The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 17, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 189s. 6 THE CAMPAIGN OF TREASON. mht VEN in time of peace, with no war in sight, —_ —_— I it is held to be a crime to reveal the means of SUNDAY APRIL 17, 1808 | a nation's defense, in the shape of concealed JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ———e Address All Communicatio W. ;,Eifiéi/yjlqu PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1888. EDITORIAL ROOMS..... .....2IT to 22| Stevenson Street | Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month | 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE. .908 Broadway | NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Ballding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Represcntative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE........ -Marquette Ballding €.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. .One year, by mall, $1.50 BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgumery strect, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | 930 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 6i5 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2991 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 | Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk stroet, open | until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. | — AMUSEMENTS. afternoon, “The F ssion Play." Untamable Lion.” treets, Speclalties, AUCTION SALES. April 18, Turkish Rugs, at 106 Thursday, April 25, Real Estate, at 636 REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATIONS. EPORTS of the proceedings at the meeting on | ¢ Young Men's Republi- | nd will be read with grati- ans throughout the State. eting was harmony and the | R was effective organization for campaign work. { Upward of 400 names were signed to the club rolls meeting, and it is believed that within a week | will be 1000 members enrolled. One of the influences most potent in establishing | ony and bringing about so large an enrollment as the emphatic declara the le ion of President Breed that ndorsed nor is working in the in- s not terest of any candidate for any office. “After the State convention is over,” he said, “we will get behind all Republican candidates and work with all our might for their election, but not until then. It is our purpose now to bt up & strong party organization, but not to individuals striving loyal to Republic. for nomination.’ The true basis and scope of Republican action at this time is expressed in that declaration. The time | has come for Republicans to begin in earnest and with zeal the task of party organization, but the time | -has not come for the nomination of candidates. In- | dividual preferenc or particular men must for the present be laid aside so as to bring about a complete union of all Republicans within the fold of the party | otganization. When that has been done a way will have been e for securing to every member of the party an equal opportunity to work inside the party lines for the nomina Thus the free and fair field for the ex- 1d there will be no ill-feeling | in the ranks after the choice has been made. To re a full expression of the will of the major- ity of the working rank and file of the party is the main object of urging a comprehensive organization at this time.. The county and State conventions | should represent the whole party and not a cliquc.l The nom tions must be made by the untrammeled | delegates of the voters, and not from a slate made up ! by the bosses in secret council. A free and fair field | for all Republicans will mean victory at the polls, but | boss dominat year of Republican su- premacy and prosperity, would endanger the victory for protéction and sound money which is so impor- tant, not only to the State, but to the nation. For these reasons the effective work done in the | organization of the Young Men's Republican League Club in Alameda County is a matter for general con- gratulations by Republicans. The example thus con- spicuously set should be promptly followed else- where. The Call has repeatedly urged the importance of thorough organization at this time. Democrats are already at work. Republicans cannot afford to delay. of his candidate. majority will have pression of its choic n, even in thi — Doctors are having much debate over the state of mind of one Lynn, whose attempt to kill his wife | brought him under official displeasure. The man was pretending at first, but seems to have developed him- self into a genuine and saving state of lunacy. It is impossible not to fecl regret that science is not in this instance permitted to ascertain the truth by means of an autopsy. Spanish papers are already claiming the first vic- tory in having made the United States come upon ground desired by the Spanish. This is all too mod- est. Why should they overlook the glorious triumph achieved when the Maine went down? It is remarked that few high in command in the army are graduates of West Point. Nevertheless, they have had a practical education in the art of war, and some West Pointers still have this to acquire, and good chance of doing so. According to one Spanish authority there is not a <cldier in our army who will fight. .If this is true we are in a bad way. Let us continue to hope while we sway that the Spanish authority is in error. The Queen Regent frets unnecessarily about al- lowing “tarnish put on the prestige of Spain.” It can’t be done. There is no room for more tarnish. ISR R Blanco says he would rather die than surrender. Other good soldiers have felt the same way, and yet changed their minds. The powers are presumptuous in the threat to take a hand in the present game. Not one of them has a chip in the pot. Nobody ever dreamed that even the exigencies of war could result in Fitzhugh Lee's being called a Yankee. ; l | marine defenses. teries, mines, torpedoes ‘and other effective pre- ions, the best use of which depends upon these ations being known only to those whose offi authority puts upon them the responsibility of de- fense and offense. Benedict Arnold's crime was less in the transfer of his sword tp the enemy than in revealing to that | enemy the means by which a Government fortified post might be surprised and taken. The potent pas- | sion roused in France against Captain Dreyfus had | for its cause the charge, whether true or false, that he had communicated the French means of defense to Germany. The Examiner has printed a chart of the entrance to San Francisco harbor, with the location of its sub- Each one is indicated with pre- tended accuracy, and the information, being made public, is put within reach of Spain for her use and benefit if her fleets or privateers come this way. It is not only a criminal act of bad faith, but an act of treason and disloyalty. While it is highly probable that the chart is a lie, a fake begotten in the innate scoundrelism of yellow journalism, it is an indication of what the country is to expect from the same source during the war that is to come. A paper that would sneak a reporter on. an American man-of-war as a stoker on her trial trip in order to gain a pretended acquisition of knowledge to be used in a lying attack upon her construction and efficiency is very natur- ally guilty of any form of treason to the Government, even when the situation is grave and high interests are at stake. During war such a paper will bribe and suborn to get at the confidential plans of campaign, the con- clusions of councils of war, the object of secret ex- i peditions on land and sea, the policies of the Govern- ment and other grave matters, the revelation of which embarrasses the administration and costs life and treasure. pers and of certain ruling members the minority in Congress make it plain to every loyal citizen that in partisan desperation they hope for the defeat of their count arms and will .contribute to it in | order to discredit the administration and make poli- If this judgment seem | | harsh those whose flagrant conduct and disloyal ut- tics for the fall elections. terances justify it are responsible for it. To make defeat probable they howled for war and | tried by lying to lash public opinion into fury at a time when the country was so unprepared that it would have inevitably faced six months of defeat, making unsuccessful war without ships, guns, com- missary, transports or powder. At the same time it would have had the cost of offensive preparation more than doubled. But that is what the calamity howlers wanted. They had shouted commercial disaster until nature out of her bounty had proved them liars. Unable to | so destroy credit and confidence as to bring distress upon their country in time of peace, they were willing to bring it by plunging it into war unprepared. The Fresident restrained them until he could gain time to prepare the nation. He has created a navy by the purchase of ships abroad which could not have been bought during war, because their sale would have violated international neutrality under the rule we established, in the Alabama case. He has gained time for the making of powder and ammunition, of cannon, small arms, tents, equipments and trans- ports. He has organized the commissary, and with almost incredible energy has put the country on a war footing. His requital for this service is in vile abuse, lying misrepresentation, heartless slander and false ascription of motives which would have been disgraceful to Nero at the zenith of his infamy. When his preparations are complete these ill- wishers of their country are now trying to make | them inadequate by challenging Continental Europe to combat by the form of Congressional declaration. Ile kept the issue where it might have been decided by victory in a single action at arms against Spain. They are trying to shift it to grounds where its de- cision by such action is hardly possible and where it may be met by the most formidable alliance of mod- ern times. He may be compelled to fight on the ground dic- tated by these calamity howlers, and, if so, they stand ready to hamper him by every means that falsehood and hypocrisy can use to destroy public confidence | and bring national calamity. The Examiner is a worthy organ of such a combi- nation, and its early entry upon the field as a spy for the enemy is in line with their policy. | WINE IN SOUTH AMERICA. SERIES of reports on the wine trade of South American countries just received by the State A for April contain a great deal of information of in- terest to Californians generally which may prove of value to our wine-makers by revealing to them the conditions under which they may find a large market for their produce. The reports do not cover all South American countries, but as those published were made in com- pliance with instructions from the department it is probable that future reports will be made from coun- tries and ports now omitted. Enough is given, how- ever, to show that a large amount of wine is used among the people of South America, and that the United States has virtually none of the trade. Consul-General Townes reports from Rio Janeiro that the use of table wines is very general throughout Brazil among the rich and the poor, its use being re- garded as essential to health in that climate. He gives statistics showing large importations from Europe, but none from this country. The Consul at Para re- ports that the wine imported in that portion of Brazil is mainly from Portugal, a fact which he attributes to the natural preference of the Portuguese import- ers who control the wine trade there for the wines of their own country. Consul Dobbs reports from Valparaiso that the United States has almost no trade with Chile in wine. The largest importations from any one coun- try are from Great Britain. In 1895 there were re- ceived at Valparaiso from Great Britain red wine to the value of $35.432 in bottles and $228 in barrels, and white wine to the value of $71,026 in bottles and $24,054 in barrels. Importations from France and Germany followed closely after Great Britain in value, while the United States appears with the record of having furnished Valparaiso that year with the sum total of $30 worth of red wine in bottles and none in barrels. The record runs very much the same at all the ports from which reports have been received, and these include, in addition to those named, Bahia, Pernambuco, Iquique, Antofagasta and Paysandu. The report from Iquique says: “Practically there is no importation of United States wine. Small ven- tures in this line were made in 1891, during the revo- Department and published in Consular Reports | lution, when shipments were made from California. The wine was of good quality, but the prices were so high as to debar future orders. This may be ex- | plained, perhaps, by the high rate of freights between | San Francisco and Iquique.” Whether it be the high rate of freights or not, it is ertain from these reports that a large market for | wine lies to the south of us and we are not getting | any of the benefits of it. It will be worth while for our dealers to inquire more closely into the matter. | It ought to be possible to ship wine from San Fran- | cisco to Chilean ports as cheaply as is shipped there | from Great Britain, particularly as the British have to | import the wine before they ship it. A SUNDAY SERMON. - ATERIAL for a powerful sermon might be | /\/\ found in the career of James D. Page, who on | Friday was sentenced by Judge Wallace to serve eight years in Folsom prison for embezzlement. A few years ago Page was a rising young lawyer in | San Francisco. Hehad influential connectionsand held !a respectable position among the members of the legal profession. Like most young lawyers, he early | took a hand in politics, and, being “popular,” his large number of friends elected him to the office of | District Attorney. 5 His elevation to this position seemed to intoxicate | him. For a while he ran wild and his capacity o discharge his duties was tried to the utmost. Prac- | tically he made a failure of the District Attorney’s office, though no large scandals disgraced his admin- | istration, nor were any great criminals allowed to es- cape through his negligence. This was due, it was | then said, to the efficiency of his deputies, who, in the various criminal departments of the Superior Court, prosecuted his cases for him. Upon the expiration of his term of office, however, | he turned up as an embezzler of the funds of an es- " tate which had been entrusted to his care. As guar- | dian of an insane man he had taken advantage of his ‘1 position to spend about $3000 belonging to his ward The course of Hearst'’s two criminal pa- | in the saloons and other resorts of the tenderloin | district. He ran away to escape prosecution, but | could not stay, and finally returned to stand trial, | hoping that his friends would come to his rescue. | But, as in most such cases, his friends were fair weather friends, and those who did succor him suc- ceeded only in paying a lawyer for trying his case. The moral to be derived from Page’s career, which is thus terminated at the early age of 45, is neither | uncertain nor obscure. The flatteries and allure- j ments of politics turned his brain completely. He became intoxicated with success and he was unable | to withstand the incident prosperity. Perhaps he had not been sufficiently seasoned for the ordeal, and yet | it would seem that at 35—Page’s age when he became | District Attorney—a man who has had the advantage of a legal education and some intercourse with the world should have acquired sufficient sense to know that life in the tenderloin is not what it seems. Some people will say, of course, that Page was a fool; others will pity him and point the moral which adorns his career; but the more wholesome judg- | ment will be that he fell victim to a social system | which exacts from those who rise suddenly to the surface in it the possession of sound qualities of mind and heart. Page was weak and fell. Another man with his opportunities might have achieved fame and | fortune. | | THE CHEAP JELLY TRADE. | | elaborate article in a recent number of the | New York Commercial gives an interest- | ing account of the manufacture of cheap jellies and preserves in the United States, from which it ap- pears that these articles are made chiefly from dried | cores and skins of apples, knawn to the trade as | “waste.” It is stated that about 130 factories are en- | gaged in the business, with an annual capacity of | 200,000,000 pounds output, and it is added, “This is | said to be a conservative estimate of the capacity, and refers to cheap jellies alone."” 1 | Following the summary of the extent and magni- I ! tude of the industry the article goes on to say: “There | is a mistaken impression abroad, due to the un- founded and ill-considered attacks of sensational newspapers and boards of health, that these cheap jellies are unwholesome and injurious.” To refute these alleged misrepresentations a statement is given of the ingredients of the cheap jellies. These, it is | waste, glucose and “other pure substances according to the nature of the product, viz., for raspberry jam, dried raspberries; for blackberry jam, dried black- berries, etc.” “Glucose,” continues this advocate of the cheap jelly, “is the word that sticks in the craw of many people.” He therefore quotes many authorities to prove that glucose is not only a pure food, but one of the best attainable. One of these authorities is quoted as saying: “Glucose is pre-eminently a fat- | forming, heat-producing food. Under a diet of glu- cose a man can perform more muscular work than under any other single article of food. Glucose not only is not injurious, but it is an essential article of food, without which in some form man cannot enjoy life.” Without questioning any of the statements of fact in the article, there still remains a sufficient reason why boards of health and newspapers that ‘are not sensational should continue their opposition to the cheap jelly trade so long as it is conducted as at present. The wrong lies in the fact that the busi- ness is carried on under something very much like false pretenses. A mixture of apple waste, glucose and dried raspberries is not raspberry jelly, and yet it is under that title it is generally presented to the public and sold to consumers. This is a manifest in- jury to the manufacturer of genuine raspberry jelly, as well as a deception practiced on the buyer. If glucose be really all that is claimed for it, if it be true that a man can perform more muscular work upon it than upon any other single article of food, and if no man without it in some form can enjoy life, then it should be sold under its-own name so that consumers may be sure that they are getting that desirable substance. If good wine needs no bush, why should good glucose need to masquerade? It is certainly unfair to expect the manufacturers of genuine fruit jellies and preserves to compete against an output of the product of apple waste and glucose which a conservative estimate places at about 200,000,000 pounds a year. Nor will the general pub- lic be easily persuaded that all the cheap jellies are chemically pure and absolutely harmless. One kind of deception readily leads to another, and in the cagerness to make a cheap article there is no telling what kind of stuff goes in with the “waste” and blends with the mixture. : An American consulate in Spain has been attacked. This act is on the same lofty and courageous plane where the average Castilian seems to stand, his bosom swelling with pride and his voice thunderous for SR ENNEE NSRS EEE AR NSEESEEEEHHBE B | such an amount, has done &0, and later RN WITH ENTIRE FRANKNESS. By HENRY JAMES. said, consist of the juices pressed from the apple | Perhaps an apology is due “Pioneer,” Aof whom I spoke last week. He has written again, and in such a way as to mous letters is his worst fault. His declaration that he will “vote himself an old fool” is unduly harsh. On the | contrary he appears to be an old gen- tleman of kindly intent, led into meth- ods which do not meet with approval ]because the same as adopted by the | meddler and the timid or malign mal- | content. I can assure “Pioneer” that a | signed message from him would re- ceive consideration such as he can never hope to get by a bombardment of nameless effusions, however well in- tended. | . \ Not long ago I noticed that an inte- rior paper had presented its salutatory under the label *“Valedictory.” Now comes the new Press of Riveria and calls its bow “Salutary.” With a feel- ing of frankness toward the craft I can only express the hope that it may be so. . s . Some papers have affirmed that the war scare was raised as a deliberate scheme tosell a lot of old ships to the Government. I would not call & person making such a statement a fool be- cause he might be only a liar, nor a liar because he might be only a fool. Besides I have a liking for benignity of expression. But supposing, for the sake of argument or. anything else, that the charge is true, every plotter should be hanged, and the carcass of him pelted mellow by bricks. S It had been hoped that the Craven woman had got out of sight for keeps, but she bobs up again, as usual the central figure in an unsavory episode. It will be remembered that she was re- tained as a teacher long after the fact was known that she was utterly unfit to have the direction of the young, or | to associate with them, and at last per- mitted to resign from a position in which she had been a disgrace to the schools and to the community. I hear- tily wish she had secured enough of Fair's money to have taken a fifty | | years’ tour of Europe. o e Collis P. Huntington has reached nearly four score. He is a large man, physically and financially, wonderful in his industry, unutterably selfish, sordid beyond expression. He says we have no occasion for war with Spain. Per- haps it is presumptuous in me to take issue with a person who can command a million dollars as readily as I could command a nickel, and who would cling to the nickel as I might to the million. But I cannot shake off a be- lief that Huntington is a disgrace to the land which produced him. To my | mind he lacks no essential of the traitor save the courage to risk hanging. I | do not say this in anger that he has | more unearned money than any indi- vidual has a right to possess, but because I have no respect for a man who thinks more of a dollar than of his country, his soul, and his God. I object to his statement because it is cowardly, un-American and untrue. If we have no occasion to fight Spain then | never did nation armed in righteous- | ness go against nation since the be- | ginning of the world. For half a cen- | tury Spain has arrogated to herself the | privilege of capturing and killing | Americans. For this she has scarcely | been rebuked, and a shame has been | put upon us under which the people | have chafed. But laying aside the | past, even the murder of the crew of | the Virginius, a recent event as his- tory goes, the last few weeks have fur- nished ample cause. When the Maine | was sunk a whisper of fear went around that if another ship were sent | to Havana it, too, would go to the bot- | tom of the harbor. That the whisper was heeded was due to the Hunting- ton influence which has in a measure corrupted the land. Instead of delay there should have been instant action, instead of one vessel, a fleet, and under the protection of our own guns the in- vestigation should have been carried on. An hour after the verdict had been reached the Stars and Stripes should have been floating above Morro Castle or the process of razing Havana to the last foundation stone have been in pro- gress. The war would have been begun | and ended. We do not build a navy that our Spanish friends may have the pleasure of blowing it up and drinking wine as our dead are carried ashore to be placed in graves to whose poor shelter they are not welcome. But the | treatment of Consul General Lee con- ‘smu(es a second ground for war. A nation must share the odium heaped upon its representatives. A nation which would calmly accept the insults offered Lee and other Consuls, some of whom were forced to retire secretly to avoid being murdered, is not fit to be a nation. It should get itself annexed to Hawali and beg Dole for protection. I am glad to say that Huntington is al- most alone in his gross and humiliating conception of the situation confronting ud. It would be a sorry land that brought forth many of his kind, a land devoid of patriotism, fit only for sub- jugation, deserving the sneers of the world, its flag an emblem of dishonor. 3 George Hayford, declaring himself to be an attorney, writes five pages of bad English to show a vague insinuation that he is a scoundrel, an insinuation whereat he expresses a sense of dis- pleasure, ought to have been specific and direct. For some reason, which does not appear with clarity, he ap- plies to The Call all the epithets in his vocabulary. Hayford asserts with evi- dent warmth that he does not practice in the Police Courts. Nobody, so far as I know, ever said he did. His forte seems to be that of getting into the Police Court in the capacity of defend- ant. He has been arrested for petty larceny, for swindling a widow, and he deserves arrest for disturbing the peace by projecting into it such a nerve as has never before been on exhibition. I do not understand how anybody but a policeman could take Hayford ser- fously. However, his missive has been placed on file. It may come in handy when Hayford shall rise to the dignity of grand Jarceny and get sent to San Quentin. . - Speaking of the high death rate for last month a doctor told me that it was due in great measure to the sewers. They had not been properly flushed by nature, and the human intelligence which guides our ways to premature graves had not risen to the necessity of doing the work nature had neglect- led, It struck me as peculiar that indicate that the sending of anony-. the sewers should be left to stink un- restrained, when Providence had over- looked them. There is still water to be had, and cleanliness being next to godliness, ought to be encouraged. This municipality is hardly doing all it should in consenting to be adjunct to the undertaking business. ENEe 0 No man of intelligence underrates the horrors of war. It is true that many of us have not had the dread experi- ence of viewing them. We cannot understand them as the old soldier who has seen his comrades fall and has stood picket where the dead lay un- buried and the dying moaned life’s last agony away. The suffering, the sus- pense, the heart break—these we have learned from family tradition, the an- nals of battle, the tales of a Bierce, the lips of the reminiscent veteran. The glory of being shot to shreds or trampled under the hoofs of cavalry is largely theoretical. No man of normal | mind takes up arms for the joy of undergoing it. But there are such things as national pride and honor. They merge into each other until no dividing line may be drawn. This na- tional pride and honor have been as- sailed, and war, whatever its horrors, must come. It is almost here. Either Spain must leave Cuba, not for the sake of that troubled island, but in token of submission to the United States, or she must be driven out. Any compromise, if miracle rendered it pos- | sible, would be rejected by the Ameri- can spirit, which still abides despite | the Huntingtons, the Hannas and the Elkins stripe, who would favor run- ning up a white flag and saying, “Please don’t,” if a Spanish fleet were to batter the sky line of New York into the semblance of a ruined brick kiln. We talk about this as the land of the free and the home of the brave. I hope it is. But if the poltroons who are try- ing to tie the hands of McKinley, the lardaceous lords of empty sound roar- Ing themselves knaves, succeed in bringing about a triumph for Spain as they design, the free have not much to say about it and the brave are in the minority. The banner of Spain is the black banner of piracy. Some of us, failing to kow-tow to it, are called jin- goes. i s If T had my way Deputy Constable ¢8| has wiped the indebtedness out, and ¢! at no stage of the transaction had a g¢ 1ot of aspersions cast upon him. It is gg | true that Thomas intimated in his re- | quest for the money that he would be & | glad to repay the favor, and, had he BN URIBURERRNBRBRRLRESRR8BBE ) ) any other mood, he would sim- ply have exhibited an unwarrantable | cheek. To negotiate a loan when there |18 ample security to offer does not in- | volve a favor unless it be to the man who has cash to lend. But when the matter is one of honor sclely, when the | debt is secured only by a Dpiece of ‘paper, the favor is considerable, and it would be a peculiar sort of person who would fail to appreciate it or neglect to express a readiness to reciprocate. If the most sericus charge against the Mayor of Oakland is that his son bcr- rowed $100 and manifested a decent re- gard for the accommodation, the effort to get him on the black list will be & failure. | COLLECTED IN ‘ THE CORRIDORS. Frank H. Buck and wife are at tha | Palace. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ellsworth of Nileg | are at the Palace. | Dr. J. K. Warner of Livermore is stay« | ing at the Baldwin. C. W. Garrard, a mining man of An« | gels, is at the Grand. G. H. Fancher, a capitalist of Merced, is registered at the Lick. J. Marion Brooks is again registered at the Grand from Los Angeles. Sam I Balis, a mining man of Fort Jones, is a guest at the Grand. Willard Feller, 2 mining man of Den« ver, is a guest at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Briggs of Cleves land, Ohio, are at the Occidental. D. W. Buchard, an attorney and polls | tician of SanJose, is at the Grand. Judge W. G. Rucker of Rosbeck, Tex., is one of the late arrivals at the Grand. F. A. Wilner, U. 8. N., is among those who arrived at the Occidental yesterday. | R. A. Graham, a millionaire contractor of Portland, Or., is a guest at the Palace. John H. Gill, U. 8. N., has come down from Mare Island and is a guest at the | Occidental. Rev. Warren H. Laudon has come over from San Rafael and is staying at the Occidental. | & 0O00O0OO0OOOOOO o o concluded returned “Yes," the | 0 AREMARKABLE o Klondiker, as ha 2 accepted an in- © RUN OF © vitation of the |© GOOD LUCK. © scientist to take o O something, “I am 000000 O0O0DO0O0 sick and tired of | the sight of gold. I've seen so much of it | that it has become a bore. Why, one Adams of Fresno would spend | morning I went over to ‘Necourick’ Ned's a long term in prison. Adams shot and found that gentleman preparing to a man whose offense had been the stealing of a ride and an evident desire to escape arrest by running away. Had the man resisted threateningly the case would have been far different, but he simply sought to leave the vicinity of the Constable and got a possibly fatal bullet in the back for his pains. If the act was not murder, or an at- tempt at it, a Constable in Fresno has privileges. To steal a ride is not a serious crime. It is about the only thing a person can steal without caus- ing loss to some one else. The ride is no more missed than is the air one breathes in passing across a farmer's pasture. It appears that the victim in this instance was a hard-working man in quest of employment. To be unem- ployed is not necessarily a felony. To endeavor to find emp.:oyment is rather commendable than otherwise. There are vicious tramps, and tramps of as good moral character as more fortu- nate people whom circumstances have not forced to take to the road. An un- armed tramp of decent antecedents is far less a menace to the public welfare than the armed Constable, who, pining for a fee, pursues and kills him. As the wounded man lay supposedly dying the conductor of the train swore out a warrant charging him with vagrancy. I have not noticed that any lover of Justice has sworn out a warrant charg- ing Adams with assault to murder. SiUs e The hope that I would receive no more poetry has been shattered. I have a new dose of it. The pulsating bard- let might as well understand that a conspiracy exists of which we are joint victims. If he sends in poetry to this shop it is turned over to me. If the poetry is not utterly bad I turn it over to somebody who knows something about it. It is worthy of note, however, that most of it stops right here. I must say for G. T. Mc. that his effort is a dalsy, and had he remembered it a lit- tle better would have passed out of my jurisdiction. Whoever wrote the verses in the first place did a good job. Me., has bungled it som. ~hat. But even at this, there are no flies to be observed on his second verse. Here it is: 'T was then you promissed to be mine, Our last fond kiss ile neer forget. With love I pressed my lipps to thine, I loved thee then, I love thee yet. Good boy! Keep it up. If these “Lines to Lena” do not melt her then‘ she's not to be thawed by poetic fire. | Undoubtedly, when you pressed your | lipps to hern you did love her, and your | mistake was in not getting on record | then and there. If you know Lena's | present address send her a copy of the } entire poem. She will either come off the perch or she is married to some- body else. If you have not preserved a copy and this excerpt fall under the | eye of Lena she can have the whole | thing by sending to this office the small sum of 2 cents in postage. S et There are several things about the evening papers which are almost puz- zling. For instance, nobody seems to know why they issue a first edition and | mark it “fourth.” It is true that this operation consistently followed causes the third and last edition to have the appearance of being the sixth, but it | isn’t the sixth any more than a cat is | a cow. And then the habit of printing “extra” in large type is wickedly mis. leading to the uninitiated. An evening daily, printed within the usual hours, is | not an extra. It may, by some strange | circumstance, be extra bad, though | such a possibility is hard to imagine, | and in such cases the advantage of keeping the brand off ought to be | obvious. Only at long intervals do the | evening papers print a genuine “extra,” | and nine times out of ten then their action in sc doing is a distinct imposi- | tion on the public. I am not complain- ing as a newspaper man; but, as one of | the public, I lament. N ‘With all respect for the powers that be, I cannot see why the fact that Harry Thomas of Oakland borrowed or attempted to borrow $100 is any excuse for the fuss being made about it. It happens that Thomas is the son of the Mayor, but this circumstance ought not to be a handicap to any man in need of a sum of money. More than one man has had occasion to borrow | turn in after an all-night session at the faro table, wnich had cost him $487,000, which was his clean-up for the entire week. He was sitting on the side of his bunk execrating the run of luck that had { left him busted, and while he was speak- | ing started to pull off his long rubber boots. When he pulled off the first one he turned it upside down and a large pile of dust was shaken out on the floor. The same thing happened with the sec- ond boot, and when the two piles were gathered up and weighed they amounted to $13,941. The dust had fallen over the tops of the boots while Ned was work- ing in his clai “‘Quite {nteresting,” remarked the min- ing man, who was of the party. “and it reminds me of a fellow I once knew in | Chapitazta, South America. He had a | plece of ground comprising about 14,000 | acres near the principal hotel of the {town, and one morning as he was dig- | ging a posthole he struck a layer of gold dust about four inches beneath the sur- face. He pawned his watch, and with the money thus realized purchased a plow and a pair of mules and started to plow up the entire field. A couple of native | boys, whom he hired for a plug of to- | bacco a day, would follow after hi~ and gather up the dust that the plow turned over. He stuck to the work, though it was a pretty hard graft, owing to the immense opals with which the field was studded and which the blade of the plow | would continue to run against. My friend would never touch the Jjewels, though they were of the finest quality, because they are considered unlucky, and he has been a firm believer in omens ever since the Friday on which he was married. Finally he accumulated enough to set himself up in a modest way as a greengrocer, and when the Ancient Or- der of Hibernians held their annual pic- nic in that locality he sold out his entire stock at such an advantage that the pro- | ceeds enabled him to go to Monte Carlo, where he started to buck the game and continued at it until he had been the means of causing two of the proprietors to commit suicide, when the authorities compelled him to leave. He is now driv- | ing an owl wagon in New York.” J. F. Mooney, a mining man of Sonora, is at the Occidental on a business and pleasure trip to the city. J. B. F. Osgood, a prominent soclety man of Salem, Mass., is one of yester- day’s arrivals at the Palace. | Dr. G. F. Falkner, a prominent physi- | clan of Salinas, is among those who ar- | rived at the Grand last evening. S. Tyak, a business man of Auburn, | who argely interested in mining prop- erties, is registered at the Lick. | F. Regard of Paris, France, who owns a number of valuable mines in Amador County, is a guest at the Grand. Mr. and lirs. James Denor of London are at the i’alace, where they arrived yesterday on a pleasure trip to the coast. J. A. Chanslor, a well known business man of Los Angeles, is registered at the Palace, as is E. S. de Golyer, a wealthy mining expert of the same city. Ben M. Maddox and W. H. Hammond, ‘who came down to the city from Visalia to attend the meeting of the State Cen- tral Committee, are both staying at the California. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. McKey of Boston are staying at the Palace while on a pleasure trip to San Francisco. They will tour the southern part of the State before returning to their home. F. W. Herrington of Ogden and W. L. Coulter of Nevada are registered at the Grand. They are both railroad conduc- tors and are thought to have come out here, together with several others, as a committee to lay certaln grievances be- fore President Huntington of the South- ern Pacific Company for adjustment. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, April 16.—Major Frank McLaughlin of Oroville is at the Hoffman House. At the close of a “baby show” which ! had been held in a public hall of an | English town an exhibitor went to claim her cherub. On a squalling plump | of humanity being handed to her by the smiling checktaker, she gave one glance at the infant's face and then exclaimed in an agonized tone ofi voice: “Good gracious, man, but this is not my baby!” “Very sorry, ma’'am,” replied the cheerful checktaker, “but it's the only one I have left. You see, somehow or other, the checks got mixed. How- ever,” he added, by way of apology, “it shall not occur again.’—Tit Bits. —_————— . E. H. 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