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1 6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1897. 3 3 1 ANSWERS 70 CORRESPONDENTS, it THE COOLIEE CAT OUT OF THE AN- PERSONAL \VIGTIM OF AN ARTISTIG TEMPERAMENT. AN orere o commmsmonpenrs. ‘T, i <all of New ! | £ Hayti is Tiresias Augu L I’c NEXAinI?;‘i BAG. Lv::;‘n.oc. itk heis ooas o aliine ;smn nentalitagt S_T A ;:\; L'RL':;!: E _DECEMBER 11 1897 i Ghoml whith chortian e ety oxs oy 3: eyt of Tt Is mt e O ISl hrtic e a-bills Wagecaent” M Ariiold wis Gntll Jeloly o (.AB.ErR::,‘:x-\v;:{u?%:.ce“{i:uT:e-smn. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. wunications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE 213, Ban Francisco TORI!AL RCOMS... Y AND SUNDAY) is (>rved by wns for 15 cert N FRANCISCO CALL MDAIL’ 2 surr 1s & week his cliy & THE WEEKLY CALL... ...One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE 908 Broadwsy Eestern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. | NEW YORK OFFICE WASHINGTON @. C.) OFFICE ceressesannaea...Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. ! open until | BRANCH OFFIC B o o'clock. 615 THE LINCOLN SCHOOL LOTS. ions w which the report lic in connection with the re-le s are now regaling ng of the Lincoln legitimate result of the volicy which of that property. Ifthose lots were | al the rookeries which cover them b2en demolished and a substa 1 their place. As Board of Edt bex with lots sre the r the ten-year lease is $4000 a month. ce on what the property is produ g to all sccounts, the margin of profit in e will be very small. It cer. ushroom resl estate corpora- ds, s iis agent says it Wi The buildings were erected over | are wooden the m loon frames and mu: In tbe natural course of even value, As they are now ounding property and, | the Probate Court vement of Mar some | eport to Congress eays bas not been in force Jong but it is confidently | e crdinary peeds of the Government, while adequate- acturing end agricultural interests.” stement cannot be expected to check the the cr ing of pessimists or the c: ders, it will have dre weight with th unity and with Congress and relieve busi- fear of changes in the tariff this winter. ave s ce they cannot aiter the law under which ries ere protected snd our commerce is being carried | v bas abundant reason to justi’y his confidence operetion the tariff will yield ample revenues eeds of the Government. The heavy 107 por- loting months of the life of 1he| tariff bave had the effect of reducing importati soon as tke goods then imported are con: beve an increase of imports of articles not man d Staies, and consequent!y an increase in the der ved from customs duties. ctor that will have a power sence towa € revenues is the rapidiy zdvancing prosper der the new tarift. With the fulier empl men at bett ns | incre the peopie 1 of the w profi power ¢ y me r rates of wages, and with the Jarger j orts of farm crops, the consuming e people will be largely sugmented. This will lead ticles of import from foreign countries and ject to internal revenue daties. | ted by the treasury cficials that very little the months of October and Novem. 1o that date since the adoption ¢ is expected the sugar imports will increase and January to the extent of adding at t $4 000,000 more to the monthiy receipte, and it is confi- ieved that $3,000,000 more will be received from in. aportations. specis it is not likely the country will pay | the siriciures of the free-traders uyon the | ctyetbad & feir and foll trial and hes already | Testore the normsl prosperity of the people. It | e revenues of American labor, farms and fac_ in due season will restore al:o the revenues of ta nation. something stranze in the fact that ome attorney engeged in coniroversy with another should have violated the ¥ of a Juodge's chambers by swatting his oppo- nent over the head with an umbrelia. Not only did his act endanger the integrity of the umbrella—and just at the ba- rinning of the rainy season, too—bat it was undignified, and not to be upheld by precedent. When alawyer wantssnybody to do aoyihing bis pro‘essional pride and training should sug- gest that he get out an injuaciion, s mandamaus, or some of the otber instruments desigaed to impede justice, and let his um- brella perform its nstural functions of shedding the wet and being stolen. There Novody isexpected to belizve the stories that Cuba ns have been bur g women and children, and hence the purpose of tue yarns is a little hard to dstermine. Evidently the fool- killer has overlooked some space writer. For trying to bribe a juror at Los Angeles one = been fined $500, and not baving it mast go to jau for 250 dzys. People who want to buy something for the bolidays can do better than try to purchase jurymen. hoison No supe dent of the City 2nd County Hospital should be permitted to drive the internes away until he has demon- =:reted bis ability end willingness to do ali the work himself, ...Room 188, World Building | ¢ | in the pas | 1T t security the people will care little bow much | | it ures and admits that ab- Texas method will preciude on of the treaty feature by i would be n exposes constitution says: “This | | which it was pr excluded f the cons made in pur: be made und n, that constitutional legislation by treaty efore, that a statute is as a treaty, and each must exclusion clause of the law it had that right by no other way. If it can- on or of a bill to annex the y must be its unconsti- inging as a g a part of the s conform to the n and in olu! t, the treaty being ion, exclude the on in the way proposed by ornia to 50,000 Hawaiian coolies. puts every California member st the coolies by his vote tt The people of this will be heard from. sor f passive assent toward our onal depredators. They and join their raid, to Z all nations of au- better all. it The betterment as a crown col- er the Monroe duction or ex- | here. When 1 border, w ur right to in- bettering of the | of a European BUSINESS IS BUSINESS. Skc must advertise her wares and make | Sae must impress it upon the East t her merchants and and better terms to londike than thoseof | askan adventurers will withous solicitation nd next summer in repenting o is Enown throughout the Union as enc: of bonanza kings, the home of The features that are attractive or interesting to s are familiar il the world, but the exient of her com- ¢ isnot known. We bave sdvertised our folly. the Golden m! liona o merce and manul never must do ik in the northern goldfields The excitement seems even It is the general belief that | e Yakon Valley end the aggre- normous. Their comingand mercial bonanza the Pacific | be worth our wuile to employ hat trade to our city instead of leav- use of our negiigence. { orne in mind tuat the outfitting of | he bezinning of atrade that wiil be xpanding thereaft All w10 50 to Alaska will greater in the East than w. B 100,000 people will make the atiem All of e will require outfit sres will be nex: spring. gate of their pu going will be the grestest Coast has ever bad. Su ali our energies to bring y will succeed and from time 1o time wili have tbeir stores of food and clothing. In tbe nature | they will | toa School of lndustry, came down from his boa has been appointed s member of the san- LR R R R R R R RS R R RN R RS R R R RN R R R R S AR RN R RN DR R R R R R R R R R R R LN ) aciined to order the additional supplies | re, 8 permanent irade and not s passing boom that | is offered us, and it will argue the existence in this city of the | folly of {ocls as well as the torpor of silurianism if we lose it. | AN EXUBERANT WAR LORD. Fol the Peace of Europe the foreign policy of Kaiser Wil- liam is curious. He proclaims himsel! st royal banquets or his council and talks iike a war lord eager for gore, glory end the rich speils of batile. Europe and make all it< srmies siand like quills on a freifol porcupine than all the other monarchs put togeiber, not ex- in South Afr; be has seized in Chins a fortified port under the very eyes ol ns, just as they were reaching for it bemisphere 2nd, without paying any sttentions to suggestions of arbitration, snaiches an indemnity from an island so close shot might bave ruiled the feathers of the American eagle. It is believed in some quarters thatall these demonstra- through the Reichsiag. The argument is that by the vigor of his actions in China and Hayti, be has shown what a navy is sible this theory of the policy may be correct. It is unreason able in itself, but that is no cause for doubting that itac- ebie thing as & war lord playing the part of a keeper of the peace. China and Hs will appear zreuments for restricting his navy rather than incieasming it. With the ships mow in his tance of war with England, and at tuis very time isin danger of a serious conflict with Russia. If heis given more ships he becoming 100 exuberant es 2 war lord, and unless he is checked st home may get into a row 2broad and ruin forever his chance e ‘;ac first outfitted them and gave satisfaciion, I | OR a man who delights in posing as the Lord Hizh Keeper an advocate of peace, and then zoes to bis army, bis Parliamen, uring ihe present year he has done more to disturd cepting his friend, the Sultan. He has mensced Grest Britain them-elves with diplom: hands; and now hecomes into our to our shores that.if his warships had fired on it some of the tionsbave been made simply to carry a bill for naval extension good for and aroused the ardor of his Parliament. It is pos curately enough accounts for the conduct of such an unreason” To reasoning Germans the demonstrations of the Kaiser in possession he has brought Germany intoan appreciable dis. may get inte a fight with ali the world. The ser, in fact, is o pose in history as the imperial peace-maker among na: ons, t is becoming evid that the people of the countrydo not desire to commit the offense of larceny sgainst the Hawaiians, politan. George, & Sacramento attorney, is in | F. D. Tysrell ot Sacramernto arrived here | yesterdsy. J. A Mclean, s contractor of Recding, isat | the Lick. i Mrs. L Kelly of Los Angeles is st the Cos- mopolitan. W. Parker Lyoz, a furniture man of Fresno, is in the city. i 1E. Lindsay, District Attorney of Banta in town. | liams snd wife of Amadorarest ; e Cosmopolitan. J. J. Redmond, & prominest business man of isin town. Captain William H. Dunphy of Portiand, | Me., is at the Russ. | M. H. Day,s business man of Dubuque, Iows, is visiting the coast. H. E. Pickett, s mine owsner of Flacerville, is at the Lick Houss. Timothy Lee, ex-Chief of Police of Sacra- mento, 1s at the Lick. A. B. Gruggel and wife of the Chateau Pled- mont are ai the Cosmopolitan. Allen L Rnodes, a resl estate man of Stock- ton, is here on a business trip. | Co.'s advertising egent. H. S Host, a leading Selms merchant, is reg- istered at the California Hotel. | Dr.J. V. Gafley and wife of Tucson, Ariz, | &7e 8mODE the guests at the Grand. | W. H. Hudson, oue of the professors of the Etaniord University, is at the Californis Hotel. F.de Frietas, a miner from Los Angeles, is spending & few dsysin tbiscity. He isat the a merchant of Hono- | inthis city, & guest a% the California Hotel | Lieutenant P. T. Lansdale of the Unitea | Statesship Alertis a gues:t of the California Hotel George W. Ross, & miner from Circle City | who hes been visiling atSauta Rosa, is at the | Grend Hotel F. J. Easbery and wife are visiting here from | Tampico, Mexico. They have spariments st the Russ House. J. R. Broughton, s bustness man cf Modesto, issiaying &t tae Russ House. He is sccom- panied by his wite. | G. W. Long, an artist conpected with the staff of the Oregonian of Portland, Oz, is here on a plessure ir: 0.5 Kuepper, H V. Butler and P. Godirey Brodericke, of the United States navy, are at the Calitornia Hotel E H. Bridenbach, & willow-ware manuf turer of St. Louis, reiurned from Los Angeles yesterday and is at the Grand. L. J. Maddox, one of the trustees of the Pres- 50! i Modesto yesterdsy and 1s registerea ' Grand. | Assistsut Police Surgeon Frank T. gt 1187y corps of the National Guard by Goveraor 144, and detaiicd for service wita Troop A of avel CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—3an Francisco New York - A G:ifin, St Den in H. W. Aliyne, Miss E W. Alirne, Holland; D. A. Hulse, Metzopole. | CALIFORNIANS IN CHICAGO, CHICAGO, Dec. 10.—At the Great Northern— Mr. and Mrs. Jona L. Truslow, Sen Fradefsco. ditorium Aonex—Mr. snd Samuel G. San Franciseo, Paimer—Mrs. W.J. . Miss Mabal Gunn, Miss A. E Guas, | Miss M. McDoaald, S cisco. PEOPLE TALKED ABOQUT. Senator McMillan of Michigan possesses one | of the fines: colleets { paintings in this of ountry. Heissgrest samirer of Americen | Embassador John Hay will posed N, cr t o his pro- curney about the middle of Jan. eminent Greek portant subject to-morrow. VVPVVVIRPRRIPRRRR PR P RRRYY, & | E and will be accompenied by his wife aad dsughter. On the Eng!ish turt during the last season Pierre Lorilard's horses won $32.000 and Richard Croker's horses won $5000. Mrs. Laagiry’'s winnings were £33,000. Charles Algernon Swinburme, like George | Francts Train, is very fond of cnildren and | slways carries sweeis in his pockets to give to soy ragged little ones be may meet. I Jtissaid that neither Du Maurier nor the Ppublishers of “Trilby” sent & Copy of the book 1o the suthor of “Ben Bolt.” In fact the 1stter claims that he has not resd the book at all and does not even know the story. Ex-Empress Eugenie is conlemplating pub- lishing a life of her husband, the late Emperor Nepoleon IIL During her visit to Queea Vie- toria recently the widowed Empress dis- cussed the matter with her Msjesty. but the latier pronounced herseif as being strongiy | ©obposed 1o the project. Thomas McKesn of Philadeiphia,Cwho! hes given $100,000 for the new law-school build- ing of the Universiiy of Pennsylvanie, isa great-grandson of Chief Justice Thomas Mc- Kearn, ove of tne most prominent represents- tives oi Pennsylvania and of Delaware as well during the revolutionary period. sreibe, Astor; J. H. Underwood, Cosmopoli- | © THE CRLL &TO-MORROW-@~ Will Contain the Following Leading Features: Y RPPPPIIIY PR ERRRRERERRRRY X THE FAMINE IN «IRELAND.« ROF. J. P. MAHAFFY, the ity College, Dublin, has written a series of articles on this im- SUNDAY CALL, Showing the exact state of af- fairs in the Emerald Ile. The first of these articies will appear AASAASEEEAERNES SRSCEAEA < TRUTH ABOUT TIEURON ISLAND. BRET HARTE'S STORY, “UNCLE JIM AND UNCLE EILLY.” A TRAGEDY OF THE SEA. IRON CROSS WON AND WORN BY A SAN FRANCISCO WOMAN. PINK SILK AND MATRIMONY. teas when he d scov goug Fong was. ! He was making up & pege on Chinatown to adve: dthe now celeprated $10,000 poem on the marriage of Mr. Ther, like the lover In the old song, he “could not resist.”” e thing I wented,” explained Mr. Arnold. T'd never heard of Miss House. | “No, I 1 thought the Ngong Fongs 1 place in sepa g5 eat what gives nowledge sy ki cquel amount to be ke i to be rejssued d States, d 10 be counted The a=mount of | CHRISTwAS IN THE CITY. | sl Wide aisles where day Throoch m gnt groping falls ] EDGAR J. ARNOLD. €ll, didn’t know they existed; just took the verses | o f11n my page. i rou where I got them. were mythical. 1didn’t think of them at be' ed clative lemperame ma 7 ne Alameda Argu: ke that? e Fongs covet I forsget which one of sppeared in the ‘Art Domestic’ in the | were 1o m a e s I'd become publi and Mr. la o! 2 snow flekes drift, &Dd c.0ser cower seek out each rift abuve them Lossing swing, iron C.angors ring. able Db and spire aud wall they play, 2 below. They upon b om the slates— srism and to possession of the e Ngong Fong turn tk er roils the organ’s peal Apd o 1 serous accliaim arene, who steadfast came, i be chosen one of G+ FLASHES OF FUN. calls her new sweetheart ‘incandes- W “Because he's such a gas-saver.”—Chicago | Record. Claque—Men are so dlsappoin e note to Mr. G ler, you know, sk he pieasure of his company. Miss Claque—But he came, Aunt Mrs, Cisque—Yes; but somehow bring any plessure with him.—Bos cript. Mrs. §.—1 am dofng my Christmas shopping right slong, a little at & time. ! Mrs. T.—What! Sosoon? You must b2 sick. | YTV BB BEEBEBESEB8 scholar of Trin- for the AAAAAAAARALAE AASAARAEAEAA tlumnmmmmnuunmu 20000000000002022002000000200000000202002000008 U,Qj Wey, ou'll miss the horrible jam the nigat before Christmas.—Philadeiphia Bulletin, Ethel—Why does lizhtaing never stril twice in the sqme place! Dick—Can't fiad the place.—Ths TYellow Book. “1 hear,”” sald the zephyr, “thst you have been raging through the Northwest.” “Never was a worse mistake,” howled the blizzard. “I was quite cool.” —Indianapolis Jouraal “IJtseems £0 queer,”sa1d the student boarder, “i0 think of any one haviag a price of $30,000 o5 his head.” “Whica reminds me,” cald Asbary Peppers, “that 1 heard the other day of a man with §1,000.000 fa his mind.” — Cineinpati Ea- quirer. ‘“We haven’t & policeman 2 our town,” said the Jerseyman, bosstingly. “Well, it must be 8 mighty poor town,” said ibe New Yorzer. ~1don’t see why you should think that.” “Why, & copperiess town is & preiiy poor town.”—Yonkers Statesman. Covers and colds cured with Low’s hore..ound cough syrup, price 10c, 417 San some st ' | s Dot either by Datural gt other words, they are w; | publican party sent Mr. and made him | Commitiee on Ways and Means. In i clesses of opinion. States District Judge by a Repubii dent who was unusually careful in b pratsed for &ppoinim out otjection apd with credit unt | says in effect that 1t ind. the lame, ring trod, A NARROW AND CONTEMPTIELE i:‘fm;mb‘ku— PROTEST. : p ERYEST MCGAFFE December Womar's 1871 18 Home Compar of the Uniled Sta: Judge of t e Uni Mr. McKenna's reg emong bis legal and judicial bretbren not accorded bim high plac contrary has justified the conc tne claim of letter- me work under the provi- -bour law of 1888, claims g § sainst the Govern- be vaiidated. To protect the de- further demands of this it Postmaster - Genera! sued en order making it an of- fense punishable with dismissal for a lester- carrier 10 work more than eight hours per day. Tuus one arbitrary regulation brings on ane a2gT egatin; W ing or dec: ners further declare d theiT signatures to the pr personal feeling or without malice. have been prompted 10 declare themsel because they believe it 10 be th their country no longer to keep s es | ot The order of dismissal will, however, 1o | bardiy be enforced sgainst carriers who put In | in no claim for extra servic themselves on the altar of triotism. eil! Letussee. Inthefirst place the Re- McKenna to_Congr prominest mem COUNTRY. United States Investor. It will, per haps, surprise many of our read- ers to learn that some Western money has re- cently been seeking employment in Eastern business paper. The boot is generaily on the other leg, but so great is the aoundance o tion of Judges and who was uaiversaily | thecountry thatthe West is actually fiuring wisdom and skill and jud.cial |11 the East s a lender. This emphasizes s Heserved on the benCh wiih- | OUT Statement of last week that prosper iy is coming 1o us from the West this y : - He was made a U an P ear. A =, 7 i | & = p— ke ASommarGenecal by Fredt | 1 pemcns pasiii sy, busein: the weeld. * Attorney-General he has been for about nine ——————— scquired the Union Pac o that time the Gove: c Railroa ment has , or rather | CREAM mixed candie: c b, Townsend's. * EREb i hes acquired irom ine Tsion Facife BEFORE buyine your Xmas gifts call and ses ace of 1s advances to that corporatl i s Gl ¢ has also consirued section Townsend's display of Califoraia glace fru confidepce and who had been selected to | | impeachgeent s Altoruey-Gene | | | |sctin a way 10 reconciie o 0 justice, and boib with taerights and interests of commerc Supreme Co amon whom thi | staixing horses | in American politics or in America | great commander of Cubs etc., 50c 1b, in handsome baske:s. 627 Marke - EPECIAL Information daily to manufactaurery, | business bouses and pubiic men by the Pras | Ciipping burean (Alien’s), 510 Moatgomery. * | truc o witn | The propos: Jus do you think of th ach? Mother— ng o ¥y? Isn’t it a little pe: | Bachelor Brother—Oh, yes, of course; and | you ought to be thankful tha | Chicago Daily News. isn’t & pair.— ong them of that ol Ge poi. t Court, and even President Gra hs kindness toward ihose who had received n es. They affor o S | FaoEp har recovers its youthful color and softness by the use of PARKER'S HaIR BAlsaw. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns, 13 ceats. — - S Smarrm of Harvard Univer of the actual con- we bave yed learned ral pars of the earth. The deepest t g0 @own 'O the depth of & mile, and among h:s advisers, jeit req from 1ue Attorney-Geacrsisn! Much of the judicial and legal opposition ne bench and bar ds- comes {rom members o who, taken coilectively, seem .0 be a forr ble quantity, but whose numbers are v smali, wnen compared with the st the bench and bar of the Pac. only are these men reiativesy counted, bui most of them sre extre whea weighed. Ailof the ob they urge againss Mr. McKeuna's appointm as Supreme Court Judge wou!d be equaily ap- piicabie 10 his continuanee in ofice as Attor- ces-Genera., and if they are good Ci . possessing coursge of ccnviction in mere spite huniers, they stou.d demaud ler-sting articie oa tu's Compavion. ——————— “This can’t be an eXpensive present which Mr. ore has sent me, mamma,” re- 1 o irl protesting azainst a nomi which there is Do offic. be made at all At the bottom of the protest and behind the whole miserabie and coniempiib ¢ proc ing is ibe simple fact thet M:r McK worships God in his own way and sacs o yers in his own wey. Tae claim is ih ihere is already on the beuch of the Supreme Court snother mat of the same spiritual ty or stripe, end that there cannot be two wit out peril 10 our institutions—peril of some | kind or other. The resi objectors re oui of sight and bave put the signers io the front as | The reasous which prompt 0 narrow aad $0 smali snd there is 0o rocm for them love of jastice. They are reasoms which, becaute of | ihe mere faci that they are sdvanced agsinst Mr. McKenns, ought 10 contribate more 1o his sppointment than anything else conld do. | “He hes taken off the price merk.”—Detroft Free Pre KEW TO-DAY. The Rovel is the highest grade baking powder hoown. Actual tests show it goes one- third further than any other brasd. their course &r 0 despicable t FREEDOM'S UNCROWNED HERO. New York Mail and Express. | Gomez, at the age of 70, acuvely leadings | vigorous and irresistible revolution for Cuban | independence, presents cne of the picturesque nd heroic figures of the ege. One may sur. vey the who.e field of humen endesvor w out finding another man who in 4is ant e | dents, personsality and chosen avocation com- | Lines as many of the dremstic qualitles of chivalry and romance as patriot army. He 1s indeed one of the world's rrand o:d men. | —— A GROWING INDUSTRY. XNew Yorx Tribune. Just think of 1! 1t is an absolute impossi. | bility to establish tue tin-plate industry in | this country, yet here are some 2000 men em- ali department of 1t forming ! es union, justasthough they were reail engaged in a sezious indusiry. % Absolutely Pure ROYAL BAXING POWDER €O., NEW YORK. L

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