The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 30, 1898, Page 6

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Butterfield—This day, April 80, Furniture at set, at 11 o'clock By N. E. Cl Grant aven: T POWDER-MILL EXPLOSIONS. OPULAR suspicion that the explosion of the | ppm\'dcr mill at Santa Cruz was due to Spanish | treachery will be increased by the news oi the | at Dover, N. J. 1It]| dence that two such im- explosion of the powder m is ce 1ly a singular coi ..APRIL 30, l&pBE | valid and compel their payment out of the resources | . ten times that number. WAS BRIBERY USED? ATRIOTISM, that love of country which pmoves men to the highest personal sacrifice, is sometimes simulated by pretenders who use it | to conceal sinister and covert motives and purposes of individual profit. It was knowledge of this pre- tended sentiment that moved Dr. Johnson to define patriotism as “the last refuge of a scoundrel.” Cer- tain yellow journals in this country have been scream- ing for a year to bring about recognition of the so- called government of a faction of the insurgents in Cuba. That government has issued bonds in a large amount, and its recognition would make these bonds of the island when it becomes independent, if the fac- tion that issued them is recognized as being a gov- ernment prior to such independence. It is known that $2,000,000 of these bonds was offered to the proprietor of an influential Chicago pa- per if he would push recognition. As this offer was made, it does not require a suspicious nature to con- clude that similar offers were made and accepted by the yellow journalists. Any one familiar with the blackmailing record of Hearst may even see in the | yellow zeal for recognition shown by his two papers a motive with nothing better than a bribe at its base. His gross abuse of the President for disfavoring recognition and his faking of exciting statements | which would create a public opinion to bring press- ure on the President and Congress perhaps were evidence of a desire to force a policy that would validate bonds and make them a lien upon Cuba. The last American Consul to escape from the island says that the so-called government which | Hearst wanted recognized can muster at the maxi- mum only 35,000 fighting men, while he believes that | Spain can secure from the island population about It appears, then, that Hearst wanted to recognize a faction that does not command | the confidence and support of a majority of the islanders, who want independence, but object to} being forced to take that minority faction as thcir} government. | If it become certain that this vile scheme for per- sonal profit was the motive of Hearst and the cause | MAKE IT THOROUGH. F the Railroad Commissioners undertake an inves- ltigation of the expenditures of the Southern Pa- cific Company for the purpose of determining | whether or not the corporation is able to pay divi- | dends upon its capital stock they should make the in- quiry thorough and complete. There will be no ex- | cuse for a partial investigation. For instance, it will be entirely unsatisfactory for the Commissioners to ascertain the amount paid in salaries to officials, the amount consumed in influencing legislation and the amount charged for legal expenses without in- quiring as to the sums which have been paid to news- papers as a consideration for their silence. There is a rumor that a certain journal in this city has a “pull” with the Commissioners by which.it will be enabled to suppress all inquiry by them concern- ing the journalistic operations of the Southern Pa- cific Company. We do not credit this rumor. If such an influence exist we doubt whether the mem- bers of the board would be as anxious as they appear to be to precipitate an inquiry, because it is abso- lutely certain that if the investigation proposed is un- dertaken everything will come out. Somebody will be present to ask concerning the expenditures of the corporation for newspaper silence, even if the Com- missioners themselves shall be opposed to exploit- ing that branch of the subject. Besides the $1000 a month paid to the Examiner for twenty-two months of editorial complaisance upon Southern Pacific subjects, we are informed that the same sheet was paid $7000 for publishing Colonel Creed Haymond's address before the Senate Com- mittee on Pacific Railroads, $5000 for keeping its hands off the Pattison Pacific Railroad investigation and $2500 for a blooded colt which Senator Stan- ford lost in an attempt to do business with the pro- prietor of the sheet. Here is $36,500 expended by the corporation for illegitimate purposes. We are in- formed also that during a single year, not very long ago, the corporation declined to collect a bill of over $30,000 for transportation from the same journal. These matters are of serious moment, and if the money of the corporation is being wasted as they seem to indicate surely the Railroad Commissioners of his detraction of the President, the people will | have an account to settle with him and his indecent | papers. A war upon the high ground on which the influence of the President has succeeded in putting | it is sad enough as a means for enforcing a great | policy. It will cost dearly in lives and treasure, but | its success will be accepted by the country as worth | the sacrifices it will demand. | portant works should have been blownupin such swift | succession within so short a period since the declara- | tion of war against Spain. | At Santa Cruz and at Dover the powder mills were | running at full speed for the manufacture of ammuni- | tion for the Government. The need of smokeless powder is urgent, and the mills therefore are of the highest importance to the nation at this emergency. The increased activity at the works of course in- creased the chances of explosions, but this was fore- seen and increased care was exercised. That both of | them should have been destroyed under such circum- | " stances is therefore a coincidence which recalls the destruction of the Maine and inevitably awakens sus- picion of foul pla In the United States there is so large a liberty of action granted to individuals and the population is | made up of persons of so many nationalities that it is comparatively easy for unscrupulous persons to inflict g nage upon the country and escape | detection. Men of all races come and go freely in our cities and throughout the country. We cannot read- ily perceive the difference between the loyal and patriotic American of Spanish or Mexican descent and the sneaking spy or treacherous dynamiter who cunningly slip ‘into the country to work some devilish scheme against the Government. The two explosions may have been the result of accident, but they should serve to put the Govern- ment and the people on guard against possible treachery hereafter. In each case the official inves- | tigation into the causes of the disaster should be made with the closest scrutiny. Accidents in pow- der mills are of course difficylt of avoidance, but un- der the present circumstances we ought not to be too easily persuaded that the explosion of these two mills in such swift succession was merely a coincidence of accidents. | ma; i e e — Since the yellow press has taken to sending out commissioners instead of correspondents, a difference between the two has become apparent. A correspon- dent tries to get news, and exerts himself to put it on the wire. A commissioner is too high-toned to be | hampered by mere facts. He interviews Princes and potentates without having seen them, hLe tells of the | policy of nations, detailing as confidentially revealed to himself plans never formed nor contemplated. He directs the movements of navies and armies, knocks a throne over by a stroke of the pencil, erects it with an eraser. He cables over the inmost thought of the Vatican, describes engagements that never oc- cur, or that, occurring, he never saw. He boasts of bravery which is bogus, of achievements never at- tained. In short he is an all-round liar, faker, fraud, a mischief-maker and a nuisance. Germany desires to retain freedom of action during the present trouble, and if the Kaiser can refrain from indulging in one of his justly celebrated tantrums per- haps there will be no objection. But if in his capacity of war lord he tries war-lording over a scrimmage which is no concern of his, the hesitancy about calling bim to his senses, so far as possible, will be notable for its entire absence. It appears that the Board of Education has stolen enough lumber from each school to build a house. Perhaps the honorable body can plead that it would have been a small house, anyhow, but it is not easy to see how circumstances will permit the presentation of any better excuse, and this would be regarded by the public as faulty. ST R It is not pleasant to read that the Panther, a ship loaded with marines and apprentices, is a leaky tub with a downward tendency manifest every time the wind rises. It would seem to the lay mind that the marines will be exposed soon enough to unavoidable perils. SRR 6% 2 A question has arisen as to whether Widber did not bury some of the money he stole. Probably he did not, or the present circumstances would have a tendency to make him dig it up. Widber had money to burn, not to bury. S s The morning paper which stole a copyrighted pic- ture from Truth ought:to have done that publication the honor to have produced a reasonably fair copy of the booty. People do not care to see a sky-blue cruiser sailing right into a geyser of catsup. School Director Gallagher appears not to like the But a war on the ground urged by Hearst, to put ‘ millions in the pockets of its promoters and to saddle | those millions on the people of Cuba in the shape of | bonds issued by a fly-by-night government, would; have been the vilest thing in history. Forewarned is forearmed. The Congressional elections will take place in all probability before the | war is over, and the Hearst papers and others which | may be actuated by the base motive of gain will be | found inflaming the people in favor of electing a | Congress which will recognize the government in Cuba which has issued a blanket mortgage upon the island. This must be prevented. The highest dic: | tates of patriotism forbid that a corrupt finaneial | scheme shall succeed by misusing the high sentiments of the American people. Hearst has exploited his qualities as a blackmailer | by rifling the treasuries of corporations and exacling'j money for “fair treatment,” as set forth in the con- | tract. But bluckmailing of a people like the Cubans, | with the U .ited States army and navy to enforce it, is a scheme so abhorrent that it would turn the stom- ach even of Weyler. e ELECTRIC EVNERGY IN FRANCE. GUILLAIN has recently submitted to the /\/\ French Chamber of Deputies a report of a | * commission upon the distribution of energy from natural sources throughout the country, to- gether with a bill designed to promote by govern- mental action thie extension of the distribution on a grand scale. The object of the movement is to pro- | vide the French people with the full use of the water and other natural power which is now going to waste | to a great extent, and if carried out will of co,grse‘ vastly increase the working strength of the nation. J‘ It is pointed out in the report that the construction | of railways by cheapening the cost of transportation ‘ of raw material has massed the working population | into large cities, most of which are distant from} waterfalls and other natural sources of power. The | invention of a means of transmitting energy by elec- [ tricity from the water power to the city has compen- sated for the loss occasioned by the original removal of the factory from the place where the fall exists, | Hence the development of that transmission is one of ‘ the needs of the time. The raw material having been | carried from the country to the city, the naturafl power must now be carried there also. i According to the report of the commission the | waterfalls of France have a force which is estimated | to surpass the motive power generated by all the ! steam engines in the entire world outside railways | and steamboats. By a well devised system of clec-‘ trical transmission every pound of this power could be made available for use in city or country, and the ‘ productive energies of the nation largely increased. | An important feature of the transmitted energy is the facility with which it can be subdivided and de livered in force proportioned to the demand. The big | factory can obtain 100-horsepower, and the indepen- dent workman in his small shop can get half a horse- power with equal ease. Moreover, the farmer can | have it in his fields as well as the artisan in his work- shop. This fact may have far-reaching consequences, for one of the reasons why small factories are now being crowded out by the larger ones is the superior advantages of the big factories in the matter.of power. When the individual worker can get power on some- thing like equal terms with his giant competitor there is likely to be considerable change in our in- dustrial system. From the reports of the bill which have come to us through Le Petit Journal it is not clear to what ex- tent the commission would have the Government ex- ercise control over the transmission of energy. It is certain, however, that the aim is to prevent this vast power from falling into the hands of monopolies or other irresponsible control. The natural energies of France are to be developed for the whole people of France, and if the great plan is carried out the bene- fits likely to accrue can hardly be overrated. Madrid diplomatists are sounding the praises of the Spanish soldiers in Cuba, which is very kind of them. However, a stock of provisions patriotically projected through the blockade would be more con- ducive to the accumulation of fat on the soldierly rib. It seems necessary to remind certain gentlemen of commercial instinct that the American flag was not Grand Jury, and there is painful evidence that the emotion to which he gives voice is mutual, | designed for the purpose of advertising even so F | truth- than fancy in this indictment. | by those who are not to be classed among the | attack on the measure would have been exposed, for should put the facts on record. Indeed there will be no excuse for them if they do not. If they ignore the subject in pursuance of a political or other “pull” which the Examiner is alleged to have with them it will be to their immeasurable discredit. There is a rule of evidence which provides that when a fact is asked for in testimony the opposition is entitled to bring out all the other facts bearing on the matter. This rule should be adopted by the Railroad Com- missioners in their proposed investigation. WAR TAXES AND PATRIOTISM. AN INVOCATION BY © ROBERT BURNS WiLsoN, Great God, the stately ships that ride Beneath our banner, on the sea— The nation’s heart, the nation’s pride— These we commend to Thee. These—with the brave devoted souls, Whose dauntless courage now must bide The shock of battle where it rolls And storms across the darkening tide— These we commend to Thee. If war’s red wine must fill the cup ‘Which may not pass from us, then send Thy strength to bear each spirit up— Our stainless flag defend! ‘When war’s red tempest Of flaming madness round us, when Death, clamoring in the circling air, Whirls, threatening our defenders, then Our stainless flag defend ! Our stainless flag, that never yet Dishonor nor defeat hath lowered— Untouched, unclouded by regret— Keep with thy flaming sword | Undimmed her stars, that never yet Their luster to shame’s cause have lent— Bright, like the stars which thou hast set To shine in thy blue 'rirmament— Keep with thy flaming sword! sets the glare —New York Herald. ai=ReR=RegcR-R-F-FoR-F-F-F-3-F-F-F-3=3-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F 2] s UNHAPPY SELECTIONS OF NAMES. ¢ & % How Some of Our Newly Acquired Vessels Are & | o Handicapped in This Regard. g‘ EVERAL of the names selected for OLLOWING its custom and practicing anew its old trick of trying to win favor with the | masses by asserting that the Government deals | unjustly with them, the Examiner of yesterday made an attempt to excite class prejudice against the Gov- | cinment by denouncing the war revenue bill as an | iriposition upon the poor. Among other things it aid: “The most telling criticism on the bill is that it is | a tax on poverty and not on wealth. There is more The taxes on | beer, on tobacco, on coffee and on tea, which are | estimated to bring in two-thirds of the income fur- | nished by the measure, will be paid for the most part | wealthy. The tax on financial transactions will in part come from wealth, but it is unfortunately true that but little of the taxes for the war will come out | of the great accumulations of capital.” Having prepared this appeal to poverty for its edi- | torial columns, the Examiner took care not to publish | yesterday any report whatever of the debate on the bill in Congress. Had it done so the fallacy of the the whole tore of the discussion showed that the ob- jections made to the bill were not directed, as the Exzminer says, to the imposition of taxes on poverty, | but to the feature of the bill providing for a bond issue. It is not true that “the taxes on beer, on tobacco, | on coffee and on tea are estimated to bring in two- | thirds of the income furnished by the measure.” The bill makes no provision for any tax on either tea or ccffee. The tax proposed on fermented liquors is estimated to yield $35,000,000. That on tobacco and | i cigars $20,000,000. These amounts do not constitute |’ twe-thirds of the proposed $100,000,000 revenues by | any means. The stamp taxes on business documents alone are expected to yield $30,000,000, and in addi- tion there are taxes on tonnage and taxes on wines and mineral waters, the income from which has not been estimated, but which is certain to be large. | It is gratifying to note that in making this attempt to arouse class antagonisms over an important meas- | ure of the war the Examiner represents no party. | Patriotic Democrats and Populists will alike repudiate ! the yellow scheme. General Wheeler of Alabama, a Democrat of the strictest school of his party, gave ex- | pression to the loyalty of Democracy when he de- clared on the floor of the House that while he dis- liked the bond feature of the bill he would neverthe- less vote for it, because in times of war there should be no partisan opposition to measures of war. The whole issue was well summed up by Hender- son of Towa: “Taxation there must be. The step we ave taken has cut down our revenues. All our esti- mates are gone. We need men, bullets and cash. Let us move up like brothers. Let us have no this side nor that side, no Republicans, no Democrats. Let us fold up our campaign speeches and back up the steps we have taken by giving cash without re- serve.” —— Governor Leedy of Kansas may be doing the best he knows how. It must be remembered that the gen- tleman has never been supposed to know much. But a Governor who at this time so checks the ambitions of National Guardsmen to enlist that they burn him in effigy ought to hire his office boy to do his think- ing for him. —_— John J. Ingalls gives out a delicate intimation that as Secretary of State he would have filled a want felt a long time by an ex-Senator who is now engaged in putting extra thick splotches of yellow on daily jour- nalism. e e Spain still calculates to use some of her cruisers now near Manilla to scour the Pacific. The chances are that the Pacific will be obliged to get along as best it may unscoured. _— ‘When Roosevelt's cowboys reach Havana it would be unseemly for them to ride up the steps of the palace, but the colonel will have hard work to re- strain them. Spanish tactics do not seem to have changed yet. o eiegeg=geReguge] the vessels recently acquired by the navy are not alone inappropriate, but in two cases, at least, probably the worst that could have been chosen and are not likely to make the respective ships' companies proud of their vessels. The yacht Alicia has been renamed Hornet, of which there have been four in the’'navy. The first belonged to the revolutionary navy, and was blown up in Delaware Bay in 1777 to prevent her cap- ture. Hornet No. 2 was a transport dur- ing the Tripolitan war, and was sold in 1806. Hornet No. 3, a brig of 18 guns, 440 tons and carrying 140 men, performed gal- lant services during the war of 1812-15, and her numerous captures and actions with superior ships, notably with the Peacock and Penguin, were highly cred- itable to the mavy, but her loss with all hands in 1829 brought mourning into many homes. Hornet No. 4, a small schooner used as a dispatch vessel on bays and rivers, was broken up in 1820. With. the loss of the Hornet in 1829 the hame dis- appeared from the navy list. The yacht Hermione is henceforth to be known as the Wasp, making the fifth of that name. The first was blown up in Delaware Bay in1777. Thesecond Wasp was captured at sea by the British October 18, 1812, taken into the navy and subsequent- 1y lost. Wasp No. 3, known by its gal- lant action with the Frolic and other heroic engagements, was lost at sea with all hands in 1514, A side-wheeler, Emma Henry, was captured December 8, 1864, and taken into the navy under the name of Wasp, sent to the South Atlantic sta- tion, where she lay for a number of vears off Montevideo, and was finally sold in 1576 for a nominal sum. The yacht Almy has been renamed Eagle, and will be the fourth in the navy of that name. The first and third were sold in 1801 and 1524 respectively and the second was captured June 3, 1813. The tug E. F. Luckenback, now called seh, recalls the fate of the monitor Tochmach hetors Mobile August 8, 186k when she was blown up by a torpedo and 93 officers and men were drowned. To the torpedo beat purchased in Ger- many the name Somers has been given. A schooner by that name was captured in Lake Ontario August 12, 1814, by the British. The second Somers has a his- tory which is the only blurred page in American naval She was a brig of 10 guns and tons, built at New York in 1842, and sailed on her first cruise in September of the same yvear with a crew of 120, of which 9 were apprentice boys. Commander A. S. Mackenzie and seven other officers had charge of the ship, and it was not until in the vicinity of St. Thomas, homeward bound, that any trouble hod manifested itself. On November 25 Commander Mackenzie re- celved information that one of the mid- shipmen contemplated mutiny, and Philip Spencer, midshipman; Small, boatswain's mate, and Cromwell, seaman, were ar- rested. A court-martial was convened, which found the prisoners guilty without bringing them before the court, and three days later the unsuspecting prisoners o Jere informed by the captain himself | that they had only ten minutes more to | live, and at the hour named they were hanged from the yardarm. There was a | profound sensation in Néw York when | the Somers arrived thirteen days later, and the news of the triple execution spread. Philip Spencer was the son of the Secretary of War under President Ty- ler. The parents of the 17-year-old boy | were naturally_distracted, and they and | their friends _had an inquiry brougnt about by the Secretary of the Navy, who | appotnted a board for that o urpose. | ng to the partisan fecling, which at | that time was highly antagonistic, pub- lic opinion was swayed and confused by the press and statesmen in Congress. | Colonel Benton and Fenimore Cooper con- demned and the New York Tribune and | Charles Summer commended Mackenzie's | course. The naval court acquitted the | commander, but when the trial was to take place of the other alleged mutineers Mackenzie failed to appear and the pris- oners were discharged. The Somers was subsequently lost off Vera Cruz Decem- | ber 8, 1846, capsizing in a squall, and drowning forty officers and crew. The only Néw Orleans we have had in | the navy was a line-of-battle ship of | seventy-four guns and 255 tons, begun | at_Sacketts Harbor, Lake Ontario, in | 1815, but ‘never launched. She was sold | with twenty other vessels in 1883, realiz- | g $427, although the nuitk was only ap- praised ‘at $200. During the course of de- molition a part of the hulk toppled over, | killing one man and injuring several others, The two cruisers purchased from Brazil have been named New Orleans and Al- bany. No particular significance at- taches to the first name, but of the lat- ter there was a sloop built in 1846 which assertion that the acts of the Govern- ment, from whose treasury he draws pleasing sustenance, were acts of pira. cy, and these remarks one versed in shorthand made bold to set down. Thereafter were they printed that all might see. When the Maguire ob- servedthem in cold print he was great- Ay perturbed of his peace, making loud lament. “Verily,” quoth he, “a man may be divers kind of an ass and never wot him as to his own condition, save he see the same portrayed in type.” An Uncle owning a fair land the which was known to the world as Florida, heard once on a time that there was coming a haughty Don with purpose to possess the same and to hold it for his own uses. “Are you beset with fear lest the Don carry out his evil purpose?” asked & nephew. “The emotion which excites me,” the Uncle made answer, “is not that of fear, but admiration. I had never hoped to live to witness a display of a cheek adamantine so that nothing less than a 13-inch gun would have ten- dency to mar its contour.” Shortly after speaking, he command- ed his trusted men that they go forth with guns of this caliber and make essay to batter the cheek of the Don. Yet had he misgivings, “for,” commun- ed he with himself, “the ammunition wherewith my guns are made ready has been tested by nothing more fear- some in its hardness than Harveyized plate.” Having caught a nickel-in-the-slot machine a policeman ‘threatened it | with arrest as being the wicked instru- mentality of a game of chance. “It is evident,” retorted the ma- chine, with ill-concealed contempt, “that you have never played me.” Stung by the tone of the accused, the policeman dropped in a dollar's worth of nickels, getting as he him- self thereafter made declaration, “not a bean.” “I did you an injustice,” he remarked to the machine, with deference doffing his helmet and bowing low. “As a game you offer no chance whatever. But,” he added, drawing a club, “you are under arrest for highway robbery.” For he was a just man. “Alas,” exclaimed a trusted official, who had been caught stealing, “what have I done?” “The people,” replied one who was there and dearly loved a jest. “This is no time for unseemly lev- ity,” the trusted official retorted, with dignity. “Truly my outcry comes from the heart torn of grief and peni- tence. I have brought upon myself sorrow and disgrace.” Then were his hearers touched, and abjured him to make no moan, saying: “When one repenteth him of his wrongs then will much be forgiven.” Yet did their consolation fail to reach the spot, for the grief of the man was not that he had taken the spoil, but that in his haste he had left aught be- hind. Inflating his chest so that a broad- side of brass buttons flew therefrom, a Spanish admiral announced that he would scour the Pacific. “Do so if you wish,” said an Amer- ican admiral, whe had chanced to overhear, “but I must ask that you scour the bottom of it. I have myself a contract to attend to the surface.” The Spanish admiral then explained that he had merely sprung a Castilian Jjoke, and the wake he left behind him would have swamped any .craft.ven- turing near, even as the billows of the tempest when it roars. A director of schools made boast that during his term he had accom- plished much. Being pressed for par- ticulars, he was for a little time at a loss. “Tell us one simple thing,” they be- sought him. “Truly, you are a lot of dullards,” disappeared in 1854, taking down with her | 210 men, of which fourteen were officers. | There was a second Albany, built under | the name of Contocook in 1864, at a cost | of 3984055, which was sold in 1872 for | $48,000, being exactly one year one month and ten days in commission. | Other names, such as Uncas, Osceola, | Sioux and Algonquin, given to the tugs | W. A. Luckenback, Winthrop, Wise and | BI Toro, are unobjectionable fin so far | that they raise no painful recollection. | There was a steamer called the Algon- quin, built in 1863, at a cost of $277 which turned out a lamentable fail She was sold in 1869 for $30,000, her ma-. | chinery was removed and the hull utilized | as a fertilizer _manufactory for many vears in New York harbor, and was fln-‘ 72, ure, ally destroyed by fire August 30, 1882. In the naming of the torpedo-boats the last administration remembered several | comparatively obscure naval officers and | ignored such as Biddle, Hull, Bainbridge, | John Paul Jones, Barney,’and many | others more prominent in the several na- | val wars, from which the Navy Depart- | ment now might select {llustrious names | for the new vessels. | It is rather a good omen that two of | the vessels, with unpleasant memories connected with their names, will not be | in active service during this present war, | for the Albany is still in the hands of the builders at Elswick and the Somers met with so many mishaps in her at- tempt to reach this country as to delay her final departure until after the war was be%un, and she is now tied up in an English port, there to remain, at least until her voyage will no longer be con- trary to the laws of neutrality. 00000000 0000000000 FABLES WITHOUT MORALS. § 0000000000000 00000Q Observing the tone of a European press to be hostile a citizen asked a President what he thought about it. “Really,” responded the President, af- fixing his signature to a declaration of war, “I have lad important things to think about and had not noticed the matter you speak of.” Thereupon the citizen went his way convinced that the long-distance bluff was not fully appreciated in this coun- try. A circus poster blown from its posi- tion by a spring zephyr chanced to meet a Yellow Journal. £ “My only regret,” sald the Poster, scraping some disfiguring paste from .its back, “is that I am not so consti- tuted as to wear a hat that I might take it off to vou as a bigger liar than myself, who aforetime was reckoned the prince of all liars.” “I also have had regrets on a similar score,” replied the Yellow Journal po- litely, “not that I would take a hat off even to you, but I sometimes feel the need of it to talk through.” Such conversation :s might have en- sued was cut short by a garbage man who at this juncture loaded the pair into a convenient receptacle for trash. Accosting an ex-President a fresh ‘| and blithesome reporter asked him his opinion as to war with Spain. “I am free to tell you,” answered the ex-President, “that the weather is With unabated fervor the Dons continue their prac- noble'a product of civilization as gum. | tice of robbing the starving. fine.” | Thanking him cordially the reporter sought another ex-President and put to him the same question. “Since you mention it,” was the po- lite rejoinder, “the day is a little chill for this season of the year. It is al- ways a delight to me to talk with a journalist. Good day.” Greatly enlightened the reporter went to his desk and wrote an interview two columns in length. A female who glories in being an an- archist and makes shrill acclaim of her rabid state was detected shrieking from the rostrum that in this land there is no such thing as liberty. “Will you kindly explain,” asked a voice, “how it happens then that you are not in jail?” “In discussing the problem of life,” resumed the female, “I decline to be pinned down to the consideration of paltry details.” She then proceeded to demonstrate how the blessed boon of liberty could | be secured through the simple process of hanging the President. An emissary of the Goverament, hav- | ing been dispatched to a foreign land on a task of great danger, was be- trayed to a yellow correspondent, who straightway exploited the scheme to the delight of the enemy who sought the emissary with intent to slay him. “Meddlesome knave,” said an indig- nant official to the correspondent, “would you have a brave countryman shot?” “Be assured that I would,” replied the correspondent, “I would shoot him myself at regular space rates.” Then did that official marvel greatly that he could find in law no warrant for suspending the correspondent by he retorted, “not to perceive for your- selves that I have kept out of jail.” Then did they make sorrowful ado, as those who have been humbled in the dust, and as they so beseemed them- selves the triumphant director walked across the street to avoid meeting a policeman, lest his record be marred. in the hour of victory. 3. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. INN KEEPER—R. B. D.,City. 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