The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 18, 1898, Page 6

JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propnetor. ISSSSSSSUSE SUSSE U Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFF ..Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 MHE 6AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding, towns | for 15 cents a week. By mcll $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. One year, by mall. $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE........ccvvunn seee 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.......... Room IS8, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CIHICAGC OFFICE Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—S5S7 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 367 Hayes street, spen until 930 o'clock. 621 McAllister strcet, open untll 9:30 c'slock. !5 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market streel, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until S o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. 1deville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. on and Eddy streets, Specialties. ming, Mustc, daneing, boating, fishing, every Sunday. Coursing Park. » Coursing Park. ta Cruz mountains. 1 NDER its present management The Call was b tended to be made a newspaper second to none in the metropolitan cities of the world. That end has been attained. We have given news and not inventions, and have treated our readers in good faith fairness. In combination with the Herald, The Call commands a news service that has never been ex- in- That service, belting the globe as it does, and alert in every news center and at every point of interest as it is, may occasionally be in error, but only through reliance upon faulty authority and never by intention As we have before pointed out, the existence of a rumor is in itself news, though the fact imored may prove non-existent. A rumor is, in a large sense, indicative of the state of mind in the com- nity in which it rises and runs. It is often the ex- celled nor invention. n pression of widespread public expectation, and there- | ons for regarding the currency of a ru- s are perfectly legitimate. In respectable journalism the line between the report of an existing rumor and facts accomplished as news is never diffi- cult to discern and readers are never deceived. Journalism that is yellow, indecent and deceptive not only between rumor and news, but it persistently invents both. It is no pleasure to us to frequently refer to the Hearst papers, the Examiner and Journal, as examples of yellow, indecent and deceptive journalism. Hearst's invented interviews with the Pope, the Queen Regent fore the r crimination omits of Spain and Mrs. McKinley, into whose presence no | representative of his papers ever penetrated, illustrate the deceptive and invented quality of the news which he boasts of giving to his readers. Let no one fancy that we refer to this in the spirit of business rivalry, for we do not. The advance in circulation and business which The Call has made is sufficient proof that the reading public turns in dis- gust from a faking pretender to a newspaper which treats them in good faith. Our object in calling at- tention repeatedly to the Examiner’s lies and swagger is to protect the public against adulterated news, just as we would in its interest expose swill milk and adul- terated food. The time should come soon when the law will punish severely the publication of invented news or invented rumors of news. Pepper adulterated ground cocoanut shell, ginger stretched with corn- meal, coffee sophisticated with chicory and chicory with carrots, are harmless frauds compared with the injury that may follow a public opinion based on the invented and lying news of which Mr. Hearst is a per- sistent purveyor. The Call told its readers that its account of Dewey’s battle in Manila Bay was by an eye-witness. Imme- diately Hearst pretended to publish an account by his eyve-witness. He was promptly exposed as a liar by the Chicago Record. By contrast with this act of bad faith and deception of its readers The Call is able to prove the extent and reliability of its news service and its wide distribution | out of Dewey's official report of the battle of Manila Bay in which the rear-admiral says that, being short of officers, the Herald-Call correspondent, Mr. Stick- ney, a retired officer of the navy, being on the flag- ship in the interest of the papers he represents, volun- teered as aid and rendered efficient service. The Call told the truth, as usual, and Hearst lied, as usual, and now tries to cover the deficiencies of his news service by brag and swagger. The rule, false in one, false in all, holds good, es- pecially as to newspapers. Hearst has been caught lying and inventing news so often that nothing which appears in his papers is credible unless verified by some decent authority. Judge Wallace is to be commended for having sent up for life some more of the murderous criminals who make a business of robbery and do not draw the line at killing. At times there may have been a ten- dency to criticize this jurist for the severity of his sen- tences, but thoughtful people have noticed that he has managed to seriously cripple the footpad in- dustry. Once more comes the cheerful information that the Cadiz fleet has sailed. Also that it will divide and go in two different directions. No details are given as to the direction of either seetion, but it is safe to as- sume that it will not be one having a tendency to lead toward any American guns. Officials at Washington are said to be resting se- cure in the belief that our marines in Cuba are safe. However, it is not the condition of the officials which particularly concerns the people of this country. Their anxiety is still for the marines. Admiral Camara is reported to be “acting strangely”—a delicate intimation that he is getting daft. To be a Spanish admiral in these times enough to drive a tolerably strong mind to collapse. is Rumor that the Spanish contemplate experiment- ing with a poisonous shell is probably u..true. All the deadly gas that country is able tc generate is consumed in the making of speeches. with | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1898. GERMANY AND THE PHILIPPINES. H ERR VON HOLLENBEN, German Embas- | sador at Washington, has with due formality | assured the Secretary of State there is no truth in the rumors that Germany intends to interfere with | the American Government in the Philippines. The | Embassador is quoted as having stated, further, that his Government is fully determined to maintain an at- titude of strictest neutrality toward both belligerents | during the war. | While the rumors of a possible interference on the | part of any nation in Europe with the conduct of the war have never seriously disturbed the American people, it is just as well to have them effectually dis- posed of by denial from the highest official sources. | The rumors with respect to Germany had their origin | in the tone of certain German newspapers, and so long as they go unrefuted they have a tendency to irritate | the public mind and to create in the United States a feeling of suspicion toward the Germans which is unjust and unwarranted. There are a few people in that country made sore by the competition of Ameri- can products in German markets who would like to fight us, but they are but a small minority. When the war with Spain began Bismarck declared the German Government should be careful to main- tain a policy of action which would keep Germany in touch with the sympathies of Germans in America in order that the natural affections of the emigrants for the fatherland might not be alienated and their | trade lost. Now the Germans in the United States i are as loyal as any other class, and certainly would | | not regard with favor any action tending to hamper | us in the conduct of the war or to interfere with our enjoyment of all the fruits of victory we may choose to seize and hold. | As a matter of fact since the first effort made to or- ganize a European concert for the purpose of pre- | venting the war there has never been a sérious inten- | tion on the part of any statesman in Europe to inter- fere with it. The reception given by our Government to the very suggestion of interference showed clearly it would not be permitted. If anything more had been needed than the action of our own Government to put an end to schemes of that kind it would have been furnished by the attitude taken by the British Govern- ment and the utterances of the British people. In- terference has never been imminent at any stage of the contest. A concert of European powers successfully inter- fered to dictate terms of peace between Japan and China and between Turkey and Greece. There is a vast and mighty difference, however, between any of those nations and the United States. What may have been wisdom in the one case would be folly in the other. The American eagle is now in the full career of his fierce swoop upon the foe, and it will fare ill with any one who may undertake to stop him in the middle of his course. fl service at the battle of Manila President Mc- Kinley has given the line officers such pro- motion as lay in his power. In our navy each officer is assigned a number in the naval register, and pro- motion from the lower to higher grades of rank usually proceeds in regular rotation. The reward be- stowed on the Manila heroes therefore has been that of giving them a higher rating on the list than they | had before. | The order of the President runs thus: “For ad- | vancement for conspicuous conduct in battle, Captain Frank Wildes to be advanced five numbers, Captain Joseph B. Coghlan to be advanced six numbers, Cap- tain Charles V. Gridley to be advanced six numbers, Captain Nehemiah M. Dye- to be advanced seven numbers, Capt#in Benjamin P. Lamberton to be ad- vanced seven numbers, Commander Asa Walker to be advanced nine numbers, Commander Edward P. Wood to be advanced ten numbers.” This advancement on the list of the officers who were at Manila entails of course a corresponding re- | duction on the list of those who were not there. | Officers who before the change were in a position to | receive the next promotions have now been super- seded. This is, of course, the fortune of war. Had they been at Manila they would have gone up higher, but not having been there they lose the comparative rank they had, and are to some extent punished for their absence. { In the course of a few days, however, the officers | of the fleet in the West Indies will have the glory of destroying the Spanish ships of war at Santiago, and then it will be their turn to get advancement on the ! list. They will be promoted in due order; some five, some seven, some ten numbers, and thus be put ahead of Dewey’s men. The line officers of both fleets will then have received promotion in turn, and the next naval register will show the names of all in just about the same order of succession they held before the war | broke out. It is a beautiful system and permits of ! unlimited promotions without straining. In the meantime it is notable that no promotion or | advance has been given to the engineer officers of cither fleet. Those who were at Manila have ot even received honorable mention by name. Such praise | as has gone to them has been in the nature of com- | mendation for the engineer staff generally, and con- | fers no distinction on the individuals who managed | the engines of the big ships while Dewey and his | men were fighting. Hobson, the staff hero of the war, is still at Morro, and the Government at Washington is still in doubt what to do for him. If Congress cannot find time to enact the navy personnel bill and thus settle the Hob- son difficulty, it would seem an easy thing for the Department of the Navy to adopt for the staff some such numbered register system as they now have fon the line. By doing so they could at oncepromote Hob- son by putting him first on the list for promotion, and then when some other staff officer does an equal feat he in his turn could be advanced numbers enough to put him at the head for a while. There is no unfair- ness in this to anybody. It simply provides promo- PROMOTIONS IN THE NAVY. S a recognition and reward for their gallant tion for the fellows who happen to be there when any- thing is done and stimulates our naval officers to get there every time. I s No German troops will land at Manila. In the first place nobody has the slightest notion of ordering them to do so, and in the second place t! 2re would not be room for German soldiers and Americans, too, and the Americans got there first. According to ex-Minister Taylor, Spain is “not ripe for a republic.” Spain, it might be added, has passed the stage of mere ripeness. Rt g 5 Certain of the Spanish soldiers are beginning to ap- preciate the pangs experienced by the condition of being a reconcentrado. e EOS SR In the East regulars and volunteers have been fight- ing each other. While this is not brotherly the prac- tice may be valuable. In the respect of being good only when dead there is another point of resemblance between the Apache dand the Spaniard, % A POLITICAL PARAPHRASE. RE the Democratic voters of this cit’ going fl to have any voice in their local organization in the coming campaign? That is a question which seems to have no answer. The outlook is cer- tainly calculated to discourage an even more desperate man than the average unwashed voter. There is no legal machinery by which the people can get control of the organization. Martin Kelly's beneficent pri- mary election law has been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, and the band of political pi- rates who have grabbed the Democratic reins are not of the sort who yield to arguments of justice. The local Democratic organization is in the hands of such choice spirits as “Whispering” Gavin Mec- Nab, “Slough City” Gould and “Tenderfoot” Alford, with Chris Buckley as patron and adviser. To ap- proach these men with a suggestion that the rank and file of the party be let into its counsels would elicit a horse laugh. Everybody knows what a horse laugh is. It resembles the titter of a donkey, though somewhat milder and more genteel. There is some talk that the dissent from the auto- cratic rule of these political brigands will result in an “open primary,” at which the rank and file will be permitted to choose their rulers, but this is mostly a phantom. Boss McNab will never let the people in on his combination. The “whispering” schemer knows a good thing when he sees it. Having the Dem- ocracy of San Francisco under his thumb, he will keep it there. Besides, an “open primary,” under the auspices of the manipulators who, through the Democratic State Committee, have wrenched the local organization from its proud position of a popular party, would be in the nature of an insult. What sort of an “open primary” would they hold? How could the people hope to overcome Boss McNab’s heelers and get in their votes? On the whole, we are not certain but the “trustees” of the local Democracy are conferring a favor upon the public by refraining from an “open primary.” If they should put their toughs against the toughs of Major Harney and Colonel Rainey there would certainly be carnage and bloodshed. Perhaps they ought to be commended for their forbearance. Their methods are raw and uncultured, it is true, but a subverted and bamboozled Democratic party is better than a bloody “open primary,” which could result in nothing but the triumph of Bosses McNab, Gould and Alford. But how is the rank and file of the Democratic party going to get a hearing in this city this year? How is the majority to make its wishes respected? Must the local party continue to be ruled by three usurping bosses, whose reputations, if condensed into one, would bring less in the open market than $1— the value placed upon Martin Kelly’s in Judge Dain- gerfield’s court the other day? can the Democracy be wrested from the grasp of these political garroters and restored to the people? That is the fuming question of the hour. The Republicans are going to hold an open primary for the election of delegates to State and municipal conventions, at which their people will be allowed to | | Baldwin. vote. The outlook indicates that the Democrats will have to wait until these conventions make their nomi- nations and then vote the entire Republican ticket. | | There will probably be no other way to dislodge the | “whispering” boss and his gan, SPANISH RIFLEMEN. HEN with the news of Dewey’s victory there W came the announcement that not an American ship had been seriously injured and not a man in the fleet had been killed there was a feeling of some surprise. It had not been expected the Span- iards would show themselves as expert as the Ameri- cans, but it was thought they could fire with sufficient accuracy to hit a ship steaming within comparatively close distance of their land batteries. . Further experience with Spanish artillerists in the West Indies has made us altogether contemptuous of their fire. With the exception of the Winslow no American ship has suffered in the least from either their shot or their shells. With this evidence of in- accuracy before us it was still believed, however, that the Spaniards would prove themselves to be danger- ous foes when the battles became a question of rifle- shooting. The aiming of a big gun to hit a target more than a mile away is a matter of mathematical calculation rather than of clear eyes and steady hands. The Spaniards are not eminent in science, or in the handling of complex mechanism, and their failure to use their modern artillery with success is therefore readily explained. Rifle-shooting within ordinary range, however, is a matter of hand and eye, and it is not easy to understand why the Spaniards have failed with that weapon almost as completely as with the bigger gun. For days past Spanish bushwhackers have sur- rounded the American marines landed at Guantanamo Bay. Their attacks from the underbrush were car- ried on almost continuously, but the number of Amer- icans killed has been comparatively few. The mo- ment our troops advanced the enemy scattered and ran away. Their shooting was utterly ineffective, and it looks as if any American killed in the campaign might just as well have his death recorded as the re- sult of an accident as a fatality of the battle-field. Clearly the Spaniards are not up to the needs of modern war. They have as good rifles as any in the world. In fact some authorities consider their weapons better than our own. They cannot use them, however, half as well as some semi-barbarous tribes. The American Indian is a better shot than the Spaniard, and the Pathan of the mountains of Hindostan is so far superior to him as to make the comparison ridiculous. The Spanish race, in fact, seems to be as degenerate as the Government. When a people lose the power to shoot straight with a rifle they are out of the race for supremacy in any part of the world. So far, Alfred Overend Esq. has hanging over him fines aggregating $1500, because he refuses to talk in court. While this appears to be a fair start to- ward the accumulation of an interesting set of lia- bilities there is no telling what he may yet accom- plish by persistence. The world is full of contra- dictions anyhow. Within a few days a man has been fined in court for having talked too much. The Montana soldier wh- smote an individual for presuming to shout for Spain was not fined when he reached the Police Court, and he did not deserve to be. Of course anybody who desires has a right to shout for Spain, but the propriety of going to Spain to do it is too evident to need pointing out. —_— Perhaps the Vizcaya was not hit by any American shell, but if she was there is no use telling anybody that no damage was done. Spanish optimism is giving us more things to believe than an ordinary faith can accept. Getlieral Miles is again in Washington, and a short- hand report of the remarks which pass between the President and himself would be read with great in- Lterest, EFORL enlisting for the war I sat me down and thought Of all the dreadful things with which the ®ervice might be fraught, And weighed with most eyacting care the dangers I would face, And thought that I could meet them all with uncomplaining grace. T thought that when I'd reach the front and checked the lengthy list, Not one soul-trying hardship from the sched- ule would be missed. But here in these Pacific sands, anear the sob- ing sea, 1 n‘;xean one I had overlooked, the California We never kneel _ down” at nigh Without the nuisance jolning with an aggra- vating bite, And while our thoughts we try to fix upon the throne of grace, They're sure to drift in sinful way toward the other place. We scratch and nray and pray and scratch in alternating way, And ask forgivenéss for tempted sore to say, And often feel like asking the good Lord above why he Created such a creature as the California flea. lm #ay our ‘‘Now-I-lay-me- the things we're | When out on drill or dress parade, hemmed in on every side | By laughing-eved, bewitching girls, fair Cali- | fornia’s pride, We_fain would ‘please the Western buds of { . beauty so divine By marching with our heads erect in straight unbroken line. | nished But oh! our ranks are broken oft, and thrown | all out of whack | By comrades reaching for a spot located in the back, For he's a prince of strategy, a wise old bug s he, And knows where it is safe to feed, that Cali- | |7 forria flea | | We_do not fear the climate In the dlstant the dangers of the sea that in- We do not fear the Spaniards we expect to | battle there, Nor any other danger on the whole darnsd bill of fare, But every Colorado boy who wears the hon- ored blue, Not only we high privates, but the shoulder- strappers, t00, | Are really afrald to face the fierce rapacity Of this blood-sucking, ravenous old California flea. —Denver Post. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS. W. H. McKenzie, a banker of Fresno, is at the Lick. 1s at the Lic R. C. Walrath, a miner of Nevada City, is at the Grand. D. J. A. McGuire of Santa Cruz is a guest at the Lick. R. C. Minor, an attorney of Stockton, is registered at the Lick. Todd C. Woodworth, a mine owner of Jamestown, is at the Grand. Judge J. R. Webb and J. W. Gearhart of Fresno are at the Grand., F. S. Merchant, a well-known citizen of Healdsburg, is at the California, Dr. C. A. Larison, a weil-known mining man of Yreka at the Baldwin. C. O. Christy, an importing man of Chicago, and wife are at the Russ. C. A. Cook, a well-known cattleman of | Watsonville, is staying at the Russ. In other words, how | |ameng the late arrivals at the Russ. J. 8. Mayes, a grain man of Dixon, is Charles K. McClatchy, proprietor of the Sacramento Bee, is registered at the Lick. A. C. Hopkinson, manager of the Stockton Pottery of Stockton, is at the Grand. A. Bettens, proprietor of Byron Hot Springs, is among the late arrivals at the George W. Mapes, one of Nevada's big cattlemen, and daughter are registered at the Russ. William H. Denlin, a Sacramento at- torney, is down on business and is stay- ing at the Lick. C. E. Tinkham of Chico, manager of the Sferra Mill and Lumber Company, is a guest at the Grand. Henry Levy, a well-known and popular traveling man of New York, has arrived at the Baldwin Hotel. Hervey Lindley, well known in Repub- lican politics, is down from Klamath and is registered at the Palace. Captain H. Z. Osborne, recently ap- pointed Marshal for the Southern Dis- trict of California, is at the Palace. lopeter, two well-known Philadelphian physicians, were among the late arrivals at the Palace last evening. E. G. Snow, a_prominent business man, who has been several weeks at the southern resorts, returned from Los Angeles yesterday and is registered at the Palace. A. Dick, th representative of an Eng- lish mining syndicate that operates large mining industries at Roslyn, B. C., and P. Thornton, a mining expert of Edinburgh, arrived at the Palace yesterday. spending CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, June 17.—Frank B. King of San Francicso is at the Savoy. GIVE HONOR TO GRIDLEY. Editor of the San Francisco Call: While much has been said of the heroic achieve- ment of Admiral Dewey at Manila and honors have been paid the living hero, a dead hero as well? Captain Charles V. Gridley fought through that battle while in a dying condition, and as earthly praise can no more affect hiran we can at least honor his memory. 1 suggest, and be- lieve all patriotic citizens wiul join me in the suggestion, that Point Lobos avenue be renamed Gridley avenue, as a slight testimonial of the people of this city to the bravery of one who considered his country more than his life. MORRIS ROSENTHAL, 1005 Mission street. San Francisco, June 17. ————————— A QUESTION FOR DEMOCRATS. Editor San Francisco Call: On July 31, 1789, Congréss passed the first revenue law. The act was strongly recommended by Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State, on the ground that the same would fur- nish money for the support of the Gov- ernment and furnish protection to Ameri- can labor against foreign competition. Now what connection is there petween Thomas Jefferson, the father of American protection, and Thomas Jefferson whom %hteh freet t'l;:u}e Dellnq[cr&ta clalm as the ather of their party S. ROSENBAUM. San Francisco, June 17, 1898. ————————— WE HAVE CONQUERED. As a historian has said, the collective intelligence of troops appears in_the sus- tained accuracy of their fire. Accuracy in gunnery is an intellectual accomplish- ment. An army may have bravery, dis- cipline and endurance, but it falls short of the supreme point of efficiency if it cannot reach and maintain this sus- tained accuracy. Especially is the rule apparent in these days of rapid-fire weapons, when a successful charge of mere bravery is almost impossible against well-armed troops; and when certainty of long-distance fire is the ele- ment which will determine battles and campaigns. In the American army and navy is by far the hlghest proportx}n of first-ciass marksmen that can be found in the world. Our regular army, almost to a man, is composed of what abroad would be called good military marksmen; and more than half of the total force repre- sents what even in Germany would be graded as sharpshooters. The invitation of the Czar of Russia to the Cramps and to Mr. Scott of San Francisco 1s nothing less than an admis- slon that in the art and mechanics of naval construction America has passed of European countries. ‘Whether we hold Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines is a great question in the world’s diplomacy. A far greater ques- tion has been settled in Iull sight of a watching world—America is a nation to be reckoned with on the topmost plane of moral, intellectual and military states- manship. Hereafter the American citizen will have a new respect for himself and will find a new respect awaiting him wher- ever he wanders. 0 can measure the effect upon our home administration, not to mention the effect of our relations with other nations, whi consciousness of our Rube Leech, a ploneer of Grass Valley, | Dr. L. Webster Fox and Dr. W. C. Hol- | New York | would it not be well to pay a tribute to | higher powers will produce? May we not expect that the American people will de- mand greater and better things of their | public servants as they grasp the varied | power of the elements which form their | national character?—St. Louis Republic. oot it FUTURE OF THE PACIFIC. The prediction that the coming century | will see the bulk of the world's commerce | There are facts connected with the race | and climate and disposition that seem tol‘ mark the shores of the North Atlantic | as the abiding seat of supreme empire. For two thousand years they have been | 50, and there are as vet no symptoms of | decay. On the contrary, the strongest | vitality and most triumphant energy are still centered there, with a promise of long remaining. Nevertheless, the com- merce of the Pacific is increasing enor- | mously and bids fair to conunuc S0 10 do, and there is no room for doubt that | the mercantile nad political importance | of that ocean and its shores will hence- | forth be incomparably greater than ever | before in the known history of the world. There is on all hands a steady pushing thither. Great Britain has built a railroad | across the North American continent for the express purpose of promoting Pacific | trade. Russia is building one across Si- | beria for the same purpose. The chief ef- | forts of European powers for months | have been to open new ports and gain | new points of vantage on the Pacific coast of Asia. Germany has entered the competition. France is making all possi- ble efforts for the upbuilding of her em- pire on ‘the Pacific. The wonderland of | Japan is advancing by leaps and bounds. | To-day more than half of the world's | | population is dwelling in the lands which | look upon the Pacific Ocean. What pos- | sibilities of commercial development are | there! | And of all nations directly bordering | upon the Pacific this is by far the great- est. Other great nations have colonies | there; we have our own home domain. | Great Britain has vast colonies upon its | shores and islands, but she herself is | thousands of miles’ from Pacific waters. | | So is France. So is Germany. Russia is | connected with that ocean only by thou- sands of miles of half-settled and_half- | inhabitable country. But e abut direct- | Iy upon it with some of our richest home | territory. There is nature's warrant for | idsc]armg that this should be the fore- most of all Pacific Ocean powers.—New York Tribune. HOME GUARD FUNNY MEN. | _ Gladys (reading the news of the first | battie)—Every man on the Hercules was | | engaged and— | _Myrtle—Oh, Gladys, I wonder how they | found out about Fred and me? He must have told it himself.—Cleveland Leader. | | A Chance—“But how could you have | the heart to hang a man for stealing a ten-dollar horse?'” asked the tourist. “Fer two reasons,” Rubberneck Bill ex- | plained. “They wasn't nothin’ else to hang him_fer, an’ they wasn't nobody else handy to hang.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. The Cheerful Idiot Is the crying of | an infant in the night,” asked the newest | boarder, “‘a call to arms?” | “Sometimes,” admitted the Cheerful Idiot. ‘“‘And again, it may be only a bot- tle-cry. It all depends.”—Indianapolis Journal. “Here is a story,”” says the Kennebec (Maine) Journal, “‘they are telling on a | trolley conductor in the employ of an | Eastern Maine company. There being a | slight walt, a certain member of the sex which is not considered eligible for enlist- ment and may therefore be sat on withim- | punity got the benefit of his ruling pas- sion. Here is their conversation: The Woman—Are you going to the Ban- | gor House? | “The Conductor—No, madam. | The Woman—Is this car going to the | Bangor House, then? The Conductor—No, madam. The Woman—Well—er—er—is_this the car to take to go to the Bangor House? | ““The Conductor—It is, madam; it passes door. ‘hSehe clambered in and the villain smiled on. —_————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE RIVAL—E. N., Stockton, Cal. The | steamer Rival, that some time ago was in the passenger trade on the Alaska route, has, after a visit to this port, re- turned to that trade and is now running between Seattle and the north. FLAG ADVERTISING — Subscriber, City. In Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Dakota it is unlawful to dishonor the American flag by its use for advertising purposes or to mutilate or deface it. These are State laws. There is no national law on that subject. THE COTTAGE CITY—Reader, Clover- dale, Cal. The Cottage City did leave with the mails for Dawson City and other places in the Northwest, but she only went as far as Seattle, and there the mail matter was turned over to the carrier who has the contract for conveying the same overland. LETTERS FOR MANILA-H. C. H, City. Mail matter intended for soldiers at Manila Is directed to the individual by the grade he occupies, the name of the organization he is attached to, Manila, Philippine Islands. Place the matter in the postoffice at the earliest convenience and the Postoffice Department will trans- mit the same with all possible haste. THE LANCING—N. P., Oakland. The | British ship Lancing, that left this port | last October, is at Swansea, having reached there April 6. Her present cap- tain is Chapman. A letter addressed tc him at Swansea will reach him, or if he leaves before it reaches there it will fo1- low him. Her former captain, Hatfleld, is in San Francisco, and a letter addressed to him care of the Alaska-Yukon Trans- portation Company will reach him. STAMPED ENVELOPES—P. M., City. A postal regulation provides that vessels carrying United States mall may receive letters just prior to the sailing of the ves- sel, but such letters must be inclosed in government stamped envelopes. upon which stamps are affixed will not be received. The reason for this is that writ- ing an address.on a letter with an em- bossed stamp is equal to a cancellation, while stamps affixed may be removed and used a second tim SILVER AND NICKEL-D. D., Occi- dental, Cal. The average weight of a sil- ver brick is ninety pounds or about 1300 ounces. Such can be purchased from any on the Pacific Ocean may not be realized. | p, of the banks or assay offices. Silver in any quantity can be p the San Francisco market. The price varies and it may be learned from day to day in the quotations in the commercial department of The Call. As there is not a very large demand for pure nickel. it cannot, on de- mand, be furnished in large quantities in San Francisco. Nickel anodes can be fur- in considerable quantity. The price of: pure nickel is §1 50 per pound dnd anodes one-half that price. TO ANNAPOLIS—A. Cal. Candidates for admission . Mare Island, to the United States Naval Academy at Annap- olis at the time of examination must not be under the age of 15 nor more than 20, Iy sound, well formed and of ro- ¢ must pass a pre- scribed ex: v to serve in the ates navy for eight years, unless sooner discharged. HOSPITAL NURSE—Subscriber, Santa Rosa, Cal. Male students in the training school for nurses in the City and County Hospital of San Francisco must serve a probationary period of three months. If at the end of that time a student is ac- cepted he wiil be paid $10 per month after that. Male ts enter for a term of ng the probationary g the term the hospital fur- nishes room, board and washing. For further information address Mary Patton, the principal of the training school. GTH—W. T. and others. was the war strength of eral nations named at the begin- the current year: Germar France, 4,840,572 ARMY STR Great Britain, 637,86 ; Spain, 1,512,197; Belgium 234,194; Denmark, 117 Switzerland, 493,175 255,440; Bulgaria, Roumania, 250, Mexico, 165, Argentine 08; and Ven- land force of the Un! st of last January was What its strength may be in time pends upon the cail for volun- teers. There are more than 15,000,000 males in the United States who in case of neces- sity would be serviceable for the army. .\'A\'Xfis OF THE \;’fiRLD—-“', T. and others. At the beginning of the current year the naval strength of the various 136: Greece, 24 Sweden and Norwz 226,342; 170 Japan, 349,941; , 631,400; | nations named was as follows as to num- ber of vessels of all cla not including subsidized vessels and obsolete vessels, and the number of men on the active list and the number of naval reserves: ips. Active. Reserves. 47 83,000 Great Britain . rance ....... 54 Germany 3 Russia 45,000 Spain . 25,000 Austria-Hungary 2,000 Italy .. - 19,600 Denmark . 4000 Netherlands 10.000 Turkey . 36,000 Portugal . 4,000 Sweden and Norw: 12,500 Tnited States . 2,800 The following is the vessel strength of the nations named: Japan, 217; China, 103; Siam, 19; Korea, 2; Argentine Repub- , 68; Brazil, 134; Chile, 66; Ecuador, 3, 11; Uruguay, 11; Paraguay, 3; Mex- FATHER MARQUETTE—O. A. B., Gil- 7, Cal. Father Jacques Marquette, born , was one of the most noted of France in the New World. He was born in Laon, France, where he entered the Jesuit order. In 1666 he emigrated to Canada. In the course of his missionary work among the Indians in the Great s region he made various explorations. He founded a mission at Sault Sainte Marie and one at Mackinaw, Marquet and Joliet in 1673 made a long journ: by way of the Illinois ri ppi and down _tha f this voyage Marquette left a journal. The next year he built a log hut on the present site of Chicago. He then moved to Kaskaskia and while laboring among the Illinois In- dians he was taken sick and died. His ex- plorations and notes thereon were of great value. He has been honored by reason of his discoveries. This department is un- able to advise you of the truth of the ar- ticle inclosed in your communication, but it smacks very much of the romancer. The individual named is not in the back- ground as described. Peanut taffy, best in world. Townsend's.* B e Cream mixed candies, 25c Ih. Townsends.® —_————— Soft baby cream, 15c Ib. Townsend's. ¢ D T 10 % discount to the soldiers. 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The entertainments she gave at her chateaus of Bonnetable and Ecclis- mont were equally splendid and attracted all the leading representatives of the aristocracy. —_————— Excursion 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 Railway, 633 Market st., S. F. e The Santa Fe Route sells cut rate tickets to all points Fast. St. Paul, $21; Kansas City, $31; Chicago, $3250; New York and Boston, $42'55. Get full particulars at No. 644 Market st. — ee——— Camp life is more pleasant with a bottle of Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters. 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