The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 21, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, ...AUGUST 21, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, :Propretor. ISP EUS Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager, | PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. P. { Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street | Telephone Maln 1574 | FHE GAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) ts served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a wesk. By mall $6 per year; per montd €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE <esee....908 Broadway | NEW YORK OFFICE.. ..Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. Riggs Houss C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE. Marquette Bullding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative, | ...One y . by mall, $1.59 WRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 62! McAlllster street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open until 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'ciock. 106 Eleventh street, open untl 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk strect, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS, ck's Love Moroeco's—“Work and Wages ' i Tivoli—"“Lohen | Orpheum— Vaudeville. | The C deville and Cannon, the 613-pound Maa. | ason and Eddy streets, Specialties Mec on—The Irish Fair, tutro’s Bathe—Sw Central Par The Battle of Manilla.” nbra, Eddy and Jones streets—Vaudeville. Opening eptember 3. | Suspended Animation—Corner Market and Larkin streets? Recreation Park—Baseball this afternoon. ursing Park. sing Park. dancing,boating, fishing, every Sunday. THE DESTRUCTION OF FORESTS. THE preservation of the forests of California is | of such prime importance as to demand public public It is customary to put foremost the needs of While mining is is and xpression and be formulated into a policy. mining and some other interests. important and deserving intelligent attention, it safe to say that the protection of our forests forest lands is the greatest economic question in sight in this State. It is a permanent interest. The wealth and influence of the forests are not temporary. In no part of the world do the pines and other conifers re- produce themselves as rapidly as here. It is shown by the catalogues of Professor Lemmon that California has a greater variety of useful cone-bearing trees than { any other part of the world. Nature plants species and sets her forests where the conditions for their growth are best, and the great number of ¢ T found here is proof that the conditions for their growth are better than anywhere else. What nature has lavishly planted man is more lavishly wasting and destroying. The forest fires of this dry year are appalling in their extent and in the waste they have caused. The timber destroyed equals in valué the entire gold out- put of the State. Not only is the standing timber gone | but the young trees coming on are destroyed and the mountain soil is baked by the flames, killing the seed that waited for moisture to sprout and grow and re- | new the forest crop. | At this moment the mountains are lurid with these fires from Mount Wilson to Shasta. In both the Coast Range and the Sierra Nevadas the fires are so general that the landscape is hidden by smoke, and its pungent effects are felt by passengers on trains in | the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys. | Timber in the Government parks and reservations | is being destroyed in vast quantities, and the unre- served forest is falling before the flames like stubble. The State can well afford to spend a million a year to | protect these forests. Some plan should be devised for summer police in the mountains, and everybody who enters the forests, camping, hunting, fishing, prospecting or to cut timber, should be identified and located. Whoever is caught handling fire carelessly, | leaving campfires to smolder, throwing cigarettes in the duff or in any way endangering the timber by carelessness or design should be severely punished. | The man who will draw the statute to protect the | forests and to punish forest arson will be a public | benefactor of the first class. ! Heretofore forestry has been considered a fad by | The mill and lumber companies | the average citizen. have had the general idea that forestry is intended to prevent the use of timber for lumber. These mistakes | need correction. Forestry is as definite an art as | agriculture or horticulture. Like them it is devoted | to the planting, protection and production of a crop, | that is to be harvested for the use of man, when it is ripe, like any other crop. Instead of being inimical to the interests of the lumberman, forestry is a promoter of his business by preserving the kind of property in which he deals and | by rigidly protecting its reproduction. Now, with the sorry spectacle of hundreds of miles | of forest fires on view from one end of the State to the other, is the time to rouse public attention and get some pledges of public action to put an end to this wanton and criminal waste of the State’s best and | most valuable property. Captain Barnes offered his sword and his imposing figure to his country conditionally. He was to go to | Manila or not to stay in the game. He has not been | sent to Manila, and the chances do not seem particu- | larly bright, and yet his country has not forwarded a | release. Now, if this country can’t live up to a square bargain, what sort of a country is it anyhow? Some Southern millionaires who have an island to which they resort yearly for a good time are much l distressed because a regiment has been quartered on the holy ground. Of course there will be general sympathy for them, but if they are deeply aggrieved | they might buy another island. Manager Haverly of minstrel renown is again a bankrupt. Evidently he is the same old Haverly, and | as his liabilities are more than $300,000 and his assets | next to nothing, it is evident that he has not changed | ‘much with the passing years. B Four persons have been sent to jail for 100 days each for killing trout with dynamite. All the fault to be found with this arrangement will be by the four. Still, 100 days is a pretty light sentence for the offense. S i Old Pard Bassett keeps right on filling space, but probably there is no one but the helpless proofreader who has the slightest idea what he is filling it with. ol Augusti and Blanco might enter on about' équal terms into a contest for the booby prize. When the “Star-spangled Banner” is played in Sac- ramento next week there will be some shouting. | must make for the good name and prosperity of the | times when | state,” and it is our most solemn conviction that such A | over his head. | paign enters upon its next phase remains to be seen. T | dying, lifts to him a warning hand with the stern cry, THE COMING CANDIDATE. HE work of the fusion convention has brought into focus a very grave and important public duty. When such a duty appears it may lay a peculiar burden upon a political party, but that duty ceases to be wholly partisan in its character. A party then, in an exceptional sense, becomes the trustee of public interests that are not partisan. The Republi- can party is placed to-day in this position of trustee- ship. Tt stands upon ground from which it may ap- peal with confidence to all citizens, and in a cause in which its success is less a triumph of party than a vic- tory for the wholesome people upon an issue that is lerger than any party contention. The interests of locality and personality fade in the presence of such a responsibility. Talent and fitness | are not geographical qualifications. Wherever the Republican party finds a man fit to lead the battle it State he is our standard-bearer. The Call divests it- seli of personal preference and even of mere party spirit in the presence of this issue. The matters in- volved are too serious for consideration within local lines. Where the choice of the party falls that choice, whether it wait for demonstration in the State convention or is indicated before that body meets. There come in the history of all commonwealths “none are for a party, but all are for the is our a time is now upon California. The voice of faction is now not nearly a sort of party treason, but it is an offense against the state. | can wait for a Personal and geographical issues more convenient season. The welfare of all cannot wait, but is in issue now. A CHICAGO PRECEDENT. CASE recently heard in one of the Police | Courts of Chicago has attracted a good deal | of attention from the press of that city by rea- son of the novel point involved, and it is worth noting | here, as the judgment given may serve as a precedent | for the settlement of a similar controversy that has arisen in Sacramento. : The issue is that of the rights of an uninvited guest. | ‘According to the reports that come to us, a certain Joseph Velsiczki took to himself a bride, and in cele- bration of the occasion gave a feast, to which he in- | vited numerotis friends. To the banquet uninvited came Mr. Murphy, who not only partook freely of | the dainty viands and the hedonic swizzle, but insisted | upon kissing the bride. Roused to wrath by the un- i invited inebriate the bridegroom seized a large tank- ard of wine, and, after pitching the booze into the | face of the effender, proceeded to jam the tankard | Being thus blinded and partially muzzled, Mr. Mur- phy could neither fight ndr argue the case, and was summarily thrown out into the wide, wide world of | Chicago at midnight to save himself or perish. It is asserted that his muffied roars sounding through the streets frightened the police, but this was not proved by the evidence given in court. What was made cer- | tain, however, was that Mr. Murphy, after trying vainly to remove the muzzling tankard with his hands, | did in his desperation butt his head against the curb- | stones and lampposts in an effort to break the uten- | , thereby doing himself great damage. In the end the strange noises drew the attention of | the police and the unfortunate Mr. Murphy was taken 1 to the station, where, by the aid of a club, the head | of him was released from the tankard. Mr. Murphy preferred charges against Mr. Velsiczki, but the court | dismissed them on the ground that while an unin- | vited guest at a bridal feast may drink of the wedding wine he has no right to kiss the bride, and that while | in endeavoring to do so he may get damage, he is not | entitled to damages. Mr. Velsiczki was dismissed and | Mr. Murphy was held for disturbing the peace. he nuptials of Democracy, and Populism at Sac- ramento were attended by Major Harney of this city and certain other uninvited guests, It is not clear that they ever showed any desire to kiss the bride, but they did insist on sharing the swizzle. To them, as to Mr. Murphy of Chicago, it happened that the swizzle was thrown in their faces and the Maguire tankard jammed down over the heads of them, and they them- selves thrown out to rip and roar about the streets and make the nights of Sacramento hideous with noise, 5 Whether Major Harney and his colleagues will suc- ceed in getting rid of the muzzling-tankard in time to make a clear statement of their cause before the cam- In the meantime their muffled roaring will resound like the warble of the Examiner’s siren heard afar off. Under the judgment given in the Chicago case there seems no remedy for their wrongs except that of busting the tankard and setting them free. That course we advise them to take. They should not have gone to a wedding that was none of theirs. Having gone and suffered, the one right thing for them to do now is to release themselves from the Maguire muzzle and live better lives hereafter. AN INVESTIGATION NEEDED. HE front page cartoon in Harper's Weekly shows a group of American soldiers stricken with pestilence, lying uncared for and dying, while Uncle Sam with horror in his face looks on ap- parently helpless, and Columbia, kneeling among the “The Government must fix the responsibility or the country will.” The cartoon in no way exaggerates the indignation in the Eastern States over the terrible suffering among the troops of the army at Santiago and the extraordinary number of deaths that have occurred among them from disease. On this coast we have not been affected by these things. Our volunteers have not been in that pestilential camp. Letters from hus- bands, brothers and sons have not come to our homes in hundreds telling of the lack of food, medicines and nurses. In the East it has been different. Through their boys who marched to the front the people of all the States beyond the Mississippi have been in close touch with the Santiago expedition, and the tales of distress coming from there have fiiled all that portion of the Union with intense indignation. There are differences of opinion as to the person mainly responsible for the suffering that has.prevailed and the deaths that have occurred from a lack of suffi- cient hospital and medical supplies. It is clear, how- ever, that some one is to blame. When the soldiers of a nation so rich as this cannot receive all requisites for their proper care when sick, in a campaign so near our shores as that in Cuba, something is surely wrong. ‘Such things cannot be the result of accident merely. ~ The legend of Harper’s cartoon is right. The Gov- ernment must fix the responsibility or the country will. As a matter of fact the Eastern press is at this time busily engaged in trying to fix it. The sub- | | tion of the Spanish domain in any part of the world; | country rich in natural resources, capable of support- ject at present is receiving more editorial attention than politics itself. Up to this time opinion is divided as to the guilty party. Some blame the War De- partment, some the medical staff and some General Shafter. It is clearly a matter that demands investi- gation in order that the innocent may not suffer along with the guilty. In the face of the popular demand for a searching inquiry into the matter it is not likely that Congress will delay in appointing an investigating committee as soon as it assembles. In the meantime popular judgment against any man or set of men should be withheld. Eastern papers which are now attempting to fasten the blame upon some particular person be- fore an impartial investigation has been made are pursuing methods more sensational than just. Some of them indeed are so bitter in their attacks upon the Secretary of War as to lead to the conclusion that they are more eager to make campaign capital against the administration than to find out the truth. It is indeed regrettable that the record of the war so glorious in every other respect has been stained by this blot. The evil has come, however, and the best thing we can do now is to find out the cause of it so as to be able to guard against similar occurrences in such wars as may happen in the future. For that rea- son an investigation is imperative. Congress must fix the responsibility or share it THE CRISIS IN SPAIN. HEN the war between the United States and Spain broke out Don Carlos is reported to have declared his followers and himself would sustain the Spanish Government in its fight; but that if the Government consented to surrender a por- he would at once assert his claim to the crown and enter Spain at the head of an army for the purpose of overthrowing the Government that had been found incapable of maintaining the empire. . The war has been fought out and the Spanish Gov- | ernment has surrendered all her islands in this hemis- phere, and virtually surrendered the Philippines. Don | Carlos, however, has not yet started on his march to overthrow the Government. He has not even ap- | peared on the Spanish frontier with a sword in one | hand and a manifesto in the other. Don Carlos, in | fact, seems to have collapsed as completely as any other Spaniard. | It is gratifying that the Carlist insurrection which | threatened Spain has not occurred and that circum- | stances tend to the conclusion that there will be no | serious civil outbreak in the kingdom of any kind. | There is no reason why there should be. All Spain is responsible for the war. All Spaniards approved it. | Nearly all of them have suffered more or less from it. | All ot them have recognized the need of making | peace in order to avoid greater suffering that would | surely follow a continuance of hostilities. ~ All of | | them, therefore, should be willing to share the re- sponsibility of the surrender and make the best they | can of the situation. The work of redeeming the past is not going to be | | an easy task for the Spanish people, but if they will | let insurrections and civil disturbances alone they can accomplish much, though, of course, their wide colo- | nial empire is gone forever. They have, however, ai‘ ing three or four times the present population and | possessed of a history whose records of accomplish- | ment in art, literature and exploration are calculated | to arouse the highest faculties in the minds of the ris- ing generation. If they turn to these better things and put away the old corruptions and tyrannies that have degraded them, there . is no reason why they | should not revive the ancient glory of their race and become once more helpful to the world, instead of | being a cause of strife and war. - To start the Spanish people upon such an upward | course will tax the sagacity of her ablest statesmen | and the devotion of her truest patriots. She has used | her colonies as sheep to be shorn when she needed or wished the wealth she could wring from them. Now | she must rely upon her own wealth. Upon her people must rest the whole burden of taxation to maintain the Government. There are no longer any lucrative colonial offices to be distributed as the spoils of poli- Economy must be practiced, and the practice will come hard at first. There will be discontent, which will prompt a Carlist insurrection. If that | should come to pass and the insurrection prove suc- cessful, perhaps the last chance for a revival of the race would be lost and Spain would take her place ir- redeemably among what Lord Salisbury called the “dying nations.” 3 MORE FTBOUT THE CUBANS. fl S peace dawns-the difficulties of our situation in regard to Ciba multiply: This country must fall squarely back upon the President’s original ground, upon which he de- sired to receive the right of intervention to secure that stability of government in Cuba which Spain had failed to bring about. Let it be repeated, often, that the yellow journals wanted recognition of the Cuban insurgent govern- ment, which the President declined to give. The world is in' possession of evidence nc v that the insurgents were a small, lawless and disorderly ele- ment, which Spain in her decay and self-deception and corruption was incapable of controlling. Let it be understood that we did not make war for these de- generates, but in behalf of the civilized people of the island who were suffering because Spain could no longer protect their personal and property rights. Abundant testimony has been printed to prove that the first duty of the United States in Cuba will be to do what Spain failed to do—protect the people against the insurgents, and, if necessary, wipe the latter off the face of the earth. _ Major General Young, who commanded the Sec- ond Brigade in General Wheeler’s division, adds his statement to that of Fitzhugh Lee and all otherhonest observers in Cuba. General Young is a native of Pennsylvania and a regular army officer. He says: “As far as my personal observation goes the insur- gents are a lot of dégenerates, absolutely devoid of honor or gratitude. They are no more capable of self-government than the savages of Africa. They are a mixture of the negro, Spanish, Italian and Indian, and inherit only the bad qualities of each. The United States cannot afford to turn Cuba over to them. They would loot everything in sight and then turn in and rob each other. Most of ‘the leaders of the so-’ called Cuban army are adventurers, ready to sacrifice everything and everybody -to further their personal’ ends. It is my opinion that few of them would hesi- tate to sell out to the Spaniards if fully convinced that the United States will not deliver the island over to them. We should never turn that beautiful and rich island over to a lot of degenerates, who are not capable of self-government,” If we were fighting for such a gang as is described by General Young and others, who met the insur- gents face to face and not in the yellow journals, Congressional speeches and pictorial magazines, we were guilty of a farce and a folly. The only justifica- tion for the war is that we had to protect the rights of man against these very insurgents because Spain had failed in her duty. SR tics. 1 189 rsmssesssssansussssnsasssussssgusumsssssssssuz: WITH ENTIRE FRANKNESS. By HENRY JAMES. HERRRRRRRINBRRBRRRRNR LRR-R R After having attended a political con- vention lasting three days and far into three nights it is difficult to come to the consideration of anything else. I have still ringing in my ears the en- comiums showered upon hopeful aspir- ants for office, who, being merely hu- man, did not deserve the praise they got. I retain vivid recollections of trickery exposed, of ambitions crushed, of promises made in secret to be broken in public. Men called each other liars and had no trouble in establishing the allegations. Honors thus being easy such episodes closed at once. The con- vention did not develop one person of extraordinary talent. Nobody rose above the commonplace. There was not a single masterful speech, although that of Mayor Phelan was a good one, the effect largely spoiled by undigni- fied action while Mr. Phelan was try- ing to help the Examiner nominate Coffey. However excellent a jurist Judge Coffey may be, and however strong the faith in his integrity, the handicap of yellow journalism’s sup- port was too much for him. As though this had not been too great a weight | the Los Angeles delegation must throw its 81 votes to Coffey. Whatever that delegation did was certain to excite the antagonism of all other delega- tions. Thus its friendship was fatal. »is miy A To say a word concerning the Los Angeles delegation fell to my lot dur- ing the week. I never saw a parcel of men so effective in a negative way. They came with arrogant demands for everything; they went home beaten and humiliated, after having richly earned the experience. There were two or three able men in the crowd, but the rest were puppets, bound, gagged and not daring to so much as wipe the perspiration from their brows without having solemnly caucused and obtained the permission of Patton. I do not understand how Patton or any- body else can dominate a free-born American citizen in this fashion. To me it is the strange feature of politics, a profession into which I have dipped only deep enough to see the corruption, the insincerity, the open, palpable, un- blushing - and generally unpunished fraud. Men honest in their usual walk in life leave their characters behind them when they go into politics. T would not take the word of a profes- sional politician on a matter relating to politics, though he made oath to it, swearing until black in the face by the ashes of his grandmother. The up- right citizen, drifting casually toward politics, finds what awaits him, and either gets out or becomes a chronie, living by his unholy wits. The indi- vidual who has no connection with conventions more than to vote at a pri- mary, when the boss consents to the holding of a primary, has no more to say about who shall be nominated at a convention than he has about the course of the planets or the tempera- ture of hades. The good citizen, elected to office and remaining a good citizen, is a happy accident. I wish he would happen oftener. . Governor Budd seems to me an ideai chairman. He exercises complete con- trol, has a pleasing wit which acts as oil on stormy billows, and while he oc- casionally violates parliamentary | usages, does it with so good a purpose that instead of resulting in confusion it allays tumult and dissipates chaos. When he was succeeded by Cassin, the contrast was painful. Cassin may have ability in certain directions. T think possibly he might plow corn. As a chairman he is a complete, abject and almost laughable failure. But a sense of pity generally checked the hi- larious. ) w2y Of course, the convention has been described in detail, and I only touch now upom some salient features of it. The lack of enthusiasm was not strange, but the lack of patriotism was. The common emotion seemed to be a concentrated greed for office. Na- tional airs excited no response until some of us called attention to the fact that such airs ought to be recognized, and then the response was perfunctory and inadequate. I have no doubt the Republican convention this week will take a lesson from this circumstance. To sit under a canopy of flags and lis- ten to the “Star Spangled Banner” without manifesting appreciation does not seem to me either good American- ism or good Democracy. Wi Wil Not enough has been said about the gracious hospitality of Sacramento to- ward the two conventions. The man- ner in which the Pavilion had been prepared bespoke a disregard of ex- pense, and the effect is highly artistic. Even the weather has thus far been kind, for while it has been warm it has not” been oppressive, although far dif- ferent from the sort prevailing in San Francisco. One feature of the capital city which strikes a summer visitor from the metropolis is the beauty of the girls as accentuated by the cos- tumes the state of the thermometer permits them to wear. There are no heavy wraps, no capes nor boas. (I believe the grrangement San Fran- cisco ladies muffle their necks with in the evening is a boa.) Instead, there are lawns and muslins and laces through which arms show, as beseems the genuine summer girl. My only ex- cuse for ringing this in here is that these summer girls constituted by far the finest feature of the decorations which lent charm to the Pavilion. S The convention this week will be on a different scale. The men to receive nominations will have a right to sup- pose that they wili be elected and not be obliged to carry. on a fight with no other reward than a consciousness that to get licked Is sometimes a political duty, from which the partisan patriot must not shrink. I have a belief that the Republicans will have no great difficulty in winning as to everything but the Governor, and that by naming a good man from San Francisco, whose record is clean, who is new to the ac- tivities of a campaign, they will elect the head of the ticket. But, as I noticed The Call saying a few days ago, a campaign of apology would be ruinous to the prospect of Republican suceess. Several of the leading aspirants have opened headquarters and are summon- ing their clansmen. They cannot be blamed for this, yet I expect somebody who has hardly more than been men- tioned to develop sudden strength at the convention and carry off the hon- nuN 3 wuRy BERRRVRVRRURRES ors. As to some of the aspirants now mentioned, it would be a misfortune to have them win at Sacramento, for they wouldn’t win later. However, 1 am no prophet. These are not predict.ons, but guesses. e One of the interesting pretenses of the Democratic situation is fusion. I observed that the delegates were dls- gusted at the idea and heard them roar that they. would never submit. But they went through the form of sub- mitting. They did not do it heartily, as those to whom sober second thought had brought new light, but in the sul- len manner of men whipped into line. Probably few of the delegates, when they vote next November, will vote for the Populist candidate for Lieutenant Governor. They will at least go so far as to scratch him, whether or not they vote for some other man. They feel that the action of the Populists was a presumption and they are sore at not being able to say so right out in meetin’. ®. [ etile But while there were no speeches of note there were many which made the sparks fly. The fights lent spirit to an occasion which otherwise would have been listless as stickless lemonade and no ice. McNab was variously called a liar, Braunhart wasn’t called much else, except to order. Dwyer, Foote, Tarpey and Harney had war paint on. The Los Angeles delegation wrangled as to where they should be- stow their fatal favor. Addresses fairly gleamed blue flame, but none of the lot delivered was on broad lines nor devoted to a nobler purpose than that of throwing somebody down. It was a greedy convention, all hungry and few bones in sight. In the contest between the two sets of San Francisco patriots of course a decision was neces- sary. The one given did not accord with my idea of justice. I would have bounced both delegations. T The fight for Judge Coffey was pe- culiar, being a deliberate attempt to job the country delegations. It was instigated by the purists, of whom Mec- Nab is a sample. It is a pity that Cof- fey's name was used, for it got among bad associations. The Examiner madea frantic effort on behalf of the unlucky candidate, and so he died. But all the world is not following, with bated breath, the course of politics. PR Another of the anonymous has sent me a letter. I regret to note that it was not written by a gentleman who inadvertently neglected to sign it, but by a foul and foolish blackguard, a slinking ruffian, that combination of coward and bully so irritating to the sense of decency. I would not waste time to answer it, yet mention the matter to show that the document was received. & e There are some men so low, so dis- picable and so dangerous to the com- munity that they ought to be abolished. Such a man is the one who shot the elk at the park the other morning. He deserves to be hanged, not for that act alone, but for the character the act shows him to possess. He would com- mit murder as quickly, provided he could catch a victim asleep. There is no assurance of safety from violence so long as this brute is at large. I sin- cerely hope he will be detected and killed while resisting arrest. PR If the police of this city and Dover combined cannot find out who sent the fatal candy to Mrs. Dunning they will demonstrate a strange lack of intelli- gence. The woman is said to have been annoyed byanonymous letters, in them- selves of a distressing character, and I have no doubt the sender of the letters also sent the poison. Anybody soviclous as to send a threatening letter with- out signature is vicious enough for any other form of crime. I get many let- ters myself, somewhat abusive, but these come from persons so evidently perverts, and stirred for the moment by some impulse of idiocy, that I have learned to smile at them. But when there is a series of letters, breathing malice and amounting to n»ersecution, the author of them would not hesitate to poison an acquaintance, burn a barn or strangle a babe. . s . As much as Sacramentans think of thelr city, they will not go so far as to advise the stranger sojourning there to drink freely of the water. I was warned by a resident to assuage thirst by the use of some other flujd, and from the conduct of many gentlemen there in the Interest of reform, I judge this counsel was freely given and gen- erally accepted. TS Phil Francis of the Stockton Mail has come under the influence of the Visalia bard. The sweet and seduc- tive warble of that soulful master of song catches us all sooner or later. DiaT T ‘When baggage reaches this city by 9 o'clock at night, is there any good reason why it should not be delivered until the next morning? I have been trying to think of one, and nothing suggests itself but the fact that some concern has a monopoly of the busi- ness so far as incoming trains are con- cerned. Information that Tom Garrett, late city editor of the Examiner, has be- come a reporter for a Los Angeles pa- per noted for the lack of size in the salaries it pays is a surprise. Time was when Garrett was potent. He was close to the Hearst throne, and had ac- cess to the royal ear. To his own trembling force of reporters he would give orders as final as those of “She,” the lady of fiction, who just had to be obeyed. Garrett was known to enter- tain pleasing visions of the day he was to succeed Lawrence, and make hig| first official act that of kicking his enemy into the street. As a prelimi- nary move he resigned, expecting to be called back, but the summons failed to arrive. I do not state these facts in any spirit of disregard for Mr. Gar- rett, and I would have been glad to have witnessed his triumph. If a jour- nalist working under Andy has not the right to look forward to the possibil- ity of achieving freedom, the restric- tion should be at once removed. After all, the change will do Garrett” good. He will realize that there is no profit ries might 11 be abolished. 1 am pleased to agree with him. Many of the juries in criminal cases are worse than useless, because they devote their time to the overthrowing of justice and the bringing of the law into contempt. His Honor’'s remarks were excited by the verdict of simple assault returned against a tough who, in a deliberate attempt to murder, had shot two peo- Neither of the wounds was fatal, /The public would have been better pleased had both been fatal, for the people shot also belonged to the super- fluous class. However, there is noth- ing in the statutes providing thz.n ona criminal shall have a right to kill an- other, or even essay to do so. ''The prisoner should have been sent to the penitentiary, partly for shootin_g and partly for not having shot straighter. I hope upon his release from the petty jail sentence he must serve he will hunt up his gun and take a crack at a juryman. ple. « s * Some friend sends me a copy ‘of “Tha Coming Light.” The impression flr:?-t created by a glance at the magazine is that it is edited at Agnews. This week my, time is too short to more than ac- knowledge receipt, but later I shall take pleasure in trying to ascertain what the editor is blithering about. Meantime I can offer her only my sym- pathy and the hope that she will get over the attack of which I take tha magazine to be a symptom. O'MALLEY’S REPORT OF THE DEMOCRAILIC CONVENTION. The convention met. Mr. McNab spoke Thin Jo Dwyer spoke, and O’Brien spoke. Thin Major Harney spoke, and Gallagher talked back. Thin Jim Phelan spoke And McNab spoke. Thin Vogelsang spoke, And Edelman spoke. And Cassin spoke, And Dwyer called Sam Braunhart a liar, And Billy Fut called McNab a liar, And Dockweiler called Everybody a liar. Thin Sullivan spoke, And Doolap spoke. Thin McNab said that Mike Tarpey lied, And Fitzgerald spoke. Maguire was nominated And spoke. Thin John P. Dunn spoke, And Dooley he spoke. Thin Jim Barry spoke, And Max Popper spoke. Clitus Barber, he chewed. Thin John Gaffey spoke, And Donohue and Shay and Fay and- Foley and Jim Phelan, And Cassin, and McCray And O'Sullivan, Hennessey, Fennessey, Ahern and Ryan, O'Leary, O'Meara, = O'Neill, Coffey, Conley, Conologue, Reddy, Rourke And Murphy, tLey all sp ke, And the convention was over and It adjourned. Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* e e e Dr. E. O. Jellinek has returned from Europe. His office will be located at 767 Sutter street. . Specfal {nformation supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont< gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, * “Isn't there something in my policy,” asked a caller at a La Salle street insur- ance office the other day, “about my hav- ing to ‘report any change of residence’?” “Yes, sir,” said the man at the nearest desk, picking up a pen. ‘“Where have you moved t0?” “I haven't moved anywhere,” rejoined the caller. “I have made a change in my residence by painting it a light straw Color and putting a Jack on the kitchen chimney. think that's all. Good-by.”— Chicago Tribune. — Stationery and Printing. Newest tints and shapes in fine writing papers, Koh-i-noor pencils, Waterman pens. blankbooks, “Flag’ tablets and en- velopes, playing and tally cards. We do all kinds of printing. Visiting cards and invitations a specialty. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. . —_——— ‘Was a Close Friend of Gladstone. A leader of London society, Mrs. As< T‘Alth, formerly Margaret Tennant, had the honor of being a close friend of Glad- stone, the late English statesman. She was the only woman outside of his fam- ily with whom he liked to talk and whom he admitted to his library waile working. — e ee——— First and Second Class rates again reduced via the Santa Fe route. Call at the new ticket office, 628 Market. —_————— Only the best, for the best only. the barrels, 863 Market st. ————— Rails Bent by Heat. During the recent spell of very warm weather a member of the editorial staff of the Railroad Gazette had an opnortu- nity to see the effect on track of the ex- pansion of rails under heat. The train in which he was travelin~ was Stopped because about 60 feet of track had geen thrown some eleven inches out of line. The gauge was not much disturbed, but %sth rails and the tles were swung out. ‘e are told that on a neighboring rafl- road somewhat similar conditions were found in at least five different places. Among the ADVERTISEMENTS. MACKAY'S Furniture Must Go! THIS DEPARTMENT TO BE EN-. 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