The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 7, 1898, Page 6

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BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street. eorper Clay open untll 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open untll 930 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street: open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkip street; open untll 9:30 o'clock SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9olciock. 2518 Misslon street; open until 9 o'clock | 106 Eleventh st open until9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street cpen until 8:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twaenty-second | and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. e AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—" Rip Van Winkle ". Columbia—Primrose and West’s Minstrels. Alcazar—+A Gilded Fool.” Morosco's—*The Woman in Black™ Tivoli—"The Gelsha." Orphenm—Vaudeville. Anditorfum. Mason and Ellis streets—Violin afternoon, March 12. Olympla, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. The Chutes—Chiquita and Vaudeville. Mechanics' Pavilion—Masquerade Ball, Saturday evening, | March 12 California Jockey Club, Oakland—Kaces to-day. i | Recltal Saturday AUCTION SALES. By G. H. Umbsen—This day M(;RE RECORD-BREAKING. gomery street, at 12 o'clock. REQUENT reference has been made of late to | Fthe continued breaking of all previous business records, but the latest commercial advices from all over the country indicate that we are about to eclipse even the recent prosperity in the near future. | Almost all signs point to a heavier trade than we have done yet. The gain in the bank clea rings, which has been increasing week after week, ran up | to 68.9 per cent last week, and only one city of any importance—Toledo—showed a loss. The increase in New York was enormous, being 71 per cent, and this in the face of a lower and quieter stock market on ac- count of the reported purchase of warships by Spain. | Had this unfavorable factor not been developed the gain would have been even larger. The increase, then, is plainly due to the heavier movement of merchan- dise, which is far better than activity in speculative , as it shows more abundant purchasing on the sha part of the country at large. i This view of the case is substantiated by reports | from the different sections of the country. In the | Central West all kinds of goods are more active than | ever before known at this time of the year, dry goods, | groceries, boots and shoes, hardware, lumber and farming tools being especially mentioned. The South | reports continued strength in cotton and an increased | export movement in corn. The East reports higher prices and an active trade in iron, provisions and sev- eral of the minor metals. shows a falling off, and even this is not particnlarly marked. The unsual decrease in failures is shown, those last week being 232, against 262 for the same week in 1897. A growing demand for manufactured { to them. | in Pennsylvania that will be strong and useful.” | this utterance there was nothing to rouse the ardor The woolen trade alone | products is not the least indication of the steady in- | crease in trade. It may safely be said that the United States is now enjoying about the best commercial times in its his- tory. Talk of hard times has wholly ceased. Never has the movement of merchandise beer so heavy, never have the prospects been brighter. chasing power of the country has expanded enor- mously during the past Both city and country share the general prosperity. It is a ques- year. tion who is doing the best, the farmer or the mer- | chant. Ordinarily it is not difficult to tell. We are fceding the world and the world is passing over its gold into our coffers in a steady stream. War talk has no effect on business, crop prospects are good al- | most everywhere, and the whole country has appar- | ently been turned into a commercial beehive. Under the Republican administration we are making up what we lost under years of Democratic free trade, and it Is to be hoped that the lesson contained in the present | prosperity will not be lost on the American people when they are again called upon to choose between the two. The local situation continues encouraging. The recent rains have not been followed by the usual north winds, and as the weather has been warm the grow- Ing crops have made marked headway except in one or two interior districts, where they still need copious rains to pull them through. The northern part of the State and the coast counties never looked better than they do to-day. The long-continued cold weather in February kept back the fruit buds, thus giving them more immunity from the usual spring frosts, aud the orchardists are already looking forward 1o a good crop of fruit. Merchants report an active de- mand for goods for all points dependent on San Francisco, and in some lines, notably provisions, Irade is phenomenally brisk. Prices for California products seem pretty well es- tablished, for fluctuations are few. Wheat :tili hangs about $1 4214, where it has been so long, but barley is rising slowly under the lack -of rain in some of the important districts. The grain markets have been dull for a fortnight, as the tax assessment will be made out on the basis of to-day’s holdings, and as no- body wants to own any more property on the first Monday in March than necessary, buying has ac- cordingly been slack of late. It is expected, however, that trade will pick up after this important day is passed. Los Angeles objects to having colts killed and ex- posed for sale as veal. The mere stopping of the practice will be insufficient. The only place for a man who would engage in it is the penitentiary. A person capable of selling colt for calf would sell cat for rabbit. Explanations as to the killing of a Georgia post- master are not yet adequate. Neither the fact that he was a Republican, a negro or that somebody else | wanted the job seems sufficient to eliminate the ne- cessity for a hangman. Senator Proctor seems to be having no end of fun in Cuba.. He has seen a bullfight, a battle and been in the vicinity of a blown-up train. To a quiet gen- tleman with a Vermont education all this ought to appear impressive. Weyler- is lending color to the suspicions against him by denying that they have any foundation. | old form of exacting every cent possible from the | | the JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY. MEETING at Philadelphia of the representa- fl tives of the Pennsylvania organization calling itself “The Jeffersonian Democracy” has ac- quired something more than local notoriety by the fact that during the proceedings a letter was read | from ex-President Cleveland. The former idol of the | mugwumps is not much of a figure in the politics of to-day, but he is so much bigger than the Jeffersonian Democracy that the report of what he wrote to be read at the meeting is more interesting than all the rest of the proceedings put together. The letter does not directly commend the Jeffer- sonians, and can hardly have been wholly pleasing It approves their cause strongly enough, but carefully avoids approving of them or of their or- ganization. “I hope most sincerely,” says Mr. Cleve- land, “that there may be a sound money movement In of the meeting, for all the world kgows the Jeffer- ! sonian Democracy can never start a movement which will be strong or useful, and that its only means of aiding a sound money campaign would be that of dis- banding and sending its members into the rank and file of the Republican party. The only portion of Mr. Cleveland’s letter that is | of any importance is that in which he urges increased activity on the part of the sound money men in com- bating the aggressive free silver forces. He very justly says: “If any one believing with us supposes that free silver can be prevented from controlling the two houses of the next Congress without effective or- ganization and hard work the quicker he abandons the idea the more useful he will be as a sound money man.” The warning of these words is pertinent to citizens of all classes, but they are especially so to the Jeffer- sonians. There must be unity in the camp of the | friends of honest money and national honor, or the March 7, Real Estate, at 4 Mont | free sjlver craze will survive the Congressional elec- | tions this fall and harass the country for two years to come. The Jeffersonians can hardly mistake the | meaning of the warning. They must drop their silly play at organizing a party of their own and com- | bine with the great host of sound money men in the Republican party. Only by doing so can they become | useful to the cause and an important factor in the great struggle that is approaching. In concluding his letter Mr. Cleveland said: “I | am so earnest in my desire to see our country blessed with safe money and a suitable financial system that I | am of the opinion that we ought to give patriotic and | consistent support to any plan which insures this re- sult and which has the element that promises its suc- cessful advocacy.” If the Jeffersonians have any sense at all they will know what that means. The only plan that assures sound money in this coun- try is the unity of all sound money advocates in the ranks of the Republican party. The Jeffersonians | who insist on a party of their own are crazier than the Bryanites, just as the old donkey grown blind to the signs of the times and deaf to words of warning is stupider than the voung ass braying in his wildness. l ington that Chairman Hull of the Committee on | Military Affairs is sanguine the bill providing for two additional regiments of artillery will be passed by House during the coming week. The measure | is of special importance owing to the crisis of the | time, but even if there were no sign ot possible war upon the horizon it should be promptly enacted be- cause the increase in the strength of the artillery serv- ice is needed to render efficient the work already done in the way of coast defenses. We have not a sufficient number of men in the ar- tillery of the army to adequately handle the guns already placed in positions of defense along our | | THE ARTILLERY BILL. T is gratifying to learn by dispatches from Wash- | coasts, and the number of such guns is soon to be The pur- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | largely increased. According to a recent report made by Senator Hawley, existing contracts call for the emplacement and mounting, on or before June 30 of this year, of 139 modern high-power steel guns, rang- ing in caliber from eight to twelve inches, twelve of s-inch caliber, four six-pounders and 232 12-inch mortars, a total of 387. It is easy to see that the expenditure for these guns will be virtually wasted money unless men are pro- vided to take charge of them in time of peace and use them in time of war. We cannot wisely rely upon volunteers for such service, for while volunteers might and probably would be plentiful, they would not have the training required to enable them to per- form the task. The handling of coast defense guns requires carefully selected and thoroughly drilled men, and these can be obtained only by means of the bill now before Congress. When the measure was before the Senate it was opposed only by a few Bourbon Democrats whose pumbers were too small for them to be regarded as representatives of their party. The opposition in the House is of the same futile and unworthy character. Enough opposition, headed by Sulzer of New York, was manifested when the bill was first brought into the House to procure its postponement, but it can- not delay, much less defeat, the measure when it regarded as well assured, and in the present crisis it is gratifying to know that this step in the direction of national defense is not a party measure, but is to of all parties and from all sections of the Union. e ————crma BARRING THE WAY TO TRADE. l sented in the form of a drama there would be no difficulty in determining what power should play the part of her antagonist and take the role of vil- actions attested its claim to that place, and some of these actions have been so conspicuously adverse to the welfare of the city that none would question the title. At the present time, when merchants, manufac- turers, citizens of all classes and of nearly all degrees place San Francisco in a position where she and her people can reap a due share of the profits of the re- vival of industry and the rapidly growing Alaska again to mock at this public spirit and by it mon- opoly of transcontinental travel baffle the efforts at enterprise and progress. cheaper rates from the Eastern centers of population. What has been done by the citizens to procure the advantages of the Alaskan trade is counterbalanced from coming here. The road has decided that the Alaskan trade is to be taxed as much as it will bear, and if that traffic escapes by going to northern ports comes up for final action. The passage of the bill is be taken by the well-nigh unanimous consent of men F the story of San Francisco should ever be pre- lain. The Southern Pacific Company has by all its right of the monopoly to assume the part and bear the of wealth are striving to advance the community and trade, behold the Southern Pacific Company comes in All our rival cities are to have the benefits of by what the railroad is doing to prevent the trade to outfit, then the monopoly will recoup itself by the ~ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1898. people of the State who must of necessity use that line by reason of the lack of any competing trans- portation system across the continent. The attitude taken by the monopoly toward the Alaskan trade is the more exasperating because so much depends upon winning that trade at this sea- son in order to profit by the large development of it that is to be expected in years to come. San Fran- cisco has put an unwonted energy into the task of gaining this trade and making it a permanent addi- tion to the commerce of the city, and it is irritating to find a railroad dependent upon the city for sup- port turning against it at this juncture and refusing to grant it equal transportation facilities with those of other Pacific ports. Fortunately the commercial advantages of San Francisco with relation to Alaska are too many and too strong to be overturned even by the giant mon- opoly that is working against them. Alaskan outfits can be obtained here in larger quantities and varieties and chgaper than anywhere else, and the shipping of this port is so far superior to that of any other city on the Pacific Coast that comparison would be fool- ish. By reason of these advantages and the exercise of untiring energy and skillful co-operation we may hold the trade despite the Southern Pacific and its managers. San Francisco is too vigorous a com- mercial factor to be destroyed by a monopoly, no matter how powerful it may be. EVIL OUT OF GOOD. EN who are not controlled by religious im- /v\ pulses, and who yet have a genuine respect for the beliefs of others and are willing to recognize the good done by agencies not wholly con- ventional, admit that the Salvation Army has done much for the advancement of morals. They have a similar feeling for the American Volunteers, a branch of the parent organization. a way to popular esteem by energetic and unselfish efforts to uplift fallen humanity. They reach many whom the church is unable to touch. They boldly invade the haunts of crime. To poverty they extend the hand of fellowship, visiting the sick, feeding the hungry, until in contemplation of their good work the din of their blare and the noise of their shout- ing are forgiven. helpful bands has sprung a great evil. Every worthy cause is espoused by some unworthy. Abouteverynoblestandard flock a share of pretenders. The greedy and the vile, the lazy and the unclean e observed that the public supports a cause de- signed for the promotion of the weal of the lowly, | and they straightway profess to be the exponents of such a cause. The results are deplorable. Bogus “armies” spring up like mushrooms and fatten on the credulity of human nature. Creatures more vile than any openly sinful ask alms which they use themselves. It is easier to beg for a living than to work. Where these creatures dwell together in intimate association crime is surely engendered. It is a shocking thing to see a wretch so degraded that the observer turns from him with loathing pose as the head of “the Army of Jesus Christ.” What could be more disgusting than the spectacle of an | abandoned and shameless female, dead to every de- cent impulse, reveling in gross and wanton wicked- ness, and yet claiming to be the head of “God’s Regu- lar Army”? The local columns tell the story as well | as it may be told. If the police cannot unaided reach such noisome birds of prey it is the duty of the fol- lowers of the Booth flag to come to their assistance. Ii they shall not do so the feeling of distrust created by exposure will extend to those who do not deserve it, and the work of the sincere no longer bear fruit. e ] Wife-beating is not popular in Stockton, for the man who has been sentenced there to 150 days.in jail for indulgence in it tried hard to secure sym- pethy, and the nearest he got to it was a cordial in- vitation to undergo the process of being Iynched. Even the circumstance that Talmage is yowling for peace as he cavorts about the platform cannot be taken as demonstrating the desirability of fighting. Talmage advances so many opinions that some of them are bound to be right. WHAT BECOMES OF METALS? . The greater portion of the lead mined is converted fnto white lead, red lead and orange materials which are used as pigments for paints. Much lead is man- ufectured into sheet, some into bullets and other projectiles, and the only lead which comes back into the market in the form of scrap is that used for lead pipes. Zinc is largely used in galvanizing steel or iron, in manufacturing brass, as a sheet zinc, and as 0x- ide of zinc used in paint. The only zinc available for the new use is that used in making brass. Next to scrap iron and steel, scrap brass is found on the market. Most of the world’s tin product is used in tin plates. The scrap is not avallable, and, though many efforts have been made to utilize tin serap, no considerable amount of metal has been obtained this way. Next to iron and steel, copper is most used in me- tallic form, only a small proportion being used in the salts of copper and blue vitriol. The great uses of copper are in the manufacturing of brass, of which it forms two-thirds, in electrical conductors, sheet roofing, cooking utensils and pipes. Just what becomes of the enormous amount of metal mined every vear is a mystery, as a very small proportiorr is returned in the form of scrap material. s ————— POINTED PARAGRAPHS. One little hint is often worth more than a ton of advice. Some men’s foresight is better than their other sight. The bad habits formed by a tailor are often found in misfit parlors. Luck may be a good servant, but as a master his paydays are uncertain. The man who is full of wind is usually a success- ful builder of air castles. The father of several marriageable daughters should train his clock to strike in silence. It is usually the alimony he has to pay that causes a man to figure in a divorece suit. It is better for the girl who Is in love to sit in the parlor alone than to hang over the profligate. Judging from the picture that goes with each package the cigarette habit is rather light for win- ter wear. Some men who cast their bread upon the waters expect it to come back in the guise of a sardine sandwich. The Western farmer would have no kick coming if the cyclone would lift the mortgage from his farm along with the rest of the paraphernalia.—Chicago News. ——— IRONICAL IFS. If a fool keeps his mouth shut he can pass for a weather prophet. If a girl is pretty and unable to marry she is a matchless beauty. If a man tries to teach a pretty girl to ride a wheel he has a good, steady jobh. If men are always judged by their company it's pretty tough on some men who are alone. If a man would have an untarnished name he should keep his doorplate well polished. If it wasn't for the lynchings occasionally there would be more trials in this world. If you want to get onto the latest wrinkles in clothes sit on the tails of a damp coat. If all the good had not died young there would be a lot of cranky old people on earth to-day. If you intend to drown yourself, always remove zou; clothing. It may fit your wife's second hus- and. If you would enjoy your food be good humored. An angry man doesn't know whether he is eating boiled cabbage or stewed umbrellas.—Chicago News. These bodies have won | But from the existence of these | S NONOUAL ThoUgwTs. 2 g BY A MODEST cRITIC. g [-2=3=3-3=3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-1] This is scarcely a place to advertise magazines, but having spoken irrever- ently once of its editor I ask permis- sion to advise students of tutelage, of leprosy and of philology to buy the current issue of the Cosmopolitan. Those philologically inclined will be amused; the others instructed. Dr. Jordan of Stanford has had pre- sented to him by the editor of this magazine a series of somewhat loose- | jointed questions all bearing on what the editor deems education to be. Dr. Jordan’s replies show how well fitted for the position he holds he is. This scholar is a sensible trainer and devel- oper of humankind. This is shown in the two last queries and the replies ‘which follow: “7. Do you hold that time should be obtained for the most important studies by omitting those which are least im- portant. “Answer of President Jordan—I hold that each student should be educated for himself in his best way and that any curriculum not involved in the na- ture of the subject is a hindrance and an impertinence. 8. Should not all students be com- pelled to include, as part of their daily duties, exercise sufficient to develop sound bodies while establishing habits tending to maintain health at a maxi- mum of efficiency? “Answer of President Jordan—A stu- dent should be led to seek such train- ing, but education is largely a train- ing of the will. He should seek it for himself, not be obliged to take it.” Had the interpellator shown a tithe | of the sense of the replier I should be inclined to, as a lover of sensible gen- | eral cultivation, beg the reproduction | reading as it is. As to the lepros: A woman, T judge, whose individuality from necessity is | latent, has a quite interesting article on the subject, and one that shows an | ability to observe. The history of what | the Hawaiian Government has done in itsvainattempts to control or extirpate the plague is fairly told. Credit is gen- | erously given where due, but the whole | picture is as repulsive a one as can iwell be painted—yet this writer has | done it innocently enough. The com- | mand of language shown is not great, vet the horrors pointed to could not be ’ffll(hfu"y described by a Zola, if for | publication. Here are one of two ex- cerpts: “Some (lepers) have been dis- covered when their limbs were gone and only a bloated head and trunk re- mained. Such a case as this is at pres- ent only a short distance from me. But in the face of this misery nothing can | be done to arouse fear of contagion among the natives. They will smoke the pipe of a leper, eat poi from his calabash, sleep in his bed and wear his clothes. They become neither dis- gusted with his distorted and swollen features nor afraid of becoming in- fected with the disease.” After speaking of the well-known ex- ceeding immorality of the people, andof frightful cruelty to a poor leprous child of six the writer says: ‘A half-caste woman here was married to three for- | eigners each of whom went to Molokai. | After each case she was examined for signs of the disease, but rone appearing she went free until suddenly it ap- | peared in its most malignant form and she soon died.” Will Senator Davis | read this story and believe it? Will Sen- | ator Morgan be good enough to see what is told in a way that carries with it the inherence of truth? The arti- | cle is written in a style so clearly inge- | nuous that it is plain its author has | seen much of the hideousness of lep- rosy, which Senator Morgan has not. | But having read this pitiful tale will | either of these gentlemen seek to make | the Hawaiian Islands a county of Cali- | fornia? Western hospitality is as noted | as is that of the South, but if the day has come when, because of generosity | we are to be asked by Congress to at- | tach to this State a colony of which | five per cent are lepers, the time has | come for acting with sense as well as with big hearts.. It is useless to urge that we shall allow no lepers to come | here. As the Cosmopolitan’s corre- spondent truly says, “All do not appear | to be lepers who are s0.” The West has ever shown devotion to national inter- ests, and proposes to continue so to do, | but justice should be meted out to us. California wants no lepers and she | should not be forced to accept them. | Those members of a State Legislature | who will vote to annex these rotting | people have no right whatever to repre- | sent a healthy and clean populace. The | Examiner’s support of this vicious scheme is another instance of its be- trayal of a public that it pretends to serve. The philologists will find their diver- sion in the suggestion of Mr. John Bris- ben Walker that an internatfonal lan- guage shall be created by their help. He wishes probably an improved Vola- puk. Of course, no language consid- erer of ability will give the scheme a moment’s thought. The words uttered in Anglo-Saxon do not convey the same meaning to those not of Anglo-Saxon descent. No education can transform either bodles or minds. The proposal to make an international language is equivalent to the suggestion that a brotherhood of mankind is possible. That is not in view just now, though I have heard that it has been arranged for in heaven. We are not there yet. The “Hasta Manana' of the Spaniard means to him ‘“Hasta Manana' alone. It neither means the “Au revoir” of the Frenchman nor the “Good-by; see you again” of the Anglo-Saxon. It never will till we can turn a Spaniard into a Frenchman at order. Mr. Walker should essay that task before attempt- ing to induce nations to take part in a revised Volapuk. Weyler would be a good subject to start on, but I am afraid he will find that gentleman more of a confirmed Castillan than he is aware of. In the matter of impertinence the Ex- aminer has at length managed to sur- pass itself—which is saying much. On ‘Wednesday last it published some pic- tures of what it called its “War corre- spondents,” one of whom was said to be Jimmy Creelman. On its first page, however, this piece of mendacity was somewhat upset by an article said to have emanated from Creelman in Lon- don. Possibly the Examiner-Journal outfit has declared war against Great Britain while Congress talked peaceful appropriations. But what a precious lot of beauties these so-called “War correspondents” were! Alfred Henry Lewls (of whom more anon) who saw | Uminary matters of no tmportance had | go3o$=2=3c-8=3-3-3:F-3-3-3-3-3-1+] | of the article in its entirety. It is worth | in Mr. Sixteen to One Bryan a savior of the world; one whose endurance, whose sense and whose virtues were matchless; Karl Decker who knows that the commander of the Maine is to overrule the proceedings of the board of inquiry that is virtually sitting in judgment on him; Julian Hawthorre, who ‘“sees nothing even when he is paid to observe,” but is an aspiring dunce, and the hero of Port Arthur humbuggery already referred to. Some attempt was made at respectability by putting in an artist who is well known, but that act gives the sketcher a clean right to sue for damages. But to revert to the Lewis person for a moment. He has drifted from his vocation. He wrote a few passable short storles—Arizonan life imagined being his only field—and he was on the road to the particular kind of success which such work makes possible when he was inflicted by a yellow journal. From Key West he has recently seen fit to insult the navy, which is not per- missible. The slanderer says: ‘‘Speak- ing of naval uniforms, I do not like the mush-and-milk twaddle of some of the young sprigs who wear fit. officers are bloody-minded enough, and in a quiet decorous way are ardent enough to slay the Spaniard in his lair and avenge the Maine. But I have cut the trails of certain of our newly hatched officers, who seem to be inocu- lated with lamb’s blood, and are de- cidedly voluble in bleating for peace.” ‘When, liar that you are, did you ever find a respected officer of the navy who lusted for the blood of a fellow mortal? When did you hear a single cadet speak as a craven or as a cow- ard? The truth is that officers of the navy have been instructed not to talk of affairs in Cuba. Seeing that they | obey their orders to your discomfort you asperse their characters. Go back to your dreamings of barroom events where bravado means courage, where | cleanliness is despised, where the chief | aim in life is to get drunk and where no high purpose finds creation. I am heartily glad that Mr. Long is- | sued the orders of reticence, for you and your fellows are ever ready to fas- tew in the mouths of honorable men ut- terances that they disdain to think of. Here is your own evidence of fraud for | your own convict,n. You say in this | | same dispatch “The fleet here * * *| at 3 o'clock this afternoon received orders to hold themselves ready to start at the tap of the drum for Ha- | tvana. The orders came from Secretary Long to Admiral Sicard and are said, ete.” No such orders are ever issued, nor could they be. A lack of confidence | would be immediately shown, and that | | is infectious. This follower of Ana- | nias may learn that confidence is one | thing that is Lred—is purposely bred n men who may have to fight. It is one | of the chief aims of discipline, and is never lost sight of. A war ship in com- | mission is always ready to start at | command, and to-day Admiral Sicard | is probably as unconcerned as to where | | his ships may be ordered as to what | he will have for dimner. What he is | told to do he will do—he needs no “Get | ready,” and no one knows this better | than Mr. Lone. Those of infantile | minds are not chosen for Cabinet posi- tions. The navy could easily stamp out the evil in this youngster if it were worth the trouble, by declining to speak to any representative of any paper that employed the Lewis. This fs too much trouble to take, but it would effect a ver- vrompt reformation in this slanderer. I know the general character of the officers of our navy far better than any Lewis can do. These men—many | of them—have been my companions, my associates, my friends for years and years in varying -circumstances, | and (to continue in Mr. Conkling's | vein) a more courageous, upright, hon- orable, generous, square true class of men never walked the face of God's earth mnor sailed his seas. Through with you, Alfred Henry Lewis, but if the members of Congress who have gone to Cuba as hirelings of the paper for which you at present tell un- truths, dare slur or impugn the hon- esty of the intelligent Naval Board of Inquiry now in consultation, and cheerful attention shall be paid | heart ruthlessly by those negligent of duty will not be permitted. The editor of a well-known marine paper—one who is intelligently inter- ested in sea-coaling—draws attention to the fact that Germany has added another steamship of high order, cap- able of being fitted as a commerce de- stroyer as well as having a carrying capacity of 20,000 tons, to its already | large fleet. “What,” my correspondent | asks, “would Captain Mahan think of | a base like three ships of the ‘Pretoria’ type? Sixty thousands tons ofsupplies (coal being the principal item) in three armed but unarmored vessels would be a very valuable base indeed, and as pointed out by my correspondent it could be kept on the move at all times. True, the base might be captured, but so may any other base. Unless I am much mistaken, Captain Mahan will soon discard his printed ideas about the strategical value to the Pacific Coast of the Sandwich group. To do himself credit, he should do it openly. To publicly admit error is not to fall in the estimation of those whose opin- jons are at all valuable.” COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS. M. J. Blaisdell of Los Angeles is at the Palace. E. W. Roe of San Bernardino is at the Baldwin. R. Gracey Is registered at the Lick from Merced. E. W. Thatcher is registered at the Grand from Hopland. Fred Cox, the Sacramento banker, is staying at the Grand. D. O. McCray of Topeka, Kans., guest at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Towne of Milwaukee are guests at the California. 0000000000 ° is a A prominent at- o torney staying at o0 NOTCERTAIN o O OF HEAVEN'S ©, O SUPERIORITY. ©- Finn when that o [<3 0000000000 geptleman graced the local Superior bench: 3 A murder trial had been in progress for several weeks in Judge Finn's court, and had attracted considerable attention. It finally resulted in the conviction of the defendant for murder in the first degree. The usual devices of the attorneys having been exhausted a day was at length set for sentence. On the morning appointed the courtroom was packed to its fullest capacity when the learned Judge arrived and took his seat. He cast his eye over the assembled multitude, and, realizing the opportunity that was presented, de- termined to spread himself and do the occasion full justice. So, when a few pre- ing hotels tells the followihg story on Judge The older | prompt | them. To further wound the national | one of the lead- | been disposed of and the star prisoner had stood up to receive his sentence, the Judge turned toward him, and eyeing him for a moment or two in silence, while the crowded courtroom was still as death, sald: “John Doe, after a long, careful and impartial trial, during which you have been ably defended by some of tho brightest and most competent talent of the California bar, you have been found gullty of the greatest crime known to humanity, the taking of a human life, and it now becomes my duty to pro- nounce upon you that awful sentence which will, as far as you are concerned, cause time to cease and eternity to begin and usher you Into the presence of a higher and, perhaps, a better court.” The rest of the sentence was lost in the laughter which ensued, and in which the prisoner himself was forced to Join. C. A. Campbell is registered at the Grand from Red Bluff. | Judge J. M. Walling of Nevada City ar- | rived at the Russ last night. Dr. K. M. Lundborg, a prominent dent- ist of Ukiah, is at the Palace. W. A. Clark, an Arizona mining man, is at the Occidental with his wife. ! Ben Tabor, an attorney of Auburn, is | one of the late arrivals at the Grand. W. G. Winestock, a lawyer of Seattle, is at the Palace, where he arrived yester- day. M. Michaels, a large manufacturer of Rochester, N. Y., is a guest at the Pal- ace. Arthur Scrivner of London, England, | is one of yesterday's arrivals at the Pals ace. R. G. Southworth, a mining man of Stockton, is at the Grand on his way to Alaska. H. A. Hall and wife of Washington, D. C., arrived at the Occidental yesterday morning. Peter Mickle and wife of Hanford cama in on the overland last evening and went to the Russ. Leo I. Stock, a wealthy rancher and business man of Hanford, is registered at the Baldwin. Chief of Police J. M. Glass of Los An- geles, who has been in the city for several gnys past, returned to his home yester- ay. 00000000 OQO o o | “The orderly on the Maine who, © AFEARLESS ©O amid the horror and confusion of g BIEOR g the explosion, COOLNESS. calmly saluted O his captain and 0000000000 j; 5 matter-of- fact way reported the fact that the ship had been blown up and was sinking, brings to my mind an instance of cool- ness I witnessed during the Brule Sioux trouble of several years ago.” said an old army officer in the office of the Califor- nia vesterday. “Accompanying the troops was a gen- tleman, whose modesty would take of- fense should I mention his name, who had been sent out as special correspond- ent by one of the great New York papers. During the fight at Wounded Knee, when the bullets were buzzing and humming like bees in summer time, I saw this gentleman standing directly in the line of fire of both the troops and the hos- tiles with his hat off, scratching his head with his left hand, while in his right he held a pencil and some paper. Knowing the terrible danger of his position I seut my orderly to him to ask him what he was doing there. The orderly delivered | my message, and when he had finished the correspondent turned to him and said: ‘Present Captain X with my com- pliments and tell him I appreciate his kindly interest and will move. I was look- ing at the body of this dead Indian and wondering how I could find out the mean- ing of the devices he has painted on his face.'" CALIFORNIANS NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March 6—Charles G. Lathrop of San Francisco is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and Charles E. Mills of Los Angeles is at the Gerlach Hotel. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. MILITARY TOURNAMENT-F. J. H., | City. 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