The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 1, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1 1897. Call .OCTOBER 1, 1897 FRIDAY.... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION GFFICE. ...710 Market street, S8an Francisco Telephone Main 1868. Telephone Main 1 EDITORIAL ROOMS vevess 017 Clay street (% THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by | carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents aweek, | By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL..... .One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE .908 Broadway i NEW YORK OFFICE.. Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 9:30 o’clock. 339 Hayes street; open untl 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o’clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open untit 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o’clock. 1243 Mission street; open until 9 o’clock. 1305 Polk strest; open until 9:30 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky sireets; open 1iil 9 o'clock. REFUDIATE THE BOODLER. HE members of the new Board of Supervisors, for many of whom we entertain sentiments of profound respect, are un- fortunate in baving for their principal advocate, apologist and defender a notorious boodle newspaper. It was Quintilian who insisted that virtue was an essential portion of the equip- ment of an orator. He thought the people must necessarily be influenced by the repuration for candor, truth and uprightness of the person who addressed them. If this be true, of what use isit for the Mission-street boodler, fresh from its expioit in holding up the Southern Pacific Company for a $30,000 *‘adver- tising”’ contract, to argue in behali of a Board of Supervisors which has been appointed to promote honest government and political morality in San Francisco? Even if the disreputable sheet should speak the truth in its defense not 2 soul would be- lieve @ word it could say. The latest apology put forth by this boodling concern for the dollar limit which it claims to have forced upon both the old and new Boards of Supervisors is not noticed because we think it is entitled to credence or consideration. The contami- nation inseparable from its advocacy or criticism of anything needs no 1llustration at our hands. But it is oftentimes the bounden duty of a public journal, devoted, as THE CALL is, to disseminating the truth, disagreeable as the duty may be, to | correct even the misstaterzents of boodlers, especially when the boodlers, arrayed in the livery of honest men, are loudly pro- testing their vir.ue. We are, indeed at liberty to take judicial | notice of the fact that every fecollection is not as long as ours. Every man in San Francisco cannot be expected to remember | that the Mission-street boodler was only a short time ago con- victed of garroting the railroaa and forcibly taking from it $22,000 in payment of “*fair'’’ treatment. This unconscionable rogue says that the new Board of Su- pervisors has appropriated $54,381,158 for the present fiscal year, and it argues that because five boards preceding the lsst one appropriated between $400,000 and $600,000 less than that amount it must be sufficient for the needs of the city. Does it not know that under those five administrations the streets were answept and the sewers and parks left to take care of them- seive-? Of course it does, and it deliberately falsifies when it pretends that a levy of $4,500,000 ever paid the expenses of the Under one of the administrations to which it admiringly points the ‘“conspirators” who are now objecting to the re- Incarnation of silurianism a deficit of over §400.000 was created. A part of this money, some §200,000, is still due to the sapply :ontractors who furnished the Fire Department with the ma- | terial with which to protect life and preperty, and the jails, bospitals and Almshouse with the food and clothing necessary | to main:ain them. This miserable boodler also knows that it was not until the K Scully board came upon the scene that ‘the streets were kept clean and the sewers ceased from smelling io high heaven. But of what avail is it to correct the misstatements of a journal which thus, in furtherance of a political cabal, falsifies tne notorious facts of recent history ? We have said that the new Supervisors are unfortunate in their champicn. They are more than unfortunate. If they do aot look sharp their champion wili completely discredit them, ior no just cause was ever established or even promoted by | falsehood and misrepresentation. Eviaently these gentlemen | have been led astray in the tax levy. Inthe hurry and con. fusion of taking office a levy concocted by the “reform’’ con- spirators has been “jammed thrcugh.” But If it shall be considered necessary for the new board to defend or explain this work to a disapprovieg peovle they should not utilize the services of the Mission-stieet boodler. Lying comes so natural lo tnat degraded and disreputatle sheet that even if it had a righteous cause it would spoil it by suppressing and falsifying facts. The people of this city entertain considerable respect for several members of tbe new Board of Supervisors, but if that "espect is to be maintain nothing of its being increased, those gentlemen mus’ : te the leadership of their bood- Mr. Fitch may continue to co-operate 2 bold up railroads for “advertising” a private citiz and may associate with «es; but the new Supervisors are public charac- ters and owe something to the community which honors them with its esteem. Itis their duty to keep decent company. ling journalistic ad: s with newspape « w rontracts, fo whom he While the fate of a Chicago sauussg:-maker seems to hang 5n a bone taken from a factory vat, other people tnan the sausage-maker are interested in the identity of the bone. One :xpert swears that it is that of a woman, and the courtroom shudders. Another swears with equal confidence, and probably for equal fee, that the fragment was once part of a pig, and the tourtroom is in grateful relief. Now it is to be hoped that 20 third expert will make oath taat the bone is of canine origin, The case is too harrowing alread Just why law officers set bloodhounds upon the trail of a fleeing criminal is something the lay mind is not permitted to comprehend. It isonly known that certain of them do so at svery opportunity, and that the bloodhounds never catch any- {hing, never go anywhere that the criminal has gone, and that m chasing the dogs the officers give the criminal a chance for sscape, for wnich, if bis bosom can entertain ordinary emotions, ge ought to be grateful. —_— Announcement is made that the young woman of Alameda who recently killed her lover and failed 1o follow him, although she attempted it,is now strong enough to go through the “ordeal” of trial. Really, the experience in store for her can haraly be sermed an ordeal. It will be a function, with the young woman :he central figure, and yellow journalism and other perverts | iheir brown hands in honor of our God of Justice, who notes | that bodes no good. BETRAYED BY “CHRISTIANS.” HAT THE CALL has said of Hawaiiis crystallized in meof by the recent events on the islands. For the next election under the Dole Government there appear just 2800 voters, of whom 1000 are members of Dole’s military Buard; 1200 are members of his Government and its emploves; 200 on Dole’s police, and 400 may be called citizens. This represents the annexation strength. Itis upheld by the con- stant threat of the naval power of the United States; that power which protected and perfected the revolution which preceded the presentoligarchy. As abackground to this small number of agents of our conguest stand tens of thousands of protesting natives. Thev have met in the churches built by the sparrow’s fall, to whom we taught them to pray, and after invoking him have raised their pitiful cry of patriotism for the freedom and ind:pendence of their country. History is being made in this great matter. We are send- ing missionaries to the Confucian, the Shintoist, the Buddhist and Mahometan. We are asking them to transfer their spirit- ual allegiance to the God of Abraham, to accept the precepts of the New Testament and to read a new moral code in the sermon on the mount. After what has happened in Hawaii, where we put into the mouths of the people a new song, if we take their country against their protest and govern them without their consent, what answer have we to the charge that we use Christianity as a stalking horse and that a willing change of spiritual alle- giance by a non-Christian people means our forcible seizure of their civil sovereignty. England completed her military conquest of India at the battle of Plassey, but she did not precede it by parading the cross and offering the sacrament. The Mahometan conquerors carried the Koran with the sword, and, if the Prophet were accepted, the nations were left with their sovereignty undis- turbed. We are writing a new chapter in history, and should desist from further missionary effort if we take sovereignty of Hawaii against the protest of the natives we have Christianized. These may be called sentimental considerations, but what other have we urged against England and Spain and Turkey? Since our construction of the Monroe doctrine has practically gone into international law, no old-world sovereignty can get a foothold within the Monroe hemisphere, which includes Hawaii. Do we intend to say to the world that we now propose to seize the small nations within that hemisphere without consulting the natives? If so we stand as having first isolated them, in order that their cry for help will have no response. The material advantage we may gain is apparent and not We have prospered under a continentai policy, which | was declared by the makers of our constitution. To fling that | policy and justice and mercy to the winds together is a change | real. The visiting physician who, unattended and carrying valn- ables, undertook to probe the dark mysteries of Barbary Coast escaped with his life, and all in all may reckon himseif fortu- nate. The pursuit of scientific knowledge, however commend- able in iiself, should in certain quarters be unaertaken under the eye of the police. And the knowledge to be picked up in an underground dive is, perhaps, not of the highest, anyway. WHAT NEXT? EADERS of Tne Carn will be interested this morning to R learn that the Eraminer is varying its policy of holding up railrcad and other corporations for “advertising” contracts by occasionaily bolding up real newspapers for news. In another column will bs found an account of how a youns | man employed vy the Mission-street footpad sncaked into the | mailing-room of THe CaLL and stole a copy of yesterday’s | issue. Although there is no direct proof that this individual | | was sent by the eaitor of the Morning Boodler upon his thieving mission, t e inference is indisputable that he purloined the paper under instructions from somebody connected with that | concern, for he was caught with the stolen property in '"’i possession at the very door of ti.e editorial sanctum on Mission | street. Tne public will probabiy draw its own conclusions from the facts of the incident, and it is not necessary to discuss them in detail. But it may not be out of place to ask the question, ‘What next? There is no form of vice to which the Ezaminer has not already descended. It has assassinated character in daylight and darkness; it has explored the slums for salacious material with which to corrupt youth and debase the aged; it has reveled in vile pictures and falsified Listory and news for political and persona! profit; it has garroted railroads for *ad- vertising” contracts and attempted to blackmail corporations and individuals, one of its vile blackmailing schemes having resulted in murder; and now, as the culminating act of its criminal career, it is systematically engaging in the business of stealing the news of its rivals. Can this descent into the domain of the sneak thief indicate anything else than irre- claimabie degradation and early dissolution ? Uz CALL does not compiain because the Eraminer is steal- | ing its news. Under ordinary circumstances we should be pleased 1o furnish it with the news, s'ipulating of course for proper credit and an honest acknowledgment ot its inability to get the news itselfl. But what we do object to is that the dis- reputable concern is enticing otbers to commit crime. The young man who sneaked into our mailing-room and stole yes- terday morning's CALL was not a free agent. Perhaps he was not conscious of the criminal nature of hisact. But th- man who hired him to do the stealing knew what he wasabout. He knew a theft was contemplated anl he probably planned it. The incident proves the truth of the oia adage that “‘Crime begets crime.’”’ It is as natural for a boodle newspaper to steal and promote stealing as for a decent man to shudder whenever he sees a copy of the Eraminer. Because the late 5. C. Oyen failed to survive the impact caused by his person and a Southern Pacific car an inteliizent jury has seen fit to censure bim. It would seem that however much Mr. Oyen may have been at fault the penal ty he paid was so severe as to have permitted him to be spared this addi- tion. IRRIGATION CONGRESSES, ACH succeeding irrigation congress in making a review of what has been accomplished since the hoiding of the pre- vious one can report progress. The success achieved has not been great in material results, but in the direction of arous- ing public opinion on the subject and increasing the degree of favor with which it is regarded by the people the advance from one year to another is considerable. A few years ago irrigation was regarded as a question manufacturing halos for her. Certain citizens of Versailles, Ind., for having expressed :heir dirapprobation of a Iynching, have been ordered to leave fown. The strange part of the affair is that they do not joy- ‘ully accept the suggestion to leave such a place. The consensus of opinion among the hotel-keepers seems to be that to draw the color line is proper, but to talk about 1t is to indulge in s degree of impropriety not for a moment fo be tolerated. Another Beriin editor has been arrested for stating that the Kaiser is erratic. Whether the offense lies in saymng something .ibelous or in springing such a chestnut is not stated. Economy that consists in effectually cr.ppling the Hea!th Department will never be popular unless with the undertakers, ana these constitute only a minority. One peculiarity about the owners of the ‘“‘tons of gold"l wwaiting transportation from the Kiondike is that they seem antirely willing to wait indefinitely. | Nobody can blame the Spanish Ministry for retiring. Tbe lthsre(ora gratifying to see Eastern cities striving to have the purely Western in its scope, and was believed to be of import- ance only to the arid distric s of the country. The eampaign of education on thesubject which the successive congresses have promoted has changed all that. At the present time ail sec- tions of the Union ere interested in irrigation problems, and cities of the Kast as well as those of the West are bidding for irrigation congres-es. The growing public favor and the increasing strengtn of the advocates of the undertaking of irrigation works on a large scale by the Government will sooner or later result in some action of vast importance. Congress has begun to interest it- self in such projects and in a tentative way has already pro- vided a means for State irnigation. Taisis but the beginning, and the movement from this time on may be much more rapid than in the past. We are nearer to the extensive irrigation of the | plosion Wednesday at 1ts great arid regions of the country thap is perbaps imagined even by tne most sanguine cf its promoters. Itis a good sizn of the future that interest in the subject is spreading in the East as well as in the West. Sectional move- ments do not flourish in this country. Ifirrization were exciu- sively # Western idea the outlook would not be bright. Itis annual congresses. Whatever helps to bring the whole Union into agreement on this subject is good and speeds the com ing :at has never been rebuked for his marked and sagacious ten- | of the day when the Government will undertake in earnest the lency to desert a sinking ship. work of making the desert blostom as the rose. PERSONAL. Sam Frankenheimer of Stockton is at the Grand. Captain G. M. Book, U. 8. N., is at the Oc- cidental. James Carroll of Alaska is & late arrival at the Palace. E. O. Miller, a lawyer of Visalia, isregistered at the Lick. H. Biair, a fruit exporter of Los Angeles, is at the Grand. Ex-Judge George E.Williams of Mare Island isut the Lick. Railroad Commissioner H. M. La Rue is tke Occidental. George W. Snauman of Pittsburg, Pa., isat the Cosmopolitan, L. Featherman of Stanford is registered at the Cosmopolitan. Raleigh Barcar of Vacaville, lawyer and journaiist, is at the Lick. J. W. Snowball and Miss Snowball of Yolo are guests st the Californiy, State Senator Thomas Fiint Jr. of San Juan is at the Grand with Mrs. Flint. Dougles & Cone, a capitalist of Red Bluff, is 2t the Palace with Mrs. Cone, William F. Fisher of Colorado Springs ar- rived at the Palace last night. J. Neglee Burke, the wealthy horse fancier from Sau Jose, is at the Palace. _ C. Straube Jr. of Sonora, Tuolumne County, is staying at the Cosmopolitan. S. Nowell ot Boston, who owns mines near Juneau, Aleska, is at the Falace. Sol Caro, the New York manufacturer of optical instruments, is at the Palace. J. H. Forney, United S ates District Attorney of Mogeas, Idaho, is at the Occidental. HerrFritz Scheel, the musical director, re- turned last night and is at the Palace. David Young, who has a large ranch four- teen miles from Stockton, is at the Russ. Mr. and Mrs. Erwin J. Crane have taken apartmends at the Palace for the winter. E. P. Colzan, State Controller, is down from Sacramento and has & room &t the Lick. S. W. Broyles, a farmer from Modesto, is registered at the Graud. He is accompanied by Mrs. Broyles. _ Charles 8. Desky, a planter from Honolulu, is =t the Occidental accompanied by Mrs. Desky and child. Said Back and May 3ack Hu! of Portland, Ore., two wealthy Chinese merchants, arrived &t the Occidental yesterday. A. A. Hale of San Jose and E. W. Hale of Sac- Tamento, members of the dry goods firm of Hale Bros., are at the Baldwin. Thoruton Fell, a barrister of Victoria, B. C., has returned to the Lick after spending a few days in one of the interior towns. Walter Mills of Grub Gulch, who has a promising micing clalm in Trinity County, is in town. He is registered at the Lick. i Perlesof St. Louis, the bookmaker, ar- rived from the ast night, accompanied by Mrs. Perlos. are guests at the Grand. Horece D. Pillsbury, the young law student counfined to 1iis room at the Palace and several deys since thought to be on the point of death, is recovering. Dr. Ludor V. Mayer, Dr. Zinus Voigtand Richa:d Oti, of San Blas, Guatemala, are at the Russ. They arrived here yesterday in the steamship San Blas. Protessor David Starr Jordan is at the Occi- dental. He will depart this evening for Washington, D. C., to travsact business per- | taining o the Bering Sea seal industry. | Ross Eckardt of Victoria, B. C., returned to the Palace yesterday. He has been in Cali- fornia rearly a month, having come here shortly efter his return from the Klondike. Among the arrivals at the Occidental last night were three journalists from interior towns—G. M. Francis of Nupa, M. D. Penny- cook of Vallejo and W. F. Prisk of Grass Val- ¥ Among the arrivals at the Occidental yester- day were P. B. Fraser, president of the Farm- * and Merchants’ Bank of Stockton; Mrs. | Fraser, Miss Fraser and Alfred P. F: The | last named departed last night by the Central overland route for Cambridge, Mass., where he will enter upon his final year in the Harvard Law School. Cnptain John Permingham, president of the Calitornta Powder Work ch had an ex- ck-powder plant near Santa Cruz, will return to this city this morning from Seatile, Wrsh., where, In his official capacity as United States Supervising Inspector of Steam Vessels, he has been c 7 & court of inquiry relative to sinking of the steamship Mexico. CALIFORNI-AS IN NEW YORK. e the NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 30.—At the St. —W. K C Imperial—J. W. Brooks, Mrs. E. Price, G. D. Greenwood. Murray Hill— Carr, Mrs. H. W. Scaie. St. Denis—G. J. Iv. Continental—F. Powers. Miss E. J. H. Tediie, Miss Anderson, Miss C. Head, Mrs. H. E. Wooster. Geriach—Mr. and Mrs. & Smith. Holland—W. Drown, W. Lester, Mrs. C. Lester, Nealy. Metropole—E. S, Jukehner, E i Jefferson—H. Hull- man. Grand P. Scott. Dr. and Mrs. Gustav Beckh add children left the St. Cloud aud sailed on the Bremen for Bremen. Mrs. M. Salmon and child also sailed. Miss Annie D. Apperson and maid, Cari Beeger, M. M. Caster, Miss Maud Morgan, Miss Cleary and Miss Ailenetone sailed on the Kaiser Wiihelm der Grosse for Bremen. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Haupth ersived on the Fulda from Genoa. Mr. and Mrs. J. Baer arrived on the Bremen irom Breme —— CHRIST, NOT CULTURE, To the Editor of the DEear Sr Everything considered, your edi- torial in IHE Caun for ptember 23 on “Boston and the S:nJorquin” is the richest thing I haveread in a San Fra ncisco paper for many a day. Iama minister of the ortho- San Francisco Call— dox type and am quiie sure that the “religious revival” is u permavent source of joy and re- finement, and that what San Joaquin needs is Christ, not culture. Ie is the true source of all genuine refinement and of perpetual plensure. Your editorial 15 a most ingenious answer to the howl of the “San Joaquinm corre- sponde Yours for the truth, H, STEPHENS, Eureka, September 29, 1897. He sat on the jury. Ife noted with care ryihing offered in evidence thes He 0ok the exhibiis with caution in hand And heard wuat the witness-s said oa the stand. As the days passed along be felt sure he could trust His judgment to offer » verdict quite just. But his coufidence siraightway gave place unto |- coub: When the experts their theories gravely brought out. - ©f anatomy now he knows much that is new; 1 heredity’s pranks: tox colog+, (0o. Cranio'omy 8 wond-rs he’s avie to trace, But be's wholly forgotten the facts in the case. —Washington Star. A MYSTER.CUS COKNERSTONE. Philacelphia Press. Much comment is heard just now concern- ing the mysterious disappearance ot the cor- nerstone of ola Independence Hall. It has disappeared in the sense thatit hasnot ap- pearcd atall. There is no record of its having been scen by any one, or, indecd, that it ever exisied. However, as the 1aying of a corner- stone is a eustom that 1s as ancient as civili- zation itsell, it is reasonable 10 suppose that one was p.aced under Iudependcnce Hall when the foundations were laid, But the res- toration commissioners cau find no trace of {t. 1i'it could be found tne records buried in it wouid form exceedingly interesting reading at this time. The search will be kept up unul it is known absolutely whether there ever was a cornerstone or o BLASTS FROM *“ RAM'S HORN,’ Prejudice is the sword of fools. Fog is the gossip’s sunshine. Covetousness is cussedness nickuamed. Kunowledge will grow until the last scholar is dead. The sung of vice will live after the pleasure is dead. if only good men could marry the world would be ful: of old maids. Slow promises make the best time. l'i‘u:iure is the supernatural partially un. veiled, He is very unforiunate that has no trouble. He thatis always calm is always brave. The man who travels the same road every day soon ceases to admire the machinery. THE FAMOUS OLD STIRLING BRIDGE. Caledonia’s sons recently celebrated at Stir- ling, Scotland, the sex-centenary of the battle of Stirling bridge, Wallace's greatest military achievement. This Stirling bridge, however, says the Westminster Gazctte, is not the Stir- ling bridge whereat King Edward’s chivalry went down before the Scottish spearsmen. Antiquarians differ as to the site of the more ancient bridge. Some of them hold that it was at Kildean, on Forth River, but there WALLAGE MONUMENT | seems considerable probability thatit spanned the river at the spot where the present old bridge—of which we give & picture—crosses the stream. This structure was bullt about | 1415, by Robert, Duke of Albany, Earl of Fiie and Monteath. Of hewn stone it has four semi-circular arches, varying in size one from another, and presents a massive appearance. Atthenorth end of the bridge used to be a gateway with an 1ron gate. The gateway re- mained until 1749, when, following the settle- ment of the Highlands, the volume of trade ing over the bridge increased enormousiy, and ne: es-itated the wideniug of the roadway. Till 1749 the bridge was the only bridge across the Forth. In 1745 the first arch was biown up by Major-General Binkeney 'o stay the march of Prince Charlie’s men upon Stirling. Since 1834, however, the bridge nas been closed to vehicuiar traflic. Now it _jorms one of the many picturesque sights of a pic- turesque old town. Another intere ting Wallace assoctation at Stirling is the Wallace monument, buiit by national subscription. The monument, of which also we present a view, is a tower, in the Scoltish baronial stvle, 200 teet high; perched upon the summit of the Abbey Craig. It is an object that srresis ye of eve traveler passing Stirling by day frain. The foundation-stone was Iaid in 1861 by the Duke of Atholl. Mcst Worsnipful Grand Master Mason of Scotland. In a niche on the south corner, outside, riscs a colossal staiue, in bronze, of Waliace. The hero 1s figured up- holding :is mighty sword— ‘That sword which seemed fit for archangel to | wield, { But was light in his terrible hand. From the top of the monument a view, un- rivaled in loveliness of mountain, plain and stream, is to be had—a view which, moreo ver, enfolas the scenes of some of the most mem- orable passages in Scotlish story. VOICE OF THE PRESS. Newspaper Sense. Stockton Mail. The San Francisco CaLL, with most com- mendable enterprise and newspaper sense, has arranged to print a series of articles writ- ten by eminent party leaders. Thinking men will read these papers with pleasure, perhaps with profit, certainly with a sense of thankful- ness for the promise of departure by at least | one newspaper from the sensationalism which has become a weariness to the flesh. Mayor Phelar and the Bond Issue. Oakland Enquirer. Mayor Phelanof San Fraucisco has gener- aily been right in the positions he hss taken since he was elected to his present office, and he has been supported by the majority senti- ment. But THE CALL scems to have himat a disadvantage when it criticizes him for pro- POSIng to issus bonds to pay current expenses, because the depirtments have not been sufli- cienily provided for by the so-called dollar rate, which is really $1 15. As THE CALL says, When a city issues bonds to pay current ex- penses ixraises a signal of distress which de- notes it among municipalities.” This is true, but the fault is rather that of the persons who insist upon a dollar-rate pledge than on Mayor Phelan, who is the victim and not the author | of that declaration. Have Done the Stat> Some Service. Pasadena News. The San Francisco CALL scored a notable point for its proprietor in proving that he is erough of & power in San Francisco politics to e consultea by the Governor in naming the new Board of Supervisol not only own s great paper and are public spirited, bus they are doing more for the de- velopment of the State of California than any dozen other families. During the panicky hard times Claus Spreckels and his soas have been about the only rich men who have gone right ahead rearing towering blocks, bullding a railroed, pianning great factories, etc., etc. | More room to their s! THE COMING OF AUTUMN. Ob. did you hear the drowsy wind 0 sighing, hait asieep? And did you fe 1 across your mind A dreamy wonder creep? Eomewhere, far off. a bird sang low, Cicadas jarred the grass Ana then { wandered, foud and slow— Mayhap you saw me pas Apd Love was by me. and Delight. We ihiree d d trudge along. Cumbered with sweets from morn to night And overfi led with song. Behind us burned the summer land, Fair autumn lay before, And we—oh, we went nand in hand, A-singing ever more. And then you kaew the lazy wind Was sighing, half asleep. But did you feel across your mind A dreamy wouder creej MAURICE THOMPSO FLASHES OF FUN. Little Arthur—Papa, why are these called the melaucholy days? Papa—Because so many persons come home broke along about this time of year, I guess.— Chicago Daily News. She (sighing)—Ah, me! He—What's that? She—The summer’s dead. He (meditatively)—Yes, we'll all soon be smelling of motn bails.—Chicago Record. “Have you heard from your brother who went out to the Klondike?” asked one Boston man of his neighbor. “Oh, yes,” was the reply, “he’s just struck greet luck.” “Gold?" otvet, but he’s discovered a place to get beked Leans.”—Youkers Statesman. Ny he said thoughtfully, ““I don’t believe in any of this talk about hades.” “Why not?"” “Well, it sounds too much like a weather prediction.”—Chicago Post. Smith—What kind of a wedding present are you going to send Davis? Jones—I was thinking of sending him a lawn mower. * Smitn—Thav's hardly an eppropriate gift. Jones—Why not? He's marrying a grass widow, isn’t he?—Chicago News. “This painting,” said the erudite critic, “lacks atmosphere.” “Dear me!" said the young lady who was so gu.leless that no one Dbelieved 1t, *‘can a vic- ture be pumped up?’—Cincinnati Enquirer. Wheeler—What's il this crond about? Bystander—Pedestrion just dropped dead. Wheeler—Oh, that #11! I thought someboay had puuctured & tire.—Philadeiphia North American. SPAIN’S SACRIFICE FOR CUBA, Philade’phia Ledger. An official statement issued by the Spanish Government shows that it sent to Cubadur. ing the eighteen months from November, 1865, to May, 1897, 1o less than 187,999 offi- cers and soldiers, of whom forty were gener- als, 212,542 guns, ninety-one cannouns, iwelve mitrailieuses, cartr'dges by the million, pow- der by the hundred kilograms, and shelis by the thousand. And yet there is no war in Cubs, and Weyler is merely making some triv- ix]l efforts to put down an insignificant rebel- lien. The Governor did | a very sensible thing, too; for the Spreckels | PEOPLE OF NOTE. Miss Ellen Terry is an exquisite needle- woman, but she has never carea 10 use the sewing machine. A biography of Robert C. Winthrop has ap- peared, contributed to the Massuchusetts His- torical Society by his son. | | ! = | Frederick W. Lincolu Jr., who Is the oldest | surviving Mayor of Boston, pegan to serve in | 1838, and, with the exception of three years, | served until 1866. | President Kruger is willing to retire from public life to oblige Mrs. Krueer, it is reported, but makes an annuity of 000 & year for the vest of his life a condition of his g1ving up oftice. The standard which the Spanish conqueror of Mexico, Hernando Cortes, used in his march from Vera Cruzto the y of Mexico nearly fonr centuries ago, was untii recently preserved at a little church in the capital of the State of Tiax ) [ Mme. Roederer of Rheims, widow of the | head of the champagne firm, besices bequeath- ing $110,000 10 the Sisters of St. Vineent de Paul in Paris, and £40,000 to other charitie left a trust fund of $500,000 for the support of | the charitable works 1n which she was inter- ested during her life. | Ttissald that more than half the reigning | monarchs of Lurope are troubled with defec- | tive eyesight. Among those who wear giasses | In private are Queen Victoria. the King of Denmark, the Czar, the Queen Regent of Spain and Holland. mearly every member of the house of Hapsburg, and the Prince of Wales. Leo XIIT will, according to his personal doe- | tor, in the ordinary course of eveuts, see the twentieth century, and that he himself is con- | vinced of this is proven in his plans to inaugu- rate on a large and solemn scale throughout Christendom a series of religious services as and 2s a welcome 10 the opening of the next. Governor Woicott of Massachusetts said in a recent speech on Prescott, the bistorian “From his mother he derived the unfailing spirit which kept him cheerful and gave him the power to overcome a great misfortune. From his father came, in large degree, his finely constituted mind. And from his soldier ancestry he inherited the qualities of courage and persistence that characters: him throughout his lite.” | —_— HOKE SMITH'S GREATNESS. New York Press. | Hoke Smith, the grentest lawyer on the con- | stitution in the world, with the possible ex- | ception of the young man from Texas who | nas charge of it—1 refer 1o Mr. Bailey—is | moseying around New York for tomething, | Jsaw him yesterday at the Astor House, look- ing as famous as he did when his picture was taken beside a monster pile of tomes on inter- national law, on which his right hand nobly reposed. Hoke will be handed down to his | tory as the Secretary of the Interior who pro- hibited smoking in the department and who satin his chair more hours o _day than any | other man who ever teld the office. I cannot | recall any other deeds of greatness, unless we place in ‘that category his dashing up to the White House on hors meeungs & la Jefferson, nnd tying the horse { himself, also a la Jei. Then there were his | editorials in the Atisnta Journal, which he | marked in red aud sent to Mr. Cleveland. | And we must not forget his resignation. | That was immense! | I | | BIGGEsS: EL:CTION BET. ew York Iress. A good tiany election bets are fiying around. | One man bet $1000 on Low against the fiel 1, getiing odds of 110 2. it lookslike a bad bet at that. Election bets are not so large as they used to be, though such men as Mike Dwyer and Ike Thompson have ianded considersble sums in recent years. The largest bet on record { was made on the Presidentiai coniest in 1884, C. Place, general manager of the Pinas Atlas Go'd snd Silver Mining Company, at Las Vegas, New Mex., bet & new mill, worth $40,000, and all the company’s mines and property, including the mercantile establish- ment, the whole valued at 500,000, that Cleveland wouid win. Charles M. shaunon of the Hugnes & Shannon Copper Works, at Clit- ton, took the Blninc end, putting up the firm’s entire copper property, va ued st §600,000. | RIDDLING A YELLOw STORY. Phitade’ u Press. | Senator Sherman’s comment on the question { of 2n ultimatum to Spain is pithy and conclu- sive. By this decided utterance he luiis the gathering force of wild rumor and puts a quietus on foreign commen!, where 5o o1ten the wish is {ather 10 the cable. The actual state of uffairs shows that ihe policy of thewd- ministration 1s proceeding on the cautious lines mapped out early in the spring and is taking the due course whicn was 10 be ex- pecied. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. An accomplishment is the ability not to do a thing. The only excuse for & baby is that it will some time grow to be & litt.e child. The 1an who hates a crowd is generally the one who marries the woman with the twin habit. Every man has an idea that hardly anybody wauld know him if he shaved his whiskers off. 1f a man agrees with a woman she thinks he is uninteresting, and if he doesn’t she { thinks he is ignorant. No matter what he does, if a man isn’t mar- ried by the time he Is 30, » woman will always believe he is too gay- | thank offerings at the close of the century | back to atiend Cabinet | ANSWERS TO CO R:=SPONDENTS. Back Fries—P. ¥., City. \'fm might fl.:‘d the files of the papers you desire tosee in the office of some of the newspaper ngencigr 1 the Serchanig’ Excbangs buiding in tuls elty, andif such are not there your ouly chance would be to write to the publishers o pupers named. THE ROTTERDAM LI H. D, City. The Rot: terdam iine has jus ed 2 new s;.{eam.? which 1s making its maiden trip. The Bottr dsm; registered tonnage 8200, ale‘u‘g‘ . iect, brendth 53 feat an.: depth 42 fcet. a Staténdam, now buiiding for tuat line, will be 0f 10,500 tons reg HAMBURG-AMERICAN & . The Hamburg-American line at this iime is building five new twin strew steamers which Tepresent nn aggregate of 0,000 registered tonnage. Tais depariment is unable 1o nish the dimensions ot such have not yet been rec CALIFORNIA SAVINGS AND LoaN SocteTy—3M. M., City. The iatest report filed with the Bank Commissioners shows that on the 31st of 1ast July the status of the California Savings and Loan Soclety was: Debts coliected since the $87,062 87; realized on unt paid creditors 1o the bank went into H. M., Ciiy. The Tue following was the popuiar vote for the Presi- McKinley, Democrat, 32, PoruLAR VorTE—P. 1105, 3; Palmer, : Levering, F National, 13 Matche L | 5,260. Toe popular yote of Mc n ,016; McKinley’s populur vote ove 5. The total popular vote for 3. Li1Quor LICENSE—-W. G. F., City. Oa the 1si of July, 1894, 3620 liquor saloons in San Francisco; July 1,1 July 1, 1896 3123, and July & ,3048. Every pe sells spirituous or malt or fer- mented liquors or wines in less quan- tities then one quart shall be designated ‘a retail liquor-dealer” and as “a grocer 1liquoi-den and shall pay licenss ‘Ihose making sales to the amount d over per er shall pay per quarter; those making snles 000 per er shall pay § This department has 10t 10 ascertain how much license Hquor-vendor paid from July 1, 1894, 1, 1897, as that woui uire the overhaui- ing and casting up of 9310 separate accounis. NEGLECT oF DUTY—J. J. M., City. The negiect on the part of a city or city avd county officta inthe State of Californin does not, upon his Temoval, after conviction of such negiect, de- prive the offender of his citizenship. The code of this Staie says: a When an accusation in writing, verified by the { 0ath of anv persou, is presented (0 & Superior vourt, alleging that any officer within th | au of he couct has been s uilty ot chary i collecting illesal fees rvices renvered or ‘o 1 be rendered In his o ectea to perform the officlal duties per to nis ofli the ;arty ed 10 cppear be tatime Dot more than teu days time the accusation was presetied cr some oiher subsequent day twenty davs trom that on which ths usacion was presented, must proceed 10 hoar in ummary manner the accusation and eviience offered in supp: rt £ tie same and the answex and evidence offered by the party accused; and it on such heariug It appeis thay the charge is sus- tained. the court must enter a decree (hat the party accused be deposed of his office, and_must enter & judgment or $500 In favor of the fu- former and such costs as are ailowed I civil cases. The Penal Code says: Every willful omission to perform any duty m- posed by law upon any public officer or pers.n holding any pudiic trust or employment, where no special provision shall have been made for the punisument of such delinquency, shall be punished as & misdemeauor. for court mast et fore the conre from the on b da FOR AMERICAN ART. New York Commercial Advertiser. It is a hopeless outlook for American art | when the authorities of such a national art in- stitution as the Corcoran Art Gallery of Wash- ington commissions a forelgner of ouly mod- | est ability 10 paint portraits of the President | ana Vice-President of nerican ariists may well take a pessimisti view of the situation when they are thus ig- nored by those who shouid have native art in- terests in their keeping. It there was a dearth of xcoa men there might be some excuse, but with all our czpable portrail-painters surely the commissios beon & home. heuid & EXPERT TESIIMONY. Minneapolis Times. A part of the bone of Mrs. Lue(gert’s ear has been identifiea by an expert, who claims to be abie to tell by it that she was 5 feet 3 inches, inclined to embonpoint, and rode 2 hizh. grade wheel ALBION’S EXCESSIVE KINDNESS. Indianavolis News. Itseems that England has agreed thatifall the other countries wiil accept the evil conse- quences of iree silvershe will continue her maintenance of the gold standard, “HAMLET” WIiHOUT 1HEGHOST. Louisville Courler-Jour! Of course Mr. Bryan doesn’t want to let free silver go. That is all there is to him. He is Hamlet and free silver is the ghost, and with the ghost omitted how could the play go on? CALIFORNIA giace {ruits. SPECIAL information deily to manufacturars, business Louses and public men by tite Presi Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. = DLOTR T TAKES TO WATER NATURALLY. Boston Globe. The contemporary thet speaksof the post- ponement of the seiling of the mammoth ship Wilhelm du Grosse “irom Berlin,” on sccount of her great dralt, secms 10 have forgotten that Berlin is on lownssnf'sr “Mrs. Winsiow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fiity years by millions of moth- | ers for their children while Teething with pert: success. 1t s oothes the child. softens the gums, al- cures Wind Colic, regulates the Lowels the best remedy for Diarrheas, whether | arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. e sure ani ask 1or Mrs. W insiow’s Soothing Syrup. 25¢aboiiis —_———— CORONADO.—Almosphere i3 perfectly dry. sos and miid, being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round- trip tickets, by sieam- ship, iucluding fifteen days board at the Hodeldat Coronado, 860; longer stay . 4 New Monigomery s ree. W. Balley, manager Hotel del Coronado, late of Hotel Colorado, Glenwood Springs, Colorado. ——— WOULD BE A HOLLOW JOKE, New York Press. A genius hos invented a hollew cow in which 10 stalk unsuspecting game. This is all right, but suppose some other tenderfoot with the buck 1ever shoots the cow? NEW TO-DAY. Do you know what an “emulsion is?” It is when each drop of the oil is broken up into minute drops, sosmall you can hardly see them with the microscope: so minute that they pass at once through the tissues into the circula- tion. Scott’s Emulsion does not disturb digestion, is not unpleasant to take, and does not fail to do its work be- cause digestion can deal with it at once. You may be able to disguise the taste of raw oiland get it past the palate. You can’t cheat your stomach = & SCOTT & BOWNE, with it. Cheinists, New York, 1