The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 1, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. , THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1698. THURSDA JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communicatim)s to W. S. L/E‘A&E,)ia/nf ;UBL!CATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS.. ..2I17 to 22| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCIS\O CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is | served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL 3 One year, by mall, $1.50 | OAKLAND OFFICE.. ...908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.........Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE.... --Marquette Building | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 | Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open | until 9:3C o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS ajah _The Butterfiies 0's allen Among Thieves ' Tivoli—" Paglia " Cavalleria Rusticana.” Orpheum New Co The Chute * The Leading Man,” Friday night. Zoo, Vavdeville and Cannon. the 613-pound Man. v and Jones streets—Vaudeville. Opening 3. r Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties, on—The Irish Fair, 1tro's Baths—Swimming. Excursion to Monter S state September 4 ber 5 AUCTION SALES. By Frank W. Butterfield- This day, September 1, Groceries quors. ut corner Haight and Devisadero sts., at 11 0 ¢100k. O tragedy is the man Dunning himself. It is his province now to be silent unless he has testi- y such as is vital to the determination of guilt. ere is no call for surmises from him. He is in a too unenviable, and his character has been too ly portrayed to warrant the attaching of much weight to anything he may say. There was never a breath against Mrs. Dunning. Her greatest misfortune was that she was bound to a DUNNING'S SORRY PLIGHT. NE of the melancholy figures of the Dunning op man who had no regard for the sacred obligations he assumed when he took her from her home to share his lot. He fell into evil associations and evil ways. He betrayed the wife who had trusted him, and he proved untrue to business obligations. The money he should have turned in to his employers had been the races, on fast living, on women who had no right to his devotion who, when they received attention from him were robbing the wife, whom, it may be, one among them murdered. Whatever may be the truth about the taking off of Mrs. Dunning, the widower is not in a position either to excite sympathy or to demand respect for any assertion he may make. If he condemn any of his former comrades he must share in the condemnation. There could have been no object in removing the wife save that she might no longer stand between Dunning and the sender of the fatal poison. It is natural to suppose that the dreadful act would never have been perpetrated except with some encouragement, how- ever indirect, from Dunning. Therefore will his words have little weight and his accusations be regarded as designed rather to shield the guilty than to declare the truth, squandered GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF RAIL- WAYS. our editorial yesterday on Government owner- ship of railways, by an inadvertence dollars were used instead of cents in comparing the average rates per ton and per passenger per mile on European and American railways. The statement in correct form is as. follows: Passenger, Freight, per mile. ton per mile. United States ... 2.14 cents .97 cents Prussia . 2.99 cents 1.32 cents Austria .. . 3.05 cents 1.56 cents France .. -+« 3.30 cents 1.59 cents Belgium . sviee. 2.25 cents 1.39 cents England . . 2.20 cents 1.95 cents SOME RAILWAY STATISTICS. ALIFORNIA led the Union in the construc- C} tion of railways in the year ending June 3o, 1807, and may be said to have distanced most of her sister States. According to statistics just is sued by the Interstate Commerce Commission, there were constructed in this State during that fiscal year 219 miles of railway, in° Arkansas 192 miles, in Loui- siana 161 miles; in Michigan 123 miles, and in Ala- bama 117 miles. - In no other State or Territory did the construction 6f new railways amount.to as much as 100 miles. Taking the country as a-whole the increase in lines of railways reached a little over 1652 miles, making the total railway ‘mileage in the United- States at the close of the fiscal year 184,428 miles: Despite the in- crease in the extent of the roads it is noted ‘that the gross earnings for the year wére actually less than.in the previous one by $28079,603, ‘the amount " being | $1,122,080,773. : e Some progress has been made toward the equip- ment-of the roads with improved safety . appliances. The report says:' “Including in ‘the term equipment both locomotives and cars, it is found that the total equipment of railways on June 30, 1807, was 1,333,~ 466; and of this total number 525286 were fitted with train brakes, the increase being 76,432; and 678,- 725 were fitted with automatic couplers, the increase in this case being 133,142." This degree of progress, while good in itself, can hardly be called satisfactory, for it is now full time that all our railway equipments should include the best and most improved safety. brakes and couplers. The railway accidents of the year resulted in the death of 6437 persons, of whom 1693 were railway employes; and the injury of 36,731 persons, of whom 27,667 were employes of the roads. Among the trainmen of the roads one out of every 165 was killed and one out of every twelve was injured. That record is in itself a sufficient condemnation of the present method of equipping and running trains. We have a just reason to be proud of our railway system in many respects, but a ratio of casualties amounting to one trainman injured for every twelve employed dur- ing a single year is so high that the need of better methods is clearly imperative 7 BOLTER MAGUIRE. F the rank and file of a party take to themselves l the privileges claimed and exercised by Judge | ® Maguire for nearly twenty years there would be no such thing as party cohesion or responsibility. Beginning his public career as a Republican place- holder in the City Hall, in 1879 he joined the sand- lotters and aided in wrecking the Democratic party. Just now his supporters are in full cry against the Harney Democracy because it insists upon giving the people a voice in party management. Maguire is now pulling the string to his centicephalic jumping- jack, the committee of one hundred. When he was sandlotting he was opposed to committees entirely. He indorsed that celebrated dictum of his leader, Denis Kearney, who began his speech against the Democratic County Committee by saying: “Citi- zens! How was Rome ruled? Was it by a county committay ?"” In 1880 the Judge was a greenbacker. In 1884 he was one of those instrumental in the defeat of Has- tings, the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Fourth District. In 1886 he organized and managed a “labor party” in San Francisco, in partnership with that laborious idler, Carl Browne, which beat the Democracy and elected a Republican County Clerk. At the same election he and Barry put up an independent candi- date again in the Fourth District and beat the regular Democrat, McCoppin, who was one. of the best | Mayors the city ever had, and who would have been a Congressman to be proud of. In 1888 Maguire supported a non-partisan ticket in this city to defeat the regular Democracy. His Non-Partisan party in- dorsed the Republican candidate for Congress in the Fourth District and thereby beat Judge Robert Ferral, the regular Democratic candidate. By his bolt that year he elected a Republican Sheriff, Clerk, Recorder and Tax Collector. He dodged in and out of the Democratic party at will. In 1887 he published his celebrated letter permanently withdrawing from Democracy, State and national, giving as his reason that it did not in- dorse the confiscation of land in private ownership. He now takes the position that he is the only honest man in the Democratic party and that it can- not be trusted to hold a primary in San Francisco. His committee of one hundred appointed a delega- tion to make his nomination sure. When the Har- ney delegation, elected at an open primary, fell at his feet and wanted the one word from him that | would have admitted it to the State convention he put his heel on its neck and refused to enfranchise it, though it humbly promised its support to his can- didacy. Having chased every political rainbow that has been seen in the last twenty years, having been by turns a greenbacker, a gold standard man, free sil- verite, and now an advocate of “a more and fittener currency,” according to the Populist idea, his hope of an®election must be in the party which he bolted and defeated year after year, and in the voters whose opinions he has held and abandoned. flMENDMiENT NUMBER SEVEN. MONG the constitutional amendments which fl will be submitted to the people at the election in November there is one which should be given careful consideration. We refer to No. 7, which provides for splitting sessions of the Legisla- ture into two parts and assigning to each part a dif- ferent round of duties. The amendment referréd to | proposes first to authorize a session of twenty-five days for the purpose of introducing bills and dispos- ing of committee work. This session is to be fol- lowed by a recess of not less than thirty days, nor more than sixty, at the end of which the members are to again assemble and sit for fifty days. No bills are to be introduced at the second session except with the consent of three-fourths of the members of the House in which offered. It is urged in favor of this amendment that it would reduce the hurry and rush of the present sessions, and by giving the members thirty days or more in which to consider bills, and the public the same time in which to read them, a great deal of jobbery which now prevails at Sacramento every two years would be prevented. On the other hand it may be said that a thirty days’ respite would give the lobby a fine chance to organize for the defeat of reform measures and the passage of crooked ones. However, as no good can be accomplished without opening a road to some evil, perhaps this objection is no more valid than the argument urged in favor of the amendment. But the “bug” in connection with this proposed change of system is found in the fact that the amendment really increases the duration of legisla- tive sessions. At present members are not allowed pay for a longer period than sixty days, and they sit ten or twelye days without pay. So we now have practically seventy-day sessions. The amendment al- lows pay for seventy-five days, which would probably increase the length of the sessions from eighty-five to ninety days. Heretofore various attempts have been made to increase the legislative salary limit, but all have been voted down. The increase proposed in this case is cleverly concealed under a ehange of system, but we doubt whether for that reason it will receive the ap- proval of the people. There is no reason at present to increase the duration of legislative sessions. The work of the Legislature, in fact, is being constantly cut down. After this year it will have no power to tinker ‘with the laws-of this city or those of the va- rious counties of the State. This being the case, what sense is there in lengthening the sessions? If any- thing, they ought to be reduced. 5 o ———— - The average brewery wagon usually demands more than an equitable share of rights on the highway, but there will never be consent to its being engineered by a driver who carries a large proportion of his beer under. his belt. The killing. of a woman Monday seems to have been the result of the drunken care- lessness of this sort of a driver, and the plea of intoxi- cation on his behalf ig just a little worse than no plea at all. It is an unfortunate thing for the cause of justice that so large a part of the charges that American sol- diers have been subjected to abuse should have emanated from such papers as the New York Jour- nal. The charges may be true, yet their source tends to their classification as fakes. Perhaps when California Democrats “oppose terri- torial expansion” and object to the “surrender of any territory acquired by American valor” they have an idea what they mean to advocate, but they were not thoughtful enough to spread the knowledge abroad. In all. the scandal raised about the War Depart- ment there seems to be nothing reflecting on the character either of General Shafter .or General Miles, But Alger must do some lively dodging or get hit. The San Diegan who shot at a wildcat and hit twelve sticks of dynamite suffered the loss of an eye and underwent more or less of a shock, but he got the i cat. A STRONG COMMITTEE. HE executive committee just appointed to take TChflfze of the Republican campaign is a_thor- oughly representative one not .only of the party, but of the best ' citizenship of - the State. Every one of its members has a personal -influence and leadership among the people of the community in which he lives, and is therefore well fitted to aid in arousing and stimulating loyal Republicans to-zeal in behalf of the whole ticket, and in winning the fa- vor and support of independent voters., It is a committee that means business in the fullest and best sense of the words. It is composed of busi- ness ‘men who have long been eminent in the_fore- most ranks of every important profession, trade or in- dustry in the commonwealth, and who represent every section of its area. There is not a man on the list who is not well and widely known and esteemed, anc who has not attested his worth by the arduous preofs of accomplished work. Moreover, the members are as thoroughly represen- tative of genuine Republicanism as of the business interests of the State. They are cordial supporters of the principles and the policies of the party and of the ticket that has been nominated. They have had ex- perience in political management and know the value and importance of effective campaign work. They can be counted on, therefore, to serve the party in the coming contest with the same zeal and energy that has won for them such success each in his chosen vocation in the world of business. It may be regarded as well assured that Major Mc- Laughlin will be chosen chairman of the committee; and certainly no better choice could be made, or one that would give more satisfaction to the rank and file of the party. His services in the past campaign have proven his fidelity to the duties of that position, and the success achieved under his leadership proves that his ability as a party leader and organizer is fully equal to his zeal and his untiring energy. Taken altogether the committee is one on which the party may well congratulate itself. It is seldom that parties can find men of such eminence in the business world to accept the onerous work of carry- ing on a political campaign. Such men merit the cordial support of all Republicans and other good citizens, and that they will have it is beyond question, for they are among those who not only know how to deserve success, but to achieve it. BEWARE OF FALSE WITNESS. O widespread, so fierce and so vindictive has S become the attack on the War Department because of the excessive sickness among the troops at Santiago and in the various camps in the Eastern States that it is evident something more than a just indignation and a rightful desire to punish wrongdoing animates the assailants. It is clear that in some cases at any rate the stories of the suffering among the volunteers have carried exaggeration and misrepresentation to the point of falsehood, and the public should be warned against being misled by false witness or by sensational conclusions not sup- ported by facts. That there has been among the troops an excessive amount of sickness may be accepted as proven; but there is no sufficient evidence as yet to fasten blame upon any particular persons or set of persons. It must be remembered that the United States was un- prepared for waging a hasty war on a large" scale. The regular army was small and the military staff was not sufficiently large to handle the number of troops the emergency called for. It was, neverthe- less, imperative that the advance upon Cuba should be made at once or else postponed until next winter, for the sickly season in the island was fast approach- ing when the war broke out. Under such circum- stances it was inevitable that mistakes would be made and blunders committed, that supplies would at times be inadequate, and that suffering would ensue, Some of the facts recently made public help to an understanding of the subject. It is now known that the sickness is confined almost wholly to the volun- teers, very few of the regulars having been affected. As the two classes of troops were serving under the same conditions, it is reasonable to draw the con- clusion that the regulars knew how to take care of themselves and did so, by obedience ta sanitary dis- cipline; while the volunteers treated campaigning as if it were a picnic, and by careless eating, drink- ing and the neglect of proper precautions rendered themselves subject to diseases they might have avoided. Another fact of importance to the problem is that the transport Olivette brought home a number of in- valid troops, and it was found that all of them had been well cared for, while the Mobile, another transport that arrived about the same time, made an exceedingly bad showing. In these cases the differ- ence between the two was found to be due not to the administration, the officers or the men, but to the fact that the Olivette had been constructed for passenger service while the Mobile was built and had been used as a tramp steamer devoted largely to carrying cattle. . From this it appears that much of the suffering among. the troops was caused by the lack of adequate transport ships, and thisin turn was the result of the neglect of Congress to build up an American merchant marine in time of peace. The evils that have befallen the nation through the sickness of the voluntéers are serious. enough without making them worse by assailing the War Department and endeavoring to make people be- lieve our officials haye been either dishonest or in- different ‘to the welfare of the troops. There are many important lessons for us to learn from the war with Spain, and it is to be hoped they will not be lost sight of for the sake of sensational attacks upon offi- cials. We must provide a larger army and a much larger. staff, we must subject volunteers to a strictly sanitary discipline, and finally we must build up a merchant marine that will save us hereafter from having to send troops to war in cattle-ships. e — crying over fusion. Everybody told them in advance that they would do this. Democrats are feeling sore, too, but neither is this emotion on their part a sur- prise. The.only satisfaction in store for these wicked partners is that after getting licked in the fall each can blame the other, ARl It would not be wise to 'send to the President a peremptory demand that any particular regiment be disbanded. As the head of the army Mr. McKinley might not*like it, and as a mere matter of pride he could not well hasten to obey. R A Unless somebody shall be punished for the shame- ful mistreatment of soldiers, the next time Uncle Sam needs volunteers he will not find brave young patriots tumbling over each other to enlist. ‘While appreciating the disappointment of the Sev- enth California, as fine a regiment as mustered in, it may reasonably be remembered that some ..other lsuten raised troaps and never got 3 man to the front. ;i : A TALE OF MUSTAPHA MAGUIRE. In the archives it is stated that many of these things occurred during the reign of the caliph Jimbud, who ruled the western sea. It appeareth that there was a. man become a product of the Sandlot, over a vast country on the shores of who became known as the Mustapha- Ben - James - Gallagher - Maguire, who was ‘backward as a blacksmith and forward as a jawsmith; and the people knew him not, for he was any old thing to suit the times. This Mustapha one.day by the beard of the Prophet sware a round oath that honest toil was the fool’s portion and no more would he eat his bread by the sweat of his brow. “And it was so. “Behold!”. he cried, “I will take things easy and knock my living out of the people -with the jawbone of an ass.”” And he knocked; and it was s0 that he was called “the little giant,” because of the mighty strength of his Jjaw. And he quoth that it was easier to be a lawyer than a blacksmith, and the people said yea, but that he was neither. Mayhap this was bearing false witness, for the lawgivers re- garded the Mustapha as a worthy forger of iron, while his friends of the forge averred that he perforce must be a good lawgiver, because he was worthless as a blacksmith. Now it came to pass that in the great city of the Golden Gate there was a public garden known to men as “The Sandlot,” where the shiftless populace reared strange and untoward products —O’Donnells and Dunns and Maguires and liars and anarchists Kearneys and other things names were also Dennis. It was so that the Mustapha lusted to whose and he performed unnecessary ablution and forthwith took his jawbone and tolled with it. Now behold! with a magic wand, for it also knew him not. and fed on the stores of the people for four years and did not perspire. And it later came to pass that the people said: “Behold! never-was. commence to be anybody. We have no more sand in our lot. This Mustapha is laws.” Then the Mustapha with and foregathered the satraps and it was so that he soon appeared in the forum, bearing a mighty banner, on which was written: “I AM A DEMOCRAT.” And it was so, and the people mur- Now it came to pass that the mured. near-sighted man said: “Who is this caitiff with the face of brass who seeks high office and needs a sign to tell the people what he is?” A far-geeing citizen, who could look through - political millstones, replied, saying: “Bismilla, ’tis not a Democrat. Maguire, the sandlotter.” And the people murmured some more and wandered homeward, saying: “Behold! He sand. We will overlook him.” a He has not yet begun to will We will break bread with and elevate a good Democrat to office to make our And it was so, and they told the satraps to bring forth such a man. lubricated his jaw and his great promising machine It is. that same jawbone toiler, Mustapha is but the drifting And they did, and while they were not look- He got in the way of Political Lightning and it smote him Whereof he was a sandlotter ing the Mustapha went by devious ways and broke into the office with his jawbone. raise enough dust to blind their eyes And it was so, and the people were exceeding wroth and they sware an oath that the sandslinger was no Democrat and that he could not | again. Now it was that the Mustapha Ben Maguire smiled and muttered in his beard: “I will cover their eyes with wool again.” And it was so. In these days it so came to pass that | the Mustapha was troubled with low temperature in his sanda and he went forth in the land and laid his ear to the ground and listened, and, be- hold, he hedard things of dire portent and he knew he could no longer work the Democrat deception. So he forth- with toiled some more, and it was good. The scribes relate that there was a clan led by the “Whisperer,” surnamed “McNab the Nabber,” who disguised themselves as Democrats and betrayed the childlike Bourbon maidens into the arms of the people of the “willing whiskers." These people always walked in the middle of the road to keep their hair out of the barbs of the cactus. ‘And they were made of haughty stuff, for they were Popocrats. It was so that the people sought a new Caliph who was not. a Democrat, and they gathered together in the fo- rum and strove much. Now it further came to pass that they gazed afar on the landscape and descried a mighty cloud of dust and they could not wot what. it was. But, behold, it came nearer apace, like unto a sandspout on the Sahara. It was a man looking for work as a ruler, and he came before the concourse bringing much dust, perspiration and conceit; also, bearing a blazing shield, on which was graven: “I AM A POPOCRAT.” And the people were deceived muchly until they got the dust out of their eyes, and then they were profane, and said: “By the beard of the Prophet, it is the same old Sandlotter-Single-taxer- Double-taxer-Gold Bug-Silver ‘Bug-Democrat-Popocrat Mustapha Maguire. ¢ Bismilla! ‘We will make his. way a weary one.” And it was so; and after : the Mustapha Maguire had got through pursuing the office and was sore dis- . traught, the people made merry, scoffing him, shouting: g “Who hath woe? " ‘ balm of Gilead? of the changeful Maguire. memory.” And it was so. forever more. ‘Who hath sorrow? ‘Who hath lost his sinecure by the brawn of his jaw and | : must henceforth eat his bread by the sweat of his brow? ‘Who is sore of foot and hath no Behold, it is he face and the devious record—Mustapha-Ben-Gallagher- He is no more of the people or for the people. Let him be a And there were peace and quiet in that fair land MORTIMER WOOD. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. H: A. Jastro, chairman of the Fresno Board of Supervisors, is at the Grand. A. Berliner of Guatemala is at the Oc- cidental. g Baron A. Kantstein arrived in this eity yesterday from Tapachula, Mexico, and is at the Palace. S. Migliavacca, a vineyardist of Fres- no, and wife are at the California. John H. Millzner, agent of the Giant Powder Works, has returned. from Tuc- son and is at the Grand. Frederico Pelham Griffith, connected with a military school in Guatemala, is at the Occidental. G. W. Otis ‘of Washington; D. C., ar- rived on the Acapulco yesterday. H. F. Plathorn and family of Tri County are at the Russ. ¥ Dante R. Prince, a lawyer of Fresno, is at the Grand. Thomas J. Occidental, Thomas A. Lewis of Los Angeles; aud- itor of the State Board of Exchange, is at the California. .A. Moses Merwin of Pasadena is at the nity. Kirk of Fresno is at the . Occidental. The present is a little late for the Populists to be’ .hurg 18 at the Painas; : ‘Baron Plerre: de Gunzburg of St. Peters- J. Smith, 4 mining man of Bodle, Is at the Russ. Dr. West Hughes and wife of Los An- geles are at the Grand. 5 ——— LOYAL TO THE PARTY. To the Editor of The Call—In the issue of the Chronicle of the 25ith of August there appeared a communication purport- ing to have emanated from an organiza- tion known as the Dewey Republican Club of this city, protesting against the ' manner of selecting the delegates to the State convention at Sacramento. The ar- '}lclo contains sentiments which certain-. are at variance with the character of the loyal admiral of the navy, after whom the organization Is named, With the factional and fault-finding sentiments ex- pressed in said article the Young Men's epublican League has no sympathy and he use of the names of several of the lat- :er-na.med‘, organization’s district clubs was unwarranted and unauthorized. The Young Men's Republican League -for unity and harmony in the party in the egmlnz campalgn. They present a solid front to the enemy. They are all birds of a feather, heads pointed one way, uttering the same % FRAN 1 x:a!:“dxant Young Men's K K. SPENCER, Republican ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. MISS FLOOD—S. B. V. and L. S., Cit . Miss Jennle Flood is at this time a resi- dent of San Francisco. MME. DE NAVARRO-M. C. J., City, London, England, will reach her. FANNY KEMBLE—Subscriber, City. Fanny Kemble, the actress, died in the city of London, January 15, 1893. MOLASSES—C. M., City. The word mo- lasses is a noun. singular, and is gov- erned by the same rules of grammar as are other nouns, singular. TO MEXICO—S:, Nevada City, Cal. The rate of fare from San Francisco ta- the City of Mexico, via the S. P. znd Mex- ican Central is, first class, §75 80 or $110 for the round trip. ' THE CRISTOBAL COLON—J. D. T. P,, City. ~ The armament of .ne Cristobal Colon of the Spanish navy was: wo 10- inch guns, 10 6-Inch quick fire, six 4.7-inch, ten 2-inch, ten l4-inch and two machiné guns. A NATIVE AND NATURALIZED—C. E. C., City. The constitution of the United States makes no difference between a na- tive born and a naturalized citizen, except in this that he does not permit a natural- ized citizen to become a candidate for | office of President. e POSTAGE AND ADDRESS—C. A., San Benito, Cal. Mail for Manila is subject to the same rate of postage that mail to any part of the United States is. To send a letter to a person on board of any man-of- war of the United States it should bear the name of the party, his rank, name of the ship on which he is and name of the Elnce at which the vessel was when last eard from, LAWNS—A. L. G., San Jose, Cal. This department is at a loss to understand what this correspondent wants by the question: “In which country are there ‘the greatest number of lawns? Give the number and size of such.” Does the cor- respondent refer to vrivate lawns? If so, there is no record of them. There are pub- lic lawns in public parks, but there is no record of the size ofnsuch NEWSPAPER _ARTIST-O. C. E. Stockton, Cal. To become a first-class artist for a newspaper the individual must have a good idea of drawing, of sketching from nature, of portralture, so as to re- produce the features and experssion of an individual; he must be rapid in the exceu- tion of his work, The duty of a first-class artist in a news) v office is to do th work ass; edwh mpgy the chief st l: charge. There is no fixed salary for a and Denis | A letter addressed to Mme. de Navarro, | first-class artist. 1870, died 1 | November, 1894, to his Imperial Majesty, His pay depends en tirely upon his merit. “MARCHING- THROUGH - GEORGIA’ —J. G. G., City. Henry C. Work, printer, was the author of ‘‘Marching Through Georgia.” He was the au- thor of other songs, notably “Lily Dale and “Grandfather's Clock.” His songs were brought out by Dr. G. F. Root of Chicago. He made 4 great deal of money by song writing. but lost all by the great fire in Chicago, and passed the last ywars of his life in Hartford, Conn., where Le died June 8, 1854. NO RIGHT WHATEVER—Mrs. H. J. E., City. No man who is a member of a fraternal organization has, by reason of being a member of the organization you name or any other organization, a right to insult the wife of a fraternal brother. A man who would do 50 is a coward, and if it came to the knowledge of the body of which he is a member, it would not be h would be in a position. that the pa would no longer be of any use to him. long before MOURNING—J. H., City. A writer on social etiquette says: “Mourning is us- ually worn for parents for one yea three months persons in mourning should not make their appearance in any pub- lic place of amusement or at a private entertalnment. After that a concert may be indulged in, but not an opera, theater, party or dinner. The reason for this is very evident. in a place where is gayety, where people only go to be amused, deep, dark garments lo | out of place.” WIFE AND MOTHER—C. H. T., City. The question, “Supy an takes wife and his mother out in a boat for a ride on the bay for pl through an accident, the bo: s upset and all three are thrown out, and the man finds that he can save one of the wome now which one should he save, bearing mind that he loves both as he should? is one that can be pounder s similar qu: paper a number of i reply given was: 1 second wife, but he has but o SEQUENCE IN CRIB—A Sierraville, Cal. It is not nec the cards forming a sequer of crib should be played in plays a four, B an eight, x and B a seven, B has a run of three—six, sev and eight. If after the seven is pla plays a five, he comes in for a run of five; that is to say, four, five, six, seven nnot claim a run 'on the d by A. A player can only vhen he down a card that will make a seque e having played four, eight, ven, five, the eight did not prevent the last play from making a run of five, as it was one of the sequence cards and not.an inter- vening card. 3 GRAND DUCHESS OF HESSE—Sub- scriber, City. Her Royal Highness Alice Maud Mary was married July 1, 1862, to i b well as b ion was Subscribe: y the his Royal Highness Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (born September 12, 1837, died May 13, 1892), and died December 14, 1878. - Of this union there were six children: Victoria Albert, married to Prince Louls of Battenberg, R. N., April, 1884; Eliza- beth, married to the Grand Duke Serge of ia, June, 1884; Irene, married to her cousin Prince Henr of Prussia, brother of the Emperor, May, 1888; Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, married April, 1894, to her Royal Highness Princess Melitia of Saxe Coburg; Frederick, born 73, and Alix Vivtoria, married # the Czar of Ru At last accounts all the married children enumerated were alive. THE GERMAN LANGUAGE—G. E. W., Fresno, C German was taught in public schools in San Francisco ten years ago. A schooi for teaching the French and German languages was first insti- tuted in October, %, in a small bulld- ing on which was subsequently built t Tehama-sireet school. In 1872 and 18 the instruction in the French and Ge: man languages was introduced in nearly all of the The children in the prim and those in grammar classe e compelled to study either French or German, while in the grammar grades in the cosmopolitan schools the pupils had to study both French -and German. In February, 1574, the study of all languages except i English was abolished by the Board of ¥ ion in all the public schools, e cept the Girls' and Boys’ High School. 1n July of the year the study of French and German wa North and South Cosmopolitan, Hay Valiey and Valencia Grammar and in t Stockton-street, Taylor-street and Silver- street. primary schools. In 1888, ten years ago, German s taught only in the North - Cosmopolitan Grammar, South Cosmopolitan Grammar, South Cosmopol- itan -Primary and ° Greenwich Primary. During the first six months of that year 1451 pupils were studying German and in the last six months 1443. WHEN THE TROOPS MARCH BY. I'd like to be in Washington, beneath the splendid sky, When, with come marching by! T'd itke to be In Washingtén and see Old Gilory victorious banners, the troops O'er the great and glittering legions when the troops march by! T'd like to be in Washington that day! I'd like to see The fellows that have worn the wouads In red for you and me! To see the old“flag rippling like a rainbow round the sky, O'er the men. of Santiago, when the troops march by! I'd like to be in Washington when every leglon comes! I know my heart would answer to the beating of the dru To see the men who faced the fray—who did not fear 1o die— Oh, T'd like to join the chorus when the troops march by! 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