The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 27, 1897, Page 4

The s PSR MONDAY DECEMBER 27, 1897 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Commu PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson stree Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY)Is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE .. 908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE.. Room 188, Worild Bullding WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE ... €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICE $--527 Moptgomery street, corner Clay; open untll 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 MoAlister 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. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 143 Ninth street; open untll9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'slock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. —_— AMUSEMENTS. adies’ Military Band. Orchestra. —Races to-day. : Orchestra. THE BUSINESS SITUATION. S it is the holiday season business is quiet alt oncr the countr; The merchants are busy king stock, the speculative markets are stag- nant, the winter demand has ceased and the spring demand has not yet opened, and the whole com- mercial body is therefore hibernating. From now to the middle of January the same condition will prob- ably prevail, unless this year is radically different from all others. But, curiously enough, it has been different. Dur- ing the past three or four weeks there has been a 1 trade, something almost unheard of at this n of the year. Along in the garly part of the month stocks of many commodities were found to be greatly reduced all over the country and the jobbers and retailers found it necessary to replenish them. Under this stimulus business revived; boots and steel and a number of other lines became active; in- ed railroad. earnings stimulated speculation in railroad shares, and the enormous exports of wheat and merchandise from Atlantic ports—greater, in . than ever before—sent the bank clearings up in 2ll sections and resulted in a large increase in the circulation of money. This revival in trade at the close of the year is singular, but we are told that it is but a harbinger It is the general im- pression that when the new year is fully opened the demand for all kinds of merchandise will be sharp. It is known that merchandisers in all parts of the United States have for years been buying from hand to mouth and carrying as small stocks as possible, and that assortments will have to be brought up to a merchantable condition. It is on this fact that the expectation of a lively period in trade is based. Whether it will be realized is of course a question, but from present indications it will. It surely ought to be in San Francisco, for we have z prospect not enjoyed by any other important city. With the ex- ercise of common commercial energy the merchants of this city ought surely to secure the bulk of the Alaskan outfitting business next spring, and as it will be of immense volume the stimulus to trade from this source is apparent to every one. If fimes are not brisk in this city during the next few months it will be largely our own fault. OQutside of the Alaskan question local trade is be- ginning to hinge largely on the weather. We have had less than the usual quantity of rain thus far this year, and talk of a possible dry season is beginning to be heard. Of course it is rather early yet for gloomy predictions of this sort, but it cannot be de- nied that the season shows certzin signs in that di- rection. The commercial classes, however, have learned to wait until after the turn of the year before getting alarmed over a rain deficiency, and prices have not yet been affected by the ontlook. But if the usual Christmas rains hold off much longer quota- tions for some lines of produce will surely be dis- turbed. In the present condition of the markets it will not take much to produce a boom-in some ar- ticles. Hay has gone up recently, and a dry winter will send it up to a fancy point little dreamed of a year ago, as stocks are 45,000 tons short. The minor cereals, too, are steady and sensitive and need very little to give them a radical advance. Dried fruits, likewise, will respond to an insufficient rainfall, hence dealers in these lines of produce are beginning to watch the sky with more than usual interest. Changes in the leading staples this week are few. There has been a small improvement in wheat, an advance in corn, a decline in barley and a boom in butter and eggs, the former being extremely scarce. Jut outside of these variations there has been very little change in quotations for either produce or merchandise except a fractional advance in sugar. There is no change whatever in the money mar- ket. Funds are in ample supply at the usual rates of interest and there is a moderate demand for loans on commercial and individual account. No failures of importance are reported, and collections are as good as they generally are at this time of year. Business men as a rule report themselves satisfied with the state of trade and sanguine of increased activity later on. of still livelier times to come. e e—s Howard Gould’s Christmas dinner was planned to exceed in sumptuousness any dinner that had ever been dreamed of by gourmet or executed by cook. Certain of the old Romans used to try this sort of thing. They are chiefly remembered now as gluttons and cited as advance indications that civilization was beginning to rot. e Probably Chicago will not build the Nicaragua canal, in spite of the rumor that such is the present intention. Chicago enthusiasm in the matter is likely duc to a belief that the canal could be trans- ported thither when completed and advertised as a local attraction. 3 Altgeld is a little late with his allegations that Bryan was elected. If he knew this it was his duty to spread the information before McKinley got into the habit of being President. R The statement that Barrios has no regard for human life must be subject to at least one exception. He guards his own with unflagging tenderness. ........ . Riggs House | | | 5 : E ation. shoes, woolen goods, hides and leather, iron and | lutio THE FREEHOLDERS' ELECTION. Y THEIR votes to-day the citizens of San B Francisco are to determine whether they will entrust the work of framing a new charter to a body of freeholders representing the conservative clement of the city, nominated by joint action of the | established political parties and therefore thoroughly non-partisan and pledged only to devise a charter in accordance with principles thoroughly American, or to a body representing a convention dominated by theorists, faddists or cranks, nominated virtually by themselves and pledged to frame a charter on an autocratic basis more in accordance with the monarchical systems of Europe than with our own. The argument of the campaign has made clear to the public the nature of the choice before them. Shall we have a charter that creates « petty despot under the title of Mayor and practically subjects the city to his domination, or.a charter that provides a form of municipal government whose duties are so distributed between the executive and legislative Lranches as to establish a true balance of power like that which prevails in our national and State govern- ments and which in its nature has become known among publicists as the “American system”? Shall we have a charter framed to meet the wishes of the people as a whole and in accordance with pre- cedents to which we are accustomed. or a charter framed to meet the political caprices of a set of self styled reformers and framed with the intention of forcing our political system into the form and fashion oi Birmingham, Berlin, Timbuctoo or some other piace outlandish and alien to America? Shall we have a charter framed by men who will meet as a body of freeholders, iree from entangling alliances with agitators and yellow journalism, free from pledges to corrupt bosses or to radical theorists, f1ee from self seeking and from the service of self scekers; or a charter framed by men chosen by yellow journalism, entangled with the schemers of all kinds, pledged to the adoption of untried experiments in municipal government, and either seeking personal advantage themselves or lackeying the cause of those who do? THE SAN DOMINGO PARALLEL. HE treaty to annex San Domingo, though Tbackcd by all the great influence of President Grant, was beaten. Thereupon Senator Mor- ton of Indiana offered a joint resolution for appoint- ment of an intermediate commission to report on the island. To this the House added a proviso that the resolution should in no way commit Congress to the annexation of San Domingo. During these pro- ceedings there was free discussion of the power of Congress to annex foreign territory by joint reso- The Texas case was erroneously cited then as it is now. The late Allen G. Thurman had some reputation as a constitutional lawyer, in fact he was regarded as the strongest lawyer in the United States Senate. In discussing this proposition during the first session of the Forty-third Congress he said: s “There is no clause in the constitution of the United States which provides for the acquisition of territory by joint resolution of Congress, unless it be one single provision, and that is that the Congress may admit new States into the Union. It was upon the argument that there is no limitation upon that power to admit new States into the Union, that it was not limited to territory belonging to the United States, but that territory belonging to a foreign power might be admitted into the Union as a State, that the joint resolution in the case of Texas was passed. But no one has ever pretended that you could by joint resolution annex territory as a terri- tory without admitting it as a State. You cannot by joint resolution annex San Domingo as a territory. You must annex her as a State if you annex her by joint resolution.” It remains to be seen how many Senators pro- pose to disrespect the constitution and how many to remember their official oath when they vote on the Morgan proposition to annex Hawaii by reso- lution. The Hawaiian planters are playing for high stakes, but it is hardly probable that they can make this country a byword by forcing themselves into it on such conditions as leave them all the sugar and give us all the thistles. Considered merely as a question of expediency, an- nexation has no standing when viewed Ia the light of American interests. But when considéred from the standpoint of our constitution it becomes repulsive. It is noteworthy that the San Domingo Commis- sion was ordered to investigate and report “on the desire and disposition of the people to become an- nexed to the United States.” At that time Baez, the President of San Domingo, was considered a usurper, held in power by a display of our naval force in those waters. His antagonist, Cabral, had the people with him in opposition to the schemes of Baez, including the sale of the country to the United States. It was continually asserted that if we did not take San Domingo Cabral would dis- pose of it to some European power. The reader will note the recurrence of each incident in the present attempt to annex Hawaii. The people of that country do not want annexa- tion. Senator Morgan attempted to dispose of that by saying, “It is not our policy to consult the natives of any country we want to annex.” That this is not true is shown by the solemn act of Congress order- ing a commision to ascertain the desire and disposi- tion of the people of San Domingo. If precedents are to be followed let them be followed. In 1894, while discussing the Wilson tariff, Senator Morgan said: “If I'were a Hawaiian I never would claim annexation to the United States—never. I would make Hawaii the Switzerland in the Pacific Ocean that Switzerland is in Europe, protected by all the nations of the earth, perfectly able to take care of herself under all circumstances and of the heaviest population that can go there.” The Senator has not favored the world with any reason for his change of view. He is now willing to trample upon the Federal constitution, the rights of the Hawaiians and the dnterests of white labor, all in one grand war dance. The country has a right to expect. that Senators who have taken an oath to protect and defend the constitution will point out the section of that instru- ment under which they can annex by joint resolu- tion, or at all. Senator Morgan has a bill ready to authorize annexation by resolution. Putting a bill between a joint resolution and the constitution will not break the blow aimed at the fundamental law, ‘What a spectacle do we present to the world in thisg proposition of the Alabama Senator! We appear not only as destroyer of the autonomy of a small nation sgainst the wish of its people, but also as the de- stroyer of our own constitution in order to consum- shate the wrong. e So long as a man is in good health he can get come amusement by watching the doctors fight. However, when he begins to feel the need of medi- cal attention he does wish that learned practitioners would be less positive in branding each other as frauds. proprietor of McCar- THE DUTY OF THE DAY. T IS the duty of every conservative citizen of San l Francisco to go to the polls to-day and vote for the fifteen candidates who represent the safe con- servatism of the community against those who are seeking to createan autocratic Mayor under the pro- tense of reform. These are the men to vote for: REPUBLICANS, I3. GEORGE E. DOW, Dow Steam Pump Works. 17. JOSEPH D. GRANT, merchant Murphy, Grant & Co. 24. REUBEN H. LLOYD, attorney. 33. GEORGE M. PERINE, contractor. 39. A, W. SCOTT, of Scott & McCord, hay and zrain dealers, 43. GEORGE D. SQUIRES, attorney. DEMOCRATS. 25. W. E. LUTZ, secretary building and loan associations. 26. JONN McCARTHY, thy Bros., spice merchants. 35. W.M. PIERSON, attorney. 36. JOSEPH ROSENTHAL, attorney. 43. C. B.STONE, manager breweries. 44. PATRICK SWIFT, capitalist. POPULISTS. 7. THOMAS V. CATOR, attorney. I1S. W.N. GRISWOLD, physician. 22. THEODORE H. HA'TCH, commis. sion mer nt. Take the list to the polling booth with you that no mistake may be made. Vote for every man on the list. Avoid scratching the ticket. Take no chances with the opposition. Remember that each voter is | to vote for fifteen candidates and the fifteen who re- | ceive the largest number of votes are to be entrusted | with the work of framing our charter. Vote for the | full number. Success is fairly certain for the cause of conser- | vatism and good government, but do not be over | confident. Go to the polls carlyand then see that your | friends go. We have had too many failures in our attempts to frame a charter to afford a mistake this time. Vote early and be sure you vote right. J N —— @ LIE A4S USUAL. N Christmas day the Examiner published a lie to the effect that five candidates on- the fusion ticket are not frecholders. The cun- ning of this lie was wholly in the fact that but two days intervened between the date of publication and the election. As both the intervening days were pub- lic holidays, the rascals hoped the lie would escape refutation until it had accomplished the object of de- i ceiving on election day as many as could be induced to believe it. Fortunately the rascal hope was frustrated. Affidavits and statements from the gentlemen as- sailed, published in The Call yesterday, completely: refute the lie and expose the mendacity of its fabri- | cator. It is another case of a lie nailed, another in- stance of the detection of the Examiner in the per- petration of a trick of contemptible meanness. That theyellow journal of theabsentee editor should have done this thing is not surprising, but it is sur- | prising that any set of men aspiring to the respect and esteem of their neighbors should accept such a | political ally and by silence give consent to the em- | ployment of its base tactics to defame and injure | political opponents. | The candidates and supporters of the fusion ticket | have made a clean canvass. Their arguments have been directed to the principles of municipal govern- ment and not to personalities. They have pointed out the evils sure to result from the adoption of a charter vesting such vast power in the hands of a | Mayor as would enable him to use the whole muni- cipal administration as a political machine to advance | the ambitions of himself and his friends. Against these arguments the yellow journal combination has poured forth all forms of abuse, slander and down- right lying. Intelligent citizens will take note of the difference in the manner in which the campaign has | been conducted by the fusion ticket and by the yellow | ticket and will vote for the clean men who have made | a clean fight and can be counted on to frame a clean charter. One good result will flow from the exposure of the | lie of Saturday. It will put the voters of the city on guard against the publication of similar lies this morning. Since Hearst is safe in New York and free from all fear of being brought before a Cali- fornia court his paper in San Francisco has no legal responsibility any more than a conscience to restrain it. It circulated anonymous slanders against The | Call and endeavored to throw suspicion of the authorship on reputable merchants.. It falsified a dispatch from Captain Tuttle of the Bear. It ex- torted a subsidy of $1000 per month from the South- ern Pacific Company for silence and after pocketing $22,000 broke its agreement. It has now entered upon another campaign of lying. It will do its worst this morning. Be not deceived by its blackguard- isms. So shameless a harridan of journalism should have no power other than to soil those who asso- ciate with it or consent to purchase its favor. THE PHELAN AND HEARST IDEA CCORDING to the yellow journal, which /L\Absentec Hearst has placed at the disposal of Mayor Phelan for this campaign, no man is fitted to serve as a Freeholder in San Francisco un- less he has inherited, like Phelan and Hearst, prop- erty holdings on a mammoth scale. The Examiner derides and denounces those can- didates whose holdings are of moderate extent. It declares them to be unfit to serve as Freeholders. It argues that the pcople should vote against them be- cause their holdings are small. It would have the task of framing a new charter composed wholly of men whose real estate is sufficiently large to make them something like lords of the land as well as land- lords. Such a qualification for Freeholders would com- port well with the proposed autocratic Mayor char- ter. - It would suit the Phelans and the Hearsts to have a city government from which the citizen of moderate means would be excluded altogether. Rich in the possession of large holdings left them by their fathers, these two would-be lordlings count it an im- pudence on the part of the citizen of average means to aspire to have a voice in framing a form of gov- ernment for the municipality in which they live. The people to-day have a vote on this idea of the Phelan and Hearst .combine. They will show by their suffrages what they think of the idea that a Freeholder must be 2 man distinguished by inherited millions. They have seen Hearst in journalism. They have seen Phelan in politics. They know what to expect of Freeholders of that type. The citizen of moderate means is not yet ready to surrender all right of a voice in municipal affairs to the holders of property with millions in it, and the attempt of the Examiner to discredit men of small holdings wiil result in discrediting only the absentee editor and the aspiring Mayor who prompted it to make the attempt. ¢ | importance s evident. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1897. INDIVIDUAL THOUGHT. BY A MODEST CRITIC. To-day there is an election. As usual the “Examiner” {s much in evidence with advice about it. To the thousands of Democrats who read this paper it is not unwise to say that the “Examiner” is ever an unreliable guide when good government is being sought. It is quite possible to be- lieve that a great mafority of voters seek good government. ‘Where has the “Examiner” shown its insincerity, and its lack of support of the best interests of the people? It would take pages to tell that story in detall, but how faithfully that paper loves the ‘“people” may be shown in a paragraph or two. When my hair was less white than now, Mr. George Hearst wished to become a member of the United States Senate. Mr. Stephen M. White op- posed his election vigorously, and on proper grounds. clected. The years rolled on and Mr. Hearst was compelled to die. came the choosing of his successor. enough in that campaign to keep his eyes open remember anything about it? Does he remember that at the foot of “Examiner” editorials appeared this, italicised? Then “Sit down on Mr. White.” Why? Because years before Mr. White had opposed Mr. Hearst's ad- mission to the Senate! Yes! for that, and for no other cause, Mr. White was to be “sat down on.” Not in the interests of good government, mark you, as I shall presently show, but merely because this distinguished man had opposed Mr. Hearst's desire to represent California in the Senate. Mr. White differs from my political economical creed, but that does not entitle me to belittle him. He who cannot respect 2 worthy opponent’s views has a childitke mind. Mr. White is a capable man. When a successor to Senator Hearst had to be chosen, the “Examiner” attempted to boost Mr. W. W. Foote into the higher legislative body of the nation. But it did not succeed. That was fortunate for the whole nation— as well as for California. Those of us who have heard Mr. Willlam Winter Foote and Mr. White, too, knew that Mr. Foote has more of that quality commonly called personal magnetism than has Mr. White. But as a clear reasoner, Mr. White so far outstrips Mr. Foote that there is no interest in the race. What we want in the Senate of this country is reason—it is not “personal magnetism.” the “Examiner” honestly wished good government, it would have -upponed: Mr. White, and not Mr. Foote. This subject !s given an amount of space that I had not intended, but its If it will eradicate from a single mind the idea that the “Examiner” is bent on good government I shall be repaid. The “Exam- iner” is not bent on government of the people, for the people and by the people. No! it is bent on the government of the people of this city by the “BExaminer,” and I deny its right to accomplish its impertinent scheme. The Chronicle’s strategic attache seems to be annoyed at my critictsm of his abilities. He comes to the charge with a feeble attempt at sarcasm anent the sugar trust. This would best be answered in the two words: “Beneath contempt,” if the possibility of conveying wrong impressions did not exist. In order that people genmerally may understand the sugar-trust business clearly, I make this statement: I have not been instructed what to write in any way. T express personal opinion—it is not editorial. But I am not to be denied the right of intelligently criticizing the Hawalian treaty now under consideration, because the editorial opinion of the paper for which I happen to write is on the patriotic and sensible side of the question. The “editorial end” of this paper is in abler hands than mine; is given expression to by capable writers. its opinion Most of the quotations which the Chronicle’s “strategic attache” gives from Captain Mahan, Admiral Walker and others, do but bear out my state- ment that to annex these islands is perilous in case of actual war. It is im- possible to quote from and comment on them all, even supposing I had a whole magazine at my command, and I have not. Captain Mahan says: “Shut out from the Sandwich Islands as a coal base, an enemy is thrown back for supplies of coal for distances of 3500 to 4000 miles.” That is untrue, but for the nonce admitting it to be true, how do we propose to shut him out? Shall we fortify these islands, or shall we Xeep our navy employed protecting them, allowing our enemy to make havoc of this Slope? supplies (coal or what not) we put a weapon in the hands of our enemies if we are unable to hold them. To make our 0wn coasts secure before com- mencing to grab other territory, is wisdom. The child beginning to be schooled in warfare is taught it is axiomatic to protect the stores. Even the ordinary civillan understands why, in other days, it was necessary to “spike the guns" before retiring. Admiral Walker, whose opinicn is due respect, says that Pearl Harbor “offers, strategically and otherwise, the finest site for a naval and coaling station to be found in the whole Pacific.” That is true enough, but it is no reason for annexing these islands. Germany does not intend to “annex” China because she insists on the privilege of a coaling station in the East. She wishes to use the coaling station in peaceful times for economic and other equally good reasons. General Schofield terms these islands an ‘“outpost.” That is but one more example of the fact that distinguished men often talk without thinking. ‘What is an outpost? ‘What its object? What its use? An outpost is established in naval warfare, as In miltary, principally to give warning to the main body of apprcaching danger. It prevents surprise, and incident- ally when attacked fights. An outpost i{s of no service unless it is in com- munication in some way with the force for which it is an outpost. It would take seven days to send tidings (with a large chance of their being inter- cepted on the way) from our “outpest” to us In case of war, and why an cnemy should choose to publish to us via Honolulu that he was going to at- tack the Pacific Coast, I must leave to the ingenuity of people of the type of the “Examiner’s” naval expert, and the Chronicle’s strategic attache to | explain. (Those who are certain that on annexation we should at once con- nect this country with the Sandwich group by cable, may save themselves the trouble of voicing that notion. In case of war if we had either stores or ships at Honolulu, that cable—if it had been laid—would very probably be cut. Our whole navy at this moment does not contain ships enough to patrol it efficiently. «I was already aware that not all the folly on the Hawallan matter had been written on this side of the Atlantic. The quotation from the “Boy In Blue” of the London “Times” had not escaped my attention. He expresses himself thusly: “The maritime power that holds Pearl River and moors its fleet there, possesses the key to the Northern Pacific.” My child, a fleet moored anywhere is useless to key any sea space, but | we will let you off easily. The path of this sort of reasoning leads to this: If we had a fleet at anchor in Diego Garcia we should bavé the key to the Indian Ocean; with aonother fleet moored near Funchal, the North Atlantic woa:d be “keyed”; | with a few more ships at St. Helena the South Atlantic would ve safe, and if still another fleet were gently cruising in the Brede Fiord in Iceland, the open sea which it is belleved surrounds the North Pole, would be safely locked up, as well as the whole Arctic Ocean being patrolled. The “Boy in Blue” of the “Times” is told that that fleet might for the time be spared, and sent to Port Stanley (Falkland Islands) in order that the Antarctic might be under éirect supervision. This being done naval operations against us would have to be suspended, for we have “keyed” the waters of the world!! Isn't that naval lore for you? How much more of such nonsense are we destined to hear? 3 There is but one sea in the world that is “keyed,” or that can be “keyed,” and It is “keyed” not by land defense alone. It is “keyed” and can only be “keyed” by the strongest navy in the world acting in conjunction with the strongest fortress on any sea-board. Senator Perkins again iterates his idea that it i{s his duty to vote for the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands by this country, because “the Pacific €lope demands it.” Apart from the inaccuracy of this statement I wish to point out to this distinguished gentleman what the Senate 1s and what the duties of its members are. The Senate of the United States is a council of representative men from each State of the Union, who are presumed to have minds above local issues; who are presumed to be able to sink self and sectionalism when thinking for the nation. That Senators have before now cemanded that this or that privilege must be granted before they would vote intelligently on another issue is no excuse for following the examples which have been set. The duty of a Senator is to think for the United States—not werely for the particular part of the Union from which he happens to be accredited. The partition of China by European powers furnishes our holiday excite- ment, and enables everybody to believe that something “is going to happen" to-morrow. Nothing particular §s. I do not object to talk, though, for it bas brought me merriment at a time when most of the inhabitants of the world are happler than am I. But my joy when laughing at a fool is su- preme! . Russia, it Is said, in order to be ready for her share of a quarrel which some would like to see ensue in the Orient (and which pageant they will for the present be denied) is to construct a canal which will connect the Baltic and the Black seas This canal we are seriously told will “enable Russia to mobilize a huge fleet in the Baltic in 167 hours.” How Russla is going to “mobilize a huge fleet” when she hath it not, I don't happen o know. Ex- planation from the “Examiner’s” naval attache is in order. The suggested canal could not be constructed in fifty years by a force of §00,000 men constantly employed! The engineering difficulties need not be referred to in detail, but at least a thousand miles of canal would have to be cut—the seas, as the crow flies, are 700 miles apart. How many years and how many lives did it take to make the Suez canal navigable? And that is only a hundred miles in length! There is another thing which Russia must face, too, if she constructs this canal—which she won't—but it will do no injury to that friendly power to point it out. Quite a large part of each vear the water in it would be frozen. 1 say the water would be frozen, for it can scarcely be supposed that it is ihe intention to supply some trillions of gallons of alcohol to keep it oven! By no other means—except the heating of water—could such a cnannel be sept navigable, and the world has not quite enough heating apparatus on nand at this moment to keep that canal warm. The position of a fleet caught by ice in a canal s cheering, but it is cheer- ‘ng to the enemy alone. In open water he is gayly pursuing his way to any seaboard that he chooses. The “Examiner's” naval expert doubtless im- 'gines that the fleets of Russia would not be sent through this canal in “the *0ld season.” It is pointed out to him that nations on war bent do not choose the exaet month that it would best suit the enemy to have it declared. —_— Florence Blythe-Hinckley would have had a happler time yesterday than most people of California it money could buy happiness—but it cunzot. A Had | If we make the Hawailan Islands a storage place for any | But Mr. Hearst was | Does any Demoerat who had interest | humorist has said that it buys “a very good imitation,” but that, too, is wit- less, for each being lives its own life « in its brain. When last I saw this unfortunate little woman she was ly- ing ill in bed (it was years ago). Sit- ting on that bed and tenderly nursing her was a mother with as sweet a face as mortals are usually permitted to see, In a chalr by the bedside was a may youth who seemed to have a consti tion four times as strong as that of ks wife. The mother and the son are “with the angels”; the then sick anq | now bereft wife is well, and apparently f | happy, but he who imagines that Flor- | ence Blythe-Hinckley does not Long for the touch of & vanished hand, And the sound of & voice that is stilled— knows less of the affection she had for her husband than I do. Money can- not bring that hand. Money cannot bring back the sweet words of affec- tion! It can but bring creature com- fort. Happiness f{t never produced, and it never wiil. PERSONAL. S. Ansel of Calistoga is at the Cosmo- politan. Judge J. H. Craddock of Marysvilie s at the Grand. H. W. Crabb of Oakville, a Winemaker, # | is at the Grand. L. M. Lasell, a merchant of Martinez, is at the Grand. T. J. Kirk, a schoolteacher from Fres- no, is at the Lick. Harry L. Titus, an attorney of San Di- ego, is in the city. . Dr. D. W. Rulison of Reno, Nev., 15 & guest at the Baldwin. Fred W. Burcell of the New York World is at the Grand. George J. Birkel, a music dealer of Sg Diego, is at the Palace. J. Moore of Stockton is registered the Cosmopolitan Hotel. G. L. McCandless, a druggist of Sacra- mento, is at the Grand. Ex-Judge A. P. Catiin of SBacramento arrived at the Lick last night. Francis A. Fee, a lawyer of Madera, is making a short stay at the Lick. Charles Francee, a furniture dealer of Salinas, is a late arrival at the Grand. Chief of Police James Russell of San | Diego arrived at the Grand yesterday. L. A. Spetzer of San Jose, Assessor of Santa Clara County, is registered at the Grand. Charles T. Lindsey, 2 mining man of Visalia, {s among the late arrivals at the Grand. George H. Fox, & mine owner and gen- eral merchant of Clements, is registered at the Lick. Fred Erickson, a rallroad contractor of San Luis Obispo, is making a short stay at the Grand. George Warwick Bird of Tacoma, re- ceiver of the Tacoma streetecar limes, is at the Palace. W. B. Scott, a rallroad man of Port- land, Or., accompanied by Mrs. Scott, is staying at the Russ. J. J. Smith, 2 Boston manufacturer of hardware and agricultural implements, is registered at the Grand. J. C. Shipley, principal of the Visalia schools, is at the Russ. He came up for the teachers’ convention. Charles Richardson, a merchant of Healdsburg, arrived at the Russ yester- | day with Mrs. Richardson. G. S. Bloss of Atwater, a real estate man in charge of the sale of the Mitchell estate lands, is gt the Lick. Colonel A. G. Gassen of Governor Budd’'s staff is in town from San Diego | and has a room at the Palace. Woods Crawford, who owns extensive tracts of real estate near Lakeport, i3 at-the Russ with Mrs. Crawford. J. W. Linscott of Santa Cruz, Couni Superintendent of Schools, is at th Grand, accompanied by Mrs Linscott. E. Rieker of Ukiah, on his way home from a flying business trip to Washing- ton, D. C., arrived at the Russ last night. Fred Emerson of Santa Barbara, a printer proud of his membership in that city’s well organized naval reserve, is in town for the holidays. Ex-Congressman A. Caminetti, lawyer and member of the Board of Code Com- missioners, is in town from Jackson. He is staying at the Lick. Harry McKenna, a horseman from Chi- cago, accompanied by Mrs. McKenna, ar- rived here last night from the East and is staying at the Palace. Cal.glace fruit 50c perlb at Townsend's.® e Special information supplied daily to manufacturers, business houses and pub- lic men by the Press Clipping Bureau {‘_Arllen's), 510 Montgomery street, San ancisco. Telephone, Main 1042. . ————————— Lord Edward Pelham Clinton, master of the Queen’'s household, has purchased George Eliot’'s former house at the Helghts, Witley, and will soon take up his residence there. “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup ” ‘Has been used over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colle, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. ‘Winslow's Soothing e a bottle. CORONADO.—Atmosphere s perfectly dry, soft and mild, being entirely free from the mists common further north. Round-trip tick- ets, by steamship, including fifteen days’ board at the Hotel del Coronado, $5: longer stay, $2 50 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco, or A. W. Balley, man- ager Hotel del Coronado, late of Hotel Colo- rado, Glenwood Springs, Colorado. e The Count and Countess Henrl de Frapkenstein of Rome, Italy, arrived in New York yesterday. The Countess is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Cullen Brewster of New York. —_—ee————— For throat and lung troubles use Low's Horehound Cough Syrup; price 10c. 47 Sansome street. > —_————————— Dr. D. R. de Simone of Naples and Felix Seghezza of Genoa are in San Francisco, making arrangements for a midwinter exploring trip from Ashcroft, B. C., to the rivers of the Yukon system. —ee— NEW TO-DAY. Many persons cannoz take plain cod-liver oil. They cannot digest it. It upsets the stomach. Knowing these things, we have digested the oil in Scott’s Emulsion of Cod- liver Oil with Hypophos- phites; that is, we have broken it up into little glob- ules, or.droplets. We use machinery to do the work of the digestive organs, and you obtain the good effects of the digested oil at once. That is why you can take Scott’s Emulsion. 50¢. and $1.00, all druggists.