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WAVES OF HEAT.


1t is estimated that more than 1000 peo-
pie have already been laid low by the fury
of the. heat wave which is now sweeping
over the middle and Eastern States, and
the indications are that the end is not
yet. Like the coming and going of tor
nadoes and cyclones, this death-dealing
march of fierce heat appears to be beyond
human power to turn aside. The terri
tory which is suffering so terribly holds
more than half of the population OF the
United States and very much more than
half the wealth and social splendor, but
natural law is blind in its operation and
it crushes and grinds-and it compensates,
too.
If one were to set to moralizing upon
the disasters by flood and storm and heat
which have overtaken nearly the whole OF
the country east of the great mountain
ranges in recent months, he would see in
it all an awakening of human sympathy
and diversion from the pursuit of per-
sonal advantage which he would set down
as gain to the people in all the ways
that lead to loftier standards of fellowship
and interdependence between the many
threads which compose the social fabric.
AS yet it is hard to believe that such vlsi-
tations of distress and suffering are really
needed to make men turn aside from their
greedy rush after things that perish that
they may see how very shallow and mar
row are the avenues of going and coming
which separate the children of earth.
We whose lives are cast in the cool and
the cheer and the plenty of the Pacific
Coast, and who walk amid flowers and
fruits all the time, must fail to appreciate
the havoc that is being wrought in the
East by the same sun that looks upon US
in the morning from snow-oapped noun
tains, and closes the eyelashes OF the even
ing as it sinks to rest upon the bosom OF
the mighty waters beyond the Golden
Gate. But, nevertheless, a stream of SYM
pathy goes out, and in the hearts OF all
our people there is a sincere wish that
some of the beauty and the glory and the
charm and the health bearing atmosphere
of California might be the heritage OF the
land beyond the desert.
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not be loyal to Bryan or any other can
didate who would not guarantee certain
amount of Feoeral patronage. AS is well
known, German is prote ctionist so far as
iron and coal are concerned, and he is al
ways willing to work for protection in any
industry whose friends will return the
com pliment by voting to sustain his own
industrial ventures.
On the money question German has al
ways been what is called "goldbug." His
associates are men who do business in Wall
street, and he is always ready to show his
friendship for them when in the Senate.
That is the man who has been selected to
manage Bryan's campaign. II a strong
effort is made all along the line to elect
Bryan it will be safe to assume that deal
has been made which will make Bryan
Germans property if he is elected. On
the other hand, if enthusiasm is turned to
indifference, no further evidence need be
wanted to prove that German is knitting
the Nebraska man at every turn of the
road
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MRS. PRESIDENT KRUGER
Johannesburg News.


During the recent hubbub about the Trans
vaal and its President scarcely any mention
has been made of Mrs. Kruger. Plain though
Mrs. Kruger is in the matter of dress she has
her little vanity. She positively refuses to see
visitor who may happen 10 call before she
has ''tidied up"
The tidying up takes place in the afternoon
and consisrs of putting on her best black gown
with trimmings. Mrs. Kruger, like all Dutch
ladies, is very domesticated, and her chief in
terest in life is to see how much she can save
upon the housekeeping; in this she is quite
the typical huisyrouw. She likes to be neat
and tidy before visitors, and the general un-
tidiness of her husband distresses her exceed
ingly.
Mrs. Kruger is famous for her coffee, with
which visitors are always RECALLED when they go
to the Presidential residence in Pretoria. Mrs.
Kruger thinks she makes the best coffee of
any good huisvrouw in Pretoria, and she
boasts that she can make tin of condensed
milk go further than any one else. Mrs. Krl-
ger, while thinking the President the great
est statesman the world has ever seen, takes
no sort of interest in politics. Anything h her
husband tells her in connection with politi-
cal matters she unhesitatingly accepts.
Needless to say, she is not troubled with any
OF the notions of the new woman, and she
considers she must be obedient to her hus-
band. In conversation she always addresses
the President as Dom, and he in turn calls he T
Tanta. They are believed to be a happy
couple.
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NO DRY ROT COMPETITION.
Tulare Register.

Some of our more or less esteemed contem-
poraries are worried over the inconsistency of
indorsing the National Republican platform
and supporting avowed advocates OF the free
and unlimited coinage of silver heresy for Con-
gress So far as this district is concerned Re-
publicans do not believe that silver is the
only question which concerns our people.
They believe that if every warehouse in the
district were piled full of gold eagles from
foundation to ridgepole 1t would do the farm
ers and frult-growers no good were the
country being flooded with the products of
pa upper labor from the Old World.
They believe that the experience of the past
four years, including the time the ak. was
held over the country, has not been to the in
terests of our producers of WOOL raisins and
California fruits They believe that no in
crease OF any money would be of benefit if they
could not get it in fair measure for their
products, and they do not believe that fair
prices would obtain under the Democratic
policy of buying the products of Europe,
China and Japan.
Even when Republicans do believe in free
silver they also believe that q combination of
free silver and free trade will take this coun-
try into ruin and entire industrial collapse.
Whatever they may think of the silver issue
rs presented by the double tailed opposition
they want no more competition with the dry
rot nations of earth.
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A REGULARITY OF THE CAMPAIGN
Washington Post.

Vice-Chairman Apsley of the Republican
Congressional Committee said yesterday: "A
peculiar feature of this campaign which is
forced upon my notice in my work of dissem-
mating literature is the fact that, while in
former campaigns people were content with
abstracts of speeches, they now demand the
tull text OF every utterance on the questions of
finance and government revenues that we can
supply. There seems to be no literature too
long or cumbersome for them to read and
they want the best speeches of the past decade
on the subjects. While in the past brief arti-
cles and paragraphs, which the crossroads or
street-corner debater could adapt and use in
his arguments, took best with the people, now
there is an overwhelming demand for the full
and complete argument. As result we have
had to revise our plan, and are now working
the printers almost night and day to supply
the demand which every mail brings from all
over The country, West and South, as well as
East
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you plat of the land open to pre- emption.
AS to the character of the land the best way to
determine that is by viewing 1t. Any one
wishing to take up Government land should
visit the site determined upon.
BICYCLE RourEs-Al, City. There is noyfxed
route for bicyclers who wish to come to San
Francisco by bicycle from either Boston or
New York. The rider makes start and travels
when he "starts the plains across" he keeps on
what was known as the old stage road OF the
Overland Stage Company, or what may be left
OF it. By inquiry the 1ider finds out which is
the best road 10 take.
erroneous spelling of gaol (now commonly
jaiD often found in books of the seventeenth
century. Generally, Jail is q prison or build
ing for the incarceration OF individuals con-
victed of crime or for debt, but in the United
States the term is applied usually to place of
conf nement Tor minor offenses in county.
The following quotations show that the term
has been variously used:
And for to determytte this matter Generydes
was brought out of the jaile.-Generydes, 1895.
Yet ere his happie soue to heaven went
Out of this feshlie goale he did devise
Unto his heave nile NJ aker to present ~
His bodie as a spotless sacrifice
-Spenser, "Ruins of Time"
Deep in the city's bottom sunk there was goal
where darkness dwelt and desolation.-J. Beau
mont in Psyche"
Frighted, Quilted the room but leave IL so as
men from jails to execution go.-Pope. "Satires Of
Donne."
She threatens me every day to arrest me, and
proceeds so far to tell me that if do not do
her justice shall die In iayl-Spectator, No.
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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

The Due de Nemours died in the apar tment
of hotel in Versailles in which Dom Pedro,
the dethroned Emperor of Brazil lived for
time after he was exiled.
Thomas Atwater Jerome, who died at New
Brighton, Staten Island, few days ago in his
eighty-seyenth year, belonged to the WE'LL
known Jerome family and was second of 8
family of nine children. His brothers were
the late Lawrence, Leonard and Addison G.
Jerome, all well-known clubmen in New York.
His wife was Miss Emma Vanderbilt.
Colorado has new millionaire in the person
of Mr.. Stoi Der, who has expects tions OF rival
ing the famous Mr. Stratton. Mr.. Stoiber is
mining engineer by profession, and for long
time lived very humbly with his wife, who is
his partner in business, in little cabin near
Silverton. He now has an income OF $500, 600
year and has one OF the handsomest homes
in Colorado.
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WHAT IT MEANS.

Although the Chicago platform declares
for 1.-The free and unlimited coinage of
both gold and silver at the present legal
ratio of 16 to l" it is safe TO say that not
even Bryan himself knows what "free and
unlimited coinage means. The belief
seems to prevail among the advocates of
siIver coinage that with free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver at 16 to l there
would be a demand for the silver of the
world for coinage purposes which would
Immediately advance the price of silver
bullion to 81 % an ounce, which would be
Its coinage value.
The problem of free silver coinage by
the United States independent of other
nations should not be difficult to under
stand. The trouble with most people is
they reason from false premises. Under
free coinage the Govern is simply a
machine that takes 4121l grains of stand
ara silver belonging to anybody and
changes its shape to disks and gives it
back without charge for its service. The
owner of the bullion has not sold it at all.
He had the bullion, but it is now in disks,
and the only advantage that accrues to
him by the change is that the disks are q
illegal tender for debts" but it las not
increased at all in purchase power. The
legal tender quality of no money makes it
obligatory upon exchangers of commodi-
ties to accept it in the payment of bal
ances, nor is one obliged to sell his COM
modities for what the Government calls
illegal tender money" AS we have said,
nothing could be made legal tender ex-
cept in the payment of debts. A tender
is the demand debtor makes for the can
collation. of his obligation. In no country
is legal tender money legal tender in
cash-down transaction. The right of a
seller to refuse the thing te ndered in pay
ment always obtains.
But the Chicago platform provides way,
it thinks, to oblige the employment of
|. legal-tender money in all transactions. 1t
proposes 'such legislation as will prevent
for the future the demonetization of any
kind of legal-tender money by private
contract" This proposition would merely
serve as warning to commerce to be care
full to provide for the payment of balances
and for the liquidation OF bills, notes, drafts
and other forms of indebtedness at ma
turlty in given number of ounces of
bullion, gold or silver, of specified fine
ness Inc rlgnt TO contract Tor the
payment of a debt in grain,
-four, gold, silver, or in any
other commodity, or in what is
designated money" is the life, the soul
and the strength of commerce the world
over; besides, it is the function of COM
merce to control the price of the thing
legal-tender money is made of, and it is
never the function of legal-tender money
to control the price of the commodities of
commerce. Hence, while the law might
make 10 cents worth of silver, gold or
anything else legal tender to the sum of
81 for debts, it could not make anything
legal tender for cash or current COM
mercial operations. There are some
things in this world that Bryan cannot
do, and one of them is to make man
sell his goods for money or things that he
does not want.
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BRYAN'S DILEMMA.

1t is an evidence of Bryan's lack of men,
tai penetration that he goes about the
country repeating over and over the state
ment that the Republican party cannot es-
cape from what he considers to be the di-
lemma of it's position in favor of interna-
tional bimetallism. If, says Mr.. Bryan,
| the Republican party believes the gold
standard to be good, why does it pledge
itself to obtain the aid of foreign nations
to overthrow itP and on the other hand if
it believes the gold standard to be bad,
why does it not support the policy of get
ting rid of it in the United States without
waiting for an agreement with other ma
tions?
That Mr.. Bryan should consider this to
be dilemma shows how slight and super
fetal has been his study of the money
question. He does not see that the obiec-
tion to the single gold standard is not
that it is gold standard, but that it is a
single standard. The single silver stan
dard would be as Objectionable as the one
we now have, and moreover the attempt to
shift from the one to the other would pro-
duce tremendous disturbance of every
trade and every industry. 1t would bring
tory and result in an industrial and finan-
cial revolution that would overwhelm
shops, farms and houses alike in one wide
sweeping and immense disaster.
The desire of the great majority of in.
telligent financiers in this country and in
Europe is to restore bimetallism or the
double standard, as it is sometimes called.
This means the use of both gold and silver
as the basis of credit and as the means OF
adjusting the balances of commercial.
transactions. 1t took all the leading ma
tions of the world to destroy the bimetaI-
lie system of money and it will take them
all to restore it. So long as England
| alone demonetized silver it's value as
money was not affected, and if we alone
remonetiZe it we cannot put 1t back where
it was. At the present time the strain oi
the single standard weighs heavily upon
all nations and there are good reasons for
believing all can be induced to unite with
US in throwing it off, but if we act alone
we will tighten the burden on Europe by
enabling her to get our gold cheaply,
while we will have 10 bear the whole
stress and strain of trying to lift up silver
to parity with gold by our unaided ef-
| forts.
Bryan's fam mous dilemma, therefore, is
no dilemma at all. The Republican party
objects to the gold standard because it is q
single standard, and it objects to any reck
less resumption of the free coinage of sill
yer, because that also would lead to sim
gle standard after prolonged period oi
panic and disturbance. The Republican
party favors the restoration of free coinage
of silver by international agreement, be-
cause that means bimetallism and the use
of both gold and silver. Bryan should
stick to his rhetoric and let logic alone
His dilemmas are weaker than his meta.
| phors
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THE BOOK OF BEAUTY.
London Chronicle.

Although the "Book of Beauty" which
Messrs Hutchinson are publishing, may not
be ready for week or two, the whole edition
has alre ady been taken up. 1t cons lists of 800
copies and the price is five guineas a copy. A
very small edition has been prepared for
America and second edition will be issued in
London. 1t must be limited to 100 copies and
the price per copy will be six guineas. The
Princess of Wales and the Duchess of York
have been specially painted for the portraits
of them which appear in the book This also
applies to mum Der of other ladies who are in
cluded as beauties of the slate Victorian era"
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CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, n. Y, Aug. 11.-At the West
minister, G. F. Wilhausen; vendome, A. w.
Walter; Sinclair, E. II. ADAMS; Holland, E.
Bouvier. Miss Josephine Withuren and Carl
Weisshan sailed ON the North German liner
Havel for Bremen. Herman Schussler left the
Westminster to sail for Europe.
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SOMETHING TO LAUGH AT.

Johnny-Papa, what is meant by "a person
OF sanguine temperament?'
Papa-It means-a-it means person who
expects good many things that do not hap
pen. Puck.
First Fond Mamma-Ah, Mrs. de Smith, Pm
so glad to see you. I've such news to tell. Persy
Hawkins is going to marry our little Alice.
Dear child, it doesn't seem as If / could bear
to part with herl
Second Fond Mamma-No. you've had her
on your hands so long now should think IL
would be rather lonesome without her.-Cleve-
land Leader.
MRS. Motherby-How are you getting on with
your singing lessons, Kate?
MISS Screecher-Well, think must be i'm
proving. l notice, anyway, that when prao-
tice now the neighbors don't come and ring
the ooorbell to protest-Somerville Journal.
Examining Attorney If either counsel
should say to you that circumstantia evil
dence unsupported by direct testimony could
In no sense decide the trend of the benefit of
the doubt, what would you understand by
that?
Talesman-That he did not want me on the
jury.-Truth.
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Are You Going EastY

The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad-sant. T..
route-is the coolest and most comfortable sum
mer line, owing to its elevation and absence OF
alkali dust. Particularly adapted ;or the trans.
portation of families because OF its palace draw
ing-room and mooern upholstered tourist sleeping.
cars which run daily through from Oakland TO
Chicago. leaving at seasonable hour aud la
charge OF attentive conductors and porters Tick,
ct office. 644 Market street, Chronicle buildink
Telephone, Main 1881
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OF INTEREST TO WooL.GRoWERS.
bakersfield Californian

Every wool-grower in Kern County ought to
read the San Francico CALLS articles on the
ruin of the wool industry through free trade.
No county in the State, or in the country, has
suffered more than Kern from free WOOL and
If, after reading The CALLS articles there is
one wool-man who will continue to vote the
free-trade ticket, then that man deserves every
bit and more, too, of the ruin that has be-
70 i'm
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Cheap Excursion to St. Paul.

The Shasta route and the Northern Pacific Rail-.
road has been selected the official route to al
tend the National Encampment of the g. A. r. at
St. Paul. TO be held there September 2 to 5. Ths
excursion will leave San Francisco and Sacra-
mento August &c at P. Rates $67 90 for tbs
round trip. The above rate is open all who wish
to make the trip East. Send your name and al.
dress to T. K. Stateler, general agent 6Ss Marked
treet, san Francisco, for sleepng-car TeserYationA
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The wool-Growers, Experience.
Sacramento Record-Union.

=
There is no class OF producers more troubled
about the tariff question just now than the
wool-growers. They have had experience
under a low tariff that they do not wish re-
peated. They find on oyerhauling Mr.. Bryan's
record that while he was in Congress he was q
dilligent and strong opponent OF protection to
WooEgroWing in terests.
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LADIES' WAIST WITH DRAPED
FRONT AND FANCY SLEEVES.

Several strikingly new features are seen in
the waist pictured here. The draped front Is
extremely graceful, especially when made of
thin fabrics. The sleeves are novel and gener-
ally becoming. The design allows OF charm
ing combinations. A gown seen was OF Dres-
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STATING 1T NEATLY.
Fresno Republican,

"What I'm afraid off, said discouraged
Democrat TO q fellows ufferer yesterday, ais
that good times won't come ag'in till after we
all are dead" And then he wondered why SO
sad a sentiment should be SO hilariously ap-
plauded.
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den silk, with front of white moussefine de
sole. frill of the same finished the toloed
collar.
Another waist of foulard in black with
figure in dull green had sleeve ruffies lined with
pale green silk to match. The draped front
was of green silk covered with black net. the
black net.
A dark green mohair had vest and fitted
sleeves of green and white foulard the edges
OF ruffes on sleeves and the waist front being
trimmed with fancy galloon in green, white
and gold.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-12

The cyclone may make the most noise
in the East, but the sunstroke gets there
just the same.
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EVAPORATION M. W., City. According
calculations that have been made an acre
wheat evaporates sixty tons of water in
month,
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DRAMATIC SCHooL-M. E, M, San Jose, Cal
For information about The dramatic school o.
this City you should address Leo Cooper, thii
City.
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Bryan has an excuse for talking so much
in the fact that no one else appears willing
to talk for him.
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The stdmp-speaker wins the applause OF
crowds, but when election day comes the
people vote for statesman.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-12

To be a belle in the East the summe
girl must have a complexion that Cal
stand birthstone.
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When the Democratic march begins
there will be a great row to see which
faction has the head of the procession.
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The Republican party saved the life Q
the Nation in 1860 and it will save it from
disaster and dishonor now.
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TRAMP STEAMERs-A. j., City. The place to
apply for "a position on one of the tramp
steamers that is here loading wheat for Eu-
rope" is on board the vessel.
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Populists simply stay at home on election day
Mr.. Bryan will stay at home, too.
JOSEPH AsBURY JOHNSON.
San Francisco, August IL, 1896.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-12

The Associated Press report that Hoke
Smith has resigned was harmless-nobody
believed it.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-12

Bryan furnishes the amusement of the
canvass, while Mckinley looks after the
business OF the country.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-12

Cleveland ought to say something to the
gold Democrats, even if he does no more
than tell them how to cut bait.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-12

The trouble with the Democrats in pre-
pairing for a campaign of education is that
they haven't any speakers who can do the
educating.
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For once in our history Democracy is
short of takers. What are we coming to
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-12

SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers,
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Montgomery. =
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Every prospect of Democratic success is
prospect of a panic.
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Until the Democratic party shows some
ability to govern itself it IS certainly un-
fitted to be intrusted with the government
of the country.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-12

Mr.. Watson will not even be offered q
reserved seat at the Bryan show.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-12

% aPATENcE-E L. c., City. The contralto part
in the opera of Patience" is assigned to the
character of Lady Jane.
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EYEsIGHT SERIOUSLY AFFECTED
Alturas Plaindeale

The Cupans now have $4,000 men under
arms, and yet Grover does not believe that 3
state of war exists.
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CORONA ADo.-Atmosphere is perfectly drv sors
and mild, being entirely free from the mIsts con,-
mon further north Reund-trp tickets by steam
ship. including fifteen days board the Hots lsp
Coronado, $50; longer stay So SO per day Appf
Anew montgomery st., SanFra1cisco.