The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 23, 1898, Page 6

Tall WEDNESDAY................... MARCH 23, 188 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ;’:JBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main EDITORIAL ROOMS... .217 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents o week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL One year, by malil, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE 908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE... Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. Riggs House €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets, cpen untii 9 o'clock. e e e e AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—* Mysterious Mr. Bugle.” Columbia— 1492 " Aleagar—+Unc.e Dudley.”" Morosco's—The Upper Hand." Tivoli—The Widow O'Brien." Tivoli—~Concert Thursday afternoon, March 24. Orpheum~—Vandeville. __ Metropolitan Temple—Marteau Violin] Recital, Friday even- ng and Saturday afternoon. The Chutes~The Zoo, Vaudeville and Lion Hunt. Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Special Excursion {0 San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley, Baturday. March 2. Pacifio Coast Jockey Club, Ingleside Track—Races, AUCTION SALES. By Frank W. Butterfield - Thyraday, March %, Furniture, at 19 Stockton street, af 11 0'clock. By Sullivan & Doyle—Saturdav, March 2, Buggles, Wagons etc.. at 222 Mission street, at 11 0'clock. By M. Germain—Tuesday. March 29, Hardware. at 1011 Broad- way, Oakland, at 11 o elock. CHANCE FOR A FIGHT. R. GEORGE POWELL of Wisconsin has in- D dicated a pleasant willingness to fight Baron El Cardo. The Baron will be recognized as the gentleman who wants to fight Senator Mason of Illinois. It seems that he has not been edified by some of the remarks made by Mason; in fact his Spanish blood is boiling, and for the purpose of re- ducing himself to a comfortable temperature he wants to shed some American gore. It would seem that Senator Mason is too busy to be killed just now. In fact there is nothing which so interferes with the usefulness of a statesman as to be killed. After Alex- ander Hamilton had been killed he ceased to be ac- tively useful, and yet it must be admitted that a dead Hamilton was worth all the Masons who could be packed into Cook County. But if the Baron really wants to fight here is his chance. Dr. Powell, who would rather fight than eat, wants to take Mason's place. He is not in active public life, so he could stalk upon the field of honor | without paralyzing the nation. He could pick off a | Baron or two and the Mason speeches and the Mason | style of jest go right on. The doctor has slain so many people that a Baron more or less would not trouble him in the least. It is to be hoped that the Baron will accept. He could thus vindicate the honor of his country and afford the worthy doctor a little amusement, and cause an appreciative grin to spread over the face of a nation now somewhat in- clined to be pessimistic. SUPPRESSING THE POOL-SELLERS. Y stationing officers at poolrooms known to be B frequented by women the police officials have done much already to break up that phase of the gambling evil, and by making arrests of several persons for buying or selling pools they have given evidence of a determined resolution to suppress the trade altogether. It looks, therefore, as if a victory for the law is in sight and that enough will be accom- plished to either drive the pool-sellers out of their unlawful business or else compel them to carry it on so secretly that it will be no longer a public entice- ment to the unwary and an open temptation to boys and women. One of the most satisfactory features of the situa- tion is the fact that a jury on Monday returned a ver- dict of guilty against an offender charged with vio- lating the poolroom ordinance. It has been pointed out in The Call by police officers, the Police Com- missioners and by prosecuting attorneys that the im- | munity so long enjoyed by the pool-sellers was due to the fact that juries would not convict them. Arrest after arrest has been made, but no convictions fol- lowed. The verdict in a case of the kind on Monday is therefore distinctly encouraging. It leads to the velief that popular sentiment on this subject has changed, and that from this time on the efforts of the police and the courts to put an end to the evil will be sustained by juries before whom the offenders are tried. The Call can justly take to itself some credit for the share it has had in bringing about this change in pub- lic opinion. The full extent of the evil of the pool- rooms was not known to the great mass of the people until The Call exposed it. Juries were willing out of good nature to tolerate a violation of the law so long as they supposed that violation went no further than to sell pools to grown men, but when it was made known that young men, hardly more than boys, fre- quent such resorts, that schoolboys played the races and that the number of women started on the road to ruin by the gambling mania are so numerous that several poolrooms are maintained in the city simply for their accommodation, even the most indifferent citizen perceives that it is time to stop the trade. One conviction having been obtained, there is hope for more. The police should strike often and strike hard while popular sentiment is aroused against the wrong. The outlook for a thorough enforcement of the law is better than ever before, and if advantage can be taken of the new spirit among jurymen to drive the evil out of the city at this emergency it may be possible by vigilance to keep it out altogether and prevent its return at any time Spain’s threat to appeal to the powers fails to set a shiver of apprehension afloat. So far as may be judged by current reports the powers have troubles already, most of them being in the peculiar condition of having bitten off more than can be readily mas- ticated. Of course the report of the Maine board of in- qusiry is known to all the yellow papers, and it is only that the President neglects to subscribe for them that he is for the present left in the dark. A Circuit Judge at St. Louis has decided that there is ro libel in telling the truth, which is good sense and good law, a rare and happy combination. | | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1898 CALIFORNIA’S SEMI-CENTENNIAL. HE Eastern States and communities make fre- TQuent occasion to bring their people together in a spirit of historical review. The States of the Middle West have interstate associations of pio- neers. Those who have served in the legislative office in the formative period have pioneer law- makers’ associations. On all of these occasions good citizenship and civic pride and spirit ate encogragcd and a right public opinion is propagated. Patriotism is refreshed by the various army associations, formed of those who were fellows in the corps and divisions that bore high part in gallant actions at arms in the Civil War. In these all the courage and sacrifice shown on both sides in that struggle are coming to be credited to the general American character ‘for valor and willingness to fight that an idea may be concreted into Government polity. These examples teach and exhort California. They move us to unity of mind and action and remind us that personal gain is not always to be sought by isolated and selfish personal action. There is gain for every one in a right public spirit which all must pro- mote. The proper and comprehensive celebration of our semi-centennial will be a new point of departure far this State and her neighboring sisters. The time in which it is to be accomplished is not as important as its accomplishment. If inaugurated in 1900 and completed in the ensuing year it will fulfill historical accuracy and emphasize the past and future. So far it has been discussed in a spirit in which petty jealousy and rivalry have no part. We are sure that no one wishes to monopolize the credit of suggestion. Such matters are well left to the facts. The sole credit, to be hereafter entered, is to be measured to | those who did the most to plar, to promote and to make successful a movement involving the good of all. No fact is more imposing than the growth of this form in which modern civilization has chosen to ex- press itself. The first world’s fair at London was a world’s surprise, though in fact it but little exceeded, | in variety of features and in interest, our Midwinter Tair in San Francisco. Its suggestion, however, was permanent. Out of its profits the South Kensington Museum was established, and in that marvelous and forever growing collection of every object of human interest in science, art and nature the world enjoys the pleasure and the benefit, which are a constant radiance from the first effort of civilization to mass in competitive exhibit what man has wrought. In a positively utilitarian age no one has ques- tioned the utility of these great expesitions. They have in one place opened markets and at a distance have fertilized production to supply them, and the arts of preparation and transportation have been spurred and the genius of man has been awakened. People and nations ripen into the best form of eftort by these exhibitions. The conservation* and economy of force is taught. Those economics of life and effort which mean the wider and more constant comfort of existence are made matters of common knowledge and add to common profit. Every toil- ing hand increases its capital of skill, every hungry mouth adds to its ration, health and shelter are bet- tered and the interchange of experience and methods raises all humanity to a higher level. Not every one can go to Paris for these lessons. | Our State will be there in all its iridescent splendor. | | ' § We will take our place among the teachers. But in our own semi-centennial all of our people will be among the taught. The world will be here to repay its debt, and we will receive our dues in a spirit of absorption and with a feeling of consecration that we may apply the far brought knowledge and add to its stock. One may not measure the profits by the balance be- tween the income and outgo. But that such balance will be on the right side of the ledger there is no room for doubt. Its future investment will invoke the wisest action. It will no doubt go into some per- manent and growing form which will project the teaching function of the exhibition far into the future and will gather the increasing means of knowledge into an enduring object lesson which continually will teach all men the ability of this sunlit region to add its full share to the learning and comfort of mankind. METHODS OF OCHERITES. HE evil effect of introducing the methods of Tye]]ow journalism into the administration of the law was powerfully illustrated in the case of Clark, the St. Helena murderer. A confession was extorted from Clark by the confession editor of a local yellow sheet upon the representation that un- less he made a clean breast of his crime he would be hanged within sixty days. An attempt to get this confession in evidence at the trial in Napa was thwarted by Clark’s attorney, who raised the point that such a document obtained by duress was in- competent to prove any fact stated in it. The ruling of the trial Judge was in accordance with the well known legal principle that extorted evidence cannot be used against persons accused of crime for the rea- son that if it could be so used innocent men might be convicted through their own fears. Serious people who contemplated the possible re- sults of yellow interference in the Clark case may well ask themselves where the efforts of the “new” jour- | nalism to secure sensations are going to end. There is no longer any attempt on the part of these sheets to tell the truth, nor in their literary peregrinations do they confine themselves to gossip and small talk. They prevaricate about important as well as about trivial things. They misrepresent the report of the court of inquiry on the Maine explosion with the same gusto that they charge a prize-fighter with faking a boxing match. We may conceive without stretching the .imagination that for the purpose of selling a few papers they would regard sending an innocent man to the gallows as a journalistic triumph. Of one thing, however, there cannot be much doubt. The courts and the Government will soon be compelled to put yellow journalism in the stocks. Aside from any influence which is ot may be exerted by it upon the public mind, it cannot be much longer permitted to interfere with the course of justice or the functions of Government. The Clark case shows that it is dangerous to permit the confession editor of a local ocherite to even see a man accused of crime. The proceedings against Attorneys McIntosh and Haymond show that the mere presence at large of the confession editor operates as an instrument for clear- ing murderers. Unless some reform can be enforced in the methods of the yellow sheets it will be proper for the Judges, the moment a murder is committed or a war vessel is blown up, to order all the yellow editors into custody. In this way only will murder and war be prevented. e r——— For a nation which has no money and no credit Spain seems to be doing very well in the matter of purchasing anything she happens to need. ey ‘While the effort to suppress the poolrooms haunted by women is well enough, the other sort de- serve suppression too. THE RELIEF BILL AT LAST. HE neglect to provide relief for the victims of the Maine disaster with a promptness equal to that with which it voted $50,000,000 for war preparations led to the fear in some quarters that | Congress had adopted for its motto in the emer- gency, “Millions for defense, but not one cent for relief.” That fear has now been dispelled. A relief bill has been passed by the House, and there is no doubt but the Senate will adopt it without delay. The bill passed the House without division, but not without debate. To a considerable number of Repre- sentatives it did not seem altogether adequate to the needs of the occasion. It provides, among other things, that the surviving officers and men of the Maine shall be reimbursed for their losses to anamount not exceeding one year’s pay. 7his feature of the measure was objected to. It was held that the relief should amount either to one year's pay whether the losses had equaled that sum or not, or else that it should reimburse all the losses whether they were or were not in excess of one year’s pay. The objectors, however, were overruled and the bill passed as re- ported. The debate was marked by an incident which illus- trates how completely at this time the House is under the domination of patriotic sentiment. There had i been a sharp controversy between Cannon and Boutelle over the clause of the bill to which refer- ence has been made, and the speakers who followed them for some time espoused one side or the other of that issue. Then Cousins of Iowa, one of the spell- | binders of the House, rose and, without debating the question either way or even alluding to it, burst | forth in a splendid eulogium on the American sailor | and paid a glowing tribute to the memory of the | heroic dead of the Maine. This revived the war feeling of the House, and without continuing the dis- cussion over the amount of relief to be granted the bill was taken up and passed without a dissenting voice. It may be that the measure of relief granted is not as full as many ardent patriots and generous citizens would have desired, but it was better to pass the bill as it stood than it would haye been to wrangle over it and delay its passage. The people themselves by | subscriptions collected in San Francisco and in most of the other cities of the Union have helped to pro- vide for the relicf of the sufferers and their families. All that was asked of Congress was a degree of relief | that would demonstrate the gratitude of the republic and evince its care for the heroic men who serve under its flag. That much has been accomplished, and the only regret is that it was not done more promptly in order that it might have been more ef- fective and impressive. | AN IMPORTANT WAR MEASURE. OW that Congress is in a mood sufficiently ele- N vated and patriotic to deal with large questions of national defense and national prestige in a worthy way it is to be hoped it will not overlook the importance of the Nicaragua canal bill as a war measure. The sum of $50,000,000 expended for war- ships and emergency defenses was excellent in itself and no voice of objection to it has been raised in any part of the Union, but this country will never be fully equipped to fight even with Spain until it has a means by which its Pacific and its Atlantic fleets can be enabled to operate together with promptness, if any occasion requires it. Congress in the past has hesitated to take definite steps to bring about the construction of the canal be- cause of the probable enormous cost it would entail, and large numbers of people have-shared this view of Congressmen on the subject. "The estimatedicost of $100,000,000 has been held up time and again as an insuperable obstacle to action. In the face of that sum the nation has waited year ‘after year without doing anything*further than sending out a commis- sion every now and then to make a new survey of the route and a new estimate of expenditure. The sum of $100,000,000 is just now as big a sum as ever it was, but in the light of a vote of $50,000,000 to buy ships and munitions of war which will soon wear out and be of no permanent value the estimated cost of the canal does not seem so great as it did. As a war measure we could hardly expend $100,000,- 000 to better advantage than in constructing the canal. It would enable us to exert our full naval force with comparative rapidity on either side of the continent we chose, and that fact alone would be worth to us more than all the ships we have bought or are going to buy with the emergency appropria- tion, To save his navy from the voyage around Denmark the Kaiser of Germany brought about the construc- tion of the canal connecting the Baltic with the ocean, the French are planning at this time a canal that will enable their fleets to pass from the Mediter- ranean to the ocean without going around Spain, and the Czar is planning a canal by which his ships can be transported from the Baltic to the Black Sea without having to sail around all Western Europe. These are all of them war measures that will serve in time of peace to sustain themselves. Moreover, they are measures which will improve with age and not diminish. They add to the permanent strength of the nation. It seems, therefore, to be an indis- putable proposition that if the United States as a war measure can afford to expend $50,000,000 for emergency defense it could easily afford to vote $100,- 000,000 for the Nicaragua canal as a war measure for defense for all time to come. The Havana editor who says the correspondents there may cause Americans to become food for can- non is perhaps not so far wrong. A hungry cannon with a fair chance at some of the American corres- pondents who have been lying at space rates would have a wonderful control of its appetite if it failed to gobble a few of them. —_ Here and there is still a supporter of the theory that the Maine was blown up from the inside. “Sup- posing the accident had taken place in an English harbor,” says one of these, “who would have sus- pected treachery?” Nobody in the world. But it did not occur in an English harbor. Now that authentic information has been received that Black Jack’s gang of cut-throats has been ex- terminated, the gang may be expected to pile up the bloodiest- achievements of all its career. The “ex- terminated” desperado is always a terror. The original of Little Lord Fauntleroy is now 22 years of age and much concerned because his father and mother are to separate. It would have been less disagreeable to him, perhaps, if they had taken this step about twenty-three years ago. In case of war between the United States and Spain it is rumored that Japan will seize the Philippine Islands. ‘Perhaps there will be no objection to this, but Japan must let Goat Island alone. We learn from an evening paper, that ever ready source of information, that negotiations between Spain and Cuba have proven a “flat failure.” This is Aeven worse than we had anticipated. | & 0000000000000000000000000000000006600600 § TO THE KLONDIKE BY BALLOON. § PPV PVOOPOVOVCOOV0PVVRO0POOP000000009 N expedition under the direction of M. Varicle, as mechanical engineer and experienced aerial traveler, is about starting from France for the United States to inaugurate a system of quick transportation between the Alaskan sea coast and the Klondike district, the intention being primarily to carry speedy relief to the hungry people at Dawson. The party sails from Havre for New York, whence they will proceed by way of San Francisco to Juneau, Alaska, which has been selected as a base-of op- erations. The expedition is provided with a num- could no spect for si ready talk ion. but the: 3 izr?tawe of it in the future. £ some L of the exploit, but all tak¢—whether had not been monument to the hero exactly what form it sh t be expected to sho uch a badge of a h v will probably stand more y There is_al- of of erectin sort their r igher civili- the air for twenty-eight hours, going con- tinuously and regularly in the desired di- rection. The peculiar contrivance which enabled him to accomplish these feats and on which he largely bases his hopes of suc- cess in the present venture is called the “autolesteur,” or “‘ballast regulator,” and is not very unlike the one employed by Professor Andree on his last trip. Its character and the attachments to the sail, as well as the method of using it, are shown in the accompanying cut. By lengthening or shortening the ropes and thus regulating the strain thereon the ber of balloons or aerostats of M. Vari- cle's own designing, after the plan of th one shown above, the “Alaska,” which to be the pilot of the aerial fleet proposed to be launched forth on the venturesome journey. M. Varicle has for many years been an ardent student of aeronautics, and has made a number of successful trips tnrough the clouds. Lately, by means of a contrivance of his own. he has been enabled to go from one given point to another hundreds of miles dis- tant against unfavorable winds. On one trip from Paris to Dieppe, France, 16 miles, the wind was from the northwest during the whole time, yet he made the goal without much mishap or much de- Jay. On another journey from Paris to Hamburg last year his machine was in sall can be kept at any desired angle to the wind, and a regular course steered, as on board of a ship. Then, too. by | hauling in on the ropes the balloon. can | be brought to the earth without wasting | aricle feels every confidence in the of his venture, and his plans of ction and procedure have been ap- oved by Messrs. Terwagne, Ricard, Be- sac and other aerostatic experts of France. They count on little trouble after getting over the Chilkoot summit, as the prevailing winds beyond are very regular at this season of the year. The pilot “‘Alaska’” will start first, and others will follow in quick succession. Each one will carry some 3500 pounds of | condensed provisions for the needy Daw- sonites. pro COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS. G. Pellissier of Paris is at the Palace. F. M. Shaw of Denver is at the Occi- dental. F. W. Kending of San Jose is at the | Baldwin. H. Hoover, an attorney of San Jose, is at the Lick. . N. Brooks of Seattle is stopping at the Baldwin. H. H. Kingsbury of London is a guest at the Palace. Miss Mobbatt from New Haven is at the California. George H. Appel of Louisiana is a guest at the California. Margerete Gefferk of Berlin Germany, is at the Baldwin. Attorney A. H. Ashley from Stockton is a guest at the Lick. F. Gillmore and wife of London are registered at the Palace. L. F. Leebhardt and Miss Leebhardt of Denver are at the Palace. 0. F. Bergman, a journalist of Garden City, is at the Russ. A. B. Cunningham and wife of Phila- delphia are at the Occidental. Lieutenant Leon de Wladimir of St. Petersburg, Russia, is at the’Grand. H. L. Owens, a well-known Jjournalist of Fresno, can be found at the Russ. udge E. V. Spencer of Susanville is in th{: clgl_\' and stopping at the Russ House. Lieutenant A. .. Broadbent of the revenue cutter U. S. Grant is at the Oc- cidental. Dr. O. H. Simons from Redding has arrived for a few days’ stay, and can be found at the Grand. S. Rummulsburg, a merchant of Red- | ding, has ornamented the register at the Grand by inscribing his name. H. Silberstein, a prosperous storekeeper of Chico, has made the Baldwin his stop- ping place during his stay here. William O. Young has made the Bald- win his temporary home on his re- turn to civilization from Dawson City. Charles M. ¥Wilkins, prominently con- nected with an electrical supply house of Philadelphia, is staying at the Baldwin. V. Brignola, a wealthy mining man and prosperous merchant of Sutter Creek, is in the city on business, and has made the Grand his headquarters. C. P. Vicini, merchant and mine-owner of Redding, has accompanied his friend and neighbor, V. Brignola, to the city. Both have registered at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Neff of Marseilles, 1L, who came to California to spend the winter, have left the south and registered at the California, homeward bound. Mrs. L. P. Sage, widow of the late L. P. Sage, original owner of Congress Springs, is making a short visit to the city. She is domiciled at the Lick House. H. Schaffer nas turned over the keys of his room to mine host Holland of the Commercial Hotel and accompanied Path- finder Dinsmore to the Dawson gold fields. Arthur Johnson, accompanied by his wife, is registered at the California, on their return to their home in New Zea- land, after making a very pleasant trip around the world. g Frank Dinsmore, who, it is claimed, was one of the first white men that ever crossed the Chilkoot Pass into the Daw- son district eighteen years ago, left the Commercial hotel last Monday for the north, where he has large mining In- terests. H. Sequire, an Alaska explorer and one of the fortunate gold seekers in the Klon- dike region, who has made the Commer- cial Hotel his winter headquarters, has packed his traps and started for the north, where he said gold is more plen- tiful than blackberries. N. E. Picotwe, secretary of the Yukon Pioneers’ Society, leaves the Commercial Hotel this morning for the frozen north, and expects to paddle his boat up the fi tHe Yukon River. Since he returned from | barbari; the Klondike last fall he made a short visit to his early home in Montreal, Can- ada. He is the lucky owner of claim 17, on El Dérado Creek. Mr. Picotte will go by rail as far north as he can and then take the first direct vessel for the country where his wealth lies. S e Spring is coming, spring 1s coming! Of At theiris b i o 1 el the dyrteal vibrations Every caltonialt santtom ou3the balasm bag o'erfreights. By the generating sonnets, A the talk of Easter bonnets e resurrected seeds that ve market stall, by By my overcoat's oppression, 1 oY the growing bike procession, an certify the spring's L rertify the spring’s about to make its And in full appreciation O the Frogramime. that aen Sear on year her T'¥e concluded, othwithstandin iy SPRyictions o commanting. thing proceed to com S0 Lot e Boston Courier. A MARVELLOUS DISCOVERY. The Call has done another good piece of work and made an invaluable contribu- tion to the history of this coast. Its well authenticated account of .he marvelous dlscqver}' of ancient turquoise mines and prehistoric habitations and records on the desert in San Bernardino county is with- out a parallel in the annals of California. When_these hieroglyphics shall be deci- phered, as it would seem they must be, we shall have a contribution to history | that is simply unparalleled. In selecting Professor Eisen to take charge of the ex- pedition The Call acted wisely and well fiis previous cxplorations in the wilds of this coast and Central America fitted him for the task, while his high standing 18 such as to preclude - any possibility of mistake or exaggeration. His success, too, in deciphering the Maya inscriptions In Yucatan makes it probable that he y 0 translat - Ords.—Alameda Encingic oo desert rec —————— REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. New York Press. Half of a man’s kissing is habit a; other half is hygiene. ndthe A man is generally willing to tell his ‘wife ‘all about a thing that he thinks she is likely to find out anyhow. ‘When a man dreams it is time to let the furnace go out the first thing he thinks of when he wakes up is fly screens. The hard man to play poker with isn’t ;}:)ist;neb:thlzhcan lookh sad with a full i e one who ause; b hlg:l. can look glad woman is never quite so happy as when she has found ::P‘;L‘:rexle{ thing against a man that she can forgive B ena would b ere wou! e less troubl, knew as much’about - thelr husbends daughters as they thln{‘( they do about s. their daughters’ husban; ——————— NO BARGAINING FOR CUBA. The United States has twice offered to buy Cuba at a liberal price, and Spain has twice rejected the offer and resented it as Jittle short of {nsulting. This might be able to enduregn. third re‘}:‘c‘?x:;ny but it would not be generous to offer Spain a third insult. If such a bargain is to be made the overtures should come from Spain.—New York Tribune. —_——— A SUPERFLUOUS MUZZLE. St. Louis Republic. The order of Secretary Long t members of the Naval Board of !:qutll:;r to give out no hint of their findings seems to be an act of supererogation. When American naval officers talk about their ;Jmclsalh?.flalrst e may expect the Egypt- an sphinxes to startle th o2 o e world with an ———— FIRST HONORS OF WAR. The first honors in the war with Cuba seem to have been won by Hon. William Alden Smith, Congressman from Michi- gan, who, single-handed and alone, with his umbrella routed a detachment of Spanish soldiers in Havana who had an umbrella or a silk hat— decided.—Chicago Tribune. e ————— ANSWERS TO CDKELSPOI\'DENTS. TIME AND DISTANCE—-X. Y. Z., Oak- land, Cal. The average time from San Francisco is over a course of 219 miles to Honolulu, six to seven days; to Yoko- bhama, 4525 miles, eighteen days; to ]}rr) g- kong. 6100 miles. twenty-eight days; to Auckland, 6030 miles, nineteen d a Melbourné, 7740 miles, twenty-five LAT!'RV.'DE AND LONGITUDE-B. F., City. The sextant is the instrument used to determine latitude and longitude. A person in a strange place, wishing Eodfie- termine the points of the comr by dav, can do so by watching the course of t e sun, and by night by watching the north star. LANGUAGES—H. B., City. The esti- mates of languages are as follows: Fng- lish spoken by 111,110,000 persons; Ger- man, 75,000000; Russian. 75,000,000; French, 51,000,000; Spanish, 42,500,000; Ttalian, 3 ., and Portuguese, 13,000,000. One = mate asserts that the number using the English language in 1865 was 124,130,000, and that it is fast becoming the’ polite tongue of Europe. PURCHASING WAR MATERIAL-If there is a war between nations, either can purchase war material wherever it can procure the same without being lia- ble in damages, but if the purchase is made from a neutral country, then that country is liable in damages, as in the case of England permitting the Alabama to be fitted out for the Confederate States of Americ: NIOBE ALL IN TEARS—J. F. B days. a. Ala- meda, Cal. Niobe is the personification of female sorrow. According to Grecian fable. Niobe the_mother of twelve children, and taunted Latona because had but two, namely: Apollo and Diana Latona commanded her children to avenge the insult, and they caused all tha daughters of Niobe to dic. Niobe was inconsolable, wept herself ta death and changed into a stone, from which ran water. “Like Niooe, all tears” (Hamlet). PINNED WITH A STAR—A. S, Knights Ferry, Cal. The quotation Is 1ot “Then Twilight let her curtain fall and pinned it with a star,” but is “While twilight's curtain spreading far, was pinned with a single star.” Thi found in “Death in Disguise,’ % Boston edition, 1833, and was written by McDonald Clarke, born jed 18 Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, born IS0 1850, uses the following, v tw fets' her curtain down and pins it with a star.” FETL: IN CASE OF WAR—Barkis, City. Eact belligerent may capture not only all of the enemy's property found on the high seas and on belligerent waters (except otherwise provided by a treaty), but also all property of neutrals intended for t enemy or for actual use for condux war. Such property is called contraband of war, and may be lawfully condemned as a prize. The general rule of i a- tional law in regard to property on the ha high seas is that each belligerent has the right to seize all of the enemy’s property of every kind except such property as is protected by special permit. But priz may not be made of the property of neu- trals unless it is contraband. Therefore, the goods of an enemy on the ship of neutral may be taken, but the ship titled to freight, and the non-cont goods of a neutral on an enemy’s ought to be restored. Contraband going to the enemy may alwa no matter to whom they belong. Many nations stipulate with each other in the treaties that free ships make free goods (except contrabands of war) and that enemy’s ships make enemy’'s goods. a —— e e— SAYINGS, WISE AND OTHERWISE. A mole wants no lanthorn. A quiet tongue shows a wise head. A little bird wants but a little nest. A man is not so soon healed as hurt. A little barrel can give but little meal. A ragged colt may make a good horse. A poor man's debt makes a great noise. s A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a ‘ool ;} man's best fortune or his worst is a wife. hlA man may provoke his own dog to bite m. A man must plow with such oxen as he hath. A moneyless man goes fast through the market. A mouthful of meat may be a townf; of shame. A man can never thrive who has wasteful wife. A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. A man has often more trouble to digest meat than to get it. A pot that belongs to many is ill stirred and worse boiled. 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