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The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15
OUR GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY.

A score and three more days will bring
to us the crest international convention OF
that progressive young order. the Society
of Christian Endeavor. Hitherto, we
have spoken of the splendid general char
acter of the organization which is abreast
OF the times in every particular. Let us
for q moment now consider a few of the
many benefits that will result from the
visit OF this multitude of bright, well-to-
do young people.
They are coming from every Sec
ton of the United States and Canada ;
from many parts OF America, per-
haps, where the Golden State is un-
known, except through the agency of the
press or of literary bureaus. While news
papers and pamphlets conveying informa-
ton about our advantages of soil and
climate, our vegetable and mineral re-
sources, never fail to do some good, pro-
viding their claims bear the stamp of re-
liability, the actual knowledge of these
things obtained by visitors from those
remote places-wherein few, if any. could
describe this favored land i'll words born
of genuine experience-wiIl do US an in
comparable amount of good. People may
entertain DOUBTS about the written truth,
but seeing is believing. For Califor MIA,
then, to begin with, this convention of
Endeavorers will be the best and most
effective advertisement imaginable.
Thousands OF these young people wall
come from climes where summer hlizzards
often hold wild carnival; where winter
frosts often threaten 10 usurp the throne
OF June, and where hot d iys and hot
nights follow close upon the heels of days
and nights of bitter cold. This visit will
teach them that California's just praises
cannot be too enthusiastically sung.
We remarked that these Endeavorers
represent both intelligence and means
They will stay week with us, and many
of them Will stay longer and then travel
about 10 view the sights from one end of
the State to the other. By their visit il is
estimated San Francisco alone will profit
by at least half million dollars.
Those who come Will carry back to the
locality of their homes impression that
will be OF inestimable value 10 US. Many
of them will De induced beyond doubt, by
what they see and experience in this Eden
of the West, TO come IN the near future
and settle and cast their fortunes among
US, and there will be none in any event, we
venture to say, who will not be eager 10
pay US another and another visit.
California's name for open handed and
open-hearted hospitality must be main-
tanned, and 1t Will be. The fund to cover
the expenses of meeting halls, advertis-
ing, speakers, etc, is vet omplete, but
the dollars should flow in rapidly until
the necessary amount is subscribed. Our
citizens will be liberal now, as they have
always been. 1t is an excellent invest
ment that will bring returns a hundred
fold to our State in time to come, and the
material returns within month will be
exceedingly large.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15
CALIFORNIA; CITIZEN SOLDIBRY

The approaching encampment of the
National Guard of California ought to be
productive OF better results in a purely
military sense, than any similar gather
ing OF our civic warriors in the years gone
by. 1t is probable that the citizen soldiers
will not be made to repeat the maneuvers
com mon to their armory routine. but that,
instead, they will be called upon 10 exc
cute problems suggested to the regular
army by the War Department, and which
have been recently demonstrated by the
garrison at the Presidio. The object of
the latter movement is to place them in
closer touch with the regular army, to the
end that, if need should possibly arise,
the militia would be bic TO act con Jointly
with the regulars.
This is certainly as it should be. Vari-
ance In drill arms and general regula-
tions, as an army officer has pointed out,
would be detrimental in case of an emer-
gency where combined action by the reg
ular army and the National Guard OF a
State should be required. The lessons pro-
posed would make the militia more valu-
able as safeguard TO the interests of the
commonwealth, and give its members an
appreciable idea of the occupation of men
whose lives are welded to the science of
war.
Our State militia has been commended
for general efficiency, so far as their line
OF instruction has carried them. This
encampment ought TO be very well at
tended. The obstacle seems to lie in the
fact that many business houses object to
seven days absence on the part of en-
ployes, who, therefore, refrain from going
to camp in order to retain their situations.
This is much TO be regretted. as the mill
tary teaching during those seven days will
not, if the absentees be numerous, have
the result desired. 1t is to be hoped, how
ever, that arrangements can be perfected
whereby a majority at least of the enrolled
members of the State regiments may be
enabled to profit by the full course OF in
struction contem plated for the seven days.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15
BUSINESS MEN MISLRD On MONEY.

To the Editor of the San Francisco Cdll-SIR:
Socrates said. "Even the gods themselves are
powerless in the presence of ignorance" But
misinformation is the worst form OF ignor-
ance. 1t makes man wise IN his own con-
ceit and that closes the avenue to his reason.
This fact lends gravity to certain misinform
tion found for many years past in the reports
of the Treasury Department al Washington
Business meu are constantly misled by it, for
they never stop TO scrutinize these reports
and apply common-sense tests to figures given
to the public. But, as an eminent London
banker has said (as quoted in Mint report
1896, p. 562). "she subject of money is OBJ
scure to most men," The banker is right
otherwise the treasury reports would be inyes-
tigated and the errors exposed.
Let examine the treasury report for Nav
l, the latest have received. In the first p,ac,
l wish to point out as a plain fact which any
business man can understand at a glance the
moment his attention is drawn to it. that the
Treasury Department has systematically mis-
led the public since 1879 by reporting the
treasury certificates OF various kinds as so
much in use, when, in fact, they are nothing
more than so many orders on the treasury
(like checks or r bank) for the amounts
named In the ce rtihcates 10 be paid the boareT
in coin or greenbacks. These certificates in
clude the treasury notes of 1890" issued in
payment ior silver bullion, since they call for
com from the treasury. The following are the
certificates reported May l. 1897:
Gold cert ifcates ... q 90 ooo con
Preenr , s ISoo 3!I531, ,5U4
Currency certificates tes............... 7I9IOOOO
Total Implications. s............... S6O5 or 473
This enormous sum must be deducted from
the amount o. money in the country as ra
ported by the treasury officials Nav l. which
was $3.50, ,435, ,013. and we have j., TACT hnt
S1,foO,41|.0 04O, or less than two-thirds of the
amount reported by the treasury ofticials
Another absurdity found in these solemn
treasury reports is the amount of limited
states notes, known as greenbacks. fcpred a :
sun IN existence. On May 81, 1878. i1st nine
teen years ago, the amount of greenbacks re-
ported by the treasury officials was S346 6Sl :
olo, which is the exact sum reported as in ~
lstence May l, 1897. Even the lonely SIG at
the tail end OF the fig ures remains uuchanged
Oy the less OF single dollar in ntneteen wears
1reenDacks must have possessed magical in
oestrue1bllfty since May 81, 1873 for The
treasury onctal, themselves at that time d.
lost or destroyed. O"u'
by act OF Congress June 1, 1879. Ss. .375. 934
~ ieS iaitionas currency out of $40, ,9l2 003 81
issued was declared lost or DESTROYED a, ter be-
Ing In circulation but sixteen years. a loss of
10 per cent, or more than l per cent year
put not dollar of the $346 6SI DIG in green
PACKS is reported lost or DESTROYED in these
iasV nineteen years. And in fact all other
LOT ms OF paper currency in constant use in
SIuQlng the treasury certificates and National
oshA notes, amounting to 1888, ,000, 900, have
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15
PERSON AL.

W. H. Brown of Portland is at the Lick.
a. solomon OF Helena, Mont, is in town.
Dr. NJ. c. Hinckle of Stockton is in town.
P. X. Tying OF Buffalo is late arrival here.
DR.. W. T. Duncan of Hanford is in the City
George Myers of Fresno is here for brief
stay.
T. A. Carroll of Washington, D. C., is in the
City.
Robert Chain of Virginia, New, is at the
Baldwin.
G. W. Boggs. business man of Tracy, is at
the Russ.
R. Z. Walrath, mining man of Nevada City,
is in town.
DR.. E. B. smalley of Martinez arrived here
yesterday.
A. B. Jackson, the banker, OF Salinas, is at
the Grand.
J. S. Drufas of Prescott, Ariz, arrived here
last night
Senator B. n. Bulla of Los Angeles is la te
arrival here.
NJ. Guerin and Charles Dufresne OF Paris are
at the Palace.
C. A. Campbell, a merchant of Red Bluff, is
at the Grand.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. S. Tobin of Burlingame are
at the Palace.
J. D. SpIoule and W. H. Dorm, of Chico, are
on a visit here.
DR.. Joseph scroggs of Lincoln, Nebr, is at
the California.
George Haldorn, q mining man of Butte,
Mont, is in town.
Ex-Superior Judge Louis Gottschalk OF Los
Angeles is in the City.
J. W. McClymonds of Sacramento was one
OF yesterdays arrivals.
John r McAyOy ht1SiDpsS man of The
Dalles, Or, is at the Lick.
DR.. Clement Biddle. u S. N, and wife are on
a visit to the Hotel Rafael.
H. Hirshfeld, the banker. of Bakersfield, is
among recent visitors here.
DR.. II. C. Brown of San Jose arrived here
yesterday. He is at the Grand.
Tom T. Lane. superintendent of the Utica
gold mine at Angels, is at the Palace.
f. A. Boole, manager of the Sierra Mill and
Lumber Company, Red Bluff is III town.
The Baron William F. Falkenburg of New
York registered at the Occidental last night
Colonel z. F. Preston came up from his
Portola ranch yesterday and is at the Palace
The Rev. S. Wright Butler and Mrs. Butler
OF Omaha arrived here in last nights overlan d
train.
Louis Giernan. a business man OF Prescott,
Ariz., was one OF yesterdays arrivals at the
Palace.
VIII am Haywood of Washington, D. c., is 1t
the Palace, accompanied by his wife and two
children.
Ira G. Hoyt, formerly State Superintendent ut
of Public instruction, is up from his home at
Burlingame and is at the Occidental.
Senator J. c. Holloway of CIoyerdale is at
the Russ. He is an early pioneer in that part
OF the State and is extensively engaged in
farming.
George T. Myers of Portland, who is engaged
in salmon canning on the CoIumbia and Puget
Sound, arrived here yesterday and is at the
California.
Robert Nixon, the veteran proprietor and
editor of the Yreka Daily Journal, is at the
Grand, accompanied by Mrs. Nixon and Miss
Julia Nixon.
Louis Dean, the wealthy cattle-raiser of
Reno, Nevada, whose livestock roam over at
least half a dozen counties is here on visit,
combining both business and pleasure.
/. Leroy and II. Pspillaud, the French news
paper men who left Paris months ago without
any money and have since been working
their way, have issued "San Francisco ct La
Colonie Franchise. " r large paper with Dor
traits and write-ups of leading French resi-
dents of this City. The editors Will soon leave
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15
WHAT THE CONCERT HAS ACCOM-.
PT SHEN
Harner's Weekly.

The concert of Europe has accomplished
three things. 1t has crushed Greece, resus-
ted the Sultan and established the Czar as
the arbiter of Europe. 1t is scarcely surnris-
ing that some OF its mem bers, notably Eng
land, feel chagrined aud bitter. The full sig
nlficance OF the result may not be yet appar-
ent. Sufficient Is, however, already clear to
show that coming developments in the Leyan
wi u be Of no ordinary ineIest.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

constructed, on either side of which engines
OF $50 horsepower will be placed. BY means
OF friction these engines viii cause tne out, .t
side cylinders 10 reYolye rapidly, while the
inside cylinder retains its equilibrium
1t is intended to provide passenger accom-
The present idea OF the inventor is to utilize
the space between the inner and outer surface
OF the revolving cylinder for the storsgs o, ;,
cargo This boat is now being constr ucted
Polson's shinyard at Toronto, and the inVentos
hopes to make the trial trip about august L.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

slde- wheei steamer. Imagine the paddle
wheel to be Ito feet in width and 20 feet in
diameter. The stationary paddles on the out
side cyl nder OF this vessel will correspond TO
the paddles on paddle-w
In the center OF this hinge neddIc vheal
imagine cylinder twelve feet in diameter,
braced strongly 10 he outside cylinder, with
smart III the center of this 12-fOot cylinder,
an ordinary paddle wheel in shape and
principle. But in The vessel now under con-
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

with n. P. Willis and George P Norris in
editing the New York Mirror more than sixty
years ago, is still living in Berlin at the age
of 80
King Oscar of Sweden has sent an autograph
letter to Bethany College, at Lindsborg, Kans
in which he prom ses to send a copy of his
orations to the student who wins the coming
oratorical contest.
One of the jolliest Ol the old men present al
the old folks dance given recently at Barre,
Mass. was DR.. William l.. Russell, who is now
the oldest living graduate OF Harvard College
DR.. Russell is 81.
Miss ahlDecker. whose appointment as
translator for the War Department was op.
posed, though she had distanced all eompeti.
tors in the civil service examination, has Sc
cured place as translator in the State Depart
ment.
Photography is the fad of the Baroness Roth.
schild, IN Paris, and an ideal studio and labor
atory have been erected in the garden adjoin.
ing her palace in the Rue de Monceau. The
two-story building occupies a large lot, and
has numerous rooms for Photographic work il
all its branches.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15
WILL CELEBRATE
ON SATURDAY
Britons Make Grand Prep
arations for the Queens
Jubilee.
On the Last Day of This Week
the Big Festival Will Open
at the Chutes.
The Britist-B lrn From ALI Over the
State Will Congregate on
This Occasion.

The glamour of the enormous festival OF
Victoria's diamond jubilee 10 be held in
London for a week, commencing next
Saturday, will be very creditably reflected
in this City. From every part of the State
those who by birth or descent or assocla-
ton feel like doing honor to Great Brit
aims venerable sovereign will congregate
here Friday and Saturday.
On the morning OF the latter day the
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

oil these wears been hourly exposed to de-
structfon In hundred ways, and still they ar G
Teporfed in circulation. This is indeed gro IS
absurdity imposed upon an un1ntormed pub &c.
The loss and final disappearance OF gold and
silver ignored in she treasury reports, " it'll
further reference to paper currency, will re-
ceive consideration at another time, and
napers. which have cost me a deal OF la bor and
days of time to dig up out of these TREASURY
reports, for he is a stupid man who does not
see in what way this informant concerns
him. JOSEPH AsBOkf JohNSoN'
S55 Market street. June ID, 1897.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15
YES, HATS WHO.

Who is II quells me with look,
And reads me as an open book,
And even wes the mighty COOK
AIOther-in-law
Who when some fair one looks at me,
And l look back, is sure to be
Riyht there upon the spot to seer
Aother-in-Iaw!
Who rips the lining from my vest
Who knows the secrets of my breast,
Who keeps my wife filled with unreStr
Mother-in-l law!
Who. when the little ones are Ill,
comes in and labors with will,
And saves a mighty doctor bllT
Mother-in-law!
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15
BOAT ROLLS LIKE A BARREL,

NEW STYLE OF STEAMSHIP TO CUT Down THE
TRANSATLANTIC RECORD.
F. A. Knopp is Canadian. who hopes to cut
down the Transatlantic record to TWO days bv
means of a new style of craft Perhaps the
best illustration of the principle involved in
this vessel, says tae New York Herald, is fur
nished by the paddle-wheeI of an ordinary
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

Arey going 10 the country vacation II
20 it is no trouble for MS 10 forward THE CALL 10
your address. Do not let it miss you for you will
miss it, Orders given 10 the carrier left at
Business Office will receive prompt attention.
no EXTRA CHARGE. Fifty cents per month
for summer months.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

"Pm mighty glad my wife coaxed me
into getting her wheel" said the lean pas
senger.
"Makes her happy, chr" said the fat pas
senger
''She is so stuck on riding that she aiu't
going TO clean house this year. INDIANAPOLIS
Journal.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15
WITH YOUR COFFEE

"I have never seen your daughter" said
the visitor. "but have heard that she is very
beautiful OF course, she takes her beauty
from your"
The hostess glanced refiectively In the mir
ror opposite. mo. think I am still holding
on TO my own. "-Pick-Me-Up.
Weathers-Do you think any OF these de-
tective stories have any foundation in tactH
Raines-Me? I wouldn't believe detective
under oath.-Typographic Journal
81 can't help it," said the man in the back
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

Billings-Bosh! Don't tell me that Banks
doesn't care for his wife. Why that man is
completely infatuated, and have proof of it.
RockT ell-What is your proof?
Blllings-He consented to take her for his
partner i'll rubber of whist, the other night
Cleveland Leader
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15
$50 so to St. Paul, Minneapolis and
ChfCapu

Tickets will be on sale July IL to the 17th- Good
final limit, August l5; stopover allowed. It's
splendid opportunity TO take a trip to Chicago and
stop of the famous Yellowstone Park. Send
cents in stamps for illustrated book, ''Wonder-
land" to I. X. Stateler, general agent Northern
Pacific Railway, 63s Market street, San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15
CALIFORNIANo IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, n. Y, June 14.-At the Plaza
Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. Smith. H. P. Little; Union
Square, Scott; Grand Union-F Nichols.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

Dr. Angel should 60 to Turkey if for
no other purpose than that of getting the
European concert to try the effect on the
Sultan OF the Ann Arbor yell.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

The President of France is not a
crowned head, but he gets all the royalties
that come in the form of attempted
assassinations.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

London expects to receive and entertain
at fancy prices 5000. OOo visitors during the
jubilee festivities, so it seems that roy atty
pays well on occasions.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

Lee Merriweather, one of the candidates fol
the mayoralty of 81. Louis, came into notice 9
few years ago by lively little book telling how
he saw Europe on so cents day.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

Mr.. Bryan is nominally stumping the
country for free silver, but what he is
really working for is gold coin.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

Now is the time to be getting ready your
subscription to the fund for the entertain
ment OF the Christian Endeavorers.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

THE CRYSTAL SWIMMING BATHS.
Physicians recommend the Crystal warm
sea water tub and swimming baths, North
Beach.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

Thessaly ana the European concert is
reaping what it sowed.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

There is nothing so rare as ram in
June, and We have had it.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

SPECIAL information daily to manufacturer,
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau tAllens). $40 Montgomery
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

WE do not like badness, gray hair, dandruff,
nor thin locks. Avoid these erratic features OF
the hair by using PARKER's HAIR BALsAM.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

The gold Democrats of Oregon have
taken to the field with such force and in
such numbers that il looks as if the Bry-
antics will be able to find no standing
room in that State without taking TO the
woods
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

FEvERIsHNEss of the scalp soon causeI bald
ness. Ayers Hair Vlgor cools and c.eanses the
scalp and clothes it with beauty.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

S26 Rate to Chicago via the Great
Santa Fe Route.
The low rates made for Christian Endeavorers
will be open TO the public well. An opportu-
nifty 10 visit the East before enjoyed by Cal
nornianS Pullman Palace Drawing-room Sleep
ing-cars of the latest pattern Modern upholstered
tourist sleeping-cars run daily through from Oak
land pier 70 Chicago See timetable in advertis-
ing column. San Francisco ticket Office 644 Market
street, Chronicle building. Telephone Main 5SI
Oakland ll1S Broadway
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

1t is asserted that Sunday bicycling
leads to so many accidents in the East
tnat Monday is becoming known among
the druggists of that section as "arnica
day."
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

strnction In place of the shaft there is a third
cylinder, which. as before stated, is joined to
by ball bearin~s
Inside this third cylinder platform will be
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

1t is said that Ras Alula, the great Abyssin-
ian chief whose death encourages Italy TO
another Abyssin.an Campaign, began lie as a
groom. He ended it by freeing his country.
Theodore Sedgwlck Fay, who was associated
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

1t is believed in Washington that if a
list had been kept of ali the original Nc
Kinley men" who have applied for office
since the Inauguration it would have
formed by this time a nearly conn pletc
census of Ohio
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

How still they are" remarked Mrs. Fogg,
apropos OF the young couple in the next
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

seat 81 cant believe in anything. I am
born doubter."
ooh, no, brother began the evangelist
''But 1 am. There are times when 1 even
have doubts to the superiority of my BIZ
cyc.e."-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

WilIie-Its pretty hard work 10 get to school
in the morning when I have to go by all those
Circus-posters.
Willie's uncle-How have you managed
Willie?
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

CALIFORNIA glace fruits soc lD Townsond,,.'
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

The Duke of Fife keeps twelve suits going at
the same time, and never wears the same
clothes twice in the same week.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

"Yes," replied Mr.. 2, ''it reminds me of my
army days. 1t was always wonderfully quiet
just previous to an engagement" Boston
Transcript
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

The Prince of Wales possesses the mos
curious paperweight in the world. 1t is the
hand of an Egyptian mummy.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

1t is ev IDENTIFY expected that the election
in Ohio this fall will be honey tight from
the start, for expert politicians are quoted
as saying it will not be necessary for the
Buckeyes 20 trouble themselves about
making a crop.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

1t is said that Coxey has decided not to
attempt to form another army for ID arch
On Washington until the new tariff has
demonstrated its inadequacy, and if we
can only get the crank to stick to that no.
tion we are sale from Coxeyism for the rest
of this generation
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

1t is said that at the grand fancy ball to
be given by the Duchess of Devonsh hire
tha Duchess OF Marlborough will appear
as Colum bia, gowned according to the
Vanderbilt idea of what Colum bia ought
to be, and the effect is expected to be
sufficiently dazzling to wreck a railroad.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

The fight against scorching is assuming
such large proportions in Eastern cities
that before the summer is over every
healthy pedestrian may be carrying a
lasso and roping in bicyclers at every turn
of the road. In one day Detroit Judge
imposed fines on forty -four scorchers, and
Chicago threatens to beat that some day
by fning a hundred.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-15

There are still a few calamity howlers
left in the country, but the greater num-
Der have found business revived to such an
extent that it Is more profta Bile for them
TO go to work than TO stand around yell
ing that there Is no work.