The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 4, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1898. WEDNESDAY.. -.....MAY 4, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. BESSRSUSSUSSCSS SV SOSE PN Address All Communications to W. S, LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. DITORIAL ROOMS.. 217 to 221 Stevenson Street = o Teleph Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By maill $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.............One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE.......cceunne <eeessreeeses. 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE -Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Represcontative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.... Riggs House C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFIKCE..... Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAlllster street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 616 Larkin street, open uptll 9:30 o'clock. 941 Mission street, open uptil 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street. open untH 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1808 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. —e e AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—*“The Purser.” Colnmbia—ua Secret Warrant.” California—*“A Texas Steer." ““The Gay Parisians.” —Hearts of New Yore.™ ang.” Tivoli—Concert Thursamy afternoon, Orpheum—Vaudeville. Sherman, Clay Hall—Paloma Schramm, Priday night. The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville, and “African Lion Hunt* Olympia—Corner Mason and EAdy streets, Specialties. Central Park—Dog and Pony Show. Sutro Baths—Swimmiag. El Campo—Music. dancing boating, fishing,every Sunday, California Jockey Club, Oaikland—Races. AUCTION SALES. By G. H. Umbsen & Oo.—Monday, May 9, Real Bstate. at 14 Montgomery street, at 12 o’ clock. COURTESY APPRECIATED. The Call acknowledges and| accepts with a sense of grati-| tude the courtesy of the Chron- icle in giving the use of its| presses to print the edition of| this paper to-day. The Kkind offer of the Examiner, Post,| Report and Bulletin presses for the same service is also ac-| | the defeated treaty was introduced. NO TIME FOR SCHEMES. T is nearly 3000 miles from Honolulu to Manila, yet the Hawaiian annexationists are saying that Honolulu would have been a valuable base of oper- ations for Dewey. If a coaling station 2000 miles from our coast and 3000 miles from the scene of our great naval victory is of any use, we have it already in Pearl Harbor. That station is ours to occupy, for- taking upon us the civil embarrassments that will at- tend annexation. It will be remembered that heretofore all argu- ments in favor of annexation from a military view have been addressed to the defensive idea, that they were needed for defense of this coast. The fact is that under forced draught for this coast isoutof coal when she gets witlin striking distance, and would be about as valuable as a fighting machine as a floating water- melon. Spain has islands and coaling stations every- where, and what good are they doing her in her emergency? Every one is a weakness. If she sat She has islands and T she has always been at home. naval stations, and we, without any, are ‘blowing he out-of water. Instead of this war demonstrating our need extracontinental possessions it proves that the na- | tion which has them is at the mercy of one that has them not. 3 This is no time to work schemes. The island poli- ticians will improve it, of course, but the American | people are not under any glamour that shuts their eyes to the clear facts. The speculative yellow press has tried to use the war feeling to validate Cuban bonds, which has been the price of its abuse of their own Government. =~ They failed, and the island | schemers will fail also. During the quiet which ensued upon the defeat of | the treaty over 2000 Japanese coolies have been intro- | duced into the islands as contract laborers, although | the Legislature pretended an intention to repeal the | contract labor law. i It may as well be understood that the American | of | tify and use to any advantage it may be to us without | any man-of-war coaling at Honolulu and steaming | upon her peninsula she would be unconquerable, as | | evidence of the extent to which popula- dissatisfac- ’[iofl with the present regime has gone and the will- | ingness with which the people would rise in any well- | directed effort at its overthrow. | There is every reason to believe the Spanish Gov- " ernment deliberately involved the country in war | with the United States for the purpose of preventing an insurrection at home. With the Carlists planning | for revolt on one side and the republicans on the other, while anarchists are plotting everywhere and | ready to strike as they did at Barcelona or in the | assassination of Canovas, the Ministers of the Queen | decided that a foreign war, however disastrous, could | not be as bad as the threatened civil uprising, and | therefore they held on their way in Cuba, though they knew the war was hopeless, that it was bringing | the nation to bankruptcy and would involve conflict | with the United States. Governments that go to war for the purposeof quiet- ing domestic disturbances do not always succeed. Na- 1 poleon III found to his cost that a war with Germany profited him nothing. The Spanish Government of the boy King may have the same experience. The throne of Spain is tottering to its fall. Free Cuba | may mean free Spain as well, though a fierce civil war will have to burn out many a foul chimney of ancient institutions before Spanish freedom will mean all that it ought to for her people. It is to that | war Spain is evidently tending. Revolution and an- archy are before her, but beyond them may lie a new Spain with a freer people and a destiny even more glorious than that of the past when Gonsalvo de Cor- dova led her armies and Cervantes inspired her litera- ture. MAKING A CAMPAIGN ISSUE. fl CCORDING to reports from Washington the war revenue bill adopted by the House last week will be but a short time in the hands of ported to that body. It is believed the committee will act so promptly that the bill may be reported as early as Wednesday. At that point, however, prompt- ness of action will cease and the usual slow Senatorial methods will begin. people are for this war and will fight it to the end | with Spain and all the allies she can get on land and 1 sea. But they don’t intend to permit speculators !0“ use their patriotic feeling to cover such deals as the | annexation of Hawaii. There is no more reason now | for such action than there was last December, when | Oligarch Dole professes fear that Spain will come | and take him in, when everybody knows that Spain ‘ couldn’t take in anything, and that he, being a neu- | tral, would be safe if the world were at war. His | Legislature is inquisitive about the sumptuous items | in his bill of expenses paid during his recent iunket1 | to Washington, and it is convenient for him to get | afraid of Spain to turn attention away from his cash | accounts. Spain can’t hold what she has, and Mr. | Dole estimates the intelligence of his own people and | ours at a low plane if he thinks such black-mammy i nonsense will scare anybody. | SUPPLIES FOR THE SCHOOLS. | IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE. knowledged and appreciated. | HE country feels a thrill of jubilant pride at the | Tachm\'cmcms of Commodore Dewey. Never | was there dash more impressive, never has a | soldier of the sea gone more bravely into a situation | which meant victory or death. As he approached the | hostile fleet off Manilla, as he forced a way in the | darkness, he could not know but the channel he | threaded was thick with torpedoes. He did not know | the strength of the forts on either side. He was tak- | mg his chances, the stern chances of war. The people of the United States do not rejoice in | tarnage. They do not approve of the thunder of the | tannon when every reverberation means that death | nas been hurled. In the abstract they detest the | shedding of blood. But the pulses thrill in contem- | plation of the achievement of Dewey. There is in the | dreast of every American a feeling of pride that our | ships and our men have proved themselves fit to be- bng to the navy of a great nation, able to hold up its | tolors, able to defend its citizenship. | But over all the pride there rises the belief that | mstice has been done, the stern justice which de- nands an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. No teed to recite the story of the Maine. It is familiar | vherever the English tongue is spoken. But the Maine has been avenged. No matter what necessity | of diplomacy caused Dewey to sink the fleet of Spain, vhen the news reached this country the thought lashed through every mind that a fit punishment had teen meted out to an assassin. Had it not been for he overt act which sent a friendly ship to the bot- om of the harbor of Havana the people of this coun- 1y could never have looked on a war with Spain as ustifiable. Now they are glad to see that power wrushed. It invited ruin when it provoked them to vrath, and in the moment of extremity there is no sity for it. Deep in the heart of humanity there is mbeddeéd a respect for the old Mosaic law. But it is not to be dreamed by the Castilian that taving aroused the spirit of a mighty vengeance it is o be lulled by this one blow. He did not merely nvite a single stroke of reparation, but he raised an | am which will smité him to the death, sweep his flag rom Western seas, make his presence a memory. fhe doom of Spain is written. There is no salvation or that monarchy of half-forgotten glory. The valor if the great new world is armed to banish the hateful cign of a half-barbaric race. Before the demand of | ustice shall be surely satisfied the stars and stripes vill be floating above every possession on this hem- sphere which Spain now clain As the Philip- fines have gone from her, so will Cuba go. As to| he future of the islands wrested from her grasp there | ¢ no need to conjecture. America does not know ior care. She glories in the fact that Spanish power t melting before her wrath, and looks forward to | he near time when the haughty Don shall on bended | mee beg for the mercy he does not deserve. There re other Deweys in the navy, and back of them is the | entiment of millions of people who despise Spain for er shameful history, her violence, her treachery and er sneers Possibly Mr. McKinley may survive the fact that he Supervisors did not indorse his war policy. In te first place it ‘was none of their business to do so, | nd in the second place it was not of the slightest onsequence whether they feel an inclination to in- orse it or not. A commodore who is out of reach of direct orders tom Washington certainly possesses advantages ver one who has to ask Washington for permission » hoist a signal to clear decks for action. L S s There is plenty of time in which to discuss the dis- osition of the Philippines. Present interest -centers 1 the fact that Spain’s flag is not waving there. Martial law in Madrid is simply better than no v, | the investigation that no effective check exists at the | & 3 X 5 cussion there the issues that will be made the points | taxed and long-suffering people may mean the utter lurging him to proclaim a republic, is a striking ISCLOSURES made by the Grand Jury in | D the investigation of the supplies of lumber | purchased for the schools of the city clearly | demonstrate the need of providing a better system | for purchasing all such supplies. Whether evidence | sufficient in the eye of the law to convict the guilty | parties in past frauds should be obtained or not, | steps should be taken to prevent any more of like na- | ture in the future. ‘ It appears from testimony given in the course of | present time upon the purchase of Ilumber and shingles for the schools. Nor is there any check | upon the amount of hauling to and fro of lumber from one school to another whenever it is desired to give a job to the teams of any friend of those in | authority. Lumber bought and hauled for one school building may be hauled to another and then hauled back again whenever it suits the convenience of the authorities to do so. The very fact that despite the disclosure of abun- dant evidence of frauds in the lumber deals that have | been investigated there is still a widespread belief that | no one will be punished is itself a proof of the im- ‘ portancé of a radical change from the present sys- | tem. When thousands of feet of lumber and hun- | dreds of bundles of shindles are charged to the city and paid for which were never received by the cityj it is certainly time to devise and enforce a new way | of doing business in the School Department. The system of providing supplies for the Fire De- partment serves as an excellent model on which to rearrange the school system. There should be pro- vided a general storehouse or corporation yard for | the school supplies, at which should be kept all that " the school buildings are likely to require in the way | of repairs. From this yard supplies should be issued ’ only on the order of the proper authorities, and these orders should be kept as a record of every | transaction of the kind. In that way it would be possible to determine with certainty who was re- | sponsible for each bill of supplies sent out, and also | where the supplies went and who received them. It is the duty of the Board of Education to give at- | tention to this needed reform at once, and if it fails | to do so the Grand Jury should take the matter up. Let us by all means probe the frauds of the past to ‘ the hottom and procure evidence to convict the guilty parties who committed them, but let us also | guard the future by providing a system of checks on the purchase of scvo! supplies, so that such frauds cannot be committed again. The punishment of of- fenders is always good, but the prevention of of- fenses is better. ANARCHY IN SPAIN. SPIRIT of distrust and unrest, verging on rev- olution and tending to anarchy, has now be- , % come so clearly manifest among the Spanish people that it constitutes a menace to the kingdom even more formidable than that of war. American victory will do no more than overthrow Spanish sov- ereignty in this hemisphere, and possibly deprive Spain of the colonies she possesses in other parts of the world, but the threatened outbreak of the over- collapse of all the forms of her government, leaving behind not even as much of the monarchical struc- ture as survived in France when the Bourbons were | driven from Versailles and Robespierre ruled by vir- tue of the guillotine. The testimony on which the belief in the growing revolutionary spirit in Spain rests is not derived to any great extent from American sources. It comes from Europe, and much of it directly from Spain. " It ! is known that the Government has been compelled very frequently of late to call out troops to keep or- der in the cdpital itself. The recent address of thou- sands of Spaniards to Castelar nominally congratulat- | ing him on his recovery from illness, but virtually | side. The expectation of delay in the passageof the meas- ure is due to the fact that the Democrats will vigor- ously oppose the adoption of the bill as it now stands. The first efforts of the opposition will be made in the committee, but it is not believed these | will be sufficient to postpone the report for any great length of time. This will cause the whole force of the opposition to show itself in open debates in the Senate, and will therefore have the effect of more clearly outlining the issues on which the Democrats and the Populists intend to make their eampaign this fall. The tactics adopted in this line of conduct by the opposition are not surprising. In fact, hardly any other course is open for any party or faction that in- tends to oppose the administration and its supporters in the coming campaign. The silver question is clearly an out-of-date programme. It would be im- possible to muster anything like an opposition to the administration on the direct issue of the war. Noth- ing is left for the opponents of Republicanism, there- fore, but the one policy they have adopted—that of making a fight on the war revenue bill. The fight on the bill in the Senate will follow the lines laid down by the opposition leaders in the House. The main attack will be upon the bond feat- ure of the measure, though some effort will be made to alter the schedules of taxes. The debate in the House was so short that comparatively little time was given to the opposition to formulate their policy, but in the Senate they will have time enough, and as a consequence we may expect to learn from the dis- of contention between the parties in the campaign before the people. The Call has already pointed out that the Republi- can party can easily defend the proposed bond issue from any attack that may be made upon it. When the Democrats of the Senate have formulated their policy of war taxation it will be time to consider the question more fully. That they will strive hard to make a platform on which the candidates of their party can make a fight with at least a prospect of success is a matter of course, and the coming debate in the Senate therefore is likely to prove one of the most interesting of recent years. It will make poli- tics and possibly may make history. BLIND DISCIPLES OF CONTENTION. VER since the first indication of hostilities there Ehas been an effort to show that the question of religion had entered into the situation and de- tracted from the unanimity of American citizenship. That the effort had no basis in reason, that it was a blind and bigoted attempt to stir up needless strife, has been amply demonstrated. Protestant and Cath- olic stand together under the flag, and to each of them it is equally dear. No soldier in the ranks cares what may be the beliefs of the soldier who marches by his No general about to make a charge pauses to ask what church may be attended by the men of his command. Wherever in battle the stars and stripes | have waved, beneath their shadow the Catholic and the Protestant have fought and died as brothers. The minister leaves his pulpit to go to the front, the | priest leaves his parish. The same feeling of patriot- ism-and charity actuates both. A dispatch coming by way of London states that 90 per cent of the Catholics of Ireland are favorable to Spain in the present struggle. Even if correct, the information may be devoid of significance. There are people in Germany, in Austria, in France and in Rus- sia who are against us. Why put the opposition on religious grounds as to Ireland alone? And the peo- ple in Ireland may not be well informed as to the merits of the case. It is quite possible they take their stand on the principle of believing England wrong always. The opinion of the Catholics in Ireland or of the Protestants there is of no consequence. If they were in this country they would fight for the | country. The men who handle our guns are of va- rious creeds, and that they are does not weaken the arm of the republic. In the matter of citizenship, as to love for the flag, they stand on common ground, and the honor of our arms by land and sea is safe in their hands. L —— Judge Campbell has sent another wife-beater to jail for six months. Perhaps there has been at times some occasion for finding fault with the Judge, and the public generally has referred lightly to his whiskers, but when he gets the low-browed wife- beater before him he does much to cover up any qualities which might be regarded as shortcomings. —_— While the Spanish insist on calling the Yankees pigs. it is to be noticed that the Spanish themselves are doing the squealing. Spanish announcement that the war is to be fought to the bitter end does not indicate likelihood of a long struggle. the Finance Committee of the Senate before it is re- | i GENERAL GRANT'S LGERNON EDWARD SARTORIS, A | with me.” campaigns of his grandfather and of N Sartoris and the eldest grandson of General Ulysses S. Grant, was born in Washington, D. C., twenty-one years ago. in the Columbia Law School in New York. pected he wrote to General Fitzhugh Lee asking an appointment on his staff, and immediately received the reply, “If I am in the saddle this time you shall ride Mr. Sartoris {s now in Washington, so as not to lose a moment’'s time when General Lee receives his commission. education, but has a taste for arms, and has been an assiduous student of the apoleon. ELDEST GRANDSON. the eldest child of Mrs. Nellle Grant He was in his second year But as soon as war was ex- He has recelved no military {THE NEW GRANT MONUMENT. Philadelphia’s monument to the immor- tal Ulysses S.Grant is now completed and ready for unveiling, and is a valuable ad- dition tc the works of art already adorn- | ing Fairmount Park in the City of Broth~ erly Love. It is situated on the East River Drive, between Columbia avenue and the Girard avenue bridge. As it stands now fully veiled it has, at a little distance,” a most grotesque re- semblance to the head of a gigantic old lady in a Quaker bonnet, the veiling can- vas being of about the same shade as the granite and bronze which it covers. The pedestal is about sixteen feet h!lgh, and is made of Jonesboro granite. he THE NEW GRANT MONUMENT. design is simple in the extreme, a_broad seat running around the bottom, which is supported by wide stone steps. be no inscription, a little wreath carved on the front bearing the word “Grant” being the only ornamentation. Plans had been made for an elaborate unvelling, at which there would be a fine military parade and an address in eulogy of Grant’s life. This was planned for war difficulties it has become necessary to postpone it indefinitely, so that now the people can only guess at the beauty hidden by the heavy veil. A SONG | The nations of Europe, all girded In greed, Behold thee, O Cuba?! and heed not thy cries; Had they hearts thou hadst long since been happlly freed; Thou hadst liberty long since if they had but | eyes. They call themselves Christians, yet prey on the weak; They fawn on the Turk and they tolerate Spain; They worship the strong, and they scoff at the meek, They are worse than the vultures thut feed | on the slain. But Cuba, the dawn of thy freedom Is near; Already 'its sunburst is seen In the east; The heart of thy tyrant is quaking with’ fear, And the vulture In terror forsakes his grim | east. There will | some time near May 28, but owing to the | FOR CUBA. | Jim’ isn’t any sort of an African, but he got the name by his penchant for singing all the latest coon songs.” BYRON ON SPAIN. Here all were noble save nobility. None hugged a conqueror's chain save fallen | chivalry. Such bo the sons of Spain, and’ stranxe the t ate They fight for freedom who were never freel A_kingless people for a nerveless state, Her vassals combat when their chieftians flee, True to the veriest slave of treachery, Fond of a land which gave them naught but e. Pride points a path that leads to liberty, Back to the struggle, baffled in the strife, Ws.;. JJar is still the cry—war even to the nife! Ye who would more of Spain and Spaniards know, Go read whate'er {s writ of bloodiest strife. ‘Whate'er keen vengeance urged on foreigh foe Can act is acting there against man's life. From flashing scimiter to secret knife, War moldeth there each weapon to his need, So_he may guard the sister and the wife, So may he make each curst oppressor bleed, 8o may such foes deserve the most remorse- less deed! Flows there 'a tear of pity for the dead? Look o'er the ravage of the reeking plain; Look on the hands with female slaughter red. Then to the dogs resign the unburied slain; Then to the vulture let each corse remain. Albeit unworthy of the prey bird's maw, Let their bleach'd bones and blood’s un- bleaching stain Long mark the battlefleld with hideous awe, Thus only may our sons conceive the scenes we saw. —Childe Harold. COLLECTED IN | THE CORRIDORS | writer (Kochows¥yy T2 Tamentations on the war in these terms: ‘‘How dear has th}s ‘ot- cetera’ been to us! With how many liveg have these two potentates paid (o_r these missing eight letters! With what streams of blood has the failure of a few drops of ink been avenged!”"—New York Telgtgmm. A contempo! poured out hi —e——————— WANTS THE BEST IN THE MARKET, Here comes Russia wanting two battle- ships made to order in the United States. Doesn’t Russia know that this is our busy day?—Detroit Free Press. —e——— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, DOYLE—R. C. W., Independence, Or. A letter addressed to A. Conan Dovyle, care of Harper Bros., New York City, will reach him. = THE BRIDGE ACCIDENT—The date-of the accldent at the Webster-street bridge on Memorial day was printed 1S9L It should have been 15%. TO ENLIST—A. S. A person desiring to enlist in the cavalry branch of the United States at this city should make application to the recruiting officer’ at the Presidio. land. This department is unable to find any record of any English man-of-war having within th t three or four ars fired upon the city of Constanti= ‘nople. SICARD—A. O. S., City. Rear Admiral Slca]rs was born ew York September 36. 30, He graduated from the naval academy in 185 and his first service after léaving the academy was on the frigate Potomac of the home squadron. HIGH SCHOOL . CERTIFICATES—S., City. The law of this State says that holders of city and city and county ger- tificates are eligible to teach in the cities in which such certificates were issued. To teach in any place in the State out slde of the city in w h such certifical Was granted the holder of the certificate glould have to appear before the county oard. UNITED STATES, AN A. M, City. Not idcluding the ND GERMANY-— purchases, the United States ha sels In her navy, with 1315 men on the active 1 serve. Germany has 21,513 men on the ac naval reserve. On a peace naval forces rank: Great Britain, Italy, Russia, Germany, Spain, United States. THE CLEVEREST-H. T. C., City. “Who was the cleverest pugilist that ever entered the ring?” is one of those ques- tions that cannot be answered. There will be found any number of people who will say that it was Corbett, others will say Fitzsimmons, and_there will be still others who will say Jack Dempsey, Ike ‘Weir, Jack McAuliffe, Walcott and pos- sibly Griffo, while there are still cthers who will claim thau distinction for John ranca, Turkey, C. Heenan, “The Benicia Boy.” It's a matter of individual taste. MOUNT VERNON—-M. K. T. City. Mount Vernon, Fairiax County, in north- east Virginia, on the Potomac River, fif- teen miles below Washington, D. C., on the line of ..e Washington, exandria and Mount Vernon Railroad, contains the Was...ngton homestead and tomb of ‘Washington and wife. This historic prop- erty was purchased in 1858 from Jehn A. Washington for $200,000 by the Ladies’ Mount Vernon A- ociation, by which or- ganization it has been preserved with great care, and it is visited annually by thousands of tourists. RIVER FLOWING BOTH WAYS—W. D., Potrero, Cal. The first river met up the left bank of the Amazon is the one called El Rio Negro. It rises In the Sferra Tinuhy, an isolated mountain group in the llanos of Glinutra, and enters the Amazon at Manaos, a thousand miles from the sea. The upper part, down to the parallel of 1 degree north, has a very rapid current: at San Gabriel are the first raplds in ascending; between San Gabriel and Barcelios the velocity is not more than two or three miles an hour; between Barcellos and Manaos it is deep but sluggish river, and in the an- nual rise of the Amazon its waters are stagnant for several hundred miles—or F. Stauffer, a capitalist of Sacramento, | is at the Grand. ; | H. Warren, a prominent Winnemucca | cattleman, is registered at'the Russ. | Charles Erickson, a railroad contractor | and prominent citizen of Martinez, is a | guest at the Grand. William Dryden and A. E. Martin, well- | known cattleman of Los Angeles, are | registered at the Russ. George Gold, Charles Lawrence and L. A. | Leonard of Chicago are at the Russ. It is their intention to go to the Klondike regions as®soon as possible, where they ! hope to make large fortunes, H. Sling and wife of Chicago are at the | Grand. Sling is one of the largest whole- | sale Chinese merchants in America, and is | a good sample of an Americanized Chi- | | nese. The trip was taken by Mr. Sling, | | accompanied by his wife, for both pleas. | | ure and business. The couple will femain | | in the city for a couple of weeks. Dr. Frederick Humphreys, president of | the Humphreys Medicine Company of New York, and wife, Dr. and Mrs, D, P, | Morgan, C. J. K. Knowles, Miss Harding, | J. F. Hanson, Miss Hayden and F. H. Phregs, who are making a tour of the | Pacific Coast, are at the present time guests at the Palace. It is thought the party will return to New York during the latter part of May. ALIEN IMMIGRATION. England has long been an open asylum for all foreigners in distress, and in days when locomotion was less easy than it is | at present, and when a considerable pro- portion of the aliens who landed on our shores had been driven from their homes for political reasons, it was a matter of which England might well be proud that her shores aflordeg an ever open way of escape from tyranny and oppression. Things, however, wear a somewhat dif- ferent aspect when, instead of being men who have left their homes for con- science’s sake, to the Intermingling of whose blood at various periods o!gour his- The eagles of war are abroad in their might; The rush of their wings drowns the roar of the seas; | They are seeking thy foe; he will soon be in fight, For the Star-Spangled Banner is flung to the breeze. We have kindled our crucibles white with the | t stee That shall free thee; our forges are red as thy wrongs; They are shaping new weapons of war for thy weal, ‘Whilst, for thee, our great furnaces sing Freedom’s songs. Of Thank God! for the manhood that speaks | in this hour; . For the hearts that respond to thy pitiful | story; | For the spirit, O Cuba! that fears not the pow'r Of thy foe; and thank God for our banmer, Old Glory! —John E. Barrett in Scranton Truth. BV\'IFT‘:VATER BILL OUTDONE. “James Daughtry, best known to fame as ‘Nigger Jim,’ is spending his Klondike coin with a lavish hand, as if he had the money of the Rothschilds,” said G. R. Mayfield of Seattle to a Washington Post reporter. > “‘He has been leaving a carmine streak in our town during the past fortnight, and saloon-keepers, night liners and other folks who cater to the hilarious think he is the only real good thing that has hit the place in many moons. Yet there when ‘Nigger Jim' was not ordering up quart bottles with the redundancy that now characterizes his game. He was a very dejected and impecunious individual when, after working at Circle City for | some'months without striking pay dirt, he started for the Klondike late in tha | winter ‘of 1896-97, and with a debt of $3000 resting upon him.. But fortune smiled on him soon after his arrival in Dawson. | ““An old friend, ane of the richest men in camp, gave him a chance to get in on the ground floor, and pretty quickly Daughtry had a half interest in one of the best claims on Bonanza. After less | than a year's residence at Dawson he . pulled out with a fortune estimated the neighborhood of $300.000. Lately he . was cabled an offer of $100,000 by an Eng- | lish syndicate for four of his clatms on | Bonanza Creek, and it was this latest boost of fortune that led him to set a pace in Seattle a little more rapid than | of immigrant passen | to be specified by | for prohibiting the landing of any | who, in the opinion of th was a_time, and not so very long ago, | | “etcetera” in 1654. In that year a Polish tory the English race owes so much, our immigrants become the sweepings of Eu- rope, and we find our land made a dum ing ground for all that is weak and feeble and disreputable in foreign countries. Un. der these circumstances we cannot but regard with interest a bill brought for- ward by the Earl of Hardwicke, entitled “‘an act to regulate the immigration of | allens,” however little we may expect it | to become law. It provides for inspection gers at certain ports order in council, and | alien e Inspectors, is Auper, a per- lic charge, or either an idiot, insane, a son likely to become a pul | a person suffering from any dangerous, contagious or Infectious disease. We do not think that this ocountry will readily give up the position it has so long held as a refuge for the oppressed, but ?or all that it is difficult to avold the conclusion that much good would be done by placing some sort of chéck upon the constant stream of social fallures which now seem to be setting so steadily toward our shores.—London Hospital. SAMPSON'S SERENADE BLANCO. Below thy castle windows, love, Upon the tropic tide, . T wait for thee and gather in Thy vessels on the side. And if thou still be coy, sweet love, And if thou still be shy, Tll sail into thy castle, love And knock the thing sky high, —J. W. M. In N. Y. Press. OF VAR CAUSED BY OMISSION OF A WORD. A war between Poland and Sweden was caused by the omission of the. word nobleman became obnoxious to the laws of his country by reason of his having committed a crime. He fled to Sweden, whereupon John Casimir, King of Poland, wrote to Charles Gustavus, King of | Sweden, demanding the surrender of the criminal. The King of Sweden, on read- ing the dispatch, noticed that his own name and titles were followed by two ‘“‘etceteras,”” while the name of the klnx‘ of Poland’ was followed by three. The missing ‘“etcetera” so enraged the Kire of Sweden that he at once declared war against Poland. The war was carried on actually flow back. FISH LADDERS—J. E. C., Sonora, Cal A fish ladder, also called a fishway, is an arrangement for enabling fish to ascend a fall or a dam. In the pool fishways the water falls through small vertical heights, the velocity being retarded by means of rocks and boulders or by falling into pools, whence it is aliowed to fall again through a slight vertical distance to be again retarded, and so on to the bottom. In the deflected current fishways the cur- rent is retarded by being made to travel through a distance equal to many times the perpendicular descent, being frequent- Iy interrupted by cbjects so placed in its course as to cause a change In its direc- tion. In the counter current fishways the water is delivered down the incline with- out acceleration of velocity. This is ac- complished by compelling the water te travel in a constrained path. —_—— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.® — e Spectal information supplied daily te business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ ——— Special Notice. Those troubled with dandruff and itch- ing scalp mall this to Smith Bros. for free sample of Smiths’' Dandruff Pomade. For sale by all druggists. o —————— A GOOD PARADE GROUND. The distance from one end of Cuba to the other is about as great,as that from Chicago to New York. It will be seen that when General Miles gets his soldiers over there he will have plenty of ground on ¢ pretty ma~ “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, reg- ulates the Bowels and Is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 2c a bottle. CORONADO—Atmosphere Is soft and mild, being entirely free from the mists common further north. Round trip tick- ets, by steamship, including fifteen days' board at the Hotel del Coronado, $65; longer stay, $2 30 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery st., S. F., or A. W. Balley, mgr. Hote: del Corona~ do, late of Htl Colorado, Glenwood Spgs, Colo. [ pertectly dry, EssENCE of Ginger dont cure coughs and butld you up like PARKER'S GINaER TONTC. PARKER'S HATR BALSAM cleanses the scalp. ADVERTISEMENTS. MONKEYED WITH A HORNET'S NEST when they tampered with the Maine, and now Spain is sorr- she did it. If you go monkeying around unrelia~ ble laundry it will be a :ource of con- tinual annoyance. Brin: your linen where —ou know it will be handied properly and gi. you nuine satis- faction every time, and that Is at the United States Laundry, office 1004 Mar< ever Swiftwater Bill attained. 'Nigger with great bitterness until 1660, when a Peace was signed at Oliva, near Rantaig. ket street. Telephome South 420, % 4