The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 30, 1898, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. P Al il el SR I o e Bl kR PUBLICATION OFFICE...... Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2IT to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. THE S8AN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by oarriers In this city ond surrounding towns for i5 cents @ week. By mall $6 per yeur: per month" 65 eents. One year, by matl, $1.50 -.908 Broadway | NEW YORK OFFICE.........Rcom 188, World Buflding . DAYID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, WASHINGTON (D. €.) OFFICE Riggs Houso €. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE. -Marquette Bufiding €.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Represontative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | open untll 9:30 o'clock. . 387 Hayes street, open untl! 930 o'clock. 681 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 930 o'clock. | 1941 Mission street, open untlf 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open unt!l 9 o'clock. 85i8 Rission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventl street, open untll § o'clock, 1505 Polk street, open until 930 o’clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS, BaMwin—"An Enemy to the King." Moroseo's—Trilby Tivoli—"The Queen of Sheba.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Kew Comedy Theater—* What Happened to Jones.” Alhambra, Eddy and Jones streets—Vaudevilla ‘ILe Chutes—Pietro Marino, Vandeville and the Zoo. orner Mason and Eddy streets—Speciaitles hs—Swimming. Rosenthal—Cowing in February. AUCTION SALES. Frank W. Butterfield-This day, September 3, Candy, TWO MEN CONTRASTED. Bt B Tion Gollen Gaes Bvanie, st 11 0 el AMES D. PHELAN is a candidate for Mayor. QJ He holds the office now, and desires to cling to it. During his term he has assumed to rep- | resent purity in politics, and under his direction | there has sprung into existence the most absolute bossism the city has ever known, and Phelan is the | head and front of it. He is a dictator. Under the | guise of the purist he takes upon himself the duty of saying who shall hold office. He retains for him- self the patronage of every office. All those who ac- cept nominations are his puppets. Without giving | the promise to be such, they could never be even mentioned in convention. Mayor Phelan accepted the nomination of the Non-Partisans without knowing what their platform would be. He did the same thing with the Demo- | cratic nomination. With him the office was the | thing; principles were secondary. He is recognized | as having the one guiding principle that Phelan shall overshadow the ticket. With the assurance that noth- ing would be placed in his way, that he could name all the persons playing second fiddles, Phelan was ready to accept, regardless of any expression of party policy. Republicans beheld with perhaps selfish satisfac- tion that Phelan was losing ground. His posing no longer deluded. He was out for office; nothing more. His harangues in behalf of purity, even though echoed by Gavin McNab, ceased to charm. The fact became evident that a good candidate could defeat Phelan. Thag candidate has been found. The contrast between Phelan and Patton is pro- nounced, and at each point of difference in favor of the standard-bearer of the Republicans. Patton did not seek honor. It came to him. He would not ac- cept until he knew the platiorm upon which he was to stand, and he declared that unless the platiorm advocated certain policies he could not accept. With him principle was first, and personal ambition not to be considered, this being exactly the opposite of the Phelan view. Patton makes no assumptions. He does not solicit patronage from subordinates and make acquiescence a condition by which alone they can be given a place on the ticket with him. He simply consented to become a candidate for Mayor when friends urged upon him that he was the strongest man available. He did this at a sacri- fice, from a sense of duty, and not from a petty am- bition to be elevated from the ranks of private life. He is modest, yet aggressive. Now that he is in the fight he is in to win, and not any adroit planning of the professional politicians so long held in subjection by the hand of Phelan will be able to defeat him. Patton i a man of the people; Phelan a man of the preying politicians. Patton is frank, making no pre- tense. Phelan lacks frankness wholly, poses, ges- ticulates, avers, but never loses his grip on the ma- chine. Altogether the contrast is considerable. it to be in favor of Patton. We take WORK FOR THE EXAMINER. HE Southern Pacific Company refused to con- Ttinue the payment of $1000 per month to the Examiner, upon the contract between that paper and the company, in August, 1804. Eight installments of $1000 each remain unpaid. The payment for | August, 1894, is already barred by the statute of limitations, and cause of action to recover the install- ment for September will be barred at the expiration of this month. This leaves six installments - upon which Mr. Hearst has still a live cause of action. He ought to be reminded that his agents here are neg- lecting to bring suit to recover these installments before the statute of limitations runs, and he ought to be reminded daily of this during the campaign, so that the Examiner will have something to do besides abuse other people . An Oakland man convicted of wife-beating has made two attempts at suicide. The melancholy fea- .- ture of the episode is that even the second attempt was not successful. The third time is said to be the charm. If one reputable citizen saw Policeman Kenville throw the club which laid little Willie Lynch low, it does not make any particular difference that other reputabie citizens may be found who did not see- him. Lilly Langtry may live in California, and she may not, such being the distinct purport of the tele- graph news. In either case, the State will make a brave effort to get along at about the usual gait. A female slave-dealer having been faugfit. it is to be hoped that the creature will be given to under- stand that her calling is not adapted to the needs of this country. Of course the Government is welcome to utilize Goat Island, but it can never educate San Francisco to the point of calling the islagd Yerba Buena. | | tion would give us “good government” by the whole- THE BOSS-SHIP OF PHELAN. HERE is such a thing as a political boss ac- Tquiring more power than is good for him. In fact, the downfall of all men who have attempted to rule by securing tontrol of the political machinery of government may be traced to the bewildering in- fluence of a multiplicity of combinations and the ne- cessity of dispensing too many offices. From the abdication of Bonaparte, who was the ablest boss the world has ever seen, down to the eclipse of Boss Buckley, the story has ever been the same. Indeed, current history indicates that Mayor Phelan is about to become an illustration of the invincible prin- ciple. He is already possessed of more power than is good for him. There is no denial of the fact that the Mayor is now master of what is left of the Democracy of San Francisco. The Committee of One Hundred has obeyed his will in all its proceedings. None but the adherents of his machine have been nominated, and an analysis of the so-called Demoecratic ticket shows that almost every candidate is under obligations to him for his success. Every sane voter in San Fran- cisco knows that the creation of such a ticket as has been placed before the people by this committee can mean but one thing. It means that if it is elected Mr. Phelan will exercise the functions heretofore exer- cised by Buckley, Rainey, Harney and the other bosses; that is to say, that he will place Phelan Dem- ocrats -on guard and use their political influence for the advancement of himself and friends. Mayor Phelan has but one point in his favor—he is a respectable man and does not keep a saloon. But his methods are those of the regulation municipal manipulator. He packs conventions, pledges those whom he assists to nomination to give him their patronage, connubiates with district and precinct bosses, figures on “purifying” the registers so as to elect his candidates, and makes nominations for the purpose of controlling the Election Commission. The fact that Mayor Phelan says he is honest and‘ claims to be striving to promote good government cuts no figure in the matter. Buckley always said he was honest, and as a matter of fact taxes never were lower in this city than while he was boss. The | trouble with Buckley was that he gave the offices to his personal friends, and by initiating hostile legisla- tion compelled the corporations to put him on their payrolls. Phelan’s necessities may never force him to this latter expedient, but doubtless he will be found in the end promoting the fortunes of his re- tainers in that way. It is but a step from patronage | brokerage to boodling politics. We doubt whether the people of San Francisco will indorse the Mayor’s course in' recent manipulation. We: are certain that the rank and file of his party will not do so. Buckley was overthrown for prac- ticing the same kind of politics, and unless the peo- ple have lost their heads they will not place in’ Phelan’s hands the power tocreate a machine such | as that potentate controlled. If the Phelan ticket is elected, the Mayor, assisted by Max Popper, Sammy Braunhart, Phil Fay and Gavin McNab, will administer the government. | Popper will probably get the street sweeping con- | tract again, Braunhart will handle the Legislature, McNab will act as special counsel for the Auditor and | Supervisors, and Fay will become Prime Minister to “ the boss and lead him around as Jerry Driscoll used | to lead Buckley. We do not deny that this combina- sale, but it can scarcely be claimed that it would be THE TRANSPORT QUESTION. 5 | CAPTAIN ALFRED PAGET, a British naval | the operations during the campaign in the | West Indies, is quoted as having stated recently that | Government would do well to adopt the British sys- tem of providing for the transport of troops across It appears that in the British service all transport ships are under the control of the Admiralty. When known to the officials of the navy the number of infantry, cavalry and artillery, and the various re- portation is to be provided. It then becomes the duty of the naval office to furnish the transports and of them until the destination is reached. All European nations that have large colonial pos- transport considerable bodies of troops, are said to have adopted the British system. It certainly does nature of their profession naval officers are much better fitted to arrange for the equipment and man- duty were imposed upon them it could be made a part of their training to master the problems of load- embarking troops to the greatest advantage. Our recent experience seems to have fully justified Department during the war with Spain was extra- ordinarily effective and successful. There has been and yet the number of its enlisted men was increased from 10.000 to nearly 30,000; the naval militia from thing like 100 vessels of various classc. were added to the fleets it had to handle. Had the transports have escaped much of the hardship they had to un- dergo. tention of our authorities. There are not many things the British can teach us, but the art of trans- a peopl:'§ government. officer assigned by his Government to observe | the experience of the war proves clearly that our | the sea. troops are to be shipped, the army authorities make | quirements in the way of equipments for which trans- all supplies needed for the yoyage, and to take charge séssions, and are required at frequent intervals to not lack for reasons to commend it. By the very agement of transports than army officers, and if that ing and unloading supplies and embarking and dis- Captain Paget’s criticism. The work of the Navy no complaint of inefficiency in any part of its service, seventeen States were called into service, and some- been also placed under its charge the troops might Captain Paget’s criticism is certainly worth the at- porting troops seems to be one of them. Yellow correspondents may send word from Porto Rico that American troops are being starved there, and the only effect will be to cause people to reiter- ate the opinion that ‘the yellow correspondents are liars. DEMOCRATIC EXPECTATIONS. ECRETARY KERR of the Democratic Con- gressional campaign committee not only pre- dicts that the Democrats will control the House of Representatives in the next Congress, but has made public the calculations on which the prediction is based, and as it is the first official partisan fore- cast of the result of the coming contest, it is worth the attention of all students of the political situation. As reported by dispatches from Washington, Sec- retary Kerr claims the Democrats will make a gain of one 'kepresentative in Alabama, two in Connecti- cut, four in Illinois, three in'Indiana, one in Minne- sota, four in New York, one in Iowa, one in Ken- tucky, one in Maryland, ore in Michigan, two in North Carolina, four in Pennsylvania, one in Texas, two in Virginia and one in West Virginia. This will be a total gain of twenty-nine, which, added to the 153 Populist and Democratic members in Congress, gives a total of 182 in the next House, or three more than a majority of that body. Very little consideration of this list will be needed to see upon what a flimsy basis the prediction of the secretary is based. The expected gains in Alabama, in.Texas, in Kentucky and in Maryland may be con- ceded, for the Republican successes in those States in 1896 were due to a political landslide that is not likely to be repeated. Moreover, the Republicans of Kentucky and Maryland have local faction fights in their ranks which are likely to weaken them in the Congressional districts. These gains are, however, the only ones in the list given by Mr. Kerr that seem at all probable, and even they are likely to be offset by Republican gains in California and elsewhere. There is nothing discernible in the political situa- tion in New York, Illinois, Indiana, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Minnesota to afford the slightest reason for a confident claim of Democratic gains from their Congressional districts. In all of those States the divisions between the silver and the gold wings of the party are as marked and as ir- reconcilable as they were two years ago. The inde- pendent voters, moreover, are as well aware now as they were in 1806 that nothing but confusion would result from a Democratic control of the House of Representatives. They know that Democracy is utterly incapable of acting wisely or even unitedly upon any of the great issues that will come before the next Congress for settlement. Under these con- ditions of a divided Democracy confronted by a united. Republicanism, aided by gold Democrats and the whole body of independent voters, the chances for Democratic gains in the States named are about as poor as any ever taken in the field of American politics, -~ Secretary Kerr doubtless issued his prediction as a means of giving encouragement to his party fol- lowers. He made the outlook as bright for them as he could, and that he had to advance such absurd claims as these in order to have any basis at all for his prophecy is convincing evidence that the situation promises nothing whatever to the Bryanites this year. ASPECTS OF THE LIQUOR PROBLEM. HE report of the Commissioner of Labor on T“the economic aspects of the liquor problem,” which has just been -published, is in many re- spects one of the most interesting publications ever issued from the Labor Bureau. It covers a wide field, including the monetary conditions, the agricul- tural and other products used in the production of liquors; the manufacture of liquors as a distinct in- dustry; the transportation of liquors from the place of production to that of consumption; the consump- tion and traffic in liquors; the revenue derived from the manufacture and traffic; the laws, regulating the collection of revenue, and the experience and prac- tice of employers in relation to the use of intoxicants. One of the notable features of the statistical part of the report is the disclosure of a wide difference be- tween the statistics of the industry given . by the Census Bureau and those of the Internal Revenue. "For the year 1890 the census officials reported 440 establishments engaged in the manufacture of dis- tilled liquors, while the internal revenue officers for the same year reported 6211 distilleries. The census report gave the number of breweries for that year 1248, while the Internal Revenue reported 2136. Several explanations are given-to account for these discrepancies. It is stated that many of the distilleries reported by the Internal Revenue are small concerns engaged in making fruit brandies in the fall, and were not in operation in June, when the census enumeration was made. A similar explanation is offered with respect to the breweries, the statement being: “The number given in the Internal Revenue reports is the number paying the internal revenue tax irrespective of the length of time they were in operation during the year; while the number given in the census reports is the number the enumerators found in operation.” It is significant that these explanations are con- cluded by the statement: “In all probability the census enumerators neglected to report some estab- lishments that should have been reported.” In view of the enormous difference between 444 and 6211 dis- tilleries, it seems something more than a “probabil- ity” that the census men had been neglectful in their enumeration. Another surprising feature of the statistics is the showing made of the fluctuations in the wine pro- duction of the country, and its smallness, even in the best years, when compared with the production of beer. In 1888 the output of wine exceeded 30,000,000 gallons, and in 1896 the output was less than 16,000,- 000 gallons. In the latter year the production of beer was 1,111,000,000 gallons. There is clearly room for improvement in American life in that respect, and the best way to-provide for drinking less beer would be to drink more wine. AT E———— Chaplain McIntyre of the Oregon is rapidly getting into a condition of mind similar to that of the parrot whose conversational powers led it into a state of featherless discomfort. Certain Chicago people have resolved to make a raid on the particular forms of vice to which they are 1898 AMERICAN RULERS AND EASTERN SUBJECTS. AN ORIENTAL PROBLEM. “Now it is not d for the Christian’s health to hustle the Aryan brown. For the Chrletlan‘orli)les, and the Aryan smiles,.and he weareth the Christian own; , And éhe end of the fight is a tombstone white, with the name of the late e . o And the epitaph drear: ‘A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East. A few short months ago no one would have thought these words had any application to the people of the United States. To-day, thanks to the kaleidoscopic change of situation, Kipling’s wholesome advice concerns us very deeply. We have suddenly become the rulers of several milllons of Orientals, tke President has become a despotic monarch, holding undis- puted sway over men of every religion and color; brown, straight-haired Malays, swarthy, curly headed Negritos Mussulmans and Confucians, Pa- gans and Christians. 3 All these mixed races are jumbled together on the Island of Luzon, and whether we keep the whole of this isle or only & portion of it does not affect the problem very much. It is only a question of degree. In fact, I think the task the United States is about to undertake the more ap- palling if we have only a portion of the Philippine group under our con- trol. “All or none” should be the motto. With the Americans on Luzon, the Spaniards on Samar and Mindanao, the Sulu pirates scattered over the archipelago of islands which clusters in the Mindoro Sea, the way will be opened for international complications of the very choicest variety. Ger- many, certainly, is only waiting for an opportunity to grab a coaling sta- tion in thisggroup, and England, having obtained compensation elsewhere under the new alllance, will probably prove complaisant. France will cer- tainly not be content unless she gets a slice and then Russia will want to know why she is to be left out in the cold. Spain ill be powerless to re- sist aggression from any one of these powers unless America comes to her d. We may yet find ourselves fighting side by side with our recent foe in order to enable her to retain her hold on the islands we have just captured. g In short, by our occupation of the Philippines we have created a new Eastern question have thrown down a bone of conte.tion which is likely to prove even more troublesome tc Europe than the partition of either Tur- key or China. In a large iieasure the preservation of the world’s peace depends 1pon the manner in which the United States deals with the Orien- tals who have been brought under our rule. This .. why Kipling’s advice is so peculi rly appropriate at the present Juncture. No man knows the East better than he does; no man has taught the English-speaking race more about th» inner life and racial peculiarities of the Or.cntals. The first and most difficult of all lessons we have to learn is to forget our national habit of hustling. All through the Pacific there runs a proverb which, though varying in words, is to the effect that to- morrow is another day. This being translated into commonsens English means literally, never do to-day what you can put off until to-morrow." An English correspondent writing from Manila recently blamed the American officers for being too hard on the natives. Probably there was a good deal of truth in his statement and the reported friction between Agui- naldo’s forces and the American troops lends color to the assertion. But the errors made must,be set down to inexperience, not to willful intent. It is hardly to be expected that American officers, flushed with victory and fresh from the prompt, business-like methods of their own country, can all at once fall into the languid, easy-going life of the East. Nor can we expect American soldiers, citizens accustomed to i. dependent, vigorous ac- tion, to - .rn all at once how to respect the many curious traits 2nd super- stitions of the Philippine Islanders. Much that seems ridiculous in our eyes is reverenced by the Oriental, and it is likely that our men have often, though unwittingly, given serious offense. Probably our greatest error has been that we expected the rebels to work. Even in Cuba we found our allles useless when there was any hard labor to be done. Not understandipg their character we called them lazy, and- there was trouble in consequence. If we found the Cubans, a com- paratively vigorous race, with a large admixture of European blood in their veins, shiftless and idle, it is hard 0 say how we will describe the quiet, easy-going Tagals. Fortupately the difficulty is likely to grow less day by day. It wili not tuke our officers and men long to discover that it 1s no use trying to do too much work in such a climate. The drowsy, perfumed tropical atmosphere will have its effect upon them; they will learn that the pace which kills is not the pace fer the East. Soon, if they stay long enough, they will reconcile themselves, a3 far as military discip- line will permit, to a life of lotus eating, leaving the morrow to take care of itself. There is grave danger in sending new and untried men to fill posts of administrative responsibility in such a land.. Brimming over with energy and taking their duty in all seriousness they will at first rush at stheir work ith ardor and enthusiasm. Only a few months will be needed to convince them of the utter hopelessness of this mode of procedure and then they wil. fly to the opposite extreme and relapse into a state of apathy and indifference. It is difficult to say which of these conditions is the worse, but either way the interests of the nation will suffer. . Even more serious danger is to be feared from the hustling missionary, who, though a man of peace, is very often the direct cause of war. More battles have been fought, more men killed through the impetuous self- sacrificing missionary than any other cause. And now, that a new and rich vineyard has been opened, there will be hundreds of religious enthu- siasts anxious to work in it. . The worst of it is that the misslonary means so well one cannot blame him. All he asks for is a chance to lay down his life in the cause of the Lord, heedless of the fact that his death will have to be avenged by the slaughter of hundreds. It will be for the Government to check the missionary’s ardor. The task of converting the Philippine Islanders to any form of Protestantism is not going to be an easy one. Mostly the native is converted already. Either he is a Roman Catholic or a Mohammedan. In the former case he has had 400 years of priestly rule, and the good fathers, having managed their flock so well for all these centuries, will take good care that it does not stray Into any other Christian fold. As to the Moslems, the Ameri- can missionary, earnest and sincere though he be, will find, his labor in vain. No one, I believe, has ever yet converted a man of this religion by fair means. For many years a society for the conversion of Mohammedans was maintained at Constantinople, and it is related that, though it spent much good Christian gold, its only converts were of the professional class, bought at so much a head. There remains only the heathen remnant of the i{slanders. These are fierce, untamed savages, belonging to the aboriginal Malay race, and resembling, in their ferocious characteristics, the dreaded Dyaks of Borneo. These men will absorb all the self-sacrificing mission- aries who may care to go among them. No intending martyr could wish for a better opportunity. Everything will depend upon the personnel of the staff sent to admin- ister the civil government of the Philippines. An entirely new departure from the recognized political procedure will have to be taken. If I may make the suggestion, we should use the material already at hand. All through the East, in China, India, the Straits Settlements, wherever there is a port doing any considerable trade, you will find citizens of this country. Many of these are men of great intelligence and commercial probity; some have already served'their country In a consular capacity. They have re- sided long years in the Eagt, their business has brought them into contact with every form of native life and they have learned, from hard experience, the best way to get work out of an Orfental. They know how to respect and humar the fancies of the natives; they can lead where a whole army could not drive. Why not select from among- the ablest of these men a staff of administrators to govern our newly acquired colonies? The na- tion could afford to make it worth their while to accept state employment, and they would form the nucleus for a body of permanent, highly tratned civil servants, specially qualified to govern our foreign possessions. g J. F. ROSE-SOLEY. not addicted. They term this a reform movement. There is every disposition to give the War Depart- ment a fair deal, but nobody will accept any excuse that may be offered for having put a horse doctor in medical charge of Camp Thomas. According to the Woodland Democrat, Republican papers are accusing Republican leaders “with bad faith.”” Perhaps this explains why the charges are not regarded seriously. A man in jail at Santa Rosa is a defendant in two divorce suits at once. His condition of mental anguish must be somewhat mitigated by the fact that he is in jail. Fortunately England has matters so arranged that a warrior may be promoted for gallantry without sending another perhaps equally brave man down the If Roosevelt declares himself not a citizen of New York, and did it for the purpose of evading taxes, his gubernatorial aspirations deserve to be defeated. “Hello, monkey.” “Hello, cur.” Thus the world knew that two great pugilists were within speaking distance. And who but admires their frankness? Announcement that Li Hung Chang is in power can always be taken as preliminary to an announce- ment that he has been kicked out. ‘While Blanco is engaged in decorating the Spanish heroes of the war, the difficult part of the task must be to find the heroes. o $ If the Cuban army is starving, as reported, there seems nothing in the way of its disbanding and going |/ ladder. back to work. i Whatever Dewey does in the Philippines scems to| Popalists clsim Maguire as their own, and the be just the thing he should'do [ gic ¢ that they im ar AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Dr. L. B. Ederer and wife are at the Palace. J. Musto, a merchant of Stockton, is at the Grand. H. M. Benniksen of Humboldt County is at the Russ. Madame L. Lewenburger has returned from New York. J. M. Robb, a druggist of Los Angleles, is at the Grand. J. C. Erickson, a cattle man of Hum- boldt, is at the Russ. Madame B. Biber is home again after a lengthy trip to the East. H. Dinklespiel, a merchant of Birds Landing, is at the Grand. W. E. Lawrence, a prominent rancher of Vacaville, is at the Lick. Garrison Turner, the attorney, is down. from Modesto for a few days. R. R. Hoge, a commission merchant of Portland, Oregon, is at the Grand. Gus Peterson, a rallroad contractor of San Luis Obispo, is'at the Grand. C. B. Livermore, a wool merchant of Seattle, is stopping at the Palace. J. C. Bull Jr., a lumber merchant of Humboldt County, is a guest at the Lick. James W. B. De Scroft, a prominent merchant of New York, is at the Palace. Rey. R. E. Maclean and wife of Gar- net, Kansas, are guests at the Occidental. Arthur Lee and wife arrived from Rich- ‘mond, Va., yesterday and are guests at the Palace. ? ‘W. Simpkins of Henley-on-the-Thames and J. Smith of Loughborough, Engiand, are at the Russ. James McNeil, the well-known electri- cian, came up from Santa Cruz yes- terday and is at the Palace. Thomas Magee Jr. has returned from the East. A few months ago Mr. Magee ‘returned to Seattle from the Klondike and went East to attend to some business matters. He says that his trip to the frozen north was very successful. Everett Hayden, U. S. A., Miss Lillian and Herbert Hayden.are stopping at the Occidental. Everett Hayden was retired before the outbreak of the present war, but was recalled to service when hostili- ties began. He will serve at Mare Island. L. E. Phillips, the attorney, arrived yes- terday ‘after a four months’ trip to Burope, where he was engaged in secur- ing payment of a claim to a large estate in Salford, near Manchester, England. He will now take an active part in the Re- g;&l;un' campaign in behalf of Gage and ‘which will have for its subject, “Seience of the Soul,” and another, “Communion of the Saint.” —_——— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—FE. T. Breedon of San Francisco and L. Garnsey of Los Angeles are at the Normandie. B. H. Baker of San Francisco is at the Imperial. D. C. Smith of Pasadena is at the Savoy. C. J. Steedman of San Francisco is at the Holland. —_———— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. APPENDICITIS—T. 8., City. it is claimed that there is no ren: - bendicitis other than the knite > 1°F P CONCENTRATED HO-HOS—F, W. N, City. This department has not been able to learn of the existence in San Francisco of a lodge of tl HO-HO&R he Concentrated Order of AT MARE ISLAND—Reader, City. A p;ruolnudesmng employment in the me- chanical or any other departmes fidl‘:'e ‘Iv:{:n(thafiy Ygrdgn'l’ust fll:tnpaplllz:': e Boar oy ment, there located. 2% e insloy. DOCTOR OR DENTIST-B. T. Ci There are young ladles who are e::: Floyed in offices of doctors and dentists n the capacity of clerks. The work to be performed by such form in all offiges < ©cTke 15 not uni- TERRITORIES—K., City. Th, . Ties of the United States hire: New wpor ico, Arizona, Indlan, District of Colum. bia, " Alaska, ~Oklahoma and Hamain Islands, whlchll‘;vetrecenfly, by annexa- on, become ¢ y United States = O 'he teITitory of tho EL PRIMERO—L. X. G., Farmin Cal. The steam vessel built by the Ty ‘Iron Works for E. W Hopkins is calied El Primero. !}‘er lflo“ tonnage is 120.99, net 73.48; 3 8.6, indicat horse; %:i?dtzgsu's‘ denin horsepower 200. Built ' consumption is about e H m‘r_pounda peerrhg?:'{ MALTHUSIAN DOCTRINE—A. Oakland, Cal. The doctrine of Thom?:; Robert Malthus, scientific writer on {he principle of population (1766-1834) that population n he & ;mept i ncreases more than the nereasi subsi; that In time, If 10 Check fo gt aoe, 59 increase of populati or all be flll;oed. MANCHESTER SCHOOL—A. C., Oak- land, Cal. Manchester school was a name applied by those of the opposite view to put upon 'the on, many must starve Were tdentified also. with protests sgai) v protests a spirit of militarism, which L being called the “paaee-ltfn;?pglc:l'r' L i COPYIST—B. T, City. As a general thing a young lady who is a graduate of it to fill The duties of an office assistant vary, consgequently it is impossible to “give a rough estimate of the kind of work such a position calls for. DEBT AND INTEREST—E., Santa Cruz. Cal. The following is from an an- alysis of the principal of the public debt of the United States for the year closing June 31, 1897, prepared In the office of the Treasury: Debt on which interest has ceased, $1,346,550 2%; debt bearing no in- terest, which includes certificates issued, | gold, stver and currency deposited in the 3 55 54; outstanding prin- cash In treasury, total of debt less cash in | the't ¥, ~$992,022,900 03; population of | the United States June 1, 72.807,000; debt per capita, $13 63; interest per capita, .41. The several rates of interest which the United States pays at this time are § per. cent, 5 per cent, 45 per cent, 4 per Cent, 3.5 per cent, 3 per cent and 2 per cent. A WRITER'S NAME—Pseudonym, San Jose, Cal. There is no rule that compels a writer to reveal his or her true name even to the publisher of the matter of- fered. A writer may introduce himself or herself to a publisher under a pen name and be known by that name, and all business can be transacted under that name. Such writers ate paid according to the rules lald down by the publish- ers, and as all publishers do not follow the same rule it is impossible to givs the various methods employed. Short sto- ries are paid for by those who use them according to merit, as a rule, but there are some publishers who have a cast- iron rule of paying so much an inch of space occupied in print for all matter, good, bad or indifferent, so long as it is accepted. Without an examination of the pay roll of the daily newspapers that publish short stories it would be a mat- ter of impossibility to state'with a de- gree of certainty if a_majority of such short stories are furnished by the writers without pay. COLOR PRINTING—Subscriber, City. Robert Hoe of Hoe printine press fame gave the following account of color print- ing: “It has been found that a combination of three primary colors properly printed will produce any picture required. Tothese black is sometimes added, mak.ng four gj’lnllngs for a complete colored pictur: ‘aking advantage of this newspaper Lu lishers have attempted to meet the DoD- ular taste for colored plctures, and to that end presses have beén constructed for some newspapers. In the presses fc printing in colors the forms for the 4i ferent colors are placed upen separate cylinders, opposite to each of Wi attached impression cylinders. per passing through this series of cy! ders receives in perfect register the di ferent colors, having first been printed in black upon one side. .These colored supplements are delivered from the ma- chines folded without smutting. The art of simultaneous color printing on the ro- sary principle is still in its infancy.” A LADY REPORTER—B. M. L., City. Some of the brightest reporters, men and women, employed on the newspapers of the United States are those who have not had a college education, while many of the worst failures are those whe have entered the profession from col'eges and universities. The former have a natural aptitude for the profession, have a fae- ulty of being able to write good English, can tell what will make a good news The pa- item, are indomitable, energetic and are able to tell in a comprehensive way all that they see, all that they hear, and which is Tequisite in the presentation of a readable news item. The I eral thing are too prosy e travel all over the field of literature to cull flowers of thought to make a pre- sentable bouquet. Many of these make good writers when they are given time and subject, but as a rule they do not make the best reporters. There .are women who have developed considerable ability as reporters, but they are those who attend strictly to the work assigned them and are read~ to undertake any de- tail that a man would be assigned to. |CHILD'S HYMN. THREE VER- STONS. Tempora labuntur tacitisque senes cimus annis. Traditional (?) Form: lay my body down to sleep, And give my soul to Christ to keep; If in this life [ ne'er should wake I pray the Lord my soul to take. Aberdeenshire (?) Form: This night when I lie down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep; Wake I now or wake I never, May I be the Lord's forever! Another Form: This night when I lie down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep; 1 ould die before I wake v the Lord my soul to take. —Notes and Queries. THE TALK OF THE DAY. The two banks of Burlington, Wis., are managed by women. “They vanquished me quite in the fray And forced all our soldiers to quit it. But let us be gay, For allow me to say, I distinctly refuse to admit it!"” —Washington Star. “‘Chollie says he is in favor of expan- sion.” “How on earth did he ever happen to kave an idea on the subject?” “I don't know, but I think it struck him as something swell.”—Indianapolis Jour- nal. “The preachers,” #hid Satan, with chuckle and grin, “Ha\; most come back from their lay- off. But they’ve got to work hard if they catch up again.” For I have not taken a dav oft.” —Chicago Tribune. Traveled barber—Took my holiday a week ago, sir; three days on the Conti- nong, sir; Antwerp, etc. Customer—Ah! Then you saw the Hotel de Ville, and all the sights? Traveled barber—Hotel de Ville! "Ah, ah! Well, we thought it was a hotel, but it isn’t; and when we called for drinks the old lady said we couldn’t have any!™~ Fun. Bowser—You appeared to be in a terri- ble dilemma in Juniper’'s saloon last even- ing. Towser—Oh, I don't know. Bowser—Oh, yes, you were; between two horns, you know.—Boston Transcript. Essential—“There is no denying,” claimed the Chinese Emperor, “that China is a great country. Our nation is one whose importance the world cannet fail to recognize.” “The other countries are the ones who carry on the real contests,” mildly sug- gested Li Hung Chang. “I know it. But we're the stakes.'— ‘Washington Star. —_—————— Cal. glace fruit 5ic per Ib at Townsend's.* —_——— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by th Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 510 Mone gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, —_— Changed Circiimstances—They say that Mrs. Bondly throws on a great deal of agony since they became suddenly rich. “Well, rather. That woman used: to walk in her sleep. 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