The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 27, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO- CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1898 PRIL 27, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. | PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1865, EDITORIAL ROOMS......... 2IT to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Maln 1574. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carrlers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year: per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. OAKLAND OFFICE 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.... Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE... Rigge House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE Marguette 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'clocks 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Misslon street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. ncy Hanks Alcazar- v Parisians Morosco's—"The low Postman.® 1ivoli—"Sinbad the Satlor.” ampo—Musie, fishing, every Sunday, ific Coast Jockey Ingleside—Races to-day. anta Cruz Mountains, Saturday, April 80, xcursion to AUCTION SALES. By N. E. Clark—This day, April 27, Grant avenue at 2 o'clock. Ey Von n & Co.—Thursd; Market stre 2 0'clock. Turkish Rugs, at 105 7, April 25, Real Estate, at 636 THE EXAMINER HAS WELSHED.* ner has welshed. It is a regrettable ance that it should have done this, and is no more pleasing term to describe When the Maine was sent to the bot- of $50,000 for the operation, tom the “xaminer offered a reward discover the New York Journal offered this sum. , It made the offer in token of patriotism, and as_an indication that the scoop it had st fered on the occasion in question had stirred it to its depths. On this coast the I aminer got full credit for the prodigalit Of course nobody took the matter with the F not being an agg: the The public, gate idiot, recognized the and discerned the string by which this goodly pile of gold was attached to the Hearstling sheets which had made the pretense of ofering it. As time went by the fact became apparent that the precise author of the crime would not be discovered. But now that our Uncle Sam has taken a hand, and seems likely to as- certain the facts and handcuff the culprit, the $50,000 is withdrawn. It is a clear instance of Uncle could find use for $50,000. riousness t aminer itself did. welshing. But the sleuth bent upon uncovering a great crime and at the same time winning as large and imposing a pile as that the Examiner has just snatched away has no reason to be discouraged. Immediately aitet the $50,000 spasm of the Examiner The Call declared its readiness to pay $30,000 to the discoverer of the vil- lain who hit Billy Patterson. This offer still stands. There is no doubt that Billy was struck; it is equally certain that a villain did it. When The Call proclaims a reward there is no inclinatio . to pull it out of the reach of the eager detective just as it seems within his grasp. Let the scoundrelly assailant of Billy Patter- son be dragged forth, identified, and the money awaits as truly as the Examiner $50,000 awaited until the sotry moment when Hearst took what is technically known as a tumble and got tired of being considered what is denominated, also technically, a guy. ctice cheatingby ® ¢ ® running Dictionary. R ] ® To welsh—To cheat or off without settling.- THE PLUNDER OF THE SCHOOL FUNDS. HILE the evidence collected by the Grand WJury of the plunder of the school funds may not yet amount to sufficient legal proof to con- vict any particular person of the crimes, it certainly shows that the School Directors have been guilty of criminal negligence to an extreme degree. It is hardly possible that such barefaced frauds as those disclosed could have been carried on for so long a time without the knowledge and connivance of at least some of the members of the board. Almost every step taken in the investigation so far has resulted in the discovery of new frauds. As the examination goes on the amount of money of which it is known the city has been defrauded increases. It has already run far up into the thousands, and when the investigation has been completed the extent of the plunder will probably be as startling as_the boldness with which it was devised and carried out. Under the circumstances there is but one thing for the Grand Jury to do. It must pursue the investiga- tion to the end, so as to determine not only how much money has been stolen, but who are the guilty par- ties. A scandal of this kind will be a very grave scan- dal indeed if it does not result in the exposure of the criminals, their conviction and their sentence to long terms in the penitentiary. Occupied as the people are with the war, they are not so much absorbed by it as to be neglectful or in- different to this crime against the municipality. Even the most careless citizens are aroused to indignation at the waste and plunder of the funds provided for the education of the children of the city. There is but one sentiment on the subject, and that is a desire for the prompt prosecution of the offenders. 4 The frauds have been gross. Thousands of feet of lumber have been paid for that were never delivered to the city. First-class lumber.and fancy shingles have been called for by the specifications of contracts, and third grade lumber and common shingles have been accepted and paid for at the prices agreed upon for the better grades. Surely it is not too much to suppose that some of the Directors must have known of such frauds as these. It behooves all Directors who may be innocent of connivance in the frauds to assist in convicting the guilty parties, for unless the real criminals are made known the whole board will be under suspicion. The moral of the situation is plain; the only way to acquit the innocent is to convict the guilty. There is something strange in the way Captain Robinson eloped from his position on the- police force, and it will be stranger still if his right to name @ successor shall be recognized. _One year, by mall, $1.50 | of the miscreant in the case. That is to say, | se- | bluff | PROVIDING FOR THE WAR DEBT. | HE preliminary measures proposed in the bill To{ the Ways and Means Committee to provide a sufficient war credit are of necessity based on existing law. payable in “coin.” Under the existing provisions of the Sherman act of 1890 the Government is pledged the established ratio of 16 to 1. That obligation of the | treasury of necessity makes a ‘“‘coin” bond a gold bond, and these securities will be disposed of with that understanding and protected by that statutory pledge. Ii in future emergencies, to protect the treasury against the drain of gold by redemption of green- backs, the Government find it necessary to suspend specie payments, there will arise the practical ques- tion of a further definition of the contract between the Government and its creditors. Then the whole ques- tion of our financial policy will be in focus. | When that time comes it is already evident that the fiatists intend to force a resort to a legal teader paper issue. When such issue is made no eye can foresee | its volume, but experience teaches reliably its effect. | The country will be where it was at the cl se of the | Civil War, with a large unfunded debt represented by | depreciated paper. This mass will be added to by the whole existing issue of silver dollars, fallen to their in- |trinsic value, whichwill not muchexceed 50 cents on the | dollar, and the whole problem of resumption and re- demption will have to be gone over again, as it was in | 1868. As an alternative it would be better financiering for the existence of $340,000,000 of the old greenbacks, which might prevent circulation of the new certifi- cates. The true way, however, will be in the securing of gold for bonds by making them definitely payable as much less as the amount represented by the dis- | count of any form of unfunded paper, or that of bonds in depreciated silver. It should be easy to see that if the Government is pushed to the necessity of paying out depreciated paper or selling bonds at a discount it has.to pay more for every pound of powder, every equipment war. This added cost falls finally upon the taxpayers. | There is no room for doubt that this same method | pursued in the Civil War made its cost just twice what 1 it should have .been, and for thirty years the people have been patiently parting with their resources to pay | the bill. In that time they have been paying two dol- | lars when they should have paid only one, and it | seems marvelous that in the light of such an expe- | rience the fiatists should be able to secure any meas- ure of popular approval for a repetition of the costly experiment. As The Call said months ago, the real supporters of the credit and honor of the country will be separ- becomes a burning issue. Senator Allen of Nebraska has already flung the fiat challenge at the administration in his resolution declaring that financial provision for the war shall be in accordance with the Populist platform of 1806. That platiorm demands that obligations of the Gov- ernment be paid in any kind of lawful money which the Government chooses to use. Of course this means payment in the least valuable and most depreciated form of such “lawful money.” and is a policy which would do the country more damage than the Span- iards are likely to inflict. HENRI ROCHEFORT’'S ESTIMATE. S | utters something framed on lines of good sense and | the most powerful officia | infused with the glow of truth it is only fair that | hold in the hollow of his hand the street contractors, | it also should be quoted and circulated in order that | Paving corporations, strect car companies and all per- the world may know he has occasional lucid inter- | Sons who ask municipal privileges connected with the vals in which he appears as a man of fair merit and | public thoroughfares.. He will annually ex})e}ld di- | rectly from a half to three-quarters of a million on se lucid | Street and sewer improvements, and indirectly several statements, and the fact is the more remarkable be- | Millions on behalf of property-owners liable for the cause it comes at a time when most French journal- | €ost of improving unaccepted streets. The Board of | ists seem to have lost their wits altogether and gone | Public Works, as our correspondent truly sa | sists of three members, two of whom will be pointed by every Mayor. =5 But while all this is in accordance with the facts, | we are constrained to say that in our opinion no such | result would follow here as in Chile. Our correspon: | dent should remember that we are than the Chileans, and that for this reason it is quite probable that we would submit for a long time | to an cxchange of places between the Mayor and the chairman of the Board of Public Works. | event it is doubtful whether even if an endless ribbon such as Balmaceda inaugurated were established here our people would ever meet it with violence. Our correspondent should remember that the char- considerable judgment. He has just given utterance to one of tk. crazy on the issue to which it refers. Answering the common belief in Europe that the American people are but a mob of undisciplined jingoes incapable of raising an army fitted to confront the trained soldiers of any European nation, Rochefort has recently said in L'Intransigeant: “In America no one is a soldier, which means that in case of a conflict every one is. Spain, very for- midable in her sierras, as she proved in 1808, cannot seriously hope to conquer or even to seriously incon- venience a race full of initiative and audacity, one of whose most magnificent characteristics is contempt of life. No European power which managed to set toot on American soil would come out of it alive. Horror and, let us recognize it, contempt of foreign- ers have given the citizens of the great republic such confidence and inspired them with such firm resolu- tions that the fear of defeat or invasion does not even touch them. Spaniards are very patriotic and very brave; nothingcan bemordtrue; but their courage will hurl itself in vain against the terrific enthusiasm which the arrival of their first ships in American waters will arouse in their adversaries.” It is not often that so accurate an estimate of Amer- ican characteristics as this appears from a European writer. Under even the most favorable circumstances it would hardly find much acceptance among those who have long indulged the belief that a free people cannot fight, that volunteer armies are worthless, and under present conditions it will hardly find favor at all. Tt will not be very long, however, before the eyes of the foreign critics will be opened, and then Rochefort will have the satisfaction of reminding the jeering journalists of Paris, “I told you so.” e c——— Both ex-President Cleveland and ex-President Harrison have won good opinion by the simple pro- cess of being silent upon every occasion when yellow journalism had the impertinence to ask them to talk on Spanish affairs. They are merely passengers now, but, having had a turn at the wheel, understand that the man in charge is apt to know the points of the compass. et Spanish schemes for blowing up the American ships at Cuba are grossly interfered with by the repugnance of the men on board to being treated in this way. In fact the ships are there largely to show the Dons that being blown up is regarded as an unpleasant expe- rience, and an evidence of unneighborly spirit. o e ey Blanco is desperate, but he has not reached the stage at which he -deems it advisable to execute an ‘English sea captain. ‘When he shall get to that point Spain will be treated to the violent experience of two lickings in rapid succession. ot e There would be a fine bit of justice in the spectacle 1 streets of Havana. That law authorizes the issue of bonds | THE OUTBREAK OF HOSTILITIES. N declaring war against Spain Congress fixed the date of the outbreak of hostilities at April 21, and the language was to the effect that war already ex- isted at the time the declaration was made. It was in | terms a recognition of a state of war rather than a = NILITARY SEGRETS, = feg=geegegoF FaFoFoF-F=F-FoFoFoF=] URING the discussion in the British Parliament last year of the naval estimates the First Lord of the Ad- COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS ongress. The sessions of Congress, be- Clnnging with the war of 1861-65, are given gelow, with the sessions following, show- ing that in war times Congress did not | consume as much time as is usual in| pr James C. Pryor, U. S. N., is at the times of peace: Palace. V- Vi s , three _ Se’é‘shlior;g-szes\segg;s.Congress Gt ‘} G. G. Brooks, the big Colusa grain man, Thirty-eighth Congress—1863-65, two ses- | is at the Grand. sions, 209 days. - | Charles Francee, the Salinas capitalist, Thirty-ninth Congress—1865-67, three ses- |, "/ w2 ho Grand. volve the prolongation of the sessions of 1 to maintain gold and silver at a parity, an equality, at | proclamation of the beginning of one. tion in both houses, and may probably be the cause of This feature of the declaration met with some objec- | tially as follows: are cognizant of the details of naval and miralty made a statement substan- sions, 329 days. A “The several powers three ses: Fortieth Congress—1867-69, sions, 32.days. Forty-first Congress—1867-71, three ses- considerable discussion hereafter. It is of importance, because on land defenses of each country, and the only military secrets which we may be reasonably sure of being our own are con- 1 palll e right of the United templated strategic movements planned.” sions, 341 days. | Forty-secondd Congress—1871-73, sessions, 223 days. 3 Forty-third Congress—1873-75, two R. Robertson, manager of Paraiso Springs, is a guest at the Grand. T. J. Field has come up from Monterey, three "and is to be found at the Palace. L. A. Spitzer, Assessor of Santa Clara ses- | County, is registered at the Grand. sions, 291 days. to rely on a non-legal tender certificate, if it were not | in gold. With gold in hand the cost of the war will be | | payable in “coin,” that carry the risk of redemption | and ration that it must use in the wasteful game of | | States to condemn as prizes the Spanish ships cap- The only two countries in which mili- John F. B come over from San i g ;- ss—1875-77, two ses- | i 5 | tured between April 21 and the time when the declara- ;‘;g' (eecist pra :eubflxir;eg e:;elsR:::‘ll: slg‘:;l&u;og;;*;'““g“ o Rafael and ng dtklhe ll:\;;m-(‘i“ |8 B . : ermany, and publis| e L ‘ongress—I877-79, three ses- | Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Dickee of Brooklyn, | tion of-war was issued by the President. iTn fact it.1as | e matertel ‘of tha aray aug nuvarey (EOTO OO CONE | N. Y., are registered at the Baldwin. been alrcady asserted that the marine courts of the to‘; general in their character to be o;agy Forty-sixth Congress—1819-81, three ses- | =o'+t {70 PHE S CEC B o er from Lon- | - 5 value to outsiders. Great Britain and the , 393 days. Y i ald s & United States will hold that the prizes have been un- | YAl 1o putsic have until quite recently | perts soqsyih Congress—I51-83, two ses- | don, is one of the late arrivals at the Pal lawfully taken, and therefore will liberate the cap- | taken the public into their confidence, | sions. $37 . ongress 1S3, two ges-| S | tured ships. and it has not been difficult for foreign | Forty-clghth Congr |lcoooo0o0o0o00cC General Mer- 7 5 fsedanih military and naval attaches to observe Forty-ninth Congress—1885-87, two ses- | o O riam, commander { The point was raised in the §enate by Senator lfet- and report upon the minutest details of | gjons 330 days. ssions, | © APATRIOTIC o of the Pacific tigrew, who made some opposition to the resolution s;u:::. U tor}mcauons and athelr3 parts T feth Congress—18%7-89, two se: d VENDER o Coast forces, got 2 € two services. The present Bureau | 412 days. ¥ o 5 into a Sutter- on the ground {h:_n the date had been fixeq for the | 5r Naval Intelligence in our Navy De- Fltty-first €ongress—1889-91, two ses-| o opTniwe O ot i | purpose of legalizing the capture of the ships now | partment dates back to about 1883, prior | slons, 897 da¥s. ongress—1891-93, two ses- | O G | claimed as prizes. The answer made by Senator | t Which the Bureau of Steam Engincer- slons, 340 days. x es.]© 000000000 FCTE g8 R | Davis, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, | o5 ha{:d' o Y, T solsdted | il thind [Congress 189 Joyithren ocs corner of Sutter street and Grant avenue | Davis, n » | data about foreign ships. In Europe, the | sfons, 347 days. % < 2 i £ —1895-97, two ses- C: vas rounded by a crowd of was that the date had not been determined by any :a‘fi;““"mz‘_""ys Dep“‘m:l““ !;:egag.? s ety lonl Congress—18%-57 ‘:lziq‘for)_?:zj&rdly CePiiE it “extiae® Ly 4 S as 1865 to issue a publication giving 3 g o S SR | 9 g g . ed sh consideration of the kind sta,t'ed by the Senator from | news of foreign navies, maintaining for | T B z;h-':o ;L;C:'_:);vl;i&u_x;m;uzo South Dakota, but by ‘the action of the Spanish Gov- | this purpose a staff of officers. It was : : : : : : : ERERLE KX RE :::“'f;l"; E\mid f;;;t o8 bl the car and ernment in dismissing the United States Embassador. ;‘;}u‘;fiu};:fi,‘f&t‘?g&zu"ge,::sedn%get?;;;r&? X% supply the passengers. A colored lad | While Senator Pettigrew and some others may be ance of such an djunct to the naval ad- | x : 3 pm“‘icd l;> be‘.lheglucklgx‘:‘r‘zv “X‘]’f ;g;‘:;’“;a . - . nistration, and at the present time cried out: ““Yar's yo - | sanguine that our courts will hold that the war did not gvery country of any mmm‘} importance | * * SPIR lT OF 98 wo. Don't be late ter buy, fo’ ef yo does |sbegin on the date declared, it is not easy to see on | Nas bureaus of intelligence. Naval and | % * dar won’t be none lef’.” TS s 5 military attaches are now a part of each | s 3 i what grounds they base their conclusion. The view | legation, in addition to which officers on | * * Femae wma nw e ol Asdicaonroachen Ganerali Merriam that ships or traveling keep their eyes and oL :* R AE AR EERE gentleman looked at him and said: that the dismissal of our representative at Madrid was | ears open and make reports to their re- spective bureaus. The Intelligence Bureau | | an act of war is not taken by the United States alone. | The British Government took the same view at the [ ders were at once given to officials throughout the | 2 empire to treat American and Spanish warships in their ports as the laws of neutrality require in time of actual hostilities. As British sympathies are known to be on our side in the contest, it is possible their judgment on the act of Spain may have been influenced somewhat by a desire to give us every advantage they could. Never- v cedent which will have its weight with the nations. | § | Spain committed the act which in the judgment of in- | P ties, and Congress could not have done otherwise i ey BLA0RL 3 (Americans, listen to my song): than recognize that fact and date the outbreak of war | 18 Very properly restricted, solely because | piaericans, liste Spain’s navy is the proper | | of the damage that may be done by evil- | thing to do, ?Ch‘tly what each l;:Country 'pu}ssessesl o % DS, guns, torpe - the: etails | moment the act of Spain was made known, and or- | of e orpedoes and other details | are built by contract, no secrecy about their construction can be observed, and the same. applies to guns and other war | material. data on file in Washington of every naval and the construction French guns, their effectiveness or short- comings, are as well known in ‘Washing- ton as in the 3 tary departments hav : £ S ! publicity, throug | theless, the action of Great Britain remains a pre- | doings; the navy their fortifications, have beén open to the | * 5 A i .. |1 not familiar with all that pertains to ternational law constituted the beginning of hostili- [ our defenses portunity of unchecked observation. time of ‘pending hostilities this privilege | TO HIS COUSINS. L the navy, besides full information in the navy, besides tull information bout harbor’ defenses. ‘Where vessels (After Kipling). a When through the swamps of Cuba you are | hasin_picaroons, "Untin' ’round an’ ‘sweatin’ in the sun, | i V! v infantry, ar- “Lhere are complete plans and : You must run 'em down With essel built abroad of any consequence, | of British' and (Americans, listen to my song); | Since the shootin’ of the Spaniard is the proper thing to ,do, Now you needn't kfep 'im waitin’ very long. countries mentioned. On the other hand, our naval and mili- given the widest al reports, of their rds, ships, arsenals, and_military posts, with along the shores of Cuba you .are avin’ bloomin’ fights, A-scrappin’ with their ships When un foundries Cruisers an’ thetr | ublic, and if S, you You mustn’t stop for Sundays mustn’t stop for night Until you've knocked their navy into chips, For your navy 'as the vessels, an’ the vessels they ‘are new pain or any other country nor it is not for the want of op- | In | | was the laconic answer. ated from the pseudo-patriots when war financiering | N intelligent correspondent, whose communica- tion is too long for publication, says there is a strong probability that the proposed new char- ter would yield us the kind of government which pre- | vailed in Chile under the lamented Balmaceda. In that country, he informs us, the chief political boss always manages the Peruvian guano deposit: system consisted in appointing his principal political | | friend to this place and using the revenue of the de- posits to promote his own fortunes.” In this way he | held the Presidency for some time. about to retire, promote his friend to the Presidency and assume the management of the guano beds him- self, the people got up the revolution which resulted in his death. tion as jus the people have shaken Balmaceda off. We think, however, that in drawing a parallel be- tween the Mayor and the chairman of the ‘Board of j Public Works of the proposed Ehartcr';nd Balmaceda | and the manager of the Peruvian guano deposits our O many foolish things said or written by Henri i correspondent is Prac(icin'g a somewhat wild 'ain Un- Rochefort have been quoted and repeated over | doubtedly the ch:urn.mn of the Board of Publ'xc Works and over again that when by any chance he | tnder the charter will, next to the Mayor himself, be ifiable. at the time fixed. disposed .or thoughtless persoms, and not | |BALMACEDA AND THE CHARTER. A because secrets are to be guarded. This mutual exchange of professional news is | now recognized as quite legitimate, and is carried on openly and above board. It is rarely that there is any friction caused, | the only incident of that kind being in | 1886, when Secretary Whitney advertised | for competitive plans for some of the pro- | posed ships, and Commander Chadwick, at that time naval attathe to the lega- | tion in London, came very near involving the two Navy' Departments i Several officials in the Bri were_either dismissed or | manded for their connection with the Balmaceda's | Whitney ship design advertisement. In Great Britain the ships, forts, arsen- als and gun foundries are not open to the | public to the same extent as here, and certain restrictions are imposed. In | France, Germany and Russia the utmost | efforts are made to exclude visitors from Just as he was 3 lar causes the revelition of the most pro- | come public property, yet they are stowed away in the archi: of army and naval information. In Germany, the great works | of Krupp at Essen are accessible to the | ublic, subject, however, to a close watch eing kept on the visitor; but no outsider is admitted to the gun tests at Wreppen, and the results which reach the public | are such only as are given out by the | Krapp concern. . The despotism, militar- ism and general espionage system of Ger- many enables it to preserve its military | secréts :better than any ‘other Govern- | ment, and the following authentic inci- dent shows how well the Kalser has his Our correspondent regards this revolu- In no other way, he avers, could it was needless keeping it a secret any | longer that the German army had had its artillery changed .without anything being | known of it outside of official circles. No less than five army corps had been armed | With a new quick-firing Krupp gun, capa- ble of throwing ten to twelve shells a | minute. The French attache at once took | train for Paris and found his Government | not entirely unprepared, and orders were | at once placed with a number of factories | for guns of improved model. The doings | of the French Government did not leak | out until last February, and the secret was Kkept nearly as well as in Germany. Mr. Goshen's statement in Parliament may be accepted as being the common- sense view of military secrets. The pub- | lic knows as much about ships and guns | ap- | in a general way as the majority of army | | and navy oftici the actual ef- ficiency is known only to a select few so far as relates to foreign services, while in this country the merits and faufts have been thoroughly discussed in public print, and we have no secrets to keep from for- eigners.. | subjects in hand: " In July, 1897, the Em- | | peror invited the ‘military attaches to | | breakfast, and after the repast told them | | | 1 we have ever seen. He will s, ‘con-' ———— CUBA'S NEW SILVER DOLLAR. Cuba may not have a stable Govern- ment, but she has some sort of a body which is exercising one of the preroga- tives of sovereign States, that of colning money, and silver dollars of her first mintage have just been received in this country, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. The coin is a handsome one, contains about 40 cents’ worth of pure silver, and the Cuban republic guarantees to re- deem it in gold after the establishment more civilized In any | forts and arsenals, yet the almighty dol- | found secrets, and while they do not be- | | . ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. An’ you needn't keep it waitin® very long. | If the widow 'adn’t need for us we'd like to ‘elp you out A-chasin’ of them Spanish picaroons: Not that we think you need us—but we'd like to fight and shout, use we're tired settin’ on our pantaloons. But ygu soldier ‘as 'is rifle an’ you sallor ‘as | " boats | (Americans, listen to my song): | You must fight a war with soldiers—not with men who're ‘untin’ votes, | An’ you mustn’t keep 'em waitin’ very long. C. Beebe in Chicago Record. SRS NO TIME FOR TALK | Aln't no time fur talkin’ now, Loyal action yanks the bun, This ain’t no linguistic row— Spike yer mouth an' grab a gun. A, Brag ain’t nothin’ in a fight, Bluff won't win no battles, son, kin' dogs don’t never bite— Spike yer mouth an’ grab a gun. Been a sayin’ you would go, Many a war-like yarn you've spun, Now’s yer time to make a show— Spike yer mouth an’ grab a gun. No more talkin’ through yer hat; If there's talkin' to be done Congressmen are paid. fur that— Spike yer mouth an’. grab a gun. See O Glory In the alr, Smilin’ at the Freedom sun! Do ver part to keep her there— Spike yer mouth an’ grab a gun. Stop a chawin’ at the rag. Time fur somethin’ to be done, Action holds the edge on brag— Spike yer mouth an' grab a gun. ~Denver Post. A SPANISH MOTTO. A little King, with manners nice, Bore as he trudged through Spanish ice A banner with gnsL strange device, Quoth he: ‘“No matter where T look, I gaze on that. It won't be shook, The first line in my copybook Wasi T 055 0.2 Oh, how can life have any charms When, in the midst of war's alarms, The motto on one's coat-of-arms ¥ T ? Washington Star. FITZHUGH LEE—G. M. L., Alameda, Cal. General Fitzhugh Lee, recently Con- sul-General ‘at Cuba, {s a nephew of the late General Rob E. Lee. PHOEBE DAVIES—Mrs. L., City. The height of Phoebe Davles, the actress, is about 5 feet 7 inches. She has played the entire line of characters from soubrette to society lady parts. ON AN UPPER FLOOR-F. E. C., Redding, Cal. The law of this State does not prohibit the locating of an election booth in the upper floor of a building. It | simply provides that the officials shall | designate where the polls shall be held, and the only prohibition is that the polls shall not be located in a place where liquors are sold. |ooooooo0000 of General Lee riding Blanco's horse through the | There was no disposition to make a national game of 4 Polo. - © | the event of war, It being the prevailing 7 lldbs that a declaration of war would in- | possibly chi ter makers made one great concession to the people. While they conferred upon the Mayor power to ap- point and remove everybody, inciuding elected offi- cials, they also required him to be elected himself every two years; True, as our correspondent says, it might be difficult to dislodge a Mayor who con- | trolled the “saloon vote,” the street car lines, the, School Department, the Fire Department and the police, and who also, through the Election Commis- sion, canvassed the vote; but it should not be for- gotten that the charter confers upon the people .the | privilege of making such a trial. It is barely possible | that the Mayor and the chairman of the Board of Pub- lic Works might some day becaught off their guard or | out of town. Then the people could raid and rout them. We are free to confess, however, that the theory of our correspondent that a revolution would be the speediest remedy has its strong points. different material from that ordinarily chosen on this side. The body now has on hand $15,000, for which there is no immediate demand. If-by any miracle such a sum had been in the treasury of ou- own Board of Education, there are few members who | would not have found at least one exeuse for:expend- ing it and had it out of the way so quickly that-the _Grand Jury would have had no time to interfere. . In a general way the downfall of Widber is an ar- gument against the endless performance given on the local race track. More specifically it adds.to an al- ‘ready partly accepted theory that the betrayal of trust is neither wise nor profitable, A gentleman bent on raising a regiment in ‘Wall street worked hard for several days and secured four volunteers. His object was to demonstrate the brand of patriotism rampant there and he succeeded. ‘ —_— Spain’s bonds have taken another drop. The tum- ble of the sort of bonds she has fastened on Cuba may have been noticed also. f Polo y Bernabe got out of the country unscathed. of the island’'s independence. try in issuing souvenir coins to be sold at a premium for the World's Fair, these coins are also issued as souvenirs to be sold for the benefit of the Cuban hospital service, the profits realized being used to purchase medi- clnes‘mbandnges and hospital supplies in gener Oakland's School Board seems to be composed of | head of a beautiful young Cuban woman, now residing in. New York, typical Cuba Libre, and_the - words Libertad, 1897; and Liberty, .shield with a wreath composed of tobacco leaves and quartered with a sun- burst behind a sea with a key resting upen it, typical of Cuba as the key to the ‘Western world, stripes from the national flag, typical of the island of Cuba itself. surmounted by a liberty cap on a and the legend is “Republica de Cuba.” The coln is also stamped ‘900 fine.” of the length of the session of Congress in COINS AND TOKENS-D. C., City. There is no demand for such coins and tokens as are named in your communi- cation. The prices demanded by dealers for such are: For a liard of France, 1656, Louis XIV, from 15 to 30 cents; 1 skill- ing, 1799, from 15 to 20 cents; token of Jacob Lindenfiller, New York, 1863, 10| for 25 cents. Token known as Webster's credit currency sells for from 40 cents to | $1. That is the token having on the re- | lvserrs”e “Van Buren Metallic currency, 7. g POSSIBLE,- BUI' NOT PROBABLE— F. W., City. If, in speaking of an elec- tion about to take place, one of the par- | ties to the conversation should say, “You | had better vote for John Smith, as your one vote may elect him,” and the party addressed should reply, “That is possi- ble, but not probable,’” the answer would be strictly correct, for by it the speaker ‘would mean that there was a chance that John Smith might be elected by one vote, but that it was not likely to occur. ‘WHITENING—A. Y., City. The follow- ing is the receipt used by the United States Treasury Department for white- washing, and it has been found to answer on wood, brick and stone nearly as well as oil paint and is much cheaper: Slack half a bushel of unslacked lime with boll- ing water, keeping it covered during the process, strain it and add a plck of salt, dissolved in warm water, three pounds of ground rice, put In bolilng water and bolled to a thin paste, half a pound of Spanish whiting, and a pound of clear glue dissolved In' warm water; mix these well together and let the mixture stand for several days. Keep the wash thus prepared in a Kettle or portable furnace, and when used, put it on as hot as possi- ble, with painters’ or whitewash brushes. Emulating the example of this coun- benefit of the eneral. The piece has on the obverse side the of ““Patria Souvenir” (““Fatherland —_—————— REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. Every man knows other men who would be just as good as he is if they hadn’t had the same auvantages. Deference is giving another person the _center of the stage where every one eise knows it belongs to you. The average man doesn't put much stock in robins. He walits till he hears some girl say she must get her shirt- waists ready. The first year a woman is married she is sure that if her husband were unfaith- ful to her she would go mad. The second year she thinks she would die. The third year she wonders if she would i" a di- vm-ce.a.l lAner that sue never thinks about it at all. The reason Whi it takes a woman so long to make up her mind is because she wants to think up ail the ways she can ange it.—New York Press. l 1897; - Souvenir”). verse shows the Cuban coat of arms, a The re- live a palmetto tree, and The shield is le —_——————————— CONGRESS IN TIME OF WAR. ‘Washington Post. There has been considerable discussion boy, what's the war about “Niggers! right, boss. De coons has done got in bondage agin er way down dar in Cuba, an’ dar’s er goin’ ter be hell ter pay. “Well, give me a paper,” and the general held out 5 cents. “Nebber min’ de money,” said the boy. “I know’s yer, gin'ral, an’ 1 don’t taik nuthin’ frum de sogers at sich times as is er happenin’ now.” W. W. Mullen, a wealthy resident of Fresno, s at the California, accompanied by his wife. L. Bosford, a prominent merchant of San Jose, is one of those who arrived at the Lick yesterday. W. B. Gilbert, Judge of the United States Circuit Court at Portland, Or., is 8 guest at the Occidental. R. E. Hyde of Visalia and A. E. Hogue of Vancouver, B. C., are among yester- day’s arrivals at the Palace. S. Gerson, a well-known merchant of Sacramento, is registered at the Grand, where he arrived yesterda. H. M. La Rue, the Railroad Commis- sioner, came down from Sacramento yes- terday and went to the Occidental. General M. H. Muller, N. G. C., is regis- tered at_the California from his home in Fresno. Mrs. Muller accompanies her huse band. At the O quarters of the o adjutant general in the California Hotel there is a o continual _ crowd of all sorts and ©000000000 ,,itions ofmen, from the son of the millionaire to the man without a place to lay his head, who walit around until they gain admittance, when they at once make application for a chance to enlist. The following little epl- sode that occurred is illustrative of the change that has come over the spirit of the country in the last thirty-seven years. Among the crowd yesterday were two young fellows who had been waiting some time, and who had drifted into conversa- tion with each other. After discussing various things connected with the war, one finally said to the other: *I, of course, don’t know anything of war from a personal experience, but I have ac- quired a pretty good idea from hearing my father talk. He went to. the front in *61, and fought all through the trouble until he was mustered out after losing a leg at Chancellorsyille.”” *Is that so?" said the second of the two. “My father was in the war also, but he was on the other side, and fought with a Virginia regiment up till the close. He subse- quently died from consumption brought on by exposure while campaigning. You see, when the war broke out he was on the old plantation, and—" But just then the door of the adjutant’s office opened, and the son of the Confederate, catching his_companion by the arm, said, “Come on,” and the North and South went in to enlist together. A. R. MclIntyre, assistant superintend- ent of the Grand Trunk Railraod at Bat- tle Creek, Mich., is visiting the city for a few day: R. Y. Cole, the old-tim# champion ama- teur wrestler of the Olympic Club, has re- turned from Mexico and is at the home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Johnson, prominent and influential society people of Brooklyn, N. Y., are registered at the Occidental on a pleasure trip to the coast. The following arrivals on the Zealandia from Honolulu are registered at the Oc= cidental: H. G. Boswell, Willlam Woon, W. H. Love and Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Lillie. Among the arrivals from Honolulu yes- terday on the Zealandia who went to the California are H. H. Conwell, August Conradt, Mrs. J. C. Paulison and miss A, R. Pratt. head- o o' AN INCIDENT o AT © HEADQUARTERS. o [ele] THE AUXILIARY FLEET. More than half a hundred ships have been added to the naval force of the na- tion within a month. They are not all of- first or second or third class fighting power, but they all possess some value in that direction and together increase the strength of the naval arm immensely The resources of the country in such an emergency have been most encouragingly revealed.—Springfield Republican. e MARCHING TOGETHER. Marching through Georgia is in fashion again. The boys in blue and the boys in gray, are moving together this time, and will keep onward after the sea is reached T benalr of American liberty and man- hood.—Globe-Democrat. ———— Cal. glace fruit 50c per b at Townsend's.® —_——— Special information supplied dafly to businéss houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Moni gomery street. Telephone Main lviz. * e RS S ey WIDOWS ON THE PENSION ROLL. Of the 989,613 names on the pension roll only 735,125 represent survivors of the war. The remaining 234,492 include widows, minor children and a few miscellaneous claimants, but mainly widows. At the present time the widows are keeping up he number of pensioners. 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