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

The MONDAYL.oovese cvees...JUNE 6, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propnetor. e e e e~ e Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager, UBLICATION OFFiCE......Market and Third Sts,, S. F. Telephone Main 1868, DITORIAL ROOMS. .27 to 221 Stevenson Street 5 Telep! Main 1874 THE AN 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 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL........... ..One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE... -908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE Room (88, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...... C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE....... «.Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. | BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay. open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission streed open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh strect, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 930 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTa, Baldwin-Ysaye, Wednesday afternoon. Columbisa—* The New Domiion " Alcazar—“The Master of Ceremontes.” Morosco's—*“The Cotton King Tlvoli—“An American Hero.” Orpheum—Vauceville. The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville and * Departure of the Peking. Olympla—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties. Butro Baths—Swimming, El Campo—Music, dancing, boating. fishing, every Sundav, Press Clnb—Sale of sketches for the beneflt of the Red Cross Bogiety, Saturday, June 11. 5rom 2 t0 6 and 8to 11 P. M. AUCTION SALES. By Basch Auctlon Co.—Monday, June 6, Bar Fixtures, ete. Bt 831 Sutter street, at 11 o'clock. By Killip & Co.—Tuesday, June 7, Horses, at corner Market street and Van Ness avenue, at 11 o'clock. l and for years before, the Examiner news service has been noted for three characteristics scorned | by legitimate newspapers and despised of men, but essential in the conduct of yellow journalism: LIES. FAKES. GALL. Yesterday in a yelling, bellowing, ocherous screed i it gave a shameless exhibition of all of them. It| claimed to have correspondents in the audience cham- bers of crowned heads and in the counsel rooms of other dignitaries. Yet it is still fresh in the minds | of men that the so-called interviews with Bismarck | have been denied by his secretary, that the reported conversationswith the Pope, the Kaiser and the Queen | Regent of Spain have been refuted, that the alleged ! talk with Roosevelt has been roundly denounced by | that gentleman as a lie, and that the asserted inter- ; view with Mrs. McKinley has been denied by the | private secretary of the President and the publication | of it rebuked as an outrage upon womanhood as well | as a deception upon the public. | The yellow puff contained the Yurther claim: “From | Manila an Examiner-Journal man sent the first | graphic story by an eye-witness of Dewey’s great vic- | tory.” This is a cunningly worded lie, but neverthe- less a lie. The claim is not made that an Examiner- Journal man witnessed the battle, but only that he sent the first story told by one who was a wit- ness. Even that is false. The Call correspondent, Mr. Stickney, was on Dewey’s flagship and watched the battle from that standpoint. His story was the | first given to the public. The Examiner-Journal | faked a story from a short dispatch given them by the Chicago Record, and in publishing the mass of trash | and falseness impudently claimed the Record cor- respondent as their own. For this the two Hearst- | lings were denounced by the Record and their lying exposed. To this day neither the Journal nor the Ex- aminer has ever given to its readers a true account or even a fair account of the victory at Manila. Such, tersely and hastily enumerated, are some of the facts concerning the war news service of the Ex- aminer. They show how it has applied to the collec- tion of war news unlimited quantities of LIES. LIES, FAKES AND GALL. VER since the outbreak of the war with Spain, FAKES. GALL. A STREET-PAVING EXPERIMENT. HILADELPHIA has some cobblestone pave- pmcnu lingering among her generally well im- proved streets, and her people have long had a2 desire to get rid of them. Accordingly a great deal of interest has been shown there in a recent proposi- tion from certain responsible contractors to pave the cobblestones with asphalt and keep them in repair for ten years at a cost of $1 per square yard. The contractors, according to the Philadelphia Times, propose using the existing cobblestone pave- ments as a foundation without further preparation ex- cept to ram thoroughly the cobbles before applying the binder coat and asphalt surface. The Times adds: “It is claimed that by this method the cost of paving can be reduced to $1 per square yard, the cost at present being about $1 60. Those who advocate the new method claim that it has been tried in this and other cities and that it furnishes as substantial a pave- ment as when spread upon a basis of pounded stone or concrete, and that contractors will be willing to lay the pavement at $1 per yard and guarantee its wearing qualities for a period of ten years.” Other Philadelphia papers are equally favorable to the proposed plan. The Record, for example, says: “The city authorities ought to jump at the offer made by responsible contractors to resurface the cobble streets with asphalt and guarantee to keep them in repair for ten years at an original cost of $1 per square yeard. Ten years of saving in repairs, costly sweeping, wear and tear of vehicles and nerves and difficult cartage would be worth to the city and dwellers in the city more than $1 per square yard.” San Francisco has a number of cobblestone streets which are about as bad as any in Philadelphia. They entail a heavy cost on all street traffic, wear out vehicles, depreciate property values and irritate the nerves of all who have to pass along them. More- over, these pavements are on the principal streets of the city, and therefore doubly objectionable. We have, then, an interest in the proposed Philadelphia experiment. If there is any way in which a cobble- stone pavement can be transformed into a good asphalt pavement at a cost not exceeding $1 a square yard with a guarantee of ten years' service we shall be glad to know of it. As a camping place the Presidio did not get a fair trial. There are hundreds of acres there which would be ideal for the purpose. All they need is water, and if the Government is unable tq secure this it is worse off than there has been any reason for supposing. Some gentleman writes in the Arena about “The Decadence of Patriotism,” but possibly it is senile de- cay which is troubling him. l THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JUNE A CHANCE FOR MEN. . PEAKING of women denying themsclves S the latest creations of the Paris milliner and modiste,” says the New York Commercial Advertiser, “why should not the masculine fraternity show an equal patriotism by boycotting French wines and using American wines?” The pertinence of this question addressed to the wine users of the East is increased by the arrangement of a reciprocity treaty with France which admits the import of French wines at such law rates of duty as to render them formidable competitors to American wine producers. The point made by our New York contemporary is therefore one which should be re- iterated and emphasized. The proposal of a large number of influential women to turn aside from Parisian goods during the | war and bestow their patronage on American goods ought not to be called a boycott. The spirit that prompted the ladies in making this resolve was one of genuine patriotism. As such it has been every- where recognized and widely commended. The move- ment thus inspired is above the dignity of a boycott and ranks with those enterprises which tend to the upbuilding of home prosperity by supporting home industries. Since the action of the women of the land has been so widely approved by men, it is certainly fair to ask the men to follow the example they have approved. California wine is better and purer than nine-tenths of the French wine brought into the country. It is, therefore, more beneficial to the health and more en- joyable to the palate of those who know good wine when it is set before them. Its enlarged use would be for the advantage of the consumer as well as that of the producer, and a distinct gain would result for all parties. Protection accorded to home industry by law should be accompanied by a popular patronage of home industry in order that the law may have the fullest and best effect. The Commercial Advertiser is on the right track in advising Eastern men to patronize American wines. It should be borne in mind, however, that the prime object of the move- ment is not to injure France, but to benefit the United States. It is not a measure of hostility to end with the ending of the war, but an industrial measure to con- tinue for all time. To patronize home industry is one | of the patriotic duties of a people, and it will be a good day for the United States when it becomes a matter of universal practice. THE OREGON ELECTION. [ ') of strength between the political parties of the country in the selection of Congressmen this year, the election in Oregon to-day will be watched and the results studied with close attention. preliminary contest in a struggle which is to be waged Y reason of the fact that it is to be the first trial in every other Congressional district in the Union this | fall, and public interest in it is, therefore, keen and widespread. There are three tickets in the field, for the Bryanite leaders have not been able to whip all the Populists into line, and a Middle-of-the-Road Populist party will contest with Republicans and Democrats for su- premacy. There is to be elected a full State ticket, two members of Congress, county officers and mem- bers of the Legislature, and the legislators in turn are to choose a United States Senator. The offices at stake are therefore sufficient to bring out a fairly | full vote of the people, and it is not likely that either side will lose by reason of the indifference of its members. As was to have been expected, the financial ques- | tion—a survival of 1896—has been the dominant issue of the campaign. It is true that the free silver move- ment is virtually dead, but the new questions which are now being rapidly shaped by the war and by the grewing demand for currency reform have not yet been formulated with sufficient clearness to be pre- sented to the people as party issues. These questions will undoubtedly come to the front in the elections this fall, for they are now being discussed in Con- gress, but in Oregon the contest was of necessity confined to the issues of the past. By the vote of to- day, therefore, we will not have a sure basis for cal- | culating the probable vote of the country in Novem- ber, but we will have an evidence of how far the Re- publican party holds the tidal wave strength of the Presidential election. 2 In 1806, when the fusion of all the silver forces was complete, the Republicans carried Oregon by over 2000 majority. This year the bolt of the Middle-of-the Road Populists will detract from the strength of the Bryanites and will go far to counterbalance any fall- ing off in the Republican ranks from the enthusiasm of the great campaign for sound money and protection which elected McKinley. Unfortunately, however, there is a split in the Republican party in Portland and this may have a bad effect not only on the local ticket, but on the State and the Congressional ticket. The conflict is therefore a close one and neither side has any apparent advantage over the other. The seeming equality of conditions under which both sides are making the fight will add to the sig- nificance of the result. The Republicans have taken a bold and unequivocal stand for the maintenance of the gold standard. Their opponents have just as boldly and clearly made an effort to revive Bryanism and free silver. On that issue there ought to be no doubt of the result. Oregon can surely be counted on to vote right on an issue which is to determine whether she is to get good money or depreciated money for her products, and in which kind the Gov- ernment is to pay her patriotic volunteers. A LESSON FROM THE SOUTH. NE of the most notable features of the cam- Opaign of education carried on by the Southern States for the purpose of attracting men and capital is the elaborate way in which they advertise the extension and expansion of their manufacturing industries. Every week a statement is sent out giving details of the number of new mills or improveme in old ones in the South. The showing for any éne week is not great, but the repetition of these state- ments has all the effect of incessant advertising, and the whole country is compelled to give attention to Southern development. An illustration of the method pursued is to be found in the statement now going the rounds of the East- ern press, which runs thus: “Touching new enter- prises inaugurated in the South during the last week the following may be mentioned among the more im- portant items: A flouring mill in Alabama; a cotton mill in Georgia; a stave mill in Kentucky; a rice mill in Louisiana; a sawmill in Mississippi; in North Carolina a flouring mill, a tobaceo factory and a mica mine; in South Carolina a cotton mill, a $100,000 construction company and a roller flouring mill; a chair and carriage factory in Middle Ten- nessee; machine shops, two lumber companies, an electric light plant, a mineral oil company, a tobacco factory and a 125-ton cottonseed oil mill at Texas points; a tobacco factory and a $200,000 quarrying It is the | ; the May deal in wheat at Chicago, has caused a sharp company in Virginia, and a sawmill in West Vir- A sawmill here, a flouring mill there, a mica mine in one place and a tobacco factory in another, are little things in themselves, but in the aggregate they make a telling paragraph which is sure to be widely copied, and the whole South gets the benefit of the free advertising. Men are interested in such an item because it is a statement of facts. It is not descriptive writing of glow and glamour, but news. Papers copy it and people read it because it is of current interest. Each statement of the kind counts, and when they follow one another week after week and month after month the public mind becomes impressed with the idea that the South is flourishing and that it is a safe land to go to for investment of capital or for the making of a home. The great States of the West might profitably fol- low the South in this method of advertising. There is an association in the Southern States with cor- respondents in every locality which gathers the infor- mation and makes it public. A similar organization should be established on the Pacific Coast to collect with equal diligence information of every new indus- trial enterprise on the coast. If this were done the record would far outstrip that of the South. Our mines and mills and factories are greater and richer than those of the South, and our weekly or monthly statements would have a wider reading and make a deeper impression. A movement of this kind could be appropriately undertaken in connection with the proposed Pacific Coast exposition to be held in commemoration of the semi-centennial of the discovery of gold. The enter- prise should be the work of the whole coast and not of a single State. The South has shown us how to get free advertising of a high value, and we ought to be wise enough to profit by the example. THE STATE OF TRADE. lthe war, commercial failures were smaller than for May, 1897, when the country was at peace. It is another curious fact that the longer the war goes on the less is heard about it in commercial circles. One might easily fancy, from the general indifference regarding it, that war was the natural condition of the country. Except in Wall street, there is positively no visible effect on general trade. At the outset a few lines were disturbed, but they quickly became adapted to their new conditions and business is now peaceful and humdrum as usual. The pivot on which everything is now swinging is contained in the single word, Crops. One hears nothing else, either here or in the East. From all of the great grain producing sections of the land except California come reports of brilliant crop outlooks, and if they are realized the yield for 1898 will be un- precedented. This prospect, with the termination of T is a curious fact that in May, the first month of decline in wheat, though at the close more firmness is apparent, and a reaction is nat improbable. Other grains have sympathized more or less, and several have gone down, too, but corn is higher under a heavy | demand for export. Possibly the brilliant showing of the wheat crop has stimulated business, but at any rate reports from all over the country indicate a fine wholesale and retail trade, and the present influx of fall orders leads to the opinion that the fall trade will be the best seen for years. All lines of merchandise are participating in this demand, which shows that the inquiry for goods is legitimate and popular, and therefore an indication of an increased purchasing capacity on the part of the public. This is borne out by the continued gain in bank clearings, those for the whole country last week being 30.3 per cent more than for the same week in 1897. The failures are also smaller, being 222 for the week, against 241 for the corresponding week last year. The continued decrease in these failures is one of the most gratifying signs of the times. The great staples, which financiers watch with vigi- lance, are exhibiting increased activity, and the ten- dency in prices is upward rather than downward. Cotton and wool, which have been the dullest of all lines for some months, are the most conspicuous ex- amples of this gain, and both are firm, though busi- vess in the latter is still light. Wheat leads the export list, the foreign shipments for the week aggregating 5,248,086 bushels, against 4,309,000 bushels last week, 2,020,000 bushels in this week a year ago, 3,209,000 bushels in 1896, 2,001,000 bushels in 1895 and 2,742,000 bushels in 1894. The demand for iron continues phenomenal, the monthly consumption of pigiron amounting t6 1,000,000 tons. The demand is largely for agricultural implements, showing a prosperous condition of the farming community, though struc- tural work, for building operations, comes in for a good share. There are indications that the public is drifting back into Wall street, being attracted by the recent im- provement in prices, though the professional ma- nipulators still hold the major part of the market. A pronounced victory at Santiago de Cuba would prob- ably add a further stimulus to this great trading mart and draw back still more of the public. As it is there has been a marked improvement in Government and railroad bonds, with increased buying by London. Locally there is little new to report. Throughout the whole Pacific Coast there were only ten failures last week, against seventeen for the same week last year, last week’s record being almost unprecedented. The grain markets continue quiet, and beyond the decline in wheat show no particular change. Mer- chandise is going off well and quotations exhibit few fluctuations. The hay, grain and fruit crops are now coming forward, and the prices received are rather above those of last year as a rule, while the quantity and quality of all three are superior to the indications of a month ago, thanks to the late rains. Still the output of the State is far below the normal this year, and there will be little if any wheat for export. Texas is agreat State, but the plan she follows of burning at the stake a certain class of offenders will never meet with the approval of the thoroughly civil- ized. - Dispatches relate that at the latest episode of this kind “prominent lawyers” made speeches to the crowd. A step in the direction of reform would be to send a few “prominent lawyers” to jail for the term of their unnatural lives. The best medals for the brave men who steamed into Santiago on the Merrimac would bear the in- scription, “In God We Trust” and be good for $20 worth of goods anywhere in the world. So the man who headed the expedition into the mouth of Santiago harbor is known as a non-com- batant. It would be interesting to know what ele- merts go to make up a fighter. One objection to sending East for equipment which could be bought here more cheaply is that when a soldier of Uncle Sam is naked he really deserves a coat without delay. Perhaps the once good ship Centennial got its name because a hundred years have elapsed since it wes safe to go to sea in. 1898 THE SOLDIER’S HEART. Where s the heart of a soldier, His thought, his hope and his dream, When the rifies ring and the bullets sing And the flashing sabers gleam? Oh, Tot on the field of battle, But far and far away, His héart is living the old, old hopes, While his sword is red in the fray! Where is 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? h, not for him the glory, And the dash and crash of war, But his heart is away on a mission gay Where they hear no cannon roar! And there is the heart of a soldler— A little home on the hill, A white-faced woman, a little child, That stand by the window sill; A little song and a little prayer, And a wonder in the face, And a “God save papa and bring him back In the goodness of thy grace!” And there Is the heart of a soldier— Not on thg, feld 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 freedom-land He has wrought the hero's deed. Yea, there is the heart of a soldier, Where wife and baby are, Though his eyes and his will may follow The light of the battle star; Though his hand may swing to the saber, And his bayonet charge the foe, The soldier's heart is away, away, In the home where they miss him so! altimore News. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. A new netting against the attack of tor- pedo boats has been tried in the British navy with satisfactory results. The meshes are smaller and the rings thicker than in the Bullivant and other styles now rejected, and will be able to resist the | shears of torpedo net cutters. As a pre- | liminary the channel fleet will be supplied | with this new netting. The Marshal Deodoro and Marshal Floriano, coast defense ships of 3162 tons, building in France for the Brazilian navy, are fitted with the inclined turrets de- | signed by Chief Constructor Hichborn, U. 8. N. Considerable weight is saved by having the armored turret top incline at an angle whereby a thickness of § Inches | will offer the resistance of 10% inches placed vertically. The difficulty of making the Ilimited | number of engineers suffice for the great number of ships in the British navy is be- ing overcome by the admiralty in the in- troduction of warrant rank to machinists. The plan has only been in operation since last January, but gives promise of success, and the machinists are filllng the places hitherto held by commissioned officers. This leaves a surplus of assistant engin- eers available for duty in ships. A sim- | flar programme is proposed in the bill for the reorganization of the navy now be- fore Congress and is likely to become a law. Attention was recently called in the House of Commons to the fact that twen- ty-eight war vessels were in course of construction at private shipyards in Great Britain for foreign countries, and Arnold Foster desired to introduce a bill making it obligatory upon the builders to relin- quish the ships to the British Government | |in the event of a demand to that effegt. The Armstrong Company at Elswick, which is the principal builder of foreign war vessels, had, however, given it as their opinion that as soon as a first pay- ment had been made by the government for which a ship was being built, the ves- sel became the property of that particular country and the builder had no right to turn the ship over to any other except with the consent of the contracting gov- ernment. European naval powers are paying much attention to armored cruisers and each country differs as to types and sizes. Since the New York and Brooklyn were | built in the United States this class of vessels has been recognized as being of great value and France in the Entrecast- eaux made almost an exact copy of the New York, excepting the speed, which in the French ship is less than in the Ameri- can. Russia has built the Rurik and Ros- sia of 10,923 and 12,130 tons and Is building another of 12,33 tons. Great Britain is building four of 12,00 tons, and in France one of 12,728 tons, with 16,200 horse power, is shortly to be begun. The ship is to be named the Suffren and will be 418 feet in length and a beam of 71 feet 2 inches. Austria, on the other hand, does not run into mammoth dimensions, but contents itself with a vessel of 6100 tons and 8600 horse power, to have a speed of 20 knots. Armor-piercing projectiles in the British | navy are put to very severe tests before being accepted from the contractor. In the first place they must be of forged and hardened steel, annealed at least 1200 de- | grees Fahrenheit after forging. Before | the ballistic test the projectile is tested | for initial strain by being cooled to 40 de- | grees and plunged into water at 180 to 212 degrees and again cooled off to 40 de- grees. The next trial is by subjecting the interior of the shell to a hydraulic pres- sure of 500 pounds to the square inch. The final test is their ability to penetrate ar- mor, and two projectiles are taken at ran- dom from the lot to be accepted and fired with a velocity of 1500 feet per second against a steel plate in thickness one and one-eighth the caliber of the shot. If two out of three projectiles pass through plate and wood backing without material | cracks or deformation the lot is accepted. Other alternative tests are to penetrate a nickel-steel oil-tempered and annealed ar- mor plate 4% inches thick for 8-inch; 5% inches for 10-inch and 7 inches for a 12-| inch shell. With a striking velocity of 900 foot seconds two out of three shells must pass through without breaking up or pe- ing materially deformed. THE MOSQUITO FLEET. “It's too bad,” said the man with heavy boots and chin whiskers. “There's a big ship called the Indiana, and one called the Massachusetts, an’ so on. But where's the New Jersey?" “Never mind,” replied his companion. ““We ain’t slighted. I understand they's a hull bunch o' boats known as ‘the Mos- quito Fleet.’ "—Washington Star. Mrs. Dreams—John, have you thought how you would leave me If you should die? Don’t you think you ought to take out some life insurance? John A. Dreams—Life insurance? Great Scott! Haven't I got forty storles ac- cepted by *“pay on publication” perfodi- cals ?—Brooklyn Life. He—It was an unselfish marriage on her part. I belleve she gave up everything when she married that man. She (who Is taking her first yacht trip) —How awful. Was it at sea?—Harlem Life. Friend—Do you raise vegetables? Suburbanite (sadly)—No, I only plant them; and as you will observe my neigh- bors’ chickens raise them.—Judge. Wallace—I haven't noticed you discuss- ing the war a bit. Don’t you take any interest in such things? Ferry—Oh, yes; but I've got such a ‘weak voice that I stand no show in an argument.—Cincinnat! Enquirer. She—An editor has to have great com- mand of language, does he not? He—Oh, yes. He frequently orders four or five thousand words.—Indianapolis Journal. . THE NEWSPAPER REPORTERS. A very common error is prevalent that the work of reporters, given in newspa- pers, as a rule is not entitled to respect or credence. It Is generally assumed that the reporter writes chlefly or whoily to make a sensation or in some way interest readers without regard to facts, while Just the reverse is the truth in all reputa- ble newspaper establishments. It is safe to assume that the statements of reporters given in the leading reputa- .at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. ble journals of the country are quite as truthful as ara tre eeneral stataments from the pulpit wher the minister gets outside of strictly 1eligious teachings, and very much more\truthful than are the public expressions bf most if not all of the leading professiors. With very few exceptions the management of our lead- | ing daily newspapers enforce truthfulness ! and fairness as the supreme attribute for | a newspaper writer, and yet it is com- | mon for all who are aispleased with any reportorial statement to say that it's a _mere newspaper story.” | It is true that there are a few conspicu ous exceptions to the rule that governs the reputable newspapers of the country Not only are the managers of our lead- | ing newspapers entitled to great credit| for the scrupulous care they enforce on their reporters and correspondents to pre: sent the truth with as exact fairness as | is possible, but the public little know the | ceaseless care that is exercised in every | reputable newspaper office to prevent the publication or even the truth when it would be more harmful to publish than to suppress it. There is not a week, in- deed hardly a_ day, that tne newspapers | of this city do not suppress the facts proper for public information which would make a most interesting story solely because it would bring a nood of | sorrow to the innocent and helpless and | cast an_imperishable shadow upon their lives. With all the errors necessarily committed in a newspaper office by rea- son of the haste with which the articles must often prepared, the public litue | know with what thorough inteerity the} newspapers, as a rule. protect the inno-| cent even at the cost of suppressing legit- | imate and interesting information. The { skeletons of hundreds of households are carefully guarded in the newspaper of- fices of the country, and generally with- out even the knowledge of the people who are thus protected.—Philadelphia Times. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. ’[l‘r:ie scorcher usually possesses a rotary mind. It's the early picnicker that catches the pneumonia’ | To the beginner the wheel is the power | behind the thrown. A man is known by his lawyer and th woman is kilown by her doctor. | About two-thirds of the bread cast upon the waters isn't returnable. The man who can’t meet his obligations is always meeting his creditors. The conversational prize fighter meets his match in the matrimonial ring. One of the unsatisfactory things of this | world is kissing a pretty girl through a veil. The man doesn’'t live who feels at ease | in a room in which two women are whis- | pering. An old mald’s ideal photograph is one in which a father, mother and baby are | grouped. The man who sits around walting for dead men's shoes never cuts much of & figure in history. The average woman doesp't belfeve in | the equality of the sexes; she thinks she | is a little more than equal. ! The newly married couple who think they can exist on love in a cottage will wake up some morning and find the rats leaving the place in disgust. BYRON'S VISION OF SPAIN. Here all were noble save nobility; None hugged a _conqueror's chaln save | fallen chivalry. | Such be the sons of Spain and strange the | ate— They fight for freedom who were never | ree A kingless people for a nerveless state, Her Cyassals combat when thelr chief- tains flee. True to the veriest slave of treachery, Fond of a land which gave them naught but life, Pride points the path that leads toliberty, Back to the struggle, baffled in lhe! strife, War, war is still the cry—war even to | the knife! ‘ Ye who would more of Spain and Spa ds know, Go 'ead ‘Whateter 1s writ of bloodtest | strife. | Whate'er keen vengeance urged on for- | eign foe 2 ; Can act is acting there against man’s | Tif . From flashing scimiter to secret knife, | War moldeth there each weapon to his | need, So r:ay such foes deserve the most re- morseless deed! vs there a tear of pity for the dead? Flfgoskto'er the ravage of the reeking | “plain; Lookpon the hands with female slaughter red, Then to the dogs resign the unburied slain; Then to the dogs let each corse re- ‘main. : Albelt unworthy of the prey bird’s maw, Let their bleach'd bones and blood's unbleaching stain ‘ Long mark the battle-fleld with hideous e we, Thus only may our sons conceive the We saw. s Y'From Childe Harold. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDOR.S J. W. Crawford of Merced is at the Lick. W. S. Breckenridge of Portland, Or., is at the Russ. Mrs. George Bowle of New York is at the Occidental. George Myers of Fresno is registered | at the Baldwin. M. Silverthan of New York is staying at the Baldwin. W. Waterhouse of Pasadena is a guest at the Occidental. Mrs. G. Hubbard of Washington is stay- ing at the Palace. F. J. Kernan, of the United States army, is at the Palace. Charles Olmstead of New York is regis- tered at the Lick. Sheriff Timothy Brown of Eureka is a guest at the Russ. Thomas W. Clark of the United States navy, is at the Palace. Emory Winship, of the United States navy, is at the Occidental. D. M. Morris of Sacramento is among the late arrivals at the Palace. H. C. Walsh of New York is numbered | among the recent arrivals at the Lick. E. H. Campbell of the United States navy is among the guests at the Cali- fornia. C. L. Longwell came on a visit to the city from Riverside and is staying at the Occidental. P. B. Frazer and D. 8. Rosenbaum, prominent Stockton merchants, are regis- tered at the Palace. E. Wheeler, in company with his wife, is on a visit from Cincinnati and is staying at the Lick. Senator A. McKenna and wife, who are on a visit to the city from Santa Paula, are guests at the Russ. W. H. Hurlbut of Portland, general pas- senger agent of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, is at the California Hotel. Mrs. A. D. Shepard of Los Angeles, with her two daughters, arrived In the city yesterday morning and Is stopping at the California. ‘W. Waterhouse, a Hawallan planter whose home is at Honolulu, is registered They have been visiting in Pasadena. Mrs. George Pendleton, Miss Hunt, David Wilcox and Victor Morowitz com- pose a party of New Yorkers who are touring the Pacific Coast. They are at the Palace. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. BACK DATE-S. K., City. Day, 1876, fell on a Saturday. LEE—~E. B, City. Fitzhugh Lee is a nephew of General Robert E. Lee. THE LIVERPOOL—J. L., City. The gross tonnage of the British ship Liver- pool is 3400; under deck 3224, and net 3214. THE PIONEER BANK—A. 8., City. The doors of the Pioneer Bank, of which J. C. Duncan was president, closed Octo- ber 8, 1877. CITY OF EVERETT—G. R. K., Oak- lo‘!n% Cnl& The Whfileb“*t .fi“mgr City verett was at Newport New: 18th of May, 1898. i Beondhe OAKLAND-§.. Citv. Oakland is an the Admission | 80 cents to the ton or 1 | Guard "of the | $2 50 per day. st side of San Francisco Bay and on a :.Orlheasterly line from San Franeisco; that is, from the central portion thereof. ORPHAN ASYLUM—Mc. The asylum at Watsonville is in the list of those in- ns that Teceive State aid for cs):‘“K;,ir?s] under the provisions of the -con- stitution. MARRIAGE—H. T. B, San Jose, Cal. A person divorced in California can be married in the State of Nevada, but not before having been a resident of that State six month; RANK OF OFFICERS—R. A. S, City. The rank of officers in the army of the United States was given in an answer m that point to Ma- 4840 milest Americen” b P ———— headed * The A in Answers to Cor- respondents M TRACE OF GOLD—E. L. B., Belmont, Cal. When ore on assaying produces but s that is called a trace. Any product above that is given in the certificate of assay. The distance Manila City. to TO MANILA-S., from San Franci i From San F is 6930 mi s 2090 miles and | nila the distance i GERMAN PROT There are four teac Stanford University. anoth y parentage and two are German born and educated. 3 | MANILA—X. X. tance from Sa: various routes wa Correspondents on Saturday, May time occupied n making voyage is from twenty-one (o twenty da , Berkeley, tion as the NAVAL MILITIA—U. Cal. There is no such org but Naval Reserve, ther: Militia, which i n California one - militia_must be than 45 years. B. esiring to enlis not less than 18 RMY—A. and Oakland, of the United § laration of war, military force, that is s comparatively speaking, he is forced to call for volunteers to uphold the honor of the country and flag. AMMUNITION round of ammunition as is one cartridge to each m of ammunition for a s tity of ammunition requi for each gun of that battery. there should be enough to load the guns three times, that would represent three rounds of ammu- nition. when there s all the n: —A. S., Tulare, Cal. A applied to men n. A round the quan- | worth hastened to New York, where he organized a_Zouave regiment of 1200 men from the Fire Department, and at the expiration of three weeks marched at its head_through Pennsylvania to Washing- ton, o} APPRENTICE IN THE NAVY-E. E. 0., Oakland, Cal. In California, a minor who would like to go as an apprentice on board of a man-of-war of the United States is not permitted to_choose the ship he would like to go on.. He must filg his application_through his ‘parents or guar- dian, and if accepted he will be sent on board of the receiving ship Independence at Mare Island. ELLSWORTH'S R . 8., | City. At the proclamation of President [ Lincoln, calling for volunteers, issued on | the 15th of April; 1861, Elmer Ells- § | The battle of t Lepanto was a naval fight. It took place in the gulf of that name, between the coast of Morea and the mainland of Greece, in 15 Spain,»Ital nd Vepice had 800 vessels, which me nd defefited the Turks, who had 230 vessels, 130 of which were taken and 80 burned. The Christian fleet had 79,000 men, lost 7600; and the Turks, who had 120,000 men, had 2500 killed and 5000 wounded. TO STUDY LAW—G. R. C., Bonanza, A “bright boy with a common school education, having good recommendations and ambitious,” wishing to study. law, should make application to some first- | class lawyer to read law in his office In that way he can become acquainted with the principles of law and receive advice from the attorney in whose office he is, in return for duties as clerk - he would be called upon to perform. After a year or two the “bright boy” would then be in a position to take a course in a law college. Finest eyeglass: - , 15¢, at 65 Fourth st. ¢ — e | CaL glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s.* Sommee o m Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, * B Pictures of the ‘Battle-ship Maine” and portraits of Admiral Dewey, all sizes and prices. Wholesale and retail. San- born, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. ¥ —_—ee——— Mrs. Kersmythe—Oh, Bridget! I told you to notice when the apples boiled over. Bridget—Sure I did, mum; it was quar- ter past eleven.—Bangor News. Ixcursion to the Yellowstone Park. A personally conducted excursion will leave this city July 12 for the Yellowstone Park, vi the “‘Shasta Route” and Northern Pacific Rall- way. Tourists will be accommodated in first- class Pullman cars; tickets will be sold, In- cluding berths, meals and trip through the Park. Send for circular giving rate and itiner- ary to T. K. STATELER, General Agent Northern Pacific Railway, 63§ Market st., S. F. [RNS S— “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. . %c a bottle. —_— e —— CORONADO—Atmosphere is perfectly dry, soft_and mild, being entirely free from the mist® common further north. Round trip tick- ets, by steamship, including fitteen days' board at the Hotel del Coronado, $63: longer stay, Apply 4 New Montgomery st., 8. F., or E. S, BABCOCK, Manager Hotel del | Coronado, Coronado, Cal. ! % oo Northern Pacific Railway. Cut rates to all points East. Call on T. K. 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