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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-18

or more kinds of money which shall always
be one in essence, in function, IN purpose
and in value. but which are independent the
one of the other in the fields of employ
ment.
The difference between the Republican
and Democratic platforms is very wide.
The latter declares that it will call no con-
ference of the parties in interest; that it
viii not wait to establish basis of parity
so that silver and gold dollars would vol
unfairly be interchangeable. but it will
assume that the gold dollar is trespassing
in the held of commerce and will order
the silver dollar to go forth and compete
with 1t without consulting the likes or the
dislikes of the owner of the potatoes or
the owner of the turnips. He is very
blind indeed who cannot see that such
policy would drive either the gold or the
silver from the field. This is Bryans way
of securing "bimetallism, and those who
believe that to be better way to secure
the circulation of the two metals than to
put them in the field together upon an
exact parity and then treat them in a way
that antagonisms would be impossible, are
surely Joined to false gods.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-18
COST OF DEMOCRATIC RULE.

II IL were not SO expensive to the
country the results thus far from applied
tarlI Tor revenue only" and Democratic
incompetency generally would be laugh
aDie. When Cleveland and Democratic
Congress took hold of the Government it
was given out that a Simon pure for reve-
nue. only tariff law would be enacted i'm
meolateIy, and everybody was told to get
ready to enjoy the blessedness of the new
order OF things. Well, the new law came
and tariff for revenue began to pour in,
but after an experience running through
twenty-five months the impression pre-
walls pretty generally that the quicker the
country abandons the revenue only tariff
misht the better it will be for all con-
cerned.
During the first twenty-five months of
the operation Of the Mckinley act the Gus
toms receipts amounted to S347 s29. 925.
In the corresponding period under the
operation OF Cleveland's for.revenue-only
law $2Sl, lS6,600 was received, which
gives decrease of $50, 643, 325 for fooling
with Democratic theories. But that
is not all. During the same months
OF the operation of the Mckinley law, in
ternal revenue receipts aggregated $273,-
9Ie,559. For the same number of months
under Democratic rule the total internal
revenue receipts amounted to 1921, los, 215,
which gives another specimen of Demo-
cratic incapacityin the shape of a decrease
of $50, 720. IA.
When Mr.. Cleveland was inaugurated
the Understanding debt of the Nation
was $685., O34, 260. He has managed TO in
crease it by $262, 329, $50, making the debt
stand $S47, 1868, $50. President Harrison
reduced the bond debt s244, SIG, 100, and so
fur President Cleveland has increased 1T
to over $lS,000OOO more than it was
before Mr.. Harrison paid any of it. Be-
tween 1865 and 1898 the average monthly
decrease of the public debt was So, 701, la.
Mr.. Cleveland has managed to increase
the debt at the rate of $5,55S, 240 per
month. OF course the country has reason
to be proud OF Democratic rulel
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FOR NATIONAL HONOR.

There was q notable scene at Canton on
Thursday when five hundred veterans of
the war went to congratulate their COM
rade, Major Nick inley, upon his nomina-
ton for the Presidency. In the person of
those veterans the Republican party of to-
day is identified with that of Lincoln and
of Grant. They are the men who saved
the Nation in the days of Democratic
treason and disunion, and it must be in
the highest degree gratifying to their
loyal hearts TO know that one of the rea-
sons why the great mass of the American
people viii support Mckinley is because
he also was soldier of the Union and one
course of the war.
McKinley's address to his old comrades
was on the highest plane of patriotic
politics. I'VE have reached point in
our history" he said, "when all men who
love their country must unite to defend
by their ballots the forces which now
assail the country's honor" Even among
the men who fought against the Union,
as he went on to say, there are now
thousands who are patriotic and loyal to
the flag and to the Nation. These men
value its prosperity and its financial in
tegrity. 1.-THE struggle which is upon
u.s." he declared, Involving National
good faith and honor, will enlist their
united and earnest services until those
who are arrayed against the public faith
shall be routed and dispersed"
These are noble words. Spoken by q
veteran of the war to his comrades who
wore the blue they breathe the sentiment
of true and generous confidence in the
brave men who wore the gray. He ap-
pealed through the Grand Army to honor
able Southern men to stand together with
Union soldiers in this struggle against the
forces of reputation and disaster. "The
future" he exclaimed, sis the sacred trust
of US all, South as well as North. Hon.
esty like patriotism can be bounded by
neither State or sectional lines. Financial
dishonor is the threatened danger now,
and good men will obliteraIe the lines of
party in united effort to uphold Ameri-
can honor. This you have always done
and you must strive to keep the Union
worthy of the brave men who sacrificed
their lives for it.
These words are not like those of the
shallow rhetoric of the boy orator. They
ring with the genuine eloquence of noble
thoughts and true grandeur of senti-
ment. They will find a response in the
South as well as in the North and in
the West. 1t will be in vain that
the agitators will try to weaken the
effect of such words by clamoring
that McKinley is the advocate of Wall
street gold monometallism. The people
know that the Republican party is pledged
by its plato nm to bimetallism, that Nc
kinley has always been consistent BIZ
metallist, and that he stands for the
money of the constitution-gold and sill
ver-as firmly as for patriotism, loyalty
and National honor.
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DEATH OF A FORTY-NINER
John Dennis, an Old Time
Miner, Passed Away in To-
ronto, Ontario.
Left Property in California and Can.
ada Valued at Many Thousands
of Dollars.

John Dennis, an old-time California
miner, died December 81, 1895, in Toronto,
Ontario. A copy of his will was filed
yesterday in the County Clerks office by
f. H. Burke, who asks to be appointed
administrator of the local property OF the
deceased, which is worth $4,000.
The papers from the Canadian courts,
in which the testator is described as John
Dennis, gentleman, are in the nature OF
curiosity to one acquainted with California
probate methods.
Dennis must have died possessed of con-
siderable property, for his will provides
for the payment of $1,000 per year to his
wife for family maintenance, 500 per year
additional to each of his daughters, and
liberal allowance to his sons. A clause IN
his will also bequeaths his watch and
chain to his eldest son. 1t is as follows:
give and bequeath to my. SON, Joseph
Browne Dennis, my gold watch, purchased
with the gold dug from the mines in Califor-
MIA in 1S49, and also the gold chain worn
herewith, and it is my wish that the watch
shall not go out OF the family.
An idea of the state of the real estate
market in Canada is also given in another
clause in the document. 1T is recited that
the testator owns number of pieces of
real estate in various portions of Toronto,
but knowing the demand for such prop
erty to be dull, the executors of the will
are requested not to attempt TO dispose of
any OF 1t until better prices can be OBJ
tanned than at present
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A Bripht weekly.

Thoroughly abreast of the times in every re-
spect Town Talk presents this week to its
readers handsomely printed and carefully
edited number, which, together with pictorial
attractions, contains interview with Miss
Maxine Elliott, entitled ''In the Boudoir of
Beauty; news from the art studios of Amedie
Joullin and Miss Lon Wall; where the smart
set is recuperating-told in chat from various
out-of-town resorts where society congregates;
story by the 'Idler," entitled "a Summers
Dream; some comments upon the individual
lty of the Carmen kiss. osculated by Rose
Coghlan and Frederick Warde; dramatic crit
1c1sms; amusing anecdotes concerning we'll
known people; editorial thrusts at municipal
management: musical notes, and pleasing
variety OF miscellany, entertaining, breezy,
reliable and clean. Read Town Talk.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-18
THE SUNDAY GALL

To-morrow's issue of The CALL will be
another splendid example of the height
to which modern Californian journalism
has attained. While presenting the news
OF the world more completely than any
other newspaper on the coast, because of
its unrivaled telegraphic facilities, the
fact is continually noted and commented
upon that THE CALL is particularly and
peculiarly California newspaper.
This fact becomes more apparent in its
Sunday issue, perhaps, for here there is
greater latitude permitted the editorial
function il the selection of attractive and
novel features. As is well known, it is far
more economical to buy Eastern syndicate
articles and illustrations, or to manufac-
ture freaky and sensational journal by
distorting, exaggerating aud Sensational
izing the more hideous and CHASTITY
points i'll the current weeks budget of
news, than it is to present each
week fresh series OF novel and attractive
features in wholesome and entertaining
literature, art and science. The latter can
neither be faxed and rehashed in the
office, nor the expense of procuring them
shared among forty or fifty other newspa-
pers. And, what is far more to the point.
they may be and are very largely of
homelike flavor that makes them of abb
sorbing interest, first to all Califor-
mans and next to all the world be-
Sides for the truth Is that the whole
world still retains at least its sentimental
and romantic interest in California. No
other Sunday newspaper is so largely
quoted and copied from by the newspapers
of New York and the East generally as
THE SUNDAY CALL, and this is because THE
CALL is always keenly alive to the things
Of human interest in all departments, that
lie at its own doors, and looks abroad only
for the news, or when the possibilities of
the City and State have become exhausted.
Some Of the more important features OF
tomorrow issue are the following:
"a California Boy at West Point This
is graphic description of the experiences
OF Ukiah lad who went to the great mill
tary academy, took the examination sue
cessfullY, was hazed every day by the
cadets, and then finally rejected for a
slight physical flaw that was largely
caused by the hazing.
Somewhat as a foil TO this, though
quite a feature in itself, are the expert
ences OF Colonel Stewart of Berkeley,
who was classmate of General Long
street at West Point mora than fifty
years ago.
''In the Shadow of Windsor Castle"
scenes on and OF the beaten path in
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-18
MERCHANTS NEW MEMBERS.
Twenty-Eight Business Firms Joined the
Association Yesterday.

Twenty-EightB Business Firms Joined the
Association Yesterday.
The Irouuois Club will hold meeting
tonight at its headquarters, 900 Market
street, for the consideration and discus
sion of the new charter. J. Richard Freud,
secretary of the Merchants Association,
has been specially invited TO speak upon
the charter and has consented to do so.
The Continental League. one of the lead
ing Republican organizations of the City,
has sent committee with its president to
request }. Richard Freud, secretary of the
Merchants Association, to address that
organization upon the new charter at an
early date. Agreeable to the wishes of
the board Of directors of the Merchants
Association Secretary Freud will address
the Continental League upon the new
charter.
Twenty-eight new applications for men,
bership in the Merchants Association
were received yesterday at the Offices of
the association in the Mills building. This
makes the present total mem bership of
the Merchants Association COS business
firms.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-18

Merry Old England. Elton and the
Lord High Chancellor, written by San
Francisco woman.
Some picturesque and rather startling
studies of child life on the streets OF San
francisco.
An Evening With the Street Orators of
San Francisco"
camp Lie in the California Sierras."
ne oldest Trunk Line in California"
The Oldest House on Jackass Hill,
tnat was once inhabited by Bret Harte.
Prentiss Milford and Mark Twain.
san Diego's Great Irrigation System"
Plans for submarine railway between
San Francisco and Oakland. This is 8
feasible project. Fully illustrated.
1hese and many other features will ap-
pear IN HE SUNDAY CALL, and in no other
newspaper.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-18

G. A. Newhall, A. Roman, S. G. Buckbee,
1. T. Milliken and Horatio Beveridge.
The session was executive. 1t was re-
ported that much good work had been
done by the officers of the society during
the year, many wrongs to children having
been averted. even in families where the
society might not have been expected to
interfere.
Mr.. WEIGH was confirmed in his post as
secretary, and thirty-five new members,
residents of Alameda, Berkeley and Oak
land, were enrolled.
The society has caused a handsome
bronze medal to be made, which will be
presented to all persons saving the life of
a child in danger. The workmanship of
the medal is most artistic, and the society
hopes that the prospect of gaining it may
inspire adults to do their best to aid its
work
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-18
THE RUSSIAN RIVER.
Railroad People Say That the Water
Is Pure and Absolutely Free
From Poison.

Some days ago a statement was pub
lished that horses had been poisoned BY
drinking the waters of the Russian River
and that men who had bathed in the
stream complained subsequently of an IT,
ritation of the skin.
Henry G. Whiting, general manager of
the San Francisco and North Pacific Rail-
way Company and Mr.. Ryan, general
superintendent of the line, do not know
how the rumor started. They have in
vestigated the subject by having inquiry
made as to the quality and condition of
water at various points on the stream.
They are convinced that the water is as
pure as ever and that no poison exists in
the river.
The Russian River is formed by great
number of small tributaries that take
their rise from springs and melting SHOWS
in the mountains of Mendocino and So
noma counties. The current of the river
is swift from the mountains to tidewater
as the fall per mile is considerable.
Mr.. Whiting is sure that the sources of
the Russian River are as pure as those of
any other stream on the continent. The
SHOWS which fell last winter are still dis
solving and replenishing the little lakes
and brooks in the high mountains.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-18
A PLACE FOR THE BOYS.

w hat can a boy do, and where can boy stay,
II ne Is always told TO get out of the way?
He cannot sit here, and he must not stand there
The cushions that cover that fine rocking chair
Were put there, of course, TO be seen and admired
boy has no business to ever get tired.
Ine beautiful roses and flowers that bloom
On the floor OF the darker and delicate room.
Are not TO walk on-at least, not by boys;
The house is no place, anyway, for their noise.
place for the boys, dear mother, I pray.
a cares settle down around our short earthly wav
Don't let us forget by our kind. loving deeds
To show we remember their pleas ures and needs:
Though our souls may be vexed with problems of
life,
Our hearts Will keep younger-your tired heart
and mine
If We give them place in their fnnermost shrine
And to lfes latest hour twill be one of our ioys
That we keep a small corner-a place for the boys
Boston Evening Transcript
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LADY'S ROUND WAIST WITH
SURPLICE FRONT.
WITH

The folded overlapping or surplice fronts
are always pretty for wash dresses. For silk
waists the style is also very good and admits
OF pretty trimming of batiste. This may be
used for the V-front, for the lower sleeves, with
a narrow edge TO match to lay over the collar
in the new style.
Stripes make up effectively if used as shown
in the illustration.
A plain material may be trimmed with rows
place or braid around the lower sleeve and
across the at neck.
White lawn or dresses of washable silk are
daintily trimmed with rufie of lace on the
edge OF the overlapping front. A ruffie of lace
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-18
California's Platform.

Los Angeles Record.
Out here in California our situation is so
isolated and peculiar that we should have no
politics but California politics.
First, the great canal.
Second, protection for the products Of
California
Without protection we can't hold our own
with Europe on fruits.
With protection or bounty on sugar we
would astonish the world in sugar-beet cul-
ture and in the production of sugar.
With the canal we could get along without
protection.
Is the man who does not make these things
nTst and who does not work for them with all
mis- might friend of California?
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at the waist, deep enough to reach the knuck-
a a Is very stylish. The back may be made
elaborate, with bands of ribbon from the waist
70 the shoulder, where they end in bows that
seem also to adorn the front
,Dresaen ribbons are beautiful on white or
plain colors, while plain ribbons are preferrsd
on striped or figured materials.
dress OF brown crepon had a plain skirt
entirely of the erepon, exceut the s,1rniics
fronts, which were of yellowish embroidered
pstiste with scalloped edge which was used
ior Inc front. The lining for the waist front
was of green silk and showed through tbe am
broidery, which was very open. "A ribbon
collar collar ana belt to match the green lining An
t sseS sn,s pretty dress Piceadilly points Of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-18
Saved From Imp risonment.

There was marriage in Police Judge Camp
BELLS chambers yesterday. The bride was
Nora Curran, II years of age, who lived at
1881 CIementina street. She had not been
particular in her choice of associates and re-
Gently fell into the hands of the officers OF the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 10
ing sent to the Magdalen asylum. The groom
was Frank Frazier, messenger boy whom she
had deserted. He came forward at the last
moment and saved the girl from imprison-
ment by making her his wife.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-18
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 3 Tho
excursion will leave San Francisco and Sacra-
mento August 20 at P. NJ Rates S67 80 for the
round trip. The above is open to all who wish
to make the trip East. Send your name and ad-
dress to T. K. stateler, general agent, $50 Market
treet, San Francisco for seeping-car reservations
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-18
A Cartoon Appreciated.

"Retouching the family portraits" is the
title of striking cartoon in to-day's CALL.
The portraits referred to are those of Jefferson
and Jackson, the patron saints of the Demo-
cratic party. Perched on ~ chair Altgeld is
represented as putting some embellishing
touches TO these pictures with material taken
from vessel labeled anarchist paint held
by Herr Most, the imported socialist who hid
under q bed when the New York police went to
arrest him. On a bust of Tilden, in the rear of
Most, is hung string of bombs.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-18
Arc You Going Ens,.

The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad-sants "a
route-is the coolest and most comfortable sum-
mer line, owing to its elevation and absence OF
alkali dust. Particularly adapted sor the trana
portaton of families because OF its palace draw
ing-room and modern upholstered tourist sleeping
cars, which run daily through from Oakland to
Chicago, leaving al a seasonable hour aud in
charge Of attentive conductors and porters Tick
ct office, 644 Market street, Chronicle building.
Telephone, Main 1881.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-18

houses. while European bankers ran the
treasury, and while our own people have been
idle, mills closed down or running on half
time, European manufac turing concerns have
been declaring large dividends While hard
times and no business has been the cry from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, Europeans who
have captured the American markets are in
high clover, rejoicing in their prosperity, the
result OF the Wilson tariff law.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-18
He stands Well.
Angels Camp Echo

Should Samuel NJ. Shortridge decide to run
for the Senate we think that his prospects for
winning would be very bright He stands well
with the Republican party and can be consid-
cred representative man all round. The sue
cess that has always attended his efforts is not
likely to forsske him in his new undertaking.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-18
CALIFoRNIANS IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, n. Y, July II. = wilhelm
Kretchman arrived In on the North German
liner Trave. At the st. Cloud-J. J. Hall ;
windsor-A. H. Small; Belvedere-G. Collins,
Mrs. S. Ksutz; Imperial-A. Walter; MARI
BOROUGH. Webster
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-18
III-aIatched WINGS.

Democratic Crow who had one wing
broken by load from Cleveland shotgun or
dered nice new wing from Populist Hen,
but when he tried to fly on the stran gely as
sorted pair he sank back exhausted
at is mighty hard TO fly on such a combina-
ton OF wings, he dejectedly remarked
It is, indeed.
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Sew Company for Oriental Busine ss.

The American Mercantile and Banking Com
psny, with e capital stock of $500, 900, was
incorporated yesterday. The object is to do
general commercial business with China,
Japan and Korea, and the head Office will be
IN San Francisco. The directors are: j. P:
Grant, W. ]. Sutherland, L. w. Howe, Edmund
Tauszky and George e. Wells. Attorney Wells
yesterday said the future of the company
to make public any particulars of the COM
pany's business
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-18

1t will take thorough protective tariff
to put idle money into circulation.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-18

If our workingmen are to have wages
our industries must have protection. It
is on that platform capital and labor stand
together for mutual benefit.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-18

The Republican party is pledged to re-
monetize silver by international agree
ment, and what more can any intelligent,
conservative silver man ask?
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New MINING Con,Danv

The Emery Drift Gravel Mining Company
was yesterday incorporated by L. ]. kim bali:
Fred Hitler, G. L. Benton, Charles Rickhoff
ana u. T. Emery, with q capital stock of $780,
600, OF which $400, 900 has been paid in.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-18

Join Republican club and work for the
party of financial honor and industrial in
dependence.
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1t matters not what Bryan promises.
His party cannot be trusted on any
promise so long as its present leaders are
to the front.