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TUESDAY. ..JUNE SO, 1896
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
PATRIOTISM, PROTECTION
and PROSPERITY.
FOB PKESIDKNT-
WILLIAM McKINLET, or Ohio
tUB VIOF-PRKBIDKXT-
GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey
ELKCTIOX XOVEMBKR 3. 18flfi.
McKinley accents.
The campaign has full steam on.
Once more we remind you to register.
The whole country is snouting for pro
tection.
Join a Republican club and keep up with
the music.
The man, the platform and the masses
are in accord.
It is now time to make ready for the
Fourtn of July in earnest.
It looks like either Bland or Boies, but it
may be some other feliow.
Democracy at Chicago will resolve a good
deal but dissolve altogether.
Cleveland may at least boast that he
elevated his party about as high as Gil
deroy's kitej^
The nearer the time comes for Democ
racy to act, the more it feels like moving
for a continuance.
Every Democrat has a plan for harmon
izing his party by kicking out every fellow
who doesn't agree with him.
A great many Democrats are not waiting
for the Chicago fiasco before coming out
for McKinley and protection.
The enthusiasm displayed at Canton
was an evidence of what is felt by work
ingmen throughout the Union.
Every intelligent man knows that work
and wages is the chief issue of the cam
paign, and all of them will vote that way.
In preparing for the Democratic con
vention Chicago should lay in an extra
supply of doctors who Know how to cure
fits.
The .Southern Pacific of Kentucky will
take notice that the people of California
are still watching the funding-bill in
iquity.
If the i>eroocrats do not look out they
will make of their convention as .big a
failure as Cleveland made of his adminis
tration.
The modern pugilist is useful in many
ways. When he is not promoting a char
ity, he is elevating the siageor reviving
baseball.
The speeches delivered yesterday by
WcKinley ana Thurston were about all the
Republican party really needs for cam
paign documents in this canvass.
The people are tired of destructive
parties and will vote this year for the only
party which can build up American in
dustry ana reconstruct prosperity.
Populism may gather up the fragments
of Democracy after the people have
smashed it in November, but the gather
ing vrill be hardly worth the trouble.
The farmers of the San Joaquin have
begun to profit by the competing railroad,
and now every section of California knows
how to make the Southern Pacific drop its
extortion.
When we have wages for the working
men and revenues for the Government,
the money question will be easily settled,
and the Republican party can be counted
on to settle it right.
A vote taken by the American Agricul
turist among its readers shows that the
farming community is largely in favor of
McKinley and protection, and the demand
of the voters was almost unanimous for a
restoration of reciprocity.
Judge Riddle of San Jose sized up the
Presidential situation from a Populist
point of view very neatly the other day by
saying the Populist party is big enough
for Stnator Teller to walk into if he
wishes, but the Senator is not big enough
for the party to get into even if it crawls.
Senator Thurston stated the pimple
truth in Maying to McKinley: "Your
nomination has been made in obedience
to a popular demand whose universality
and spontaneity attest the affection and
confidence of the plain people of the
United States. By common consent you
are their champion." That tells the
whole story.
When the notification committee reached
Canton, a rainstorm was imminent, but
as McKinley stepped from his doorway
the sun burst through the clouds and
banished the fears of the people. It was a
superb symbol of the political situation.
When McKiniey comes to the White
House all the clouds that bang over us
shall vanish and the period of prosperity
begin.
M'KINLEY'S ACCEPTANCE.
In his informal acceptance of the nomi
nation for President of the United States
by the Republican pariy yesterday, Mr.
McKiiiley sounded the keynote of the
campaign. He said: "Oar domestic trade
must be won back end our idle working
men employed in gaiuful occupation at
American wages." * * * "Protection
and reciprocity, twin measures of a true
American policy, should again corcmand
the earnest encouragement of the Govern
ment at Washington."
What else could the candidate of the
Republican party — the party that stands
for all the people — have said? Standing
there the representative of an overwhelm
ing majority of the people of the United
States, and seeing wreck and ruin in all
the channels of production, he could not
have done otherwise than tell the people
that ttie first wort in hand should be to
restore the highways of commerce and in
dustry that all the people might again
have opportunity to participate in profit
able employment.
Undoubtedly Mr. McKinley is in close
touch with the hearts and minds of the
people. As if by inspiration he voiced the
cry of the people when he said "protection
and reciprocity should again command
the encouragement of the Government at
Washington," only that the people said
"3hall" instead of "should." The people
demanded that they be sustained, encour
aged and defended against encroachment
of outside peoples upon their right to go
in pursuit of happiness and prosperity in
their own land, and they now have the
sincere promise of an honorable man that
it shall be so-
That is all Mr. McKinley or any other
man could have said under such circum
stances. A committee of the National
Convention had informed him, not only
of his nomination, but what the people
wculd require at his hands when he as
sumed the direction of the affairs of the
Nation. Mr. McKinley cheerfully pledged
his Donor and his manhood that he should
obey the will of the people — the more
cheerfully because what the people want
was in full harmony with what he knows
they should have, and which it will be a
pleasure to him to help them to receive.
And now the battie-cry is heard and it
gives ontno uncertain sound — "Protection
and reciprocity" and "Employment at
American wages." The highest and best
interests of Americans are involved in the
struggle for supremacy between the party
that has made waste places everywhere
and the party of rescue. It should not
take any one lonjj to decide where he will
be found when the lines are fully drawn.
There is, indeed, no middle ground.
There is the question of prosperity and
the question of enforced idleness and con
sequent poverty. Every voter must take
sides. He must be for prosperity or for
poverty. "Choose ye this day whom ye
wili serve."
But there is work for the Republican
party to do. Every Republican in Cali
fornia who is physically able should
attacn himself to a club, league or organi
zation of some other kind. There should
be felt the touch of shoulders all over the
State, and that sincere enthusiasm which
defies obstructions in the way should
abound. Let every Republican feel it to
be his personal duty to see that every
other Republican in his community is in
line. A mighty work is in hand, and the
salvation of the country will be the re
ward if the work is well done.
COMING EVENTS.
One week from to-day trouble will be
gin in Chicago, and meanwhile let
it not Be forgotten that Grover Cleveland
has never said that he would uot accept
the nomination. This is not the age of
prophecy, but straws indicate the course
of the wind, just as they always have.
The suspicion is growing that in the event
the convention declares unqualifiedly for
free-silver coinage at 16 to 1, without wait
ing for even an effort in the direction of
international co-operation, Cleveland wili
accept the nomination of the gold-stand
ard wing, not that he would expect to
carry many States, if indeed a single one,
but merely to preserve the party organiza
tion. It may seem a little queer that the
minority should undertake to save and
protect something that it is not in posses
sion of, but nothing could be surer than
the disintegration of the majority sooner
or later.
For many years the Democratic party
has made free trade the center and
circumference of its National policy, just
as the Republican party has made protec
tion to our industries the chief stone of
the cornerof its purpose, and neither party
could go forward upon a secondary propo
sition and long maintain its organization.
Mr. McKinley will be elected, of course,
because he holds aloft the central idea
of his party's principles — protection. The
nominee of the Chicago convention will
sustain a more disastrous defeat than he
would if his party held fast to free trade
as the issue of paramount importance.
No political party, preacher or newspaper
can depart from the fundamental princi
ples of its or his faith and doctrine and
stem the current of public condemnation.
One may abandon one's faith or doctrine
for another, but he must leave behind the
foundation and the capstone of that which
he quits.
Mr. Cleveland knows that the majority
wing of his party could not survive defeat,
because it would go into the battle for a
single purpose, and when that failed there
would be utter destruction on the field
and the cause itself would be utterly lost
forever. Cleveland coald, better than any
other man, lead the minority, which is, in
fact, the real Democratic party, away from
the pitfalls which Boies, Bland, Altgeld and
others are digging, and when they are
buried in pits of their own digging there
would be a large and strong nucleus round
which to rebuild — strong because it would
be in possession of the basic and, there
fore, the paramount principle of the party,
which is free trade. Whether Mr. Cleve
land is sufficiently in love with the princi
ples of nii party to make so great a sacri
fice is the question, but events the past
few days would eeem to indicate that he is
willing to do it. It is sincerely to be
hoped thac he may, the more so because
no one now believes that coalition between
the several political organizations that are
risking the country's life and the life of
their own party existence upon the hazard
of a sinle die can be effected. Let Mr.
Cleveland lead the free-trade hosts, for
the issue is protection or free trade and
upou that the battle must be fought.
SPAIN'S NEW LOAN.
There is no sense at all in trying to see
a deep conspiracy against the United
States in the loan that Spain has succeeded
in placing with the Rothschilds. Cer
tainly the Rothschilds would not have
loaned Spain $20,000,000 had any European
nation objected, but there is no reason
why there should be objection to letting
Spain have all the money she can possibly
borrow, nor is there any reason why some
of our fellow-citizens should go into
spasms over it. It is the business of the
Rothschilds to loan money, and as the
security they exact is a matter between
lender and borrower, tnere is no occasion
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1896.
for some or any of our people bothering
their heads over the affair. Spain was
largely in debt to European bankers before
this loan was floated, and should she go to
the wall after the manner of a commercial
firm great loss would fall upon her credi
tors, but for all that we need lose no sleep
on that account. A little common-sense
is a (rood thing to weave into our conclu
sions about Spain and Cuba.
It is safe to conclude that every mon
archy on the face of the earth would like
to see Spain subjugate Cuba, but it is a
very different thing to join Spain in a war
with the United States. It would be much
cheaper to let Spain go into bankruptcy
and be 6old out than to put up money to
maintain a mere sentiment. Besides, the
powers of Europe know that the United
States is not huntimr for islands nor con
tinents to annex, and that their own out
lying territory is quite safe. They know
that this country sympathizes with the
Cubans in their struggle for separation
from the mother country, but they are not
afraid that this country will give the
Cubans official aid unless Spain provokes
it or the insurgents demonstrate their
ability to maintain themselves as an inde
pendent community.
It is no secret in Europe that the people
of this country are firm in the belief that
the Cuban revolution cannot be put down
by Bpain; that it is only a question of
time when the Republic of Cuba will be
recognized by all the nations, including
Spam, and that the time has come for the
President of the United States to officially
declare the will of the people by proclama
tion to the effect that the Cubans have
fully earned belligerent rights. But mean
while, if Spain can borrow money on her
silver mines, let her do it. It is none of
our business if she can dupe the Roths
childs. Let us not be "too previous."
SENATOR TELLER'S MISTAKE.
One would not have to dig very deep to
discover the meaning of Senator Thurs-
ton's wordß when speakine of Senators
Teller and Dubois at Cleveland the other
day. He said: "It is rather significant
that these two Senators were the only ones
to bolt, and that they were both up for re
election in silver communities. Those
who did not bolt were not up for another
term." It certainly is unfortunate for Tel
ler especially that he should have found it
necessary to bolt at so inopportune a time.
In all his political life Mr. Teller has been
a leader among the champions of protec
tion and whatever else was thoroughly
American. His defense of the early in
terpretation of the Monroe doctrine, and
his appeais for a strong ana pronounced
foreign policy in the Senate during its
last sitting were vigorous and logical. In
view of all this there will be more or less
suspicion, whether really well founded or
not, that Mr. Teller made up his mind
that his own political success was of moro
consequence to himself than the success
of his party.
Undoubtedly Mr. Teller will be his own
successor in the Senate, for all parties in
Colorado are for free silver; not only so,
but his party, which is master of the situ
ation when party lin^s are drawn, has
practically made him dictator until the
silver question is settled. The Angel
Gabriel could not be elected Senator from
Colorado on a platform that did not sub
ordinate every interest and need of the
country to free-silver coinage at the
present ratio. Undoubtedly Mr. Teller is
well acquainted with public sentiment in
his State, ana when It came to giving up
the Republican party or retiring to private
life his moral courage failed him and he
chose the epaulets of office instead of the
glory of consistency.
No one doubts Mr. Teller's sincerity on
the silver question, but the wonder is that
so wise a man could noUsee that the party
of the people of the United States were
determined to first restore their industries
and attend to the other needs of tiie Na
tion afterward. For nearly three years
that has been the central idea of the rank
and file of the Republican party, and
their will was forcibly and distinctly set
forth in the platform which they sent
delegates to St. Louis to formulate. It is
certainly unfortunate for Mr. Teller that
he did not sacrifice the senatorship for the
principles of the party which he helped to
establish forty years ago, and whose prin
ciples have never changed, except that
they have broadened and deepened, but
upon the original lines. He certainly
must have known that the Populists
would not take a high protectionist, which
he is, but a free-trader and paper-money
fiatist, which he is not. He knew, too,
that he could not if he would and would
not if he could turn Democrat and accept
the Chicago nomination. It must be that
the temptation to secure another term in
the United Slates Senate was too great for
him to resist;
NEW YORK IGNORANCE.
Senator Tillman a few days ago told a
New York audience they were more igno
rant of the conditions of the United
States than any other class of American
people. He explained his remark by say
ing that New York residents derive their
information of the West and the South
from the newspapers of that city and these
newspapers come much nearer represent
ing the opinion of England than a true
Americanism.
Tillman's words were not absolutely ac
curate. The Senator from South Carolina,
like every. other demagogue, prefers to say
strong things rather tban things which
are true. Nevertheless, the statement of
the Senator has at least a substratum of
truth. If divided into three parts it
would be found it was not all gall. One
third of it at least was as near the plain
truth concerning New York as the news
papers of that city, ever come to telling
the truth about other sections of the
Union.
If any proof were needed of the sub
stantial accuracy of Tillman's charge con
cerning the ignorance of New Yorkers in
regard to their own country it could be
found in a recent number of the New
Yorlc Commercial Advertiser. This journal,
which circulates among the more intelli
gent people of the metropolis, and repre
sents fairly well the opinion of the wealth,
the culture and t tie business of the city,
recently in an elaborate article on the
political situation and its effect on Wall
street, said:
"The fact ia, and the sooner intelligent
people realize it the better, that a large
section of the country lying chiefly south
of Mason arid Djxon's line and west of the
Mississippi River is peopled by men who
are unfitted in many respects, or at least
in some respects, to exercise the full fran
chise of citizenship of the United States."
When a journal enjoying the repute of
the Commercial Advertiser publishes state
ments of that kind what are we to think
of the intelligence of the community
where it circulates? Certainly Till man
was right in charging them with being
tiie most ignorant of their own country
men of any people in America. New
York City with her Tammany Hall voters
rising up to declare that the people west
of the Mississippi River are unfitted to
exercise the franchise of citizenship is a
picture to amuse both men and angels.
IT this is not ignorance raised by self
conceit to the height of impudence what
is it?
When the people of the great West are
not better fatted to exercise the full fran
chise of citizenship of the United States
than the denizens of the Blums of New
York, who back up by their votes the
boodier* of Tammany Hall and the
brokers of Wall street, patriots may be
pardoned if they begin to despair of the
Republic. In the meantime if the leading
newspapers of New York intend to be of
any service to their readers they had
better begin telling the truth about the
West and the South. Such statements as
the one quoted make no friends for any
body. They are better suited for British
readers than for Americans of any class,
and the fact that they find credence among
New Yorkers fully justifies the strongest
things Tillman said of their ignorance.
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
FREE SILVER AND WHEAT.
Reasons for Believing thk Free Coinage of
Silver Would Benefit Wheat Growers.
Editor The Call : Will you kindly allow me
space for a fsw words in reply to Mr. -Heenan's
communication wherein he contends that the
remonetization of silver would lessen rather
than increase the price of wheat?
Mr. Heenan evidently loses sight of the fact
that an ounce of silver bullion, worth now
about 67 cents, will purchase as much wheat
as it would when it was worth $1 29, and he
does not take into consideration the further
fact that it was the demonetization of silver
that reduced it from $1 29 to 67 cents an
ounce; and he argues on the hypothesis that
its remonetization would have no effect on its
price. All bimetallism contend that the mo
ment silver shall be restored to its old place
and be given its old- function as a money metal
its former price would be restored. Should
that occur it is quite clear, so clear that no argu
ment is needed to prove it, that the price of
wheat aua everything else that men have to
sell would be advanced in like manner.
In other words, the inflation went Id be taken
off from gold, the stimulus that au increased
volume of money always gives would be felt
in all branches of business, there wonld be
work for all anil pay for their work, and pros
perity would become once more the rule and
not the exception.
Mr. Heenan tinds another bugbear in what
he is pleased to term the fluctuations in the
price of silver. When did he ever hear of
fluctuations in the price of silver prior to
1873? The silver dollar had been the standard
unit of values in the United States for nearly &
hundred years, and during all that time there
was no talk of fluctuating values. It is cer
tainly fair to presume that were the former
conditions as to use restored the former condi
tion of stability would follow, as effect always
follows cause. .Respectfully,
Henry Nelson.
Durham, Cal., June 26, 189t>.
HER PIES.
' Way back in the sweet, sweet long ago,
V.'ben the world seemed just newly made.
Ana the hours swept in a gold batteau
O'er pleasure a bright cascade,
'Twas then in childhood's realm I met
Dear Maude of the dewy eyes.
And stood entranced us the deft brunette
Hid fashion the wee din pies.
We're married now. and the self-same bands
That molded the pies of clay
Have sometimes structured other brands
Of pies In the modern way;
And, having sampled these pastry plants
My oath I can solemnly take
That between the two I'd risk my chance
With the kind that she used to make.
—Boston Courier.
BRITISH ENTHUSIASM.
In England the bicycle craze appears to be
just getting a good start, judging by an an
nouncement in the latest Westminster Gazette.
A big company with f.~>,000,000 capital has
been incorporated, with the Right Hon. Joseph
Chamberlain and a dozen lords as sharehold
ers. "The corporation's announcement sets
forth that the first works to be taken over is
already a most prosperous manufactory, run
ning early and late, now adding immense ex
tensions, with its shares freely dealt in at a
considerable premium on the market. New
cycle improvements are always appearing.
The New Beeston's lady's bicycle, enabling the
rider to stop without dismounting, stands still
by itself, may be left standing while shopping
or visiting, and is mounted while stationary.
So certain are the prospects of the cycle and
motor cycle that the most sober-minded are
beginning to consider the propriety of aban
doning their own competitive, overdone call
ings for the prizes now available in supplying
the wants ot the ever-increasinK numbers of
the cycling public. Even members of her
Majesty's Government are seeking the same na
tional and rapidly rising investment. Indeed,
cycling is bringing a complete changeover our
everyday lives, and all in favor of its own
business. Now that even children — the new
generation— are taught it, there will be appar
ently no end to the futuredemand. In Coven
try the board schools are now compelled to
have separate rooms, where the school chil
dren may put up their bicvcies as they do their
coats. Hundreds of children, both boys and
girls, go to school on bicycles, and before long
it will be as necessary to teach them to ride as
to walk. All the world will cycle. Agents are
now going down to Coventry with hundreds of
pounds in cash to offer for machines; but their
money is being refused, and they return with
out being Rble to obtain them, notwithstand
ing that premiums are freely offered. The
pressure shows no signs of abatement. The
Whitsuntide has seen the price of cycles in
creased to such an extent that in someca«es
they are 25 per cent higher in price, while the
cost has been but little increased." If the Brit
ish Government will only permit our Yankee
made wheels to land in London without pay
ing duty the blockade of the bicycle market
may be quickly raised and the tendency for
lower prices somewhat arrested.
FOR EXTRA WAISTS.
A charming model for extra waists of silk :
batiste or other cotton.
It has a fitted lining, the material being
seamless both back and front. The box-pleat
is cut separate and sewn on, which is less
troublesome for the maker than to have it cut
in one piece with the front.
A serge dress of black had the shoulder-straps
of bright rose-colored ribbon overlaid with
white embroidery. The Dox-pleats were of
white lawn, with a ruffle of narrow Valen
ciennes lace on the edge of each fold. The
sleeves on this gown reached to the wrist. The
pattern Is made with the sleeves a little longer
than shown In the picture lor those -who do
like too short a sleeve.
A printed organdy made after this model
was trimmed with bretolles of ribbon, with a
bow on the shoulder. Over the stock collar,
which was of the same violet ribbon, were tiny
points of white nainsook, edged with lace, six
of these points just meeting extended all
around the collar, being sewed in at the top
and overlapping the collar, points downward.
A white lawn nad a body of open embroid
ery with the box-pleats of the lawn. The
trimming ol Dresden ribbon extended up from
the waist only as far as the bust in front,
where it ended in bows, and was omitted en
tirely in the back. The belt and collar were of
ribbon. Two piccadilly points of embroidery
were set over the collar in front.
The pattern is No. 7835 a:td i* cut in seven
sizes— 3o, 32, 34. 36, 3b, 40 and 42 inches bust
measure. A medium sine requires five yards
of 21, or two and a half yards of 42 inch mate
rial.
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PERSONAL.
The Rev. P. J. Van Schie of Auburn is at the
Grand.
A. Putnam, an attorney of Ferndale, is at
the Lick.
H. Brizard, a mine owner of Arcata, is a re
cent arrival at the Lick.
Judge J. F. Willsey of Fort Bragg is making
a short visit at the Grand.
W. c. Woolley, an insurance man of Banta
Rosa, is at the Occidental.
Dr. B. M. Gill, a physician of Dunsmuir, is
among the Grand arrivals.
George W. Chandler, a lumberman of Santa
Cruz, is a guest at the Grand.
Ex-Chief of Police Bolton Rogers of Seattle
is at the Baldwin with his wife.
Superior Judge E. A. Bridgford of Colasa
arrived at the Grand last night.
L. T. Hatfield, an attorney from Sacramento,
registered last night at the Lick.
G. McM. Ross, a mining man of Petaluma,
is a late arrival at the Occidental.
W. E. Duncan Sr., a mining man of Oroville,
is making a short visit at the Lick.
Sheriff George S. McKensie is in town from
Kapa. He has a room at the Grand.
Mrs. S. M. Buck, wife of Judge Buck of
Eureka, arrived at the Lick yesterday.
C. E. McLaughlin, an attorney of Qulncy,
Plumas County, is registered at the Rubs.
H. H. Richmond, editor of the Placer Argus,
is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel with his wife.
Fred Mason, a Sacramento merchant, is in
town on business and has a room at the Grand.
Railroad Commissioner H. M. La Rue of Sac
ramento arrived at the Occidental yesterday.
Joseph D. Lynch, the Republican politician
of Los Angeles, is among the guests at the
Lick.
I. S. Johnson, a prominent businessman of
Baltimore, Md., registered at the Occidental
yesterday.
M. Schofield, a wealthy mining man of Gib
sonviiie, ia stopping at tho Cosmopolitan
Hotel with his family.
James P. Brown of the Wave returned Iron*
the East yesterday with his wife and CQild,
after an absence of two months.
Professor B. Kellogg of Stanford University,
associate professor in the department of ento
mology, is a guest at the California.
J. C. Bull Jr. of Arcata, Humboldt County,
is at the Lick. He is a delegate to the Demo
cratic powwow to be held in Chicago.
J. H. Dugane, a wealthy cattle-dealer of
Merced, is ou a business trip to this City and
is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel.
Superior Judge Bolcher has adjourned court
for his vacation, which he will spend with bis
family in camp In the mountains near Eureka.
D. \V. Wurtsbough and Arthur Mac Arthur
Jr., United States navy officers, recently ar
rived from the East, registered at the Occiden
tal yesterday.
O. V. Eaton of Stanford University, formerly
football manager and assistant Registrar, but
now manager for Anton Schott, the German
barytone, is at the Palace. •
J. S. Spear, one of the California delegates to
the St. Louis Convention, returned to the
Palace last night with his wife, after having
visited Major McKinley at Canton.
State Senator Frank L. Coombs of Kapa,
ex-United States Minister to Japan and ex-
Grand President of the Native Sous of the
Golden West, Is registered at the Grand.
Colonel Shatter of the Fir.it Regiment,
United States army, returned to bis station in
this City yesterday from Bakersfleld, where he
has been spending a two months' leave o! ab
sence.
Rear-Admiral William EvashinUoff of the
Russian navy is here on a leave of absense for
the purpose of interesting capital in a great
salmon-fishing concession recently given him
by the Czar. He is at the Palace.
Samuel E. Simmons of Sacramento is at the
California, having just returned from Cam
bridge, Mass., where he has been a student in
Harvard Medical School since his graduation
from Stanford University a year ago. It is
said that he is soon to become an exemplar of
the advantages of coeducation as it exists at
Palo Alto.
Colonel Carlos Gonzales, the retired officer of
the Mexican army who has been at the Lick
for several days, and who owns an immense
landed estate in the State of Coahutla, Mex
ico, lias rented the private residence at 902
California street ana will shortly install his
numerous family therein, as he proposes to
spend some time in this City.
Professor Charles D. Marx, Professor L. M.
Hoskius, Professor Charles B. Wing and As
sistant Professor J. C. L. Fish, the faculty
of the department of Civil engineering at
Stanford University, are at the California.
They came up from Palo Alto yesterday for the
convention of the American Society of Civil
Engineers now in session here.
Charles W. Mould, a prominent member of
the New York bar and a brother-in-law of Gen
eral \V. H. L. Barnes of this City, arrived at
the Palace yesterday from Santa Barbara,
where he has been visiting relatives in the
beautiful suburb El Monteclto. Mr. Gould
was accompanied from Santa Barbara by ex-
Judge Robert B. Canfleld, who is now at the
Palace, having come to the City on a little pri
vate legal business.
James Terry Langford of Lodi, son of Sena
tor Langford, is in the City, having just ar
rived from Arizona after having made an ex
tended tour of the East. He purposes soon to
return to Arizona and begin the practice
of civil engineering, a profession for which he
received four years' training at Stanford Uni
versity, where he had the honor of being the
president of the pioneer class at the time of
its graduation in 1895.
Among the celebrities in the party of civil
engineers now at the Palace are: Professor
Mansfield Mirriman of the faculty of Lehigh
University, one of the foremost teachers of en
gineering in this country; J. M. Knap of New
York City, one of the directors of the Ameri
can Society of Civil Engineers; W. Metcalf of
Pittsburg, one of the great authorities on steel
in the United States; T. G. Hoech, engineer at
tache of the German legation at Washington,
and A. S. Rime, one of the builders of the Port
land water works.
Eugene dv Pont, the gTeat powder kinir,
arrived at the Palace last night with bis wife
and registered from Wilmington, Del., where
he has one of the largest of his factories. This
is Mr. dv Pont's first visit to California. He
has come simply for pleasure and recreation
and will speud the two or three weeks of his
stay at Santa Cruz with his daughter, Mrs.
Peyton, wife of the younger Peytou, who, as a
powder maker at Santa Cruz, has attained a
National reputation as an inventor of particu
larly powerful and high grade explosives, the
Government using his compositions entirely
for the big guns both on this coast and in the
East. Mr. dv Pont's business, embracing as it
does powder factories :n many parts of the
United States, is one of the biggest private
concerns in this country.
CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, N.Y., June 29.— At the West
minster—E. C. Clarke; Metropolitan— J. At
kin, S. Greenbery, D. Laird; Marlborough—
Mrs. Bushnell, W. Lussier and wife; Metropole
— 0. Heyt, G. C. Reckleben; Hoffman— S. C.
Pardee; Holland— Miss Wood, J. F. Hardy
sailed on the Cunarder Umbna for Liverpool.
Mrs. Amalle and Miss Lillie Kalmuk left the
Westminster to sail on the North German
liner Spree for Bremen.
LA SALLE'S LAST VOYAGE
Book News.
The first publication of the Caxton Club of
ClucHgo is now in press. It is a "Journal of
the Lest Voyage of L« Salle." The journal
was written by Joutel, a commander in the ex
pedition, and was originally published in Lon
don in 1714. It is edited and annotated by
Professor Melville B. Anderson of the Leland
Stanford University ana will be carefully
printed. ________ — ___^___
THE BICYCLE INDORSED.
In England the courts take a just view of
the rights of wheelmen, as will be seen by the
following article in the Westminster Gazette:
"Dr. Jackson yesterday held an inquest at
Croydon concerning the death of John Albert
White, aged 17, the only son of Mr. White of
Croydon, who died from injuries received in a
collision between his bicycle and a cart. After
hearing evidence the Coroner said it behooved
drivers to be very careful now ao many people
had taken to bicycling. It was a healthy re
creation and ought to be encouraged. Drivers
were too apt to be intolerant to bicyclists and
to think that the road was made for them
alone. Ho hoped that in future they would be
more careful and keep as much as they could
on the right side of the road."
PERSONS OF PROMINENCE.
Mile. Jane Benaben of France, though only
18 yean of age, has taken the degree of bach
elor of arts from a French college. After her
graduation she became a professor of philos
ophy in a girls' school in Lyons.
Paul Bourget has won his case from Le
merre, the publisher, and henceforth French
authors will have the power to have their
publishers' boots examined in order to see
that they are not cheated out of their royal
ties.
A pencil drawing, partly colored, of George,
Prince of Wales, 1798, by Richard Cosway, the
miniaturist, brought $420 in London recently;
another, of George in 1772, brought $550,
while one of Caroline of Brunswick, his Prin
cess, brought $435.
The Marquis of Lome is said to be engaged
on a historical survey of Windsor Castle
upon a somewhat ambitious literary scale, ma
terials which he collected when writing a lit
tle guidebook recently having led him to de
sire to pursue his researches under the favor
able conditions involved in his office as Gov
ernor.
M. Antoine, the new conductor of the Paris
Odeon. is said by his champion* to be the
greatest theatrical manager in the world.
Only seven or eight years ago he was an un
derpaid employe in the Paris Gas Works. His
debut as an actor was made last year at the
Gymnase in the role of an irritable and ner
vous old gentleman.
NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY.
Mr. Figg— Tommy, I hear you have been
telling lies. I never told lies when I was your
age.
Tommy— When did you begin, paw?—ln
dianapolis Journal.
Patient— Suffering Csesnr! I thought your
sign said "Teeth extracted without pain."
Dentist— Bo it does; but that refers to false
teeth.— Somerville Journal.
"What made tnAt man so angry when the
homeless carriage upset?"
"He is a leather dealer, and there wasn't any
harness to cut."— Chicago Record.
She— Did you know that Maud has & dark
room on purpose for proposals?
He— Well, rather. I developed a negative
there myself last night.— Princeton Tiger.
Hoax— What! You buying a bicycle? I
thought you detested them.
Joax — 8o I do, but I've been run over long
enough. Now I'm going to have my revenge.
Philadelphia Record.
She— This road is very steep. Can't I get a
donkey to take me up?
He— Lean on me, my darling.— Tid-B its.
VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS.
Am a Fisherman.
National City Record.
Cleveland will retire from the Presidency
with a better reputation as a fisherman than
as a financier or statesman.
Departing in Haste.
Petaluma Courier.
All is not gold that glitters— at least the gold
fields of Alaska are not such glittering goals of
promise as the fortune-hunters believed.
The Turkish Government.
Ventura Independent.
Even as mild a mannered man as Mr. Glad
stone says: "In my opinion the Turkish Gov
ernment is the greatest scourge of mankind."
Yet Mr. Gladstone knows, in common with all
intelligent men, that the Turkish Government
exists only by the will of the British Govern
ment.
Unappreciated Prosperity.
Stockton Record.
If Los Angeles had received as much real
encouragement for her future in a single year
as Stockton has during the past year she would
manifest her joy straightway by erecting a
couple of thousand substantial buildings and
puffing herself all over the country as au ideal
center of prosperity and enterprise.
Care iv Packing.
Los Angeles Times.
California fruit-preserving houses might con
sider with profit the care used in France and
England in putting up fruit for export as well
as for local consumption. More sugar is used,
the utmost care is exerciitd in the manipula
tion of the fruit and glass and porcelain jars
are used in preference to tin. Asa consequence
fancy prices are realized for the output.
Where Flora Ia Queen.
Stockton Mail.
This new custom in California of paying
homage to the llowers is a very pretty one and
is growing in popularity. With the leaves and
fruit they are the air-woven children of light,
and there is a daintiness about them that en
chants us all. They have been utilized to
symbolize all the graces and all the tenderest
feelings. Where flowers abound the atmos
phere is fragrant with something that is even
sweeter than the delicate perfume they exhaie.
What more enchanting province in her wide
dominions has Queen Flora than California .'
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Half-dollars of 1895— J. A. 9., City. Numis
matists do not offer any premium for half-dol
lars of 1895 coined at the Mint in this City.
Vegetarians— 3. G. F., City. There are a
great many vegetarians in San Francisco, and
also many fruitarians, but there is not an
organized society of either.
Three Half- Dollars— £. ML, Madera, Cal.
No premium is offered for half-dollars of 1808.
1821 or 1853, unless the latter be one without
arrow heads at date or rays about the eagle.
Such specimens command from $20 to $30.
Pltttocracy— W. 8., Difcon, Cal. "Plutoc
racy," so often used in political speeches at
this time, means a government in which the
supreme power is lodged in the hands of the
wealthy classes alone. The term is also ap
plied to a controlling or influential class of
rich men.
Rust From Nickel— A. S., City. The follow
ing is given as a means of removing rust from
nickel: Cover the stains with oil or grease
and let the article stand fora few days; then
remove the rust by rubbing with a little am
monia. If this does not remove the rust, try
very diluted hydrochloric acid; when dry
polish with tripoli or whiteniug.
Casino— A. and 8., City. In playing casino
If one of the players should in the last hand
make enough points to count him out the
counting cannot take place until the hand is
played. If he had three to go and made big
casino and an ace he could not claim the
game before the hand was played out, tor the
reason that in counting cards and spades take
precedence*
A Notb— P. T. G., City. This department
does not answer questions in simple arith
metic. If a note was given with interest at so
much per month you can find out the amount
of Interest at the expiration of a certain time
by simple multiplication. As to your other
question it cannot be answered for the reason
that you do not state whether the note is a
time or a demand note.
Agricultural Products— J. B. 8., Fallbrook,
Cal. From the report of the Bureau of Bta
tißtics of the Treasury Department of the
United States it appears that the exports of
products of agriculture for the rear ending
June 30, 1894, were valued at $628,363 038
or 72.28 per cent, and that for the year end
ing June 30, 1895, the amount was *553 215 -
317, or 69.68 per cent. '
Becrkt Societt-B. C, Pacific Grove, Cal.
The question "When the members of a secret
society become delinquent and the society is
called upon to surrender Its charter, to whom
does the property of the society belong?" can
not be answered directly, as different rules
prevail. In some organizations it is held that
on the society surrendering its charter every
thing reverts to the grand body; in others
that only the charter and regalia revert to the
grand body. If you will name the particular
order w which you refer an answer will be
furnished.
Coinagk-M. M., City. This department is
not able at this time to obtain the figures
which will show the number of silver dollars
coined in the mints of the United states dur
ing the calendar year of 1895. During the
fiscal year ending June 30 the number of sil
ver dollars coined was 8,956.011. The Ameri
can, silver dollar was aulhorkea to be coined
by an act of April 2, 1792 ; weight, 416 grains;
fineness 8924: the weight whs changed by
he act of January, 18, 1844, to 412^ grains;
bvthe same act the fineness was changed to
$00 The coinage of dollars Was discontinued
February 12, 1873. The total amount coined
up to that date was 8,031.288. The coinage of
dollars was reauthorized by the act of Febru
ary 28 1878, and again discontinued after July
1 '1891 The dollar is a full legal tender ex
cept when otherwise provided in the contract.
Insecticide— J. E., Petaluma, Cal. Not know
ing the particular kind of insect that affecU
your apple trees Mils department cannot sug
test what kind of insecticide would be avail
able Youhad better write to the State Board
of Horticulture at Sacramento, giving a. full
description of the insect and the «yage H has
done or is doing to your trees and if possible
•end a specimen of the insect.
Caufobma glace fruita, 50c lb. Tovrnsend's.'
If yon want fine service, fine carriages, com
petent drivers, ring up 1950. Pacific Carriage
Company.
Ppkciai. information daily to manufacturer*
business houses and public men by tha i Presi
Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 510 Montgomery.
«■ • •—• —
Change of Starting Time.
Steamer Noyo, for Fort Bragg, Mendocino
County, sails Wednesday, July 1. 3 p. M., from
MiFsion-street wharf instead of Thursday.
Hereafter leaves as heretofore, Thursday.
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Cheap Convention Kate» Kast.
The Santa Fe route will sell tickets to the
various conventions at extremely reduced
rates. Pullman palace and tourist sleeping
cars daily through to Chicago leaving at a sea
sonable hour. The coolest and most comfort
able summer line owing to its elevation and
absence of alkali dust. Ticket ortice 044
Market street. Chronicle building, ban Fran
cisco, Cal. Telephone, Main 1531.
"You know what enemies Wilson and Watson
were? Well, when Wilson died, old Watson
sent a beautiful floral 'gates ejar'— "
"I'm glad to hear it. 1 hate to think a man
could not forgive—"
"Wait till I eet through. Behind the gates
was a stairway— leading downward."—lndian
apolis Journal.
Official Route to I>oinocratic Nntiuna
Convention. Chicago.
Central Pacific, Union ir'aclflc and Chicago an
Northwentern lines. Train c. -Trying California
delegates will leave Han I ranclsco July 1 at 6 p. m.
t-ptclal rate for the round trip to Chicago f7'2.50.
Ticketß on sale June 30 and July 1.
Sleeping-cur reservations now en si»l« at Union
Pacific office. 1 Montgomery street. Call early to
as to secure best accommodations. D. W. Hitch
cock, General Agent, ssan Francisco.
Northern Faciflc Ballronrt
Parties attending the Democratic National Con
ventioo at Chicago, the Christian Kndeayorers at.
Washington and National Kduca ional Associa
tion at Buffalo should go or return via the North
ern Pad fie Railroad. For particulars inquire of
T. K.titateler,aen. Agt., 888 Market St., S. F.
_ • — ♦— • —
The use of Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters ex
cites the appetite and keeps the digestive organs
In order. !
«—« — » — • •
The favorite for restoring life and color to the
hair is Park Hair Balsam.
Parker's Ginbkr Toxic the best cough cure.
* — «. — • ' ■•
"For pity's sake, George," Bald a distressed wife,
'•do get a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for that
cough, and give us a rest." He did so.
-•—»• — » ■ * 1
"Dear me." said the South American Repub
lic at it looked at Great Britain's map of Vene
zuela, "it is really very astonishing if it is not
misrepresented."
"What is?" inquired a sister country.
"The manner in which a country is liable to
shrink in this warm climate."— Washington
Star. .' ■-''-.
mew TO-SAT.
SOLE AOENT3 FOR THE
MAQQIONI KID GLOVES.
WONDERFUL
CASH SALE
IN SILKS!
An Overstocked Manufacturer requested
us to sell for him the following seasonable
Silks at less than their cost to manufac-
ture. JUBT TO SPREAD THE FAME OF
OUR STORE. The result to you is
SILKS AT HALF PRICE!
HUNDREDS OF YARDS OF NEW
SILKS ALMOST GIVEN AWAY.
BROCADED
TAFFETA SILKS
IN
The Choicest Designs,
Most Desirable Colorings
And Magnificent Qualities
■ AT-
SOC
■. Regular Price $1.00 per Yard.
HOSIERY!
The Most Superior Values Ever
Offered in Hosiery.
LESS THAN HALF PRICE!
SEE THEM BEFORE THEY
ARE ALL SOLD.
LADIES ' 4-THREAD j\ film'
LISLE-THREAD HOSE V *•%*">
in Fast Black and in (he • S^j v Jl* pair,
correct shades of Tans at r^-y^
No such values ever shown before.
CHILDREN'S FAST BLACK
COTTON HOSE, In narrow 4 f— •
ribbed, wl-.h spliced knees and I l*"X/*>
doable be«iB and tow. all I 4. Jt » Fair.
sites, sto BVV at-. .--- *
worth 35c per pair.
Store Will Be Closed Saturday, July 4th.
Mall Orders Promptly Filled.
MU4LUL
125, 137, 129, 131 Kearny Street.
&RAKCH STORE— 743 and 741 Market
Street.
- Walk Right in; Take a Seat:
y^F ' Yes, plenty of ticae to talk since I got the
■■» Hkrculks Gasolink Enoink: runs it-
EJH*"*- self, you know. Engineer? No, I urn the
■L Engineer; start It and It «roes right along.
PR 3SSe w £si£U. Write for c ««*'o« *«*
>. American Type Founders' Co.
405-407 bansome .street.
Ban Francisco, CaL
- Buy direct from manufacturers and save 40*.
A&11#1# PK DEgTALB, Mantels,
1 1 111 ¥ Tables, Ktc.
11l I A 11 City Hall Square.
VII 111 J. * F. KESSIILKB.