The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 23, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1897 .OCTOBER 23, 1897 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE .710 Market street, 8an Francisco Telephone Main 1863. EDITORIAL ROOMS... 42000517 Clay street THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surcounding towns for 15 cents a weck. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 ceats. THE WEEKLY CALL. «..One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE .908 Broadway Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row. 27 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 n until 9:30 o’clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and L9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open 143 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. 1505 until 9:30 o’clock corner Twenty-second ets; open 1ill 9 «’cloc THE UNION PACIFIC SALE. a conspiracy on the part of the administration to sell the Union Pacific to a New York syndicate on terms that would sucrifice the interests of the Government was nothing more than a noxious emaanation of yeliow journalism. The siatement of THE CALL is now confirmed by reports from New York to the effect that various combinations of capitalists are being organized to take part in the bidding for the road, and that at lcast one among them proposes to offer a sum suflicient to save the Government from any loss whatever. In the minds of intelligent men there was never any doubt that the sale of the road would be a fair and open one. The arrangement made by the Clrveland administration guaranteed the minimum vprice to be paid for the Government claim against the property. The McKinley administration succeeded in getting the amount of the sum thus guaranteed increasea by §5,000,000. Nothing in the agreement made by either ad- ministration afforded any basis for the report that other parties than the contracting syndicate would not be perm:tted to bid, or that the highest bid made by responsible parties would not be accepted. In spite of the plain and simple terms of this agreement vellow journalism howled against it like a yellow dof that sits on his hind legs all night long and bays the moon. It chargea conspiracy right and left. It spared neither the members of the late nor of the present administration from its slanders. It figured daily the amount ot money to be taken from the people by what it called *‘a gigantic steal,” and estimated the wealth to be gained by the conspirators at from $25,000,000 to $50,000,000. In the face of the recent reports from New York yellow journalism can no longer maintain the charge it has been in the habit of making, and so on yesterday it announced in screaming type, “Union Pacific Conspiracy Frustrated by the Government.” That was a sign of weakening. To-morrow it may grow bolder and brighten into gorgeous yellow again with the an- nouncement: “Union Pacitic Conspiracy Frustrated by the Journal-Examiner.”” It may even verture to offer as proof of this a report of a consultation at the Cabinet, in which Presi- dent McKinley will call the attention of his councilors to the high art displayed in the pictures of the yellow journals, and Secretary Sherman will answer in his simple and direct way: *“Yes; and the best picture they have accomplished recently is the bust of our Union Pacific conspiracy.” While intelligent people have not been affected by the charges of conspiracy, they will yet feel no littie gratification in reports which give assurance that the sale of the road will yield money enough to save the Government from any loss. A few months ago this bappy result could hardly have been expected. Some clouds of the Democratic depression still hung over tho country, and capitalists were averss to undertaking large enterprises. The return of prosperity following the enactment of a protective tariff has changed the situation. be good business in this country hereafter. Capital is coming out of hiding. The only conspiracy to keep down the price at which the Union Pacific would be sold was the conspiracy of hard times and the calamity howls of yellow journalism. The Dingley tariff frustrated that coaspiracy, and now the nation is to reap the reward. The daughter recently shot by the loving father at whose hands she was underzoing correction. refuses to prosecute him. This shows conclusively that she needed correction of some kind, and yet the method will not be generally approved. Perhaps the knowledge of these two interesting people that they are reiated to each other is all the punishment éither needs, and it is surely severe. SOME time ago TuE Cary pointed out that the charge of There is going to There seems to be a desire to enforce the law against spit- ting in public places. Probably some such notion as this was in the mind of the statesman who from the depths of a pro- found wisdom and righteous indizration evolved the law, —_— A GLIMPSE AT THE INSIDE. HIEF OF POLICE LEES and Commissioner Gunst have not had their little divercence from one another withont rendering some beneht to their fellow-citizens. The rift between them has opened an aperture through which the people have been able to catch a glimpse of the inside of that part of municipal life that needs policing. The aperture has not been as wide as a church door nor as deep as a wel!, but it will do. ‘Things can be seen through it that require explanation, and it wouid be wel! for the Chief of Police to explain them before further revelations are made. One of the salient features of the view of the town shown by the unexpected rift is the openness of it. According to some authorities it is not wide open, but all admit it is open a little bit—sufficiently wide in some piaces at any rate for the way- | faring man to walk in or be taken in. It also appears that the opening is increasing, and there are those who suggest that be- fore long it will be o very open there will be nothing to pre- vent it falling into itself and turning inside out. Commissioner Gunst has strenuons objections to this con- dition of affairs. He denounces the Chief of Police and con- demns the detective depariment. He would have more energy and activity on the force. He would so have it in San Fran- cisco that the wayfaring Moses would be safe even wher the ligpt goes out. He has undertaken a reform movement in po- lice circles and has entered upon a campaign of educaticn for the purpose of showing the people that there would be less gambling, burglary and crime of all kinds from Chinese lot- teries to murder if there were more eflicient men on the de- tective force and a different Chief of Police. Whatever view may be taken of the controversy itself between the two officials, no one can question the reality of the evils it has broueht to light. The charges of Commissioner Gunst against the detective force will recall to the public mind the many crimes that have been committed in this city by criminals who escaped the vigilance of the police and the detectives. Itis afamillar story that gambling games, illegal side doors to saloons and lottery games are run in the city. It is the duty of the Chief of Police to inquire into these things. 1t is the duty of the detective force to search them out. If San Francisco is to be wide openitshould be put into such a condi- tion that the openness of it will not expose anything for which either the Chief ot Police or the Police Commissioner need be ashamed. —_— It is rather hard on Portland officials to receive letters from howling anarchists denouncing them as “degenerates.” But heretofore the pot in moments of self-exaitation has been known to call the kettle black. While the human mind naturally experiences some diffi- culty in regarding Russell Sage as a philanthropist, there is a genuine pleasure in ‘observing that it seems to have a chance to try. ) A NON-PARTISAN CHARTER. HE proposal of the Democratic County Campaign Com- Tmiitee to unite with the Republican County Committee in the nomination of a non-partisan Board of Freeholders, to be voted for on December 27, needs only to be agitated to meet the approval of all right-thinking citizens. The idea of non- partisanism in charter-making cannot be overturned either by remarkable stories about boss ‘‘conspiracies” or by the logic or reason of experience. In fact a non-partisan charter is the only kind of an organic law that can be adopted in this city. Any document submitted to the people which is understood to be the product of a factional combination is just as certain to be defeated at the polls as that the sun shines. All work done on such a charter will be thrown away. And this is true not- withstanding every member of the faction might be an angel with sprouting wings. P. J. Harney of the Democratic County Committee ex- presses the popular idea on this subject when he says: Any desire to gain political advantage either by individuals | or political organizations in the framing of a new charter | should unquestionably be frowned down. The Board of Free- holders should be composed of the foremost citizens of the city, | thoroughly representative of the industrial and progressive de- : velopment of the municipality. They should not be friends of | any particular individual, be he either an official or otherwise, neither should they be adherents of any one political party or any self-appointed political combination posing before the com- munity under the appellation of a non-partisan body. ! The Freeholders should be really non-partisan in the true sense and not otherwise. The law recognizes political organ- izations and gives them an official life. A conference of repre- sentatives of all political bodies recognized by law should be had and an effort made to agree on the selection of fifteen rep- resentative men to frame a charter. Should such a conference resuit in an agreement in the selection of a Board of Free- holders, the election of such a board would be assured. A Board of Freeholders nominated and elected in such a manner as proposed would, in my judgment, secure the framing of a| charter for our government that th: people would ratify and ’ adopt. This is the idea in a nutshell. It is nothing to the point | to assert that the charter framed by Mayor Phelan’s commit- | tee of one hundred is a good charter which should be adopted. | If such be the tact, what danger would its framers incurin submitting it to the consideration of a non-partisan and impar- tial Board of Freeholders? Why should a meritorious instru- ment become the subject of a political scheme for the election of a convention pledged in advance to adopt it? The very best evidence that the charter framed by the committee of one hundred is not the ethereal document its makers claim is found in the fact that some of its friends, backed by a newspaper, are trving to choke it down the throats of the people. No meritorious charter ever needed that kind of a movement to secure its adoption. If the Examiner were really working in the public interest, it would cheerfully acquiesce in the nomination of a non-! partisan Board of Freeholders, confident that toe good pro- awe the band of desperate politicians, who, it claims, are | plotting its overthrow. The truth is, however, that journal is | itself trying to boss the charter business, and it is shouting ; ““conspiracy”’ mainly for the purpose of distracting attention from its own conspiracy. The allegation that perjury has been used in an effort to | keep a murderer from the gallows, where he belongs, and that aitorneys are the guilty parties, will strike everybody as a surprise. [t is true that in tueir efforts to cheat the gallows lawyers have been known to resort to means such as have not seemed to the layman to be honest or decent; but that a lay- | man does not know anything is freely conceded by the legal | lights, and that his right to hold an opinion has never been established is a point equaliy clear to them. However, the use of perjury even in so laudable an undertaking as bunkoing justice will not be successfully defended by any lawyer caught at it. J just rendered at Seattle a decision which, in the optnion of those we!l fitted to judge, will open a way for the ad- mission to this country of as many Chinese boys, giris and | women as choose to commit perjury for the sake of getting in. In fact, it is even probable that men may enter if they wish, for the decision, if the reports of it are correct, opens a frae door for all who are willing 10 swear they are members of the family of some Chinese merchant living in the Urited States. The effect of the decision is to render null and void the orders of the Treasury Department forbidding admission to this country of persons claiming to be sons, daughters, or wives of Chinese merchants in the United States, unless the apolicant for admission has a certificate from the Chinese Goy- ernment atiesting the validity of the claim. The requirement of such a certificate was about the only check the law afforded on the immigration of Chinese claiming to be members of the families of merchants, and now that it is removed the way is open. It is not likely such a decision will stand. The Secretary of the Treasury has been already advised by the United States Attorney for the district or the evil effects it will have, and ar- rangements will undoubtedly be made for an appeal at once. The fact that a Judge has been perverse enough to give such a decislon, however, is itself an important fact and one of which the people will do well to take heed. The struggle ot the Chinese to gain admission to the United States is going to be continurus. It will increase rather than AN OPEN DOOR FOR CHINESE. UDGE HANFORD of the United States District Court has | persons of influence in the United States to help them. We | shall have to fight against the Asiatic invasion without cessa- tion. We must be forever on guard. The proposed annexation of Hawaii with its 20,000 Chinese is one scheme to admit a new horde of coolies to this country, and the decision of Judge Han- ford opens the way for another. Itis time to preach the anti- Chinese crusade again and preach it strongly. [t is gratifying to note that a waiting world has at last been given a picture of the clothes worn by Miss Cisneros on the memorable occasion when she was rescued by a brave man from whom vellow journalism immediately proceededa to steal the credit. True, the clothes are not beautiful to look upon, presenting much the aspect of a samp e lot extracted from a ragbag, and yet in the strongnold of yellow journalism there is & feeling that once more the universe has been scooped. —_— A Seattle Judge has been to the trouble to puuch some more holes in the exciusion act, really an almost unnecessary procedure. The act seerns already to consist largely of a series of apertares loosely strung togetber. It every Judge who gets a whack at the siatute conceives it his duty to monkey with it some of them might try to do the other thing and, instead of creating new holes, patch a few that are already there, There are lively times in prospect for whoever shall be found responsible for the starving to death of an English cor- respondent in Cuba. The mere suspicion of being an American, disadvantageous as it may be under certain circumstances, ought not, so conservative people are inclized to believe, con- stitute a capital offense. After a lawyer at fanta Rosa had been sentenced to jail for contempt a deputy trotted him around town and the pair had a jolly time. This style of doing business might go in San Fran- cisco, but at Santa Rosa it's different, for the ceputy is looking for a new job. A Madrid paper exclaims with some show of emotion that Spain canot keep silence in the face of its treatment by the Uuited States. Of course it can’t. Nobody expects it to. Let it how! until black in the face if in the process it finas the least satisfaction. Yeople inclined to doubt that Sage is trying to buy the TUnion Pacific will have 10 admit that the good man’s denial of be rumor goes far toward confirming it 1 University, ELLEN VAN DUSEN—A WOMAN OF MEANS. Ellen Van Dusen was boru 53 years ago, according to her marriage certificate. You'd take ber 10 be 70, for, though she's tall and sturdy yet end holds herself well, her hair is snow- white and her face bears the marks that a life of poverty &nd hard work leave. is in safe hands. Yet Poor Ellen Van Dusen, capitalist! She’s the woman of the hour in San Francisco for just 8 moment. She's the Hetty Green of the West, on a very small scale. her wealth nor the prominent position she holds in the attention of the public is any comfort to her. She thinks—she fears she’s fears she won’t lose the oth mercly the figment of an id But neither iost the one. And she’d like to—but she r. And both these fears are baseless— ancy. Your money, Mrs. Van Dusen, Your fame, or notorfety—according to the way you take it—is u flecting thing. For a city’s memory of a court celebrity is as short-lived as its curiosity is easily excited. en Van Dusen is quite sane. have decided. Her eccentricity consists in hoarding her wealth—Asa Fisk, Jay Gould, et al So judge and medical experts come into courtand show cause why you should not be put into an ssylum for the nsane—and in & disinclina- tion to pay!ng her bills—but where there is space to name those similarly afflicted. This old woman owed a man named Stroug about $200. The msn named Strong hired a man named Tomsky, an attorney, to recover the debt. devotion to duty, haa Mrs. Van Dusen arrested and brought before the And the conscientions Tomsky, in his thorities, declaring that she was insane, and praying that her money—and more particularly that portion of it which rightfully belonged to his client—should be taken from her, and that she, herself, be put into an asylum. Imagine this woman. ing. Sheis old. says is “‘not 80 very much—just a little.” sense of humor! She is Scotch. For she is & pagan, though she knows it not. her neck. Crafty Mrs. Van Duzen! Banks might fail, agents might betray their trust, real estate might depreciate, robbers might break into houses, but old, shabby, eccentric Mrs. Van Duzen in her patches and iaded Joseph’s gown of many colors could walk the streeis of San Francisco absolutely safe, because absolutely unsuspected of being In other words she is exceedingly thrifty and sav- In years of hard work she has accumula‘ed $5000; what she depreciatingly Tell me the Scotch have no She is suspicious. So with all the vatience and care that women give to the enfolding of that which is dearest to them, Mrs. Van Duzen sews each individual gold piece into a sort of halr petticoat of canvas, which iscomposed of innumerable sewed-up pockets. And in each pocket resis one of the gods of her Olympus. Or perhaps she believes these coins to be various manifestations o1 the same deity. Then she dons her golden petticoat, tying it about her waist, and to make assurance surer, secures it also with & long string tape about wealthy. She wasadversity proof; insured against wazer, fire, earthquakes—everything, save her own parsimony, which, in time, overreached itself. Mrs. Van Duzen and “Van,” as his wife calls him, were evicted from their home on Larkin strect for non-payment of rent. This is where that $200 debt comes in. The Gallagbers out North Beach way took the old couple in, guite unaware of their guests’ financial importance. Their honest young hearts were touched by the old folks’ plight. And then the husband be- came ill and was sent to the City and County Hospital. Do you suppose this old miser, the male one, (Wasa’t it an unusual union of congenial souls?) though he knew he could not live, or that Mrs. Van Duzen herself would think for a moment of abstractingisume of the golden wadding from that precious petticoat, that old Van might be well cared for in his last illness, and not by the city and county? Not for a moment. and to love and to gloat over. Yot Ellen Van Dusen lacks not dignity. buzzed about her at the City Hall she sat stolid. affecting deafness, never answering a question. Expression is far from being a necessity to this old Scotch woman. promptly. hauteur. asked. loss. “But they don’t intend to keep 1t”—explanator: Money was not made to spend, sayeth the miser’s creed, but to hoard When the reporters However, when the court in all his majesty questioned Mrs, Van Dusen, she was shrewd enough to meet Lis questions pertinently, “And vhy, having all this money, do you dress like that?" “I prefer to choose my own clothes,” she replied with exquisite “Why did you carry all your money about with you?” she was “Because I was airaid somebody would take it from me. And they did, too!” she finishes, with an indignant remembrance of her “‘except to take care of you.” “That remains to be seen,” she remarked with immovable asperity. You see, if you have worked for every cent that goes to make up the beautiful total; if visions in its charter would, of their own intrinsic merit, over- | you know each individual coin in the dearly baloved collention; if you have saved up old Irish ha'-pennies issued fiity-three yes provided only that tney carrying this weight about with you on of wealth are so easily borne—I'm told. 0; Twantno more about me in the papers, s ago and odd coins from France—trom anywhere ou (if you'rea miser) would consider the burden of a sweet reminder of your wealth. And reminders is the message she sent to a reporter, “My name has been dragged all over the town. Let be quict now. Itisall done now, | Never mind. Let be quiet now. Poor Eilen J. Van Dusen! She sits and grieves over the ioss of her money that isn’tlost; | grieves that she may no: touch it, feel 1ts weight, have it. courtroom, the jail | volted at the public indignities her stinginess and her former landlord’s determination not of the patrol wagon, the And she grieves over the disgrace hospital. Her respectable Scotch soul is re- to be a loser have brought upon her stubborn old white head. For she is obstinate, with an old-world, out-of-date hard-headedness that thess flippant, don’t-care, modern d. ‘And she’s cran strong teeth. hes known from a little child up. “‘When the Judge diseharged the poor oid body, at first she She was afraid the policemen—the detectives, she calls’em—would come and take her away sgain. wouldn’t come home with me. oh, she was tnat stubborn! An’ home, you'll have one, too." her easy ways, like old folks get, you know. I'd say to that man: ‘There! ‘Come on; come home, Mrs. Van Dusen,” Isays. he says, ‘I ain’: got no home, n’ nO money. I says, *You just come home with me. an’ ’s long’s I've gota The poor old body! her! Why, why kind o’ laws have we here that lets a poor old body be taken to jail like that? Justall atonca taken out of her quiet an’ Well, if I was the Judge You dow't get thet $200 of yours, 8’ ¥o u go to jail for six s can only edmire and never equal. 100,” said the good-natured young wife of Mrs. Van Dusen’s guardian, with a smile that beginsa gent.c ripp e in her gray lips that, retreating, show an expanse of healthy gums and good, “But old peopie are that way, you know. she won't speak a word to me. She won’t speak at all to my mother, that bas knowan her thirty years, nor to my husband, that Van Dusen yes and breaks in mighty waves upon Some days And 1 was that so: ry for months for swearin’ that poor old woman’s insanel’ says: “An’ I says, ‘I've got caifare.” “An’ she says, ‘Ride, then; I haven’t any.” ‘Iean’t ride on no car; I've got no money.’ *‘Wheu she ain’t—no more'n you or me. Why, when I stopped a car to ride home, she ““But. of course, I wouldn’t ride an’ iet the poor 01d body walk. So we walked down Market street, an’ everybody stared at us. ple, and she’s childish, poor thing! But I didn't care. But insane! You've got to be patient with old peo- Nota bitofit. When I tried to get her off Market street up to a car line again, without her noticin’ it, you know, irs. Van Dusen looked up at the lamppost, an’ she said: “ ‘I thought we was going along Market.’ “She's cute enough, I tell you. Au’, do you know, we walked all the ways home—clear from the City Hall out to Fillmore street, near the bay.” Bravo, Mrs. Gallegher—who's only a gl despite the many little Galleghers. And bravo, one-idead Eilen Van Dusen, to whom poverty, beggary are only other words for the absence, world 1s full of cept wentally. the literal absence of real property. I'm sure if thatdour old Scotchwoman were to unlock her door for just a moment or take the key from the keyhole that an inquisi- tive question might enter. that which one has on one's person, that which one can bs sure of, that which is tangible. ideaiist—is unreni; it may take to itself wings and fly away. The amples of the evanescence of riches. Be your own bank, says Mrs. Van Dusen, and keep no bankbook with yourself, ex- Then you'll have what you possess, not otherwise. But even this is not absolutely sure, if one can judge by Mrs. Van Dusen’s expertence. For she oversicpped the narrow boundary which divides the virtuz of economy from the vice of miserliness. And that unfortunate, unpaid debt published Blien Van Dusen and the fact that she is & woman of means to the world. he’d tell you that the only real property is Everything else—this is the creed of the old €0 the poor old body, as warm-hearted Mrs. Gallegher calls her, diminish with the years, and it is evident there will always be | sits and mourns and will not be comforted. She has been disgracel. She bas ridden in the patrol-wagon. her own possession, trust anybody ? Eilen Van Dusen is a pecutiar old woman, married to a peculiar old man. people have a genius for keeping silent—a rare talent nowadays. each other at any rate—does not imply ill-humor. Her name has been putin the papers. And her money—her money is not in Her old friend Gallegner hesit in trust for her. But when did a miser Both of these Yet their reticence—toward This childless ola couvle, with no rela- tives and few, so few, friends, have lived togetner so long that they have become pitifully de* pendent on each other. “You'll be good to me, dear,” the old woman asked the young wife, whose house, over- flowing with babies, is her one refuge, ““till Van comes back?” But Van may not—will not come back. His recovery is very doubtful, say the doctors. Blood poisoning, when a man's 70 years old, is a serious matter. Tne long silent Quet of forty or forty-five years' duration will become a silent solo before long. And Mrs. Van will probably spend her days—and they'll be many, I doubt not, for the old woman is strong and active, out and about always—with these friends whose people her husband knew before the | younger generation was born. In time, I think, her distrustful despair will pass—that despair which, in crude, simple natures, is like the long-lived suspicion of a wild animal that has been cruelly treated; whose nest, whose den, whose place and whose habits have beea disturbed. In time, 100, and with the material proof that the spending of her money will afford—only in minute portions, of course, to part with an appreciable amount of that loved gold would sorely vex this saving o'd Scot—Mrs. Van Dusen will come to believe that her treasure is still hers. And that kuowledge will be to this old, childless, homeless miser what the reflection of her loveliness in the mirror is to a professioual beauty, what a roar of applause is to the actor, what the birth of the King of Rome meant to Napoleon, what an untouched doliar box of candy is to a girl of 13. Therefore, waste ot too much pity on old Ellen J. Van Dusen, capitalist. Though, really, she has been badly treated. For the joy that shall be hers when again she may give herself up to her ruling passion—the adoration of the shekel—will more than pay for the pains she suffered when the thunderbolt fell from the judicial sky and her idol—her money—was taken from her. MIRIAM MICHELSON. NOTES ABOUT NOTABLES. The first gold waten ever owned by Charles Dickens is now in New York, and is the prop- erty of A. G. Midford. Lord Rosebery is said to have bought the e Count of Aquilia’s villa at Posilipo, near Naples, and to intend to spemd his winter there with his caildren. Professor Hubert Herkomer, R. A., R. W.S,, who is an American, will probably succeed the late Sir John Gilbert as president of the British Royal Society of Painters In water colors, George Washington Stevens, who made the greatest reputation as a correspondent in the Greco-Turkish war, I8 not quite 28 years old. He is graduate of Ballol College, Oxford. Leurita S. Swenson, the new Minister to Denmark, was born in Minnesota, to which State nhis parents migratea from Norway in 1857. His father has been a member of the Legislature. Minister Sweason siudied at Luther Coilege, Iows, and Jonns Hopkins ANTIDOTE FOR SNAKE VENOM. Professor T. R. Fraser of the University of Edinburgh has discovered a new antidote for overcoming the venom of serpents. It is not, like M. Calmette’s antitoxic serum, obtained from animals rendered immune by innocula- tion, but is furnished by the serpent himself— ishisown bile. In the experiments various quantities of bile from the gall bladder of the cobra, ratulesnake and grass-snake were mixed with a little more than the mini- mum fatal dose of the venom, and this mix- ture injected under the skin of the animal. It was shown that a quantity of bile smaller than the quantity of venom may be sufficient to prevent lethal doses of the latter from pro- ducing death. The bile of harmless serpents was found to be less effective. The same se- cretion from an’ ox was less powerful, being about one-seventh as strong in antitoxic in- fluence as the vemom of cobra or asp. 1f & sufficient amount were used it would over- come a fatal dos: cf the poison. Dr. Fraser believes the antidote can be prepared for the market in a compact form. African snake doctors have & remedy,.of which a principal ingredient is snake bile, whica they iniro- duce iato the patient’s stomach and rub into the wound, | rect PERSONAL. D. W. Burchard, a lawyer of San Jose, is at the Grand. F. R. Day of Portland, Or., is at the Cosmo- pol:tan Hotel: Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Reed ot Petaluma are guests at the Grand, J. Jerome Smith, a mining man from Stock- ton, is a guest at the Lick. B. F. Wright of Mouterey is at the Lick, ac- companied by Mrs. Wright. Ex-Judge George E. Williams, a lawyer from | Union Isiand, is & guest at the Lick. R. P. Troy of San Rafsel has returned home from a pleasant outing at Lake Tahoe. J. W. Bailey of Boston, a wholesale manufac- turer of boots and shoes, is at the Grand. J. F. O’'Rourke and daughter of La Porte, Cal., are staying at the Cosmopoiitan Hotel. B. H. Upham, proprietor of the Gloriana Vineyard near Martinez, is registered at the Lick. W. O. Brewer of San Mateo, one of the prin- cipals of St. Matthew’s School, is at the Ocei- | dental. H L. F. Puter,a prominent attorney and Dem- ocratic politician of Eureks, California, is at the Grand. A. H. Hartof the New York firm of Cheeney Brotners, wholesale silk merchants, is staying at the Grand. W. O. Lackland of Honolulu arrived here yesterday, and is at the Occidental. He came 1rom the islands in the bark Alden Besse. Robert G. Barton of Fresno is making a short | stay at the Occidental. He is a large vine- | yardist and has interests in the city of Fresno. J. 8. C. Lowe of Pasadena, after whom Mount Lowe and its scenic railway wers named, is a late arrival at the Palace. Mr. Lowe is also largely interested in Pasadena hotel proper- ties. Orrin Black, & well-known newspaper writer, | formerly of this city but now a resident of New York City, is visiting his ola friends in Cali- formia. Mr. Black will remain here for sev- eral weeks. Among the navy officers at the Occidental l And Many Other Features of Equal Interest. | at Vellejo, James McCudden. L A L L A A L AR L L L L L L L EEELLEE R IN TO-MORROW'S ISSUE OF THE =>SUNDAY CALL-w YyOU MAY FIND MUGH OF INTEREST, INCLUDING : A Study of the Fallmer Shooting. 3 An Installment of W. C. Morrow’s Story, R REMARKABLE WOMAN." Something New of WEDDERBURN, « HE HEARSTLING The downfail of tne firm of patent n\{orr‘x‘:z: own s Jonn Wedderburn and Jobn Wedder burn & Co., which was recently snnounced o ‘Washington, was brought abou: in & m“‘;‘\irg‘,,,‘l suggests the work of the maker of plois for kool ries rather than o plain narrauve Of fn e ome time ago Wedderburn caused the Trfl‘s\l ;: o youns patent attoraey numed Frank Kincald on a charge of embezzlement. On a hearing .‘;nrk rest was seen so clearly to be a case of sullth N that ihe District Attorne;s of W ’hmn;::urn; \.;“ had the case dismissed. The preliminary he g how. ver, brought ont some testimony 1n 'reuu" t Wedderburn’s methods that n'l!ncled‘ the ’lil:.n & tionof the Patent Office. Charges were flialy brought against Wedderburn and :: sh t:j::)q""m, nd af. 1! the - nave been disbarred ‘ i he proc- edings establi<h the rule tha .—.. m;u- atioraey must 0L onIY be COMPELITL, DI he MUst also dea: honestly with his h’ul»& t s i for disbarment to lure them, by false and iilusive promises, inio doing busiuess with him.~— iner. Very few of the Examiner’s renti\:r:idn? : cast idea that John Wedder- doubt, have the least idea t hn Wedder- burn learned his first rudxmelllllalso‘(ne .;:A j 1, but sucl ; ods” from that journa', I and for old friendship’s sake, and in (_n:: con- sideration of past favors and services rem dered, a caustic comment on his dow! hers. should have been leit to otl g A few years ago Wedderburn snu?:e,cl west from Washington, D. G, was given s clerkship at the Mare Is through the influence of the late Sednnlllnr George Hearst, who ihen revresenied iho State of California in_the upper houso of 0ob gress. While ostensibly a Government clerk ne was really, as subsequent events prove i the employ of the Examinor as corte: spondent, and incidentally cngnge:xr:c.o«; e ntrap the Government co! t ot Velleto, James N Why ex-Senator Jam:s McCudden should have been s:hfin‘;l has always remained a mysters, for MeCud- s | den represented Solano County in the Legis- Jature and was one of the faithful who voted for Hearst for United States Senator. Wedder. burn did his work well; for, having been as- S Arctic Exploration. : 3 § : | a are Lieutenant-Commander Charles A. Adams of the Monterey, Chief Engineer Holland N. Stevenson from Mare Island, and Lieutenant Lawrence H. Moses of the Marine Corps. Charles H. Taylor of 928 York street has re- turned from Lake Lindermann to his home in | | Government contracts, and Wedderburn came this city. He went in over the Skaguay trail, which, hie says, is impracticable and cannot | be made good, and he came back over Chi.coot in a blinding snowstorm and powerful gale. He will retarn in the spring, as he has some | supolies cached. Among those he says who wiil get through all right to bawson are John Parker and Joe McManus of Vallejo, and James Mahoney, John Buget, G. W. Oliver and | A. P. Fieid and probably the Grace boys of | san Francisco. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. | NEW YORK, Oct. 2 E. Pratt, Mrs. M. Plerce. ner. Belvedere—Dr. J. Koebig. Ashland— H. Miller. Netherland—Miss I W. Scott. | Hoffman—H. Summers. Sinclair—N. Welles. Holland—W. A. Wigmore. —At the St. Denis—. t. Cloud—Mr. Gu | | CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. | WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—Edward Holllndj‘ of San Francisco is at Willard's, W. A. Salter | of Californis is registered at the Shoreham. THIS WOULD 1 DO. It Twerea rose, | This would Ido: 1 would lie upon the white neck of her I love, ‘And let my life g0 out upon the fragrauce Of per breain. It I were a star, s would I do: 1 would look deen down into her eves, Into the eyes I love, and learn there How tosbiae, 1f I were a truth strong as the Eternal One, This would Ido: 1 woula Jive in he; hieart, in the heart | 1 know so weil. and Be at home. 1t T were a sin, This would Tdo: 1 would fly far away, and though her soft hand In pity were stretched out, I would not atay, but fly, And leave her pure! Constance Runcie, from “A Little Book of Mis- sourt Verse.” CHOICE MORSELS OF HUMOR. “How comes it, sir, that when I ask you for a No. 5 shoe you give me a No. 77" “Why, my dear sir, you'll be so proud of those shoes that your feet will swell.”’—Har- per’s Weekly. The shipwrecked artist, afloat on a raft in midocean, opened the grip to which he had clung when the vessel went down, and pro- ceedéd to rig up an apparatus to catch the wind. “There!” he exclaimed, as he contemplated his task, “it can no longer be said that I never made & sall of my canvases.’—Brooklyn Life. Reporter—Are you making any headway in this murder case? Big Chief of Police—Certainly, young man; of course. 1 am prepared to say pow, right here, that this is one of the deepest mysteries I’'ve ever been called upon to handle.—Phila- delphia North American. ! “Yes,” murmured the dialect poet, “I flnd] books in the running brooks.” «What a pity it Is,” responded Miss Cayenne, “that there aren’t a few spelling-books among | them,’—Washington Star. «The rising young acter,” said the Cum- minsville Sage, “is much like a persimmon. He isn’t really at his best uatil he has en- countered two or three good, hard frosts.’— Cincinuati Enquirer. “0f course,” said one old farmer to the other, “your boy is learnin’ Latin and Greek at college, but is he getuin’ anything practi- 17" e“-Oh. yes. In thelast letter he writ he tells me he is takin’ lessons in fencin’. Dsu-on.1 Free Press. | TS i Yeast—TI've just invested 1 one of those salt-and-pepper suits. Crimsonbeak — Well, that sounds as if it wowd Dbe good for at least two seasons.— Youkers Statesman. A CONFESSION OF WEAKNESS. ‘Washington Star. The Canadians, who do not propose to be outvoted, act on the positive conviction that in the international sca’ing conferene: no other nation could possibly be induced to in- dorse the fairness or ine soundness of the British contention concerning the seals. The Canadians ought to know, and doubtless their confessed opinion concerning the weakness and uutenability of the Britisa claim 1s cor- | one of nis duties was to weigh the coal sup- signed to the general storehouse department plied the Government, and James McCudden supplied by far the largest quantities at that time. McCudden had become wealthy from his much in contact with him, and finally got squarely into his good graces. This accom- plished McCudden, so Wedderburn claimed, paid him at different times sums of money amounting to some $600, in order that he would see to it that MeCudden got good weignt for his coal; and then one fine morning ihe expose appeared, and Wedderburn’s real mis- sion to Mare Island was out. So well had Le | performed his arduous task and so thoroughly had he downed ex-Senator James McCudden, that Senstor George Hearst meade him his | private secretary, and he served in that ca- pacity until the Senator’s death. Senator Hearst had returned the favor of McCudden’s vote for him for United States Senator by sending Wedderburn to Mare Is!- and to accomplish his ruin, for ‘after the ex- vose McCudden was debarred from bidding on any more Government contracts, Talk about gratitude! After the demise of the Senator Willie was still anxious to show his appreciation of the valuable services rendered by Wedderburn, | and together they started in Washington the | Examiner bureau of claims, which had a short but prosperous career, winding up in a lawsuit, after which Willie and John did not speak as they passed by, for the ‘methods” which the Hearsts had taught him he had be- gua practicing on his partner, VALLEJO. —_— e CALIFORNIA’S OPPORTUNITY. Marysville Appeal. The royal commission appointed to investi- | gate the condition and prospects of sugar pre- duction in the British West Indies has made a most discouraging report. It finds the labor unreliable, the superintendence unskillful and the cultivation crude and expensive. This will soon apply to Cuba as well, Now comes our opportunity, We have the land, and now all ‘that is required_is a pledge of acreage from the jarmers sufficient to justisy the erection of the necessary factories.” Witi this latter assurance we could suppy market in five years, Ppy the home THE Callfornia Limited on the will besin is third anuual season on Monday, vc. tober The time of departure is 4:30 . x. from Market-street ferry. Equ:pment consisis of Santa Fe route siaudard Pullman sleepers, buffec smoking-car and elegan: dining-car, managed by Mr. Freq Harvey, aad will have all the modern comforts, making it the most luxurious service ever givon between California aud the East. Reservations on this magnificent train made at 643 Market street, Chronicle building. A ————— CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. 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