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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23
ALONG THE SKIRMISH LINE.

When the sound-money Democrat calls TO
see the golden-haired honestmoney belle, the
old man has the bulldog chained, and meets
the chevalier al the door with smile; but the
silverite finds old Towser at the gate. hungry
for pants, and the old man on the porch wear
ing No. 10 boots that look ike battering-
rams.-Dallas News.
The Missouri de legation which has come TO
get the Tennessee convention to boost Silver
Dick Bland for the Presidency should not be
disappointed. II the Democracy is 10 be
rushed to defeat for the benefit OF the silver
mine owners, no man would suit better as
leader than Mr.. Bland.-Nashyine Banner.
Perhaps if Mckinley were in the White
House New York easy bosses might be allowed
10 stick their noses through the White House
fence and sniff from afar of the odor of the
fatted calf barbecued for other returning
prodigals. But even that is doubtful.-New
York World.
There are Mckinley shoes. Mckinley cravsts,
Mckinley hats-Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
cravats, perhaps, and hats it well NAV be;
but shoes, Fever. A shoe has got TO have
either a toe or heel. And its got TO go either
forward, backward or sidewise.-New York
Sun.
Even If it needed them the Repu blican
| party couldn't afford to hunt electoral votes in
the hocky mountains this year at the rlsk OF
losing the electoral votes of New York, New
Jersey, Massachusetts,. Connecticut and other
sound-money States.-Hartford Courant
It's uncomfortable that the editors of the
| mugwump press of the country cannot discern
the manifest Improperly OF specific declsFa-
| ton by Major Mckinley on the currency ques-
tion at this time.-Cnicago Times-Herald.
II Mckinley is such bowling gold man. is Il
not about time TO dissolve the Mckinley silver
| cornet band that has been on such sn ex,
tensive tour through the West?-Memphis
CommercialAppeal.
| Brlgadier-General Alger of Michigan can tel
band-wagon rs far as he can hear it, and as
soon as il gets in sight he is ready to clint
! right up on the front sesf.-Minneapolis
| Tribune.
1t begins TO look as if Mr.. Cleveland in
| taxing in those so, 600 offices under the civil
service had likewise ''taken in" one W. F.
Hsrrity.-Chieago Press.
Sound money will be the slogan OF the Reed
forces at ST. Louis, and whoever the nominee
OF the convention may be, sound money viii
win.-Bangcr News
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

Until the unpledged delegates to st.
Louis meet in convention they can be
counted for almost anybody, and that is
why prediction bureaus have such an EASY
time OF il.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

The Democratic swim is all hot water
and the party is getting much-needed
wash.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

All Democrats are eager to dodge the
tariff, but they cannot agree on what dodge
to try.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

1t is not Mr.. Vining but the Market
street Railway Company that is response
BILE for the maintenance OF the pubic
nuisance known as the transfer swindle
and the people should not forget the fact.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

Free trade can never win in this country
again under the name of Democracy and
Democracy can never win again on a plat
form of free trade.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23
BOYS BLOUSE.

Made of cotton duck, oheviot, galatea cloth,
brown hollands or the various heavy linens.
The above blouse is a garment much appreci-
ated by the boys for its GOODNESS and comfort.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

If you want good reading tomorrow
leave orders for THE SUNDAY CALL to-day.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

With the Market-street Railway Com
pany extortion is not concealed weapon.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

The tendency among Republicans and
Populists just now is toward clubs, but
Democrats seem content to let every man
provide himself with brickbat.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

The very fact that silver Democrats are
going TO the Chicago convention with a
boom excites a fear that they will come
out of 1t with bust or bolt.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

However costly street-sprinkling may
be, il is never so uneconomical as dust.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

The country is full of converts to the
cause of patriotism, protection and pros
perity.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

II is estimated 100000 tons of wool will
be cipned in Argentina this year and as the
Democratic tariff allows it free entrance
into the United States the fellows who
voted for free trade will be more asham ed
thsn ever TO look an American sheepin the
face this fall.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23
"THE OVERLAND LIMITED F."
Via Union Pacific.

o~1v 31a DAYS TO CHICAGo-S1x
412 DAYS TO NEW YORK-41s
Pullman double drawing-room sleepers and din
ing-cars, San Francisco TO Chicago, daily without
change. Composite buffet smoking and library
cars between Salt Lake City, Ogden and Chicago.
Upholstered Pullman tourist sleepers, san Fran
cisco to Chicago, daily without change, and per-
sonalIy conducted tourist excursions 10 ST. Paul
and Chicago every Friday.
For tickets and sleeplng-car reservations apply to
general office, l Montgomery street. Steamship
tickets on sale to and from all parts of Europe.
d. w. HITCHCOCK, General Agent.
Stanford Excursion.
Join our Stanford Excursion, which leaves San
Francisco at p. NJ Thursday, the 2sth inst, via
Northern Pacific railroad. Special cars, stopping
at the Yellowstone Park. T. K Stateler. General
Agent, SIS Market street, San Francisco.
-N-
No SAFER Oh MORE EFFIcACIoUs REMEDY can
be had for Coughs, or any trouble OF the throat,
than " BroiC7l's BronchidI Trocaes."
THE fashionable ladies' corrective tonic is Or.
siegert's Angostura Bitters, the renowned South
American invigorator.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

All Democratic organs are vehemently
denouncing Mckinley just now. but the
New York Sun is the worst. 1t SAYS he
has striking resemblance to Cleveland.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

There is demand in the East that the
Government distribution of seed should be
placed in charge of an agent selected under
the civil service laws, which is the first
intimstion to this side of the continent
that there has ever been any offensive
partisanship in garden sass.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

BY this time even the Bourbon Demo
Gratis are ready to admit that as soon as
the free-trade theory became condition
il busted.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Republican clubs are increasing.

The spell of Democracy has turned its
own pie into pi.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

Judging from reports that come to us 1t
would seem the split in Texas Democracy
is almost deep enough to make fracture
in the State itself.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

The Senate has the adjournment of Con-
Rress in its hands, but apparently not in
its head
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

Dallas, Tex, claims to have 5000 bicycles
in operation, and we notice that none of
the cyclones in that section have managed
10 overtake il yet
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

The Gar need not be so very proud over
his coronation. He was only making a
show of himself for the American tourist
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

Republican enthusiasm rises with the
thermometer, and we are going to have a
glorious summer.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

According TO the figures of Manager
vinine, the transfer nuisance enables the
Market-street Company to fleece the public
10 the extent of about S9T, 600 year. 1t is
clear, therefore, that the company could
easily afford to abate the nuisance some
what by giving better and prompter ser
vice where the transfers are made.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

II our Populist friends will consider the
matter they will see that the best tariff
tribunal possible will be a Republican
Congress
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

Tue-oF-wAR-F. J. H, City. There were two
tugs-oi-war in the Mechanics Pavilion in this
City. The following is the official declaration
OF the result OF the last one, which closed No
yemb Der ?, 1891:
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

enough to straddle the money question
and make a good race at the same time.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

Extorting double fares from street rail-
way passengers cannot be called highway
robbery in disguise, because it isn't dis
guised.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

Care must be taken that the proposed
fiesta doesn't degenerate into something
like the Midwinter Fair of bad memory.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

GENUINE eyeglasses, 15c, S71& Fourth ST., near
barber, Sundays, 738 Market (Kast shoe store)s
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

Eight cyclones IN five days is the Okla
homa record, and Kansas has blown her
self to pieces in vain.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23
CURRENT HUMoR.

Fanny Peterby-Mamma, Tommy can stand
on his head so nice. May stand on my head?
Mrs. Peterby-1t is not nice for q little girl
to stand on her head.
Fanny with a sigh)-Then I suppose I'll
have to wait until I'm big girl.-Texas Sitter.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

Whoever wins at st. Louis will be the
peoples favorite.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

The Republican State Executive Com
mittee has now been thoroughly organized
and everything is ready for the campaign
10 begin
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau (Allen's), $40 Montgomery.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

No oyER-CRowDED boats and trains by noisy
Sunday picnics on the n. P. C. r. R. via Sau-
salito ferry, it being reserved for families and
private parties.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

II is said that Swinburne has memory al
most as wide-reaehing as Macaulay had.
Burne-Jones says that upon one occasion the
poet recited verbatim several pages of Milton s
prose, which he had read but once, and that
twenty wears before
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

''Your wife seems anxious to be up to date,
Tugby."
"Up to date? She's way ahead; she's got
lot of trouble borrowed for year after next
Chicago Record.
When m an gets to talking about how far
he can ride on bicycle he lies as easily as the
man who tells how cold it was the winter he
lived in Wisconsin.-Atchison Globe.
Teacher-How many weeks in the year,
Tommy Timkins?
Tommy-Only fifty this year.
Teacher-You know very well that there are
fifty-two.
Tommy-No'm; not this year. Pa says he's
going TO take two weeks off.-Roxbury Gazette.
Cumso-Pd like to see a photograph of
cloud made with the catholic ray.
Cawker-Why?
Cumso-Im suspicious about the silver lin
ing.-Detroit Free Press.
al notice. observed Uncle Allen Sparks,
"that Edison has procured I'll patents In the
last twenty-five years, and still there isn't q
corn cure worth having. Chicago Tribune.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

Bright Pupil-Weu, there used to be. In
Napoleon's time they had cities to burn
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

STRANGERS, take home Townsend's California
Glace Fruits, SOC Id. 627 Market, Palace Hotel.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

BoNps-w. A. j., City If by the question.
HAS the United States borrowed money within
the past three or four years from Ergland?'
you mean borrowed money from the English
Government, the answer is no. On the sth
uay Oh February, 1925, John g. Carlisle, Secre-
tsry OF me Treasury. purchased through
august Bslmont 4 Co. OF New York on tehalf
OF n NJ. Rothsealld & Sons of London. Enr.-
ana themselves, and through ]. P. Morgan &
20 OF New YORK on behalf of J. s Morgan &
90, OF London and themselves, So, 500 600 in
gold Tor which bonds were issued
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

One of the most popular members of the dip
lomstic corps OF Berlin is Viscount Siuzo Aoki
the japanese Minister to Germany. and now
also TO England. He went first to Berlin in
1873 as a secretary, and while there won the
hand of the Baroness Elizabeth Won Rshden
the daughter of an old and noble house.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

Sir William Morris, the poet, rejoices in the
possession of a prodisious memory. Given y
fair start on any sentence in Dickens work he
will complete that sentence with very little de-
Walton from textual accuracy.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

RED-Hor A. P. A. ARTICLE. rO-day's Star.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23
PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.

The Duchess OF Portland is the tallest Duchess
in the world.
signor Paolo Tosti has written nearly FIVE
hundred songs.
The visiting card used by the German EN-
peror Is four times the size of an ordinary one.
Verdi is q horse-breeder as well as musi-
clan. His paddocks on his country estate,
near Genoa. are among the finest in Italy.
Verdi has little music at home. and seldom Wis
its the opera.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

READ THE STAR. 5 cents.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

The PoPPx-''opium," City. The poppy from
which the opium of commerce is extracted is
the papyer somniferum, sometimes called the
common poppy and sometimes called the white
poppy The plant is 8 native of some Of the
warmer parts OF Asia. though it is now COM
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

FRESH buttercups, 25c pound Townsend's..
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

BEST peanut tafy in the world. Townsend's.'
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

SOFT baby cream, l5c pound, Townsend's. "
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23
Read Barry's s.star. ,,

LESS AND FREE. The Star, 5 cents.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

SOFT chewing molasses candy. Townsend's.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

Sound money will be the slogan of the Reed
forces at ST. Louis, and whoever the nominee
OF the convention may be, sound money viii
win.-Bangcr News
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

II Mckinley is such bowling gold man, is 1t
not about time TO dissolve the Mckinley silver
eornet band that has been on such sn ex-
tensive tour through the West memphis
Commercial-Appeal
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

Brigadier-General Alger of Michigan can tell
q band-wagon as far as he can hear 1t, and as
soon as IL gets in sight he is ready to climb
right up on the front sest.-Minneapolis
Tribune.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

IL is uncomfortable that the editors of the
mugwump press of the country cannot discern
the manifest i'm proprieIy OF specific declsra-
ton by Major Mckinley on the currency ques-
tion at this time-Cnicago Times-Herald.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

II begins to look as if Mr.. Cleveland in
taxing in those SO 1000 offices under the civil
service had likewise staken in" one W. F.
Hsrrity.-Chicago Press.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

Even If it needed them the Republican
party couldn't afford to hunt electoral votes in
the Rocky Mountains this year at the risk OF
losing the electoral votes OF New York, New
Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut and other
sound-money States Hartford Courant
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23
SUBSCRIPTION RATEs-postage Free
THE SUMMER MONTHS.

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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-23

SULLIVAN AND CoRBETT-A. s., City. Sullivan
and Corbett fought twenty-one rounds in one
hour and twenty-three minutes at New Orleans
september z, 1892 for the largest amount OF
money that ever depended on a prIze-6ght,
$4,000 purse S25, 600 and stake $50 ,0Oo).
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-15
PAWTUXET.

The mission workers trip to Enfield
VIII take place tomorrow.
Miss Dunn, New York city, is the guest
of Mrs. H. B. Wright on Ocean street.
Postmaster Hayward of Providence is
occupying his residence on Spring Garden
street.
The Good. VIII Society OF the Edge
wood Congregstionist Church Will hold a
lawn party on the grounds of Mr.. Dewey
+. Adams, Broad street, tomorrow, for
the benefit OF the Hiding iund. Supper
from till 10.
A complimentary bake is to be given
10 Commander William Il. Stone at
Rhodes on-the- Pa wtuxet, June 26.
The new members added 10 the Rhode
Island Yacht Club mem bership last week
were: George W. Harris, Edward e.
Bucklin, Francis Miner, Jr., Truman :.
Foote, Walter l.. Peck ham, Raymond g..
Hodges, r.. 3. Hobart, h. 4. King, {. Il.
Glines.
Mr.. Alonzo Stone, who has been so Sc
r'uusly Ill at his ife,ne in Lakewood, is
reported es being much more comforta bic.
Boats of the Providence Naval Reserve
are lying at the Rhode Island Yacht Club
moorings, awsiting the completion OF
their reserve OF Peek wharf.
The Rhode Island Trap Shooting Asso-
citation are to hold friendly shoot
against the Pawtuxet Gun Club in the
near future.
MIR. William Barton and family OF Pro-
vidcnce are occupying their summer rest
dence on Bank street.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-15
NEWPORT NEWS.
The Naval Reserves Outr0w The Naval
Training Station Men.

NEWPORT, June 15.-There wcs an ex-
citing race in the harbor on Saturday
evening, the contesting crews being
those OF the Naval Reserve Company and
regulars from the training station, the
former winning by nearly four boat
lengths. The course was two miles with
q turn and the race was witnessed from
the wharves by large mum ber of people.
TIE first stretch was very close but the
regulars made a bad turn and never re-
covered their Llnss.-The elapaed time was
Naval Reserve, 1888, Training Station,
1914, giving the race to the reserves by
IL seconds.
Yesterday was the most unpleasant
Sunday that Newport has seen for some
time. A severe stCmry visited the CITY, the
rain falling in torrents and the wind al
most blowing a gale. Several trees were
blown down, bui other than that no
damage is reported. 1he attendance on
the Friends meeting was lessered By the
storm. 1t seems strange, but Sunday
seems TO baa day for storms in this city.
The defeat of the Newport team In
Orange, n. j., on Saturday, by a score
of to /, was yeceiv d with regret in this
city. Their crack pitcher was + all over
the grounds, and only sharp fielding
kept the scorJ from exceeding eight.
Dowd wants to play in Newport, but the
dirctors don't want him, it Is reported
because he IL college bred. He is ball
player and the management is making q
mistake In not sigping him, as the adj
clifton OF him TO the team would make a
big differnce TO the attendance, as he has
large following IN this city.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-15
SIXTH DISTRICT COURT.

On Saturday evening Captain Costine and a
squad from the Ilain street station called at
lO3 Richmond street and WHEN they returned
10 the station Lillio Rhodes, Belle Thomas
and Ellen Cone won't with them and in the
sixth DiItriet Court this morning Miss
Rhodes was CHARGED with maintsining a com.
mon nuisance, keeping liquor for sslo and
four salps to ali OF which che pleaded not
guilty ana Was held until Friday in tho sum
Of Sl5C0 for trial. The other two women were
charged with being lewi and wanton persons.
They pleaded not ceily ard were held for
trial in the sum OF |; 900 each until Friday.
. Maegis Cary was sent 10 the state farm for
six months for being common drunkard.
Alexander Martin plsuded not guilty TO tho
charge - sellipg liquor in his barber shop
on lichmond street. nad was hold until
Friday in the sum OF SlltO.
John Conway was h.ldr until Friday on n
charge Of selling l.uuor without license.