, itis said the managers were compelled to maintain a force of inspec- tors almost as large as the secret service of the Government. To defray the cost of this enormous inspection the trust im- posed ataxof §1 50 per keg on all the nails sold by its members, and then re- bated the difference after the objects sought were accomplished. Itis not likely that tbis trust is much worse than some others organized on similar lines and pursuning similar objects. 1t is clear, therefore, that in such organi- zations there is an inherent weakness which sooner or later canses them to col- lapse and relieves the people from the cinch. Unfortunately, however, the col- lapse does not come until great injury has been inflicted upon the consuming public. For that reason we cannot rely altogether upon the weakness oi trusts for our de- fense, and some form of governmental su- vervision is clearly necessary to limit the injurious effects of such organizations. TARIFF REVISION. From the tenor of the discussion con- cerning the possibility of passing the Dingley bill this winter 1t seems clear that such an attempt would not succeed. The advocates of the measure are few. The great majority on both sides seem opposed to any compromise, and it is probable that nothing will be done to forestall the action of the coming Congress. Senator Chandler very clearly expressed the sentiments of a large number of his colleagnes in saying: “I am opposed to burrying through any imperfect tariff measure. Better take time and pass a bill that will give general satisfaction,” This view of the case will probably be adopted by the Republican majority in Congress when the time comes to take action on the issue. The need of more revenue is fully recognized, but there seems no reason for attempting to pass a purely revenue bill on compromise lines this winter, when an extra session of Con- gress could assemble in March and make a complete and final revision in accord- ance with the principles of protection. A compromise measure enacted this winter would be only temporary. It| would change tariff reguiations which now exist and yet would offer nothing permanent on which merchants could base their arrangements for trade. An- other change would certainly take place when the next Congress sets about the task of establishing a comprehensive pro- tective measure, and this would make two changes in the tariff system within the year. To that extent, therefore, the pas- sage of the bill this winter, even if it were possible, would be unadvisable. It is well understood that the country needs protection to its industries as well as a revenue for the National treasury. A protective measure, therefore, in the near future is absolutely essential, and a consideration of that fact seems to be weakening the popular demand for the Dingley bill and inclining public senti- ment more and more in favor of an extra sesszion in March. WHERE FEOtLE LIVE TO BE OLD. A German scientist and statistician hae beon looking over tne census report of Europe and has learned a few things from the records. He finds among other things that high civili- zation does not promote long life. The Ger- man empire, with a population of 55,000,000, hes but 78 subjects who are more than 100 years old. France, with 40,000,000 people, has 214 perons who Lave pussed their oné | bundredth birthday. England possesses of centenarians, 146; Ire- 8; Scotland, 46; Denmark, 2: Belgium, 5; Sweden, 10; Norway, with 2,000,000 in’ habitants, 23. Switzerland cannot boast a single man who is 100 years old, but Spain, with 18,000,000 pop- ulation, has 410, The most astonishing figures come from the troublesome and turbulent Balkan peninsula. Little Servia has 575 persons more than 100 years old; Roumania, 1084; Bulgaria, 3883. Bulgaria has a centenarian ‘to every 1000 in- habitants and hoids the international record. In 1892 alone there died in Bulgaria 350 per- 5005 of more than 100 years. In the Balkan peninsula, for instance, s man is not considered on the verge of the grave when he reaches a round century. This is be- cause a year or so ago in Servia there were 126 persons between 106 and 115 years, 123 be- tween 115 and 125 vears, 18 beiween 125 and 135, 3 between 135 and 140. The scientlst does not credit the story of the Russian who 15 said 0 be 160 yeas old and, in his opinion, the oldest man in the worid is Bruno Cotrim. a negro, born in Africa and now a resident of Rio Janeiro. The statistician says the oldest women in the world is aged 1530, but does not tell where she lives or wno she is. Perhaps he thought her unworthy of special mention aiter the surprising figures obtained from Servia in re- gard to age, THE DINGLEY BILL. A SUMMARY OF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS FAMOUS DOCUMENT. . New York World. Most readers have forgotten what the Ding- ley pill provides. Now that there is a prospect of its passage & summary of its provisions seem desirable. It is a temporary revenue bill. It would expire by its own terms on August 1, 1898. What revenue it would yield it is difficult to say. Mr. Dingley expected $40,00,000 increase from it; treasury experts put the gain at a lower figure. It takes wool cf all kinds off the free list and puts upon it 8 duty six-tenths s great as that of the McKinley tariff. To the present duty on woolen goods it makes a like addition. It does precisely the same for lumber in forms. It adds 15 per cent of the McKinle; rates 1o the present rates in schedules A to N, including chemicals, earthenware, glass, metals, manufactures of wood sna’ metals, tobaced, agricultural products, wines, spirits, cotton goods, flax, hemp and jute, silks, pulp, papers, books and sundries. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE Emperor William’s crown weighs three pounds, but he would not part with itif it weighed & ton. Two inmates of the Delaware County (Ind.) poorhouse—a crippled man of 60 and an apo- plectic woman ot 27—eloped on 8 recent Sun. day. Two men of Madison, Ohio, have been going to the polls together for sixty years. Now they are each 81 years old with but a month’s difference in thelr ages. On November 3 they cast their fifteenth Presidential vote. One of the lawyers before the Supreme Court at Washington the other day was George H. Williams, Grant's Attorney-General. He is in good health for his years and has been quietly pratticing his profession in Portland, or. A monument was recently unveiled in Hanau in memory of the two brothers Grimm, the great German philologists, who in pursu- ance of part of their work collected among the common people of Germany the fairy tales known by their name. Dr. Carl Peters, imperial ex-Commissary for German East Africs, has returned to London and is again busy on his “Rise of the British Empire from the Time of Queen Elizabeth,” of which a German magazine, Die Zukunft, will soon publish the preliminary chapter, While King George of Greece w: taying at the Park Hotel, in Wiesbaden, a few days ago he noticed a window-pane upon which his father, the King ot Denmark, had cut his name with a diamond. King George took off his own diamond ring and engraved his name below his father’s. A few hours aiterward the Czar saw the window and immediately cut his name. Then came the Kaiser, who added his | neme to those of the three royalties, “THE CALL” AND THE MINERS. From the San Franelsco City Argus, November 21. THE CALL has taken up with its accustomed vigor the matter of securing an in- crease in the Cabinet by appointment of a Secretary of Mines and Mining. The idea is a most excellent one and ought to meet with the same favor at Washington which it is finding here. The mining interests of the Pacific Coast owe a large debt of grati- tude to THE Cavw for its earnest and powerful advocacy of this matter, as well as for the constant and careful attention which has been accorded to the subject of mines and mining in its columns during the past two years. The journalism which devotes its daily energies to the encouragement of such industries instead of to the booming of follies and fakes and fads deserves the largest measure of public support and re- spect. In this particular THE CALL has gone far toward attaining the eminence of an ideal daily newspaper. PERSONAL. C. A. Rice of Honolulu is here. 8. E. Owens of San Jose is {n town. 8 P. Jewett of Los Angeles isat the Palace. Dr. R. 8. Markell of Cloverdale is in the City. 8. E. Hyae of Tacoma is & guest at the Cos- mopolitan. Edward 1. Field of Denver is among the late arrivals here. W. T. Ellis Jr., the banker, of Marysville, is on a vist here. J. M. McDonough, the hotel owner,of Healds- burg, is {n the City. William Nichols, a mine-owner of Dutch Flat, is at the Grand. Samuel A, Alexander, & merchant of Fresno, is here for a brief stay. John M. Geer of New Yorkisat the Palace, accompanied by his wife. F. D. Read of the United States steamer Monadnock is at the Occidental. M. Dinkelspiel, the general store owner of Suisun, is here on a business trip. Carl F. Aaam, a business man of Birming- ham, Pa., arrived here yesterday. John Q. Black, an old settler of South Bend, Wash., is registered at the Cosmopolitan. George Harrison, a Seattle merchant, is in town and registered at the Cosmopolitan. George E. Metz of Brooklyn, N. Y., & manu- facturer of rubbergoods, is on a visit here. R. P. Lathrop, the grain and commission man of Hollister, is among those registered at the Grand. Bishop William Nichols of the Episcopal church, who resides at San Mateo, is at the Occidental. T. L. Yama and Y. Otika, Japanese mer- chants, are among tha latest a:rivals at the Cosmopolitan. H. M. Yerington, the rallroad man, wood- dealer and capitalist interested in many enter- prises, isat the Palace. Joseph D. Biddle, who owns a large area of land near Hanford, and is extensively engaged in grain-raising, is at the Grand. S. H. Tucker, one of the leading and wealth- lest raisin-growers of Solano, Fresno County, is among the arrivals at the Russ. Willlam H. Sissons, accompanied by his son, E. K. Sissons, came up from San Jose yesterday and is at the Cosmopolitan. J. W. Seaborg, a business man of Ilwaco, on the coast of Washington, fiear the mouth [of the Columbia River, Is at the Occidental. Edward McGettigan of Vallejo, Supervisor of Soleno County and well known as a Govern- ment contractor and in State politics, is at the Rus: D. B. Setchill of Nevada City, Sheriff of Ne- vada County and one of the pioneers of that part of the State, is one of the guests of the Russ House. Henry Stelling Sr., for many years a resident of Davisville and a big grower and dealer in wheat, oats and barley, is at the Russ. Mr. Stelling buys and sells grain by hundreds of tons. C. M. Cotterman of Washington, D. C, a prominent officer in the United States rallway mail service, who has lately been at Ogden, Utah, is at the Grand, accompanied by Mrs. Cotterman. W. P. McAvoy, Sheriff of San Mateo County, was in the City yesterday, He reports the con- ditions of the county to be most iavorable to advancement, and thinks that quite & lot of boulevard building will be done the next two years. A prominent party consisting of A. L. sar- ber, Mrs. Barber, S. D. S. Barber and the Misses Barber of New York and Mrs. Wood- ward of Chicago are ai the Palace. Mr. Bar- ber, it 1s stated, was one of the prominent mwen in the Diamond Match Company, CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 23.—At the New York hotels: Windsor, W O’B. Macdonough; Vendome, W. Hammatt; Grand, Dr. and Mrs. Cheviss; St. Cloud, N. A. Doren; Union Square, Mr.and Mrs. V. Engigger; Metropole, L. A. Herrey; Holland, Mrs. H. Martin; Grand Union, R. I Nicholas; Albert, M. J. Perrine; Murray Hill, J. T. Roder; Imperial, A. C. Rulefson; Windsor, Mrs. Frieda Eiben and Miss Etta R. and Herman Eiben. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov.23.—Among re- cent arrivals are: liam Bireh, D.D. Francisco, Williards Hotel; C. H. Los Angeles, The Shorebam; L. Beach, Oak- land, Riggs House. LADY'S WAIST WITH JACKET FRONT. The jacket front is the most popular shape for weists. The one shown here opens over I WHERE'S MOTHER? Bursting In from school or play. This Is What the cbidren say: Trooping. crowding, biz and sm. On the threshoid, in the hall— Joining fu the constant cry, Ever as the da; “Whe From the weary bed of pain This same question comes again; From the cvy with sparkling eyes, Bearing home his earliest prize; ¥rom the bronzed and bearded son, Perils past and honors won: “Where's mother?" Burdened with a,lonely task, One day we may vainly ask For the comfort of her face, ¥or the rest of her embraces Let us love her while we may, Weil for us that we can sav, “Where’s mother ?' Mother with untiring handa At the post of duty stands, Patient, seexing 1ot her o.wn. Anxious for the good alone Of the chiidren as they cry, Ever as the days go by, *“Where's mother®’ Good Housekeeplng. Letters From the People. TO POPULISTS. Views of the Missouri World on the Duty of Populists. Editor San Francisco Call—SIR: In confirma- tion of the statements made in THE CALL of this morning on “The End of Fusion,” it will be of interest to all your readers, Republicans, Democrats and Populists alike, to know the position taken by the Missouri World, since, in a large sense, it is perhaps the most truly representative Populist newspaper in the Union, having a lerger circulation in the several States than any other newsvaper of its class, owing to the fact that it is a veryable paper, of unusual size, and is publishad at the extremely low price of 50 cents a year, and contains more news,with bnief letters from the people, than any other publication of its kind. Iu the issue of November 11 the leading edi- torizl was addressed “To Populists.” The spirit of this editorial is quite as notable as its purport. These are the opening words: *We | @0 not call in question the acts of any earnest Populist in the recent campaign. Whether he voted the Populist ticket, the Democratic ticket, the Republican ticket or some other ticket, or took no part and did not vote at all, the honest reformer should not be questioned by reason of his action on November 3,” add- ing that “the action of our National Conven. tion at St. Louis was looked upon in different WAYS bi' Populists.” Then follows a brief re- view of the political situation at that time. We are reminded that “the time between the adjournment of the Democratic convention and the assembling of ours was short; excite- mentover the change ot front by the Democrat ic party was running high; Bryan, the Demo- cratic nominee, was pretly well known as be- ing an advocate of some of the Populist prin- ciples and not known to oppose any of them. There was no time for calm and deliberate ac- tion either by the masses of the Populists or the delegates. Under these circumstances the Populist convention nominated Bryan.” Reference is made 1o “the bulldozing tactics of Chairman Allen and other unfair means used in securing the indorsement of the Dem- ocratic nominee,” and then we are told that ‘‘as & delegate to the convention the editor of tne Missouri World voted for a straight nomi- nation, ana at Do time since has he thought he was wrong in doing so. He had had many years of experience in the third-party move- ment; had seen the Missouri Democrats check the advance of reform by adopting the plat- form of the Greenbackers in 1878, and had ]seen them afterward as a unit for Grover Cleveland after he had proven himself worse than John Sherman. This Missouri Democratic policy was being played in our Populist Na- tional Convention, as it appeared to him. “Buy, under ali the circumstances, the Mis- souri World finally thought it best to support the nominees of the Populist convention— Bryan and Watson. A large majority of the Populists came to the same conclusion. A large number, however, demanaed a new head 1o the ticket, and, failing to get it, they either wintered their voles or voted some other ticket. Whatever action Populists took on November 3 they are certainly wedded to the People’s party, and are willing to march for- ward now that the policy of our National con- vention has seen its course. Those who fa- vored Bryan's indorsement and making the campaign on one issue did so with the under- stanaing that the fight would be reopened for the Populist party and its full platform imme- diately after the election.”” So far as I know, and I was also a delegate to the St. Louis convention, this is a perfectly fair and truthful statement by the Missouri World, and I believe that all who have a right to be known as Populists so understand it. But let us hear the conclusion arrived at by this fair-dealing Populist journal as to the present attitude of ourdpuny toward the move- ment for which it stands: “Now, with charity for each other and a sharp eye on the place-hunters, let us unitedly and vigorously Pulh the grand work of edu- cating the people—not in bimetallism, for the double specie basis is only a lesser fraud than the single gold basis, but'in the true science of money; money the creation of law; pa money, the money of progressand intelligence. Let us show what a great blessing Government railroads would be, and how they would cut the claws of plutocracy. Let light shine upon the land question. Land monopoly is already a blouse front. The sleeves are wrinkled over | ¢asting its blight in several parwsof the Union, a fitted lining, with a small puff at the top. The back is seamless, gathered into the belt. The skirt of this smart costume is cut with nine gores, four of which supply the fullness at the back, and are gathered into the bel then at the side fitting closely at the top an flaring well at the foot. / As illustrated the costume was of black vel- vet with a chiffon blouse of pale blue. Another gown after this model was of plum colored cloth with the blouse of pale blue chif- {on, embroidered in violets. A POSTAL CARD ELECTION. A comparison of the postal card election ‘Wwhich the Chicago Recoid undertook with the results of the election in that city and the ad- joining town of Cicero is interssting. The postal card election predicted that in th 1wo places Mr. McKinley would receive 57. per cent of the total vote cast, and that 40,15 would go to Mr. an. Mr. McKinley reail received 57.91 of the_entire vote, and 40.| Went 1 Mr. an. It was & uovel canvass that was carried out by the postal card, but it was conducted with wonderful accuracy, and only waits for the time when large bodies ofiand will be more profitable than mortgages to make land monopoly the greatest curse of the Nation.” Then follows this stinging sentence: “The campaign just closed proves that the people cannot be united under Democratic leader- ship.”” Probably nine-tenths of the Populists absolutely agree with that declaration, and will give an affirmative answer to the question put by the Missouri Werld: ““Are you ready to take uptne fight where it was left off last year?” JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. San Francisco, Nov. 3, 1896. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Mamma—DMrs. Brown says her little boy looks very much like ours. Papa—Then ours must be better-looking,— Puck. She—Dear, T want you to get me one of those lovely picture hats. He—I don’t think Ican afford it. Suppose I get you & print gown ?—Cincinnati Enquirer. He—Oh, I am the flower of the family be- yond doubt. She—I wonder if that was what papa meant when he spoke of you as that bleoming idiot 7 —Indianapolis Journal. Dr. Blunt—We must wake her, becanse I want to ask her if she has obeyed my orders. The Patient’s Husband—Er—ah—doctor, it might be as well to—ah—put that question in a somewhat different form—Puck. Nursegirl—I lost track of the child, mum, and— ““Good gracious! Why didn't you speak toa pollceman ? Nursegirl—I wus speaking to wan all the toime, mum.—Pearson’s Weekly, “Maw,” said Johnny, after he had sur his bald-headed uncle for seyeral mflm'::: “Uncle George has had his forehead raised, so people will think he's smart.” Then the urchin meditated a minute and exclaimed: “By jingo, he’ll get tired of that, though, for he'll have more face to wash.”’—Adams (‘Mm.) Freeman. “And you broke off the engagement,” said one young man. “Yes—not brutally, you know. But Iman. aged it.” ‘How " Bl“Told her what my salary is.”—Washington ar. Dick—And how did you proceed ? Fred—Why, T just went up to her ana asked her if she would marry me. Dick—Without first telling her how much you loved her and all that sort o’ thing ? Fred—OI course; Idid not want to prejudice —My dear boy, don’t you know w! folks fall in iove they don’t xuv?-’:y j\:i.:; ment ?—Boston Transcript, FINDING A NEW MERIDIAN HERE The United States Geodetic Survey Relocating Itself. The Observatory on Lafayette Park Being Moved to ‘the Presidio. Professor Davidson Must Find An- other Building as the O!d One Will Be Demolished. There will soon be a new meridian for the Pacific Coast and from it all lines of longitude will be measured and all scien- tific wors of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey will have its base. This much is a certainty from the fact that the Geodetic Survey Observatory in Lafayette Park av Laguna and Washington streets is being moved to the Presigio reserva- tion. The change has a double significance, 80 it is claimed by those who know all about the matter. Bo far Professor George Davidson has entree to the station on the Lafayette Park hill, where he ljxu an astronomical telescope and other instru- ments in a house of his own within the Government fence. Now, however, ne may have to find another spot for his observatory, as the geodetic people are about to abolish the station. The propo- sition is to raze the Government buildings and fence and give back the site to the City. This will be aone immediately the new observatory at the Presidio has suf- ficient data to define its exact position. Ana then Professor Davidson wiil be left alone in his little obseryatory in Lafayette { Park at the mercy of the Supervisors. | The station at the Presidio is finished | and has just been fitted up with necessary instruments and accommodations for the observers who have commenced their scientific work there. The old and new stations are connected by a telegraph wire, which unites two transits and break cir- cuit chronometers used in the present ohservations to determine the difference in longitude between the stations. Two officers are assigned to this work, with transmitting signals and observing tran- sits. Just as soon as the longitude of the new station is determined the old one will be abandoned, but then the precaution will be taken to mark its exaétsite with a stone monument so it can be used as a scientific record at any other time. And should the City hereafter lower the grade then the monument will be lowered under the di- rection of the proper authorities to the new surface. The observatory in Lafayette Park was established in 1879, and has since been used as the primary station for telegraphic longitude and latitude and specific gravity observations. From 1t all other statioas on the Pacific Coast and in the Pacific Ocean have been connecced. It had its bearings directly from Greenwich Observ- atory although in arathercircuitous man- ner. The former observatory on Wash- | ington sguare, established by Professor Davidson in 1867, was connected by tele- graph with Greenwich through the ob-! servatory at Harvard University. When | the change was made from Washington | square to the more satisfactory one on La- fayette Park hill & series of observations | were made sumilar to those now being con- ducted between the latter and the Presidio | station. In this way the Presidio Observ- atory can claim connection with Green- wich. The instruments in the old station will soon be moved to the new one. They com- prise a transit instrument for obtaining time for longitude work, a telescope for latitude observation large sidereal clock and chronometers for longitade work, with a break circuit for the chro- nometers. In addition to these Professor Davidson has his own instruments, in- ciuding a large telescope and an observa- tory building, all of which have been at the service of the Government free af charge since 1880, There exists some difference of opinion regarding the advisability of the change. Those who have had experience with the fogs of San Francisco and other climatic peculiarities of the City claim thatit will not be possible to do the same work at the Presidio as on the hill. Professor David- son was asked for his opinion, He said: “They cannot make good observations there. The station is near the end of the fog obscures the view. During fifteen monthsin 1891 and 1892, while I made continuous observations on the hill, I used to see the fog over the Presidio four or five nights at a time in succession, and hear the fog siren blowing steadily. In such a fog it would be impossible to get an observation. Also, the mixture of hot and cold air down there beside the. water will disturb observaiions." ANSWERS 10 CORRESPONDENTS, STANDING WIDE JuMmp—P. M., Sacramento, Cal. The record for standing wide jump is: With weights, 14 feet 9 inches, J. Darby, Eng- lang, September 19, 1890, and 14 feet 5 inches, W. C. Hamilton at Romeo, United States, Octo- ber 3, 1879, Both professionals. R BETTING ON ELECTION—Subscriber, City, As betting on election is illegal, there is no legal ‘way by which a stake-holder can be made to pay the money he has in_his hands to either party. In the case mentioned he ought to de. clere it a draw and return each party the money he put u THE NATIONAL GUARD—W. E. J., City. No person can be a member of a company of the National Guard before he has been sworn in, but sometimes a captain will allow a non. member 1o go in the ranks to become perfect in the drill or may allow him on parade to fill a vacancy, but that does not make hi; - ber of the compan; SR e, A BOARD BILL—P. M., Sacramento, Cal. Sec. tion 537 of the Pénal Code of Californta says: Any person who obtains food or accommoda- tion ‘at an inn or borrding-house without pay ing therefor, with intent to defraud the propr.etor OF manager thereof: or who obtains credit at an inn or boarding-house, absconds and surrepii tous'y removes his bagsate heretrom without paying for accommodation, a misdemearor. s As this is a crime the person affected could make application for the arrest of the guilty onel and if he has not gone out of the State he could be brought back for trial, but it would be at the expense of th, e e e e party making the A BATTERY—P. C., Oakland, Cal. The follow- ing are the directions laid down for making an electric battery: Use either a jar or large earthen crock for & large, or a tumbler for a small battery. The battery consists of a silyer plate, or sometimes a lead plate, which is coated with a fine powdery deposit of plati. num, which gives the surface a rough char- acter 50 that hydrogen will not adhere to it, suspended between two pla of zine. The 1wo zines are connected with each other, form- ing one pole and the silver or lead forms the other pole. Care must be taken to prevent the zincs irom touching each other or the miadle plate. The solution used in this battery is composed of Gne part sulphuric acid to twenty of water. This battery is useful where a strong current is required. The zincs should frequently be rubbed with mercury to prevent Wasting. Union-street Railway, in a place where | insisted ou the Nueces River. The United States supported the position taken by Texas, and in consequence of this dipiomatic infer: course was broken off between the United States and Mexico in 1843 and General Ta lor of the United Siates army was ordered iuto the disputed 'territory. In obedience 1o further orders he advanced to the Rio Grande in the spring of 1846. On April ¢ of that year the first blood was shed in an effray which resuited in the capture of United ~States troops on the eastern side of the Rio Grande. President Polk ax nounced to Congress that Mexico “had invad the territory of the United States and shed the biood of ons fellow-citizens on our own soil.” On the 11th of May Congress declared that by the act of Mexico a state of war ex- isted.” and authorized the President to call for | 50,000 volunteers and voted $10,000,000 for expenses. In the peace negoliations that fol- Jowed the war Caitiornia was ceded to the United States, as was also Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, in consideration of the United States paying $15,000,000 and assuming 000,000 of unseitled ciaims against Mexic, which was paid by the United States Govi ment in 1851, The Thing Scared Off by a Doll A little rubber doll with a whistle in its stomach was all that saved the residence of Frank Steubling, who lives at 1313 Quincy street, from’ being ransacked by thieves at an early hour this morning. Yesterday morning Mrs. Steubling came to town and bought the little indiarubber hero and took 1t home for her three-year. old child. The little girl played with the article all day long, and last night when she retired the doli was left lying upon the floor. 4 At aboat 2 o’clock this morning M Steubling’s son, Jacob, who was sleeping in the room where the aoll was lying, was abruptly awakened by a loud whistle. He jumped up and saw a negro glide hastily out of the room. He bad awakened Mr. Steubling by stepping upon the whistle in the doll's stomach. The thief was followed to the back yard and then chased over tt commons for several squares, but finally outwitted his pursuers. Had Mr. Steub- ling not been awakened the thief would have carried away all the valuables in the house. He had already packed a basket with table silverware and had it near the door.—Louisville Evening Post. CANDY Canes and Buskets. Townsend’s. * ——————— SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Prasy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monigomery. * —————— HUsBAND'S Calcined Magnesia—Four firste premium medals awarded; more agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other magne- sia. 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