The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 12, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 1898. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Fropretor. e e e e~ ey Address All Communnqafnari’t\caw. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFX ..Market and Third Sts., S. . Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROUMS..........2I7 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns | for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month | 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL One yeer, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE........ vass+.908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.........Rcom 188, World Bullding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.......... C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGC OFFICE.. -..Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative, | BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, epen until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2891 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll § o'clock. 2518 | Mission street, open” untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untli 9 o'clock. 1506 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ano | Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS, Columbia—*“ The New Dom; Baldwin—* The Passion Play. Alcazar—*The Master of Ceremonies.” Morosco's—"The Cotton King." Tivoll—“An American Hero.” Orpheum—Vaudevilla The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man Olympia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties. Sutro Baths—Swimming, E] Campo—Music, dancing, boating, fishing, every Sunday, Becreation Park—Baseball this afternoon. Coursing—Ingleside Coursing Park. Coursing—At Union Coursing Park. Excursion to Los Gatos—Friday, June 1. THE BOND ISSUE. DEMOCRATIC free silver morning contem- fl porary, which never neglects an opportunity to attract attention to itself by interfering in public affairs which do not concern it, has opened a subscription book for the jorthcoming Government bond issue. This sheet says it desires to see the war bonds thoroughly distributed among the people of the United States and stoutly opposes their purchase by the bloated bondholders. It, therefore, calls upon the people to visit its office and put their names down for a subscription. Anything above $25 will be ac- cepted. “They (the bonds) offer the safest investment for the savings of the people,” says this yellow financier. “There was never a default on the part of Uncle Sam. Banks may break, but the Government goes on for- ever and pays its debts whatever happens. The inter- est is 3 per cent, and it is certain.” It is a little over a year since this same journal was clamoring to have the Government bonds already out- standing paid in silver, worth in the bullion market less than 50 cents on the dollar. At that time it de- manded the free coinage of silver and declared that the Government had never agreed to pay any of its bonds, except the two last issues under Cleveland, in gold. It did not maintain that silver was worth as much as gold, but it has an interest in several silver mines, and it thought if the free coinage of the metal could be forced value would be added to its mines and it could afford to burn up a few more papers and thus increase its circulation. We presume that the subscription this yellow blatherskite has now started will be a gold subscrip- tion. Does it propose to accept subscriptions in sil- ver? If it does, and the Government will take silver, | perhaps it may on the surface of things make out a case for itself, although the silver will be taken on a gold basis. But if the transactions which it now pro- poses to close on behalf of its clients are to be con- ducted in gold, what guarantee have we that after the war is over it will not again demand the free coinage of silver and the return of the money of the people in fifty cent dollars? These questions are important and should be an- swered in advance. If the yellow financier’s scheme is 2 bunko game the poor people who are asked to pa- | tronize it should know it. They are requested to sub- scribe for the bonds in gold; will the bonds be re- paid in gold? If not, then the scheme is a swindle and the bloated capitalists should be allowed to take the bonds. s ——— Among the reasons for not thinking that China | has sold ships to Spain for gold are the circumstances that China has no ships and Spain no gold. Besides this, if the nations in question were bountifully sup- | plied with the essentlal elements for a dicker of this sort, the transaction would not be permitted. Let’s worry about something else. There is no reason for believing that Blanco will give up Havana upon the simple request of this coun- try. The man is a tremendous liar, but even if also | a coward, something there is no ground for suppos- ing, he might as well fight as go back to Spain and be executed. . Naturally people are prejudiced against the Cen- tennial. A ship that is sold for such a sum that one month’s service for the Government will pay for her is not a first-rater, unless the buyer happefied to get an unparalleled bargain. The way things look at Manila now, the gentlemen who are anxious to get the head of the insurgent leader and sell the same for $25000 would find it money in their pockets to leave that head right where it is. There is an unkind intimation that Bryan is to be sent to the front much in the spirit that David of old once dispatched a gentleman to a point where the scrapping was to be hot. The fact that Linares and Blanco unite in declaring that no Spanish torpedo boat has been sunk is the first tangible evidence that this is exactly what hap- pened to it. One of the islands on which the United States have designs is Yap. Having secured it, an excellent plan would be to make of it a refuge for yellow journalists. Pl Lo A If Spain is really anxious to settle this little affair by an appeal to some power she can do so. There's { the United States, for instance. g / When an item of news is headed “From Spanish Sources,” there is no particular reason for reading it unless one desires to kill time. In organizing a new Cabinet Spain would be going to unnecessary trouble. It could do nothing more than fall. —_— g Never until the present war did the cutting of a cable fail to have the effect of delaying messages. THE MEN WHO DO THE FIGHTING. ICTORIES in war are associated with the names V of commanders. The great admiral is the sea fighter who can handle his ships and fight them | to the best advantage and with the least confusion. The great general is the man who can handle the most men in battle and so fight them that he gets the best out of every man in his formations. But neither admiral nor géneral can win without fidelity and cour- age and pride in the men whom he movyes as parts of a machine. It is a common error of civilians to believe that men in the ranks fight from motives of revenge. It is “Remember the Alamo” and “Remember the Maine.” The fighting sailor and soldier has in mind the honor of his corps, his command, his country. “England expects every man to do his duty” was a more thrill- ing call to “Tommy Atkins” than any appeal to preju- dice or revenge. “Don’t give up the ship,” uttered by the dying Lawrence, is the sentiment that inspires every man-of-war's-man under Dewey, Sampson and Schley. These unnamed heroes, unknown to their countrymen by name except when they fall fighting, are the dependence of their country. We know them only when— “Thelr hearts can feel no more The rapture of the fight.” They are the men who held back their shots when the Spanish admiral, Montijo, driven from his own ship as she roasted in the flames, carried his flag to another deck in an open boat within range of their | guns. He was a brother fighter, made of their stuff, | and in admiration of his courage, common with theirs, they refused the advantage and gave him his life. They | are of the same stuff as Cervera, who, in circumstances | illustrating a common heroism, took aboard Hobson | and his 'men after the sinking of the Merrimac to his undoing and sent out of the hot battle in which they | had corked him to their commander his compliments upon their courage in executing a feat that will gild the story of devotion to the end of time. These men in the ranks in our army and navy are the concrete of our national character, the expression | of its fighting quality, its admiration of courage, its chivalry to the enemy and its steadfast resolve that their flag must win, its arms must triumph. Among | them revenge has little place. Their motives are not rooted in passion. that perish, but for a principle, for a country, for the homes they have left and the flag that leads them on. | In their exaltation of spirit they do daring things. Life is precious to them only because it is theirs to give up that their country may not die. Their im- | mortality is its permanence, and their blood ce- ments the stones of its foundation that it may never fail nor fall. Perhaps but few of them could tell, as philosophers might, that all government rests finally upon force, and that force must come in the tearless eye and tire- less arm of fighting men. But they know instinctively that lacking such men, government, its orders and its institutions, cannot be in the world. So they are the patient source of it all. They make possible the free- dom of person and the rights of property, which are the prizes man has gained through civilization. Their measured march and the music of their guns shake the earth and make whirlwinds in the air to proclaim the permanence of government and the perpetuation of civilization. When we read of victories won and the principles they establish, let us not forget the men in the ranks by whose valor these things come. R Office on the commercial dealings of various nations with China are of considerable interest to us, inasmuch as they show that our trade with the country is in excess of that of either Germany or Rus- sia, is second only to that of Great Britain, and amounts in the aggregate to upward of one-seventh of the entire foreign trade of the Chinese empire. According to the statistics included in the reports which have been given out, our principal trade with the Chinese is in cotton goods. It is said that last year the China trade took from the United States up- ward of $7,480,000 worth of cotton goods, or almost half of all the American cotton goods shipped abroad. | It is noted that the Chinese as a rule, and particularly | those of Manchuria, prefer American drills and sheet- | ings to similar articles of European make, because | they are heavier and of better texture. The expert of | American kerosene oil ranks second in importance to | that of cotton goods. In 1806 China took 33,000,000 | gallons of American oil and 28,000,000 galions of Rus- OUR INTERESTS IN CHINA. EPORTS recently made to the British Foreign | sian oil, so that in this trade also we lead our Russian ! rivals in the Chinese market. | For some years past our trade with China has been rapidly advancing, and the variety as well as the | quantity of our exports to that country has increased. We have now a considerable market there for wheat, canned goods and for manufactured articles of all kinds, and recently there has been a large demand for iron and steel and railroad materials. The importance of this trade is fully appreciated in higher commercial circles, and earnest efforts are now being made to se- cure what we have and provide for its extension. Under conditions now prevailing there can be no question but what the industrial and civilizing move- ment now began in China would bring about a very largely increased trade with this country in the course of a comparatively few years, from which large benefits would accrue to California and the whole Pacific Coast. The only cloud upon the pros- pect of such an increase is that caused by the advance of Russia toward domination in China, which would mean of course the closing of the markets to our produce so far as it competed with that of the Rus- sians themselves.. The United States have taken no part in the game now being played by English, French, German and Russians for advantage in the Orient, and yet as these statistics show our commercial interests there are su- perior to those of any nation except Great Britain. Moreover we are gaining upon Great Britain, and a few years more of uninterrupted development would undoubtedly give us the first place in the Chinese markets. With the enactment of wise legislation to promote American shipping we would in a short time have a trade with the Orient which would put San Francisco into the front rank of commercial cities. It behooves us, therefore, to guard those interests with wise fore- sight and due energy. We need take no part in the land grahbing now going on along the Chinese coast, but we should see to it that our commercial rights | there are not sacrificed to European aggression. R T —ETR T B T Soldiers who had-their clothing burned while on the way out here may comfort themselves by the re- flection that some of the regiments had reached this city before they got enough clothes to start a blaze with. The Monterey could doubtless take care of herself in any kind of a fight, but her decks are not adapted to the carriage of coal. . civilians and historians who laud such battle-cries as | They fight, not like the beasts | THE APPROACHING C@MPAIGN. ERPLEXED by the confusion in their camp pand divided one against another by bitter jeal- ousies, the Democratic leaders are none the less vigorous and energetic in their preparations for the campaign. The very dissensions among them prompt to this activity, for it is clear that in the Democratic race this year the maxim, “Devil take the hindmost,” will be fulfilled to the letter. One “needs go fast when the devil drives” is an old saying, and every Democratic candidate for office and every friend of a candidate is going as fast as he can. Confusion there is and distrust, and men seeking the scalps of their neighbors, but there are no lag- gards in the camp. The work of arming and organ- izing goes swiftly on. In all this there is something of danger to the Re- publican party. Sure of the strength of the organiza- tion, confident of the harmony which prevails in the ranks, and rendered sanguine of success by reason of the divisions in the camp of the enemy, the Repub- lican leaders seem to be negligent of the contest be- fore them. While the Democrats are active the Re- publicans are waiting. In the Democratic camp prep- arations for the State convention are under way, but in the Republican camp there is hardly any sign of get- ting ready for the coming conflict. The recent convention of Republican League clubs I in this city is about the only evidence that has been | given of the real energy of the party. That the con- vention did much good is beyond question. It brought together influential Republicans from all sec- tions of the State and had a potent effect in rousing the ardor of the rank and file. It will lead to an‘in- crease in the membership of Republican clubs and go far toward getting the party ready for the coming contest, but that is not enough. The clubs do not and not commanders. They can and will give help, but they can neither organize nor lead the battle line. It is time for some show of activity on the part of the men entrusted with the control of the Republican organization in the State. This is a good year for the Republicans, but it is not going to be a “yellow dog” vear. The great victory in Oregon was not won by { chance. The Oregon Republicans entered the field | early, they put up a strong platform and nominated | a strong ticket and made a strong fight. Republicans in California to achieve a similar succeess must adopt | similar tactics. The platform of the party is not a subject of dispute. | All are agreed as to what that will be. The danger point is the State ticket. A blunder in that may result | in defeat along the whole line. Strong and confident | as the party is, it cannot elect any man known or sus- pected to have affiliations binding him either to bosses or to corrupt corporations and monopolies. The nominee for Governor must be a man of in- | dependent mind and unassailable integrity. He must represent true Republicanism and stand for the inter- ests of the people and the welfare of the State. Such a man will be elected by an overwhelming majority, { but the nominee of a boss, or the tool of a corporation engaged in politics, will be defeated. Consideration of the party ticket should not be much if any longer delayed, and in that consideration | every member of the party should share. The nom- inees of the State ticket should be chosen by the party as a whole. The campaign will soon be near at hand. | Time passes quickly. Activity on the part of Repub- | lican leaders is necessary to counteract the incessant work going on among the Democrats. e — FIGHTING AGAINST FOLLY. fl the conservative Democratic leaders of East to draw their party out from the slough of Bryanism and put it on firm ground in time for the campaign this fall. Over and over again they utter words of warning against the folly of free silver | fnance, and with urgent insistence exhort to wiser | policies and more patriotic courses. | One of the most notable efforts in this direction | was recently made by Senator Gorman in opposing his Democratic colleagues in the Senate on the pro- posal for the coinage of the silver seigniorage. Among other things he said to them: “In my judgment it would be unwise, it would be fruitless to attempt to force that question to the front while the country has the Spanish army and navy to confront. That is a question we ought to fight out in time of peace. I have always been a partisan. I have voted for my party even when some of its can- didates did not quite meet my approval. But in a | crisis like this I do not know my party. I know only the highest interests of my country. Knowing how sharp is the political division upon this proposition, | I cannot vote for it at this time, no matter how just ; it may be in the abstract, or as a proposition stand- | ing alone.” The plea of Gorman was in vain. With but few exceptions the Democratic Senators held to their course of Bryanism and folly. They put their party on record as favoring a measute sure to provoke dis- cord and dissensions among the people at a time when “the country has the Spanish army and navy to confront.”” Thus, as Gorman pointed out, they have entered upon a policy which, even if it were wise in time of peace, is not only unstatesmanlike, but un- patriotic at this crisis in the affairs of the nation. Gorman does not stand alone-in his fight against the fools and fanatics of his party. Great Democratic papers like the New York Times and the Philadelphia Record struggle with him against the heavy odds of partisan blindness and stupidity. Up to this time, however, it is to all appearance a hopeless battle. The followers of Bailey in the House and of Tillman in the Senate are as besotted as ever in their devotion to the false gods that led their party to destruction in 1896, The campaign of this fall will be largely a repeti- tion of that of two years ago. On the one side will be the great mass of patriotic people going forward under the Republican administration to new issues of war and of peace, and on the other side a demoralized faction of calamity howlers shouting for free silver, or greenbacks or any old thing that promises cheap money for the multitude. The result cannot be con- sidered doubtful. In every Congressional district there will be thousands of conservative Democrats who will say with Gorman: “In a crisis like this T do not know my party. I know only the highest in- terests of my country.” They will vote for sound money, for protection and for patriotism. If the mere flaunting of Captain Evans’ linen after the wash is to be taken as the signal of surrender, the captain is advised to keep his shirt on. Y Spain would be foolish to send relief ships to Cer- vera without holding in reserve a squadron to relieve the relief. Unless the fall of Santiago involve the killing of Butcher Pando it can never be classed as a complete success. Hurrah for the American flag flying in Cuba or anywhere else! represent the party organization. They are auxiliaries | | kindly received. N earnest and vigorous effort is being made by | the | A writer in the Visalia Delta, under the caption, “Musings,” presents many bright ideas. The advice he sand- wiches among his paragraphs is often good and always well intended, yet when he says “Don’t stir up a polecat with a short stick” he wanders into error. The implication is plain that he thinks the part of wisdom is to use a long stick In stirring up the animal. My view of the case s that he would far better not be stirred up with a stick of any length. There was a day when not to be able to agree with Arthur McEwen was a disappointment to me, forcing me to distrust my own judgment. But the passing of time demonstrated that wheneéver McEwen Yook a position in a public matter he was about as sure to get the wrong side of it as the sun to rise in the east. Hence, gradually I learned to disagree from his conclu- sfons and suffer no pang. Neither did he experlence any distress, nor were friendly relations in the least marred, 80 no harm was done. Now McEwen has been attacking McKinley for: the manner in which the war has been con- ducted. Far from being sorry to take issue with him in this Instance, to do 80 Is an actual pleasure. No citizen wants to think the President “a weak- kneed wobbler,” which is the assertion McEwen makes, and which he pro- ceeds with some elaboration not to prove. Of course, had the distinguished critic been put at the head of military affairs, armed with a pen and writing his orders at regular space rates, the the caves of his native land, and the little misunderstanding which per- | sists In enduring have been but the | memory of triumph. It seems to me } that the war has progressed with reas- | onable dispatch, and that the conduct | of it has been such that the enemy has | had to do most of the dying. . There are several ways of looking at the act of Cervera in notifying Samp- | son that there were American prison- | ers In Morro Castle. I fail to see the | culpability of the admiral. It seems to me that the brave Hobson and his as- sociates were treated with every cour- tesy. The mission to which they bent | such splendid energles as to excite the admiration of the world was not a mis- sion of peace. If we are correctly in- | formed, the heroes of the Merrimac omitted olive branches from their scant equipment. They freely offered their ltves in the expectation that their er- rand, if successful, would crush the Spanish fleet. They were observed, and the Spanish saw them jump into the- water. Cannon had been boom- Ing at the Merrimac, but at sight of the valiant Americans swimming away from the fated ship the gunners ceased their work. They would not fire. As prisoners of war the Americans were Naturally they had to be placed in confinement, but no ob- ligation, save that prompted by chiv- alry, was on the admiral to send word of their safety. He later sent word that they were in Morro Castle, and thereat uproar sounded. Supposing he had put them there and said nothing about it? But he made their where- abouts known, and so the chance of their being killed by their friends was reduced to a minimum. It does not seem to me a crime, although not as- | suming to be versed either in the arts or ethics of war, I am willing to accept | proof to the contrary. T A In these times there is peculiar re- | spect for the veteran of the Civil War | and a tendency to listen to his opin- fon. So the writing of Ambrose Bierce on military topics has been read and approved, for he is an old soldier, and there is no secret that he was a good one. Personally I had followed his | work with much interest. But last | Sunday he spoiled the effect of it all. There had arizen no occasion for in- sulting the women of the Red Cross, and yet he insulted them. I do not think there is decency in characterizing the type as “the lively female of our species,” or decency in sneering at the work to which they have devoted so many days. It is true they have con- trived a quantity of bandages which the sunny Bierce designates as “belly- bands.” While the expression lacks re- finement, it is correct. Where the mil- itary expert shows an ignorance at once surprising and lamentable is in insinuating that these bandages will be useless and the making of them a waste of time, save as amusement for the “lively female.” When the wo- men asked what they could do to assist in providing for the soldiers going to a tropic clime they were told by the of- ficers of the army and by the surseons to prepare these cholera bandages. They are doing so, and the soldiers, having studied the conditions into which are army is about to pass, are grateful. They will wear the band- ages, and if any object, the wearing will be enforced by superior authority. Possibly the generals do not know what they are doing; perhaps the cholera belt {s no more potent than a red string tied about the neck, and the men of the English troops in hot countries are obliged to wear it just to satisfy a whim of the Queen. I am inclined, however, to think that Bierce is in er- ror, because all the army officers and all the surgeons cannot be fools. e e There is a person who writes editor- ial for the St. Louis Star. There ap- pears no particular reason why he should do so, unless, possibly, he has not developed to the grade of intelli- gence qualifying him for the conduct of a cable car. In reference to Tom Reed, this writer recently commended the Speaker for having left California, citing the circumstance as an evidence of acumen. I do not suppose the Star man was ever in California. If he was the chances are that he arrived on a brakebeam, consulted a Salvation Army souphouse, and departed by the same method. The people who rafl against California are not the people who have lived here. I am violating no confl- dence in saying that it is the greatest among the States. This fact is ac- knowledged by all who know anything about it, and for the rest we may feel a pity. But as to Reed, it is not un- reasonable to suppose that the case was different. It is a good thing for him that he went away. When a man gets into politics here the Southern Pacific is apt to catch him and place its brand on him. I can easily fancy that if Reed had remained a Californian the monogram “8. P.” would have been a part of him now. . i Castilian would now have beenhidingin’ BRENURJIVEUVRIVIVUEZIBPRIVIVREIIVRIIIRISN WITH ENTIRE FRANKNESS. By HENRY JAMES. NN ARRRRRARRRRRRRRARRIRRIRRIRINR Martin Kelly is probably glad that he lost his suit for $150 brought against him by the widow of the late Senator Mahoney. The defendant intimated that he had no objection to Iletting loose this trivial amount, but sald he would rather it would go to charity than to Mrs. Mahoney. Now comes the lady and says she is willing to give the Red Cross the amount if Kelly will pay it over. Of course he will not hesitate. Here is a worthy cause and a lucky es- cape from further litigation. w e I regret to observe that the college presidents of the land as a rule seem to be selfishly unpatriotic. It is, how- ever, cheering to note that the stu- dents do not pay any attention to them, but cheerfully lay down books and take up guns. President Gates of Iowa College is the latest to put him- self on record as a cultured dunder- pate. He is at the head of one of the best of Middle Western institutions. Some of the students who were trained under him are now on their way to Cu- ban waters, and my heart goes with them, for I knew them as boys and as babies, or knew their people, or wan- dered over the campus with which In later years their feet became familiar. Yet President Gates declares he can- not see how the conscience of the coun- ‘try can ever escape qualms for the war with Cuba. What sort of a con- science does he suppose this country to possess? He must think it a Presi- dent Eliot conscience or one of the Pro- fessor Norton variety. Speaking as a plain American citizen, to whom the honor of this land is dear, I am glad to tell him that the consclence of the country is clear. If there was ever a holy war waged it is the present one, which he deprecates. There is no use of entering into details. When the mind of a college president is made up the impact of a thirteen-inch shell would not jar it. But I hope some of the boys who went from under the Gates tuition with a back-handed bless- | ing from their chief instructor will see and understand. If ever I get rich it shall be my first joy to endow a chair of patriotism, not for the students, for they do not need it, but for the college presidents, who do need such benefits, and in honor of the old school days I will present a scholarship to Gates, hoping to make a better citizen of him. S G e T There are always people eager to nose out evil conditions which would seem to the clean-minded to be devoid of guile, and my first impression was that the reports in relation to the morals of Camp Merritt were due to people of this unpleasing variety. How- ever, such is not' the fact. The camp has been too open. Where thousands of men are gathered and the freedom of their quarters unrestricted, there fis certain to arise a condition far from desirable. There has been at Camp Merritt a lack of military discipline, and the moral effect is appalling. The most sedate citizen far from home is apt to lay aside the austerity that hedged him about there. =~ The only remedy is to abolish the camp and put it back in the Presidio, from which it | should never have béen removed. On the Government reservation it would be possible to exercise powers of exclu- sion which are impracticable in a place traversed by open streets, which the public cannot be forbidden to use. I am not blaming the soldiers. The fault lies with a lot of harpies, who always swarm, and with a lot of girls, whose mothers permit them to swarm with all the latitude of their abandoned com- panions, and who do not have the sense to know that they are treading perilous paths. . It is not often that there is propriety in calling down a United States Sena- tor, but if Hon. George C. Perkins has not yet been subjected to the process I do not correctly interpret the corres- | pondence which recently passed be-‘| tween himself and the Chamber of Commerce. The Senator seemed to be fearful that in the absence of the Monterey and Monadnock some long, low, rakish craft would come in, at- tach a cable to California and tow the State into the hitherward Pacific. There does not appear any real danger of such dire mishap. Undoubtedly when the Senator returns he will find the Golden Gate just where he left it and the entire shore line intact. - SLE e The idea that a woman lacks busi- ness instinct has received another whack. Nothing could well have been more business-like than the action of Mrs. Merry of the Woman'’s Exchange. In her official capacity she collated a lot of recipes, some of them coming from sources where no grub less aristo- cratic than angel food was supposed to be recognized. In preparing the recipes for publication Mrs. Merry deftly in- serted in each the instruction to use a certain brand of baking powder. Of course the contributing ladies were dis- pleased, but the authors of the baking powder have doubtless shown signs of appreciation. . It seems to me that Fred Lawrence has a grievance. A few months ago he was in Cuba for Hearst, prancing along ‘Weyler’s trocha, dodging barb-wire and machetes. Then he was called home and honored by having his picture printed. The other day Doug White started off to relieve Dewey and take charge of the Philippines until General Merritt shall get there. Necessity arose for printing the picture of White, and he was s0 new to fame that in all the Bast no such picture existed. So the Lawrence cut was dusted off, labeled “D. White” and made to serve the pur- pose. This was distinctly wrong, Sup- posing some secret service officer were to run across the original and, misled by the bogus label, clap him in jall as a deserter from the Manila expedi- tion? . . . Poor old Ouida! Once the woman could write. She always had an absurd habit of making her heroes impossible demi-gods, crowned invariably with a shade of tawnv hair not known to na- ture. But through her books were scattered bits of description which for strength and vividness no other novel- ist of whose wozks I have had knowl- edge has equaled. In “Under Two Flags” she sets forth an account of a horse race which I regard as far ex- celling any other account of a similar event. It is wonderful in its beauty. One seems to see “Forest King,” to hear the beat of his hoofs, and feels a thrill- ing impulse to join in the shouts. Wal- lace's chariot race has been widely ex- tolled, but compared with the race of ‘“Forest King” it is as glass to diamond. It has always been a puzzle to me why this radiant gem of words should have acquired so limited a fame. But Ouida has all her life been a disagreeable freak. She has the t>mper of a wildcat, the manners of a cow, and with years she has grown meaner. Age does not deck her with silvered di-nity, but comes upon her bringin~ with it bitter- ness, and turning the natural sour of her to an actual venom which runs from the end of her pen in halting meter. She has taken to making po- etry, jerky verse, punctuated by drops | of gall. Her latest, and let it be hoped | her last, is a parody on the poet laur- eate's joint tribute to England and America. Evidently this malign an- tique dees not view an alliance with favor, or ascribe the proposal to lofty | motives, for she says: So fling 'em out on the breeze, Bluster and Bully and Brag, And the standard of spangled shoddy Shall wave o'er a Sea of Swag, Wherever the Press shall vapor, And wherever the Purse shall wag. For wherever we come, we twain, The machine gun shall beuow of Jesus, And the Bible preach gin and gain, For our creed and gospel's the same. And if we've made an end of the Redskin, 8o have you of his Maori kin. There is more of the same sort. The querulous lady deserves to be boy- cotted. So curious a compound of virility and senility has rarely been | able to find a publisher. Possibly she | Is suffering from indigestion due to the loss of her teeth. . There s a feeling that Spain may vield without more of a struggle. I | hope it is groundless. Since the United | States have been forced Into a war, for | this to cease befors the Spanish shall | have been driven back to their native | land, divested of their last insular pos- | session, would be a calamity to the | world. The presence of their flag | should be no longer tolerated over the | colonies they have for centuries mis- | ruled. If they were now to sue for | peace the terms granted would doubt- less be more advantageous. They would | be left with some foothold close to the civilization of the west, and be as they | always have been, a curse and a clog. They should be defeated at every point | as thoroughly as they have been in | Manila Bay, and when all is over not a vestige of them left. The United States is the one power to make the | terms, and the men and ships and guns ;Bre available wherewith to be explicit. | If, when the Philippines and Cuba and Porto Rico are under the stars and stripes, the reeking old monarchy still i keeps up the farce of resistance, a | squadron should visit Cadiz. Spain has ! for many decades sought a lesson. Now that she is getting it I want it to be | a good one. | . | Baitorial mention lately came under | my eye that among some of the Orien- | tals this country is known as the “Land | of the Beautiful Flag.” The designa- | tion 1s one appealing to the pride and | tenderer sentiment of Americans. For | they know the United States is the land | of the beautiful flag, and they glory in | the stars and stripes. Once, perhaps, | this feeling was beneath the surface, but not now; not now, when the streets echo to the tramp of armed men, and from far over sea comes word that the | flag i1s waving where tyranny has ruled, proving that oceans cannot stay the | march of freedom. Its shadow falls on Cuban- sofl, it proudly streams above | the waters of Manila Bay, and perhaps the distant isles of the Pacific have learned its colors and acknowledged its sway. As the benign domain of the | stars and stripes extends there comes | to us a new sense of the potency it rep- | resents, a fresh jubilation that it has lnever stood for dishonor nor been un- | furled save above brave men who are | of our blood. It is fitting, as the ed- ftorial suggested, that next Tuesday be | made a special flag day, because then the emblem will have attained the age | of 121 years, not a great age, as history | goes, but one marked by high achieve- | ment and growth unparalleled. And | the coming of this anniversary will find | the common heart touched with pa- triotic fire, and the thought in every | mind that this is the “Land of the | Beautitul Flag”; that it is our land, and | our flag. Next Tuesday I expect the city will be decked as never before, not with gaudy arches and transparencies, but with the flag. There could be no | finer decoration. Lovely in hue and | in design, upheld by valor, cheered by | affection, the eye fllls with tears to see it, tears of which none is ashamed. So put the flag out Tuesday; it means so much just now. PERSONAL PECULIARITIES. Among & batch of stories attributed to President Lincoln is the following good one on President Tyler: During Mr. Tyler's incumbency of the Presidential office he arranged to make an excursion in some direction, and sent his son Bob to arrange a special train. It happened that the rallroad president was a strong Whig. As such he had no favors to be- stow on Mr. Tyler, and informed Bob that his road dfd not run any speclal trains for the President. ‘‘What!” sald Bob, “did you not furnish a special train for the funeral of President Harrison?” ““Yes,” said the superintendent, “and if you'll bring your father in that condi- uox:’ you shall have the best train on the road.” Sir Michael Hicks-Beach sald in his budget speech that he totally abstained from the use of tobacco. Lord Salisbury is also an abstainer from tobacco. So also i8 the Lord Chancellor. Arthur Bal- four is also among the non-smokers. On the other hand, Mr. Chamberlain is an inveterate clgar smoker. The Kentucky recrults of Theodore Roosevelt's regiment of rough riders are led by Roger D. Willlams of Lexington, Ky., one of the best-known cross-country riders in that State. He is vice-president of the National Fox Hunters’ Associa- tion and an all-around sportsman. 10 per cent discount to soldiers in uni- form. 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