The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 22, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1898. WEDNESDAY. .-JUNE 22, 188 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. e e e~ Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager, e L e e S A R AP R PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. = Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS... ..2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street = Telephone Main 1874. b THE 6AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents @ wesk. By mall $6 per year: per month 66 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE. NEW YORK OFFICE.... -Room 188, World Buildh DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, WASHINGTON (D, C.) OFFICE...............Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CIHICAGC OFFICE. Marquette Building “ C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Represcntative. | One yeer, by mall, $1.50 BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until ©:30 o'clock. 62 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 6!5 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'cleck. | 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 29291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 25I8 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open | until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Columbia—* Aristocracy Baldwin—* The Passion Play. Alcazar—"A Celebrated Oasa * Morosco’s—*After Dark Tivoli—All Baba" Orpheum—Vaudevilla The Chutes—Z0o, Vaudeville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. Olympia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Spectalties. tutro Baths—swimming, El Campo—Music, dancing,boating, fishing, every Sunday. AUCTION SALES. By Geo. F. Lamson—NMonday, June 27, immense Library, at corner Market and Seventh streets, at 2 and 7:30 P. M. FIRST WITH THE NEWS. S a rule The Call is willing to let its news from | the seats of war commend itself. ~ That this news is more complete, correct and up to date than that of any other paper in the West is a fact which all must acknowledge, and which all but the er papers do acknowledge cheerfully. To revert to a recent illustration or two cannot be | a breach of modesty. That Aguinaldo had declared | the Philippines independent was published in these ns Saturday. Local sheets, spurred to an idea that they were rivals, printed the same information Monday morning. col As to the arrival of American | at Santiago, they managed to get the news, but to do so had to draw upon the cables forwarded by the Herald-Call By some unwonted touch of decency the iner in printing this gave credit to the source. With every intent tc permit the devil to have his due, this mitigating fact is men- Still, it i from being a justification of the act of larceny. The news was copyrighted, and for the Examiner to take it was to steal. We have refra also, from attaching to the staff he crowned hea rope, the Ministers of Spain a lot of y We confess freely the ina- bility to print the inmost thoughts of the Vatican, that Bismarck is not on our payroll, that the Kaiser does not make of The Call an especial confidant, and | never routed any of our representatives out of bed for the purpose of painting him a picture of the war cloud. All this palpable and palling nonsense is left to such saffron freaks as the Examiner. The Call | is content to print the news, to print 1t first, and or- dinarily to say nothing about the daily task of scooping the other papers. They realize the defeat, and there | is little utility in “rubbing it in.” ! troop yndicate. tioned. cllow liars. CALIFORNIA IN THE WAR. N\ | OTHING could better illustrate the progress of N the West than the record this State is making i in the present war, compared with the record it made in the sixties. Then California was sparsely settled, remote from the rest of the country. it has developed into a mighty commonwealth, and | at the call to military service has thousands more men | to offer than are needed. It has more than two regi- | ments under arms, one of them probably now in the | Philippines, the other eagerly awaiting the order to | go. Itisto muster in a third complete regiment, and proud as we are of the volunteers in service, those | who are yet to take the oath of allegiance to Uncle | Sam will be as much a credit to Calffornia. The | only embarrassment arises from the eagerness of still others to enlist. | It is not only that its young men sprang by thou- sands to answer the summons to arms, that one of its regiments was the first to start against a foreign foe, that California exults. The spirit of patriotism ‘ manifest in every quarter of the great State has been ! so emphatic and unanimous that each heart has been | stirred. There has not been heard a voice of dis- | sent. Regardless of party the administration has been upheld, and the war it wages pronounced a righteous one. But there has been shown, also, a splendid hospitality, which, without the shadow of a | selfish motive, has “cast bread on the waters.” The women have from the first been as eager as the men to display their ardor. They have welcomed the sol- dier as he came, fed and nursed him while he stayed and bade him godspeed as he departed. On distant fields and on alien seas he will remember the women with blessings. It is no idle boast to say that California has done well. Alone and unaided, this State could, if neces- sary, raise an army, and gladly would that army go forth to battle for the flag. B e — Members of the *Astor battery appear distressed by the fear that somebody will fail to recognize the fact that they are regulars. Let it be understood that they are regulars, and the first soldiers of any va- riety who have arrived here led by a man who did not appreciate proffered courtesies. He seems to have secured somewhere a hunk of the sort of meat on which that other great military captain, one Caesar, fed, thereafter swelling noticeably. AT e Enough horses and mules died on the way to Cuba to show that the equine bound for Manila will con- stitute a poor insurance risk. This fatality is hard to understand when it is remembered that early Spanish soldiers brought horses across. Perhaps the modern animal has undermined his constitution by high living. According to a local contemporary the war com- ments of the New York World provoke a smile. Such is not the case. If anybody takes the trouble to read them they may provoke a sneer. This is their present limit. London advices state that there is a movement on OUR MERCHANT M@RINE. AR by its impressive object lessons is teaching Wthc American people that in years past they have been guilty of many serious sins of omis- sion as a nation. We now clearly perceive that we have been not economical but parsimonious and wasteful in not providing for the construction of the Nicaragua canal, the extension of the navy, the en- largement of the army, the more effective organiza- tion of the National Guard, and last, but by no means least, the expansion and upbuilding of our merchant marine. In the present emergency the skill of our naval constructors by building battle-ships capable of mak- ing the voyage around the Horn in speedy time has enabled us to overcome the lack of the interoceanic canal. The comparative weakness and inertness of the foe renders our small navy suffictent for the de- fense of our coast and the conquest of Spanish colo- nies. The response of the young men of the nation to the call for volunteers is rapidly making up for the smallness of the regular army. There is nothing, however, that makes up for the lack of a merchant marine commensurate to our size as a nation. Ships | cannot be built in a day, and as a result in our need for transports we have been compelled to admit for- eign ships to American registry in order to dispatch an army to the aid of Dewey at Manila. The lesson of war on this subject confirms what has long been taught by that of peace. For years we have been paying a costly tribute to foreign coun- tries to carry on our commerce. The ample balances of trade in our favor, as shown by a comparison of exports with imports, have been seriously reduced every year by the drain of money required to pay foreign shipowners for freight on both the exports and the imports. What was costly in times of peace is more costly in war, because of higher marine in- surance, and the need of an enlarged merchant ma- rine is therefore more impressive this year than ever. An extensive system of subsidies or other form of governmental aid is essential to the shipping in- terests of any nation in these days. Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and even Japan ex- tend a strong and far-reaching aid to both their ship- builders and their shipowners. It is by this aid they have established their commerce upon the sea, and it is not too much to say that if either one of them withdrew the favor it gives to its shipping the flag of that nation would soon disappear from the commercial ports of the world. American merchants and shipbuilders are as enter- prising and as full of resources as any other of our great captains of industry. They have accomplished much in the face of the competition of European | shipping, liberally fostered and promoted by govern- mental aid. They cannot, however, do everything. We can never have a merchant marine equal to the needs of the country in war or peace until our Gov- ernment is as wise as those of Europe in promoting the creation and maintenance of one. The experi- ence of the last few weeks in getting transports for our troops shows how important is our need in this respect, and Congress should not adjourn until some- thing has been done to place our shipowners on an equal footing with foreign competitors. ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC PROGRAMME. E directed attention a few days ago to an edi- Wtorial of the Richmond Times, warmly com- mending the adoption by the Democratic party of a policy opposed to what it called *Imperialism.” The Times desired the representatives of the party in Congress to get rid of Bryan and Bryanism by substituting a new platform in place of that adopted at Chicago. It proposed that the fight in the Con- gressional elections this fall should be made not for iree silver, nor against the Supreme Court, but for | what it called the “old-time traditions of Democracy” and against annexation of any islands or territorial | extension of any kind. That was one way to get rid of Bryanism. the Louisville Post, which speaks for the Democracy of Kentucky with as much authority as the Rich- mond Times speaks for that of Virginia, comes for- ward with another plan for eliminating Bryan from the future. It says: “We wish to have the Democratic party put the past behind it; we wish it to turn from 1866 to 1900, to 1910, with views and plans and policies for a great development of our international commerce. We wish to declare for: “The ireedom of Cuba. “The acquisition of Porto Rico. “The annexation of Hawaii. “The acquisition of the Philippine Islands. “The building of the Nicaragua canal. “A navy twice the size it is to-day. “A regular army of 100,000. “The militia under the drill and the discipline of the regular army.” With such a divergence of views between Virginia and Kentucky it is clear that much tobacco must be smoked and much bourbon drank before an agree- ment is reached. About the only note of harmony they have emanates from a desire to get rid of Bryan, and that note is more like a grunt of distress than a battle cry. The platform search of Democracy is, in fact, becoming interesting and the imp of the per- verse only knows what sort of thing they will be standing on when the fall elections take place. e ——— There is only one emotion excited by the Exami- ner’s “interview” with the Spanish Minister of Ma- rine. It is a feeling of disgust, mingled with won- der, that any paper likely to come under the eye of intelligent people should lie so. It may be stated with confidence that the “interview” was not only a fake, but a particularly stupid and palpable one. ks g s are In refusing to surrender prisoners in exchange, the Spanish seem t6 forget that in a short time they will themselves be prisoners. Some of them now act in such a way that the painful duty of lining them up in front of a file of marines may yet fall to our gen- erals. AR P e Editor Costello of New York rises to remark that our pavements are bad. We hasten to laud him as a man of discernment, but too mild. Our pave- ments are worse than merely bad, and have passed the superlative stage of unworth. They are rotten. People who are charging Admiral Montejo with cowardice are perhaps not in a position to judge. ‘When they have faced an American fleet commanded by Dewey perhaps they will take a different view of the matter. Amid the crash of wars, news that some of the con- fidence men ravaging the Klondike had been lynched by their victims would afford light and diverting reading. Spaniards announce that their “honor” is unassail- able. So it is. The difficulty of assailing a phan- foot for peace between the United States and Spain. There are several, one of them. General Shafter is conductingl tom of the fuddled brain is easy to recognize. —_— Explanation that Spanish officers go into action drunk can hardly be accepted. They run too well £ Now | ANOTHER POLITICAL PARAPHRASE. —HE approach of the campaign brings from the Democratic hosts a growl of anger as they find into the hands of Bosses McNab, Gould and Al- ford, with the probable addition of Chris Buckley. The fact that these men, if left undisturbed, will name the State delegation and municipal convention—thus dictating the local ticket and the membership of one- fourth of the Democratic State Convention—has caused much dismay to be felt in the party throughout the State. . The Democracy is to be congratulated upon the signs of revolt produced by the autocratic action of these political brigands. They show that the spirit of liberty is not dead in the party. We do not speak from the standpoint of a partisan, but from that of an honest admirer of pure politics who has never at- tempted to knock the railroad out of $1000 2 month on, a contract for “advertising.” From a partisan standpoint we think nothing could be better for the Republicans than to have the Demo- cratic party in the hands of the Republican rene- gade, McNab, and the verdant Gould and Alford. These bosses have no voses and no organization. True, they have taken possession of the Democratic machinery of this city, but there are many signs that in doing so they are in control of nothing but the shadow of the party. No better proof could be ad- duced of this than the fact that they are afraid to hold a primary or in any other way give their people a chance to express themselves. Conscience makes cowards of us all. “Whispering” McNab’s con- science tells him that were he once to submit his scheme to the people it would be knocked into a cocked hat. We do not know how the Democrats are going to get their party machine out of the hands of the little band of political highwaymen who have captured it. The law offers them no remedy. The bosses and corporations have attended to that. There is but one thing for them to do, and that is to set up a howl for an open primary and at the ballot boxes try con- clusions with Boss McNab’s plug uglies. Yet in such a contest they would have little hope, for they would be fighting an enemy who knows more tricks and has fewer scruples than they. They ¢an place no reliance on the Democratic State Committee, for McNab, Alford and Gould have already captured that body. The Democratic party has men in it who com- mand the respect and confidence of the voters of the party. There are men whose names are known in the business and professional world who would rep- resent the majority of the party, instead of the little minority that now has command. Such men could doubtless be got to take upon themselves the labor of managing the party affairs through a campaign. But it cannot be done with the consent of the gang that is now in power—“Whispering” Gavin McNab, “Slough City” Gould and “Tenderfoot” Alford. Wthe taxes imposed by the war revenue bill, they will be very glad when the time comes for the removal of the burden. Taxes constitute one of the most disagreeable items of the cost of military glory. There is one tax in the list, however, which they will not only pay willingly now, but would be glad to have continued indefinitely by reason of its bearing upon the pure food question. That is the tax im- posed upon mixed flour. A duty imposed upon mixed flour will distinguish it from pure flour, and if there be a revenue stamp affixed to every barrel, bag or package offered for sale the public will be able to readily recognize the sophisticated article when they see it. The tax im- posed, being only 4 cents a barrel, will not be bur- densome upon those who prefer the mixed flour, and its permanent continuance, therefore, would: not be unfair to any one. It has been the claim of the mixed flour producers that the product is just as healthful as pure wheat flour and much more convenient for bread making, as well as being in some respects more pleasing to the taste. In the main the claim seems to be well justified, but there are exceptions. Some of the adulterators of wheat flour do not take the pains to make the adul- teration with mixtures that are strictly harmless. When sophistication begins it does not always con- tinue in a state of innocence. The Philadelphia Record says that among the adul- terants of flour used by dishonest dealers are flourine, which is the refuse starch of glucose factories; min- eraline, a white clay or kaolin ground to powder; barytes, a form of pulverized rock, and corn flour made from maize. All of these, except the last named, contain matter positively injurious to health, while the ground clay and rock are, of course, absolutely destitute of any life-sustaining qualities. It is an open secret that many of the members of Congress who voted for the imposttien of this tax along with others in the revenue bill did so as much because of its effect as a pure food measure as for the revenue it would raise. For a long time past the manufacturers of pure flour have been striving to ob- tain some sort of national legislation that would pro- tect their interests against the adulterators. The present tax tends in that direction and will help to bring about a better, more direct and more compre- hensive pure food law hereafter. It is to be regretted that the tax is not made even more distinctive than it is. As it stands it confounds all mixed flours into one class, making no distinction between those which are healthful and those which are not. Moreover, it would have been well to im- pose a similar tax upon all adulterated foods, as well as on mixed flour. The makers of bogus olive oil and bogus fruit preserves ought to have been made to pay their share of war taxes as well as the mixed flour men. What has been done, however, is a step in the right direction and as such it will be hailed with satisfaction. THE MIXED FLOUR TAX. HILE the American people will cheerfully pay It would seem that the commander of the Astor battery confounds his own identity with that of the Manila expedition. We violate no confidence in saying that he is only a part of it, and that several very estimable gentlemen will do their best to assist him. —_—— Another member of the Union Mission Army is under arrest. The time seems to have arrived for mustering that organization out of the service. Aol e The Los Angeles water company manifests the genial disposition of a person who wins his way in life through judicious wielding of the sandbag. —_— Augusti has retired within the walls of Manila, and evidently intends to send out word that he “is not at home” when the Americans call. —_— Even if the Centennial be accepted as a transport, it is not believed any regiment will express preference for being stowed away in it. Hawaiian hoap}h!ky seems to have learned of the way soldiers are cared for in San Francisco, that the local organization of the party has fallen’| @ & R4 @ @ & @ @ P00900009009000000000000000000000000660600 9 ‘While America is absorbed in the Cuban troubles the Parisians are entirely given up for a day to their annual fete, the day of the Vernissage, for it is no more per- mitted to miss this than the Grand Prix, which occurs also this month. The painters are reunited this year, but it has not been without considerable trouble. It has been necessary for the bringing together of the brother enemies, the two salons. Owing to the prepar- ations for the exposition of 190 the two bulldings where the salons are usually held, the one, the Palais d’'Industrie, was demolished. The Palais des Beaux Arts exists not; in this extreme peril the artists are compromised and it was necessary to make the concession. As says an Arabian proverb, hommes, sont des loups dans le bonheur et des agneaux dans le malheur,” painters of all schools and ali nations—all are of the Champs des Mars and the Champs Elysees—this year are united and exhib- iting their pictures and works of art un- der one roof, at the Galerie des Machines, and it is anxiously hoped by many that this commencement of a reconciliation may be completed for 1900. I come to visit the profound and for- midable saions in detail and am appalled by the extent, and find it ravishing in per- spective. But where to begin is a difficult problem. One almost wishes for a lit- tle railroad to conduct him around at first for a general view, so impossible does it seem to get around amid the crowd of people on Varnishing day; and such a throng of unknown people there are—the artists themselves, their models, some celebrities and nobility, then the fash- ionable dressed men and women who go principally to exhibit their clothes, and one has enough to do on this day to study the Parisian fashions without looking at a single picture. When I tell you there were in all 50,000 people on this the first day it may give some idea of the difficul- ties of seeing much. The Galerie des Machines is well chosen for the salons. Enclosed in the center is a huge court, where the sculpture is ex- posed amid foliage and green grass, mak- ing a fitting background. With the groups of people, dressed in many and varied colors, the picture is indeed attractive. On the four sides are the salons leading one into another, where the paintings are exhbited. There are some 2000 oil paintings in the section, Champs Elysees alone; but this number is smaller than usual. This year on account of the con- solidation the committee found it neces- sary to reject a larger number than us- uval. Of the two sections it is perhaps difficult to say which is the better. Cer- tainly there are important and masterly canvases in each. 'There are, aside from the mural decorations and ambitious compositions, of which I shall speak later, some excellent portraits; one of M. Hono- taux, the French Minister of Foreign Af- fairs, by M. Benjamin Constantin. The picture is masterly and perhaps the strongest this artist has yet produced. An equestrian portrait of Duke de Dou- deauville, by M. Aime Morot, is much admired. de Cavainnes are wonderfully fine in com- position, thought, sentiment and feeling. His Sainte Genevieve moves one with a | sense of beauty and great holiness and holds one like a spell enraptured in front of the work of this great master. The “Les | The decorations by M. Puvis | 0000@606@@0.0600@0@@@@0@0600@000@00@000 PARIS SAILONS, 1898. The Day of the Vernissage. P90 00 & | large mural decoration by M. Raphel Col- | lin for the Opera Comique is charming in | sentiment and color scheme. There are |'three figures of women slightly draped | in loose flowing robes, out in the open air, and the charm of nature is felt most | strongly. A portrait of Madame Rejane, the lead- ing French actress, by M. Besard, is | much admired by the artists themselves | for the work of a conferee. | _Very fine, also, are the canvases of M. | Raffailli and M. Carrien. As usual, In | the section Champs des Mars, M. Dangan- | Bonnret is perhaps most admired. M. | Heuner exposes two paintings this year | in his usually charming style, but the one | representing a dead weman, nude, with her husband weeping over her, create | great attention, and, in fact, on of | the greatest paintings in this ¥ lon. The death is admirably expressed and the color scheme original and agre able, In the figure of the man one can feel the intense agony so strongly that the effect is appalling. There is a very | admirable portralt of Mr. Gladstone, by | M. Hamilton. As usual, our American painters are well represented this year. Among those already well known are F. A. Bridgman, Frank Du Mond and G. Inness Humbert. | Melchior H.'O. Tanner, whose picture, it | will be remembered, was bought by the French Government last year, has the | Ascension at the salon this year, and it | has already called forth much flattering notice. Miss M. E. Dickson has two ex- cellent portraits. Other Americans who | expose portraits are: Mr. Fred Marsh, | Mr. Frank A. Bicknell, Mr. Pepper and H. M. Mott-Smith. A portrait of Mr. Dickman of San Fran- cisco, by M. E. G. Coates, is well done. Miss Eleanor B. McFarland of San Francisco exhibits a portrait of her si | ter; also a peasant interieur. Among the statuary noticeable is the | Quadriga, in bronze, for Prospect Park,by | | Mr. MacMonnies. Also noticeably fine is | the Shaw monument by M. St. Gaudens. San Francisco artists are well repre- | sented in Paris this winter. Miss Flor~ | ence’ Lundbourg has been busy working on a decoration all winter which has cre- | ated much favorable notice. Miss Marion | | Holden has a studio at 13 Rue Boissonard | and is busy working hard. She has only | | just returned from a short trip in Italy. | Mr. Martenez is one of the hardest work- | ers over here and is studying under M. | Gerome. Miss E. McFarland has had | great success with her work. Miss Me- | Chesney is in Italy and intends spending | the summer working in Holland. Miss Emelia Kallisher is in England, working for the summer, and intends returning to San Francisco in the autumn.. Her por- tralt work is charming and shows that | she has studied with great care Velasque | and Mr. Whistler. Miss Jessie Allen is | studying under M. Raphel Collin and he is | much pleased with her progress. Miss | Whitney of Oakland is a talented girl. | Miss Mabel Demming of Sacramento has gone to Italy to meet her sister, who has | Just come over. Her work is as charm- ing as the young lady herself. Mr, Lor- ing Rixford is directing the architectural plans for a decoration belng done by some of the Americans here. He has | | just gotten back to Paris from an Ital- | |ian_ trip. Mr. Bakewell showed archi- | tectural drawings in a recentJf:)‘c\hiplpon_ COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS. | E. Pincus of Wheatland is at the Russ. L. J. Maddox of Modesto is at the Grand. Rev. D. G. McKennan is registered at the Occidental. Major F. Kobbe, Fort Canby, Wash., is at the Occldental. Dr. Clarence J. Mines of Fresno is a guest at the Grand. Senator T. W. H. Shanahan of Ander- son is at the Grand. Fred Mason of Sacramento tered at the Grand. Senator B. F. Langford of Stockton is a guest at the Lick. is regis- ‘4. B. Valentine, a mining man from | Amador, is at the Baldwin. Peter J. Cox and J. G. Berry of Seattle are registered at the Grand. Dr. V. T. McGillycuddy of Deadwood, South Dak., is a guest at the Grand. P. A. Buell, the prominent milling man of Stockton, is stopping at the Grand. C. C. Douglass arrived from Sonora, Mex., and is stopping at the Baldwin. Brainard F. Smith, secretary of the Folsom prison, is a guest at the Grand. John H. Norton, a prominent politician of Los Angeles, is stopping at the Pal- ace. P. Kerwin, the well-known mining man of Virginia City, is a guest at the Pal- ace. 8. T. Black, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, is stopping at the Lick. Colonel Park Henshaw arrived in this city yesterday and is stopping at the Oc- cidental. C. J. Titus, proprietor of the Golden Eagle Hotel at Sacramento, is stopping at the Palace. Mrs. Charles P. Perkins and Lieuten- ant Commander C. P. Perkins of the Monadnock are registered at the Occi- dental. Count G. des Garets, Baron de la Grange, Michael P. Nevin and the Vi- comte de Montagney are registered at the Palace. Mrs. E. 8. Otls and Miss Otis, wife and daughter of General Otis, arrived last night from the East. They are stopping at the Occidental. Fred Moore, W. H. McNair, John Cudi- hee, F. D. Johnson, W. 8. Staley and John M. Snook, United States Deputy Marshals of Sitka and Dyea, arrived in this city yesterday with ten convicts, wno were immediately taken over to San Quentin. Three of the prisoners were under sentence for murder, one for life, and the others for imprisonment ranging from one to ten years. THE LIES OF DIPLOMACY. Russian diplomats hold that it i{s no disgrace or dishonor to lie in the most un- blushing manner in order to promote the interests in their country and of their sov- ereign. When the late Czar asked once of Count Ignatieff how he came to be nicknamed “The Father of Lies” while Embassador at Constantinople, he, with a low bow, responded, “In the service of your Majesty.” Count Mouravieff, the Minister of For- elgn Affairs at St. Petersburg, is worthy of the same nickname as Ignatieff. This is shown on the most extraordinary and incontrovertible manner by the Blue Book just published in London of the negotia- tions between the Count and the English Em] or, Sir Nicholas O’Connor, rela- tive to the Chinese T:flmm‘ Sir Nicholas lost the game, but he lost it, as the document shows, by putting his trust in the word and In the honor of the count, whose close friend he had been in former days, when they were both mere secretaries of legation and junior mem- bers of that specles of ciose corporation known as the “‘diplomatic ::‘r!pu." ‘The pock-marked, bald-headed count, to whom_ pleasure has always been a duty and d\ixy a pleasure, has won for his masterManchuria and two Chinese ports; but he has won it at the cost of his per- sonal honor, and no (orelg: statesman will ever care to trust this bejeweled and unscrupulous statesman, whose cynicism. artistic boredom and cold-bloodedness are largely nsible for | axuunun“. uccesses, in his o career 'muluifit r gex—Wash | HOW STOCKTON WAS CINCHED. The unenviable notoriety given the City | Council of Stockton by the San Franctsco | Call on account of the attampt to discredit | the product of the State rock crushing establishment at Folsom will not be| relished very much by the council, but| the people of the city who have street | fmprovements to make and have paid unnecessarily a high price for rock out of private quarries will be inclined to | commend The Call. Those residents of | the city who have Intelligently watched | | the street improvements know that the great difficulty with the macadamized streets has not been in the quality of the rock but in the manner of grading the | street, preparing the foundation ana | crowning or turnpiking the finished road- way. The fault has been primarily with | the specifications and secondarily in the | | failure to live up to them in practice. | | The roadways are too flat and do not turn | | | the rain. The first essential of every road, whether of stone, gravel or dirt, is to have it well crowned or rounded so that | no moisture will stand on the road. The streets of Stockton might do in the Sou- !dan, where there is not even a dew.— Stockton Independent. THE TWINS IN THZ TURRET. First rifle— Can you see her, oh, my brother? Can you sight her through the rack? Is that streak across the smother Coal smoke trailing from her stack? Do vou hear how, louder, clearer, Sounds the throbbing of our screws? When we come a little nearer ‘Which of us shall hail her? Choose. Second rifle— /. Let me send a briet opinion Of the murders on the Maine; Of the eagle’s new dominion, When we've closed accounts with Spain— There, they’ve passed the word to crowd her, Here's your sqy too, on the run. Glad we've got this smokeless powder, Now look out—you'll see the fun. First rifle— ‘Are you ready, brother, ready, With your thunderbolt of steel? Have you got your bearings steady? Gods! you made the whole world reel. Now it's my turn; what, you hit her In her vitals? Oh, what bliss! There is naught in life as bitter For a rifle as o miss. Second rifie— All hell's loose; there's no use talking, That's the time you ripped her wide; Look, there's Davy Jones a-walkis Picking Spaniards from the tide. Hi! but it's a howling racket For a great, long silent gun! Easy, now, don’t burst your jacket, Our death-dealing work is done. PERSONAL. One of the oddest bequests on record is that of the late George Russell, the well- known sculptor of Aberdeen. He left his fortune of $75,000 for the benefit of scaven- gers and policemen. Lord Ashburnham’s Stow manuscripts have been bought at gflva.ts sale by the British Government for $225,000. When the collection was bought at auction for $40,000 by the late Earl, some years ago, the Government refused to bid. Accofding to French papers Sardou has returned to his country seat at Marly and is at work completing a play called ‘“Ro- besplerre,” Wi %h he is writing for Sir Henry Irving. Irving, of course, will be the ‘‘seagreen Incorruptible.” Herr Jan Szczepanik, the inventor of the telelectroscope, has omcmux an- nounced his intention of giving up his ca- reer as a schoolmaster. As a member of the teaching body he was exempt from all but periodical military exercises. Now he has been informed he must serve his time like every other young man. Turner’s old house in Cheyne-walk, London, is now undergoing extensive re- airs and restoration. It and the neigh- oring house have been connected by an opening, the windows have been ralsed, and the brickwork pointed. The railed-in gortlan of the roof is, of course, retained. t was here that Turner used to sit and study some of those wonderful river ef- fects which his genius transmitted to the canvas. ———— JOHN SHERMAN’S FORTUNE. John Sherman’s fortune, and prol it does not exceed half a mflul:m,h’:;z made In this wise: He was convinced that the Confederate Government would be overthrown. He argued that in that event ‘Washington would become the magnifi- cent city it is. Acting on this idea, he bought land by the acre and sold it by the foot. He had been a successful law- yer; his wife and himself were the only adopted man. He liquors; he never | by,”” then the a | site was opened on May 18, 1898. sive quets. He in- saved out of his legal in this town, and that is how he made his money. Soon after the war he persuaded his brother, the general, to invest a part of his salary in Washington real estate, No man ever had a greater horror of taxes than that same William Tecumseh Sherman, When the first tax bill was sresented he paid it and put up his hold- [ogs 1o the hlghest bidder. It went at a sacrifice, and that is how it happened that one brother got rich and the other died a ‘comparatively poor man.—Louis Courier-Jour — e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. HALL—S., MISSION PARLOR City. The hall of Mission Parlor on }-':4\" nteenth street was dedicated Apz‘fl 16, 1898, FIRST CALIFORNIA—J. H., City. Ie- t California_Volun- cruiting for the FI % teers closed on Monday, June 20, 1895, TALL MASTS—A. S., City. The tallest masts of ships are from 160 to 1% the spread of ¢ as on such is from to 100,000 squar G. BLAINE-S. M. V., Blaine was a Presbyteriar a pew holder in the Presbyte ch of the Covenant in Washingt i tock place f wa Chur, D. « that ort doubtful if Mr. M certainty s e Wealtiihs ted at from forty to s THE AGE LIMIT—B Cal. The rules of be phy- and may ge limit, though t ¥y up to the “well-t d German soldiers.”” Un cle Sam says that when a man has at- tained a certain age, if he is an appli- cant for enlistment in th y or navy, he must be rejected. TURF NOTES—Call Re el Santa Anita never won a rac Brooklyn Handicap. He won the questior old event; t by rea of the world’'s was the winner MONITORS—B. M. The question in use by an United States? it is probable that the w ing the civil war. If th 1 the writer, then the answer i t original monitor, buiit by John Eric cann and that in 1893, the ve ir at Chicago, Boundi =% W., Soledad, “Were there any m other nation besides the Cal FE RS of the monitor type are called ships, and are i the foreign po in 1862, was the only ve ¢ in service at that time. Sin 6 have been a number of improvements made on the original model. The vessels 1 the navies of nearly al NATIONAL GUARD—Subscriber: wards, Cal. The Governor of a State only territorial jurisdiction with the N tional Guard. In case of war with a fc eign power he would not have the au- thority to order the Guard out of the State to engage the enemy, but could der it £0r duty within the borders of tha State. In the present war with the First, portions of the Sixth Seventh regiments, N. G. C., volu to enter the service of the United for a period of two years or durin war. At this time they are vol mustered in from the National G the State. CAMP MERRITT—C. D.K., Ci! military camp on the Bay y. The District track It was then called Camp Richmond, and the first troops to arrive there on that d were two battalions of the First Nebras! Volunteers. General Merritt arrived in this city May 26, took command of the department of the Pacific on the follo ing day, and on the 30th he moved into army headquarters in the Phelan bul ing. On that day the name of the camp was changed to Merritt, by which it has been known since. After the name was changed to Merritt the first troops to take position there were_ two bat- talions of the North Dakota Volunteers. 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