The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 15, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1898. ERTDAN s iposeess b Stee e 14X S, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. (SIS S SSUSSS S SORSE PPN Address All Communications to W. S, LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS ...217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Maln 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a wesk. By mail $6 per year; per montb | 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. One year, by mall, $1.50 | OAKLAND OFFICE.. ...908 Broadway | KNEW YORK OFFICE....... -Room 188, World Bullding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. ...-Rigge House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE --Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:20 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | $:30 o'clook. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'cleck. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 25I18 Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untl, 9 o'clock. I505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. e and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. 1 Eddy streets, Specialties. \devill AUCTION SALES. | s day, July 15, Grooeries, | at 10 o'clock July 1. Library, at corner cioek p. m. 16, Horses, at corner o'ciock, Markes AGNEWS IN BAD REPUTE. EVELATIONS concerning the management of at Agnews are startling. To learn istence gross immorality in a ould even be suspected is in itself a es gain apparent strength from the directness with w are made, the confidence of t , as well as the insinuation that the half i but in due season will be given R | the accu t t t y appear later, if the allega- hall be proved in part the d out, the guilty dismissed. Zither the accused have they are unfit for places of stigation is an urgent necessity. ad of a vindication such t and freest scrutiny are not innocent, the de- Tou and Mrs. K. Madigan. charges are definite, and in each | if established they would e but 1 of the trio. The irse is to have the facts laid bare 1bi; 1 No whitewashing ed by the occasion, and no effort to gloss | es will be tolerated. Nothing sion will satisfy the people, have grown tired of corruption among | | al inquiry. is d over the o less | an absol con for the people h is demanded, and in getting at it none nfluence nor assailed from 1ld be protected by of revenge o e ———————— SCHOOL VACATIONS. HE problem of whether the public and other | Tschuuls should be continued without vacation | throughout the entire year is now up for discus- ‘ sion in the Eastern States, and prominent educators | and educational journals are considering it. As a kin- | dred question the need of vacation schools is being | urged by some, among them President Eliot of Har- | vard. | The problem is chiefly one for the towns and cities. | It has been said that the vacation of country chil- dren is not subject to the same reasoning s that of the urban young folks, because when they are not going to school they are busy receiving a practical education for the duties of life by helping their fathers and mothers on the farms. The city children are mostly idle during the vaca- tion, and if the vacation is extendéd longer than the needed rest there can no good come of it. Those who favor long vacations say that the growing minds of the children are already overtaxed, and that teachers seek to put into them more than they can assimi- late. This question, like all others, has two sides to it, but it is to be noted that the abolition of long vacations will not be wholly an experiment, for the German schools are run all the year round, and the results there are said to be good. Perhaps the solution of the matter that both par- ties might compromise on would be to do away with | or greatly shorten the vacations, and at the same time correspondingly lessen the load that is laid on the young minds by reducing their daily tasks and short- ening their hours of mental application. Thus they would accomplish the same progress during the year and do it with far more ease. There is no doubt that in a very long vacation the mind not only forgets a large part of what it had acquired, but it loses the habit of application and power of attention. Long idleness is about as bad as overtraining. It is far more arduous to start to work after the relaxing of a long rest thar to keep at it with moderation Perhaps the enterprising contractors who have let the making of uniforms to Chinese would have ex- cited less indignation if the uniforms made had been of decent material or cut. As it is, white labor suf- fers, and the soldiers, in whose welfare all take in- terest, are arrayed in a lot of misfit togs of varied hue, and on parade give the impression of having equipped themselves at a second-hand store. Alto- gether there has been a very scurvy piece of business done, and the people responsible for it will find that it will not be forgotten in a hurry. Nevada guardsmen are said to be threatening not to enter the Federal service unless they shall be al- lowed to name their own officers. By glancing at the files of San Francisco papers they may ascertain with profit that the trick was tried here once, and that it lacked much of working to the satisfaction of the dis- contented. —_— No people is represented by finer, more manly look- ing soldiers than the regulars who marched on board ship yesterday. _.Market and Third Sts., S. F. | | return here after it adjourns. O | Moses to lead them out of the wilderness, and they REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION. HEN the selection of the place at which to Whold the Republican State Convention is con- sidered from the standpoint of individual preferences or prejudices, there result almost as many | opinions as there are cities in the State. Each indi- vidual is of the opinion that his own town should be | chosen, and if put to it can give forty reasons for the [ | choice. When considered broadly, however, from the | standpoint of party welfare, and the comfort and convenience of the delegates to the convention, there is but one opinion. Upon such consideration it is universally agreed that San FrawmciSco is the place to be chosen. With respect to the comfort and convenience of the delegates to the convention it is hardly possible to make an argument for any other city against San Francisco. Even when State conventions are held elsewhere a large majority of the delegates come to San Francisco before going to the convention and It would be more con- venient for them to remain here. Moreover, it would be more comfortable for them to remain. The weather is cooler and pleasanter here ‘ than in any other city in the State, and the work of | the convention can be more agreeably and ener- | getically done. The hotel accommodation is much‘ superior to that of other cities, as are also the ac- | commodations of restaurants. In every respect of comfort during the session of the convention as well | as of convenience of travel in coming and going San | Francisco is beyond rivalry in the State. | Equally potent are the arguments in favor of the city when the welfare of the party is considered. | The determining vote of the State is in this city. It is therefore expedient that delegates to the State | convention should be in touch with the sentiment of the people of the city in making nominations. | | | | ernor is made, leaving the other nominations to the hazards of logrolling, or the push, or the caprice of a faction. That does not happen when conventions assemble in San Francisco. Every delegate remains here to the last day of the session. Every one at- tends to the closing work. It has been argued at times that owing to the many | hotels and lodging-houses in San Francisco the dele- gates get scattered and cannot be so easily found as | when conventions are held in smaller cities where there are but one or two hotels. That argument, however, tells in favor of the city and not against it fare. The scattering of the delegates prevents them from being herded by the bosses, inveigled into cor- rupt combinations and voted in masses. It also gives the exhausted delegate a chance to get away to him- self from the roar and clamor of the crowd, and thus by rest recover his force and clear-headed common sense for the performance of his duties. The subject is one which the State Central Com- mittee should deal with from the standpoint of party expediency and upon the broadest considerations. The Repu and centrally situated, it is the natural convention city of the commonwealth. This is the place where the fore, the best place at which the convention can | meet. i \ | F course the merry war in which Maguire has become a central figure is none of our fight. We have the privilege of looking on and ob- THE HAPPY FAMILY. | serving whether the ring tactics are fair or foul, un- | moved by concern as to whether the Populists get | hit below the belt or in this manner administer knockout blow to the Democrats. Populists declare they have so shaped events as to make impossible to Democrats.any action save in- dorsement of their man Maguire. Comforting as it would be to see the wordy Congressman bowled over, as he must be as surely as he receive the indorse- ment for which his soul yearns and his jaw makes plea, we confess to inability to discern why the Dem- ocrats should feel under obligations to submit to the | dictation of the Populistic element in the political | happy family. 1 Maguire was nominated by 156% Populists. With great wagging of beards they proclaimed him the a | lay down the law that the Democrats shall do the same thing. They are willing to divide their, Moses. In the Democratic convention will be 700 delegates. Will these submit to the direction of the talkative handful? It does not seem reasonable. Perhaps they will be found to have minds of their own and tell the | Populists to keep their little old Moses. But in either case Republicans have nothing to worry about. We would be glad to see Maguire in- dorsed with a whoop. From the standpoint of Dem- ocracy no worse move could be made. Maguire would be defeated with an ease that would give him pain. IN AFRICA. ENGLISH SCHEMES NGLAND'S proverbial success as a colonizer E seems now about to achieve a most notable con- firmation of her right to such reputation. The great representative of Anglo-Saxon prowess in this field, Cecil Rhodes, has been strong enough to tri- | umph over that great error, the Jameson raid, which | would have been fatal to many a strong man less | strong than he, and is again planning, like a sort of Bonaparte, for the colonial conquest of Africa. He has been re-clected as a director of the Char- tered Company of London, and has met with a re- ception that shows confidence and willingness to | back him in his big ambitions. In his address to the | shareholders of that company he roused their enthu- | sias; ith the catching cry of “Cairo to the Cape.” The 1dea is to connect Egypt with the Cape of Good Hope by rail, and on that vertebral column build an English Africa. Rhodes’ purpose, as a step in that direction, is to borrow in England two million pounds to extend the present railroad system of South Africa to Lake Tanganyika, which is on the northern boundary of the English domination in the Dark Continent. This would bring the overland route from the Cape to within less than 1800 miles of Khartoum, the place to which the English expedition from Cairo under the Sirdar Kitchener is advancing to oust the Der- vishes. It is claimed that if these two points are at- tained the remainder of the railway will be an easy matter of attainment. Six million pounds are said to be already invested in the combined enterprise, and the British public are asked to put up the two millions more that are needed to complete the undertaking. The sharehold- ers are to be made secure in their investment by the state’s assuming the money so employed as a debt, and for their profit Rhodes is to give the company a half interest in all the mineral wealth of the country traversed. If Rhodes’ design should be carried out and the Neither candidate of the Populists has whiskers worth mentioning. One by, one traditions fade, connection made of the Mediterranean with Eng- land’s possessions in South Africa, the ambitious o (s | in public, she should begin weeping T | successful nations are pursuing. dream of making the big continent practically an English colony might well be within the realm of possibility. In the meantime, however, it is to be remembered that in Africa, as in Asia, France and Germany are to be reckoned with as well as the na- tives. A TEARFUL SITUATION. HE sorrowful spectacle presented by the Demo- cratic party of California at this juncture is cal- culated to bring tears to the eyes of even as cold and unsympathetic a thing as the tin angel on the dome of the City Hall. The campaign has been opened by the party candidate for Governor accept- ing the nomination of the Populists. If Judge Ma- guire is a Democrat, there is but one principle in the platform adopted at Sacramento on Wednesday to which he can properly give his adhesion. We re- fer to the plank which denounces the war as a finan- cial scheme of the Republican moneycrats for the un- doing of “the people.” This ought to receive Ma- ire’s approval. He regarded the early capture of Spanish ships as “piracy.” But to repeat. The melancholy spectacle presented by the Democracy at this juncture would draw tears from an even more obdurate object than the City Hall angel—if, indeed, such an object were capable of un- derstanding the depth of degradation to which it has descended. Its leaders at the outset have sold their principles, not alone to the band of office-seeking Populists who met at Sacramento on Wednesday, and who represent nothing except an ardent desire to get at the State treasury, but also to a band of fifty cent dollar manipulators, who call themselves “Silver Re- publicans.” Herein is disclosed the most terrifying political fusion ever consummated in the State. The “Silver Republicans” are mostly stalwarts. For years they | When conventions meet in other cities the delegates have been “pointing with pride” and “viewing with | begin to scatter as soon as the nomination for Gov- | alarm” the acts of the Democracy and its allies, the Populists. Not one of them but has contemplated a hundred Democratic tickets with horror and aver- sion. Not one of them but carries a dozen Demo- cratic scalps at his belt. Yet at the coming election the Democratic rank and file will be called upon to walk to the polls and vote for two Silver Republicans. It is not enough that it should be asked to swallow eight Populists, who, under the fusion programme, will obtain places on the Democratic ticket, but they must vote for two Republican renegades. Will they do it? That ques- tiot time alone can answer. In the meantime Dem- | when considered from the standpoint of party wel- | ocratic hearts may as well bleed hereabouts. There never was a period in the history of that party when it needed sympathy so much as now. sold to an office-holding syndicate; command of its ship and it is heading directly for the rocks, with nary a lighthouse working. But if this is not sufficient to excite the lachrymose glands of the tin angel it need only be added that the fused party is being supported by a boodling sheet, around which still lingers the odor of railroad black- mail. Indeed, it is quite probable that some of the to aid Maguire’s election to the governorship. The Southern Pacific paid $22,000 under that contract, concerned are Dr. Spon- | convention can do its best work, and it is, there- A and unless Hearst has used more in cutting off the heads of Spanish soldiers than he should, some of the coin ought still to be available for the campaign. But what a spectacle! The Democratic party sold to the Populists for the gubernatorial nomination and sup- ported by a newspaper which has been convicted of blackmailing the Southern Pacific Company out of $22,000 in gold coin—not fifty cent dollars, mind you, but good, hard, yellow dollars, worth 100 cents throughout the world. Unless the tin angel objects to displaying her grief immediately. There is scarcely time to get in a real hard cry ere the bells will ring for the big Democratic funeral in November. Then everybody will have to shed a tear over many new made fusion graves. SPAIN'S DEGENERATION. one of the most instructive in history, and with her past three centuries of descent before us it | is a curious matter of speculation as to how far that degeneration is to go. Is her course a curve that | will somewhere reach its lowest point and thence rise again to power? Or is it a straight fall, to end only by striking bottom and staying there? Will it con- tinue till she sinks from a master into a subject na- tion and becomes merely semi-civilized, or will she reform, as individuals sometimes do, and start on an upward course after her lessons have been made fit- tingly severe? Perhaps the fact will lie midway between these two suppositions and Spain’s doom is conservatism—to find her ruin by remaining stationary, by proudly and stupidly refusing to progress by the paths that the It has been held by some that such a condition is impossible, that there must be a movement either up or down; but Turkey is a witness that in the modern world a non-progres- sive nation may be long permitted to live and to con- tinue to perpetrate outrages. There is little doubt that if Spain now deserved to have her nationality de- stroyed, and the United States both could and would destroy it, united Europe would stay the extinction. So Spain may exist on for centuries, like Turkey, as an object lesson, to teach national morality. A baleful conservatism has been one of the chief causes of Spain’s change from a great to an insig- nificant nation. Some conservatism is good, but hers was of the wrong kind. She persisted in methods of military conquest in her colonies when she should have studied the arts of conciliation. She refused to learn her lesson and change her policy, as she might have done, like England. She persisted ir fettering | men's consciences after the enlightened nations had found out the folly of it. She persisted in that form of pride which made her strongest and most intellec- tual men despise industrial pursuits and seck careers only in the army, the church or in governmental po- sitions, long after the successful peoples had begun to lay the foundation of their modern greatness on man- ufacture and commerce. b Lastly, that grasping rapacity, reaching. out reck- lessly for all the gold there was in sight, which was prominent among the qualities that first raised her to a dominant position among the nations, was con- served as one of her main characteristics until com- plete poverty resulted from her very greed. So her unwillingness, or inability, to change has brought this wreck upon her. Perhaps degeneration is an inap- propriate word to apply to Spain—she has remained as she was while others have gone ahead, and her present plight is the inferiority of medievalism to modern civilization. It is not to be wondered at that Spain should make complaint as to the quality of the projectiles used by our navy. It might also logically put up a note of lamentation concerning the unfeeling accuracy with which the projectiles are hurled. O Bl S Watson will doubtless soon put that third fleet where critical inspection will require the use of a diving suit, It has been | pirates are in | HE study of the causes of Spain’s downfall is | AROUND THE CORRIDORS. F. G. Poor of Merced is stopping at the Russ. Dr. H. Lowe of Knights Ferry is at the Grand. H. M. Btreeter of Riverside is at the Palace. E. D. Gardner of Red Bluff is at the Occidental. George H. Wigmore 1s a guest at the Occldental. Dr. R. W. Hill of Los Angeles {8 stop- ping at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. L. McDonald Jr. are stay- ing at the Occidental. ‘William Simms, the banker, of Winters, 1s a guest at the Russ. Judge John M. Fulweller of Auburn is registered at the Lick. R. Robertson, proprietor of the Paralso Springs, is at the Lick. Thomas Smith has gone to Del Monte for a six weeks’ vacation. Dr. H. L. Pace and wife of Tulare are registered at the Palace. Frank H. Buch and wife of Vacaville are staying at the Palace. Thomas Flint Jr. and wife of San Juan are registered at the Palace. OO QLN The last car o % had gone and 8 FROM WAY long walk stared % DOWN » him in the face, 8o he wanted to g IN TENNESSEE. g B e st a | quickly as he 006300 IO X 00 IF K poggibly could. | He wore the silver leaf on his shoulder straps, and his bibulous companion had chevrons sewed on his arms, which de- noted the sergeant major. They had passed the merry cup until the latent af- fection In their hearts began to manifest itself. They were brothers, and as the game of elbow-raising continued a wave of reminiscence swept over them. Fi- nally the major sald: “Tom, come on; !you have had enough of this. I am your superior officer and I order you to leave | this place at once.”” ‘“Well, you may be | my superior officer, sir,” sald the other, “but I am your elder brother, sir. I want you to know that, and I am the one, sir, whom you are to obey, sir.”” The ma- jor replied: “If that is so, sir, let me tell | you, sir, you are setting a very bad ex- araple, sir.” James Edwards, a mining man of New York City, is at the Grand. Galnes Roberts, assistant naval instruc- tor, U. 8. N,, is at the Grand. M. B. Totten, a wealthy land owner of Colusa, s staying at the Russ. Mr. and Mrs. V. D. McClatchy of Sacra- mento are staying at the California. J. A. Bacham, wife and daughter, of Santa Rosa, are staying at the Occldental. C. Nigel Stewart of London, the promi- i nent mining man, is staying at the Grand. | John D. Hooker and wife arrived from | | Los Angeles yesterday and are stopping | at the Palace. | | Dr. A. E. Osborn, superintendent of' the | | Home of the Feeble Minded at Eldridge, | | 1s registered at the Grand. L. A. Richards, the well-known breeder of horses, arrived from Grayson yester- an convention should he held in this money obtained by the Examiner through its $1000 | day and is staying at the Russ. city by all means. Being the metropolis of the State | @ month contract with Huntington is now being used | Nathan Cole Jr., Earl Rogers, James D. Clark, Sutherland Hutton and Charles | O’'Neill, have just returned from Sacra- | | mento, where they attended the Populist Convention. ‘W. R. Tisdel, special agent of the Pa- | cific Mail Steamship Company for Central | Guatemala City, has returned from the | East and 1s stopping the the Occidental. —_———— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTO! WASHINGTON, July 14.—G. R. Vernon of San Francisco is at the St. James; W. politan. | of San Francisco is at the Manhattan. W. | J. Douse of Santa Ana is at the Astor. markets. HOBSON. (As told by Mikey O'Toole.) Siz Hobson of Allybama, I brought yez a load of coal. Siz Severy, It's just the wahnt, bless yer soul.’ , very thing I‘ wheelbarry to go 'round. away at marks? I do, begorra, says Hobson—they're | skarrin’ ahf all the sharks. | Pay for the coal, siz Hobson; I've put her | all down in the bin. | Divil a cent I have, said Severy, for you | and the min. Dthin we'll boord with yez, siz Hobson, | | until fvery cint we git; | And he_did ‘an’ he's boordin it out with | the Dago till yit. | — Topeka Daily Capital. A MISUNDERSTANDING. To the Editor of The Call: In justice to Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald, I wish to state regarding the mass-meeting held at the Metropolitan Temple on Wednes- day evening, that the mistake was due entirely to articles which have appeared | in the papers for the past week, due to[ a misunderstanding on the part of the reporters and not in any manner the fault | of the Labor Commissioner. He had noth- | in% to do with the calling of the meeting, | and so stated to every one, and the work- | ing women of this city know how hard | and faithfully he has worked for them, | and thank him with all their hearts for what he has accomplished. The article which ap) makes us seem guilty | of the basest ingratitude instead of being thankful. S. ANSELM. | San Francisco, July 14, 139, e VOLUNTEERS AND REGULARS. ‘When the militia boys went up to the fort they carried with them plenty of ideas about what the regulars were going glnnlng of the term when the ‘“‘new boys" | egan to flock in. At present though the | rough edges of both sides have been rubbed off. ' The volunteers have found | out that the regulars are a fine lot of | men, who know their business and have E‘my matter under their campaign hats. he regulars, too, have uiscovered that the volunteers like the excitement of run- | ning the guard as much as they do, and | that they also know how to grumble and complain one moment and how to hurrah for their officers the next. That is one of the first lessons the regular learns, but his grumbling is *“all in the family.” If an outsider tries to make remarks about the army to a regular | ;;do\éghboy," the man has a fight on his ands. The recruits of the Twenty-second were | | a source of constant amusement to the | regulars at Fort Slocum. They are used | to_them now, though. | - The first recruit was rather a su?mo‘ to the regulars. He was dressed in knickerbockers of the latest and most im- proved style, his mustace was nicely curled and his stockings were fairly de- cent checker-boards. —They thought he was a major general at least when he asked the way to regtmfinm headquar- ters, and they all stood ard saluted. The next day a broad grin went around the ?on when: they found the major general n Yeellng otatoes in the kitchen and throw- ing in kindling wood. ew dgl later i they were even more astonizh when | they saw the new man in the brown “pen” suit and learned that he was a good fel- low and tried to “run” the guard. York on his bicycle and took it over to the fort. He asked a r(agulur where he could keep his wheel, and the answer of {she regular made the air blue—New York un. —_———————— HOW NEW YORK CELEB. RATES. 1t you're asking what the row 1s, What the never-ceasing nolse is, Whi the bursting boundiess boom 1s, the blunderbussian bang is, the flashing fiery fizz is, the whooping, whanging whiz is, the swinging, sweeping sizz is, the silence-splitting sound 1s, the too terrific toot is; the bolsterous, breezy ‘blare is, the big-horn, brassy blast is, the much meandering march 1s, What the flawless, flying flag 1s, Why the spruce gum of Katahdin Spruces finer than a fiddle, Why the cold New England Yankes Booms the everlasting Doodle, Why the blooming wooden nutmeg Whoops itself to something greater, Why the knightly Knickerbocker Knicks his hocks and bocks his knicker, Why the mint ot old Virginia Colns a patriotic julep, Why the Georgia watermelon Bursts in red enthusiasm, Why the tents that tickle Tampa Swell with pride and tooting troopers, Why the old Kentuckv bourbon Turns its veller into gladness, Why the Texas cotton raiser Raises other things than cotton, Why from Maine to California, n to Oregon and Klondike, From the Philipines to Cuba, Taking in the Sandwich Islands And some other territory, There is boom and bang and bofster, There is fizz and fire and fervor, There 1s Yankee Doodle-Dixie— Uncle Sam will tell you briefly That he's out to do some Fourthing, Just & bit of Tourthing, mind you, On his jolly July birthday; That he's out to have & pleasant Little Uncle Sam-sam frolic! That is all. Now if there's any- Body thinks that he can stop it, Say, for instance, let him try it. Let him try it, right this minutet Whoop-lal!l —W. J. L. In New York Sun. e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. AN OREGON SHERIFF—M. D., City. The Sheriff of Multnomah County, Ore- gon, is Willlam Frazier of Portland. BIRD EGGS—C. L., Morgan Hill, San- ta Clara County, Cal. You can obtain information about bird eggs by commu- glcln.tlon with Walter E. Bryan, Oakland, al. MAURITIUS—M. R., City. Your letter of inquiry about annexation of Mauritius is so vague as to fall to convey what in- formation is desired, so it is impossible to answer it. GIBSON THE ARTIST-S8. C. F., City. A letter intended for Charles Dana Gib- | son, the artist, will reach him if ad-| dressed, care of Harper's Weekly, New | York City, N. Y. VISITING DAY—F. T. City. Visitors are admitted to see the prison at San Quentin any week day, but to see any particular prisoner permission must be asked for by writing to the Warden, who will fix the day. TO ENTER THE NAVY—Clareniss, | fornia street, San Francisco. | £ i tained. | America and Mexico, with a station B.t] t N United | of the Navy. | class, after the States of the Union; those | | of the second class, after the rivers Dthin he siz, Doo yez see me min shootin’ | Lp FFFF I IITIIIII IR I I I I T T I IR T to be like, and the regulars in their turn | # were like a lot of schoolboys at the be- | 4 FH4 an old suit of faded blue nonchalantly = me Oakland, Cal. For detailed information about entering the United States navy apply at the naval rendezvous at 10 Cali- | W. C. 8., City. It is stated at the Branch | Hydrographic Office that the old time- ball that was operated on the top of Tele- graph Hill was not regulated by time re- ceived from the Mount Hamilton Observa- | tory. Sotie A VICTORY—J. H., City. When in war, | one contending party assaults the other | party, drives it from the field and holds | t, that is a victory, no matter how severe | a loss the attacking party may have sus- | Ap) battla of Breed Hill, commonly = called | Bunker Hill, and you will be able to de- ermine which side won. ON THE PINTA—M., San Diego, Cal Those men who were detalled by the States Government to serve on the | Pinta, now at San Diego, receive pay al- | lowed to men of the same rank in the | | United States Navy. Those doing guard Belvin of San Francisco is at the Metro- | :i uty on board of her under orders from | he State are national guardsmen, and are e ‘ | CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.| aid by the State at the rate of $2 ay. It is not likely that the men will ave to wait until the session of the next Legislature to authorize payment of what there is due them. NAmING WAR VESSELS—W. J. D., Oakland, Cal. The law in regard to the | W. F. Beck of the Beck Mercantile Com- |naming of war vessels of the United States pany of San Francisco is visiting Eastern | navy is as follows: Vessels shall be named by the Secretary | Sailing vessels of the first ; those of the third class, after the principal | The next recruit came up from New | ly that rule to the facts of the | / cities and towns, and those of the fourth class, as the President may direct. Steamships of the first class shall 'be named after the States of the Unfon; those of the second class, after the riv- | ers, and those of the third class, as the | President may direct. | A LETTER-G.G. H,, City. If'you wish | to ascertain if a person is a resident of either one place or the other and you wish to_communicate with such person, write a letter to each place and place on the envelove the words, “If not ed for |in thirty days return to —" (giving ad- dress of writer). If t arty is in either place it is likely that the letter will be called for in the stated time. If not, the letter will be returncd. Again write to last-known address of the party, and the chances are that the letter will be for- | warded to the new residence. HAWAIIAN ISLANDS—M. P., Oakland, Cal. By the census of September, 189, the total population of the Hawalian Islands | was 109,020. In July, 1897, it was estimated | that the population Accord | to the Hawaiian "“dnd Annual. the population b s of 1896 was ed as_follow ; part 7y Chinese, Ameéricans, ar].s.‘ af‘ gn parentage, | it h 3 s, 812; French, Japan orwegians, 216; Polynesians, other reigners, 424. Honolulu's population is VOTING FOR ELECTORS—S. A. M, City. The plan of voting for President of the United States by electors was adopted by the framers of the constitution to in- sure the action of the desire of the people in the choice of their chief magistrate without running the revolution through popular excitement over an unusually favorite candidate. After a number of plans had been sug- gested it was [h()uth best to give the power into the hands of a limited num- er of persons, chosen by the people for the sole purpose of making this selection. Alexa T i expressed it in these words: irable that the gense | of the people should operate in the choice of the persons to whom so important a | trust was to be confided. It was equally desirable that the immediate election | should be made by men most capable of nalyzing qualities adapted to the sta- tion. A small number of persons selected | by their fellow citizens from the general | mass would be the most likely to possess the information and discernment neces. sary for so complicated an investigation.” The idea was that the people would select thelr very best and wisest men as elec- | tors, and that they in turn, independent | of any outside pressure, would sit in judgment upon the qualities and abilities of the foremost citizens of the republio risk of a possible and choose from their number, not the most popular man, but the man possessed of the highest qualifications for the office | to serve as President. To elect the Presi- dent by popular vote could be done only | by an amendment to the constitution. Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* e e information supplied dally to the ont- . Special business houses and public men b Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 ——————————— The Spanish gunner got himself within the barn, shut the door and bolted it. Putting his rifle to his shoulder, he took careful aim, and, shutting his eyes, fired. “Ha!” said he, “who said I could not hit the side of a barn?” But when he went to look for the mark of the bullet he found he had fired through a knothole.—Indianapolis Journal. ———————— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fity years by millions of mothers for thelr children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child., softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world, Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 2c a bottle. —_—————————— TO PORTLAND, OREGON, 48 hours. First cabin, $13; second-class, $3, including meals | and berths. Steamship Columbia, 2000 tons, | July 10, 15, 26, August 3. Steamship State of | California, 1500 tons, July 14, 22, %, August 7. | Sail from Folsom-street pler No. 12, 10 & m. No better or more modern steamships on Pa- cific coast. A cool and deMghtful summer trip; exhilarating sea air. The public is wel- come and Invited to visit these ships while in port. Office 630 Market street. CORONADO—Atmosphere is perfectly dry, soft and mild, being entirely free - from the mists common further north. Round-trip tick- ets, by steamship, including fifteen days’ board at the Hotel del Coronado, $60; longer stay, $2 60 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery st, S. F., or E. S. BABCOCK, Manager Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, Cal. —_— e Though near his latter end, Methusaleh still possessed & pretty wit. “Have you lived here always?” asked a new comer. “Only since I was born,” chuckled tha old man.—Cincinnati Enquirer. & | 81z Hobson, 'l put er down in the base- | # mint for yez to get. 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