The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 11, 1898, Page 6

The SATURDAY... Tall JUNE 11, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS... ...217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1574 "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 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.... OAKLAND OFFICE. NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...............Riggs Houee C..C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE....... -..Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. -One year, by mall, $1.50 BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 287 Hayes street, spen until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Misslon street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street. open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open until 9 o'clock. [505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana tucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS, Columbla—* The New Dominion." Baldwin—* The Passion Play.’ Alcazar—"The Master of Ceremonies.” Morosco's—"The Cotton King. Orpheum—V The Chutes 5 Olympla—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties. Sutro Bathe E] Campo- 8 Clnb—Sale of & tine, fishing, every Sunda. r the benefit of the Bed Cro:® | 1 and 8 to 11 aseball this afternoon. | Coursing—Ir e Coursing Park. | Coursing—At Union Coursing Park. | Excursion to Los Gatos—Friday, June 17, ketches AUCTION SALES. | | W. Butterfi Safes, Scales ! By, Jrank i and Tools, at 102 Clay street, sy, June 11, | furnished for transport purposes. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1898. @ BARBARIC YAWP. EVER since the day when good old Walt Whit- N man invented the phrase has there been in the United States Senate a wilder illustration of a “barbaric yawp” than the speech made by Senator Tom Carter on the report of a bill granting American registry to certain steamers needed by the Government for use as transports. Mr. Carter did not discuss the bill itself. He had learned that a steamer, the Cen- tennial, hailing from Puget Sound, had been rejected by United States officers at this port, and that fact was the theme of his raucous roar. The Senator began by declaring he knew nothing of the Centennial, and then went on to say she had a first class clearance from Vancouver and had for- merly been used as a transport in the Japanese ser- vice and afterward as a hospital ship by the same Government. From a man who knew nothing of the vessel that much information concerning her was re- markable, but not so remarkable as the conclusion he drew from it. She was a transport ship in the service of Japan years ago, the Senator argued, so why com- plain of her now as a transport ship for us? Just so a country landlord is reported to have once rebuked a traveler for complaining that a towel was dirty by | assuring him “there have been fifty men wiped on that towel and you are the first to say it isn’t clean.” Knowing nothing of the subject, according to his own confession, Senator Carter maintained that the rejection of the Centennial had been procured by cer- tain shipping interests in San Francisco in order that the owners of those interests might hold up the Gov- ernment and extort from its needs high rates for ships A charge of that kind, made without a single scintilla of evidence on which to rest it, can be fitly characterized only as a | lie. One does not like to use that word with reference to a United States Senator, but that is the only proper one in this connection. i Since the Alaskan rush began last summer the people of this coast have had fearful warnings of the danger of sending untrustworthy ships to sea. port we have had the tragedy of the Almy almost within the Golden Gate, and between this point and Juneau many a wreck has occurred to emphasize the truth that an old hulk is not to be trusted on the deep sea simply because in years gone by she was a stanch good ship and made voyages half round the world. The rejection of the Centennial was made for the | RIVEN from San Francisco and forced to | @ HOT TIME IN SAUSALITO. Dabundon an attempt to establish themselves in | San Mateo County, the pool-sellers are con- | gregating at Sausalito in such numbers it is doubt- | ful if the town can hold them all. Rivalries and jeal- | ousies are reported to have broken out among them, | and a battle is imminent for the possession of the field. The former monopoly of the traffic is at bay against the new comers and a hot time is expected. That such a contest should be waged in Sausalito is not to her credit, nor is it to the interest of her people. Among the localities around San Francisco | none has greater natural attractions than Sausalito, | none could with better reason expect to become the suburban home of the wealth and culture of the metropolis. All'such expectations, however, will be in | vain if the town falls under the domination of the | gambling element and becomes the established resort | of pool-sellers and their prey. | The evils of the pool-selling traffic have been re- | peatedly exposed by The, Call. They include tempta- | tions which in too many cases lead women, young | men and even school-children to gamble. From the time the gambling mania is once fixed upon the mind the downward course is rapid. The inveterate player of | the races soon begins to resort to all manner of tricks | to obtain money for the game, and not infrequently becomes a betrayer of trust, a forger and a thief. All this is well known. It will not be any different in Sausalito from what it has been elsewhere, and it be- | hooves the people of that community to weigh well the consequences of permitting the open running of poolrooms in their town. It may cause a hot time in Sausalito to drive the | pool-sellers out as was done in San Mateo, but Sausa- lito will have a hotter time if she does not. Instead of becoming the home of some of the better elements | of the people of the city she will become the resort | of the worst. Her boys and girls will grow up sub- | ject to evil influences, her young men will be con- tinually enticed to betray the trust of their employers, and scandals and crimes will become common things | seaworthiness is at all doubtful. protection of the brave men who are to be carried by the Government to the Philippines to uphold the flag of the nation in war. To have sent troops to sea in an unfit vessel would have been a crime as foul as trea- | son and murder combined. That in itself furnished sufficient reason for the rejection of any vessel whose When Senator Car- ter, knowing nothing of the matter, sought for some | | other explanation of the rejection and finding none invented the theory that it had been done in the in- terests of the shipowners of San Francisco, he passed the limits of fair debate and put himself in the cate- | gory of those reckless and vindictive orators who | render their malice harmless by venting it without | any regard for veracity. BOSSISM BOILED DOWN. | HE unrepresentative character of the committee of one hundred appointed by the “whispering” | | Boss McNab and his coadjutors in political conspiracy to take charge of the Democratic party of this city ought to appall the Democrats of the en- tire nation. If there is any one thing more than an- other for which Democracy stands it is the right of “the people” to be represented in party committees | and party conventions. Yet here is a case in which not only have the State bosses ignored the rank and file of the party and the people in this city, but in which they have fastened upon them an appointed committee with full power to filch their political lib- erties from them. If the “whispering” boss were | really a Democrat—which, being a Hessian, he is not—he would stand aghast at the enormity of his own acts. There are in this city eighteen Assembly Districts. To create a county committee for either party of a representative character it would be necessary to ap- portion it among them according to the vote cast at the last election. In 1896 the Democrats carried nine Assembly Districts and the Republicans nine. Seven of the Democratic districts are south of Market In this | A UNDER ONE FLAG. MERICANS know one flag. This is the stars fl and stripes, the sign of liberty and unity. There are streamers of special significance afloat over the ships of the navy, and some of the higher officials of the Government have individual flags, but for the people of this great country there is one token of common brotherhood, one emblem, the shadow of which is a protection to the humblest upon whom its shadow falls. At sight of it the heart- beat quickens and there comes over the beholder an impulse to defend the honor of the colors even at the cost, of life. So it is that the flag is floating above far shores that had been alien, while brave men are on the sea hastening to uphold it there where justice has reared it. So it is that the men of the navy have covered themselves with fame. The flag had been assailed; they fought for it, and, unsullied, it catches the tropic breeze. It was June 14, 1777, Congress adopted a resolu- tion: “That the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternating red and white, and that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.” And to-day such is the flag, except that the thir- teen stars have grown to be forty-five, and the little cpllection of colonies is a giant nation. Next Tues- day will be the hundred and twenty-first anniversary of the adoption of these colors. It could not fittingly be permitted to pass without a demonstration such as the country has never witnessed. On that day the | flag should be displayed from every housetop and pole. It should decorate the schools, the places of | business and the citizens themselves. { In this time of war feelings that ordinarily lie dor- mant have been aroused. Men and women are con- scious, gladly, of a thrill of love for their country, an impulse to do something to show how they revere the flag and all it represents. They shower favors on the soldiers, willingly and eagerly, because the regard for the soldiers going to battle for this flag is an ac- tual affection. There is a quaint Oriental expression terming America “the land of the beautiful flag.” Such it is. But the beauty of the token is not alone in its com- bination of hues. It is the beauty of an honored His- tory and a cause ever just; a beauty appealing to the soul as to the eye. And on Tuesday next, when the flag shall have reached the age'of 121 years, now that the sentiment of the country has been stirred to its deeps, that men are dying and offering to die to preserve it, there should be a demonstration, radiant, tumultuous, splendid, widespread, to mark the event. There cannot be too many flags on show. There cannot be too great a wave of enthusiasm. Here by the Golden Gate which opens now to new possibilities, the Golden Gate whence America reaches out to the distant isles, through which the armed strength of the republic pours to carry liberty | and civilization, it is meet that the demonstration be grand in its unanimity and fervor. We are all pa- triots. We love the flag. Let us spread it to the Western winds that day until the city shall be as an army with banners, proclaiming the stars and stripes its colors, and glorying to see them fly. THE WORK OF FUSION. FRESH political breeze blows from Oregon. The Republicans of that State declared openly, { plainly and without reservation for the single i gold standard, retirement of greenbacks and sound money. The Democracy, Populists and free silver Repub- licans fused, tight and fast, on free silver, unlimited paper issued by the treasury, and the whole line of fads in the Populist platiorm. The fusion programme was a regular political bargain counter, intended to attract customers with any kind of wheels in their head. The result is the greatest Republican victory Ore- | gon has had in many years, and the fusion forces are scattered in ghastly and hopeless confusion. The vote stands: Republican 35,648, fusion 28,078, with a few small counties to hear from, which’will increase the Republican total much and the fusion | total little. The Bryan Democracy in Oregon can now take its bearings and see how much it has gained under the leadership of Pennoyer, Miller and Burnett. - In 1888 Oregon gave Cleveland 26,519 votes, to RE AslATlC STATION Mapila Bay, [sla de Lruzop {1 PROGRAMM MARCH—"Sound Off”....... OVERTURE—"Fra Diavolo”.... WALTZ—"La Barcarolle”. SELECTION—*“Mikado” TOREADOR’S SONG—‘‘Carmen"" PATROL—"The Blue and Grey”... E OF MuUsIC 42 Sousa Auber aldteufel . Sullivan . Bizet E. C. Kaufmann, Bandmaster. == == BLUE AND THE GRAY. MUSIC PLAYED ON B., City. The postoffice address of D. Long, Secretary of the Navy, is Wa | ington, D. C. and divert the people by fighting our neighbors. Yet in the 122 years of our ex- istence we have had five wars, each im- rtant, each waged for different reasons, ut all in some degree animated by one prineiple. And it Is to be noted that each hag found us unprepared; each has been de- nounced by a large section of the peopls, and yet they have all been conducted with a spirit and concert which finally made them national, uniting the country in some common purpose which was devel. oped or strengthened by the wars them. selves.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. —————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, SCHLEY—Several _Subscribers. The name of Commodore Schley is pronounced as If written Schli, with the i long. VASSAR COLLEGE—E., City. Vassar College, N. Y., was founded in 1861 by Mathew Vassar, a wealthy brewer. THAT HAWSER—S., Oakland, Cal. Tha size of the hawser to be used in tow the Monterey is twelve inches in circur ference. SECRETARY OF THE NAVY-w, g, JUDAS ISCARIOT—S. G., City dition has it that Judas Iscariot himself to a clersis of the genus order Leguimnosoe. It is also k the bean: tree. MAINE AND MANILA-C. M. T, ¥ estville, Cal. The Maine was blo February 15, 1898, and Dewey des the Spanish fleet at Manila on the 1 May following. MICHIGAN TROOPS—C. K., San Lo- renzo, Cal. To ascertain where a cert company of Michigan volunteers is locat at this time you will have to addre communication to the office of the Sec: tary of War, Washington, D. C. POPULAR AND ELECTORAI—R. W, C., City. At the election for President in 1892 the popular vote for Cleveland was 5,536,918, and his electoral vote was 277. At the election in 1898 McKinle, popular vote was 7,104,779, and his electoral vote was 271 GERMANY AND RUSSIA—-M. R. and others, City. In the sentence, *“Russia and Germany are ruled by vigorous young men, one of whom is known to be the most ambitious, proud and dominating ruler of his time,” the ambitious, proud ahd dominating ruler referred to is the Emperor of Germa THE LANGUAGES—W. R. G., City. It 1s impossible to tell exactly how many languages there are in the world, as thers | are many who class dialects as languages and go so far as to include gibberishes The American Bible Society, which does not make any pretense that it issues the | Holy Book in every language, does print | the whole or part thereof in 242 languages | and dialects. THE WIFE'S PRAYER—S. W. G., City. What is known as the “Wife's Prayer” was first published quite a number of years ago. It Is in the following words: ! bless and preserve the person whom chosen to be my husband; let his essed, comfortable and holy, 1 comfort unto him, a 2 meet helper in all the a s al hanges in the world. Make me amiable forever in his | eves, and forever dear to him. Unite his heart THE A TI to me in the dearest love and and = mine to him in all sweetness, ¢ and compliance. Keep me fr all discontentedness and unreasonable MORE AFTER DEWEY'S BATTLE. N the 1st day of May the American naval force at Manila completely _destroyed the Spanish fleet. On the following day the Baltimore and the Raleigh went to the forts commanding tke entrance to the bay and demanded their surrender. The Spaniards surrendered those works. The mechanical and deadly precision of the first day was succeeded by the business-like demand for surrender on the second day. Nothing is more characteristic of American seamen than their return on the third day to a semblance of routine, the cool, brave, imperturbable Yankee! while the Spaniards were beside themselves with rage and excitement, the Americans, at ease on board their trusty ships, had musical relaxation. The band on the United States steamship Baltimore played from a programme which was printed in colors on board ship, and which was headed by “Old Glory.” Among the selections was “The Blue and the Gray,” token of the ability of Americans both to fight and to forgive. on that occasion has just been received in this city in a letter addressed to Mrs. M. A. Kelton, 714 Howard street, by her son Harry, who was one of The same music will be played at one of the concerts in Golden Gate Park for the historical interest attached. the brave crew of the Baltimore. low is a fac simile of the programme: The programme in use Be- COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS. | E. McGettigan of Vallejo is at the Russ. S. W. Crabb of Oakville is at the Pal- ace. ‘W. H. Alford of Visalia is at the Cali- fornia. A. Novell, a Guatemalan merchant, at the Lick. W. C. Aspinwall, Wahpeton, N. D., is| at the Russ. George D. Eaton is stopping at the Call- : | just held a sesslon at Portland, Oregon, arrived in this city yesterday and are stopping at the Palace. ——————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.| NEW YORK, June 10—A. Stern is at| the Savoy: John W. Rourke, San Fran. cisco, Is at the Manhattan: W. C. Jur- gens of Berkeley is at the Hoffman; W. Mackay of San Francisco is at the Ger- lach; J. A. Robinson of San Franclsco is at the Imperial. ———— BETWEEN BUGLE CALLS. = On May 3, | or fire-etch passion and humor, and make ol lent, useful and observant, delight in each other according to thy ble word, and both of us may oice In thee, ing our portion In the love and service of God forever. Amen. THE MODOC WAR—S., City. The Mo- doc troubles date back to 1864, when the Modocs were put on a reservation of the Klamaths. Captain Jack (Krentpoos) led off a wild band to an old home of the Mo- docs on Lost River, where their opera- tions caused so much complaint that an order was issued for their return to the reservation. On the 2th of November Captain Jack and his Indians refused to g0 on the reservation, and on the 29th of the same month United States troops, under command of Captain Jackson, went to the Indian camp to enforce the order, when a fight took place, and fifteen In- dians and four white men were killed. One of the Indians killed was Scar-Faced Charley. After that the Mo.locs escaped to the lava beds south of Clear Lake. Major-General Wheaton advanced on the Indians in 1873 to dislodge tnem, when he met with reverses—loss twelve killed and twenty-one wounded. Subsequently a second attack by General Giliem was no more_successful. On_the 1ith of April, 1873, General Canby, Dr. Thomas and Mr. Meacham, peace commissioners, called on Captain Jack, when all three were treach- | erously attacked and General Canby and Dr. Thomas killed, Mr. Meacham being dangerously wounded. On June 3 the Mo- docs surrendered to General J. C. Davis, and on October 3 following Captain Jack and three others were hanged and the re- mainder—148—were sent to the Indian Ter- ritory £ A 10 per cent discount to soldiers in uni- . Send your absent friends a basket % fire-etch box of Townsend's California street, and therefore in order to be representative a | Glace Fruits, 50c 1b. 627 Palace Hotel bld.* in her local history. fornia Hotel. Good examples have been set for Sausalito to profit by in this regard. A short time ago, under the in- fluence of a crusade begun and vigorously carried on by The Call, the authorities of Yolo suppressed a gang of gamblers who, driven out from Sacramento, had made their headquarters on the Yolo side of the river. Recently San Mateo, profiting by the exposure of the pool-selling evil made in The Call, drove the illicit traffic out of that county. In San Francisco it- self the traffic, according to reports made to the Mer- chants’ Association by Chief of Police Lees, has been suppressed. Now it is the turn of Sausalito to act. Captain Aaruus of a German steamer now at Phil- adelphia will pay $3000 fine for wanton violation of maritime laws. As he is the same truculent indi- vidual who loudly proclaimed a wish that the Span- ish might triumph, he has been guilty of more of- fenses than the one mentioned. He ought to be kicked as well as fined. Announcement is made officially for the second time that the Queen Regent has not been interviewed. The only claim that she had been came from the yel- low journal which printed the stuff alleged to have been said by her, and as nobody for an instant be- lieevd it, the utility of these denials does not appear. While Chief Lees proclaims that he will continue in office he should remember that he 1s only a minor- ity in the Police Commission. He will either be obliged to hypnotize his associates or follow the present programme. It is a strange circumstance that the appropriation | for care of the streets should have been exhausted in eleven months and so few indications of this lavish | expenditure be visible. The same “patriotic” spirit which has tried so hard to stir up revolt among the soldiers is now engaged in an effort to create a row among the higher officials of the army. That Dubosc, the Spanish spy, should have been put in a Canadian jail was proper. But his getting out so soon may almost be regarded as an impro- priety. The ferry building is almost complete, and not a man connected with the construction has been in- dicted. Here is a triumph, but not exactly of justice. Mr. Huntington is not always consistent. He now thinks the war will be a gcod thing, whereas he for 2 time showed a tendency to be a peace party. But even if Dickinson have no National Guard to county committee of that party would have to be elected or appointed mainly from among the Demo- crats of the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first, Thirty-second and Thirty-third Assem- bly Districts. The committee of one hundred appointed by Boss McNab to rule the Democracy of San Francisco has not only not been chosen from these Democratic Assembly Districts—it has been chosen from the Re- publican districts. Seventy-three of its members come from regions which never return Democratic legislators. Seventeen reside in the Fortieth Assem- bly District, which in 1896 gave 809 Republican ma- jority; eleven reside in the Thirty-ninth District, which gave at the same time 571 Republican majority; thirteen reside in the Thirty-seventh, which gave 160 Republican majority. Here is the way “Whispering” Gavin has taken care of the party of which he claims to be a member: Twenty-eighth District, 379 Demo- cratic majority, 1 representative; Twenty-ninth, 731 majority, 3 representatives; Thirtieth District, 540 majority, 2 representatives; Thirty-first District, 919 majority, 2 representatives; Thirty-second District, 405 majority, I representative, and so on. One Democratic Assembly District only has been properly recognized. We refer to the Forty-fifth. This region gave 140 Democratic majority at the elec- tion in 1896. It has upon the committee of one hun- dred nine representatives. The good fortune of the Forty-fiith is accounted for by the fact that Boss Mc- Nab himself resides in it. The interesting question in connection with the ap- pointment of the committee of one hundred is this: Will the Democrats of San Francisco stand it? Boss McNab's theory is apparent. All he wants of the or- ganization is to secure its right to a place on the offi- cial ballot. He will nominate his tools for office, call them “Democrats,” and with his newspaper organ demand their election in the name of “reform.” In this way he hopes to get control of the local govern- ment. A more flagrant case of bossism has never been developed in this city. It is enough to make “Whispering” McNab'’s preceptor, the late Mr. Hig- gins, turn over in his grave. Sampson’s shefis-;t Santiago are said to have been worth half a million dollars, but they cost Spain so much more than this that nobody minds the expense. oL as Since a price of $25,000 has been put on the head of Aguinaldo it is likely the head that wears a crown is not the only one to rest uneasy. Something more than an expression of displeasure ought to be visited upon any contractor who furnishes the camps with tainted meat. command, he can hang his stretcher and view it with joy. uniform coit on a 1 Harrison's 33,269. That was the last straight party | vote in the State. The natural increase in the Dem- ocratic vote should be about 4 per cent per annum, or 10,607 votes in the ten years since 1888, and the straight party vote should have been this year 37,026. Therefore the fusion policy of Pennoyer has deprived | the party of its natural accretions and leaves it weaker in fusion alliance than it would have been standing alone. Herein is a warning to Republicans. The history of political fusion in the United States is that when- | ever parties suppress or abandon their principles to | enter into such alliances the resulting fusion is finally weaker than the original, straight party would have been standing alone. The best of party leadership is exhibited in stand- ing stiffly by principles and educating the people in them until a majority comes to agree to them. Vic- tories waited for and won by that policy are won to stay. With the single exception of Mr. Cleveland's twelve years' leadership and Mr. Tilden's brief rule, the Democracy has had no principles that it was not willing to abandon for the sake of a fusion which promised office to a few of its self-secking leaders. Beaten in 1888 on the free trade issue, Mr. Cleveland compelled it to fight on the same line four years later, and won. The party in power had not the devotion to its own principles necessary to carry them out, and a Democratic Congress failed so wretchedly in its tariff tinkering as to cause Mr. Cleve- land to declare that the Wilson bill represented noth- ing but perfidy and dishonor. In 1890 the party sur- rendered the free trade issue, and in defiance of its traditions took up fiat money. Note now the difference between Republican stead- fastness and Democratic weathercocking. The Re- publicans were beaten in 1800 and in 1892 on the pro- tection issue. There arose among them a school of cowards and opportunists, who sought alliance with Populism and free silver to make a substitute issue for protection, which they desired to abandon. The party stood steadfast, however, and its fidelity to its prin- i ciples even in defeat caused the bolt at St. Louis and the organization of the free silver Republican party, which is looking around now for a sty and a swill barrel, and seeks to fuse with the same elements that have just had their quietus in Oregon. Spain is said to believe the Philippines lost. Much depends on the point of view. To many people they seem'just to have been found. —_— Let none of our boys be sent to sea in unseaworthy ships. The occasion demands sacrifice, but not by the beatload. California weather ought to be ashamed of itself. There is a natural tendency to despise a :pytunleu he is spying for our side. 3 4 It is acting as if subsidized by the Spanish. \ Dr. T. H. Huntington of Sacramento is at the Grand. J. B. Peakes of Santa Cruz is stopping at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mitchell of Los Angeles are at the Palace. Alexander W. McConnell of Japan, is a guest at the Occidental. Kobe, 0000000000 A story is told o oon William o WHY WILLIAM o Sproule, traffic manager of the o SPROULE DID 0 g inerm Pacific © NOT KNOW. © Company, which O shows howgenius o 0000000000 and versatility will sometimes lead a man into the slough of error. Mr. Sproule has a reputation for cleverness as a raconteur and as a man of polite learning. His mind is of that order which has a place both for figures and for the artistic. One of those things of which he is especially proud is his stupendous familiarity with the sym- bols of rank, political and soclal. No matter how much of the alphabet is at- tached to the skirts of a name Mr. Sproule is never at a loss in determining the position of the owner in the world of the bon ton. In the select coterie of wits and bon vivants at the Bohemian Club many a task of alphabet reading has been performed by Mr. Sproule. But the hardest task of the kind that he ever at- tempted was one afternoon not long ago when a Mr. Murphy called on him at his business office. The card brought to the rallroad magnate read: “Edward Murphy, G. B. C.” Who was Murphy, and what was all this alphabetical adorn- ment? “G. B. C.” went through the mind of the dilettante and no solution was offered by the powers of reason or the stores of a vast experience. All the abbreviated titles of royalty were con- sidered and still no light. Exhausted by the mental strain Mr. Sproule told the office boy to show Mr. Murphy to his office at once. The first question launched at the vis- itor was: “What in the world does G. B. C. stand for?” Murphy grew two inches, and with a swelling chest and erect head answered in a very dignified manner: “Sir, that means graduate of business college.” The shock was too much for the erudite Sproule and he succumbed at the awful discovery. Mr. Murphy was there for a position. He did not get it. ‘W. 8. Cone of Red Bluff is in the city on a vacation and is residing at the Pal- ace. John M. Steele and S. A. Adams of the United States navy are stopping at the Occidental. J. Levi and family and H. Levi have returned from a trip to Europe of a year's duration and are residing at the Palace. ‘William A. Richards, Governor of Wy- oming, accompanied by J. D. Freeborn and A. C. Richards, arrived last night and is stopping at the Palace. ‘W. J. Calhoun of Illinois, W. A. Day of ‘Washington and Edward A. Mosely of “I understand,” said the young woman, ‘‘that you speak Spanish like a native of Spain.” The linguist drew himself up haughtlly and inquired: “Am I to understand that you desirs to impugn my character for veracity?'— ‘Washington Star. “Mrs. Flighty made a terrible mistake at her luncheon yesterday.” “What was 1t?"” “She had Malaga grapes.”—Detroit Free Press. “Anti-monopolists!" echoed Farmer Corntossel, who had been approached by an agitator. *’Course we are.” ‘“But are you sure you carry your prin- ciples far enough?” ‘“We couldn’t carry 'em no furder. Folks aroun’ here won't even play checkers any more fur fear o' cornerin’ somethin’.’ ‘Washington Star. ‘“Pennywiggle tells me that his wife helped him to get out his last volume of verses. I didn’t know she was literary.” “She’s not. All she did was to persuade her father to stand the expense of the publication.”—Indianapolls Journal. “Well, we've got a cook at last that Just suits me.” ‘‘Bakes just such biscults as your moth- er used to make, I suppose?”’ “No; I can’t eat the stuff she prepares for us; I have to take my meals at the restaurant. But my wife's folks have quit boarding with us.”—Chicago News. ——————— TINKLES AND TICKLES. “Did you ever love another befq met me? he Inquired. i “‘Another what?”’ she asked. Heroine—Heavens! I am undone! Ol1d lady (in the audience)—Come away. Si! 1ain’t a-goin’ ter watch any disrobin’ acts!—Puck. “The doctor would like to see - side,” said the maid to the t:a.“el‘y!l"l‘xl t‘ge ;‘ec:t[itlgn r&on;. ‘;;NM much!” said the artled patient; “he can’t try a - on me.”—Yonkers Statesmmr.y S Hewitt—That hotel clerk quees him- self last night. e Mo Jewett—How was that? Hewitt—A lady he was calling upon happened to say that her foot was asleep, and he absent-mindedly asked her what :gsne she would have it called.—Town Top- “Here you've been telling me all along,” sald the bright faced young wife, “what a wonderful cook your mother was, and now your Aunt Jane has just told me that your father was a chronic dyspeptic.” ““Well, you see,” the young husband mur- mured, with a deep sigh, ‘‘mother learned %ye a%l;cuung on father.”—Cleveland Plain ————— OUR FIVE WARS. Making war has never been a business with the American people. With a great country to be opened, great industries to be organized, and all the affairs of an ac- tive and ambitious people to be conduct- ed, we have had no time to waste. We ‘Washington, all members of the Inter- state Commerce Commission, which has: have not needed war to give our yor :‘l:;ld occupation, nor '.henulder onguull}:- Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 gomery street. —_————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the ont- Telephone Main 1042. Red Cross. Parties having old papers of any de- scription will confer a favor by leaving them at Red Cross headquarters, No. 1§ Post street. . - Mrs. Agnes Pruyn Strain, who died in Philadelphia the other day, was a daugh- ter of Mrs. Mary Pruyn of Albany, who was the first woman missionary to go to Japan. Mrs. Strain herself was consider- ed one of the ablest women Bible teach- ers in this country, and was the author of several books on Bible study. —_———— Dxcursion to the Yellowstone Park. A personally conducted excursion will leave this city July 12 for the Yellowstone Park, via the “‘Shasta Route” and Northern Pacific Rail- 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 Rallway, 638 Market st., S. F. ———————— The Santa Fe Route will run second excur- slon to Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Arizona, on Thursday, June 80, Noted sclentists will ac- company the party. A pleasant and profitable trip. Get full particulars at No. 644 Market st. —_——— - Volunteers—Put yourselves in fighting trim with & bottle of Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bit- ters to regulate your digestion. —_———————— ‘Miss Emma Teller, the daughter of Sen- ator Teller of Colorado, who was recently married, was a member of a Wellesley alumnae club, called the Saturday After- noon Spinsters’ Club. There were ten members, and Miss Teller is the ninth to renounce single blessedness. ADVERTISEMENTS. The Royal is the highest grade baking powder known. 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