The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 8, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1897 ceptacles, in a shell; when the shell bursis the mixture 'generates’ clouds ihat envelop the | enemy and obscure his vision. This is par- | posely complementary 1o the smokel or now generally used; but how DEMOCRATIC TACTICS, THE SUNDAY CALL. DR LI'S GHOST 15 riRcise, . = f the Boston Gazette dated March From the vote of the Democrats in the House of Representatives on a resolution To-morrow THE CALL will reproduce in fac-simile a copy of the Bost | pro viding that the House shall meet only on Mondays and Thursdays until further these projectiles would be necessary to'en- velop an army corps in smoke? The author does not tell us, and it is doubtful if he will i 12, 1770. The faded and steined old newsp: per containg the first news account of the Boston massacre that was printed by any local paper. This adds in & vast measure to the value of the relic, which under suy circumstances would bs exceedingly interesting for Its great age alone NOW AT REST. L | action, it is evident Mr. Builey and bis friends have decided to change the policy they MAY § 1807 | adopted at the beginning of the session and hereafter will oppose the Republican pian - I of undertaking no legislation until after the tariff has been enacted. In voting against the resolution the Democrats followed the lead of Jerry Simpson. They allied themselves with the Populists and added the full strength of their vote to SUBSCRIPTION RATESPostage Free: | U1 agitators who have been attempting for weeks past to disturb the proceedings of and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 | the House, and who have tried by every means in their power to cast odium upon the Sungay Cav, one year,by mal. .. €00 | Spoqkor. I3 was & complete surrender of Bailey and his conservatives {o the sockiess L e vis by mail 160 | Mtalesman of Kansas and a triumph of the wild colts over tne attempt to establish Sunday CaLy, one month, by mail. 85 | digcipline in the party. e 18| The new alliance and the new policy are not matters of much concera, since the T | combined forces will not be sufficient to materially affect legislation. In the vote on D | the recolutions providing for meetings only twice a week the combined opposition had €an Francisco, Callfornia. | but 83 votes against 10L 1t formed a considerable minority, but one which will not B <ooeen MAIA=1888 | b 1 ong enough to prevent the carrying out of the policy of the majority under the | direction of so able and competent a leader as Speaker Reed. The only significance of . atain—1874 | 1he vote, therefore, is that it makes clear the fact that the Democrats of the House of Representatives will hereafter be led by radicals instead of conservatives, and that it open autn | has not wathin itselt sufficient wisdom or discipline to maintain the course which it | undertook at the beginning of the session. | It is possible that this change of tactics on the part of the Democrats of the House may imply a simiiar change on tbe part of thoss in the Senate. If this should be 80 we may look for a long wrangie over the tariff bill instead of the prompt and rational street, open until 9 o'clock. | legislation which the country hoped for and which at one time seemed well assured. -m;;_npen:x'nc‘;ln:.a‘::d»l“;‘“m": [tis another warning that we cannot expect good service from Democracy even in ‘open till 8 o'cloc | opposition. The capacity for blundering upon which General Grant remarked has not diminished since his time. The only consolation is that obstructive | tactics on the part of the Democrats now, whiie they may injure the country much by find sufficiently trustng amateurs to put his invention into practice on a large scale. S\TURDAY and 25 & meaus of comparing modern journalism with the journalism of the fathers. Sime years ago a lot of fake coples of this historic newspaper were printed. They were creased and rubbed with stains in order to give them an appearance corresponding with the fulee date which they bore. Then they were offered to the public as originsl copies of the famous paper and its historic news story. And some of them were sold nuder this misrepre- sentation, the purchasers realizing the great value of them without percuiving their un- genuineness. But under a close inspection these imitations turn out to be very poor things after ali— pitiable mockertes of the venerable masterpieces of news. There are bus two of the origi nal copies (printed on March 12, 1770) left, 80 far as is known. Tbe copy which THE CALL wil. To- Pproduce to-morrow has bsen on exhibition in the Smithsonian Institution, to which it was tem- porarily loaned by Mr. Randlett of Alameds, in whose family the relic has been au heirloom for over a hundred ye: There will also be a story of the strangest lynching in the history of California. The scene 13 Iaid'in Old Monterey, and the actors in the tragedy are well known—several of them still 11ving. This story will come as a revelation to many old timers. Possibly you never knew that deaf-mutes could hold a debate. But they can. In fact, & number of them did so0 aply a few aays ago, and the proceedings were amazing and interesting. 'This will be graphically described by Muriel Bailey in THE SUNDAY CALL. “The March of the Stars” s the title of the latest musical composition produced in San Francisco. The author is Miss Gertrude Spellan and several eminent critics have pronounced (l;er Work to be of a high order of merit. The original score wiil be reproduced ig to-morrow’s ALL. “The Wonderful Flight of & Seagull” 1s the subject of & bright article sure to interest ail. It is graphica!ly written and furnishes a great deal of valuable information. Florence Percy Matheson paid a visit to little Baby Lewis in her home this week. Of S the visitor said much to interest and please her and will tell all about it {n to-morrow’s ALL De Wolf Hopper was cought returning from a foray on the book stands. What he cap- thed and what he did with his victims will be the subject of & bright article in THE SUNDAY CALL. John Bonner makes another plea for the State University. This will appear in THE SUNDAY CaLL The latest discovery in regard to the habits of ants will be made public for the first time | to-morrow. Besides the articles already mentloned, Adeline Knapp's “Fleld Vistas” will appear | FPEKSON L. John W. Howell of Merced is at the Lick. Dr. Ruius Willard of Seattleis at the Russ. J. K. Clark of Butte, Mont., 1s at the Palace. S. Dixon of Riverside s at the Cosmopoli- tan. W. H. Hatton, the attorney, of Modesto, isa. Tecsnt arrival here. B. P, Taylor, a cigar merchant of San Jose, is at the Cosmopolitan. L. Katz, owner of a general store st Batter Creek, 8 in the City. F. O'Keele, a vineyardist of Fresno County, is at the Cosmopolitan. J. Saichel and G. C. Smith, of Seattle, are at the Cosmopoiitan Hotel. District Attorney E. A. Freeman of Amador Couniy is in San Francisco. H. J. Stow of Reading, England, is here on his way home from Australia. Isaac R. Wise of Prescott; Ariz., and Miss Wise are visiting San Francicco. W. F. Patterson, a well-to-do business man of Vancouver, B. C., is at the Palace. R.T. Burr, a business man of Yuma, Ariz, is here, accompanied by Mrs. Burr. Mark. L. McDonald, the giant capitalist of | Bania Rosa, is making a short visit bere. Waiter Burke of Christebureh, N. Z., s at | the Californis, He is on his way to London. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDUE, | s The Estate of the Chinese Physician Finally Settled. Dsily and Dail end Litigation Which Threatened to Last a Lifetime Suidenly Coac.uded. Telephos EDITORIAL ROOMS: B17 Clay Streew. Telephone . Attorneys J D. Sullivan and R. H. Countryman Have Adjusted Their Differenc s. BRANCH OFFICES 527 Montgomery s:reet, coraer Clar: lock. 89 Hayes street; open natil 615 Larkin street, open untl 9:; ner Sixteenth aud Mission sireeis, 0pen ok. ion street, open until 8 o'clock. Dr. Li Po Tai’s ghost that has so long persisted in disturbing the equanimity of court and counsel in Judge Coffey’s de- partment of the Superior Court has at last been laid. Whenever the attempted settlement of OAKLAND OFFICB 998 Broadway. ASTERN OFFICE: Park Tow. New York Cltys o Manager. | Rooms 81 snd DAVID M. FOL’ IHE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. SUMMER MONTHS. the carrier or left at prompt attention. | The Turk is now ready to take a contract to wipe off the earth When it comes to diplomacy Greece can up a better game. 3alboa-avenue fund continues to be ue which demands attention. General Miles may possibly expect to get to the war before 1t is over by means of a | ng machin The a live Salisbury says the Turkish empire may improve or it may collapse, and Salisbury is a very wise m The on!, £UN T Ay C s to leave oraers for it to-day. A word to the wise is sufficient. The Nashville Exposition has the credit of showing up the first flying machine, | and to that extent inaugurales a new era. The people who saw the flying machine | in various States, counties and cities can | now have the satisfaction of saying “I | told you so.” As Prince Constantine of Greece is re- ported to have left his bagzage in the | retreat from Pharsalos we may conclude he has lost his grip. . It is seid to have co-t Kentucky $100,000 10 elect Deboe 1o the Senate, and perhaps | afterall he would have been willing to take the office for half the money. “Let the visitors go first” said the Dachesse d’ Alencon at the burning bazaar in Paris, and straightway she became first in heroism among all who perished there. The municipal deficit is not so attractive a subject as park extension, but never- theless every taxpayer has an interest in it and most of them have opinions oa the subject. About the only thing on which Euro- pean nations are agreed is that they do not | wish to fight, and after all that is about as good an agreement as they could come to. The powers of Europe are indifferent to | the Greek people, but they are resolved | to maintain the dynasty. To them the kingdom is of much less importance than the crown. | Weyler's report that he has pacified | several provinces in Cuba may have been ‘[ intended to counteract the reports of his | barbarity by showing thag he 13 something | of & humorist. In the prevailing hope of prosperity all | round the Union it is regretable to learn from the literary centers that the year's | crop of poetry is likely to be much below the average. The output up to date has been hardly middliny. Baseball reporting has become a fine ari. Here is a sample of the way it was recently done in New York: Keeler landed on the svherold Witha ¢n I, resounding whack, And the littie man was resting Safe on third when 1t came back. The new tariff proposes to take chicle off the free list and put a duty of 10 cents a | pound on it, and as all chewing gum in America has chicle for a base thers is likely to be more chewing over this tariff than any other in the history of our country. At the recent dedication of a church for colored peopla in Georgia many of the | congregation had no money to put in the | contribution-box, %o they introauced an innovation by kiving +ggs. It is to be no- ticed that the gifts roused no suspicion of | any wrong done lo the neighbors who kept chickens. In all the discussions of the outflow of gold there is not one evidence given of any feeling of alarm, and when this is contrastea with the fear which prevailed over the gold exports when the Demoecrats were iu power, it will be seen that the | McKinley administration has gone a long way toward bringing back prosperity by assuring public confidence in the financial situation. A corresnondent of the New York Times in reviewing the industrial conditions of the Southern States notes there has been alarge decrease in the number of hired laborers in the country and a large in- crease of tenant farmers. This is the first step, and when the tenants become own- ers of their small farms the revolation from the old to the new South wiil have been fully accomplished. A number of genial citizens of New York on thoughts of pleasure bent bought | a cask of liquor wherewith to enjoy them- selves, but all their hopes were dashed | when they were informed that unaer the Raines law they could not divide it among themselves .in quantities of less than five gallons without taking out a license, under penalty of being sent 1o jail. The citizens have the cask still on hand, and are pondering whether to or- ganize as a liquor company and take out a jicense or venture upon the experiment of taking five gallons at a drink and go on with the picnic. | delaying the billand the settlement of the tariff question, will be a benefit later on by convincing the people of the folly of trusting National Democracy in any capacity | “in meditation fancy free” | any whatever. GETTING THE FACTS. The Ezaminer of yesterday made an ac- knowledgment of the superiority of our | news service over its own with such frank- | ness, candor end completeness as to merit recoznition. On the previous day both Tue CaLL and the Eraminer contained reports of the Huntington banguet, but they differed widely in every respect, and the Examiner of yvesterday, feeling called upon to deliver editorial comment upon the affair, lound itself in a position where it had to decide whether its own account or that in THE CALL was the true one. The editorial writers attested the ex- cellence of their judgment by ignoring the Ezaminer news report as a worthless fake and basing the whole of their criti- cism upon the account given by THE CALL. It is scarcely necessary for us to say the editorial department of the Ezaminer acted | wisely in accepting the report of 1HE CALL | as being correct. that even wisdom leads a Dewspaper to 5o | It is not often, however, openly acknowledge and confess the worthlessness of its news service and the utter unreliability of everything which1t reports as a fact. 1t is the rarity of such open confessions on the part of sensa- tional jouruals that gives importance to | this action of our contemporary and leads us to accerd it more than ordinary recog- nition. We trust nobody will regard this notice of the acknowledgment of the superiority of our news service as vain boasiing on our part or as having in it any suggestion of sarcasm. It is meant only as a kindly acknowledgment of the candor of the man- agers of the Ezaminer in admitting that when they desire to know the truth they read Tug CaLL. Their own clever writers are not sent out to gather news, but are | allowed to sit at their desks and write out dispatches from the Emperor of China, interviews with a Chinese digritary, locating him in San Francisco when he happens to be in Havana, and giving accounts of sach local events as the Huntington banquet without learning the facts. To people who reai newspapers, not for idie amusement, but for the purpose of knowing what is going onin the world, the moral of this confession on the vart of the Framiner is too plain 1o require stating. Tnnse who wish to learn the facts and to acquire an accurate knowl- edee of current events must read THE Carr. The editors of the Ezaminer are aware of this and never venture 10 com- ment, criticize or pronounce judgment on anything going on either at home or abroad until they have first thrown their own fake paper in the wastebasket and | read THE CALL, in order to acquaint them- selves with the truth, THE DUOHESS D'ALENCON. It is oneof the consolations of humanity that whenever a great disaster falls upon women, there is always displayed by some among the number of the victims & heroism of soul which attests the gran- deur of mankind even amid the greatest trials, ana proves the saying of General | Robert E. Lee, “‘Human virtue can al- | ways be equal to human calamity.” | In the dread disaster which befell the | gay and fashionable throng at the charity | bazaar in Paris, this evidence of nobility | of soul and true grandeur of sentiment | wes shown by the Duchess d’Alencon. | When tueflames broke forth and the shouts ing near the Duchess turned to her with | the cry: ‘“Let us go, Madame. Come | immediately!” The Duchess, however, did not move, but answered the appeal with the calmness of a grande dame, ““Let | the visitors go first.”” It was a simple | saying, but under the appalling circum- | stances it was sublime. It is evident the Duchess was one | of those rare women whom we like to im- agine as the type of genuine aristocracy. | A true grande dame, who understood to the fullest extent the meaning of the |up 10 1t, | matter of conventional manner; her courtesy was not a mere It was | ture, finely bred and finely accomp.ished. | It was an aspiration of the soul as well as | the practice of a babit, and bespoke a woman who in every respect was well worithy to wear a coronet and to rank | among the aristocracy of a great nation. “Let the visitors go first.”” These words, | uttered amid a panic-stricken crowd in a | building wrapped in flames and scarcely | heard among the shrieks of dospair, de- |serve to be remembered among those immortal phrases which bear to men and women from generation to generation the evidences of the truth of the saying of the Psaimist: “For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor.” The glory is that man has been creited with a soul superior to every possible disaster that may befall him, and the honor is that even his mortal body has tbe courage to show forth the nature of his soul and act in accordance with its high requirements. The horror of the great calamity at | Paris will sooner or later pass away, but |itis not likely that the world will ever | forget the heroism of this woman who | stood aside to let the visitors go first from the flaming building. The world has now another heroine to rank among those whom it honors; and wherever and when- ever the tale of this story shall be told there wiil not fail to be words of praise and honor to the true grande dame, the noble woman, the Duchess d'Alencon. considerable number of men and of “‘fire” were heard,one of the ladies stand- | phrase “Noblesse oblige,” and who lived | an outcome of the instincts of & noble na- | SALISBURY'S SPEECH, The address of Lord Salisbury at the an- nual meeting of the Primrose League at Albert Hall, in London, must have forcibiy recalled to the large audience which assembled in that vast building the loss which England sustained by the death of Benjamin Disraeli, in honor of whose memory the Primrose League was formed. No man can say what manner of speech Disraeli would have made at such a crisis in the affairs of England and of Europe as the war in the Levant has raised, but every man can be certain it would bave been widely different in tone and sentiment from that of the noble Lord who has succeeded him in office without filling his place in the service of his country. Disraeli always had a definite policy for England and was always able to express | itin language which, while it excited to | fiercer heat the opposition of his foes, never failed to carry hope and courage to | ms friends. A speech from him on such an occasion as this would have roused all England and had a potent influence | throughout Europe. Salisbury’s address, however, was hardly more than such as might have been delivered ata tea party | by a man who was talking of something of which he knew little and on which he has not made up his mind one way or another. | To aworld waiting to know what is to be done for the solution of the dangerous problem in the Levant, Lord Salisbury could offer nothing but the vaguest ex- pressions of a aope that all would go well. “There has been,” he said, “‘great fear that any outbreak in the southeast of Europe might lead to s general blaze, but it is hoped the danger is past, and that we may 100k calmiy on the larger interests involved.” He hada no reason to furnish as a basis on which this hope is to rest, given by the Turkish Government may | lead to an improvement in t.e empire or | 1t maybe the empire wiil collapse. This was all which the Prime Minister of England had to say to the people wait- ing with eager expectancy to know what | part England is to play in the mighty | drama now going on in the Levant. was the speech of a temporizer, a time- | server, and a waiter on events rather than | of a leader of a great people and of a statesman having a policy which he re- | garded as best for the interests of the em- | pire, and which he was resoved to carry | out in the face of any and all obstacles. | It was not necessary for Lord Salisbury | to tell us the Ottoman empire may im- prove or that it may collapse. That much was very well known belore. What was expected from a man in Salisbury’s posi tion was a definite statement of what England will do to maintain justice in the Levant, and enforce reforms upon the Sultan. Truly the Primrose League has ample reason to commemorate Benjamin Disraeli and to mourn his death. IF 11 any little word of mine May make s life the brighter, 11 any littie song of mine May make a heart the lighter, God nelp mo speax the little word, And take my bit of singing, And arop it in some ione'y vale, To set tue echoes ringing. 11_any liitle love of mine May mak & .ifs the aweeter, If any 1 ttle care of mine May make a friena’s (he fleeter, If any liitle lift of mine may ease The burden of anoiher, God give me Jove and care and strength To belp my tolling brother. Rome (Ga.) Masonic Herald. MEN AND WOmEN, Triplets born in the household of Mr. and | Mr. Louis Hard of Carnegle, Pa., last week have been named McKinley, Hobart and Hanna, John W.Greaton, the well-known chemist and metaliurgist who invented the alloy used in the nickel 5-cent pleces, died last week at his home in Brooklyn. Daniel W. Bell of Gilsum, N. H., has been a steady reader of a Concord paper for over sixty years, and has just renewed his subscription Tor another tweive mouths. After the doctors had given up a New Jersey man who was dying of hiccoughs, he was cured by eating & dish of icecream, which he craved as alast boon before bidding a final adieu to the world. A nephew of the King of Slam is & military cadet at Woolwich, England, and one of the King's sons, who is prepcring to enter the British navy at Greenwich, has won his way to the heartof the English by his skill as a football player. Cecil Rhodes, according to the London Chronicle, has decided once more to apply his mind to coffee-growing on & colossal scale in the Shire highlauds of Central Africa. Long vears ago he was a coffee-planter in Natal, but discarded the life for the more exciting one of diamond-hunting at Kimberley. Queen Victorla has astonished the visitors at Nice by her hardihood in drivingin the open air in all kinds of westher. lu the face of driving rains, which keep almost every one elze indoors, the Queen drives aboutin her unpretentious carriage, noticesble only for the Scoton the box, apparently enjoying the severe temperature. CLOUDS AS WEAPONS OF WAR. It is coolly proposed by M. P. Riehm, says Geographic, to make “war in the clouds,” an eminently Olympian vroposition. The propo- sition is explained as foliows: It s well known that the vapors of smmonia,when they encounter those of hydrochloric acid, form smmonium chloride (sal ammoniac), which appears as a thick cloud of small ticles, Ih. this property in a_new engine of war. He ine closes the acid and ammonia in separate re- and could only say the proofs of strength | It Josiah Bell, who is interested in different | kinds of business at Eurcka, is at the Grand H. W. Hellon, owner of a large creamery near Volta, is here, accompanied Ly his wife. D. B. Chanaler, owner of a lumber-yard at | Elmira, is down'on s business trip and is at the Lick, C. J. Lee of Quincy, Plumas County, owner of & general store and mining luterests, is at the Russ. N. W. Wright, an extensive farmer and dray- man o1 Los Banos, was smong yesterday’s ar- rivais here. | H. Fredrickson, a wealthv rancher of Hum- boldt County, who lives near Eureka, is among tho arrivals at the Russ. J. J. Livernash, editor and owner of the Healdsburg Enterprise, is at the Russ, Heis down ouly for a brief Visit Simon Blum, the well-known grain and gen- eral merchandise dealer ana land-owner of Mariinez, of the firm of Blum Brothers, is at the Grand. H. C. Nash, formerly private secretary to Senator Stanford and now librarian of the Stanford University, is a visitor here and is at the California. Charles Markell, one of the largest mer- chants and importers in Sydney, is at the | Occideatal, He is an American and formerly lived 1n Boston. Commender W. H. Whiting of the United States navy, Washington, D.C., arrived here yesterday, eccompanied by Mrs. Wulting, child and nurse. % Brigadier-General W. R. Shafter, who is en route here trom Washington, D. C., and who is 5001 to be transferred to Fort Vancouver, wiil be given a farewell reception at the Presidio. A. T. Mitcpell, who owns mining interests at Rossland, B.C., has come out of the snows which linger about there and is here to sam- ple the Californis sunshine and attend to some business matters. Sheriff T. M. Brown of Humboldt County, who has occupled his present official position | for so0 long that he is one of the most widely known of Pacific Coast Sheriffs, is in the City. He brought down an insaue person for incar- ceration in one of the asyiums. Arthur Berrell of Syduey, N. 8. W.,one of | the sonior partners in the widely known book- | | publishing house of Gordon & Goteh, London, | | which has branches throughout the various | Australian and New Zealana colonies and Indis, is in the City. He stopped while en route here for a week iu Samoa. Thomas I. Ross of the Sydney Sunday Times | ard Sydney Referee is here on his way to | Euglana. He says the question of federation | | s s1ill an important one in Australia, but one | of the obstacies to be adjusted is an estimate, 1o be ugreed upon by the countries con: | | cerned, of the respective values of their rail- | | ways. Assistant District Attorney Mark Walser of Fresno, who has resided there a number of | | years, and become well known in his profes- | sion, and who is now in this City, has de- | | cided toloca e permanently in San Franeisco, | | Forsome little time he has been making his | | arraugements to that end, and his visit is now | | to arrange for some of the details. He thinks | | he will remove here about June 1. | D. T. Davies of Tacoms, superintendent of | | the Carbonado coal mnes near the base of Mount Tacoma, which mines have long been | owned by the Pacific Improvement Compagy | of this City, is at the Palace,accompanied by | Mrs. Davies. Mr. Davies has long been in | | charge of the Carbonado mines. He is one of | the early residents in that vicinity, having | setiled there when Tacoms was & squalid | bamiet, known only as & mill town. J. H. Cooke, & wealthy gold-mine owner of Coolgardie, who not long since was lucky enough to make a big mineral discovery, is at | the California, accompanled by Mrs.Cooke, Miss Cooke and Miss Vera Cooke. They are going | to Eneland. Miss Cooke and Dr. Casey, of | the Alameda, became engaged during the long voyage, and this marriage, It s stated, will soon take place here. They had never met till the family of the mining king came aboard at Auckland. F. W. Bradiey, superintendent of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan silver and lead mizes at Warduer, in the Caur d’Alene coun- try, Idaho, arrived here yesterday. These | mines are very extensive, and are heavy pro- ducers of lead as well as & reasonsble amount of silver. General Nat H. Harrls, whose office is in the Crocker building, is the general man- Ager ot these mines. He succeeded his nephew, Jack Hammond, when he went to Africa. Mr. Bradley is down to stay a week or two at least, | E. Jacobs, the great land-owner of Tulare, who owns 65,000 acres near Visalia, much of | which is bighly productive wheat and barley | 1and. is at the Occidental. Mr. Jacobs has { lived at Visalin for over forly years. Soon after he settled there he began merchandizing extensively, but after a number of years, ha | ing acquired large areas of land, he quit sell- ing wares of diffeent kinds and engaged in growing wheat by wholesale. It would take | good many figures to represent his fortune. He is here on business aud pleasure com- bined. CALIFORNi- N IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, N. Y., May 7.—At the St. Cloud, E. K. Murphy . 8. Baldwin, G, T. Marve Jr.; Hoffman—J. V. Coleman, C. H. Croydon; Amsterdam, J. Birmingham; Murray Hill— Bisnop Newman, D. Newman; Savoy, Miss J. Samuels. The Kaiser Wilhelm II takes | out to Rome and Southern Europe and the Holy Lands Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Brown of Log | Angeles, Miss Corbett of Riverside, Miss Ann a | L. Cockins, Sister Seraphina, Sister Pia, Misy | Cora A. McDonald. Dr. J. J. Muller left the 8t. Cloudjto sail for Europe. WI.H YuUr COFFEEB “And did the groom kiss the bride?” “Oh, yes.” “Before everybody?"’ “No; after everybody except the sexton and organist.”—Pittsburg Post. | | “Why does a woman always buy her postage stamps tnree at a time?” “S0 85 to get pennles in change, of course.” “What does she want 1o get pennies for?"” Vell, that makes it seems more like a bar- gain.”—Chicago Journal Englishman—T see thst & man was robbed in Central Park in broad daylight. Buch things don’t happen in London. New Yorker—I suppose not. I've heard that broad daylight is a very rare occurrence there.—Puck, “Flour has gone up 10 cents & barrel.” “That's all right; we buy ours by the sack.” Chicago Record. ————— Town Crier all right in to-aay’s News Letter. brighter than ever. number of other highly interesting articles. There will be a comparison of ancient and modern Greece, and aiso a Then, of course, there will be the Children’s page. The little ones know how mucs | pleasure they get out of it, and will be walching for it. Don’t disappoint them, for it will be exceptionally good. To sum up, THE SUNDAY CALL will be an fdeal newspaper. Full of bright features and all the news of the worla that is fit to print. GRANT AND THE WAR CORRESPONDENTS. On the elghteenth page of THE CALL of Sunday, May 2, 1897, was published & military order from General Grant to General Snerman dated August 8, 1852, directizg the latter to arrest the Memphis correspondent of the Chicago Times and send him to the Alton military prison for confinement until the close of the war unless sooner discharged by competent authority. It seems that Captain Richard P. Thomas, who found the original order among some waste papers at Memphis soon after, and has had it in his possession ever since, never knew the fdentity of the correspondent nor whether he was ever discovered or arrested. Tam perhaps the only person now living who ¢an supply the missing links of that record. The correspondent was a Mr. Isham, a brother to the wife of Wilbur F. Storey, the great editor of the Times. Isham had been an editorial writer on the paper and was sent {0 the field as a war correspondent soon after the battle of Shiloh. At the time of his arrest (for he was | promptly arrested and imprisoned pursuant to that order) he was considered the most brilliant correspondent in that department. The Times had an immense circulation in ihe armies of the Southwest, was very sensational in character and delighted in seeing how near it could approach the line of actual disloyalty without incurring its penalty. Mr.I-ham had been cautioned once or twice before this by General Grant against giving such free range to his fancy and predicting future movements of the Union troops. His last offense was pub- | lishing a “cock and bull” story about some Confederate ironciads at Pensacols, which he | selt, which scarcely had a da: claimed to have recoived by *‘grapevine” telegraph through the Southern Confederacy. About the middle of October, 1862, I received a telegram at my home in Milwaukee from for them, | Storey & Worden, proprietors of the Times, askiug if I could go to the Army of the Tennessee | Ireplied that I could, and received a second dispatch requesting me to come to Chnicago by the first train. On arriving at the office I was informed that the object of my trip | would be to secure Mr. Isham’s release, if possible. ntance with General Grant oy any member of his staff, and at first till then, had no acq! I had never seen either Storey or Worden objected to the undertaking. The interview ended, however, in my starting at once as & duly accredited correspondent of the Times to avoid betraying the chief object I had in view- | Bélore leaving Chicago Messrs, Storey & Worden had supplied me with scores of letters | from influential men of the city and State asking for Isham’s release from prison. These I { mever delivered. I was convinced that General Grant would never read them, and suspected | | that i he was inclined to open the prison door to Isham he would greatly prefer doing so | | without the appearance of outside pressure or interference. At the first suitable opportunity 1 brought the matter to General Grant’s attention, and assured nim that Mr. Isham’s relatives same day. know that he was in that famous penal institution between three and four months. | and frfends had no disposition to question the rightfulness of his arres | his release on the grounds that he had been sufficiently punished and that his family was | actuslly dependent on others for datly food, ete. 1 have not before me the precise date of his incarceration or release, but | but now reqaested An order for bis release was sent oft the | He was | lost a few years afterward in s great steamboat accident on Lake Michigan, This was the beginning of a personal intimacy between General Grant and staff and my- | intarruption till the end of the war. 1500n changed from the | Times to the New York Herald, and literally rode with Grant from Vicksburg to Appomattox; was in the room when General Lee surrendered; went a little later on to North Caro.ina and saw the surrender of General Johnston’s army; and have remained in close touch with such of the “old” staff as survive from tbat time to this. The correspondent wWho furnished you the copy of the order spoke of Grant’s method being au easy one to silence objectors. This needs explanation. My field of experience and observation was as wide as thatof any person slive to-day. 1 know whereol I speak when I say that Grant was by far the most lieral in allowing publication of news from his fields of operation of any officer of note which the war proauced. He st00d on a higher plane from the outset, and took the sensible ground that newspapers must send men of judgment and discre- tion to represent tuem, or suffer the consequences of having them expelled from the army All correspondents within his commands could say what they pleased aboat completed opera: | | ations—if truthfui—but must not indulge in predictions concerning the future. | aescended to press censorship, nor allowed any member of his staff todoso. | iustances in proof of these all-gations coula be given if necessary. Fall River Mills, May 4, 1897. He never Abundant S. CADWALLADER. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS MARRIAGE: City. Marriage is a civil contract, and is so regarded by all the States of the Union, and as such is regulated by civil laws which declare who may perform the marriage ceremony. Neither Legislatures nor Bosrds of Supervisors have the power to pass any ecclesiastical laws or ordinances. A BANK IN LIQUIDATION—W. F. H., Los An- geles, Cal. On the first day of next July or during the first week in that month the Bank Commissioners will receive a statement show- ing the condition of the bank in liquidation named in your communication. As soon as it is filed this department will publish the same. QUEEN VICTORIA'S SON—F. M., City. Queen Victoria of England never had a son whose name of seven letters commenced with “L and ended with “E. She had a ton named Leopold born in 1853, created Duke of Aibany in 1881, married Priucess Helen of Waldeck in 1882 ‘and died in 1884. This is ; robsbly the one that you refec toa your communi- cation. “GRAND ORIENT OF 8PAIN"—C. R., City. There is no branch of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Masonry in the State of Californfa working under the jurisdiction of the “G-and Orient of Spain.”” Some of the most prominent Masonsin thie City say that they arenot aware tuat there Is such an orient as the “Orfent of Spain.” WRECK OF THE ATLANTIC—A. S., Sausalito, Cal. The steamer Atlantic of the White Star Company struck on Meagher Rock, west of Samoro, while sieaming for Halifax. Four hun- dred and forty-two persons, including Captain Williams, the master, were saved sad 560 were lost. Many who were in the rigging perished through cold and want. 7That oc- curred on the 1st of April, 1873. CAL. glace iruft 500 per Ib,, at Townsend's. i FrECTAL information daily to manufacturers. business houses and publicmen by the Press Clipping Burean (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * i Sl e Gty Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. The spring exhibition is now opea daily 1rom 9 . M. to 5 P. M. and grand concert every Thursday evening. Open Sundays. . e e Complications between France and Germany are likely to ariso from the recent fatal explo- sion on the Russian cruiser Cizot Veliky, Ger- man newspapers asserting that the breech Dbiock blown out was made by Canet, while French suthorities say it was the work of Krupp. The Swiftest Tram in the West— 3)4 Daya to Chicago or St. Louls 414 Days to New York. The Eanta Fe Limited has dinlug-car, buftet smoking-car and Pullman palace drawing-room sleopiug-cars. Leaving San Francisco at 6 p. x. Mondnys and Thursdays, connection is made at Berstow with this handsome train. Through cars to Uhicago, both Pullman paiace drawing-room and modera upholstered tourist sleepers, run dnlly. Tickets also sold via Portiand, Ogden, Los Angeles, Deming or Kl raso to all points in the United States, Canada, Mexico or Kurope. See time table in advertising column. Ssn rancis ticket office 844 Market streei, Chronicle balid- ing. Telephone Mam 1581 Oakland, 1118 Broadway. e Railroad 1ickets to the East via Elo Grande Western and Denver aud Rio Grande Rallways, At lowest possible rates, with through Pullmay buffet and tourist sleeping car service every da Personally conducied excuraions leaving Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday. Only line permiulag top-over at Salt Lake City on il classes of tickets Detatled information and tickets furnished & i Montgomery street, or 314 Callfornia siree e — THE best cure for colds and affections of the breathing organs is PAKKER'S GINGER ONIC. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAX never falls to please. e —e——— BPRING Chickens are not siways tender: but Ayer's Plls enable the stomach to digest the toughest meat. FRATERNAL DEPARTMENT, San Francisco Cabinet of the National Union Passes a Vote of Thanks to The Call. At s meeting of San Francisco Cabinet of the National Union, held last Thursday night in its hall in the Alcazat building, & check was received for the semi-annual allowance. 1t was decided to levy the semi-annual per capita tax upon the various councils atonce. The cabinet will pay an official visit to Tninn Council on Friday next. An invitation was received from California Council to attend its meeting on the evening of the 16th of June, when special patriotic exercises will be held. The tollowing preamble and resolution were offered and carried by s unanimous vote: WHEBEAS, The National Unfon is an organiza- tlon whose object is to teach sound patriotism and 10 relleve the pressing wants of & needy brother and protec: the family of a deceased brother, and whereas, mucl uragement has been rendered this good cause by the kind and !iberal man.er in Whica all matters of interes: to our members have been published recularly in the columns of the San Francisco CALL, therefore be it Resolved, That we, the San Francisco Cabinet, compose.t ‘of delegates irom each of the sever coun- cils of the National Upion in this City, do hereby teuder the proprietor and .he editors of ihe ~an Franci.co CALL a VoL@ of thanks, and that a copy of this preambie and resolution be sent Lo the San Francisc) CaLl, aud we hupe the ibera: manuer in wnich it has trated this and other similur or- ders wiil meet with the appreciation It d eserves ofpatronage. J. k. FIELD, President, . becretary. Harmony’s Smoker. Harmony Lodge No. 9, A.0.U. W., gave a “dry smoker” and entertainment in the social hall of the Alcazar building, last Thursday night. It was a dry smoker for the reason that it differed from others in tuis that neither lunch nor liquid refreshments were served, not even lemonade. The affair was under the direction of E. Haynes, master workman of the lodge, E. Garbarina, Thomas Ryan, C. Penn and T. W. English, and it con- s sted of & programme o ¢locution and music. There was u large attendance during the early part ot the evening, and those who remainea 10 the last were treated to the followi! numbers: Overture by Professor Ha. Selo and Dr. Fearn; vocal solo b. Amath; recitation, “The Nancy Bell,” Mr. Neison 'of Yerba Buena Lodge; vocal s.lo, | “The Sng of All Songs,” Mr. Fagan of Noe Val ey Lodge; cornet solo, Dr. Fearn; aadress, by Dr. Daywalt; selections on harmonica, with zither accompa:iment, Louis F. Kline; vocal solo, “The V.llage Organist,” Professor liail; recitation and song, Joha_Carter; a.d ess, by Past Master Joy of Valley Lodge; vocalizaiion, by Clancy's Quartet: instrumental music, by the Yerba Buena Lodge brass band; comic song, ““Hugh McHugh” William 0'Connetl and ‘Wiliam Thomas. Then addresses were mado by D. 8. Hirschberg, grand tary; Judge George H Bahrs, grand overseer, and Wiliiam Vinter, grand master workman. They explained the’ workings of the order and made & strong appeal 1o young men to become members of it. Pickwick Lodge. Pickwick Lodge, order Sons of St. George, at its last meeting had a large attendance, and among the visitors was Grand President C. W. Pope, who delivered an interesting address. At the close of the lodge meeting there was & programme of song aud music, and refresh- ments were served o all present in addition to & splendid collation. There was a cornet s0lo by Wiilinin Loyde; piano solo, Thomas Now.an; vocuiization, J. B. Brown, George B. Roseweli, H. Wilinmson, F. D. Brandon, A. Jeftreys, Wiliam T Sovey, H. R. Caries, E. Stack, Mr. Roach; recitations, Dr. o - M recitations, Dr. 8. J. Hun. Golden State Rebekah Lodge. It appears that there are other lodges in this Stete of the order of the Rebekahs besides Loyal Lodge of this City that admits to mem- bership young ladies who are not relatives of mem bers of the order of Odd Fellows. One is Golden State Rebekah Lodge No. 110 of Modesto, which was instituted in 1886 and which has admitted young ladies who are not related to Odd Fellows since the passage of the law permitting the admission of such mem- bers. 1 Looge is the only Ciiy lodge that the Chinese doctor's estate has come up for hearing durin: the past four years there has been a general among the lawyers that Judge Coffey has had some difficalty in restraining within the bounds of propriety. Mr. Countrymar, who represented Henry Voorman, a creditor of the estate, alleged that Public Administrator Freese, who succeeded the widow of Li Po Tai a3 manager of the property, has not exer- cised proper diligence i ~guarding the in- terests of the esiate and particularly cor plains that he bas not attempted to re- cover irom Mrs. Tai the moneys which she'is alleged to bave expended unlaw- fullydn account of the funeral of the de- cedent, It appears that the obsequies were extendea over several days, but the court struck out all the items ¢xcept those pertaining 1o the first day, refused aliow- controversy tance for the gold ornaments alleged to bave beea bestowed on the corpse and cut down the total from more than $3000 to abont $500. s The widow’s bill is a curiosity in its way, appearing as follows in the court’s record: March 5 ¢ o 1893—Money _ aistributed mourners, §35 25; paper images, $15 20; su dries, $11 50; silk clothing for corpse, $242 ht 1ot corpse, $3; shoes for chain for body of deceased, $120; gold button on hat, 850; eighty mourners’ caps, $72. arch 21, 1893—Elue and white clothin $36; white clotning, $6 50; forty-five bl robes, §85 50; thirty-five white robes, 1 eight blus and white children’s robes. $6 flowers, $875 ™ March 22, 1893—Flower decorations. trait deceased, flowers, $45 $20: paper toys, $220; priesis, six carriages, $43 at wagous, American music, four bands Chinese , $160 ; edibles used religious cer: n 35; lucky money give to friends, § cight watchmen, $40; funeral stand, funeral attendants, s x:y, $300. March 24, 1893—Flowers, £8 45. March 25, 1893—Two carriages, $8; tw wagons, $6; flower:, & ; luck mone $350; paper images, $1. March 31, 1893—Two carriages, $8; luck ‘money, 3 25; two wagons, $6; flowers, §3 7. paper image-, §1. Aprii 6, 1893—Luck money paper images, Aprit 13, 1893—Two carriages, $8; wagons, $6; flowers, $365; luck money paper images. $1 April 19, 1893—Flowers, $4 1! $S; two wagons, $6; | images, $1. lowers, $475; two cn two wagons, $6; paper images, $1; luck mouev, $3 May 3, 189: $6; flowers, £4 753 muges, $150; usder: $376. Total, 35. Mr. Sullivan responded thar it was within the krowledge of =all concerned that an attempt to recover any alleged over-expendiiures by the widow would ba fruitless, and he contended that every act performed by Mr. Freess had been for the benefit of the estate, and that his accounts were open for ths inspection of all wh o wished to investigate their correctness. In this position Attorney Keyes joined, saying that Mr. Freese could not legally have taken any other course than thejone he has followed. Judge Coffey dismissed from considera- tion & suggestion made by Mr. Country- man and his associate, Atiorney W. M. Willetts, that Mr. Freese had an under- standing with a son of Li Po Tai to shara with him the fees and compensations of the administration. That question, the court said, might be brought up in another {l’”m if deemed worthy of furiher atten- on. The immediate matter before the court was an application to sell a piece of prop- erty known as 1014 Dupont street for $9400, which Mr. Countryman said was 1wo years ago appraised at $17,500, and which vields arevenue of §165 a month and which in about five veais would yield a sum of ‘money equal to the purchase price. After considerable discussion Judge Coffey remarked that he would like to have the month of June devoted to the consideration of cases submitted for the pleasure of visiting Mr. Lafferty at San Rafael and other important matters, o he consented to pass tbe case fora short time yesterday afternoon for the purpose of allowing a conference of the opposing forces with a view of allowing them to settle their disputes. At the conciusion of the conference it wus announced that an agreement had been reacued. Mr. Voorman is to receive the so-called Jackson-street property and $630 in cash. In consideration of this alt litigation in the Li Po Tai estate is 1o te abandoned, including five suits in the Su- perior Court of this City and County and thres appeals now pending in the State Supreme Court. 50; flowers, two carriages, $3; 1wo wagons, L. two 35 two car- money, Haurt by a Swinging Wire. Arthur J. Kain has sued the Pacific Tele- phone and Telegraph Company for $2000 damages on account of injuries caused by a wire that was left hanging across Hoff avenue, near Seventeenth street, 0 tie 29th o: Jast March. e NEW TO-DAY. The Royal—White and Pure as the Driven Snow. Absolutely Pure ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. GROVE L. JOHNSON AS REMOVED HIS LAW OFFICES FROM Sacramento 1o San Francisco and formed & vartnership with Waiter H. Linfo.th and Georst receives such members. E. Whitaker, with oftices at 510 Plue st.