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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 189 THURSDAY _AUGUST 18, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propnetor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. | BosdoTurbedios == PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1863 EDITORIAL ROOMS..........217 to 221 Stevenson Street | Telephone Maio 1§74 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents @ week. By mall $6 per year; per montp | €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFIKCE.. VEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Buillding One year, by mail, $1.5@ .908 Broadway THE FUSION CONVENTION. STUDY of the proceedings of the Democratic convention at Sacramento presents it as a meeting held to ratify the nominations al- A | ready made by a wing of the Populists, and the distri- bution of offices arranged by the State committc_es of the Populists and Silver Democrats and Republicans. The convention is not, therefore, a body met to | deliberate upon matters of principle, to present high | issues of living force to the people for judgment. About nine men, representing the three State com- mittees, had decided upon the nominees and the al- lotment of the offices, and all that the convention had left to it was action upon its organization. As this was its sole part in the play, its energies, all of the pent-up oratory that is usually kept in hot storage, were spent upon such petty questions as the tempo- rary and permanent officiary of the body itself. Im- DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Represcntative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ..Rigge House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE.. ...Marquette Bulldlng C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. | | “BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 930 o'tlook. 621 McAllistér street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 941 Misslon street, open untll i0 o'clock. 2291 Market street, carner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untli 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, opem untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana ntucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS, Columbta—+Trilby. " Alcazar—Frederick the Great " Morosco's— Work and Wages." Tivoll—“Lohengrin.” Orpheum- Vaudeville. The Chutes—Zoo, Vaudeville and Cannon, the 613-pound Man. Olympia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets, Spectaltles. The Veldrome—* Battle of Maniila.” Mechanics' Pavilion—The Irish Fair, Saturday August20. Sutro's Baths—Swimming. Central Park—" The Battle of Manilla," Saturday, August 20. EI Campo—Music, daneing, boating, Ashing, every Sunday. | State Fair—Sacramento, September 5. i ! { ! AUCTION SALES. By Frank W. Butterfield—This day, August 18. Machinery and Tools, at 204 Mission street, at 11 0 clock. | AN ANOMALY AMONG CONVENTIONS.; BOUT the management of the Democratic | fl convention thus far there have been several £ Y ‘features almost inexplicable. The lack of en- | thusiasm is not to be regarded as surprising. There | is some stimulus even in a forlorn hope, but the ab- sence of hope means apathy. Therefore the gathering is devoid of enthusiasm. Even the comiorting thought that the head of the ticket, backed by the fragments of two parties, might be saved and there be spoils to divide, has vanished. ~The Democrats do not like | their temporary associates and they do not like each other. So the apathy is natural. But Democrats have a right to be stirred by the impulse of patriotism. At the convention there has been not a thrill. ' The attempt in that direction yes- }Q(day was a failure, and had only been made in re- sponse. to direct hints from outsiders. This strikes an observett as odd. One day the Democrats denounce | 2 man as n instrument of the corporations and thrust him from promised position. Dockweiler was to have been tempgrary chairman. Because he was charged with being' a Southern Pacific ally he was turned down. A fkw hours later he was chairman of one of the most iniportant committees, empowered to direct | organizatioft, and not only to name the permnnenti chairman, Dut the permanent chairman’s committees. This also has a queer look. Cassin, after having been published as a Buckley follower, was selected to pre- it over a convention whose principal inspiration | ose from the privilege of expressing detestation for | Buckley. Will somebody kindly clear away the con- | jectures which naturally arise over the perpetration of such a freak? The long, meaningless speeches such as took up all the time yesterday may be forgiven, for if the Demo- ! crats are the offenders they must be also the chief suf- | ferers. But what is the sense in expenditure of words concerning a subject, determination of which had al- | ready been arranged in caucus? We do not pause for | reply. We do not expect a reply. There is none to | Democrats appear to be conducting their conven- tion as a badly organized freak. However, it is their . own and this year of no importance. ].\Iarket street, between Second and Sixth, will be paved with bituminous rock, “so that there will be a “ smooth surface from curb to curb, laid according to specifications requiring a substantial pavement.” This utopian statement is not made, however, without some misgivings. It is accompanied by a resolution | « passed by the Board of Supervisors which orders the | Market-street Railway Company to pave between its | tracks. No guarantee is offered that this aorder will | be complied with nor is anything said about the cor- i poration and other vandals who will take possession | of the street and tear it up the moment it is put in perfect repair. However, a good point will be gained when the bitumen is laid up to the cable tracks, even if it never | gets further. The Market-street Company is sadly wanting in civic pride and desires nothing more out of Market street than the nickels it can pick up; hence it is extremely probable that it will refuse to | pave between its tracks until the courts have directed | it to do so. But if the highway is paved on each side of the tracks the spectacle of a curmudgeon corpora- tion in the center will do something more than make “politics” for Mayor Phelan and the anti-rail- road Democrats. It may shame some of the directors of the Market-street Company into expending a few dollars for the general welfare, At all events, whatever the result, we shall have an object lesson in bituminous rock pavement under the very nose of the town, and the educational effect can- not fail to be good. Heretofore streets paved with this material have been left to fall into ruin. Third street is already a wreck, and California street, between Montgomery and Battery, has long | been a horrible example of municipal neglect. In fact, not only has the covering on the latter street been permitted to wear into holes, but the concrete foun- dation has been allowed to follow its example. In- deed, it is doubtful whether the latter can be ‘repaired | without relaying large blocks of it. On Market street, however, all the evils of munici- pal neglect and the vandalism of the local burrowing corporations and contractors will become conspicu- ous. The people will have a chance every day to ob- serve how a public thoroughfare in charge of the ‘Street Department goes to ruin. If they stand the proeess ‘without protest they will exhibit greater ‘patience than they are now believed to possess. So even if the Market-street Company persists in ex- hibiting its parsimony and lack of civic pride some- thing will be gained by paving Market street from Second to Sixth. Perhaps the lesson will be costly, | | | | PAVING OF MARKET STREET. T is announced that within the next forty days | made a judicial candidacy seek the man. i fierce. passioned oratory was emitted upon the grave sub- ject of whether a delegate having been offered a rail- road pass, which was refused, carried suspicion over | to the candidate he might support for ¢hairman or member of a committee. On this issue tar-and- feather speeches had to be made and had to be an- | swered by sapolio oratory, intended to be cleansing to the man assailed. No issue of principle being raised, personal issues sprung up; the lie passed and re-passed between men, and it was turned into a laundry meeting for the | soap-and-watering of a great stock of dirty linen that has been accumulating during the six months of in- trigue and plot and counterplot, made necessary in playing the game for control of the party, through domination of its committee. The war horses of the party were not in evidence, | but the polo ponies were there, and the Populist com- mittee was on hand to see that they were kept cinched and bitted, and did not back nor balk under the bur- den put upon them by the Populist convention. There was much in the convention to discourage a good citizen who looks upon parties as the expres- sion of popular government. Candidates for the Su- preme bench were there, legging it for a nomination, with all the arts used to promote the ambition of a town constable, and the bench was dragged through the mess and muss and mire as irreverently as if it i had been a hog yoke. There were no signs of that reserve which formerly The office was hunted and harried like a jackrabbit chased by a coyote. In the midst of such scenes and incidents the Dem- ocratic party was transferred to the Populists. Judge Mzguire, having said that there was nothing objec- tionable in the Populist platform from a Democratic standpoint, it was demonstrated that the Democratic standpoint had so changed from that of Jefferson and Jackson, Tilden and Cleveland, as to make it certain that the party they led no longer exists. It has gone into history, and anarchy, communism and Populism have cast lots f8r its garments. It remains to be seen whether the new party can survive a campaign and a defeat. Judge Maguire’s “new Democracy” is the fruit of an attempt to build | a political party on the diseases of society, instead of upon the social health. It is like summoning an army to consist of those who cannot pass the medical examination and filling | its ranks with the physical failures, thus sending forth rickets and rheumatism, dyspepsia and appen- dicitis to fight the battles of the country and uphold its flag. As long as society is, so long the social diseases will he, and if we enter upon the policy of building politi- cal institutions and public administration upon them, pcpular government will fail, as will an army selected for its physical disability. LESS WORK FOR THE CREMATORY. F any reliance can be placed upon the statements luf the swearing sharp of the Examiner, that paper is rapidly decreasing the circulation of its fakes and falsehoods. It is not improving in quality, but the quantity of the stuff may be said to be improving, for it is growing beautifully less. The latest of these “sworn to” statements shows that the circulation of the Examiner was in the month of July 837 less than in the month of June. State- ments of the same kind published last month showed a decrease for June of 4350 copies as compared with the circulation in May. In the two months, there- fore, the diminution in the extent of the Examiner nuisance amounted to 5187 copies. This falling off implies less work for the crematory. Mr. Hearst has fewer papers to burn, and his patron- age of the crematory is less profuse than it has been. There is no reason for believing it has wholly stop- ped, but that is a side issue. The point to be noted now is the decline in the circulation of the yellow gar- bage sheet just as the political campaign is opening up and newspaper reading among the people is ex- tending. A decrease of upward of 5000 copies of *the Examiner circulation within the space of two months is a clear proof that things are becoming better, and in fact it may be set down as a municipal improve- ment. Up at Sacramento the partisans of Phelan are claiming that the Mayor is responsible for every re- | form ever made and the author of all things good. The world must have been a dark and wicked world before he had the kindness to be born into it. According to advices from Washington an explana- tion may be demanded as to the conduct of Germany in the Philippines. No explanation seems necessary. If anything is demamded it ought to be an apology. Some of the Democrats when asked concerning fusion make remarks which cannot be printed owing to certain restrictions placed upon 'the character of mailable matter. Now that the Monterey has been in action, the en- tire list of warships made in San Francisco has un- dergone the test of battle. And each stood the test with honor. The electric fan at the Democratic convention went | out of business yesterday. It was a day of oratory, and competition in the furnishing of wind was too LABhE T ot 1f San Francisco ever learns to view lynching with favor it must first be understood that the victim is guilty of something worse than a dark complexion. pasI Ry The Cuban who was shot while trying to steal from the American commissary stores deserved what he got for being too lazy to ask for rations. T G THE EXPECTED HAPPENS. ISPATCHES of yesterday irom London an- nounce it is understood there that an ex- change of .views is going on between the Great Britain and Russia, and that the ~negotiations are proceeding in a con- ciliatory spirit on both sides. Russia, it is said, declares she has no interest financial or otherwise in the Peking-Hankow railway, nor a desire to acquire any. While this information is based only upon general report it will not require much confirmation to make it credible by the public. In fact, it is just what was expected. The friction between Great Britain and Russia in China may be irritating, but it has not yet reached a point beyond settlement by judicious diplo- macy. That has been well understood all along by the business world, and accordingly while tlie rumors of an impending conflict have been of an alarming nature for some time past, nobody has been alarmed. No stock exchange in Europe or America has been affected by the reported imminence of war. Finan- ciers have gone on with their affairs as well assured of peace as they have been at any time in the last ten years. It would not be surprising to learn that the refusal of the Chinese Government to permit British capital- ists to finance the Peking-Hankow road was done on the initiative of the Chinese themselves and not by reason of any prompting from Russia. It is well known that the Empress of China is averse to the British, and would exclude them from the empire al- together if she could; while Li Hung Chang, who is now in power again, has always been desirous of de- veloping China by Chinese energy alone and with as little outside interference as possible. Thus the report that the Russian Govern- ment had brought about the violation of the agreement between Great Britain and China as to the construction of the road was probably a false alarm, and the Ministers of the Czar may be stating the exact truth when asserting that they have no interest in that road and do not desire any. It would certainly be bad policy for either of the two rivals for supremacy in China to precipitate a war with the other at this time. Russia requires all her energies and all her capital to push forward the Siberian railway. The completion of that vast un- dertaking will be more valuable to her than any vic- tory she is likely to gain over the British in the East, and it is not probable that her statesmen will engage in any war they can avoid until that road is completed, and possibly until the great canal from the Black Sea to the Baltic shall also be opened. Great Britain has just as strong reasons as Russia for keeping the peace. Despite the reports again and again repeated that Salisbury has been worsted in his diplomatic contests with foreign powers and that British interests have been sacrificed, the results show that Great Britain has been gaining right along both in Asia and in Africa. She has got hold of the best as well as the largest part of Africa, and when her railway from the Cape to Cairo is completed she will be in a position to virtually dominate the whole in- terior of that continent. Her hold upon China, moreover, is more potent even now than that of Russia, Germany and France put together. She needs years of peace, however, to perfect and strengthen her grasp upon what she has attained. Her merchants and her financiers under- stand that very well and so do her statesmen. If, therefore, there is to be a speedy war between Great Britain and Russia it will be the result of something unforeseen, some clash that will rouse the people of the two courntries and force the hands "of diplo- matists. SECRETARY DAY’'S RETIREMENT. RESIDENT McKINLEY, although notable p among our public men for the stability of his friendships and the steadfast conservatism of his character, has had a remarkably instable Cabinet. He has been in office but little more than a year, and D Governments of already has made changes in the offices of Secretary | of State, Attorney General and Postmaster General, and is now to make another in the State office. None of these changes was the result of any capriciousness on the part of the President or of dis- agreement among the Cabinet officials themselves. All of them were brought about by causes thoroughly understood, and none of them took the public by sur- prise. That which is now about to be made in the office of Secretary of State is of the same nature. It was known at the time that Mr. Day assumed the office cn the retirement of Sherman that his ap- pointment was temporary merely. While Sherman was nominelly the chief of the office, Mr. Day had virtual control and carried on all the negotiations with Spain that led up to the war. It was natural, therefore, that on the retirement of the former Secre- tary Mr. Day should be chosen to fill the office until the Spanish business was settled, arfd equally natural that with *he close of the war his temporary charge of its duties should terminate. The record achieved by Mr. Day in the high office to which he was called is highly creditable to him. He entered upon the work without having had any considerable experience in the conduct of public af- fairs, and none at all in the department of diplomacy. He was confronted at the outset by a problem of great complexity. A mistake on his part might have led us to commit the blunder of recognizing the Cuban insurgents or of giving to some' European pewer a plausible excuse for interference between ourselves and Spain. He avoided all errors of such a nature and has been completely successful in his conduct of our foreign relations. ‘With such a record of work accomplished under great difficulty Mr. Day will go out of office with a much higher reputation than he carried into it. When he went to Washington as Assistant Secretary of State he was an unknown man, and the friendship of the President for him was generally assigned as the sole reason for his appointment. It is now recog- nized that he was in every way worthy of the high position to which he was called, and that his services have been highly beneficial to the Government. This is not the first time in our history that men comparatively titknown have proved themselves able to bear great responsibilities with honor to them- selves and benefit to the nation. It is from such ex- amples that we learn the vast reserve strength of the American people and prove our fitness for self-gov- ernment and our ability to find in every emergency a man capable of mastering all its difficulties. Secre- tary Day will not rank in history as a brilliant states- man, but he has been a safe and thoroughly patriotic official and will retire from office with the respect and Madrid mouras over the result of the war,and every other nation on earth has the privilege of saying “We told you so.” 5 i & Perhaps Germany forgot to put an immediate de- livery stamp on her congratulations over the return of peace. Those who did not register are now wondering what they have gained by losing the privilege of ‘but it will, nevertheless, be useful and valuable. voting. i g. esteem of the whole country. s Among the thousands of soldiers who have been quartered in San Francisco there has been only one murder, excepting those committed through * the | sanitary condition of Camp Merritt. Vil el S Anybody who does not regard Gavin McNab as the flower of honesty has only to ask him about it. Give McNab his own virtues as a text and he will preach as long as there is an audience. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. J. J. Hebbron of Salinas is staying at the Grand. W. N. McDougall of Placerville is at the California. H. B. Rice of Falbrook, Cal., is at the Occidental. Frank H. Webster, a rancher of Min- turn, is at the Grand. F. B. Ladd and wife of Placerville are guests at the Grand. Leon Carteri and daughter of Barbara are at the Baldwin. Seymour Waterhouse of Placer County 1s registered at the California. F. K. Roberts, a Santa Cruz merchant, will be at the Lick for a few days. A. W. Fisher of New York and Erie A. Knudsen are staying at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Perkins and family of New York are registered at the Pal- ace. M. Gilmacher, a prominent merchant of Santa Ana, is at the Baldwin for a short stay. Dr. T. Jeff White, a well-known den- tist of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Lick. Bainbridge Reynolds and Reynolds Hayden of Washington, D. C., are at the Palace. E. H. Foote and wife of Grand Rapids, Mich., were among the arrivals at the Palace vesterday. C. H. Duell and wife of Washington, D. C., and R. B. Messer of Hastings, Mich., are at the Palace. H. W. Jackson, a prominent redwood manufacturer of Blue Lake, Humboldt County, is at the Lick. Judge William R. Daingerfield, who re- cently returned from the country, is con- fined te his room by illness. D. S. Combs and wife, the Misses Nora and Lila Combs, and Miss Annie Brown, of St. Marcos, Texas, are guests at the Grand. Santa gflfifififitznfig A story that oons cerns a certain $© LOST FAITH ¥ major in this o IN g State, who Is one % NEWSPAPERS. ¥ ooirisn Hovur - spirits in Repub- o O lican copnclls, SO G OO runs something as follows: One afternoon the aforesaid major came up from the lower country, accompanied by his wife. It happened that there was going to be a prize fight by two well known fistic celebrities on that night, and although he would dearly have loved to witness it he had yielded to the earnest solicitations of his better half, who did not believe “in those degrading exhibi- tions,” and had promised her not to go, but to take her to the.theater instead. Just as they were entering the Palace they met a friend, who stopped and sald, “Ah, major, come up to attend the prize fight, eh?”’ He did not notice the darkening brow of the lady nor the appealing wink of her husband, but went on. ‘“You bet you wouldn’t miss one of those contests.” The dense friend only quit his badinage when the madame said curtly, “Sir, the major never attends those brutal af- fairs. The next morning the major was look- ing over the newspaper, mainly to see the result of the previous night's contest, when . his eye was attracted by a picture which filled a quarter of a page, with the caption, “Prominent people at the fight,” and heading the procession in unmistaka- ble caricature was the major himself and under it his name in large, bold type. He experienced quite a shock on seeing it, and going to his wife said," "My dear, did we not go to the theater last nigat?”’ She re- plled, “We certainly did, and enjoyed it.” “Then,” said the major, “look at this and see how these villainous newspapers can prevaricate about things.” And the lady saw the picture of her husbgnd and the notice of his attendarice at the fight. “Now,” sald the major, ‘you see these newspapers are.not to be depended on,” and his wife said, “I will never believe one of them again.” T. N. Callen, a liquor merchant of St. Louis, is on an extended visit to this coast, and is making the Baldwin his headquarters. C. M. Cotterman, chief clerk of the rail- way mail service, with headquarters in Portland, Or., is visiting Superintendent Thrall in this city. F. G. Ostrander, prosecuting attorney of Merced, and Frank Plant, a large fubber manufacturer of Boston, are among the guests at the Lick. Fitzhugh Loughborough and wife of Los Angeles, E. Jacob, a Visalia capitalist, and Dr. H. N. Winton and wife of Hay- wards are registered at the Occidental. Third Vice-President Stufbs ana Wil liam Sproule of the Southern Pacific Com- pany will leave for Denver to-morrow to attend a meeting of the traffic officials of the transcontinental lines for the pur- pose of inquiring into the cutting of rates on the various roads. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas M. K. Smith will start this evening for New York to Jjoin his regiment, the Tenth United States Infantry, at New York. The colonel re- grets not having an opportunity of going to the front. He has been on this coast for several years, and has many stanch friends, who will regret his departure. The colonel's family will remain in this city. Frank Dinsmore, one of the old-time pioneers of Alaska, who has been lying critically ill for several months at the Commercial Hotel in this city, was able to leave yesterday for Alma, Cal. There are favorable developments in his case, and it is now considered possible that he will live for some years. The nature of his malady has not been understood by the doctors. Dinsmore is one of the most widely known of the Yukon traders, hav- ing entered Central Alaska over twenty years ago. When brought down here by friends early in the summer it was not thought possible that he could survive many days. ——————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—H. T. Scott of San Francisco is at the Holland and J. Kelton and Frederick Markham of San Francisco are at' the Normandie. —————— HUMOR A PRECIOUS GIFT. I regard a sense of humor as one of the most precious gifts that can be vouch- safed to a human being. He is not neces- sarily a better man for having it, but he is a happler one. It renders him indifferent to good or bad fortune. It enables him to enjoy his own discomfiture. Blessed with “this sense, he is never unduly efated or cast down. No one can ruffle his temper. No abuse disturbs his equanimity. Bores do not bore him. Humbugs do not hum- bug him. Solemn airs do not impose on him. Sentimental gush does not influence him, The follies of the moment have no hold on him. Titles and decorations are but childish baubles in his .eyes. Preju- dice does not warp his judgment. He is never in congeit or out of conceit with himself. He abhors all dogmatism. The world is a stage on which actors strut and fret for his edification and amusement, and he pursues the even current of his way, Invulnerable, doing what is right an roper according to his lights, but utterly indifferent whether what he does finds approval or disapproval from others. If Hamlet had had any sense of humor he would not have been a nuisance to himself and to all surrounding him.—Lon- don Truth. ———————— SENSIBLE SELF-CONFIDENCE. One of the important results of the war is the development of a rational self- confidence among the American people. ‘When President McKinley delivered the ultimatum of Congress to Spain a vast number of business' men throughout the United States regarded the future with gloomy forebodings. Spain’s paper navy loomed large in thelr eyes. The supposed possibility of the bombardment of sea- port towns created something like a panic in Boston and other New England citles. Predictions that business would.be pros- moist, | And deep In his loyal heart he rejoiced; trated, that industry would be struck with paralysis and that the nation’s cred- it ‘would be shaken to its foundations, were current in that portion of the press which' vehemently opposed the ejectment of Spain from Cuba. We have been at war for two months, and the utterances of the alarmists who foretold widespread financial disturbance and popular distress have already been forgotten. The nation is buying and sell- ing, cultivating the soll, manufacturing goods for domestic consumption and for- eign use and engaging in all its usual forms of peaceful activity without inter- ruption. Bank clearings show a marked increase in the general volume of busi- ness. The railroads are reaping larger | profits from the transportation of troops | and supplies. The soundness of the coun- try’s credit has been magnificently dem- onstrated, and it is recognized on all sides that the Government can, if necessary, dispose of the entire $300,000,000 in bonds and certificates authorized by Congress without going abroad to ask for a single doilar. These are lessons that deserve to be heeded. They do not prove that war is a desirable thing, but they do demonstrate the latent strength of this republic and the stability of our financial system, faulty though it may be in some particu- lars. Nations, like men, need faith in themselves. The events of the last sixty days have brought with them many com- pensations.—Philadelphia Bulletin. THE URCHIN'S TALE. Above the sound of the traffic that roared In the neighborhood of the bulletin board Came the lisping tones of a_seven-year-oM, And the man gave heed to the tale he told; For the man was a man of a martial air, Though white was the drift of his snowy hair; And his eyes grew bright and he smiled for Joy At the warllke words of the little boy, Who spoke to his comrade, small, freckle- faced, With a Cuban flag on his tattered walst. ““What stock,”” sald the vet, “‘when grim war's alarms Break out in the speech of the babes in arma! ““When the discourse of children is talk of guns | And heroes are -praised by the little ones. “Ay, what a stock! What a sturdy stock! ‘What fighting chips of the fighting block!"’ The seven-year-old by the bulletin board Heard none of all this—or, hearing, ignored— But went right on with his tale of strife— | “De battery licked 'em, you betcher life! “De battery done it; ah, don’t forget Dat battery was onto its job, you bet. “De udder captain was sand clear t'roo, But he was 'fraid o' dem cannon balls, too. ““He cheered up his gang, you know—but nit; Dey tried deir best, but dey couldn’t hit. “An’ den'—and the old man's eyes grew And he bent his head and he proudly smiled At the epic sung by a little child, | And his pulses throbbed and his being thrilled— Then he gravely . thought.of the maimed and tlled; | For he had fought, and he knew no fun's | Provoked by a charge on the enemy's guns. | He fancied the carnage—the death and smoke | Of the battery charge—then the wee boy spoke: | “De battery it did all o' de work— | Me brudder pitched an’ wuz caught by Burke.” | —Chicago Record. | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. : WOMAN SUFFRAGE—E., City. Yes, in Kansas, women exercise the right of suf- frage in municipal elections. | —_— | RED ROCK, G. H. P, City. Red Rock | is in 55.30 north and 20 west at the head of San Francisco Bay, but a short d tance from the Pablo Bay. self, having used the expression me a soldier, or give me death. the first and second class; North Dakota, 1000 or more; Ohio, 10,000 or more; Maine, au places having 300 or more votes; Mi souri, cities of 100,000 or more; Wisconsin, cities of 2000 or more and townships of 3000 or more; New York, in cities and vil- lages containing upward of 5000; Rhode Island, non-taxpayers are Tequirea to register; Texas, cities of 10,000 or more; South Dakota, in cities, but not in coun- try precincts; Washington, in all voting precincts having a population of more than 20 voters. There is no registration in Indiana, New Hampshire and Oregon. It is prohibited by constitutional pro- vision in Arkansas and West Virginia. RENOUNCING CITIZENSHIP—A. B. H., City. This correspondent says: “Ten years ago I became an American citizen and voted at the election of 1888. I then returned to Australia, resided there about three years, took some interest in the elections there and voted there. I have now returned to California for good. I wish to know if 1 could haye registered for the coming elections?” Under the cir- cumstances stated the _correspondent couid not have been registered, as since his return he is as much an alien as if he had never been naturalized in the United States.. A citizen of the United States who leaves the United States for a foreign country, takes up his residence there and takes part in_the affairs of that foreign country, such as voting at s his citi- elections, by his acis renounce zenship as a citizen of the U nited States and assumes the citizenship of the coun- try in which he has taken up his abode and exercised the rights of an elector. Upon his return to this country, wishin, to be a citizen thereof, he must proceec exactly as if he had never been here be- fore. The rule is that a man cannot be a citizen of two nations at the same time, and he must elect which nation he will 'be a citizen of. The moment he makes that election he surrenders the citizenship of the nation he turned his back upon. ~— e GERMANY'S DAY DREAM. Germany, it seems, cherishes the dream of being still further aggrandized at the expense of its European neighbors. About the only way that it can justify itself in seeking to bring about a realization of this dream is to assume that it is best for people of the same blood to be united. When the German empire was formed at the close of the Franco-Prussian War, not all of the Germans were included by any means. There are some 20,000,000 of Euro- pean Germans who are not citizens of the German empire. There are 10,000,000 Germans in Austria, and Germany sees in its mind's eve the day when Trieste will be & German port and the empire will have a Mediterranean outlet. Then there are 3,000,000 Germans in the Baltic prov- inces of Russia, to say nothing of the Ger- mans in Holland, Belgium and Switzer- land. There seems to be a good many obstacles in the way of gathering in all of these Germans, but it is said to be the actual, though not the avowed, policy of Germany to overcome these difficulties. Already a sentiment favorable to Ger- man unity is being cultivated wherever | there are Germans. The scheme is worthy of the devotion of German statesmanship. The annexations contemplated would be annexations of contiguous territory and homogeneous people. It would be a genu- ine accession of national greatness—more than all of the islands Germany might get could be. Germany would better grow as much as it can in Europe before it gives its attention to far-away colonization. In the meantime it would better keep on the good side of Great Britain and the United States.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. —_———— SPAIN’S FINANCIAL COLLAPSE. It is estimated in Madrid that the war is costing Spain $28,000,00 a month in direct expenditure, not mentioning indi- rect cost. Since April the Bank of Spain has ad- | vanced $40,000,000 on treasury bonds, tak- southern limit of San |ing a mortgage on the revenues, and $7 o1 Co B | 000,000 on a nominal $200,000,000 of Govern MISS VAN NESS—M. C. G., City. This | ment 4 per cents, worth about $66, department Is unable to find any record | of Miss Van Ness, who recently shot her- | “Give | in the London market. Thus Spain has borrowed $115.000,000, for which she sacrifices her revenues and promises to pay $240,000,000, besides inter- est. The sum thus secured will last MIZPAH—H. B., City. The meanlag of | barely four months from April, or say 7atch tower. Read verse 49 | of the thirty-first chapter of Genesis and | you will understand the beautiful uppro- | priateness of Mizpah on an engngsment | ng. | — | CORBETT-SHARKEY FIGHT—H. W. | K., City. and -Sharkey at the Pavilion on the 24th of June, 1896, in the fourth round Corbett | nodded to Captain Wittman of the police force. He jumped into the ring and pulled Sharkey away. MEDICAL JOURNALS, A. G., City. Medical journals that are generally read in the United States by the profession are the Medical Times and the Medical Review of Reviews of New York, and the Medical Bul of Philadelphia. ENAMEL—A. S., City. This department | cannot inform you if there is engaged in | this city any firm or person that is in the | business named in your communication, | for the reason that it does not advertise the business of any firm or person. You are respectfully referred to the advertis- ing columns of The Call. BOW ON—A. S.. Newman, Cal. The picture of the torpedo boat in The Call of the 18th of April is strictly correct. It represents her bow on with a strong wind filling her sails. The peculiarity of the construction of vessels of her class give rise to the Impression that the stem Is the stern, or the reverse. NAVIES—H. M., Keswick, Shasta Coun- ty, Cal. Germany has about three hun- dred and ten fighting vessels. It is gen- erally conceded that the principal navies of the world rank as follows: Great | Mizpah Is Britain, France, Italy, Russia, United | gt:fies, Germany, Austria, Japan and | pain. KINGDOM—S. M., City. The reason that Great Britain is not called a ‘“‘queen- dom'” is because the term is not recog- nized. There is no essential difference between the titles of King and Emperor, but in ancient times the latter ranked | above the former. The term Emperor is of Roman origin, while King is of Teu-| tonic origin. A QUARTER REAL—A Reader, City. | The coin submitted Is a quarter real of Guatemala, the smallest silver coln mint- ed. Such coins can be purchased in this city at the rate of six for a quarter. In the country where minted they repre- sent, where the peso Is the unit, one- thirty-second of that unit, or 3 1-8 cents. | The American value of the peso of thaj | country is 41 cents, therefore the coin | hnst a’ circulating value here of 1982/ cents. THE NORTHERN LIGHT—G. / L., Cholame, San Luis Obispo County, Cal. The bark Northern Light, Captain White- sides, master and agent, left thS port for Kotzebue Sound May 12, 1898, but no word has been received from hér since. Communication from that = dstrict is very irregular and that is the reason that nothing has been heard from It may be several weeks or even modths before anly tlnfurmamon is received from that point. / A MATTER OF UNDE*TANDING— A. O. 8., City. Whether_ in purchasing a half interest in an estadlished business, a_party would bhecome/ responsible for one-half of the debts of the concern, Wwould depend upon thg conditions of the sale. An Individual who purchases an in- terest in a business should always find out if there is any éebt, and then make arrangements as to, whether he will as- sume a portion of such and make his payment of the pirchase money in ac- cordance with thé responsibility he as- Sumes. It has bheen held that if an indi- vidual blindly bscomes a purchaser he assumes one-ha'f of the responsibility, for it is a case of caveat emptor, or let the purchaser de on his guard. REGISTEA')‘!ON OF VOTERS—C. B. F., Oakland, Cal. Voters in California were not refuired to be registered until 1878, when the present law went into ef- fect. In Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticyt, Delaware, Florida, Georgia. Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Mas- sachusetss, Michigan, Minnesota, Missis- In the fight between Corbett | sippi ontana, Nevada, New Jersey, North (Carolina, " Pennsylvania, ~South Carolind, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Vir- ginla snd Wyoming no one is allowed to vote #ho is” not registered. In other States there is only partial registration. In Iewa cities with a population of 5000 re; Nebraska, cities of 7000 or more; cKy, : , 5000 or more; Kansas, citles of till September 1. In the meantime, in order to secure even these small loans, Spain has permitted the bank to increase its issue of depreciated notes so enormously that financiers evi where regard the collapsé of the bank it- self as an impending event, and so close- v are the bank’s affairs and the national nances connected that the bank's col- lapse would involve that of the Treasury it has so long and so painfully supported. From the first every financier in Eu- rope has seen clearly that Spain could not carry on war with the United States with- ut invoking financial ruin, Now every financier sees that Spain cannot long con- tinue the war even at that risk. The time draws near when she will not be able to buy food or arms or ammunition for her troops or to pay for their transportation from one point to another. So the financiers and bankers and busi- ness men of Spain are added_to the list of those who call upon the Ministry to make peace as_the only means of prevent- ing universal bankruptcy throughout the kingdom.—New York World. e e FRECKLES AND THOUGHT. We are almost constrained to say fare- well to the freckle. The girls declare it must go. The pretty little dots left by Kkisses of the sun have been hunted from pillar to post through many a long cam- paign, often unsuccessfully, but the time of the most obstinate of them seems to be perilously near. The girls are going to think them off. Tt is the latest discovery of occultism, and it will be brought into service in hun- dreds of resorts this summer, we are told, Those who consider themselves affiicted will_form_ ‘“circles” and sit around and think. and think, and think, and by dint of taking thought they will improve com- plexions. But will it improve them? Is it a dem- onstrated fact that a freckle is a thing of ugliness? Think of all the women you can remember and see if it is not true that the one whose natural endowment of 0od health, good humor, graceful vivac- %y, and wholesome wit was accompanied by a healthful array of freckles like those in the depths of the tiger lily was the most fascinating and the most dangerous. Helen of Troy probably had freckles, and we.doubt if Cleopatra ever wholly got rid of hers. —_——————— Cal glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’ —_———— Special information supplied daily to pasiness houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. 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