The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 11, 1898, Page 6

JANUARY 11, 1898 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE _Market and Third Sts. S. F. Telephone Main 15, EDITORIAL ROOMS............ 217 to 291 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 mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE .. Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFIC Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE .. Riggs House €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open untli ©30 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street: open until 9:30 oclock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets: open until Co'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh st.: open until9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street cpen until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. One vear, by matl, $1.50 ..908 Broadway AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—* The Man From Mexico." German-Hebr: Cosmopolitan O: tr AUCTION SALES. ¥ 11, Horses, at 721 Howard Bire ock. A. F. Rooker—This day, Januar. t1l o By Frank at 510 Geary str erfield—This day, 1 0'clock. January 11, Furniture, HE hatpin seems to have engraited itself upon THE HATPIN'S NEW RENOWN. »dern civilization by embedding itself in the I iscular ue of the race. As a mere imple- ment devoted to the laudable purpose of keeping the feminine hat on straight the pin could never have at- tained to renown. The best it could have hoped for was a moderate popularity. But soon the pin found to be available in many directions. It would, when intelligently guided, pick a lock, open an ink bottle, furtively spear a pickle. In fact there would was be difficulty in naming all the things it was able to do. Then all at once the sphere of the hatpin widened. If a man in a public place crowded more than the exigencies of the jam seemed to warrant a sharp prod awakened him to a sense of error and | suggested sudden reiorm. The pin became a weapon | of defense. Far be it from us to say that it ever was | a weapon of offense. Let the men who have been punctured by it examine their own consciences and make plaint if they can. But just now the hatpin is at the zenith of its fame. It has vanquished a robber. He had invaded, with evil intent, backed by a gun, a Chicago street car, and he fled thence with a tiny drop of blood marking the place where the hatpin had pointed out to him his mistake. There was a woman in the car when he entered, and she drew her hatpin so hastily employed it so well that all he could do was to y “ouch” and go away from there. What recks it if the woman’s ¥ the while? sidew: sagged What if it even fell off? This was no ordinary occa- sion. The hatpin forever! THE LOS ANGELES SCHOOL SCANDAL. ' B the IASED to the verge of vicious partisanship 1e Los Angeles Herald when torial it said: “The articles in Tuesday relating to dal in this city formed one of ptible pieces of work of which an spaper was ever guilty. The Call placed its columns at the command of der that the latter might distort the facts | se the minds of the paper's readers with own questionable actions.” wanton misrepresentation there is needed only a plain statement of the facts. When the first disclosures in the Los Angeles school scandal were made The Call recognized the importance of the issue to the people of that section and indirectly to the State at lar It thereupon set about making a full and fair investigation of the charges and counter charges on both sides. Its representatives and special correspondents g: much time and careful study to the proceedings as they developed from day to day, in a 105t conte: alleged great n respect to h To refute tt and The Call itseli gave much space to their reports. The st notable feature of the case was the testimor given by Axtell and Adams, which incriminated Webb. Full reports of the evi- dence of these men were published in The Call, and then Webb asked for a hearing. The charges of the accusers having been made public, it was only fair to give the accused a chance to be heard before the same popular tribunal. To have re- fused his request would have been » denial of fair piay repugnant to every sentiment of justice and false to the settled policy of The Call of acting in all affairs of this kind with judicial impartiality. Mr. Webb, having been accused of gross offenses in office, had a right to be heard. We “pub- lished his statement as an essential part of the pro- ceedings in the investigation of the truth. He claimed that he did not have a fair hearing at home, and the violence with which the Herald attacks The Call for permitting him to be heard at all goes far to justify the claim. That fact was an additional reason, if any had been needed, why The Call should permit him to make the best defense he could against his accusers. When a charge is well founded justice suf- fers nothing by that liberty which gives the accised a chance to defend himseli. The Call is eager and carnest in the pérformance of the duty of exposing every corrupt practice that exists in official life. It desires to maintain, as far as possible, the highest standards of honor in the ad- ministration of all public trusts, and to that end gives prompt and powerful assistance to every movement designed to expose rascality and turn the rascals out. It does not intend, however, to act from biased mo- tives, prejudice or passion. Nor will it condemn any man unheard. It secks the truth and in all cases acts fairly, impartially and justly by giving a hearing to both sides. To do otherwise would be to perform what the Herald calls “one of the most contemptible pieces of work of which an alleged great newspaper was ever guilty.” One of the girls who is ambitious to shine as a football player has been arrested for vagrancy. She sprinted fairly well, but the policeman who tackled her was out of her class as to weight and she didn’t reach the goal. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1898 UNSAFE LEADERSHIP. HE policy of following the lead of Senator I Morgan in annexation or any other serious matter has doubts cast upon it by the conse- quences which are upon the country through listen- { ing to him in the past. The United States had claimed exclusive owner- ship of Bering Sea and all that swam therein. To make this claim good we had forbidden other na- tions to take seals in those waters, and when ships went sealing there under the British flag we captured and sold them as prizes. Eng- land disputed our claim of a closed sea and denied our right to make prizes of the property of her subjects. Finally the dispute was leit to ar- bitration and the nations were asked to sit in judg- ment upon our claim and its denial by Great Britain. Senator Morgan was appointed one of the American counsel. The tribunal met in Paris and after patient and learned investigation found against us on the claim of a closed sea and found us indebted to Great Britain in a sum equal to the value of the ships taken under her flag as prizes. We had agreed before the arbitration to abide by the verdict. Our Secretary of State, Gresham, and the British Minister at Wash- ington, after investigating the subject, agreed that under the verdict of Paris we owed Great Britain $424,000 for her ships taken as prizes. The Presi- dent sent to Congress a message apprising it of the verdict and asking an appropriation to pay it. Then was presented an opportunity for statesmanship of the Morgan type. The Alabama Senator was chair- man of the Committee on Foreign Affairs: he had been of American counsel at the Paris arbitration. He spoke by authority, and so speaking proceeded to declare that in asking an appropriation to pay this award the President was picking the pockets of the American people to curry favor with Great Britain. He declared that we did not owe England a cent for these prizes and uttered much more bar room dip- lomacy. The appropriation was refused, and at Sen- ator Morgan's instigation a supplementary court was created, subordinate to the Paris tribunal, to traverse the subject again, take testimony and reach a verdict as to whether anything was due Great Britain and how much. This court has just finished the labor, which occu- pied it nearly two years and involved sessions at Vic- toria, San Francisco and elsewhere, where numbers of witnesses were to be had, and has reached a unani- mous verdict that we owed Great Britain $424,000, as found by Gresham and Pauncefote, and that h interest swelling it to $464,000 must be paid by together with the costs of this supplementary court, the whole sum being $600,000. It has, there- fore, cost American taxpayers $176,000 to follow the advice of Senator Morgan. That is not the total cost. At the close of our Civil War we claimed damages of Great Britain for destruction of our merchant marine by Confederate privateers built, launched and armed on the Clyde. She denied responsibility and we asked the nations to sit in judgment between us. That high court met in Geneva and found a verdict for us and against Great Britain in the sum of $15,000,000. Britain without a sum moment’s delay or word of complaint paid that enormous fine into our treasury. Is Senator Morgan capable of appreciating the contempt and dishonor into which he brought this country by inducing Congress to refuse to stand by the Paris arbitration when the sum at stake was so pitifully small in comparison to that which England paid to us? Do his admirers appreciate the loss of standing and of character among the nations which we have suffered by his leadership? After this disgraceful incident should any one fol- low him into further smirch of the country’s honor by annexation of Hawaii against the protest of its people? THE FIGHT FOR THE RIVERS. p at this time. In both the Sacramento and the San Joaquin valley the revived hopes of the people have stimulated their energies and they are working with vigor for the accomplishment of the enterprise. The outlook is certainly prom The State officials are showing commendable activity. The Attorney-General has approved the contracts let by the State Commission for deepening Newtown shoals, and that work will begin as svon as a favor- able decision on it is received from the War Depart- ment. The United States engineers recognize the impor- tance of the improvements and are co-operating in the effort to obtain them. They have this year re- commended an appropriation by Congress of $280,000 for the purpose oi deepening the Sacramento from Newtown shoals to Sacramento, and as this is the largest sum ever recommended for that section it is an unmistakable evidence of the growing interest taken in the work by the national officials. Nor is it among officials only that we find evi- dences of an increasing purpose to bring about the much desired results. The people are aroused and are ready to do their share in completing the task of saving the valley lands from the recurring floods. According o the Sacramento Bee the farmers of Yolo are frecly signing an agreement to build up and connect the levee system to either side of a long and substantial overflow weir. The effect of this will be that no water will flow into Yolo County until the high water mark is touched by the flood at the city of Sacramento. Each of these things will count as a factor in sup- port of the bill introduced by Congressman De Vries appropriating $300,000 for river improvement, and if all the forces now in movement can be brought to work in concord we may reasonably expect the pas- sage of the measure. — Patent inside papers are yet passing about to an admiring constituency accounts of the beautiful presents Pugilist Fitzsimmons made to his wife Christmas. These are diamonds anad other costly ar- ticles such as the wife of the average man sees only in-a show window. And now comes an Australian paper relating with frankness little less than brutai how the parents of this liberal person have had to go to the poorhouse. There is no doubt that Fitzsim- mons is a hard man to whip, but if the paper quoted is not in error there is no doubt that he needs whip- ping as badly as any one who could be mentioned. ROSPECTS for the improvement of the river An evening paper known as the Bulletin has the bad taste to speak of itself as a “rival journal.” Rival to what? The thing excites moderate curiosity. Though the actions of Rev. Edwards Davis at San Quentin have been indorsed by his church, the church, it may be worth while to remark, was not there to observe the actions. systemn of California were never brighter than | | | | every | those who are ambitious to win the richest reward | correct view of the law. { Union men of ente | preparing to make full use | those of any of her sister States. A CHICKEN-HEARTED BOODLER. HE prospect that one of its editors will soon Tbc compelled to appear at the bar of the Su- perior Court to answer a charge of criminal libel seems to have completely unnerved the Mission street Boodler. For several days the Boodler has been writing up Judge Campbell’s court in a vi- vacious way, printing at the same time extensive ac- counts of that jurist's jokes—the evident intentica having been to reach his heart by flattering him. The Judge, however, has proved impervious to such blandishments. On Saturday he expounded the law of criminal libel contrary to the Boodler's expecta- tions. The change in the attitude of the sheet was im- mediate. Not only does it now link the law of libel with Judge Campbell’s character and denounce both as the aversion of all valiant champions of “the peo- ple,” but “it does not fear the result.” It is quite plain, however, that the Boodler does fear the result. Its talk is the merest bravado. The heart of the Boodler is in its throat. It thinks that at last a method has been discovered for making somebody responsible for its libels and slanders which, when made public, is certain to put an end to its irrespon- sible career. As we understand the proceeding before Judge Campbell, the Boodler sought to engraft the law of agency upon the law of libel. It attempted to estab- lish the principle that the editor of a newspaper is not criminally responsible for what appears in its columns—in other words, that the proprietor’s agents, having no special authority to libel people, are on the same footing as agents acting without the scope of their authority. To acknowledge this doc- trine would compel persons libeled by the Boodler to look to its proprietor, who resides in New York, and who is therefore beyond the reach of the courts of this State. Under our laws execution in civil ac- tions cannot issue against a defendant who has not | been pegsonally served with summons, and as | the nwnzm’ the Boodler cannot be personally served | so long as he lives in New York, to grant its theory of the law is equivalent to granting it immunity from the laws of libel altogether. We are glad that Judge Campbell has taken the A weaker man might have ielded to the blandishments of the Boodler, which is a fawner as well as libeler. There need be no fear oi the “liberty of the press” being interfered with. The constitution guarantees every man the right to speak and print his sentiments, so long as he exer- cises the privilege with a due regard for the right of every man to have only the truth spoken and printed about him. The Boodler’s privilege of levying trib- ute upon corporations may, it is true, be curtailed, but it cannot be said that this is one of the indus- tries of California which should be protected by law. Holding up railroads for “advertising” contracts may ; be a profitable business for the Boodler, and libel and | slander may be necessary instruments in prosecuting it, but if the Boodler éngages in that species of high- waymanry it must be prepared to take the conse- quences. The Boodler ought not to be afraid of a jail. should it be guilty of perpetuating the chicken- hearted farce of telling its readers that putting it in | jail is a “serious matter.” There is nothing serious | about putting the Boodler’s crew in jail. A jail is the i proper place for all journalists who commit unjusti- | fiable libel. Nor | SOMETHING GREAT FOR CALIFORNIA. [ = perity are to be seen OR the whole United States this is a year of | unusual opportunities. A thousand evi- | dences of the coming of an unsurpassed pros- on every side. All over the e and business sagacity are of the industrial revival. more or less great are to be undertaken in State. The competition will be keen and Affai for themselves and their communities must be prompt, vigilant and energetic. The prospects for California are brighter than In the wide | sweep of the republic there is no commonwealth whose opportunities in this year of promise are so golden as ours. We have every advantage of re- | viving industry and increasing trade that other American communities possess, and in addition thereto we have the promise of the marvelous traf- fic that is to grow up on this coast out of the com- ing development of the gold fields of Alaska. Men of light and leading among us have already | set about devising means to seize these oppormnhl ties as they arise and profit by every benefit they afford. Steps have been taken to draw the Alaskan trade to this city and to hold it. The Golden Jubi- lee will be an enticement to tourists and the min- ing exposition will attract miners of all classes from | those who labor with pick and shovel among the placers to those who have millions to invest in gold- bearing quartz. The plans devised for the Jubilee and the expo- sition are of such excellence as to merit the sup- port of all Californians who have the ability and the public spirit to support anything. The whole com- munity should join in the two movements with the i ardor of a genuine civic patriotism. There should | be no lack of active co-operating work, no lack of liberal contributions. This is the time to do something great for Cali- fornia. This is the time to show to the world the bountiful profusion of her resources, the rich pro- ducts of her labor and the industrial skill and energy of her people. State pride and commercial profit are alike at stake, and the issue appeals to both the business and the bosoms oi men. Unless the Governor of Georgia interfere a woman will shortly be hanged in that State. There will be a general hope that the executive will exercise his right of commuting the sentence to imprisonment. Women are not prone to murder. They do not com- mit one offense of this kind while men are com- mitting a hundred. They do not so notably need a | lesson nor show the lack of restraint. And in so many respects they do not stand before the law as the equal of men that the mind revolts against holding them equal in the matter of punishment. Mrs. Nack of New York has been sentenced to fii- teen years in the penitentiary, Her offense, it will be remembered, was that of killing 2 man and chopping him into bits easily portable. She certainly has no reason to complain. Not being old, she may be re- leased while yet vigorous enough to swing an ax. Young Mr. Fair's bar room fight in New York was perhaps worth telegraphing across the conti- nent. In other respects it was much like any one of a dozen “scraps” the observant citizen who stays out late may have the joy of secing any night or'even of participating in if such be his humor. | be abol: | the question, and that their decision should Fe3-3-2-3-3-2-F-3-3-3-3-3-3-2-2-F-F-F-F-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-F-3-3-3-3 =3 L =223 o4 BY MIRIAM MICHELSON. fag R =g uguy ] DR. CHAPMAN'S CRUSADE. fuReRugeyegel The members of the Market-street Congregational Church in Oakland are p;os- testing against the retirement of Dr. E. S. Chapman, who has decided to resign hi; pastorate and accept the superintendency of the Anti-Saloon League. Dr. Chapman is a remarkable man. most successful minister. Oakland. His children are grown. He has been a Methodist, a Presbyterian and is now a Congregationalist. of various .churches in Oakland, where he has lived for thirteen years. s He lives in a very pretty, comfortable home in West He is no longer a young man, lawyer, a politician, a He has been in charge He is a vet he is about to resign the ministry of a church, the people of which are united in their affection for him, and their desire to refuse to accept his resignation. “It is simply a question of duty,” said Dr. Chapman yesterday, running his hand through his thick white hair. “A minister is a teacher. His mission is to educate, to elevate public sentiment. If people find fault with the laws I tell them to raise their own standard, and the standard of the law-makers must be cor- respondingly raised. And this is work for the minister. ‘When I get through my work here and go before God he will ask me what I have done against the liquor curse of California. ““Well,” I can say, ‘I preached against it.’ ‘But before whom? To whom?’ he will ask. “And that 1 may be able to answer I must leave the church with which my relations are of the kindliest, the closest. over the State and preach against intemperance.” The words were spoken in a low, quiet voice. and very earnest. free and not cast in a stereotyped mold. sincerity. The 1 must leave my home and go out all doctor's manner is simple His broad, kindly face is animated, alert. His use of words is And there can be no question of his “The Anti-Saloon Alliance is a means for the union of all people who believe in temperance; not necessarily prohibition, and not excluding prohibitionists. Our one endeavor will be to do away with the open saloons, of which there is one to every ninety-nine people in California to-day; thirty-five times the number there is in Mississippi, which means that California men have thirty-five times the appetite for liquor that Mississippi men have. “Why? appetite. the thing is retroactive. Because they have thirty-five times the opportunity to gratify that It is the supply that in time will produce the demand. But do you remember what Beecher said about books. I'll admit that ‘I never knew how many books I wanted, how many I needed, till I entered a bookstore.” “People say, ‘Why, you can't regulate a thing like that by law; it's a question of morality." ““So it is, but so is theft a question of morality, and we make laws against it. So Is the relation between husband and wife a question of morality; yet we have laws in that connection. “Understand, I don’t hope to do away entirely with against murder, and yet men commit murder. that Government should Jegitimatize immorality. “This is the position of the league to-day of the people opposed to saloons. We believe that that that the majority should rule in all things. drinking. There are laws But I do insist that it is an outrage We believe that there is a majority majority should rule; not It would be absurd for us, supposing we're in the majority, to compel the minority to eat a certain kind of food and abstain from another kind. But, in a matter of this kind, where wrong is done, | where the very best and brightest of our men are enslaved by their own weak- ness, it is the duty of the Government to protect them from themselves. You'll observe that it isn’t the close-fisted, stingy, pin-headed man who needs protection. He's too mean to be a drunkard. But it's the man you admire, the man whose generous, warm-blooded, lovable qualities endear him to and of heart—he’s the drunkard. Now, hasn't a State the right to interfere for this man’s benefit, the very choicest, the most perfect—were it not for this one flaw— specimen of her sons? ‘“We believe that we have the right to educate public sentiment up to believing as we do,to make converts if we can. And we also hold that we have theright from time to time to vote upon this matter, and, if the majority declare against the open saloon, that it should be abolished. “This district in which I live voted overwhelmingly there are saloons in this district. the privilege of living as they choose. against open saloons, yet They accuse us of wishing to deprive others of They deprive us of our right when they permit a saloon in this district in oppcsition to the wishes of all the people who live in it. have the privilege of regulating that matter for itself. £ee, something has been done in the fight, when on the If District A, for instance, votes that there shall be saloons, it should But so should we. You train going up from New Orleans to Washington there are notices to the effect that no liquor may be sold 1n. passing through North Carolina, South Carolina and win is one of the enemy’s outposts taken. Georgia. Every point we “'Of course, you understand that it doesn’t occur to me to try or to wish to pro- hibit a man from drinking. I don't believe that there world to-day who dream of such a thing. earth to prevent my doing so. where I .lived for a time, walk in front of his place tempt the vice-ridden men who passed. What power to heart should be strengthened, not dellvered over to the enemy. | position. I may buy, I may swallow poison. law to punish the man who sells me that poison. with damaged meat that will sicken my family. But the man who sells such meat Is amenable to law. “We do not assert that If .a people vote in favor hed. tion, which s all confirm or contradict their verdict. ““Would the abolishing of saloons work harm to innocent people? But a minister has no right to think of expediency. | ruined the Southerners, but it did not wrong them, for Wwrong, in opposition to law; perhaps not expressed, not right, against which the ope Fortunately, I have h with ‘malice toward none, with charity for all'—I he words—but with the determination to do temptation to drink.” If you do not agree with Dr. Cha him. If you do agree with his view: only a v: id to make the world live prised to find in th in the right, live according to his narrow, ill is man a hearty, hyman, humoro but able to defend his ation, easy, vigorous, natural rum order, and a cheery prejudice. is a set of cranks in the If I wish to drink there is no power on But if 1 wish to sell liquor there is a power whose business it is to forbid my tempting my weaker brethren. ‘Why, in Dayton, Ohio, I have seen a saloon-keeper pour whisky upon the side- that the hot sun might cause the fumes to evaporate and resist there is in a man's No, this is our Alcohol should be as subject to laws as is poison or damaged food-stuffs. There is no law to punish me. But there is a ‘Why, I may supply my table I could not be punished for that. of saloons saloons shall But we do hold that the people should have the right to vote upon be law—for the time; till another elec- i The freeing of the slaves thelr siavery itself was a written law, but the law of n saloon is a gross, flagrant violation. am going into this fight with the hope and the desire to free California from | the greatest curse that modern civilization knows. I shall go all over the State. ad considerable experience in publi¢ speaking. I go into this ard Lincoln when he said those all that there is in me to free men from pman you'll none the less respect and admire e s youw'll be justly proud of him. L of the temperance reformer as a species of bigot, who is trying iberal formula, [ us fellow creature, quite sure position with sound 1 speech, in which there is nothi; willingness to argue the question If you have you'll be sur- argument, apt illus- ng of the demon-of- without passion or THE PARSONAGE, COTTONWOOD, Sir: I cannot refrain from writing a line to you to you for the object lesson which you gave to and through them to the world in your Saturday For some time I have noticed and fav, sence of all vulgar sensationalism in pleased on Saturday with the absen R R S S N R N R R R NN RN RE NN RN RS S AIMS TO GIVE NEWS, NOT FILTH. , Jan. 10.—Manager The Call: the people of California i3 g 8 i to express my thanks vou, the man of mind | Possibly. | execution. filth to its customers. duce a clean, pure paper whose aim seems to deserve, believe me yours faithfully, edition of The Cali = orably commented upon the ab- & your paper, but I was particularly ce of illustrations of the Durrant & o I thank you for thus proving that San Francisco can and does pro- ; be to give news and not % Hoping that you will receive the support you & WILLIAM D. KIDD, . Pastor Congregational Church, ® 2883238258&'!238!232233852?2§325828383888338888853898828338832838288?8 COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS | John Smith, a Petaluma rancher, is at the Lick. A. R. Pike, a horseman of St. Louls, is at the Baldwin. Nellie McHenry, the actress, arrived at the Palace yesterday. L. A. Spitzer, Assessor of Santa Clara County at the Grand. C. M. McLaughlin, a San Jose capital- ist, is at the Occidental. E. Waldo Ward, an actor of New York, is at the California. 1. Hodgeson, a prominent merchant of Chicago, is at the Palace. N. R. Neary has come up from Santa Cruz, and is at the California. +eeseesssesecees Last night a meeting of the ANEW MINING principal mem- bers of the Kot- VENTURE. zebue Commer- cial and Mining Company was held in rooms of the Grand Hotel. Only about twenty members were present and nothing was done more than to discuss in a general vay the plans and hopes of the organiza- tion. The Kotzebue Mining Company is an organization composed of some of the leading business men of the State, which has for its object mining and trading in the vicirity of Kotzebue Sound, a body of water in Alaska which runs in off the Arctic Ocean a short distance above tne Eering Straits. The company intends building or buying its own vessels and will start for the north about next April with sufficient sup- plies to last it two years. The capital stock of the concern is $1,000,000, of which amount $320,000 has . already been sub- scribed. The stock is divided into 10,000 shares of $100 each and will be distributed among fifty members, to which number the company will be limited. The officers of the organization are C. C. Gleaves of Redding, president; general manager, L. C. Frishea of Anderson; vice-president, Dr. A. M. Gardner of Fresno; Otto Shackelford of this city. o o oY" L. G. Ronsohoft, a business Lake City, is at the Baldwin, J. T. Hare, a well-known busi of New York, is at the Balrlwln.ne!’ e Dr. A. M. Gardener, sy, Ti) X B 1t the Napa Insane Asylum, i‘:utnt;:dfllék.“ J. R. Lyons and M. Chabot, men of Walla Walla, are at in?fi:k?m Harry Lansing, a large ra B nch Oregon, has registered at the Cn’ilrzl;ni:t roogorze H. George, a capitallst of As. , is a tor € Occldental with his fam- S. J. Kaufman, a at the Baldwin fro; tory. J. L. Koser, the manager of the Spreck- els Sugar-mi Grand.g mills at Watsonvme, is at the Dr. C. C. Gleaves of surgeon of the Bear, Grand. H. M. Yerington, a man of Carson, Nev. Palace. S. T. Black, Su Instruction, is at man of Sait miner of Dawson, is ™ Washington Terri- Redding, formerly 1S a guest at the Prominent railroad » IS staying at the perintendent of Public the Lick from Sacra- mento. M Said 8 V. THE fii‘;."émi 1:3;!;:: PLEASURES ping at one of our OF HopE: § e 2l to the coast: “I eeeeeesececee 100k o oll along the city front last Sunday, am: ‘:vu much struck with the number of able- bodied men who were engaged in sup- porting lines that were let ‘down into the water. I will not say they were fishing, for they simply lowered. the line into the bay, and then, settling themselves com- fortably against a pile or heap of lumber, drifted off along the unexplored paths of speculative thought, which invariably lead to slumber and oblivion. I accosted one of these fellows, whose line was let down through a crack in the whart barely a quarter of an inch in width, and asked nim how he expected to get a fish up through so small an aperture. ‘Well; said he, ‘I don’t know. You see, in tha five years I've been coming down here | have only had one fish on SR B string, and he was a crab. a heap of satisfaction in thing to bite—just as a f what he weuld do if he W R. P. Schwerin of the Pacific MMail Company has gone to New Y ‘ business trip. R. Demming, a mining man cc with the Treadwell mine, is stay the Occidental. Dr. W. E. Mack, who accompanied the river boat Vallejo to the mouth of the Yukon, is at the Grand. C. A. Low, formerly with I Steele & Co. of this city, has retur: from New York, and is at the Palace. Miss de Courcey Corbett, a promir Irish society lady, iS ree red at Occidental. She is traveling through United States on a pleasure tour. F. E. House, general superintendent ot the Pittsburg, Bessemer and Lake Er. Railroad, and wife, accompanied by M« H. A. House, are visiting Mrs. A. L. House of 1411 Hyde street. Colonel A. E. Leonard, proprietor of thi Lawrence Dal Jou of Law « Kans., also tax commissioner of ti Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memp Railway, is in the city, on his way visit a large ranch he owns near Gilroy. Joseph McGillivray, one of the pioneer miners of this State, has returned to San Francisco after an absence of fourteen years. Mr. McGillivray is at present operating mines for a London company in British Columbia. J. D. Barnes, who arrived here a few days ago from the gold fields of the north, and whose good luck in that por- tion of the globe has already been pub- lished, met with a very pleasant sur- prise vesterday afternoon in the office of the Palace, where he is stopping. His brother, J. L. Barnes, and he have beer separated for nearly fifteen years, ana though they have spent many thousand dollars in searching for each other they\ were always disappointed in their quest. Yesterday they at last came together, and the reunion was a joyful one indeed. | eoeeoeeeceeess Yesterday jolly | Miss Nellie Mc- | Henry, who Is at N SouCHE i ot | $ OF NATURE. { into a Market- | . i street car in front 4 of the door of her eeeosecocccces | hotel to go up to }the Baldwin Theater, wearing in the bosom of her gown a large bunch of vio- lets, tied with a purple ribbon. Seated in the place directly opposite to her was | a frail little fellow, who could not have { been over twelve years old. He was evi dently a sufferer from some sort o spinal trouble, as his head and the uppe portion of his body were inclosed in a frame of steel and leather, and an armed brace was tightly strapped to one of his legs. Poverty, too, had set its hand on him, as his clothes, though clean, were old and threadbare, and there were holes in the fingers of the cheap cotton glove worn by his sister, who accompanied him. The violets worn by Miss McHenry caught his eyes, and, turni he whispered something to Mis sister, who blushed and told him to wait a while. He remained quiet, but continued to gaze at the flow- ers with all the power of his lar eyes. Just before reaching her destina- tion Miss McHenry’s attention was a tracted to the little fellow, and, not his evident admiration of the flowers sl was wearing, she took them, ribbon an all, and handing them to him, told him to wear them for her sake, and got off the car. After her departure it, somehow, seemed as if the sun came into the car from both sides at once. —————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. SILVER DOLLARS — Correspondent, Milton, Cal. Silver dollars of the United States are a legal tender to any amount unless otherwise expressed in the c tract. 4 A CONVICT—F. H., City. A convi‘: out on parole does not by reason of his being out in that manner regain his civil rights, consequently he is not entitled to vote. In order to be restored to civil rights a convict must first be pardoned. HALF-DOLLAR—Coins, San Jose, Cal. The half-dollar of 1861 you have is one of the last of that denomination coined in the United States branch mint in New Orleans. There is no demand by deal ers for such. Dealers offer them for 85 cents. Neither is there any demand for Maximillian dollars of 18 | fered at from $1 75 | COPPER CEN ., City. Copper | coins of the United States are a legal tender in any amount not to exceed 25 cents. If you offer five 1-cent pieces in payment of fare on a streetcar the con- ductor is bound to accept the same. h fact that a conductor refuses to tak: such from you in tender of fare does not alter the fact that the amount you tendered was a legal tender, and it he allowed vou to ride free that is a mat- ter he will have to account for to the company. —_——— Cal.glace fruit 50c perlb at Townsend's.* Such are of- | = e | Mocha pistache, pineapple cake. %05 Larkin ———— Open Sundays till 2 p. m. Genuine eye- | glasses, specs, 1ic up, at 33 Fourth st. * — Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the | Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery st. Tel. Main 1042. s —_——— Lady Coventry, who was married in 1815, and is the mother of six sons and three daughters, has a hobby for collect- ing antique and beautiful things, and at Balfour Place, her handsome Londo: | house, there are some of the finest spe: mens of Chippendale in existence. She also possesses much beautiful old china and many fine pictures. ———— ANGOSTURA BITTERS are endorsed by leading physicians and ¢iemists for pu wholesomeness. Get the senuine.—Dr. THROAT TROUBLES. To allay the irritation that induces coughing, use “Browa’s Bronchia Troches.” A simple and safe remedy. —_— e During the late Dr. Houghton's minis- trations at the Little Church Around the Corner one of his parishioners was ac- cused of forgery. The doctor hastened to him and received a confession of his guilt. He advised the man to plead guilty, which was done, and nearly every day of his service in prison the rector visited and comforted him. ———————————— NEW TO-DAY. Absolutely Pure ROVAL BAKING POWDER €O., NEW YORK.