The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 10, 1897, Page 6

THE S FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 189 JULY 10, 1897 BATURDA CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Supday CALL, ene week, by carrler..£0.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, One year, by mall 8.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mal 00 Daily and Sunday CaL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday Carr, one month, by mail. .65 Sunday CaLL, ono year, by mail 1.50 WaKLY CaLL, One year, by mail 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, #an ¥Francisco, California. Telephone PN . ... MAID~1863 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 513 Clay Btreew Telephone Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 827 Montgomery sireet, coraer Clay; open untl 80 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 9:80 o'clock. €15 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. &W. corner Sixteenth and Mission sireeis, open until § o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 0'clock. 167 Ninth street, open until 8 o'clock. 15065 Polk sireet; open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Tweuty-second and Keatucky open till 9 o'clocl street; OAKLAND OFFICB: 808 Broad way. EASTERN OFFICR: Baems 81 and 32, Park Row, New York Citfe DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Mannger. S ————— THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyon going to the country ona vacation® It £0.1¢ 18 na trouble for us to forward THE CALL to youraddress. Do not let it miss you for you will n Orders given 10 the carrier or left at Office will receive promp: attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifty cents per monih for summer months. The closing of the tariff fight goes over as usual to another week. The defect in the Bryan whoop-up is that it always sounds too much like a calamity howl. The royal jubilee pleased London, but it irritated Indis, and now thereis trouble ahead for the revelers The surest way to provide yourself with good reading for to-morrow is to leave or- ders to-day for THE EUNDAY CALL. A study of the Christian Endeavor con- vention is a sure cure for pessimism. There is no calamity howling in the ora- tory of that bod New York claims to have ‘‘cheap money and a bull market,” and of course thoss sections of the country where money is dear will have to bear it. The new tariff will bring better times and the Christian Endeavorers promise ns a better people to enjoy them, so we are all right. The Iatest story of the recall of Weyler seems to be authentic, but if he leaves his | typewriter behind reports of Spanish vic- tories will come in as usual. In comine out of their mines to go on a strike at this time the coal-miners of the Ea:t may find themselves in a bigger hole in the ground than they came cut ol. It took some of our visitors a long time to get across the continent, but they can console themselves by the reflection that those who traveled slowest saw the coun- try best. Center Colleze (Kentucky) made a true center shot when it got Ur. Minton to ac- cept the presidency. We are sorry to lose him from California, but we congratulate Kentucky. The vroposal to celebrate the comple- tion of the dome of the City Hall is good. The structure has cost us a preity penny and we might as well have some music for our mon There are said to be about 40,000 visitors in San Francisco at this time, and yet the streets are by no means overcrowded. There is 2 welcome waiting for more if they will come. There is no telling what the conference committee will do with the tariff sched- ules, but California counts on her dele- gates in Congress to make a winning right for her interes If the gold convention at Denver should succeed 1n increasing the development of our mining industries 1t would go a long way toward setiling the money question to the satisiaction of all parties, Amid the general uproar of the news of the day we must not overlook the fact that the Prince of Wales has started a new type of hat. In a short time now the whole civilized world will have to shoot the old dicer. The work done for the enactment ot a pood tariif is a splendid record for the first fonr months of the administration, und gives assurance of what the party of prosperity will achieve for the country in the four years of McKinley. A Minnesota Judge has decided that it isnot cruel and inhuman treatment for a hushand to make his wife work in a wood- yard, and it will be readily inferred that this is one of the ca<es where sawing wood is not conducive to saying nothing on the part of the worker. According to Horace Boies, ‘‘The Chi- cago platform is no longer binding upon the conscience, political or otherwise, of any Democrat in the United States.” Mr. Bryan had better start East at once if he wishes to be in time to head off the here- tics in the Iowa campaign, While Bryan is going about declaring that an internationa) agreement for the remonetization of silver is im possible the McKinley monetary commission is rapidly arranging to achieve it. Before the year 1500 Mr. Bryan will find be has been prophesying against the facts and has burt himself. While we are engaged in the task of pre- venting the extinction of sealsthe Govern- ment of India is trying to save a few ele- phants for the benefit of future genera- tions, Sportsmen of India shoot elephants for tbe fun of it just asour sportsmen shot buffaloes, and the slaughter has become 80 great that unless forbidden by law the sport would soon put an end to itself by putting an end to the animals, The New York Herald complains that among the recent graduates of the Nor- mal College of that city there can be found Ada Eveiyn, Amy Irene, Marie Claudine, Neta Corinne, Gabrielte Marie, Claire Hortense, Louise Dorothy, Gertrude Ca- milla and Wanda Dorothea, but never a Mary Jene or Sarah Aon. Adamitting the fact to be true there is nothing in it to justify complaint. Itisonly natural that the new woman should takea novel name, | MR. BRYAN’S VISIT, Mr. William J, Bryan has paid his visit to California, has seen and been nby its peonle, and has been whirled on his way into an adjacent State. While the picture of his personality is fresh in the public eye and the echo of nis oratory has nhardly died upon the public ear, it may not be inopportune to indulge in a clear and calm consideration of the influence of Mr. Bryan’s presence and utterance uvon the public mind. The spirit of kindliness and cordiality with which California greeted this eminent apostle of free silver is referable to a number of causes of which the principal are these: In the first place the State of California is proverbially generous and courteous in her reception of the stranger and the sojourner within her gates, In the next place curiosity to see tie man who had sprung up suddenly from the comparatively obscure condition of a Nebraska Congressman to the exalted place in public view of candidate for President of the United States brought rany to look upon his face. There can be no doubt that thousande of people thronged the places where Mr. Bryan was to appear with no other motive than that of curiosity. It must be admitted, however, ttat a more worthy feeling than that of mere idle curiosity moved many of our people to a desire to see, or rather to hear, Mr. Bryan. He had a large following of admirers in California who wished to listen to an exposi- tion of the silver cause from the lips of its chosen priest and prophet. In addition to these there were many others who will always go to hear an orator for the love of his art more than from a faith in his principles. California has been ever kind to orators, and the experience of Mr. Bryan is no exception to the rule. There was still another and by no means small body of persons who went to hear Mr. Bryan. Thev are the men and women of California who see deeply enough into our social and political condition to know that there are wrongs there which should be remedied, and that the prosperity and perpetuity of our Republic depends upon the discovery and appli- cation of the right medicines for existing disorders. Many of the bzst citizens of each community through which Mr, Bryan passed went to hear what remedy for the dis- eases of the body politic he might have to offer. It was from a conjunction of these elements that Mr. Bryan's audiences were com;osed. What has been the effect of W. J. Bryan’s visit to California upon himself and upon his cause? Has he increased his personal popularity? Has he advanced the cause of silver in the minds of thinking men? Neither. Mr. Bryan came to Califor- nia at the wrong time to preach the doctrine of calamity and to assert that the dawn of prosperity had not yet brightened our sky. He was himself, in all externals at least, enjoying a personal prosperity of an enviable order. He spoke to a people who, at the very bour of his oration, were engaged in the outpouring of arich and a2bundant welcome to a large body of their fellow-countrymen, and were thus making manifest the absence of those conditions which Mr. Bryan’s Jogic requires. He found himself in the midst of a people who were contented enough toturn a wughing face to the prophet of discontent. He was accorded a willing and good- natured hearing, but he left no converts to his cause. Our people fully realized that the speeches, the anecdotes and the sophistries which he delivered here were only the outworn campaign extravagances of ante-election times. In his revilement of the dead Democratic administration they had no interest; with bis effort to belittie and impede the earnest effort of the existing Republican one to fulfill 1ts pledges to the people California has no sympathy. These are the arts of the demazogue rather | than the statesman, and in their exercise M: for himself and no friends for his cause. r. Bryan gained in California no following CALIFORNIA INTERESTS, While the passage of the tariff bill by | the Fenate is an important victory for the | business interests of the country, it by no | means puts an end to the controversy. The bill is not yet out of the woods. Itis not certain that either the Senate or the House will accept the measure as recon- structed by the conference committee, and some time may elapse before it is enacted into law. In the closing struggle 1t is more than ever important for the California delega- tion in Congress to be on guard for the protection of the interests of the State. Among the schedules over which there bas been much controversy, and which, therefore, are hable to be changed by the conference committee, are several which materially affect the industries of our people. It is not impossible that sone effort may Le made to arrange a com- prromise by sacrificing these interests, if a persistent tight is not made by Califor- nians against any attempt of the kind. Neither the bill as it came from the | House nor that amended by the Senate is aliogether satisfactory. The original bill zave us better protection for our minés, and the Senate bill gives us tetter protec- | tion for frut and wool. It should be the aim of our delegation to incorporate into bill es finally adovted the best fea- ures of both the House and the Senate | measures. Certainly they shculd mot readily give way to any compromise which would lower the protection offered ! by either House to any of the great inter- ests and industries of the State. The importance of a speedy enactment of the law is recognized everywhere. So | iong as it is delayed foreign goods will be rushed into the country. They have al- ready been received in quantities suffi- ciently large to postpone for a long time the benetits which our producers may ex- | vect from the measure. T.is being so, the readiness of Republicans both in the House and the Senate to agree upon any compromise which will hasten the nassage of the bill can be readily understood. The people of California will not inter- pose any trivial objection to whatever measure may be agreed upon, but at the same time they will not be willing to see their interests sacrificed when it might be possible to arrange for an agreement on a basis fairer and juster to Western in- terests. It is to be regretted that our representa- tive on the conference committee from the Senate is a2 Democratic free-trader. This is a handicap which will seriously interfere with the efforts of the Repub- lican members of the delegation to protect our industries. It is not under the leader- ship of Senator White that we can expect the best results. Nevertheless our Repub- lican Representatives in Congress should do the best they can and surrender no in- terests of the State as long as it is possible to obtain the full degres of protection which 1t need=. INTERNATIONAL BIMETALLISM. | It was an unfortunate coincidence for Mr. Bryan that on the very day when he made his speeches in San Francisco de- nouncing the Republican party for its attitude on the money question and mock- ing at the platform which promises to bring about the remonetization of silver by international agreement, the dispatches from Europe published on the same day that his speeches were published an- nounced that the ouilook for an apree- ment among the great nations is dis- tinctly favorable to a speedy accomplish- ment of the desired end. The monetary commission appointed by President McKinley, after having bad full consultation with the officials of the French Government, is now in London and bas been well received there. The Trench embassy in London has been in- structed to co-overate with ‘the American embassy in giving every assistance possi- ble to the Commissioners in their negotia- tions with the British. This assistance will be of great importance, and as it is known that the members of the Cabinet with but one exception are in fgvor of bimetallism, it is altogether likely the in- ducements which can be offered by two such nations as France and the United States will lead the British Government to join the movement for. remonetization. President Andrews of Brown Univer- sity, who bas just returned from an ex- tensive tour ot Europe, during which he made a thorough study of sentiment in various countries on the money question, reports that the bimetallic movement has made such headway it is quite likely that France may reopen bher mints to silver even before we do. In the course of a recent note replying to a question on the snbject ne said: France is certain 1o tollow the United States, In case Frauge and the United States go to- | | ment. | Harris of Tennessee followed to the grave gether or alone Great Britain will heartily co- operate to the fullest pessible extent short of coining full tender silver at London, the India wmints will reopen, the Bauk of England wiil lay in a silver reserve, and perhaps ha.f-sov: ereigns be withdrawn in favor of silver or s ver certificates, This being the sttuation of affairs, the attitude which Mr. Bryan has taken to- ward international bimetallism is not creditable to his good sense, or to his reputation for honesty of purpose. He declares that he would be glad to see the present administration bring about a re- monetization of silver by international agreement, but at the same time he mocks atitasa humbug, and endeavors to con- vince the people that it is a mere attempt to deceive. If Mr. Bryan really desires the remon- etization of silver, he should co-operate with our Government in trying to bring it about. He should strengthen the hands of the administration by seeking to add 10 the public confidence which it enjoy His course of opvosition certainly does | a0t aid the cause of the remonetization of | silver, and if itis to be assumed that be | has sutficient common-sense to know what he is doing, the inavitable inference is | that he coes not desire remonetization under a Republican administration, Fortunately it matters littie to the coun- try what course Mr. Bryan pursues. He may do the talking, but it is William Me- Kinlev who is shaping the legislation of the Republic. Every promise made in the Republican platform is already well advanced toward fulfillment. The tariff which is to protect our industries 1sin sight, and the international agreement which is bring about a remonetizatien of | silver is so near at hand that we can already see prospects of its speedy attain- ISHAM G. HARRIS, Thoe last twelve montis have been a dis- | astrous year to Democracy. Death and politics have combined to remove from tbe great councils of the Nation so many of its ablest leaders that it is now almost bereft of anytbing like a genuine leadership in Congress. On Thursday it was called upon to confront another loss when Senator Co!quitt, Crisp and Voorhies. Senator Harris was one of the last sur- vivors of that generation of Southern statesmen who after endeavoring to divide the Union lived to return to Congress, take part in the reconstruction of the South and play an important part in the great work of restoring harmony between the people of the two sections. A man of strong and Torceful character, raised in a community which permitted the development of personal traits to a far greater degree than is possible in more conventional society, Isham G. Harris be- came early in life and continued to his death one of the most notable and pictur- esque figures in Southern politics. He was a born leader of men and attained to hich office while comparatively young. An ardent secessionist, he exerted all the strength at his command to carry Tennes- see outof the Union, and fought as fiercsly and as vigorously as any man in the South to maintain the Confederacy which he helped to form. When the Uonfederacy fell Harris went into exile shorn of prestige and vroperty. Hereturned to Tennessee penniless to find the State under the control of his political foes, Johnson and Brownlow, his cause destroyed, his party demoralized, his friends scattered and himselt under in- dictment for embezzling the property ot the State. It is an evidence of his courage and of his resources that in the face of all these obstacles he fought a winning fight and was able not only to regain all his former | yeste: | Claus Spreckels s sojourning at his Aptos farm political influence but to add to it and make himself so completely the political dictator of Tennessee that no competitor arose to contest his election to the United Btates Senate. : . A Washington correspondent in descrit- ing him recently stated that Harris looked much more like a pirate than a Senator. The personal traits characteristic of the fighter remained with him till the last. He never became a conventional man. Nevertheless he was one of that old school of Southerners who knew how to combine a fierce aggressiveness with a great cour- tesy of manner. He was a confirmed stickler for etiquette. te regarded the traditions of BSouthern society and the rules of the United Btates Senate as some- thing sacred. His respect for the laws of the Senate made him a greatauthority on all questions that arose concerning par- liamentary procsedings in that body, and in recent years he has been looked to perhaps the highest authority on the sub- ject in the Senate. His loss will be felt outside the Demo- cratic party, Tennessee will replace him with a younger and more vigorous man, who will render her better service in the new development that awaits her, but it is doubtful whether she will ever have a leader more devoted to her welfare, or one who in all the crises of life will show him- self a fiercer foe or # more faithful friend than the Senator whose death she mourns te-day. FERSONAL. J. Branham of Rome, Ga., is at the Ocei- dental. Miss Eames of Austin, Tex., is at the Cosmo- politan. J. C. Herrington of Fresno is at the Cosmo- politan, F. H. Sinclair and wife of Fresno are at the Cosmopolitan. W. H. Ged! and wile of Waco, Tex., are at the Cosmopolitan, Among the arrivals at the Lick is George H. Chance of Portland. Professor H. A. Young of Indianapolis Is among the arrivals here. Bennett Kellner, a leading business man and politician of Arizona, is in the City. Mi-s L. Johnson and Miss C. Waddell of Wardner, Idaho, are at the Cosmopolitan. Dr. E. H. Way and Mrs. Way of Riverside are recent arrivals in the City. They are at the Grand. Mrs. H. mith, Miss F. Smith and Miss Marsh. of Jacksonville, Fla., are at the Cos- mopol itan. A. B. Bicknell of Humboldt, Iowa, is here, accompanied by his wife;and child. They are at the Baldwin, James M. Koyle, president and manager of the Oregon Fruit and Produce Company, Salem, Or., is in the City to remain about ten days, Mme. Barrios, wife of President Reyna Bar- rios of Guatemala, and a party of friends, came over irom San Rafael yesterday and are at the Occidental. Mrs. H. Shepherd and the Misses Meta Mei- necke, Lona Graebe and’ Marje Mainecke, all of Vallecitos, are now in this City, and will go to Capitola to camp for the summer. , Professor Willlam Campbell of Brooklyn, N.Y., who is directing a tourist party of eighty members, arrived in the City yesterday and secured accommodations at the Palace Hotel. Herbert W. Johnson of Merchantville, N. J., arrived in the City yesterday and registered at the Palace Hotel. He is a member of the New Jersey Senate and a prominent business man of that State, Moye G. Norton, a prominent attorney from Los Angeles, is at the Baldwin with his sister, Miss E. Norton. Mr. Norton is a member of the State reception committee which accom- panied Hon. W. J. Bryan on his travels in Cal- itornia. He will remain in San Franclsco a few days on pusiness befors returning to Los Angeles. Among the arrivals at the Grand are Miss Clock, Miss A. Clock, Miss T. Gray and Miss H. Kirby of Brooklyn, N. Y., relatives of General Horace Porter, Minister to France. I R. Wil- bur, the wealthy mining man, an old friend of the general, had the rooms reserved in ad- vance for them. They are attending the Christian Endeavor convention. H. D. Myers, formerly cashicr of the Sum- mit County Bank, Kokomo, Colo,, afterward engaged in banking in El Paso and for the last four years & manufacturer in Canton, Ohio, is alate arrival here. Mr. Myers was obliged to make & business trip to Salt Lake, andas the rates were low hedecided to come on toseé Cal- ifornia, Hs will be here several days, ana will return finally by way of Los Angeles. John D. Spreckels, member of the National Republican Committee from Catifornia, re- | turned from Washington early yesteraay morning. On his western journey he was de- layed thirty hours by reason of the tremend- ous tourist travel toward San Francisco. He left the City for Aptos on the 2:30 P. u. train accompanied by A. B Spreckels. AN ISSUE FOR OUR VISITORS TO-MORROW. In pursusnce of its usual custom THE CALL will to-morrow conform its character to that ot the season at which it is published. ' This being the season of Christian Endeavor the mn_e of San Francisco’s representative household journal will be in accord with the prevailing spirit. Added to this aim will b6 a desire to inform as well as to entertain our visitors. Ar ticles have been chosen with & view to deplcting in story, narrative and object lessons some of the more dramatic and striking features of life in and around our famous City. The Chinese quarter has been the eynorure of all Eastern eyes during the past week. AOur Chinatown is always a matter of deep concern and profound interest to people on the oiher side of the Rockies, and those who succeed 1n crossing them to this side tnink first of all of the queer little yellow folk whom they see shuffling along our streets. Well, to-morrow THE CALL will contain a chapter on life in Chinatown that is very little known, evea among the in- habitants of San Francisco. It will disclose a state of affairs which could exist nowhere else on the efvilized globe—Involving the traffic of slavery and the wonderful counteracting forces ‘which are brought to bear against it by cerlaln white women, whose heroism transcends the spirit of the Crusaders. “San Francisco's summer resorts” may sound odd in a Cits from which people flee to the country every summer, but that is only because the interior of the Golden State Is so n:lurhjg in summer time that our City folk forget what really enjoyable resorts we have right here in the City and In its suburbs. A CALL writer has written an exquisite little summary of San Francisco’s summer resorts for to-morrow’s issue. Some of our visitors’ own impressions of this town have been gathered and whimslcally illuatrated as a sortof mirror to bs held up before them in a friendly bantering way. They will get many & harmless laugh out of it, and it gives our irrepressible funny chaps something to.do to keep them out of mischief. A long list ot special entertaining features follow this lead of good things. And the regu- lar departments are by no means permitted to suffer in consequence of the special attention paid to transient details. Our Childhood’s Realm, our Social Whirl, our Stagelana, our Fashion’s Wand, our Fraternal Guide, our Church Notes and all other corners in this weekly storehouse of treazures will be piled up as generously as ever. Visitors, we invite you with pride to read THE SUNDAY CALL. A GOMBINATION OF BALLOON AND KITE. A combination of balloon and kite, says the Philadelphia Record, has recently been patenied in Germany by Captain A.vonm Parseval. The captain has had much practical experience with captive balloons now in use in the German army, and found them of little value if the velocity of the wind exceeded thirty feet per second. Since almost one-third of the days in the year show a wind as strong or stronger than this, the use of captive balloons 1s correspondingly limited, and the demand for a balioon that could be used at all times became apparent. The balloon constructed by Captain Parseval is based upon the principle of akite, and its position will prevent 1is swinging in the wind more than an ordinary kite and yesterday celebrated his birthday. CALIFORNIANS lNfi NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., y 9.—At the St | Cloud—W. C. Milier. Imperial—E, Godiray. | Astor—M. Manson., Beivedere—S. Lipman. | Amsterdam—NMr, and Mrs, T. 8. Martin. Coion- ade—Miss Watts, L VE, Lofty temples have been raised Yor love: Dying emb rs oft have blez:d For love; Men have fought nad men have bled, Xushing rivers bave run red, Earih been strewn with piles of dead, All zor .ove. Death'ess songs ho.v: been composed For love: Mighty plots have been exposed Forlove; Glorious palace Jewels blaze Fools are thick in every land All for | le LOBSTER MUZZLE. Philadelphia Kecord. Muzzles for dogs and horses are quite com- mon, but the idea of muzz'ing the clawsofa lobster so as to permi. of easy handlingis | A Lobster Muzzle. novel and is the idea of an inventor halling from the wooden nutmeg State. This device for nolding lobster claws consists of a wire bent and twisted tn form a loop for-the outer end of the claw and ends of suitable length to surround the otlier end of the claw. MEN AND WOMEN. Clara Novello, the well-known English ora- torio singer, whoin private life is the Countess Gigliucet, has just entered upon her eightieth year. Arthur Gould, a renowned footbslier, was presented with a house, valued at£700, by his Welsh admirers, despite the opposition of the International Board. s Miss Gordon Cumming is raising money in all the principal cities of England for the pur- pose of teaching the blind in China. She will found a large blind asylum at Peking. Requiem masses wera celebrated in Rome and at Genoa on the fiftieth anniversary of Daniél 0'Connell’s death. In the latter city & procession marched from the chureh to the house in which the liberator died, where a bronze medallion was unveiled. The$100,000 memorial church at Cahirciveen, County Ker- ry, his birthplace, will be completed this year. General Vannowskl, the Russian Minister of War,who has been suffering for & long time past from extreme obesity, as well as from diabetes and a number of other complaints, is now completely bedriddan, and, inasmuch as the doctors declare that his recovery is out of the question, his resignation or death may be looked for at any momont. One of the most varied ana rapid muta- tions 1n cognomen is chargeable to s Mar- shal County (Tennessee) woman, who fer- formed the feat thres times within tweuty- four hours. As Mrs, Addie B. Hicks she se- cured & divorce from her husbahd, John Hicks, and was restored to her maiden name, Cook, in one day, and on the day following she was married to s man named Calvin Burrow. A gocd story is told about the late Prince Napoleon, familiarly known. as Plon Plon, When he visited an jmportant .Irish city the Mayor, who fancied himself 'a Jinguist, ad- dressed his distinguished guest. iu French. The Prince replied in idiomatic English that he accepted with gratitude all the kind things which he assumed to have been said of him, but that among the many defects of his education was a want of acquaiutance with vernagular Irish, | and gone beyond recovery. In 1873, it will be | BALLOON KITE USED IN THE GERMAN ARMY. which is properl been made in th feet of gas. y_ballasted at the lower end. shape After many experiments the new balloon has t a flat cylinder with round ends, containing about 6000 cubic At the upper end the cable holding it is fastened, while the car hangs s little above the lower end. The balioon when risin, in the direction from which the win balloon by means of the wind." Additona with thiese a stability has been obtained even batloon only during perfect calmness. ‘assumes a slanting position, the top being always held comes. It hes even been found pussible to sieer the n air cushion at the lower end, which is also instrumental in catching mall balloons are attached to the lower end in order to steady it, and in strong wind which is known to the round The new kite balloon can be used during any weather which will permit the ascension aud falii g. At recent experiments in bailooning the two systems could be observed alongside of eacn other several limes, and it conld be plainly seen that the kite balloon sonrred perfectly still while its round companien swayed to d fro 10 such an extent that the results of the obseryations of iis occupants were unreliable, and the regisiering instruments became blurred, and in some cases useless. ENORMOUS LOSS OF GOLD. To the Editor of the San Fiancisco Call—SIR: Since it appears from the report of the Di- rector of the Mint for the year 1896, paga 226, | that our mines yielded $2,059,946,769 in gola | between the years 1792 ani 1895, aud that | ording to the same authority, pa e 42, but | $599,597 964, or only a little over one-fourth | of it, is even supposed to be in the country, | we are confronted with a fact of startling siz- aificance if we seriously provose to make gold | 1Le basis of our mouetary system, es some of | the abest nnd most determined men in this | country insist we must do, and heunce it ve- o | comes the duty oi us all io investigute this | matter most thoroughty. Indeed, my infor mation leads me to believe, and 1 think I can show, that mnuch less than | o1e-fourth of the gold taken from our mices can be fcund or loeated in the United States anl that it does not require 105 years for three-fourths of it to disappear forever as lost | remembered, a most exhaustive effort was | made to locate the “approximate stocks of | money in the aggregate in the principal coun- trie< of the worid” (page 50, Mint report for 1896), and this will afford us a good starting pointin our mgulry, more especiaily asthe statis.ics of production, mintage, use in the arts and sciences, exports and imports are | more complete sincs that date than ever be- | 1ore. The stock_of gold in the United States in 1873 (page 50) is_reported to be #135,000,000, and 1u 1896 $599,507,964, an increase in twenty-three years of $464,597,964, or more tnan fourfold.” Thisisa fine showing on the face of 11, but what would it have been if all the gold which is known to have b2en taken from our mines could be found and made available ior coinage? The production of gold in the United States during the twenty- three years from 1873 to 1896 is reported on page GO as $830,600,000, to_which we must add the stock on hand 1n 1873, amounting to $135,000.000, and hence we would have $965,- 660,000, instead of tne §599,597,964 reported, which showe & loss in twenty-three years of £366,062,036, or a yeariy loss of $15915,- 740 69, at which rate the whole $965,660,000 would disappear in sixty-one years as if lost in the depths of the ocea far 8s coinage snd use as money may be considered. | Just how and where our gold has thus dis- appeered during the last twenty-three years is a matter of profound interest to all of us, but that subject must be deferred, as it is too large to be taken up at this time. But the one fact I wish to impress on the public mind in the present investigation is the enormous loss of gold year by year, so that in sixty-one years the last ounce of it would be gone, and unless new gold 1s taken from the mines we should soon have no goid whatever in use as money. Some of the ways in which gold disappears and is nomore available for monetary purposes will be considered at another time. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. Ban Francisco, July 9, 1897. RESTFULNESS NOT LAZINESS. 7 Fourth Ksiae. A country editor has been severely con- demning his contemporary on the ground that the latter had been seeking inspiration for his paper by lying at full length on & swath ol new-mown hay. We ought not to enter into the controversy, though we are certain that the scribe with a fancy for the sweet smell of new-mown Lay and a fancy for stretching himself out on his back to realize his own insignificance as he watched the heavens, is the sort of fellow up and doing when there is work to be doue, and does not attempt to lord it over his neighbors, but uses the power of his pen “with charity forail and malice toward none: 1f we hac anyihing to advertise it would be with the editor loving the smeil of new-mown hay and thesight of the passing clouds over the blue skies. He isin all probability popu- lar with his own people, and what he has 1o say is not regarded with indifference. S!ZED PAPER AND SUNLIGHT. In Iate German exneriments designed to test the deterforating effects of sunlight onsizec paper parts of sheets of both animal and resin- sized paper were exposed to suulight and parts covered. Both the exposed samples lost the size, ¢5_did also tne covered paris of the animal-sized paper, the resic-siz:d belng um- affected whers covered. A heatof 98 degrees did oot affect the . Unglazed resin msuu resfet light 8'ightiy better thau glazed. niy the side exi to the sun loses size. Paper coniaining ground wool did not deteri- ate upon exposure, while paper not contain- ing ground wood deteriorated. BRYAN’'S BLACK EYE, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Ohio Democratic convention was asked :)o An‘dim‘u hl}".x!h for 1:00. “l.l:o-"o?oihxd y giving him three cheers, 1t wasa polite way to bexnon-wnmmd. NEWLY PATENTED INVENTIONS. To give an alarm to the engineer and con- ductor when a train breaks in two, & rod is placed at the side of each car to run the whole length of it and connect with each other by a loose chain, the rods on the engine and caboose being attached to gongs which ring as the train breaks. In a newly-patented speed indicator for ships, a me 8l log is attached to a flexible cord at the rear of the ship, with a flanged rod at the rear to (ura iu the water and complete an electric current in the log, which is conuected throngh the cord with an indicator on the deck of the boat. Pneumatic oil cans, for engineers to use in filliug ol cups. etc, have the nozzle exiended nearly 1o the bottom of the can, so that when tae 1op of the can is filled with air the ofl is forced through (he spout by opening a valyve in the neck, thus makiug the oil flow when the can is upright. In a simple and neat bouquet-holder re- eently patented a metal clip is pinned on the coat [apel and the stems of the flowers slipped under the clip. Another design has two slots instead of the ciip, through which a rib- bon is passed and tied over the stems to nold them fasl, the ribbon forming a bow to cover the holder. \ To register the number of passengerson a strestcar 8o the company can tell whether the:r men are cheating or not the steps are hinged and a spring on_ the under side raises each one slightly above its base so thal it will drop down to the base as each person steps on ever to move the automatic counter in the car. Short persons who are compelled to stand upin_sireetcars will eppreciate a new device intended for their use, consisting of a heavy wire loop o catch the strap on the car, with a bandle at rignt angies with the loop, which can be lowered to the right length for the user, and closes up small enough to be carried in the pocket when not in use. HOBART AND THE TARIFF BILL. ‘Washington Post. When the debits and credits on the passage of the teriff bill are peing cast up, & very large account on the credit side must be opened for Vice-President Hobart, The Vice-President has saved hours and hours of debate and delay by hisquick percep- tion and comprehensive knowledge. He keeps b on every thing. g “Has paragraph 452 been disposed of?" asked Mr. Allison. “It was disposed of on the 28th inst.,” re. plied the Vice-President, instantly, On another occasion Mr. Hobart knew exnctly the date nearly three weeks previ- ous, upon which another schedule had been acted upon. He remembers wno asks post- ponement of ome paragraph or enother and can correctly state in the most concise fashion any question, no matter how .intricate, The most remarkable instance, however, of Mr. Hobart’s familiarity with tariff matters was shown in an incident wkich happened last ‘Wednesday. “Wili the fFenator,” said Mr. Mills, address- ing Senator Quay, “Iefer me to the particular paragraph about cattle in the present law?’’ “Paragraph 373 of the Wilson iaw,” re- sponded the Vice-President, without a mo- menv’s hesitation. By his alertness and information the Vice- President has kept the debate as well in hand as any one could do under the rules of the Senate, and has shown how 2 business man's mind can adapt iiself to new circumstances with great success. OPINIONS OF A °rE:SIMIST, Cleveland Leader. The treuble with many a man 1s nof merely that he aesires to grab the earth, but that he wants to annex the moon for a coeling sta. tion. o 3 People who are always “funning themsely: down” soon lose respect for you if you don’t vigorously contradict them. arried p2opie who never quarrel don’t know what tun it is to make u: It is generally the homeliest girl in the class who graduates with the highest honors. The others don’t have to. Some men think that women dress to cap- tivaie them. Thisis a mistake. More gratity. fug that the admiration of the meu is the Jjealousy of other wome: A wise Providence created poodle dogs for women who hate children. —_— NEW COLOR NAMES. London Dally Tele:raph. If the latest additions fo the nomenclature of fathionable colors ‘b> generally adopted by milliners and dressmakers ladies will be much puzzled when they come to choose their hats end gowns for early autumn wear. Thus itappears that manufacturers are offering to the wholesale buyears reds distinguished as “sport,” “Cretan” and ‘‘Athenian.” *“Goli” and “spiritism” are new shades of blue; some exceedingly brilliant greens have been de- nominated the *‘asparagus” and the “Erin,” and 5 1ver grays are w‘ge knoirn as “‘nickel” l and “aluminium.” “Grand’mere’ isa laven- der tint, and recent evenis in the States have made & distnction in yellows, as “doliar - zold” and “McKinley.” fJosephat’is hardlY fuggestive, but il means & Brass green: “upotheosis’ is a pink, and ‘‘recamier” jsaf orange. B SUPPLY ITOUSE OF THE WORLD, Buffalo Express. American locomotive works have received orders fiom Japau, Russia and China for loco- motives the past week. Japan wants twenty- five and Mexico has orderad twenty. ’lg‘he lo‘cm ives w in China are for the Sang Wu Biva. i trade cun be held by this coun: try against the wor.d if proper efforts are made to push it. Maine is shipping white birch for spools to the Scottish tbhread mills aud very Jarge quantities of spruce lumber to England, “GREATER OMAHA.” Cincinoatl Commercial. Keep your eye peeled for references to the “(reater Omaha” during the next few days, Tnat town has just received a trainload of dried apples from California. —_— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS Cimizexsuip — Merchant, City. There is nothing in the naturalization laws of fhe United States to prohibit a Japanese from be- coming a citizen of the United States. There isa special law that prohibits Chinese from becoming citizens. ADDRESSES—Reader, Independence, Or. The address of Lew Wallace is Crawfordsville, Iil.; Theo Stanton, Paris, France; J. W. Riley, Authors’ Club, New York City; Dwight Lq Moody, Northfield, Mass.; General Rosecrans, Washington, D. e BROTHER-IN-LAW—G. D., City. A brother-in- law is the brother of one’s husband or wife, also one’s sister's husbaud. 1f two men marry sisters and the meu are not in any way related to orie another the fact that they married sis- ters does nov make them brothers-in-law. UNDER THE Rosg—W. H., City. The phrass “under the rose’” is sald to have originated in Birmingham, England. A Jacobite club estab- lished in the early part of the eighteenth cen- tury met in a room, the ceiling of which was ornamented with the figure of an open rose. A rule of the club was that whatever took place there should be kepta profound secret, ihat {5 that it should be under the rose. It is believed that they piaced the rose on the ceil ing in allusion o the Latin parase “‘subrosa.’” WITH YOUR C(OFFEE. The Bkirts of the Day.—*“Why do you never wear your jeweled garter, Madge?” “Ob, 1 don’t like to be ostentatious.”—De- troit Journal. “Waiter, it is almost half an hour since 1 ordered that turtle soup.” Waiter—Sorry, sir, but you know how slow turtles are,—Boston Traveler. “Capltal, you know, is universally timid.” “How queer! I thought it was the man without the money who was shy.’’—Typo- graphical Journal, “Shakespeare must have had Miss Fussy's home-made root beer in mind.” “When?" “When he talked about something being stale, flat and unprofitable.”—Cleveland Plain. Dealer. “Why did you dismiss your doctor, Miss Sprightly?” “1 had five prescriptions from him ana there was not a bicyele in one of ihem.”—Detroit Fiee Press. FPECTAL Information daily to manufscturass, business houses and public men by the Eras Clipping Buresu (Allen's), 510 Montgomesy. ENDEAVORERS:—You cannot give your East- ern friends a nicer present than Townsend's California Glace Fruit; 50c a pouud, ih elegant fire-ctched boxes. FPalace Hotel Bullding. * ————— “Here's another case of extremes meeting,"” *““What 7 “Not loug ago you couldn’t hirea messen- ger-boy 1o hurry; now, since thes’ve put hini on a bike, you've got to fine him to keep him from scorching.”’—Philadelphia North Ameri- can. See Southern Califprnia, los /ngeles, the most beautiful city In the United ! iatis. ~an Tilego, Pasadena, Riverside, Redlands, Coronado Beach, Catalius Islands. and the thousand and one other delig 1tful places must be teen. You can return to the East throu:l the orang- groves of Southern California withou: ad- dit.onal expenses aud you will always regres it it you fail to ses Los Anugeles and her sister citles. The Santa Fe trains furnish the bighest character of accommodauon;, and consume ooly three Dights Los Angelesto Chicago. Call at 644 Market street, Chronicle bullding. ——e——— $25 Eate to Chicago via the Great tanta Fe Route. The low rates made for Christian Endeavorers will be open to the public as well. - An opportu- nity 1o visit the East never before enjoyed by Cal- fornjans. Puliman Palace Drawing-room Sleep- ipg-cars of the latest pattern. - Modern uphoistered tourist sleeping-cars run daily through from Oak land pler (o Chicago. See time-table in advertis ing column. San Francisco ticketoffice 644 Marce: street, Chronicie buliding. ‘lelephone Main i53L Vakland, 1118 Eroadway. - Great Reduction in Rates to Eastern Cities Via Sonset Route and Pledmont Air Line. Only $40 to Washington and Baltimore; Philadelphia. $40 50: New York, $41, ani Boston §44. Corre- spondingly low rates to other points. Only route operating personally conducted tourlst cars San Francisco to Washington, D. C., withont change. For further inlormation call on or address C. L. HOPKINS, Pacific Coast Passenger Agent, 621 Market street San Francisco. 832 50 to St. Paul, Minneapolis and Chieago, Tickets wiil be on sale July 12 to the 17th. Good final iimit, August 15; stopover aliowed. 1t'sa splendid opportunity to take a trip to Chicag aad stop off at the famous Yellowstone Park. Send 6 cents In stamps for illustrated book, “Wonder- 1and,” to T. K. Stateler, general agent Northera Pacific Rallway, 638 Market street, San Frauclsco, —_——— Special Excursion. A sreclal party will leave San Francisca ‘Wednesday morning, July 14. Sor Salt Lake, Glen- wood = prings, Manitou, Denver, Chicago and Bos. ton, ustng Wagner Palace Buffet Sleeping-cars. A number of lower berths yet unsold. For fur- ther informatioa call at office of Colorado Midland Rallroad, 20 Montgomery street. ———————— Reduced Rates for All To the East via the Kio Grande Western Railway, passing through Utah and Colorado by daylignt; ‘Ihrough cars by all trains. 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