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FRIDAY.. . .JUKE 26, 1896
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION
and PROSPERITY.
FOB PRE9JDENT-
WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohio
FOB VICF-PKESIDKXT-
GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey
ELKCTION NOVEMBEB 3, 1896.
Whitney may still smile, but he is the
worse lor wear.
Now as for Thomas Sharkey he is surely
the coming man.
We now may expect Mr. Fitzsimmons to
blow his horn again.
Cleveland and Carlisle started her, but
there is nothing on earth can stop her.
Every report from the Treasury empha
sizes the need of immediate tariff reform.
When it eorntes to downright hard fight
ing the American seaman is always on
deck. ,
Mr. Whitney and Mr. Corbett have the
satisfaction of knowing they made it a
draw. ____-__^
The Ohio Democrats have had a lucid
interval and put forward au editor for
President.
♦ ' ■ ■' —
Freedom of speech among Democrats
seems to consist mainly in swearing at
Cleveland.
Whitney has emphatically put himself
out of the race, but Cleveland still hesi
tates to decline.
There is no question but what New Jer
sey will stand with Hobart. We can count
her in the Union.
Even New York Democrats have been
reading "Coin's Financial School" instead
of Wall-street bulletins.
With the average Democrat any hole in
the ground will do as a hiding place from
the people who demand work and wages.
The existing money of the country is
good enough for the people. What they
ask for is a chance to work and earn some
of it. _
Congress rebuKed Bayard, but as Oxford
• has conferred on him the degree of D.C.L.
he perhaps feels that he has been vindi
cated. . -
The New York Democratic convention
nominated no electoral ticket, but it is not
certain whether this presages a bolt or a fall
down.
Cleveland may issue another set of bonds
as campaign documents before election
day comes, and of course Wall street will
ratify it. '
Corbett may maintain his claim to the
championship after this, but he cannot do
it by devoting his time to the elevation of
the stage. _______
Since the gold Democrats in New York
could not control even their State Conven
tion, there will be very little use for them
at Chicago. __ :
Day by day the gold reserve goes down
and day by day the people are given new
evidences of the folly of this debt-making
administration.
By the time the municipal campaign
opens the people will be ready to make a
firm stand for progressive economy and
economical progress.
Cleveland may take up the Cuban issue,
but it is by no means certain that he is a
strong enough statesman to carry it to the
point the people wish.
If one may believe the Philadelphia
Record, the people of that city take more
active and vigorous exercise in dodging
bicycles than in riding them. ; > f.
When the factories and shops are run
ning and work and wanes are abundant
there will soon be an end tD the monetary
stringency and paralysis of trade.
"We stand where we always have stood,"
says McKinley. . "The tariff that we stand
for is a tariff that shall protect the homes
and the firesides of America against all the
world." _•"• •
It will be the policy of the free-traders
this year to make free trade masquerade
as free silver in order to steal a march on
the people and sava their hobby from de
struction.
. *
The Liberals have won in Canada and
liberal parties will win also in Mexico and
this country. This is going to be a big
year for liberalism and Americanism all
over the continent. •
Democracy on any platform will be the
same old Democracy that overturned the
protective system, ruined all American in
' dustry and deprived thousands erf people
of work and wages for three years.
When Whitney managed four years ago
. to bring about the re-election of Cleveland
he expected to be the administration can
didate this year, but I now he swears he
Wt-run if nominated nor serve if elected; .
LOCAL PATRIOTISM.
In his address at the great ratification
meeting at his home to Paterson, on Mon
day evening, Mr. Hobart turned aside for
a time from National politics to impress
upon his feJlow-citisens the importance of
civic patriotism. "1 invoke you. Republi
cans and Democrats alike," he said, "to
do even more than you have done, to
manifest more civic pride, more public
spirit. * * * We want to make a city
of comfortable homes for working people,
and have ample facilities for them to
earn enough to own and enjoy their
homes. It is to the advancement of this
idea that I have devoted my time, my
energy and my work to the best of my
ability in order that I might more fully
show my regard and affection for those
around me — thoso with whom I am in
friendly contact every day of my life."
At first thought it may seem strange
that tnis plea for local patriotism should
have been uttered by a great statesman
■who had just been nominated for the high
office of Vice-President of the United
States. One would naturally expect that
on his first address to bis fellow-citizens
after his nomination he would have spoken
to them of great National issues, to the
total exclusion of the little affairs of local
development. It is a significant evidence
of his deep and abiding civic patriotism
that he should have felt it and spoken of
it at that time, and we can easily learn
from it one of the reasons why he is so
esteemed, honored and loved by his neigh
bors and fellow-citizens.
As a matter of fact, nothing could have
been more appropriate to the occasion and
to the issues of the time than that address.
The Republic is but an aggregation of
communities. Protection to the indus
tries of the Nation means, of course, pro
tection to the industries of each locality.
On civic patriotism the truest national
patriotism is based. He serves his country
with honor -who serves his city with zeal.
It is the men who advance the welfare of
their ugighbors that can be most con
fidently trusted to advance the welfare of
the ■whole people. The home industry
merges inseparably into the national in
dustry, and a devotion to tbe happiness of
the fireside leads to a devotion to the pros
perity and glory of the Republic.
From the brief extracts of his speech
that have come to us, it is clear that Mr.
Hobart is one of the men whom the
American people delight to honor and
whom the Republican party is proud to
raise to office. We need more men of his
kind in tne country. We need them par
ticularly in California. We need men who
put forth their money, their energy and
their time to the building up of industries
in order that their cities may "have com
fortable homes for workingmen, with
ample facilities for them to earn enough to
own and enjoy their homes." That is the
Republican principle of protection reduced
to practice. It is to enable such men to
accomplish such work that the Republican
party exists and battles for the cause of
American industry against tha world.
There will be no condemnation of Mr.
Hobart for his local patriotism. "When he
spoke for bis home he spoke for every
community In the land. He sets an ex
ample which every man of capital and
capabilities should follow. All who stand
for American industries at all must stand
for their home industries. Civic patriotism
is no mean virtue and well deserves recog
nition, even among the great things in
volved in the National politics of Presi
dential years.
STAND BY THE RAILWAY.
The San Francisco and San Joaquin
Valley Railway has a total mileage of less
than 100 miles, and just at this time it
should not be expected to exert much in
fluence upon freight rates and passenger
fares in a very extended territory. It
should be remembered that it is a new en
terprise and that it is only the oepinning
of what will crow into an extensive sys
tem of rail transportation lines. It is true,
also, that the mileage that is now open to
traffic was constructed rather faster than
railways generally are and that the work
of extending the line i? being pushed with
the utmost vigor. This certainly indicates
that it is the purpose of the projectors to
create competing lines in various sections
of the State, with San Francisco as the
focus of them all, and that in the not very
far distant future the Southern Pacific
will be confronted by a rival that is fully
equal to maintain its position, ereat and
powerful as the Southern Pacific is.
There never was a public enterprise in
California that promised so much good to
the people. No doubt the growth of the
interior of the State has been greatly re
tarded by the arbitrary and selfish man
agement of tbe Southern Pacific, and there
is no donbt also that there is no other way
to release the State from the iron grasp of
the Southern Pacific monopoly than the
construction of parallel lines. This the Val
ley Railway Company has undertaken to
do, and the good faith of its purpose is dem
onstrated by the large investment of capi
tal which the Valley road represents, and
in a very considerable reduction of traffic
tariffs the moment the first mileage of the
proposed system was ready to be operated.
Another proof of the earnestness of the
projection is found in the stability of the
roadway and structures of the first mile
age. It presents in no sense earmarks of
a speculative enterprise, but a solid and
permanent business undertaking on sound
business principles.
The plan includes, as we have said, a
large system of lines radiating from San
Franci'co and tbe trunk road. But while
the work of construction is in the hands
of capitalists who are thoroughly and sin
cerely seeking profitable employment for
their money, a duty of moment devolves
upon those whose interests would be bene
fited by additional rail facilities for reach
ing the markets of the country. We refer
to rights of way. There are those to whom
it sometimes occurs that a road must be
extended, else the enterprise would be
left half finished and unprofitable, and
that they will exact prices for the right of
way that would be equal to the value of
all their land holding were no railway
contemplated. Such men are a detriment
to any country; besides, they are misera
bly short-sighted, else they could see that
the introduction of ample public trans
portation lines would largely increase the
value of their property. If tbe people
want to be released from the yoke of the
Southern Pacific monopoly they should
give aid and comfort to the San Francisco
and San Joaquin Valley Railway enter
prise. ■
GARRET AUGUSTUS HOBART.
The St. Louis convention made no mis
take when it nominated Garret A. Hobart
for Vice-President. He is a man of wide
business experience and possesses rare
executive ability. He is in no sense a
politician, but he is just such a man of
affairs as is needed to preside ovor the
Senate. His life has been spent in chan
nels of commerce and he is thoroughly
acquainted with the needs of the Nation's
trade and traffic. His knowledge of tbe
science of economics comes of participa
tion in practical business operations, and
of the experience which years of personal
conduct of large enterprises give. And the
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1896.
highest recommendation for tne position
to which he will be elected and his entire
fitness to aid ;n the work of rebuilding the
industries that have been wrecked in the
last three years cornea from his neighbors,
Republicans and Democrats, who are
familiar with his achievements in the
world of finance, manufacture and mer
chandise.
Undoubtedly Senators will be glad to
have the benefit of Mr. Hobart's larger
business experience in preparing and con
sidering measures for the advancement of
the trade, domestic and foreign, of the
country, and it is very certain that his
opinions will have in mind the ereatest
possible good for all the people. Then,
again, his knowledge of practical politics
and the tricks of the trade of politics
beinjr. no dim will cause him to regard all
legislation as business propositions for the
weal or woe of the people. This will b&ve
a tendency to make Senators forego
schemes which are for advantage to the
party rather than to the country. Mr.
Hobart will be quick to detect the purpose
of bills, and the country may be sure that
there will be no legislation, if the Vice-
President can help it, whose operation
would discriminate against one class of
citizens for the benefit of another class.
EASTERN DEMOCRATIC SCHEME.
The platform adopted by the New York
Democracy ; .s the some one that has been
in use by the party for several years. It
looks well and reads well, but wr.en one
digs down and gets at its true meaning he
rinds the same old basic principles of per
fidy, hypocrisy and falsehood. The usual
"pointing with pride" to the record of the
party was performed, and the leaders in
dulged in the time-worn habit of self
glorification. The convention was har
monious — unusually so for a New York
Democratic gathering — but then the occa
sion was not offering opportunities for the
Tiger to break into the arena. It was a
consultation to find out how best the life
of the party could be saved— a party that
is too sinful to die and not good enough
to live. Even the unterrined Tammany
ward bosses felt the solemnity of the oc
casion and kept comparatively quiet.
It is no surprise that the convention
blamed the Republican party for the fail
ure of the Wilson-Gorman tariff act to
provide revenue enough to maintain the
Government. Had occasion required there
would have been no hesitation in declar
ing that the Republican party is responsi
ble for tb« fall of Adam and all the sin in
the world. It is a cold day when the
Democracy of New York faiis to put the
consequences of its rascality and duplicity
upon tlie shoulders of some oilier party.
Bui the declaration that Democratic rule
is necessary to the well-beinir of the coun
try must have made every delegate smile
at his own capacity for lying. The last
time the country was under complete
Democratic rule prior to 1893 was between
1857 and 1861, and which culminated in
one of the most destructive civil war 3 the
world ever saw. The next advent of the
Democracy in public as the controlling in
fluence in the affairs of the nation was in
1893, and which immediately plunped the
country into commercial and financinl dis
asters of such force and character that the
nation was driven to the very edge of
country-wide bankruptcy.
History does not substantiate the claim
of the Democracy that it is necessary to
the well-being of the peop'e. "If I can
throw the patient into fits," said a quack
doctor, "he will be all right, for I am a
fits sDecialist." The Democratic party
has thrown the country into fits, which
the peop'e know very well, for they are
still squirming under the influence of the
dose, but they will not risk the old pol't
ieal quack's "cure all." The hair of the
dog is not, in this case, good for the bite;
h? sides, these are political dog day*, and
the Democratic doss are raving mad. The
effort of the New York Democracy to
make Western and Southern Democrats
take its medicine will, therefore, only in
tensify tbe spa?m». Whitney, Hill and
the other New York bosses prescribe a
milk and water, meaningless but thor
oughly hypocritical dose called "straddle'
for the National party, and intimate that
if it takes of it freely all cases of fits will
be cured and the party become so strong
and powerful that victory next November
would be assured, but the West and South
have not lost their wits if they are mad.
It is an insult to the West and Suiith to
ask them to join in a scheme to Cover up
their own views on the money question
with deceit so as to appear that they are in
harmony with exactly what they arc bat
tlingagaiust merely to please Whitney, Hill
and other attorneys of Wall-street syndi
cates and trust combinations. The West
and Bouth will not be caught by any such
chaff as the New York convention's kind
of bimetallism. The declaration is
adroitly drawn, and it is intended to per
suade the Chicago convention that it is
best to make a straddle pu tie silver ques
tion: fcut no doubt tbe silver delegates
will be able to see that what the Cleve
land wing is after is an all thin&s to all
men kind of a platform, hoping that such
a veneered declaration of principles will
give the victory in November to it, when
it would fasten the goid standard upon
the country for all time. Whitney, Hill
and company should have held their con
vention in'the Morgan-Rothschilds syndi
cate's parlors on Wall street. They can
not deceive Western and Southern silver
Democrats by rushing off to an interior
rural village so as to make it appear that
they are not the authorized agents of the
gold monometallism of this country and
Europe. The bait on the hook is more re
pulsive tdan the hook itself. In refusing
to name Presidential electors the conven
tion made a stupid blunder. It was in
tended as a threat— the threat of a would
be bully. __________________
A GOOD MAN GONE.
Lyman Trumbull was o*ne of America's
great men, a lawyer having deep and
profound knowledge of the philosophy
and ethics of law, and a statesman of
broad and comprehensive understanding
of the science of government. As a poli
tician he was a failure, although he served
eighteen years in the United States Sen
ate. Originally a Democrat, he was one
of the founders of the Republican party,
but he drew such a broad line between
practical politics and; economic politics
that he could not make them lap one over
the other, hence he failed utterly as a poli
tician, as such a man naturally would.
The trouble with Trumbull was that he
expected too much of humanity. His
ideals were too lofty and 1 too honest of
purpose for his day and generation. Be
ing a great lawyer himself he bad no
patience with law-makers who failed to
comprehend the spirit of our Government
in ; framing legislation, although they
might be entirely honest and sincere of
purpose. In I recent years Mr. Trumbull
called himself an independent Democrat
and voted at every election because he
deemed it the duty of every sovereign to
give expression in that to his best Judg
ment concerning how the public's interests
could be further promoted. He had very
little use for a man who would neglect his
duty at the polls. That he died a disap
pointed man there is no doubt. He wanted
to be at the bead of the Government be*
cause* as he believed, the constitution was
too often disregarded. The man's ambi
tion seemed to be to see profound respect
for our institutions everywhere; laws en
acted for the advancement of the people,
and the right of suffrage exercised because
it was the highest duty imposed upon the
citizen. Judge Trumbull was a type of
nobility of character and American man
hood which the youth of this country
mipht study with much profit to them
selves. ______ ______
PERSONAL.
Mr. J. R. Roberts of San Jose Is In this City.
Dr. C. VV. Weaver of Healdsburg is at the
Russ.
W. C. Good, a merchant of Santa Rosa, is at
the Grand.
Judge E. V. Spencer of Susanville Is a guest
at the Russ.
Mrs. J. V. Kelley and daughter, of San Jose,
are in this City.
Congressman J. A. Barham of Santa Rosa is
at the Occidental.
E. J. Swayne, a business man of San Diego, is
registered at the Russ.
H. S. Morey, a Placcrville mining man, is
registered at the Grand.
Charles F. Hoffman of the Red Point mine,
Placer County, is at the Grand.
Among those registered at the Grand is P. A.
Bueil, a lumberman of Stockton.
F. A. Boale, a lumberman of -Red Bluff, is
making a short visit at the Grand.
George Blake, a mining man of Redding, is
making the Lick nis headquarters.
J. H. Martin, a Woodland cattleman, is
among the late arrivals at the Kuss.
H. Windall, a wealthy mining man of Selby,
is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel.
H. Thorp of Sacramento, buyer for D. Lubln
&. Co., Is making a short stay at the Grand.
Mrs. William Hobson has been the guest of
Mrs. C. M. Shortridge during the past week.
George Fiske, the Yosemite photographer,
arrived at the Occidental yesterday wilh his
wife.
John Irwin Jr. and E. M. Hughes of the
United States navy arrived at the Palace last
night.
Allan B. Lemmon of the Santa Rosa Repub
lican, is among the latest arrivals at the
Grand.
G. M. Francis, editor and proprietor of the
Napa Register, Is a late arrival at the Occi
dental.
The Rev. Joseph Reis, a prominent clergy
man of Michigan, is a guest at the Cosmopoli
tan Hotel.
L. J. Vfetzel of Yreka, a prominent man in
Siskiyou County, is staying at the Grand a few
days with his wife.
C. B. Hunt, a prominent citizen 'of Rieh
mqnd, Ind., is registered at the Grand Kith his
wife and Mm. C. L. Stan ton.
G. M. Odell, a cattleman and wholesale
butcher, of Bakersileld, arrived in town last
night and took a room at the Russ.
Senator Shine of Sonora has comedown to
the City for a few days, and is a guest of his
friend Major Fahey at the Cosmopolitan Hotel.
Johannes F. Ecsardt, superintendent of
Queen's Hospital, Honolulu, arrived at tbe
Occidental last niglit from the East. He is on
his way to Hawaii.
Bobert McDonald, a mining man irotn Baja
California, is at the Russ, registered from
Madalina Bay, the most forlorn pliice on the
peninsula and a small town where tnere is no
fresh water.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Simrmton, Phoebe Davis
Grismer and E. J. McGanney of New York,
who have been visiting the Coast for the past
few weeks, leave for their Eastern homes to-day
via the Northern route.
F. W. Smith, secretary and manager of the
Spokane Fruit Fair to be held October 6 to 17
inclusive, Is at the I'alare with F. J. Keliy.
They are here in the interests of the fair.which
wilt be the third annual exhibition of the kind
that Spokane has held.
CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, N. V., June 25. -At the Plaza—
D. K. Hamilton. Albermnrle--E. E. S. Holdk-n.
Sinclair— MiKS Hoskins. Hoffman— G. A.
Cilne. Vendome — J. Malowanskr, Miss K.
Malowansky. Metropolitan— C. Bonner. Cos
mopolitan—J. P. Cosgrave.
LEARN TO LABOR AND WAIT.
For the lessons of life
They are man » un 1 stern;
- And tin- hardest to learn
Is not masterful strife . - ■
For a Kin x or a state;
It Is only— to w»U.
Youth is eager to start
On the ocean alone, ■>" •V \
Ere his strength be full-grown;
And though Age from his heart .
May of perils Inform,
Utill he thirsts for the storm.
' If bis courage be high,
He may struggle ft 1 oni?
• And by sorrow grow strong;. •- ;*'•
And the years, as they fIV,
May allot him lUe'ii prize - -
On this side of the skies. - - ,-v
But the many that striv«'
■ Tor i lie laurel* must fail:
And full many a sitil •
At Death's port snail arrive;
That could enter Joy's irate
Would its master but wait. '
—Frank Putnam in <. hicftgo Time Herald
POKY SAN FRANCISCO.
Santa Cinra Journal.
San Francisco in darkness will tend to im
press the newcomer and traveler in a very un
favorable light. When a great city has to re
sort to such methods of economy tbe financial
accounts of the municipality must indeed be
in sore straits. Even bankruptcy would seem
preferable. It is useless to advertise the won
derful advantages the City presents for horae
stckers and its spirit of prosperity, and claim
everything up to date, while such conditions
| # prevail. This adverse advertisement will
navel fast arid in a short time do harm
which it will take years to undo. Like a bad
reputation, it is hard to overcome. It will be
a great treat for thugs and thieves.
How a city like Ban Francisco can afford to
economize at such a cost is beyond the under
standing of the ordinary mortal.
THE LITTLE ANNIE.
Alameda Argus.
The Little Annie, Commodore Leonard's first
essay at yacht-building was sold some time
ago to a Mr. Franklin, who is now putting
power in her, having taken the contract tocarry
Tin; Call across the bay in the early morning.
This service must be performed before any of
the ferryboats begin running. The papers are
landed at the Broadway wharf, whence they
are taken by carriers and distributed through
out Oakland nnd Alameda.
NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY.
Augustus (alter the ordeal)— that we are
engaged, 1 want to ask you a question: Why
did you rush out of the room when I began to
propose ?
' Elvira— lt— it made me feel so sorry for the
two girls down in the kitchen, whose lovers
are too bashful ana awkward to propose, so I
hurried down and invited the two couples up
into the back parlor, where the men could hear
how the thing is done. .
"Eh? Then they must . have beard every
word?" . .
"That doesn't matter, . dear. There is.no
danger of any breach of promise suit between
us, you know."— New York Weekly,
In South America.— Tourist— Why can't you
put a stop to these continual insurrections? *
- Native — are considering a measure, now
which may have a tendency in that direction.
It is proposed to reduce the President's, term
of office IJ three weeks, and to provide that he
shall not be eligible for a second term.—
A gentleman traveling in England some
years ago, while walking near a railway, en
countered a number of insane people in charge
of a keeper. Nodding to one of the lunatics,
he said: "Where does this railway go to ?" ;
With a scornful look the lunatic replied:
"It doesn't go anywhere; we keen it here to
| run trains on."— Philadelphia American.
Ethel tjoyously)— Charlie proposed to me
last night.
Maude— Yes. I knovr it. . /
Ethel— Why, how did you know ? •
Maude— l met him this morning, and asked
him what made him look so blue, and' he I said
i you had accepted ijoinerville Journal. ' ■ ,
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.
A man stepped up to the Baldwin desk the
other night with a gold brick in a satchel and
a broad smile on bis lace. He kept a good
hold on his grip and maintained his facial ex
pression while ho wrote in the register,
"George Campb?ll, Gras* Valley."
"Ah! a mining man from Grass Valley?"
queried the chief clerk as he put his pen be
hind his ear and prepared to extend the glad
hand. "Mr. Campbell, let the porter take
your valise."
"Not on your life. Wait till I show yon
what's in it." And he hoisted it up and
dropped it on the counter with a thud that
splashed half the contents of the inkwell over
into the toothpick-stand.
The hair on the olerk's head slowly rose in
George Campbell, Who Came Down From Grass Valley With a Gold Brick and
Took in the Fight.
pompadour array, as he gazed, not upon the
two collars and some other things, but upon a
genuine mass of the real yellow metal.
And then he carried the brick fondly to the
safe and placed it therein, with the gentleness
of a mother putting her first born to rest, and
as he closed the heavy iron-door he murmured
softly, "A gold standard would be plenty good
enough for me."
Mr. Campbell had come down to see the
prizeflnht, and, he had arrived in town a little
too late to deposit his bullion in one of the
banks as is his custom when bringing his
purchases to the City to exchange them for
coin.
He is proud of Grass Valley, for it ia the place
of his birtn, and it bears the added distinction
of being one of the most attractive mining
towns in California.
"There are five bi? mines at Grass Valley,"
said he. as he puffed the smoke from a good
cigar and followed it with his eyes as it rose
and assumed fantastic shapes, "and about 800
men are employed in them.
"Just now E. W. Hopicius is opening up the
Old Gold Hill mine that used to turn out
bucketfuls of ore along about 1860. Then,
down on the Allison ranch they are soon going
to start work on a very rich vein. Flood and
others are interested in that new mine.
"Several Frenchmen have invested in Grass
Valley recen tly, but not to any great extent.
One was 8n editor of a Paris paper, but I do
not recall his name. Malevilie, a Frenchman,
came down on the train with me to see about
a French syndicate that is said to have been
formed, tt is supposjd. for the purpose of iu
vesting money in Grass- Valley mines. The
first I heard of tt was about six weeks ago and
now I understand the agents are expected to
arrive here very soon from France.
"The annual output of gold from the Grass
Valley mines is probably $80i),000, or an aver
age of $100 for each man, woman and child in
the place.
"Up our way Grove Johnson is the most pop
ular man for Congress, but I think they're
sorry Caminetti didn't get It. Caminetti has
done so much for raining; he's a good man for
the miners, and Johnson hasn't done a thing.
"I'm in for the Republican platform and I
think the party's views on the money question
are Just right. I'm naturally opposed to silver
and I don't think its recognition would do the
country any good.
"I take a great deal of interest in horse
i-acing and fighting, aud you can bet if lean
get there I don't miss them."
Edward N. Tailer of New York and W. B.
Keriott of Chicago returned to the Palace yes
terday from the Yosemite. They were on the
stage when it was held up last week on the
way into the valley.
Mr. Tailer is elated over the experience and
the prospects of entertaining his friends on
his return to New York with harrowing de
tails of the dangers of travel In the mountains
of California. It cost him but $6, and would
have cost him only $2 but for the shrewdness
of the highwayman, who instinctively sized
him up for an Alderman and, looking at him
over the barrels of a full-cocked shotgun, de
manded more coin. But Mr. Tailer said noth
ing of a fat wallet in his hip pocket, nor did
he think it wise to make a move in that direc
tion and take chances of having his purpose
mihinterpreted.
Mr. Kerfott, being a resident of Chicago,
touk the whole affair as a matter of course,
and threw out some cash so dexterously that
a 50-cent piece lodged in the feathers of the
millinery of a woman passenger on the front
seat. It was the first time he had actually
thrown money to the birds and got it back
again. Ho says he thinks the "sack-suit" dis
guise must have been made by a London
tnilor, as it fit on the most accepted English
plan of goods to spare.
According to Mr. Kerfott, the express-box
that was thrown out contained only a way
bill and a love letter, but then he says the rob
ber was a very courteous fellow, gallant, and
probably romantically inclined, for he blushed
when a woman tossed out her purse, and de
clared that he did not wish the ladies to give
up their money.
Francisco Alba of Guatemala and a numer
ous family of little Albas are at the Occidental
becoming acclimated before continuing their
journey to Europe, whither Mr. Alba is going
to engage the services of three vaudeville
troupes for his new theater in Guatemala.
The Government has recently conferred
upou him a theatrical monopoly, together
with a handsome bonus of $110,000, on condi
tion that he have two good companies a year
to furnish enjoyment for the show-going pub
lic.
Mr. Alba thinks that he can do this and has
willingly taken the proffered money in order
to show his good faith in the enterprise.
Next year Guatemala is to have a great fair
and its opening will be the occasion of a grand
theatrical outburst, calculated for ever after
to spread a contag ion of theater-going among
the gallants and senoritas ol all Guatemala.
PERSONS OF PROMINENCE.
It is said that the medical practice of Dr.
Jameson in South Africa was worth $15,000 a
year.
The King of the Belgians has a great aver
sion to music and the sounds of a piano or harp
will render him frantic with rage.
Max O'Kcll says he discovered the most
beautiful types or women in the streets of
Budapest aud in tbe drawing-roomsof Dublin.
Lady Mary Hamilton Douglas, daughter of
the late Duke of Hamilton, will, when she
:omes of age, have an income of $1,000,000 a
jrear.
It is stated in England that three new
"Lives" of Christ are in preparation by three
popular novelists— lan Maclaren, B. R.Crockett
md Hall Cane.
Dr. Bridge, who is a famous organist of Lon
ion, sleeps in a bedroom which bears the date
>f 1364. It is a prior's room in Littleton tower
af the abbey cloister.
Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, is one of.
the handsomest and most fascinating men in
Europe. He is restless, travels constantly and
beautiful types ot women in the streets of
Budapest aud in tbe drawing-roomsof Dublin.
Lady Mary Hamilton Douglas, daughter of
the late Duke of Hamilton, will, when she
comes of age, have an income of $1,000,000 a
year.
It is stated in England that three new
"Lives" of Christ are in preparation by three
popular novelists— lan' Maclaren, S. R.Crockett
and Hall Cane.
Dr. Bridge, who is a famous organist of Lon
don, sleeps in a bedroom which bears the date
of 1364. It is a prior's room in Littleton tower
of the abbey cloister.
Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, is one of
the handsomest and most fascinating men in
Europe. He is restless, travels constantly and
is very fond of fox hunting and all exciting
sports.
Maecagni, the composer, was recently asked
what European city he would prefer to live in
and gave as his answer: "From 9 to 11, Lon
don; from 11 to 5, Paris: from 5 to 7, Buda
pest; after 10, Berlin."
In the eighteen years of LeoXill's reign the
mortality among the members of the Sacred
College has been remarkable. One hundred
and eleven Cardinals have died in that lime,
though only 120 d!ed in the thirty-two years
of the pontificate Ot Pius IX.
Louis Spitsel, who lives in Shanghai, will
meet Li Hung Chang in Paris and will return
with him to this country, where he will act as
a friendly interpreter. Mr. Spitzel has spent
most oi his life in China. He is manager of
the Thomas Iron Works in China.
LADY'S WAIST WITH DRAPED VEST
A stylish waist with a graceful draping
which forms a blouße front is made with a
fitted lining. The back has a ripple skirt por
tioa front the under-arm seams. A gown of
blue and white Bilk had the draped front and
stock collar of white Liberty silk.
Brown crepon with drapery cuffs and collar
of silk batiste in flax color was charming.
Green canvas over a pple blue silk lining
had the draped front of blue and green chiffon.
A gray canvas with white chiffon was ex
quisitely dainty.
The skirt is cut with a circular front and two
gores In the back which are laid in box pleats
at the top.
A medium size requires 7% yards of 21-inch
goods.
For the waist one yard ot any width goods is
needed for the draped vest, with 4> 2 yards of
31-inch goods for the waist.
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
A UNIQUE COLONY.
Where Individuals as Wkll as Property Be
long to the Government.
To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—Sin:
In your issue of to-day I notice in Answers to
Correspondents a reference to the "Unique
Colony," in which it is said little is known re
garding it. I can give you the following facts
regarding the unique organization:
The Buenos Amigos Colony was founded in
1853 by a wealthy Peruvian named Don Jose
Rodriguez. It is located about 100 miles in
land from the northern coast ot Peru. The
orignal settlers numbered seventy-five and the
Peruvian Government granted the settlers
absolute sovereignty over the small domain,
allowing them to make such laws for self
government as they should desire.
The colony is founded upon broad socialistic
principles. Not only does all property belong
to the government, but the individual also is
a government chattel. The colony now num
bers something over 1000 population and is
growing gradually. Auy one except a negro
or an Indian can Decome a member by making
application and being elected by "Congress."
A membership fee of ¥500 in American coin is
charged. This fee is charged because a person
who has accumulated that much money is sup
posed to be steady and industrious, and they
will tolerate no drones. About two-thirds of
the members are Peruvians, Chileans and
Brazilians, the remainder being Germans,
Englishmen and a few Americans.
Tnecolony isdividedlnto departments. these
into divisions, and the latter into suctions.
There are four departments— labor, educa
tion, commerce and health — each being pre
sided over by a minister. The four ministers
comprise the tribune, which, collectively, con
trols finances and administers justice.
Th« department of labor is divided into "di
visions" of agriculture, building, stockraisinic
manufacturing, export and import and im
provements; the department oi education is
divided into schools, music and arts; the de
partment of commerce into imports, exports
and distribution, and the department of health
Into housekeeping, hospitals and care of
minors. Each division is presided oter by a
superintendent, and the divisions are com
posed of sections, these being directed by a
Chief.
As the individual is held to be the property
of the government the department of health
takes charge of the^chlld when it ant comes
into the world and cares for it. The mother
and child are both taken in hand, first by the
hospital and then by the nursery. As the child
grows it is turned over to teachers for an edu
cation, and soon until it becomes an adult,
when it does its.share of labor with the others.
Every person over the age of 20 is expected
to devote four hours per day to laboi r un ess
prevented by sickness or physical disability.
Eight hours is considered a day's o ' l '^ l
one-half is considered compulsory. Any able
bodied person who does not average half a
day's work per week is compelled to work out
thl remainder of the week Saturday and
Sunday under a guard armed with a black
snake Wages are paid for this enforced labor
the same a! if it ha*d been performed volunt*
ri The financial system is simple "Labor is
money" is the principle upon which tnerolony
"o?IInl"ed. and so also with their currency,
the being me unit upon whjJJ labor
for all kinds of labor is equivalent
to 30 cents ocr hour in American coin.
Thirty cents is therefor called an ••hour."
circu?at n X medium consists of check, or
tickets. aDd is divided into six different kinds.
alent to half a cent, the "hour' I to 30 cents, the
••month" to $52 So.and the "year t°3H*3?™;
These checksare all ol the ""fdseandare
made of pasteboard, one inch wldo , ft . n ?.,J^? r ln ,
length, with the words '•minutes, hour
etc., stamped into it in relief. Each denomin
ation has a different color. Their monetary
table as taught in their schools reads.
Sixty minutes make one hour.
Eight hours one day.
Five day 8 one week". . .
Four and two-fifth weeks make one month. .
Twelve months make one year. .
All produce, such as grain, wool and ores,
is handled by the department of export and
import, and all products of the colony find a
ready sale in the Lima market. Everything
purchased for the settlement, such as the
articles which cannot bo raised or manufac
tured at home, is purchased by this same de
partment. All members of the colony procure
their necessaries from the government ware
house at cost price. Dwellings, barns and all
other buildings are erected and owned by the
government, us well as the ■ household furni
ture. All dwellings are furnished exactly
alike by the government, but there is nothing
to prevent people from purchasing additional
furniture, if they wish to do so.
There Is always something to do. If the har
vest ts all in and the planting not ready to be
gin, the people are put to work upon repairs or
improvements. They have magnificent street*
and roads, bridges and turnpikes. Their as*
sembly hall is built entirely of stone and mar
ble, which they have themselves quarried and
dressed. A reservoir built of stone lies upon a
hillside and supplies the settlement with wa
ter, and they are now completing a large canal
from the Cototo River, to provide water for irri
gation. Rains are abundant, however, and the
canal was built to prevent possible loss by
drought.
Their marriage customs are'Tery peculiar.
They have no marriage laws whatever, and no
wedding ceremony. A man and woman may
agree to keep house together, and their agree
ment lasts as long as it is satisfactory to both.
If either one desires to terminate the partner
ship ne (or she) simply packs up his things and
moves out, when each may choose another
companion. The divorce is accomplished by a
single act of the will. Strange to relate, how
ever, separations are very rare. The ease ot
divorce seetn3 to make each party careful to
extend a full measure of courtesy and helpful
ness to the other. «
No religious test is required of members of
the colony, and discussion on religion and
politics is prohibited under heavy penalties.
The members, however, are well educated and
fully versed in topics of the day. They use
the Spanish language generally, though on«
may speak any tongue he desires. .
When a member becomes weary of colony
life and desires to return to the outer world,
he makes application to the tribune, which
grants him a permit to leave and exchanges
his labor checks for Peruvian gold coin at the
rate of 30 cents an hour. If he has been a
member of the colony for three years or more
he is a "stock member," and the tribune pay*
him his percentage of the earnings of the
colony during that time. _■ '
The people are happy and contented. They
live an easy life, are exempt from military
duty and taxes, and. thanks to their laws,
which supply and enforce labor, there are no
such things as poverty and want.
Amos J. Johnson, 540 Hayes street.
June 24, 1896.
Best peanut taffy in the world. Townsend'a.*
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Every tint and color of French tissue, lamp
shades and cut flower*. Lessons given.' San
born, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. •
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"Manzanita Hall, preparatory school for
boys, Palo Alto, CaL Send for catalogue."' *
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First Goat— Why, Nanette, what's the
matter? . -. . ; -■. : • -
Second Goat— Appendicitis, William.
First Goat— Stove pipe?
Second Goat— No; art posters.— New York
Press.
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The 'Crown," "Swan" and all other foun
tain pens, and by far the largest assortment in
the City of lead pencils, pens and penholders,
inkstands, blame and memorandum books,
typewriter papers, etc. Popular prices. San
born, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. •
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Special Information daily to manufacturer*
business houses and public men by the Presi
Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Montgomery. '
N. P. C. K. K.
Via Sausalito ferry runs through a country un»
surpassed for camping or a day's outing;
rough (mountains, green hills seamed with
wooded canyons and rippling streams abound.*
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Old Dutch, Japanese gray, old English, an
tique ana genuine oaks, mat gilts, green and
fold and combination of white, cream and
(told are the proper things in picture frames.
We have all these colors in all the new shapes
at popular prices. Sanborn, Vail it Co., 741
Market street. •_ - -'-.-* v^;*f •
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Spratts— Miss Elder is much older than I
thought.
Hunker— lmpossible.
* Spratts— I asked her if she had read
"Esop's Fables" and she said she read them
when they nrst came out.— London Tit Bit*. ■
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The best 25c boxes of paper and envelopes
ever made are the Hurlbut's "Superfine,"
•'Venetian Bond," "Devonshire," "Inverness,"
"Royal Parchment" and "Real Irish linen."
Boxes of other papers are 10c, 15c and 20c
each. Visiting cards, wedding invitations and
announcements a- specialty. . Stationery de
partment Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market
street. •
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Mistress— Sarah, I want you to be very
careful about breaking this vase. It cost a
great deal of money, and I would hate to have
it carelessly broken the first thing.
Sarah, three days later— There's your vase,
ma'am, and I couldn't have broken it more
carefully if I'd tried for a month.—
Free Press. ' .
Official Route to Democratic National
Convention, Chicago.
Central Pacific, Union Pacific and Chicago and
Northwestern lines. Train carrying California
delegates will leave San Francisco July 1 at 6 p. v.
Special rate for the round trip to Chicago f 72.00.
Tickets on sale June 30 and July 1.
Sleeping-car reservations low on sale at Union
Pacific office. 1 Montgomery street. Call early so
as to secure best accommodations. D. W. Hitch
cock, General Agent, San Francisco.
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Excursions to Grand Canyon or. th©
Colorado.
An excellent opportunity for seeing this wonder
ful scenery at a nominal ' expense Is afforded
through the excursions to leave Ban Francisco
June 20 and July 1 over the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad. Fare includes stage trip from Flagstaff,
meals en route and hotel expenses at Canyon, $75.
For full particulars call on or address Thos.
Cook & ton, excursion agents, 621 Market street,
under I'alace Hotel, or any agent Atlantic and
Pacific Kuilroad. H. C. Bush, assistant general
passenger agent, 01 Chronicle building, S. F.
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Northern Pacific Railroad.
Parties attending the Democratic National Con
vention at Chicago, the Christian Endeavorers at
Washington and National Jduca tonal Associa
tion at Buffalo should go or return via the North
ern Pacific Railroad. Kor particulars inquire of
T. K. atateler, Uen. Agt., 888 Market st., 8. F.
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"Mrs. AVinsloWs Soothing Syrnp"
Has been used over SO years by millions of mocbdM
for their children whue Teething with perfect su>
cess. ' It soothes the child, softens the gums, allay*
Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and
lathe best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising
from teething or other causes. For gala by Drug
gists in every part of the world. Be sure and asx
for Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup. * 260 '» bottla.
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Cobokado.— Atmosphere Is perfectly dry. soft
and mild, being entirely free from the mists comm
on further Dor.h. Hound-trip ticket*, by steam
ship, including fifteen days' board at the Hotel .lit,
Coronado, $00: longer ay 92 50 per day, Apply
4 .New .toomgoniery st.. SanFra-icisco.
When yon feel 'as cross as a cat," a dose ol
Aye Fills will make you as good-natured as a
I kitten, fry them tor biliousness. • -■. ■:■ -.«