The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 12, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1898. SATURDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE... k Telephone Main 1888, EDITORIAL ROOMS........... 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874, _Market and Third Sts., S. F. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE..... Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room I88, World Building One year, by mall, $1.50 908 Broadway ‘WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE............... Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 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 untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and | Kentucky streets, open until 9 o’clock. —— e AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—“Girl from Pa Callfornia Theater—Black Patti's Troubadours. Columbia—* What Happened to Jones.” Alcazar—Charley’s Aunt.” Morosco's—“The Unknown.” Tivoli— The Pearl of Pekin.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Bush—Thalia German-Hebrew Opera Co,, Sunday night. Metropolitan Hall—Lecture Monday evening. Olympta, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Speciaities. The Chutes—Chiquita and Vaudeville. Mechanics' Pavilion—Mt Fair and Klondike Exposition, Coursing—Ingleside Coursing Park, this afternoon. Calilornia Jockey Club, Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. February 13, Turkish | | | By Frank W. Butterfield—This day, Rugs, at 116 Sutter street, at 2 and § P. M. DEFECTIVE AMMUNITION. Y reason of the insistent demand of The Call for B an inquiry jnto the circumstances under which defective ammunition was supplied for the light artillery at the Presidio, it is probable we shall have an open and thorough investigation of the subject. Senator Perkins is to bring the matter before the Senate, and Congressman Hilborn will introduce a resolution of inquiry into the House. It will be strange indeed if Congress does not take some action in regard to an affair so serious as this. There seems to be no explanation of the fact that s0 per cent of a certain class of ammunition is defective except that of fraud. Moreover, the fraud which palms off upon the Government so large a proportion of bad ammunition must have been practiced a long time. Such boldness in wrongdoing is never shown in a first offense. Long experience with successfu fraud is the only thing that could tempt a contractor to submit to the Government any kind of supplies of which half is not only below standard, but posi- tively worthless. Senator Perkins announced on Thursday an inten- | tion. to address to General Flagler, chief of ordnance, | a letter inclosing a copy of The Call containing the | report of the result of the tests at the Presidio, and | stated he would submit the reply to the Senate during the debate on the fortifications bill, which is now be- fore that body. This step will bring the whole issue be- fore the Senate and may possibly lead to some prompt action in the way of investigation. Certainly the proposed inquiry into the affair should not be long delayed. The offense is one of the most serious that has been exposed in the conduct of our military and naval administration for a long time. He that robs the army of its ammunition robs it of its strength and leaves the country weak in the face of its foes. General Flagler's official statement on the subject will be awaited with interest. He re- cently informed the Senate Committee on Fortifica- tions that neither heat, cold, dryness, moisture nor age should affect powder supplied for the army, and this being so, it is to be hoped that when his report of the defective shells discovered in the Pre- sidio tests is made it will be able to show that the blame rests wholly on the contractors, and not in the least on the officers of the War Department who inspected the shells and approved them. CANADIAN IMPERTINENCE. HERE has been manifest lately on the part of TCanada a tendency to be overbearing. On several occasions she has been guilty of distinct impertinence, none, however, more marked than in relation to the wreck of the Corona. This vessel is owned in San Francisco. It chanced to be wrecked in Canadian waters. When the news that it had gone on a rock reached this city immediate steps taken to go to the rescue and save some portion of the ship and cargo. There was no particular thought on the part of the owners that they would in the work of salvage be under the British flag, and had this occurred to them they could hardly have reckoned upon the consequences. They tried to get to the scene as soon as possible. At Victoria they were informed that no American vessel would be allowed to do the work contemplated, nor could there be any American pumps used. The work would have to be done entirely by British men using British material, and the salvage could not be participated in by Americans. This was a surprise for which the owners were so totally unprepared that they could only acquiesce. Such flagrant discourtesy would be hard to parallel, yet it is characteristic of the Canadian Government since the gold discoveries have given it an exalted notion of its own importance. It is swollen with pride, yet swollen only in spots. For instance, had the wreck occurred on the lakes near the populous centers Canada would have been discreet enough to have been less openly hoggish. It is not over- stating the matter to say that Canada is too fresh, and brotherly love will continue with difficulty if such exhibitions continue. Canada sometimes forgets that she is a colony, tied to an elongated apron-string, and tries to act the real nation without knowing how. There is something strange in the facility with | which the able correspondent has Secretary Sherman lost in the mazes of doddering senility when this is considered in connection with the fact that Sherman is the next day doing business at the old stand and with all his old-time vigor. Possibly the able cor- respondent sometimes get Jost himself and is misled by a case of mistaken identity. Unless “society” wants the world to laugh itself to death it should go into permanent executive session. S De Lome is not the first man who has written him- self out of a good job. were | WHERE WILL THIS END? NLESS there is some mistake concerning the U facts disclosed in the recent exposures of offi- cial corruption in this city and elsewhere, the popular belief regarding such matters will have to be miodified. We haye always been led to understand that official bribery found its source in the unlawful designs of some conscienceless corporation or some conspiring, dishonest knave. The harrowing picture of an upright tax-eater manfully resisting temptation has often been presented by the “anti” organs and orators as a foundation for the allegation that but for corporation bribe money there would' be no governmental corruption. An altogether different theory is disclosed by the recent exposures. School Director Waller’s virtue was not attacked by a political boss nor by a boodle school teacher. He himself searched for a man who wanted to get a teacher into the School Department and proposed to procure the place for him for $500. No grasping corporation “approached” Supervisor Delany in the pound matter. That valiant warrior himself asked Wadham how much money there was in the treasury of the Society for the Prevention of Cruclty to Animals, and, according to Wadham's sworn statement, proposed for $300 to secure the control of the pound to the society. Nor is there any evidence that a political boss or the emissary of a corporation laid in wait for the integrity of Super- visor Haskins or of School Director Ragan. Ac- cording to the persons who charge them with cor- ruption, they solicited the “business” personally. Nor does the testimony so far giver in the suit | brought by the Paraffine Paint Company against the Harbor Commission develop any different condition. The witnesses in that case generally agree that the “business” was worked up by the Harbor Commis- sioners. Mr. Bibb says Commissioner Colnon called on him personally and asked how his negotiations with the man sent by him to make ‘“arrangements” were progressing. In fact, on every hand there is evidence that the accused officials themselves were anxious to sell their votes and influence, and were seeking to create situations which would compel somebody to bribe them. So we say that if we are to accept the facts dis- closed by these exposures as true we shall be forced to modify our ancient view of the causes of official corruption. In none of the cases referred to were | there any monster corporations with a retinue of | bribe-givers to tempt the virtue of the tax-eaters. | Colonel Mazuma was nowhere in sight. The officials | themselves were out in pursuit of boodle and hunting for bribe-givers with bated breaths. No opportunity was given to “approach” anybody. The tax-eaters | did the “approaching,” and the persons who have | precipitated the scandals are those who ordinarily are supposed to be the tempters. There is but one comment to make on this sub- | ject as we have outlined it, and that may be placed in the form of a question. What is the country coming | to when men seek office for the purpose of soliciting | | bribes? And this question gives place to another: s it not about time, now that it is reasonably certain that we are being ruled by thieves, for the people to cast about for an anchorage? Surely things cannot go on this way very long. THE PEOPLE IN POLITICS. LL the signs of the times point to the conclu- sion that the power of the people is to be more \ distinctly felt in politics this year than for | The importance of the | | | | nearly a generation past. | money issue has to a large extent broken up the old lines of party formation, the old machine methods do | mos wholly fit the new alliances, and as a result the | voters of the rank and file in both parties will have more weight and more direct influence in determining | nominations and elections than for a long time past. | The weakening caused in party discipline by the grouping of the people around ntw issues is aug- | mented by the recent adoption of new methods of | conducting elections. The Australian ballot and the | primary law add to the general confusion in the ma- | chinery of parties and increase the power and effect- | iveness of the individual vote. Taken altogether the | outlook is distinctly favorable to those who desire an | end of so-called “boss rule” and a restoration of the | practice of the early days of the republic when all | citizens went to the primaries of their respective par- | ties, took an equal share in the selection of candidates and, after engaging actively in the campaign, con- | cluded the duty of a citizen by going to the polls and voting for the man of their choice. Throughout the State the stirring of the people on political issues is already noted. Certain groups of men are considering the selection of candidates for Governor, others are seeking representatives in Con- | gress, and, generally speaking, all are giving thought to the choice of their parties in making nominations | for local offices. | The eager interest felt by the people in the coming | campaign so early in the year is a good sign. It is | an evidence that the voters intend to direct the con- | test from start to finish. They will be at the pri- maries, their delegates will be at the State conven- tions, they will be active in the struggle that is to fellow, and it will be a genuine victory of the people that will be recorded at the polls when the ballots are counted and the result announced. This condition of affairs is distinctly favorable to the success of the Republican party. One of the most common difficulties that have confronted the party leaders in times past has been that of getting the full voting strength of the party to exert itself at the polls. This year the prospects are that the voters themselves will come to the front. All that is asked of the lead- ers is to get the machinery of political work in order and start the movement. An early campaign cannot be avoided. The issues [ of the time are of vital importance to every citizen, | and the fact is universally recognized. Men may have had doubts about complex questions of tariff rates, buc whether the dollar is to be maintained at its pres- ent standard or lowered to.the level of the Mexican dollar is a question whose relation to his own busi- ness every man can understand. For that reason the | people are eager to get at the contest and settle it. | The great majority are ready to vote right now. | The duty of Republican leaders at this time, there- | fore, is to prepare at once for the organization of the rank and file by clubs or otherwise, and set the party machinery in motion so that the ardor of the people may have its way and the great movement begin which in next November is to redeem California from the last vestige of Democracy, free trade and free silver, and place it among the States solid for protection, sound money and stalwart Republicanism. Breckinridge of Kentucky is in trouble again. No- body would care particularly abqut this except that he refuses to shed any blood, and absolutely insists on shedding ink in large quantities. T Even if Clark and Belew establish their respective allegations of insanity, there is no reason to suppose that hanging would not be an effective remedy for the malady with which they are so sadly afflicted. OPENING THE CAMPAIGN. T is announced that Mr. Towne of Duluth will l open the silver fusion campaign in Californiat and will do it right away. The opening will begin at Sacramento and, extending the length of the San Joaquin Valiey, will jump the Tehachapi and reap- pear in Southern California. Mr. Towne shA_)ws a wise interest in his personal comfort by averting 1_115 cheek from the rude winds that blow over t}?e z'ennt}l city of the unsalted seas at this season and bringing it to be kissed by the balmy zephyrs of California. ‘We hail him heartily for the compliment to our glt_)nous climate implied by his presence here. We incline to the opinion that he will find .more pleasure i{l this weatherless, winterless land, and in contemplation of the green things growing, than he will in politics. He will observe that our people do all things in season. While the politicians who are looking for office may feel the quickening of ambition in February, the peo- ple are busy with the pruning hook and plow. ‘I" fact Mr. Towne comes in the close season for politics and while his audiences will chill and fever by turns as he “views with alarm” or “points with pride,” t.he\r minds are on their wheat fields and raisin plantations and orange groves. California has a rather wholesome sense of her polit- ical duty, and in a certain way party organization here is never broken. The people remember the seven fat kine and the seven fat ears of corn, and they recall the coming of the seven lean kine and the seven blasted | ears which ate the fat ones. Mr. Towne appears for the lean cattle as attorney in fact. He persuades toward that politics which eats up the fat ears. Our people took a few years of his kind of medicine and many of them dined daily on pulling their belts up another hole. Since then their bill of fare has changed, and instead of satisfying internal gnawings by belting their stomachs tighter they have filled them with food and there is a general letting out of belts. Our cities are not compelled this year to pass the hat to feed thousands of unemployed. The pinch of poverty is felt by a vastly less number of people. There is more bread in the basket, fire on the hearth and cheer in the house than before, and thousands who were asking help before are now able to give their mite to the hundreds who now need it. In short, the pot boils in more homes and hospi- tality puts in it more names, and our people look at the worn hole in the belt as the high water mark of famine. They don’t want to buckle up to it again, an’ it please you, Mr. Towne. They are thinking of piecing on the end of the strap in order that it may girth the growing proportions which have come with three meals a day. Mr. Towne was a member of Congress once as “a regular.” He tasted the sweet waters of power. But he made a miscalculation. He thought his party was doomed, that the ladder by which he had climbed was broken and would not bear him again. So he deserted and joined the motley clad host which enlisted under General Bryan and tried to get back into office. As the event proved the office was seeking another. Mr. Towne “got the mitten,” so to speak, and has felt bad about it ever since. He seems to think that all the world feels as hopeless and therefore as reckless as he. We would cheer him if possible, but we warn him not to mistake the whispers of our tropical foli- age for the call of his countrymen DAVID BENNETT HILL'S PLANS. CCORDING to the Albany correspondents of fl the New York papers David Bennett Hill and & his followers have reached the conclusion that further inactivity on their part would be equivalent to permanent retirement from politics, and therefore they have resolved to take the field again and make a struggle for supremacy in the Democratic party of the State this fall. The battle-cry of Hill and his clique will be “har- mony.” They will endeavor to reconcile the irrecon- cilables of 1896 and attain leadership by demonstrat- ing that they are the only men whom both wings will follow. To accomplish this plan it is said they will get the State convention to ignore the Chicago plat- form and the candidacy of Bryan. It is added they have already devised such a general utterance on the financial issue that it can be accepted by both the Bryanites and the Palmerites without either side stultifying itself. Nothing but the almost unanimous agreement of all the New York correspondents at the State capital on the main points of this story gives it credibility. Even when given under such terms it is difficult to believe that a politician of so much experience and intelligence as ex-Senator Hill can have persuaded himself and his followers that it is any longer pos- sible to achieve success at the polls by dodging the money question. That issue is now the dominant one in our politics. It will fill the whole field of battle in the coming Congressional elections, and the man who desires to dodge it will have to abandon politics and Teave the field altogether. The vote on the Teller resolutions in Congress shows that party lines are now drawn on the money question as strictly as on the tariff itself. In the Senate only one Democrat voted against the resolutions, and in the House only one Republican voted for them. By the time the issue is made up for submission to the people there will be no longer any possible escape from the necessity for both sides to take definite and decided stands. The Republican party will stand for gold money and sound finance. The Democratic party will stand for free silver and monetary demoralization. On that issue the battle will be fought. David Bennett Hill is the most conspicuous living. example of a politician who rose like a rocket and has fallen like a stick. His success for a time was so brilliant and seemed so solid that he was easily first in the line of succession to Cleveland as Democratic candidate for the Presidency. His followers through- out the Union were ardent, devoted and active. He was the recognized leader of that stalwart Democ- racy that despises mugwumpery and battles tnder a banner bearing the inscription “To the victor be- longs the spoils.” To-day he has less political pres- tige than the mugwumps themselves. Deprived of office, shorn of leadership, abandoned by the stal- warts, he reveals in his character a trait of political imbecility by trying to get back to power, not by mastering the problems of the time, but by dodging them. » If the Democrats of New York follow Mr. Hill the Republicans will have a walkover. Unfortunately there is little hope they will do so. Democracy has many faults, but a lack of aggressive vigor is not one of them. It will never turn aside from the exuberant Bryan to follow a man who is afraid fo talk. An evening paper speaks of the “well-known le- niency” of Judge Wallace. We will confess that-it is nct only not well known to us, but that we have not even a bowing acquaintance with it. There are some strange features in connection with the Queen's speech. One is its absolute lack of im- portance and another the habit of regarding it as im- portant. ©00000000000000000000000000 S THE LINCOLN ANNIVERSARY, : o ©000000000000000000000000000 To-day will be celebrated throughout the length and breadth of the great re- public the eighty-ninth anniversary of the birth of the immortal Abraham Lincoln. The world knows the story of his life by heart. In speaking of Lincola before the Span- ish Cortes, Emilio Castelar said: “‘Abra- ham Lincoln was the humblest of the humble before his own conscience, the greatest of the great before history.” No man was more humble or thoughtless of self than Abraham Lincoln. His own words tell the sublime story: “I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have con- trolled me. No human council has de- vised, nor has any mortal hand worked out, these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the most high God.” Thus spoke the emancipator of a race— the man who stands out as one of the sublimest figures in all time. o o o o 00000000000 ODPOOH O < THE COLONEL AND THE GOOSE. 3 POCOPOPOLO00O0O0OOOGOQ Trained horses, trained dogs, educated pigs, are no novelties; but how many have ever seen an educated goose? Col- onel Post, a retired military man of Cu- camonga, has a rara avis of this kind. It is a large white gander, which the colonel calls Billie. Billie may be 50 yards away, when the colonel will shout: “Bil- lie, come to me, my bonnie Billie.” Then the gander will start and run to the col- onel, joyfully flapping his wings and screeching with delight at the kindly re- cognition given him by the master. Then the colonel will say: “Now, Billie, we way out to the coast via the Straits of Magellan. Miles Wallace, the Yosemite Commis- sioner, is a guest at the Grand. Colonel Charles H. Taylor, owner and editor of the Boston Globe, is registered at the Palace, where he arrived yesterday from Coronado, at which place he has been for some time past spending a va- cation. He is accompanied by his wife and two daughters, the eldest of whom, Miss Elizabeth Taylor, is' to become the bride of Horace D. Pillsbury of this city. Colonel Taylor will return to Boston in a few days, but his wife and daughters will remain on the coast unti] spring, when they will return to Boston, accom. panied by Mr. Pllisbury and the mar. riage will take place in that city some time in the early summer. goooooocoo About three . O months ago a o “CHECKS,” o little girl, follow- o THE o ¢l by a white dog with a moth- eaten coat of hair and a gene- O TRANSFER DOG. © o [} 000000000O rally frayed at the edges appearance, was crossi; street on her way to the Oaklsasnggtgiit when, in the crowd, she became separay. ed from her pet. The dog wandered around nosing for its mistress when a butcher-wagon, coming along «t a pretty lively clip, ran over the beast and left it apparently dead in the street. A crowd of newsboys, transfer men and hotel run- ners gathered around the littie animal and one of them, commonly known ag “Tank” Spayth, seeing some signs of lifa | in the almost inanimate carcass, picked it up, and, carrying it behind the bag- gage-room at the end of the cable turn. table, worked over it till a feeble wag of the tail attested to the fact that the ca- nine patient was not entirely beyond hope. A house composed of an old dry- g00ds box was comfortably fitted up for the invalld, and theré Spayth tenderly nursed it until, after about three weeks he succeeded in bringing him around alf right. During the convalescense of this waif of the streets he became an object of much interest and solicitude to every hack man, transfer man and hotel run- ner on the front, while in the newsboys who congregate around the foot of Mar. ket street he found warm friends, who never let him want for a succulent bone to gnaw at or a warm bit of rag to shel- ter him from the cold winds at night. will run a race,” and the colonel and Billle will go galloping side by side at a mad pace over the sandy loam; but Billie always comes first ‘under the wire. To see the doughty colonel and the white gander go speedily by is a cheerful sight. Colonel Post attributes the fowl's rond- ness for him to the fact that he ate his favorite companion, a large turkey, for his Christmas dinner. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS. F. E. Johnson, a fruit-grower of San Jose, Is at the Lick. A. Arnold, a rancher of Oakdale, is at the Grand on his way to Alaska. Dr. von Deburgh, the resident physician at Los Gatos, is at the California. John F. Wood, a banker of Stockton, is one of yesterday's arrivals at the Grand. G. McM. Ross, a wealthy mining man of Copperopolis, is registered at the Occi- dental. Z. W. Christopher, superintendent of the Mirabel mine, is a guest at the Oc- cidental. 3 Harry Anger, a young Londoner, on his way around the world, is registered at the Palace. C. N. Doodson, a well-known business man of Vancouver, B. C., is at the Palace with Mrs. Doodson. _ Professor Edward D. Starbuck of Stan- ford University is staying at the Grand on a short trip up to the city. Colonel Charles ¥. James, son of the ex-Postmaster-General, i$ at the Palace on a pleasure trip to the coast. Lieutenant M. C. Gorgas, U. S. N., has come down from Mare Island with his wife and is staying at the California. L. M. Maddox, trustee of the Ione In- dustrial School, has tome up to the city | to attend a meeting of the directors of that institution. He Is at the Grand. “You may talk o f dissipation, disappointment or 8000000000 o IMPERVIOUS o o TO ALL o of anything else you please that © FEELING. © tends to make a o O man cynical and 09000010900 Hlgse; and polnt out lawyers, doctors and members of the police as examples of the hardening in- fluence that a correct insight into human nature has on the average man,” said ‘W. D. Fraser, an old journalist, as he sat in the reading-room of the California yesterday, “but I know of hothing that will make a man so callous to every feel- ing of humanity as a year or two of copy reading on some big daily. “I remember when I was on one of the leading papers in Virginia we had ‘a.gen- tleman on the desk, whom I will call Smith. He was a rather able man, but a holy terror for cutting stuff down to,the smallest possible limit. One night "the fellow who was ‘doing police’ came in with a column of stuff on Smith’sbrother, who had gone suddenly insane, and, af- ter attempting to murder his wife and infant son, had committed suicide. The reporter hesitated some time about hand- ing the story to Smiith, as he feared that the sudden shock of the news would be too much for him, but, as there was no one else on the desk, he was finally obliged to do so. Smith took the copy, and, after reading it through without the slightest change of expression, turned to the re- porter and said: ‘Here, cut this down to a short two-head. You fellows never seem to have the slightest judgment on the news value of a story you bring in. The reporter, who was new to the busi- ness, went out into the local room in a sort of a trance and did as he was directed.” . Dr. E. W. Flemming, the Arizona phy- siclan who has lately been married to the queen of last year’s fiesta in Los An- geles, is at the Occidental with his bride. Lorin Farr, ex-Mayor of Ogden and a prominent Mormon, is a guest at the Lick. In the old days Mr. Farr possessed four wives and was the right-hand man of Brigham Young. J. C. Stubbs, vice-president of the Southern Pacific Company, and R. P. Schwerin of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, arrived in the city Thursday night from the East, where they have been for some time on a business trip. Joseph Ladue, the famous Klondiker, is at the Palace with his wife, where he ar- rived yesterday from the East. Mr. Ladue has been to New York on business con- nected with the new miningand transpor- tation company of which he is the head, and has succeeded inobtaininga vessel for the Alaskan trade, which is now on her As soon as his injurles permitted of his taking short walks around a grand con- vocation was called, and the name of | “‘Checks” was formally bestowed upon him. As the days multiplied the esteem with which the many virtues of *“Checks’ were regarded by his many friends in- creased to such proportions that when a visiting Pound man happening along there one day threw his net over him and proceeded to take him in he was set upon by a squad of infurfated small boys, Who, tearing his net to pleces, liberated their friend and made it so warm for the dog-catcher that he was glad to escape with his life. After that occurrence a collection was taken up, out of which enough was realized to procure for “Checks” a brand new collar with his name engraved thereon and a tag which insured him against further molestation for a year to come. The only evil re- sult that accrued from the accident which was the cause of “Checks” becoming one of the gang was complete deafness; the dog could not hear a park of artilléry at | ten feet. This physical infirmity of his is a source of considerable annoyance to the gripmen on the cars, as “Checks” has acquired the habit of siting directly in the middle of the track about a hundred feet from the turn table,.and, being un- able to hear the clanging of the bell, the car invariably has to be stopped while the gripman climbs out, and, picking him up, carries him to one side and deposits him beyond the reach of danger. This may be rather inconvenient for the grip- men, but they always do it, as they well know that the man who should run over “Checks” could never, with safety, again | show his face at the East-street terminus ©- the line. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—L. Feigenbaum of San Francisco is at the Hotel Savoy, and J. Flanagan of San Francisco is at the Westminster Hotel A VALENTINE PROPOSAL. In Sunday go-ter-meetin's I spruced up mighty fine An’ rid erlong ter Mary’s house Ter be her valentine. I looked the sort o’ feller Fer which the gals 'ud pine; They'd all be proud ter take me Ter be their valentine. But I'd been lovin' Mary— As all the folks could see, An' never had no doubts at all 'Bout Mary lovin’ mte. An’ though the gals went sighin® From springtime p ter fall, I said: “I'll give Miss Ma The fust chance of ‘em ali My heart was beatin' hopetul, My eperrits feelin’ prime; I rid erlong, an’ hummed a song— The ol mare trottin’ time! The fust wil' flowers wuz peepin’ out— The bright skies bendin’ blue: “Oh, Mary mine, yer valentine 1strottin’ long ter you!'s I lighted at the gyarden gate ' An’ then went smilin’ in; ‘The very clinkin’ o' the latch Sald: ~““Walk this way, an’ winl® An' Mary met me at the door— 1 saw her blue eyes shine; A takin’ of her hand, I sald: “I've fetched yer valentinel'* She blushed—drawed back an’ 'peared con- used, An’ looked toward the door A-leadin’ ter the settin’-room; Then, studyin' the floor An’ never raisin’ of her eves, Said: ““Much obleeged, I'm shore; But—havin' just accepted one, ‘Taint fair ter take no more!"" . . . . . The worl' changed in a minute— The bright sky lost its blue; ‘The settin’-room whirled roun’ me, An’ the feller in it, too! | The ol mare trotted home’ards | An’ stumbled all the way: An’ 'm wonderin’ ter this minute ‘What the other gals 'll say! —Frank Stanton in Chicago Times-Herald. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. ‘Woman wouldn’t be near as much of a curiosity if she didn’t have any. No man can keep a secret when he's in love, and no woman can keep a secret ‘when she isn't. Probably women like cats because they always act so unhappy when it's raining outdoors. Most men would rather be held up by a footpad for all they've got than to hold up a baby for five minute: RABBITS BROKE THE COUNTY. The funniest story of the result of pay- ing bounties for animals’ scalps comes from Kansas. Sumner County offered 3 cents for every rabbit’s scalp brought in. The farmers loaded up their double-bar- reled howitzers, sallied forth, killed 158,- 514 rabbits and broke the county.—St. Paul Globe. FITTING. They do pay some attention to the pro- prieties in Alaska. A man named Brim- | must be added to it. | Grande and Burlington ratlways. ston was permnatsd to discover Sulphur ce. | Creek-- ANSWERS T0 CORRESPONDENTS, COFFEE AND RICE—S., Stockton, Cal. The imports of rice from tie Ha- wailan Islands at this port durlig 1507 were: Free, 5,486,700 pounds; dutiable, 562,353 pounds. The amount of coffae fro the islands during the same period was 19,211,998 pounds. A CERTIFICATE—E. W., City. The certificate asked about was one that was issued when there was a movement to secure the independence of the nation named. It has no commercial value and there being so many in e , it has no market value BBANS—H. Elk Grove, Cal. In Celi- fornia generally the first crop of beans of the r is harvested in September The harvesting in this as well as in other States of the Union depends upon t kind of seel time of planting and the st Guantity Bayos are raised in the grez in California. GOLD IN SOLUTION —A. P. H., Campo, Cal. When gold, silver and iron are in solution the gold can be precipi- tated by the use of ferro cyanide. First the solution is put into strong brine or muriatic deid, which throws the silver. Then the ferro cyanide is used to throw the gold. HANGING IN ENGLAND—P. McQ., City. A man named John Lee was hanged in England May 18, 188, for the murder of a police inspector at Chelm- ford. That is the only man by the name of Lee who was sentenced to be hanged for murder in England about thirteen or fourteen years ago that this department has been able to discover. YOSEMITE VALLEY—C. R. B., Oak- land, Cal. The Yosemite Valley was dis- covered March 21, 1851, by Major James R. Savage and Captain Boling, who were at the head of an expedition that set out to pursue and punish the Yosemite and other Indians Who had murdered a num- ber of whites. An interesting account of this discovery and the fight with the In- dia; be found volume 3 of Hit- tell’s “History of California.”” THE CUBAN ESTION—A. 8., Cle- ments, Cal. This department has not the space to furnish sufficient material on the Cuban question to enable an in- dividual “to base a debate upon.” Fur- ther, this department does not furnish material for debates, for the reason that a person who wishes to engage i bate upon a subject shoul i herself look up the authorities and not depend upon some one ¢ o do that and furnish the ideas. In cases of that kind the debater does not furnish his or her own deductions, but those of ane other. BOTTLES-T. O. Y. R., City. Bottles are made in molds. When the glass has been properly melted and skimmed, a workman dips a long fron tube, called a blow pipe, into a pot and takes up a sufficient quantity of molten _glass to make a.bottle, another workman works this into a pear-s ghtly blow- ing and turning one or iron table, called a marver. the mass into a mold of either or brass, which is opened and closed by means of a foot spring. When in the mold the partially distended glass i3 made to fill by the workman blowinz down the tube, the bottom being pushed up with a pontil and the ring around the mouth afterward made by the addition of a strip of molten glass. After being molded the bottle is placed in the an- nealing furnace where it remains for thirt, x hours. STEEL—F., Alameda, Cal. There are two processes for making steel from fron. If the material is cast or pig iron an ex- cess of carbon must be taken from if it is wrought or malleable iron carbon The second is for the manufacture of the finest quality. Two chests of fire brick are fixed in a dome shaped furnace so that the flames from the hearth below can play effL’L:l!I— ally around them. A layer of chz\rur.n‘l or soot is placed on'the bottom of each chest and upon this are laid the bars of wrought ‘iron. They are arranged a lit- tle distance apart, and the interstices be- tweea are filled up with charcoal, and the bars themselves are covered an inch thick with them. Other layers of bars and charcoal are placed on these. Tha furnace heat is raised to 1. Fahren- heit, the point necessary to effect car- buration. This is maintained from eight to ten days or longer, the period depend- ing on the thickness of the iron and the degree of hardness desired. The fire is allowed to cool by degrees and the is transformed into steel, but not o form texture. It is made homo; by breaking it into small pleces, in a_fire clay crucible and casting it into molds. s St S Cal. glace frult sc per Ib at Townsend's.s EEE S e Samuel Dannebaum is still doing busi- ness at 730 Market street, where he will Ps pleased to see all of his customers. e Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Morlb gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ———————— New Leather Goods—Purses, pocket and bill books, valises, alligator bags, chate- Jaine bags, belts and Mexican carved leather novelties. Best goods and lowest prices. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. e “T consider her,” said the man with tha big cane, “a remarkably well balanced woman.”" He was right, too. But then it was part of her business to hang to the ladder that her husband, the strong man, balanced on his ehin.—Chicago Post. —_———— Time Reduced to Chicago. Via Rio Grande Western, Denver and Rio Passengers leaving San Francisco on 6 p. m. train reach Chicago 2:15 p. m. the fourth day, and New York 6:30 p. m. following day. Through Pull- man Palace Double Drawing Room Sleeping Cars to Denver with Union Depot change at 9:30 a. m. to similar cars of the Burlington Route for Chicago. Railroad and sleeping car tickets sold through and full information given at 14 Montgomery st. W. H. Snedaker, General Agent. —————————— Get a home; $1000 cash and $40 per month for a few vears will buy the prettiest house in the prettiest suburb of San Francisco. Call on R. E. McGill, 18 Post st. IRRITATION OF THE THROAT AND HOARSENESS are immediately relieved by * Brown's Bronchiak Troches.”” Have them always ready. ————————— NOTHING contributes more to digestion than the use of DR SIEGERT'S ANGOSTURA BIITERS. See that You get the gem:i:a. AvorD baldriess, gray halr, dandruff and thin 10cks by using PARKER'S HATR BATSAM. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns, 15 cts. ey “That land you sold me is a foot under water every time it rains.” “Don’t let that worry you. You know, as the surrounding. country is more thickly settled, land always rises.””—In- dianapolis Journal. ADVERTISEMENTS. THE U. S. GOVERNMENT REPORT SHOWS Royal Baking Powder TO BE PURER AND STROKGER THAN ANY OTHER