The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 26, 1897, Page 6

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, ERIDAY, N VEMBER 26, 1897. FRIDAY ... JOBN D. SPRECKELS, Froprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE Market an d streets, San Francisco Tel EDITORIAL ROOMS <evue. 517 Clay street Telephone THE (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by unding towns for 15 cents a week. 65 cents. SAN FRANCISCO CALL ricrs in this city and sor L 86 ; ver month THE WEEKLY CALL. .One veir, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE .008 Broadwey Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE ........Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (. C.) OFFICE C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. ....Riggs House eat, corner Clay; open until oven nntl 9:3) o'clock. 613 <. corner Sixteer 518 Mission street; open until 9 o'cle NW. corner Iwenty-second AN ARIZONA ASFIRATION. RIZONA has aspirations for a seaport. Her people have A rezched the couclusion that if they can only attain a their beloved commonwealth will tage and blossom forth as an em- deep-water harbor e from the Territorial concerns us not a matter of news cs, for in order to accom- te. This as: iratio but as a serious affair of polit na Loomers propose to gain their plish their h Die not altoget Tt by ¢ The proposition is Jer a novelty, In dull days it is th ry the demand for the crea- tion of u State out of il'e counties south of Tehachapi by advo- Arizona to San Diego and creating a The interest in the proposition as it that it stacts as an Arizona fashion in the south to v catinz the anne ion of new State in that way e is due to the fac tead of desizning io move Arizona over to San arises this scheme, and Diego to move San Diezo to Arizona. The Yuna Sun, of which 1t may be said not only that it . but keeps red-hot, declares the annexation would 1o toth San Diego Ccunty and Ari- what the benefits would be, adds that San Diego wou'd escape from the sectional domina- propose shines for a be of “‘inestimuble banefi and zona”; by way of show! tion of the more power ul municipality of Los Angeles, would gain the distinction of bring the largest town of a great State, and would have repres=niatives in Congress to fight for a share of the appropriations for deep-water harvors; while for Ari- zona the benefits would be an increase of population that solve the statehood problem, the speedy construction of cted the interior counties of Arizona direct communication with the Pacific Ocean and the t, end finally “would add numerous others to the new State’s already large list of exceptional and desirable features.” In all this record of prospect:ve benefi s to result from an- nexation we note but one that wonid be in any way affected by it. Commercially neither Saa D ego nor Arizona would gain anything, for the port is as free to A trade mow as it would be after annexation. San Di-go would still have to com- pete with Los Angeles, and then as now would have to depend wou a loi T railwav line giving zona more upon the energy of its citizens and the advantage of its superior harbor than upon anything else to win the fizht for ultimare supremacy. All that would be gained would be ths ad{ition to Arizona of & harbor for which it could ask Congress for apvropriations. This would te a stimulus to political energy and might help on the work for statehood, but what would San Diego vrofit by i'? What woud be the ¢ain to Yuma of baving her prominent ciiizens ca led :0 Washington to piead for an appropriation for San Diego when they mizht be tnere seeking one for Yuma? These are questions the boomers of the annexation scheme should duly consider. It may be well for Arizona to desire a seaport, but it is not well for her to rob California (o get it When yellow journalism projected itself into a situation that in no manner needed nor desired its presence its motive was plain. It was to interfere with Tne Cary, which had vo'un- teered to supply the crew of the Bear with every necessity for the trip to the Arctic—a trip devised at the urgent solicitation of Tue Cart. To resent this impudent and boorish interference would have been a delicate matter and one easily misconstrued. So yellow journalism was permitted to contribute. Having then undertakan to supp'y a certain portion of the outfit, the only reason it was not in honor tound to doits part well was that it Iacked the honor; there was nothing to bind it. Accuastomed to deal in buncombe and gold bricks, it could not even on this oceasion, when lile is at stake, be honest and manly. The stuff it presentea with such a blare of horns is announced by the sailors to be cneap, shoddy and inadequate. For yveliow jour- palism, rotten from the core out, cannot be decent in spots. It is corrupt in every fiber, and there is no soundness in it. A garbage man has been arrested for dumpinz a load of re- fuse from the sick wards of the City and County Hospital on a vacant Jot. Without any desire to disparaze the usetul pur- veyor of the dumps, it may be remarked that the intelli- gence of the averase garbage man is not of a high order. He cannot be expected to know much, to have made a study of the germ theory, or to unde:siand the laws cf sanitation. But somebody is to blame for such a violation of decency and for thus subjecting the pubiic to the risk of a varied and interest- ing contagion. The matter is worth investigation by the super- intendent of the hospital, and the guilty person, since there is no provision for hanging him, should be discharged. Nor should the superintendent yiela one jot if, after exbaustive research, he trace the crime to himeelf. 2 The appeal of the theosophists tor tne life of Durrant is undoubtedly sincere, and from the certainty that it can be of no cff:ct wiil be harmless. It is characterized by such an utter absence of logic as to create wonder that :nen conld have been found to sign it. Its principal use wiil be as a flecting curio. The attention of yeliow journalism is respectfully called to ihe fact that Spanish =oldiers are starving in Cuba. Of course the yellow feilows would have difficulty in bsgging enough fond for =0 many, and so the only feasible methnd will be to instruct Spain io at once end the war. Judge Lorigan by calling a grand juror *‘perjurer, scoun- drel and cur” did pot hurt the jurorin the least, but he dealt a body blow to the Lorigan aspirations to a seat on the Supreme bench, which is reason in a mild way for gratitude. There is no use In finding fault with the New York society woman who has had her bair dyed red. While the use of dye is eaid to e injurious to the brain there are people so consti- tuted as to be immune. Kaiulani's ambition to rule over Hawaii has at least the shadow of natural right, which is more than can be said for the present dominant power. The Durrant lawyer who complains that his collesgues are getting too much of the glory must have a queer idea of what constiwutes glory. That sore spot Tom Watson acquired while under the im- pression that he was running for the Vice-Presidency does not seem to heal. As Spanish troo) re engaged in starving to death in Cuba the advisability of taking them back to Spain, where there is something to eat, would aimost seem to suggest itself. For comment upon the laiest capinre of Dunham turn te the files of any da‘e corresponding to previous captures of the same person. 1n some ¢t lists are rated by law as vagrants. In other cities they are merely vagrants without be- ing rated. R | jor THE EDGAR CONTEMPT CASE. HE proceedings for contémpt instituted by Judge Torrance of the San Diego Superior Court against John C. Edgar, Deputy Warden of San Quentin prison, ought to resultin something being donz to determine the question at issue. Cap- tain Edgar has appealed to the Supreme Court trom the order adjudging him guilty of contempt in failing to execute Mur- derer Ebanks on October 8 as ordered by Judge Torrance, his defense being that the infliction of the death penaity was stayed by Ebanks’ appeal from a Federal court order denying him a writ of habeas corpus. Ebanks is one of the numerous colony of murderers confined at San Quentin who have post- poned their departure hence with applications for Federal writs of habeas corpus. Though it is not exactly ciear how a decision of the State uprems Court can cffectually seitle a question involving the ion or practice of a United States court, it is perfectly plain that if the fine imposed on Edgar is sustained, prison wardens hereafter will be in contempt of State courts when- ever they fail for any reason to execute their sentences. Itis doubtful, however, whether Judge Torrance will be upheld by the State Supreme Court. That tribunal will scarcely declare that prison officers must execute death sentences regardless of the process of the courts. It will rather incline to the conser- vative opinion that it is the duty of those officials to obey all legal orders, no matter whence they come. Nevertheless there is little question that Judge Torrence, in the Edgar case, has taken a correct view of the law. The habeas corpus device for defeating the execution of death sen- tences is a transparent subterfuge. Over and over again the Federal courts have denounced it. The writ is designed to enable a court to inquire into the cause of a man’s im- prisonment. No discharge can take place under it unless the judgment of detention is a nullity. This has been decided so manv times by the courts of last resort in State and nation that it no longer admits of variation or argument. A lawyer, therefore, who appeals to the Federal courts in behalf of a convicted murderer, and who, with a writ of habeas corpus, attempts to teview the act'on of the State tribunals in the case, is guilty of an offense which ought to be punished by disbarment. In the Ebanks case, as in that of Durrant, there was a flagrant violation of the legal decencies. When Federal ques- tions are raised by the record the proper method, as every lawyer knows, of getting a case before the United States Supreme Court is a writ of error from the State Supreme Court. In this manner only can the former tribunal be made to consider the points. In the case of Ebanks it was alleged that he had been de- nied the equal protection of the laws, and had been convicted without due process of law—two Fedcral constitution ques- tions. There was butone way, as Judge Torrance says in his opinion in the Edgar contempt proceeding, for getting these points before the United States courts—namely, by writ of Yet the attorney for Ebanks applied for habeas corpus upon a record which showed no error, and, on his application being denied, appealed—a course which plainly showed that his object was merely to postpone the execution of the mur- derer. A superficial view of the subject—and such a subject can only be viewed superfictally within the short compass of a newspaper article—would seem to indicate that the real remedy for the abuse of the writ of habeas corpus in murder cases lies in an act of Congress. The trouble is caused by a miscon- struction of four sections of the Revised Statutes and the judiciary act of 1891. It ought to be easy for Congress to pass a law which would restrict appeals from State courts to the Supreme Court of the United Statesto writs of error. In- deed, unless the laws against murder in the States are to be- error. come impotent some act of this character will have to be enacted. The action of Judge Torrance in the Edgar case may result in bringing some learning to the subject, but it is doubt- ful whether it will effect a change in the praciice of attorneys who, at all hazards, save the necks of their clients, or in the custom of prison wardens of obeying all process which relieves them of the responsibility of putting men to death. POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS. ROM the tone of the discussion following the announce- Fment that the Postmaster-General intends to recommend to Congress the establishment of postal savings banks it is evident the opposition to the plan will be based mainly upon the difficulty of providing interest upon the deposits, If the Gove:nment is to receive the savings of the people it must pay some interest upon them, and if no economical means can be provided for doing that, it is clear the creation and maintenance of such tanks would be unprofitable and inexpedient. The Pailadelphia Press presents this argument of the op- position very forcibly. It suys: Any one can receive deposits. This is the simplest thing in the world. The aifficulty is to use deposits so as to get a steady 2 per cent above expenses. This is the hardest thing in the world. Money does mot earn interest of itself. With a big national debt which no one expects to pay this can be done—up to & certain point. The English tressury is now meeting a growing deficit on postal suvings banks dzposits, because at present rates consols, in which the deposits nre invested, do not yield the interest promised derositors. France cannot even refund, because it would invoive reducing the interest on its Government savings baunk deposits in- vested in rentes, and no administration dara risk that. These are grave dangers. In the end both England and France have got to pey by taxation the interest on savings bank deposits. Is this wise? Is 1t safe? Will any property long be secure when the property of all 15 taxed to pay interest, not earned, on the deposits of some? Many suggestions have been made as to the best means of avoiding or overcoming this difficalty. Investments in national bonds would serve to provide interest until the national debt is paid or is refunded at less than 2 per cent. Neither of these events is likely to occur in the near future, and such invest- ments would last at any rate until the postal savings banks nad been well esiablished. Another proposal is that invest- ments be made in the bonds of States and municipalities. These securities would assure interest on the savings of the prople for a long time to come, and in addition would benefit the public by permitting the funding of these local debts at a lower rate than is now attainable. A third suggestion is that the deposits in the postal banks might be toancd to commercial banks upon good security, but this plan, however advisable it might be from a financial point of view, would open the way to sc much favoritism on the part of the Government and would be liable to so many abuses it is not at all likely to receive the support of Congress or the eople. It therefore may be dismissed irom consideration of the issue. The benetits to be derived from the establishment of postal savings banks are so many 1t is certain the movement to secure them will not be permanently chscked by the seeming diffi- culty of providing for interest on deposits, Tue Un.ted States has not yet reached the conaition of France and Engiand, where money cannot earn 2 per cent a year. There is abundant demand for money in all parts of the country, and it will go hard with us if our statesmen at Washington cannot devise <ome means whereby the savings of the people deposited in posial banks could be made to earn interest by supplying that demand. The story from St. Louis about a girl who is so infatuated with a certain actor that she buys him diamonds in large quantities is a very good one; so is the second chapier of it detailing the indignation of the manager at her course. Still, as an advertisement both of them are easily worth a little more than regular space rates. Secretary Alger says he has been as much disturbed about San Pedro a- the people of this State, which, of course, nobody wiil deny. But the rentleman has a very adroit way of con- cealing his emotions. There is nothing surprising in the Croker ambition for a Senatorial toga. Croker is uncouth, ignorant and corrupt, in fact an ideal man to be Democratic 8esnator from New York. FEntONAL. G. W. McGovern and wife of Selma are at the Cosmoplitan. F. P. Black, a leading merchant ot San Jose, is rt the Grand. Mrs. John D. Yost and son of Kenwood, Cal,, are registered at the Palace. George A. Ninfll, a mining men from Nevada City, is & guest of the Grand. J. W. Ciymonds, a prominent fruit-grower of Sacramento is registered at the Oceidental. David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University, was a guest of the Palace yesterduy afternoon. 5 Among the arrivais from Honoluiu who are regis ered at the hotels are Mrs. C. L. Carter and R. C. Scott, who are at the Palace. A. M. Simpson, a Jumber merehant and poli- tician of Stockton, is & ¢ nest of the Occidental. He will remain in town sbouta week. G. M. Francis, the publisher of the Nupa Register, arrived from Nupa last eveuiug ac- companied by his wife. Tbey will remain at the Oceidental d iring their stay in the city. %Y LITILE LOVE OF LONG AGO. My littie love of ) (How switti+ fly tie tired years?) She tuld m- solemn v and low _ Of uil her hopes aud ail Ler fears. She feared th-dang Fs of -he WAy, The strving and che w rk-a ¥ I bat wulted far across Lhe sea— The lone iness of missing me. ~he never doubted me—ab, 00} My iitule love of long g0, For she had falth In everything, (How swiftly e the r d hours?) A heart that could not help bu’ sing. Ana blossomed ut amid :he flowers. 1t8 bes refiain, My leaving was its saddest raiu. >he sobbed it all upon my knee== 1he loueliness of missing me. da comforted her so— cve of long ago. My litle love of ‘ong azo, (Hlow swit.ly fl- the tired days?) Such litt e fu ow Alo.g the darsest ¢ s ways, While time and disianc be sea, ad OF my poor, careless Lear., may be, Couild not have tol . from spring to spring. Why we loiz et -wandering! Saddest of uli is 0t to Know! My litt.e love « f long POST WHE FLASHES O Hemmersly—What's come between you and Punderson ? 0sg00d—Oh, it was this way: He said tome: “What's the use taiking? Every man has his price, and you know it”” Then Iasked him what bis was and he wanted 1o fight.—Chicago News. It was the Klondike; there could bz no doubt of that; everywhere men were starving and being written up by the newspapers. “Dearest, be mine,” he cxclaimed. “Well, you’ve got brass "’ she sobbed estatic- ally. In truth she had done him Wrong. suppos- ing him to have nothing but gold Iike the or- dinary youths who came and went and were smiled upon ana presently forgotten.—Detroit Journal. A juror once asked the judge, after the ver- dict was returned, whether the fact that he differed from nis eleven brethren jusiified their knocking him down with & chair! Wife—I wonder how you can look me in the face. Husband—Ob, a man can get used to any- thing.—Tid-Bits, “] heard that Thompson once saved Miss Babb from a serious runaway but when I «poke to her she seemed disinclined to talk abous, r.” “No wonder. He saved her from running away with a nobleman who turned out after- wara to be 2 valetout of a job.”—Indianapolis Journal, “What'sall them men in Europe fightin’ ue s fur 2 inquired Mrs. Corntossel. “Why, they’re fightin’ fur.honor,” replied her nusband. Well, well,” she ejaculated as she laid down her paper. “Itseems a desperate way to go about it. But 1 s'pose honor is mighty scarce an’ hard to get nowadays.'—Washing- ton Star. OLD WORLD iAFFAIRS, Boston Pos. 1f the seizure of a Chinese fort by a German squadron and the hoisting of the German flag over it occurred, as reported, it was undoubt- edly an act of war. It was the invasion of Cninese territory by a hostile force, and we have on'y to imagine the scene transferred irom Chinese soil to any place in England or France to understazd that actual war would follow very quickly. As China is in no con- dition to fight Germany tie aispatches inti- mate that tie latter is expected to have lier own way and hola the fort of Kiao-Chwu as long as she pleases, which is ratner supposed to be permanently. Much will depend, however, on Russia’s attitud>. That power now has control :n Chi and for the most part on the whole Asiatic coast of the Pacific. If it suits the Czar to let his German corsin establish a footho!d in Chiua Emperor Wil- liam will most probably keep the one he has made. It seems to have been judiciousiy se- lected with regard to both land and water advantages, and may probably be made as fmportunt to Germany as Hongkong Is 10 Eng- land. If, on tue contrary, the Czar objects 1o this cool nppropriation of .his ally’s territory, the German flsg will hevo to come down and ‘he German troops return to their ships, for a war with China is one thing, bnt a war with Russia is another and a very different one. I this action is permitted to stand, however, the dismemberment of China may be regarded as a fact decided on, which the next decade or ;wo‘wm sce well advanced in accomplish- ment. Chaddioie s L THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMAGE. ing Chaucer’s Chief Char- acters. Designed by Rob- ert Van Voist Sewell for George J. Gould’s new home at Lakewood, N.J. A Decorated Frieze Portray- 3 OTTMAN M:RG NIHALER. Exchange. The inventor of the linotype machine, Ott- man Merganthaler, is spending the winter at Deming, New Mexico, where he is suffering from consumption, and it is feared wili not live through the winter. He is a German by virth and came to this country when 18 years of age. He was penniless, and his sole posses- sion was a limiled know:edge of mechanics. He went to Wes:ington and later to Balti- more. From 1876 10 1880 he gave cvery energy to the periecting of his muchine, By that time he had a machine tuet would, by the action of the key-board, setalineof dies or iypes, justify them to the exact widih of the colum: and cast them in & sorid line. He found a difficulty in getting the interest necessary to place his machine on the market. The small stock company organized soon ex- hausied its stock and inilure seemed cortain. In 1886 Whitelaw Reid placed one of the ma- chines in the Tribuune office on trinl and it proved a success. He then fitted his office witn_them. Mergenthaler is now wealtiiy, and 3500 machines are now in use, DON’T TRUsSI THEIR PRE MIER, Toronto Mal Sir Wilirid Laurier hes hastened to give a version of his reciproeity proceedings totally at variance with the official statements given out when he was at Washington. The latest announc:ment poinis to a limited reciprocity, such as 8i- Wilfried and Sir Richard bave repeatedly 1o d us they wouid not think of offering to the United States The other official staement says everything :; lnnbe lumped, and the British preference is go. Sir Richard Cartwright's declaration that the minimum tiriff was or the United States, and George Casey’s revelatiou to the same effect, contredic: Sir Wiliried's version. But w.y not settle the AL e point by producing ————— CURE your cold with Low’s horehound cough syrup, price 10c, 417 Sansome st, * HOW A WOMAN WITH A BABY IS TREATED ON THE STREETCARS. A baby is a device by means of which the hearts of the worla, which are in various stages of petrifaction, are ouched ior the moment, softened and made human. 1 wanted that, 100. which, on purely personal grounds, Iam not entitled—extraordinary considerition, the sacri- fice of others’ comicrt to my own. 1 wanted slso to test the degree of man’s unselfishness where women nre concerned. So I borrowed a baby. This particular baby is an old friend of mine—eight months old. In the course of our long acquaintance she has grown to trust mo. She knows that I will not drop her. She knows that, upon occasions, I can cavort acceptably, making of myself an animated jumping-jack. In the past, she and 1 have been partners In many a breathless waltz uud in several games ol bail, when she was the balland I boh pitcier and catcher. The unreasonable being, who happens 16 be this baby’s mother, has put a stop Lo the game oi baby-ball, upon the trans- parent pretex: that the catcher m ight fail to cateh ju-L once, and so damuge the fluffy, curly-haired ball But it is mereiya pretext. Mothers are so narrow and illiberal. It i< easy to understand ihat some ol Puritanical notion of the ungodiiuess of ball-playing is at the bottom of the injunction. Stil, it is we!l undersiood between Baby and me tnata tyranni- cal mother is 10 b ame and not L, so our friendship piacidiy continues. When I asked Baby whetner she would lize .0 accompany me on old red mouth in a broad grin and wuggled her arms anl legs in & way which ¢ vld mean only hearty acceptance of the invitation. It is only fair to Baby, however, to explain that I didn’t co fide wholly in ber. See didn’t know thatshe was to be used as a means of m king tired men and lszy men and elegantly attired men and selfish men turn out of their places on the sirectcars that she and » Imight find a seat. Baby is, or rather she pretends to e, the most innocent, kind-hearted person in the worid. I, who know her, reaiize just how malicious snd cruel and imperious this smull, plump, satin-skianed demon can be when she is so inclined. But it is her plea ure touff ct sweet, cnild-like grace, (0 play the ingenue, and her example has made m= unprinc pled enough to pretend that I am deceived. In my heart, therefore, I know that Baby reaiiz d just what she an ' I were doing one day last week. YetI haven’t evidence to convict her of it. And it would be necessary for her only to give one of those wide, engaging grins of hers to cap:ure judge and jury. Consequently I do not intend to put the State to the expense of try- ing Miss Iniquity for ber crimes. Baby and I went out early in the morning. She had crowed a whole Odyssey while her pretty white coat and lace cap were being put on. And she was in perfect humor when we en- iered a Sutler-sireet Car. The car was crowded. Baby mnoticed that frct immediately. She had sat up alert and springy with early morning enthusissm when I carried her down toward Sutter street, but as <00n ns she saw ever seat in the car was taken she settled nerself down with compiacent, selfish henaviness in my arms, and her round china-blue eyes looked up atme with a world of malice in their shallow lucidity. “What are you going to do about 11?” she asked in the language that I understand—hay- iug conversed wita this golden-haired master of the unknown tongue for mouuns past. Ididn’t know what T was going to do about it. That was just what 1 had borrowed Baby to fird out. Butmy confidence in the charms of the minx wasnot mispluced. There was a rustie of news- papers. The grumpy business men, whose good nature is like the sun these days—Iats to appear in the mornings—looked up, and five of them rose to their feet. With a sighing, maternal “Thank you,” I sank into a seat, and four of the mercantile pillars of San Francisco sank as gratetully back intheir own. The fifth, a stout, gray-haired, side-whiskered, English- looking man, balanced himse:f upon the strap in front of meand the seat which had lately beea his. 1felt ashamed of the part I was playing. The excuse for & ruse is in the folly or meanness of the subject one is investigating. If sald subjeqt turns out to be neither foolish nor mean the detective him- self, ifhe have any conscience or grace, is likely to feel both. Ilocked a* my companion in crime. Ihoped to find comfortin & fellow-feeling. Instead of that the shameless Foung woman was engaged in & despernte flirtation wita the very man she had ousted from his seat. It was really shocking. the had deprived him of reading his morning’s paper on the way downtown. He'd have no time during the day surely. But, affe cting utter unconsciousness oy tais fact, Buby cooea and gurgled up to solemn Mr. Staid, who thawed gradually from a reseniful, aistant, hoarse-voiced formality to gruff interest. From this to giving & heavy, thick, blunt, diamond-ringed finger to the young lady I was chaperoning was an easy step and the various stages of baby-infatuation followed. At first the flirt was quite satisfied with one admirer, but the desire for attention grew until the man beside me and the one in the opposite corner were both paying tribute to madamoiselle. I stood 1t as long us possible. It 1is notin my nature to live up to the strict letter of the law in chaperoning young people. But there are limits even to my patience and forbearance. When ihe thing grew 1o be scandalous and the conductor could not pass us on his way out toward the dummy without baby’s grabbing at his watch chain ! motionea to him to stop the ear. We got out. Baby cried. Shesaid thatit was the motion of the car she missed, hoping to impose upon me by this infantile pretense. ButIknew the young woman thoroughly. She was pettish, just es o girl of twice Baby’s age—in years, not mouths—is wheu her weil-laid plans for & fl.rtation are interrupted. I stopped the ear going out in the other direction and Baby and I boarded it. Unfortu- nately, for my purpose, there were any number of vacant seats. Isat down and settled Baby in motherly fashion, righting her cap, which was setting roguishly on the side of her round head. She glanced up knowingly at me, enjoy- ing my discontent that no man had Leen disturbed so that we two might pe seated. ‘We didn’t ride far back on the Sutter-street liie. We took a Fill- more-street car, which had to wait for us an interminabie time. for Buby droped an abominable rattle of hers, which she insists upon taking everywhere with her. Ihad either to stop and pick it up or carry the young lady how!ing on boara. I did both. Mademoiseile had become capricicus, and wouldn't aceept the beloved rattie—be- cause it hadn’t been presented quickly enough, I presume. If she | wantea revenge upon me she had it. The conducior became im- patient and jangled his bell irritatingly. Every eve on board was turned uvon Mademoiselle, now red-faced with wrath, and her unfor- f tunate supposed-to-be mother. In my excitement I forgot to notice Wwho it was that gave me hisseat. Ionly know that we were seated immediateiy and the car plunged on. An cbliging little boy across the way from Baby cume over and graveiy proftered some *‘shoestring” candy. She accepied it graci- ously. And her pseudo mother hadn’t wit or experience enough to foresee the disaster that followed. An enormously siout woman who sat beside us, dressed in bleck satin and laced as tightly as stout women wiil insist upon lacing, had in an unguarded oment clucked patronizingly at the young lady in my charge. Immediately—the tears were not yet dried in the small hypocrite’s eyes—my borrowed paby responded and laid a fat, dimpled, sticky hand upon the broad smooth, black satin shoulder, from behind which, like the sun peer- fug over a mountain, a big red face appeared. Rut the expression on the face changed as rapidiy as does the weather these days. In an instant everything wes cloudy and threatening. Baby withdrew ker hand tentativelr and then, having never seen anything so awiul as the vinegary, fat-faced outraged dame, again my borrowed baby roared and roared, and would not be comforted. We had ridden four blocks, but Mademoiselle would not await the transfer corner. She wanted to leave the car. To be frank, so did I. And, I rather think everybody else in the car felt the same way. . So we 100k & going-down-town ear, which happened to be empty, and I improved the shin- ing hour by cleaning up Mademoiselle Bebe as well as the limited appliances atmy disposal allowed. But both Baby ard I were soon bored. There was no story in this, for me, and no fun in it for her. So we got off and hailed a car which was hurrying down a cross street. I had got 5o accuztomed to having every man in the car spring up at Baby's approach that it took me a moment to realize that here 1 had found the exception to prove tne rule. But it was a very disagreenble exception, and I'd rather the rule shouldn’t be proved, if it must be by such means. There were two men seated side by side {a_the opposite corner to where Baby and 1 stood. Her face was lit up with a wicked grin. She understood the situation and gloried in t. ButIdido’t Every second the baby grew heavier, but the two men in the corner budged not nor ap- peared to know that I was sianding. The whole thing took only & mo- ment. A beautitul girl whose face had been bent over a book looked up suddenly and sprang to ber feet. 1took her seat. Both mean in the eorner rose. ““Here’s a seat, Miss.” But she wouldu’t accept the courtesy, thanking them distantly aud contemptuously. She bent over baby and her knit gold purse dangling ori a slender chain was to my youthful charge like a new and undiscovered comet appearing before the wonderstruck eyes of an enthusiastic astronomer. Beby’s round blue eyes grew glorified at the sight. The “bufu! lady” leaned over obligingly and Mademoiselle Beba rewarded her by being ber most gracious, winning self for the few moments we remained in the car before it reached Market street. We rode down Market street and had the p! re of disturbing a sporty-looking, blackmustached man, whose misfortune it was to be seated 1n the corner nearest the door. Then we got off and took another Market-sireet ear, in the opposite direction. The car was full of women, seated, aud a few men hung by the straps. A tired- looking girl was our victim here. But this was too much. [ could not permit her to stand. “I'm only going & block or so,” I said. “Itisn’t worth while.” So she dropped back into her seat. “Let me carry the baby, ma’am,” said a loud voice at my elbow, and before I could objec: Mademoiselle had opened her arms and flown to the stranger. Fickle flirt! Her latest love was a big brawny Irishman, whose tangled red whiskers were a maze of delightful adventure 10 & baby whose father is clean shaven. And hisarms were so strong and steady that my borrowed baby smiled down patronizingly at me from her perch as the ear slowed down ana we—she unwillingly—got off. “Give the lady your seut, Johuny,” said a fretfui-iaced mother. straet car. But Johnny didn’t want to give up his seat to the lady or to any one else. His mother insisted, With & wavering note in her voice that Johnuy doubtiess knew of old. So he squirmed about and would have kept his seat if it hadn’t been for baby. Like older girls, she was attracted by the brass buttons o1 the side of his cap, and she reached for the cap with that audacily that distinguishes kings and babies. N w.Johnuy loved his cap. All Johnnies do. He and his voice arose in rebeliion, and w:th not a qualm of remorse I slid izto his vacated seat while his mother sought to comfort him. No, baby did not put the cap into her mouth. She was satisfied with Johnny's alarmed, .gu:i:mg howl, and she disdainfuily dropped the cap to the floor, whence Johnny recove ered it. 2 So complete was the understanding between my young lady and myself that she knew the reason we didu’t leave the car was that Johnuy might not regain his seat. We rode calmly down to the ferry with the righteous glow about us that is the reward mortals have when they play providence—in other words, when they punish others. Our course up North Beach way in an electric-car and later on Mission street was a triumphal procession. At our entrance all rose to do honor to Empress Baby. - When we turned our faces homeward the cars were crowded again. It was noon time. When baby and I goton we could hardly _squeeze our way through the men hanging 11ke flies to a sweel mor- sel on the rear vlatform. Such a weary-tooking man with hands kunotte1l and deformed by nard lxbor rose to give me his seat. “I've made a8 mist " 1 sa:d nurriediy. corner. Keep your seat, Hed d Wegotoff and stood waliting for the nex’ uptown Car. 1t was just as crowded. But now really I had to get home or there would be a aistracted mother out with a reward for the apprehension of a baby-thief. A man rose and, without looking up, I thanked him and set- tled myself if his place. It wos quite a big place, 50 I sat Baby - down beside me, and she loiled back contentedly g zing about her. All at onece & familiar thick, be-diamonded finger was tiirust before the baby, and so under my notice. It was the man of business wnom I had routed cut of his comior uble seat this very morning. 1 was positively ashamed. Isignaled to tne conductor to stop and nurriedly got off the car. AsIstepped from the last step This was in a Valencia- «I'll get off on the 1 became aware that the passengers and the conductor were a haif day’s jaunt around the city, she opened her toothiess, cynical i ! very much excite T looked b ngly, and &teheld the cause of smiling, half-amuzed giaices at me. I had iorgotten the baby! Quickly I took thexmiling bundle of white from the conduetor's arms and the car sailed on. But every pussenger on that car turued for a look at the peculiar mother who had forgotien her own iniant. Conscience compe!s m 1o add a note to the sbove. All this mizhi ave happened; 't pro ably would b ve happ ned, but Wednesd was rain;. Soinstead of risking some baby’s health, putting men to inccnvenience and so damaging their tempers just at Thanksgiving time, I wrote this story of the natural gal- lantry of man toward babies and their moth- erswithout g ing through the form of «xperi- encing it first. NIRTAM MICHELSON. - their half- ANSWER- TO . OR- tSPONDENTS, Hore—W. H. D.. City. in the answer re- cenily given ubout the .ate R. G. Horr it shou.d have rend that **he was elecied to Con- gress from Micnigan.” Tue HEAVIER BLOW— City. It Walcott and Lavicne were o fight at cateh weight, oot Yeing the larger man, wouid, in all probability, steike the heavier Viow, Orp PeopLE's Home—J. T, Cily. For infor- mation #bout admission to thy Crocker Old People’s Home apply (o f comnunicate with ltmp!\l[\('rnllrnd- nt of the hom: and he will furnish you a circular ou thai point. FroM ‘“MazgppA”’—Lawyer's Cletk, City. The lines: And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was humao power i nat could evade, if unforgive The patient search and Vigi! 10ag Cf him who Lreasures up a Wrog. «Mazeppa,” stanza 10, by Byron. WorsHIP OF REAsON—D., Sacramento, Cal® The worship of reason way an incident in French bistory. On the 10th of Ncvember, 1793, the French national conventionordered the worship of the Goddess of Reason. Awoman celected as such goddess was drawl on 2 splendid car to the cathedral of Notre Iame ¢ receive homage irom the muititude some time afterward that cathedral wa ignated as the Temple of Reason. TheRis a ques.ion as lo Who was selecled to repesent ihe goddess on that occasion. Oune assrtion is that she was the wife of Momoro, a prater, who dressed in a thin white veil and weuring on her hesd the cap of liberty was carriedl fu a chair by four men to the cathedralana placed on the aliar. Hymns were then muag to her and processions formed. M. de Lanar- tine says: Chaumette assisted by Lais, anac- tor of the opera, had arranged the fete of Je- cember 29, 1793. Mlie Milliard, an actres, brilliant with youth and talent, played tie part of the goddess. She wasborhe ina palanguin, the canopy of which was formel of oak pranches. Women in white with tr. colored saghes precedea her. Atired witl theatrical buskins, a Phrygian cap and a biuc chalamys over & traneparant tunic, she was akeu to the footof the altar and seated there. Behind ber burned animmeuse torch, sym- polizing **1 he Flame of Philosopay,” the true light 01 the world, Chaumette 1aking & cen- ser in his hund fell on his knees before the goddess and offered incense, and the whole conciuded with daneing and singing. NOTES ABOUI NOTABLES. South Carolina is claiming to be the birth- place of Mayor-elect Van Wyck. The gentle- mun himself insists that he was born in New York City. N Marion Crawford, the famous novelist, in a recent lecture in Chicago stated his belief that this country is about 1o enter upon an era of higher civilization, literature and art than it has ever before experienced. Mme. Nordica recently had an expensive silk gown ruined by the dirton the stage of the Auditorium 1n Chicago, ana declares thut the next time she sings there she will wear a bicycle suit. John Temple Graves of Georgia in a recent lecture on “The New Woman and tne Oid,” said, “Woman is no longer a sentiment, she is a problem, and it is now our unhappy mission 1o grapple with her, or surrender, as 1 have done.” Pope Leo made eight hogsheads of wine this vear from the vinevard he had setout in the Vatican gardens. A smail partof the wine! reserved for nis own use, another portion i fent to churches to be used at mass, and thef . 4 rest is sold. The Pope s proud of the b of his sgriculiurai enterprise, and intends plant more vines in the Vatican and et Casted Gandolto. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has a nev sultor in the person of Prince William o Woid, just 21 years old, who is at the preseni moment & lieutenant of the magnificent cav- alry regiment of Gardes du Corps at Potsdam, in the spiendid uniform of which he looks so nandsome and dashing that be has become a serious rival to Prince Harold of Denmarkin the graces of Queen Withelmina. 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