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

[ARCH 25, 1898. Tall ....... ..MARCH 25, 1808 | FRIDAY......ccccnveeen JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propristor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ry SLUCInE S S Ok PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 22| Stevenson Street | Telephone Main 1874. i THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE... tern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. ..Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. SRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o’clock. 387 Hayes street, open untlil ©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, cpen untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh strect, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and, Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. et e One year, by mall, $1.50 908 Broadway | | encouraged a jingo spirit. e Dudley.” Morosco’s—"The Upper Hand." Tivoli— The Wid ow O'Brien.” | Vaudeville. | itan Temple—Marteau Violin Recital, this evening | afternoon , Clay Hall, 223 Sutter street—Concert, to-morrow es—The Zoo, Vaudeville and Lion Hunt. pia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. | rsion to San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley, ey Club, Ingleside Track—Races, AUCTION SALES. , March 25, Furniture, at livan & Doyle—Saturdav, March 26, Buggies, Wagons, Mission street, at 11 o'clock. By M. Gern larch 29, Hardware. at 1011 Broad- way, Oukland, STREET CONTRACTORS’ RINGS. A Hall. n—Tuesda 11 0 clock- MORNING contemporary announces with a flourish that the Grand Jury has again di covered a street contractors’ ring at the City The Call made the same announcement sev- | now do so. eral days ago, but, as in tkis instance, the “news mpanied by a statement that the could “do nothing.” By “do nothing” the reporters mean that the ring has conductec manner, carefully observed the law, and has stolen without rendering any of its members liable to in- dictment. In due time we shall, therefore, probably | hear that the pursuit of the thieves has been aban- | doned. One cannot cultivate familiarity with the methods employed by the Board of Supervisors and the Street Department in carrying on public work in this city without a feeling of acute disgust. For nent served no ever except to provide a lot of steam | beer politicians, too incompetent to otherwise earn | a living, with fat places. In connection with the Street Committee of the Supervisors the chief pur: pose of the institution has been to fasten mechani liens upon the property of inoffensive citizens. The greatest wonder of the century is that the property- owners have submitted to robbery so long. They | are a tractable lot or they would long ago have re- | was acc jurors itself in a seemly has twenty years the latter depart purpose wh volted. At one time during a period of over four years a ring of b uminous rock contractors paid the City Hall politicians a royalty of 2 cents on every foot of that pavement laid in the city. We do not know whether this practice still prevails, but if it has been | discontinued it is a recent affair. At the same time | a cement ring sold all the cement, and a broken rock | ring all the street work. These operations were effected by doctoring the specifi tions. Prices of public contracts were kept up by attacking the responsibility of anti-ring contractors 2d by bringing suits against them whenever they attempted to meit bituminous rock in violation of an alleged “patent” on the steaming process ownedi by the ring. The money to support this horde of schemers was | taken from property-owners by force. The cost of street work is a legal charge on the land assessed, and as the courts are always careful to see that the liens of mechanics and material men are maintained, there is nothing for a property-owner to do when caught by the ring but pay. Thus for years the fee simple of every piece of real estate in San Francisco | #as been held subject to the demands of street con- | tractors’ rings similar to the one now discovered for | the tenth time by the Grand Jury and toward the | destruction of which nothing can be done. And yet the people of this unhappy town are contented with | their lot. Reveling in “concrete” foundations made | of sand and soft rock, in sewers constructed of lime barrels, of asphalt that maintains the consistency of mush in all seasons, and in a street contractors’ ring | which charges a profit on doing nothing of 500 per | cent, they are as happy as larks and go trippingi down their Appian way to business every day without a thought of the morrow. But the explosion is bound to come. Some day | the street contractors in their greediness will over- step the law. Then San Quentin will be stuffed with basalt block men, sewer builders, asphalt operators, Supervisors and Street Department burglars. rock used in a- The people of this country are not superstitious, but they can afford to indulge the sailor in his | whims. And sailors were unanimous in the belief | that to christen a battleship with water meant to fasten upon it a fatal hoodoo. It is not strange that the Kentucky went down the ways dripping with the contents of several bottles that did not smell the | least like water. —_— “McKinley Approves New Journalism” is the head by which the yellow journal introduces a statement by the President. Nothing in the statement in any | measure bears out the assertion. The President is still believed to be a gentleman, and sane. It is said that the late train robbers did not trouble « z the passengers, which was certainly considerate of them, but neither did the passengers trouble them, so in the matter of courtesy honors seem to be easy. S AR According to a bulletin displayed in the window of the saffron freak yesterday the “situation in Spain | was imminent.” It is not too much to say that this is worse than most people had supposed. it ptapng, Lieutenant Marix is going to unnecessary trouble. He has been denying the authenticity of interviews credited to him by a set of space-filling liars. The tendency to blanch at the horror of war might be in a measure mitigated if Charlotte Smith would only enlist and go to the front. WAR FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE. N such measure as human judgment may be de- pended upon the common verdict that the crisis in the mutual concerns of this country and Spain is at hand seems to be correct. It is a time of grave | moment, and one in which action, however hasty in execution, must not be ill-considered. During the ‘days since the Maine, at anchor in a friendly harbor, was sent to a grave in the ooze be- neath the waves, a tomb for hundreds of brave men, the people of the United States have possessed them- selves with wondrous patience. In the face of count- less rumors, despite every indication that their sailors were cruelly murdered, they have awaited the verdict of the court of inquiry, and with a pacific endurance unprecedented they await it still. While this tension grows in acuteness it is more than unseemly that Spain should by a course distinctly hostile provoke to outbreak the wrath which has been slumbering. But if she insist upon this insane procedure there will be left to this country no alternative. The flag of Castile must be driven from Western seas and the blight of her presence in Cuba become but a memory. The people of the United States do not want war. They realize the horror of carnage. They have not But they are unanimous in the sentiment that the honor of their fair land must be sustained at any cost of blood and money. They are ready freely to contribute both. The Presi- dent need not fear that in any step he may take to check the arrogance of Spain he will not have to | uphold his hands the fullest indorsement of the na- tion. It is only in case he may so strive for peace that honor may be thrust into the background that he can lack the most complete support. A sign of | wavering would only be weakness. The Call has not clamored for war; it does not But it believes war preferable to dis- grace. .If the President shall warn Madrii that the Spanish torpedo boats now approaching Porto Rico must turn about, and the warning be unheeded, the only construction to be placed on the refusal would be that the insane folly of Spain in dreaming of pos- sible conquest in this domain was about to crystallize into open battle. This fact being apparent, the sooner it shall be recognized the better. Even so decisive a move as the capture or destruction of the flotilla would be applauded. And then the seizure of Havana would naturally follow. Spain would be helpless. Life and treasure would be saved. The war would be over when scarce begun. Thus the sceming audacity would really be caution; the initial sound of gyns a demand for peace. But if the flotilla be permitted to anchor in the waters of the Caribbean Sea, to assume its arma- ment, many a proud ship will follow the Maine before the formidable fleet can be dispersed, and only after a dreadful contest can there be accomplished that which would be so plain an undertaking now. There is no occasion for paying heed to the blus- tering of an unclean lot of yellow sheets, scurrilous with insinuations that the administration is recreant to its trust or fails to realize the dire portent of the occasion. Every such insinuation is an insult. These effigies of journalism should be cast aside. It is an hour for patriots and statesmen, for conservative de- cency. Patriotism is a strong element in the web of this commonwealth. Its voice is entitled to be heard even outside of legislative halls. It calls for the crushing of Spanish misrule, a close to the reign of famine and rapine. This voice is imperative; the issue sure. Then why delay ON THE SPEAKER’S DESK. VER since the immigration restriction bill was E sent from the Senate to the House Mr. Danford of Ohio, chairman of the House Committee on Immigration, has been periodically giving promises that he would soon call it up in the House and get a vote on it. Up to this time these promises have not been kept. At one time it was decided the bill should be taken up on March 15. When that day arrived, how- ever, the Loud postoffice appropriation bill obtained the right of way, and then, according to our dis- patches from Washington, Mr. Danford rose and asked, “What is the parliamentary status of the immi- gration bill?” “It is on the Speaker's desk,” replied Mr. Reed, “and can be called up at any time when a privileged matter is not before the House.” Mr. Danford thereupon sat down. A week has passed and the bill is still on the Speaker’s desk. In the meantime public impatience at the delay is increasing and there is a growing suspicion that some sort of jugglery is going on to prevent the bill from being brought up at all at this session. We called attention some time ago to the strong oppo- sition to the bill which had been organized in the East and to the mass meetings called to protest against the measure which had been held in several of the larger Eastern cities. It is evident from the re- sults that these meetings and the force gwhich organ- ized them have not been without their effect. They have kept the bill suspended out of reach for weeks and may keep it there indefinitely. In this state of affairs it is somewhat surprising to see that the New York Press attributes the delay to Republican Congressmen from the West. In a re- cent editorial it said: “It is understood that certain ‘Western members, although Republicans, are using every means in their power not merely to postpone \the bill) but defeat it.” The Press is so prone to see evil in everything Western that it has reached the point where it sees a Western influence in everything evil. It would be interesting to know on what evi- dence it bases its belief that Western men are fighting immigration restriction. The league that has been organized to oppose the bill has its headquarters in New York. and all of its mass meetings up to date have been held in cities east of the Mississippi. There is no cause, however, for sectional recrimi- nations on this issue. The cause is one on which all sections of the Union should stand together. This is certainly true of Republicans, for their platform of 1806 pledged them to enact a better restriction bill for the protection of the quality of American citizen- ship and the wages of American labor. The bill is on the Speaker's desk, and perhaps if a petition or two from American labor organizations were sent to ‘Washington Mr. Danford might be induced to call it up sothe day and take a vote on it. A lady was recently injured by a Market street car, and the conductor would not provide her a carriage, explaining that the company made no provision for such emergencies. Yet when emergencies of the kind are so frequent a thoughtful company would naturally be prepared for them. A carriage, how- ever, would not be enough for the Market street concern. It should have also an ambulance and a dead wagon. This seems to be a peculiar year in that rain does not follow the rule of falling alike on the just and the unjust. Here in California people have been praying—it must be admitted without visible effect— for showers, while in Ohio they are skirmishing | around for a dry spot to step on. DOLEFUL TIMES IN HAWAIL BY the last files from the islands a condition is revealed that foreshadows the breaking up of the oligarchy, ‘When a government by a minority has to stand under arms, as admitted by the Chronicle, it is apt to do other things not common to government by a majority. In the Hawaiian Senate the condition of the public exchequer and accounts has first excited | suspicion, and that has been followed by zlarm. A Senator of the Government party made the official statement that the Board of Health accounts were in suspicious shape. The Attorney-General replied on the floor of the Senate, and the Government or- gan, the Advertiser, attacked the Senator so brutally that he replied to the organ and the Attorney- Gencral by saying: “My charges were backed by documentary evidence. This morning a newspaper scurrilously blackguarded me and attempted to in- timidate me from making criticisms on the members of the Government. One Senator told me this morning that he would hesitate before making any | criticism of the Government, as he did not want to be attacked in such scurrilous articles.” The Advertiser makes rejoinder to this in an article entitled “The Party and the Government,” which in its way is an ingenuous gem. It says: “Appear- ances are misleading. The American element of the community expects that all proceedings in the Legis- lature here will be conducted as they are in the forty- five legislative bodies of the United States and in the American Congress. The universal rule in all those bodies is for the members of a party to stand by the government it has put into power. This rule is car- ried so far that even just criticism of public officials is strictly taboo. Gross frauds committed by officials who are members of the party are concealed. All dirty linen is washed strictly in private excepting by | the ignorant or the irrepressibles who lose their tempers. “The fact that members of the dominant party are trying to annoy the Government of their own crea- tion creates the impression that they wish to change it. The real truth is that they are inexperienced politicians and do not seem to have heard of the way politicians conduct their business in America or Great Britain. “The conduct of several members of the dominant party justifies the belief that they are crippling the Government®of their and our own creation. They are too willing to gloat over what they think are rotten spots in the record. In taking this course they refuse to follow the example of party men else- where, and they may be morally right about it. It | is not good politics, however. It is said that white | men cannot work in the tropics. Perhaps it may be equally true that white men can’t legislate wisely in the tropics. We are learning something every day.” When it is remembered that the oligarchy has disfranchised all opposition to the dominant party | and that only that party is represented in the Gov- ernment, the plea for imitation of party methods in | the United States is the most amusing piece of pub- lic rascality that was ever printed. Here in every | State Legislature and in Congress is a strong oppo- sition party that often overdoes the criticism of pub- lic officials. But in Hawaii there is only one party; | the opposition is disfranchised, and the Govern- ment, being absolute, if sheltered against exposure of corruption by its own partisans, is perfectly safe in | doing anything it chooses. It is evident that under this rule it has chosen to do much that won't bear | the light, and therefore has need of the party lash as | applied by its organ. We have had much talk in this country about the Dole oligarchy being the rule of the pure in spirit «.&f—\\ Vil sea. voyage. ser, Alabama. of thrilling adv on the cliffs. Helena Modjeska will advise young girls how to succeed on the stage and incidentally the famous tragedienne will relate her own experiences. The most important classical discovery of the decade has just Scholars have unearthed evidence to prove that Osiris, the famous Egyptian God-King, was an actual person, as was Isis, his If you are interested in this iine of knowledge made in Egypt. wife. trated. There’s great talk among the wal ent Spain or any other nation might 3 IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL there will be a graphic and exciting story of the destructive work done our merchantmen by the Confederate crui- The story was written by a man, now residing here, who ured by the Alabama. He took bout the Atlantic, while she was cap- Read how traps were laid to capture m California. The story is a string was a sailor on one of the early vessels capt service with her, and sailed in her a turing, looting and burning prizes. the treasure-laden ships expected fro: entures and not the least of them is the which the pressed seaman escaped from the Alabama while she was being hotly chased by the Yankee gunboats. known to the world last week. worked the mines. alone is still a little uncertain. on lines that have been proved to be practical. independently in several parts of the world. approaching success that th $100,000 into the work. /| SPECIAL. FEATURES IN NEXT SUNDAY’S CALL HILE the clamor of war fills the air the world round and nations East and West are furbishing up their great guns, you ought to read how Uncle Sam prepares one of his great battle-ships for THE SUNDAY CALL took special photographs of the Ore- gon the other day, just before she left the Golden Gate on her long voyage to join the Atlantic squadron. 3 will tell you how Jack Tar lives amid the shouting orders, rattle of machinery and the extraordinary rush of getting ready for a long sea READ NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL READ NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. READ NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. Pictures and story r disputants of what havoc belliger- do to our shipping in case of war. Just to learn something more about those acres and acres of famous tur- quoise mines in San Bernardino County that THE CALL expedition made Sclentists are actively trying to get pos- session of the writings and relics left there by the very ancient people who Several expeditions are being fitted out to systemati- cally explore them and take careful photographs of the strange writings left Prospectors have caught another phase of they're rushing to the place to stake out claims and sack the acres of un- cut turquoises that are scattered about the turquoise-covered section. The airship is coming; don’t make any mistake about it. Several machine flyers are now being built The work is being pushea So sure are builders of thelr ey are each cheerfully putting from $50,000 to Holw the last airship that was built proved that its inventor was right, how it was accidentally destroyed and how our own inventors nearer home have joined 1n the race to launch the first successful flying machine is all told in There are pages of other special features, the whole capitally {illus- daring way in the fever and been The date COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS. G. W. Towle of Towle is at the Grand. P. W. Leland from Palo Alto is at the | Lick. Miss E. Bayliss of New York is at the Palace. J. E. Patten from Bakersfield is at the | Baldwin. H. D. Fraser of Chicago is a guest at the Palace. W. F. Prisk of Grass Valley is at the of the missionary party. It is a rude awakening for the organ of that party to declare that the proper rule of government is “to conceal the grossest frauds” for the sake of those who are in power. own way in the Democratic party in the West | they are by no means masters of the camps of the party east of the Mississippi. The gold men in that section are making plans and forming com- ‘} binations of all kinds to regain control of the party organization in their States, and some of them are | ambitious enough to attempt to capture the national | organization before the assembling of the conven- tion in 1900. One of the boldest of these schemes is 2 plan to oust Mr. Bailey of Texas from his position as leader | of the Democratic party in the House of Representa- tives. According to this plan Hill is to be nomi- nated for Congress in New York and Gorman in Maryland. The hope of the projectors of the scheme is to elect both of these able party leaders, but they would be fairly well satisfied if they can elect one. Their scheme is based upon the assumption that Bailey holds his place as leader in the House simply because there is no strong Democrat there to op- pose him. If the conservative Democracy can get either Hill or Gorman into the House they are -on- vinced the star of the young man from Texas will be immediately eclipsed. It is not certain whether the two eminent leaders would consent to accept a seat in the House even if it could be assured them by their friends. If the Democratic party were united it would be different. Under such circumstances the chance of becoming Speaker of the House in case of the election of a Democratic majority would appeal strongly to men who are ambitious of political leadership and powen With a united party to sustain him the Speake- is hardly less potent than the President himself. With a divided party, however, the Speaker’s position would be far from an enviable one, and Democracy is divided. This consideration may interfere with the programme that has been marked out. Mr. Hill and Mr. Gorman may conclude that it would be better for their political fortunes as well as for their personal repose to decline a nomination. Whatever may be the outcome of the plan, the fact that it is being extensively discussed in the East 1s an evidence of the ardor with which the Demo- crats of the old school are fighting to redeem them- selves from the domination of the new men brought to the front by the campaign of 1896. They will put their best men to the front in the elections this fall, and even if neither Hill nor Gorman goes to Con- gress to lead them on, the chances are Mr. Bailey of Texas will have some pretty strong opponent to defeat if he attempis to hold in the next Congress his position as leader of his party. GORMAN AND HILL. HILE the free silver men are having their A clerk in St. Paul has been arrested after having successfully floated $625,000 of bogus paper. He realized the cash and now he realizes that he has not the cash, but the prospect of a term in the peniten- tiary. No direct expression has been obtained from him, but the chances are that he does not feel that he had much fun with the stolen money after all. In case of war the Government has only to use dynamite in the proportion favored by the modern | train robber to blow Spain clear off the earth. Occidental. L. Cohen of Philadelphia is a guest at the Baldwin. Senator C. M. Simpson of Pasadena is at the Grand. B. W. Wells Jr., U. 8. N, is registered at the Palace. Baron and Baroness von Schroeder are at the Palace. R. D. Davis of Sacramento is registered at the Palace. Drury Melone, a merchant of Oak Knoll, is at the Palace. Colonel E. B. Fairbanks of Petaluma is at the California. Charles A. Royce of New York is a guest at the Grand. E. P. Bryan and wife from St. Louis are at the California. J. R. Luddy of Los Angeles is regis- tered at the Baldwin. Henry Bedlow of Newport, R. L, is reg- istered at the Palace. Attorney James F. Peck of Merced Is registered at the Lick. E. E. Bush, a real estate man from Hanford, is at the Lick. R. W. Watson, a miner from Silverton, | is a guest at the Palace. C. F. Bremer from Lexington, Ky., is a guest at the Occldental. ‘W. E. Schofield and family of Cleveland, Ohio, are at the Palace. gOOOOOOOOO A party of o prominent East- ° AN OLD o erners, who are o LOVE o touring through o o California, were o LETTER. o quietly enjoying a cold bottle in gRoocmcens the grill room of the Palace Hotel the other evening, and as they sipped the sparkling wine and exhaled the blue smoke of their Havanas they naturally discussed a variety of in-| teresting subjects, and among them arose that of love letters. “I know of a man in Georgia,” said one of the gentlemen, ‘‘who .received a love letter just thirty-six years after it was penned, and the first intimation that he had of it was when he read it in one of the large New York dailies. The man is now a prominent politician, but at the time the letter was written he was a sol- dier in the Confederate army. “The mail containing it was captured by an officer in the Federal army, who kept the letter, along with a bundle of others. Only recently he discovered them at his home, where they had been hidden away ever since the war. Thinking that the letters would make a good story for a paper he disposed of them, and they were published, the love letter among them. /] “When the Southern politician read the letter written to him by his sweet- heart he had food for reflection. In it she told of her undying devotion and fidelity, and gave her soldier lover to un- derstand that life without him would be a barren waste. Now she is the mother of a large family, but she did not marry the Southern palitician. No; she is at present the wife of his most hated polit- jcal rival.” William F. Funston and family of St. Louis are at the Palace. Mrs. Wesley and daughter of San Jose are registered at the Lick. Dr. P. C. Donovan of Heche, Dakota, is at the Grand. John M. Lane, a wine merchant from ‘Woodside, is at the California. M. A. Foley, a prominent miner from St. Paul, Minn., is at the Palace. W. P. Lynch, the Assessor of Butte County, is a guest at the Lick. Edward L. Howe, a commercial man from Bostén, is at the Baldwin. Lieutenant-Commander J. S. Phelps, of the United States navy, is at the Palace. North | |is she no C. P. Wheeler of Chicago is reglstered'i ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. at the Palace. 0. J. Salesburg, a merchant from Salt Lake City, is a guest at the Palace. Mrs. L. F. Anderson and daughter from Walla Walla are at the Occidental. W. L. Woodrow, San Jose, is a guest at the Palace. John G. Ferguson and family of De- troit are registered at the Occidental. J. S. Hart, a merchant of Cincinnati, ac companied by his family, is at the Palace. Francis H. Lowe and John Foster Fraser from London are registered at the Grand. Frank J. Jones, a merchant of Cincin- nati, accompanied by his family, is at the Palace. General M. W. Muller of the National Guards, whose home is at Fresno, is registered at the California. Dr. V. T. McGillycuddy, a member of | the Army Surgeons’ Association, and at one time one of the Government's repre- sentatives in charge of the Red Cloud Indian agency in South Dakota, is a guest at the Grand. ROME'S CURSE OF GOLD. New York Sun. Hon. William Jennings Bryan spoke his piece at Rome, Ga., last week. In intro- ducing him, Captain John J. Seay, ‘“May- or-elect,” complimented both the Italian Rome and the Georgian. The latter, “built on seven hills, at the confluence of two magnificent navigable streams, sur- rounded by rich valleys and beautiful mountains, lies in_a panorama unsur- passed in natural beauty and grandeur v any city in the world.” Ancient Rome “was once mistress of the world; to her all nations of the earth paid tribute. Why longer the mistress of the Why has the payment of the tribute ceased? The curse of gold! The curse of gold! If the Roman republic in its last days had had a statesman and an economist like the fearless, eloquent and sagacious William J. Bryan Latin would be the native language of Lincoln, Neb., to-day.” _—w————————— OBLITERATION OF SECTIONAL LiNES. world? The country is to be congratulated upon the almost total obliteration of the sec- tional lines which for so many years marked the division of the United States mto slave and free territory and finally threatened its partition into two separ- ate governments .y the dread ordeal of civil war. The era of reconciliation, so long and earnestly desired, has happily come, and the feeling of distrust and hostility between the sections is every- where vanish.ng, let us hope never to return. Nothing is better calculated to give strength to the nation at home, in- crease our power and influence abroad and add to the permanency and security of our free institutions tuan the restora- tion of cordial relations between the peo- ple of all parts of our beloved country.— New York Sun. —_—————————— REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. ‘What's a wife when a man can afford to own a good dog? Every cat that does not eat its meals regularly hates some man. A man generally wears his first dress sulbt about the way he carries his first baby. 1 wonder why girls always get a lot more confidential when they are taking down their hair? When a girl tells another girl that she is engaged to two men at once she tries to talk in a hushed, subterranean voice. ‘A married woman is probably anxious to get all the girls she knows married off so the man can't teach them to crow over her.—New York Press. —_—e—————— PROSPE...-Y POINTER. Nebraska is s.owing Mr. Bryan the practicability 'of paying off mortgages without the free coinage of silver. The release of farm mortgages in that State for 1867 amounted to nearly $15,000,000, against a little over $11,000,000 in 1896, while the total reduction in mortgage indebtedness was greater than has been known for many years in the history of that State.—Cincinnati Tribune. _—————————— WAR SCARES WORLD-WIDE. The commotion seems to extend all over the world. Every great power from the United States going east to Japan is pre- paring or is already prepared for war. It may be discouraging to the universal peace folks, vet let them not despair.— Springfield Kepublican. —_——————— HAS TROUBLES OF HIS OWN. On the theory that a man who has troubles of his own should not take any great pains to appropriate the troubles of some other people, Kaiser Wilhelm does wisely in denying that he ever said he would back up Spain.—Chicago Record. | an undertaker from | | | | | | | FIGHTING SHIPS—W. B., Sacramento, Cal. The United States has 105 fighting ships at this time. A QUOTATIO! E. S., Ukiah, Cal. The poem by Longfellow in which is the line, “A feeling of sadness and longing,” is, “The Day Is Done. ARMY PROMOTIONS—R. S., City. The recent promotions in the army, conse- quent upon the addition of two regiments of artillery, went into effect as soon as announced. SAN JOSE—M. D., City. San Jose is a Spanish name and means St. Joseph. It is written in English as in Spanish, but the pronunciation is Spanish and is as if written Hosay. A RUNNING ACCOUNT-M. E. D., City. In a running account the statute of limitation runs against each separate purchase, irrespective of the fact that a general payment on account was made. WHITE TURKEY—H. L., Modesto, Cal. There are no pure white turkeys in this State at this time. Some of the breed were imported from the East at various times and in some unaccountable manner the feathers turned from pure white to a yellowish hue. THE BLAIRMORE—G. L., Berkeley, Cal. The following are the dimensions of the British ship Blairmore: Gross ton- nage 1751, net 1767; length 264 feet, beam 39, depth of hold 23.5; built in 1883 by A. H. McMillan & Son at Dumbarton, Scot- land. She is a three-master. —————e— Just what you want for “vour Eastern | friends,” Townsend’s Cal. glace fruits, 50c. —_——— - Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by. the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 * — e HOOTING THE WAILER. ‘Washington Post. The Kansas farmers are perforating Mr. Bryan's calamity talks by sending money and supplies to Cuba. —_———— “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 Collc, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 2c a bottle. CORONADO.—Atmosphere is perfectly dry, soft and mild, being entirely free from the mists common further north. Round trip tickets, by steamship, including fifteen days' board at the Hotel del Coronado, $65: tonger stay, §2 50 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco, or A. W. Bailey, man- ager, Hotel del Coronado, late of Hotel Colo- rado, Glenwood Springs, Colorado. —_————————— AN IMPRESSIVE OBJECT LESSON. New York Tribune. The warship Oregon is starting on the long trip around Cape Horn, in order to get from one part of the United States coast to another. It is an impressive ob- ject lesson in favor of the prompt con- struction of an isthmian canal under United States control. ———— ADVERTISEMENTS. Itis ROYAL Baking Powder that makes the Delicious Biscuit, Griddle Gake