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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1898 THURSDAY... JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. OCTOBER 6, !898_ Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUB‘LICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS.. ...2IT to 221 Stevenson Street Teleph Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) !s served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL One year, by mall, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE.. 908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.. ...Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Represcntative. WASHINGTON (D. €.) OFFICE ....Rigge House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondeat. CHICAGO OFFICE ..Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 38T Hayes street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street. epen untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street. open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 25i8 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. —— e e ENTS, AMUS Ealdwin—"The Last Word.” Baldwin Theater—Poddie Ross, this afternoon. Columbia—+«True to Life." Alcazar—* In Mizzoura " The Bohemian Girl." — Vaudevilla New Comedy Theater—* The Signal of Liberty.” Alhambra, Eddy and Jones The Chutes—Pietro Marino, Ulympla—Corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialtles. Butro’s Baths—Swimming. Coursing—Ingleside Coursing Park, Saturday and Sunday. Central Park—Circus. Saturday, October 15. Rosenthal—Coming in February. AUCTION SALES, By Easton, Eldridge & (o—This day, October 6, Works of Art, at Maple Room, Patace Hotel, at 2 and :30 p-m. WELLS-FARGO TACTICS. “HE court having decided that the Wells-Fargo v_I Company should pay its share of the revenue It mat- ters not that the decision is just, and that none other could have been rendered withovt having travesty; it is of no consequenc: that the company knows this and was aware of it in advance. Its game is to evade payment, and delay is a part of the game. | The course of the express company in this matter | has from the beginning been dutrageous. It has been accentuated by the circumstance that President Valentine of the concern has been making a pretense, | couching bogus arguments in language so sonorous and yet so sedate as to suggest that his personality is awash with a steady flow of piety. The pretense is that Valentine believes, or ever believed, the statute providing specifically that express companies should bear a portion of the war tax really meant that they should be exempt. Apparently he has discovered a new Donnelly cryptogram and employs it in the | translation of a law already so clear that only the hypocrite and illiterate can fail to read it aright. President Valentine should not thus be permitted | to plant his Pecksniffian heel upon the patrons of | his company. While the Costley suit has been ap- | tax, the company has taken an appeal. been a | mies of mankind. pealed, the case is one calling for a speedy decision from the Superior Court, because tardiness would be | as satisfactory to the defendants as an actual verdict | in their favor. filed by every person whom the company charges for | the stamp it should affix at its own expense. Such | suits are readily brought, grounds for bringing them | are plentiful, and the company needs a series of ob- ject lessons. DECEPTIONS IN THE FRUIT TRADE. N the course of a well-written and evidently care- l fully studied review of the advantages possessed by men engaged in rural industries in the West over those following similar pursuits in the East, the Philadelphia Record notes that fruit men in the West are particularly fortunate. The statement it- self is true enough, but the Record illustrates some of the advantages of Western fruit men in very curious way. It says: “In Idaho, for example, the plum trees yield im- mense crops, and agents come all the way from San Francisco to purchase the prospective crop on the trees, paying between 1 and 2 cents per pound for fruit which readily sells for 10 or 12 cents a pound when dried, packed and sold as California prunes.” It rarely happens under these conditions that fruit is al- lowed to rot on the ground, as is so often the case in the East when a glut in the market temporarily reduces the selling price below the cost of gathering and shipping the crop.” If that statement is true, it is not easy to see why the Eastern plum-grower could not put himself on an equality with the thrifty orchardist in Idaho by adopting the same practice. If San Francisco fruit- dealers can raise the price of plums by simply mark- ing them California prunes, the Philadelphia men of the trade might do the same. If the counterfeiting of California fruit is to be a business, there is no reason why dealers in all sections of the Union should not have a chance at it. The subject is one that would well repay the at- tention of the fruit men of the State. Our producers have had a long and hard fight to make the value of California fruit known to the consumers of the Fast and to win a general recognition of its superiority. The benefits of the struggle will be lost, however, if now that the California label has become an evidence of good fruit, that label can be placed on any kind of fruit. If Idaho plums are to be sold as prunes for the sake of better prices they should at least be labeled Idaho prunes, and not passed off upon the public as a product of California. a Possibly the papers which oppose Phelan and his machine-made One Hundred really have the good of the city at heart. They have simply failed to grasp | the theory that the only good man is Phelan. The Delaware detective who came out here to get Mrs. Botkin mmy become acclimated and like the country so well that he will decline to go back there himself without a requisition. —_— If the Nead family is what the man and woman rep- resent themselves to be, there is safety in guessing that the active policeman who arrested them has a bad quarter of an hour in store. It is not satisfactory that an Oakland man should have been acquitted of the charge of selling diseased beef when he did sell the beef, and it was diseased. According to accounts, the only way In which the Emperor of China did not commit suicide was by swallowing dynamite and kicking himself. Meanwhile other suits oug be|d S0 ought to be | SIBCIoTES W surely sustain you and soon an enlight. THE MAGUIRE OF RECORD. E have heretofore given parts of Judge Ma- guire's record since he was elected to the bench by the Democrats in 1882. He could hardly wait for another campaign to begin bolting in and out of the party which had given him an officz and a salary. These bolts were not because the Dem- ocracy had abandoned any principle which it held when he took office under it, but because it would not abandon those principles and adopt his personal and fanatical ideas. Finally, in 1886 he bolted, and, joining Barry, now Democratic candidate for Con- gress, and Hinton, now Democratic candidate for Railroad Commissioner, and a number of others who are now candidates, or wanted to be, and are running the party they bolted then, he put up a ticket in op- position to the regular Democratic ticket and led its fight. One need not seek far for his purpose in !his final bolt. He sought to destroy the Democracy to make room for another party, which he intended to lead. In 1887 the Henry George movement took on great proportions in New York. Father McGlynn had joined forces with George, and there arose the shadow of a schism in the Catholic church, of which McGlynn would be the leader. It was a dream of Henry George that this schism would detach a large force from the church and attach it to his political fortunes, and McGlynn would be the religious and he the civil chief of a great movement, which would revolutionize American politics. The extremes to which McGlynn went are not for- gotten. He assailed the Pope, and, when reminded of the obligations he had voluntarily assumed when he entered the priesthood, responded with the re- mark that he wanted to seec a Pope who would “take off his petticoats, wear a plug hat and walk down Broadway like anybody else!” Maguire lost no time in getting into the McGlynn and George procession. As early as March, 1887, he wrote McGlynn the following letter: Dear Sir: I have often thought of writing to you to testify my unbounded admiration for the course you have pursued in the trying ordeal to which you have been and are still being subjected. Though I have never had the privilege of meet- ing you, 1 feel bound to you in a sort of spiritual brotherhood by the ties of a common devotion to the principles for which you are now be‘ne perse- cuted, and by that touch of nature which is breathed forth in your public writings. The Inclosed clippings from the Weekly Star (Barry’s paper) of this. city will serve to show you | what my feelings and opinions are concerning your position, and concerning the questions involved in your pending controversy. I do not send the clip- pings for their intrinsic value, but merely to show to vou that even at this distance your sacrifices in the cause of humanity are appreciated, and that your course is being watched with affectionate ad- miration. Your friends in California are legion, and your enemies are confined to those who are the ene- Their enmity is, of course, a lofty tribute to your character and a strong recommenda- tion of your cause. Before closing I must add my voice to the pro- tests against your going to Rome to answer for ex- ercising your sovereign rights of American eitizen- ship in favor of the Labor party in the late cam- paign. I cannot imagine a more urgent occasion or a better opportunity for teaching the world, includ- ing the Propaganda, that American Catholics are not the chattels of the Pope. To go to Rome for the purpuse of answering the charge of having advo- cated and voted in favor of rdising all public reve- nue from a single tax on land values would, in my judgment, be a virtual abandonment of your Ameri- can citizenship. For, 1f the decision should be against your prin- ciples and against your chosen party, how could you submit to the decision and yet retain your citizen- ship? Submission to a trial involves a submission to | an adverse decision of the question in controversy, and would seem to be a voluntary act of denation- alization, if not a legal act of sdif-disfranchisement. T believe that God has called you to preach and teach the natural rights of all'his children in the land, which his bounty has given for the equal use and sustenance of all mankind, and that henceforth your duty to God and to your fellow man lies in this new service. If the Propaganda should, perversely, take the other side in the struggle, your duty re- ns the same, and is none the less plain. In the arge of that duty, as I know you will discharge ened, elevated and prosperity crowned humanity will_vindicate you. Let me, then, not as the mere automaton of cus- tom, and not as an idle and unmeaning act of po- liteness and compliment, but in the earnestness of heartfelt sincerity, subscribe myself, your devoted friend, JAMES G. MAGUIRE. These were high-sounding words. Does Maguire stand by them now? If the Propaganda opposed the confiscation of land, he impeached it of “perversity.” If the Pope held a priest to his voluntary obligations, Catholics became his “chattels.” The writing of this letter was almost concurrent with his letter permanently withdrawing from' the Democratic party because it would not adopt the single tax plan for confiscation of land, in which he made use of nearly the same terms employed in his letter to McGlynn. and Barry published his book on “Ireland and the Pope,” in which he said the Pope was “a serpent, sinking his fangs in the heart of the spirit of liberty."” This is a country of perfect freedom and toleration, If Maguire sincerely believed in land confiscation to the extent indicated and expressed in his bolt church and party, what does he believe about it now? Has the Democratic party indorsed the single tax confiscation of land that he returns to it and again seeks office and salary as its nominee, and did he and McGlynn so cure the Propaganda of its “perversity” and the Pope of his desire to own several millions of “chattels” in the United States as to end the con- troversy? Or is Maguire a mere mouther of words, who shrinks from the consequences and is ready to shift his position at any time for an office and a salary? If God were on the side of land confiscation in 1887, on what side is Maguire now? If the Creator were against land-owners then, what stronger con- demnation can there be of land-owning as a sin? That was Maguire's notion at that time. What does he think of it now? In his speech to the Delaware Legislature he said that while single tax would destroy investments in land and be a hardship on land-owners, it would not be unjust! Does he still believe this? Under his.scheme of land confiscation investments A few months later he wrote | of | in real property are to be destroyed, the owners are. not to have compensation. In 1887 he believed this to be the plan of the Almighty. Somewhere in Genesis he may read that, the famine having borne hard on the Egyptians, they were constrained to sell each man his land, and Joseph then bought of each man his land and paid him therefor, and the land of each man was bought by Joseph for Pharoah, and thereafter Pharoah did take a certain measure of each man's corn for rent of the land which Joseph had bought. This was the first instance of the kind. It * ap- proximated closely to the commune division of land, bift Joseph bought and paid for each man’s land, and they were constrained to sell it by the distress of the famine=—not because their ownership of it was wicked in the sight of God. 3 Joseph was as “perverse” as the Propaganda, for he recognized private ownership when he paid for the land. Does Maguire feel himself attached to Joseph in a sort of “spiritual brotherhood?” The truth about the Towa and Oregon seems to be that nobody outside the Navy Department knows where the ships are going, a circumstance which opens wide the field to correspondents who lke to guess at space rates. ¥ : | candidates AN UNMASKED “PARTY. HE thoroughness with which the Non-Partisan Ttraffickers in City Hall patronage have exposed themselves during the past two weeks renders any further speculation as to the purpose of their existence entirely unnecessary. It was never claimed | for the Non-Partisans that they represented any- body. The members of their “convention” were ap- pointed by Deacon Fitch, and they hold for life, or as long as he decrees. They have never been con- sidered in any other light than as a body of seli- selected, respectable citizens, united for the promo- tion of pure politics and good government. Upon this basis they have exercised considerable influence in local politics. Their indorsement has constituted a certificate of character, and as such has been of value to the candidates of the other parties. But the hollow pretense upon which the patronage brokers now in control of the Non-Partisan “con- vention” have been doing business is exploded. Their campaign this year is being conducted in pur- suance of a patronage bargain with Mayor Phelan, whose candidates for nearly all the patronage offices have been taken up one by one and indorsed. The aeme of absurdity in this relation was reached on Tuesday evening, when the ‘“convention” turned down Attorney-General Fitzgerald for City and County Attorney and indorsed a young legal sprig who is attached to the machine of Phelan. . Fitzgerald is not only a matured and able lawyer, but his record as Attorney-General has stamped him as an incorruptible and energetic official. For such a man to be rejected by a Non-Partisan convention in order that an inexperienced, half-grown legal lu- minary, who is a stranger to the Supreme Court, may be foisted into affice at the dictation of Boss Phelan, is decidedly laughable. Some of the Non-Partisans may well smile at the uncooked nature of their work. The mask, however, is now completely drawn. Mr. Fitch’s party is a Phelan Democratic sideshow, and the fact can no longer be concealed. It can exert no possible influence in this campaign, for the certificate of character which it has conferred upon the candidates indorsed means nothing more than that they enjoy the favor of Mayor Phelan and his brother-in-law. In some cases it may reasonably be doubted whether Deacon Fitch is a willing partner to the arrangements made by the Mayor and his legal relative, but, being the recognized Non-Partisan leader, he must be held responsible. Mr. Fitch has always supported faithful officials. Yet his “conven- tion” has turned down Martin Fragley, one of the best and most efficient office-holders ever appointed to an executive position in this city, in order that a personal friend of Phelan might have the indorsement of the Non-Partisans for Superintendent of Streets. Non-Partisanism in the present instance, there- fore, stands only for the political aspirations of James D. Phelan. It operates merely to give him control of the patronage of the city, and doubtless he has made arrangements for an equitable division of results. What the Republican candidates who have sought Phelan’s indorsement in this ridiculous sideshow should now do is to make it plain to the people that Non-Partisanism, as interpetreted by Deacon Fitch's “convention,” is a fraud and a sham. This may be done by personally informing the few misguided peo- ple who may still be tempted to believe that a Non- Partisan indorsement means something of the real nature of the game Phelan and his brother-in-law are playing. Now that the mask is off this ought not to be diffi- cult. The Non-Partisans have substantially indorsed the Phelan ticket, notwithstanding the Republican possess more approved records, are stronger and better known, and stand higher in.the community. This is enough to disclose the milk in the cocoanut. Phelan and his brother-in-law are bossing the Non-Partisans just as the former bossed the Committee of One Hundred. MAYOR PHELAN, HEFTER. OUNG WIDBER is apparently close to the Y doors of San Quentin. While he was Treas- urer the vast sum of money under his charge was not counted by Mayor Phelan, as provided by law. Instead, as is already a matter of local history, it was “hefted.” Had the Treasurer been a man devoid of larcenous instincts, had no other thief had access to the vaults, “hefting” might not have been of serious result. In- deed, were everybody honest there would be no need of making even a periodical estimate of the coin on hand, but only to keep account of expenditures. The peculiar method adopted by the Mayor made a theit possible. It placed in the way of Widber a temptation to which he could never rightfully have been subjected. Had he known the coin would be counted, the fact would have served to check him. Had the safeguard to which he was entitled, and which the community had a right to expect, been thrown about him, he would not now be a felon, a confessed and almost shameless robber. The Mayor's “hefting” was Widber's undoing. Not that the ex- Treasurer is to be held in any measure blameless. Yet there is no merit in giving a rogue an oppor- tunity. “Hefting” was the opportunity; Widber was the rogue. But the Mayor seems, unconsciously, to be carry- ing the “hefting” process into politics. Here is his Committee of One Hundred. He has “heited” the lot and is satisfied with them. He professes to think the men of his personal choice competent to run the Democratic party, and asks the entire city to become a part of the machine of which he is engineer. There are signs of demur, and the Mayor has thereat a feel- ing of vague unrest. The people want to pass upon the qualifications of that committee themselves. They have no faith in Phelan as a “hefter.”” They know he is prone to err. Furthermore, they do not under- stand why, if the Mayor has faith in his machine- made One Hundred, he should not permit them to act with some degree of independence and not try to be the whole thing himself. The Bulletin makes a strong intimation that money spent to secure its support would be thrown away. A little more such frankness as this and somebody will accuse the Bulletin of being honest in spots. A man who went to a cabin near Redding for something to eat was shot by the owner. Consider- ing that he got nothing to eat, and is likely to die, the penalty seems almost too severe. —_— . James R. Keene recently made $1,500,000 in a week. This shows what industry will do. Every toiler should be stimulated to renewed energy. S e “Coin” Harvey has been selected as, chief herds- man of the flock of the discontented. The chances are even more than 16 to 1 that he scores a failure. Something evidently has happened to the Emperor of China, but just what it is seems to be a bit of in- formation deftly corraled by the censor. —_— The fact that bankers do not look with favor upon popular loans will not change the general opinion concerning such loans. y: A FIELD FOR MILLIONAIRES Editor Call, San Francisco: On the 13th ult. you kindly published my ar- ticle showing the impropriety of the people of San Francisco advocating and the injury the completion of the Nic- aragua canal would be, not only to San Francisco harbor, but also to the whole Northern Pacific coast, and while I endeavored to raise the alarm and point out the dangers threatening the very existance of that city, I con- sider it a poor alarmist that cannot present a remedy, In a measure at least, to overcome these dangers. While the Nicaragua canal is a venture of vast magnitude, many well informed men consider it utterly impracticable, and I will premise by saying if undertaken like the Panama canal it will prove a monumental failure, at least during the present generation. Perhaps, Mr. Ed- itor, you may call to mind the reason given by the great engineer, De Les- seps, when asked why he did not choose in the Nicaragua route for a canal preference to Panama. He answered have had the Nicaragua route explored and find the approaches to it both on the Atlantic and Pacific sides utterly impracticable. On the Pacific it must end at an open roadstead on the Pa- cific Ocean that would cost a thousand million dollars to make a safe harbor for shipping; and on the Atlantic, from the north of San Juan River to deep water, a distance of some twelve to twenty miles filled in with sand and debris, caused by the wash of the river on one side and the action of the Gulf stream, raising in the Caribbean Sea and sweeping up through the Gulf of Mexico, throwing sand and silt upon the other, would entail a perpetual out- lay in dredging that would cost more than the revenues of the canal to main- tain.” I can readily see why the pres- ent owners of this canal stock and bonds would like to see Uncle Sam take the thing off their hands. It would no doubt be a splendid speculation to unload it on the taxpayers of the United States, and what a nice lot of American millionaires it would make at Uncle Sam’s expense. In all the estimates I have ever seen made of the cost of the canal, I would candidly ask, Did you or any one else ever see an estimate on the cost of approaches to 1t? I admit I never did, and I would suggest to our law makers and states- men to at least make careful inquiry on that point for the benefit of the dear people, and I will venture the predic- tion, which may be called the emana- tions of a crank, that if this stupen- dous fraud is ever forced on the United States Government it will bethepolitical grave of more American statesmen and politicians than ever the Panama canal was to De Lesseps, his associates and the French people, who deluded their countrymen into advocating it. Thanking you kindly for publishing my former article and also the Wooa- land Democrat, and other papers that copled it, T am respectfully yours, J. W. SNOWBALL. Grafton, Yolo County, September 28. A NON-PARTISAN PIECE CLUB Editor Call: I was pleased with your timely editorial this morning on the work of the Non-Partisan “Plece Club.” I am sorry to say plece club, but it is entitled to no other name. How stanch old-time Republicans like Henry L. Davis, George K. Fitch, E. A. Denicke and others can be so bamboozled and made such rank suckers of as is be- ing done at present is beyond the com- prehension of one of ordinary intellf= gence. The smaller “fry"” are not to be wondered at, as the task for get. ting little minds to use as catspaws to nominate Democrats is as simple as two and two. Take, for instance, that high-minded public citizen, Charles B. Perkins, who is so frequently on his feet everywhere and who nominated Phelan for Mayor before the conven. tion had organized. Perkins is domi- nated by Robert McElroy (as they run a church together). Robert McElroy is the manager of the Phelan block. So it goes, a wheel within a wheel, till decency holds above its head an um- brella to keep the shocks of these would-be reformers—like sunstrokes— away. Out with such rot. Can it be possible they for a moment think the intelligent voter is going to be the tail to a Democratic kite this year? I have hitherto been allied with the Non-Par- tisan movemen;{ but the Phelan-Sulll- van-McElroy-Perkins conglomeration is a trifle too nauseating for A FORMER NON-PARTISAN. San Francisco, October 5, 1898, —_———————— COL. IRISH AND HIS ADDRESS. To the Editor of The Call: Your Alameda reporter in his account of Colonel Tobin's address to the Uni- tarian Club took occasion to say that it was an answer to my attack on the administration as to the colonial policy. My address was delivered before the war closed. It was a calm statement of constitutional principles and of cer- tain physical facts which mark the tropics as unfit for colonization by Anglo-Saxons. Neither the administration nor Iits policy was mentioned. Indeed, if the administration had any policy on that subject at that time the country was uninformed of it. Under the circumstances the obvious malice of your reporter is incompatible with the fairness which is plainly the policy of The Call JOHN P. IRISH. ————— PASSING PLEASANTRIES. Uncle Jabez—I understand that Old Skayles, the feller that runs the grocery down at the Corners, is goin’ to fix up a bill against Spain for indemnity. Uncle Silas—He is? What for? Uncle Jabez—Why, he claims that he had fourteen fust-class store-boxes whit- tled all ter pleces while the war was in progress.—Judge. She—Let me see; you were admitted to the bar three months ago. I suppose that you are practicing now? He—Yes; economy.—Detroit Free Press. “Ever try electricity for your rheuma- tism, Uncle Josh?” “Should say I did. T was struck by lightnin’ two different times an’ my rheu- matiz seemed ter thrive under it."—De- troit Free Press. “T used to fondly hope that some day I would have lots of money.” “And now?" “Now 1 would be thankful if I could dream, some night, that I was rich.,"— Chicago News. Managing Editor—Here, this won't do. Dramatic Editor—What's wrong? - Managing Edftor—You say in your ac- count of that new play that Jones made a hit as the Spanish cavallier.—Chicago News. Stubby (with conviction)—I don't believe in that young doctor. Nurse—Why not? Stubby—Well, the medicine he gives doesn’t taste bad enough to do any good —Bosten Globe. . She—I am told that “Ben Hur” is solq lnHa dgvun languages. e—Well, so are bananas—right § town.—Chicago Tribune. FLn iy A parrot owned by an Arch-street phy- siclan gave signs of possessing “almost human intelligence” the other night. A p.rtdy of youn;;l htlo.lkl w;u an the lawn and were an hour in guessi Hadics. - Flally & young laay ssmof hy does g_ do; turn around twice b fore he lies down Before anybody could answer the par- rot croaked: “One food turn deserves an- other.”—Philadelphia Call. TO ENGLAND. Brothers, who face with us the boisterous That, through the storled, Immemorial With bufiéts of sharp’salt and mighty Bear ;vnsh us yet if in these strenuous Full of reverberations, we seem deaf, Or hardly mindful, to the kindly words Breathed under the Atlantic for our cheer. Ah, yes, we hear them, and they nerve anew The grip upon the saber and the hands ’A‘lmt1 keerxl)' the grim-lipped guns in ready eash! B Fromhsfillutauons such there comes a thri Filling tense veins with anclent battle jdy Thald!hallls a lineage bright with daring eeds. The sons of men who heard Will S8hakes- peare speak, Whose fathers were with yours at Stam- ford Brldfi, ‘When dSa.xon arold made the Derwent red, But not with blush for England; we who trace From those old sea kings whose swift gal- leys made King Phll!i”s roud “invincibles™” a myth; ‘We, mindful how our pulses take their rhythm From that unending drum-beat that has rolled Round Trafalgar, Sebastopol, Lucknow, And kindred monuments to England's arms, That make familiar all the Old World map— We tgank you for your thought of us to- 2y. Nor have we been unmindful of your stress. We joy with you when to your destiny Uprising, equal, you dispense new rights— New rights as old as Freedom’s honored seat In human hearts. praise For ynua‘ great giant souls like him just We offer stintless ead, ‘Who gave fair Ireland bigger chance to breathe, Shorn of old bondage; watch with glisten- ing eves Your ancient cross spread freedom in the eas And keep God's harbors open to all sails That carry Kknowledge, justice, order, peace. It Afghan bullets stain a Highland g\]ald, If the grim crescent drips with Saxon blood Shed to defend a bruised and trodden race, Know we shall feel the hurt as quick as rou! Now, in this solemn task we only blush Because we were too patient. Eager never To hold red hands up for the world to see, We writhed in silence at a mighty wrong. Now, well determined on this great re- ress, We reck at nothing if our aims are right. You, too, who give your plaudits, would esteem TUs less if we did not at once declare Had we no war base but our consciences, That we will wipe the wrong and wronger out Forever from this fair, free Western world. Take, then, the simple phrase that suits the times. The hand grasp and the meeting of the eye Shall ’wri!e ‘?ur pact in stronger bonds than ink, And, sealed by fli;h in which our shoul- d ers touch, [/ Shall keep the old world rolling up the To that high plane on which good hearts are set, When equal right and opportunity Shall be the glory of the human race. —Charles H. Crandall in Boston Trans- Dk ——m AROUND THE CORRIDORS. T. J. Riordan of Salinas is at the Lick. Frank A. Cresey of Modesto is at the Lick. £t Dr. E. H. Newbold of Oregon is at the Grand. 3 Dr. E. J. Call of Paso Robles Is a guest at the Grand. H. S. Allen, a mining man 6f Sonora, is a guest at the Grand. George E. Dunphy, a merchant of Sac- ramento, is at the Russ, H. A. Elliott, a banker of Portland, is a guest at the California. G. G. Frazer, a mining man of Mari- posa, is at the Occidental. F. S. Macomber, & merchant of Sonoma, is registered at the Palace. G. W. Miller, a mining superintendent of Butte, Mont., is at the Russ, H. R. McNoble, an attorney of Stock- ton, is registered at the Grand. Edward L. Hutchison, the politician of Los Angeles, is at the California. H. A. Sherril, a capitalist of New York, registered at the Grand yesterday. J. P. Peake, proprietor of the Sea Beach Hotel, Santa Cruz, is at the Palace. J. H. Stebbins and wife and Arthur | Richter, a merchant of Gridley, are at the Russ. Charles Martin, the young English cap- italist of Loomis, is at the Occidental on his honeymoon. General F. Canido, Governor of Sinaloa, is again in this city. He will return to his State in Mexico shortly. Messrs. Woodworth and Ebose of Har- vard University will leave to-day for Samoa on a scientific expedition. Major Nelson George of New Zealand, the well-known owner of a string of fast horses, will leave to-day on the Alameda. Mrs. C. 8. Woolsey and son and Mrs. C. E. Fitzpatrick arrived from Colorado Springs yesterday morning and are at the Occtdental. i Thomas W. Scott, bond clerk in the Custom House, has returned to his desk after a thirty days' vacation in his oid home in Illinois. James McCudden, the well-known con- tractor of Vallejo, accompanied by his wife, Is a guest at the Baldwin. They have just returned from Europe. Sheriff F. M. Brown of Eureka, Hum- boldt County, s at the Russ. He has been Sheriff for twenty-seven years, and' is again a nominee for the same office. F. L. Lowndes, a guest of the Occiden- tal, who arrived here from New York on Monday, is minus $700 in bills. He first missed them yesterday, and informed the police of his loss at once. —_—————— WHAT “SING A SONG OF SIX- PENCE” MEANS. You all know this rhyme, but have you ever heard what it really means? The four-and-twenty blackbirds repre- sent the twenty-four hours. The bottom of the pie is the world, while the top crust is the sky that overarches it. The open- ing of the ple is the day dawn, when the birds begin to sing, and surely such a sl&ht is it for a king. he king, who is represented sitting in his parlor counting out his money, Is the sun, while the gold pieces that slip through his fln%ars as he counts them are the golden sunbeams. The queen, who sits in the dark kitchen, is the moon, and the heney with which she regales herself {s the moonlight. ‘The industrious maid, who is in the gar- den at work before her king—the sun—has risen, is the day dawn, and the clothes she hangs out are the clouds. The bird who so_tragically ends the song by *nip- Eln' off her node is the sunset. So we Innve l‘he whole day, If not in a nutshell, a ple. —_———————— A ROMANCE OF THE PEERAGE. The death of Prince Paul Esterhazy re. ealls a curfjous passage in the romance of the mrlse, says the Manchester Guard- fan's London correspondent. In the year 1782 the Earl of estmoreland eloped {(mm what {8 now Lord Rosebery's house n Berkeley square) with the only child and reputed heiress of Mr. Child, the banker. Mr, Child gave chase, but the Sy aste o bl Szt g oot . a t) l-n‘g “the Tndignant father avenged him: self by cutting Lord and Lady Westmor- land out of his will and leaving all his wealth over their heads to their eldest daughter, Lady Sarah Sophia Fane. This fortunate young lady married Lord Jer- sey, carried the Child banking business into her husband’s family, and became one of the queens of London society in its most brilliant and most exclusive days. She 15 described by Lord Beaconsfield in “Endymion” as Zenobia. She died in 1807 Lady Jersey's eldest daughter, Lady Sarah Viiliers, married Prince Nicholas Bsterhazy, who belonged to onme of the greatest Austrian families. In those days the law of the sixteen quarterings was rigidly enforced at the court of Vienna, and the Prince wasregarded as having made something of a mesalliance in marrying a young %ad,v whose mercantile ancestry marred her full complement of heraldic honors. The son_of this marriage was the Prince Paul Esterhazy whose death was announced a few days since. ———— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CHICAGO BA L. W. 8., Garber- ville, Cal. To obtain a list of the most important banks of Chicago in 1878 you willhave to address a letter of inquiry to Trow's Directory of Chicago. HAIR SPECIALIST—H. C., City. Being contrary to the rules of this department to advertise any individual or business, it cannot “recommend some hair specials ist.” Read the advertising columns. A DESERTE;{_—Ea\'nlry, City. A sol- dier who has deserted from the army of the United States is always a deserter unless pardoned by the President, and un- less so pardoned is liable to arrest at any time. A SPORTING PAPER—Vesta, City. There is no public jnstitution in this city that has a file of the sporting paper for 1882-3 named in your communication. It is &1iloubltul if any private individual has a flle, WINDOW CLEANSING—O. S.. City. The following are given as means to cleanse window panes: *In washing win- dows a narrow bladed wooden knife, . | sharply pointed, will take out the dirt that hardens in the corners of the sash. Dry whiting will polish the glass, which should first be washed with weak black tea mixed with alcohol. "Save the tea leaves or that purpose. “Use calcined magnesia, molstened with benzine. Apply with a rag. Mix for use or Keep In a glass stoppered bottle.” NOT A LEAP YEAR-I L, City. The year 1900 will not be a leap year. 1If a year were exactly 365% days long there would be a leap yvear every four years; but as there is an excess of 11 minutes 10.3 seconds.each year, this excess is com- pensated for by dropping the leap year at the beginning of three out .of four cen- turies and thus equalizing the time gained through the century. The lgngth of time thus established makes an &rror of only one day in 3325 years. Of the years con- cluding the centuries, and know'l;waso}lkll; hundl"e{d!ht e?r, sluch as 1800, 1 SE every fourth is'a leap year, commenc with® 2000 such as uge}dl\‘isihle by 4 that is to say, 2400, 2830 and so on. TWENTIETH CENTURY—A. K. D, City. The nineteenth century will close at midnight on the 31st of January, 1800, and the twentieth century will commence with the year 1901. It takes 100 years to make a century, and the century does not close until the 100 years haveé been com- pleted. This question, which has given rise to much controversy, is best illus- trated by stating that a smoker pur- chases two boxes of cigars containing 100 each. He takes cigars from box 1 until he has emptied it, then he has used 100 cigars. When he takes a cigar from box 2 he takes eigar No. 101, and is in the see- ond box; so it is with a century. When the first 100 years were terminated the next year became the first of the secofld century, and was year 10 RED, WHITE AND BLUE-H. A. W, Sacramento, Cal. The prevailing fashion of red, white and blue stripes on barbers’ poles is not according to the original, but is the idea of some patriotic barber whose name has been lost to history. In former times the barber served his customers— or, in fact, any one else—as surgeon, and when cupping and bleeding were exten- sively carried on, the barber was in the habit of performing in that line. That his ‘flace of business might be known, he used to display at his_door a pole on which was affixed a small brass bowl, and below hung strips of red and white cloth, the red symbolizing the bload that was let from the patient and the white the bandage, while the bowl represented the vessel in_which the escaping blood was caught. Subsequently the pole was paint- ed alternately with winding stripes of red and white, and a gilt top supplanted the bowl. When barbers ceased to be cuppers and bleeders, the striped pole which had become so famillar as the sign of the glace where the barber was, was retained, ut, as before stated, somc one added a blue stripe to make a riotic display. INSURANCE PREMIUM—A Potrero Reader, City. If the insurance associa- tion to which you became a member and in which you insured is conducted on the plan of mutuality, then you must have signed the constitution'and by-laws and you are bound by them. From the infor- mation given in your communication it is apparent that you are responsible for the extra assessment, and your failure to meet that assessment carries with it a certain penalty. The association could no doubt commence an action against you for the amount due. u have nothing but your. wages the law of this Btate says:i The earnings of the judgment debtor for his personal services rendered at any time within thirty days next preceding the levy of execu- tion or attachment, when it appears by the debtor’s affidavit, or otherwise, that such earnings are necessary for the use of his family residing in this State, supported in whole or in part by his labor, are exempt from execution, but where debts are incurred by any such per- son, or his wife or family, for the common necessaries of life, the one-half of such earn- ings above mentioned are, nevertheless, sub- ject to executlon, garnishment or attachment 1o satisty debts so incurred, —— e CSI; glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* B —— This week; best eyeglasses; specs; 15c, 40c; 65 Fourth street; look out for No. 65. * B % Special information supplied daily to business houscs and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, ¢ —_—————— THE SOLDIER'S RETURN. They greéted him with smiles and tears, Filled him with beef and mutton, And carried away for souvenirs His last remaining button. —Indianapolis Journal. Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters, the great South American tolic, imparts a delicious flas vor; cures Dyspepsia, Diarrhoea, Fever & Ague. —_—————— ACKER'S ENGLISH REMEDY WILL STOP a cough at any time, and will cure the worst cold in twelve hours or money refunded. No Percentage Pharmacy. ADVERTISEMENTS. THE BRMEFICAL TORCRS O Tt e y in this tonic as or Mmust effective Malt in the market. - _Invaluable to sufferers from mng-llnd sleeplessness. Re- res on, .oog:;. the system. invi Lflkn, 416}18 Sacramento. San Francisco, S