The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 26, 1898, Page 6

‘ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1898. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propnetor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ES o edrb i A PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS. ..2IT to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents @ week. By mall $6 per year; per month 66 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL ..One year. by mali, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.. -Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspond=nt. CHICAGC OFFICE.. Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Ad vertising Represcntative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Mentgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:20 o'clock. 287 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:20 o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open untll 9:30 o'clock. i941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 29291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street. open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street. open untll 9 o'clock. untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. ———————————————eeeeen AMUSEMENTS. onbars * s Trans-Oceante Star Spectalty Co. Love Sterman, Clay Hall—Knetsel Quartet, this afternoon. The Chutes -Zoo, Vaudeville. and “Visions of Art. * a—Corner Mascn and Eddy streets, Speetalties. ths—Swimming, po—Music. Gancing, boating, fishing. every Sundav, Caltfornia Jockey C.ub, Oakland—Races Friday afternoon. AUCTION SALES, \s day, May 26, Rugs, at 106 By H. L. Reed—F at2 0 clock. By ip & Co.—Thursday, June 2, Horses, at San Mateo Stocg 0 0'clo C LEES PINES FOR MUSIC. HIEF OF POLICE LEES is a jewel after his kind. On parade he glitters like a sunset. He moves with the stately ponderousness of a band-wagon. The braid upon him outvies the splen- dor of dawn. His horse steps high, and against the of the charger flaps and clatters the sword i the Chief has benignly refrained irom draw- And yet, with all his grandeur, the Chief is not happy. Being moved by concord of sweet sounds, he pines for a drum and fife. The military spirit has scized him. He would pass along the thoroughfare not merely as a pleasing spectacle, but to the beat and shrill of a Conquering Hero corps. When this impulse first gat hold upon the Chief he called to him his henchmen, Wittman and Spillane, and bade them find who among their cohorts had skill of melody, who could pelt the sheepskin or blow the stuffing from the fife. Alas and alas! there was none. Some could wield the club right well, and others could sprint merrily from the place of peril, but not a mothe of a drum corps ing. The Chief was in a state of despair, wherein it is satd of him that he plucked his beard and sputtered mightil, But he is welcome to any suggestion embodied in these few remarks. A drum corps is a necessity. Without it the Chief may decline to be a joy forever. Therefore get drum corps. Let the Chief dismiss certain of his minions, preferably such as run away when their ser- vices are needed, and fill their places with students ng drum and masters of the fife. Hav- he could continue to constitute himself and astride a steed trained to sniff the battle from do a little sniffing himself. What would be a parade without the Chief? Nothing, Business should be suspended and the war stopped until the Chief shall have a corps to summon the pop- ulace as he goes by. Denied the boon, he might re- of the sound ing dc thi a thing of bea 5 sign, and such an act would be a2 menace to public | Happiness has been known to kill. safety and health. ECTION 14 of chapter 1, article VI of the pro- S posed new charter, say: “All public work authorized by the Supervisors to be done under the supervision of the Board of Public Works shall, unless otherwise determined by the Board of Public Works, be done under written contract.” What does this mean? Do the words “unless other- wise determined” confer upon the board the legal right to pave streets, build sewers and construct pub- lic buildings without competition? Ii they do they constitute a charter joker oi such enormous propor- ns as to actually paralyze the imagination. If t Board of Public Works which is appointed by the Mayor and which may be refloved at pleasure, and which is to consist of one Republican, one Dem ocrat and one Populist, has been invested with the power to order public work without letting contracts, vista of Tweedism is opened up before the people thi. v at once overwhelming in its possibilities. Can it be possible that the Freeholders intended this provision to be taken in its ordinary sense? If they did they have certainly gone over to the cor- ruptionists body, bag and breeches. It was under a similar discretionary power that Boss Tweed fleeced the taxpayers of New York, and wherever discretion to dispense with competition in prosecuting public works has been conferred it has immediately led to corruption and stealing. If there were no other objectionable features in the charter this one ought to defeat it. Taxpayers, who are always made the victims of such careless legislation as this, should go to the polls to-day and vote solidly against the charter. of Marysville volunteers have dropped a traitor from the rolls with such a thud as must have jarred his sys- tem. It is a bad season to be boasting of Spanish blood as the only fighting kind, and the Marysville person had been guilty of this error. Once more there is a report that Alger may resign, but he is naturally opposed to doing this, as he ex- presses it, “under fire.” More than likely the report is merely an indication that some correspondent ought to resign. Perhaps instead of ordering the police to procure a different pattern of revolver it would be wise for the Chief to compel them to learn to shoot with the style they have. Oregon has every reason to be proud of the boys she sent on their way to Manila A finer Iot of men never shouldered rifles. 1f you want to see the Examiner’s circulation go up watch the smokestack of theymtory. A 1505 Polk street, open | Jewelry, at 1038 Market street, | son of the lot could be any part | al SPAIN AS AN ENEMY. | HE tendency of some newspapers to underesti- Tmate Spain as a military enemy is unwise. We are not making all this fuss over whipping a non-resistant cripple. Spain’s navy is of considerable force and her ships, if coaled and supplied with ammu- nition, can put up a stiff fight. That her sailors can be depended on for desperate courage was proved at | Manila. Dewey’s victory was over men, not cowards. | It detracts from his deserved credit and the glory of our arms to forget the brave fellows on the Spanish | decks who fought to the last and went down with their | ships. Dewey himself recognized their fighting merit | when he sent word to the Spanish admiral, Montijo, | that he hoped to meet him some day as a brother sol- | dier and compliment him in person for his brave de- fense of his fleet and flag. Disparagement of an enemy is not found among | the men who fight. It is a civilian vagary, and is a | special form of expression adopted by the ink-valiant fakers of the yellow press. | Circumstances and situations make this war one of | the most formidable military undertakings since Na- poleon’s march to Moscow. We can easily strip Spain of her colonial possessions. They are lusterless | jewels in her crown. But when that is done she will not make peace. ation of her people for capital makes a formidable | fight against the invader, and that we must end the | war by invading the Spanish peninsula is among the high probabilities. | Occupation of the Philippines, Carolines, Ladrones, | Cuba and Porto Rico, and probably the Canaries, will | call for an army of 150,000 men. They will have fought | | [ be seasoned soldiers, ready to be massed into an army ; novel sensation of invasion of the oldest kingdom in Europe by a force from the New World. The places | of these trained veterans in garrison in the colonies | will be taken by an equal force of recruits. In view of all this it will be seen that our enemy is not contemptible in resources or courage, and our honors will be hard won glory. 5 | If the situation were reversed and Spain were the | invader her weakness would be apparent. But we are | the invaders and the Spanish are the invaded. The | history of all military invasions is that the people who are defending their own soil have the advantage. Two invading soldiers are required to match one who is A Tittle serious reflection will cure the errors that have been spread by bumptious boasting by the fakers among the people as our volunteers go forth to battle. THE POOR™ BOODLER. I street) pathetically wonders who is paying for the campaign that is being prosecuted against lard sent out a pamphlet. Who paid the postage on it? excitedly asks the Boodler. John T. Doyle and adoption of the proposed charter. Who pays them? vells the Boodler. Evidently the Boodler thinks it a call. If this is true it is quite sad. ¢ But suppose somebody is paying for the arguments | are doing the same thing. The prodigality which has characterized the campaign of the latter has long | defending his country. and will justify the profound feeling that spreads HE Third Street Boodler (late of Mission the proposed new charter. The other day Dr. Stal- Garret McEnerney have written letters opposing the Colonel Mazuma has opened a “sack” without giving | Leing published against the charter? Its advocates attracted our attention. We have reirained from men- tioning it because we think the Merchants’ Associa- | the | charter have a right, equally shared by their fellow ! tion, the Freeholders and those who support citizens, to spend their money in any way they please. The charter advocates have expended ten dollars to every one so far expended by the opponents of the instrument. An examination of the facts will show this. Not only have they printed posters and posted them upon election booths, but they have flooded the city with circulars, distributed copies of the charter and employed men to write for the papers. They have even induced the Southern Pacific organ, the Evening Post, to support the charter. that? | that the Boodler has been overlooked. No such | tremors as now agitate it were suffered while it was drawing $1000 a month from the Southern Pacific | under its “silence” contract. Nor did it then burn up papers to increase its circulation. But the Boodler should remember that all is not milk and honey in this toilsome world. When the corporations used to | “see” it, it had a character. Since it became a bood- | ling drab—a seeker after the dirty money of the slums | and an associate of thieves and blacklegs—the corpor- ations have no need of its service. Without either character or influence—a yellow liar for coin and with a declining circulation—there are none so poor as to do it reverence. * Last Monday while cur brave boys were marching :r down Market street on their way to embark on the % Peking for Manila and their relatives and friends were { bidding them godspeed a vehicle resembling a scav- | enger cart, filled to its utmost capacity with Exam- | iners, forced its way along the crowded thorough- | fare. It was the only incident that occurred during | the march that marred the patriotic scene. Half an | hour later the tall chimney on the crematory emitted a huge volume of yellow smoke. The Examiner's circulation was going up. Upon reading that the Kansas regiment was in need i of underwear, an enterprising firm sent out yesterday | a lot of drummers, who tried to sell to the soldiers | articles the public would be glad and proud to have | the opportunity of furnishing. The success of these peddlers was not learned, but they were not kicked from the grounds, a circumstance showing that they | got along better than they deserved. “A Glance at Real Estate” is the title over a local article. Since the wind has been blowing there is no possibility of evading such a glance. Realty is in the air, and if the eye does not find it it finds the eye. General Merritt admits that he is engaged to be married, a circumstance which may in a measure ac- count for the rumor that he was reluctant to take command of the Philippine expedition. Public speakers down in Manila are exhorting their followers to give no quarter. If Spanish finances run much lower such advice will be superfluous. The followers can't give a cent. Tt is reported that the employes of the crematory will be given a holiday on Decoration day. If this is true, the Examiner's circulation will be largely decreased on that day. ‘Who knows but Edward Bellamy is in a position now more adapted to ‘“Looking Backward” than when he was attempting it with only mortal experi- ence? An insolvent nation with the desper- | their way to possession of these colonies. They will | | | of invasion to enter Spain and treat the world to the | Who paid for 1f the corporations have opened a sack it is too bad | HE SHOULD REFORM. OR the purpose of throwing dust in the eyes of [:the, people the boodling Examiner declares that the local corporations oppose the adoption of the proposed charter. It says that Garret Mc- Enerney, attorney for the Southern Pacific and “shifty eight,” has written a letter in which he gives a number of reasons why the document should not be carried at to-day’s election. It does not contro- | vert these reasons nor attempt to answer them. It places its demand for votes solely on the ground that Mr. McEnerney is a corporation lawyer, and in opposing the charter is commingling his civic with his legal duties. Perhaps it is true that Mr. McEnerney is a cor- poration attorney. It is his business to practice law and he sometimes goes into court to maintain the rights of corporations. Perhaps he did foil the at- tempt of the Phelan combination to get possession of the government by ousting the “shifty eight.” His skill and ability may have been utilized by the Market Street Railway Company or the Southern Pacific in saving the property of these corporations from loot and blackmail. So long as he works honestly for those who employ him probably the corporations | will continue to avail themselves of his services. But the public can forgive and forget all this in Mr. McEnerney. There are, however, other things he has done for which he can never be pardoned. On two occasions he has saved the managing editor of the Examiner from a just term of imprisonment in jail. On several occasions he has employed his learn- | ing and ability in preventing the owner of the yel- | low sheet from being called to account for his libels. For his work in making it safe to publish the Ex- | aminer in this town and in keeping its staff of black- mailers out of jail the public will never forgive him. | All the rest may be forgotten and excused but this— | never. | As the dirty sheet, in order to subserve its black- mailing purposes, is now assailing the motives and | integrity of its own counsel, we trust that Mr. Mec- | Enerney will conclude to reform. Should he refuse | to defend it, in time perhaps Hearst could be brought | to book for his libels and the crew of blackmailers he employs could be broken up. If the charter cam- | paign accomplishes nothing more than to break the | link which attaches Mr. McEnerney to the business | all the trouble and expense it has caused. THE W@AR REVENUES. HEN the financial legislation of 1862 was Wundcr discussion and aiter its adoption until 1868 the Democracy opposed greenbacks with | the utmost bitterness. They made campaigns against | the “rag money” which the Government was com- pelled to issue because its credit fell below par and the treasury ran dry in the last year of Buchanan's administration. No Republican statesman of that day | contended that resort to greenbacks was justified, ex- cept by the discredit and Civil War which Lincoln’s administration inherited from its predecessor. Secre- tary Chase drew the legislation of 1862, but when h became Chief Justice decided that it was not war- | ranted by the constitution and had its sole excuse as | a war measure and the only means of financiering the | struggle to restore the Union. | back was a badge of discredit and dishonor. It was press of that party. But when specie resumption w; prepared for the party suddenly turned its coat and cry and came out for greenbacks. It ran Seymour | and Blair on a greenback platform in 1868, and ranted | and sang as loudly for that kind of currency as it had formerly raved against it. In 1876 Tilden succeeded | in pulling the party off this new scent and it kept | tolerably straight on finance until 1896, when free | silver and Populism set it crying again for “a more | and fittener currency,” and now it stands in Congress for what it denounced in 1862, though the credit of the country and the condition of the treasury require no resort to doubtful measures. In several Parliaments of Continental nations is a party known as the Opportunists, whose members | stand ready to take advantage of the mistakes and weakness of other parties which profess principles and go up and down with them. The Democracy were against greembacks in the ternative to a dissolution of the Union, and are for | greenbacks now when the credit of the country does not require their issue and when it would be a capital and costly mistake. The Democracy may be called “the Misopportun- |ists.”” They are always loading their gun with spent cartridges, hatching on last year's birdsnests, draw- ing water after the well is dry, sitting on the fence and looking at the road after the procession has passed, opposing Republican measures when they are obsolete. Tilden and Cleveland compelled the party to abstain from idiocy, to cease chewing its tongue and having fits all over the floor. but it has cursed and quit them and their works and 1s now dressing it- self for the next campaign in the cast-off garments of Republicanism, which it made fun of when they were new. that in the present attention paid the volunteers they are being overlooked, but this is not the case. The finest compliment paid to the volunteers is when peo- ple say, “They march just like regulars.” The only that Uncle Sam takes good care of his standing army, while the new soldiers have been short on ra- tions, shelter and raiment. Once they are equipped the distinction will vanish. Under the flag in foreign lands they will all be “our boys.” If it is true that the captain of the Callao, who sur- rendered to the overwhelming force of Dewey, has been shot by the Spaniards, one more task will be added to that already cut out for the Americans. It will be their duty to find what official ordered the murder committed, and, backing him 2gainst a stone wall before a file of marines, inculcate into his sys- tem better manners and plenty of lead. Probably the rumor that Admiral Montijo is to be court-martialed is wholly baseless. It should not be regarded as a crime for a soldier to fight. There are times when to follow the Spanish fashion of running away is not practicable. —_— Over at Sausalito a baker was rash enough to hur- rah for Spain and revile the stars and stripes. It will be some time now before he will be able to dis- tinguish the colors of one country from those of the cther. The Kansas boys have had every reason to com- plain and Lave not made a murmur. They are made of the right stuff for soldiers. C % i interests of the Examiner it will have been well worth | Nothing can exceed the bitterness with which the | Democrats attacked the scheme. To therp a green- “Republican money,” and it bore every epithet from | | “rag baby" to “Lincoln scabs” in the mouths and the | Some of the regular soldiers seem inclined to think | reason for the apparent partiality is the knowledge | | | | | | | | Civil War, when they had to be accepted as the al- | | | | frightful slaughter. The brave Spaniards, 2 4 | brought forward, and soldiers aimed their { vital and necessary and favoring them when they are | . | AMERICA, THE NEW WORLD POWER. We are identified with the civilized, interested in its problems, concerned {n its progress, injured In its disasters, helped by its prosperities. The time has therefore passed when the United States can say, “We are sufficlent unto our- selves; we will go our way; the rest of the world can go its way.” The ques- tion is not, “Shall we avoid entangling alliances?” We are entangled with all the nations of the globe; by commerce, by manufactures, by race and religious affilia- tions. by popular and political sympa.aies. The question for us to determine is not whether we shall live and work in fellowship with European nations, but wether we shall choose our fellowship with Wwise judgment and definite purpose, or whether we shall allow ourselves to drift into such fellowships as C cident or the changing incldents of human history may direct. T belleve that the time has come when we ought, as a nation, to recognlze the fact that we are not @erely an American nation, but a world nation; when we ought to take our place, with clear and definite understanding that we are dolng so, among the na- tions of the rid; when we ought to form ciearly to ourselves our national pur- pose, and seek such affillations as will promote that purpose. It is for this reason I urge the establishment of a good understanding between the United States and England, in the hope that in time it will grow to a more formal alliance—civic, commercial and industrial, rather than naval or military—and vet an alliance that will make us, for the purposes of our international life, one people, though not politically one nation. There are reasons which suggest the wisdom of tlLe establishment and maintenance of such good understanding and the hope of such possibly more formal alllance with our kin beyond the sea.—Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D, in the North American Review. ANGLO-SAXON PARTNERS. No sane person would proposh that either of the English-speaking powers should abate its general freedom of actfon, or should alter its internal govern- ment. The materials are ready to hand for a perfectly simple and vet perfectly effective entente. All that is required Is that the responsible statesmen of Eng- land and America should arrive at and should formulate a policy on which they are agreed in those matters in which it concerns them to act together. * * ¢ This would mean, In plain language, that each partner of the Anglo-Saxon com- bination would safeguard the other against the risk of being wiped out by a com- bination of the continental military powers.—"Politicus,” in the Contemporary Review, London. AN IMPERIAL NATION. The old {dea that the United States was esentfally pacific and could afford to refrain from participating in the hautepolitique of the world must be abandoned and a vigorous effort made to revive commerce which has been neglected under the narrowing influences of the home market clubs, those nurseries of pettiness in trade and politics. To be able to find sallors to man warships thers must be a great mercantile marine, and this implies lower tariffs and more liberal trade regulations. The once-great ocean-carrying trade of the Union has to be re- created. President McKinley stands at the parting of the ways; elected on a narrow fssue, that of the currency, and committed to the ultra conservative classes, events have seized on him and have led him out to where, as from alofty promontory overlooking the seas, he may discern the rising cloud of a European coalition against the great republic whose astounding growth and multiplying wealth have excited the bitter and undisguised hatred of the old world. Europe is menaced on one side by huge and youthful Russia advancing eastward to the coveted Oriental field of trade, and on the other by the American Union, which became a great and fmperial nation when Jefferson, in a moment of patriotic in- spiration, threw his constitutional scruples to the winds and bought the Louisiana erritory of Napoleon. McKinley.can emerge from this borrasca a statesman or a political pigmy. The President who conducts successfully a forelgn war, who creates a great navy and lays the foundation for a strong army, and Is something of a Caesar, appealing to the masses over the heads of the politicians, can in- augurate a new and splendid American policy and raise his country to the highest gfil‘;gisigllflx:::rnaruggnllafls!flrs. d“';ll Mr. McKinley do this or will he remai{l the e e 0! e trusts and of narrowing commercial in sts generally 7— Mexican Herald (City of Mexico.) 5 e e ALARM IN MEXICO. - If the United States triumphs over Spain there will have sounded for us the knell of our autonomy. Masters of the Gulf, of Hawail (feloniously appropri- ated), and of our own Alsace-Lorraine (Texas), her ambition and aspirations will know no end. Passing the canal which divides the island of Cuba and Yucatan she will there install herself through a spirit of conguest thinly masked by all the hyprocrisies of diplomacy. Already by infiltration has she occupied large sec- tions of our northern frontier. We see the Americans, like phylioxera, appear- ing in every section of our capital. They have acquired such control over our commerce and industrial interests that financially they have us bound both hands and feet. Thelr politicians, even when defeated In their aspirations, are received here like princes. They are adulated by provincial orators who tell them that nelther Cicero, Mirabeau nor Castelar, in his orations from the people’s tribunal, reached so high a ¥lace in the fire and energy of public speecg. nough of this sort of adulation! he Yankees have shown us what they are, Their vandalism in California, their deceptions in Alaska, all show that they are affected with the lunacy of King Midas—gold, always gold! Their democracy is only a shame- less market, measured by the Dingley tariff. Their International politics, docile to so much per cent, shows all the Carthaginian malice and felony. Washington advised and begged them, almost in his will, to be true and just in their rela- tlons with other Keople, but they, subject to the laws of heredity, intercept and ractice in British style the rights of man. It should not be forgotten that John ull is the grandfather of Uncle Sam.—Vox de Mexico. THE MISSION OF AMERICA. Over and over again a new race (or a race born anew as it seems) has a “mis- slon,” or is aware of a “‘destiny,” to overrun, to subdue, to destroy and replace; and sets out to do so as if by uncontrollable impulse. Historians noted these movements long ago, finding them “mysterious.” Mysterious or not, we do not come to the end of them. If we want to know why the world is so mightily dis- turbed at this hour and why we are thrown back so unexpectedly upon the regime of force, all we have to do is to mark with a confessing eye that one such movement is in full progress, and that another, and perhaps yet another in a somiewhat different guise, has begun. Unless all the signs deceive the American re%uhllc breaks from her old moorings and salls out to be a “world-power.” Whether the start has been well made, with sagacity, with dignity, with due cir- cumspection and preparedness against internal disturbance, for example, is for the Americans to consider. For our part we must acknowledge that the move- ment is perfectly natural, if not “mysteriously” imperative, and also entirely thelr affair. nd then, !nkl:f account of another illustration of the way in which history repeats itseif, with so little modification by “moral forces,” we must shape our conduct accordingly.—* The Looker On"” in Blackwood's, Edinburgh. COMPLICATIONS MAY ARISE Conquests are sometimes embarrassing, and there are alreddy signs that the people of the United States hardly know what to do with the Philippines. In- numerable solutions of this grave problem are put forward. A very small party is for holding them; others, again, are for selling them to a friendly power; while many go further, and name the friendly power—England. The Philippines are to be offered to England to cement the Anglo-Saxon alliance; and in exchange we are to give the Americans & base at Manila or else certain of our West In- dies colonies. We cannot but feel fattered as a nation by this fresh proof of friendship from the people of the United States. The mere suggestion shows that they trust us implicitly. But the trouble is that we do not want the Philippines. In view of our daily increasi: empire in Africa and of our obligations in China, we shall do well to avold undul g;‘ stretching the bow. Under these circumstances there are three solutions which suggest themselves. Either the United States should continue to hold these islands or should sell them to Japan—a _state friendiy both to the United States and to ourselves—or again they should be re- stored to Spain in exchange for Cuba. We could not with equanimity see one of the great military powers of Europe—Russia or Germany—established there. We are an Australasian as well as an Aslatic state, and we are therefore most deeply interested in the future of Malaysia. But the Philippines are likely to prove a new apple of discord; and there are roeuimlu.ha of European intervention which British and American statesmen will do well to consider and prepare to meet.— London Daily Mail. AS SPAIN SEES US. and therefore physically weak is al- P 2B | leged by EIl Diario, which says: Some Highly Interest;ng and Enter- | taining Extracts From Madrid {icans is five feet two, and they have never produced an athlete. This is due | Newspapers. to their living almost entirely upon vege- o the Seiesn. Hkaaldy {ables, as they ship all their beet out of ;. country, so eager are they to make Spain has some vellow journalS | moner, There is no doubt that one rulf which could give New York papers three odds and then win. Here is an ex- tract from El Diario de Madrid intend- ed to fire the Iberian heart: The scene in the plaza was one of | grown Spaniard can defeat any | men in America. THICKER THAN WATER. We ain't the delight o' the nytions, the dawlin’ and pet o' the world; They winks when they seca us a-comin’, their lips is sawcestic'ly curled. They ‘as the opinyun—it's one as they don't tike no pines to cornceal— As we fights {n the "oliest causes, ‘but mikes ar bit art o' the deal to the number of about 200, with thelr beautitul wives and children, made a stand in the public square near the ca- | thedral fountain. On every side the . Yankee devils closed in. Cannons were muskets. At the signal the ns explod- ed, and the valiant victims fell writhing in'death agony. The soldiers then bay- e oneted the wounded until they dled. The |y, 35 thet sime O 2 square ran with Spain’s best blood. T e N This is hair-raising indeed, and think | But whichever's the poppiiar nytion, it isn't what an idea the Spanish people must Grite Britain—that’s flat, be receiving of their foe! Dunno "ow it is, but it s A few pointers on the physical geog- world don't agree; bo. and us and the raphy of the United States from EI | P'rhaps we tikes up too much o the atias fur Pais make interesting reading: ana Fitie speck: i the ses, The country is not fit to live in. The climate is execrable. When it is not sleet- ing or snowing the heat is almost un- bearable. dA\i‘n.lanc!;‘e! are !qu"' uenl; atl lzg times, and these threaten the princi And knows if wee citics. AS for the people, besides the fow | wa've gort ter do thet on aF cone: whites engaged in business along the | And the whisper it runs through the nytfons, ern coast, the remainder of the coun- | ..., Whenever ar condue’ o on, i try is one vast plain, covered with In- ‘:ln%mu"' Git "awf-a-| dians, called cowboys, and great herds of ot 5o frienda roaming cattle. No friends? It mye be, One asks himself if it is quite worth Theer's writin' as no: while to teach people to read if they | P°®)S & e as no folly are to be intellectually fed on such awful rubbish. More “Geografia” from the leading paper, El Heraldo: All the troops of the Yankees are in the sort o’ pertiter we are. #cod a shirkin' the fact— somebody eles 'as gort whackt. "Arrever it is, ‘ere we're standin'- we're standin’ alone, sl but we might * ne will erase, "7 can loosen, the Ween men o' one race. 2 b The mb&.\‘yenur ';;wrluen cawn't never And the pawst, with its blunders an’ bicod- far Western part of the country, many Yolce of ar race stawts & i housand miles from the Atlantic’ Coast, | prellt 85 It OfTers 1s clear. = roninr the | There are only a few thousand men, all told, and they are i1l d and ill fed, and | not willing to fight. To utilize this force | — et mecbaard Theve 1o Bat on rall, | ADMIRAL SAMPSO Eastern seal . ere ut one - way };y whkl‘g it ga.n bel tmmde;!lnt‘ AL _N’l FAMILY. that is an old and poorly constructed af- | Rear fral Sam, fair. At one place t railroad passes a day laborer. pson was the son of Fi a cataract 1000 feet —London Chronicle. over N! He was born 58 h, near Labrador. At last accounts | kol years ago in Palmyra, B ige at this place was In a yers | N- Y- When his parents were in rather | straitened eircumstances. His home is within half an hour's ride from New .ork, a tasteful brown cot- tage at 117 Clark street, Glen Ridge, N. Everything about the place has the quality of thoroughbred sim- dangerous condition. It need surprise no | one to learn that some agency has made it still more so. It would serve the hate- ful pigs of Yankees right if their miser- able army was thus drowned. The Imparcial, a little four-page pa- per which compares itself to the Lon- don Times, drops into history and shows how Fitzhugh Lee is the “mismo Lee” who surrendered after the Civil ‘War to “General Lincoln.” An Havana telegram to the Impar- cial imparts this precious information: ‘Word has just been received here that the Indians are rising against the Yan- kees in Iillnofs, Ohio and other ces. The farmers are petitioning the J. W plieity. h'l'hn family consists of Mrs. Sampson, er two St ughters, Olive Farrington and H , commonly cailed “Nan,” and the two boys, who are Mrs. Samp- 8 sons—Ralph and Harold. There are two married daughters, who are also the children of Admiral Sampson's first wite. t, the elder, is the wife of Lieutenant Roy C. Smith, and Kate, the second, is the wife of Ensign H. H. Jack- son, who d.lmn'iulshed ‘himself In Samoa e ment to protect them from the blood- | &t the time of great storm that drove savages, who are houses . warships ashore, and killing on side. Troops mu)flu th Bur- asked for 8t in the State —of | InE of Y fhis'a nana- Denver, and at St. in ‘woman, considerably the av- That the Americans are vegetarians i e TR T R R U carriage. She has none of the restiess- » The average height among the Ameri- | And trusts us, believin' they knows jest what | As far as they're ible ter chuck us—thenks be | And sometimes we ’'as bin in errer—it's no | | And sometimes when we've bin in errer, its | ness that seems to be the portion of nine- tenths .of modern women. Home and family fill_her iife, to the exclusion ot broader fields and missions. She has never permitted her picture to be published in the papers, nor will she allow anything like personal interviews. — e CALIFORNIA’S HOSPITALITY. Every heart in Oregon swells with pr_lde and gratitude at the grand reception given to our boys in blue by the Cali- fornians. It comes with striking con- trast to the Oregonian’'s malignant libel upon the fathers and mothers of Cali- fornia’s native sons. They ¢®n be kind ladies and gentlemen to our sons, and will receive the prayers and expressions of gratitude of every father and mother in the State of Oregon who has a son or friend in the regiment. Portland Morning Tribune. — e | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE MAINE—Reader, Santa Maria, Cal. The Maine was blown up on the Isth | of February. e | RED CROSS SOCIETY—C. W., City. | For tnformation about the Red Cross S | clety and how to join it, apply to the of- | ficers of the soclety in the Claus Spreckels | | building, Market and Third streets. s LETTERS OF MARQUE—A. D. ¢ Menlo Park, Cal. A.letter of marque a license or permission by the Government to a private ship In time of war to selza on the ships of another state. So called because the power issuing the same al- lows a market or mart—that is, author ing the disposal of the captured propert It is piracy for a private vessel to make war without letters of marque. THE NAVY-YARD-E. W., City. An individual who wishes to obtain work as a brickmasen or carpenter at-the navy- | yard at Mare Island must file an applica- | tion with the board of labor employment | on the island, where certain blanks fur- | nished by the recorder of the board can bs | obtained any working day. The applica- | tion must be presented in person, and the | indivi; 1 be subjected to such an | examination as the board may determine upon to ascertain the fitness as to char- | acter and the competency of the aplicant. WATER SUPPLY-M. K. T, City. | There is no record of who originated the | idea of water supply or water works. In the earliest records of civilization are ac- | counts of the digging of wells and of | quarrels about the possession of them. The *Pools of Solomon,” near Bethlehem, | which remain now almost as perfect as | when built, were connected with a | scheme for supplying Jerusalem with water. In Assyria and Persia, from the earliest times water has been conveyed to towns from great distances in open channels or canals and in subterranean tunnels or kanats. In Egypt also, and {in China, gigantic works for conveying water both for domestic use and for irri- gation have been in existence from re- | mote antiquity. CRIMEAN WAR—M. R. and others, | City. Without an examination of the offi- | cial records of the several countries en- | gaged in the Crimean war of 1854 and 1855 | it is impossible to answer the question | “How many men were engaged in the Cri- | mean war; that is, how many men were furnished by the Russians, French, Sar- | dinians, the German division In the Eng- | lish army, and the number of English | Irish _and Scotch engaged in the war?” tPanshed statistics as to the number furnished by each nation are not only incomplete, but very unsatisfactory, as | with the exception of France it i3 not | possible to prepare an aggregate. The | French contingent was 309,268. The losses | by the allles in round numbers were: | France 8,000, England 22,000, Italy 2200 and | Turkey 30,000, Russian loss from all causes, 90,000. GENERAL AND LIEUTENANT-G. F. W., City. The highest rank in the army | of the United States was general. It was { created for George Washington March 3, 11799, and it was abolished in 1802. It was | revived in 1866 for U. S. Grant. He was | succeeded in that position by W. T. Sher- | man. On the retirement of Sherman No- | vember 1, 1883, the rank again became ex- tinct. It was revived for a short time— from June to August, 1838—for Lieutenant- | General Phil Sheridan, and since his death in that vear it has been vacant. The office of lieutenant-general was first | created for Washington in 1788, and was abolished_the folowing vear. It was re- vived in 1855 for Winfield Scott. In 1864 Grant was appointed to that grade, and | when he was appointed general the rank went to Sherman. In 1583 Sheridan was appointed to that rank, and it has not been filled since Sheridan was appointed general in 18S8. | THE ARMY-H. L. H, City. Before the present war the strength of the regu- | lar army of the United States was, as | per reports of the 30th of June, 1897, 10 | regiments of cavalry, 447 officers, 6010 | enlisted men; 5 regiments of artiliery, 2% | ofii enlisted men; 25 regiments 910 officers, 12, enlisted engineer 1 lion, recruiting par- ,'ordnance department, hospital serv-. Indian scouts, signal and general | officers and 2538 _enlisted men; | e of 2179 officers and making a grand total | of Since. the war there has been | added two regiments of artillery. - The | United States are divided into eight mili- tary departments: The East, Missouri, California and Nevada. Dakota Texas, the Platte, Colorado and the Columbia. The rank in the army is major-general, briga- dier-general, coionel, i ant colonel, major, captain mounted, captain not mounted; regimental adjutant, regimental | quartermaster, first lieutenant mounted, second lieutenant not mounted, chaplain. The arms in use, if you mean small arms | for the infantry, are the Krag-Jorgensen | rifles. | TOBACCO—J. F. M.,Napa Soda Springs. | Cal. The various methods for preparing | manufactured tobaco are too numerous to detail in this department. After the leaves have been dried cad cured the to- bacco is made up by twi t.ng, pressing or cutting, and it assumes various forms and | pames. In the United States, as else- where, syrup and licorice are largely used in the preparation. Smoking tobac- co is prepared from every grade and qual- ity, but usually from broken leayes, stems and Inferior parts, the finest being re- served for cigars. Cavendish is made by ripping the blades from the m:d;flf\x sprinkling them with an infusion of t | bacco from the stalks and other waste parts and laying them in heaps to fer- This darkens the ffl»{\; o hey are still moist the: e iy “one another to Zorm h by three in ,,l:"fi}pssea by pow- B Jnen o8 are laid smoothly on 1 gakes 'r‘lin,rgnchle; in readth. Then they erful machinery until very compact Niggerhead is formed into sticks an inch Pc and eight or nine Inches long. They | are lald across each other and preseed, d when pulled apart have 2 ':‘\;}’ID- | pearance, hence the name. gt s a | continuous string t! | quill several yards in | made into a bal d | These are but a | Finest eyeglasses, specs; 15¢ & Fourth, | Cal. glace fruit Sic per Ib a ; for Rare books, valuable to any person, sale at Odd Fellows’ Library, Seventd and Market strest. Great bargalas. t Townsend’'s.® ed dafly to Special information suppli | business houses and public men l’& . Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 510 glg\;le!::ry s‘;?eetg. Telephone Main 1042, —_— e “Good gracious, George. hc:' you look! 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