The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 13, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1898. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ol SRS L L Address All Communications to W. §. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE... _..Market and Third Sts.. S. F Telephone Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2IT to 291 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1574 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents @ week. By mall $6 per year: per month 66 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE -908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. --Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Represcentative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE C. C. CARLTON, Correspondeat. CHICAGO OFFICE ..Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. One year, by mall. $1.50 BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgumery street, corner Clay, | cpen until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open untll 930 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock- 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, comer Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 | Mission street, cpen untfi 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open | untll 930 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—“A Stranger in New York" Columbia—“Shore Acres " California—“01d Lavender.” Alcazar—The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown." Orpheum—Va Sherman & C Y. M. C. A H Passion Play.” udeville. Wallace, “Untamable Lion.” son and Eddy streets, Specialties. AUCTION SALES. By Killip & Co.—This aay, April 12, Horses. atcorner Van Ness t 10 o’clock. This day, April 12, Turkish Rugs, at 106 k. wue at 2 o'el THE SAN JOSE 'ELECTIONS. \x is not what the friends of good government had hoped it would be, they may still congrat- | ulate themselves that their efforts to do away with | “boss” rule were not without salutary effect. At least | the bosses learned one thing. To win a fight they | must put up good men. They are forced to make | this concession to the better element of the com- | The day has gone by when the politician | y public sentiment wholly and put up creatures ‘ | munity. can di known to be parts of his machine. he candidates elected at San Jose seem to be good But for the opposition to the Rea gang men of men. their standing would not have been nominated. On the contrary, the ring would have selected creatures of its own and used its power to force them upon a community which had no confidence in them. By methods known to the professional politician such things are possible. But at San Jose so strong an opposition to the Rea forces sprang up that there was for naming good men. Other- wise defeat was inevitable. Rea saw this and was shrewd enough to profit by it. The outcome was a victory for him, and yet a victory, or at least not an | absolute defeat, for the people who fought him. | The Call congratulates San Jose on having made the Rea contingent name a creditable ticket. This paper opposed Rea and has no regrets; but had he | put into the field the sort of nominees which would | have been selected had he not feared the public sen- | timent The Call helped to arouse, a Rea victory would | have been little less than a calamity. We have not | lost interest in San Jose, and know that the efforts | made on behalf of her political freedom have not} been without beneficent result. In the future the | fight will be continued, and ultimately there can be | no other outcome than a complete triumph for the pecple. an absolute necessit; The Japanese who is on trial for a cold-blooded | murder he is known to have committed depends upon | a plea of insanity to save his neck. He is behind the times. The plea of insanity has been overworked | and is now recognized as simply an indirect way of | declaring guilt and an intention of bamboozling the | public. The martuary records of San Quentin will‘ show that the public is not always to be worked by this game. —_— Policeman Orr swore that a certain man had been loitering about during a certain period, and was therefore a vagrant in the eyes of the law. The man was able to vindicate himself by proving that at the time specified he was in jail for petty larceny. This climax of course spoiled the case, but the policeman | does not seem much disturbed by the fact of having been detected in the act of swearing falsely. Spanish officials gravely announce that the crews of American ships will fly into panic at the first sound of a gun. victory on it is possible they are oversanguine. ing, and this was when she wrecked the Maine. His- tory records that the sailors of the United States have won several. An Oakland woman who sports an imposing title has been arrested on the charge of insanity. Comes forth her lawyer indignant to explain that the lady was merely drunk. And he seems to have an idea that he has mended matters. Nevada is not acting in a very neighborly way in excluding our cattle. If California were to exclude the Nevada hog some of the sagebrush cattle gentle- men would have to go to the Atlantic to catch a glimpse of the sea. Now it is reported that the wicked insurgents in- tend to attack Havana. And that beautiful armistice, warranted to wash and to stand in any climate, in full force! The course of the insurgents is nothing less than shocking. S Rev. Thomas Dixon of New York says that if this country is unwilling to avenge the murder of its sea- men it ought to go to hades. Perhaps this is not sound theology, but it will be accepted. A Madrid paper has something to say about the “self-respect due to ourselves.” If the Spanish coul but see themselves as they are there would be great difficulty in collecting the debt. Don Carlos kindly intimates that he will hold aloof. As he has nothing else to hold, perhaps his plan is indicative of wisdom. An evening paper announces with every appear- ance of solemnity that the morning paper is doomed. 1t'€ really too bad, too. Even yet there are times when people wonder why Consul-General Lee was ordered out of Havana. .-Riggs House | | American If this is what they are building hopes of | Spain | never attained but one naval victory worth mention- | THE WORLD’'S VERDICT ON THE MESSAGE. ~ ONGRESS and the people may learn much from the comments of the foreign press on the message. The history of Mr. Cleveland’s Venezuela message is recent. He had asked England to arbitrate a dis- puted beundary which for sixty years had been the cause of friction between that country and an Ameri- | can state. He treated it as an American question, | long in friction and left unsettled as a cause of war | which might lead to the landing of an armed force f from Europe within this hemisphere, and to remote | consequences of great gravity to the United States “hy compelling this Government to an armed asser- | tion of the Monroe doctrine. He did not demand | that England yield up the territory in dispute, for that would have meant a demand for the dismember- | ment of the British empire, which we had no right to ask. He demanded only the arbitration and settle- ment of the boundary. When England, after refus- | ing, assented, she was attacked for the concession in | every Continental capital, and bad feeling toward her and the United States was freely expressed. That in- cident began and ended on strictly American lines and gave no excuse for any European feeling. Our action was wholly in line with our traditional policy. President McKinley's message is in the same line. There is not a phrase in it out of whicu European interest can be extracted. It is couched in Monroe hemisphere terms entirely, and it -emains to be seen whether Congress will observe similar limitations. It must not be forgotten that Spain was once able to make a European alliance in defense of her posi- tion in this hemisphere. The Holy Alliance, so called, was the exciting cause of the Monroe doctrine. Eng- land, having lost her North American possessions except the Canadas, foresaw that retentio® of their American possessions by Spain and Portugal would make the Iberian peninsula so strong as to disturb the European balance. To prevent recovery of lost domain by the armies of the Holy Alliance Lord Canning suggested what is called the | Monroe doctrine to President Monroe and John : Quincy Adams, his Secretary of State. The alliance was dissolved. Let it be noted now that the United States resisted | all pressure to recognize the independence of the re- HILE the verdict of the election at San Jose | volted Latin-American colonies until they had won independence, had expelled efficiently the jurisdiction of the mother countries and established government in form fit for admission into the family of nations. Independence must be a fact, not a hypothesis, be- fore we can recognize it. The authority of the for- mer government must be at a definite end, before we can admit its subjugation if we wish to stay in the safe line of precedent. In England the President’s position is intelligently understood. On the Continent it is intelligently mis- understood in Spain’s interest. There is in the air the shadow of another Holy Alliance. If Congress declare for the independence of Cuba we will have abandoned the Monroe doctrine and turned that shadow into substance. We have go more right to demand that a European Government submit to dis- memberment when the domain lies in this hemis- phere than we have to demand that Germany give up Alsace and Lorraine because their people are cap- tives, held as the spoils of war. We can make the destruction of the Maine a cause of war. Our in- tervention to stop strife in Cuba because of commer- cial damage, the expense of patrolling our coast to prevent filibustering, and on humane grounds, may be taken as a cause ofsthe declaration of war by Spain, and in either case the issues are purely American. But if we demand the independence of Cuba the position acutely changes. The question be- comes European and no one can foresee the end. In such a crisis a deaf ear should be turned to the Cuban Junta. They have failed to expel Spain and she has failed to overpower them. Having decla-ed that under certain conditions they will turn their arms against the United States, this country consid- ers them an incident in the affair. The President has held the issue to wise lines, and all that the Continental Governments can do is to make faces at us and say ridiculous things about the United States and England. The Holy Alliance has friends in every American newspaper office in which pretended patriotic rage about the Maine covers a desire to help the bond- selling Junta by recognizing the independence of Cuba. So far the President has made no mistake, and if one come it will not be chargeable to the ad- ministration. Of course, if Congress take the step Americans must abide by the result and stand by their coun- try. The current tirades against the President are a help for the enemy. e ————— Perhaps the police know why such a notorious dive as Abbott’s saloon on Grant avenue is permitted to run. It is the resort of criminals. There they meet for various evil purposes and there they occasionally shoot at each other. The last phase of the situation calls for interference. The shooters aggravate their offense by failing to shoot straight, thus allowing jailbirds to escape who would better be at the Morgue and endangering the lives of the chance, and possibly worthy, passer-by. _— The widow who came to town with $40,000 and got into jail without much delay is counseled to spend the money quickly. If she do not some of the con- fidence people who thrive mostly on rich widows will | assuredly be spending it for her. City Engineer Clement of Oakland has been elected president of the Police and Fire Commission, partly by virtue of his own vote. Mr. Clement is not a man whose modesty will ever balk his natural impulse to recognize a good man. It is a pity there is no law to cover the case of the man Doggett, arrested for the abduction of a girl 13 years old: To send the man to jail would be a slur on the other prisoners, and to hang him would disgrace the gallows. . Testimony is beginning to show that the officers who ran away from the murderer of Lieutenant Burke were not only brave but generous. Each was anxious to retire so as to permit the others to make a reputation. e Blanco’s men refuse to allow American naval offi- | cers near what is left of the Maine. Let this be as- cribed to genuine solicitude. They are afraid ' the wreck may careen and some of Uncle Sam’s men get i hurt. “Has Lee left Madrid?” asks an evening paper with some show of anxiety. We think it perfectly safe to say that he has not and that he doesn’t in- tend to do so. The statement that Spain is standing by her de- clarations does not mean that she can make them l gfi. The most fervid asseveration that black ‘s white miust be wholly without practical result. l THE CHARTER ‘“LORD MAYOR.” N an article which is designed to further the adop- ltion of the new charter a morning contemporary declares that no “Lord Mayor” has been set up by that instrument. Whatever may be said for or against the Mayor who is actually created by the proposed charter, there can be but one opinion as to the im- propriety of making such statements as this. It is utterly untrue that the charter does not set up a “Lord Mayor”—that is to say, a Mayor who in the event of his creation will exercise unparalleled powers in forming and controlling the government of this city. For instance, during his term of two years every Mayor elected under the proposed charter will ap- point a majority of the following commissions and boards: A Board of Public Works, which will con- trol and supervise all work done upon the streets, sewers and public buildings of the municipality; a Board of Education, which will manage the schools; a Police Commission, which will appoint and control a semi-military organization of about 600 men; a Fire Commission, which will manage a department consisting of about 400 active young politicians; an Election Commission, which will appoint and control all election officers and which will canvass the votes cast at all elections; a Board of Health, which will manage the hospitals and almshouse; a Park Com- mission, which will control and improve Golden Gate Park. No good purpose can be subserved by solemnly affirming that the man who will direct the vast po- litical machine thus outlined will not be a “Lord Mayor.” The people may want such a Mayor. If they do they can get him by voting for the proposed charter. But under no circumstances whatever should the fact be concealed that by so voting they will enter upon an era of one-man power fraught with momentous import. It is true that the charter collects in the hands of the Mayor powers which are now scattered in many hands, but this does not deprive him of the character described as “Lord Mayor.” Experience in govern- ment has shown that while a division of power weak- ens its exercise, it also diminishes the evils which re- sult from the unrestrained play of pride and ambition. The wisdom of such a division is now being illus- trated at Washington. Congress declares war and the President wages it. The check of different minds is manifested by the deliberation and caution with which the President and Congress are considering the diffi- culties with Spain. A “Lord Mayor” for San Francisco may be a good thing. If so the individual created by the proposed charter would certainly be an ideal potentate. As master of the Fire and Police departments, and as master of the patronage controlled by every other de- partment of the government, he could easily swing 25,000 votes at any election except one at which the people had been roused against him. We may have reached that stage of our existence when a Mayor who can cast and count our votes for us has become a political necessity; if this be the fact we have him in the proposed charter, and we should not at the outset of the campaign allow anybody to underrate him. A CURRENCY REFORM BILL. EPORTS from Washington announce that the R House Committee on Banks and Banking has framed a currency reform bill which the ma- jority is prepared to submit to Congress as soon as a way is made for it in thé’ House. Some sanguine supporters of the measure are quoted as asserting that it will be adopted at this session, and while this may be doubted, the urgency of the issue is such that an effort will certainly be made to accomplish it. From a summary which has been made public it appears that one of the chief features of the proposed reform is that of thréwing upon the national banks the entire burden of finding gold to sustain the paper money of the country. It is claimed they have ample power to do this, for as is said in the preliminary re- port on the bill: “They will have the power to regu- late rates, within the narrow limits marked out by economic law, in such a manner as to attract gold to the country by restricting circulation when necessity arises.” The general scheme of the bill is announced to con- tain these provisions: 1. A division of issue and re- demption is established in the national treasury for which the Secretary is authorized to set aside the gen- eral cash balances in excess of $50,000,000. No note redeemed in gold is to be again paid out except under “exceptional conditions.” 2. National banks are re- quired to assume the redemption of current United States demand notes in order to obtain circulation based upon their commercial assets. 3. National banks will be required for one year aiter the passage of the act to maintain the minimum amount of United States bonds as security for circulation. This bond deposit may be reduced one-fourth annually, begin- ning one year after the act goes into effect. 4. A new class of notes, called “national reserve notes,” is to be issued in place of legal tender notes deposited by the banks with the treasury, and national banks are to be permitted to issue current notes upon their commer- cial assets to the amount of reserve notes issued to them. The purpose of this provision is to compel the reversion of United States notes into reserve notes, as well as to limit the issue of currency upon commercial assets. 5. A tax of 2 per cent is levied upon currency notes in excess of 60 per cent of the capital of the bank issuing them, and a tax of 6 per cent is levied upon circulation of the same character in excess of 80 per cent of the capital. 6. The na- tional currency notes are to be secured by a guar- anty fund made up of a contribution in gold coin of 5 per cent of the entire circulation of each bank. The notes are also a first lien upon all the assets of the bank. 7. National reserve notes will continue to be a legal tender until received at the treasury, when they will be canceled. 8. The parity of silver coin with gold is to be maintained by a gold redemption fund in the treasury. 9. Silver certificates are to be issued hereafter only in bills of $1, $2 and $5. Legal tender notes, reserve notes and currency are not to be issued in denominations of less than $10. From this outline it will be seen that the bill is along the lines recommended by the Indianapolis con- ference, though, as has been pointed out by one critic, it is not so courageous as the bill advocated by that conference, since “it does not provide for the speedy retirement of greenbacks and does not declare out- right for the gold standard.” It is possible the bill may be amended in some re- spects before being reported, and it is very certain to undergo thiat treatment by Congress before it is finally adopted. In its present form it serves to show the di- rection that currency reform is likely to take and probably will take at this session unless war pre- wvents the subject from being brought up for consider- ation. . There are some reasons for fearing that the stoning of American Consulates may become a popular amusement among the Latin nations. But it really is not polite. 5 § PRINTED WITH TYPES BEFORE GUTENBERG'S DAY. 5 06308 30¢ 308 308 208 30 10% 10F 30K 0 08 3 X0 X0 X0 30K 308 3083 108 30% 308 308 308 208 308 108 308 06 0 6 QE 00X ¥ HO invented printing? The honor has for a long time by general accord been given to John Gutenberg of Mayence, though the Hollanders stoutly claim jt for Laurent Coster of Haarlem. Now comes M. Gil- liodts Van Sweren, keeper of the archives of Paris, who asserts that neither of these is entitled to the homor, but that it be- longs to Jean Brito of Bruges, and pro- duces some strong and convincing proofs of his bold assertion. M. Gilliodts will, however, hardly con- vince the partisans of Gutenberg of this, nor the adherents of Coster, nor yet the innumerable crowd of those who in mat- ters of history will listen to no proof whatever on a question that they consider already decided. Yet he seems to have right on his side. At the beginning of the fifteenth cen- tury the discovery of printing was “in the air.” They had already begun in Europe to engrave writing in relief and reversed on plates of wood, and with the aid of a rudimentary press had multiplied many small books of general use, such as a, b, c books and ‘“‘Books of Hours.” One of the processes consisted of engraving each- line on a separate block, a number of which together made up a page. From that to engrave the letters separately was but a step, yet a wonderful leap, full of great possibilities. The one who first thought of engraving in relief the dle or punch with which to strike the matrices for cutting the char- acters by the “font” was the real in- ventor of typography, the creator of book-printing. In the exhibition gallery of the Nation- al Library of Paris, in the midst of “in- cunables” from the presses of Colard verses with the rest. In short, Jean Brito was wrong. He came on the scene too late. The opinions of the world had already been formed. M. Gilliodts Van Sweren has published a large volume entitled ““The Works of Jean Brito,” making an appeal for justice, which gives strong proofs from newly discovered documents. He establishes the fact that the Brito family belong to the upper class of Bruges, and that from 1393 1492, when this ““Venice of the north” was at the height of prosperity, one Jean Brito was successively Counselor, Burgo- master, Sheriff and Treasurer of the city. He died poor, and one éf his sons carry- ing the father’s name to eagn a living be- came a book writer. The most ancient register of the guild of librarians and book writers (boucscrivers) of Bruges mentions in the accounts for the year 1454 the name of Jean Brito, and he thereafter figures with the title of meester until 1483, the date of his death. Since dhere was at Bruges a book writer named Jean Brito, and since we know of a book that this Jean Brito declares nim- self to have printea, if it can be shown | in addition that the book was printed with movable type from a “font,” it will be incontestible that Jean Brito was a typographic printer. Now, the characters used in the “Doc- trinal” show beyond a doubt that they were printed by type cast in molds or matrices. All the a’s, the b's, the ad’s, the de's, all the.isolated and conjoined letters, are ldentical in every point of character. And these same type are found in two other books known to have been the works of Jean Brito. These type and the molds In which they were cast are the “astonishing instruments” men- tioned by Brito in the verse. At the epoch when Brito lived Bruges was at the very apogee of its splendor. The sumptuous court of Philip the Good was there. One hundred and fifty foreign 10t G cotps ¢ ¢y feraylus feur ¢ ploey pa!é % ey pout ¢ of Dreentiere obleruaqon. efte caufe s et pour @ que b ; maladie corpozcle Biont fouuant pouk 0x malavie & Lame. B¢ pape comman pat; eopteffe Temeale,a Bng clefeun meSan que 10 ne Trone poine meSane au mala quic 50 Bifite . fe ron que parauant JC ait i s forte & appeter & meSay & Lame . Coft affar uoir oy confeffeur. €¢ fewit copedient ¢y cBefeun Bofpital , ou maifoy Dieu que pat 07 Fonnane faicteon ne Peaupft aucy malas % qui ne fo confeffaft e & pramier Jour. ou aumoins quil ¢ wpsefoncaft au preftee a @ 0r%onne. Comme JC eft notwblment gar® oy Bfted & Diew-a-pavis . q@‘ oplicie flicitee. oiee prefentis feriptus Gradia que fié %Ltfit opus opee.fpectetur wdice 0y Refpice § mund. terfe.dq gmpzimit fee duie Bruglh 3 Toote & Bubo Jofanes Nruenide avtem nullo monftedte medSam Anffrumdcs quogs noy minus fud ffupiS Fac-simile of the Last Page of the *Doctrinal” of Gerson, Printed by Jean Brito. Mansion, a very modest place is given to a small book bound in red morocco with golden threads, thus designated in the catalogue, “Gerson—copie de deux grands tableaux. Bruges—Imp. par Jean Brito in 40.” This volume of thirty-two leaves is the only complete copy of the first edition of the Doctrinal of Jean Gerson, the celebrated chancellor of the Univer- sity of Paris, who died in 1429. It is the first book printed from the movable char- acters of a “font” of type that has come down to our time. It carries no date, but on the last page, which Is here reproduced in fac-simile (from L'Tllustration), one sees after the “explicit feliciter’” a stanza of six lines in Id,fllln verse, which literally translated reads: mark the beauty of this present writin compare this work with other put this book alongside of other ee with what neatness, with what care, with what elegance this impression has been made by the ‘bourgeols’ of Bruges Jean Brito, who has discovered without any one teaching him his mar- vellous art at the same time as his aston- ishing instruments, not less worthy of admiration.” It is difficult to be more precise, espec- ially in verse. The bourgeois Jean Brito, who has written his name in full at the end of this printed volume, declares him- self loudly the inventor of an art un- known before him and of which he offers to_the people of his time a first specimen. It was in 1773 that the Abbe Ghesquiere pointed out this categorical subseription. The Doctrinal then belonged to M. Meer- man of La Haye. At this date the con- test for the priority of the invention of printing was confined to Gutenberg and Coster. On the appearance of this third rival Mr. School of Mayence and Schaol of Harlem joined forces to choke off the posthumous claims of Jean Brito. They denfed that he ever invented any- thing. They even denied that he was ever a printer. They cast doubts on the fact of his ever having existed. The most that they would accord was that he was a skillful copyist, who had thought it good to vaunt in Latin verse his peculiar tal- ents at the end of a manuscript, which manuscript had later been used by a printer, who inadvertenty reproduced the vessels entered its basins every day. Six- teen countries kept Consuls there. It was a grand center of art and literature. Is it likely that with such surroundings an honored bourgeols, a master librarian, could dare to falsely proclaim himself the author of such a discovery without rais- ing a protest from his contemporaries. In 1457 the illustrious printer, Colard Man- sion, appears in his turn on the registers of the Guild of St. Jean. If Brito had not really been his predecessor in the art would not he have exposed him? It may be said toat while Brito invented typographical printing at Bruges, Guten- berg at Mayence and Coster at Haarlem, of whose works ne may have been ig- norant, preceded him. At what date was the “Doctrinal’” printed by Brito? In the “Memolreaux de Jean le Robert” occurs a passage which, translated into modern language, 1 cads, “Item for a Doctrinal imprint” (‘gette in molle, cast in molds’), which 1 have-sent for to Bruges, by Marquet, a writer of Valenciennes, in the month of January, 1445, for Jacquet twenty ‘sols tournois” (money of Tours). This formally establishes that in 1445 they sold in Bruges a ‘“‘Doctrinal” printed with characters cast in a mold. M. Gill- jodts shows from public documents that the sale of books made elsewhere was forbidden at Bruges during the fifteenth century. The *“Doctrinal” bought for Jacquet, then, must have been one print- ed by Brito. There was no other, This makes the date of the “Doctrinal” cer- tainly as early as 1445, which antedates the Bible of Gutenberg by twelve years, and that was not printed from type cast in molds, but from characters cut out separately. This was the case also with the works attributed to Coster, of which the earliest appeared in 1437, Distributive justice, it seems, should glve to Coster the first place in the de- velopment of wooden type printing and employing isolated letters in the place of engraved pages or lines, to Gutenberg and his associates the honor of having trained in their shops at Mayence the skiliful workmen who spread the art of p ng throughout Europe; but to Jean™ Brito must be accorded the palm as discoverer and first applier of the art of printing by means of typographical characters. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS. George P. Moore of Omaha is a guest at the Palace. John Swett, ex-School Superintendent, is a guest at the Lick. A. J. Larson, a journalist of Lodi, is registered at the Grand. John Ross, a mining man of Sutter Creek, is a guest at the Grand. State Senator C. M. Simpson of Pasa- dena is registered at the Grand. Captain R. McDonald, the Sacramento politician, is a guest at the Grand. Willlam McKinlay, a prominent resi- dent of Nevada City, is at the Lick. I. S. Beckwith has come down from Stockton and is staying at the Callfor- nia. Dr. W. E. Gomme of Sandon, B. C., is one of the late arrivals. at the Occi- dental. ; p ? Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Vercoe and H. C. Nelson are all registered at the Palace from England. Charles Mclver, a capitalist of San Jose, is_at the Palace. Mrs. Mclver accom- panies her husband. A. E. Hawley of Santa Barbara, accom- panied by his mother and sister, is stay- ing at the Occidental. Charles O. Ball, a manufacturer of Lowell, Mass., is a guest at the Occi- dental, where he arrived yesterday. E. R. Marriot, son of the proprietor of the News Letter, has left the California, | where he has been staying with his bride, for San Diego. gooooooooc; There 1s, in the o city, a certain © AGOOD o young gentleman O YOUNG MAN'S o Who, generally speaking, is a O TRIBULATIONS. © model of domes- 3] ticity, but who oc- o 0000000000 (ugonally, when he falls Into evil companionship, is tempt- ed to wander from his parent's fireside and go down town, whence he never re- turns until the fires of his exuberance have been quenched by liberal potations. This young gentleman’s mother is a lady of exceeding strictness and, when her son and heir fails to materlalize at the proper hour, invariably asks for an explanation in the morning when the family meet at breakfast. She always receives the ex- planation she asks for and, being a | mother and credulous, accepts as facts tales that would cause Ananias to blush with envy and Munchausen to hang his head in shame. 3 2 The other morning, however, the tale told her by her inventive offspring was in such direct conflict with some tangible evidence she had secured that her faith was considerably shattered. The young man appeared at the break- fast table and had just seated himself when his mother said: “Philip, my son, what time did you get in last night?” “Eleven o’'clock, mother,” he replied. “Where were you until that time of night?’ “Well, you see, there was a meeting of our Sunday School Guild and 1 was there to fead a little bourgeos | to | | day, so when paper on Christian education en- titled: ‘The Flaming Ghost or How Willie Was Brought to Repentance.’ It was such a hit that the guild made me read it over twice, and conse- quently I got home later than I expected and when I opened the front door—" “When you opened the front door?” repeated his mother. “Do you mean to say you came in through the front door?". “Of course I did.” “Well, will you tell ma‘ how the print of your foot came to be in the pan of dough that was under the kitchen window, where the Chinaman had left it to raise?” The young fellow was staggered for a moment, but pulling him- self together he said: *Oh, yes; I had forgotten about that. You Kknow yes- terday was Friday and 1 had fasted all I got into bed I w, gry I could not sleep. I lay tc on my couch until after 12 o'clock, then I got up and went down to t kitchen to get a sandwich. It was dark that I stepped in the dough before I found the gas jet.” Mr. and Mrs. I. O. Whitney of Omaha have taken rooms at the Palace, where they will remain during the short stay they propose making in San Francisco. C. D. Door and wife, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Mealey and Miss Mealey are a party of tourists who arrived in the city yes- terday from ‘Munsford and went to the California. S. 8. Chamberlain, manager of the Nevr York Journal, Is in the city. ostensibly for his health, but it is claimed by many he comes to straighten out the manage ment of the Examiner. A SONG OF LIBERTY. Across the land—trom strand to strand— Loud ring the bugle notes, And om’s smile from isle to isle- Like Freedom's banner floats. The velvet vales sing ‘Libertyt To answering skies serene; The mountains, sloping to the ses, Wave all their flags of gren. The rivers, rushing to the deep, The joyful notes prolong, And ail their waves in glory leap To that immortal song! One song of Liberty and life That was, and is to be, Till tyrant flags are trampled rags, And all the world is free. -3 It rises, and an echo comes From chained and troubled isles, And roars, like ocean’s thunder drums, Where glad Columbia smiles. Where, throned and great, she sits in staty Beneath her flags of stars, Her heroes’ blood the sacred flood That crimsoned all its bars! Hall to our country! Strong she stands, Nor fear the war drum'’s beat; The sword of Freedom In her hande— The tyrant at her feet! —Frank L. Stantom. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, AN ALLIANCE—A. L. J., City. The roposed so-called alliance between the nited States and Great Britain was only & rumor. NOT PREMIUM COINS—Mrs. M. B., San Jose, Cal. None of the American coins described in your communication command a premium. STAMPS FOR BABIES—G. R. W., City. The representatives of the Chinese Gov- ernment in this city are not aware that any one in China will on the presenta- tion of a number of postage stamps save the life of a Chinese girl baby. QUESTIONS IN ETIQUETTE—E. P. Y., City. If people that you are acquaint- ed with meet a loss by death, and you think anything of such people, it would be proper for vou to write a letter of condolence. You should confine yourself to a few words of sympathy. If the life | of the person just gone has been a beau- | tiful one, some allusion to that will be | proper, but do not offer anything that | would 'seem like preachin, sermon or | deducting a moral. P. P. | not sent out when the party leaves tha home for a short visit in the country. Such are used only when the person con- templates an absence from home for a long time, such as a tour of continental Europe or a visit to some other State, which may be of six months’ duration or even longer. It is the duty of the person intending to absent himself or herself for a prolonged period, to make a call of adieu on friends, and if such are not at home then the 'visitor leaves a pour prendre conge card. —— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® —_—— Great sale fine eveglasses, 15c, 33 Fourth (also Sundays), formerly Kast shoe store* ——— Special {iformation supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 ilont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, * —_——— Ladles’ pocket-books, belts, vallses, tel- escope bags, baskets and trunks. Mexican carved, alligator, grained calf and seal are the leathers most in use. Always the | largest assortment and lowest prices at Sanbern & Vail's, 741 Market street. * —_———— “THE DARKER SIN."” Tears may be ours, but proud, for those who win Death’s royal purple in the foemen's lines; Peace too brings tears; and amid the battle tn, The wiser ear some text of God dlvines, For the sheathed blade may rust with darker n. God, give us peace: not such as lulls to sl Biit sword on thigh, and brow with Durposs nit! And let our ship of state to harbor sweep, Her ports all up, her battle lanterns lit, And ly;;rp Jleashed thunders gathering for ‘thetr —James Russell Lowell. —_——— Mrs. Winslow’s “’Soothing Syrup'” Has been used over fifty years by milllons o mothers for thelr 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 tick- ets, by steamship, including fifteen days’ board at the Hotel del Coronado, 35; longer stay, $2 50 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery st., §. F., or A. W. Bailey, mgr. Hotel del Corona~ do, late of Htl Colorado, Glenwood Spgs, Colo. ——————— SPAIN'S HONOR AND HER LOST LANDS. 1t is rather amusing to hear this fine Spanish talk about the alleged necessity of sesisting the 10ss of territory In order to maintain the national honor. If Spain’s honor were dependent on territorial in- tegrity it would have been lost long ago— when Mexico, Louisiana, Florida, Guate- mala and a long list of South American countries were surrendered under force or sold for cash or bartered away to pre- serve other threatened territory.—Prov- idence Journal. ADVERTISEMENTS. THE U. S. 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