The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 5, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1898 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICITION OFFICE .Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS e Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL _One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE .....908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE ...Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. €.) OFFICE Riggs Houso C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untli 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 oclock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second «na Kentucky streets. open until 9 o'clock. e s, AMUSEMENTS. Faldwin—*The Last Wor Baldwin Theater Columbia — ~Tru Poddie Rose, Thursday afternoon. Lite e to Alhambra, Edéy an Ahe Chutes—Pletro urday, October 15. g in February muing. Rosent] 7:30 p-m. “A MATTER OF BUSINESS.” . - VIDENTLY the Bulletin is devoid of prin- Professing to be a Republican paper, it por Democratic nominee for Mayor. a “matter of business.” There is reason for believing that a price was paid, he paper the g Chis is done as the surpris nce being not that ce for its untrammeled opinion, but ould have been cajoled into paying its Republicanism, the Bulletin now comes out in favor of Barclay Henley for District At- H is on the Democratic ticket, the s He: tice. to believe that 1ley wou h an expression of b he editor of the B He delibe fenders to j ! rot be B en as sincere. has himself been a grc engineered bunko of which the business men of this comm were the victims. People w do such things do not an able prosecutor ir authority. Supposing Crothers had been ably prose- cuted. He would now have been wearing st as to his guilt there was no question. He would not now have been at liberty to sell himself, or even to of- himself for sa Hence we may be pardoned for bting that his H 10 WO of recommendation nley as a als comes from the Crothers does not want to be corraled. wo vears ago the Bulletin asked $s5000 for sup- porting the Republi corral the al heart. an ticket, which shows the brand of its Reg usm. There is no reason to suppose reformed. Indeed there is every reason for it has once more been in the market. it has THE FIiRST BOOMERANG. T HE first boomerang of the campaign has made its appearance. It was launched from the fusion ’—[ cd an irregular curve in the empty ind returned promptly back upon the head of the that hurled it. It was of portentous form, and, while the forward stroke was slight, there is reason to believe the back action has had something of the force of a knock-out blow. The extraordinary document purported to be a cir- cular letter from the Republican campaign committee givi to make the fight against Maguire on the single tax exclusively. “We suggest,” says this artful circular, “that you enter into no discussion of the single tax itself, as the doctrine is not well understood, and its advocates, having long studied it, are apt to have you at a disadvantage. Besides, the fallacious theory is very captivating to certain classes. Simply state all the time that the single taxers®mean to put all the camp, trave ng instructions to the editors of the interior press taxes on the farmers, 2 h that proposition.” When the document was calied to the attention of ilin of the Republican State Cen- tral Committee he said: “It is as shameful 2 lie as has yet been uttered by the Popo-Democratic party in this campaign.” The language was no stronger than the occasion justified, and yet it was hardly needed. The document carries the marks of falseness on its face. So far from desiring to restrict the campaign to the single tax issue, the Republican orators and' press have repeat®dly urged the importance of national is- sues in the campaign, and havz challenged Maguire and his supporters again and again to revive their old clamor for iree silver and fiat money, iree trade and | Bryanism, if they dared. The boomerang is the invention of the Australian savage, one of the lowest of the races of men, and it is attractive to ‘sersons of like intellectual caliber. 1: has frequently been adopted by men of low cunning in Ameriean politics, but has never proved cfecctive against those whom they wished to injure. In al- most every case the weapon has returned to strike the men who threw it. Sometimes the return blow has been long in coming, but in this instance it has been prompt. The cffect of the faked circular upon the tricky schemers of the fusion camp will be noted by the squeals that will go up for days to come. There is a suspicion that Chaplain McIntyre of the Oregon is being court-martialed for having told the truth. His plea that he was so full of quinine when he spoke that he did not know what he ought to be sufficient to exculpate h those who have been aggrieved. ———— While the Grand Jury is investigating school affairs it should not be forgotten that the members of the School Board were chosen by Mr. Phelan. and that Mr. Phelan is sensitive. The Rev. Mr. Briggs must be in a state of-doubt as to whether or not to induige in self-congratula- tion. It is true that he was acquitted, but the effect was not to supply him with a halo. ..217 to 221 Stevenson Street | Marquette Building | . October 5, Works of | THE “NON-PARTISAN” FARCE. LL the respectable Republican citizens who, as members of Deacon Fitch’s Non-Partisan convention, are being used to further the ‘ schemes of the Democratic politicians who are now running that so-called “'party,” should withdraw im- | mediately and save their reputations. The Non- Partisan convention is nothing more or less than a Democratic sideshow. Mayor Phelan’s brother-in- | law, assisted by Deacon Fitch (who ought to be in better business), have united to secure practically all | the indorsements for the former's job-chasers. There is no question about this. The record already made up proves it. The Non-Partisans nominated Phelan for Mayor befo.e any other candidate had been named. They | have indorsed Phelan’s candidates for Sheriff, County Clerk, Tax Collector, District Attorney and Re- corder, thus giving him in the event of success the patronage of the municipal government and control of the Board of Election Commissioners for next year's campaign. Dr. Dodge was slated for Asses- sor, but by some strange circumstance this part of | the bargain between the Non-Partisans and Phelan has fallen through. The newspaper organ of the con- | spiracy, however, has been attacking Siebe ever since he received the indorsement of the convention, | and the Phelanites are working hard to have him cen down. They may yet succeed in doing so. All thi es it plain that the Non-Partisans are a | | Democratic sideshow. As a moral reform party | their indorsement is, therefore. valueless. We advise shun them. They have [ Republican candidates to d with Phelan in an attempt to capture the city offices, and the legs of the Republican members of the convention are being pulled by the job-chasing who controlled the Committee of One | | Democr: | Hundred. | On the whole the spectacle is decidedly humiliating. | Heretofore an indorsement by Deacon Fitch’s party } has constituted a sort of certificate of character. Of ‘ itself it did not bring many votes, but it strength- | ened a candidate with his party and helped his cam- | paign among respectable people. But in its present aspect non-partisanism is a farce. As a Democratic sideshow—the instrument of *Sullivan, McNab and | Phelan for getting the offices—it is a howling fraud. It can neither bring votes to a candidate nor strengthen him morally with the people. All its in- | dorsement can do is to prove that an aspirant office enjoys the favor of Boss Phelan and his ring of patronage grubbers. | Probably it is useless to advise Mr. Fitch to with- w from the Non-Partisan convention, since he ap- s to have enlisted for the war with Boss Phelan; but, nevertheless, we feel constrained to offer him & f advice. word o is to purify the government. Like Brutus, his as- | pirations are elevated and elevating, and however base the motives of his lieutenants, he is not believed to share in them. He thinks Phelan is sincere and McNab honest. But how will it be, when, like 3rutus, he is finally compelled to run upon his own sword? He ought to know that his leg is being pulled by the Democratic patronage brokers, and that as soon as they get their men in office they will throw him and his moral reform ideas overboard. If Dea- con Fitch cares anything for the reputation he has heretofore enjoyed as a sincere and intelligent man, he should adjourn the Non-Partisan convention without delay. If he keep on much longer the town will have to provide him with a fool's cap and a stool. AMERICAN ART COLLECTIONS. | LBERT A. M GER, a citizen of Chicago, { fl has recently presented to the Art Institute of that city a collection of sixty-three paintings ed at about $300,000. The coliection includes works by such masters as Corot, Gerome, Meisso- nier, Munkacsy and Bougereau. It is a gift with which Chicago is justly delighted, and of which other cities in that section of the Union are more or less envious. The Cleveland Leader maintains that the reason Chicago has been so fortunate of late in receiving gifts of art treasures is because she has erected a stately and beautiful building in which to house them. iere is much reason to 'support the conclusion. A magnificent edifice never fails to impress the minds of those who live near it, and to awaken an interest in the object to which the building is devoted. Out of that interest there invariably proceeds a desire to aid in the attainment of the object, and the structure thus serves not only as a storehouse of art, or science, or learning, but as an incentive toward contributions to its treasures. In every part of the United States where massive and durable art galleries have been erected the ac- cumulation of artistic masterpieces has gone forward at a rapid rate. Our advance in all lines of develop- ment has been so great that we have hardly noted the extent to which we have progressed in that par- ticular branch of culture. The advance has been ob- served in Europe, however, for American buyers have now become sharp competitors in the art mar- kets of the Old World, and it has been forcibly im- | pressed upon European collectors that the United | States is the greatest picture purchasing nation on the | globe. A writer in the Nineteenth Century, in discussing | the growth of American art gallerics, says “the ! United States is on the way to becorhe the Louvre of the nations,” and adds: “From year to year its public gaileries have been enriched with masterpieces of all the modern schools; and by purchase, bequest or gift, many valuable and some great pictures by the older Italian, Flemish and Spanish masters have been | added to the already imposing store of national art wealth. In New York pre-eminently, but also in Bos- ton, Washington, Philadelphia, and in other large cities, from New Orleans in the South to Chicago in the North, and from Baltimore in the East to San ! Francisco in the West, there is now so numerous and, in the main, so distinguished a congregation of | pictures, of all schools and periods, that the day is not only at hand, but has arrived, when the native student of art no longer needs to go abroad in order to learn the tidal reach and high-water mark in this | or that natien’s achievement, in this or that school’s | accomplishment, in this or that individual painter’s | work.” Along with this increase in our stores of art treas- ures there comes of course an increased development of native artistic talent. If our attainments in art are | now notable mainly for what we draw from Europe, | it will not be long before they will be renowned for what is produced at home. Every art gallery is an incentive to art cuiture and a school for artists, America is destined to become something more than | “the Louvre of the nations.” She is to be a fruitful | mother of master artists. and her art schools are to be as renowned as her galleries. val | Senator Pieffer of Kansas has been accused of abandoning Populism. but his whiskers are still in evidence. Still, it is hard to cling to a thing which has disappeared. The most Pieffer can reasonably be | expected to do is to cherish the memory of the de- | parted. | for | 's avowed purpose in practicing politics | ] | | eral Griggs in closing his address: STAMPING OUT THE YELLOW LIES. ENERAL SHAFTER is the latest official who G has been moved by a just indignation to de- nounce the falsehoods circulated by the yellow press and a considerable number of fusion dema- gogues against the administration for an alleged in- efficiency in the conduct of the war. These attacks the General characterizes as “simply outrageous,” and as lies. There has been comparatively little of that kind of campaign abuse in circulation on this coast, the yel- low Hearst organ being the only serious offender, but in the Eastern States it appeared at one time as if the whole Democratic campaign was going to be made out of that material. So numerous were the scandals, and so serious had the lying become, that Attorney General Griggs, in an address before the Republican convention of New Jersey, devoted no little attention to it. After re- ferring to the authors of the falsehoods as “hovering like buzzards over the battle-fields and hospitals and graveyards, looking only for the misery and suffer- ing and death which are inevitable in war,” he said: “Surely the Democratic party has not been reduced so low in its supply of proper subjects for political discussion as to need to rely upon yellow fever and yellow literature.” The action of the President in appointing a com- mittee of men of national repute for fairness and in- tegrity to investigate the charges of the yellow jour- nals has had the effect of silencing a great many of them. The announcement that the committee would summon the authors of the charges to give evidence put them in an embarrassing position. Having no proofs of their assertions to offer, they found it ad- | visable to hush up before the summons came. The whole course of the yellow journals and yellow campaigners on this matter has, however, been too disgraceful for the public to overlook and forget it, even though the slanderers are for the time reduced to silence. The people know that gross wrongs have been inflicted upon the administration and the officers | of the army, and a day of reckoning will come when they will settle with the authors. For the present, however, the country will turn willingly from that vile record of falschood and spite to the consideration of the great issues awaiting so- lution. The voters will take the advice given by Gen- “Lift up your eves to the heights where glory is crowned. The genius of American liberty points to a future preg- nant with prodigious good to all mankind; to fresh fields for the extension of American trade and com- merce; new openings for the investment of Ameri- can capital; wider scope for the active energies of American. young men; to more frequent glimpses of the American flag for voyagers over the oceans; mer- chant shipping multiplied manifold in the harbors of the world; with a navy large enough and. strong enough to enforce our just demands and the rights of THE CRISIS IN CHINA. [ E conflict comes proof that the crisis in the em- fore gratifying that the President has promptly or- The riots in the larger cities of the empire and the American citizens as promptly and as efficiently as Dewey enforced the views of the Government in EPORTS from China concerning the death of pire has reached an acute stage and is likely to result in disturbances that will endanger the property and dered Admiral Dewey to dispatch the Baltimore to the Chinese coast at once for the protection of Amer- rumor that the death of the Emperor was caused by assassination reveal something of the real conditions Manila Bay.” the Emperor are conflicting, but out of the very the lives of all foreigners residing there. It is there- ican interests. of the Chinese situation, and aid in an understanding | of the difficulties that have confronted the Dowager Empress, Li Hung Chang and other officials in deal- ing with the issues arising from the conflict of Jap- anese and European aggression on the one side and Chinese stagnation and superstition on the other. The young Emperor appears to have been a liberal- minded youth with aspirations to accomplish among his people reforms on the broadest scale. It was his desire to enlighten the ignorance of the Chinese by the introduction of European sciences as well as in- dustrial arts among them, and in the purduit of this ambition he went so far as to require aspirants for official positions to pass examinations and write papers on chemistry instead of on the Chinese classics as of old. Had the empire been victorious in the war with Japan, had it been free from European aggression, such radical measures as these would even under such circumstances have aroused antagonism. Coming as they did at a time when the people were exasperated by defeat and roused to rage by the encroachments of France, Germany, Great Britain and Russia, they naturally appeared to the populace and the upholders of the old faith as a betrayal of the nation by its ruler. It is therefore not to bé wondered at that in their barbarism they have resorted to riots and to assassin- ation. With such a seething mass of discontent around them the Dowager Empress and her advisers from Li Hung Chang down have had a harder task to per- form than any other rulers of the time. It is clear that an extensive civil disturbance in China will hasten the disruption of the empire. It is essential to the preservation of peace that the superstitions of the people shall not be too much disturbed, that re- forms shall go slowly. It is at the same time neces- saryto appease the greed of Europe for trade. Con- cessions have had to be made in turn to each of the great commercial powers. Thus the administration at Peking has found itself in a dilemma to escape from which would have taxed the brains of the greatest statesmen that ever lived even in the most enlight- ened nations. The end seems at hand. The young Emperor, even if the reports of his death be unfounded, is politically dead. The Dowager Empress and Chang are grow- ing old. The menace of civil war is perceived in every province of the empire. The fleets of the great nations are hastening from the seven seas and gath- ering around the Chinese coast awaiting the inevit- able coming of the time when each will seize what it can. It will be something very like a miracle that will keep old China intact until the close of the cen- tury. For several years a number of intelligent nations have bent their energies to the extincticn of the seal herd. Perseverence will accomplish much, and suc- cess seems near at hand. T. Carl Spelling announces that he is still in the fight for Congress. Aside from the word of the gen- tleman there is scant evidence pointing to this con- clusion. X General Garcia is getting better pay from Uncle Sam than he ever got from Cuba, and perhaps the experience will tend to soothe his savage breast. S : he football season that it has ith a gratifyingly small num- It may be said for been opened this year ber of funerals. IN DEFENSE OF MAGUIRE. Editor Call: In your editorial head- ed “What Maguire Stands For,” in The Call of Sunday, September 18, you say, among other things, that he “stood up for anarchy and anarchists in Con- gress, declarinz them to be the dem- ocrats of Europe and worthy to be wel- comed as immigrants to the United States,” and that he “is for the confls- cation of land by the single tax.” Presuming that space in ‘The Call, and not space in the circumambient at- mosphere, is what is-meant by the last paragraph but one of the article Te- ferred to, I ask, as one of those who regard Judge Maguire not alone as my friend but the friend of all just men, that you give space to the opinion that both the above quoted propositions are not strictly within the pale of truth. It is, of course, well known that l}l his speech in Congress on the immi- gration bill Judge Maguire opposed its passage. He did so on broadly liberal grounds of American principle, and during his speech used the following language: “Who are the Nihlists? They are the democrats of Russia who are strug- gling against almost hopeless odds to establish the natural and inalienable rights of man in that country. * * “Who are the anarchists of Sapin? They are the republicans of that coun- try, seeking to establish the principle of popular sovereignty as against the unnatural privilege of governing now enjoyed by a single family. “Who are the socialists of Germany? They are the opponents of monarchical government and special privilege—the advocates of the equal rights of man. I believe their schemes of social re- generation to be impracticable and niis- taken, but their purpose is right and their cause should be sacred to every lover of liberty and justice. “I trust the time will never come when men who struggle for liberty and Jjustice against tyranny and oppression | will be denied asylum in the ‘land of | the free heart’s hope and home.’ “The anarchists and socialists who are dangerous to the free institutions of this country are not those who are contending against monarchical tyran- ny in Europe, but, rather, those of our own citizenship, who, by powerful com- binations of wealth and special privi- lege, are overriding and evading our laws and corrupting those who make and administer them. These are the classes against whose serious menace to free institutions our legislation should be directed.” Every syllable of that speech must be indorsed by enlightened cftizens who believe in the great democratic princi- ple of political equality and freedpom, whose minds are not biased by race or class prejudice. Since beginning this letter, by the merest chance, there has come to my hand a small pamphlet, entitled “Law ard Authority,” by Plerre Krapotkine, which, I judge, after a hasty perusal of its pages, is an anparchist tract in- tended to propagate ideas antagonistic to established notions of delegated or usurped human authority to enforce laws enacted by delegated representa- tives, and the substitution therefor of natural, divine law without the inter- mediary of human legislative enact- ment, judicial decree or penalty. This, 1 take it, would be anarchy—the repeal of man’s laws and the acceptance of | God’s laws. A very pretty speculative theory, but as impossible of execution, as humanity is constituted, as is the doctrine of universal Christianity. The author is evidently a man of more than average intellectual ability, of an ana- lytical and philosophical turn of mind, for the essay contains much close, log- ical reasoning and a great deal of truth, and is written in faultless Eng- lish. There is nothing positively dan- gerous in its pages, it teaches no viol- ence, no murder, no blood-letting, no | revolution, in the ordinary meaning of | the term, and no liberal-minded, intel- ligent per: would advocate the death or banishment of its author, although he teaches contempt for existing forms of law and authority and shows, or attempts to show, wherein they are contemptible. 1t is to such men Judge Maguire had reference in his speech, and not to the poverty-crazed wretches like the slayer of the late Empress of Austria. I myself have—all who are mentally qualified to formulate uvpinions doubt- 'less have—a contempt for certain laws and customs which ignorance, tradition and superstition have fastened upon us, which we would overthrow if possi- ble, and which, through political par- ties, we are attempting to repeal, to overthrow, to abolish. We may be said, then, to be anarchists to that ex- tent, and dangerous to human institu- tions because we want to abolish the established order. No? ‘Well, then, anarchism—and I am not -defending it or pleading its cause— merely stating the truth about it as I see {t—anarchism is no more a menace to civilization than any other line of philosophical reasoning, and bellevers in its theorles arq no more dangerous than believers in other schools of thought until brooding over real or fan- cied wrongs their minds give way and succumb to the strain which their in- herent weakness iz powerless to resist. Then they become identical with the crazy Republican, Democrat or Popu- list who runs amuck and in a fit of jealous rage or fanatical frenzv mur- ders an unfaithful mistress or wife,'a Lincoln or a Garfleld. As Judge Maguire has pointed out on infiumerable occasions, it is industrial oppression, inequality and specfal priv- ilege which is at the root and founda- ton of all political discontent among the poorer classes, and it is that which is the underlving cause of crack- brained anarchistic and nihilistic at- tempts at murder and destruction. This brings me down to the consider- ation of the other proposition, vis: That Judge Maguire is for “the confis- cation of land by the single tax.” this charge it is only necessary to re- ply that the single tax will have no greater tendency to confiscate land than has the present system. It will confiscate the monopoly value of land and compensate saciety for the sérvice which it renders to land users by giving value to land whose exclusive posses- sion and use is a special privilege en- joyed only by the user, and without the presence of which ~(society) tha | value of the special privilege dimin- ishes in direct ratio as the population diminishes, and increases in.like ratio with the increase of population. Tt is a proposition that must be ad- mitted by all fair-minded men that the earth was created not for the exclusive use of a few favored individuals, but for the whole human race. | This being the case, the exclusive possession of any given location which, by reason of ite site i= more valuable than another, is a special priviiece and should' be paid for as such by him who enjoys it. Since society gives to land all the value that attaches to it. those who enjoy the'privilege of its exclusive use or monopoly shotld, in common justice and equity. compencate society for the monopoly value which its presence con- fers upon the land. This In its es- sence I8 the single tax, and there is nowhere in the proposition anything but equity involved. Webster defines confiscation as "“The act of condemning as forfeited, and adjudeing to the pub- lc treasury.” Since society would take away notking but what it gives there | can be no confiscation of land under the single tax. but tenure would be as secure and undisturbed as it is at pres- | | | ent. | What Judge Maguire stands for is broad-minded liberalism, freedom of thought and action, the reward of ser- vice and abolition of privilege—the highest ideals of the most exalted hu- ‘man prerogatives—all that Paine, and Jefferson, d Franklin, and and Henry George stood for in the on- ward march of human progress. ‘A keen appreciation of the spirit of fairness exhibited by The Call in ac- cording both sides of a controversy a hearing in its columns prompts me to thank it in advance for the considera- tion which I am sure it will show by giving space to these remarks. Re- spectfully, \ P. B. PREBLE, 316 Tenth street, Oakland. ORANJE BOVEN. To her Majesty the Queen of the Neth- erlands. For the march of the flood is mine. Shall U‘:e bar of thine arm my coursers stay In the charge of my whelming brine To the Sea sald the Dutchman, “Ho, stand back! I bide for the dole and fee. To the hands that serve and the loins that lack, And a hail to the Strong and Free. In the might of the Lord of tue Deep I stand, And I set His bounds to Thee. Al bourr)ld in the Dyke, and a mete in the une, And a stay in the stout Sea wall. In the swing of my spade is the eagle's rune, Tho' the Norland ravens squall. And the silt shall flow and the clod shall TOW, From‘Ze(‘Innd to Zuyder Zee: And a man shall a frezman’s footio'd know, ‘Where the arm of a man is free— For the lord of the Dutchman’s land, the Lord of the Dutchman'’s love shall be. “Flambeau and falchion, shackle and rack, In the lust of a ‘Holy’ hate, No &lut of carnage. rapinea:r\!(;liack, Nor a Thousan 'ears c 3 No tear for ruth, and no shudder for shame, i No Christ for the brand nnd pike: Only the rage of the ‘Beggar’s’ claim, And the roar of t e cloven dyke— Only the arm of the Lord upheaved, and The sword of the Lord to strike. Sald the Sea, “O Nederland! alone, You battle against the stars. 5 For Brill's hoarse cry and Alkmaar's groan I storm at your stubborn bars. In Heiliger Lee your Rachels weep, In Leyden your children die;— Death unto Life, Deep unto Deep! And my tides leap at the cry. Set wide your gates to my hosts, and sound yeur pealing trumpets high! “Oranje Boven!"'—Fate is mute, And the Silent soul is lord. “Oranfe Boven!"—Trump and lute ‘Walit on the grim, dumb sword. When the brand is cold, and the blade is rust, And the %3'\'9 and the rack are shows, ones of the Brave enrich the ‘When the dust Where a Leyden garden grows— Then the organ swell of the Sea shall tell how Nederland uprose. On Yssel's flanks, with thrifty salls, The windmills churn the air, Where erst a Viking's galley ralls Their bossed shields laid bare, I dream that the high-beaked triremes sweep A path for the hordes of Rome, As I rock in a fisher's boat, asleep, In the lee of a hedger’s home— ‘While the bells are chiming a Rest from storied tower an salm of dome. And Thou, O fairest flower of Peace, Child of a happy star! Glories, and guerdons of increase Wreathe thy ancestral Lar. White Righteousness in thine array, And on thy shield Renown, Honor shall celebrate thy day, And Law salute thy crown, ‘While grass shall grow and water flow, and the ships sail up and down. ~John Williamson Palmer in Literature. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Dr. C. Gross of Eureka is at the Lick. John Brunton, the athlete, is at the California. A. Cohen, a merchant of Carson, is at the Grand. John Finnel, the Palace. S. N. Griffiths, a lawyer of Fresno, is at the Lick. L. A. Richards, a stock raiser of Gray- son, is at the Russ. Mr. and Mrs. James W. Oates of Santa Rosa are at the Lick. ‘William 8. Green, State Treasurer, is a guest at the Grand. W. H. MacKenzie, Sheriff of Fresno County, is at the Lick. B. T. McCullough, the cattle man of Crows Landing, is at the Grand. George E. Goodman, the banker, Napa, and wife are at the Paiace. ‘W. R. Carithers, the Santa Rosa mer- chant, and wife guests at the Lick. Dr. Kaestner, prorcssor at the Univer- sity of Leipzig, is a guest at the Califor- nia. H. M. Whitney, one of the oldest Amer- jcan settlers in Hawaii, is at the Occi- dental. F. L. Lowndes and R. W. Baird of New York arrived yesterday and are at the Oc- ciuental. J. M. Chase, a hariware merchant of Seattle, arrived yesterday and is stopping at the Grand. P Captain R. D. Wicks has just returned from the Kotzebue Sound country and is stopping at the Russ. Dr. A. H. Mitchell, wife and son arrived from Montana yesterday and are stop- ping at the Occidental. Frank Qualey, a mining man of Arizona, who owns large inter-sts in the copper mines near Safford, Ariz., is at ihe Pal- ace. Appraiser John T. Dare has just been granted thirty days’ leave of absence for his annual vacation. Mr. Dare may be relied upon to devote a part of his vaca- tion to the service of the Revublican party on the stump. George B. Robbins, general manager of the Armour & Co. lines; Robert Graham of the California lines, Herbert Fleish- hacker, the paper kingz, and John A. Gill of the Vanderbilt lines, left in’a party last night for Los Angeles, all on busi- ness commissions. . J. O. Carlisle and James Bosworth re- turned from Kotzebue Sound vyesterday and are very much disgusted prospect- ors. They left here last May with the hope of striking the heels of fortune in the frozen north. They return disap- pointed men. As far as the knowledge of Carlisle goes not one of the 1200 men who entered that country last spring made a strike. ———————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Oct. 4—F. Toplitz of San Francisco is at the Vendome: Miss A. C. Cowen of San Francisco is at the Nether- lands; and Major Thomas Crellin, wife and daughter, of Oakland, ave at the Gil- sey. the Napa banker, is at of ——————————m CURRENT FUN. Not All Alike—“Some men,"” Manayunk Philosopher, “won't drink a drop: and, on the other hand there are many who won't drop a drink.”—Phila- delphia Record. 2 Endiess Letter Chaln.—Mrs. Jones—Why don't you do something to support your- self? The Tramp—I wuz t'inkin’, madam, of startin’ one of dem endless chains of let- ters contributin’ to me relief.—Puck. She remained—"1 am sorry,” said the new governess, “but I cannot remain in your employ."” “What's the trouble?” “Your husband seems dissatisfied with me."” And then her salary was increased.— Cleveland Evening Plain Dealer. | The Last Ditch—Her husband was su- perb in his anger. “Not a word,” he ex- claimed, imperiously when she tried to speak. “I simply won't have it! You may name all the childgen, if you will, but I shall select the wall paper, and con- says the i Said the Sea to the Dutchman, “Ho, make | way! Uncle Joh: Bo there!” It will be observed that w'"- the new woman is herself a fleeted phantom, so to speak, the joke of which she IS the motif does not readily perish from the earth.— Detroit Journal. Sure Indications. — The Mald—What makes you think she hasn’t any children? The Matron—She was telling me how to raise mine.—New York Evening Jour- nal. —_————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ANNEXATION—H. F. C., Goleta, Cal. The question of the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States was disposed of by the Dole Government and not by a vote of the people of the islands. GHERI MAIL TO DAWSON—H. A. N., Hay- wards, Cal. Mail that has been sent from California to the Northwest 1‘:““51);?) 5 s v months has been reaching 73 Do ¢, "t the delivery Is not always regular. =l DUCHESS OF KENT—E. S., City. Th(s' department has not been able to find any authority for the statement in your com- munication that the late Duchess of Kent, mother of Queen Victoria, became a convert to another religion just before her death. 0} FRANCO PRUSSIAN WAR—A. R. 0. T. C., City. Napoleon IIT proclaimed war against Germany July 21, 1870. Badenese | troops entered France at Lauterberg July |81, and on the 4th of August the Crown Prince crossed the Lauter, the boundary of France. CHINA-JAPAN WAR—A. R. 0. T. C., City. Japan declared war against China in the Korean matter on August 1, 1894 The Japanese at various times sent troops to Korea and on October 2 of the year iven the Japanese crossed the Yalu and mvaded Manchuria. SOLDIER'S PAY AND PENSION—J. W. E., City. The pay of the volunteer in the United States army while in actual servieeis the same as that of the regular. The widow of a captain of volunteers killed in battle is entitled to draw the same pension as the widow of a captain in the regular army, $20 per month. A WALK—E. R., Oakland, Cal. The distance walked in going from Haight and ‘Webster streets in San Francisco to the Cliff House by way of the main drive, then from the Cliff House to the point of starting via_the great highway, the Ocean House road, the Almshouse road and over Castro street, is sixteen and one quarter miles. In an American mile there are 1760 yards. CUSTOM HOUSE WATCHMAN-C. 8., City. The duties of watchman in the customs department are the same as are required of watchmen generally—that is to look out for fires and protect the of- fices of the department from intrusion by burglars. The nay is $780 a year and the hours are generally from the time the of- fices close until they are reopened on the following day, and sometimes thev may be required to put in extra hours, if the needs of the department require it. There are but few vacancies. COD FISH—C. T. M., Centerville, Placer County, Cal. Cod fish is the name by which the Gadus Morrhua is commonly known. Cod is the name given to the fish that live on a rocky bottom. Rock cod and red cod are names given to the common cod. The name rock cod applied along the Pacific Coast to chiroid$ and to sebastichibys and then even transferred to serranus comes from an affiliation of thelr affinity to ophiodon and not from an s\i{mosed resemblance to the true cod fis ock cod is misapplied in San Fran- cisco to a sebastine fish (Sebastichlhys flavidus), and_about Puget Sound to a chiroid fish (Hexagrammus decgrammus). The Gadhus Morrhua belongs to the im- portant family of malaccopterous fishes known as Gadidae. To this family belong the cod, ling, hakedorse, haddock, whit- ing, coalfish, burbot and others. ~As to the matter in controversy, the fish served up was cod, but not codfish as that term is applied to the Gadhus Morrhua. e Cal. glace fruit &c per Ib at Townsend's.” — e Special information supplied daily to business houscs and public.men by. the Press Clippfng Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ —_— e The hammock fell—1 wonder why? It oft held two before; But, figuring it closely, T See this time it was more. For while the hammock held them both ('Twas really worked to death) He held his own and her, and she Held rapturously_her breath. —Philadelphia Bulletin. —_——— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syruy” Has been used over fifty years by millions at mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It sootr-= the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists In every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25c a bottle, —_——— HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantaze of the round-trip tickets. Now only $60 by steamship, including fifteen days' board at hotel; longer stay §230 per day. Apply at 4 New * ontgomery street, San Francisco, _———— Commercial lunch, 11 to 2. Amons the Bar- rels, §63 Market st. ADVERTISEMEITS. Furniture Department A determined effort on our part is being mads to wind up this depart- ment of our establishment. Cost is not to be considered. We refuse no reasonable offer on any article. Complete lines in In fact, everything for house furnish- ing—and every piece a bargain. CARPETS. This department has been greatly enlarged. Al the latest styles in coloring and design. ¢ SPECIAL THIS WEEK: Linen Warp Mattings.. English Linoieum laid) A large line of 10-Wire Tapest Carpet (sewed and laid). Opaque Shades, 3x7, fo = ALEX. MACKAY & SON a (18 Market St. Il—l—-l——l—l—l—l—.—l—i—:‘ B85-800 S-0-N-E--a--E-m -0 ! ! : : : : O+ttt ttt++rrrers Combinafion Prrss-$1.00 They come jn ecru Persian, back and eglored lzard nndul::ur: block button—fancy leather lined and genuine gun-metal corners. + + + Mail orders attended to promptly. WILL & FINCK CO., 818-820 Market St., S. F. o, e g o g g e i i 80 4 B+ +4+4+++44++4+44+4 O+ttt +++++++++ 44+