The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 13, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY AUGUST 13, 1898 L .....AUGUST 13, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS... ..217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per montb 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.... ....Ome year, by mail, $1.58 OAKLAND OFFICE........ cresserseesss.908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. ...Room 188, World Bullding | DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. | WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE .Rigge Houes C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE.. ...Marquette Bullding | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. | IRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open untll 930 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open untll 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o’clock. 2291 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untl 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, opem untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana " Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS Columbia—*His Absent Boy.” Alcazar— Camille Morosco's he Cherry Pickers.” 11 Trovators."” )0, Vaudeville and Cannon, the €13-pound Man. Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialtles tion Park—Baseball this afternoon. n Coursing Park. de Coursing Paric. wimming. a boating, fishing, every Sunday. acramento, September 5. AUCTION SALES. H. Umbsen & Co.—Moncay, August 15, Real Estate, at smery street, at 12 o clock. * @ HOLIDAY PROPOSITION. 14 Mc LUSHED with a glow of an ardent patriotism F roused to the height of a genuine enthusiasm by the achievements of our army and navy dur- | ing the war, the St. Louis Chron calls upon the | of the country to unite with it in advocating hich Spain signs the treaty of peace | be set aside as a public holiday to be commemorated | | ch succeeding year as the anniversary of the be- | in ea of a new era in our history. gir That the people will feel like celebrating the vic- tories and glories of the war is beyond question, and | some form of celebration or thanksgiving will doubt- less be carried out in almost every section of the Union. That much is both natural and advisable. The plan of making an annual festival of the day, as proposed by the Chronicie, is, however, too am- bitious. There is no sufficient reason for commem- orating this war any more than the war of 1812 or the war with Mexico, and if such an attempt were made it would fail by reason of a lack of popular interest in it. We have now more national holidays than we have the spirit to celebrate. Christmas, the Fourth of July, Decoration day and Thanksgiving day are about as many grand holidays as our people care to | keep. Great and ardent as are the respect and love with which the memory of Washington is universally cherished in this country, the annual celebration of | his birthday is very largely a perfunctory observance. The war with Spain has been but an episode in our history, and public interest in it will soon pass away. his time next year very few people would care to | close their places of business or turn aside from their | work to listen to orations on the Cuban war, or hear | Dewey's victory celebrated in an original poem. { A celebration this year, however, would be most | appropriate and would make a pleasing interlude in | the strife of party politics that is soon to be raging. | ‘When the volunteer boys come marching home they | should be met with a patriotic welcome, and a general | festival might be held in their honor. We are much given in this country to the holding of carnivals and the display of pageants and parades. In every State in the Union one or more of these are held every summer or fall. It would be proper this year to devote such festivals to the celebration of peace with victory and honor, but that would be enough. The new era will bring us enough good things without adding to them another national holi- day, when we have already more than the people generally are able to attend to. B Yesterday the announcement was made that the fingers of Paderewski had gone back on him. It was made with pleasure, as the fact was immediately recognized that a worthy press agent had started in to earn his salary. It is another pleasure to announce now that the fingers are all right, and that the press agent is still keenly alive to the wisdom of applying a coat of butter to his bread. Possibly the Republicans who refused to respond to the Examiner’s request for an expression of their political opinions are merely careful as to whom they take into their confidence. g When an American signal corps uses a Spanish barb-wire fence for a telegraph line over which to flash news of Spanish defeat, insult may be said to have been added to injury. Blarco will of course have to pack up and get out without having fired a shot at the Americans. To be consistent he will have to arrange for an immediate court-martial of himself. While the publication in a New York paper of the picture of Cecil Rhodes as “T. B. Reed” cannot be ac- cepted as correct, it is about as near accuracy as that paper ever approaches. By the way, the Pennsylvania troops who stood so bravely under a withering fire are the same American citizens whom Editor Barry declared ought to be killed like snakes. The latest Oakland murderer is afflicted with that peculiar variety of insanity which is best corrected by suspending the lunatic by means of a well- stretched rope. L The report of the speech made at Manila by a Ger- man officer cannot be fairly judged, for the remarks he must have added after he got sober are not yet at hand. Some Spanish papers accuse your- Uncle Sam of being severe. Well, there have been a number of in- cidents tending to roil the old man. L L Garcia’s men are having a vacation, but owing to | there. 1 GOVERNOR, OR SENATOR, OR BOTH? HE replies to The Call's inquiry for favorites for the gubernatorial nomination brought out TS)‘mptums of the existence of an expectation, not to say a plan, in Southern California, looking to securing for that section of the State both the Gover- nor and the United States Senator. The Call has no quarrel with the local spirit and loyalty of any part of the State. But we desire to admonish all sections that such spirit must be tempered by reason and jus- tice. If it overleap these it defeats itself. The idea is propagated in the south that as the northern end of the State had the Governor and both Senators so long, it is a good time to hark back for a reason for claiming both for the south until a gene- ral average is established, and thereafter to divide evenly. Southern California has had three Gover- nors, Stoneman, Markham and Waterman. As the State has had nineteen persons in the office of Gov- ernor, it will be seen that the process of establishing an average requires that six more shall be elected from that section. As twenty-four individuals have held the office of United States Senator, only one being from south of the Tehachapi, to get an average will require the election of eleven more from that part of the State. We may ask, we hope without offense, what will happen while the Republicans of Southern California are carrying out this policy of equalization and average? There are signs that some men there believe it should be entered upon as a crusade to right a wrong, to avenge a long existing neglect. This is a strained view of it. The considerable settlement of the State began and for long continued in the north. The great resources of the south lay undeveloped and the lure of its physical charms unknown until recent years. Since then there has not been manifested a disposition on the part of Northern California Re- publicans to deny complete justice to the south. Of Markham’s majority for Governor Northern Cali- fornia contributed 6119, the south only 1826. The north has in the same spirit given her share, far in excess of the votes contributed by the south, to the election of two Republican candidates for Lieutenant Governor, one of whom became Governor. There is no evidence in the record of any other de- site than to live in party amity and comity with the south, and to give her the prominence in party coun- cil and public government, justified by her import- ance. Therefore it is not susceptible of demonstration that Southern California Republicans have any wrengs to right or neglect to avenge, or omission to | make even. Farly in the preparation for the campaign that is impending there was an earnest desire to find out what the south wanted. As early as last October the Los Angeles Times frankly declared that in the divi- | sion of party honors the south wanted the Senator. In this expression of preference the Times was joined by the Los Angeles Journal, Orange Post, Los An- geles Record, Los Angeles Germania, Lompoc Jour- nal, South Pasadenan, Santa Ana Blade, Los Angeles Daily Gazette, Pomona Progress, Los Angeles In- vestor, Farmers' Friend, and nearly fifty other Re- publican papers of Southern California, embracing practically the entire party press of that section. This expression was not changed until recently. It showed no variableness nor shadow of turning until within six weeks. Many months went by with it estab- lished as the plau and preference of the party down We submit to reasonable Republicans in the south who desire party success that the change in this both Governor and Senator is not conducive to party harmony nor success. The party, to succeed, must leave a sense of con- tentment and justice with all sections of the State, and must have a candidate for Governor whose party, public and private record needs no defense. We can- not go into this campaign explaining or defending either. Too much is at stake. The election of Maguire with his long catalogue of communistic and anarchistic expressions is a danger too serious to be incurred. We do not hesitate to say that it will be niore disastrous to California than would have been | the election of Denis Kearney in the height of the sand-lot movement. We must go into this campaign personal record or questionable affiliations of our candidate. ARMY SCANDALS. T is a circumstance most regrettable that in the commissary department of the army there should be so much as an indication of scandal. Yet the sinister charge that the Government has been robbed by contractors and the soldiers made to suffer through a commercial instinct run to greed and thievery are apparently too well sustained to be passed over. No official position should be permit: ted to shield any man accused of such crimes, and none so accused unjustly would be content with any- thing less than the fullest investigation. Many charges have been directed against the head of the War Department, and the possibility that they are baseless must be recognized. Secretary Alger ping of a great army, and to hold him responsible for the acts of a rascally subordinate would be unjust, more likely than otherwise. Neither does an accusa- tion coming from Governor Leedy of Kansas carry great weight. Leedy was the means of sending into service the most wretchedly outfitted soldiers who entered it. The Kansas regiment which reached this given that Leedy had refused to permit the boys to leave the State with the uniforms of the National | Guard, notwithstanding he must have known the General Government would make good more than the value of the uniforms, replacing each with new. Therefore, to sing small, well beseems Governor Leedy. But the Eastern press, regardless of politics, teems with similar charges, and the matter is so serious as to constitute a disgrace, which will be the blacker and deeper if permitted to go unrefuted, and if the allegations be sustained there ought to be punishment swift and severe. Dismissal from office would be suggested in some instances and introduction to jail in others. National pride resents the idea of unscru- pulous and thrifty speculators being permitted to turn the tide of war to their own benefit or to rob the Government simply because the exigency of the time affords the opportunit; It seems strange that the same papers announcing peace should detail a proposed campaign against Havana. There ought to be a difference between peace and war. — Russell Sage showed some manliness in his ex- planation of why he is hale and hearty at 82. He did not try to put a bit of the blame on Providence. R Cervera says he has nothing but contempt for the lack of American rations there is some doubt as to whether they are enjoying it much. Blanco, a declaration going to confirm the belief that lthe admiral is a fine old gentleman. sentiment based on the hope that the south may get | on its public issues, without stopping to defend the | could not personally direct every detail of the equip- | city was literally in rags, and the explanation was | THE END OF THE W@dR: Y the signature of the protocol outlining the terms of peace offered by the United States and accepted by Spain, the war is virtually closed. It has been for us a war of victory from first to last. Undertaken in the cause of humanity and liberty and waged with no desire for conquest, it will nevertheless add to our possessions and vastly in- crease our prestige as a world power. It is a commonplace saying that what has been ac- complished in this war has materially changed the aspect of international affairs in all parts of the globe. As a matter of fact international relations and con- ditions are continually changing. The aspect of affairs is never the same at any two periods of time separated by as much as a month. Some event al- ways occurs to transmute one crisis into another or to shift the danger point from one locality to another far distant. Nevertheless it is fitting to refer to this war as a potent force in changing the relations of the nations to one another, for rarely in late years has so great an alteration been effected in so short a time. From the prospects before us at the present outlook it appears that peace may bring with it responsibilities for us as great as any imposed by the war itself. The British are eager to have us follow up our success in battle by launching out upon a career of territorial expansion that will render us desirous of an alliance with themselves, and not a few jingoes at home are willing enough to accept the counsel that comes to us from that source. It will be worth our while, how- ever, to look twice before we enter upon the career of imperialism. It will not be an easy path to pursue, and in the end it will require of us vast sacrifices of wealth and of lives." The London Spectator, with a candor that is to be commended, recently admitted that our territorial expansion would impose heavy responsibilities upon us, but argued that it would be for our good to accept them. In a striking passage it said: “The world’s future greatly depends upon the polit- ical character of the Americans. When, in 1950, they are 200,000,000, they can crush any people except the Slavs. To fit them for that destiny the Americans should have difficulties, dependencies and complicated relations with the remainder of mankind. At present everything is too easy for them. They live too much to themselves. They must learn to govern as well as to be governed, and must add to their splendid patriotism the English gift of cold and lofty tolerance. They must keep subordinate governments as free from corruption as their Supreme Court.” This prophecy of our future greatness is undoubt- edly enticing, but the question remains whether we might not achieve a much better future by avoiding those difficulties and dangers that are going to make | life harder for us. The desire to find a race capable of whipping the Slavs makes the British very con- siderate toward us in these days, for at the present time the Slavs are threatening the British empire. We can hardly avoid distrusting a friendship that confessedly desires to make life less easy for us. In making peace with Spain we should arrange it on terms that will not involve us in future wars nor leave burdens upon the coming generations of our people. WHEN WE ARE SADDEST. D is now hastening to a glorious close, we have | felt every emotion of patriotism, every impulse of military valor, have been sensitive to every senti- ment of liberty, humanity and national grandeur; | have been roused by the exercise of our noblest facul- | ties to the utterance of right words or the perform- | ance of great deeds in every department of human endeavor except two: we have not written good songs nor set what we have written to good music. 1t is most fortunate for us in all respects that we are | not among those kind of folks who cannot sing the old songs, for were we of that nature our misfortunes at this epoch would have been overwhelming. It is | only by the inspiration of the old songs and to the | melody of the old tunes that we have been able to march to victory at all. Had we been compelled to | rely wholly upon the poetry of the occasion and the | music of the day, to give expression to our feelings in the war, we should have shocked the sensibilities | not only of the tuneful Spaniards in Cuba, but even of the Philippine Islanders, accustomed as they are to the lugubrious chanting which accompanies their tribal “devil dance.” Truly we Americans of this generation are saddest | when we sing. In the department of poetry our popu- URING this brief war, whose victorious career DR. CLINTON REPLIES TO FATHER YORKE. To the Editor of The Call—Sir: In support of his contention that I had attacked him the Rev. Father Yorke publishes in to-day’s Call a letter written by me last May in which I used very strong terms denunciatory of the Monitor's attack upon me in its issue.of the 21st of that month. The reverend father says the letter was an attack upon him. never so considered it. I regarded it as a proper reply to the charges made against me in the Monitor's aforesaid issue. grave import of the language I used in the letter—language which would not have been justified under less provoking circumstances. were the circumstances? Because I deemed it a duty and an act of justice I voted for a renewal of the lease of the Sailors’ Home to the Ladies’ Sea- Father Yorke jumpeu upon me with both feet, ac- cusing me ir his paper of being *“a vociferous reforme: whose protestations of philanthropy, of purity, of principle and of common veracity the public should discount,” and that I had “cast aside even the pretense of decency.” He stigmatized me ag “a Judas who had betrayed the sacred cause of re- and he even dared to Insinuate that my action was gov- men’s Friend Society. ligious libert erned by sordid motives. The foregoing, Mr. Editor, was my justification in denouncing the article as “false, cowardly, contemptible, ungrateful, uncalled for and totally un- deserved.” This whole controversy between Father Yorke and me means simply this: he did? In dismissing this painful subject I desire to thank The Call for the valuable space given me and to express my belief that sooner or later the reverend father will realize the injustice he has done me and that he will make the amende honorable. 1. Father Yorke believes I did wrong in voting for the lease. 2. I know I did right in voting for the lease. Question—Wus Father Yorke justified In attacking me in the manner SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12, 1893. I have I was fully aware of the Now, what C. A. CLINTON. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Thomas Flint Jr. of San Juan is at the Palace. D. Ray, a merchant of Galt, is at the Occldental. J. G. Roberts, a banker of Madera, is at the Palace. Dr. Samuel P. McKinney of Chicago is at the Grand. 0. McHenry, a banker of Modesto, is at the Occidental. F. W. Page, a mining man of Forest City, is at the Palace. Jesse Poundstone, a Grimes, is at the Grand. Frank Talt, an orange orchardist of Oroville, is at the Russ. Frank Miller, postmaster of Sacra- mento, is at the Occidental. B. M. Goldwater, a prominent business man of Arizona, is in town. S e Last week Sil- £ vano Rumero of capitalist of g HIS CLAIM 3 Martinez begz;n to weep, and he WaS B pas tndulged in % ADJUSTED. X jachrymose calis- el ¥ thenics eversince. LUPG OO LN A heavy ern Pacific freight train had a tete-a-tete with the only cow that Silvano owned and now there is no cow. After tears came real anger and then a consultation with a wise man, who advised Sflvano to sue the company If the refused to re- compense him for his cow. written to the claims adjuster of the Southern Pacific in which a poverty- stricken Itallan and a pulverized cow that would give milk no more were the chlef | features. The claims adjuster sidetracked the letter and thereby proved his ability as a money saver to the company. Sil- vano did not like the silence of the com- pany, and after obtaining the advice of | the most learned of his tribe set out for the city to prosecute his claim in person. He discovered the office of the clalms ud~l‘ juster and obtalned admittance. After in- troducing himself and stating his business with tears in his voice the claims adjus- ter began his work. “Now we can settle this matter out of court,” he said. “It s a very small mat- | ter, and there is no sense of rushing into | the courts. Do you know, sir, that you have been criminally negligent in allow- ing that cow to escape its confines and | trespass on the property of the company, endangering the lives of all people on every train that might have passed the | place of the cow’s dissolution? You put | into jeopardy the lives of the employes | of the rallroad company who were on the | train. You subjected the property of the Southern Pacific Company to almost cer- | tain destruction which by the most for- tuitous circumstance did not happen. You—"" | “Meester,” the Itallan broke In with | quivering voice, “I am a vera poor man. | I giva you desa twd dolla, all de mon li hava, sure.” The claim was thus ad- | | Justed. Robert V. Robertson. editor of the Pla- | cerville Nugget, Is at the Russ. | Sparrow Smith, a soap manufacturer | of Sacramento, is at the Occidental. Judge Daingérfield, who has been away on his summer vacation, returned yes- | South- | A letter was | terday and will reside at the Renton, 712 Sutter street. D. W. Witbeck, a banker of Sacra- mento, and wife are at the Grand. Frank M. Meredith of San Jose has re- turned from his mines near-Mojave, and is at the Russ. ‘Walter H. Brown, connected with the Antelope Heights Land and Fruit Com- pany, is at the Grand. A. B. Wood, a résident of Detroit, large- ly iInterested in mines in the northern | part of the State, is at the Palace. THE WIGWAG MAN. | | On, the wigwag man is a very funny lad, | | As he stands with his wigwag flag on a knoll, And wigwags, wagwigs news good or bad | To a far distant wigwag man quite as And he wigs up, wags down, | Wags left, wigs right. Wiggle-waggles in the frown Of battle’s raging might. | And the wigwag flag all around is red, That for war; and the center is white, | eace. s for the living and it wags for | ead, the And not for a moment does the wigwag | cease. And it wi Wa, gs that, wags this, death, wigs life. aggles in the hiss le's awful strife. Wigg! | Of batt | Oh, the wigwag man is a very shining mark As e stands with his wigwag flag on | | the spot, | And wigwags, wagwigs til a Dullet— o AT = he wigwag falters out, while goini down, “I'm shot!” . 3 But it wigs up, wags bold, Wags rear, van, gle-waggles in the hold Of another wigwag man. W. C. MORROW. WAITING FOR THE FERRY. Walker—I'm thinking serfously of fn-| vesting in a chainless wheel. | Ryder—Well, I've got a beauty that I'll | sell_you for a'mere song. |~ Walker—For a song, eh! | of what? Ryder—"Old Hundred."—Exchange. “A throne,” said the boy king, with the gravity becoming his station, ‘s very much like a_bicycl “In what respect? Minister. “Things go easily enough while you're |on. But it's hard to dismount grace- fully.”—Washington Star. Investigation of the bond subscriptions have developed the fact that some men are wicked enough to try to lend Uncle | Sam money under false pretenses.—Phila- | delphia Ledger. ——————— RUSSIA’S DRINK REFORM. The Russian Government is now intro- | ducing “spirit shops” of the so-called “fourth class.”” The managers of the shops of the three classes hitherto in ex- istence are receiving a fixed Government | | salary, and have to deposit a certain sum | of money as a guarantee, in of em- bezzlement. This deposit hindered the opening of spirit shops in small villages, where no managers could be found pos-| sessing the guarantee required. he | “fourth-class shop” removes this diffi-| culty, as it consists only in a permission granted to a local inhabitant to buy spir- To the tune inquired the Prime ——————— | Peanut Taffy, best in world. Townsend’s, | goods line in tk | droll. 1§ | ing about half a ton, reform,” as it practically means the lay- ing of the temptation before their very doors, and facilitating to the utmost the use of intoxicating drink.—Anglo-Russian. RECENT CLEVER INVENTIONS. To protect newspapers against resale a new press attachment places a metal clip on the outer edges of the paper, which must be torn loose before the paper can be opened_ for reading. A New York electrician has designed a new incandescent lamp which has the carbon filament strung on insulators on & flat base, with a dome-shaped glass bulb instead of the usual shape. To indicate when the postman brings mail without the necessity of his ringing the bell the cover of the mail slot is pro- vided with a lever, which makes an elec- trical connection when it is pushed open by the insertion of mail in the slot. Electricity has been applied to a new muscular exerciser, an elastic cord being fastened on the wall, with a ring in the center, to which shorf rods carrying metal grips are attached, the current being ad- Taitted through both rods to the hands, or one wire can be attached to a foot plate to exercise the lower limbs. A Prussian has invented a pneumatic fire-escape, in which an endless chain tted with grips or steps runs over a pul- At The top of the building, four pistc in cylinder being d on a wall-pla and attached to the pulley, to pump through adjustable openings in the cyl- inders. Bicycle han thelr entiire dle bars are belng coated length with a mixture of ground cork and shellac, so that _rl(l- FS San srasp the bar at any place without coming in contact with the metal. — e ———— Soft Baby Cream, Iic Ib. Townsend's. _—e—— Pure Vermont Maple, Iic Ib. Townsend's. * P e Going _out of business; best e specs, 15c to 40c. 65 Fourth, nr ba — e ——— Treat your friends to Townsend's Call- fornia Glace Fruits, 0c Ib, in fire etch boxes. 627 Market st., Palace Building. * ARCaimn o e lasses, ar, ¢ Special information supplied daily to business hous and public men by th Pr lipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. —e————— Trunks and Valises. The recent large shipments of tru valises and alligator carved leather belts make ours and toil WAGON WHEELS OF GRANITE. le cart was lately observed an traveler. The cart was and the wheels were ive stone,each weigh- and as the cum- vehicle rolls along the great wheels emit_plercing screeches, which can be heard half a mile away, and vet it is no uncommon sight to s one of these ten-ox carts with no greater load than scme hay. —————————— To Portland and Return $20 First- Class. Account Pacific Coast Dental Congress. By O. R. and N. Co.’s steamer, salling August 18. Inquire at 630 Market street. e e In the Cuban swamps a bottle of Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters will do wonders to keep your djgestive organs In order. — e ENGLISH VACATION MAXIMS. Here are some English maxims appro- priate to the season of vacations: No holiday is worth anything except the holiday that is earned. Remember that a bag in hand is worth two in the lost luggage office. Ratjonal ease is better than to fash- ionably pleas: ve worry behind or no pleasure find. bersome you'll ADVERTISEMENTS. Baking Powder Most healthful leavener in the world. its from the nearest Government shop and | | resell them in his own cottage for a small | remuneration. This is a fresh, cruel and | treacherous outrage which the Russian | Government is committing upon the peo- ple in carrying out the so-called *‘drink | Goes farther. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. | lar inspirations are primitive in the extreme. We can | | point with more pride to our slaughter-houses than | to our poets, and perhaps we would have a fuller | pride in the slaughter-houses if our custom permitted | the use of their mechanism on poets as well as on pigs. Nor when we consider the kind of music our | composers have fashioned for our war songs, would he poets be pitied much when sent to the slaughter, | for they might as well mingle their voices with the squealing of stuck pigs as to have their poems min- gled with the squealing of such tunes. It would be a cruelty practiced upon the public to rehearse here many specimens of recent war poetry for the purpose of illustrating the wretched sadness | of it all. Let it suffice that one of these war songs pleads: “Break it gently unto mother, if a bullet lays me low, that I fell to serve my country; don’t forget to tell her so”; that another tells how a loving vol- unteer on the eve of his departure for battle leaves his pet dog in charge of his sweetheart and sings, “Treat her well, Mary, treat her well, do; she is all | that ever loved me except, darling, you. If to fall fighting my fate should be, she will remind you sometimes of me.” These mild specimens may be borne, but we care fully refrain from quoting anything from the war songs of George Alfred Townsend and the innumer- able verses modeled upon Kipling’s “Recessional.” A very little of such stuff goes a long way, and we have had much of it of late. The fact that we produce such songs in such quantities and nothing better constitutes one of the most curious problems in our initellectual development. There are more readers in America than in any other country, more writers of average ability than in any other country, more general culture among the people than anywhere else, more pianos and banjos and all forms of musical instruments—why is it then that we can produce under the impulse of an ardent patriotism roused by war neither a good poem nor a good tune? Why is that when we would be jubilant we must sing either a foreign song or a coon song, and that when we sing one of our new war { | | songs it impresses the hearer as something intended less to cheer ourselves than to frighten the foe into fits? = ' B ] Now the fact is developed that Hooley had a scheme to buy Cuba. Probably that was to have been but the beginning. His ultimate idea doubtless was to get a title to the earth. Evidently the lot of a Secretary of War, during a time of war, is not a happy one. LL CONTAIN SENATOR TELLER ON The Dangers & New Oriental Trade WAS THIS MANUSCRIPT WRITTEN BY MOSES? Remarkable Hebrew Antiquities Unearthed in Palestine. NFLUENCE OF DISCUSSED BY PROMINENT THINKERS. A NEW STORY BY Most Picturesque Swindle & END OF FARO ON THE COMSTOCK! THE WAR ON POLITICS BRET HARTE. of Modern Times. Pages of Other Special Features!