The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 22, 1898, Page 6

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1898. .....APRIL 22, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S, LEAKE, Manager. HJB’I:ICATION OFFICE . Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 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 mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE... One year, by mall, $1.50 +....908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. ‘WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE........ ...Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ..Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527:Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Ealdwin—"A Stranger in New York: Columbia— “Delmonico’s at 8 " California—Italian Opera Saturday night. A range Adventures of Miss Brown” Morosco’s—"The D! Tivoli—“Sinbad the S Orpheum—Vandeville. Bush-street Thea the Maria Kip Orphapage. Y. M. C. A. fiall—"The Passion Play.” 1ali—Paloma Schramm, Tuesday, April 26. 1lle. Wallace, “Untamable Lion." r Mason and Eddy streets, Spectalties. s’ Pavilion—Review and Drill. —Swimming. npo—Music. dancing boating, fishing, every Sunday, c Coast Jockey Clup, Ingleside—Races. Pacifi AUCTION SALES. This day, April 23, Turkish Rugs, at 108 122 This day, April 22, Horses, at 220Valencia n & Co.—Thursday, April 23, Real Estate, at 636 at 12 o'clocks. THE PRIVATEERING PROBLEM. \ arcl LET THE SICK BE REMEMBERED. THE CALL'S interviews with many citizens yesterday on the subject of sanitary work aux- iliary to the hospital corps of the regular army disclose the necessity for timely organization to care for the sick. In our Civil War soldiers were fighting under fa- miliar physical conditions, in a climate to which they were native, yet nearly a million Union soldiers and half a million Confederates died who never felt a wound, Of our annual pension payment of $148,000,- oco at least half is for permanent disability ensuing upon camp diseases, and not for wounds received in battle. If timely measures had been taken to supple- ment the work of the army surgeons and hospital corps it is safe to say that one-fourth of our pension appropriation, or $37,000,000 a year, would have been saved. The war that is now upon us will cost dearly prepare for its emergencies. In default of such pre- paration the loss will be multiplied and the struggle prolonged. Our men are going first to military enterprise in Cuba, to march and fight and camp in physical con- ditions that are not natural to them, to face strange diseases to which they are not immune. It is not a country of roads and highways even. | must take the place of army wagons. The sick and | wounded will have no ambulance service. The tropi- | cal evaporations exhale poisons that light the fires of fever. The wounded will be more fortunate than the sick when their plight is considered merely from the surgical standpoint. Field surgery is another art compared with what it was in dur Civil War. Aseptic and antiseptic surgery have reduced the form and have been stripped of more than half their terrors and of 75 per cent of their risks. But, while this is true, the camp diseases are abhorrent as ever. The deadly nostalgia, that homesickness which paralyzes the sentries on the picket line of life and lets fever pass unchallenged to slay its victim, hovers like a vulture over the march of every army. Days of bat- tle, of storm, of forced march, and nights without rest or shelter, are the soldier’s lot. Stout hearts that beat high in action fail under the unavoidable privation and tension of campaign life. Their succor must come from the knowledge that they are unforgotten by the people at home. The timely dainty, the good word of hope spoken in pinch and stress, the touch of woman's hand when strength and senses fail, help at the moment when it arms nerve and heart to turn an | in lives and treasure, no matter how prudently we | Pack trains | variety of supplies that were then necessary in the | surgeon’s equipment, and wounds and amputations | THE SERE AND YELLOW CHIEF. HIEF LEES never neglects an opportunity to C demonstrate his unfitness for the office he holds, and opportunities are frequent. He should be retired. Exhibitions of his incapacity have become monotonous. The people want a Chief of Police in whose executive faculty and integrity of putpose they can have confidence. This old man has | outlived such usefulness as he may have had. The | time has come to lay him‘aside. The act would be one of simple self-defense. Whenever a crime is committed Lees forms a theory, and with a perspicuity in which he takes great pride selects a criminal upon whom the crime | must be fastened. Then all testimony is made to adapt itself to his theory or it is thrown aside as | worthiess. If the theoretical criminal cannot be con- victed, search for the real criminal is abandoned. Perhaps few innocent men have actually suffered through this peculiarity, but there is no doubt many guilty ones have escaped. The subordinates of Lees dare not oppose him. Detective Hogan tried it some years ago. Hogan was “put on the shelf.” In every trial Chief Lees arrogates to himself the right to take sides. Instead of regarding his duty to be that of collecting evidence, he assumes to be prosecutor, Judge, jury, and has lately added to his prerogative that of being censor. Perhaps this is but an indication of senile decay. Yet there are safe retreats for one in his dotage, and Lees has ample | means to pay for the care he seems to need. As head of a great Police Department he is a blustering er- ror. When one of his men is charged with derelic- tion to duty, with cowardice, with unbecoming con- duct, doesLees try to ascertain the truth? It may be said frankly that he does not. Unless the truth is favorable to the man he does not want it known. A similar spirit governs his attitude toward friends who steal. The case of Widber is enough to cite to prove this. Here was a public servant, elected by the people, trusted by them, permitted to handle their money, and by a laxness yet to be explained allowed to spend it in riotous living, to rob the vault month after month. Widber was caught, as must have been in- | evitable. The public had every right to know each | fact. It had as much right as the Chief himself. Yet i after Widber had confessed Lees tried to shield him, | refused to tell the story Widber had told to him, gruffly denied there was anything to tell. Perhaps | the Chief had picked out another person upon whom he preferred the weight of condemnation might fall. The element of gratitude may have been present. At ] HILE the nations of Continental Europe may | attack of disease, and that which lifts the sufferer to | about the time Widber began his lavish system of growl a good deal over the interference of | the safe side of its crisis—all must come from sources | thefts he changed his bondsmen, releasing Lees, who the United States between a European mon- ‘auxiliar,\‘ to the regular medical resources of the army. | had qualified for the sum of $50,000. It would be and its colonies in this hemisphere, and Great | Let us not wait, as in the Civil War, until thousands | natural for a man to be thankful for this escape, but Britzin may be loud and cordial in its commendation 4 are dead in the camps and enlistment to fill their | if the man happen to be Chief of Police he should cf the course taken by this country, it is likely that | places slackens, because men who will go singing | not let his benign joy blind him to the circumstance both the Continent and Great Britain are at heart | into battle and die with a cheer in their throats halt | that stealing is forbidden by statute, and the cornered | ed just now in the question of | and hesitate when they are asked to face death in the | thief is not entitled to the shield of official protection. privateering than in any other involved in the pos- | hush of the hospital, with no wild charge and musiciv sibility of war between the United States and Spain. | and rattle of musketry and roar of artillery which | m; much more interes Fcelings of sympathy on the part of foreign na- tions for one side or the other are after all but manifestations vateering, however, is addressed directly to the pockets of cvery commercial people. Merchants of all rations wil watch with anxiety o note how far privateering is to be practiced on either side, and to what extent their own governments may be relied upon to protect goods shipped under their flags. The only legal restraint upon privateering is that international agreement entered into by several of the great nations at the treaty of Paris in 1856, but to this treaty neither the United States nor Spain is a party. Neither of them, therefore, is bound by it. There has grown up, however, in recent years a sort of cosmopolitan public opinion against the prac- tice, and possibly this may have some power to pre- vent either ourselves or the Spanish resorting to it. Strangely enough the first open declaration in favor of a return to free privateering comes from Great | Py Senator Cullom providing for an amendment of 3ritain, the home of commercialism and the prime mover in bringing about the international agree- ment to suppress it. the Post, one of the most influential papers in Lon- don, and consists in a statement that it agrees with Lord Charles Beresford, rear .dmira., that land’s most simple and most honorable plan would be ormally to denounce the declaration of Paris, which we ought never to have signed.” In the short reports of the Post article that have come to us it is not stated on what grounds either the paper or Lord Beresford has reached such a singular conclusion. In the meantime it is announced that our Government has made efforts to bring about an arrangement with the maritime powers of the world whose ships carry American goods whereby such goods will be protected under their flags. It is also reported the powers will not only agree to this, but will strive to induce Spain to observe their declara- tion of such protection. In any event the world has passed the stage of un- limited privateering. The property of private citi- zens is respected on land during war, and it should be equally respected on sea. If any extensive vateering is carried on against our commerce it will riot be long before some foreign flag will be involved, and then the issue will be brought to a swift and final settlement. At a time of public excitement, when the air is full of rumor, almost any report may receive temporary credence. Even the papers anxious to print only the sober truth may be misled by the prolific liar at the other end of the line. Yet it is a shameful thing that falsehoeds known to be such should be blazoned as the truth. The evening papers, in their anxiety to print news before it appears in the morning papers, have fallen into the habit of lying in big type, la- beling the product “Extra” and selling it to people, who have then to wait for the morning to find whether they have been reading fact or fable. And generally they have been reading fable. There will be surprise at the circumstance that some Englishmen desire to join the American navy, a course tending just now to make them bad insur- ance risks. But it may be remembered that during the present trouble England has been more than merely kind. And then the instinct of a Britisher is for a bit of a scrap, anyhow. Whatever the issue of the war, it will never be completely satisfactory unless it involve the ridding of the earth of that monstrous fiend, Weyler. Ameri- cans are not bloodthirsty, but they want murderers hanged. RS Unless upon the hypothesis of hysteria, it is diffi- cult to understand the attitude of an evening paper which in one editorial upholds the administration and in another attacks it. e To scoop the world by publishing what has not occurred is hardly a thing to brag about, This declargtion comes from | Eng- | pri- | | nerve them in action. The many drafts necessary to fill our quotas and of sentiment, and are not at all likely | keep our standard advancing in the Civil War had | portance than the personal welf: to result in action of any kind. The question of pri- | for their principal cause the certainty of disease in | has grown grossly rich and notoriously incompetent | camp rather than wounds and death on the field. When war begins it is foolish to say it will be brief, and it is wrong to omit the smallest preparation to | mitigate its sufferings and limit the mortality it will | cause. In the belief that every preparation should be | made at once, we urge public attention to this imme- diate organization of the energy and mercy and skill | and devotion of the people at home for sanitary work f in camp and hospital. FREIGHT RATE DISCRIMINATIONS. | MONG the bills before the Senate which { /[\ would probably have been acted on at this ; session but for the distraction from routine | affairs caused by the Spanish crisis is one introduced | the interstate commerce law so as to largely increase | the powers of the commission created by it. | The measure is of more than ordinary interest to Californians, because the people of this State suffer ;grcatl_v from unjust discriminations made by the railway companies, and any legislation which would | enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to | promptly right such wrongs would be of vast bene- | fit to our producers, manufacturers and merchants. | The aim of the Cullom bill is to cover the defects | in the present law which have been indicated by the | courts. It gives the commission power to perform | certain acts which the courts have declared it does | not at present possess. Among other provisions the bill requires common carriers to file schedules of | their rates with the commission, and requires a speci- | fication of such carriers as are parties to any joint | tariff, and also evidence of the commission’s accept- ance of the same. It confers on the commission the right to determine and fix rates where these are un- reasonable, and also to decide in cases of dispute on joint reductions the proportion of each road affected. Amendments of this nature would probably cover the injustice that our producers and manufacturers complain of, and would enable them to obtain justice by the sure operation of law instead of having to seek by the uncertain way of petition to the railroad managers. Cullom bill or one like it enacted as speedily as pos- sible. It must of course give way to legislation needed to meet the controversy with Spain, but when that is out of the way somg action should be taken upon it. If we are to have an Interstate Commerce Commis- sion it should certainly be clothed with authority enough to enable it to be useful to the commerce of the country. While no great amount of blood was spilled at the Democratic debate Monday night, the statement is made by eye-witnesses that it was seething hot gore. It appears that Hayes began hostilities by calling Larry Buckley a dog. Buckley disapproved the ver- dict and manifcsted.his displeasure by slamming Hayes through a mirror. However, the incident may be regarded as closed, as also the optics of the gladiators. The reason a Police Judge sometimes fines some- body for contempt seems to be to show dignity. Then he remits the fine, so as to show good nature. No lawyer could reasonably object to thus being utilized by the bench. He may be there himself after a while and pine for an occasional spectacular dis- play. If the Arizona cowboys invade Cuba they might permit the enemy to capture their horses. Shortly after this bit of diplomacy Spanish pride would have a fall such as would jar its spine. Shouting “Death to the Pig Yankees!” may be in- dicative of valor and a token of chivalry, but not a Yankee in the world will die of it. It is therefore tc our interest to have the | Lees is said to be retained as Chief so that ulti- ately he may draw a higher pension than if rele- | gated to private life now. We submit that the reason | is not good. The welfare of this city is of more im- are of anybody who | while in the city’s service. | SUBMARINE WAR VESSELS. | | | F war comes with Spain, as now seems inevitable, | ] it is likely the world will be given another illustra- tion of the truth of the old proverb, “History re- | peats itself.” As in our Civil War the appearance of | the monitor upon the scene of action effected a revo- lution in the construction of war vessels, so there may appear in this conflict some new ship of American in- vention that will so completely offset the armor and armament of all existing war vessels as to require a reconstruction of every navy on the globe. Such a vessel, if it comes, will probably be in the nature of a submarine boat,-as it is in that direc¥ion the ingenuity of naval constructors has been mainly working for some years past. A host of boats of various kinds and qualities exist to attest what may be achieved in the construction of such ships. It has been proved that it is feasible to build a vessel that can be operated under water. All that remains to do is to construct one that can remain under the sea for a long time in rough and deep water as well as in calm harbors, and make long voyages without the as. sistance of tenders. When such a submarine boat has been launched and her capabilities proved in actual battle, as were those of the Monitor in her memor- able struggle with the Merrimac, the existing fleets of the world will be as comparatively useless as are the old wooden men-of-war that preceded our civil conflict. Tests recently made of the c:»abilities of the Hol- land submarine boat show that the ingenuity of American inventors has already nearly succeeded in solving the problems of such structures. The Hol- land boat has not yet been tried in stormy, deep water, or over a long course, but she has been re- peatedly submerged and bronght back to the surface | at the will of her navigator. It is said she can carry | gasoline enough to enable her to make a voyage of i 2000 miles, and enough compressed air to sustain her crew under water for nine hours. This:-would be ample for all war purposes, as no conflict would re- quire her submergence for a longer time. She has a speed of sixteen knots on the surface and nine knots when submerged, and, finally, she carries three tor- pedo tubes designed for as many different kinds of missiles, and is therefore well armed for aggression against any foe she might meet. While this particular craft may not prove the suc- cessful submarine boat that is desired, her accom- plishments show that such a vessel may be expected in the near future. The war, if it comes, will increase the activity of our inventors in this direction, and it is not improbable that a Spanish fleet may be made the target on which some submarine ship will prove her worth by rendering worthless all other forms: of battle-ships that now lord it over the seas. —— There is nothing to alarm Americans in the rumor that Havana may be found in ruins. They want to find it marked by an absence of Spanish authority, and are willing to undertake a little of the ruination business themselves if necessary. | ‘While the Theosophists are known to favor peace, one of them explains that there may be necessity for destroying a foe so that peace may be secured. There are a great many who are not Theosophists and yet feel exactly the same. “Now,” remarks a Spanish paper with a solemnity little less than awful, “she (Spain) will kick her (the United States) and use the whip!” We can only beg of Spain not to kick hard nor to use a large, un- wieldy whip. Some enemy of General Lee suggests that Hearst’s yellow papers boom the distinguished Southerner for President. It is a little early to begin such bitter at- 1 tacks against a worthy gentleman and a good soldier. | COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS. E. L Drisko of Boston is at the Occl- dental. Dr. Fee and wife of Reno, staying at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Tobin have taken rooms at the Palace. A. N. Butts, a weal mining man of Angels, is at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Churchill of Napa are registered at the California. B. L. Lester, a large cattleman of Reno, Nev., are | | | | | Ne ‘Ing at the California. |3 McCudden, a large contractor of | Van is a guest at the Baldwin. | de Toore, a manufacturer of Phila- registered at the Palace. |7 R janks of Ontario, Cal., s | one of the late arrivals at the Grand. | 3. P. McGuinness and E. B. Babbitt, U. S. N., are registered at the Occidental. M J. elpt i e George of St. Lo wife. yers, a large tobacco man at the Palace, with his George H. Munroe, a well-known mer- | | chant of Fresno, s at the Lick with his | wife. | T.S. Hawley, the Santa Barbara capl- | talist, is at the Occidental for a few | az | Mr. and Mrs. Frank Boyd have come | over from San Rafael and have taken rooms at the Palace. |0000000000 At one of the | O prominent down- |o I : o town hotels is | o CONSANGUINITY O S | o WON THE DAY. o n who, | 5 ° to the close of the great [£949 10 Cil0:050K0 [0LOF 2+ & ¥erinlidl stvnip: | and so well that he carries with him still | evidence tested fi vesterday he told the following little story on one of General Joe Shelby's old sol- diers: “You know,” said he, “that when the end came there were a number of Shelby's men who refused to surrender, on any terms, and getting together made their way out of the United States over the line into Mexico. They stuck together | for some time, being employed by the | Mexican Government in taking care of | bandits, Indians, revolutionists or any- thing clse that needed men who would rather fight than eat. At first they man- aged to do fairly well, but the Indians and bandits, finding that it was a losing game they were playing when these Gringos came to be their opponents, stop- ped their depredations and the occupa- tion of the old troopers, who knew how 1o do little else but fight, was gone. They still hung together, getting poorer and poorer all the time, until at last they broke up into little squads, which again man had to shift for himself. “One of these fellows, after drifting all over the country for several years, at last brought up, poor, friendless and alone, in one of the Spanish-American cities on the Atlantic sea coast. The day after his ar- rival he wandered down to the harbor and sat there looking out to sea, wondering how he was going to make his way with- out money or friends, among people who ‘were not of his blood, habits or creed, and to whom the very name ‘America’ was only mentioned as a curse, when he saw a ship of war entering the bay. He watched her with a languid interest until suddenly a puff of smoke issued from one of her ports, as she answered to the sa- lute of the fort at the entrance of the karbor, and with the sound of fife and drum run her colors, in a little ball, to the masthead where the ball was tripped and the stars and stripes floated out on the breeze. “The old Confederate stood for a mo- ment dumfounded, then, his whole face aflame with passion, he shook his fist at the vessel and said:' ‘D— you, you sep- arated me from my wife, slaughtered my son, and after ruining me and despoiling me of everything I possessed sent me to wander, an outcast among strangers. Goa, how T once hated you." Then, as his eyes filled with tears. ‘I fought you best I knew how, but that’s all over, and my God but I'm glad to see you once again.’ 4 “I dop’t know where the old fellow is | gle, fought under the “Bennie Blue Flag,” | of more than one hotly con- | Being in a reminiscent mood | THE SUNDAY CALL It Will Contain an Exceptionally Large Number of Extra Good Features and Will Be Interesting in Every Line. ~ S this an age of second class men? Have we only pygmy poets and second rate statesmen in the present era? That is the very interesting problem that President Patton of Princeton University will discuss in NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. Every one is not ambitious to become a detective, but nearly every one who loves adventure loves to be told the thrilling experiences in the lives of detectives, and how detectives succeed in rupuing shrewd criminals to earth. Ex-Chief Byrnes of New York, who is conceded to be one of the very greatest criminal catchers of the time, gives some advice in next Sun- day’s Call on “How to Succeed as a Detective.” Incidentally he relates some of his own most lively experiences. In these days of impending war you are undoubtedly interested in all things that suggest the din of battle. Down on the water front there is a small body of men more interested in the possibility of coming war than even the soldiers who have just gone to the front. They are the boys of the naval reserve. So interested are they that they almost live on their old vessel, the Marion, practicing the art of war. They are ready and eager to fight, and if you wish to know all about how they feel in regard to war READ THE SUNDAY CALL. Of course Uncle Sam’s boys have done fighting in the past. On several occasions they have come face to face with Spaniards in the e~arb of that most odious being, the slave trader. On a certain morning some years ago a small party of our boys had a difficulty with a large party of slavers the broad bosom of the Congo River. It was as pretty a fight as ever a blue jacket got into. Of course it could have but one outcome, and by reading THE SUNDAY CALL You can find out just what that was, for one of the participants tells the whole story. And while on the subject of Spain it will be well to know the story of that country’s possessions. At one time she had a goodly number of colo- nies, but now has scarcely any left. IN NEXT SUNDAY’S CALL this story will be told in the briefest, most concise and withal the most forcible man- ner it was ever told. It is really a novelty. “Havana's Last Cigar” is the title of an article that shows how the brave struggle of the Cuban patriots for freedom has completely ruined the tobacco business in the island. Every smoker should be interested in this. But there are other thines for men to be engaged in besides war. One of these is ostrich farming, and in NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL There will be a brilliant article telling all about the most unique aspects of caring for the uncanny birds. The article will be accompanied by a beautiful half-tone showing a group of ostrich chicks just out of their shell Going the rounds with the city missionary is an occupation likely to bring to light a number of strange people and Incidents. A w known writer recently spent a day in the company of the city missionary while he was in the performance of his daily duties. What she saw and heard is very interesting, and will all be told IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. Do you know the exact shape of the top of your head? Perhaps you think you do, but if you go to some manufacturer of silk hats and have him place a queer looking machine over your cranium to take your measure the resulting diagram will surely surprise you. That diagram, too, tells the story of your character, according to certain scientists. If you would like to know how the shapes of the heads of some of our best known men look READ NEXT SUNDAY’S CALL. “The portrait show now in progress at the Institute of Art will naturally interest all who love the sight of the faces of beautiful women. IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL Some of the best of these pictures will be reproduced and described. In the way of popular music next Sunday’s Call will reproduce Ferris Hartman'’s latest hit in the “Purser,” “Time Will Heal All Things.” The summer girl of '98 has arrived. At least the New York milliners have outlined how she shall appear the forthcoming season. All the novel- ties she will wear are described in NEXT SUNDAY’S CALL. Scattered among the pages you will find a good many other very excel- lent special features, and they’re bound to interest you. And with the Sun- day Supplement, too, you will get all the best and brightest news of the day. neipal ports will proba- now,” the gentleman concluded, “but if | that Cuba's pri ] [ he s alive you can get his address by HEATE 18 within forty-elght hours | writing to the War Department, for I'll | Gt Tn¢ Keciqgation, of war, and some | bet his application to fight for Uncle Sam | hands ght hours afterward. has been filed before this.” Globe-Demo Charles Francee, one of the leading poli- ticians of Salinas, is at the Grand, where | he arrived yesterday. 6% Mo Bee | Mrs. E. P. Buckingham, the largest| City. truit raiser in the vicinity of Vacaville, | command a premiu | 1s a guest at the Palace. . ! THE CAY 2 Rl | Dr. G. 3. Bush, a prominent physician | monitor Ca oo e | of New Haven, Conn., is at the Palace, | shipyard west of street, below | accompanied by his wife and daughter. ownsend, No oo | Mr. and Mrs. George E. Goodman, with | P aced in comm i 3 their son and daushter-in-law, are at the | CENTRAL PARK—B. C. A., City. Cen- last night | | F. B. Christie, a capitalist of Paterson, | N. J., is at the California on a ]'\lleasln‘"e trip throughout the coast. Mrs. Christie | is with her husband. | E. P. Ripley, president of the Santa Fe | Railroad, is at the Grand, with his fam- | |ily and a party of friends. He comes | | from Santa Barbara, and will return to | his home in Chicago after pas g a fewi | tral Park, New York Cit to the public in 1859 with formal ceremon sic day was on July ¢ JACK DEMPSEY- Vitw, Cal. , was opened but it was opened fes. The first mu- , of that year. ‘Pulm‘e, where they arrived | from Napa. —C. E. G., Mountain orge La Blanche whipped in thirty-two rounds in st and Bob pped @ New ed De at New EXEMPTION FROM T Helena, Cal. AX—A. 8., St A veteran who has an ho: | days in the city. A number of distinguished Sacramen-| orable discharze dated 150 ga ey Lk tans are among the late arrivals in the |in the State of California from perembt city. They are: E. W. Hale, T. W. < for which he is liable except Heintzleman, master mechanic of the|! if he is more than 60 years of Southern Pacific Company; Tom Scott, | | Postmaster of Sacramento; W. D. | Knight and A. A. Reddington. With them | are Assemblyman Swisslerman of Plac- | erville and George Sinsabaugh of Los | Angeles. | MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. | Behold, we have gathered together our battle- | —_———— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_——— T buSp:edal llfurma!!on supplied daily to Siness hcuses and public men by t Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 I{Ionr;? gomery street. Telephone Mafn 1042 = Mme. Madeleine Lemaire, the painter, has beenappointed profe flower- sorof bo- ships near and afar; '{mn'nl d‘mv. ng at the Jardin des P | Their decks they are cleared for action, their | Paris.” This is the first French pro guns theg are primed for war. shin gained by a | From the East to the West there is hurry; in | 3 - the North and the South a peal oo —_———— Of hammers in fort and shipyerd and the| “Mps. Winslow’s Soothing Syrun" clampr and clang of steel | And the rush and roar ot engines, and clank- ing of derrick and crane— Thou are weighed in the scales and found | wanting, the balance of God, O Spain! Has been used over fifty years by milltons ot mothers for thelr children while Teething with perfect success. It scothes the child, softens | the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, reg- | ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every Behold, I have stood on the mountains, and this was writ in the sky: “She is weighed in the scales and found want- ing, the balance God holds on high! a world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. The balance he once weighed Babylon, the | Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 2c a bottle, Mother of Harlots, in; 0lds th; ride and power and em- bl Dy e D ™" | CORONADO—Atmosphere s Heavy with woe and torture, the crimes of a | soft and mild, thousand years, | mists common further north. Mortared and welded together with fire and | blood and tears; In the other, for justice and mercy, a blade with never a stain, Is 1aid the Sword of Liberty, and the balance dips, O Spain! perfectly dry, being entirely free from the Round trip tick- ets, by steamship, including fifteen days’ board at the Hotel del Coronado, §5; longer stay, $2 50 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery st.. S. F., or A. W. Bailey, mgr. Hotel del Corona- do, late of Htl Colora Glenwood Spgs, Colo. — e King Humbert of Italy has decided to | | | Summon thy !\"‘esnell together! great is thy | need for 1 : Cristobal Colon, Viscaya, Oquendo and Maria | Bather together all the artistic furniture Therese. | of the various palatine chapels of the Let them be strong and many, for a vision I | kingdom of Italy; that Is to say, of Turin, had by night, Monza, Mantu Naples and That the ancient wrongs thou hast done the world came howling to the fight; Palermo. There are invaluable pieces in From the New World shores they gathered, | them, many of which are little known to Inca and Asco-slain, | amateurs, especially In the gold and sil- To the Cuban shot but yesterda; E y, and our own | dead seamen, Spain! | ver sm rt—original pieces by Ben- et iC rd John of Bologna. The King will have them exhibited in the ex- | separated into single individuals and each | Summon thy ships together, gather a mighty | eet! For a strong young nation is arming that | never hath known defeat! Summon thy ships together, blood-stained sands! For a shadowy army gathers with manacled feet and hands, | A shadowy host of sorrows and of shames, too black to tellt That reach with their horrible wounds for | thee to drag thee down to hell; | Myriad phantoms and specters, thou warrest against in vain! Thou art weighed in the scales and found . wanting, the balance of God, O Spain. —Madison Caweln, in Loutsville Courler- Journal. WHAT WAR MEANS FOR SPAIN. Probably few Americans are able to re- alize what a war with America will doubtless mean to Spain. It means not simply the loss of Cuba and perhaps Porto Rico also. It means not alone overwhelming naval defeat and bank- ruptey of the national treasury. It prob- ably means the downfall of the Bank of Sfain. the one great financial institution of the country, and with its fall the col- lapse of other banks and scores of cor- orations—a general panic, stoppage of ndustries, ruin for many thousands of there on thy wake of all this an uprising of popular passion and disorder, perhaps revolution | tself, and a sweeping away of the dy- nasty, as Naj oleo% lgn lost his throne after Sednn.——glartford Leader. —_——————— OBLIGED TO STAY AT HOME. The report that Weyler is to resume command in Cuba if war takes place is not true. The reason it is not true is well-to-do’ citizens, and following in the | § position of sacred art, which is to be opened soon in Turin. ——————————————————— Powder that makes the Delicious Biscuit, Griddie Cake and Doughnut