The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 10, 1898, Page 6

AUGUST 10, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. NSRS SSUES SR e Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. - PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. P. 5 Telephone Main 1868, _ EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 22 Stevenson Street Telephone Maln 1874 E SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is ™ for.15 cents @ week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. 5 THE_ WEEKLY CALL - PAKLAND OFFICE v.....908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. ‘WASHINGTON (D. €.) OFFICE. .Rigge Houee C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. “CHICAGO OFFICE... C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Adver One year, by mall, $i.50 .Marquette Bullding ng Representative. ntgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until i0 o'clock. 229i Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'ciock. 106 Eleventh street, open unth 9 o'clock. SRANCH OFFICES—527 Mo Kentucky strects, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS, His Absent Boy. “Camtlle Columbi: Trovatore.” n— Vi lle. ~Zoo, Vaudeville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. —Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties. wimmin: o—Music, dancing,boating, fishing, every Suaday. nto, September 5. AUCTION SALES. Moncay, August 15, Real Estate, at clock. 5. H. Umbsen & Co.—; “PLATFORM PLATITUDES.” 7 HE necessities of a pinto campaign are forcing thhc Democratic bosses into a series of contor- the circus Since the Populists nailed up their conditions for | ce-hungry brethren have had a rocky | »pulist programme of State commun- | le paper currency and destruction of | Tepresentative government is so odious to every man | ti fusion, the o The P ism, irredee: road. educated in the Jeffersonian school that something | must be done to sweeten the dose or nullify its y the committee has to itself by declaring rer than platform platitudes, have be- c necessity this political campaign.” nittee lifts its united voice for Ma- These men confess without a sions for free silver or | it. their past profe e you and their declarations of party prin- | and in re titudes, mere ess, dullness politics consisting , and the process being easier when un- by any pledges, principles or profe er that this plan should be followed in case of Maguire's nomination. It will enable him to be a single taxer in the city, an income taxer to the Popu- lists, and a mixed taxer among the farmers where it ise that their public load fting it to other shoulders. | ment by injunction on the nd in the mining counties, where his fav- of the real juice ions. 1t is pro becomes nece I shall be lightened by He can be water front orite doctrine that the violator of a judicial injunction shall be tried by a jury of the locality where the of- | ferse catch votes; while at Marys in the Sacramento Valley and | intervales of the Yuba and Feather rivers, f r government by injunc- | ce of the highest judicial | along the where the people live tion, he can extol it as evic these localities he can demonstrate the court havi xclusive charge of en- nent of its injunctions untrammeled by a jury. roduces a gamble into the matter that -arious lotteries and games of chance in interest and excitement. Unincumbered by plat- form, princip the course of the fusion | party and its candidate will be so much in doubt as _to be always a subject of wager. The plan fits the | In 1887 he announced int anent withdrawal from the I)emo-g will ou s or pledges, rfection. . wril perr crat because it had not adopted the single tax " and put all the burden of government on the land- | owner. In the spring of 1888 he announced himself | - in his book, “Ireland and the Pope,” as the champion of anti-Catholicism and called Pope Leo XIII “the _.serpent of the Vatican.” In the fall of the same year he was back in the Democratic party, though it still refused to adopt the single tax, and not long f was found on the religious platform soliciting | “the favor of the followers of Leo XIII. He was a | gold standard man until 1803, when he switched for | - free silver, in 1896 voted in the Chicago conven- to unseat Weadock as a Michigan delegate, | whose head was demanded by the A. P. A. He fought | r funding the debts of the Pacific roads, and | sale under foreclosure. When the | was to be foreclosed he fought that. | Huntington got his refunding bill | _ tlirough the Senate at the last session and a single “objectic would have killed it in the House, he | - #topped short and did not enter the deadly objection . that would have defeated the measure. It is not safe to trammel such a man with platforms, pledges or » principles. There is no telling what he may want to | -do when he gets office. There is one thing that can | “ be Set down as a certainty, however. He is like the needle to the pole in his fidelity to the Clan Gal- lagher. After the Democratic victory of 1892 this fea- ture in policy furnished McNab the material for one of his Gaelic epigrams. Several offices and ap- * pointments were lagging. Some one asked McNab why the delay in filling them, and he replied, I “They’re waitin’ for a ship that's comin’ with another | * load of Gallaghers.” on when “Is General Shafter responsible?” asks an ex- change. He is responsible for having bounced from . Cuba a lot of worse than worthless mischief-makers who posed as correspondents, and this circumstance "id.enough to make him responsible for everything - else. . The fact that all the battles of importance in the " present war have been fought on Sunday does not leave undisturbed the implied promise of peace in the * 6ld song, “Every day ’ll be Sunday by and by.” _-Th: theory that we benefit Spain by taking away .her colonies has not yet induced that country to send :over a vote of thanks. s -Rea's modest ambition to become State boss has no served by carrlers In this clty and surrounding towns | 1506 Polk strect, open | untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | | lican years, yellow dogs and political bosses. | of California. CAMP@IGN THOUGHTS. ENRY WARD BEECHER once said that H when a boy he could always tell the Sabbath from other days because in the morning he observed large numbers of men armed with shot- !guns and followed by dogs making for the adjacent forests. Thus are many things manifested by signs. Everybody in California knows a “Republican year” not only by the appearance of large numbers of can- didates for office, but by the persistency with which the friends of the “good fellows” of politics endeavor to foist their favorites upon the party. The theory of the politicians in “Republican years” is that the | people must vote their ticket anyhow. Having their | party voters in the door, as it were, they force upon | them weak and unpopular candidates and defy them | to resist. So it often happens that “Republican years” in | California are manifested by great activity among the | politicians. The idea of these individuals in making | “fights” is, as far as possible, to keep out of conven- jtions all Republicans who think on public questions or who entertain preconceived notions of what can- | didates or policies are necessary to bring success. If Mr. Gage of Southern California, for instance, were empowered to appoint the Republican convention which meets at Sacramento on the 23d inst. he would | fill it with his personal friends. At the hands of these | gentlemen he would, after going through certain forms calculated to throw dust in the eyes of the | people, modestly accept the honor of a nomination I for Governor and actually consider himself the great- | est man in the State. As a matter of fact both he and Dr. Pardee have | been endeavoring to do this very thing. They have no idea whatever of submitting their claims to the governorship to the sense d¢f an unbiased conven- | tion, selected at random from among the best men in | the party; their plan is to get as many of their per- | sonal friends elected delegates as possible, and to se- cure from their respective counties “solid” delega- [ tions. With the assistance of these blind and unrea- | soning followers they hope to make “combinations” | and “trades” with the blind and unreasoning follow- | ers of other candidates on the ticket who have | worked the same game, and by these means they in- | | tend to force themselves upon the people. ~ With | strange fatuity they imagine that the appearance that are the envy of the boneless man in | upon the ticket of their names with the word “Re- | publican” appended will sweep them into power. It seems incredible that intelligent human beings should reason in this way, but the fact that such rea- soning prevails is not only proved by the campaign which these two estimable and intelligent gentlemen have made, but it is clinched by the course the bosses and politicians of the Republican party generally are pursuing in this so-called “Republican year.” Every- where we hear of “programmes,” “combinations,” “trades,” stuffed delegations, dummy delegates, pri- | mary tactics and the other things, by the appearance of which, like Mr. Beecher’s hunters, we may ascer- tain that a certain kind of day or year is at hand. We hear that only machine men are to go on guard | in 1808 because it is a “Republican year” and the peo- ple need not be consulted. We hear that candidates for various offices hope to get on the “slate,” and that this boss or that boss has a man whom he is deter- | mined to foist upon the party. We hear—but why | continue the ridiculous recital? It is a “Republican [ year” and anybody can be elected. But, after all, is this a year when the Republican politicians can safely be permitted to nominate our candidates and make our platforms? The war is over. A month hence it will neither be discussed nor thought of in this State. The burning and ever- present questions of low taxation, an economical and honest government, clean appointments and a re- spectable and honest Legislature will recur again | and absorb public attention. Do the Republicans of | California think they can carry this State on the ‘ achievements of Dewey, Sampson, Miles and Shafter | | against the personal interests of the taxpayers, the | | workingmen and the farming classes? Do they | imagine that a bloody shirt and the old flag are going to induce the toiling masses to project their yellow dogs into office? Ii they have any such idea we can inform them now that in pursuing it they are rushing to their doom. The Australian ballot has demolished Repub- The people must be given candidates‘in whom they have | confidence and for whom they desire to vote. Can- didates forced upon them by personal friends and political combinations cannot be elected. The great necessity of the day is Republican nominees with records, with standing as citizens, with established | reputations for integrity, free from railroad, corpora- tion and boss control. Only such candidates can | win. 9 These are frozen truths. If the Repub. licans do not heed them they will encoun- ter a political iceberg in November next. CALIFORNIA FRUIT CONDEMNED. Y the Seattle Times we learn that the fruit in- B spector at that city “has declared war on Cali- fornia fruit with a vengeance.” It is announced that on one day he “condemned as utterly unfit for use nearly 400 boxes of pears and apples, mostly the former, which reached the city from San Francisco.” In explanation of the war against our fruit the in- | spector is quoted by the Times as having said: “San Francisco has been one of the greatest known quar- antine stations against insect pests on the American continent. The work has been under the supervision of a man who stands second to none in reputation since the death of Professor Riley as a quarantine in- spector, and has been paid a large salary by the State Nevertheless, San Francisco is and has been for the last eight or ten years, to my knowl- edge, the worst infected city in the United States from pestiferous insect pests, and the second is Port- land.” The charge is one which it behooves the authorities here to investigate. It does not come from an ir- responsible source, nor from one whose opinions are of no value. When as many as 400 boxes of fruit are condemned in a single day out of the cargo of a single steamer, it is clear that our fruit trade with the north is likely to suffer a good deal unless something is done to remedy the evil. Californians will of course make no protest against the action of the officials of other States in excluding Californian fruit infected with pests. We pursue that course with such fruit when it comes to us, and we would be glad to see the same policy carried out everywhere with inflexible justness and strictness. If infected fruit is produced in this State and sent to the general market we wish it exposed and con- demned for our own sakes. It is well known here that the sooner such fruit is rendered absolutely un- marketable the better it will be for all orchardists throughout the Union. This much being conceded, it is not likely that we will be misunderstood when we protest against the sweeping assertion of the Seattle official that San Francisco is to his knowledge “the worst infected city over the fruit industry than California, and the or- chardists of no State have given a more general or a more cordial support to the fruit inspectors in en- forcing the law. That pests exist in the State is beyond question. They never can be wholly eradicated. Any such statement as that credited to the Seattle man is, how- ever, a palpable injustice, and if uncontradicted may prove to be an injury to our fruit trade as well as a slander upon the efficiency of our inspection. As the case is reported by the Times it looks as if the inspector had allowed his language, if not his official actions, to be biased by something like a local preju- dice against San Francisco as a fruit market and Cali- fornia as a fruit producing State. FOR THE HEROIC DE@D. HE country honors the dead who gave to it their lives. They are to memory dear whether they perished in the harbor of Havana, before the withering fire of Cardenas, or sleep, unnamed, in the trenches about Santiago. Some have found rest | in Pacific waters, and some in the soil of the far Phil- ippines. But to their countrymen these soldier and sailor dead are all heroes, and to honor them is a common impulse. It is a matter of regret that with a precipitation ut- terly shameless, because the hope of self-advertising was so apparent, Mr. Hearst and his brood should have proposed a monument to those who have fallen, for no monument could be builded through means such as characterize the Journal and Examiner without being designed to perpetuate the foul repute of these sheets. To have them even remotely linked with the enterprise ostensibly designed to commem- orate brave men and brave deeds were an insult un- speakable, far more gross than that there should be not so much as a tablet of record. It has not been forgotten that when the scheme was new the Journal made overtures to solicitors, promising them 10 per cent of all they might be able to collect! Is this the method of unselfishness? Does this savor of decency? Hardly; it is yellow journal- ism. Now the Examiner proposes to have given here a great pyrotechnic display, to be under its own management, the proceeds to be devoted to the monument it proposes to have the public erect to Hearst. The public has been worked to the limit. It sees through the scheme. It will hesitate about dan- cing to Willie’s music again, for Willie always gets the credit and the public pays the fiddler. It will be remembered that a season ago the Ex- aminer ran a baseball tournament for “charity.” Throughout there was mismanagement, but the game was profitable. Occasionally some of the surplus money would really be given to charity, and then there would be a great blare of horns as for some- thing magnificent, whereas the stated object of the whole scheme was that funds might be raised for charity. No hollower fraud ever disgusted observers or lined the pockets of a sharper. There is also a lively recollection of the fact that the Examiner procured by subscription a sum of money for the families of some firemen killed on duty. It retained the money, the legitimate owners had to bring suit, and even then failed of getting that which the donors had intended for them, and not for the Examiner. Because of these things, more than because of the unreliability of the Examiner as a newspaper, the public will hesitate to add to the income of Hearst a sum out of which he must pay the agent a per cent, and of which there is no law to compel him to give an accounting. Let there be a monument to our dead, but let it be planned by people in whom there is reason to have confidence, whose motive is something higher than self-glorification, and who have not devoted themselves, first to the creation of war, and then to the accentuating of its horrors. The country is not ripe for a monument to Hearst. Indeed, that gen- tleman himself is not quite ripe for the distinction, a circumstance giving rise to varied emotions, among which regret is not the most prominent. FIVE DAYS FOR REGISTRATION. EGISTRATION at the main office at the City Hall closed yesterday. [ 2 for precinct registration. have neglected to register when they might have done so with comfort, promptness and convenience during the past weeks will now have to join in the rush at the precincts. It will be better for them to do that, however, than to forfeit the right of voting, and it is to be hoped all will attend to it. Up to this time in all parts of the Union there has been an evident spirit of indifference among the peo- ple as regards the coming campaign. In his address on accepting a renomination for Congress Speaker Reed referred to this feeling as something extraor- dinary, something unprecedented in his experience with politics. That indifference, however, is rapidly passing away. The war has been virtually fought out, peace is at hand, and the attention of the peo- ple is returning to home affairs. It is safe to say that even now in California more interest is taken in political news than in war news, and this predom- inance of political interest will increase until after the election. s Those who have expected the coming campaign will be notable chiefly for its lassitude will be dis- appointed. Those who decline to take the trouble to register because they believe there will be nothing in the State or the Congressional contests to arouse them or make it worth while for them to take an active part in the determination of the result on elec- tion day will undoubtedly find they have made a se- rious mistake. In California it is clear the contest is to be one be- tween the people and the bosses, between the repre- sentatives of honest politics and those that stand for machine politics. In that fight there will be no apathy in any class of citizens. Every person, whether he stands for the people or with the push, will feel a desire to vote, and those who have forfeited the right by their own neglect will bitterly regret it. ‘It goes without saying that the bosses will see to it that their henchmen are registered to a man. No votes will be lost to their side. Negligence of politi- cal duties is a vice of the better class of citizens rather than of the lower class. It is estimated that about 35,000 persons entitled to register and to vote have not yet been registered. Five days of grace re- main to them. If their patriotic regard for the pub- lic welfare is equal to their intelligence they will not neglect the opportunity of these closing days. Nor should there be any delay further than is impera- tively necessary. All who can possibly do so should register to-day. There is no room for argument over the terms of peace offered to Spain. She has only to accept the peace as it is tendered, or get a little more sense | knocked into her first. It would indeed be a graceful act for the heirs of greater obstacle to contend with than the frank oppo- -=ition of the State. in the United States” with insect pests. No State in the Union has exercised a more stringent supervision Adolph Sutro to carry out his wishes in relation to benefactions he designed bestowing upon the city. There remain five days | Those citizens who | WILL HE AROUND THE CORRIDORS. M. J. Wright of Sacramento is at the Grand. Hon. S. O. Perkins of Tacoma is at the Palace. D. Eisen, a merchant of Sissons, is at the Grand. Fred Harvey of Kansas City, Mo., is at the Palace. J. A. Barham, the Congressman, is at the Ocidental. W. W. Tierney, an attorney of Camp- bells, is at the Grand. Dr. F. F. Tebbits and wife of Sacramen- to are at the Baldwin. L. L. Jewell, a mining man from Grants Pass, Or., is at the Grand. Lieutenant F. H. Lefavor, U. 8. N., and wife are at the Occldental. Dr. Frank R. Dray of Boston, Mass., is registered at the California. Carl E. Lindsay, District Attorney of | santa Cruz, is at the Grand. O. A. Hale, a well-known merchant of San Jose, is at the California. M. A. Newmark, formerly in the diplo- matic service, is at the Palace. H. A. Drachman, a prominent merchant of Tucson, is a guest at the Baldwin, Willlam H. Corbersier, U. S. A, has taken apartments at the Occldental. Bank Commissioner J. B. Fuller of Marysville is a guest at the California. C. C. Beekman, the well known banker of Oregon Is at the Grand with his fam- ily. \ John U. Smith, United States Commis- sioner at Dyea, arrived yesterday, and is at the Russ, George W. Peltier, a prominent banker and wine man of Sacramento, is a guest at the Grand. J. A. Brendt, a well-known mining man of Plymouth, Cal., has taken apartments | at the Grand. L. M. Kaiser, prominent in banking cir- cles, of San Luis Obispo, has taken apart- ments at the Baldwin. . C. Ryan, a mining man from Chicago, has just returned from Alaska and is at the Occidental. C. H. Duell, Commissioner of Patents, arrived from the East yesterday with his | family and is at the Palace. Lester L. More, the big seed man of Santa Clara, arrived in the city last even- ing and took apartments at the Califor- nia. Major Bryan and Captain Brand of the British army are at the Occidental. They will leave for the Colonies on the next steamer to report for duty. H. B. Gehr and H. L. Wheatley of Chi- cago arrived in the city last evening and registered at the Palace. They will leave for Honolulu on the Mariposa, which sails to-day. J. M. Griffith, James Cuzner, Ezra T. Stimson and W. A. Morgan, prominent lumber men of Los Angeles, arrived yes- terday from Los Angeles to attend a con- ference in this city. CHOICE FIGHTING STOCK. The Rough Rider Regiment contains: Dude millonaires, eager for a fight. College professor, not of the usual type. Western Sheriffs, accustomed to shoot at the drop of a hat. ¢ Harvard graduates who know not Nor- on. Cow punchers with gunpowder in their biood. Also twenty-six full-blooded Indians, anxious for glory and scalps. Finally, Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt, whose eyeglasses shine with warlike ex- citement.—City of Mexico Herald. EDISON’S SON AND OTHERS. Examination of applicants for enlist- ment in the First Battallon of the First Regiment of the brigade of volunteer en- gineers began yesterday at the recruit- ing station, 335 Broadway. Over 1000 can- didates presented themselves. Four hun- dred men are required. Some of the most distinguished engin- eers of the country will be officers of the regiment. Now look at the list of some of the privates: Eugene Mitkiewicz Jr. of Plantsville, Conn., a son of the once famous ‘‘Count” Eugene Mitkiewicz; Richard J. Purcell, neral inspector of the Hudson County lectrical Company; Willlam Stoneman, C. BE., for three years an officer in the Duke of Cornwall's Royal Volunteer En- gineers; W. L. Bdison, the 2l-year-old son of Thomas A. Edison, who has worked in his fatner’s laboratory at Llewellyn Park for the past three years; Gustave Ravene, assistant to Professor Boas in the American Museum of Natural His- tory and for two years a member of the Royal Engineers’ Corps of Italy; Ernest Burpee, a civil and electrical engineer, who, until he came to this country about three years , Was a member of th Corps of Engl‘g:eu of Switzerland; F‘r.n: 1 | to become an actor. There must be talent, | G PEOPL! . THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1898. 23S’ PARTY PLAT FORM CROKER GOLD BU§ cLue 1897 w;n'll\h . GALLERY? CATCH THE H. Woodward, a graduate of Harvard and | an _electric engineer; Edward Erdle, | Carlstadt, J., a graduate of Columbia | and until Tecently employed in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey: F. R. Schmidt, former of the Fourth German Lancers; E. W. Stern, connected with the Department of Public Works and a | memb: the American Society of Civil | Engin ; Thomas F. Adriance, in- | s; ting engineer he department of Public Works; Th s Middlemass, an electrical enginee at one time a member of the Second Life Guard, Brit- | ish army.—New York Sun. —_———————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE BUFFALO—W. H. R., City. The | auxillary cruiser Buffalo carries one fif-| teen-inch dynamite gun. 1 THE SAN BLAS—P. W. B., Oakland, | Cal. _The San Blas was not wrecked on the Pacific coast during the year 1897. STATES AND TERRITORIES—W. B. H,. City. There are forty-five States and | six territories over which the American | flag waves at this time by virtue of ad- | mission and organization. THE PARROTT BUILDING—A. C. R., Klamathon (Pokegama), Siskivou | County, Cal. The Parrott building, which | is commonly called the Emporium, in San | Francisco, is located on the southerly side | of Market street, between Fourth and | Fifth. BREISE—E. G., City. This department | is at a loss to know who is meant by the | question, “How long has Mr. Breise been writing for the paper?” If the correspond- ent will state who Mr. Breise i{s and what paper he has been writing for possibly | an answer can be furnished. ! CABLEGRAMS—Subscriber, City. Ca-| blegrams that reach Washington from the Philippine Islands are sent from Manila by steamer to Hongkong, from there ca- bled to Europe, from Europe to New York and from that point by the ordinary tele- | graph lines to Washington, D. C. CANARIES—Subscriber, City. The Campanini canaries, bred in German are the best singers. They have lon silvery trills, high and low bells, ever: tone mellow, and the soft, long notes are | interspersed’ with flutelike whistlings. These birds usually sing the whole year | round. | = | SEPARATE PROPERTY-J. K., City. | If a man and wife have been separated | for fifteen years, or any time, without divorce, the husband cannot claim any portion’ of property which the wife ac- quired before her marriage, as that is her separate property and not subject to any authority but her own. NOT ABSOLUTE _FREE TRADE—P. H., Millwood, Cal. There is not absolute tree trade in England. A person cannot ship a consignment of tobacco to EHT land from the United States and have it | entered free of tax. That country col- lects tarif on beer, cards, chicory, chlo- ral, dydrate, cocoa, coffee. collodion, con- fectionery, ether, ethyl, frult, naphtha, soap, spirits (specified),’ tea, tobacco and wine. MARRIAGE AT SEA-—City Reader, City. A great many persons have searched the law books of all countries to find a law that authorizes the captain of a vessel to perform the ceremony . of marriage at sea, but as yet no one has discovered such a law. There never has | been a legal decision as to whether a | marriage performed at sea by the captain | of a vessel is legal. | TO BECOME AN ACTOR—A Subscrib- er, Stockton, Cal. There are books to be obtained from first-class booksellers that will assist one who desires to become an | actor, but books are not all that iIs needed | which requires development, a good mem- | ory, and an unlimited amount of close | study under the instructions of a good | elocutionist and the taking of instructions from a first-class retired actor. YEOMAN—R. S. J., City. The pay of yeoman in the United States navy is $60 per month. A yeoman is an appointed officer who has charge of the stores in his department. The ship's yeoman has charge of the boatswain's, carpenter's and sailmaker’s stores, etc.; the engineer’'s yeoman has charge of all tle stores in the ‘engineer’s department; the paymaster's eoman takes care of provisions, cloth- ng and small stores, and issues them as directed. > THE PRAYER CROSS—S. C., City. The large stone cross in Golden Gate Park was erected by the late George W. Childs of Philadelphia. The reason for its erection s given in the inscription: “A memorial to the service held on the shore of Drake's Bay, about St. John the Baptist's day, June 24, 1579, by Francis Fletcher, priest of the Church of Eng- land, chaplain of Sir Francis Drake, chronicler of the service.” On the panels are the followlnf inscriptions: “First Christian service In the English tongue on our coast.” “‘First use of.the book of common prayer in our country.” *One of the first recorded missionary prayers on our continent.” ENGAGEMENT-E, D., City. This cor- respondent writes: gentleman desiring to become engaged to a young lady would | Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. like to know how such is officlally per- formed.” This- department is not aware that there is anything official about such an engagement, but will say that abeut all that there is to be done is to obtain g t to ask her parents, and f able, and the lady does not object, then the day for the wed- ding. If the gentleman or the lady is very anxious to make the matter pub- lic, either can issue letters to friends an- nouncing the f: , or make {t known through the socfety columns of the daily newspapers. —ee——————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® | ———a e Speclal information supplied dally to bustness houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, * s e WATCHES THAT SPEAK. A Swiss inventor makes watches that speak. By means of a pho_.ograph they announce {n words the hours in the tones of various speakers. Women seem to take greatly to this novelty —_—e———————— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by miilions 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 béest 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. Sc a bottle. —_———— 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 50 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery st. S. F., or E. S. BABCOCK, Manager Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, Cal. —_— A PECULIARITY OF HORSES. Horses sleep with one ear pointed to ‘(hf‘ front; but why, no man can tell. ADVERTISEMENTS. MACKAY'S, w Department To Be Closed Out! To Effect a Quick Return of Investment in Our Furniture Department The §33,000 stock of same is to be offered at LESS THAN ACTUAL COST, commencing MONDAY, AUGUST STH. We take space for & few quotations to convince the public of the serious- ness of our intention. Solld Oak C Solid Oak DINING CHAT Solid Oak Arm COBBLE! ERS $1.00 R ROCK- $ ak CHIF! 3-plece Eastern Hard-wood CE ER SUITS, French plate.. 3-plece Solid Oak CHAMBER bevel plate 24x30..... CORDUROY COUCHES BED LOUNGES, patent. G-plece PARLOR SETS, SSTRIES .. HALLRACKS . These represent from 25 of PREVAILING RETA! Figure it out. CARPETS! In this department during Furniture Close-out LOW PRICES prevail. SMITH'S BEST TAPESTRY. QUETTE RUGS, #7388 MOQUETTE RUGS, 36x72. LINOLEUMS .. WATCH OUR WINDOWS AND OUR PRICES. ALEX. MACKAY & SON, 715 Market St.