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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-24

BLEACHED ToWELING, II inches 91C
special sales for &c, our special price. ard
saSe dSsaE. iSs g4 SFo Sns ana 9 soa
special at DC, our SPECIAL price. Yard
CRINKLED SEERSUCKERS, 81 inches TIC
WIDE big variety patterns, the 10c g
quality, our special price. ......... -. Yard
BLEACHED MUSLIN, 45 inches wide,
extra fine Quality, no dressing, regular &C
1212c, sold special at l0c, our special Q
price OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Yard
PERCALES, Sc inches wide, good quality, nc
full yard wide, stripes and figures, sold
special at 1Oc, our special price. Yard
FINE DIMITIES, assorted patterns and &c
colors, regular l0c goods, sold at y
special sales for 1sc, our special price Yard
SWISS HE sdss. value DR i5o O0
to 25c each, our special price. Each
FANCY CoLoRED SHELF PAPER,
edge of embroidered designs, &C
tinuous piece of 10 yards length, value 4
1Oc, our special price. Package
HALE'S NOTEPAPEE, envelopes and 1OC
paper put up in fancy box, at........ 1O
Observation-Disclosures. Box
FAS seFn 9 IS Scae 8as Our spes l2o
price ............................ Yard
LEATHER BELTS fancy buckled, 2 &c
inches wide, tanS and blacks, ~
special price. ............................ Each
FANCY BUTTER-COLORED POINT 1OC
DE VENISE LACE, 10 to II inches ~
WIDE our special price. ................ Yard
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-24
HOW TO GET HERE.

Our big opposite junction Turk Market and
Eddy, Ellis and
Powell Sixth Market
Leave street
conductors let you off a HALES.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-24
CHAS. MAYER JR. CLOAkS
DOORS OPEN AT 500 A. M TOMORROW.
POSITIVELY NO SALE GOODS EXCHANGED.

lO6 LADIES' BLAZER JACKETS, in TIC
Co.'s price, S5; our price. Each.
90 LADIES JACKETS. "a to 80 inches O. e 3
long, plain and fancy mixtures. tNl-
Mayors price So; our price. Each.
II LADIES JACKETS trimmed with @. I so
braid, light and dark coors. Mayors u l.
price 81; our price. Each
100 LADIES HEAVY WINTER JACK q 100
ETS, black, blue and brown, boucle ,DC-
effects. Mayors price $16 50; our price Each.
lis LA DIES CAPES, from "a to 30
inches long, trimmed with braid and
lace Dlack navy and TAM 25 OF these q 300
have silk Innings. Mayors price, $40; .Do-
our price. fach.
LADIES' LISTERS WITH CAPES Ca . so
fancy mixtures, 80 inches long. May u
ers price, $40; our price..............-. Each.
% LADIES' SILK ULSTERS, in black @. > so
and fancy stripes. Mayors price, GDZ-
$S 90; our price Each.
IS LADIES' DoLMANs. in silk and G6.5O
velvet, suitable for old ladies. Mayors tDO-
price, $40; our price.................-. Each
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-24

1913 LADIES' FUR CAPEs, lengths. C Z 90
Chas. Mayer; price SIS to $95, our price u d
from S12 SOTO. Observation-Disclosures. Each
SO LADIES' VELVET CAPES, trim or .. so
med with Jet, Mayors price $40 SO, Do
our price w -----.-----.....----. Each
So LADIES' VELVET CAPES, fancy
silk lined, trimmed with Jet and O 7.5O
braid, Mayors price $40 80, our U -
10 CIIILDREN'S LONG COATS AND
REFERS in fancy mixtures, ages Cs I 80
TO u, Mayors price So so, our ID l.
price EaCn
143 LADIES' SUITS. in fancy mixtures, q. 7.5O
doube-breasted, blazer style. silk ID -
lined, Mayors price SIS, our PRICE. Each
l19 LADIES' HEAVY WINTER
CAPES, in black, blue, brown and tan,
"a to 30 inches long, Mayors prices q 200
$40 10 sic 90, our price for any and ID u
III. Eacn
A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF WRAP TEC
PERS in light and dark shades, our 10
prices from So 80 Observation-Disclosures. Each
NOTICE.
Positively no exchanges on sale
goods. Extra saIespeopIe, wrappers,
cashiers and deliveries for this sale.
Come early.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-24

would see for himself both old and young on
the summit, expressing their opinions OF the
view in very fiattering phrases. The place is
a perfect rendezvous Tor all artists, one artist
having remem bered the grand view after being
in Europe for several years.
The Commissioners speak of erecting mon
ument to General Grant in Golden Gate Park.
Why not put that monument on this grand
elevation, where it will be seen from every
point in the City, where every schoolch1ld Will
behold his idol without hunting all over
Golden Gate Park to find it? OF course i'm
provement is needed IN this park, and should
have been made long ago. The excuse OF the
Commi ssioners that there is no water-power
there is now water force near by the hill
which could reach twenty feet higher.
Again, the property -ownerS declare that not
one inch of Buena Vista will be sold. II money
is needed for the City so badly that portion
of park must be sold why not sell some of the
sand which SO beauties Golden Gate Park?
To show thai Mr. Ellis voices the senti-
ment of the neighborhood the following
petition subscribed by people repre-
senting millions of dollars worth of prop
er:y has been prepared and will be pre-
sented to the Board of Supervisors on
Monday:
To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors in
and for the City and County Of San FrdnciSco-
GENTLEMEN: The undersigned residents and
property Owners in the vicinity OF Buena Vista
Park respectfully represent that the present
condition of the said park is menace to the
safety and happiness OF the neigh borhood; an
inviting rendezvous for Migrants and a source
of danger to women and children. We respect
fully petition your honorable board TO devote
the sum OF $75 900 out of the large sum real
lied by the recent tax levy for The proper i'm
provement of this beautiful pleasure ground.
Park Hill Improvement Club.
CHARLES ELLIS, President.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-24
MEMORIAL SPECIALS.
NEVER BEFORE SUCH BARGAIN OPPORTUNITIES COME
EARLY

GENTS UNLAUND Erred SHIRTS, 81
good heavy quality muslin all-linen IL
bosom. our special price Ea,
LADIES' WHITE LAWN APRONS, II
good quality, fancy satin striped bor- II
der, 36XS6 inches, our special price. Eat
CHILDREN'S WHITE MERINo IN OC
ID + r w E A X. heavy quality silk CI
bound; our special prices are for sizes Ga
16, -, 20 and % zoe; for "a, 20 and me
20, 2Sc, and for 80 80 and "a ..........
BOYS PERCALE BLOUSE WAISTS, OE
large sailor collar, ruffied edge front %
and cuffs, regular Soc all colors, our Eat
special price. .................. ..........
LADIES CALICO WAISTS. Numbered 90
collar, cuffs full back and front, big OO
sleeves, new patterns, regular soc, Fac
our special price Observation-Disclosures.
LADIES' BLACK COTTON HOSE, extra 81
fine quality, heavy Maeo yarn high Il
splicsd heels and double sole and toes, Pa
regular Acc quality, our special price.
LADIES' FRENCH c. p. CORSETS,
bound with real whalebone and COW or I q
cred with heavy coutn, regular 81 so ID l.
corset, our special price ................ Ps
LADIES' KID GLOVES, large buttons, nc
pique stitched back, in tanS and It
browns, bargain at Toe, our special p
price '--..-.
FANCY STRIPE RIBBON, No. 40 in II
width, assorted patterns, special L
price ............... va
WHITE TWILL TABLE-CoVERS, SO II
inches square, fancy stamped, our {
special price. northumberland. Es
BLACK ENAMEL sTOCKING-DARN-
ERS, regular size, the cheapest ever
been offered, our special price........ Ee
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-24

90 LADIES' SILK LISTERS, in black @, $50
and fancy stripes. Mayors price, DZ-
So SO; our price. Observation-Disclosures. Each
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-24

63 LADIES' DOLMANS, In silk and q. e. so
velvet suitable for old ladies. Mayors ,DO-
nrice $50; our price. Each
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-24

63 LADIES' listers WITH CAPES, oO.5O
fancy mixtures, 80 inches long. May tDZ-
er's price, $40: our price................ Each.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-24

SILK - Black brocaded grounds of OIL IS
satin and gro grain, colored figures ID i -
In small and large designs. Price,. Yard.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-24

SWELL DRESDEN SILKS-Ahead-of-
the-century stuff, swell designs, black
and exclusive patterns. Price 50 25D L
ana. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Yard.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-11-04
Horseiess carriages Oh French A.oads.

Within the last few months the
automobile or horseless carriage has
ceased to % an uncommon sight in the
streets of Paris. They are used not
only by amai enrs, but also by business
houses for the delivery OF goods On
the smooth Paris pavement they seem
to be even more easily guided through
crowded streets than the ordinary de-
livery van. III the country a small
family party may be seen visiting the
neighhoring town in a low mail pha
ton, which is conspicuous mainly at
first sight by the absence of horses.
The rapid development OF this novel
mode of iOcomotiou has been made
possible by the admirable system Of
roads and highways which is the rule
in France. Classified as National roads,
Departmental. ContonaI, Vicinal, etc.,
each class Of road is the subject OF q
special system of administration. Each
receives yearly the allotted amount of
crushed stone, and is divided into sec
tions, upon which one man is working
all the year round. In the matter of
grade, drainage and road bed it would
be difficult to produce a more perfect
result, or to realize more eXatly the
definition of MeAdam. "A road onght
to be considered as an artificial! floor
ing, forming a strong, smooth. solid
surface, at once capable OF carrying
great weight. and over which carriages
may pass without meeting any imdedi-
ment,n
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-11-04
Houses aaa Lots for Bryan

4 novel contribution to the national
campaign fund of the democratic party
was received at Chicago last Wednes-
day. W. NJ. Hoyt, head of the firm OF
w. III. Hoyt & Co., importers, manu-.
facturers and wholesale grocers. gave,
through the county committee. direct
10 MIR. Bryan, a house and 30 lots at
Lincoln, Neb. He did this in lieu of a
cash contribution to the campaign
fund. Mr.. Hoyt says: II am rich in
real estate that cannot be sold, and
poor in cash that is so hard to get. For
this reason donate that of which /
am over supplied. I have conveyed
the property to Mr.. Bryan's name,
thinking that under the circumstances
he could realize more cash for the har-
ty than If made to the committee on
finance"
Mr.. Bryan, on being notified of the
novel campaign contribution, express
ed his appreciation Of the spirit shown
by Mr.. Hoyt, and then turned the deed
and abstract of the title over to Chair
man Jones, who will sell it and put the
proceeds in the democratic campaign
fund ,The property is worth about
SlS 0QO
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-11-04
LATER.

On the faith Of newspaper
reports and dispatches we
have conceded McKinley's
election, but on the eve OF
going to press dispatches are
passing hot over the wires
which indicate strongly Bry-
ans election. The previous
estimates had been based on
the reports from the large
cities. The rural districts,
however, have changed re-
suits In several States, prin-
cipally California, Indiana,
Michigan OVERWHELMINGLY,
Tennessee, West Virginia,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Wyo-
ming and South Dakota.
Should news reach us that
Bryan is elected our readers
will hear it through an extra.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-11-04
A Curious Question.
Where Was Methuselah During the Delu

Where Was Methuselah During the Deluge.
This, says the Literary Digest, is the
question which DR.. Halsey L. Wood, OF
this city, raises, and to which he finds
no satisfactory answer. He argues:
This distinguished patriarch seems
to have been forgotten at that time,
for no mention is made of him as one
of the chosen few to enter the ark; and.
on the otner hand, we are told that
every living creature persisted with
out the ark, and every man. Now,
MethuseIah lived nine hundred and
sixty and nine years, and since he had
fully ten months of life left to him at
the beginning of the flood, he could
have completed his grand total of
years nowhere else than inside the ark.
At Noah's birth, Methuselah had full
six hundred years to live. In the six
hundredth year of Noah's life the
windows of heaven were opened and
in the self-same day entered Noah, and
Shem and sons with them into the
ark Noah was Noah's wife and the
three wives of his sons with them into
the ark Noah was therefore 500 years
old when the food began. Methuselah
had still ten months to live ere his
969th wear was complete. Where was
he? The dwelers in the arr. CID not
issue from it for a year ana ten days
after their entrance. Methuseah must
have therefore died during the in
terval, and presumably he was buried;
bnt. strange to say, nothing is said OF
this singular circumstances"
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-11-04
Easier Times in the Sonth.

No part of Our county is more pros
porous this year than the Cotton Belt.
Its great staple has yielded we'll though
not excessively and is selling at price
that returns profit to the planter.
AS in business no section of the coun
try is Independent of the rest, the i'm.
provement in the South will be felt in
the North and West to considerable
extent, The Southern buyer is now in
better position to invest in machinery
and manufactured wares of all kinds
than he has been for some years.
Pork, one Of the things the South buys
in enormous quantities from the West.
will find reader market, and the
same is true of -four and corn, for the
Southern corn crop is much lighter
than last year. Horses, too, which the
South buys in the West, will no doubt
find better market this year. On the
whole the money which is put in circu-
lation by the cotton crop this year will
help not a little in several lines of
trade.-National Stockman.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-11-04
Palmer and Buckner.

When, some weeks ago, Hon. John
NJ, Palmer and Hon. Simon Bolivar
Buckner were nominated for President
and Vice President, respectively. by
the boiling Democrats at Indianapolis,
we ventured the prediction that by the
close of the campaign they would be
objects of almost universal contempt
and ridicule. We think we may say
this morning that our prophecy has
been fulfilled.
At no time during the contest have
they been seriously considered for the
places to which they pretend to aspire.
1t has been understood on all sides
that their candidacy was absurd; that
they never would have been consider
ed for the fraction of an instant by
any convention representing a real
party; that they were performing sim
ply as decoys to trap timid and unwary
D emocrats and deliver them to Mr..
Hanna to swell the triumphant process
sion of Mckinley. Nobody has regard
ed them with respect. No one has
contributed to their fund except as a
means of promoting the Republicans
cause. Nobody wanted to elect them.
Nobody has offered them the poor
travesty of reverence and honor. They
have gone through the country,
couple of transparent mountebanks
and mummurs Robert Macaire and
JACQUES Strop themselves were not
more impudent impositors. 1t seems in
credible that they could have expected
more than half contemptuOus tolera-
ton, yet oftener than once they have
resented it with fury that made them
only more ridiculous. They have, in
fact, saddened us with the thought
that out of more than seventy millions
of people they only have failed to
realize their pitiful predicament.
Mckinley will be elected, and he will
administer the affairs of government
as best he can under the conditions
that beset him. Bryan will be defeat
ed, and will return to private life, con
scious of having made the most gallant
and most brilliant fight that man ever
made against overwhelming and I'M
conquerable odds. Both will be shrin-
ed in the affection, the confidence. and
the respect of these who have followed
them throughout. Both will be rec
ognized by all their fellow citizens as
genuine gladiators in a genuine arena.
But these poor puppets. these make
believe champions of tinsel cause
they Will, along Win tnelf Deggarly
retinue of allies, the Bynums, the
Cockrans, and the sulking Hills, pass
from the stage without one cheering
word or plying bear, fortunate be-
yond their best deserts if they be for
gotten utterly. The world forgives
the man who will not vote against his
conscience. It never forgives and it
is seldom able to forget the man who
plays the buckster with his dignity
WGshias Qton Post, Noe. 3rG.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-11-04
GRAIN TRADE AND CROPS.

The Cincinnati Prices Current of last
Thursday says
The prevailing weather conditions
the past week have been such as to
furnish little ground for. complaint.
Some light rains have fallen but for
the most part fair weather has been
experienced, and there has been good
progress in handling the new crop of
corn. This grain is now moving to
market to some extent, and old corn
has been more actively disposed of in
the interior.
The wheat crop continues in a high
ly satisfactory position, with little ex-
ceptiOn. Here and there the late seed
ing is slow in terminating, but this
has little of significance at this juno
ture. Something of fly is talked of,
but to less extent than is frequently
the case. The crop rarely has better
start, and in fact seldom as favorable.
The interior marketing of wheat has
not essentially enlarged in any section.
When the market was making rapid
strides upward there were no sellers;
when it changed surprisingly in the
other direction, there was likewise an
unwillingness to sell The natural re-
suit is a difficulty in securing supplies
by interior millers, and an apparent
scarcity of wheat in the winter grain
regions. Advices from the North west
are suggestive of some lessening of the
movement.
These figures are suggestive of the
deficiency in the winter grain regions.
and of the holding policy with refer
ence to what there is; and also of the
freedom with which the spring grain
has gone forward to the centers, not
withstanding the understood reduction
in the production.
The Chicago wheat market at the
beginning of the week now ended made
a sharp decline, and some further re
durtion was subsequently developed,
shaping moderately upward at the
close, at Acc lower than week ago for
the May quotation. The corn market
closes &c higher than week ago for
December, the variations during the
week not being especially striking.
December wheat at Chicago was
quoted as low as 575c. on September s,
ranging as high as CSC the last of the
month, Thus far in October the range
for December delivery has been 66aa
79ac.
December wheat at Chicago closed
5Sc below the highest point of the
week, 2Sc above the lowest point, and
4Bc lower than week ago.
Corn at Chicago for December closed
&c below the highest point of the week,
15c above the lowest point of the
week, and &c higher than a week ago.
Wheat receipts at primary markets
were 100000 bushels for the week
against S.s35,00O the preceding week,
and S.267,000 last year.
Corn receipts were 5,155, 900 bushels,
against 6.054 900 the preceding week,
and 2, IA, 600 last year.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-11-04
Honor to whom Honor is Due.

There has been in the campaign just
closed noble work done in Virginia
by the Palmer and Buckner advocates
of honest money and honest politics.
Twenty-three of these stalwart citizens
and undismayed exemplars of honest
politics, exercised the divine right of
suffrage on last Tuesday in this city,
and thus helped their honest candi-
dates toward the presidency. For
splendid devotion to right, for bravery
and patriotic effort for good govern
ment, for manliness, superb fealty to
democracy and honesty in politics, the
two aforesaid candidates and their
supporters should receive the plaudits
of grateful people and generous
nation.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-11-04
Where the Rise Began.

The prospect of a short crop Of wheat
was first noted in Europe, and the
heavy buying in July and August was
the first result. British wheat began
to bring advanced prices IN August and
the advance has been continuons. the
greatest enhancement OF price has been
III Liverpool, where two weeks ago
there had been gain OF 81 cents a
buehel on the prices Oh July l.. ihe
increased cost of ocean transportation
accounts for the fact that the Liver;
nool prices are high out Of proportion
TO the American prices. In New York.
AT the October date named, the gain
per bushel over the price of July was
bu5 2O5 cents; at CHICAGO. % cents; at
Duluth and Minneapolis, 195 cents; at
Kansas City, rs cents. AT Kansas City
the advance Was from Al cents to rs
cents. or more than half the July price.
Much of the wheat crop is still in the
hands of our farmers, so that they will
ger the benefit OF the advance,
amounting in the aggregate. 1t Is esfl-
mated. to some 100000, 600. If the fail
of silver, due to its alleged demonstra-
ton. caused the fall of wheat It is
nueer that now, while silver is falling
q further 8 cents an ounce, wheat goes
up over 80 per cent. The recent Ia'l OF
silver il ascribeG in London TO the de
creased demand for it in India conse-
oueut upou the failure OF the grain
croo there. The famine causes the ma
tive- 10 flood the silver parket with
their silver ornaments, 50 that there Is
no demand for foreign silver. Accord
ipy 10 the ordinary method of reason
ing of silver men, we must, IN view OF
the new facts iufer that the fall OF sill,
yer has q tendency to boost wheat. Ii
this be the case the lower silver goes
the better for the farmer. But the fact
is that there is no connection whatever
between the price Of wheat and the
price of silver, except that in India Just
now high wheat seems TO mean low sll-
Yer. Both. however, are really subject
to the law OF trade which says that
when the supply of an article exceeds
the demand the price declines, and
vSce uersa.-Bazt. Sun.