The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 14, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN ‘DAY, SU AUGUST 14, 1898. % T i JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ? | Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. | e P e e PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. [ O 3 Telephone Main 1868. | EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2i7 to 221 Stevenson Street | Telephone Maip 1874 ‘l | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s served by carrlers in this city and surrounding towns for IS cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE.... NEW YORK OFFICE DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE..... ...Riggs Honse C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE .Marquette Bullding ¢.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Represcntative. One year, by matl. $1.58 | .908 Broadway | Room 188, World Building | WRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street. corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 930 o'clook. 62! McAlllster street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untill 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street. open untl, 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, opem untll 930 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. on —Corner Market and Larkin streats. Speciaities. ile. Opening ment Tuesday evening. ebail this afternoon. Coursing Park. sing Park. G. H. Umbsen & Co. y street, at 12 0 clock. HER MAJESTY’'S SPEECH. BRITA ament and dismissing ER NNIC MAJESTY, in proroguing Pa her Lords and Commons from further legislative service until [1 aiter the shooting season, has evidently desired to start them on their holidays in a cheerful mood. As far as was possible she spoke to them in what Ten- divine and comfortable words,” _-assuring them t their labors had been excellent and- that by their statesmanship the interests of her people and her empire had been duly safeguarded. Fortunately for her Maj reputation in the world of high politics it is well known that she did ‘ not write her speech. The Ministers who conducted the work of Parliament are the authors of the speech | commending the work, and upon them will devolve the task of defending it against the severe criticisms *tg which it is certain to be subjected. It is notorious | that the interests of the empire have not been safe- guarded, and that even now they are in such a peril- ‘ous condition that before the shooting season on the moors is over the military men among the guests at * the hunting lodges may be called away to war. . As a matter of fact, despite its general cheerfulness the speech itself admits the threatening nature of the - situation. It asserts, indeed, that ‘relations with other ons continue friendly,” and that arrange- ments have been made with the Emperor of China which a.c expected to “conduce to the maintenance oi .his independence and the security of his empire and be favorable to the development of the extensive commerce carried on between the pe of Great Britain and China.” In another paragraph, however, * the Commons are thanked for their liberal appro- " -priations for the army and navy, and the heavy taxa- tion voted for imperial defense, and the significant statement is made, “The sacrifices asked ot you are : severe, but no greater than the exigencies of the time : require.” It is clear from the latter statement that the Minis- ters of her Mzjesty do not see plain sailing ahead, nor are they facing the future with confidence in the i . continuance of peace. There are difficulties all around | them, and not the least of these is that caus=d by the | growing uneasiness and discontent in Great Britain " itself. Salisbury is now an old man, and with his | age there have come weakness and vacillation. Even the members of his own party are doubtful of his | ability to deal with the crisis that has arisen ift China’| - and to cope successfully with the astute diplomatsand | resolute statesmen who are directing at this junctire | the policies of Russia and: Germany. ‘ For a long time there has been in"Great Britain a { g]am‘or for a younger man to take charge of the for- | eign affairs of the empire, but Salisbury holds on. He is not willing to retire and give a free hand to the | aspiring Chamberlain or to Balfour. Neither is-the | _country altogether willing to accept either of these | in his place. The cal! for a young and vigorous states- | man remains unanswered simply because there is'no 1 one to answer it. The Lords and the Commons will, [ therejore, go to their holidays this year in a dubfous | mood. They have done the best they could for their ' empire. They have voted millions for defense, and | now it remains to be seen whether the Ministry can 1 make wise and effective use of the treasure and the | weapons that have been placed in their hands. R —— nyson called “la: les i | 2 The failure to permit General Lee to participate | in any action on Cuban soil is described as the sar- | " casm of fate, but highly critical people might view | it as fate having a political tinge. . The Cubans are .not so disgusted with the situa- tion as to quit fighting, and considering that they no lenger have access to the American ration, they seem . to be doing very well. i * . Samuel” A. Knight has knocked a dent into the'! theory that Democrats never resign. But it may be said of Mr. Knight that he has established a precedent. — - “There is a possibility that the news of peace will | . not reach Manila until after Merritt and Dewey have | manufactured 2 very satisfactory style of peace of | their own. 5 . It is to be hoped the authorities will permit the gentleman who requests the privilege of being buried - alive every privilege he seeks saye that of being dug d up again. ] One of the opponents of territorial extension is the New York World. - excuse that the New York Journal is on the other * side. To be stre there is peace between us and Spain, _ but it will be long before we love each other. | must be conceded a strong personal following. | to the fullest light. | refute, the endeayor will be useless and the end of it | defeat. J ! el be found to thé contest, and even then there was | ever suffered in a single fight with a foreign foe, but | with that exception we won victories as bloodless as | ties, and led in several instances to sad mistakes on the fleet on the day. of battle and victory. {"class with" any wessel It has at least the excellent | | without a sign of a scrap. NO CAMPAIGN OF APOLOGY. NDICATIONS that the present is to be a Repub- lican year are so numerous that there is danger ‘they may be misleading. The possibility of an over: confidence must be recognized by every shrewd ob- server. President McKinley, by his brilliant conduct of the war to a successful issue,‘resulling in honorable peace at the cost of little bloodshed, has-dene much to strengthen his party. Yet it does not follow that at every point the party is invincible, nor that a weak candidate can be elected. The Republicans of California owe it to themselves to put forward as candidate for Governor the best | man to be found. Whoever he may be he will be | opposed to a keen politician, an habitual office-holder who is a demagogue of a'plausible sort; who to Dem- ocrats is a Democrat and to- Populists a Populist; who knows every trick of his calling, and to whom A weak candidate opposed to him, advanced because this is a Republican year, will go down to. defeat as surely as the day of election shall come. Therefore there is leit to the Republican party only one course. It must avail itself of the best material. It must not be led into the selection of a candidatci whose political or private career cannot be exposed The chosen man must have a clean record, from scrutiny of which nothing can be dragged for his undoing. We cannot afford to enter upon a campaign of apology and explanation. There must be no doubtiul transactions to -be cleared away. If the campaign cannot be one of ag- gression it will be one of disaster. If from the start the Republican party shall be forced to make excuses, to try to clear away doubts, to establish the character of its chosen standard-bearer, to deny, to attempt to | These are simple facts, appealing to the intelfigence. They cannot be combated, for “facts are stubborn thing: @ UNIQUE WAR. UDGED by any, or by every, phase of its course '} from beginning to end, our three months’ con- | flict with Spain must be pronounced one of the | most remarkable wars in the annals of history. It is | unique in modern times. Only by returning to the | records of the middle ages can anything like a paral- none of a similar nature on anything like an equal‘ scale of magnitude and -importance. ; During the whole conflict the Spaniards made hardly a serious effort to uphold their cause or their | empire. They fought bravely enough indeed whcni‘ trapped at Manila and at Santiago, but even in those | THE FUTURE OF CUBA. FRANCISCO CALL, E have pointed out the lies of yellow jour- Wna]ism, in partnership with the bond-peddling Cuban Junta, concerning the insurgent gov- ernment of that island. The war has exposed these lies completely. It exposed the bond and blanket mortgage conspiracy which incited those lies. It has exposed the personal, financial interests of yel- low journalism in the bond-peddling conspiracy. Cuba had no insurgent government, nor army, nor treasury. The internal weakness and corruption of Spain had permitted bands of predatory -outlaws to ravage the islands, while the’Junta in New York, with true Spanish instinct, set up a criminal specula- tion in a so-called “revolution,” which was as much entitled to belligerent rights or diplomatic recog- nition as its kindred industry of train robbing in the United States. The President knew all this and asked authority to do what Spain had failed to do, to secure peace and order and stability of government in the island. But the House wanted war and the Senate wanted war and recognition of the insurgent government, which had no existence to be recog- nized. We succeeded in avoiding the folly of recognition and” declared war to expel Spain' front the island. This we have done by the shortest and sharpest war in our history. We have made more history and un- made more geography with a less expenditure of blood than appears in the martial record of any other nation. We have put our army and our nayy fore- most among the world’s fighters by land and sea. We have given heroes and heroic incidents to the history of action at arms, and the chapter will ‘make men’s nerves thrill and tingle through the ages. Now at the end we are faced with the problem. which occupied ‘the soldier-statesman ‘in the White House at the beginning. There is no “Cuban‘ government and no Cuban army. The food ‘we sent to the phan- tom of yellow journalism has been eaten and ‘the am- munition has. been used in murdering prisoners of war and mutilating the bodies of the dead. The President must now act on the declaration of Congress that “the Cuban people are and ought to be independent,” and must secure to them stability of government. " The people, -being. independent, must choose and fashion the form of government that will best maintain their independence and afford the most stable protection te the rights of person and prop- erty. It is clearly disclosed that both will need pro- tection from the criminal rapacity of those pets of | yellow journalism, the so-called “patriots,” whose idea of independence is exemption from labor and | whose highest conception of liberty is freedom to instances the fighting was wild and badly directed. One fleet we sought out in the Philippines and de- stroyed, and another they sent to the West Indies ap- | parently for no other purpose than to have it de-i' stroyed; and that being duly done, they straightway | sue for peace. 1 1i the Spanish authorities had provoked a war with | the United States with the sole object of getting rid | of Cuba without the humiliation of surrendering to | the Cuban insurgents they could hardly have acted | other than they did. They fought just about enough | to make a record of having a war with us, but no | more. The defense of Santiago imposed upon us one ] hard battle, in which our losses were the heaviest we 1 they were brilliant. | The strategy of the Spaniards was, moreover, as extraordinary as their incapacity in battle. Why should Cervera have been sent to the West Indies | instead of the Philippines? . Why should he have | gone into ‘Santizgo and stayed there until block- aded? Why should he then endeavor to escape in- | stead of remaining to help Toral defend the town? | Why, after the fleet was gone, did Toral try to hold | the town which was then of no use to either him or | us? Why, when defense was no longer possible, did | he surrender over 20,000 men with all their arms in- | stead of marching away to join Blanco at Havana? These tactics utterly confused’ our military authori- | the part of our commanding officers. Sampson was twice caught. First he supposed that Cervera would try to break the blockade at Havana, and he there- fore remained there and sent Schley on a scouting exfieditiun,' with tHe result that Schley had the credit 6f ‘chasing the, Spaniards into Santiago. Then Samp- son concludedithat Cervera would stay in that harbor antil forced ‘out by the capiure of the town, so he went away one._day and lost the glory of commanding Miles was e¥en more unfortunate than Sampson. When the, Santiago expedition was fitted >ut Miles was offéred command, but he believed that expedi- tion would be but-a small affair and that the great event of the war would be the campaign against Havana. He therefore scorned to command a sub- ordinate army and sent Shafter to take charge. Now, after all, there is to be no Havana campaign. Shafter has done all the fighting and gained all the glory, and General Miles has had-to console himself with com- manding a junketing expedition to Porto Rico. Is | it to be wondered that he and Sampson despise the Spaniards and regard their war tactics as beneath contempt? 534 According to the philosophy now prevalent in the world there is a reason for everything except the ver- dict of a petit jury. Tt may be assumed, therefore, that some reason exists for the course the Spanish Government has pursued. The discovery: of that reason will constitute the mystery 'story of historians yet to be. but for this generation it will be accounted a conundrum and given up. No occasion for surprise exists in the circumstance that Chinese admitted to the country on the:pretext of being exhibitors at.the' Omaha Exposition should now be living in this city. The exposition scheme is a good one and does not seem to wear out. Now that ex-Governor Hogg of Texas.is here it would be a good fim'e ‘to-ask him'whether or'not he really named his two. daughters Ima and Ura. Per- haps the story was only a campaign libel. U £ Evidently the new Far"ré‘gut u_naerstand§ i‘gs busi- ness.. The torpedo-boat that failed to run into some- thing and’ twist ifs, niose swould 1ot ‘be in the same mow afloat. Aguinalde was what may be termied too previous in proclaimirig himself dictator. He will be lucky if so much as permitted ta.be a private citizen of the Philippines: > —_—— New York and Tennessee soldiers have had a little fight, bt naturally the boys did not wish to go home —_— There seems to be no harm in.permitting Spain to keep a few boats. She can’t hurt anybody with them, anyhow. . % 3 And another sad thing is that Bryan never smelled powder. 3 : 4 Maguire has so many of them. b For some men to explain their position is easy; steal the property won by the industry of the thrifty and orderly people. The President having directed the war to a con- clusion; having so managed the friendship of Great | Britain as to protect us from a Centinental alliance; | having convinced Spain that she would better treat | directly with us for terms, and having so humbled | her false pride that she conceded all of his conditions, must now address himself to the greater task of bringing order out of the Cuban chaos. It may be expected that the yellow journals will try | to poke their long fingers into this question. We ex- pect torrid pronunciamentos from the Junta and negro rhetoric from the San Domingan Gomez, and | a renewal all along the line of the issue of recognition of those unworthies. They still hug their blanket mortgage and want to lay it like a blister of canthar- ides to draw the substance of the island from those to whom it belongs, for the benefit' of the ‘crooked, criminal and yellow journalism and the gilding of their own pockets. It is to be hoped that the coun- try will aid the President in following the line Gf his knowledge in the premises by founding a govern- ment on something else than bandit raiders and bar- barous robbers. AN UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION. HE *“sectional” political argument when once Tintroduccd into State politics may be made to produce some curious results. We. trust our esteemed Republican friends in Southern. California and Alameda Cotinty, since they are using this line of argument for the promotion of their influence in | this campaign, will not take offense if we direct their | attention to a few facts in connection with it. Our purpose, we may add, is to foster the general Re- | publican welfare and not to make odious compari- sons or draw invidious distinctions. 3 At the election of 1896 Alameda County cast about 22,000 votes. At the present time the county is repre- sented in the State and National Government by a United States Senator, a Superintendent of the Mint, a Commissioner of Emigration, a Congressman, a Supreme Justice and a member of the State Board of Equalization. For the coming campaign the county has presented two candidates for Governor, a third who' claims that he formerly resided within its boundaries, and the usual number of aspirants for minor offices. The region south of Tehachapi comprises seven counties: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Ber- nardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Ventura. At the election of 1806 they polled about 60,000 votes, or less than one-fifth of the total vote of the State. The region is not heavily Republican. It gave Mc- Kinley a little over 1000 plurality. In the present na- tional and State government Southern California has a United States Senator, an Attorney General, a clerk of the Supreme Court, and the usual quota of local officials. It will present to the coming State con- vention candidates for Governor, Supreme Justice, Attorney General, State Treasurer and clerk of the Supreme Court. At the Legislature of 1809, if that body happens to be Republican, it will present the names of twa candidates for United States Senator. Southern California and Alameda County, it will thus be seen, although' casting less than 25 per cent ‘of the vote of‘the State, are in possession of nearly all the offices. If they are given what their politi- cians ask for in this campaign and ‘the people elect a Republican_administration, ‘Southern ‘California and Alameda County will have actually captured “every- thing in sight.” 3 bl We do not know whether the politicians of these regions have ever heard of it, but there is a city in California _called San Francisco. It cast at the last election over 60,000 votes. Vet it has no Senator, and it is represented in the State government only by two Supreme Justices. ' We have not thus far in this campaign heard anybody in Southern California | or Alameda County “mention” a San Francisco can- didate for any office. In fact, the silence in this re- spect is so oppressive that Mr..de Young has been compelled to “mention” himself for Senator. Would it not be a good idea for the politicians of Southern California and Alameda County to consider this city in connection with something? We defeated the last Republican Governor over here, and but for us Bryan would have carried the State. We are cer- tainly entitled to a poundkeeper, a rear porter, a tide waiter or somethin, | sentenced Rea will probably find at Sacramento that even if he can carry Santa Clara in his pocket there is not | room in that receptacle for the whole State. - 2889&83882&88883988828858828989583393332838898‘238888288888895933 WITH ENTIRE FRANKNESS. By HENRY JAMES. BEBRBRVBLLLEURURRIBRRRS nRNRR RNuURHRRULRLLLN Some people object to the title of this column. Some go so far as to object to the general style of it. I call at- tention of the malcontents to the fact that there are many other thingsto read. There is Shakespeare and the Bible, and the rest of the paper. B Wi e Charles B. Hill writes to me a gentle note of correction. Mr. Hill is an as- tronomer who has the peculiar advan- tage of being so tall that he gets right among the stars without any neces- sity for using a telescope. I have for him the greatest respect, but he can’t call me down without exciting a few remarks. He says, does this towering Hill, that I said in the game of crib- bage four fours and seven count twen- ty. Now I never said anything of the sort. The man who said that four fours and a geven count twenty was somebody else, and he is off on a va- cation. I never assume to say any- thing about matters of such serious import, and couldn’t tell a game of cribbage from a sewing circle. Ac- cording to all mathematical rule, four fours ought to count sixteen, and seven more ought to make twenty-three. Ac- cording to Professor Hill, the total is twenty-four. I don't see how he fig- ures it. But argument is useless. I will - give Professor Hill the address of his adversary as soon as it can be ascertained, and am certain the pro- fessor will get the worst of it. There is no wisdom in a mere scientist’s buck- ing against a trained query editor, whose business is to know all that anybody else knows and a great-deal that nobody else ever thought of. P TS The Alameda Encinal refuses to be- lieve the doctrine that God made the law ‘of the survival of the fittest. Well, there may be room for doubt. The Encinal survives. It is a circumstance to be deplored that Mary E. Martin is to be freed from the penitentiary. The pretext seems to be that the woman does not have the best of health. She was for one of the meanest bunko games ever perpetrated, and I did not happen to notice that the Judge in passing sentence said, ‘“For four- teen years, or as long as agreeable to the lady.” ol e There is somebody who writes in the Fresno Watchman “Ideas of the Hour.” There are enough ideas to prove that not a minute of the hour has been wasted. 5 . It is not surprising that the lepers supposed to be incarcerated in the pest- house should be walking the streets. Leprosy, as I understand it, i3 a mis- fortune, rather than a crime, and the victims of. it-have some right to be regarded as human beings.. The place provided for them is not fit to shelter a sick dog: I do not know who are re- sponsible for the outrage, but whoever they are deserve to have the malady, and I trust the lepers will look thém up and endeavor, with Success, to com- municate it KOS s e Occasionally Governor Budd says much in few words when he .would be wise to use more words and say less. For instance, he wrote of the First California after they had made a good record under fire: “What else could we expect? They are Californians.” It seems to me that they are also Americans, and that this would have been the better view to have taken. b e The man who writes his own epitaph is apt to make a mistake. = There have been: exceptions, as when Stevenson penned the beautiful lines marking his resting place, but Bismarck was no ex- ception, “A faithful German Servant of the Emperor, Willlam 1.” Such was the word he left to be inscribed upon his tomb. It is not a proud epitaph. Bis- marc¢k was great in life, but the ap- proach of death seems to have en- smalled him. A life devoted to being the faithful servant of any individual ‘would be in great measure wasted. I move that the epitaph be revised to read: “The faithful master of the Emperdr, whose servant he was sup- posed to be.” . A man named James writes to the Visalia Delta to explain that the war with Spain was a horrible mistake. I am pained to know that a person with such an excellent name should be so distressingly off his base. PR s e The correspondent who speaks of “light refreshments being dispersed” probably has reference to the guests. we To touch upon politids has never been my province in this column, but now that the war is over, and Publicola, having devoured me, is quiescent, while the Visalia poet is singing low, I want to make an incursion into the untried domain. I think this will be per- mitted, the attitude of the Examiner being excuse enough, and its ridicu- lous efforts to stir up.discord, or make people believe it has, supplying the pre- cise text. Now what is the Examiner anyhow? A journalistic buffoon, jing- ling its bells and drawing attention to itself by monkey antics, and having caught the public eye and ear, not re- alizing that it is being hissed and hooted, for it is not even an educated monkey. It is a paper whose repre- sentatives were bounced from Cuba be- cause of the malign efforts to make mischief there; whose opinions are jeered and whose “news” is only be lieved when there is corroborative evi- dence, It does not appear to me that the Examiner’s efforts are being well directed. But a drowning man has a right to catch at straws, and with Ma- guire and the Examiner animals on the Democratic raft the catching has begun early. The Examiner wants the public to accept its statement that the leaders of the Republican party are at outs, and view each other with distrust. The public has had its fill of gold bricks. It accepts nothing from that source. Having'no more personal pol- itics than the writing newspaper man generally, I can view the scene with- out bias, hoping only that the best man may win, and confident that Maguire is not only not the best man, but about the worst who could have been selected. He bears the standard of the Popu- lists, and Populists roar a protest. He will bear the standard of the Demo- crats, and many Democrats have al- _Andrew can think of nothing better to s 2 s e 8 ready begun their shouts of disap- proval. No wonder there is a desire | to create the impression that the Re-| publican party is eplit. Colonel Dan Burns, whom I do not know and never saw, is being reproached for his silence. The Examiner is doing this. In the| enforced absence of Hearst, Andy Law- rence is the Examiner. I recall hay- ing seen in public print statements con- cerning Andy, charging him ~with| blackmail and other crimes. It does not appear to me that any antagonism from this creature can do aught but| benefit that against which it may be directed. Colonel Burns is “silent.” | That is, he does not summon Andy to the ’phone and break into the confi- dence of that gentleman. He does not resent the attacks, because mayhap he has important things to do. I haven’t very important things to do myself, and therefore undertake to throw these few comments into the situation, as| everybody wants to contribute some- | thing to the campaign. I believe the Republicans will win, because they in-| tend to unite on a good candidate, and | all the present discussion is directed to- | ward finding out who this man may | be. It is an entirely. proper and fra- | ternal discussion, and the Examiner cannot produce enough noise to dis- guise the fact, nor conceal that the| Democratic camp is the seat of broils. Still, it will be admitted that Colonel Burns is “silent.” I do not doubt that in his silence he occasionally Hhreaks into a smile at the frantic exhibition into which the Examiner has resolved itself, all of it tending ‘to Injure the Popo-Demo outfit. ‘When the Merry do than reiterate alleged remarks of Colonel Burns concerning others high | in the party, remarks supposed to have | been made long ago, in all probability | never made, and of no public impor- | tance if made, it strikes my humble judgment that the Examiner needs an editor of brains and character. How- ever, this is hardly worth mentioning. It has needed such an editor for a long | time. Gy No, Bard. You are spelled with two r's from this time on. o e The willful murder committed by‘ Cheesman in Oakland strengthens a theory I have long entertained. This man, judged by all standards, is crazy, | and yvet he ought to be hanged with- out delay. TUnder the mysterious dis- pensations of Providence there are cer= tain individuals fit for nothing else but the scaffold. I believe that when a man is mentally competent to plan a | crime and carry out the plan, he should | be punished for it, even if the fact is established that his grandmother was queer and an uncle on his father’s side | once addicted to kleptomania. In fact, I would favor the abolition of the plea | of insanity. When murderous intent is unrestrained the practical result is| the same, whether the assassin is a lu- | natic, a degenerate or a vulgar rob- | ber. Hang them all, and get them out of the way. The public is under no | obligation to keep them, and is domg‘* no good by doing so. g | 3 Teitee | A distinguished local journalist has gone to the trouble of endeavoring to show the general superiority of the Spanish over the American and nations of kindred blood. The first impulse upon reading the fool stuff is, of course, in the direction of anger, but to per- mit any such impulse to have sway would be an error, and much to the delight of the journalist in question, | who does not deserve any such tribute. When Bierce, who is one of the strong writers of the time, runs on with the wanton babble of an idiot, any thought- ful person knows upon reflection that he does it deliberately and with the hope of winning tha@ disapprobation which is dear to his contrary soul. ksl Compliments to “A Subscriber” and PageE | Those witching, witching | They can feel reassured now. | boxes. 627 Market st., Palace Building. up a fashion of injecting perfume a fiend injects morphine. I do not know how this will affect their 106ks, but ih the end it ought to make them pleasing cadavers. * o * To me: the most pitiful feature of the war has not been the deaths of some of the soldiers in battle nor the hard- ships suffered on a foreign field. At least the soldiers died while stimulated and inspired by the thought that their lives were being offered to their coun- try. As to the hardships undergone by the rest, these had been expected and were inevitable. But the young soldiers for months in camp héré hdd a right to expect decent treatment from the Government. They have not had it. Unnecessary exposure has killed many 6f them. The food has been bad. The uniforms furnished ha: been shoddy. Unless observers ha been led astray, some of the docto: are incompetent and some of the nurses unfit to give bran mash to an ailing mule. People may théorize-all they want to about these faets and try to invent excuses for the authorities, but there can be no shadow of excuse. At first there was a rush and gonfusion, but passing weeks should have reme- died all this. It did not. There has | been neglect and cruelty, and the row of graves in the Presidio Cemetery has been steadily growing, and each mnew mound is a silent and awful reproach to the army and the War Department. The brave lads sleeping there ought to be still wearing the uniform of the troops and ready to obey the call to duty or go to their distant homes. They are as truly martyrs as those who perished at Santiago. To me their fate is the pitiful feature of the .war. I would erect to them a monument and on it inseribe: “Murdered by the Na= tion They Loved.” LADIES OF OLD CADIZ 1'd like to go to Cadiz, Just to see those witching ladies, ladies, the orange blossoms blow; With their dainty cigarillas, And their quite too sweet mantillas— ©Oh, to Cadiz, with its ladies I will go. ‘whers And when our guns were booming, With a pity quite consuming I would say, “Oh, charming ladies, pleasa to hustle now aboard; For although we humble Cadiz We don’t war against the ladies, And the ladies of old Cadiz need not fear the Yankee sword.’ And with their cigarillas, And their all too cute mantillas, I would load yp every cruiser with this fascinating crew; And so by easy stages I would brinfi these fair hostages, All these ladies of old Cadiz, far acrosg the ocean blue. Clgveland Plaln Dealer. BOSTON UNTERRIFIED. One gratifying result of our recent na- val operations is the relief of Boston’s apprehensiops. The worthy people in the New England metropolis, modestly con- sclous that no other placc in the Unfted States could be known to the Spaniards, have been in hourly terror of the descent of a Spanish fleet upon the Beverly shore. Our sailor boys have done their work completely. Not a seagoing Spanish war vessel has been left unsmashed on this side of the Atlantic, save the Infanta Isabel, skulk- ing behind the forts at San Juan. Nahant and _ Nantasket, Manchester-by-the-Sea and Beverly Farms are as safe from at- tack as Chicago or Pike's Peak, as, in- deed, they have been right along, save to a _supersensitive sense of Boston's splendor. The Bostonians who have with- drawn to the Interior may resume their usual seaside = studies with the proper peace of mind.—New York Sun. i S Treat your friends to Townsend’s Cali~ fornia Glace Fruits, 50c 1, in fire etch . —_———— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, - Conductor—Say, can’t you read? Man with the Cigar—Of course, I can. Conductor—Well. don’t you see that sign that says: *Gents will not smoke on this car?” Man with the Cigar (ndignantly)—I want you to understand, sir, thai gent.—Chicago News. CLpmae e To Portland and Return $20 First- Class. Account Pacific Coast Dental Congress. By O, R. and N. Co.s steamer, salling August 13, Inquire at 630 Market street. First and Second will’ she, he or it explain what it, he or she may happen to be a subscriber | to? “A Subscriber” says: “Hew to| the line; let the chips fall where they may.” An excellent sentiment hereto- fore indorsed. I may not be an ex- pert in hewing to the line, but I think | the anonymous writer, who presumes | to send his, her or its counsel to a | newspaper is about as low a type o(‘ the coward as ever appeared on the human horizon to fulfill the mission of being a horrible example. If there are any chips about this, I hope some of | them will fall where they may attract the attention of “A Subscriber” to the fact that she, he or it is a feminine, masculine or neuter ass. I had already given warning that the anonymous ! were unpopular with me, but the case under consideration is not particularly grievous, and so I use only mild and | pleasing terms this time. But a day of wrath is coming. S “R.. M. M.” presents some original thoughts in the Fresno Republican, but I think he will excuse me for saying | that he is too filppant. His dgclara- tion that Christ, if on earth, would be | offered $25,000 to speak the Sermon on the Mount into a phonograph, jars on the nerves alike of the religious and the worldly. The Sermon is one of the grandest enrichments of literature and morals. ‘With the utmost friendliness, I would give a word of counsel to the young woman who sends in a story entitled “Love’s Work,"” if I thought for a mo- ment she would heed it. | e | & e Lilllan Russell has gone abroad to sing. She is said to be under contract to do this for $3000 a week. Now, what | is the sense in lying? Everybody who | knows enough to chew gum, to 'say nothing of 't‘le superior beings who know enough 'not to chew it, knows that she will not get any such ‘money. | 1-regret to have reached the conclu- | sion during Lilllan’s last visit to the | coast that she is fair, forty, fat and a frost. "If the Massachusetts regimental of- ficers who resigned did so, as reported, because they drew the color line and | refused to return the salutes of negro‘ = troops, it was proper to accept their resignations, but they ought to have been escorted to the edge of the camp and kicked across by the insulted sol- diers. Paris women are said to have taken Class rates again reduced via the Santa Fe Call at the new ticket office, 628 Market, —_——————— A visitor to the British Museum reports that he saw a countryman standing be- route. | fore the bust of a woman in a collection 3 ot statuary. | ed in the act of colling her hair, and, as The woman was represent- visitor came up, the countryma ing to himselfs. e No, sir, that ain’t true to nature. She aim't ot her mouth full of hairpins.’— ADVERTISEMENTS. MACKAY’S Furniture Must Go! THIS DEPARTMENT TO RE EN- TIRELY CLOSED OUT. Stock complete in every detail. A rare opportunity to buy good goods. At auction prices. A few quotations: EAST! 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