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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1898. Call .FEBRUARY 11, 1808 FRIDAY... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. | | EDITORIAL ROOMS.... 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns | for IS cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per montb | 65 cents. | THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE. Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. | NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Building One year, by mall, $1.50 ..908 Broadway | 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 until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2526 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets, open -until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—“Girl from Paris.” Callfornia Theater—Black Patt{'s Troubadours. a—*" What Happened to Jones.” Charley’s Aunt.” “The Unknown.” ‘The Pear] of Pekin." “Hebrew Opera Co,, Sunday night. dy streets—Spectatties. .ts—Song Recital. e. air and Klondike Exposition, and Raceirack—Races to-day. Iis and Vau Mechanies' tiornia Jockey Club, C February 11, Turkish | STILL GROPING IN ERROR. | HE Chronicle sees in the annexation treaty as | its chief merit that “it is designed to open up a wide field of enterprise for white men now un- | | | AUCTION SALES. By Frank W. Butterfield—This day, Rugs. at 116 dutter street, at 2 and § P. M ‘ | THE HOMICIDAL SUICIDE. | LEVELAND has a chance to show whether a | C man of morbid tendencies has a right to kill | himself when the operation involves the carry- ing off of people whose inclinations have not been | consulted. Just because oneindividual happensto have | chronic indigestion is no logical excuse for his treat- | ing his malady with a remedy so comprehensive as to take in every one in the vicinity. In illustration of | this point may be cited the case of a Cleveland man with a wife and nine children. The man was not of a happy disposition. The world had palled. The | prattling of infants did not soothe him. The other | morning the entire tribe was found unconscious from | the effects of gas. Many of them will die. The fel- low who turned on the gas, however, deserves to live | until certain preliminaries can be attended to, and | then he ought to hang on a gallows of extra height. Certainly he could not object. He pines for death, and death by hanging has many advantages over the same thing by The State pays the expense and the estate is not cinched for the cost of the destroying fluid measured off by an active meter. occupied because of Asiatic While the meaning of this is obscure, like the meaning of all utterances on that subject by the an- nexation press, we take it to be that at present Asiat- | ics, principally Japanese, hold the labor field in Hawaii | against all comers. We should think that ardent an- | nexationists would express regret that the Dole Gov- | crnment, in the nearly five years it has been in power, | has not freed the islands from the Asiatics and proved that the plantations can be worked by white labor. As we have pointed out, Dole has been supreme. None could defeat or obstruct any policy he chose to | follow. If white men could have worked the planta- | tions he should have proved it. What his acts have | failed to establish cannot now be made sure t; a| paragraph in the Chronicle. Dole's mission to Wash- ington has been accomplished. It was to make sure | the right of the planters to import Japanese coolies. They are being landed in Honolulu now in shiploads of 500. Hundreds of thousands of acres of virgin | sugar lands will be planted immediately upon annex- | ation, and the planters are taking time by the {ore—[ lock in importing their coolie labor. ‘ We have asked the Chronicle to point out any place | in the world where sugar cane is raised by free white labor, at white wages, and it has not found such a place. We state it as a fact irrefutable that the only sugar | ever produced by white labor at white wages is beet | sugar. Annexation means that American beet sugar | is to be sacrificed to'the cane sugar and coolie labor of Haw No one has yet quoted anything from the annexa- tion treaty that disproves this, because it is not there to quote. But Mr. Dole was not content with the negative permission of coolie labor in that Janus-“ faced document, and the object of his trip here was to | make a side bargain that leaves Hawaii permanently open to Japan. | Somebody has written in the Stockton Mail an able editorial in denunciation of the vagrancy law. The article calls this law a blot upon the statute book. It is exactly this. Under its benign provision any man out of work and seeking it is likely to be | thrown into a jail, for the sake of the arresting offi- cer's fee, and when released to have a similar ex- | perience with the next constable who happens to see | him. The law as it stands is not only unjust, but ridiculous, and in all probability a test would show it to be unconstitutional. —_— With every appearance of frankness the Stockton papers are calling attention to the fact that there is corruption in San Francisco. Their information does not come as a surprise. Indeed it merely gives rise to a belief that they have been reading The Call, which has lately contained several remarks on the subject. In fact, there seems to have been"so much corruption here that the importation of an extra lot from Stockton was clearly superfluous. e Circumstances would look brighter for the Dep- uty Sheriffs on trial for killing strikers in Pennsyl- vania if the men had not all been shot in the back. While it may be true that a striker is sometimes a dangerous man, when he is engaged in running away the excuse for sending a bullet after him does not stand forth impressive and final. % Mr. Lynn of Oakland can hardly hope to convince the world that the Lord told him to kill Mrs. Lynn, but if he can succeed in making the world think he believes he got such an order it will be a good move ia his game CORPORATION NERVE. ONUMENTAL nerve may alwaysbe expected M from corporations, Having nosouls these crea- tions of the law are furnished with an assur- ance wlhich, measured by the ordinary arithmetical rules, runs into figures too vast to be comprehended by the human mind. In the production of corporation nerve the glorious climate of California stands first in the world. Our HE Spanish Minister has taken his pen in hand and cut off his hedd. He is a victim of the epistolary habit, a complaint that carried off the Hon. Sackville West in 1888. The offenses of these two diplomats are mild, | however, in comparison with the attack of foot and | mouth disease which undid the Citizen Genet, sent | here as the Minister of ‘France in the midst of the ‘ THE DE LOME INCIDENT. | ) | to arms to fight for France. | fective in the eyes of Mr. Boies. | French revolution. He landed at Charleston and seemed to assume that he was sent here to order us He found the people ready to shout and immediately began issuing proc- lamations, holding public meetings and making speeches, before presenting his credentials to the President. Seen in the perspective of nearly a cen- tury the affair is merely fantastic and funny, but it is probable that no other country was ever put under such a peculiar strain as’that to which the French- man subjected this. He freely criticized the Presi- defit and Secretary of State, and acted as if he had it in mind to depose the administration and take charge oi the country himself, following the method by which Bonaparte was in the habit of unseating kings and putting in their places his brothers and brothers-in-law. Citizen Genet was finally sup- pressed and sent home, foaming at the mouth, and was not heard of again. Compared with him Sack- ville West and De Lome were models of prudence, though one ict himself be tricked by a decoy letter into writing about the domestic affairs of this country and the other has permitted his resentment and anger to get the better of his discretion, and the wrestle was not hard, for his discretion is not robust. His Spanish countrymen who compose the Cuban Junta have a perfectly clear comprehension of the sit- | uation. They counted with certainty upon their ability to goad him into making a false step and ex- posing him in it, and they have succeeded. The incident gives rise to some inquiry into the re- lations of the United States to diplomacy and our in- ternational relations. The Senate is part of the ex- | ecutive when treaties are made, and comes directly in contact as such with the representatives of foreign Governments. Members of the Senate have not recently sought | to butter their diplomatic parsnips with soft words in their characterizations of the Spanish Government and people. rided, and everything from the Inquisition to the quality of Havana cigars has been flung in her face. One Senator deliberately said that she was a nation of thieves and robbers. The epithetic and invective resources of our language have been pumped dry for verbal ammunition to use against the Dons. It may be hard to convince foreigners that Senators who show such violent prejudice and express it in such violent language, as legislators, can enter the secret session and sit with diplomatic fairness and courtesy over international matters with the same country whose people they have publicly denounced. De Lome seems to have been unable to comprehend this. His | country needed in his place a man incapable of being affected in his temper by the almost daily violence | AN INTERESTING CONTEMPORARY. O and abuse in Congress. Perhaps the fact that he was not such a man, and that he will be probably suc- ceeded by one like himself, is evidence of the weak- ness and decay of Spain and proof that fate is not fighting on her side. —— |EXCESSIVE CANADIAN ENTERPRISE. ANADIAN enterprise has undertaken to con- C struct to Dawson a railway line which, accord- ing to its promoters, is to be wholly on Cana- dian territory. The proposal has a certain noble sound that has won admiration, but it will watching. of the kind that overleaps itself. Canada may have undertaken more than she can accomplish. A railroad starting from any Canadian point and running to Dawson through British Columbia would be extremely costly, and the line would be so long that years would be required to construct it. The only way to make a short line capable of speedy construc- tion would be to start from some ‘point on the sea- coast opposite the Yukon Valley, but 1t is more than doubtful if Canada possesses any point so situated as to be available for the purpose. No less than five routes have been suggested and discussed in connection with the proposed enterprise. Three of these are designed to make the starting place at some point on the Lynn Canal, a fourth starts from Taku Inlet, and the fifth, which according to late reports has been almost decided upon, is to make the point of departure from the sea at Stickeen River. By either of these routes a comparatively short line would reach the headwaters of the Yukon Valley, and the construction could probably be com- pleted as proposed within a year. There is on one and all of these short routes, how- ever, a difficulty which the enterprising Canadians have either overlooked or chosen to ignore. The United States lays claim to all that portion of the Alaskan coast. It is true the boundary of that part of Alaska has not been surveyed and determined by the two Governments and Canada may possibly have a water front at the Stickeen, but the chances are the territory around the mouth of that river for at least twenty miles back belongs to the United States. [f this claim be found correct when the official sur- vey is made, what will become of the “all Cana- dizn” route? The American people admire enterprise. They have noted with admiration the swiftnéss of the Can- adians to seize everything within their reach on this coast from the soil of Alaska to the seals that swim in the sea. Admiration, however, does not imply a willingness to yield to the admirable object. It not infrequently excites emulation and desire to set up as a rival. If the Canadians in their eagerness to get an | all Canadian route to the Yukon should take posses- sion of territory that belongs to us, we may feel so moved by admiration of the enterprise as to set forth and take our coast line back again and the whole Yukon Valley along with it. -Another cure for consumption has appeared and will be welcomed. The world is perfectly willing that this disease shall be exterminated, and has boundless faith. The latest cure has advantages not to be claimed by its predecessors. In the first place, it is not enwrapped in mystery, and it is not produced by incantations only effective if conducted with the moon in a certain quarter. If borax is fatal to the bacilli of tuberculosis any man with lungs only partly caved in can go into the desert with a shovel and scoop enough of the remedy up to insure him such a dose of longevity that he may get tired of it. It would appear that a man intent upon committing a cold-blooded murder. should first take a few drinks. Then a jury will pity him for having been led into error and decline to treat him to the hanging he really deserves. o R That Horace Boies of Towa should be in favor of a new policy is not surprising. A policy which fails to bring him prominently to the front is naturally de- Spain has been openly abused and de- | pervisors increase water rates. bear | It is possible the enterprise may be one | corporations have long worn the belt for the cool- ness with which they put forward what used to be known on the sand lot as “thieving propositions,” But no exhibition of corporation nerve ever pre- sented to the people of this city has exceeded in mag- nitude the recent application of the Spring Valley Water Works to the Board of Supervisors for au- thority to increase water charges. To understand this proposition it is not necessary to inquire as to the rate of interest paid by the corporation to its stock- holders, nor as to the water in its capital stock, nor as to the character of its management, which, we be- | lieve, even by its enemies, is admitted to be excel- lent. What the outside investigator would like to know is the theory on which President Howard argues that the people of San Francisco ought to provide money for “new construction.” If the people are to con- tinue to pay for putting in pipe lines and building reservoirs, is it not about time that they should be allowed interest on their investment? If the stock- | holders of the Spring Valley Water Works cannot provide against the danger of dry seasons and re- plenish their water system as fast as it wears out, on what reasonable ground can they demand that the ratepayers shall allow them 6 per cent on their al- leged investment? The Call does not sympathize with the constant en- | deavors of the demagogues to create public preju- dice against corporations. As a rule we think the purpose of most assaults on what the politicians call the “public utilities” is blackmail and political plun- der. But it is just such things as this demand on the Supervisors by Spring Valley for an increase in water rates which gives the blackmailers their handles. For years President Howard has been assuring the public that if it would only help ' him build the Crystal Springs reservoir he would put a water famine forever behind him. Yet the first chance he’ gets he comes forward with an alarming story about -the tardy rain and a plaintive appeal for more money with which to make his water supply more secure. Under no circumstances whatever should the Su- If the stockholders of Spring Valley desire to improve their supply system they should provide the money themselves or author- | ize their board of directors to increase the capital of the corporation and sell shares to raise the amount. The most they can ask the ratepayers to do is to liquidate operating expenses, pay interest on the company’s debt and allow a fair dividend on the actual capital invested. Not a dollar of the people’s money can be justly expended on “new construc- tion” or in rejuvenation of the plant. UR esteemed contemporary, the Congressional Record, is too often regarded by the general public as a mere depository for political bun- combe and thrown into the waste basket without further ado. This rude treatment it does not always deserve. Occasionally it contains a good deal in the way of poetry and general criticism, and on such oc- casions repays attention as well as merits it. The issue of the Record for Jaruary 27 is an in- stance in point. Take this as a sample of poetry suitable for quotation in debate on the great issues of the day: O Mammoth Cave, what a spot— In summer cold, in winter hot. Oh, what an awiul wonder! Hell and damnation gone to thunder! The meaning, moral and significancé of the verse | are so clear and so suggestive to the mind, it is | hardly necessary to say it was used to illustrate a point raised during a debate on an appropriation bill for the District of Columbia. It is to that section of the Union and to that subject only that such a verse could be made to apply without losing dignity and becoming absurd. Even more interesting than the poetry of the num- ber is the criticism it contains on certain newspapers | in the city of New York. The future historian of journalism in America who turns to the Record to find expression of contemporaneous opinion on cer- tain phases of the journalism of the day will find printed in this issue a memorial from a Grand Army post in Kansas, which sets forth that opinion with a degree of force sufficient to maintain its vitality for years to come. The memorial says of Harper's Weekly: “It has always been a disloyal sheet; its patriotism has been but salt to savor its disunion sentiments. It is at all times Tory, and if ever a loyal word crept into that paper it was pure commerce and nothing more. It panders to the English population in New York and London and desires the approval of foreigners rather than the esteem of its own countrymen.” Turning next to the New York World the gentle course of candid criticism continues: “The World is a degenerate; each column is a prostitute, and the laborer on it is worthy of his hire. It knows neither loyalty, decency or morals.” After that comes the turn of the New York Journal, and the criticism pro- ceeds: “The Journal has the ability to imitate the vices of its greater contemporary for rot, and neither understands nor comprehends what it took in men and money to preserve this country.” It is not worth while to make further quotations. The extracts given are sufficient to prove the state- ment that the Record is sometimes interesting. Being an official publication, it is not liable to suits for libel, and its eriticisms therefore are at times as can- did as truth itself, while its poetry, freed from the su- pervision of unpoetic souls, attains a flight that “would have made Quintilian gasp and stare.” Somehow the United States Supreme Court has not been educated up to the idea that the natural conclu- sion to be derived from the fact that »~ murderer has been condemned is that he ought to be set free. Cali- fornia lawyers might do some missionary work in the -national capital. At this distance it is impossible to have a firmly grounded opinion of the justice of the verdict against Luetgert in Chicago. Ordinarily, however, a jury before convicting a man of murder wants to be rea- sonably certain that somebody is dead. De Lome has some good points. The celerity with which he sejt in his resignation shows that when a house falls on him he has a firm grasp of the fact that something has happened. —_— There will be much regret over the fact that Roche- fort must go to jail. But the world is sometimes generous to a man who is down. It will concede to Rochefort a monopoly of this regret. GOOD THINGS In the SUNDAY CALL, from home to the seat of war. A San Francisco girl has just returned from O scene, and nearly every woman present was i black and sobbed violently—and you'll realize why if you read the story. Robinson. The tough trials of the argonauts struggling to reach California were as nothing compared with what they experienced in scaling the Olympian heights of art. How they suffered, why they suffered and what they suffered and what a piti- less brother artist thinks of their pathetic tales of “hard luck” is graphically set forth with crayon and typewriter IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. One of the most remarkable finds of the century made by delving schalars among ancient ruins has just been brought to light in Assyria. The records discovered throw more light on the dawn of civilization than anything Homeric or Egyptian. | So important is the discovery deemed that specialists of two continents have united to develop the work and hundreds of thousands of dollars are being expended to push the investigation, Read all about it in NEXT SUNDAY’'S CALL. Not many men having a choice would elect to self maroon themselves on a sand- | covered coral reef almost in the mid-Pacific. Yet that is what a man has just done. to remain there. Incidentally, several nations are at present sparring in a diplo- matic way to get possession of that island and the man cuts quite a figure in the matter, for he persists in flying the Amerlcan flag there. The why and wherefore of the whole situation is given in detail in NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. strange adventures, queer happenings, fashions, reviews and all the best and bright- est news of the day. READ NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. B:3=3=2=2-3-3-3:3-3:3:3-3-3-3.3-3.3.3 o DAN COPID'S JUBLLEE DAY, & OULD dear good Saint "Valentine have peeped through the centuries and In real saint-like fashion have been favored with the revelation that in future ages his name was to be linked with true lovers' knots, courtship and marriage, he might possi- bly have entered a mild protest; for there was nothing particularly romantic in his | own life and history. Saint Valentine | was simply a presbyter of the church, and was noted for his love and charity. | He suffered martyrdom under the Em- peror Claudius about the year 210. Such is his brief history, and in searching the | legends associated with his name there is no occurrence in his entire life that could | possibly have given rise to the practices prevalent on Valentine's day. Butler, however, in his “Lives of the Saints,” re- | marks that there was a superstitious cus- tom among the pagans for boys to draw the names of girls in honor of the hea- then - goddess “Februata Juno on the | 14th day of February, and that when the pagans became Christians the Ro- man - clergy substituted in place of the girls' nameés the names of saints for | the billets drawn on this day. Be this as it may, the valentine has played a con- | spicuous part in love and courtship, and in the language of sweethearts the ex- | pression, “Thou art my Valentine!” has | ever meant the world over “Thou art my love!” Indeed, nature herself, seems to have sanctioned this’ popular custom, for in olden times there was cherished a ru- ral tradition that on this day every bird chooses its mate, to which belief Shake- | | speare in his ‘‘Midsummer Night's’| " happily alludes: “Saint Valen- tine is past; begin these woodbirds but to couple now?” The valentine has ever been a theme for poet and author, and Goldsmith in his charming tale of “The Vicar of Wake- fleld” describes how the rustic swains sent true-love knots on Valentine morn- ing. Gay's poetic description of some ru- ral ceremonies observed on this day is | ern California, is at the Russ. prettily given in the following verses: i : J. Murray, T. M. Young and C. A. Last Valentine, the day when birds of | yoo o0t S0 ) [ ONE Winntpes, Thelr paramours with mutual chirping | Are Tegistered at the California. Captain George H. Hinsdale, a well- known mariner of the city, has returned from a visit to Santa Barbara and is at the Lick. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS. E. C. Farnsworth of Visalla is at the Lick. I. Loomis of Santa Barbara is at the Baldwin. Thomas Garrett of New York is a at the California. | F. C. Baker of Portland, Or., is regis- | tered at the Baldwin. Charles Francee, a leading merchant of | Salinas, is at the Grand. L George M. Mott, a banker of Sacramen- to, s staying at the Lick. J. W. Dinsmore, the San Jose capitalist, is at the Occldental with his wife. 4 Hervey Lindley, a capitalist and poli- tician of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. T. C. Snider, a well known horseman of | Bacramento, is registered at the Grand. George D. Anderson, a large mine own- | er of Rosalla, Wash., is at the Occidental. Dr. Dyer of London, 1s at the Occidental with his wife, where he arrived yester- | day. Judge and Mrs. John F. Finn have re- turned to the city and are staying at the Palace. | Harry Corson Clarke and his bride of guest evening. Chico, will be at the Palace for the next few da is at the Gre ing in the city. Professor 8. M. Young of Stanford is up to the city on a short visit; he is staying at the California. Charles J. Schnabel, United States Dis- trict Attorney at Portland, Or., is a guest at the Occidental. L. C. Tuttle, one of the most prominent and successful wool producers in North- nd, | I early rose, just at the break of day, Before the sun had chased the stars away; Afield I went, amid the morning dew, | To milk my kine (for so should house- wives do). Thee first I spied, and the first swain we P DT 0000000000 F. J. Mcwil- o o llams and E. see Kruze, two well- In spite-of Fortune shall our true love v CHAgG,’Fifii IT : known California- be. et street commission The art valentines this year are fanciful | 0 MAJOR. O merchants, enter- and dainty. charming one is in the form of a fan, each stick bearing a stan- za of an old-fashioned love lyric. An- other is a kite, to the tail of which cling several fat, pink cupids, a cloud of these diminutive mischiet-makers floating across o O ed the Occident- 0000000000 g grill yesterday for lunch and occupying a table in a snug | corner proceeded to do justice to the deli- cacles set before them while they dis- v s e of the kite itself. The fancy—no pun intendsd—is brief, but to [ ke boom on local trade. Everything the point: went along pleasantly until the time My love's a kite, came to go, when McWilliams upon B;E;“"‘;L ":;‘E‘:fl';‘f:"'”“" reaching for his hat, found only a hook e to remind him of the tile that had once In the center of a wreath of rosebuds | adorned his darkly curling locks. Though one reads: | he hunted the place high and low no O e trace of the missing headgear could be And my sweotheart 3 found and as nearly every one in the You'll see inside. room knew him, he was followed on his On pulling a pink ribbon the poetry dis- | quest by many a loud laugh and unfeel- ings of dainty dames and courtly cava- | was fairly showered on him. Turning at f the door he said: *I will show you fel- lows a trick that will put the laugh on liers in the X cturesque costumes of long | ago adorn the covers, which inclose am- some one else,” and vanished, returning a few minutes later with a new chapeau. orous greetings written in golden letters | and punctuated with doves, rosebuds and | ““Where did you get it ?"’ asked some one. “‘Across the street for $5,”” answered Mac. archery-loving gods of love. e e EXCLUSIVE NEWS. “Well, you are lucky that you are out no more,” sald the first speaker. *Oh, I Sackigenco Ees: don’t know,” replied he, “I simply went The San Francisco Call achleved & | oyt and got fitfed with the style I like distinct “scoop” In its publication of | 2nq had the bill sent to Major Hooper, the arrest of Frank Belew upon the who runs this place. If you want to josh strength of a confession he had pre- any one josh him.” viously made to the officers. The other San Francisco dailies should have had the good grace to admit the victory of their neighbor, instead of trying to belittle it and endeavoring to secure some part of an undeserved glory for themselves. The Call's beat was a neat one in every respect, and it han- dled the exclusive news in a thurough- ly creditable way. A JOURNALISTIC TRIUMPH. Santa Cruz Penny Press. The Call Friday printed exclusively the news of the arrest of Frank Bel- ew, near Elmira, at 10 o’clock Thurs- day night. The Call has kept a re- porter in the neighborhood since the time of the murder and thus rendered assistance to Sheriff Rush of Solano County. The exclusiveness of the pub- lication was a journalistic triumph, Count 8. Ledebuy and Count Collorede are two young Austrian nobles who ar- rived at the Palace yesterday on a tour of the United States. < ‘Ward P. Winchell and wife, W. J. Bax- ter and wife, J. P. McGuinness and P. McLean are a party of naval people who and’are at the Occidental. Major George, an officer in the em- bodied forces of New Zealand, is at the Occidental, where he arrived yesterday on the Mariposa on his way to Mexico on a sightseeing trip. Mrs. George ac- companies her husband. Mr. George Crocker and General Man- ager Kruttschnitt of the Southern Pa- cific will leave in a day or two on a tour NE of the most heart stirring scenes in the world is the departure of troops | Spain, where she went to be educated, and in graphic way, breathing the | enthusiasm of youth, she describes the exciting embarkation of 5000 Spanish ‘ soldiers bound for Cuba. They passed before the little King and his mother, the Uisauasea Queen, while the archbishop on a raised altar blessed them. It was a heart-moving | Tope. A delicate menu ‘was discussed, The captain of a war vessel tried to forcibly remove him from the island, but the | man jumped overboard and swam ashore. Why? Because he considered it his duty | These are only a few of the good things. There are capital storiés, stories o![ | a day were registered at the Palace last F. C. Lusk, a lawyer and banker of | J. Miller, a mining man of Vancouver, | d on a vacation he is spend- | | been reduced by about 5000, of inspection of all the roads belonging to the company from here to Texas and those that are in that State. Peter Taylor Jr. of Washington, D. C., Joseph Dimond Jr. of Philadelphia, Clar- ence Taylor of New York and R. C. Lock- wood of Philadelphia are a party of young Easterners who arrived at the Pal- ace last night bound for Copper River, where they Intend to try their luck at mining. George A. Adams, a wealthy resident of Sydney, N. S. W., arrived vesterday on the Mariposa, en route to the Klondike, where he goes looking for ‘a chance to invest in mining properties. Mr. Adams, who s accompanied by his wife and son, who will travel with him as far as Seat- tle, is staying at the California. A farewell dinner was given to F. W. Dohrmann of Nathan Dohrmann & Co. last evening in the Palace Hotel by the directors of the Merchants' Association, to bid him bon voyage on his trip to Eu- and after farewell speeches had been I made and farewell toasts drunk the party Every man doesn’t tell his troubles to a policeman. If you don’t believe it read | broke up with many a hearty God speced the lively heart pangs on disastrous occasions that befell Artists Keith, smmg.{ i Stanton, Joullin, Latimer, Clawson, Jorgensen, Cadenasso, Dobbertin, Brewer and | Ship. and warm hand shake of good fellow= ——————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. FRACTIONAL CURRENCY—Subscribe | er, City. A piece of fractional currency | of the United States that is so much worn | that all the printing on it is not clearly | legible is not such a relic as dealers in | old colns and bills offer a premium for. POSTAL CARDS—X. X., Auburn, Cal. A postmaster is not authorized to charga more than 1 cent aplece for postal cards and $1 10 per hundred for stamped 1-cent newspaper wrappers. Postmasters wha charge in excess of these rates are liablg to removal from office and to other puns ishment. A MATTER OF CONTRACT-H. L., Oakland, Cal. Whether a man has a right to discharge an employe without no=- tice and pay him only for the time he has worked, or wheth he is bound to pay him a full month’s wages, whether earned or not at the time of his discharge, is a matter of contract, and would have to ba decided by a court of competent jurisdic~ tion on presentation of the facts. CHINESE POPULATION—W. I D., Mills College Postoffice, Cal. There are no official figures as to Chinese in the United States except those of the census of 18%0. These show the Chinese popula- tion to have been in the United States In that year 107,475, in California 72,472, in San Francisco 25,80 and in the China- town of San Francisco 20548. It is esti mated that since then the Chinese pop: lation of the United States has been re- duced by death and return to China by 25,000, and that In San Francisco it has but these estimates are not reliable. There are no accurate records of the population of China, but the estimates are from 383,- 253,029 to 402,680,000. McB., City. A A HOMESTEAD—J. homestead is subject to execution and forced sale in satisfaction of judgment obtained “before the declaration is filed, which act as liens on the premises; on debts secured by mechanics, contractors, sub - contractors, artisans, architects, builders, laborers of every class, material men or vendor's liens on the premises; on debts secured by mortgages on the prem- ises executed and acknowledged by hus- band and wife, or by an unmarried claim- ant; on debts secured by mortgage onthe premises executed and recorded before | the declaration of homestead was filed for record.” The homestead is secure from execution on debts contracted after the declaration has been filed for record. NOT A CLERGYMAN. BANTA CLARA, Jan. 9, 1858, The Editor of The Call—Dear Sir: As a priest of the Episcopal church I write to correct what I believe to be a mistake | which appeared in the columns of your paper January 9, 1808. A dispatch from New York says the Rev. James H. W. Harris, an ordained minister of the Epis- copal church, has left the church and gone on the vaudeville stage. No such name appears in the official clergy list of the church, and I trust you will do the church justice by correcting the above error. Yours sincerely 1y J. ALEXANDER O'MEARA. Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.® ————— Genuine eyeglasses, specs, 15c up.33 4th.® | Special information supplied dally to | business houses and public men by the | Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, —_———— Husband’'s Calcined Magnesta.—Four first premium medals awarded; more agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other magnesia. For sale only in bottles with registered trademark label.® —_—— Trunks Moved 25 Cents. Furniture moved. San Francisco Trans- fer Co. Office, 12 Grant ave. Tel. M. 505.* —_—————— THIS IS POSITIVE. Vegetables raised by electricity have =& shocking appearance.—St. Paul Globe. Time Reduced to Chicago. 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Be sure and ask for Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 2c a bottle. —_———— CORONADO.—Atmosphere is perfectly dry, soft and mild, being entirely free from the mists common further north. Round trip tickets, by steamship, including fifteen days' board at the Hotel del Coronado, $65; longer stay, $2 50 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco, or A. W. Bailey, man- ager, Hotel del Coronado, late of Hotel Colo~ rado, Glenwood Springs, Colorado. —_—e—————— Get a home; $1000 cash and $40 per month for returned home yesterday from Honolulu | & few years will buy the prettiest house in the prettiest suburb of San Francisco. Call on R. E. McGill, 18 Post st. Don't forget Waller Bros. Gift Day, Feb. 2, 159, 33 Grant avenue, corner Geary street. —_———— WHERE'THEY SHOW HORSE SENSE. Tt is said that Indians never kiss each ther. Judging from those we have seen, :ve don't blame them.—Philadelphia En- quirer. and the capture of the murderer after the case had been dropped as a mys- tery is a feat that demands recogni- | tion of the persistence and faithful- ness on the part of the officer. It is a sad admission that murder is so c mon in California, but it is a_satisfac- tion to law abiding people that mur- derers are caught through diligent ef- fort of the officers aided by the news- papers. THE SCOOP WAS COMPLETE. Stockton Independent. The San Francisco Call of Friday had a ''scoop” in the Dixon poisoning case by getting the alleged confession of Frank Belew that he poisoned his sister Susie and his brother Lewls. ‘While The Call's scoop is complete it does not appear that the officers, with whom it shares the credit of the rev- elation and arrest, are entitled to much glory. 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