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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1897. DECEMBER 28, 1897 “to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Address All Communications PUBLICATION OFFICE Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS............ 217 to 221 Stevenson stree Telephone Main 18T4. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. .One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE .... - 908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. =8 NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 62 MoAllister street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9o'clock. 25I8 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 143 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock, 1505 PolK'street; open until 9:30 o'ciock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets: open until 9 o’clock. AMUSEMENTS. Baldwi Columbia 1 he Jucklings,” to-morrow night. Milk White Flag. Shenandoah. irl T Left Behind Me.” War of Wealth.” THE JOY OF RED TAPE. HERE is about red tape a singular beauty, appealing alike to the sense of humor and dig- nity. No better illustration of this has been i seen recently than in the instance of the battle ship lowa. It appears that necessity arose for fitting this | goodly vessel with one certain bake oven. Exactly the department empowered to ‘do the work was something that had not been established by pre- cedent, and unseemly controversy ensued. Was it to be done by the Bureau of Equipment, the Bureau of Construction or the Bureau of Steam Engineer- i For a time it looked as though the men of the ke their bread in the form of but they were saved from any such dyspepsia ng necessity by a happy thought. Why not divide the work? So, with much correspondence and many an official signature, it was thus decreed. One bureau was directed to purchase the stove and ac- pe, the second was directed to erect a platform for the stove to stand upon, and the third was directed to cut the hole essential to the ventila- tion of the stove through the medium of the pipe aforesaid. Then peace prevailed and the bake oven was triumphantly in ‘ After this who shall rail at red tape? would have to compan ying pi Supposing there had been only one bureau to meet the emer- gency? Where would the Towa have been? Simply tied to the dock a mass of wood and metal. Or if 1 but a single bureau, is it reasonable ave stood up under the No. Red tape is es it is a trifle slow, but think of and labor? to pessi the Iowa laugh? And after all oven, WHERE HARMONY WOULD P@y. f\CCORDlNG to the New York Wine and Spirit Gazette reports from the wine growing districts of rope are to the effect that the output of wine for the year will be small in quantity f inferior quality. Scarcely any district has had a good crop, and the aggregate yield will be one of the smallest known for a long time past. Both in Bordeaux and in Burgundy the crop is said to be small and the quality poor. The cham- ge is virtually a failure, and none of the cted and of wine is exp while the sherry vintage in Spain is reported to be | fully a third less than the average output. The total wine output of France for the year is estimated at 32,351,000 hectolitres, or a decrease of 12,305,000 hec- tolitres from the crop of 1896. The comparative failure of the crop in Europe affords a good opportunity for California wine pro- ducers and dealers to make a profitable market. If the shortage is as large as is estimated there ought to be a good demand for California wine not in this country only, but to some extent in Europe. Thus there is a chance to get fair prices, and in addition thereto an enlarged market for our wine in future. To accomplish these results, however, there necessary a spirit of co-operation among the wine men of the State. can settle their differences and work in harmony the results are certain to be beneficial to all parties. The advantages offered for gaining new markets by the | shortage of the European crop are not likely to occur in such force again for many years. This, therefore, is the time to act. Harmony is at all times profitable in any industry, but in this particular case it promises to the wine men of California a profit exceptionally large and far reaching. B . Much ado has been made over the fact that a yeung woman who for a long time had held a posi- tion of trust fell into temptation at last and betrayed the confidence of her employers. guilty cashier been a man the incident would have excited nothing more than passing comment. Most people to remark it would have said, “I told you so,” although they had done nothing of the kind. As it is they ejaculate, “Did you ever!” particularly imelligent nor original, does convey a compliment to the sex which is not prone to steal and seldom investigates the possibility of leading two lives and succeeding in both. It is a little tough to have sympathy worked up over a man who has “stolen to get food for his chil- dren” and then to find that the man is a chronic rascal who had long depended on charity for ma- terial to pawn for drink. However, it is better to err on the side of tender-heartedness. But yellow journalism ought not to have dished the story up mming in tears after real papers had found out the truth about it. A LA Apparently Minister Sewall is not making a record for diplomatic ability to attend to his own business, and that he fails to win favor is not surprising. He started in with a handicap of unpopularity achieved by taking the stump against his father when every dictate of good taste suggested the cntire decency of at least maintaining silence. e Chief Lloyd of QOakland has knocked out two pugilists at once, and there is not a suspicion oi fake about the affair, 3 e to be good enough for exportation, | is | 1f the producers and the dealers | However, had the | which, while not | WHO ARE THE HONEST MEN? ONESTY is an abstract term which means H whatever the particular person who uses it concludes to think it mearis. As a géneral rule, most people think honest men are those who agree with them. Some very intelligent people are unable to discern the force of any argument. The moment, therefore, a person takes issue with them they immediately place an unintelligent construction vpon his or her motives. There are some Republicans who think a man cannot be honest and be a Democrat. There are some Democrats who think Republicans are gener- ally dishonest. There are many business men who think all politicians are thieves, and as a rule men who want office entertain the unqualified opinion that office holders are rascals. By constantly reiterating this opinion these men hope to convince somebody that they are honest and ought to have the offices. An illustration of this principle is found in the con- duct of a certain unmentionable newspaper in this i This paper thinks it was honest to make an Southern Pacific “‘advertising” contract with the Company for thirty months of editorial silence at $1000 a month. It also thinks it was honest to break that contract after twenty-two months of silence and the absorption of $22,000 of railroad money. This same paper pretends to think that the fifteen Frecholders nominated by the regular partyorganiza- tions are dishonest because they have been nomi- nated by what it calls the “bosses.” If these same men were upon the charter convention ticket it would regard them as the purest of angels. Curiously enough, this same paper believes that the Southern Pacific Company is also dishonest. But it did not think the corporation was dishonest while it was drawing $1000 a2 month “for “advertising” from its treasury. It is not remarkable that the members of the charter convention should think that the only honest men in San Francisco are themselves. Mayor Phelan also is excusable for thinking himself an angel. But the public would think differently of all these gentle- men if it were fully cognizant of the real motive each individual has in slandering the nominees of the regular parties and in raising the cry of bogie bosses and corrupt corporations. In the meantime it will be well for all who intend to vote at the election on Monday to inquire into the full significance of the charter contest and its bear- ing upon the one man power question. Then they should go to the polis and vote the following ticket without a scratchs REPUBLICANS. 13. GEORGE E. DOW, Dow Steam Pump Worls. 17. JOSEPH P. GRANYT, merchant. Murphy, Grant & Co. 24. REUBEN H. LLOYD, attorney. 33. GEORGE M.PERINE, contractor. 39. A, W. SCOT'T, of Scott & McCord, hay and grain dealers, 42. GEORGE D. SQUIRES, attorney. DEMOCRATS. 26. W. ‘TZ, secretary building and loan associations. 26. JOIN McCARTHY, thy Bros., spice merchants. 35. W. M. PIERSON, attorney. 36. JOSEPH ROSENTHAL, attorney. 43. C.B.STONE, manager breweries. proprietor of McCara 44, PATRICK SWIFT, capitalist. POPULISTS. 7. THOMAS V. CATOR, attorney. IS. W.N. GRISWOLD, physician. 22. THEODORE IH. HATCH, commis- sion merchant. | THE GOLDEN JUBILEE. CONSIDERABLE portion of the ardor of flthc holiday spirit should be infused into the movement for celebrating the coming Golden Jubilee. While we are in mood for making things bright around us we should do each his share to- ward brightening the outlook for the great event of the winter. ~ With all our giving we should give | to the Jubilee celebration and to the Mining Exposi- tion thought, work and money. The way to help the jubilee is to contribute to the funds necessary to defray the cost of the celebration. We have undertaken this enterprise and must carry | it through in a style that will show what California | can do in the new era. The celebration should be | made gorgeous and glorious, and the exposition | should be raised to the rank of a first-class accom- | plishment of the kind. There should be no failure | on either proposition, and every citizen in propor- tion to his means should stand ready to help the promoters carry them to a genuine triumph. | What has been done already augurs well for the | future. The Pioneers, the Native Sons and Native Daughters, and the miners have launched the move- mient with a vigor that will carry it far even if no other help is given. It is certain, however, that other help of a generous and public spirited nature will be forthcoming. In fact, it seems as if the | question will soon be not who is going to contri- bute, but who is going to be a laggard in an under- taking of such importance and of such general ben- efit. The spirit of the new era is showing itself, and he will be but a dull citizen who does not give some evidence of sharing the ardor of the zom- munity. ' It is not necessary to go over again the argu- ments for the proposed celebration and exposition. | It is well kncwa that the two will draw to San Fran- cisco a large portion of the vast crowd of men who are going to Alaska next spring, and that thereby California will increase the trade of her merchants and the demand for the products of her manufac- turers. The issue therefore is one of business. ‘There will be profit in it for the city and the State. The time to begin helping it is right now and the way to help it is to contribute to the fund. The Golden Jubilee is one of the things that has a right to count on a Christmas gift from every prosperous citizen of enterprise and public spirit. Several weeks ago people read with interest that a gentieman in the East had succeeded in transmuting silver into gold. After waiting for some time to see the new material in circulation they have about concluded that the inventor has been bought off by somebody with a mine of the real yellow metal to sell. What an extraordinary gentleman Blanco must be. He has unearthed a plot, a wicked plot for the taking of Havana. Possibly his peculiar soul had been soothed and sustained by an idea that the Cubans had been campaigning all these months for the pur- pose of not taking Havana People of every class will regret the illness of Mrs. Ballington Booth. A sweet and gracious woman, tender and enthusiastic, she has been a veri- table angel of mercy to thousands so cast down that only the love of a noble nature could have reached them. > NOTHING BUT LEAVES. F M. JASQUEMIN, a French druggist, has cor- l rectly interpreted the result of some ingenious experiments he has recently made we shall have to abandon the phrase “nothing but leaves” as a simile of futile efforts and admit that leaves are for food purposes about as good as the fruit of the tree that bore them. The experimenter was led to the conclusion some years ago- that the flavor of all fruits is generated in the leaves of the tree. He had noticed that leaves when rubbed in the hands give forth an odor some- times very distinct, and in all cases recognizable. He thereupon set about proving his theory and now claims to have demonstrated it by producing apple jelly from apple leaves and wine from grape leaves of a quality not inferior to that produced from the fruit itself. According to a description of his process re- cently made public, Jasquemin takes the leaves of a tree and deposits them in a vat containing water, to which is added 15 per cent of its weight in sugar and a fermenting agent such as yeast. The leaves are crushed in the vat and left to ferment. The re- sult is said to be a yellow liquid possessing an ex- quisite “bouquet” of the fruit of the tree or vine from which the leaves were taken. While fair success is said to have been attained with the leaves of an apple tree, the highest triumph was accomplished with those of the vine. From these it is asserted a beverage was obtained which to the taste as well as the smell had all the properties of wine, and it is added that there can be distilled from it a brandy similar to the best cognac. If the invention turns out to be anything more than a nine days’ wonder the changes it will work in the orchard and vineyard industry will be remark- | able. The happy possessors of such property will have something more than double their present crops. They can sell their fruit and grapes fresh to be eaten at once, and then from the leaves of the trees and the vines produce all the preserves and wines that commerce needs. The glucose industry will go to smash, and the adulterator will be beaten at his own game. Even when droughts or frost come and the fruit crop is destroyed, the husband- man will smile in the face of disaster, knowing full well that he can live on leaves and that his trees are full of them. T tions in China just now hold the world's attention. In a speech recently made in Boston Admiral Belknap desired to hasten our grabbing of Hawaii in order that the land hunger of Europe may not extend to the islands. An impartial study of recent history finds evidence that our proposition to take Hawaii has roused the land hungry nations to ac- tivity in Asia, and the admiral’s advice is that we get into the game with our appetite whetted as soon as possible. Meantime there is talk of the United States pro- testing against German seizure of Kiao Chau and the Russian occupation of Manchuria and the grab of the control of Shanghai by England. Unless we abandon our designs upon Hawaii what right of pro- test have we, except on the ground that our com- panions in robbery are not dividing fairly? If we take Hawaii on the grounds that make our case for annexation, why may not the other nations take what they want, for they assign precisely the same grounds? The views of Captain Mahan in favor of taking Hawaii have been recently quoted, in part only, by the annexation press. They were no doubt in Ad- miral Belknap's mind while he talked, but an ad- miral would not condescend to quote a mere captain. The Call has recently quoted the qualifying. state- ment of Mahan, re-enforced by the example of Napoleon. The captain says that if we take Hawaii it must be only with the understanding that we are to have the ships ‘and the guns always ready to de- fend our prize against all comers. As,it would have required the French navy to be more than doubled to defend and hold Corfu and Malta, so must ours be doubled to hold Hawaii. Manifest destiny is good Fourth of July material, but it comes high. No civilian blames a naval officer for wanting to increase the navy and advocating a gen- erally bumptious and militant policy, for that means more rapid professional advancement. If the navy were doubled the subalterns would soon be commo- dores and the commodores admirals, and there would be a general getting upstairs all along the line of promotion. But while we may treat amicably this sentiment of the navy, we must not overlook the fact that the civil policies of a republic are not safely left to the direction of that sentiment. Captain Mahan has told the country that to take Hawaii without the ships to defend it would be “a ruinous mistake,” and he admits that we have not at present the requisite naval equipment. The wo must go together. This interests the contractors who build war ships, it touches every artisan and officer in the national navy yards. They all want to build ships and take to themselves the resulting profits, wages, salaries and promotions. But behind them, in too often forgotten places, stand the people who must pay for it all. Others ride in pride and cir- cumstance along the sunlit path of manifest des- tiny, but the people pay the toll while they trudge afoot’on the common highway. We have before referred to the attitude of approv- ing indifference held by Europe toward our seizure of Hawaii, and that attitude is now explained by events on the Chinese coast. We now 'aok forward with interest to the reply that will come to any pro- test our Government may make against the satiation of Russian, German and English land hunger in far Cathay. WE LED THE RAID. HE portentous movements of European na- Perhaps the Cubans were justifiable In killing Ruiz, and perhaps not. The stories told of the affair are so conflicting there is no chance to judge. Indeed it is about as difficult to get the truth concerning Cuba as it was when yellow journalists were down there lying by the yard. The pernicious example set at that time seems still to have an influence. o Investigation shows that a supposed victim of typhus really died of the comparatively agreeable form of malady known as typhoid. Possibly there is a large grain of comfort in this fact. But it is a trifle hard to discern. Certainly the deceasc was as effective and final as though arrived at by some other method —_— If the Cubans do not cease hanging officials who come to them with overtures of peace Spain will get an idea that there is war in the island. Such painful conclusion has as yet been avoided with the only con- summate skill Spain has displayed. It is possible that if Japan no longer opposes the annexation of Hawaii it is because the scheme is so dead that there is no need of opposition. | was senior partner in the butcher business. B B | chicken stealing. It does not behoove any Senator to lend to any such amuse- y BY HENRY JAMES. For any two people to view the world from exactly the same standpoint is ! of course impossible, and therefore a frank expression of opinion is apt to ex- cite another equally frank. However, a man not willing to defend a position | he takes ought not to take one. There is no occasion to apologize for anything | to be said in this coiumn further than that all who write, as all who read, are | itkely to err, and when a man reaches the stage of infallibility he may reason- ably expect to be called to some sphere beyond mortal ken and weekly salary. | . . . . . i Judge Day of Santa Barbara has decided that the law for the benefit nt:' innkeepers is not a law; wherein his head would seem to be what is technic- | ally known as level. If ever an act came under the odium of being special leg- islation this act certainly did, albeit the Judge found another ground for knocking it out. There has never been a reason advanced why an innkeeper should have the benefit of the criminal courts in the collection of his bills, | when the butcher, the baker and others equally worthy have to depend on | civil process. Nor is it right that the hotel man should have the privilege ut‘ sending his debtor to jail. It is part of his business not to acquire debtorsf Wwho will settle only after the application of such rigorous methods. Moreover, | 2 man in jail is under a serious disadvantage as to the chance of acquiring | funds. If an unfortunate guest, whose draft fails to arrive, must be held sub- i Ject to the will of the host, it would be as proper and more efficacious to put a | ring in his nose and tether him in front of the caravansary whose hospitality | he has abused. Then he could tell his tale to the passer-by, hold out his hat, ‘ and perhaps in time purchase his way to freedom. B . - - It may be an assumption to offer counsel to learned gentlemen who are | paid for pointing out to the erring the path of righteousness, and yet a little | advice might not come amiss. As there is not a remote possibility that they | Wwill pay any attention to it, surely even from their own standpoint it can do | no harm. A minister in New York has just resigned a $6000 position to go out | among the lowly and work without pay. Well, why not? No duty was ever more plain; and still because this good man has followed not only the dictates | of his conscience but the teachingsof the Writ he expounds, he must becalleda | crank. When pulpits shall be filled with such ministers the scoffer will cease | to rail and the suspicion that many go into the Gospel line because the divi- dends are more certain than insurance or tallow will die away. Even to the mind unswayed by emotion it appears a sacrilegious thing that so-called fol- lowers of Christ should keep an ear cocked for a summons to a new fleld, and decide by the size of the salary whether the summons is from heaven. If a | preacher has a moral right to demand a salary in any amount this right is | based on a foundation not to be discerned by the closest scrutiny of the book | from which he takes texts. The early followers of the Nazarene did not have | purple nor fine linen, nor is it on record that they considered the absence of | these of any moment. They were sincere, while the modern disciple, preach- | ing in an atmosphere of luxury to a congregation distinctly exclusive, waiting with patience not always well concealed for a raise of pay, is not sincere. And | people in the fold or out of it see the distinction. . . - - It is impossible to see in what manner the cause of labor was advanced by the recent shooting of a woman whose husband did not belong to a union, and| who dared to try to earn bread without the permission of that body. The shooting neither changed the sudden widower's principies nor placed on a | firmer foundation the principles which sped the fatal bullet. However, | some good may be indirectly accomplished if the murderers be hanged in the | interest of the catse they shoot for, but do not represent. B . . . . If the impotency of the law to punish crime needed further demonstration, | which it doesn’t, the case of Mrs. Nack would have more than supplied it. | This woman assisted in killing a man and, dividing his mortal tissue into | packages convenient to carry, loaded herself with the fragmentary re- | mains, unloading as opportunity offered. Stung by a conscience, the existence | of which surprised her, she told all about it, her evidence being sufficient to‘ send her partner to the electrical chair. Yet the same evidence cannot be used 1 against her, and she will escape with a light sentence, despite the fact that she | N - . Without the honor of knowing the Rev. W. W. Madge, I am glad to be | able to agree with him. The privilege of agreeing with pulpit speakers is | one seldom vouchsafed me, so appreciation of it is naturally keen. Mr. Madge | does not believe in the form of holy show known as sensational preaching. | How any man but the one guilty of putting himself on exhibition could be- lieve in it is something the worldly mind has failed to grasp. Regardless of a | repugnance of seeing an occasion ordinarily deemed sacred turned into a dis- | play of buffoonery, and characters which the unbeliever conceives to be good | and admirable made to figure in the circus dust raised by a clown, the show is not worth the price of admission. This price is a loss of faith, if such be taken to the sanctuary, and a feeling of disgust on the part of those who do not claim the possession of faith, but have, notwithstanding, a regard for de- cency and reverence for tradition. A Sam Jones, with his blackguardism, or a Davis, with his moukcyshines, can do more harm to the cause of religion than a C. O. Brown, deprived of his mask. . . . Perhaps it is no part of my work to indulge in literary criticism, but the impulse led to the exploitation of crimes so salaciously portrayed as to taint May a kind heaven save the world from such bocks and from any such char- acters as infest its pages. The hero is a bigot of the robust sort, his one idea brutally cvershadowing his tendency to be human, except on a single occa- sion, to appreciate which one must read between the lines stuff at which mocesty demurs. This fanatic is such a repellant creation that when he gets killed the reader protests only at the tardiness of the event. As for the he- roine, she is a doltess, subject to gleams of intelligence which serve to light up an expanse of mental night as a tallow dip emphasizes.the gloom of a caye. In fact a certain roue is the only decent figure of any prominence in a list made up about equally of fools and hypocrites. The work is crude in con- struction, and the humor verges on sorrow. Mr. Caine has written himself down and out; down an ass, and out of literature. . . - . . In his pursuit of the dog-fighters who lowered the moral atmosphere of his barn at Washington, Senator Cullom will have general sympathy. The dog fight is worse than the prize fight, and the prize fight a grade below ment the tacit approval of inactivity, nor the use of his stable. - Of course the rumor that a lady was a spectator on the occasion negatives itself. A lady could not have been there, for being there would have made her something else. But if any female did lend to the affair the sunshine of her prsence and the shrilling of her enthusiasm as her favorite purp secured a fresh grip the canines in the pit had reason to blush for the company they were forced to keep. George W. Smalley is the latest to pay a tribute to English greatness and solicit Americans to bow down to it. Smalley has been bowing so long that his spine is humped. He had the misfortune to be born an American, but got over it at an early age. He had the additional misfortune to be born a toady, and instead of getting over it gives evidence that the malady has him firmly in its clutches. Some time, in a spasm of Anglomania, he will pass away, his knees sanctified by a splotch of British dust, and his lips puckered in a pathetic at- tempt to kiss the foot of some titled son of Albion who may in an unguarded moment have invited him to dine. His lips are puckered in this fashion now except when he is using them to denounce his native land. What Smalley needs first is new brains, and next, somebody to knock them out. . . . . . The situation abroad is peculiar, in that it is seldom that nations bent on robbery travel in flocks. When Engzland or a Continental country desires to steal something, which is most of the time, it is customary to see what field ker neighbors are looting, and with lofty unselfishness seek another. But this time England, Russia, Germany and France seem to have an under- standing similar to that between the James and Younger boys, to divide the spoils and plunder each other at the risk of marring pleasant relations. Ulti- mately rogues fall out. China is the chief victim of the marauders, Japan suffering only in losing that which she fought for. In this country we do not love either China or Japan. We have no reason for wishing them to grow powerful. But we do have a love of justice, and this compels us to object to civilization’s taking its course by as ruffianly and high-handed methods as ever pirate employed under the sable flag. And while this is going on the po- tentates and incapables of the Old World speak of the United States as “a muenace to peace.” Perhaps history affords no finer example of gail. . . B - - It has always been a puzzle why a lawyer should be freely given, if he desires it, the privilege of being a rascal, and not forfeit his standing at the bar nor in society. It seems to me that the current procedure in the Durrant case is enough to awaken in the minds of honest men a wonder that so much power should be delegated to the members of a profession who often devote their talents to defeating justice and making a mockery of the statutes. Any person accused of crime is entitled to a fair trial. But when his guilt has been demonstrated all should be at an end save the passing of sentence and the execution. That Durrant killed Blanche Lamont there can be no doubt, if in human affairs there is such a thing as certainty. Nor is the allegation that he did not have a fair trial true. His counsel were given every opportunity to make a defense; they simply had none.to make. By their quibbling and mis- representation from the first they showed themselves convinced of the guilt of their client. The newspapers have been accused of convicting Durrant. Happily they did have a part in the good work, but their course was perfectly legitimate, and even praiseworthy. Every clew that appeared they followed regardless of cost, and caring not to whom it might lead, so that it led to the monster of the belfry. But many clews came to naught, and the rest were traced so directly to Durrant that there was no evading the conclusion later reached by the jury. I confess to inability to draw any distinction between the conduct of the lawyers who are now trying to rescue Durrant from a fate richly merited, and that of the accomplice who passes into the hands of a condemned felon a file and saw with which to cut his way to liberty. It is my personal opinion that they are, morally, accessories after the fact, and that a code of honest laws honestly administered would hang Durrant by sunrise {o-morrow, with a Deuprey dangling on one side of him, a Dickinson on the. other, a Boardman and a Tubbs treading air not far away. This course might seem radical, but it would work a reform, abate a nuisance and tend to ame- liorate conditions against which .people. vnlnlz rebe.l. . The scheme of having two elevens of girls meet in a game of football is probably as vicious as any recently advanced. The only way to express dis- approval effectually will be to stay away from their exhibitions. Girls are fitted for many callings, but from certain ones a kindly nature has barred | the | ject, | thump a requiem on the box that them. They are not for war, and not being for war cannot be for football, which is simply war with every legitimate excuse for fighting left out. PERSONAL. Lloyd Englard, U. S. N, is at the Oc- cidental. W. D. Grady, a lawyer of Fresno, is at Grand. Captain F. H. Lafavor of Mare Island is at the Occidental. E. E. Biggs, a banker of Gridley, s registered at the Grand. A. M. Beecher. United States Navy, is a guest at the Occidental. J. H. Martin, a cattleman of Carson, Nev., is staying at the Russ. W. E. Nevills, the mining magnate of Jamestown, is at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Rulofson of Bakersfield are at the Grand. F. E. Snodgrass, a mining man of Spo- kane, Wash., is at the Palace. G. H. Woodruff, a football player, of Stanford University is at the Russ. Herbert Slater of the Santa Rosa Press | is making a short stay at the Russ. Captain W. Blakeway, Royal Engin- eers, is at the Palace registered from India. W. W. Middlecoff of the Stockton law firm of Louttit & Middlecoff is at the Grand. ' E. L. Beach, U. S. N., accompanied by Mrs. Beach, arrived at the Occidental last night. Professor W. R. Dudley of Stanford University and H. C. Dudley are guests at the California. ‘William Martin and Miss S. Martin of Dunkirk, Scotland, arrived at the Palace | last night from the East. John Rosenthal, after an absence of several weeks in the East, has returned and is living again at the Lick. Willlam I. May of Auburn, Clerk of Placer County, accompanied by his bride, arrived at the Russ last night. Rev. and Mrs. C. W. Huett of Denver, Colo., are guests at the Occidental. They are missionaries on the way to China. K Judge James F. Peck of Merced and Isaac Bird Jr., Prosecuting Attorney of Merced, arrived here last night and are guests at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Browne of Olympia and Mrs. C. V. S. Rice of Tacoma, Wash., arrived at the Baldwin yesterday to at- tend the teachers’' convention. M. Blumenthal, a Chicago bookmaker, accompanied . by Mrs. Blumenthal, ar- rived at the Baldwin last night from the East with A. Blumenthal, also a book- maker. F. M. Angellotti, a merchant of San Rafael, accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Angellotti, arrived at the Occidental yes terday and will remain in this city se eral days. Rev. Mr. Peck, pastor of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, will address a young men’s meeting at the Y. M. C. A. building this afternoon upon the sub- “Jesus of Nazareth, Then and Now.” Mrs. C. P. Bradford of Los Angeles, one of the delegates to the Teachers’ Convention soon to be held in this city, arrived yesterday at the Baldwin, which is to be the teachers’ headquarters. Her daughter, Miss Bradford, is with her. George A. Knight returned to the ecity vesterday from Washington, D. C. He is firmly of the opinion that the Senate will confirm the nomination of Judge Mc- Kenna to be Associate Justice of the Su- preme Court of the United States. Mr. Knight was in Washington for a long time. He saw the President, members of the Cabinet and other men of emi- nence. He says Judge McKenna is re- garded in Washington as a lawyer of ability. The opposition of Pacific Coast lawyers to his confirmation is not under- stood at the National capital. Graham Coghlan, son of Commander Coghlan of the United States navy, has been promoted to be third offi- cer of the China, the record-breaking queen of Pacific steamships, which ar- rived in port here Thursday from the Orient, three days ahead of time. Two years ago young Coghlan was in the car accountant's department of the South- ern Pacific, and at that time was one of the expert riders in Troop A, of which Captain Jenks was.then in command. Subsequently he shipped before the mast in the ship St. Nicholas for a trip round the Horn to New York, and afterward was in the coasting trade on the Atlan- tic.’ Last summer he returned to this city and shipped as quartermaster of the China, in which capacity he served until his arrival here several days ago. —_————————— POINTED PARAGRAPHS. The man who tells you he is no fool may be only mistaken. The barber is the only man who does headwork with his hands. The mercury never gets warm in its efforts to lower the record. It was originally intended to have sheet music sung by the choir. Some men act like hogs and there are others who do not need to act. The horseless carriage is a novelty but the cowless milk wagon is a chest- nut. . The longer a man is married the less he dodges when his wife throws at him. The most pitiful objects in this werld are girls who act like men and men who act like girls. Some married couples are so quarrel- some that they dare not sit near the open window for fear of falling out. The hotel clerk who puts on & brillant front is not the only pebble. A great many newspaper men use paste t00.— Chicago New: e P REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR It's a funny thing to think that in Noah's time Ham was no funnier a name than Japheth. The longer a man lives the more inai- dents of his boyhood he remembers that ever happened. nA woman may know best how to hold a baby, but it takes a man to know how hold a woman. mA zhud‘s main object in life is to do things, a woman's to see things and a man’s to have things. The woman who pays less for love than it costs will generally find that she has paid more for it than it is worth. When an old bachelor writes a poem about a girl who is dead, the women say it is a pretty little thing: when a man writes one who has lost his wife it is called a ‘“heart-throb.”—New York Press. —_————————— REED'S REPARTEE. Joseph H. Choate tells how he was blinded at a dinner in Washington by the flash of Tom Reed’s wit: I had been discussing the_constitutional amendment against gambling, traveling on passe: etc. 1 made the statement that I had never played poker, attended a horse- race or traveled on a pass. 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