The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 2, 1898, Page 6

FIRING BOTH BARRELS AT OAKLAND. THE big six in the Oakland City Council, which passed the water rate ordinance, is still in busi- ness at the old stand and seems to have been re-enforced since its first skirmish and victory. After passing the water ordinance it prepared to | take another fall out of the people by putting through a real estate job under the guise of a park proposi- tion. It is noteworthy that the park job ordinance describes the ground to be bought by metes and bounds, but does not give the number of acres nor the price. It is known outside the text of the ordi- nance that the price is about $5000 per acre and the area about sixty acres. Land bought at that price for park purposes is a most luxurious investment. It | may fit into the financial views of the rank Council- -:908 Broadway | . who have just watered their official stock, but only cities of three-quarters of a million people can afford to pay that price for park sites. The vote for the new water ordinance was Bros- | nahan, Earl, Heitmann, Henneberry, Watkinson and Woodward. President Pringle denounced these six men to their faces in the Council and took some pains to rifle the vocabulary of anger and contempt to ex- press his opinion of their treachery and probable cor- Then the roll was called on the park job, same six WEDNESDAY = MARCH 2, 1898 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ———— Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. 2 ISNSSUSE SV UBLICATION OFFICE........Market and Third Sts.. S. F. Telephone Maln 1868. ITORIAL ROOMS 91T to 921 Stevenson street g e Telephone Main 1574 | N FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY)!s | r.Ee::d by carrlers In this clty and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year, per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL...cccsue ©OAKLAND OFFICE Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YO.R-K OFFICE..........Room 188, World Building ...One year, by mall, $I.83 WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE . Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street. eorner Clay ©epen untll 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open untll | 930 o'clock. 62! MoAllister. street: open untll 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock | £W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets: open untll | S o'clock. $518 Misslon street: open untll 9 o'clock | b 1C6 Eleventh st open untli9 o'clock, 1506 Polk straet | ruption. : cpen untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second | and Pringle complacently voted with the and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. Hforithat jobl —— These are hard lines for the people of Ozkland. It | is noticed that the local papers, which have been very | indignant over the water ordinance, are indulging in | a pleased and smiling silence over the real estate job put through by the same combination. MR. TOWNE'S TURKEY TALK. Alcazar—False Shame." aved From the Sea-" Tivoli—"The Geisha." Orpheum—Vaudeville. Bush—Thala German-Hebrew Opera Co., Sunday night. Olympfa, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialiies. ‘ The Chutes—Chiquita and Vaudeville. Mechanies’ Pavilion—Mining Fair and Klondike Exposition. at Ingleside to-day. HE argument for free silver as made by Mr. TTo\mc has features that are somewhat novel. 1 He declares that while he was a member of Congress the United States would have made an armed interference in Turkey in behalf of the Ar- menians but for the control of this country by the bondholders who own the Turkish bonds and did not want the credit of the Sultan impaired. This is news indeed. Dr. Hepworth, an American citizen, reports that the Armenian diffi-ulties were incited by revolutionists who urged the Armenians to revolt arrd then left them to take the consequences. But, no matter what the origin of the troubles, the right of the United States to interfere cannot be demon- strated. We have stood by the Monroe doctrine since 1824. Our interpretation of that doctrine is that there shall be no further aggrandizement of terri- tory in this hemisphere by any European power, and that Europe shall not interfere in any way therein. This doctrine has, for its necessary counterbalance, our absolute abstention from intetference in the af- fairs of the European hemisphere. Without this ab- stention the Monroe doctrine has no standing. We have no right to maintain it at all under any other conditions. The Washington administration and Work is rushed at navy yard and army post, muni- | (?ongress understood this perfectly. ?\'e were at the tions of war hurried from point to point, a Senator | lvlme Jeiien o .by Mr:blTownlf sce]kmg o [Er:‘;- sent to Havana, secret conferences held among | !.md,»pca_ccab]y ‘,f S e cdgmer.tt oL this statesmen, efforts made to increase the number of | .doctnnc inithe Vepczuch afi_mr. o ha\':'mter_fered <hips and man them, to hide the real opinion of the | "?. Tur}cey poutd l_mve combl(;ledlEurope i el ot inaey. ALl tadt fhingsmighsaale | Ty Eagland esatnstens andiinEine Sl an creating a feeling of uneasiness, a theory that the un- | T (L TG S Dl U ‘been OIS CIL VS usual was about to happen. But no. Tacked to each | theicloscigit succ:§sf\|! WarigEatese il burone of them as a rider is the statement that it “has no | E.ngla-nd grgcelally ,yldded the pout, assentcd‘m 25 significance.” Thus the country is reassured, and bitzation, and t.he \'e."ezuekf incident do."d uathy e 2 3 A 3 5 Monroe doctrine fairly written into international aside from wondering why energy is being bent to |} 4 \ith the Continental nations snarling at Eng- al isk t of that which indicate hi S 3 i Cmmphf‘men oF At e N s naught | )14 for her surrender. American diplomacy had but the unbridled sway of the insignificant, the ir- | Paclfic Coast Jockey Clnb—Race: AUCTION SALES. 7 March 2, Orlental Rugs, | | day, By Frank Butterfield—This 8t 116 Sutter street, at 2 0'cl0CK. —Thursday, March 3, Horses, Carriages, | et, at 11 o’clock. i By Madison & Burke—Thursday March 3, Real Estate, at 626 | Market street. at 12 o'clock. | By G. H. Umbsen—Monday, March 7, Real Estate, at 14 Mont- | gomery sireet, at 12 o'clock. | 3 & | “NO SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE.” NE of the strangest features of the present at- | O titude of this country toward Spain is that no matter what is done “no special significance” attaches to it. This information may be obtained | from any official who may consider himself at liberty to speak, but the fact that so many feel constrained ! to curb the agility of their tongues by firmly gripping | them between their teeth is merely another of the cir- | cumstances so strikingly devoid of significance. If | rumor set afloat by diplomacy is to be credited, there is nothing leit to mortal ken to which may be at- tributed the quality of significance. Indeed how there should have happened to be a human environment made up entirely of fhe insignificant is enough to puzzle people who happen to think about it. relevant and the immaterial, finds no excuse for being aroused to emotion. HUNTINéTON 'S LAST STAND. ROCEEDINGS in the House of Representa- tives on Friday during the debate on the ap- propriation bill disclose the fact that Hunting- ton has not yet given up his fight against the im- | provement of San Pedro harbor, bui fortunately also show that he has lost his power in the House and that his last struggle will be unavailing and fu- tile. To pave the way for the assault on the proposed appropriation for San Pedro the attack was begun on the clause of the bill appropriating $133,000 for the improvement of Oakland harbor. The opponents of the measure took a stand ostensibly in the interests of economy and urged that as no contract had yet been made for the work at Oakland it should not be undertaken at this time. It was generally recognized that this was but a preliminary move in the fight against San Pedro, since an adverse vote on that ground against the Oakland appropriation would have established a precedent for defeating the im- provement of the southern harbor. The attempt to strike the Oakland appropriation from the bill failed, and then the fight against San Pedro began in earnest. The most significant feature of it was the speech made by General Grosvenor of Ohio, who, after attacking the appropriation on the ground that the contemplated improvement would be unwise, that it would cost more than the amount fixed by law, and that no contract had yet been made for the work, went on to say that an excellent har- bor in that vicinity would be constructed by private enterprise and turned over to the Government with- | out cost provided the Government should not pro- ceed with the improvement at San Pedro. He is re- ported to have stated also that an offer in writing to that effect has been filed with the Secretary of War by persons of unquestionable responsibility. The statement of General Grosvenor was under- stood to refer to Mr. Huntington, but it appears that an investigation failed to discover any evidence that such a proposition had been made to the Secretary of War. Possibly General Grosvenor may have been assured that “the responsible parties” were willing to make the offer and assumed they had done so. How- ever the mistake may have occurred, the statement made openly on the floor of Congress shows how desperate are the tactics of the Southern Pacific managers and to what extent they are willing to go in their efforts to maintain their old-time monopoly of transcontinental communication with the ports and | harbors of California. Despite the efforts of the opposition the appropri- ation was agreed to and a victory for the people ac- complished in the House. Thus another step has been taken toward the emancipation of the indus- tries and commerce of California from the thralldom | of the Southern Pacific Company. Mr. Huntington may, if he chooses, improve Santa Monica harbor at his own expense, but if he does so he will not be in a position to monopolize the traffic of the counties back of Los Angeles and compel it to defray the cost of the improvement. He will have competition there as in the San Joaquin, and can no longer fix freights and fares at all the traffic will bear. Whatever may be said derogatory to Fitzhugh Lee the charge cannot be made that the Spanish like him. won a distinguished victory. Now Mr. Towne, in appealing to prejudice, throws mud at this honorable chapter in our history and at- tributes our policy of non-intervention in Turkey, to which alone we owe our success, to a corrupt intrigue | between this country and the Turkish bondholders, | and declares the whole result to be due to the ma- | chinations of certain goldbugs. It will go ill with the country if its policies are to be subjected to such ideas and put into the hands of | men who advocate them. i If we should interfere in a contest between Turkey | and her Armenian subjects our interference must be | backed by an armed force, and that would mean a declaration of war, and the theater of the contest would be in European Turkey and Asia Minor. A more Quixotic project cannot be imagined. It would |.involve us in all the foreign complications against which this country has been warned by all of its pa- triot statesmen since Washington. It would instantly | authorize and empower any and every Government | in Europe to intrude in the affairs of this hemisphere. | The chronic slaughter in the revolutions that are | continually in progress in Central and South America affords precisely the same pretext for European in- terference that we have in the affairs of Turkey. Only the presence-and position of the United States prevent such interference. Now when we hold to | that preventive attitude Mr. Towne tells his country- men that it is not due to statesmanship and high con- siderations of national policy, but to the bribery of goldbugs and bondholders. His statement should justly alarm every American who has a high regard for the honor of his country. It means that if Mr. Towne make “one of that great host which in 1900 is to meet in Washington to inaugurate William J. Bryan as President,” this Government is to imme- diately assume dictatorship in Eurupean affairs and assert suzerainty over the Turkish empire. It is well that such apprentices in statecraft are kept in private life. Sagasta declares that Spain will never arbitrate. ‘What he means is that such 3 course would fail to have his distinguished approval. Sagasta is not to be blamed for any of his utterances just now. A man with the responsibility of guiding the remnants of a nation, the remnants showing a constant tendency to slough off, may be excused if he say things show- ing him to be laboring under temporary mental aberration. Boutelle’s exclamatory admonition to the public to | go to the devil is not a notable improvement on the immortal words of Vanderbilt. Indeed, if one were inclined to be critical the statesman might be ac- cused of plagiarism as well as bad temper and worse taste. Mr. Ebanks of San Diego must be getting tired of having the court set days for him to mount the gallows. He can never be convinced that the law is not bluffing until it has put him out of one state of suspense into another. — The charge that Roosevelt has a spine is now openly made against him. If no worse can be brought the young man is in danger of being con- victed of popularity. 5 3 Possibly the gentleman who declares that Havana has no submarine mines means that it has fewer than | it had before the Maine met with disaster. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1898 PROMOTION IN THE NAVY. EADERS of The Call will remember that a R few days ago we published a roll of the names and places of birth of the seamen who had per- ished with the destruction of the Maine at Havana. Those who read the roll with attention must have been impressed with the number of names on it re- corded as of foreign birth. It was an American battle-ship charged with the high duty of maintain- ing the honoér of the American flag, but a very large proportion of the men who served its engines and its guns were foreigners. There was nothing new to the public in the facts disclosed. It has long been known that our navy and to a great extent our merchant marine is manned by men who at best are Americans by adoption only. Several Secretaries of the Navy have directed the at- tention of Congress to the evil, for an evil it is, but nothing has been done to provide a remedy. It now appears likely, however, that the new stimulus to patriotism given by the disaster at Havana will move Congress to act in this as well as in other matters of naval improvement, and that we shall have within a comparatively short time some well devised legisla- tion tending to make the naval service more attrac- tive to Americans than it has been in times past. The objection of Americans to service at sea does not spring from any lack of ocean daring or any want of popular pride in our navy and its history. The cause is due mainly to the laws which govern the sailor while at sea. The young American, born and raised in the freedom of American institutions and having an ambition to rise in life, is not attracted by the conditions which still prevail in the ocean ser- vice of the country. With the exception, therefore, of those who have a dominating inclination for a sea- man’s life, the American leaves sea service for Europeans and stays ashore until the outbreak of war calls him to respond as a patriotic duty. As one of the means of encouraging the enlistment of young Americans it has been proposed to open in the naval service avenues for advancement and pro- motion to all who enlist. At the present time our method of providing officers for the navy bars the man who enters it as a seaman from any chance of rising, no matter how competent and faithful he may be. If this exclusive system were done away with and the young sailor as well as the cadet from An- napolis could see before him in the naval service an opportunity for advancement that would appeal to his ambition, there can be no question that the number | of enlistments would increase and the class of those seeking the service would improve. The change suggested will not be a wholly untried | experiment. The exclusive system once prevailed in the army as in the navy, but some years since a means was provided by which a private soldier who is able to pass the required tests may become a com- missioned officer, and the results have been beneficial in every respect. It is fair to assume that what worked well in the army will be as beneficidl in the navy, and if the proposed reform takes place we may reasonably expect a navy which shall be manned by Americans—one which, at any rate, will afford to any American youth the same opportunities for ad- vancement and honor that are open to him in every other service of his country. EXPOSITION APPROPRIATIONS. BILL has been introduced into the House of fl Representatives by General Bingham of Pennsylvania to authorize the holding of a| national exposition of American products and manu- factures especially suitable for export in Philadelphia in 1809. The bill carries with it an appropriation of $350,000, and in addition thereto Congress will be ex- pected to provide for a governmental exhibit. Philadelphia will obtain the appropriation she asks. A committee of distinguished citizens have been to Washington to back up the Congressional delegation of the State in making the contest for it. It is un- derstood that the appropriation is to be available only when the exposition association furnishes to the Sec- retary of the Treasury satisfactory proof that it has secured subscriptions for the purposes of the expo- | sition to an amount equal to that of the sum appro- priated. This, of course, will be readily accomplished. The prospects of the Philadelphia enterprise are therefore bright and promising. This matter is of interest to us because we also have an exposition enterprise on hand. Our delegation in Congress will give help to the Philadelphia project and the Pennsylvanians should be notified that they will be expected to return the compliment when the Californian bill is before the House. Reciprocity is as excellent in home business as in foreign affairs, and this is a good opportunity to put it into practice for the mutual benefit of the East and West. The expediency of national appropriations for ex- positions of interstate importance is no longer ques- tioned. Such appropriations have been so repeatedly made since the Centennial at Philadelphia that they are now looked upon as matters of course, and whenever the people of any particular locality have undertaken an exposition of genuine magnitude Con- gress has willingly voted aid and assistance. The proposed exposition to be held in California in commemoration of the admission of the State is to be one of exceptional greatness and importance. It is to represent not one State, but the whole of that imperial region familiarly known as the Golden West, and will be in comprehensiveness and value superior to any exposition ever held in the Union with the single exception of the marvel at Chicago during the Columbian year. The appropriation asked for by the Pennsylvanians includes $300,000 to be employed in the crection of buildings and $50,000 to be used in collecting in foreign markets various exhibits showing how mer- chandise should be packed for sale abroad. Similar sums for similar purposes would be of material aid in promoting the proposed exposition here, and since the Philadelphia bill will afford a recent precedent for granting aid for such purposes, it would seem clear that it will be our own fault if we do not obtain it. Dr. Hill of the State Quarantine Department feels indignant that he should have been made a prisoner on board the Doric. Nothing could be more natural, and yet the Doric may confine the ' entire State quarantine outfit in the hold and never excite the sign of a murmur from the public. The gentlemen about to open a private zoo in this city could add much to its impressiveness by secur- ing a pair of Oakland Councilmen and placing them on exhibition, securely caged. Bateman Brothers owe the Supervisors at least a vote of thanks. If =~y more material obligation ex- isted the matter is one among gentlemen who do not take the public into confidence. | REBELLIOUS SUSIE ILLINOIS. taxation. selection of the stewards who shall Wwe protest that to compel us to make just and should be illegal.” In other words, if the game is not and sulkily go her own way. nity property. things. She can't. ners. But suppose there were? not stay off. That's all. attacked by or anticipate that she will inches high; should a robber kitten of scream? husband Johnnie. and world-time of common joys. nie’s accumulations. that it is unjust that we do not vote, we do. She Believes That Taxation Without Representation Is Tyranny. The women of Chicago, who represent $10,000,000 worth of property, are praying the Legislature of Illinois for the exemption of their property from “If we women are not to be permitted to say who shall administer the Gov- ernment, who shall apportion the taxes; if our voice may not be heard in the expend the publicmoneys, partof which is provided by us, we shall refuse to contribute toward such a fund—at least such contribution is arbitrary and un- played according to rules in which we shall have our fair say we'll “‘take our doll things and go home.” This is the position of the women of Illinois. And if the game shall be broken up by your withdrawal, Susie Tllinois? “I don’t care,” says pouting Susie, preparing to bundle up her belongings Of course, there isn’t the slightest possibility of the game’s going to rack and ruin for lack of Susie Illinois, though her ten millions’ (in Chicago alone) worth of doll babies and playhouse furniture is no small item of the commu- And for a very simple reason. The back yard where she and Johnnie Illinois are playing and quarreling is the only back yard in the world for her. question of another place, of other playmates, of other times and other man- Susie will not take her doll There can be no Suppose Susie, with her chubby arms full of valuables, shall march off the reservation? ‘What then? Merely that she’ll My poor Susie, if your property is to be exempt from taxation, you yourself are exempt from the protection of which that taxation kas hitherto assured you. In leaving the safe precincts of Johnnie's back yard you expose yourself to all the unknown terrors of the dog-infested, bully-full, un-shed-covered neighborhood. You are exempt from taxation, but you are also exempt from police protection, from the use of good sireets, from the benefit of street lighting and all the other civilized contrivances, woman, being the weaker partner in the great game, benefits most. Such a division of property and of interests is absurd, of course. Susie, from the wildness of equal rights to which she has, supposedly, fled, be from which Should be attacked by some dog outlaw a few her own sex attempt to dispossess her of a part of that $10,000,000 worth of dolls; should her cherubic foot slip in the mud of the outer yard, who in the world can doubt that she would promptly And who, knowing the world of Susies and Johnnies, can for a mo- ment doubt the effect of that scream? Susie, speedily, still alarmed but sobbing comfortably, back in the fold, her ten millions in the common fund and the old game begun over again, all the more interesting for the novel interlude, which gave Susie an opportunity to play her old role of lovely woman in distress and Johnnie his great chance of appearing as the brave champion of her helplessness. No, there can be no divsion of people kind. Every Susie has a Johnnie, a brother Johnnie, or a father Joharie, or a Happily Susie Illinois and the Susies of other States are bound by ties strorger than their longing for equality or their love of justice to Johnnies in various degrees of relationship. And it is only for a theoretical moment that che can think of her interests apart from his. The abstract John- nie is a tyrant, no ccubt; but the particular, the individual Johnnie, i a male creature, limited perhaps, faulty no doubt, but endeared to Susie by a lifetime It will be Johnnie to the rescue, and into mankind and woman- Therefore Susie Illinois, outraged, indignant Susie, smarting from a sense of injustice and a humiliating feeling of helplessness, remain, I beg you, in the dear old famillar back yard. Let your feminine thrift still be added to John- No bullying, Susie; no threats. I, when each and every one of us shall convince her individual Johnnie—not ‘We shall vote, you and but that it is wise and expedient that MIRIAM MICHELSON. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS. C. B. Kimbella and wife of Chicago are at the Lick. Brander H. Lee is at the Palace from Los Angeles. J. W. Houston of Courtland is a guest at the Grand. D. H. Wallis of Sacramento is a guest at the Grand. = S. J. Allard, the Eureka insurance man, is at the Grand. J. F. Cgmp, a mine owner of Chicago, is at the’ Grand. W. Aherns is registered at the Califor- nia from Alaska. J. F. Peck of Merced arrived at the Lick last evening. R. L. Thornton and wife are guests at the Lick from Seattle. J. J. McGinnity, a mining man of Den- ver, is at the California. W. Palmtag, a blg rancher of Hollister, is staying at the California. W. A. Anderson, a prominent lawyer of Sacramento, is at the Lick. loooooo0oo000¢C “When you o CAPTAIN O spoke of that [ s © bird of yours yes- O MCGREGOR'S ¢ terday, Wain- 5 DOG o Wright,it remind- SCUTTLEBUTT., o ¢ me of a dog vned 0000000000 {vhef]"cf Dok i command of that old hooker, the South- ern Cross, and used to run from Liverpool around the Cape to Australia,” said Cap- tain McGregor, as the Ancient Mariner Club ‘assembled in the room back of the hotel bar for their regular afternoon ses- sion. “There are ship's dogs and ship's dogs, but, in over fifty vears of wind-jamming on every bit of blue water from Halifax to Hakodate, I have never seen the equal of old Scuttlebutt. He was a born sailor, his father being a beachcomber of Val- paraiso, and his mother the ship’s dog on the old brig Spunyarn, under whose fo'castle he first saw the light of day as he lay amid a lot of dunnage and gazed out at the big green seas that a Cape Horn blow sent sweeping over her sides and along her decks. “The first word he ever heard was the cursing of the bo'swain as he kicked him out of the way while hunting for a watch tackle, and he learned to drink coffee in the morning watch at an age when ordi- nary shore dogs find it hard to digest bread and milk. “He was nearly a year old when he came to me, as the two vessels were gamming during a calm. I knew the min- ute I looked at him and saw the manner he moved about the decks that he would prove a valuable acquisition to the ship's company, so I proposed to the captain of the Spunyarn that he let me have the pup for a half sack of potatoes. The trade went, and Scuttlebutt became mine. He rapidly developed into the best all-round sea-dog that ever weathered a nor'wester. But the particular accomplishment that I was going to tell you of was his ability as a climber. There was no place alow or aloft that he could not get to. He would come aboard over a swinging boom as handily as a man-o'-warsman, and we used to stick his tall in a slush pot and send him aloft to grease down from the truck. He would lay out on a yard with his hind feet on the foot rope and his fore paws over the stick and help furl with his teeth, and it was a common practice of his to hang head downward from the back ropes and play with the dolphins under the bow when we were in the tropics. “What became of him? Poor old Scut- tlebutt. I lost him off the tops’lyard one dark night during a terrific gale off the Cape. We were taking a double reef in the sail, Scuttlebutt was out on the lee e'rring with one paw on the foot rope and one on the brace. The brace parted, and he went over the side and was never seen again.”” 5 A. Sacwan, 2 prominent merchant from Bombay, India, is at the Palace. ‘W. Booth, a wealthy tourist from Lon- don, is staying at the Occidental. A. Marka of New York is one of yes- terday's arrivals at the California. G. E. Pratt, a coffee planter of San Sal- vador, is staying at the Occidental. J. E. Rugg and wife of Boise City, Idaho, are registered at the Occidental. W. W. Treglown arrived from Yoko- hama on the Doric and is at the Palace. Rev. W. Middleton was one of the ar- rivals at the Palace yesterday from Yoko- hama. 3 —_— Those Apache Indians bound for Cuba to fight for the island’s freedom must not get the idea that they can teach the Spanish any new tricks . Mrs. O. 8. Fowier, the widow of the famous phrenologist, is registered at the California from New York. C. F. Bliss. a mining man of Nevada, and John R. Mitchell, a merchant of Van- couver, are guests at the Palace. W. Ga Rase and T. Ito, two prominent Japanese who arrived from the Orient on the Doric, are registered at the Occiden- tal. Theron Geddes, the auditor of the Rio Grande Western Rallroad, is at the Oc- cidental from Salt Lake City. Mrs. Ged- des accompanies her husban THE FELLER ON MY KNEE. “Ef the country goes ter fightin’ Says the feller on my knee, “Would you go an’ be a sojer, Like they say you use ter be? (@ wuz all erlong with Jackson, An’ I faced the fight with Lee.) 1 think I would,” I answers Ter the feller on my knee. Then my mind went back a minute Ter the days o' sixty-one; I saw the bayonmets bristle— Heard the thunder o' the gun. (I wuz mixed up in the fightin’ ‘Fore Sherman struck the sea.) “I think I'd go,” I answers Ter the feller on my knee. “Would you go an’ leaye my mother— Would you kiss good-by ter me An’ go marchin’ with the sofers? Says the feller on my knee. An’ I feel a tear-drop trickle (Fer I'm techous as kin be!) I think I would,”” I answers Ter the feller on my knee. “But I hope the wars air over— That we'll dwell upon the sod Forever an' forever > In the lovin' peace o' God! “But—s'pose they went ter flght Would you help 'em out?’ says he. “I'm shore I would!” T answers Ter the feller on my knee. —Frank L. Stanton in Chicago Times-Herald. —_— SENATOR GEAR AND HAWAIL Philadelphia Times. Senator Gear of Iowa has joined Sen- ator Morrill of Vermont in his opposition to the annexation of Hawall -on the ground that a population of 7000 of whites sandwiched with 33,000 more or less ig- norant and diseased natives and T71.000 Chinese and+Japanese hardly constitute a suitable constituency for a self-governing State. It will be noted that Senator Gear has ignored all questions of sugar grow- ing and manifest destiny, and considered only the fitness of the country, with its mixed and ignorant population, to be- come one of the American States. Most intelligent people will regard Senator Gear's reason for opposing the treaty as a very sensible one and will wonder why he should have so few Republican col- leagues in the Senate of a like way of thinking. They will be gratified, how- ever, with the assurance that the odds and ends of opposition, made up of Dem- ocrats, Populists anad a few Republicans like Morrill and Gear, are likely to pre- vent the confirmation of the treaty. —_———— BISMARCK THE SOLDIER. Prince Bismarck on March 25 next will celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of his entering the Prussian army, to which he now belongs as Colonel General of Cav- alry and chief of the regiment of Seyd- litz Cuirassiers, which is named after a famous general of Frederick the Great. On that date in 1838 young Bismarck was mustered into the battalion of Jaegers of the Royal Guards at Potsdam as a one- {ear volunteer. A year later he received is discharge as a non-commissioned of- ficer and was transferred to the reserve. In he was promoted to first lieuten- ant in_the cavalry of the Landwehr (na- tional militia); in 1859 he became captain, and in 1561 major. During the Austro- Prussian war in 1866 he was made a ma- jor-general; at the proclamation of the German Empire in Versailles in 1871, he advanced to lieutenant general, and in 1876 he was made general of cavalry. Wil- liam II in March of 1800 appointed him colonel general. ————— PREPARE FOR A GALE. New York Sun. ‘The Hon. William Jennings Bryan, the Hon. George Fred Williams, and the Hon. Jim Jones have promised to go to the spring meeting of the Bimetallic League at Indianapolls. Joy sparkles in the eyes of the silver Hooslers. “The size of the crowd on that occaslon,” says the Delphi Times triumphantly, “will make the late monetary convention look like a knot on a street corner.” The poor old monetary convention was not a wild uprising of the eople, but this Indianapolis spring meet- causes alarm alremf;?. Mr. Bryan is a large crowd. The Hon. Jim Jones is a multitude. The Hon. George Fred Wil- Hams is an army with banners. How can three such vast badles come together ‘without danger to themfelves and others, if there are any others THE VIZCAYA'S NAME. ‘The Spanish I is the English E an Spanish Z is the English th. Her gn‘nh: therefore is ~ Veeth-ky-yah. Vizeaya means Biscay, the name of the province fronting the bay of Biscay—oh!—New York Sun. —_— e SALARIES IN FRANCE. It is always pleasant to read of the in- MP:I‘:) ot’ otlhm. and !meflx‘na.y finu con- solation in learning w! e roletariat of France—as the e t—gains yearly. According to the same ?:Ysl&noper there are in France from 12,000 Paris and about 10,4 in the provinces. doctors,of whom 2500 are found in | Of this number only five or six make in- comes of from $40,00) to $60,000 & vear; from ten to fifteen make from $20.00 to $30,000 a year, 10. make perhaps $10,000 a year, 300 make from $3000 to a year, 500 make from $1500 to $3000, while 1200 earn less than $1500 a year. Coming to the lawyers, of whom there are 3000 in Paris alone, we find that there are not 400 of them who make as much as $2000 a year. A couple of score make incomes of $10,000 @ vear. It appears that when one of these advocates is made a magistrate his salary is only from $600 to $800 a year, while for the Justices of the Peace—fully qualified practitioners—the salaries range from $400 to $600 a year. Think of it! A an English judgeship is warth from $25. to $60,000. It seems that a college profes- sor is paid from $200 to $300 a year. a lycee professor from $750 to $1000 a year. An English university professor earns an average of $3300 a year.—Boston Journak —_— IN LENT. No smiles allure, She looks demure And like a nun all gowned in gray, With modest mein, And face serene As down the aisle she takes her way. I upward loock From my hymn book, And wonder, as my pew she passes, *‘Can this be May, This saint in gray, Devout in penitential as] She looks intent On prayer full bent E Her thoughts are far from summer beacnes Her heart inclines To Lenten shrines, - And rather psalms than tender speeches. In other guise 1 saw her eyes, (Ah, summers gone and seasons spent), O Time, how strange You wrought the change In May, my summer girl, in Lent. —Alfce Van Laer Carrick in Boston Herald. ANSWERS TO CO;!RESPONDENTS. A CENT OF ’27—Inquirer, City. Thers is no demand for a United States cent of 1827, consequently it commands no premium. The selling price of such & coin is from 30 cents to $125. BUDDHA—S., City. The word Buddha means ‘“the enlightened one”’—he Wwho has universal knowledge, clairvoyant om- niscience. In some statues of Buddha this knowledge is symbolized by raps of light surrounding or emanating from the head of Buddha. In others the rays are modifled into a_jewel, either on the crown or center of the forehead. The jewel in the center of the forehead of statues of Buddha, therefore, symbolize his un- iversal knowledge or clairvoyant omni- science. BUILDING IN CASINO—C., Jackson, Cal. The law of casino says: “Should a player build up a card to a certain de- nomination and his opponent decline to build it higher, he, the first player, must not alter his build, but must take it with a card of the same denomination.” In other words a player cannot, after laying an ace on a seven spot and making it eight, on the next deal, if the opponent does not raise the bulld or take it, make it ten by adding a two-spot to it, but he may, if he has the cards, add another eight and call out, not ‘eight’ but “eights.” He must take that with a card of the same denomination. SILVER PLATING—A. S., City. The solution of silver used for plating consists of cyanide of silver dissolved in potas- sium, adding a solution of cyanide of potassium to the cyanide of silver until it Is all dissolved. In dissolving 100 oun- ces of silver the following proportions are those which have been found to be the best. Seven pounds of the best nitric acid and 61 ounces of cyanide of potassium of the average quality; this quantity will precipitate the 100 ounces of silver in the solution. After this is washed add 62 ounces more of the cyanide of potassium and this will dissolve the precipitate. This being done the plating solution is then formed. THE PASSION—S., City. “The Pas- sion,” often called “The Passion Play written by Salmi Morse, was not pro- duced at the Baldwin Theater in San Francisco, but it was presented by the Baldwin Theater Company at the Graad Opera House, March 3, 1879, and on the 13th of that month it was temporarily suspended ‘“‘in order to reproduce the sacred drama with Increased gplendor and solemnity.” It was revived Aprii 15 of the same year and on the following day James O'Neill, Lew Morrison, F. E Brooks, W. J. Dunigan, J. McConnell, J. H. Woodland and A. E. Ambrose, who took part in the presentation of the drama, were arrested for misdemeanor, in violating what was known as “t ‘ anti-sacrilegious ordinance’” of the Suy- pervisors, passed to cover that particular drama. O'Neill was found guilty, fined $50 and on habeas corpus the ordinance was held to be lawful. The drama, dur- ing the pending of legal proceedings, was continued until the night of the 2ist of April inclusive and on the morning of the 22d appeared the announcement that “the management has the honor to an- nounce that (in deference to public opin- jon) the ‘Passion’ will no longer be pre- sented.” Best eyeglasses, specs; 15c. 33 4th st. ® bl i Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.® P S — Fifty styles Looking Glasses in French and German plates. Sanborn, Vail & Co.* —_——————— Opening.—Pattern Hats and Noveltles in Spring Millinery, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, this week. 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It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colfc, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. %c 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 WaEN il with pains and exhaustion PARKER'S GiNGER TONIC is your surest relief. PARKER'S HATE BALSAX aids the halr growth. _———————— FORBEARANCE UNDER TRIAL. Indianapolis Journal. The American people never appeared to better advantage or more thoroughly commanded thé respect of the world than they have during the last week of self- control and patient waiting for facts. ' ADVERTISEMENTS. WHY is it that the great Missionary Societies supply to their missionaries abroad ROYAL Baking Powder exclusively?