The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 29, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 189S8. APRIL 29, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Froprietor. DSOSV GBS SO S U U Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager, | PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........217 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. THE 6AN 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.... ...908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE --Rigge House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGC 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 unttl 930 o'clock. 621 McAlllster street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 25I8 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. One year, by mall, $1.50° AMUSEMENTS, Baldwin—“The Purser.” Columbia—“The Nancy Hanks.” Californta—* Trilby.” Alcazar—+The Gay Paristans " Morosco's—+The Wicklow Postman.” Tivolt—Snbad the Satlor.” Orphenm—Vaudevilla Sherman, Clay Hall—Paloma Schramm, matinee to-day. Sherman, Clay Hall—Concert to-night. The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville. and “African Lion Hunt" Olympia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties. Cooper Medical College—Lane Lectures. utro Baths—Swimming. po—Music. dancing boating, fishing, every Sunday, ic Coast Jockey Clup, Ingleside—Races to-day. Excursion to Santa Oruz Mountains, Saturday, April 0. _ AUCTION SALES. E. Clark—This d e at 2 o'clock. By 500 Tk st re o'cloe THE EXAMINER T is neither in anger, sorrow nor surprise we call l attention to the fact that the Examiner has once more been indulging its larcenous tendency. To be explicit, it has be ealing again. This has come The Call as a public journal feels bound to record the circumstance just as it chronicles an instance of burglary, the picking of a pocket or the latest confidence exploit of a Soapy Smith. The Ex- aminer is the Soapy Smith of journalism, Yesterday The Call was enabled, through its un- equaled news facilities, to print a full and particu- larly graphic account of the storming of Matanzas Arrangements were perfected long ago whereby every phase of possible battle was to be covered by the Call-Herald service. Trained correspondents were dispatched to all available points, tugs and ocean-going steamers chartered, and the question of cost permitted in no measure to hamper the com- pleten From a Call-Herald boat cor- No The journal- istic world was beaten by The Call-Herald combina- tion. It has been beaten from the first. There is reason to suppose that in the future this combination will continue to show other papers the way. the matter is copyrighted, which adds to the theft an element anger. But the Examiner had only one way to get it. This was by waiting for The Call pear, securing an early copy and clipping out the story The enterprise which rises to the height of the deliberate expenditure of 5 cents to get the news should not be passed un- noticed. It naturally interests the public; it ought to interest the police. to be expected, ss of the plan. respondents witnessed the action off Matanzas. other papers had risen to the occasion. So it was done. Of course the necessity for waiting for its war news until able to steal it delayed the issue somewhat, and the Examiner with its booty was not on the street before The Call had satisfied the demand for the la- test information from the front. The belated larcenist also missed the mails, an incident for which the peo- ple in outside towns have reason to feel grateful but probably will not. The position of the Examiner is little less than pathetic. Long had it clamored for war. Call scooped it on the explosion of the Maine, while the Herald treatedthe Journal the same way. For weeks its editorial room ran ankle deep with bright red gore. Indeed, occagional splotches of this same gore have appeared in the paper, labeled as scenes by special artists. Yet when actually began in acquiescence to the demand of the Examiner, that paper was not there, and could only by the exercise of its justly celebrated dishonesty form connection with any one who had been there. With all its practice the Examiner ought to be less bungling in method. It ought not, for instance, have dated its stolen matter from Chicago, when no Chi- cago paper had it. However, it had the judgment to steal good stuff. We cheerfully give the devil his due, and to his visible agents on earth extend a sim- ilar courtesy. war The story of the storming of Matanzas as presented in The Call of yesterday was a graphic portrayal of the first real action in a war upon which the interest of the world is now centered. It is also notable in that there was no other paper having it except the Herald of New York. It is true that other papers by holding back their forms managed to print fardy and mutilated accounts of the engagement, but the fact that they had stolen from The Call-Herald serv- ice was apparent. The publication of an exclusive story was a striking triumph here. It was even greater in New York, for the Herald is supposed to have rivals. An evening paper sets forth that big type does not make news. In the same issue it has as a headline the word “‘Battle” in type three and a half inches high, so placed that when the paper is folded there is little else visible. And there had been no battle at the time of the issue. Verily, while big type does not make news it can make a bluff. ettt Admiral Sampson’s men have been remembering the Maine. If they got 100 Spaniards they made a very good start. But it will require 166 more to square the account. Then the interest must be ex- acted also. Bunko men who boast of a pull with the Police Courts are inconsiderate. The least they could do in decency would be to quietly enjoy the pull without boasting, as this draws attention to a Police Judge, who is prone to avoid notoriety. The brand of neutrality Portugal is displaying seems to have been cut bias. ¢ April 29, Turkish Rugs, at 106 And all | THE WAR OUTLOOK. MERICANS do not misunderstand the situa- f\ tion and its responsibilities. Other nations are" in a condition of waiting anxiety. The strug- | gle may soon broaden and we should prepare for it as if intending to fight it out alone. Hostility of the Continental nations is to be expected, and if Spain had their respect she would not lack allies from the beginning. One feature is of deep significance. The.South and Central American nations are silent. It was reason- able to expect from their people evidences of en- | thusiastic sympathy. They all owe much to the | United States. They have not turned to us in vain heretofore for friendship in the complications com- | mon to their turbulent and truculent people. ~We guaranteed Nicaragua in the Corinto affair. The | Monroe doctrine delivered Mexico from Maximil- ian. We lifted Venezuela out of a difficulty with Eng- land of sixty years’ standing. We supported the con- stitutional government of Brazil against the actionists of 1804. We have offered them a profitable market on terms fairly reciprocal, and American cap- ital and enterprise have developed their resources and energized their industries. Yet they are silent while we mass our battalions and squadrons to ex- pel from the hemisphere that Government against | re- which the most of them rebelled. Later on they will see more clearly the stake they {have in our success. Granting that we, as the Primate of this hemisphere, have challenged every power but one in the other, our purpose is not to add a rood to our territory nor a dollar to our treasury. We win for the elevation of government and its higher adaptation to the happiness of the governed. But suppose the struggle rises to a duel with Conti- nental Europe, can our American neighbors maintain a silent indifference? If in such a struggle we fail, every national frontier from the Rio Grande to the Straits of Magellan is in danger of European invasion and every national standard from Mexico to the Ar- gentines may be summoned to surrender. It is no strained forecast of such a possibility to see that within five years the Continental allies may be treating with each other for a partition of Central and nk W. Butterfield—This day, April 2. Furniture at| South America, and the political geography of this — | hemisphere will undergo changes as acute as have | taken place in Europe within the last two centuries. | We hold to these countries south of us the same relation that England held to the Continent during | the menace of Napoleon’s career. When his shadow | was cast irom the Skager Rack to the Pyramids the | German, Latin and Russian peoples had to turn to | the Anglo-Saxons of the British Isles to protect their autonomy and break the Corsican’s scheme of uni- versal empire. They had no time to consider the | prejudices of race or religion. Self-preservation sponged out all such issues. Americans are now | sneered at in the Continental press as dollar worship- ers. So Napoleon sneered at the British people as a nation of shopkeepers. These epithets only mean | that the two nations by law so protect person and property rights that their people thrive, There is a wide difference between a people who fight to protect the winnings of their industry pro- | moted by their government and one that fights simply to change the angles of its misery and distress. Men \’ get dollars and have the profits of trade and shop- | | keeping only where they are the least hindered by bad | government. The countries in which such men are | lfmmd are continually enriched and strengthened by | the immigration of the enterprising from lands where fortune and enterprise will never be pointed to as a reproach, for they do not exist. Spain is an illustration of the decay of a people who | BRING. OUT THE FACTS. LL good citizens will sincerely hope, now that fl United States Circuit Judge Morrow has paved the way for an exhaustive inquiry into the accounts of the Southern Pacific Company, that the Board of Railroad Commissioners will do their full duty. For a long time the impression has been general that this corporation is frequently black- mailed by newspapers and politicians. It is not within reason to assume that it willingly pays out its money. If it did so it would be an anomaly among human in- stitutions. In fact, everybody knows that the rail- road monopoly corrupts only those who desire to-be corrupted—those who, like Poo Bah, continually hold out their hands for bribes. For proof of this we need inquire no further than the “advertising” contract between the Southern Pa- cific Company and the Examiner. What rational man believes that the former agreed in writing to pay the latter $1000 a month for thirty months on any other theory than that the money would purchase immunity for the corporation during that period? Even if there was no clause in the contract stating in terms that this was its purpose, the purpose would be plain upon the face of the instrument itself. What need has the Southern Pacific to advertise? Does it not already monopolize every means of transportation in the State? Why should it seek to induce people to patronize its roads by “advertising” when they are compelled to patronize them or walk? There is reason to believe that ‘the Southern Pa- cific’s inability to pay dividends arises largely from the fact that it is forced to give large sums annually to blackmailing newspapers and their instruments, the boodling politicians. Whether this is done to pro- tect the corporation’s property from spoliation or not | is immaterial. The question is, Is it done? We know for a fact that it was done in the case of the Examiner. We further know that ever since C. P. Huntington cut off the Examiner's subsidy- that paper has vilified him personally and misrepresented the corporation of which he is the head, evidently for the purpose of forcing him to resume business relations. Now that Mr. Huntington is here he should be made to tell all about this affair. Moreover, he should be compelled to show to what extent the inability of the Southern Pacific to pay dividends on its stock is due to similar blackmailing operations. As we understand it, rates of freights and fares on | the monopoly’s lines cannot be fixed by the Rail- road Commission so long as it does not earn a rea- sonable interest on the money invested in it. This | is a jurisdictional point which has been settled by the Supreme Court of the' United States. It therefore becomes the duty of the Commissioners to-ascertain —with a view to cutting them off—to what extent the dividend paying capacity of the corporation has been impaired by illegitimate expenses. We - hope - this work will be taken up by the board at once and prose- cuted to a speedy conclusion. The public is tolerably ‘familiar with the, transac- tions between the Southern, Pacific and the ‘Exam- iner, but it would like to hJ:we further details’ from Mr. Huntington’s own lips. If his corporation has been blackmailed at other times by the Examiner, or by other newspapers, the public would like. to -hear about that also. A'full investigation should ‘be made while Mr. Huntington is here. THE FEARS OF EUROPE. S being now out of office and virtually out of | politics, feels at liberty to talk a little more | IGNOR CRISPI, former Premier of Ttaly, freely than other European statesmen, and accord- stew in their own juice—of a land that attracts no | 1ng1yvh'as be‘en giving h’s"e“_'s on the war between; | S Carieration | the United States and Spain with a frankness that re- | Our South American neighbors will learn in good | \'c:als eome m,the inner thoughts of the diplom:msts“ time that they have national existence only because | ©f the Old World, and therefore helps us to under- | the United States are planted here, and that if our flag | stand why in this emergency the sympathies not only Then The | had not been in the sky theirs would never have been | given to the breeze. | The American spirit rises as the scene is disclosed. Suddenly embarked in the most majestic military en- | terprise in history, made so, not by the formidable | resources of our enemy, but by the issues of right we | | have undertaken to establish by the sword, we move | on toward the conclusion, without allies and asking | none, confident that the ship that is freighted with the hopes of man and bears the destiny of unborn mil- | lions, cannot be made to strike her colors. THE PRIVATE CITIZEN. | AVID BENNETT HILL, who for some time D past has been known as a statesman without a job, has made his debut in a new role—that of after-dinner orator, and according to reports has achieved on his first appearance a distinguished suc- cess. The scene of the event was a banquet of the | Utica Chamber of Commerce, and the toast assigned | to the ex-Senator was the very appropriate one, “The | Private Citizen.” | The speaker has never been noted as a wit or a | humorist, and he made no attempt to rival Chauncey | Depew. His address was directed rather to the coun- try at large than to the banqueters around him, but even with them it found cordial approval and respon- | sive cheers. He spoke of the character of American citizenship and of the quality of manhood which the | responsibilities and liberties have developed in the United States, and, rightly enough, found the best | and most fitting illustration of his words in the man- | ner in which private citizens are now confronting the | issue of war. | “Never,” said Mr. Hill, “was the true grandeur of the simple citizen better illustrated than during the f recent crisis of our country’s affairs, when with pa- tience, fortitude and hope he awaited for several weeks the decision of the momentous issue committed to the determination of those vested in authority, calm when officials were excited, resolute but not boisterous, and whether the outcome was to be righteous war or honorable peace, he was disposed to accept the conclusion as a wise and just résult, having | confidence not only in the laudable earnestness of' Congress, but in the sincere discretion and caution of a patriotic President.” | This description of the attitude of the private citi- zens of the United States-toward the Government and the crisis will stand the test of a more critical scrutiny than is usually given to after-dinner orations. It accurately portrays the fact. Some yellow journals and some demagogues denounced the President and blustered about the delay in Congress, but the great of the Italians and the French, but even of the Ger- mans, are on the side of the Spaniards. Crispi, in discussing the probable outcome of the conflict, conceded the success of the United States, | and then went on to say: “It is to be feared that the Americans, intoxicated by an easy victosy, will throw | haphazard all their energy against the European colo- nies left in their neighborhood. Canada assnredly‘ will be one of their first victims, unless an Anglo- American alliance is established between London and Washington—and that would offer to my mind dangers for the peace of the world.” Abundant evidences exist that the fear of American growth and development as something menacing to the peace of the world is not confined to Crispi, To a greater or less extent it is shared by all Europe. It shows itself in matters of industry and commerce as well as in questions of politics and war. The great nations of the Old World have ®egun a far-reaching struggle for dominion over the globe, and the con- test is already under way in Central Africa and in all parts of Asia. The combined powers of Continental Europe feel quite capable of driving Great Britain from the field when the time comes for them to act in concord and demand the partition of China, the evacuation of Egypt and the division of Africa, but what if there appear another Richmond in the field? What if the United States, a mightier and stronger nation of Anglo-Saxon blood, rises to take part in the fight? This possibility of the appearance of the United States as an active competitor in the world for its markets and its powers is what alarms the Caesars of Europe, They cannot be persuaded that the Amer- icans are an unaggressive race. They see our farmers sending produce to undersell European farmers in their own markets. They see our manufacturers gaining trade under the very walls of their own fac- tories. They feel the crushing force of our industrial and commercial competition in their very capitals. Seeing and feeling these things, they are frightened by the prospect of what is to come, and in the new display of our energies to drive Spain from C\Aba they behold “a menace to the peace of the world. Whether these fears are well or ill founded only the future can make certain. The United States at present aims at no conquest. We are quitejsatisfied with the extent of our territory and have no thought of aggression, even for the annexation of Canada. We have, nevertheless, been forced into this war, and may be eventually forced into another. Europe, in her aggressive schemes for the partition of the world, has therefore some reason to fear the growing power of the United States. We are drifting, says Crispi, “toward the un- mass of the people were calm, firm and confident of the outcome. with equal confidence rely upon the private citizen. have along the Rio Grande border. known.” This is true, but that unknown which is to increase {he prestige and influence of the United | Nor is the private citizen disturbed now that war | States will not mean a menace to the peace of any na- has come. He is as calm in action as he was during | tion that acts rightly, 4or carry aggression into any the weeks of waiting. He relies, as Mr. Hill said, | fields save those of industry that increase the welfare upon a “patriotic President,” and the President can | of mankind. The parents of the seven-year-old at Los Angeles If the Spanish in Mexico really want to take to the | who during his brief career has shot three different warpath, Texas scems to be just the sort of State to | people would be wise to provide their explosive off- spring with a new variety of :ny.-- B 'THE SUNDAY CALL., HESE are war times and the boom of big guns has already been heard. Of course it must follow that when death-dealing missiles are flying about promiscuously somebody is going to get hurt. For those who give up their lives for their country there is nothing to be done except to perform the last sad rites, but not all who fight will be killéd. Many will be only wounded. It is to look after these that the Red Cross League was formed some’ years ago. agreed to resp At a certain peace congress the big nations of the world all t the “Red Cross” whenever it appeared on a battle-field. A Red Cross brigade is soon to be formed in California, and of course you want to know all about the duties that will be expected of them. READ THE SUNDAY CALL, And you will find out all about this organization of mercy—what it has done. in the past and what it expects to do in the future. Now that the American fleet is before Havana and lable to open fire at any moment you are sure to be interested in bombardments. been a number of memorable ones in the history of the world. There have Sometimes the besieged city got the best of it, but most frequently it had to succumb to the bombarders. IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. The most important of these bombardments will be described with the most accurate historic detail. No modern war can be carried on without explosives. compounds have to be made somewhere. The terrible It so happens that one of the biggest factories in the country is in California. There was an awful ex. plosion there a few days ago and several men lost their lives. But a CALL writer visited the place a short time before the explosion took place and _saw Jjust how the deadly compounds are made. All this will be described IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. : As well as putting soldiers in the field and buying powder, just now the Government is employing thousands of men to work on ships and ports. One of the biggest places in the country is not far from San Francisco. Great crowds of workingmen are rushing there for work. Just how the men 80 about obtaining employment and get paid after it is done will all be told IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. Christian sclence is extending its scope and finding new adherents every week. Whether you belleve in the doctrine or not you are sure to be interested in an article on the subject by Mrs. Mary Baker-Eddy, the founder of the institution. The well-known editor of the Boston Globe, Charles H. Taylor, will tell you how to become a journalist. At least he will tell you how he became one and a successful man is a very good one to follow. Ferris Hartman’s latest song is good, as good as any of his old ones. It is entitled “Time Will Cure All Things,” and will be published, words and music, IN NEXT SUNDAY’'S CALL. If you want to know about the strange things that a glass swallower’s stomach is capable of containing, READ THE SUNDAY CALL. There will also be an article about the late eclipse that was witnessed by all the great scientific societies in India. A Pacific Coast institution secured a number of fine photographs of this great event and they will be reproduced IN NEXT SUNDAY’S CALL. In addition there will be the latest fashion news, society, whist, books, fraternal, a page for boys and girls and ALL THE LATEST WAR NEWS FROM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS, READ NEXT SUNDAY’S CALL. ST IT WILL BE FULL OF GOOD FEATURES AND FINE PICTURES. TS COLLECTED IN _THE CORRIDORS Judge Charles Silent of Los Angeles is 4 guest.at the Palace. : Rev. C. S. Fackenthall of Princeton, N. J., is a guest at the Grand. F. H. George, a merchant of Juneau, Alaska, is a guest at the Grand. A. B. Shoemaker has come down from Modesto and Is staying at the Palace. Charles A. Seley, who has been confined with a bad attick of malaria, is again about. Madame Melba has returned from her trip to Los Angeles and is staying at the Palace. E. 8. de Golyer, the Los Angeles mining expert, is at the Palace, where he arrived yesterday. John N. Woods, a prominent attorney of Stockton, is one of the late arrivals at the Palace. % H. W. Bayliss, a capitalist of Santa Barbara, is at the Occidental on his way home to England on a visit. 00000O0OOOOO There is indig- & 0 nation loud and o SPANIARDS o deep being ex- o CAPTURE THE o Pressed in certain musical circles over the action of ] O the management 0000000000 of the Baldwin relating to the band it employs to dis- course sweet music while those who have been on the right horses during the after- noon congregate in the cafe to recuperate from the fatigues of the day and to bolster their systems with strength- giving viands for the arduous pursuits of the night. It seems that the original orchestra was an all-American team, and was subject to the orders of a union that would not allow them to play for less than $90 per week. Now their performance may have been worth that sum or it may not have been. Any way, the management came to the conclusion that it could get just as good for less money, and consequently discharged the Yankee outfit, supplying their places with a lot of Spanish trou- badours, who, springing from generations of servile®peasantry, had offered them- selves for the paltry sum of $50 a week. That is why new strains of a sweet but foreign music are now to be heard echoing through the arches of the Baldwin grill and entrancing the patriotic gourmands who gather there, against their will. OBALDWIN GRILL.© Rev. H. H. Chapham, the leading Pres- byterian minister of Tacoma, is among yesterday's arrivals at the Occidental. L. O. Howard, who is connected with the Treasury Department, is registered at the Occidental from Washington, D. C. J. D. Carr, the Salinas capitalist, has come up to the city to visit his daughter, Mrs. Seale, who Is staying at the Oc- cidental. N R. 8. Metsham, Arthur Metsham and Maurice Marsden are three travelers from England who arrived in the city yester- day and went to the Baldwin. ‘William Sproule, freight trafic manager of the Southern Pacific Company, who has been so ill, has recovered sufficiently to resume the duties of his office. Prince Einwha of Korea arrived in the city last night on his way from Wash- ington to his home in the far away East. The prince has been some time traveling in Europe and the United States study- ing so as to fit himself thoroughly for the responsibilities he will be obliged to as- sume when he-reaches his native land. ‘With the prince as traveling companions are San K. Seen and Sang K. Ha, two Korean nobles. 0000000000 O COMPREHENSIVE© “S8o you would like to hear of how I escaped © AS MOST from massacre 2 DIPLOMATIC hen T yas gus 01 e crew of the o SIORIES e eta 000000 0O0DO0O0 an old gentleman in the office of the California. ‘““Well, my boy, draw your chair a littls closer and I will spin you a yarn that will make your “hair raise. “There lived some few years ago, and may be living yet for all I know to the contrary, in an isolated portion of South- ‘eastern Oregon a gentleman of a saturn- | ine disposition by the name of *Jackass” | Cassidy. Cassidy was a tender of flocks | on the honey-scented slopes of the afore- | mentioned country, and had earned his | sobriquet by certain characteristics which had been moticed in his composition by his numerous friends and admirers. 062 inhabitant other towns Laoag, 30,642; Lipa, 43.403; Banang, 3% Batangas, 2 7. There is a small resident Spanish population, put a large number of Chinese. The native inhabitants are mostly. of the Malayan race, but thers are some tribes of Negritos. The Govern- are “Some thirty miles from the habitat of | ment Is adminisiered by a Governor Gen- eral and a Captain General, and the Mr. Cassidy there dwelt a gentléman of | forte thirec provinces are ruled by Goro large landed acquirements, bunches of cattle that were wont to stray | through the fences surrounding the domi- | cile of “Jackass,” thereby causing that | individual much labor and mental dis- | comfiture. Jackass thought over the | matter for some time, and concluding tnat | the trespass must cease began to de- Hberate on the best manner of bringing it to an end. After considerable thought he figured out that the surest and most | satisfactory way to settle the whole | trouble was to kill the owner of the | cattle. Accordingly one fine morning Cassidy loaded up his sfx-shooter and | saddling up the old gray mule on which | he always traveled he rode thirty miles | to the house of his neighbor, and, finding him at home, Jackass dismounted, tied | his mule to a fence and entered the ranch | house to finish the job as soon as pos-| | sible, as he had promised to sup and | sleep at the house of a friend as soon as | ¢ He got | In he had concluded his business. inside the door, when the owner of the | ranch hit him on the head with an iron | cuspidor, and then, carefully beating him | into a jelly, threw him outside where he | ‘would bleed in the dust and not soil any- | thing. | “Jackass came to in about an hour and going over to the fence where his mure was tied, unfasfened that patient animal, | and mounting returned to his pastoral | home.” i “Very interesting,” said the young man who had listened to the story, “but Whati has that to do with the capture of the Virginius?"” “I have told you the story,” said his| companion, “and for any other informah! tion I must refer you to the archives of the State Department.” SONG OF THE VOLUNTEERS. The foe has weighed his anchors, And his fleet is on the main; He has dragged the starry banner Through the reeking dust of Spain! There's a stricken one who craves us To avenge & cruel wrong, And_we're coming, Uncle Willlam— A hyndred thousand strong! There's a noble warship lying On the bottom of the sea; There are weeping wives and mothers In the Jand where men are free! There's a debt that must be settled, Let the word be passed along; We are coming, Uncle Willlam— A hundred thousand strong! Hurrah! Hurrah, for Cuba, Bleeding child of cruel Spaint And remember, oh, remem The martyrs of the Main In the noble name of Justice, For the punishment of wrong, We are coming, Uncle William— ‘A hundred thousand strong! S, Kiser, in Cleveland Leader. | —_—————————— | YOUNGEST BOY IN BLUE. 01d Uncle Sam hr"n'x“"tflu'f' voy, The youngest of all In blue; He's the Naval Reserve, with lots of nerve And plenty of courage, too— : 80 Give him & place in the famil~ lads, we've | plenty for him to do. At sea he chaffs the sallor-men And joins in their daily worl With st bis might (though he'd rather fight), For he never was built for a shirk, So sling his hammoék up forard, lads, and teach him to use the dirk. On land he elbows and jostles about, Or marches all day in the sun, With a cheery smile for every mile ‘And a frolic when day is done— But_when you get in a skirmish, men, doesn’t know how to run. he Then fill your mugs to the young'n, lads, Whd mixes with every crew On land or sea, wherever he be, ‘We'll always find him true, And we'll give him a gllc:flln !thedcolme' lads, *s plent- for him to do. s D New York Evening World. —_—— THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. The Philippine Islands extend almost due north and south from Formosa to Borneo and the Moluccas, embracing an extent of 16 degrees of latitude and 9 of longitude. They are over 400 in number; the' largest two are Luzon (area 40,024 English square miles) and Mindanao, The capital of the Philipvines. Manila, has who. owned | e | sels of 425 | 65 4th st. (Note number); also Sundays. S Alcaldes, or commandants, accord- ing to their importance and position. The estimated f the P s in 715,980, hilippine n export duty on tobacco, and almost every article of foreign production is heavily taxed on being Imported. On muslins and petro- leum the duty is about 100 per cent of the cost. The chief products are hemp, sugar, coffee, copra, tobacco leaf, cigars, indigo. Gold mining is being carried on in Luzon with favorable prosg and coal mining in Cebu, where, when arrangements for carriage are completed, the output is ex- pected to be about 5000 tons a month. In 1864 the total Imports were valued $25,530,000 and exports at the chief exports were bales (one ba s valued at £1, ) unds valued at £].2 valued at £ quintals; cigars 3,000; coffee, 104 Owing to disease, the production of s falling off. The chief imports are rice were imported aigon and Singapore; ns from Australia an Japan; 337.638 cases of petroleum. On an average, about 3 per cent of the import value is from the United Kingdom, 21 per cent from Hongkong and Am per cent from Spain and 10 per cent Singapore and British India. Imports pal nt In&'gom the Philippine Islands in 1894, is 19.3 Islands, pesetas (the value of the peseta 4 s ts): exports to Philippine 84,122 pesetas. Tn 1895, 304 ves- tons cleared the ports of Manila, Iloilo and Cebu. There are 720 miles of telegraph in the islands and 70 miles of railway. . The coin in use is the Mexican dollar with locally coined fractional currency. The import of,foreign money is illegal, but that of Mexican dollars is permitted. —Stalesman’s Year Book. ——— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, BLACKSMITH'S PAPER-S., City. The newspaper catalogues of the United States fall to show that there is pub- lished a paper devoted exclusively to the blacksmith’s trade. 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