The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 7, 1898, Page 6

. Pl republic of Cuba, but one SATURDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLIC;’I’ION OFFICE .Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ...2IT to 221 Stevenson Street Tele) THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE....c.c0xzeee <usssseesss 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. - -.Rigge House €. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGC OFFICE. Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. | ..One year, by mall, $1.50 EBRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay. open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes' street, open until 930 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open uptll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2201 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 25i8 Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. e e AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—“The Purser.” Columbia—*A Secret Warrant.” California—*A Texas Steer.” Alcazar—+The Gay Parisians Morosco's—Hearts of New York.” Tivoli—‘Wang.” Orpheum—Vaudevilla The Chutes—Z0o, Vaudeville. and “African Lion Hunt" Olympla—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties. Central Park—Dog and Pony Show. Sutro Baths—Swimming. El Campo—XMusic, dancing boating, fishing, every Sunday, Coursing—Ingleside Coursing Park. California Jockey Ciub, Oakland—Races. AUCTION SALES. By S. Watkins—This day, May 6, Horses, at corner Tenth and Bryant streets, at 11 0'clock, By G. H. Umbsen & Co—Monday, May 9, Real Estate. at 14 K. Montgomery street, at 12 0'elock. /\' Alaska and the Klondike country during the past winter enabled The Call to furnish its | readers with an unrivaled series of reports of events | and conditions in that region, started on his return | to Dawson last night, and will carry with him a | special edition of The Call containing, for the benefit | { Alaskan readers, a full report of all the war ncw;lr | | FOR THE KLONDIKE. R. S. W. WALL, whose splendid service in of / up to date. The achievements of Mr. Wall in the arduous work of newsgathering along the Yukon are among the most notable triumphs of recent journalism. When the boat on which he had embarked for Dawson was | stopped by reason of the low water in the river last | summer he at once started to make his way by canoe. | Succeeding in this, he carried to the people of Daw- | son and the Klondike generally the first information | of the stopping of the supply boats at points along the | lower river. Tiis news gave warning of possible | famine during the winter and enabled hundreds to | leave Dawson and make their way to other places where ample supplies existed, thus relieving to a large extent the strain at Dawson and saving the gold districts from the calamity which threatened them. During the winter, when no further news of im- to be gathered in Dawson itself, Mr. Wall down the river and obtained -accurate information of the movements and location of hun- dreds of men and women who had gone into the country during the rush and of whose whereabouts their friends knew nothing. These reports, published in The Call, carried relief to many anxious house- | holds. In that and in other midwinter journeys Mr. | Wall gathered information which enabled him to give to the public through The Call the fullest and most accurate reports of the various mining camps and diggings which have ever been published. By continuing this successful correspondent in the Alaskan field The Call assures its readers the best and most reliable news service in that region. It confers a benefit upon the people of Alaska also by sending north with him the Klondike supplement re- lating to the war. The work of preparing the supple- ment has been carefully done. It gives the record of events leading to the outbreak of hostilities and all important incidents that have occurred since. To Americans who in those remote districts have been deprived of news this edition of The Call will be of the greatest value, as it will enable them to have a clear understanding of the whole situation which they could not obtain from the ordinary editions of news- papers which may reach them. portance The act of the Cuban who expectorated in the face of Colonel de Cortijo cannot be regarded as an evi- dence of refinement, yet it served the colonel rightly. De Cortijo had once subjected the Cuban to a similar indignity. If the eye for an eye business is applicable to the present situation it certainly embraces the in- stance cited, unless one of the parties at interest is addicted to the unpleasant habit of chewing tobacco, Senor Du Bosc has been spitting Spanish fire in the direction of the United States. Nevertheless, not a feather of the eagle has been scorched. Du Bosc might be tolerably successful as a pyrotechnic dis- play, but as a war measure he is no mor= effective than the others devised by Spain. Canada ought to put him out. The man who in a mining town of Washington tore down the stars and stripes and put up the Span- ish flag instead was merely ordered out of town, An American trying the reverse of this trick in Spain wouldn’t have any such luck. Sir Charles Dilke declares that no power will in- terfere with the course of the United States in the Philippines. Evidently he does not regard Spain as a power, and the impression that his estimate is cor- rect is steadily growing. It is pleasing to note the sympathy of the Examiner for its own readers. With a sincerity so emphatic as to bring tears to the eyes it condoles with people who have to read fakes or nothing. One value attaching to the rumor that the Queen Regent is to leave Spain arises from the fact that it can dlways be denied next day, thus becoming two rumors of dignity and importance. It is to be regretted that so large a proportion of the Police Commission is under the weather. Their absence from duty permits Chief Lees to be almost too numerous. Murderer Ebanks must be a man of some dignity. He has just been sentenced for the fourth time to be hanged, and yet he did not ejaculate “Chestnuts.” | a naval expedition from San Francisco MORGAN’S CAN@AL BILL. O little gratification is felt at the announce- N ment from Washington that Senator Morgan has reintroduced his Nicaragua canal bill, slightly amended, and will at the earliest opportunity urge action upon it. The importance of the project was never more apparent than now, and Congress can well afford to give it consideration before ad- journment. According to reports from Washington the new measure is framed upon the same principles as for- mer bills, but there are several new provisions, the most notable of which is one authorizing the Presi- dent to invest in the canal bonds the money realized by the Government from the sales of the Central and Union Pacific railroads. ¢ Past discussions of the subject have shown that among supporters of the project wide differences of opinion exist on minor matters of detail in the various plans proposed for accomplishing the work. These differences should now be harmonized on some plan which will provide for the construction of the canal under Government supervision and on terms that will give the Government control over it when com- pleted. The very suggestion that the nation invest in the bonds of the canal the money derived from the sales of the subsidized Pacific roads is itself a warning to the Government not to repeat the blunder made in the grants for the construction of those roads. One experiment of that kind is enough. The fact that the nation has now to make heavy ex- penditures for war is no reason why it should not vndertake the cost of this great work. It is in the truest sense of the word a war measure as well as a commercial enterprise. The canal would immensely strengthen the effective force of our navies by enzbling the Pacific and Atlantic fleets to co-operate with one another in case of need. At present they are separated by such a long distance of sea voyaging that they are powerless to combine, and thus for naval warfare our compact republic is almost as badly off as if half of it were on one side of the globe and half on the other. Senator Morgan has long been an earnest and vigorous supporter of the construction of the canal, and, while he is now old and worn with ill health, he is still a leader of power and influence in the Senate. There is reason to believe, therefore, that if properly supported by the country at large he will be able to have his bill taken up for consideration without long delay. Boards of trade, chambers of commerce and other bodies representing the commercial and in- | dustrial interests of the people should unite in urging action upon it. As a war measure the Nicaragua | canal is of the highest importance, and now that war is upon us is the time to close up the debate on the issue and begin the work. AN ARTIFICIAL NECESSITY. Ifur the annexation of Hawaii? That country lies 2000 miles from our shores and is 5000 miles from Manila. The plea is made that 10 Manila must coal at Honolulu, and that taking coal in Hawaii will break the neutrality of that country and make her an ally of the United States; thercfore we should annex. The folly of the argument is exposed when it is | remembered that we have been offered coal by the Straits Settlements and other British colonies in Asiatic waters, and no one has pretended that the neutrality of Great Britain is broken thereby and that she becomes our ally. No government has yet declared coal contraband of war in the Pacific. It may be sold to either Spain or the United States without breach of neutrality. England has declared it contraband in the Atlantic only. She owns all the coal in stock from Aden to Hongkong, and will not declare it contraband in that hemisphere because she has it for sale, and can withhold it from Russia or Germany without a con- traband declaration, and can sell it to the United States if she choose. This leaves coal free in the Pacific and we can get it where it is to be found, unless we declare it con- traband ourselves, which is not likely. | So the emergency argument for renewal of the rank scheme of annexation has no foundation. Its reappearance is suggestive of the effect upon this country of the war in which we are engaged. Spain is dropping to pieces as the result of following the path of “manifest destiny” for four centuries. It is a far cry from cause to effect, but the life of nations exceeds that of many generations of men. Spain wanted islands, colonies, “gems of the An- tilles” and “the garden of the Eastern seas.” She reached out for spice islands, gold mines :nd every- thing prefitable and pretty. She invented necessi- ties, discovered policies and created pretexts for planting her standards in every zome. Here it was to save the souls of natives, and there it was to get rid of their bodies, and everywhere it was a policy of extension of power and prestige. Considered as, a national policy every argument now made for taking Hawaii against the protest of 98 per cent of its people, and for holding the Philip- pines, if we have them, and for keeping Cuba, which will be attempted in defiance of our solemn counter declaration, may be found in Spanish history from 1492 until now. The patriotic support of the war and the flag where- ever it floats should not be used to make such ~ grave and far-reaching change in our national policy. We should not invite an unanswerable criticism which will put us on the defensive before the world by professing high motives in making Cuba inde- pendent while we destroy the independence of Hawaii against the protest of her people. S an attempt made to create an artificial necessity Weyler still ipsists that the loss of the Maine was due to lack of discipline in the American navy. He can hardly ascribe the loss of several Spanish ships to the same cause. Nevertheless, Weyler may be less a fool than would appear. He may yet be asked some pointed personal questions about the Maine and then denied the opportunity to lie. Information that the success of the American navy has caused little pleasure to Continental politicians will not eccasion any deep distress. So far as can be learned from official sources the navy was not or- ganized for the purpose of giving pleasure to dip- lomatic gentlemen living abroad. An “American diplomatist” living in Paris is said to have remarked that this country would he glad of the intervention of Europe. Before accepting his view as final-it is well to recall that the “American diplomatist” is simply first cousin to “prominent citizen.”” Whep the Governor of the Philippines shall issue another proclamation perhaps he'will omit from it any mention of the circumstances that the Yankees can’t fight and that they lack discipline. WHY THIS CHICANERY? HE Continental League is reported as opposing Tthe adoption of the new charter on the ground 4 that it confers upon the Mayor extraordinary and dangerous political powers. In defending the instrument from the assertions of the league a morn- ing contemporary declares that this ground is a bugaboo. “The new charter,” says the journal in question, “does not vest any extreme power in the Mayor; in fact, it makes a very slight advance in that direction. The most important increase in his appointing power results from the appointment of the boards and commissions now appointed by the Gov- ernor.” ; It is such stafements as this which inflict immense damage upon the prospects of the proposed charter. There is scarcely a grain of truth in the allegation that the instrument merely transfers appointments from the Governor to the Mayor. Any intelligent person may ascertain the exact amount of truth by examining the charter itself. The proposed Board of Public Works, which is to be appointed and removed by the Mayor at pleasure, is to supplant the Superintendent of Streets, City En- gineer and Street Committee of the Supervisors, all of whom are now elected by the people. Here, then, are extraordinary powers transferred from the people to the Mayor. The Board of Education is now elected by the people. The charter confers its ap- pointment upon the Mayor and authorizes him to re- move its members at pleasure. The Police Commis- sion is now appointed by the Governor in conse- quence of a failure of the law, but since 1878 that official has named but two Commissioners. As things stand the Police Commission is practically ap- pointed for life. At all events there is no power of removal. The Fire Commission is now appointed by the Governor and Supervisors jointly, the latter appoint- ing two, the former two, and one, who was chosen by the Judge of a court abolished by the constitution of 1879, holding office for life. There is no power of re- moval except for cause. The Board of Health is ap- pointed by the Governor for a fixed term, and the Election Commission, which now consists of the Mayor, Auditor, Tax Collector, City Attorney and Surveyor, is elected by the people. The Park Com- missioners are appointed by the Governor, and un- der the present law there is no Civil Service Commis- sion. This is the extent to which the proposed char- ter has vested in the Mayor “the appointment of boards and commissions now appointed by the Gov- ernor.” Nor is this all. Not only is the appointment of these bodies placed in the hands of the Mayor, but he may remove them at pleasure. He may also sus- pend elected officials. This makes the entire govern- ment subservient to him. We have no disposition to quarrel with the Freeholders for presenting to us this kind of a political monarch; perhaps they think he will emancipate us from the thralldom of the bosses. But we do object to smuggling him through the bal- lot boxes by misrepresentation. If a powerful Mayor is a good thing, why not make a clean breast of him and defend the charter on the ground that he is a reform innovation? The pleas of denial and avoid- ance which are being entered are calculated to make the people think there is a job of some kind behind the charter. being centralized? In the event of the adoption of the charter who is going to exercise it? THE INCOME TAX FOLLY. ENERAL GRANT'S statement that in every G political crisis the Democratic leaders can be always counted on to blunder is as true of the party to-day under the leadership of Bryan and Bailey as it was under that of Seymour and Hen- dricks. A striking illustration of the fatuous folly of this blundering is shown in the course pursued by the party in opposing the war revenue bill and seeking to amend it by imposing an income tax as a substitute for the proposed bond issue. There is not the slightest chance of getting the House or even the Senate to agree to an income tax. There is not the slightest reason to believe the people favor any such tax.. It is fairly certain the Supreme Court would set such a tax aside as un- constitutional if it were enacted. What then, in the name of reason, political sagacity and good horse sense, do the Democratic leaders mean by pushing such a proposition to the front and wasting time and lung power in discussing it? It is asserted, indeed, with some vehemence by certain of the blundering Bourbons that the Supreme Court declared the Wilson income tax to be uncon- stitutional, but would uphold such a tax at this junc- ture as a war measure. So far as can be seen, how- ever, there is not the slightest ground of law, reason or evidence to serve as a basis for this assertion. It seems to have been made solely for the purpose of providing a seeming justification for the folly of ad- vocating the tax and was clearly designed for use in Buncombe County rather than in Washington. Here is a set of political leaders holding high office and entrusted with the duties and respondibilities of statesmen who, in the face of a war sure to entail large expenditures, urge the adoption of a system of taxation which has just been declared unconstitu- tional. Their only argument for such a course is based upon the possibility that the court might re- verse itself. They would expose the income of the nation in time of war to that chance. They would turn away from sure sources of revenue for the pur- pose of imposing an unpopular, unjust and doubtful tax simply to be consistent with their campaign cries against wealth and the thrifty and enterprising men whose incomes are somewhat larger than those of the general mass. Tactics of this kind are not only below the level of statesmanship, but beneath that of ordinarily clear- sighted politicians. They are the outcome of folly which in its mggure is best characterized by the fam- iliar term, “pure cussedness.” e ———— The distinguished officers of the National Guard might as well understand that in this emergency no- body cares whether they get high-sounding jobs or not. The little affair with Spain was not brought on with a special view to letting be-braided officers shine on parade. — Germany is inclined to the opinion that the United States Government was all the while casting an en- vious eye on the Philippines, which shows the ten- dency of people to judge others by themselves. —_— If to display in large type the line, “News From Dewey,” and under it in much smaller letters, “Anxiously Awaited,” is not bunko business, the gold brick game is honest enterprise. It is all right, of course, to have parades in honor of Commodore Dewey, but by waiting a shoft time the parades would apply as well to Sampson and Schley. & For whom is this vast political power | finance, a s us {8 much better than dmt.—fik::-%m by not o e33Rt RS- F-F-F-8-8-1-3-3-3-3-3-F-3-3-3-3-F-F -2 R R 22 0 nly @ T ke by P T T e e e SWHJQIE?";%&C;“?’ =33 31 THE A he mi of Havana harbor ss THE HEART OF A SOLDIER. 25| 2t bomee o i s W e better mi 3 06 30 10 X0 306 08 10 0 10 06 X0 304 30K 0 30k X0 06 308 30K 6 308 30308 108 ¢ 10 10 06 30 0¥ 06 0¥ dH 0¥ X burg Dispatch. 5 TF 306 206306 506 308 08 08 0 3% 306 308 0% 306 308 0 50¢ 308 10 306 306 306 X0 30K 30¢ 308 300 308 K 30K 00k AR XX FAME REVISING THE LIS1 ‘Where is the heart of a soldfer, His thought, his hope and his dream, ‘When the rifles ring and the bullets sing, And the flashing sabers gleam? ©Oh, not on the field of battle, But far and far away, His beart is, living the old, old hopes, ‘While his sword is red {n the fray! Where 1s the heart of a soldier, And what do the bugles wake, And what does the roar of the cannon mean When the hills beneath them shake? Oh, not for him the glory, And the dash and crash of war, But his heart {s away on a mission gay Where they hear no cannon roar! And there is the heart of & soldier— A little home on the hill, A whitefaced woman, a little child, That stand by the window sill; A little song and a little prayer, And a wonder In the face, And & ““God save papa and bring him back In the gooduess of thy grace!l” And there is the heart of a soldier— Not on the fleld of fight, But steeped In the dream of a saddened home Where a window keeps its light That a soldler's feet may keep the path And his way may homeward lead, When under the flag of the freedomland He bas wrought the hero's deed. Yea, there is the heart of a soldler, ‘Where wife and baby are, Though his eyes and his will may follow The light of the battle star; Though his hand may swing the saber, And his bayonet charge the foe, The soldler's heart is away, away, In the home where they miss him so! —Baltimore News. sRLYRIRIRUEIRN 8 S EERREIEEE R EEE R SRR R R b 88 B 8 az SPANISH DOCKYARDS. 22 a8 8 BN RN R RN RN RN NN NN NN R NRRBRRNRR R R R R R R R R T N 188¢ the Spanish Government con- cefved a very elaborate naval scheme and the Cortes was asked in all ser- {ousness to sanction it and vote $45 000,000 to cover a period of ten years. The plan provided for twelve armorclads, two armored cruisers, seven cruisers of the first class, nine second class, eleven third class, thirty-two torpedo-boats and six transports. The money was not voted and the programme has been greatly modified, with the result that Spain Las only one armorclad buflt ind one under construction; the armored cruiser cluss has been materfally increased and only three out of sixteen of the larger crufs- ers have been built. Fully $6,00,000 has | been spent, however, upon new construc tion and the four dockyards have been kept busy. The naval arsenals o” Spain are at Cartagena, Ferrol, Carraca and Cadlz, and there are also two private establishments for ships and engine con- struction, one at Cadiz, the other at bil- bao. The latter vard Is conducted by the Palmer firm of Yarrow-on-Tyne, and the Spanish Government has made cer- tain concessions and given guarantees— the latter fortified by hyxothecatlng part of the profits from the Almaden mines— to keep the establishment going. As all the material used for ship and engzine building has to be imported the lock- yards and private yards labor under great %lsndvanlages. and it has become neces- 0 to foreign countries for ships. ‘While tge Spanish mechanics are fairly good, the management of the yards s llke the naval establishment In its ens tirety utterly ineflicient, the progress of sary to work exceedln?ly slow and the cost cor- resp(llndlnglly high. s only at the Nervion shipyard at Bilbao, under English manag@mgnt. that work s done expeditiously, and the threc fine armored eruisers—Infanta Maria Teresa, Oquendo and Viscaya—were built in reasonable time and moderate cost, the contract price being $2,895,000 for each. On the other hand, those built at the dock- yards have taken from six to seven years, and the Relna Mercedes, of 3320 tons, built at Cartagena, took twelve ears. The Princesse de Austria, be, n October, 1889, at Carraca, was launched seven years later, and during the last vear on the stocks progressed at the rate of only about 2000 pounds per day. Of the small cruiser class of 1130 tons, the Isla de Cuba and Isla de Luzon were built on the Clyde at a cost each of $223,- 590. The Marquis de la Ensanada, built at Carraca, cost $1439,973, or more than five times that of the Clyde bullt vessels even after making an allowance of 25" per cent for exchange, a5 Spanish money outside of the country is subject to that discount in ordinary times. he Don Antonio de Ulloa and Don Juan de Austria required four years at the dock- yards at Cadiz and Cartagena, although only of 1130 tons, and the torpedo-gunboat Filipias, of 750 tons, built by contract, cost $504,200, or about double the expense of building a similar vessel in this coun- try. %here are fnstances of long delays in other navies in completing ships, and we have had some notabie cases in this coun- try. Such cases, however, proceeded from causes quite different from the chronic state of ‘‘donothingness” which exists in the yards of the South American states, France and Portugal, but is most pro- nounced in Spain. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS salia banker, arrived E. Jacobs, the yesterday. A. J. Larsen, proprietor of the Lodi Sen- tinel, is at the Grand. E. B. Edson, a prominent business man of Siskiyou County, is in the city. Judge John D. Bicknell and wife of Los Angeles are guests at the Palace. B. de Reynier, a lumber merchant of Sanger, is in the city on business. H. D. C. Bernard, a Santa Cruz law- yer, registered at the Lick yesterday. T. E. Johnson, a vineyardist of San Joee, 1s spending a few days in this city. P. Humbert of Boston, a well known mining operator, is in the city on busi- ness. Harry 2. Austin, a Hawallan sugar planter, is visiting this city and is a guest at the Occidental. Ex-Senator J, N. Gillett of Eureka ar- rived in this city yesterday and is regis- tered at the Grand. 5 E. Zanetti, one of the most extensive ranchers of San Benito County, is visit- ing friends in this city. Ex-Judge L. L. Chamberlain came down from Auburn yesterday for a brief visit to friends in this city. Percy Davis, a prominent merchant of Coulterville, arrived in the city yesterday. He is registered at the Grand. Chief Engineer Henry A. Brainard of the Stockton and Tuolumne Railroad, ar- rived from Stockton yvesterday. Carl B. Lindsey, District Attorney of | Santa Cruz County and an officer of the | Naval Battalion, Is a guest at the Grand. | Among the visitors to the city who reg- | istered at the Lick House yesterday is John L. Hudner, the attorney, of Hollis- ter. Albert M. Johnson, the well known law- yer, of Sacramento, and his wife are vis- iting friends here. They are staying at the California Hotel. W. Forsyth, Lee L. Gray and L. R. Payne, prominent vineyardists and raisin packers of Fresno, are among the guests at the Occidental Hotel. Among the arrivals at the Palace yes- terday were Albert C. Bunage, a promi- nent lawyer of Boston; Mrs. Bunage, A. | C. Bunage Jr., F. H. Bunage, Russell Bu- nage, Miss Bessie Bunage, Mrs. E. R. Hashell, Miss S. A. Hashell and H. Lewls. The party is touring the Pacific Coast. —_——— ENGLAND'S WAY. The King of Abyssinia once seized a certain Captain Campbell and put him in a dungeon. Campbell was a British suh- ject. His immediate release was demand- ed and King Theodore refused. KEngland fitted out an army at once and, marching | it 900 miles over morass and mounta.lnd{ broke down the gates of the dungeon an bore Captain Campbell home in safety. It | cost valuable lives and millions of money to protect and save this one British sub- ject, but it is such deeds as this that help to make a nation proud and prosperous.— Boston Globe. - GREAT COUNTRY FOR FIATISTS. Spain has declined to issue 500,000,000 more paper pesetas. What a picnic Spain would be for our friends the Populists. Since more money makes good times, what a glorious time they would have in & country that can have all the money it ‘wants based on nothing and reucemabie in nothing.—Minneapolis Journal. et O O A COMFORTABLE SURPLUS. There is a surplus of volunteers to meet the call for 125,000 men, and in war, as In QPO0P0P0000000000066 2 VOICE OF THE NATION, ¢ COPP99000000000000 ¢ THE COMMAND OF JUSTICE. The men who will bear the brunt of the struggle are entitled by their very position to be free from criticism by those who re- main in the rear. Trust the President; trust the navy; trust the army; support the Govgrnment.—Buffalo Express. DECATUR’S IMMORTAL TOAST. The die is cast, and-all true Americans will stand by their country, confident that she is right, but, right or wrong, they are for the country still.—Oswego Palladium. HERE'S TO THE ANGLO-SAXON. Has Continental Burope known any- thing like it in its own experience since the Crusades? Here we are challenging a crowned head and demanding the sur- render of sovereignty over a rich posses- sion, in a quarrel ot our own, for the sake of humanity. No wonder the powers misunderstand us. That any of these powers could have interfered serfously in our course as regards Cuba is doubtful, but it is certain that we owe much to the friendship of Great Britain. That friend- ship wiil be remembered all the more cordially, since we have had so much to complain of in the past.—Albany Express. ‘WISDOM ALLIED WITH PATRIOTISM. The cry of “open up on Morro Castle and run up the Stars and Stripes” is ab- surd. No attention should be paid to the parrot-like repetitions that “every day's delay is a day gained for Spain,” and that “timidity in war is a crime.” We shall g0 “‘On to Havana” when the time comes, Have patience and trust in the President. Every move on the checker-board of war will be made as rapidly as possible, but ‘we cannot sacrifice the lives of thousands of our citizen soldiery for the mere sake Fleumg the unthinking and the im- ent.—Philadelphia Inquirer. UP WITH THE FLAG. Up with the Stars and Stripes! Let the Star-spangled Banner drape its beautiful folds wherever the eye may turn. If your home is but a room in a garret let a flag, be it the tiniest, flutter from its window. If your business is but a peanut of pati | stand you can ennoble it with a penny flag. Price has nothing to do with patri- otism. Up with the Stars and Stripes! Let them wave over every schoolhouse, Let them drape over ' every place of amusement! Let them decorate every home, however humble! Let no store nor workshop be without them. Up with the flag!—Boston Traveler. WHERE A PROVERB APPLIES. Common emotion has drawn England and America together as never before. Both peoples In the light of coming battle see that they are one as no other sepa- rate and independent nations of the world around can be. tain. The bitterness of geara has faded, The love and sym- g&! y of race have asserted themselves.— 'hiladelphia Press. ‘WHAT THE ALLIANCE MEANS. Suppose that, for purposes of common defense and of common interest, the Unit- ed States and the British empire should stand together, what combination of the powers could resist them? Anglo-Saxon unity is self-suggestive—not for the pur- of aggression; not to make war, but 0 make future wars impossible by com- o | sided continuously Age has its privileges. It has been said an experlenced man knows what he can- not do. A young man knows nothitg of the kind. And he therefore accomplshes the impossible. The heroes of this new. war—if war shall come—are likely to be entire additions to our list of notatles, men who come with no credentials, vet achieve marvels.—Chicago Times-Hereld. TROPHIES OF THE CHASE. When our army returns from Cuba it ust not fall to bring sections of Wey- {gr’s trocha along as trophies.—St. Louls Republic. ANSWERS Tq TOD SLOAN'S AGE—Tod's Admirer, City. Tod Sloan, the lightwelght jockey, is years of age. THREE GENERALS—P. J., City. Gen- eral Shafter was born in Michigan. Gen- eral Miles in Massachusetts and General Coppinger in Ireland. TWO MOUNTAINS—S. A. M., City. Mount Hercules in New Guinea has an al- titude of 82,786 feet. The height of Mount Everest is 29,002 feet. NOT IN OAKLAND—A. 8., t(i‘aklandr; lady inquired about does not have a Ef%%ealnyflh land. This department can- not advertise where her office 1s. AN INSANE PERSON—A. B. J., City. It Is the duty of an arresting officer who has taken a person in custody for insan- ity to search him or her at the prison and turn over to the prison keeper any property he or she may have for safe keeping. It is not a part of the duty of the arresting officer to take charge of all P d o Rpply for a Buard: sessed of and to app! - ?:inp?asf epel"son and estate, If it should come to the knowledge of the arresting officer that the party accused is without relatives or friends and that he has property he would report that fact to the superior officers of the police department, and they would take some action to have the same protected. A PRIZE—O. G., City. The general un- derstanding among all amateur associa- tions is that “an amateur is one who has not entered in an open competition; or for either a stake, public or admission money or entrance fee; or under a fictitious name; or has not competed with or a professional for any prize, or S re an Damission fee Is charged: or who has not instructed, pursued or as- sisted in the pursuit of athletic exercises as a means of livelthood, or for gain or any emolument.”” The communication does not state the condition or standing of the “two men who boxed before a club for a medal,” consequently it is im- possible to answer the question “are they amateurs?” LOST PAPERS—L. A., City. If you lost your first papers all you have to do is to apply to the court in which you filed your application and obtain a certified copy of them. 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