The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 9, 1898, Page 6

THE AN FRANCISCO C:\LL WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. | PUBLICATION OFFICE. ... Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS.... 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE.... Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. One year, by mall, $1.50 908 Broadway BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAlllster street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, 6pen until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—* The Serenade Columbia—Primrose and West's Minstrels. Alcazar—+A Gilaed Fool." Morosco's—*The Woman in Black.” Tivoli—"The Geisha. Tlvoli—Concert to-morrow afternoon. Orpheum—Vaudeville. Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Auditorium, Mason and Ellis streets—Violin Recltal Saturday afternoon, Marc Chutes—C nies’ Pavilion—Masquerade Races to-day. quita and Vaundeville. Ball, Saturday evening, 1 S@N FRANCISCO AND THE EXPOSITION ‘\"\A\'OR PHELAN should act as promptly as | is consistent with a careful selection in ap- pointing a committee to represent San Fran- cisco in the projected enterprise of holding a grand interstate exposition of the resources of the West in celebration of the admission of California to state- hood in the Union. The movement is well advanced and the importance of the work is one that does not | admit of delay. The situation of affairs is this: Governor Budd has invited the Governors of States and Territories com- prised in the region known as the Great West to ap- point delegates to attend an interstate convention to discuss the proposed exposition and to determine where and when it shall be held and to_arrange for undertaking it. When this convention meets there | will be other cities as well as San Francisco to apply | for the honor of holding the exposition, and it is | therefore imperative that we should be prepared to | urge our claims with success, or at least with zeal and reason, when the question of location comes before the convention for settlement. Under any circumstances, whether we are to have a strong rivalry in the contest for the exposition or not, it is important that we should have a committee prepared to go before the interstate convention with | a definite programme of what this city will undertake to do for the enterprise. California will be looked to for leadership in the movement throughout the West, and San Francisco will be looked to for leadership throughout California. The lead cannot be held, | however, without doing something to deserve it. If| San Francisco is not prepared to make a good show- ing when the convention meets Los Angeles or some other enterprising city of the Great West may carry off the honors, and the profit of holding the first Great Western exposition will be lost to us by our | own negligence. The Mayor should act at once in appointing the committee and thus give the committee time to ac- complish something before the convention meets. THE CRIME AGAINST OAKLAND. ULLENLY and stolidly, but with as much S shameless effrontery ever, the Solid Six of the Oakland Council have carried out their scheme of spoliation against the people in the inter- ests of the water companies. They have enacted their ordinance fixing the water rate, and the only recourse Ic‘t to the citizens is to test the validity of the act b an appeal to the courts as soon as an attempt is made to collect water charges under it. The people of Oakland should lay the lesson of this | experience to their hearts and resolve to profit by it. Even if the courts grant relief the victory will have been won in a tedious and costly way. Moreover, if the exorbitant rates now allowed the companies be set aside, the chances are the same influences which procured the enactment of such rates may with more cunning bring about a new ordinance on the subject which will virtually give the companies all they de- | sire and yet be so drawn and enacted as to stand all legal tests and be upheld by the Judges. The one lesson to be profitably drawn from the ex- perience with this job is the importance to a com- munity to elect to office men who can be relied upon to keep their pledges, be faithful to their trusts and | guard the interests of the community against the re- petition of such jobs as this which has just been per- petrated. Ii Oakland can keep the memory of the outrageous scenes in her Council chamber during the last few weeks fresh in mind until the next election comes and act in accordance with the lessons they teach her citizens will have no occasion to regret the perpetra- tion of the job even ii the courts uphold it. It is worth paying a high price for water if the water can be made to have an effect in purifying politics. Policeman Callinan needs to dance on the carpet before the Commissioners. He arrested a sane man, charging him with insanity, and seems to have had absolutely no excuse. A citizen is not necessarily crazy because he does not like a policeman who has rendered himself obnoxious. g Several people have died on the desert lately from the effects of wood alcohol. There is no occasion for a man who is going into the desert to provide him- self with this poison. His chances of dying are pretty good without it. Of course there is no possible action for the Police Commissioners to-day but to dismiss Sergeant Davis from the force which he disgraces. The man has had an opportunity to defend himself and had no defense to make. g New Yorkers think they have seen a sign of war in the sky. They describe it as a tongue of flame. Prob- ably the correspondents expelled from Cuba have reached home and are breathing fire. . TR TR When next Sobral shall visit this country the au- thorities may have the felicity of hanging him as a 5Py, tinued advantage of both A PEACE MEASURE. ONGRESSMAN CANNON was right when in C for national defense he declared, “It is not a war measure. I say in my judgment it is a peace measure. The Government of the United States would not, if it could, trench upon the rights of any nation upon ecarth.” described. The United States designs no aggression against Spain, and the sum voted by Congress in the | bill reported by Mr. Cannon means peace, -for it gives warning to Spain that if war comes by her provocation we shall be ready for it. That Congress has not taken this action without due cause is apparent to the whole world. We have borne with Spain a long time. We have given her ample opportunity to close the war in Cuba with jus- tice to the Cubans and honor to herself. We have tolerated actions on the part of her officials which have reduced American citizens resident in Cuba to such a condition of destitution that relief has had to be provided for them as objects of charity. We have seen the Maine destroyed and a crew of American seamen bléwn to death under circumstances which justify a belief that Spanish treachery caused the dis- aster, and still we have stayed our hands. Spain has not met this moderation on our part with a proper spirit of friendliness. She has shown no appreciation of our forbearance. At a time when we are straining a point to preserve peace with her she sends us a notice of objection to our Consul-Gen- eral in the islands and a request that our relief sup- plies for Americans in Cuba should not be sent in any vessel belonging to the navy. This objection and this request tend to increase the difficulty of the crisis. They raise new points of international antagonism and can hardly be regarded as anything else than in- tentional expressions of ill-will and hostility. It is true that the firm attitude of President Me- Kinley in refusing to grant either request made by the Spanish Government has been followed by a prompt submission on the part of Spain. The with- drawal of the demands does not, however, weaken in | any way the effect produced by making them. They disclosed on the part of the Spaniards a feeling of animosity toward the United States, and the with- drawal does not imply that the animosity has abated. It is high time for the republic to be on guard. That the bill was passed by the House promptly and without a division was no more than what was to have been expected. There are no divisions among the American people on issues involving national honor and national defense. As a matter of fact a bill appropriating $100,000,000 would have as readily passed the House and would have been received with an even warmer approval by the country. The old sen- timent expressed by the phrase, “Millions.for de- fense, but not one cent for tribute” still lives among the people. Whatever sum may be necessary at this or any other time to provide for defense in a just cause will be forthcoming as swiftly as the emergency calls for it. Moreover, the vote was not in any way a bluff. As Mr. Cannon explained, we have the money in the treasury to meet the appropriation if it is expended. We do not have to borrow nor to increase taxation to provide $50,000.000 for national defense. If bank- rupt Spain has any judgment left in her councils she will take notice of that fact and not throw herself into a conflict that will end only in her defeat and loss. Tequable adjustment of our commercial relations with Hawaii. No one questions the wisdom of reciprocity arrangements, when the results are re- ciprocal and complementary. If we receive eight millions year trade from Hawaii and that country take only four millions of trade from us, the commerce is not complementary, It means that we are settling the difference in cash, to be used in buying of other countries what Hawaii should take from us. A remission of duties only upon a volume of imports from her equal to that of our ex- THE RECIPROCITY TREATY. HE failure of annexation brings to the front an a | ports to her would be genuine reciprocity and a use- ful spur to our own trade. It would stimulate the islands to consume as much American products as they send of theirs to our mar- ket, and would do away with some of the objections to the encroachment of their surplus upon the market here of similar merchandise produced by our own labor. Reciprocity is an American policy. We pursued it profitably in former days in our Canadian trade, and have successfully experimented with it in our ex- changes with the West Indies and South America. But these experiments have been so well guarded that the sacrifice of revenue was offset by a gain in trade. The reports of Consul-General Mills show that for 1895 99 per cent of Hawaiian exports were to the United States, while of her imports for the same year only 79 per cent were from the United States. She sent us practically all of her exports, but she spent the proceeds with Great Britain, China. Japan, Australia and New Zealand, Germany and Canada, in the order named. Her total exports were $8,474,138, and her imports were $5,714,017. As she sent to us $8,392,189 and took from us only $4,516,319, we had to make good a balance of $3,875870, of which she spent $1,197,608 in buying of other countries and retained the balance. In 1896 her exports amounted to $15,515,230, of which she sent to us $15,460,008, and in the same year she took from us only $5,464,207, leaving a balance against us of $9,095,801, and bought of other countries nearly 25 per cent of all her imports, while we took 09 per cent of her exports. This is stimulating trade with other nations at our expense. These statistics show the need of applying plain commercial principles to our relations with the islands and the installing of a better form of reci- procity which will give to our export trade ‘o them its proper expansion. The men in control of the Hawaiian Government should easily see that reciprocity of necessity depends upon a fair equality of exchange. If we remit duty on $15,000,000 of Hawaiian imports and she on only $5,000,000 of American imports, this principle of equality is largely lacking. Such a one-sided system cannot long endure, and unless the advantages of re- ciprocity are equalized the whole system will fail and the treaty will be abrogated. 2 It is to save the commercial principle involved and to avoid the injury to interests concerned that we advise a revision of these relations that will inflict no wrong upon either country, but will be to the con- . Announcement is made that a Tacoma man has suc- ceeded in transmuting antimony into gold. The great charm about such réports as this is that nobody is expected to believe them T When Consuls begin to resign it is a sign that something is the matter. Consuls have been known to die, but this habit of resigning is something new. introducing his bill appropriating $50,000,000 | In that statement the crisis is exactly | | makes provision for extravagant management. WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT. l piling a new charter desire to place before the voters an instrument which will stand some chance of adoption they will study the problem of economi- cal administration. The strong demand of the people of this city at the moment is for an economical and efficient government. There is no disposition to be | parsimonious, either in salaries, number of officials or in amount that may be expended for public improve- | ments. But it is perfectly safe to say that the people will reject any charter which creates more offices without promising better government. When the charter now in course of compilation comes up for adoption comparisons will be made with the present system. If the Freeholders create more tax eaters the people will want to know how the government is going to be improved by their employ- ment. All municipal extravagance begins and ends in the salary roll. Every time a new charter is adopted it is found to contain facilities for enlarging the number of offices which may be permanently fas- tened upon the treasury. No one ever thinks of abolishing or consolidating municipal functions, but the slightest excuse for increasing the number of places at the disposal of the head of this or that de- partment serves as a crying necessity for more office- holders. The tendency to increase municipal expenditure without producing corresponding benefit is well un- derstood in San Francisco. It may be set down as certain that our people will reject any charter that It follows, therefore, that if the Frecholders desire to frame a charter which will receive the approval of the people they should do four things. First, they should provide an unchangeable limit on taxation; second, they should place the power to increase or diminish the forces of the different departments of the city government in the Board of Supervisors; third, they should cut the number of Commissi. .ers down to the lowest notch, creating only such as are abso- lutely necessary; fourth, they should pay for large public improvements with bond issues. As bonds can only be issuedafter a vote of the people this will prove an effectual check on all wild or extravagant schemes of improvement. When the charter to be proposed by the Freehold- ers is placed before the voters it will be examined solely with a view to ascertaining how and in what manner the government has been cheapened. If it shall be found that the extravagances of the present system have all been retained and more added to them and that a limit of taxation has been provided which, by fixing expenditures, will create an annual deficit, the charter will be rejected by a large majority. | What the people want is an economical and efficient | government. Efficiency can never be attained so long as tax eaters are falling over each other at the City Hall, nor can economy be produced so long as there is no limit to taxation and the power to create places is uncurbed. Until the people can get a charter which | will make provision for such a government as we have | outlined it is safe to say they will endure the evils they have rather than fly to others they know not of. | | H — | DAVID BENNETT HILL'S PLATFORM. RYAN, Towne and other silver-tongued orators | B who have words to shed and are prepared to shed them now had better hasten swiffly to New York and try the witchery of their eloquence there or they may have tears to shed at the Demo- cratic convention in 1900, and briny, bitter tears at that. The astute and energetic David Bennett Hill is not politically dead, neither is he sleeping. From his en- forced retirement at Woliert's Roost there comes no sound of words, but the buzz of the wood saw goes on continuously and the hum of it is ominous to the planks of the Chicago platform and all who stand thereon. Mr. Hill is working while Bryan talks. He | is reaching out a glad hand to every Democratic ma- chine in the State of New York from Tammany in the metropolis by the sea to that of Buffalo by the lake, He has a candidate and a platform to substitute for those put forth at Chicago, and they are of a kind that are dangerous to the silver men and the issue of 16 to 1. Hill is wise enough to know that thcre is no way of dodging the money question. He proposes, there fore, to make it a subordinate issue of 1900 by setting up another which will prove more tempting to the Democratic hosts than the enticing proposition Bryan offers. His plan of campaign as defined by the latest reports from New York is to raise the battle cry of “Down with the trusts” and array the combined hosts of Democracy and Populism against corporations of | all kinds, from those that control transcontinental railroads to those that manage local water companies. It cannot be questioned that the tactics of the New Yorker are cunning. If there is anything which can call off the dogs of war of the forces of discontent in this country from pursuit of the silver issue it is to offer them the trusts as a new game to follow and devour if they can. The campaign of education in discontent on the subject is already well advanced. Hill can appeal to a sentiment formed beforehand to respond to him. It s this fact that gives importance to his plans and renders it imperative upon the silver men to head him off while there is yet time. The new tactics are essentially the same as those of the Bryanites, but are more dangerous because they have more plausible grounds on which to ap- peal to popular discontent. Men of all parties con- cede that legislation is advisable to check the in- creasing aggressions of trusts against the general welfare, but intelligent men recognize that such legis- lation should be the result of conservative counsel and non-partisan action, as it has been in the past. To raise the issue as a party cry is to give a new oppor- tunity to demagogues and agitators to divide the people into classes rather than into political parties, and would therefore be a menace to the social and industrial peace of the republic. The recent address of ex-President Harrison on Washington's birthday is a proof that Republican leaders well understand the evils produced in the country by unscrupulous wealth, and are prepared to redress them. That was the speech of conservatism and of wisdom on the issue. Very different is the course advocated by Hill. He would have the of- fenses of the trusts magnified, exaggerated and dis- torted to monstrosities in order to inflame the masses against every one who is rich, whether he is a member of a trust or not. ' It is a desperate game to play, but it promises Hill and Tammany a chance to win their way back to power in 1900, and they seem determined to play it under the cry of “anything to beat Bryan.” e It would be a pity if the Philippine Islands were to free themselves now from the hateful rule of Spain. If they will wait a little longer they would be likely to find the task much easier. Young Sullivan, wfishot the Keatings, is said to yearn for a reputation as a killer. A man with this ambition deserves encouragement. He should be af- F the Board of Freeholders now engaged in com- | [OJOXOXOJOJOJOIOOJOJOLOXOJOXOJOJOXO) oo oo Toclotelereterelolofoolofololelolelo] THROWS LIGHT =200 "~MILES. ent there are two projectors Hamilton. in the world. [OJOJOJOJOJOOIOJOYOROIOTOROROYO) Hook. This great light is ten feet six of the ventilator. inches in diameter. sensibly parallel ray of light. the center. It weighs $00 pounds. is 750 pounds in weight. miles. miles. dles. EVERAL members of the signal corps and officers of the artil- lery have been experimenting with the searchlights at Sandy Hook and Fort Wadsworth, says the New York World. At pres- reflectors thirty inches in diameter. two lights of the same power will be placed on the works at Fort The single great searchlight at Sandy Hook is the largest It was constructed by the General Electric Company for purposes of exhibition, and was so successful that the Government purchased it and placed it at Fort Hancock, where it now sweeps the sea for thirty miles from its pedestal, close to the.shore of the Its weight is 6000 pounds, but so perfectly is it bal- anced that a child can move it at will It is a concave, spherical mirror and reflects a This inches thick at the edges and only one-sixteenth of an inch thick at Just how far a beam of light reflected by this projector éan be seen has not yet been definitely determined. is capable of manifesting itself for a distance of between 200 and 300 The thirty-inch reflecter now at Fort Wadsworth, and soon to be placed at Fort Hamilton, throws a beam of light nearly a hundred The power of the light is approximately equal to 100,000 can- e rrrlrkrolholololo at Fort Wadsworth, each having Before the month is over | | | CPEEERPPPEPEEREO® inches from the pedestal to the top The reflecting lens is sixty lens is three and one-fourth The metal ring which surrounds it It is estimated that it PEEEPPEPEECOOPECER® ® NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. There were 138 court-martials in the British navy in 189 on bluejackets marines afloat and 228 court-martia hore, making a total of 35| court-martials for 491 offenses. The | strength was 77,300, making one man tried Ty out of ev 200. In the United States | the mean strength during 18% and there were 147 court- giving a ratio of ome trial Of the court-martials in our navy were of the seamen class, of which the mean strength was 10,000, and forty-six | marines, of which there wcre 250). The | relative proportion of trials of the two branches were one to ninety-nine in the | seamen cl and one to fifty-four in the | marine corps. The latter service is im- proving every vear if the diminishing number of court-martials is an indication to that effect. It will be observed that in | the British navy there were 228 marines | at shore stations, the mean strength not | exceeding 6200, which would make one | out of twenty-seven men tried, or just twice the number in our marine corps. The British cruiser“Diadem is still going through a series of trials to determine the coal consumption at certain speeds with a given number of boilers in use. Each trial is of fifteen hours’ duration and has given satisfactory economic results from the | water-tube boilers. With eight boilers, 270 pounds of steam and sixty-five revolu- tions, 3266 horse-power were developed on | An’ their loyal cheeks a | When he fell into the column an’ with a consumption of 2.35 pounds of coal per horse-power. With sixteen bollers, 260 | pounds of steam and 89 revolutions the | horse-power was 7119 and the coal used | 1.94 pounds. The latest trial with twenty- | four bollers, carrying 265 pounds of steam, | | | resulted In 107 revolutions, 12 power on 188 pounds of coal. trial lasted through thirty hours and the speed, taken by land marks, showed an | average of twenty knots during nearly | eleven hours. The launch of one of the cruisers built at Stettin last December was not a suc- cess. The vessel was to be launched De- cember 11, and high Chinese dignitaries | and others were on hand to witness the | affair, but the vessel refused to move on time. During the first half hour the ship moved only one yard and when darkness set In she had progressed about thirty- five feet. It took several days to effect the launch, and involved considerable ex- | pense, nor had it at last accounts been ascertained if the ship had sustained any damage. The Japanese battle-ship Shikishiwa, building at the Thames Iron Works, Lon- don, will be forty-eight feet longer than the Majestic class of six in the British navy. The horsepower will be 14,500, against 12,000 of the Majestic, and the main armament will consist of four 12- inch and fourteen quick-firing 6-inch guns, which exceeds the British battle-ship ar- mament by two é-inch guns. Twelve sallors were drowned in the har- bor of Kiel on the night of February 5. They were crossing from the navy yard over to the town in a steam launch when a heavy sea boarded and sunk the launch. The sailors, heavily clothed and armed, went down with the boat. The French naval estimates, as finally passed by the Chamber, authorize the construction of one battle-ship of the Jena type, of 12000 tons; three armored cruisers of 900 tons each, and eleven tor- pedo-boats. ‘With the Victorious, Barfleur and Gib- raltar added to the ships now in the British squadron in Chinese waters, Eng- land's navy will exceed those of France and Russia together by 25,000 tons. The torpedo-boat destroyer Violet made an average speed of thirty knots an hour during a recent continuous trial of three hours. Love is like strawberry sHortcake. The kind you have to pay for is spongy, and you can’t eat as much of it as you do of forded every facility for suicide. HEP! HEP! HEP! As the news of threatened battle goes a Grant, accompanied by his wife, s at the California. Dr. and Mrs. Angell of Palo Alto are at the California. Dr. Rattan and wife of Antioch are at the California. | E. W. Stocking, an attorney from Mer- ced, is at the Lick. Clarence F. and S. Samuel of Portland are at the Baldwin. William N. Russ, a prominent cattle- man, is at the Lick. W. A. Gett, an attorney from Sacra- mento, is at the Lick 0000000000 Apropos of po- o O ker stories the ) ONE o following dw as told yesterday in o WHITE 0 ‘o joby of the o CHIP. O palace by one of 9 O the guests. It s ©0000000O0O0C atthe expense of one of the traveling men of the Standard 0Oil Company, who had a weakness for the game. He landed one night in Denver, where he had an intimate friend. After they had had supper together the travel- ing man, who was from the Eas;.mgro— osed that they should hunt up a gz . " All right,” :epl!efl his friend, “T'll take you down to Silver Dick’s, but they play for pretty high stakes there so you will have to look out.” “Never mind that part of it,”’ sald the Easterner. “I have got quite a pile with me.” So the two went down to Silver Dick’s, where the man from Boston was introduced to the proprietor, to whom he {ntimated that he would like to get into the game which was then going on. “Certainly,” said Silver Dick, without even looking up from his hand. The East- erner then drew forth a crisp fifty-dollar note and with much show dropped it down upon the table, saying “Give me that in chips.” Silver Dick handed him one white chip from the bank. ‘There you are,” he said, “it 1s good for just one ante.” The Easterner looked stupldly about him for a moment and then without tak= ing his seat at the table returned the chip and sald, “I guess I will cash in now.” cago, is at the Palace. ~J. A. White and family, from Hope, N, D., are at the California. N. Abrams, a prominent merchant of Hanford, is at the Baldwin. J. J. Lonergan, a mining man from Log Angeles, is at the Baldwin. W. Forsythe, the big raisin packer of Fresno, is at the Occidental. G. M. Francls, proprietor of the Napa Register, is at the Occidental. J. C. Wolfskill, a prominent ranch owner of Suisun, is at the Lick. ‘W. R. Carithers, a prominent merchant from Santa Rosa, is at the Lick. Rallroad Commissioner H. M. La Rue of Sacramento is at the Occldental. ‘W. D. Pennycook, the proprietor of the Vallejo Chronicle, is.at the Occidental. Lewis A. Hicks, a prominent civil engl~ neer of Bakersfield, is at the Occidental. W. H. Gerard, the proprietor of the Gerard House, New York, is at the Cali- fornia. Malcolm McKenzie, a prominent busi- ness man of New York, accompanied by his wife, is at the Palace. H. W. Baker, a prominent wholesals merchant from Kansas City, accompanied by his wife, is at the Palace. ‘William Wallace, president of the Oma- | ha National Bank, and ex-Senator Man- derson of Nebraska are at the Palace. Colonel Charles P. Egan of the United States army, from Washington, D. C., ac- | companied by his wife, Is at the Palace. J. L. de Bevoise, general agent of tha Rock Island Raflroad at Portland, and A. B. Cutts, general passenger agent of the Minneapolis and St. Louis, are at the Palace. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March 8.—Bishop J. H, Johnson of Los Angeles is at the Everetg Hotel. flashin’ o'er the wire How §( rouses into action fire, | s the eyes of men to gleamin’ with a | most unusual light, { flushin’ with the | s | all our patriotic Start eagerness to fight. An’ I reckon martial ardor burns the hot- | test in the breast | Of the tottering ol' veteran whose head | in gray is dressed, | An’ he feeis a loyal yearnin’ fur to once | again keep step | To the officer's ejaculated Hep! Hep! As he reads the war dispatches he recalls the stirrin’ days | When from Maine to Californy all the country was ablaze With the ashes of excitement an’ the patriotic fires That_was fanned to loyal fury by the breezes from the wires. | Once again he feels the spirit of the days | of Sixty-one When his hands first grasped a greetin’ to an Uncle Sammy gun, | | Hep! | | | martial ardor kep young tronersHbeatln' gravel to the ep! Hep! His Hep! marches an’ the recalls the weary camp an’ bivouac, ' the heavy load he toted on the sum- mit of his back, " he thinks about the hardtack that a rat trafi couldn’t bite, the prehistoric bacon strong enough to help him fight. Then the lively roar of battle seems again to greet his ears, He kin hear the stirrin’ bugles an’ the wild triumphant cheers As the rebel ranks were shattered an’ ugnln he caught the ste; Goin’ back to camp a murchfn’ to the ep! | | Hep! | Hep! But the hand o' time has fallen, an’ has dimmed his martial star, An’ his nchin’ limbs are echoes of the hardships of the war, But his. patriotic spirit 1S as young an’ As 1 WAl back I the Sixtt S was ac n e Ixties wore the honored blaes | " Ien e An’ if now the call were Sounded an' the e JOUREStERs marched s o stand beneath OI' Glo | powder-heated fray, ST e How the tears of disappointment from his " aging eves would drep. An he'd feel his legs a twitehin' to the ep! Hep! Hep! Denver Poesr;. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. B. H. Upham of Martinez is at the Lick. Dr. 8. B. Goddin of Gonzales is at the Grand. D. M. Newbo of Butte i - B e is at the Occi L. J. Killlan from Bost e oston is at the H. J. Reiting of Chicago i: cidental. ot e I. M. Meyers of New Yosk is at the Baldwin. R. D. Simpson of Los Angeles is at the Baldwin. H. A. Marckres of San J¢ e ose is.at the‘ J. J. Hebbron, a banker of Salinas, is at | the Grand. Dr. F. S. 8. Jerome of Los Angeles is at the Grand. George W. Young and wife are at the Occidental. Miss M. B. Kimball, from Boston, is at the Palace. S. Willilamson of Belfast, Ireland, the Palace. e Charles B. Cox of Hartford, the Palace. Fred T. Butler of Toronto, Canada, Is at the Palace. Mrs. E. A, Palmer and Miss Palmer are at the Palace. , Conn., Is at “tho home-made kind.—New York Press. ' Captain H. G. Bickel, U. 8. A., of Fort A cholce present for Eastern friends, Townsend's Cal. glace fruits50c Ib,in bkts ———————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by tha Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Moz gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 _———e—— COMPARATIVE SAFETY IN WAR- SHIPS. Captain Mahan still believes that life on the modern warship is as safe as it is on any other craft. Speaking on Wash- ington’s birthday at Princeton, N. J., re- garding the Maine, he said: assurs you, speaking as a seaman and as anaval officer, that I believe that no man crosses the ocean in & passenger steamer without undertaking in a week greater risk of collision than any seaman on board a ship of war does from explosion in the course of a year.” May all the other | seamen and naval officers think so, too, since they must continue to live on mena of-war.—Springfield Republican. —— e “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup*™ Has been used over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colle, 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. 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