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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1897. P ——— e —] JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. S SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..§0.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail. 8.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Sunday CaLL, one year, by mall 1.50 | ‘W XEKLY CALL, One year, by mall, 1.50 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, £an Francisco, California. Telephone....... ...Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Xelephone.. . Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICE:! 527 Montgomery sireet, coraer Cl B:80 o’clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 8:30 o'clock. 815 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. £W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets, open Totil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until § o'clock. 1243 Misslon street, open until 8 o’clock. 1605 Polx sireet; open until 8:30 o'clock. NW. corner Tweuty-second and Kentucky Streets; open Lill § o'clock. open until ock. OAKLAND OFFICB: 908 Broad way. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 52, 34 Park Row, New York City DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. ———————— THE SUMMER MONTHS. Areyou going to the country ona vacation® If ¥, 1t 1s Do trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will recelve prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. Fifty cemts per month for summer monthe — Chinese cigars are not only unhealthful to the smoker but give t> anybody in the vicinity a perfect right to protest. Aumerica does not approach the tassof "feeding the world’’ with any latent mis- giving lest the contract be too great. The Klondike tourist hanged by his fel- low-travelers may have had a last com- forting thought that he was going to miss & hard winter. The day that passes now without the revelation of at least one plot to murder royalty certainly falls below the high standard of the times. In refusing to marry a man diplomat- jeally chosen for her Holland’s little Queen shows that she is of good enough stuff to be an American girl. Up-to-date it is to be noted that the hands jingling most of the coin derived {rom the rise in wheat are not hands cal- loused by contact with the plow. An organ-grinder arrested recently had $695, the proceeds of one incomplete day, which shows that certain industries have escaped the blight of hard times. [f everybody who claims to have seen a balloon hovering over widely diverse parts of the Arctic is correct, a XKlon- diker could not well shoot into the air without bringing down an aeronaut. ‘What has become of the cheering rumor that Gomez was abouttolay his hand on Weyler's collar and jerk that ruffanly monster out of the palace window? But anyhow the rumor was soothing while it lasted —_— In a commendable effort to ksep pace with California cities several Eastern municipalities have forbidden the copious expectorator to deluge his environment. 1tis pleasine to observe a good pattern thus being followed. There is no particular harm in discov- ering Murderer Dunham once in awhile, not even to Dunham himself who has ac- quired an aimost Hearst-like facility for not being present when he would add in- terest to the occasion. John Bull is said to be grabbing the outskirts of Hawaii, and there is no doubt that he would consult a selfish interest by letting go without delay. In the game of grab on Pacific waters the United States Government is umpire. To advance the welfare of California, to vromote the development of her indus- tries and the prosperity of her people is the chief object of THE CALL,and who- ever co-orerates in these things may not be working for THE CaLx, but is certainly working with it. Ohio Populists are to be congratulated upon having named Coxey as their candi- date for Governor. Coxey is entirely ac- customed to belng licked, and there are few people whom the country atlarge could behold getiing licked with sach entire equanimity, an emotion in this in- stance littie short of satisfaction. —_— The fendency to make a heroine of the young woman across the bay who delib- erately committed murder is already manifest. Yet there is nothing really brave in shooting & man who has besn given no warning, and has not been zuilty of a capital offense. The young woman should be shut up and hysterical report- ers, he and she, should be shut up also. One of the murderers now in San Quen- tin and hoveful of having a disagreeable sentence to hanging commuted to impris- onment for life seems not unduly san- guine. His was a double killing, more than ordinarily brutal. According to the mercy extended to the assassin with only one victim to his credit the assassin who has achieved two can reasonably ex- pect a clemency little less than tender. The sea captain who says he passed close to 8 collapsed balloon, but did not stop to investigate, probably thought it easier to tell a lie of this easy style and not bother with details. Many sea cap- tains from time to time are said to.ob- serve marine serpents of imposing magni- tude, yet when they get to describing the color of scales, the length of neck and the blazing beacons that serve as eyes, itis their habit to get sadly mixed. The cap- tain with the balloon yarn was merely cautious. There is something in the -war rumor’s tenacity strangely suggestive of the many lives wherewith the cat is blessed. Only a few days ago this country was prepar- ing to fight Japan, and with peaceful in- tervals while the rumor-makers are con- triving other surprises continues to do so. Spain also is booked for a juaicious thrashing by Uncle Sam, and now neces- sity bas arisen not only for twisting the lion’s tail but yanking 1t out by the roots and using it as a flail to beat the animal. At the same time it is known the United States Government will not go to war with anybody, the absence of occasion be- ing probably the reason and a tolerably good one, THE COMMERCIAL SITUATION. The condition of trade throughout the country is well shown by the volume of exports and imports. The exports from t amounted to $71,412,009, and for the first The imports in July were valued at $53,688, ke United States during the month of Jaly teven months of the year to $561,175,000. ,000, and for the first seven months of the year $506,495000. Compared with last year this shows an excess of exports for tha morth of $17,724,000, and for the seven months of $54,680,000. In other words, thus far this year we have sold $54,680,000 in goods more than we have bought. If this does not show good times nothing does. The present advance in wheat, which is the sharpest for a number of years, is rapidly changing conditions all over the c ountry. It could not have come at a better time, for the farmer is getting the full benefit of it. The French and English are buy- ing our wheat in large blocks, and whether our market goes up or down seems to make no difference to them, weil—we will give it to them—at our figure The other markets, while not as excitel dition. The whole range of farm product: They want our wheat, no matter what it costs. Very s, which happen to be high at the moment. d a3 wheat, are generally in first-class con- s is selling considerably higher than some time ngo. Merchandise, too, which has been behind the processton, has commenced to advance. This in turn will create good nd times again among the wage-workers, then the whole country will be in the full flow of prosperity. Ther is no reason why this prosperity probably will, as long as the Republican party remains in power. party would be to invoke a National calam the near future. It came before the coun should not continue indefinitely. And it To dethrone that ity. But it is not likely to be dethroned in try last fall, when the Nation was in the throes of a panic, and made certain promises of commercial reform which would place American irade and finance on a sound kept to the letter, and the country, within Those promises have been now enjoy- footing again. a few months after election, ing its fruits in the form of a business revival which has never been surpassed in our history. As the American peoplenever ha ve been accused of stupidity, it is not likely that they will kill the goose that lays the golden egg. About the only industry of importance that is not participating in the present re- vival is silver mining, This isin a bad wa; per ounce there is no money in taking it out of the ground. Curiously enough, while silver is in the dumps closing down all over the country. y at the moment. With silver at 52 cents 8o the silver mines are through over-supply, gola is being found in almost unprecedented quantities in sev- eral parts of the Pacific Coast. This latter condition aggravates the depression in silver, but it is better to have a large supply of go!d, even at the expense of a de- pressed silver metal, than to produce vas the former. True, the silver interest is t quantities of the latter at the expense of an important one, and any disaster to it causes hardship to many; but as gold is the governing circulating medium of the world at present, and is likely to remain so for years to come, the more we have of it the better it is for the country at large. The most observiug men of the count fali; but it came sooner than expecied, and was much more pronounced. It is agreeable to be disappointad on the pleasant side. the better. pels the admissioa that, while the new ta ry predicted a commercial revival in the This is all But candor com- riff of the Republican party caused the re- vival 1tself, the current advance in wheat has given it increased stimulus, A MAN OF THE PEOPLE. That the masses of the American people love President McKinley as no other man in this broad land is loved is a long-estab- lished truth, which the abundant testi- mony furnished in the cities, towns and hamlets of the East to-day serves only to embellish and illuminate. His tour of New York State has been a triumphal march, There was patriotic jubilee in the summer resorts of the Ad- irondacks, where he sought rest from the exciting duties of his high office. His appearance was always the signal for an ovation. The workingmen, who for three years knew the suffering and the heartache that enforced idleness inflicts, rallied to do him honor. They marched from the fac- tories, where the hum of industry is heard once more, thanks to the return of confi- dence and the beneficent influence of the policy of protection, and cheered them- selves hoarse for the grand champion of their best interests, who has demonstratea that bis countrymen were right when they hailed him as the “‘advance agent of pros- perity.” From Plattsburg all the way to Troy the warm enthusiasm was manifest, and the welcoming voices of the gathered myriads in the latter city deafened the roar of the artillery salutes, In Troy the Society of the Army of the Potomac was holding reunion. No need to eay that all the old boys in blue have a big place in their hearts for the man who won their plaudits by his bravery in the ranks of war before he claimed their admiration and bless- ings for his devotion to their country’s cause as a statesman in the halls of tha Nation. President McKinley is distinctively a man of the people. He likes to mingle among the toilers of the land and grasp the good strong hand of honest lavor. Men from the foundries and the stove works of Troy greeted him with words of affection, and the factory girls, wtih bright and smiling faces, spoke joyfully to him and received gal!lant compliments as the chief magistrate passed through their ranks. Were the President to visit any seciion | of the country his welcome would be as general and sincers as it is throughout the Empire State. He has been the Moses who has led people out of the desert of hard times into the land of milk and honey. THE USUAL RESULT. A curious 1lustiation of the effect of advertising in advancing business, even when the advertisement is seemingly ad- verse to the trade noted, has just come to light. It will be remembered that a short time aso the dispatches from London an- nounced that a lady of high social posi- tion had been burned to death as a result of the explosion of a petroleum heir wash. In giving the details of the accident the local papers published the name of the dangerous dressing, and it now appears from the evidence given at ihe inquest tnat these publications so far from dimin- iching the sale of the article actually in- creased it, The hair-dressers who sold the <tuff to the unfortunate lady are reported as having testified that since the sensation causea by the catastrophe their business had been greatly augmented. In this particular case no doubt the social distinction of the victim had much to do with the unexpected effect of the pub- licity given to the wash she used. The average woman whoread the story jumped to the conclusion that it was the mode in society to use that form of hair-dressing, apd straightway it had for her an attrac- tion too strong 1o be resisted. She was willing to run the risk of explosion for the sake of adding to her toilet table the hair wash used in the circle where fashion reigns supreme and everytbing is fin de siecle. Allowing much for this tendency in so- ciety to follow the fashion, no matter how dangerous or foolish, there remains in the incident enough to show that the mere fact of the notoriety given to the wash by the extensive publication of its name and uses, added 1o the sale of it, notwithstand- ing its dangers were made known at the same time. The ladies had heard of it and they were bound to try it. The thing was new and they must have it. It seems impossible to warn the general crowd against anytbing. Denounce a vile book and straightway the masses are eager to borrow or buy it. Give adog a bad name and if he is not foolish enough to hang himself he will be the favorite at the next bench show. Whenever any man or thing has been advertised it has been helped to popularity so far as the unreflecting are concerned. It is only the intelligent who can profit by criticism and can find an advantage for themselvesin a publication which warns them of dogs that are vicious, books that are vile and hair washes that are liable to explode, SULLIVAN’S RISING STAR. Boston, the Athens of the Western Worid, city of culture and nurse of ‘‘oso- phies” and “isms,” has laid aside Plato, Emerson, Browning, Epictetus and her other idols, for the time being, and is tocusing her attention on the subject of municipal pol tics. Just at present she is looking about among her four or five hundred thousand for a suitable candidate for Mayor. Boston probably knows what she wants in this respect better than we do. It is difficult to keep ths run of all her affairs at this distance, and we don’t pretend to. Nevertheless, we may be pardoned for throwing in a few suggestions in regard to the expressed willingness of one of Boston’s famous sons to relieve her mind’s eye of a strain and advertise him- self as her champion against all comers |in the municipal arena of the Bean- | eaters. We refer to the iliustrious John | Lawrence Sullivan. The erstwhile king of gladiatorial war- riors has cast aside the weapons of his gory trade, and is to-day hankering, from the bottommost depths of his innermost soul, for one of the choice laurel wreaths of sunny peace. Jobn L. would fain be Mayor of Boston. His choice of tickets would be that of the Democratic faction which still has the nerve to trust its feet on the badiy damaged planks of the Chicago platform. Mr. Sullivan’s record on the silver ques- tion is unassailable. Unlike the speeches of that other great man, who recently traveled through Calitornia on a railroad pass and posed as a tiue blue anti-mon- opoly man at all the stopping-places, John L. has, at least, been consistent. If his speeches do not teem with second-tand figures of rhetoric, he can, at least, be un- derstood ; and he is vastly superior to Mr. Bryan as an economist of time in saying nothing. Mr. Sullivan’s popularity is unques- tioned. In hisvarious toursof the Nation the crowds that flocked to gaze upon his Titanic figure in every big city might ve compared to the outpouring or a popu- lace in classic times *‘to see great Pompey pass the gates of Rome'’ or ‘“to rejoice when Cesar camein triumph.” The clario voiced elocutionist from Lincoln, Nabi cannot boast ja the face of history of ova- tions more numerous or noisy turougnout the whols land than were accorded John L. Sullivan, even before his star assumed its present magnitude in the political firmament. Perhaps John L. has designs in Na- tional affairs, and that he reckons upon using Boston’s mayoralty asa stepping- stone to more e xalted station. He has a greater physique than Mr. Cleveland, and weighs as much as the well-known fisher- man. Physically he would certainiy fill the Mavor’s chair of Boston. He might save that city many heavy ex- penses. For instance, in case of a riot or mob gathering there woul! be no neces- sity of swearing in extra policemen or even of calling out the regular force. Mayor Sullivan could leave off signing city warrants for a few moments and clear tha streets as a matter of exercise. Without a doubt were Mr. Sullivan nom- inated le could knock out any of his op- | ponents. But then, as we remarked be- iore, Boston knows her own mind better than we do. OUR INDUSIRIAL PROGRESS, Germany’s industrial progress has per- haps exceeded that of any other nation of Europ+, but the manufacturers in the realm ol the Kaiser have found them- selves practically outdone in many fields by American enterprise. A writer in the Weser Zeitung, Bremen, believes that American energy, close application to business and judicious study of the wants of foreign cusiomers threaten to deprive the German of the advantages he has gained over England. The writer in question avers that the Germans fail to foilow the extraordinarily quick changes which take place in the far East as far as industrial development is concerned. He attributes this neglect in & measure to the present prosperity in Germany. The German manufacturer is kept so busy attending to the demands of the home market, that he fails to provide for the slack times which must inevitably follow. He does not study the foreign market and conditions as exhaustively as the American, and our countrymen have a far better system of obtaining reports irom abroad, While American as well as English tirms 1n the engineering trade send out trained engineers to solicit orders, Ger- man firms content themselves with being represented by some commercial traveler, who handles their goods as a side line. Catalogues of American goods invari- ably contain the prices, while the German catalogue often omits this important mat- ter. In regard to Oriental trade, the means adopted by the manufacturers of | the United States have given them big prestige. Americans have permanent ex- hibits in Japan and China. While the German carries elaborate drawings to the Celestials, the American sends.the aciual machine and shows how its works If we may take the writer in the Bremen paper as authority, the American is the most highly respected of all the nations 1n the far East, and European rivals must follow American innovations in tihe Orient before they can successfully compete with the manufacturers of the land of the saga- cious Yankee, SNAPRHOTS ALONG THE COAST. “The silence of the silver orators,” remarks the Los Gatos Mail, *‘is becoming oppressive.” £ome people are hard to satisfy. What does the Mail want, anyhow? The editor of the Santa Monica Outlook reck- lessly declares that he is willing to put up with “any old thing in the way of hot weather.” He shou!d remember that this is not the only wor.d in the catalogue. The Riverside Globe gravely attrioutes the recent discoveries of gold to a disposition on the part of Providence to favor the single gold standard. Such faith as this deserves a better reward than a newspaper career af- fords. Try being a chaplain in an asylum for the insane. The Riverside Globe is now being printed en- tirely at home. It still makes & good appear- ance, and seems to have as much local news in 1t as 1t ever had, although its size has been re- duced to six pages in order to lighten the load of the boys who have (o carry it around to its customers every day. A sharp accusation from the Phenix Herald of ‘“wild prevarication” on the part of certain persons who are talking about the climate of Pl@aix leads to the reluctant observation thatitis notatall patriotic for the Hirald to say that those of its townsmen who go away from home and praise the Phcenix climate are prevaricators. Farmers, says the San Luis Obispo Breeze, are on a gallop after the slippery, elusive thrashing man, who is dumfounded as to where to thrash first and how to be evers- where at the same time. Heaven forbid! Thrashed man is not salable. Let him rc- main in one piece, in one place, with a profita- blesense of gratitude at being even somuch as that. 1t is cheerfully asserted by the Fresno Re- publican that the farmers down its way have no need 10 go prospecting, since their pockets are already filled with gols It is a matter for gencral hope that this Indiscreet confession will not invite a prospecting of the pockets by certain people thereabouts Who &re not mor- ally susiained by the advantage of being ‘armers in a boom wheat seasou. Tbere is s movement on foot, headed by Pro- fessor Bragdon, to start a women’s college in Pasadena. All the details have been studied out and several donations have been col- lected, one of them for $10,000. Other per- sons have signified their willingness to con- tribute a like amount, so there is but little prospect of the movement resulting in mere talk until the buildiog is up and the women actusally get into it. The hauling of beets from the rar.ches to the big sugar factory at Waisonville commenced last week, notes the Santa Cruz Surf. About 200 men will be employed during the run at irom $2 a day up. The opening of the *“run” is an occasion of rejoicing for the Watsonviile merchants, as it gives a gieat impetus to busi- ness, Watsonville is a fortunate little burg. You hear no one there compiain of hard times. In a particularly adventurous burst of op- timism the Astoria News of & few days ago ran to the front of the platform and addressed to the worid s prediction that wheat would reach the dollar mark in the fall. The cir- cumstance that, in the excitement consequont upon the rise of wheat on the fuliowing day to a mark somewhat higher than the dollar, the Astoria editor’s prophecy was overlooked is merely another example of that discourag- \ug inattention which falls upon the prophet in his own country. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES., The Swedish Government has selected the Yarrow type of water-tube boiler for use in seyeral torpedo-boats bullding at Stockholm. Latest advices of Japanese warships build- ing in England give three oattie-ships of 14,800 tons each; two armored cruisers, each of 9600 toms, and one armored cruiser of 10,000 tons. The Goliath, a batile-ship of 12,950 tons, building at the Chatham dockyard since Jan- uary 4 last,is being pushed rapidly toward completion. Six hundred men are working overtime on the ship, and the ways are being laid for the launching, which is expected to take place some (1me next Ocober. At the recent naval review at Spithead the batile-ship Prince George was iliuminated with 1970 electric lamps. It has been calcu- lated that the eatire eleciric light display aggregated 739,320 candlepowers; that it took 5850 norsepower 10 supply the current and that the mileage of lamps was fifty-four miles, the lamps averaging five and one half feet apart. The Italian armored cruiser Varesa was launched at Leghorn on Sunday, July 25 last. The snip is 828 feet in length, 59 fect 8 iuches beem and displaces 6840 tons on 23 leet draught. The machinery, built 10 England, is triple expanmsion of 13,000 horsepower, driving twin screws and calculated 10 give & speed of 20 knots. The armor consists of & water-line belt of 6-inch Harveyized steel and the battery is composed of two 10-inch, ten 6- inch, six 4.7-inch, ten 2.2-inch, ten l.4-inch and two machine guns, besides four torpedo- tubes, The superiority of the water-tube boiler over those of the old pattern was recently demon- strated in aspeed contest betwe2n the Quall, Decoy and Havock and three other torpedo- boat destroyers. The theoretical speed of the Quail 1s 30 knots, of the Decoy 27 and of the Havock 28. The two first-nam:d have water- tube boilers; the Havock has locomotive boil- ers. The race started from Falmouth and lasted over an hour, at the end of which the Havock was leit behind. At a speed of eight- een knots the latter boat was unable to keep up with the others, The French battle-ship Henri IV, bullding at Cherbourg since Beptember of last year, will not be ready for her trial trips until some time during 1901. Although her displacement is only 8948 tons, the estimated cost, includ- ing srmament, is $4,006,000, or at the rate of $447 per ton displacement. The battle-ship ludiana of the United States navy, begun May 7, 1891, and placed 1n commission November 20, 1896, is 01 10,200 tons displacement and cost iu round numbers $4,500,000 ready for ses, which is at the rate of $441 per ton—a rather satisfactory showing on tie part of our navy when the great disparity in wages pald hereaud in France is taken into considera- tion, and, furthermore, that the Indiana was the first battieship built 1n this country, while scores have been built in France. Supplementary naval appropriations for navy building in France bave been allowed, according to which the ship programme has been somewhat changed from the original scheme. The battle-ship Jena will be buily and also three firsi-class armored cruisers and two second-class armor d cruisers. The larger one will be of 9500 tons, 459 feet in length | and 63 feet 7 inchis beam, armed with two 7.6-inch and eight 6.8-inch Dbreech-loading guns, besides twenty-four of smail calibers. The engives will be of 19,600 horsepower, water-tube boilers, triple screws to drive the ship 21 kuots. The second-cless armored cruiser will be ol 7550 tons, armed with eight 6.8-inch guns and sixteen quick-firers and machine guns. The engines of 17,500 horse- power will drive three screws and a speed of 21 knots is intended. In additlon to these six armored ships the programme provides for four torpedo-boat destroyers of 800 tons and nine torpedo-boats of 85 tons. The sum of $1,421,150 is allowed to start the work, which i8 less than one-tenth of the final cost of the vessels and the scheme may—as is quile fre- quently the case in the French navy—be greatly modified when additional money is asked for, PHENOMENA OF THE EARTH’S MAGNETISM REPRO- DUCED. Henry Wilde, the president of the Manchester (England) Philunf}phlcul Society, is the in- ventor of & most interesting apparatus, which reproduces the principal phenomena of the earth’s magnetism with wondertui accuracy, says the Lomdon Graphic. The invention is called the “magnetarium,” and is well known in England, where it has becn presented to the Royal Society and described in the “Philosophical Transactions.’”” But until the other day this remarkable work of a British scientist had never been seen in operation on the Conti- nent. Consequently M. Berthelot, the fllustrious, perpetual secretary, invited Mr. Wilde to cross the chauncl and place his instrument before the eyes of the French Academy of Sciences. This was done recently, and the magnetarium was tested in the Consarvatory of Arts. the morning a public demonstration was given in the electrical department, and in the even- ing it was inspected by the academical commitiee, composed of M. Colonel Laussedat, director Mortart, the director of French official meteorology, and M. of the Conservatory of Art Violle, the professor of physics to the Conservatory of Arts. admitted to this strictly private demonstration—tnough the sccompanying sketch of the scene was allowed to be made for a Paris journal. In Only a few other scientists were PERSONAL. F. 8ano of Tokio, Japan, 1s at the Cosmopoli- tan, A. W. Hooper of New Haven is a guest at the Palace Hotel. N. M. Dyer, U. 8. N., {s & guest at the Occi- dental Hotel. R. Gracey, a banker of Merced, is a guest at the Lick House Dr. W. 8. George of Antfoch is stopping st the Graud Hotel. F. M. Miller, a lawyer of Fresno, is stopping at the Lick House. R. E. Hyde, a Jawyer of Visalia, at the Palace Hotel. John W. Ryland of Ban Jose registered at the Palace yesterday. L. L Chamberlain, an attorney of Auburn, is at the Grand Hotel. Ex-Judge A. P. Catlin of Bacramento is stop- ping at the Lick House, H. H, Jastro, a Bakersfleld lawyer, is stop- ping at the Grand Hotel. Rev. H. Jackson of Brooklyn, N. Y., 1s & guest at the Palace Hotel. E. J. Lowry, an insurance man of Fresno, is & guest at the Grand Hotel. E. E. Vincent, a merchant of Maders, is stopping at the Lick House. Dr. F. D, Tyrrell of Sacramento is in the City stopping at the Grand Hotel. C. B. Grifin, a merchant of Ban Diego, is stopping at the Grand Hotel. S Julius Kohn of Yokohams is in the City, stopping at the Palace Hotel. R. G. Watkin of Birmingham, England, is guest at the Occidental Hotel Dr. A. F. Price, United States navy, reg- istered at the Palace yesterday. W. G. Hunt, a lawyer of Woodland, is in the City, stopping at the Lick House. C. W. Waldron of €anta Cruz registered at the Occidental Hotel last evening. A.J. Parker, 8 New York merchant, regls- tered at the Lick House yesterday. F.J. McHenry of Ban Luis Obispo, a promi- nent rancher, is at the Cosmopolitan, Willlam Hamlin, a hardware merchant of Seattle, is stopping at the Grand Hotel. Chris Sehrt and wife of the Tuolumne Hotel, Merced, are guests of the Cosmopolitan. Charles T. Lindsay, an attorney of Visalia, is in the City, a guest at the Grand Hotel. Dr. M. J. Rosenau, United States Marine Corps, is stopping at the California Hotel. Joseph D. Biddle, & rancher of Hanford, registered at the Grand Hotel last evening. H. C. Van Ness, a New York merchant 1n the Jewelry trade, is a guest at the Lick House, John F. Kidder of Grass Valley came to town last evening and put up at the Palace Hotel. Robert T. Devlin, a well-known attoraey of Sacramento, is registered at the Grand Hotel. J. E. Somers and R. E. Evans of New Mexico are among the recent arrivals of the Cosmo- politan. H. J. Larkin, a rancher of Santa Ynez, ar- rived in the City yesterdsy and reglstered at the Grand. D. Harmon of the Gaston Ridge mine, Ne- vada County, registered at the Lick House last evening. 3 George R. Btewart of Crows Landing is in the City. He is making preparations to ship live- stock to Honolulu. H. 8. James registered at the Balawin Hotel yesterday. He is going north on the United Btates ship Adams. Frank Short, a well-known citizen of Freano, arrived in the City yesterday and registered at the Palace Hotel. George W. King and wife of Marion, Ohio, arrived in the City yesterday and registered at the Palace Hotel. James W. Minturn, who has charge of the Sharon estate at Minturn, errived in the City yesterday and registered at the Palace Hotel, Adjutant-General A. W. Barrett registered at the California Hotel last Baturday evening. He will attend the encampment of the First Infantry Regiment, N, G. C,, at Ukiah. Dr. Charles E. Winston, 8. G. McCarty and T. B. Clarka arrived in San Francisco yester~ day and put up at the Baldwin Hotel. They are en route to the goldfields of the Klondike, R. F. Lewis, Juneau, Alaska, arrived in the City yesterday and registered at the California Hotel. He went north before the announce- ment of great discoveries on the Klondike to examine mining properties owned by leading men in the United States, Colonel Park Henshaw, a prominent attor- ney of Chico, arrived in the City yesterday and registered at the Occidental Hotel. He was formerly colonel of the Eighth Infantry Regiment of the National Guard. The regi- ment he commanded was one of the best mili- tary organizations in the State. s stopping WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN, He grubbed away on a patch of ground, “*Waiting ior something to happen”; Year after year the same old round, “Waitine for something to h‘gplfi"i The moments hie had Lo spare he spent, In “‘walting for something to happen”; His hair grew gray and his shouiders bent, Buu he grubbed aad he loafed, and he was con- tent To “wait for something to happen.” His tools wore out, and his ground graw poor, W aiting for something to happen,” But he grubbed and ne loafed aud he still was sure That “something would some das happen,’” And many a cliance he let go past “Waiting for something to happen,” 'ntil there came a day, at last, When clods about his Liead were cast— Something had flnaily happened & E Kisew, In 1 Cleveland Leader. MEN AND WOMEN., Prince Victor Napoleon has just attained the age of 36. The notorious Anti-8emite Deputy Ahlwardt, who visitea this country last year, has just opened a small cigar-shop in Berlin, 8ir John Burns, who was elevated to the peerage at the time of the diamond jubilee celebrations, has taken the title of Lord Inver. clyde of Castle Wemyss. Frank R. 8tockton, the well-known novelist, during his recent visit to Clarke County, Va., purchased from the Rosemont Stock Farm, & pair of fine young mares for driving purposes. A report is current in Paris that the Em- press of Austria expects to visit Paris soon to make a pilgrimage to the scene of the catas trophe of the Rue Jean Goujon, where her sis- ver, the Duchess d’Alencon, perished. Edwin Scott Marble, the veteran actor and dramatist, who has been a pronounced free- thinker and follower of Robert G. Ingersoll, has been converted and became a member of the Roman Catholic Church. Chauncey Depew is oblized to sign his name 10100,000 separate bouds which have just been issued. Allowing 500 as the average for aday, 1t will take him about eight months to get through the whole lot. Ithas been often stated that the grave of Jenny Lind, the “Swedish Nightingale,’’ has been neglected and is not even marked by a slab. This is not true. A handsome cross marks her last resting-place on Malvern Hills. A monument hes been raised in South Caro- lina over the grave of Lucinda Horn, who weut all through the Civil War with her hus- band. Itissaid that this is the only battle monument on any woman'’s grave except that of Joan of Arc. Taplow Court, Mr. Grenfell’s house, n Maldenhead, is the residence of the King of Siam during his stay In England. It is & stately Tudor manor-house of red brick, with cut-sione ornamentations, and commands & splendid view of Windsor Castle and the great park. 5 When Queen Victoria visited the Dublin ex- hipition in 1849 with her two eldest children, an Irish farmer came near the royal carrisges in one of the parks and said: “May it please your Majesty, call the next one Patrick.” In the following year was born the Duke of Con- naught, who was christened Arthur William Patrick Aibert. WITH YOUR COFFEE. A person who judges sole!y by the baseball standard can’t be made to see how it was that Turkey won when Greece made all the runs.— Philadelphia Times. Jeems—The rustle of askirtis the mostat- tractive sound to a man’s ears. Deems—Of course—there’s always a woman in it.—Town Topics. “My dear fellow, I'm between the devil and the deep sea.” “Isuppose that means thatyou're in low water 7"’ —Pick-Me-Up. Cora—College men seem very much fnclined to take life easy. Dora—Yes; even when they graduate they do 1t by degrees.—Brooklyn Life. “Well, Bobby, have you had a pl day?” *Yes'm; me and Jack took our three pups an’ went over ' play ’th Bilile Perkins’ four cats.”—Detroit Free Press. ant “You can hardly blame Fannie for marry- ing you for money when you haver’t & cent of your own.” “Yes, but if only oneof ushad doneitit wouldn’t be s0 bad. We were both fooled.”— Life. “That Clambake country—’ “Klondike, auntfe.” Must be a desperately dirty place.” ‘What makes you think so, auntie?” “Why, everybody who gets there goes right to weshin'.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Chamberlain,”” said the British Premier, “the'e Americans are breaking down all the traditions,” “What now?'’ queries Monocle Joe. “This fellow Bherman has written a diplo- matic note that's as clear and as plain as Kruger's whiskers.” — Philadelphia North American, HANNIBAL HAMLIN'S HUMOR. Living Church. There 1s & large coinage of good stories sbout Hannibal Hamlin up in Maine, and this is one of them: In his earlier days, at a certaln caucus in Hampden, the only attend- ants were himself and a citizen of very large stature. Mr. Hamlin had some resolutions to pass whicn began by representing that they were presented to a “large and respectable” gathering ol.vner “‘Hold on,” eried the other man, "we can’t pass that, foritain’t truel Tt ain’t & large and respectable caucus! There’s only two of us.” “You keep still, brother,”” commanded the wily Hannibal, “Ivs all right, for you are laree and I am re- spectable. You just keep still.” Bo the reso- lutions were sea without further demur. — BRYAN’S SONG. Chicago Inter Ocean. As Bryan is whirled through wheat flelds and hears the music of the thrashers and sees the whote land waking up to new life and activity, as he remembers his prophecies of calamity he can sing, “One by one the roses fall; one by one the streams run dry,” or that other plaintive ditty— 1 never nursed a dear gazelle ‘10 glad me with Its <o1:. black eye, But when i came 10 know me well, And love me, it was sure to dfe, —_— THE TROUBLE WITH THE POET" FEET. 3 Atlanta Consititation. A Georgia farmer hasa son who writes verse, but is too modest to submit it for publication. One day, when the farmer was going to town he took a bundle of poems along wi . and hauded them to an editor, Enth hin h"They;re ;‘,lxen:yhfnn_&" seid the editor; “his rhyme s ail right, but there' wrong with his feet.”” o mahug “Well,” said the farmer, *I won’ he’s got corns!"” — IT MAY COME TO THIS. tdeny it; Cuicago Dally Tribune. *“We shall have 10 quit assoclating with the Higginside girls.” “Why? What's the matter with thewn?” “They are riding ready-made bicycles.” ANSWERS TO CORR:SPONDENTS ToMMY RYAN—J. C.,, City. The right name of “Tommy” Ryan, matehed to fight *'Kid” Me- Coy, is Joseph Younrs. He was born in Red. woods, N. Yo March 1 T P ok descamreh 20, 1870, and is sa:d to be FARM-HANDS—F. J. A, Aleatraz Island, Cal Thbe pay for harvesters who work in the fleld in the Sta l:’ California is at this time, gen- ng, per month and found. s it i8 but §25 and found. B4 THE MINT—A, G. 8., Oakiand, Cal For infor- mation about the civil service examinations in the branch mint of the United Btates los eated at_San Francisco, address “‘Clerk, Civil Service Department, United States Branch Mint, San Francisco, Cal.” Jokes—T. J. B., City. The comic papers pur- ehase jokes, but they must be new nnd with some point to them, Such s require an ex- planatory diagram with each are not sulable, If you nave any good ones offer them to any comic paper. BANKS AND INTEREST—F. H. L, City. The general rule in savings banks 1s thata parent or guardien may open an account for a minor, that the minor may make deposits, but that such minor cannot withdraw deposits withe out the signature of the prent or guardi n. Tae rate of interest at savings banks is fixed upon the smount of earnings, and is aon- nounced every six months. TRINITY OUTFIT—O. 8, City. The outfit that oue requires to go to Trinity County depends whether the individual wants to go asa pros- pector or as a miher. For either he can pro- cure an outfit near the point to which the rush is directed and save the cost of transportation. As the mines are not far from civitization any- thing that is neccesary can be readily obe tained. 1f an individual goes oul&s & pros- pector he should provide himself with a pick, shovel, gold washing pan, a hatchet, s ham- mer, g sheiter tent and sufficient food to last him for such time as he proposes to be absent. THE THIRD HOME AGAIN. Tents Struck by the Brigade at Their Camp at Santa Cruz. Olose of One of the Most Sucoessful Encampments Ever Held in the State. The Thira Brigade, which has been en- camped at Santa Cruz for the past week, broke camp at 10 o’clock yesterday. Reveille was sounded as usual. After breskfast at 6 A. M. tents were struck and all preparations to move were made. Re- ligious services were conducted by the Sixth Regiment chaplain at 9 A M, sacred mu-ic being rendered by the Bixth Regi- ment band. The encampment is considered the most successful ever held in Santa Cruz. Dis- cipline has been rigidly enforced. The men performed their duties cheerfully and to the best of their ability. Generals James and Muller were present and madea few remarks before the regiment left the grounds, The Sixth Regiment made a better anowing than ever betore. Colonel Stew- art 8. Wright of Fresno, the new com- mander of the 8ixth, is popular with all. The Sixth Regiment band of twenty- three pieces, with Will 8. Scott of Fresno a: drum major, made a decided hit. The sanitary corps of the SBecond Regis ment conteins a fine lot of boys. They bave a mandolin club and a male quartet. Thursday night the corps, known as the White Squadron, gave a spectacular “‘ful’ undress drill on the battalion parade ground. Their wardrobe was scant, but the scenic effects under the light of moon were fine. The genial Captain jame’’ Clark of Btockton was in command and bandled his men well. On Septem- ber 25 the corps will pay the Captain a visit at his home in Stockton, when the Sixth Regiment band will give a grand ball in their honor. The Second Regiment arrived in this City over the narrow-gauge railroad at 8 o'clock. The Bixth came over the broad- gauge and arrived here at 4:30. Last night the boys were roaming the Chiy at will, glad that they were through their labors at camp. —————— CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. 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