The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 12, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1898. vv.eess.-APRIL 12, 1898 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager, PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2IT to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 THE GAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND S8UNDAY) ! served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for I6 cents a week. By mali $6 per year; per montb €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL TUESDA ...One year, by mall, $1.50 cireseses--.-908 Broadway Room 188, World Bullding NEW YORK OFFICE DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CF4CAGO OFFICE...... 2 -~ Marquette Bollding C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Represeatative. BRANCH OFFICES—B2T Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open untll 930 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open uptil 9:30 o'el Mmmmmn untll 10 o’clock. 289! Maris street, corner h, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Hission strest, untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open 9 o'clock. I508 Polk street, open unttl 930 o'clock, NW. corner Twenty-second ana streets, apen untll 9 o‘cloak. AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—“A Stranger in New York" mbia—+Ehore Acres.” 1d Lavende: ange Adventures of Miss Brown." vementd of New York.” Morosco's Tivoli—"Sinbad th Jookey Clup, Oakland—Races. AUCTION SALES. By Eillip & Co—This aay, April 12, Horses. atcorner Van Ness @ an e s, at 10 o'clock This day, April 12, Turkish Rugs, at 108 HE Westminster Gazette is an ever-flowing TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE. | tain whence gushes and bubbles a quality of wisdom not to be sneezed at. In a recent issue it affirms that the destruction of the Maine will not | be treated as casus belli, but as warranting outside This country views the two processes | as sustaining about the same relation to each other | If there is any differ- e between casus belli and a state of facts warranv} ference, the interference being certain to | provoke war, the distinction is too delicate to be | readily grasped. Either the destruction of the Maine was deliber- ately plapned, or it was the result of treachery such in ought to have been the first and keenest in deploring, or it was an accident. That the latter is the correct supposition nobody believes, and Spain has not been detected in the act of expressing regrets. It became the plain duty of this country to interfere. It could not do so without accusing Spain. If the was not casus belli, then the accusation cer- was, so the same point is reached by either interference. that six does to half a dozen. 8 crime When the war shall be over, provided war come, it is to be hoped the Gazette will find time to explain the d dee. and how the war presumed to happen without for the essential casus. fference between its tweedledum and its tweedle- wai [ St @ WEST INDIAN STATION. “IROM the promptness with which the Senate | Committee on Foreign Relations dealt with the | bill providing for the purchase of the island of! Thomas it is probable that sentiment in Congress is favorable to the acquisition, and the purchase may as it is possible for diplomacy to arrange for it. Events now occurring show the im. portance to us of a naval station and depot of sup- plies in the West Indies, and the islands which Den- < desires to sell us are in every respect suited for that purpose. It is clear that it would be unadvisable for the United States to undertake the government of any ex- tensive West Indian possession or of any considerable West Indian population. For that reason the annex- ation of Cuba or of Porto Rico in the event of suc- cessiul war with Spain would hardly be undertaken. Equal objections could be urged to the annexation of any of the larger islands. No such objections exist of the group of islets which Den- mark desires to sell. The only value they have is the harbor in the island of St. Thomas. The area is small and the population can never be large. The group is an ideal one for a naval station, and the very fact that it is not likely to contain any large number of people, which renders it comparatively valueless to Denmark as a colony, makes it the more attractive to us. We would have no need for any of the group except St. Thomas, but as Denmark would not sell that with- out the others we will have to take them all if we take The price asked is $5,000,000. This seems a large sum for what is but little more than a group of rocks and sand, but the value of the islands is not in their industrial but their naval possibilities. Tt is not too much for us to pay for a naval station in a portion of the sea so near to us as that which sur- rounds the West Indies. The subject has long been under consideration. Some of our ablest statesmen have advocated it, and in this juncture we can see that a great mistake was made in not completing the pur- chase years ago. e e ——— Prince von Isenberg-Bernstein of Berlin is willing to accept a rich wife, Americans not barred. Here is an opportunity not likely to be overlooked. The Prince could be had at a bargain, for his great object in throwing himself upon the market is to raise goo marks wherewith to repay a loan negotiated with his trusting cook. The manifestation of a desire to re- pay this shows the Prince to be far superior to the average article for sale to the maiden all forlorn whose papa has money and is in other respects mostly an idiot. be made as speec c in the case any. Carolus Duran, the portrait painter, has named the three women whom he regards as the most beautiful in England, France and America, respectively. Yet there may be others who have not had the honor of paying the gentleman a large sum for having their beauty transferred to canvas. Announcement is made that on account of the prisoners there Morro Castle is not to be bombarded. This will be far more satisfactory than to refrain for fear of giving offense to Spain. Whatever may be the ability of Sagasta, certainly T | Junta that Senator is wiIl|ing to involve this country THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. HE message will be carefully read by every citi- zen. It is the most important state paper since Lincoln’s inaugural and his first call for troops. | It is the document which may break the peace of God | and the nations, and was written in the full sense of | the responsibility it creates for this Government in } taking so momentous a step. Its historical review of the Cuban situation is a les- | | son to the world, enforcing the joint responsibility : of governments for the world’s peace, and suggesting, | as its best guarantee, that good government which is the sole source of peace and content on the part of subjects and citizens. The interest of this country, through its commerce and the personal rights of its citizens, invited to domicile and investment in Cuba by the laws of Spain, is graphically put. The.narra- tive of diplomacy, the desire to leave Spain | free to adjust within a reasonable time her dif- | ferences with insurgent subjects, and herresponsibility for failure, is plainly stated. The message demon- strates that the incidents common to civil war have assumed aggravated forms in Cuba. On both sides the struggle has descended from the plane of war to that of common murder. Non-combatants have none of the rights and protection demanded by the laws of war. There is none of that discrimination which modern civilization has written into the war code of the world to mitigate the horrors of carnage. Our right to intervene by force, the only effective way, is put on grounds that justify us in the eyes of the world. No demand is made to effect the dismemberment of Spain. The Junta and their sympathizers will criticize this position, and it may be the subject of d-astic comment on the President. It must not be forgotten, however, that this great issue must be treated en- tirely as an American question. A right reading of the message amply discloses that to be the strong purpose of the President. A demand for independ- ence of Cuba and the installation of the Junta as the ruling power of the island in place of Spanish authority is a demand for the dismemberment of a European power. Spain has for months sought a European alliance and has been denied. The powers have seen in the issue no European question as a| foundation for such alliance. | | Our administration has | not moved a hair's breath off American ground, and | is now put by the message as an intervenor in asser- tion of its clear American rights, and to the world is presented in a position highly satisfactory to other nations as a humane protector of the rights of person | and property common to all civilization and necessary to its existence. The exercise of further powers by the President passes from the devices of peace to the | ways of war. The purse and the sword are committed | to Congress by the constitution. That body must now act. It may limit its action to the use by the Presi- dent of our whole military and naval strength in | Cuba to put an end to hostilities, or it may go as much further as it choose and make a specific declara- tion of war against Spain, which will point to reprisals | upon that nation of such nature as Congress may dic- | tate. Armed intervention to secure peace in Cuba will of course be taken by Spain as a hostile declaration, | and she will treat it as a declaration of war, and the | struggle is inevitable. The President has wisely refused to make the cause of Spain of common interest to continental Europe, as would be the case if we demand dismemberment. He has left her in that retributive isolation which is | the punishment of misgovernment, and has so planned | her position and our own that she must cease military operations in Cuba and herself grant independence to the island on such terms as she can make. The country has not failed to note the intrusion of partisanship in the form of Senator Butler’s resolution | attempting to forestall the orderly action of the Com- | mittee on Foreign Affairs. Butler’s plan enables Spain | to draw the card she has sought in a European alli- | ance against the United States. As an agent of the in a struggle of surpassing magnitude to help the des- perate and selfish purpose of a few men who want to secure supreme power in Cuba to the exclusion of their island countrymen who have been bearing the | brunt of war while they have been doing office worki in New York. | The President’s policy will disembarrass Cuba from | Spanish rule and enfranchise her people with power] to choose their own Government. If the Junta de- serve to be that Government they should inaugurate | the rule of the majority by assenting to it. fl Congress at this session was one providing for the establishment of postal savings banks. The Postmaster-General recommended the adoption of such a plan, and so favorably was the recommen- dation received throughout the country that for a time there seemed every reason for the hope that the proposed banks would be provided. Secretary Gage, however, has pointed out one ob- jection to the undertaking which under present con- ditions seems insuperable. This lies in the uncertainty that prevails in the monetary system of the nation. As he says, in the establishment of banks by which the Government would be brought into fiduciary re- lations with millions of its people, the consideration of first importance is the money standard which is to measure in the future the value of the savings fund to the depositors. Referring to the many bills which have been sub- mitted to him, the Secretary responded in a recent message to the Senate Committee: “I discover no- where in any of these bills any agreement or pledge as to the form of money in which depositors are to be paid.” He then proceeded to put the issue in this direct way: “If one of the humblest parties to the proposed contract should ask the postmaster agent to whom he should hand his accumulated earnings, now as good as gold, ‘Will my money, when I draw it out, be in gold or in its fair equivalent?” what answer will you authorize your agent to make? At present he can make no specific answer.” Even the most earnest advocate of postal savings | banks must admit that this objection is fatal to the | establishment of such banks until the money question has been settled. Here, then, is another reason why that all-important issue should be dealt with at once. So long as the value of the money of the nation is subject to the least doubt or to the changes of politi- cal contests so long will many projects of national good have to wait. Monetary reform is imperative. Even the stress of war should not bespermitted to | force its postponement a single day beyond the time | necessary to give it full consideration before action. | | POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS. MONG the measures which were expected of Speculation is now rife as to how war would affect the reconcentrados. Certainly it could not more than starve them to death, and in the absence of war they are already starving faster than it is convenient to bury them. il Sy Perhaps it would not be asking too much of the he is not acting the part of a diplomat in seizing every | Spanish that in pelting Minister Woodford with opportunity to imul_t thq country. People ‘d_o not| eggs, a8 they are like, by way of promoting the en- like it -cordisle, to do, they-nse exgood guality of eggs. | many & goldey dream of all its glemor. | it. PLEASE EXPLAIN. N interior paper indulges in the following re- fl flections: “The country has been tricked, robbed, plundered of over $50,000,000 by the money sharks of Wall street. At the time Congress voted the money it was led to believe it would be used by our Government to put this country in a posi- tion to wreak vengeance on Spain for the loss of our magnificent battle-ship and the lives of her brave crew. The money is being spent and is pouring rapidly into the coffers of these same Wall-street brokers, and it looks as though the whole thing was only a job of theirs to wring more mammon from the people.” That is a very inflammatory attack upon our own Government. It may gratify that class of partisans who think that votes may be gained by trying to make our people believe that the President is another Weyler, and that the American people have chosen tc represent them officers who are devoid of honor and honesty. While the object of such incendiary politics is apparent, the pursuit of it by such means is full of danger. The writer fails to explain how the money is being spent for the benefit of Wall street, how it comes to be pouring into the coffers of the brokers, or how its expenditure is for purposes other than the defensive and offensive preparations neces- sary to put the country on a war footing. What have the Wall-street brokers to sell to the Government for such purposes? What has the Government bought of them for any purpose that they are getting the money rapidly into their coffers? The charge is that the President is guilty of an im- peachable offense and that Congress is unfit for its duties. If we have a Congress unanimously incapable, for every member voted for that appropriation, and an administration both unfit and dishonorable, the republic itself stands impeached as unfit for self- government. The fact is, as all fair men know, that what has been spent of the $50,000,000 confided to the President has gone in the purchase of ships of war abroad; in hastening the construction of those on the ways in our own yards; in swelling the force of every navy-yard to emergency limits in putting existing ships, rams and torpedo-boats in condition to fight, and in the completion, transportation and mounting of guns to defend our sea ports. It has béen spent in small arms and equipments, tents and supplies for our land forces; in getting transport-ships ready to send those forces to the scene of action. It has been invested in powder, of which three months ago there was not enough in the country to last one day in war, and in putting that powder into condition for its various uses, from the charge needed for the great guns on ship and shore to fixed ammunition for the use of small arms in the hands of our marines and of our infantry and cavalry. These are the purposes for which every dollar has gone, and as a result the military strength of the country is now ready for the most efficient exertion. To lie about that expenditure and charge malfeas- ance therein against the President is to indulge ai treasonable temper and pander to disloyalty in a time | when the country needs the cheerful support of all who deserve the honor of its citizenship. The man who will spread such black-hearted falsehoods and idiotic treason is a jack-Spaniard, discrediting his own country and doing his low best to put it at a dis- | advantage. If he were on a man-of-war he would be- tray her to the enemy to discredit the President. If he stood guard at a fortification he would surrender He has in him the treason of Arnold and the cowardice of Hull. If he and his kind propose per- sistence in such courses in the expectation that it will lead their party into power, we notify all such, now, that the American people will wipe out such an or- ganization and leave as its only monument the stench that rises where it rof fl an inspection of the work now going on along | the route of the proposed Panama canal, the International Commission is announced to have sat- isfied itself as to the outlook and has sailed for New | York on its way to Europe. It is not known what report the commission will make, but our dispatches announce there is good reason to believe the mem- | bers were favorably impressed with what they saw, and will in all probability recommend a continuance of the work. The contrast between the persistence of the French in continuing the work at Panama and the long delay and vacillation of Congress in providing for the con- struction of the projected canal at Nicaragua is by no means creditable to the United States. It becomes all the darker for us when we consider the circum- stances under which the Panama scheme is being pushed forward. The project is handicapped by the enormous losses sustained under the first promoters and by the shameful scandals connected with the ex- penditure of its funds. These were bad enough to discredit even the most promising enterprise, and yet in the face of them the French go on with the great undertaking, while in Washington all the talk and all the energy directed toward the Nicaragua canal ac- complish nothing more than the appointment of a new commission every three or four year. to go down and make a junketing survey of the route. The people of the United States would not like to believe that the European capitalists who are back- ing the Panama canal have enough influence in Con- gress to block the Nicaragua project. It is not to be suspected that an American Iegis- lator would permit any money power to in- duce him to delay the construction of a canal under American control for the purpose of allowing the construction of one under European control. The canal that connects the Atlantic with the Pacific will be of vital importance to the United States in times of war as well as of great value in times of peace. To permit it to pass into the hands of foreign powers would be almost like treason to the welfare of the nation. That, however, is what will happen if we wait while France works. o —— To one of a doubting nature the terms of the pro- posed armistice seem to be a request for the United States to keep its hands off until the Spanish can get into good shape for changing the request into a de- mand. However, in dealing with a nation so frank and open and honorable as Spain, so crowned with the glory of unblemished integrity, so benign and so chivalrous, such suspicions are of course out of place. PANAMA OR NICARAGUA. FTER having spent about a month in making | e The Havana paper which accuses Lee of having run away may possibly have later a chance to apolo- gize to him. Lee might run back in a manner even more impressive than his leaving. There is a sentiment in this country that the ships bearing Americans away from Havana ought to be convoyed by a fleet of armored cruisers. gflfififiQnfifififinfififififififififififlfifin)}flfifififihfififi HE MAY BE THE KING OF ENGLAND. o < LR R =g =R =R =R -R-F-F-3-F-F-F-3-5-3-2-F-F-F-3-3-3-F-F=8=-F=F=F =333} o o This is the portrait of Prince Edward of York, son of the Duke of York and grandson of the Prince of Wales. It he lives long enough he will sit on the throne of England. The picture is reproduced from the London Graphic. It was drawn from a portrait made especially for a presentation stamp and portrait album to be given to the Prince of Wales. The album is to contain the plctures of little contributors to the Prince of Wales Hospital fund. LRRV{VIVE|WVUI&IQIQ [ £ 5 OUR NAVAL VICTORIES = 2 ] I ] BRURRRRBUUIIRBBIRIS T THE beginning of the war of the revolution, says Cameron in the Chicago Times-Herald there was no American navy. However, the continental privateers managed to capture about %00 English vessels and 12,000 prison- ers, 500 of them soldiers in some of t'ne' best English regiments. In the two years’ naval war with France the fighting was all done by the navy, which captured 80 of the enemy's vessels and about 3000 men. The wars with the Barbary pirates were also brought to a satisfactory end by the unaided efforts of the navy, the United States securing privileges not | granted to European powers. It was in | the war of 1812, however, that our navy won its greatest victory by whipping the | British after it had defeated the com- | bined sea forces of the world. Over 1500 British ships were taken and over 20,000 British seamen were made prisoners. Finally in the Mexican war, though there Was not much chance for naval co-opera- | tion with the land forces, when the chance did come at Vera Cruz the navy | took it. | It is not necessary to detail all the vic- tories of the American navy to prove its efficiency. The more important are suffi- cient, and such names as Paul Jones, Oliver Hazard Perry, Lawrence and the | others who won the victories ought to be enough to inspire their successors to their best and bravest deeds. The first naval engagement cf tha revo- lution was off Machias, Me., when the British armed schooner Margaretta was whipped and captured. After that icl- Jowed a long list of minor engagements, in which Esek Hopkins, first commander- in-chief of the navy, took a number of English ships. The edge of these victor- jes was dulled a little, however, by the defeat of the American fleet on Lake Champlain under Benedict Arnold. And then came the first prominent ap- pearance of Captain John Paul Jones, who i the cld Providence picked up fiftesa British prizes late in '76. In April, '78, ke made that dering attack on Whiteaav>a, ard in September, '79, defeated the Ling- lish ship Serapis in the German Ogean With the Bonhomme Richard (named af- ter “Poor Richard,” or Benjamin Frank- lin), which sank the next day. The two important battles in the naval war with France were fought by the good old frigate Constellation, under Commo- dore Truxton. The first of these was off St. Kitts, an island in the West Indian group, gwhere, after an hour's fighting, Truxtod compelled the French frigate L'Insurgente to strike her colors. In February, 1799, that was. A year later the same vessel and the same commander administered a drubbing to the French La Vengeance, but allowed her to escape in a squall. In the war with the Barbarg States the capture of the American ship Philadelphia and its subsequent destruction by Deca- tur and the bombardment of Tripoli by Commodore Preble were the important engagements. The first was a serious loss, but the bombardment was sufficient to secure American shlrping against the raids of the Barbary pirates. The war of 1812 was productive of a number of glorious American victories. The first of these, after numerous pre- liminary skirmishes, came on August 19, when the frigate Constitution (now the Newport school ship), under Isaac Hull, captured the British frigate Guerriere. In the next month Lieutenant Elliott cap- tured the brigs Detroit and Caledonia from under the guns of Fort Erie, the latter afterward serving in Perry’s fleet. It was only a few days later that the frigate United States captured the Brit- ish Macedonia off Madeira, the British loss being 104 and the American eleven. A couple of months later the Constitu- tion captured the .ritish ship Java off Brazil, and in February of 1813 the Amer- ican sloop Hornet stung and captured the British Peacock. But after that came a defeat, the de- feat of Lawrence in the Chesapeake by the British frigate Shannon. ' It was the “Don’t-give-up-the-ship” Lawrence, and in this engagement he was mortally wounded. For inflicting the defeat the freedom of London was voted to Captain Broke, the English commander, and a fine sword was presented to him. The defeat was not long unavenged, how- ever, for a couple of months after Cap- tain’ William Henry_ Allen in the sloop Argus captured the British sloop Pelican in the English Channel, and a month later the American Enterprise took the Boxer. P Then came Perry's victory, the “We- have-met-the-enemy -and - they-are-ours victory over the English fleet in Lake Erle. “Six vessels were the prize in this engagement, a sad loss to England, an encouraging lift to the United States. And then the sloop Peacock, which the Americans had taken from the British, was used to capture another British ship, the brig Epervier, off the coast of Wales. The prize was sold for $55,000, and 118,000 in specie was found on board. This was the first good victory of 1814. It was soon followed by another, when the American ship Wasp captured the Rein- deer. Later she took the British At- lanta, but soon after disappeared, no one knows how, but forever. And next the second battle of Lake Champlain, an American victory this time, when Commodore .homas McDon- ough, with fourteen vessels and eighty- six guns, defeated the British fleet of six- teen vessels and ninety-six ns under George Downle. Fifty-two killed and as many wounded was the American loss, the British twice as much. The first naval struggle of 1815 brought American defeat, the President, un- or Decatur, being captured by a British out of ] . A Constitution captured the British frigate Cyane and the brig Levant, and three dl?'l after the Hornet, under Captain Nicholas Bid red dle, captu the British Penguin off the coast og Bra- Probably the tragedy of the Chilkoot has robbed t‘é war of mm&amxi‘um’ufi flfil tle with any fflfm 1 tha AmericRn J - vigtories, enough of them have been given to show the quality of American fighting on the sea. If the navy now can do as well there will be litile danger of defeat in any threatened trouble. ALONGSHORE. There’s a cry comes up from along the sho: A cry from a hundred towns or moge_ ™ Each with {ts corporation where It catches the salt Atlantic air. There isn’t a village from North to South That hasn’t a cry for help in its mouth, For each one seems to think that it Is the only one that can be hit. That Spain will send on their quickest runs Her biggest ships with their biggest guns, To shoot that village so full of holes The sea will run through it in great big rolls. There's a wall from Pigmont-by-the-Se: There’s a soulful sob from Winawardlce, There's a protest coming from La Podunk, There’s an urgent call from Skinnymebunk, There's a yearning velp from Cow’s-Nesthurst, There's a long appeal from Morningburst, There's a sounding shout from Skilletviile, There’s a frightened vell from Bunghole Hill They're coming in from the coast of Maine To the Key West line and back again, From every municipality In sight or in smell of the sounding sea. Each seems to think that the Spanish spite Is centered upon that one townsite, And that the Government ought to arise In its might to preserve this one choice prize. But they need not worry; if the Spanish ships Come over this way in'a quest for tips, The Yankees will keep them so busy that They never will learn where these towns are at V. J. L. in New York Sun. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS. Franklin Leonars of Nevada is at the Palace. C. H. Wilson of Boston is a guest at the Palace. L. H. Garrigus, a merchant of Salinas, is at the Lick. T. D. Day of Duluth, Minn. at the California. A. G. Miles of New York arrived at the Occidental yesterday. Robert Nixon Jr. of the Yreka Journal is a guest at the Grand. , Is staying Horace R. Kelly, a New York capitalist, is a guest at the Palace. T. J. Donovan, & mining man of Ven- tura, is staying at the Grand. Dr. A. M. Gardner of the Napa Insane Asylum is a guest at the Lick. J. W. Cook and wife of Bohemia, Or., are registered at the Occidental. Henry Page, U. S. A, is at the Occi- dental, where he arrived last night. George W. Middleton of Yokohama is one of the late arrivals at the Palace. Among yesterday’s arrivals at the Bald- win are C. H. Hanlon and wife of San Jose. F. J. Brandon, clerk of the State Sen- | ate, Is registered at the Grand from Sac- ramento. W. E. Ross of Minnesota is a guest at the Occidental. He is accompanied by his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Lee L. Gray have come down from Fresno and are registered at the Occidental. Mrs. Phebe Hearst has come down from her ranch at Pleasanton and s staying at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. E. H Adams of New York and James F. Peck of Merced are all registered at the Lick. Thomas Farhed and W. W. Farvell are two young Englishmen at the Palace who are traveling for pleasure. H. Prinz, a merchant of Monterey, is at the Grand on his way to Germany, where he is going to visit relatives. Dr. Chester Rowell, a regent of the State University, is at the Grund, where he arrived last night from Merced. George O. Brown of Chicago, together with his wife and a party of friends, is at the Palace on a visit of leisure to the city. Richard Gibson, who in his editorial work on Town Talk did much to make it the success it is, has resumed his con- nections with that paper. The condition of Warden Aull, who {s staying at the Grand, has taken such a turn for the better that it is hoped a fatal termination may be avoided. General Manager Kruttschnitt of the Bouthern Pacific Company has returned from his trip over the southern sections of his road and has resumed the duties of his office, as well as taken up the re- sponsibilities of his new office, that of b= b= o o o $e] fourth vice-president, to which he was | elected at the last meeting of the board | of directors. J. F. Thompson. editor and proprietor \’of a leading newspaper of Northern Cal- | ifornia, the Daifly Standard of Bureka, lis in town. Mr. Thompson Is a delegate to the I. 0. O. F. convention and & prom- inent member of that order. Assistant General Manager J. H. Fill- more of the Southern Pacific and H. J. Small, superintendent of motive power, left last night to go over the line as far as El Paso, where they will meet L. 8. Thorne, vice-president and general man- ager of the Texas Pacific. and D. W. Dod- ridge of the Wabash road. The purpose | of the meeting is to talk over and ar- | range some comparatively unimportant | detalls of freight and passenger traffic. Mr. Fillmore and Mr. Small will probably be gone about eight or ten days. 0000000000 “The great o © charm about ll:; o in Tahiti,” sai © SOCIALLIFE 9 2 entleman who o N has just returned | OTROPICAL TAHITI? 1o the city from |o O a long sojourn 0000000000 gmong those “Summer Isles of Eden,” lying *in dark- urple spheres of sea, genfe ofpa.ll conventionality. Art and na- ture are just the same in the land of the cocoanut and the cannibal, and the only difference between the white settler and the dusky aborigine is the time it will take the latter to get down to the lower standard of viclousness which has been reached by the former after traveling for centuries along the paths of civilization. Missionaries go down from this country to teach the poor benighted heathen how to shoot straight with the moral bow and arrow, and after passing a couple of years doing twice as much harm by their example as they do good by their pre- cepts, return home to the congregations that sent them there and are entertained and feted while they spin fairy stories about the privations and hardships they have endured while laboring in the Lord !‘ savage island vineyards. A fair idea of' what these fellows really amount to may be gathered by the following little inci- | dent that recently came under my ob- servation: “T occupied a small cottage on the out- skirts of Papeete, where I was often tha host to a number of characters whosa paths in life were widely different, but whose natural instincts and passions, to which they all gave free rein, were about the same. One afternoon I was honored by & call from a well-known missionary, who had hardly seated himself when the door was opened to give admittance to a gambler by the name of Poker Jack Nes- bitt. We all sat and chatted for a few | moments, when I recollected I had an errand to perform, and, placing a large bottle of rum and some cigars on the table, excused myself, telling them to make themselves at home until I re- turned. 1 was gone for about an hour, and when I drew ‘near my house on my return I was surprised to meet my housee | keeper running toward me with her hai® | lowing down her back and an exprese sion of great consternation on her face. I stopped her and asked what was the | matter. As soon as she could catch her breath she said in the native language: ‘Matter? Matter enough. Hurry to the house. Poker Jack and the missionary, have drunk up all the rum, and now the man of God is eating the degenerate one.” I at once entered my shanty and found | that she had hit pretty near the truth. Both of the fellows had become beastly intoxicated and gotten into a fight, which had resulted in the missionary nearly chewing the thumb off the gambler's | hand. | *Some day that preacher will return to civilization and tell of the spiritual hun- | ger that he devoted his time to appeas- ing in the South Sea: | | | THE PRESIDEN FORTITUDE. The President is bearing a tremendous burden with admirable moral foftitude | and thus far with few signs of physical | weariness. here is every reason to be- lieve that his tranquillity will continue to be proof against the malice of a few turbulent detractors.—New York Tribune. [ MERITED REWARD. 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