The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 28, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Froprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFiC. ...Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1865, EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 22| Stévenson 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 66 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. OAKLAND OFFICE.... cesan NEW YORK OFFICE..... Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE -Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CBICAGO OFFICE.... «.....Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. h One year, by mall, $1.50 ...908 Broadviay BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay. open until S:20 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, spen until | 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 oclock. | 1941 Missidn street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 | Mission 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. i == | AMUSEMENTS. | Baldwin—“The | Columbla —-T! California—* Trilb Alcazar Morosco's— Tlvoll Orpheum— sians | low Postman.” inee 10-mOTTOW. g, Apri. 29 0dd Fellows The Chutes Olympla—Corne: tcan Lion Hunt” , Spectalties. g.every Sunday, | | | By N. E. Clark—This day, April 23, Turkish Rugs, at 106 Grant avenune o'el & By Von Rhi & This day, April 23, Real Estate, at 636 Market street, at 12 o’cloc! | By Frank W. But 8880 G old« n Gate, ne C If fu and le, d-This day, April 2. Furniture at te - F venue, at 2 g'clock. EVIDENCE OF REMORSE. } OMMENDATION of the Morrow decision, | which will enable the Railway Commission to | probe into Southern Pacific methods, is general. have been used for the corruption of courts atures, thwarting the purpose of wholesome legislation, the public has a right to know it. That | the obstacles to placing Mr. Huntington on the stand | have been swept away is.a matter for congratulation. Mr. Huntington has at command a vast fund of infor- | mation. He could divulge much of interest, and that | he may have an early opportunity to do so, stimulated and encouraged by suggestions irom the commission, is a natural and proper hope. Such is the view taken even by the Examiner, and a more noble example of unselfishness has seldom come to light. In order to have the wicked Mr. Hun- tington immolated it is willing to lay itself on the altar | and give the world a chance to joy in the odor of its | scorching. With fearless candor, and withott heed | that attenti pot has on will be drawn to its own sooty hue, the | alled the kettle black. Brave pot! We have the unusual experience of finding our- selves in agreement with the aminer. Let the operations of the Southern Pacific be laid bare. Some of these are known in a general way, and there is a yearning for particulars. , for instance, that the Examiner was for a period of almost two | years receiving from the soulless corporation $1000 a | month, and when this payment was shut off without | It is know having reached the expected aggregate of $30,000 the paper made great -ado over Southern.Pa- cific sinf s. There has never been -a full understanding as to the terms of this payment, and now the commission can not only find out all about | it, but do so with the full consent and approbation of the Examiner. At least that sheet, fired by remorse | or something, declares that it wants the whole, truth brought out. It generously refrains from asking that | an exception be made in its own favor. Mr. Hun- | tington has already sworn before a public body at | Washington that he had a contract with the Exam-{ iner for its silence. Details are still lacking. If he | sustained a running account with that paper which | has never been closed, he can tell what it was for and | why there has been no final settlement. We are as | glad as the Examiner; possibly more so. There are rumors that the Examiner has an in-| fluence over the Commissioners, that it assumes to tell them what they shall do. Some go so far as to assert that Mr. Hearst thinks he can have the. com- | mission, following his will, exact only such testimony as shall reflect upon the integrity of the Huntington policy, and leave the Examiner unspotted in its atti- tude as a reformer, no hint of its rottenness brought | to the surface. Of course this’ view cannot be ac- cepted. In the first place it would not be in con- sonance with the righteous indignation of the paper, and it would call into question the good faith of the Commissioners. Naturally the. Commissioners will by the thoroughness of their inquiry do away with any such fallacious impression, and frankly develop | the fact that the Examiner is a rogue, even if the pang of remorse has made it in a degree penite?:t; while to stamp itself as absolutely sincere the Examiner will be obliged to turn State’s evidence and ask the mercy of the court. e e Spain is said to rely on the climate to kill American troops. There is a possibility that Amegican troops will keep from getting mixed up with a climate so sinister. In the meantime if Spanish soldiers can re- main there without food and thrive amid microbes which would be fatal to others, they are tougher than had been supposed. The Spanish commander of the Philippine fleet an- nounces that he is going to capture all the American vessels. This would be much more considerate than to sink them, and, besides, he would find some ‘of them quite useful after he has scared the Americans into the sea. The war bulletins issued by The Call have done good in more ways than one. Through them the | news has been given to the public promptly, and the i bogus “extras,” which were -making life a burden, lave been killed off in most cheering measure. Another man who expectorated on the floor of a street car has been rebuked. He was not only ejected by his whiskers, but fined in the Police Court. Serves him right. Any man old enough to raise whiskers ought to have sense enough to be decent. Properly the Mangrove Lelongs to the ' feather- weight class, and yet she scems quite at home among the middle-weights. z d 1 | tion succeed in avoiding its obligation, | wind up by the taxpayers standing the loss. W l jarring voice. TREASURER ' WIDBER'S BONDSMEN. F the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, the surety corporation which guaranteed the integ- rity of Treasurer Widber, succeeds in evading its liability for the defalcation of that official it will be in order to relegate official bonds in San Francisco to the limbo of farce comedy. No sane person ever ex- pects individual bondsmen to pay. In the eye of the law those bondsmen are always good fellows who ought to be let off, or straw men whose property never-can be discovered when it becomes’ desirable to levy upon it. Personal guarantee bonds have conse- quently long been a joke. But if it shall now be found -impossible to collect from a surety corporation the whole subject should be turned over to Sullivan, Gilbert and Hoyt. Still it must be admitted that, as its manager de- clares, the surety company which guaranteed Widber has a grievance. It had a right to rely on the vigi- lance of the officials deputed by law to make a monthly examination of the Treasurer's accounts. The Widber policy was practically a thirty-day risk. Unquestionably the corporation would have with- drawn from the bond or never issued it had its offi- cers supposed that the Mayor, Auditor or Superior Judge were going to resort to “hefting” the Treas- uter's money sacks or accepting them as true to label. The law says that they shall “see” and count the coin. As a matter of fact they neither saw nor counted it. Whether the failure of the Mayor, Auditor and Su- perior Judge to “see” and count this money constitutes ance as will void the insurance contract of the Fidelity and Deposit Company is a question of aw in which the public will take a lively inter- est. Whether it will be possible, in case the corpora- to make Mayor Phelan pay the shortage is another question of law in which the public will take even a livelier in- terest. There is no difficulty, however, in reaching | a conclusion upon both questions in advance. We do | not hesitate to say that in our judgment the affair will Neither the surety company nor Mayor Phelan will pay; Auditor Broderick and Judge Bahrs cannot pay, hav- | ing nothing with which to pay, and as the taxpayers have plenty they will have to pay. This result has been foreshadowed to some extent by the course of Widber himself. ~When he began stealing he considerately released his individual bondsmen and took out a policy in a foreign surety company. This was very kind of him. Probably had he anticipated that Mayor Phelan might be held re- sponsible he would have persuaded that gentleman to deed his property to trustees and take out a surety bond in some other foreign corporation himself. Evidently Widber intended to rob the taxpayers or the Maryland Surety Company—which seems to have been immaterial. One thing, however, may be considered certain. If Mayor Phelan squirms when his liability becomes fixed—if it ever is fixed—he may as well retire from politics. An attempt to evade returning to the tax- payers the $117.000 stolen by Widber will give to his public spirit and patflotism such a sickly, mercenary hue that the push of all parties will speedily inter him in the political cemetery, unwept, unhonored and un- sung. THE GERMAN ATTITUDE. HILE Great Britain has been prompt to re- spond to the notice given by our Government of the existence of war with Spain, other na- tions have been less regardful, and from Berlin comes the report that Germany, while . observing a strict neutrality, will not at any time issue a formal declara- tion to that effect, “having determined to reserve for itself perfect freedom of action.” In adopting this course the German Government follows the policy it pursued during the war between Turkey and Greece. Perhaps there is some advan- tage in such a position, which is known to diplomat- ists, although it is not clear to the eyes of outsiders. Germany may have had interests to guard in the fight over Crete that would have been jeoparded by a for- mal declaration of neutrality, but it is not apparent to the world that she has any over here that could be injured by her neutrality or bettered by her active in- terference. The attitude taken by the Berlin Government is exactly that outlined and advocated by German news- papers for some time past,-and the fact leads to the conclusion that the press must have been more or less inspired by high officers of state. Upward of a | week ago our dispatches from Berlin gave an elab- orate review of an article in the Hamburger Nach- richten; urging neutrality, but declaring German in- térests must be watched, and closing with the state- ment, “German theoretic opposition to Monroeism can be practically enforced only when German inter- ests are at stake. which is not now the case.” It is worth noting that nearly all leading German papers, -while adverse to American interference in | Cuba, are none the less aware that the sentiment of the large German population in the United States is as loyal to this Government-and as ardent in patriotic devotion to the cause for which America fights as that of any other citizens of the country. All of them, moreover, recognize the importance of respecting in Germany the sentiment of the German-Americans. Even the Nachrichten, while asserting the need of a close watch to protect German interests, adds: “At- tention must be paid to the feelings of Germans in the United ‘States.” The sehtiment of American citizens of German descent and the trade with the home coun- try growing out of it is in fact one of the greatest in- terests Germany has in this hemisphere. It is the one she should most carefully guard. Taking all things into consideration, the announced resolve of the Kaiser's Government to issue no formal declaration of neutrality, but to reserve to itself per- fect freedom of action, is hardly much more than a piece of diplomatic stage play. It sounds, indeed, like the voice of one who expects to be called on to in- terfere before the fight is over, but the meaning may be quite different. At the present outlook, at any rate, German interference is as unlikely as that of Great Britain. - 4 Sausalito, by determining to have open pool- rooms, displays a certain sort of enterprise. - The little suburb does not propose that its young men shall be obliged to Jeave home in order to have their lives corrupted. If they find it necessary, as is often the case. to steal in order to be able to play the races, at least they must spend their stealings at home. The village fathers seem to have overlooked the question of morality, but their commercial instinct comes out clear and strong. ° 5 A question seems likely to arise soon as to what a bond given by a public official is for. There was formerly a Rjeasing theory that the protection of the public was one of the considerations. LR S Another feature of the “extras” is inat they are teaching the innocent newsboy to lie in a loud and THE SPIRIT OF ANARCHY. HE record of several anarchists who, by bomb- throwing and other forms of assassination, have brought themselves into positions in which their lives could be laid bare furnishes an interesting study. They have usually been found to have lived in vio- lation of the moral law which, was in force among | men before national codes were formed, and is under- stood to restrain men even when they are beyond the reach of ‘codes and statutes. Their domestic rela- tions are frequently illicit, and their ideas of rights of property are not derived from the Ten Command- ments. As organized society and the laws of states are based upon the rights of person and property and de- fend the moral foundation of the domestic relations, anarchy lifts its hand against society and against gov- ernment. When confronted with such records as are revealed by the arrest of anarchists who have been guilty of assassination it is their practice to reply that the moral offenses committed by them are also practiced by others who profess to support organized society and to support government. That is obviously true. But such violators of the moral code are secret sinners who realize their of- fense and conceal it, and shrink from making its prac- tice the social rule by the destruction of government and its institutions. The spirit of anarchy is one that resists moral re- straint, that chafes under the discipline of institutions and strikes impartially at church and state, because each is in its way the agent of morality and discip- line. It would seem, then, that anarchy is the cult of ab- normal man, of the class of atavists who reject every- thing that has come into the world with civilization. Those who publicly propagate it are the apostles of crime, the evangelists of assassination. Their cry to the laboring man is that he is a slave, | and no means are omitted to embitter him and make him an agent in the destruction of civilization - and government. It needs no profound knowledge or exalted intelli- gence to discern the motives or deny the premises of anarchy. Modern civilization, which it attacks, has lifted the face of labor from the ground and turned it to the stars. It has taken labor in the mass out of serfdom into independence, out of a hut into a house. It has dotted the nations with schools wherein the | sons and daughters of laboring men have been freely | offered the opportunity for a better education than was within the reach of princes a thousand years | ago. Government and civilization have put the personal and property rights of labor on exactly the same footing and under the same judicial protection as the rights of the rich, born in purple: The improved economic conditions, due to modern civilization, have put over labor a shelter, into its life comforts and on its table food that were the exclu- sive possession of royalty and nobility five hundred years ago. So government and social institutions can point.to what they have done for the enfranchisement of man since the Dark Ages. To what can anarchy point as its achievements for humanity? To the innocent torn to shreds by dynamite; to the President of a republic murdered in his carriage; to a Czar who de- creed freedom and ownership of land to 235,000,000 | serfs, assassinated in the streets of St. Petersburg; to a score of faithful policemen murdered in Haymar- ket square while doing their duty as protectors of person and property. What has all this crime and violence done for labor? Has it given wages, shelter, food and schooling? Has it advanced man a step in the path of further. progress which civilization has opened to him? : Let it blazon its achievements and. inform labor of | the mighty things it has wrought for those who toil, that the world. may strike a balance between murder and civilization as-a means for the uplifting of the race. GUARDSMEN AND VOLUNTEERS. N interesting point in relation to the proposed /E\ wholesale transfer of the National Guard or- ganizations into the Volunteer Army is raised by the Brooklyn Eagle in the assertion that the mem- bers of the National Guard cannot legally ‘resign. from that force in which they are now enlisted nor enter the Volunteer Army until their enlistment terms have expired. The point is of no practical importance at this mo- ment, for the American people have a rough and ready way of overriding legal technicalities when they stand in the way of any action on which the whole nation is resolved. Nevertheless the issue is worthy of consideration, for technicalities of law when brushed aside have a fashion of coming up at times in unexpected ways to torment a good many people. Ii, therefore, there is any obstacle of that kind in the way of transferring guardsmen into the Volunteer Army it ought to be removed by law, so that it may never hereafter cause wrong or injury to any citizen. The Volunteer Army as provided for by Congress 1is to be essentially different from the National Guard. It is organized for different purposes and is under different control. The man who enters the Volunteer Army retires by that act from the National Guard. Nevertheless, the Secretary of War, in issuing his call upon the Governors of the various States for their quotas of volunteers; says it is desired “as far as prac- ticable the National Guard be given the preference.” This preference will of course be complied with by the Governors, and the enlistment of the guards will be encouraged. When this has been done, and the | National Guard has faded away into the Volunteer Army, what force is to do the duty formerly attended | to. by the guard? 3 E The Eagle says the War Department is in the wrong “when it intimates that it will not accept the services of the National Guard unless its members re- sign from their commands and enlist in the army with other volunteers who are coming in from all over the country.” It is not clear, however, how the War De- partment could have done otherwise. The Govern- ment wishes the guardsmen because they are better drilled. than other citizens and because they are al- ready organized, but it cannot accept them on differ- ent terms from other volunteers: who are to be their comrades, to serve in the same regiments and .often ‘in the same companies. A < The tangle is not a very serious one, but it may give rise to complications later on, and the military | authorities ought to straighten it out at once and make a fair start. The young hero who goes to the front cannot expect to -understand everything in re- gard to- his situation in the campaign or in the battles that are to come, but he ought to be enabled to kno whether he is a volunteer or a guardsman. ' —— Of course the story that the powder works explo- sion was the work of a Spanish spy appeared in due . ‘| Varieties. 1898. MUSIC AND To judge from Mme. Albani's experi- ences, Australia must be a “land of Co- caigne” for famous American singers. The prima donna has been making a tour of the country with her own troupe, and she was everywhere received with as much prestige as if she had been a poten- tate visiting a nation of faithful subjects. In the cities the civic authorities vied with one another in receiving her with the greatest pomp, but what will strike greater astonishment into the minds of Americans is the fact that the railroad companies entered into the most zealous competition to see which could claim the honor of having rendered Albani's transit over its line the most agreeable. At Vie- toria the private car belonging to the Governor of the province was given ovet to Albani’s use, and all over the country the best sleeping cars were placed gratis at the disposal of her and her troupe. ~ MUSICIANS. ters have telegraphed to the composer for the right to perform his work. Clamorous crowds attended the five performances at Venice, where Dom Perosi conducted, and as the secular and royalist press was not likely to show any special favor to the work, on account of its composer’s cloth, it is generally conceded that the eulogistic criticisms were due to the real beauty of the music. Dom Perosi, who is worn out with fatigue and the excitement attend- ing his.unexpected notoriety, has hitherto refused to entertain any propositions for performing his music abroad. He has, however, consented to go to Milan and | conduct his oratorio some time during the second week in May. The new: director of .he Tmperial Opera of Vienna is making himself so hated | that a general uprising among the sing- ers and dancers Is expected at any time. He has promulgated a code of Draconic | (=4 0 <] o Q o 0 o o o b 3 o o o 5 o ed a [} o =] < o o o o o [ o o [<] 5 ° o o ° o o o ° o o ° [ o [} < 0 Q ) ] [ o g o 000000600 (From a Recen ODU0BE0C000000 000030 DTOPC00000R9 ;".-5?9‘7939 A . £ . 00000000000 000000000 MME. ALBANI, Whose Tour Has Resembled a Royal Progress. o | Wt O ©oocoopoo0 t Photograph.) The whole tour was one long triumph. One reason for the official character given by the Australians.to Albani's tour was | no doubt the warm esteem-and friendship | in which she is held by Queen Vivtoria She has many times sung “by command’ at court, but, more than that, she has | been received in an informal and entirely friendly way by the Queen—an honor | never ' bestowed by Victoria on any woman, however exalted her rank, unless her. name is spotlessly above reproach. | Albani has been for nearly a quarter of a century one of the most popular prima | donnas in London, and her Australian tri- umph is only the culmination of her Lon- don career. Albert Carre, -director of the Opera Co- mique, has announced that Paris is two | centuries behind the age in the matter of stage mechanism. The only French the- | ater that possesses revolving scenes is the | The system is simple. It con- | sists of a vast round floor which odcupies | the entire depth of the stage, and on| which two scenes can be set, back to| back, so to speak, with all their lighting, scenery and accessories. Scene I-turns when it is no longer needed and gives place to scene II, which has been set for the second act before the performance be- gan. While act II is being played the scenery of act I is replaced by the scen- ery of act III, which by another rota- tion comes to the front as soon as act IL is ended. These successive changes can, | of course, be continued indefinitely, and | thelr effect is to reduce the entr'actes to a minimum. Even the revolving scene of | the Varieties is rudimentary compared to the mechanism of some of the German | theaters. At Munich, stage mechanism | reaches its highest pitch of modernity. In | fact, the idea of a revolving scene at all | s due to King Louis II of Bavaria, who evolved it years ago in making experi- ments in models for stage settings for ‘Wagner’s operas. At the Munich Deut- sches Theater, which is built of iron and cost nearly a million and a quarterdollars, the whole stage mechanism is performed by electricity. An electric dynamo works | the machinery and one man, seated be- | fore an indicator, can, by pressing a but- | ton, perform the work of a whole army of | scene-shifters. In this way fhere are| scarcely any waits between the acts, and the audience is sent home betimes. The only local theater-goers who would com- plain if San Francisco caught up with the age are the gentlemen who go out “to see a man” between the acts. The leading | London theaters have had revolving scenes for years. In Europe—and, unfortunately, also in America—an impression seems to prevail that “Robin Hood"” is the highest oper- | poser, and that “Ma Angeline” is a very | fair sample of native talent for song writ- | ing. Legrand Howland promises to wipe | away the mistaken impression that the | United States possesses no serious com- | posers, and he is accomplishing the feat | by striving to get European indorsement. | The Paris Figaro says of some excerpts | from his opera, “Nita,” which were re- | cently performed under his own direction at Monte Carlo:" “The extreme youth of the composer certainly counted in the | spontaneity of the enthusiastic reception awarded him, but his music shows a very abundant and facile temperament. He possesses melodic and harmonic inven- tion, and he especiaily appeals to his hearers by the great variety of his or- chestral coloring. This interesting debut, consecrated by unanimous applause, gives reason to hope that Legrand Howland may take place among our best operatic composers.’” France to stand ready to adopt him. If other gifted Americans they would prob- ably recelve the recognition they deserve at home. The European papers give long para- graphs to the wonderful success obtained at Venice by a new oratorio, “The Trans- figuration,” written by a young priest- composer, Dom Perosi. The enthusiasm of the Venetians has taken such extra- ordinary proportions that other Italian towns are clamoring to hear “The Trans- | the sudden taking off of Anton Seidl. | This 1S overturning romance with a ven- | geance. aticflight éxpected of the American com- | France adopted McDowell and a few | laws and by-laws which deprive the em- ployes of the Opera of all mersonal lib- erty. No artist can go outside Vienna, even on the days when he is not singing, | without written permission from the management, and whether there is a re- | hearsal or not, the entire corps de ballet has to sign a rollcall at 11 o’clock every | morning. Schroeder and Marie Renard have refused to renew their engagements, and all the lesser singers are contemplat- | ing escape from the thralldom of the Vi- enna Opera. Marie Renard is an idol of the Viennese public, and it will be .hard to replace her. | The Italian papers state that since the | death of his wife Verdi can no longer | bear to live at his beautiful .villa of | Sant Agata, where he lived so happily for years with Signora Verdi. He has de- cided to settle in Milan and will take up | his quarters at the Milan Hotel (Albergo | Milano), where he will retain the suite | of apartments to which the proprietor years ago gave his name. The Milan | Hotel has always been his headquarters | when in the capital of Lombardy, but he | has objected to remaining long in Milan, | as admiring crowds followed him when- ever he went out. No doubt the aged maestro hopes the familiarity will pre- vent the Milanese public from annoying him in this way. Mme. Schumann-Helnk, the famous contralto, has written to deny the rumor that her ten years’ contract with the Berlin opera would prevent her from | i singing at the Metropolitan next season. She says she will positively appear. The letter is to a private friend. Referring to Mme. Heink says she thinks the gap will be hard to fill, but from information re- ceived from Maurice Grau she says Herr Mottl, Arthur Nikisch and Dr. Muck are being negotiated with, the chances being greatly in favor of Dr. Muck’s coming. At Candia, in an old monastery of Ven- etian monks, a number of interesting and hitherto unknown documents have been discovered, relative to Othello, who com- manded the galleys of the Venetian re- public and won several naval victories. These documents state, among other things, that Desdemona survived the famous Moor of Venice many years. Since Shakespeare’s time a number of famous musicians have told in lyric strains the fate of Desdemona, and | now it appears she was not smothered at all. Instead of being a poor victim sing- ing touching ditties, Desdemona lived to become “the widow Othello.” ‘The Berlin papers announce that Wein- gartner has been offered the conductor- Devries, at present the basso cantate ot the Paris Opera Comique, to sing at the Metropolitan in New York next winter, THE DAY HAVANA FELL. “Come, tell us how Havana fell, In eighteen ninety-eight; Now, please, good Uncle Amos, doj Don’t say it Is too late; But tell us how the Yankee ships Set all the Cubans free And drove the cruel Spanish dons Back home across the sea. You saw the smoke and heard the guns And know the story well For you were on the Terror there The day Havana fell.” “Yes, T was there, but on that day, When shells began to screech, | I longed to be at home again On Jersey's peaceful beach. The Terror and the Puritan First bore the battle’s brunt, Then came the Texas, fort of steel, To take the Yankee front. | The alr grew black; the sea grew White; | Each ship became ‘a_hell. | T hardly think that I'll forget The day Havana fell. “Like blacksmiths at their forges red, The unne tofled away. Soronze. hey atmed and firea | Dumb, machines, For nearly half a day. The awful gas from powder smoke Seemed Iike the grip of death, poor fellow dropped, g vain for breath. And every time the turret sides Were struck by shot or. shell, We thought the world to end had come, The day Havana fell. “0l4 Morro's gloomy,_castle walls Belched forth the Spanish hate, And now and then huge bolts of steel Plerced through our armor plate. Their cannon shrieked from Cabanas; The Punta battery's bark Was nearly drowned by Relna's guns, But all were hushed by dark. On_through that hail of lead and irom, *Midst_terrors none can tell, Our gallant ships all fought their way, The day Havana fell. *“And while we struck them from the sea, Old Gomez and his band Swooped down with vengeful merciless might, "And smote. them on the land. ‘Remember Maceo!” they yelled, And whirled the dread machets. “The martyrs of the Maine! we cried— The watchword of the fleet. The fight was over ere the dusk; ‘Peace!’ rang the vesper bell. Its pure tones tolled for brave men gons The day Havana fell. ““The heroes of that day you know; Scores died, but scores yet live To wear the precious laurél crowns That grateful nations give. Once more is Cuba Antilles’ gem, For joy andiplenty reign. The laugh of happy children now Is heard on hill 'and plain, Barbaric_warfare no more stalks, Despolling fleld and dell. The butcher's rule its end did reach day Havana fell. T Shert 1. Hazard in Washington Post ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CUCAMONGA—A. M. H., NewB York . Y. Cucamonga Is In San Bernar- QI oty Gal Tt is distant by rail from San Francisco 524 miles, is on the Yuma division of the Southern Pacific, forty-two miles fgm}os Angeles. RED CROSS SOCIETY—E. L. and others. The Call from day to day will give all the mr‘.rm’llnontgb‘tui!;&gle?n‘l;b%‘;! S, Gy > the Red Cross Soc! el}‘\'atc‘h s ized in this city. g?nthzles paper and you will be thoroughly informed on the subject. THE SUPREME COURT—Subscriber, Berkeley. The Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are: Melville W. Fuller (Chief), John M. Harlan, Horace Gray, David J. Brewer, Henry B. Brown, George Shiras Jr., Edward D. White, Ru- fus W. Peckham and Joseph McKenna. ARMY AND NAVY—A. S, City. A number of young men have in time of peace risen from the ranks at the Pre- sidio_and have been commissioned sec- ond lieutenants. In time of peace gradu- ates of the naval academy at Annapolis are assigned to vacancies on ships, and if there is a surplus of graduates each vear such are given an honorable dis- charge, together with a certificate of graduation and one year’'s sea pay. PARLIAMENTARY—O. H., Oat Hill, Cal. When there is a resolution beferey the house it is in order to move to amend, to amend the amendment or to offer a substitute for the whole. If the question is under debate. no motion shall be re- ceived but to adjourn, to lay ‘'on the table, #o postpone indefinitely, to postpone to a certain day, to commit, or to amend, which several motions shall have prece- dence in the order they stand arranged and the motion to adjourn shall alway be in order and shall be decided without debate. The presiding officer of an or- ganized body is not empowered to call for an adjournment while he is in the chair, while there is a motion pending or other business, but he may, if the rule js—as in certain societies—that no busi- ness can be transacted after a stated hour, drew attention to the fact that the hour for adjournment is at hand. In such a case, if no motion to adjourn is made, the chairman must adjourn the meeting. THE SYSTEM IS WRONG. Ex-Minister Phelps, in The Call of April 23, says the American cannot equal t:e lish navy because we have not the P fave the men, but the best Americans will not enter the navy until there is a chance to work up by ierit to a commission. Once hs. X&l 0:1 alwéys a s contrary to the American idea. Caad, ¥ A. SKINNER. —_————————— REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. Search any married man in March and you will find a tape-measure on him. A man cap always tell when a girl is trying to look conscious and embar- rassed. No girl who is eating candy all the time ever has the proper apprecjation of kiss- ng. igt is probably lucky that men can’t have their choice between the smallpox and housecleaning. Onions don’t grow on a mistletoe tree. Some men's wives will be terribly shocked on the Day of Judgment. A man can very seldom cry when he feels like it; a woman can very seldom feel like it when she cries.—New York Press. —_———————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* e Spectal information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the ‘Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mor:h gomery street. Telephone Main 1o42. ——————e—————— ‘ The oldest bank note in the world was printed in China in 1368—thirty-two years | before Gutenberg, the reputed inventor | of printing, was born. It was issued | 300 years before bank notes were circu- | lated in Burope. DR. SIEGERT'S ANGOSTURA BITTERS s in® | dorsed by physicians and chemists for purity Dou't be defrauded by accepting a substitute. ———————— FoRr ALLAYING HOARSENESS AND IRRITATION oF THE THROAT, “Brown's Bronchigh Troches” aro wonderfully effective. Avoid Imitations. The hottest region on earth is on_the ship of Grau's season of Gen at the Metropolitan next senx::: op;;;: sum named as the inducement is $15,000. Nikisch, according to the same authority, has been offered the conductorship of the permanent symphony orchestra at an hon- ararfum of $20,000 a year. On account of previous engagements both Weingartner and Nikisch bave refused the tempting offers. The German opera season as the Im- perial Marie Theater of St. has been a big success. night of the season the Emperor and the entire court were present, and by im- perial réquest Wagner was shelved for Gounod, whose ‘‘Romeo and Juliet” formed the bill. The De Reszke brothers and Mme. Bolska of the Impegial Opera were almost smothered in flowers at the | end of the performance. Mlle. Berthet is wearing Sibyl Sander- The latter remark shows | S0N's mantle in Massenet roles at the that Howland has enough talent for | Paris Grand Opera. She is a Belgian, and Is one of the hardest students on the lyric stage. On the nights when she does not sing she is in constant attendance at the opera to see if she can learn even an fellow singers. At Berlin a society of musicians hi been founded whose object is to perfofm the unpublished works of living compos- ers. This society is called the Fafner Brotherhood. It will be remembered that Fafner is the name of the monster who in Wagner's opera guards the Rhine gold. | figuration,” and the foreign musical cen- | Maurice Grau has engaged Herman Petersburg | On the final | expressive look or a gesture from her |° | southwestern coast of Persia, where Per- | &ia borders the gulf of the same name. 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