The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 28, 1900, Page 6

TH SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1900. Che Saltne @all. DAY ...ccsrenesnionss--BEPTHEMBER 28, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECTLL Proprietor. 2d A" Commu: tions to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. MANIGER'S OFFIC Telephone Press 201 PLBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, §. F. Telephone Press 201, EDITORIAL ROOMS. ... 217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephor Press 202. Deltvered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples,.5 Cents. crms by Mail, Including Postage: 1 (1 ng Sundar), one year. day), § months. day), 3 months. Al postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. forwarded when requested. change of ddress should be OLD ADDRESS in order compliance with their request L1118 Broadway s, Marguette Building* Chicago. Long Distance Telephone “Central 2619.°") XEW YORK CORRESPONDENT €. €. CARLTON 2 quare NEW YORK ENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. .. 30 Tribune Building p— WS STANDS T = . @ Unton square: - WS STANDS: s News Co.: Great Northern Hotel: tortum Hotel WASHINGTON (D. €.) 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W, Clay, nigomery, corner o open until 9:30 o' o'clock. €15 Larkin, open until o'clock 261 Market, 1085 Valenc open 3 AMUSEMENTS. e Magistrate.*” EDUCATING FILIPINOS. 5 7 HEN the fir y n was given to the re- ses of the Philippine th il of educated or Moses advis: to be Profe made I find among the young ud am in of eager e schools of America f them as- render some based upon two ate an 2 students; 1dition lot who are to be , but it has been an- » be “the forerun lusion that s a saie CO! asked for the grant oi nwealth, and her people 1 home demand for ever; spare from their earnings 1 it can well provide laboratories of studentz, c funds mes, and pr it between the civilization of d St Ii our rule in much like that of the Spanish to send students’to Berkeley difference exists, we n the edac es onal project alto ve ibout seven millions and a half of our former slaves and s many more illiterate whites of o are the lees in the wine of our civil- be i P ure islands seven thousand miles t our expense while there is such a »sophers who say that we i our own people who don't knomw ve reached Berkeley wili h the hospitality to which r land zre entitled, but there will be no ss among the taxpavers of California to 1 the expectation that the five are to be the of a large company.” 1t Hobson has resorted to the tongue by the The young man swears t! ons usual ex- his tect accusing his interviewsrs. o the extent of not criti- except in pr ers are unnecessarily 1 because endous 10ss 10 the tea crop of rs wiil probably see to it that we con- e our customary brands and quality. lly in a name, anyway. cxpect to see the politax collector vigor- d again in the land. Assessor Dodge, & to a decision of the Superior Court, is en- 15 per cent of the collections. At least one of the horrifying pages upon which is written the history of the century has been turned. The South African war is over. titled to s | under the system of ¢ epeat what we said before: “We | their | PROGRESS OF THE CAMPAIGN, HE campaign is swinging around again to the T money question. Colonel Bryan's unlimited capacity for over-statement has seemed to de- stroy the force of the “paramount issue.” Not con- tent to give the economic reasons against perma- nently holding the Philippines, he proceeded to paint a lurid picture of imperialism, with an army of con- scripts, a vast military establishment riding and gall- | ing the backs of the people, and a score of foolish and ’f:mcn'ul things which were 5o overdrawn as to send | his hearers to examine the constitution and the struc- | ture of their Government. There they found that the purse and the sword are controlled by Congress, and that a new House of Representatives is elected every two years, coming directly from the people, and thai cks provided by the constitiu- | tion the House, in which all revenue bills must origi- i nate, has an absolute and unbreakable control of the | milita nd civil policy of the Government. They found it is provided that appropriations for support , and that the of the army can be for two years onl popuiar branch of Congress. After this examination | they listened with less interest to Colonel Bryan's frantic statement of the danger of imperial subversion of their liberties and settled back upon the real issues { of the campaign, which they found to be exactly | those of 1806, except for aggravating additions made | by Colonel Bryan's indorsement of the Populist plat- form and acceptance of that party’s nomination. Im- mediately the press which had been supporting began | to show defections. The Detroit Free Press, lead- | | and in a stinging editorial rebuked the harm he had done to anti-expansion, in which he believes, and announced its opposition to his election and its in- tention to aid in his defeat. The German Télegra: population of Indiana, which supported Bryan in 1806, denounced his sup- port of Populism as “ that of at , organ the German published the lack of confidence and the apprehension President and the Senate are powerless as against the | T 1g Democratic paper of Michigan, abandoned him, | | sixty days. Indianapolis, | an incredible folly.” and declared | which will now be more strongly awakened among | conservative voters will not be allayed until election day.” Even the New York World, which had been giving Bryan a sort of perfunctory support, further diluted it by denouncing the patent follies of his letter of acceptance and exposing the risk and danger of his financial policy. As far as the metropolitan press is concerned' the only “whole hog” support he gets is from Hearst's three papers, and that is being broken . | by republishing Hearst’s “Nail the flag to the Philip- pines” rant and his declaration that Democrats to promote Democratic polic e Republican ticket. So the campaign takes the alignment of 1896, The sound money Democrats are again under arms. They have organized a separate activity, have their advo- s were compelled to vore cates on the stump and are making again the same effective fight they made four years ago. They s tain the gold standard law, declare it the indispensable foundation of the public credit and of all the financial reforms that are necessary to make a system that shall be the proper instrumentality of all the people in their business affairs.,, Some favor and some oppose hold- ing the Philippines, but they hold that external e in abeyance and refuse to permit it to be used the means of instituting a domestic policy that will again destroy our industries, check the rising tide of prosperity, ruin business men and leave labor without work or wages. g is swing to the issues of 1896 brings out Br prophecies of that He said we have the gold standard prices are as certs year. repeatedly: fall as the stone that is thrown into the air ng as the scramble So or gold continues prices must d a general prices is but another defini- times %6 the highest price of wheat in New York a bushel; in 1900 it was 9274 cents. like manner corn was 30 cents, now 47 cents; oats 23 cents, now 28 cents; lard was 374 cents, now 6.9 cents beef was $9 a barrel, now $12; Ohio XX wool was 17 cents, now 30 cents; and silver, then 69 cents row 60 cents, about. tion for In 1§ was 08 ce; an ou In des e his in 1896 he said: investm “Those who hold as permanent nt the stock of railroads and other enterprises ured by the gold standard. The rising dollar arning power of these enterprises with- are in destroys the out reducing their liabilities, and as dividends cannor be paid until salaries and fixed charges have been sat- isfied, the stockholders must bear the burden. Rail- road rates have not been reduced to keep falling prices.” t the reports of the New York Produce nge show that between 1873 and 1899 freight rates o | 3 fell 60 per cent, and Poor’'s Manual shows that the ace with | . - P | ceived a letter from a reliable correspondent at Nome, potent forces for good that our civilization and our religion have produced. : So important has become the work of the associa- tion that its usefulness has been recognized by ali classes of people. When in 1804 the ‘jubilee celebra- tion of the foundation of the association was held i London the Queen bestowed upon the founder the honor of knighthood in royal recognition of the fact that he, Sir George Williams, stands among the fore- most benefactors of the century. It is to be noted that the association does a large amount of educational work along many lines of in- struction. The members of the association receive many benefits from it, and the most eminent men in the republic are proud to be associated with it in any way. I manner in which a workingman while on his way to Vallejo on foot had been virtually held vp by a constable at Port Costa and compelled te surrender his watch and money comes a statement from a man in Reno who asserts that he also had - s s LOOTING '[E7 WAYFARER OLLOWING the report in the press of the | been subjected to a similar extortion by the Port | Costa officer. The Reno man, who signs his name R. Livingstone and who appears to have had a good deal of expe- rience in such matters, declares in his letter that every Marshal or constable in the interior counties compels workingmen who are found traveling on foot to give up money. He states that on one occasion he un- dertook to walk from Los Angeles to this city and on the way had to give up $12 75 to Marshals. The Marshal at Bakersfield offered to give him $2 to be arrested. He took the money and was sentenced to The jailer let him out the same evening, telling him they had no money for his grub. He was arrested again at Provo and taken back to Bakers- field, where he was sentenced to thirty days. The Marshal got his mileage, the Judge his fee and Liv- mgstone got thirty- hours, as the jailer would not keep him longer. “Every Marshal,” wrote Living- stone, “is good for from $1 to $5 and whisky is thrown in as a further inducement to be arrested, so | the officer can get the mileage and the Judges their fees. It is the only State in the Union where labor- | ing men who are forced to walk from place to place are made the tools of Marshals and cogstables. 1 could give you the names of a hundred laboring men who will corroborate my charges.” This is not the first time that public attention has { been attracted to the fraudulent practices of Mar- | shals and constables in making arrests solely for the purpose of getting fees. Nor are they the only offi- cials to be blamed, for in many cases Justices of the Peace have co-operated with them. Such practices were bad enough when tramps were the victims of the | arrests and the profit was made out of the pockets of taxpayers, but when the evil goes so far that respec- table workingmen are halted on the highway and vir- tually robbed by the officers of the law, it is high time for some drastic measure of reform to be instituted. The climate of California is attractive to tramps and the State has always been infested by them. Consequently the law gave a large authority to con- stables to arrest tramps, and public opinion generally sustained the arrests. As a result the constables and Justices soon found there was money to be made out of the tramp industry, and. as has been said, in some counties the officers | giving them a share of the profits made out of the crime, In | O | able a clique of unscrupulous men to get possession peech of acceptance in Madison-square Gar- | | firmed by statements from other sources. | dividends paid on railroad stocks in the United States | in 1806 were $81 $04. 28,154, while in 1808 they were this was on the business of 1897 an in- 6; rease of $13,000,000 over the year in which Bryan | uttered his grediction ¢ In 1806 he said: “There can be no general prosperity | | in this country until we stop the conspiracy of those would make gold the only standard of the world.” i In 18g6 the deposits in the savings banks of this country were $1,007,156,277. In 1800 they were ! $2,230,366,954, an increase of $323,000,000. Just contrast these changed and improved condi- tions with his general and sweeping declaration made at Minneapolis in 1836: “The gold standard means | who % | dearer money; dearer money means cheaper prop- | ert; cheaper property means harder times; harder | times means more people out of work; more people out of work means more people destitute; more peo- ple destitute means more people desperate, and more | people désperate means more crime.” Was ever a public man more thoroughly discredited by events, and was pretended foresight ever more re- ed by the facts? | THE Y. M. C. A. BANQUET. R EPORTS given of the second annual banquet last evening of the boards of management of the Young Men's Christian Associations of this city and of Oakland will have the effect of calling the tiention of the general public to the flourishing con- dition of the two institutions and to the high order of the work they are dging. Bymeans of that the banquet will be profitable to the community as well as pleas- | ant to those who attended it, for it can hardly he doubted that much in the way of profit will be de- tions. Hardly any movement of this marvelous century has had a more wonderful history than that which has | brought about the upbuilding of the Young Men's Christian Association in all parts of the world. Fifty- six years ago the first association of the kind ‘was organized in London by a young man who was at that time engaged as a clerk in a merchant’s office. From that small beginning the association has ex- panded to every part of the globe and has augmented in power until it is now recognized as one of the most rived from the reawakened interest in the associa- | | bad shape owing to litigation. | that is apparently going on at Nome. | ate robbery. fees for arresting them. The later development of stopping honest men on the road and compelling them to surrender their money to avoid arrest and detention carries the evil to the degree of flagrant and where evidence of such extoriions can b= cbtzined the guilty officers should be subjected to the fullest penalty of the la s _JUDICIAL CUTRAGE AT NOME. NLY a short time ago The Call had occasion to publish a report of the manner in which the Federal court at Nome has been used to en- as “receivers” of a considerable proportion of the best mining claims in the district. The reports were based upon reliable information, and have been amply con- It is there- fare clear that an evil of great magnitude exists in the administration of the law at Nome and that the whole Pacific Coast should exert its influence at Washington to have the evils abated and the wrong redressed. One of the leading business men in the city has re- in which the writer says: “Things here are in very The grafters from the st have formed a combination to steal every good mine in this section of the country and have in their possession all of them that are rich and are being operated. Just as soon as a poor devil opens. up a mine and gets to taking out money a jumper turns up and the matter goes into court; the court appoints a receiver—one of the push, of course—and the claim falls into the hands of the combination, and the re- sult is like a snowball falling into h- 7 The writer goes on to tell how two partners had procured four claims in one of the richer districts, and adds: “Before the papers were madeoutthe claimswere placed in the hands of a receiver, the rightful owner dispossessed; the receiver takes charge in collusion with the jumper, buys expensive machinery that soms | one could not use on the beach at an advantage, hires forty or fifty men, and commences to loot the claim at an expense of $600 or $700 a day. Mind you, no work had ever been done on the claim until the graf- ers had taken possession of it. Such a situation as exists here would never have been tolerated one day in any other mining camp that I have been in. I hava about given up trying to buy anything here this sea- som, believing fully that I woufdl be robbed of my property should I be so unfortunate as to sluice out a dollar or two.” * Such is a specimen story of the way in which the law of the United States is used for frandulent pur- poses. The extortion of the Canadian authorities in the Klondike country is bad, but has never reached such monstrous proportions as the wholesale looting The miners on that desolate coast are too far away from the national capital to make their complaints heard there, but persons in California are not too far away to be { heard, and they should see to it that the facts are | brought to the attention of members of Congress in order that a basis may be laid for impeaching the Judge who has used kis court for the purpose of pro- moting what has every appearance of being deliber- r———— * The local Democratic “convention” has at least one merit. It is not masking under any misrepresen- tation of fairness to the fellows who have been shut out. ’ bl el The endeavor of the student journal at Berkeley to destroy any undergraduate notion that inebriety is a part of the university curriculum will meet un. questionably with the heartiest public approval. rctually encouraged tramps by | | | for a few days. kicked me over and I've i UNCLE SAM'S CHANGED CONDITION. S S e R 0 el 0 omfeefoniofroefectoolorirafonferfminfrfenfontentecfolecfonfontesfifrefocfoelufufuforforts cfrfrcfoofonfont x5 - .l- * + IN AUGUST, 1896. ¥ [F OUR vears ago millions of dollars in =z American gold were being shipped abroad. & The reserve fund was running low. Not 3. long before the Government had borrowei $100,000,000 by Issulng 4 per cent bonds. Money lenders had no funds to accommo- | WAT 12an in the A IR | date industry. Gold coin had all but dis- | cided to borrow 00,000 from American appeared. It was sald that Russia had in | financiers, n'is contemplating & . | her treasury $200,000,000 in American eagles. | loan. i L B B e ) ® H toferfefeefoeleootentesforlec o oo e forl e onfen sl ,""/’,'4 Gl P IN AUGUST, 1900. ENRY Labouchere is credited with hav- ing satd that there was no good reason why the United States should not do the bank- ing for all the world. England has j borrowed £5,000,000, or $25.000,000, of war loan in the United States. g e R S S e M S The Rus- 3| PERSONAL MENTION. R. J. Billou and family of San Jose are at the Grand. M. P. Stein and wife of Stockton are at the California. George E. Goodman, a banker of Napa, is at the Lick. P. D. Charlebois, tura, is at the Lick. Isaac Bird of Merced, a large rancher, is stopping at the Grand. Judge Ross of the United States Circuit Court is at the Palace. J. G. Scott, manager of the Lick Paper a merchant of Ven- | Mills, is at the California. Professor A. V. Babine of Stanford Uni- versity, is at the California. C. A. Canfield, a prosperous oil man at Los Angeles, is at the Palace. G. E. Kennedy, a big iron manufacturer at Livermore, is at the Grand. Colonel and Mrs. Mason W. Mather of Plumbago are at the Occldental. Judge Henry L. Bensen of Klamath Falls, Or., is a guest at the Grand. 0. Y. Woodward of Woodward Island, capitalist and mining man, is at the Lick. Fred Dodd, a hotel man at Fresno, is in the city for a few days and is staying at | the Lick. F. N. Smith and wife, B. 8. Smith and Miss Rachael Smith, all of England, are at the Palace. Revenue Agent B. M. Thomas is back | from a two months’ trip through South- ern California. E. O. Lindsley of Portland, accompanied by his wife, is staying at the Occidental Mrs. A. K. Rickert of Shasta, who byilt | the railroad from Stockton to Jamestdwn three years ago, is a guest at the Lick. Mrs. Sarah E. Reamer, retiring presi- dent of the Pacific Coast Women's Press Association, will be tendered a dinner at the Oceidental next Thursday. John Sparks, who has large cattle ranches in Nevada and who also owns cotton plantations in Texas, is in the city for a few days, making his headquarters at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Gay are back from their Eastern trip and have taken apartments at the Occidental prior to re- turning to their home in Honolulu. Mr. Gay is a wealthy planter. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Newman, Miss Mar- fon Newman and Miss Hattle Lowry are guests at the Palace, arriving yesterday from Mr. Newman's country home at Mount Athos, Somerset, Va. Mr. New- man is a capitalist of New York. William H. Mills, land agent of the Southern Pacific, is on his way to San Francisco, after an extended stay In the East. He left Chicago yesterday and is expected to arrive here Monday. J. C. Stubbs, third vice president of the South- ern Pacific, is expected home from the Hast Saturday or Sunday. J. L. Montaneau of Boston is a guest at the Palace. Mr. Montaneau's arrival was hastened by an accident near Lake Tahoe. A bone became lodged in his throat, but as there was no surgeon handy he chartered a special steamer, which made connections with a stage that took him to Truckee, and then he came overland post haste to this city, where the bore was removed with very little diffi- culty. —_————— CALIFORNIANG IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—R. Robertson of Santa Crhz, K. B. Duinan, M. K. Cun- ningham, Thomas F. Boyle and wife and Miss Mina Boyle of San Francisco are at the Ebbitt House. J. W. Willlams of Al- dura, Joseph Regh of San Jose and J. F. Moffitt of San Francisco are at the St. James. James M. Bear of San Francisco is at the Metropolitan. O. C. Brown of Hanford and H. J. Fox of Lemoore are at the Shoreham. —— e —— A “CHILD'S TICKET.” An interesting legal battle is likely to grow out of an incident that recently took place on a Santa Fe passenger train. A 21 years of age, says the St. . bresented the return cou- n ‘s half-rate ticket for trans- portation from San Francisco to Kansas City. He had bought the ticket eleven years ago, it was uniimited as to time, and he claimed the right to use the ticket on his return trip. The rallroad officlals, on the other hand, argued that as it was a half-rate ticket, goorl for a child under 12 years.of age, he, a man of 21, could not ride on it.’ The contract on the back of the ticket did not specify that the child was to stop growing, however, and now the question is, Can tue young man com- pel the railroad to carry him on that ticket?—Kansas City Journal. HAVING A "TIME.” A mother sent her small boy into the country and after a_week of anxiety rec ceived this letter: T fot here all right, but forgot to write before. A feller and ot me out. I was so full of water that I didn’t know anything for S a iong time. The other ho; hurled‘ after they find l:h‘. yl-lh m‘onth‘;g came and cried all the time. A horse money for fixin’ Eet sport hall bring home a (ame woodchuck if T o lfin ln m_y trunk.”—Logan: A CHANCE TO SMILE. | T t Costigan—Casey hasn’t drank a dhrop | since he took out the “accident policy.” " | Cassidy—Whoy? o] Costigan—He sez he's noticed thot it's | always sober thot gits hur(ed,——’ Judg men What the young doctor needs first is to i find a sign painter who can paint him a new sign that will look as if it had been exposed to the weather for about fifteen years.—Somerville Journal. i Stz | iPenelope wants to go to a convent.” | “Unrequited love?” “No; she says she is just dead tired of having to make her shirt waist and skirt stay together.”—Indianapolis Journal. “No,” sald the industrious man. didn’t’ get much encosragement in my talk about a holiday. I met my employer | Just as he was coming home laden witn 8olf sticks and various other kinds of lug- £age, and accompanied by his family of four ‘girls and a small b I told him I thought I needed a rest. “What did he do?" “‘He looked at me hard for half a min- ute and then exclaimed, ‘I don’t see why you should want a rest. You haven't been away on any vacation.’ "—Washing- | ton Star. “Will yoy give it up now?" demanded the scorplon, administering another sting. “Never!” shrieked the centiped, back at its antagonist gamel ever, while I have a leg to stand on."” —Chicago Tribune. | in; I, that caps the climax.” “What's that?” “Cook says those folks In that little house on the corner came over while we were gone and had their photographs taken sitting on our veranda. '—Indianap- olis Journal. Nodd—This modern American life s all | wrong. Too much hurry. have ju taken a quiet, retired nook in the country, | where a man can have absolute rest. Todd—How far away? Nodd—That's the beauty of the place. Only forty minutes from my office.—Har- | per’s Bazar, They were out driving and the you man was holding the lines with one hand. “‘Sweetheart,” he whispered, as the | mocn went behind a cloud, “I wish I had arms like—like—'" “‘Like Fitzsimmons?"' she asked. “No!” he exclaimed. “Like an octo- Chicago Tribune. | pus Every girl should learn some useful oc- | cupation and cultivate habits of industry | when she is young. She may have to sup- | port a husband some day.—Somerville Journal. HARD TO PLEASE. “Mrs. Brown moved away because our sr‘gghborhood watched everything she | | Well 2 | “And Mrs. Jones moved away because she didn't get attention enouen.”—Indian.- | spolls Journal. —_— | McJigger—That was a sly dig Criteek | gave Cribber about his new back U7 ook Thingumbob—Why, Cribber has been | boasting about Crifeek's very flattering CTigserTen + | Mcligger—Yes, he was too deep for| Cribber. Criteek told him there wepe some things in it that ‘were decidediy ginal and some o t very clever.—Philadeivhia Press. = "o C VoY S | ® FASHION HINT FROM PARIS. et e + i LIBERTY SATIN DRESS. e €ENgraving represent: hydrangea blue liberty uu!n. .T::‘-mmu and skirt are ed with satin, em. broidered with silk ma The cor- selet waistband is of Soiored Ppanne, | property and places belongi‘ng | of the duty of a President. He | himselt, | Texas? | is copper, | silver, see the market UP-TO-DATE EDITORIAL UTTERANCE Views of the Press on Topics of the Times. —_— v PRESS—If the American B oot show. In. this siection the they have learned to “stand prosper they will not have completed the demon- stration of their full capacity for seif sovernment. AS CITY JOURNAL—With an due respect to Mr. Bryan, the working- man will cantinue to prefer the full dinner pail to the free soup MWI;D ks 3 HERALD — Governor R nilke some of our publle men. is not a seeker after epigrams. His rhe torie is argumentative, not fl’s.muxe. It is not the aphorism—Iit is the “facts™ upon which he bases his appeal to popular A ASHI POST—We owe to our- WASHINGTON o selves and to humanity the duty of put- ting down and keeping down insurrection in the Philippines and giving the inhabi:- ants good government. No hasty exit is possible, for it is slmrly impossible for this republic to bid fof eternal infamy. “HES DEMOCRAT AND ROCRESTE e Mo mot hear mucn nowadays about the perniclous aetivity of British gold in the United States. In faet, the boot is on the other I my'g not only as to England but as to other Euro- pean countries. A Y DIANAPOLI: JRNAL—Confidence and gold Are great friends, Everybods remembers how rare a sight of coin was prior to Jss:s. InAlnct. th:.rexwruurg. tion. s soon " » ey s Slected 1t came out to shake hands with confidence. JACKSONVILLE TIMES-UNION—Be- ware the political independent—let him who has grievances state his case in the srand council of his party and leave a Jury of his peers to award justice. Stand by ‘the party and preserve the organiza- tion. ST. LOUIS GLOBE DEMOCRAT—In his Firat Inangucal address bresident Lin- coln sal e power confided In me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the to the Gov- site view it elected, to call an extra ses- sion of Congress to give up some of the territory of the United States. OMAHA BEE—What's the matter with Why can’t Texas with its bound. less resources and colossal wealth exhibit gome spirit of self-reliance? Texas has expended $5,000000 on a State Capitol building. Why can't it spend as much for rebuilding Galveston or at least re- building the dwellings of the homeless? ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT—An increase of about 14,000,000 in the popula- tion of the United States in ten years will be shown by the census, and only 4,000,000 of the number {s due to immigration. There need be no alarm about the Ameri- can birth rate. NEW YORK TIMES—A sane man who pretends to desire the permanence of a sound money system in this country cuts a_poor figure in adyvocating the election of Bryan. CLEVELAND LEADER — Arbitrate. Every American shouid preach that doc- trine until neither corporation nor labor union anywhere in the country shall dare ernment.” Bryan takes t | to go against it. PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER—It is | difficuit to avoid the conclusion that the Chinece policy of the German Government has been adopted for the purpose of pro- viding Count von Waldersee with empioy- ment_ proportioned to the importance of his military rank and to the radical posi- tion early assumed by the German Em- | peror. —— s ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. WATER IN SAN FRANCISCO-S.,, City. About eighty gallons per day, per indi- vidual is the present consumption of water in San Franeisco. HALLOWEEN—H., Monterey, Cal. An extended account of Halloween and the superstitions connected therewith may be found in the second volume of Chambers’ “Book of Days.” RED CROSS SOCIETY—S. R., Washing- ton. The Red Cross Soclety of San Fran- cisco, which was organized during the Spanish-American war, did not dissolve. It has remained in existence ready for ac- tive work if occasion requires it to do such work. Mrs. W. B. Harrington is the president. UTAH VOLUNTEERS—H., Sonoma County, Cal. If you desire information about a relative who enlisted in the Utah Volunteers for the Spanish-American war address a communication to the War De- partment, Washington, D. C., giviag name, regiment and company in which the party enlisted. CARE OF A CANARY-B., City. If you have a canary that has been neglect- ed, has become despondent and will not sing, you should call on a bird famcter, | who will advise you what should be done. A newspaper cannot give general direc- tions in such a case any more than in cases of human beings. Certain condl- tions affect the birds, and it requires an examination by one versed in such mat- ters. Any bird fancier will procure for you a bocklet on the care of the canary. SILVER AND ALLOY-L, City. A United States silver dollar weighs 412y grains. It contains 371% grains of pure metal and 31% alloy to harden the same. The alloy used in the United States mints and the mint valuation placed on the copper is 2 cents per ounce. To ascertain the market value of the silver in a United States dollar or in a Mexican dollar, which contains 375 grains of pure 3 value of silver in The Call's commercial reports and make :he!calculauon, as the price of silver fluc- uates. A PREFIX—D. A. C., City. The abbre- viation “Hon.” precedes the name of Su- preme Court Judges and all of the Judges down to those of the court of common pleas. In using the abbreviation “Hon.," if the given name of the party addressed Is known, it is not necessary to use the refix “Mr."; if the given name !s no nown to the writer, then “Mr.” may b used. The same applies to a clersy and the use of “Rev.” The supers tion on an envelope directed to the w of a Lord should be “To Lady h follows the name, as, for instance, Hesketh, and the location to whic letter is sent). WEDDING INVITATIONS—Sub City. A writer on etiquette on the sub- Ject of Invitations to weddings says: I vitatiors are all sent from the brides family, no matter whether they are sonally acquainted with the friends of t groom or not. reception of cerds from strangers should occasio surprise if the gentleman is known to party receiving the invitation. No answe is necessary. People living at a distance receiving invitatons to attend the we ding, also an at home card, inclose the cards by mail. Thoge who cannot attend elther send or leave their cards with glo;(eu within a few days after the w =3 Lad Best eyeglasses and specs 20 to 40c. Look out §1 Fourth, front barber and grocery. * Townsend's California glace frults sc a pound in fire-etched boxes or Jap. baskets. 639 Market, Palace Hotel. 4 Specfal information supplied dafly to business houses and public men the Press CI Bureau (Allen's). 510 nt- elephone . Closing Out Odd Lots. Over 300 framed pictures and panels left, from 25 eents up, to be closed out at one- haif the regular, price to make room for new goods. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Mar- ket street. * ‘When I grow up, Gracie,” the little boy said, “I'll marry you. “When you grow up, Willle,” she re- plied, “you'll get down on your knees and ask me."—Chicago Tribune. somery f HOTEL DEL CORONADO-Special rates still’ in i