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

~, .JUNE 7, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address Al! Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager, PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. . Telephone Main 18G8. DITORIAL ROOMS..........2IT to 221 Stevensen Street % Telephone Main 1874 RANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is T"Ecr::dNb:j carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents @ week. By mall $6 per year: per month | 65 cents. £HE WEEKLY CALL.............One year, by matl, $.50 ©OAKLAND OFFICE... cereerresnesenses 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...............Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGC OFFICE. .....Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Monptgomery street, corner Clay, ! open until 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 until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ang Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. * The New Domiion " e Master of Ceremonies.” —“The Cotton King An American Hero." Vaudevil > Chutes—20o, Vi o audeville and * Departure of the Peking. Mason and Eddy streets, Speclalties. —Swimming, El Campo—Music. dancing, boating, fishing, every Sunday. Press Clnb—Sale of sketches for the benefit of the Red Oross ¥, . June 1l. from21t05and § to 11 P. M. | | ! AUCTION SALES. | By Killip & Co.—Thls June 7, Horses, at corner Market | street and Va s avenus, at 11 o'clock. | P.J. Bar day, June 7, Furniture, at 414 McAllister By P. strect, at1i o'clcck. | O fied voter is to cast a ballot at all elections. No qualified voter can cast a ballot unless his name is upon the register, and in order to get his name upon the register it will be necessary for him to devote a little time to the duty. Central office registration is now in progress at the City Hall, and for several weeks Registrar Biggy will take the affidavits of all who desire to register for the No voter whose name is now REGISTER EARLY. i NE of the most important duties of the quali- | November election. on the register will be entitled to vote unless he re- registets. An entirely new register must be prepared, and every man who intends to vote in November should lose no time in visiting the registration office and enrolling his name. Precinct registration will come along in due time, but no one should wait for that. Regisfer now and all danger of losing a vote will be obviated. Merchants, business men, professional men and others who can leave their work for an hour should | register early. Prior to closing the central office the Registrar will hold forth evenings for the working The classes who can spare the time should Register now and classes. not wait for evening registration. avoid the crush. Register once and vote once but do both early should be the watchword of every citizen. BEAUTY OF THE TECHNICALITY. HE fact may have been observed that ex-Dis- T\mx Attorney Page has been granted a stay of proceedings. If there is anything the gentleman | wants all he has to do is to ask for it. The courts seem to have been devised for his benefit. The won- * der is that he does not ask for his liberty and a per | diem for the time he has been cruelly deprived of the same. Page is guilty of having stolen the money of a| ward. Concerning this point there has from the | first been no question. The first trial was recognized | as a mere formality, a method of putting known facts on record. A verdict of guilty was quickly returned, | because any jury returning another sort of verdict would have stamped itself as a body unfit to be out of | jail. Nevertheless Page got another trial, on a plea | so silly as to bring into just contempt the whole ma- | chinery of the law. | Once more was he found guilty, and still again, and | sentenced the third time to the penitentiary, where he | belongs. At none of the trials was there the least at- | tempt to set forth his innocence. Such an attempt | would have been so futile as to be ridiculous. It was deemed better to merely block the statutes by some of | the legal quirks which have done so much to make ! them sneered at as ineffective. Now Page has been ‘ granted a stay, this also being on technical grounds, | and his prospect of serving a term he has richly | earned is as remote as ever. We have nothing against Page as an individual. He is as good as any other rascal who is no better, but we must protest against the travesty on justice, | of which he has been the central figure for so long. | If the laws are inferior to Page, the fact might as well be acknowledged now and the public saved, not only | the expense and humiliation of more farce, but the | smaller expense of supporting a prisoner who keeps | out of the penitentiary not by his own merit, but be- cause he does not wish to go there. The men on board ships in action are subject to | more dangers than arise from the guns of the enemy. | The impact caused by the firing of heavy guns is ter- rible to undergo. It has in itself been known to be } fatal. Doubtless it was the cause of the death of brave | Captain Gridley, a man who did his full part at Manila | to cover the American navy with glory. Gridley's | record shows him to have been a good officer, a man | of patriotic impulse and courage that never failed. | Although it was not given him to die in battle, he | was, nevertheless, a hero, and history will accord him | his place. | LT S | A Russian paper remarks that“America must vol- | untarily submit her pretensions to a tribunal of the powers.” Yes? There are several difficulties which | at once present themselves to the thoughtful.” In the | first place America is not making any “pretensions,” | and in the second place an idea prevails here that for | the powers to attend to their own business would be | proper. This is our fight. SIS i Perhaps Kasson, being from a prohibition State, which, by the way, does not prohibit, didn’t regard the wine interests as worth thinking about. . Iowa dees not drink much wine, but in a good apple\year it is death on hard cider. Lk sigarl i Sy It is strange that there should be necessity at this date for discovering a new consumption cure. If the cther sure cures were as beautiful in practice as in theory there would now remain no tuberculosis on which to try the latest. CAN THE PARTY TRUST IT? HE Examiner is a ceaseless schemer. Not long ago it laid a scheme to get possession of the Democratic State Committee by expelling from that body all members who had not paid a certain onerous assessment put upon them in 1896, In that year the Federal office-holders joined the Nonpungle Club and deafened their ears to the cry of the com- mittee for pocket money. In addition to this sorrow it was discovered that the non-office holding mem- bers of the party, loved of the Lord as cheerful givers to campaign funds, had not moved off the old plat- form, but stood still as National Democrats on the Indianapolis declaration. In this financial emergency, while the clouds of defeat lowered and there was not a bit of the root of ail evil on hand to pry them up withal, the members of the State Committee were assessed. Some paid and more than a third did not. Now, in mousing around for a way to steal the committee, the Examiner found this unpaid assess- ment and discovered that the delinquents were mostly members it desired to get rid of. Immediately the theory appeared that a committeeman who had not paid a personal assessment became ineligible and the committee could fill his place. As members of the committee were appointed by definite constituencies, and as payment of assess- ments was not put among the qualifications and con- ditions precedent to their appointment, in all fairness delinquency in that respect could not affect a man’s right to remain on the committee. The scheme was a trifle too rank and died of its own sterch. Since then the Examiner has been sneaking for a way to get a cinch on the party, and has succeeded in carrying the plan for appointment of the San Fran- cisco City Committee by the State Committee, and for the election of delegates to the State convention and the nomination of a city ticket by that city com- mittee of one hundred. Now the Examiner declares that the Democratic party of this city cannot be trusted to hold an open primary and that its affairs must be conducted by the State Committee through its trustees, the city com- mittee of one hundred. A party takes on largely the character of its public adviser and advocate. The Examiner has been for | years the self-elected guide, philosopher and friend of the Democracy. That party has had no other, and now the teacher makes public proclamation that his pupils are not fit to be trusted to vote in an open pri- mary for delegates to the State and city conventions! Yet when Democratic State and city tickets are put in the field the Examiner will exhaust what it calls argument to persuade the people that a party which it declares is too dishonest to hold a primary is fit to be trusted with the government of the State and city!® We think better of the party than it would deserve if the Examiner were a decent paper and its judgment deserving of respect. The fact is that the Democratic party in this city is bucked and gagged by the Ex- aminer gang because, if left free to manage its own affairs, none of that gang could get recognition from it. It is a high-handed disfranchisement of a party by a newspaper, because the newspaper cannot con- trol the party. We will see what will come of this. Republicans are too free-minded and free-handed to stand such wholesale disfranchisement. Their confidence in the people canonizes against taking power away from them.. If the people are to vote a ticket they must have a voice in its nomination. A fit rebuke of the Examiner tactics will be to leave the committee of one hundred to vote the ticket it will nominate, while men who desire to be iree go | fishing on election day. If the Examiner cannot trust the Democratic party how can the party trust the Examiner? B Spain has taught us the importance of enlarg- ing our navy, and Congress has already taken steps in that direction. There is another lesson taught by the war which has not been so readily learned. It is the importance of enlarging our merchant marine. Congress has as yet done nothing to accomplish that, and may do nothing during the present session. Events now occurring make it evident that our weakness at sea is due not so much to a lack of war- ships as of merchant ships. It has been with the greatest difficulty the Government has obtained ves- sels to transport troops to the Philippines. Moreover we have been handicapped in obtaining men for our navy by reason of a lack of trained sailors in the mer- chant service. In a recent address at a London banquet the Hon. Gibson Bowles, a member of Parliament, in speaking of “Our mercantile marine and state-aided competi- tion,” said: “No industry is at all comparable in im- portance with shipping. We might lose all our man- ufactures and all our agriculture, but if we can only keep the carrying trade of the world in the hands of our own people this country will still be the biggest country of the world and the necessary center through which the traffic of other countries must pass.” That is the estimate which intelligent Englishmen place upon the merchant marine of their country. Nor is the estimate exaggerated. We pay to Great Britain a large tribute annuall} for carrying our prof duce across the ocean, and thus are deprived of a large portion of our profits. In this way we suffér an economic loss in time of peace as well as engender a weakness on the sca in time of war. We need more vessels to carry cn our foreign commerce, and we need more also to transport our troops to points across the ocean where the emergencies of battle call them. We have now built up in this country a nation with a world-wide commerce and with world-wide respon- sibilities. We are engaged in a world-wide war and we feel the need of a world-wide sea power. That power cannot be built upon a navy alone. A fleet of merchant ships is as necessary as a fleet of battle- ships. It is time to begin in earnest the extension of WHERE WE ARE WEAK. Y sharp and impressive lessons the war with | our merchant marine, and to that end Congress should at once provide such legislation as may be needed to protect and promote American industry on the sea as carefully as that on land. r . e mm— An evening paper has something to say about “Colonel” Bryan. Why the quotation marks? Many opposed the appointment of Mr. Bryan, and yet, hay- ing received his commission, his title does not call for quotation marks any more than the title of any- body else called from civil life does. Givility to the volunteers is a popular and proper rule now. Whenever American guns are turned against the Spanish survivors among the latter send out word that the firing did no harm. This is more than mere whistling in a graveyard. It is whistling before there has been a chance to make the necessary graves. The first attack upon the ladies of the Red Cross came from a source whence it might have been ex- pected. There is no necessity for naming it. Only one daily paper in the world, or possibly two, could have been guilty of an act so silly and brutal i AMERICAN GUNNERS. ILITARY attaches of foreign Governments M who are now with our armies and fleets studying the war are quoted as expressing admiration and something of astonishment at two of our accomplishments. The first is the rapidity with which the volunteer army has been raised and the second the accuracy of our gunners. It is the second point which has been the more deeply impressive. With their large standing armies ready for war the military experts of Europe are not disquieted by the readiness of our young men to vol- unteer. There is nothing in that fact at all threaten- ing to them in case of a war with us, It is different, however, with the marksmanship of our artillerists. In the extraordinary skill of our gunners every Euro- pean military expert sees a superiority in war that is full of warning for any power that might be pitted against us. Great Britain is our good friend in this crisis, and hopes for a permanent friendship if not an alliance with us, but even in Great Britain the accuracy of the fire of our fleets has been noted with a surprise which is not wholly pleased. The London Globe, for ex- ample, in commenting upon the war in a recent issue, said the engagements at Manila and San Juan have served to emphasize in the most startling manner the advantage of superior marksmanship in naval war- fare. It asserts that this shows a “national danger” for Great Britain, and says: “Though our navy (the English) is wonderfully efficient in every other respect, there can be no deny- ing the fact that the records of gun practice in it are most unsatisfactory, indeed deplorable. There is no getting -away from the figures presented in the annual reports of firing, and the merest tyro in naval matters can understand from an examination of them the sig- nificant proportion of misses to hits. The fact is that not anything like enough attention is given by the Admiralty to the vital question of gunnery. The cap- tains of guns in a man-of-war are the most valuable men in the ship; and, indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that the fate of the empire one day may depend upon the marksmanship of a few hundred men.” This statement from a British source is praise of a high order, and will be flattering to our pride. It is no slight thing to have performed feats that make Great Britain doubtful of the invincible superiority of her mighty navy. Merrimac and the Monitor taught England that she must reconstruct her fleets, and it now appears that the achievements of our gunners are to teach her that even her armor-clad battle-ships are worthless unless she can man them with gunners equal to those who handle the big guns under the American flag. . Modern war is, in fact, developing along lines in which the American holds an acknowledged super- iority in the world. The more victory becomes a matter of mechanical skill and scientific accuracy the more potent will be the United States. No other race equals us in such accomplishments. We excel in constructing machines and in handling them. If other nations are to be matches for us in this respect it is time for them to begin practicing. Testeemed but eloquent contemporary, the Chron- icle. On any other theory it is impossible to comprehend many of its recent poetic attempts. On Sunday morning it poised its wings for a loity flight, and began a column of drivel thus: “Watching from the overlooking heights the great ship that sailed out through the Golden Gate—out into the eye of the sun with the waning day, with all its decks swarming with armed men, and all the shores aflame with salut- ing banners—to every observer must have come the thought that all this brave pomp of martial emprise on a Western shore of the New World; this ship, filled, like the Trojan horse, with strong-armed men who were to pass within the walls and open the gates of the Orient; this thunder of guns, this loud acclaim of voices, all was very like a dream, or, if a reality, it was the apocalypse of more momentous events, which time had ripened for a coming and which it was not within the power of human hands to stay.” The drift of this waxy-winged soar is not even made clear by the caption. What does the Chronicle mean by calling it “The Sailing of the Ship”? If reference is made to the departure of the Peking, City of Sydney and Australia with the Manila ex- peditionary forces it is wrong; there were three ships. Further on the Chronicle speaks of a “departing Argos” and a ship having ribs of “Dodonian oak,” upon whose deck stride “demigods” bound for a “new Colchis.” This is all blind and unsatisfactory. The ships which left for Manila were made of steel. They did not go on a treasure-hunting expedition, and no demigods bestrode their decks. The armed men who filled those Trojan sea-saw “hosses” were bent on “wah”—and it was not their fault that they were com- pelled to sail into the “eye of the sun.” What would our contemporary have them do? Sail into the ear of the sun? We cannot make out exactly whether this “Sailing of the Ship” is intended as a Government roast or not. The Chronicle’s nerves have evidently been so affected by the oratorical possibilities of the war that it is unable to express itself clearly. If its intention is to abuse the Government for sending troops to Manila we trust that it will come out and say so in unmistakable terms. Talleyrand declared that lan- guage was given to man so that he might conceal his thoughts. But language was not conferred upon the Chronicle for any such purpose. We demand that it express itself. This thing of giving aid and comfort to the enemy in column editorials which no human being can understand approaches very clos€ to trea- son. During the Civil War the Examiner was mobbed for seditious utterances. Our contemporary should recall the Examiner’s subsequent career and beware. If the Chronicle intended its column of drivel to pass as.“reflections” upon the departure of the ex- peditionary forces it should have said so. It is fre- quently dangerous to print editorials without accom- panying diagrams, and it is always dangerous for the Chronicle to do so. Birds which attempt to fly before the development of their wings usually wind up in a mud puddle. It is so with immature poets and orators. In the absence of a diagram we have construed “The Sailing of the Ship” to be a Government roast. We venture to say that ninety- nine out of every hundred of our contemporary’s sane readers will so construe it. Those of its subscribers who reside in asylums for the insane will rejoice to know that the editor is soon to rejoin them. — EVIDENCES OF DAFTNESS. HE war is evidently affecting the nerves of our There will be a readiness to believe that the South Dakota soldier arrested as a burglar was simply on a little spree, where many a good soldier had been be- fore him, and had no idea of robbing. The boys from the “Bad Lands” should beware of Barbary Coast whisky. It is a little tough on Dr. Rottanzi to have got his picturesque Manila togs and then be ordered to Santa Cruz. But Santa Cruz is a pretty good place after all, and the doctor, by wearing the new togs there, can make himself the cynosure of summer beauty’s eyes. In our Civil War the deeds of the | journalistié | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1898. =~ 306306 306 06 06 308 30% 300 206 30 306 306 30 306 20K 30K 30 306308 306 30K 30K 30K 30K 30K 30 YO 30 306 X0 ¢ 0% 0¥ 0% % STILL GIVEN TO LYING. The Idiotic Boasting of the Bulletin Results in a Humiliating Exposure. TO THE EDITOR OF THE CALL: I have just read the Bulletin’s boast that it “beat” all other papers in announcing the news that General Merritt had been appointed Military Governor of the Philippine Islands. It prints a list of papers, more or less obscure, which gave the Bulletin credit for this news, and complains . that “everywhere but in San Francisco the Bulletin received credit and was recognized as the source of That the Bulletin did not receive such recognition in San Francisco was because the newspapers and the people knew that it secured its dispatch from The Call’s bulletin board. I wired that the information.” bulletin to The Call at 3 P. enough not to cover up its tion. WASHINGTON, May 3¢ posted at the Call office at 12:15, San Francisco time, The Bulletin not only stole this important item of news from The Call’s board, but was careless Call Correspondent at Washington, "o % 10 30 30 106 16 0% 10K 30 10 6 0% 3010 18 00X 0 06306 30 16 0308 6 0 ¢ ¢ 0 8 ¢ kg M. on May 11, and it was theft by changing the dic- C. C. CARLTON, ettt aatedatababababaot ol ot ob oot o R g R R R R R =R -E-F-F" COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS. W. J. Hussey and wife are at the Cali- fornia. Dr. E. H. Smith of Santa Clara is at the Grand. J. A. Whitmore of Redlands s a guest at the Grand. H. W. Patton of Los Angeles is stopping at the Grand. James A. Crufkshank of New York ls at the Palace. J. M. Ward, the well-known cattleman, is at the Russ. C. E. Sherman of Santa Barbara is at the California. W. M. Thompson and wife have returned from the East. J. Parrutia of Guatemala s a guest at the Occidental. An identity of S99 0000098 names has been o THERE ARE o the cause of both ! tragedy and com- O JACKSONS AND O 40", the nistory © JACKSONS. . © of human affalrs, 0 O Here is a story 0000000000 ypich comes un- der the category of the latter: George W. Jackson, the superintendent of the Sacramento Gas Works, {s at present stopping at the Palace. When Mr. Jack- con left Sacramento, Mrs. Jackson ac- | companied him, and it was understood that neither business nor care of any kind was to interfere with the pleasures Whlch[ they had mapped out for the entire trip. | One night last week Mrs. Jackson, burn-! ing with expectations of a shopping tour, | had made an appointment with her hus- | band to meet him in the Oriental room | of the Palace and they were then to make the rounds of the dry goods establish- ments together. Mrs. Jackson was there true to the preconcerted plans, but the | tardy husband was not. Visions of rib- | bons and silks and chiffons kept assail- ing the retina of Mrs. Jackson’s eyes until past endurance. Patience had ceased to be a virtue, and the anxiety tugging away at Mrs. Jackson's heart strings was great, 50 she left word at the office of the hotel that if her husband, George W. Jackson, should come in he would find her at the ‘White House. Soon after leaving the office, a George W. Jackson did come in, but it was a George W. Jackson of Philadelphia. He sauntered up to the desk and asked the clerk for his key, when he was told that his wife was waiting for him at the White House. “The — you say,” was the re- ply, accompanied with breath-shaking as- tonishment. “I left my wife in Philadel- phia just before coming out here.” The clerk was uncompromising, and persisted in denials until the Philadelphia Mr. Jack- son was reduced to a state of doubt, and then he was lost. Inquiring the locality of the dry goods business, he fairly flew oyer the stones until he reached the place. A careful search for his spouse proved fruitless in results, and Mr. Jackson returned to the hotel a sad- der if not a wiser mun. A consultation was then held, the regis- ter examined, and light was discovered where darkness reigned before. C. N. Beal, engineer contractor, is stay- ing at the Palace. The Vicomte and Vicomtesse d’Audigne of Paris are at the Palace. Ralph Roserthal has left for the East. He will be gone two months. ‘W. W. Leake of Dallas, Texas, arrived last night and is stopping at the Palace. Marion Biggs Jr., a wealthy land owner of Oroville, is at the Grand for a short vacation. Governor Smith and H. G. Burton, U. 8. A., of the National Soldiers’ Home at Santa Monica, are at the California. Rev. C. R. Lamar of San Jos¢ and W. A. Booker of Mountain View are at the Russ | for a few days to attend a religious con- ference. C. W. Whipple, chief of ordnance, ar- rived last night from Connecticut, and will remain at the Occidental until he joins the army at Richmond. RALLY AGAIN. To arms! to arms! is now the cry, Throughout our Fatherland, And partiots’ hearts are beating high At sound of the command. . See! how they answer to the call As did thelr sires of old, Each one prepared to vield his all, His blood, his life, his gold. No_party now! in this broad land, No ND};th or South is known; All, all, as one together stand, Each makes the call his own. the tools The workman droj he plied, The clerk lays down his pen; And students cast their books aside, No longer boys, but men. round the flag we love, They mll{ Its prestige to maintain, Rfilved thltfllt sh!lllspv:]lve above nf of . S B. J. SMITH. THE TEST OF GENIUS. Genlus is the capacity to do things. That is why we call Napoleon and Far- ragut and Nelson and Paul Jones and Geot %Vauhlnglon enfuses. That is W rfi this war we have added Dewey to the list. There was a Spanish fleet in the Philip- Dewey was ordered to find it and ‘With the least possible delay he found it and smashed it. The country is waiting now for some other men to enroil their names in the list of geniuses. Admiral Sampson, Commodore Schley and Commcdore Watson have under their control much greater fleets than Dewey’s, while the Spanish fleet which they are set to catclh is greatly inferior to their own. If they promptly do something decisive to that fleet we shall recognize them as luses. But we are now wearily quot- ng Omar Khayyam: How long, how long in infinite pursuit? | ical strain tl —New York World. GIVE PRAISE TO ALL. To the Editor of The Call—Dear Sir: When g general or admiral wins a battle | Why 1s it that all the credit is given to the one in command? Did not the gallant tars under Dewey fight as bravely as any officer? We hear only of brave Dewey; seldom are his brave men mentioned. All praise to' Dewey and his men, not forgemng the poor stokers who feed the furnaces; they are as brave as the men at the guns; they are In as great dan- ger and more so than any man on the | Hobson is a hero to volunteer to | sink the Merrimac as he did; also so were | the brave men who volunteered to go | with him. They were as true heroes as | any in the noble band, vet we hear only | the brave Hobson. It should be ‘Hobson and his brave men.” They were all equal- Iy made of the same metal and there is plenty of the same inh our navy and army. It is strange but true that there is no natfon on the globe that is made | up from so many nationalities as the | Americans, and yet they fight for the | land of thelr adoption with the same dar- Ing that they would for their mother country. America is destined to be the | Breatest nation on the globe In time to | , for it is the land of the f: | the home of the brave. & e 3 GOETSCHE. Ban Francisco, June g ————— GUILE IN DISGUISE. e IR 1 Mother—Why didn’t vou prevent him | from kissing you? Why dlun’t you call | me? (Reflectively). But I suppose It was all over too soon? Daughter (with a far-away look)—Yes, | mother; it was over too soon.—Puck. Many a husband s lost in wonder as he | reflects that the glowing hand which spanks his children and serves up his cabbage is the very same hand which he | used to write sonnets about and which | he never kissed without a sense of rever- | ence amounting to rapture.—~Roxbury Ga- | zette, Bhe (anxiously)—Tell me quickly, dear-| est, what was papa's answer? Did he smile on your suit? He (bitterly)—Smile! He simply roared | with laughter. She—The idea!—Tit-Bits. Suftor (to her younger brother)—Come, you ought to know; is there any chance | for me? | Brother—Oh, you are all right. That | isn’t what's troubling Mame. She’'s won- | dering If there's any chance for her.— Boston Transcript. “Your husband is so amiable.” “Yes, he acts that way in public so people will think the baby takes after me.”—Chicago Record. Mr. Sparkle—What an admirer of you Joe Pumpling is. I never see him that he | doesn't congratulate me on having such a beautiful or such a young-looking wife. Mrs. Sparkle—What a foolish fellow Joe | always was! | Mr. Sparkle—By the way, I promised to | meet him at the club this evening, if you don’t object to my going out. Mrs. Sparkle—Oh, not at all. I want to run over to the Johnsons anyway, and I know you wouldn't enjoy it there.—Chi- cago News. - —_——— MEANING OF THE FLAG. The Boston Herald did not copyright | its famous idea that the American flag | is nothing in particular but a piece of bunting—any other rag would be as good. So there are mugwump philosophers and | papers of the decadent style which freely preach the same doctrine. They make | small headway. & He Is a poor fool who holds his coun- try’s flag in no higher esteem than these do, Those of them who unfortunately dwell among us should have been at Quonset Point yesterday afternoon and heard the eloquent words of General Ames in presenting the colors to the new regiment. He did not waste any. They all told. Additional interest was given them by the recollection that he, in 1861, received for his regiment a set of colors, and President Lincoln said to him: “Young man, guard these colors as_ you would the honor of your mother. Fight for them, and, if needs be, die for them, for should they fall free government will disappear from off the face of the earth. Injustice and oppression will continue to relgn; right, liberty and peace will have | no abiding glace among men.” | Oh! The flag does mean something. To | every man who is not a thing of shoddy, | heart and soul, body and brains, it means | all that is worth living and working for | and dying for.—Providence (R. 1) Tele- 8T —_—— THE PRESIDENT'S ENDURANCE. ‘We recall that during the Presidential campaign a good many Democratic edi- torial writers entertained grave doubts of the ability of Willlam McKinley to stand the strain to which he was subjected. They hinted pretty strongly that his age was against him; that his physical forces were not what a President of the United States should possess. They are kegping | a profound silence on that point nowagays and wisely. The power of endurance shown by President McKinley has aston- ished even those persons who were most intimately acquainted with him and who | thought the{ knew the full limit of his physical abilities. From the day that he became the nomi- | nee for President his life has been one of Ereat activity, and for many months he as been subjected to a mental and phys- t would have sent many younger men to bed unfit for work, but he apsea.rs to be as well balanced mentally and as strong physically to-day as he was two years. ago when leading a compara- tively quiet and peaceful life.—Trenton (N. J.) Gazette. SOUTHERN BATTLE ABBET. The Richmond (Va.) Times publishes the call by General J. B. Gordon to the camps of Confederate veterans to raise fu for the building of a Battle Abbe *“4n which shall be gathered relics to teil the world, and ally our children's children to the remotest generation, of | ing_husband. women, who, amid unparalleled sacri- fices, cheered and sustained us during the storm of r; and in which shall be pre- served, in archive records, tue true his- tory -of our Southland, of her statesmen, her armies and nav%’. of her battles, her ictories and her defeats.” vlc\t the last reunion of the Confederate veterans a resolution was adopted calling upon each camp to subscribe to this glo- s purpose in proportion to its mem- bership. Each camp of thirty members was asked to raise not less than $5; eac{l} camp of fifty members, not less than $10; each camp of one hundred members, not less than $15, and’each camp of two hun- dred or more members, not less than $25. ——e———————— ANSWERS 10 CORRESPONDENTS. McKINLEY'S CABINET— Subscriber, Stockton, Cal. The following named compose the Cabinet of President McKin- ley: Wilkam R.-Day, Secretary of State; Lyman T. Gage, Secretary of the Treas- ury; Russell A. Alger, Secretary of War John W. Griggs, ' Attorney-General Charles Emory Smith, Postmaster-Gen- eral; J D. Long, Secretary of the Navy; Cornelius N. Bliss, Secretary of the Interior: James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture.” = _ : MOVING TROOPS—W. J. 8., City. The President of the United States is not sub- ject to the orders of Congress in regard to the movement of troops. He derives his power to move troops by the author- ity of the Constitution, which declares that “the President shall be commander- in-chief of the army and navy of th United States, and of the militia of the several States when called into the actual service of the United States.” ARMY AND NAVY—A Native Son, Turlock, Cal. There is no way to deter- mine how many men the United States could put into the army and navy. There are in the United States about 15,000,000 men of militia age, but it is probable that not more than 10,000,000 would be qualified for service. How many of that number would volunteer is something that no one can tell, but if it came to an invasion of the country by a foreign foe, and there was a general call for defense, it is more than likely that nearly all of :he available men would offer their serv- ces. GENERAL LEE'S SWORD—S., City. ‘When General Lee surrendered to Grant at the house of farmer McLean, at Ay- pomattox, on the 9th of April, 1865, he adid not surrender his sword, nor was it de- manded of him. While Grant was writing the stipulations of surrender he looked at Lee, who sat opposite to him, and notic- ing his sword, altered the terms of the provisions, in that he inserted that officers should be allowed to retain their gide arms, horses and personal propert Lee was perceptibly moved when, on rea ing the terms, he noticed the interpola- tion, which meant so much to the soldier. MAIL TO ST. MICHAEL—Chico, Cal. The Postal Department has regular day: to send mail to St. Michael. Letters that g0 from San Francisco are sent to Seattle and from there assorted for northern oints. All that you have to do Is to rop your letter in your local postoffice and the authorities ‘will attend to the forwarding. It is not necessary to in- dorse the letter “via San Francisco.” Letters that are sent so as to reach Se- attle by the 14th of each month for north- ern points will be forwarded on the 15th. Mail will also be sent as often as f sible when there is opportunity to send by reliable vessels. POISON OAK AGAIN—Another corre- spondent writing from Coulterville, com- menting upon the remedy for poison suggested by another correspondent, say that “the” remedy is that recommended by the United States Department of Agri- culture, which is alcohol 50 to 75 per cent pure, containing as much sugar of lead as will dissolve in it. The year book of that department says: “The milky fluid should be well rubbed into the skin, and the operation repeated times during the course of a fe The itching Is at once relieved and the further progress of the malady checked. The remedy has been tried in a large number of cases and has always proved successful, but it must be remembered that it is itself a Y‘msnn when taken into the mouth.” The correspondent adds that as the poison from the poison oak is itself an oil, one can readily see that any unctuous application would spread He also suggests that the clothing of the patient shculd be changed daily, that he may not take up the poison that has been rubbed on to his clothing from his affected skin. DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY-D. E. P., City. Upon the death of the wife the entire community property in California goes to the surviving husband without administration, except such portion thereof as may have been set apart by Judicial decree for her support and main- tenance. That is subject to her testa- mentary disposition ‘and goes to her descendants and heirs exclusive of her husband. In case a wife has separate property, dies without making a will and leaves no issue, one-half of the property goes to the surviving husband and the other half in equal shares to the father and mother of the decedent. If either the father or mother is dead, the half that would have devised to that one who died goes to the survivor also. If neither father nor mother mother is living the property goes to brothers and sisters and children of de- ceased brothers or sisters by right of representation in equal shares. If there is neither issue, father, mother, brothers or sisters or children of deceased brothers or sisters, the whole goes to the surviv- If none of the heirs enum- erated are living the property goes to the next of kin. Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's# —_————— Special .information supplied daily to business houses and public men by tho Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_————— By and by, it Is said, General Fitzhugh Lee will be offered the presidency of the Texas State Agricultural and Mechanical College at Bryan, which has been vacant for some time. There are forty applicants for the position, and their eager rivalry has prevented the choice of any one of them. They will all withdraw in favor of Lee. —_—— 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 t Park. Send for clrcular giving rate and itiner- ary to T. K. STATELER, General Agent Northern Pacific Railway, 638 Market st., 8. F. ———— Dewey is a temperance man and knows what Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters did to brace him up at Manila. Sarel Eloff, President Krueger's nephew, who visited England to give evi- dence at the Jameson trial, and after his return to the Transvaal caused a disturb- ance at Kruegersdorp, and was repri- manded by his uncle for insulting the Queen, has now been appointed first heu- tenant of one of the Johannesburg forts, with a salary of £300 a year and an al- lowance of 2 shillings 6 pence per day for rations. ———————————————— ADVERTTSEMENTS. ——h The Royal is the highest grade baking powder known. Actual tests show it goes one- third further than any other brand. Absolutely Pure - the valor and deeds of our comrades, soldlers of the South, and of our hoble ROYAL BAKING POWDER 00., NEW YORK.