The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 25, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1898. _FEBRUARY 25, 1808 JOHN D. éPRECK‘ELS, Pr})prxeior: i Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager: el iR EdEln g i) arket and Third Sts. S. F- | PUBLICATION OFFICE .. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. .2I7 to 221 Stevenson street " Telephone Main 1874, | | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY)is | served by carrlers in this city and surrounding towns | for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year, per month 65 cents. o 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 Houss €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street, eorner Clay open untll 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 MoAllister. street: open until 930 | c'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock SW. corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets; open untli S o'clock. 2518 Misslon street; open until 9 o'clock 106 Eleventh open until9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street cpen until 930 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENT! Baldwin-The Bostonians. Caltfornia—Black Patti Troubadours. 0's—“The Last i—The Vice-Adm! nday night. ecialties. atr and Klondike Exposition. | at Ingleside to-day. February 25, Furniture, | Post and Hyde streets, at 11 0'clock. | Frank W. Butterfield—This day, February 25, Turkish } <, at 116 sutter ot, at 2 P. M adison & Burke—Thursday March 3, Real Estate, at 626 strect. at 12 0'clock. By Frank W. Butt POLITICS IN SAN JOSE. "I*Hi'. speech of Councilman Nolting at 3 meeting of the Common Council of San Jose on Mon- day evening was the opening gun of the “gang attack upon the citizens’ movement for municipal re- form. It sounded the keynote of the desperate cam- | paign of the frightened boodlers and gives notice to the reformers that they are called upon to meet stink- and that w s and falseness can do to drive decent men from the field will be done. It is but justice to Mr. Nolting to say that no one acquainted with him or with San Jose suspects him of composing the speech. He probably had no h it than the brass cannon has to do atever foulne: pots, more to do wi with the ammunition that is fired through its brazen He was at once below it and above it. He low it for he could no more have arranged such a i y than he could bave throat. was t slander in writter L co was evidently petard beneath his feet has blcwn him to such politi- ver be able to 1 inquest on. The speech has an interest surviving the fate and isappearance of Nolting because it has led to a dis- | closure of certain tactics practiced by the San Jose | gang. Among the men whom Mr. Nolting spat- tered with the “loose expectoration of his eloquence” | was J. P. Jarman, forme mber of the Common Counc It was charged that Jarman, while a mem- ber of the Council, had expended $2000 in improve- ments about the City Hall, making use of the e a means of getting votes to procure his nts that a Coroner will r ins to hold penditure jon to the County Board of Superviso rk referred to was in charge | 1 Mr. Nolting was a member, e committee. He say rge of the work and su- practical knowledge of | “I learned | set by the bosses to in- | isor, they taking it for‘ anted that I would do as they would under similar | that ele It appears that the v of a cor ee of w but Mr. Jarman was not on t i he was requested to take cl perintend it because he the kind of work to be don , and he adds: nstances, furnish all the materials from | nd have my own painter do the work. | h an ounce of material nor did I put | on the work, nor did I handle oney.” | my own store I did not fu cne of own me cne dollar of the The statement of Mr. Jarman needs nothing to con- | firm it, but abundant confirmation exists in the many | disclosures that have been made from time to time of | Santa Clara County gang in the of politics. Recordsof thecourts, recordsofthe | proceedings of grand juries and records of one nota- i ve investigation at Sacramento bear ample | e that for ways which are dark and for tricks | are vain the San Jose gang is peculiar. The fight for reform and good government in San | Jose has been well devised and the forces that main- | tain it have been well organized. Nevertheless the victory will not be easily attained, and the men who | accept positions in the forefront of the battle will have many hard blows to face and many mean stabs in the back to guard against. The Nolting speech is as full of warning as the rattle of a rattlesnake. It means venom. The friends of honest politics must be on their guard. If slander or any form of cun- ning can carry confusion into their ranks or weaken confidence in their leaders and candidates the vic- tory that now seems well assured will be wrested from their grasp. —————— | | | | The proposed grand exposition is the most appro- priate way to celebrate the admission of California to the Union, and it is gratifying to note that all the States and Territories of the gold-bearing region | show a willingness to unite with us in making it something more than a State celebration. As a mat- ter of fact the undertaking should be national, for the annexation of California was one of the most impor- tant events in the history of the republic and merits commemoration by the Union as a whole. It is surprising to learn that a Chicago scientist who declares the present practice of saving the lives of persons who are mentally, morally and physically unfit to. maintain themselves will result in reducing all civilized races to a condition of lunacy or idiocy fixes the date of that climax at a thousand years from now. The general impression has been“that Chicago is traveling much faster than that. Getting up so-called charitable subscriptions that vield a 10 per cent rake-off to the collector and a whole hog grab for the managers of the paper seems to be the only means of making yellow. journalism pay in this country. R R The excitement resulting from the destruction of the Maine has distracted attention somewhat from the cexplosion in the School Board in this city, but the neople haven’t forgotten. | oligarchy, replied: | United States to deliberately THE JOINT RESOLUTION. flNNEXATION being dead by treaty may seek resurrection by joint resolution. In that case, being sown a corruptible body it will not put on incorruption, by any means. The title we propose to receive from Hawaii is not purged of l_ts iniquity by a change of process. There is no balm in a joint resolution to heal and sweeten the offense to | this country and to Hawaii. The President of the United States said that the government of Hawaii was subverted in 1893 by‘_nn “abuse of the authority of the United States, which was in -plain violation of international law, and re- cuired the President to disavow and condemn the act of our offending officials and within the limits of his constitutional power to endeavor to restore the lawful authority. . To this Lorin Thurston, representing the Dole “The fact that the United States Minister may have trespassed upon the international rights of the Hawaiian monarchy does not thereby confer jurisdiction upon the Government of the trespass upon such rights of the de jure or de facto government.” Here is the admission that the de facto title to sovereignty was procured for the oligarchy by the act of the United States, and it is proposed to trans- fer that title, so procured, to this country. The manner of the transfer is immaterial, whether by treaty or joint resolution. We cannot honorably wrest a title from its lawful possessors, put it in the hands of an intermediary and from them accept it as our own. This is not conquest. It is worse. Mr. Jefferson laid down the principle that should be observed by the United States in the acquisition of territory. He was in favor of the annexation of Cuba, and writing to Madison on that subject in 1809 he said: “It will be objected to our receiving Cuba | that no limit can be drawn to our future acquisitions. Cuba can be defended by us without a navy, and this ievelops the principle which ought to limit our views. Nothing should ever be accepted which would require a navy to defend it.” Tyler, Webster, Taylor, Clayton and Blaine each stated strongly, as a declaration to the world, our Hawaiian policy to be the independence, neutrality and integrity of those islands. Secretary Sherman in his “Recollections,” a two- volume autobiography, says: “I hope that our peo- ple will be content with internal growth and avoid the complications of foreign acquisition. Our family of States is already large enough to create embarrass- ment in the Senate, and a republic should not hold dependent provinces or possessions. Every new ac- quisition will create embarrassments. If my life is prolonged I will do all I cad to add to the strength and prosperity of the United States, but nothing to extend its limits or to add new dangers by acquisition of foreign territory.” Here, then, is the expression of a line of American from Jefferson to Sherman. Every man who declared that policy spoke by authority. True, Jef- ferson was not President at the time he made the statement to Madison, but he had been succeeded in that office by Madison less than two months before he wrote. Tyler and Taylor were Presidents and their declar- ations were official; Clayton, Webster and Blaine were Secretaries of State and Sherman was a Senator. Nations apprise the world of their policy by acts and by declarations of those in authority. In that way our policy toward Hawaii was made known and repeatedly confirmed. Therefore the lawful govern- ment of Hawaii had no notice of our intention to aid in its subversion and our trespass upon its interna- tional rights was an act of peculiar turpitude. Our declared policy had put upon thedefensive in the court of international morality every predatory govern- rient that extended its jurisdiction and destroyed the autonomy of weak nations by such trespass as we committed in Hawaii. As we have often pointed out, our abandonment of our solemnly declared policy has been most grateful to the robber nations, to whom our former position was a standing reproach. polic IN THE SOUTH. RAILROADS CCORDING to Eastern authorities a boom in fl railroad building seems to have struck the Southern States, and it is said the indications are that during the present year more track will be laid south of the Potomac and Ohio than in all the rest of the United States and Canada together. The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Record says a conservative estimate of railroad build- ing in the Southern States for the year promises up- ward of 3000 miles of new track, which is 30 per cent more than was constructed in the entire country last vear and four times as much as was built in the South. It is said that upward of $40,000,000 in bonds has re- cently been floated for new roads and the extension of old ones. Much of this money has been obtained in Europe, and more in the financial centers of the North, where confidence has been restored in South- ern enterprises and sure profits are expected from investments. It is not in railroad building only that the South- ern States are going forward by leaps and bounds. The development of that section is notable in every line of industry. The manufacture of cheaper grades of cotton goods in that section has forced the well established mills of New England to reduce the wages of operatives in order to earn profits for their owners. The iron industry has expanded until Pitts- burg fears the competition, and the shipments from Southern ports have so increased as to seriously affect the commercial prestige of New York. Many causes have combined to bring about this remarkable industrial development in a section of the Union where the people have long been re- garded as unenterprising and comparatively stagnant. The fall in the price of cotton has compelled the Southern capitalist to seek other industries for the employment of his money. The firm establishment of the protective system has given an opportunity for the upbuilding of Southern factories, and the break- ing down of Bourbon Democracy in several leading Southern States in the last Presidential campaign has encouraged Northern capital and enterprise to enter the South and help in its advancement. Conceding as much of Southern industrial progress to these factors as can be claimed for them, there re- mains a considerable proportion of that progress which is mainly due to the energy and sagacity of the Southern people in advertising the resources of their States by means of expositions maintained on a scale sufficiently large and splendid to attract national at- tention. Thousands of clear-sighted Northerners visited Atlanta and Nashville mong the crowds of sightseers at the expositions in those cities and saw in the exhibits displayed there abundant proofs that the South is a promising field for enterprise of all kinds. The South, therefore, is reaping what she sowed. She has achieved success because she has earned it. 4 ) The Great West can find a profit in following the | A example. of the South. In the West as in the South the best exhibit to be made at an exposition is that of the country itself, and since the country cannot be sent to foreign fairs, the only way to accomplish the desired exhibition of it is to hold expositions at home and. bring outsiders to the country. We need not envy the Southern States their railroad boom nor any feature of their industrial development. We have only to act with an equal energy to achieve greater results in our own land. Let the Great West hold an exposition that will attract the attention of the whole country, and the resulting benefits to this section will cast the Southern advance into eclipse. THE CAUSE OF CUBA. MERICAN conservatism of speech and action has rarely been better exemplified than in the manner with which . the great - majority - of the people and their representatives in Congress have borne themselves during the period that has followed the destruction of the Maine. Although a great ma- jority believed the destructive explosion” was caused by Spanish treachery, and although the belief has been largely confirmed by each successive report from the scene of the disaster, the country as a whole has conducted itself with moderation and dignity. With the exception of a few sensational yellow jour- nals and one or two irresponsible members of Con- gress there has been hardly a single notable offender against the prevailing good sense and firmness of the people. It seems, in fact, as if the possibility of a war with Spain had steadied rather than excited the country. The resolution of the people is too strong to require expression in big words and high-sounding phrases. The discussions of the subject in Congress have been particularly moderate and wise. Even less than usual has been said about Cuba in either House, and men of all parties are waiting with confidence in the President to learn what course the nation will be called upon to take when the investigation has dis- closed the cause of the disaster and the extent of Spain’s responsibility is known. It requires no very discerning eye to perceive that this attitude of almost judicial impartiality on the part of the American people does not proceed from any indifference either to the loss of the Maine or to the cause of Cuban independence. On the con- trary, the sentiment in favor of a speedy recognition of the belligerent rights of the patriots is stronger than ever, and along with it is an increasing con- viction that the United States should take steps to put an end to the war which for so long a time has devastated the island and now threatens to totally de- stroy its civilization. The day of agitation for Cuban independence has about given way to the day of determined resolution that Cuba shall be free. Congress will not force the hand of the President, because Congress is well as- sured that he is animated by the spirit of genuine Americanismand will at theright time and in theright way intervene to put an end to the wrong and save this American island from complete ruin at the hands of a nation that has been proven incapable of rul- ing it. Even the most conservative, however, are agreed that the time for intervention is rapidly approaching. The destruction of the Maine has hastened this con- clusion, but did not form it. The sentiment existed long before, but had not reached the point of resolu- tion until now. At present the well nigh unanimous conviction of the conntry is that the war in Cuba must be checked and that the sooner intervention is made the better. Councilman Woodward of Oakland, who said last Friday “I have not yet studied the water rates” and on Tuesday said “I have studied water rates for twenty-six years,” is the latest statesman whose ex- planations require a diagram to be understood. Perhaps the statement made by the Councilman on Washington’s birthday was designed by him to con- vince the people of his ability and willingness to do a certain thing which Washington could not do. Chicago’s good citizens loudly applauded Ben- jamin Harrison's appeal to the rich to pay their taxes, but we shall have to wait until the next assess- ment roll is made up in that city before we know how many thought the appeal was addressed to them and how many regarded it as a slam at the plutocrats of New York. —_— It is not certain who prepared the slander speech with which Councilman Nolting opened the gang fight in the municipal campaign in San Jose, but it is safe to say the man who prepared it would not have uttered it, and the man who uttered it could not have prepared it. i The sudden and stormy splutter in New York against so-called “indecent” plays would have more weight if the papers had not been so careful to name the objectionable plays. As it is the wordy rage seems very much like the latest theatrical device in advertising. A postoffice clerk in Chicago who saw one of the niew green I-cent postage stamps for the first time a few days ago immediately telegraphed to Washington that a counterfeit stamp was in circulation, and now everybody in St. Louis is wondering why it is that Chicago is always so far behind the procession. P —— Wounded sailors of the Maine are crying for vengeance, but just where they may be expected to secure it is a trifle uncertain. Some of the Americans who were captured with the Virginius also cried for vengeance, but there is no official record showing that they obtained it. There is little reason for hoping that we shall ever get the new Hall of Justice completed so long as the present contractors and architects are alive, but for- tunately they are mortal, and in the next generation something may be accomplished. — e Zola’s year of imprisonment will give him: time enough in retirement to write a realistic story of the Dreyfus case that will yield him a sum sufficient to pay his fine of 3000 francs and hire a lawyer to defend him for its publication. —_— The Oakland wates fight is now in such a shape that the people over there cannot take water without getting into the soup John P. Thomas broke into a store in Clayport, Ind., last week. The crime was committed early in the morning. The criminal had had his trial and been sentenced before 10 o'clock in the forenoon of the same day, and before 7 o’clock in the evening he 'had begun imprisonment for a series of years within the walls of the Jeffersonville Reformatory. A versatile New Hampshire man who started in life as a carpenter, later becoming an editor, changed from that employment to the business of a barber, and subsequently was ordained as a minis- ter, occupying a pastorate successfully for several years. Now he is back in the harness again as.a newspaper man, % g SPECIAL FEATURES IN NEXT SUNDAY’S CALL RESIDENT GUTIERREZ of Salvador has written a letter to a friend in this city telling what he proposes to do in.the next revolution down there. Thg letter is not exactly like the famous De Lome letter, but .lit lets in a lot of side light on the forthcoming battle for the Presi- ency. That there’s going to be a revolution there isn't any possible doubt. In fact, after a fashion, it is already under way; the train of events are started that will very shortly end in actual fighting and blood- shed. Hence President Gutlerrez’ letter and hence the story in NEXT SUNDAY'S' CALL. Looa t ?edld it and get a good idea of how Central American revolutions are started. 3 In a corner of this continent punishment for alleged witchcraft is going on very much like it dld in the stiff-necked ~ days of Salem. The Zunis, < under the pressure of the four chief priests, have just had such a lively and exciting time trying to’ whip the witches out of an. old.woman. that several companfes of United States troops had. to be called.out. The excitement ‘gave signs of passing'into the wild, unlicensed- proceedings of a ‘“ghost dance.” Several white women teachers took a hand in the proceedings, and now the Zuni is in such a distraught condition that the United States troops are obliged to remain before it on guard. What the whole uproar means is fully told CALL. Did you know that your voice made pictures every time you spoke and that the sweeter the things you said the more beautiful the pictures made? Voice pictures opens up a vast field for people young and oid. > Just read NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL and you'll find out how easily the ;r:ckdis done, and you can picture yaur own voices and the voices of your riends. Incidentally you'll see at the same time what interesting pictures are made by the robust, resonant and famous volces of Jessie Bartlett Davis and Messrs. Cowles and Barnabee of the Bostonians, Attorney W. H. L. Barnes and Chief Sullivan of the Fire Department. The San Joaquin Valley ranchers are not the only farmers who have trouble over raln and snow and hesitating crops. The ice farmers on the Truckee River have just as discouraging a time “cussing” the Government weather prophets and getting out at unreasonable hours to stry and save their perishing crops. Ice farming as conducted on the Truckee is an exceedingly lively and busy life while it lasts. NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL tells all about the inter- esting life of the hustling mountain ice farmer, his terrors of a snowstorm and the very slick way in which he harvests his crop while the summer boarder is hibernating in ease and high hopes. The law recently proposed in Ohio by Assemblyman Parker to regulate marriage by physical examination has caused a great deal of discussion East and West. Read in NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL how some San Francis- cans regard the problem. - The disaster to the Malne has started people to talking about torpedoes. How they’'re used and the difficulties of using them. and a whole lot mora about torpedoes, big and little, is fully set forth in NEXT SUNDAY'’S CALL. Pages of graphic pictures and columns of interesting stories in NEXT SUNDAY'’S CALL. o BUY IT! ‘READ IT! 00000000000000000000000000000000000 3 NO INVALIDS NEED APPLY., There was a significant silence in'the doctor’s office. The eminent specialist had doffed his livery—the long, stiff, white coat, the cap and the reflector on his forehead, which glowed in the darkness like a malignant eye. He stood a moment while the servant brushed an imaginary speck from his spotless coat; he put his hat on, and, despite some unaccustomed pre- occupation which disturbed his self-satisfaction, he proceeded jauntily to- ward the outer door. But he turned as the negro stood holding the door open and said, suddenly: “The last patient—James, you remember—the sallow, man?” “Yes, sir. I remember. With the heavy top-coat and muffier.” “Exactly.” The doctor scratched his chin reflectively. ‘“Well, when he comes again—ah—discourage him—you understand?” “Yes, sir?” said the negro, interrogatively. “Yes. Just tell him I'm engaged and likely to be occupied all the fore- noon—or afternoon, as the case may be. Ah—impose upon him by your manner, you comprehend? If he doesn’t take the hint—ah—make him walit —indefinitely, you know. And—and forget about him, and—ah—then tell him I've gone out—something like that. You understand, I don't care to—to dark, young In NEXT SUNDAY'S® © © g OO0000D0OOO0000'0000000000000000000000 treat him. “Yes, sir.” I—in short, you understand?” And the boy gently closed the door behind him, locked up the place and himself departed with as close an imitation of the great physician’s manner as a slim, short man can attain to the dignity of a tall, stout one Then the new glass table covered with instruments looked at the pa- tients’ chair inquiringly, and the patients’ chair returned the glance with \ a significant smile. “But why?” asked the table curiously, “why doesn’t he want to treat that last patient? Is he—poor?” “Oh, no,” said the chair patronizingly, “he isn’t rich, nor well off even, but—" “Isn’t he good pay?” “Oh, yes; he'd pa: “Well, I don’t see, personally?” said the table, thoughtfully, “does_he dislike him “My good friend,” answered the chair, stiffly, “he doesn't know the man —has never met him, you know.” “Oh!"” The table subsided a moment, then Inquisitively continued: “Well, has he heard anything about him that would—" “Why,” impatiently interrupted the chair, “tha it.” . “What has then?” “Well, you are dull. “Yes. Well?” “Well!” “Well, I don’t see. has nothing to do with Can’t you see the man's 1129 Is it that he knows that he couldn’t cure—" | “Well, I never!"” exclaimed the chair, indignantly. “No, of course not,” said the table, hurriedly, “but if he’s a doctor—" “Well, suppose he is! Does he want the office filled with unpleasant sick people, who make the place look like a hospital? Does he want to offend the ladies who come here for daily treatment and a little gossip and—and to be petted and fussed over, with the disagreeable sight of ill- ness and real suffering? They come here just because it's pleasant and pretty and comfortable here. They like to sit in the parlors and glance over all the papers and pictures and talk to each other about their own symp- tems; then they like to come in h:re and have him look at them gravely and speak caressingly to them and give them a little treatment and a pleas- ant prescription now and then. He likes that kind of patients, too. He has become accustomed to them now, and he knows just what they want. It's easy and pleasant for him, and they don’t mind his bills—he’s so fash- ionable, you know. He likes strong, well people, with a little sometking the matter with them; patients who don't complain too much. It makes him nervous to listen te complaints about {ll-health and that sort of thing. He likes people who joke about their troubles, you see. “Whenever a really ill person comes he frowns and gets ill-tempered. He doesn’t like it; neither do the rest of us. But they don't continue to come very long; they go away indignant, to tell others that he is so busy he can’t attend to his patients, or that he's too independent; that he is im- i perious, inconsiderate, a brute—that sort of thing, you know. means more business. Do you see?"” “I see,” said the table, thoughtfully. All of which MIRIAM MICHELSON, COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS P. A. Buell of Stockton is at the Grand. At the Palace is A. R. Katz of New York. T. J. Field, the San Jose banker, Is at’ the Palace. John N. McBride of Chicago is a guest at the Palace. Lieutenant J. E. Cane, U. 8. the Occidental. George J. Coote arrived at the Palace from St. Louis. Francis Jones of New York is registered at the California. T. H. Harvey is registered at the Pal- ace from Kansas City. Attorney F. D. Nicol of Stockton is registered at the Lick. 1. Bird, the Merced attorney, is at the Grand for a few days. E. W. Runyon, the Red Bluff banker, is a guest at the Palace. T. Duggan, a mining man of Denver, is staying at the Grand. ‘W. D. Pennycook, a newspaper man of ‘Vallejo, is at the Occidental. E. C. Banard is regjstered at the Occi- dental from Washington, D. C. L. W. Falker, District Attorney of Mer- ced, is at the Grand with his wife. Professor E. H. Griggs has come up from Stanford and is at the Grand. W. 8. King of San Jose is at the Call- fornia with his wife and daughter.? G. F. McCandles of New York :,;! the California with his wife and ter. Nathan Cole Jr. and wife arrived at the California yesterday from Los Angeles. R. Wilson, & mining man of Wallace, N, is at 0000000000 Joseph D. Hen- o O derson, a wealthy o MENDACIOUS o insurance man of O FROM PATRI- o lLos Angeles,is at the Palace, where O OTIC MOTIVES. : he last evening o told the following Q090000000 story to illustrate the transcendent versatility and magnifi- cent mendacity of the average citizen of Illinois when the reputation of his State is at stake: “I was once passing through Illinofs,” said Mr. Henderson, “in company with another Californian. The train was run- ning through a long section of farming country, and, as we sat and looked out of the windows of the smoking room, we commented on the great fields of wheat that, commencing at the fence which ran along about twenty or thirty feet from the track, stretched away in the. distance as far as the eye could reach. ‘“We compared the appearance of the grain to the appearance of that in the valleys of Callfornia, and passed many unfavorable remarks on the poor show- ing it would make if brought into compar- ison with the luxuriant and magnificent -growths produced by the fertility of our own unsurpassed sofl and climate. Sit- ting opposite us was a quiet individual Wwho had been listening intently to all we had sald. Just as my friend had finished @ more than ordinarily severe criticism, he leaned over toward us and sald: ‘Gen- tlemen, I don't wish to interrupt you. but, as you seem to be rather severe in your opinions on the wheat growth of this State, which is, as is everything else in Illinofs, the finest of its kind in the world, I want to ask yvou how far dis- | tant you think this wheat we are pass- ing through is from the train? “I looked out of the window and sald, my friend “That’'s where you make your mistake, gentlemen,’ sald tic about twenty feet, while guessed about thirty. nger. ‘On these level plains there is :'Eelgendous mirage,and that wheat that you think so poorly of Is five miles dis- tant if it is a foot. Could you see it close, In fact, as your fancy makes you believe you do, you would never say an- other word about the wheat of California, which compares to it as does a scrub oak to a glant redwood.’ "Whgen we recovered sufficiently to speak, the first use we made of our voices was to ask the veracious stranger what he would have.” Idaho, is at the Occidental with his wife. H. Robey arrived in the city last even. ing from Baltimore and went to the Pal« ace. Dr. and Mrs. Leon Harvey have ar. rived from Denver and are at the Occl. dental. E. S. Churchill, a wealthy banker of Napa, is at the Palace with his wife and family. H. A. Jastro, a big politician and banker of Kern County, is one of yesterday's ar- rivals at\the Grand. A. Lawrence, a mining man of Catskill, New Mexico, is registered at the Grand on a business trip to the city. F. S. Morris, R. L. Durham and R. E. Moody are three rallroad men who ar- rived at the Palace last evening. 0000000000 Some days ago o O a gentleman who o A LITTLE o resides ?)11 a hotel where they em- © COLORED o NI \ored help O SARCASM. O gecided to tip 9 O some of them, so 0000000000 cajing the waiter who attended him at table he told him that he had a coat, vest and pair of shoes that he did not want and that he intended to give away and for the waiter to name his choice of garment as he could not have the entire suit. The black boy was unable to make up his mind what he wanted most, but said he would think the matter over and hand in his decision in a day or so. That evening, however, the generous guest saw the porter, bell boy and elevator man and disposed of all tha articles. The next evening as he seated himself at the dinner table the waiter to whom he had spoken first came up to him and sald: “I'se sorry fo' dem dar niggers yuh gib de close to. De one yuh dun let hab de coat hab cotched a cole frum de breez dat blowed thrugh de holes an’ de man what am got de shoes is er walkin' hise uppers an de boss man am dun sarnt away de coon wid de vest fer gibin’ fleas to hise dorg. The only reason that “nigger” is still working is that the gentleman’s sense of humor was stronger than his sense of of- fended dignit: THE MARTYRS OF THE MAINE. And they have thrust our shattered dead away in foreign graves, Exiled forever from saflor craves! They trusted once to Spain, They're trusting her again! And with the holy care of our own sacred slain! .« No, no, the stripes and stars Must wave above our tars. Bring them home! "the port the homesick On a thousand hills the darling dead of all our battles lie, In nooks of peace, with flowers and flags. But now they seem to cry From out their bivouac: “Here every good man Jack Belongs. Nowhere but here—with us. bring them back.' And on the Cuban gales A ghostly rumor walls, “Bring us home!" So Poltroon, the people that neglects to guard the bones, the dust, The reverend reliques its warriors have be- queathed in trust! But heroes, too, were these Who sentinel'd the seas And gave their lives to shelter us in care- less ease. Shall we desert them, slain, | And proffer them to Spain As.allen mendicants—these martyrs of our Maine? Nof Bring ‘them hofne! —~Rupert Hughes in New York Sun. St ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. COMMISSIONS IN THE ARMY—Ser- geant, Angel Island. The purchasing of commissions in the British army was can- celed by royal warrant July 20, 1871 AN OLD-TIME PAPER—G. W., Bast Oakland, Cal. You ought to advertise in The Call the fact that you have such an old paper as you say you have, and in that way you will probably attract a buyer. WEIGHT OF WATER—J. H., City. To ascertain how many pounds of water a tank of given dimensions will hold, ascer- tain the number of clibic feet of the tank, then mumzly the number of feet by 62, ‘which is the weight of a cubic foot of rain water. PRIZE FIGHTING—E. McC., Angel Is- land, Cal. There is no Federal law agalnst prize fighting except the one passed in 1896, February 7, by the Fifty- fourth Congress, prohibiting prize fighting in the District of Columoia and in any of the Territories. Most of the States have State laws against prize-fighting. Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* —_——— Speclal information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 &onh gomery -street. Telephone Main 1042, * —_————— Husband's Calcined Magnesia.—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.® —_———— Dr. Margaret M. 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