The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 8, 1898, Page 6

t**iti*‘k*fitit**fl*ttfi***fi*fi*imfitt*‘k*i*titttfl*ifl*fimk*i**flifl*imt"fififl The SATURDAY ~ JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts.. S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 92| Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for IS cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per montb 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE.... +ese....908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE.. .Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...............] Riggs House | €. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ... ..Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. .......OCTOBER 8, 1808 One year. by mail, $1.50 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 until 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o’'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets, open untli 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS, Baldwin—“The Last Word." Camille In Mizzoura " The Runaway Wife ' Tivoll—* The Bohemian Girl" Orpheum- V. New Comed eater—* The Signal of Liberty.” Alhambra, Eddy and Jones streets—Vaudeville ‘1he Chutes—Pietro Marino, Vaudeville and the Zoo. Llympia—Corner Mason and Eddy streets—Speclalios Butro’s Baths—Swimming. Coureing—Ingleside Coursing Park.mm Central Park—Circus, Saturday, October 15. Rosentha oling in a A BUNKO GAME. L il | being helped in many other ways. resenting itself as a Non-Partisan attempt to government, the merit of frankness at least. No concealment what- ever has been made of its purpose the present campaign of turning the control of the municipality | over to Mayor Phelan and the office-seekers who sur- round him. The nature of the bargain by which the | Non-Partisans have ‘been captured is, of kept in the background, but that it is advantageous to both sides admits of no doubt. Probably it in- cludes a fair division of the spoils and a continuation of the valuable services of Deacon Fitch as chief vaquero in corraling Republican votes for the Demo- cratic machine. The intrinsic value of Mr. Fitch's services in this relation may be estimated when it is considered that ninety out of every hundred persons who vote the Non-Partisan ticket are Republicans. If, therefore, | the Non-Partisans cast 1000 votes on election day for a ticket made up mainly of Democrats, it ceived that goo votes will have been delivered to the candidates of a party which, under no other circum- stances, could have procured them. In other words, | goo Republicans will have been bunkoed into voting | for Democratic candidates upon the false pretense that they are Non-Partisans. For many years the party of Deacon Fitch been engaged in this sort of work, but not until now has it been thoroughly exposed. Heretofore the | Democratic politicians who have manipulated it for i | HE Phelan Democratic sideshow, falsely rep- purify the local possesses in course, is per-| has the purpose of getting Republican votes have prose- cuted their scheme with some respect for the de- mands of decency; but all regard for the appear- ances has this year been thrown to the winds. Boss Phelan evidently relies upon the reputation he has worked up for “honesty” himself as a cloak to cover his real designs, and he has no fear that his Non- Partisan dupes will break away from him. Perhaps the hollowness of Deacon Fitch’s party | having been completely explored, it is not necessary to pay any further attention to it. Perhaps in no- ticing it at all we are unduly magnifying its impor- tance. But there is a principle at stake in the matter which ought not to be ignored even in the confusion of a warm campaign. Non-partisanism as presented by Mr. Fitch’s “con- vention” is a bunko game. It is designed to deliver Republican votes to Democratic candidates upon the theory that they will give the people better govern- ment than Republican candidates, when, in fact, the contrary is the case. Being a fraud, therefore, it is | the duty of every respectable citizen to fight non- partisanism. Even though the bunko steering might not yield Phelan 500 votes, it must be remembered that 9o per cent of the 500 will be defrauded, and no stone should be left unturned to protect them. Every Republican candidate owes this duty to the people of his party for whom Deacon Fitch’s trap has been set. O political and economic problems that the pro- lific press of the Mississippi Valley resues is the Conservative, recently established at Nebraska City, with J. Sterling Morton, ex-Sccretary of Agri- culture, as editor. No periodical in the Union more | ably upholds the doctrine of sound money and honest | finance than this journal, which has its home in al- most the very center of Populism and fiat money | heresies. | In a recent number the editor set forth the object of his publication in the brief statement: “The Con- servative is not a partisan journal. It has faith in the | ultimate triumph of everything that is just. The Con- servative is an advocate of more capital for the West and South. Therefore the Conservative is against all legislation unjustly discriminating against capital. | The Conservative calls to capital ‘Come in’ instead of | . ‘Get out.”” In another article is made this point, whose jus- | tice will be recognized by everybody: “The redis- tribution of capital is a favorite theme with persons who never created any capital. These men grow fer- vid depicting the injustice of that industry and self- | denial which creates capital for itself instead of creating it to bestow upon loafers and political elo- | cutionists. If inanity of brains, inertia of body and | a disregard, for truth were capital some of our Sen- | ators and Representatives in Congress would be mental and moral millionaires.” | The success which Mr. Morton has accomplished in the management of the Conservative is another evidence of the versatility of his mind and the un- tiring energy of his faculties. He as an editor is doing good work in educating the people of the Mis- sissippi Valley in the complex problems of politics, economics and sociology, and bids fair to become as i eminent in journalism as he has been in agriculture and politics. THE . CONSERVATIVE. ; NE of the best weekly publications devoted to e —— When Phelan predicts the end of boss rule, and | one of the things he failed to “heft.” | grim justice, it weighs against him. B | large. | gard for the public welfare that he has consented to that he will be elected. he is guilty of inconsistency. GOOD MEN TO ELECT. S the campaign progresses the Republican can- didates gain greater strength even than had been anticipated. They have the advantage of being good men, and, in many instances, the added advantage of being opposed on the ticket by bad men, rather, by weak men, whose only excuse for being before the public is a yearning for office. The list of Republican candidates is too long permit of each being mentioned here in detail, but it is a list which will bear comparison with the other side, and bear it so well that the thoughtful voter, re- gardless of party, will be impelled to support it at the polls. It has doubtless been aided by the so- called Non-Partisans, who, after proving themselves partisans of the narrowest stripe, withheld indorse- ment from a large share of the Republicans. It is The candidates are meeting the people face to face and winning their confidence. At the head of the State ticket Mr. Gage is posing the fallacy of single tax, a favorite scheme of Maguire’s, and demonstrating that Maguire’s rail- road fight had in it a large element of that quality commonly known as bluff. Maguire answers by saying that the single tax is not an issue, and that the Congressional Record lacks accuracy. Neither answer is deemed adequate, and the followers of Ma- guire melt away. Of course there is in San Francisco an accentuated interest in the municipal fight. There could not well be a greater contrast between two men than that which is made apparent by a study of Patton, wha heads the Republican ticket, and Phelan, who not only heads the Democratic ticket, but dictated every name thereon. Patton is a citizen, called suddenly from private life because the interests of the com- munity demanded such guidance as he could give and such probity as he is known to possess. Phelan is a boss. Pretending to be horrified at bossism, he has adroitly gathered the potency of a party into his individual hands, and hopes to control the city. The fact has not been forgotten that the Super- visors of Phelan’s selection, now in office, are a precious lot of banded rascals, the good ones among them being a helpless minority. It is fresh in the public mind that the Board of Education, an un- blushing aggregation of the venal and corrupt, was also the choice of Phelan. As in the Supervisors, so in this board, the honest are outnumbered and powerless. Now once more Phelan has taken the role of dictator. Once more he has named the per- sonnel of the two bodies as Democrats hope to elect them. What guaranty has the public that for this second time Phelan has not picked out men who will readily form themselves into “Solid Eights” or “Solid Nines?” None whatever. Incidentally, the Widber matter is also damaging to Phelan. Widber stole because the opportunity to ex- | was at hand, and the carelessness of the Mayor af- forded the opportunity. Doubtless the Mayor never thought that the “hefting” of coin would contribute to the ruin of a life, the making of a felon and the disgracing of an honored name. This possibility was But now, with The clang of prison doors on Widber will be an audible reproach to the aspiring Mayor. Patton has no awkward record to explain away. Instead of reaching for the office, it truly sought him, and found him reluctant to accept. WILLI;IM ? FITZGERALD. Y all intelligent voters of San Francisco the opportunity now offered of obtaining in the office of City and County Attorney a lawyer of such eminence and a man of such unquestioned in- tegrity as William F. Fitzgerald will be regarded as too valuable to be lost. The support given him will far exceed the limits of party. It will include not only all Republicans, but all independent citizens who appreciate the importance of the office and recognize the necessity of filling it worthily. Mr. Fitzgerald, after having demonstrated in his private practice his knowledge of the law and his un- swerving devotion to duty, was appointed to the Su- preme Court, where his service, though comparatively brief, was of exceptional merit. The record made on the Supreme bench won for him the suffrages of a majority of the voters when he became a candidate for the office of Attorney-General. In that office, which he now fills, he has added to his former high reputation as a jurist and as an official. He comes be- fore the people of San Francisco, therefore, as a man who has been tried and tested both in private and in official life and has shown himself worthy of the sup- port of all. The responsibilities of the City and County Attor- ney of San Francisco are great and onerous. Much of the public welfare depends upon the manner in which those duties are fulfilled. It is an office which requires of the incumbent a wide legal knowledge, a thorough acquaintance with the practices of the court and a firm resolve to maintain the inviolability of justice. It is not often that a lawyer of Mr. Fitzgerald's rank consents to accept this office, for the salary is not It is, therefore, an evidence of his patriotic re- become a candidate for the place. San Francisco will honor herself more than him by his election, nor will the honor be an empty one. With such a lawyer to guard the interests of the city and county the benefits sure to accrue will be of the highest value to the whole community. Here are a lot of mere generals assuming to know. something of the conduct of the war, and to possess information to the general effect that the Hearsts and Pulitzers of the land have been lying! The case is simply beyond comment. Pretty soon somebody will be declaring that when Dewey bombarded the | Manila fleet he was not acting under the direct or- ders of the yvellow journalists. Historians will never cease to regret that the cam- paign at Santiago was not conducted by Richard Harding Davis. Anybody who does not believe Davis the soldier of the generation must at the same time doubt the literary worth and accuracy of that distinguished word mechanic, and to do this were treason. —_—— The Los Angeles Times expresses the laudable hope that in ten years that city will be as large as San Francisco—meaning, of course, the San Fran- cisco of to-day. Even the Times knows too much to be yearning after the unattainable. Perhaps it would be a good plan for the Oakland authorities to decree that cigarettes shall not be smoked through the nose. This would teach the consumers to taper off gracefully. As to the investigation of the War Department, there will be a protest the instant Alger tries to slosh round in the whitewash bucket. Blanco has a strike on his hands, and will prob- ably learn that a mere war is a small affair. W WHAT MAGUIRE STANDS FOR. THE defense of Judge Maguire by Mr. Preble, one oi his partisans, is the severest attack yet made on Maguire. We knew when we offered space in our columns for an answer to our statement of “What Maguire Stands For” that the only answer must be an admission of the truth of our charges and an argument to vindicate the Judge's views as we had declared them to be. Mr. Preble admits that Maguire in Congress de- fended the nihilists and anarchists and declared them to be the Democrats and Republicans of Europe, whose “purpose is right and their cause should be sacred to every lover of liberty and justice.” Mr. Preble says of this speech that its “every syllable must be indorsed by enlightened citizens who believe in the great democratic principle of political equality and freedom.” And this defender of anarchy and Maguire adds: “Anarchy is no more a menace to civilization than any other line of philosophical rea- soning.” Mr. Preble avows himself in sympathy with an- archy because he, too, desires to overthrow existing things, for which he has a contempt. No intelligent man need make any mistake about the motives and the methods of anarchy and nihil- ism. When Judge Maguire spoke for them in Con- gress he was not in ignorance of them. They oppose all government, no matter what its form, as Maguire perfectly well knows. Nor are those who are se- lected to execute the death sentence “hunger-crazed wretches,” as Mr. Preble asserts. They are selected as executioners by the council of murderers. About a year ago anarchy was preached and taught in San Francisco by one of its apostles, who boasted that the assassin of President Carnot of France was his pupil in the study of murder. Herr Most of New York is not a hunger-crazed wretch, nor is Emma Goldman. The anarchists who committed the mur- ders at Haymarket square in Chicago were not driven to assassination by want. They were members of a circle that had organized then to overthrow this Government by murder. On their trial it was proved by their own admissions and by written and printed matter, of which they were the authors and distrib- utors, that they had opened a laboratory in which to study and test fulminates and high explosives. They had issued minute instructions to their followers for the construction of bombs, and it was shown that the bombs with which they killed a score of people were manufactured in their laboratory and according to the directions which they had printed. It is not yet three years since one of these an- archists said in a speech in this city that the way to human liberty lay over the dead body of the Presi- dent of the United States! We will later on print the platform of anarchy and nihilism as formulated by Karl Marx and Krapot- kine. If citizens who have something at stake, who have an interest in law and order and who believe in gov- ernment, desire to see how rapidly the Maguire school is approaching the danger line for our in- stitutions, they should read Mr. Preble’s defense of Maguire’s defense of anarchy. Maguire’s speech in fayor of the anarchists and nihilists and Mr. Preble’s defense of it should be printed and circulated as cam- paign documents, gnd when the people of California have read them, let them decide whether they can afford to elect as Governor a man who stands for anarchy and nihilism, and is defended in it by his supporters. NICARAGUA OR PANAMA. HILE the events of the war, by demonstrat- ing the need of a short waterway between our Pacific and our Atlantic coast, has revived popular interest in the Nicaragua canal project and increased the force of the demand for its construc- tion and operation under the control of the United States, it is now evident there will be a strong oppo- sition in the field when the subject comes up in Con- gress. The promoters of the Panama canal have come to the front, and are urging the adoption of their route instead of that across Nicaragua. The agents of the Panama scheme in this country have presented the argument in favor of their line, and it has been well received in some quarters. They claim that their route is the logical one, that it crosses the land where it is narrowest, presents fewer difficulties in construction, and that a canal at that point would be more serviceable to the general de- mands of the trade; that the time required for a ship to pass through the Panama canal would be only a few hours, while about two days would be needed for the passage across Nicaragua. Commenting upon the claim that the Panama route is the better fitted to meet the demands of trade, the Boston Herald says: “We fancy that this latter statement is true with respect to all trades ex- cept that of the Western coast of this country, and the needs of this section are so far supplied by our own transcontinental railway systems that it is hardly desirable to build a canal to meet the wishes of this particular trade if the construction is of disadvantage te all other classes of business. For Australia and South America the Panama route is much to be pre- ferred over the Nicaragua route.” That is a peculiar statement to come from an American paper, and it shows the extent to which the Panama promoters have succeeded in influencing Eastern opinion. It should hardly require any argu- ment to convince the people of the United States that the route which will bring our Western and our Eastern coast into the closest relation is the route that Congress ought to fix upon. Our Government is not particularly interested in opening a canal for the benefit of the general trade of the world with South America and Australia, but it has a deep and abiding interest in the opening of one that will facili- tate the passage of warships and merchant vessels from one side of the republic to the other. There are other considerations that tell against the Panama project. One of these is that of econ- omy, for'it seems to be conceded the Nicaragua route can be opened up for a ship eanal much cheaper than the one at the isthmus. Furthermore, the Panama canal is essentially a French enterprise, while that at Nicaragua is American, and it appears the latter would be much more completely under our control than the former could ever be. Both companies will press their claims upon Con- gress until a decision is reached and one or the other is chosen. There is some reason to believe the Panama promoters are really seeking less to transfer their route to Congress than to head off the Nicar- agua scheme. At any rate, the opposition is becom- ing formidable, and it behooves the advocates of a speedy beginning of the work to be on their guard lest the controversy between the two projects should lead to an indefinite postponement of the great and much needed enterprise. e —— Some gentleman with the eye of faith has been seeing Dunham again, this time in Southern Califor- nia. As there is no doubt Dunham killed himself after the commission of six murders, it must be his ghost that is so frequently discerned, and of course its canture is out of the auestion. 1 OCTOBER 9 WILL CONTAIN: N CHINA. PEACE UNION INTERVIEW WITH A CANNIBAL CHIEF. By SCIENTIST VON BREMMER. Where LIEUTENANT GRAYDON'S * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * » * * o Rkt k3 * » Rad hod Rad Rad hed hed * * had had hed * had * * * * * x * * * * %x * * * * * * * * * * * * * x * * * * Rad hed * * * had * * * 5 Red * * * THE SUNDAY CALL RISING OF THE BLACK FLAGS SIR CHARLES DILKE ON THE CZAR'S AND ANGLO-SAXON ALLIANCE. Up-to-Date Love Philters... TESTING THE F0OD OF CALIFORNIA. I[s Columbus Buried? NEW TERROR OF THE SEAS. PAGES OF OTHER SPECIAL FEATURES. * = had * had *x * * * * * *x * * e * * * * * * * * * o * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 3 * * * * * had hed * * > %* % * had Rl " * Rad * * had * * * * * * * * * * * * * *x * kS * * * * * FomrAdd Atk Ak ek R e ke Rk ek Ak ke ok ke Ak ke ok ek ek e kA ek e REPUBLICAN OSTNE.NTATION AND ROYAL SIMPLICITY. Peace has its dangers, no less than war, and victory is often to be feared by the conquerors quite as much as by the conquered. Popular feel- ing, subject to rapid changes, as is always the case in every country gov- erned on democratic lines, has swung from one extreme to the other. The excitement of battle is over, the glow of an easily won though complete vic- tory has inflamed men’s minds, the spirit of chauvinism is in the air. To borrow from the English a term for which we have as yet no local equivalent, the American people have become for the nonce an excited set of jingoes. Of course this wave of imperialist feeling will pass, as all waves do, but it will leave behind it a sediment; our republican institutions will emerge from the depths sadly besmirched. What, for instance, could be more foreign to the first principles of re- publicanism than the extravagance of our Peace Commission now at Paris? Washington, Franklin, all the great founders of our nation, rightly rele- gated ostentatious display to the courts of monarchs. When Franklin went to Paris as Peace Commissioner in 1776 he had for suite only his young grandson, a mere schoolboy. He had neither secretaries nor clerks. Con- gress, with extreme parsimony, refused to make him any allowance for ne- cessary clerical work. Of course this was going too far, and as a result Franklin's accounts were but ill-kept, and his financial transactions were covered with confusion. To-day, though but little over a century has passed, we are going just as far in the opposite direction, and are striving to rival royal courts in os- tentatious extravagance. Indeed I question whether we are not surpassing them, for there is hardly a monarchy in Europe which would have sent such a costly Peace Commission to Paris in order to settle a matter already prac- tically arranged through the ordinary diplomatic channels. Of late years, under the sobering influence of modern ideas, diplomatic conferences have always been characterized by the subdued and businesslike attitude of their members. When Beaconsfield went to Berlin, in 1878, and all the leading statesmen of Europe drew up one of the most important peace treaties of the century, there was no attempt on the part of any of the nations to as- tonish the others with the brilliancy of its entourage. That sort of thing has long since been relegated to the days of barbarism, when monarchs had no other means of impressing rivals with a sense of their importance. The spread of education, the high average of intelligence attained by the masses, has almost banished regal display from the courts of Europe. A royal procession is but a mere skeleton of the glorious pageants of the olden days, nothing more than a shadowy reminiscence. Kings and Queens are becoming more and more like ordinary human beings, and it is per- haps only in Russia that an ignorant peasantry believes in the divine ap- pointment of its Emperor. It is strange, therefore, that the democratic west, where the standard of culture and intelligence is higher than in any other part of the world, should seek to impress foreigners by the mere vulgar display of wealth. Does any one who knows his Paris—and what good American does not?— suppose for a moment that the luxurious habits of the American commis- sion will have the slightest effect on the minds of the people? The fact that the Commissioners have been authorized to spend a quart:r of a million dol- lars in junketing merely shows that Uncle Sam has money to burn, and nothing more. The thrifty Parisians will of course take the money, but they will shrug their shoulders as soon as the American back is turned, and scornfully wonder what sort of a republic the nation they helped to free a century ago has become. % If the conference sat at Madrid and it were desirable to impress upon the Spanish people the fact that the resources of the United States had not been in the slightest degree strained by the war, the expenditure of a few millions on idle pomp might be justifiable. But in Paris, the most luxurfous city in Europe, where the wealth of the world gathers to take its pleasure, no one will be in the slightest degree impressed. Least of all the Spanish Commissioners, diplomats by profession and trafned to life in courts. Indeed, they will only wonder whether the Americans have be- come intoxicated by success, and have forgotten the businesslike methods of dealing with affairs, for which they are famous. Of course it is impossible to return to the Spartan simplicity of Le dine Franklin, which so impressed the pleasure-loving Parisians of Louis XVI's day. But there is a mean in all things. It has always been the boast of the republic that its diplomatic representatives went abroad as simple gentlemen, wearing no gorgeous uniform nor tawdry frippery. And the ap- pearance at a diplomatic gathering of an American Embassador, clad simp- ply in the evening dress of a gentleman, was always a hundred times more impressive than if he had worn the most magnificent state uniform which could be designed. ‘We should have gained more if we had remembered this fact, and sent our Commissioners to Paris in the guise of practical business men. If the members liked to take their wives, their sisters, their cousins or their aunts with them they could have done so, but not at the nation’s expense. The clerical work of the commission, which cannot be very heavy after all, could have been performed by half the staff. It amazes one to read the news which was cabled in all seriousness the other day that the secretaries and clerks were actually engaged compiling a digest of the French and Spanish newspapers for the benefit of the Commissioners. Why couldn’t the Commissioners read the papers for themselves, and in any case, what has the opinion expressed by an irresponsible French newspaper to do with the terms upon which two great nations are to conclude peace? J. F. ROSE-SOLEY. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. F. L. Flannigan, a sheep raiser of Reno, is at the Grand. P. H. Frazer, a merchant of Gibson- ville, is at the Russ. F. W. Coady, a merchant of Garber- ville, is at the Russ. J. M. Hall, a hardware merchant of Seattle, s at the Grand. W. W. Middlecoff, a lawyer of Stock- ton, is a guest at the Grand. W. S. Green, a nominee for State Treas- urer, is a guest at the Grand. Charles M. Blumberry, a whisky man of Louisville, is at the Palace. ‘W. R. Clark, the Rallroad Commis~ sloner, i8 a guest at the Baldwin. Mrs. E. W. Runyon and Miss L. A. Al- vord are registered at the Palace. R. I Bentley, an attorney of Sacra- a guest at the Occidental. Company is at the Lick. L. Carteri, a rancher of is a guest at the Baldwin. ty are at the Grand. county. & Muir, railroad contractors, ley road, is at the Russ. WAR'S CHANGES. Before the war, our maidens As with a single voice: oalds vere better far to die unwed Than to be ‘Hobson's choice.’ Behold the change! No maiden, now, But would with soul rejoice To cast aside her vestal vow, If she were Hobson's choice! mento, and wife are at the Lick. o PR Louis Reynaud, a merchant of Mazat- lan, Mexico, is a guest at the Occiden-| A CONVERSATION IN WALES. tal. Willlam 8. K. Wetmore, the son of ex- Governor Wetmore of Rhode Island, is at the Palace. Edward S. Hutchinson, the fruit grower of Southern California, is registered at the California. T. M. Schumacher, late of the Union Pacific, returned yesterday from the Los Angeles Car Convention. J. W. Whittler. a paver manufacturer “rs Englis] at o landrilloynthos. ;our father at home?" asked antffraidgian Conway. +Is your mother in, then?" ““Sheé’s mathafurneith: ‘Dear me! But is your My sister has gone anfs m;nsuuryeh ‘Wwyondrobulisanti “Good gracious!"—Ex, of Philadelphia, arrived vesterday and is W. S. Spaulding of the Truckee Lumber Santa Barbara, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson of Suisun Coun- Mr. Anderson is one of the largest fruit shippers of the Andrew Muir of the fifm of Holy Bros, who " are building the Franklin tunnel for the Val- an man of a Welsh boy whom he met 0, sir; he's gone to work at Llans- gone utq' the fair at Llanfair- sister at home?"” to Ll ull- go- i ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. MORNING—Subscriber, City. Morning is the first part of the day; the period from 12 o’clock at night to noon. MONTGOMERY—A. §., Lorin, Cal. The addzess of Charles Montgomery, tho phi- lanthropist, is the Brooklyn otel, San Francisco. ONE NICKEL OF 1883—A. D. L., City. The selling nrice of a nickel five-cent plece of 1883, without the word cents upon it, is from 15 to 25 cents. SHORTHAND—Z. M. J., Red Bluff, Cal. For the information you seek in re- lation to shorthand methods you should address a first class book dealer. PROSPERITY—A. 8., Crescent City, Cal. If you take the financial condition as the standard, the country was morg prosperous under the administration of enjamin F. Harrison than it was under the administration of Cleveland during his last term. THE BEE COLONY—J. O. 8., Fair- mount, Minn. The account of the stranga bee colony was published in The Sunday Call of October 10, 1897. That colony is located in Mendocino County, a few miles out of Ukiah, and may be reached by rail to that place, and from there by car- riage. GUNNER'S PAY—J. F. N., City. The pay of a gunner in the United States navy is: Sea duty, $1200 per year; shore duty, $900, and on leave, $700. The chief gun- ner’'s mate receives $0 per month, gun- ner’s mate of the first class $40, second ?xlea:ssz?& third class $30, and seaman gun- —_————— THE FADING AWAY OF A MAN. ““About the time that the lichens, fall- ing on the stone like drops of water, had spread into fair round rosettes, the tutor had starved into a slight cough. Then he b:}an to draw the buckle of his black pantaloons a little tighter and took in an- other reef in his never ample waistcoat. His temples got a little hollow and the contrast of color in his cheeks more vivid than of old. After awhile his walks fa- tigued him, and he was tired and breathed hard after going up a flight or two of stairs. Then came on other marks of in- ward troubles and general waste, which he ssoke of to his paysiclan as peculiar and doubtless owing to accidental causes, to all which the doctor listened with def- erence and as if it had not been the old story that one in five or six of mankind in temperate climates tells, or has told for him, as if it was something new. A_s‘ the doctor went out he said to him- self; ‘On the train at last. Accommodation train. - A good many stops, but will get to the station by-and-by.” So the doctor Wwrote a recipe with the astrological sign of Jupiter before it (just as your own v'hrslclan does, inestimable reader, as you n(l"ll)se:‘:‘&!dyou lto?ik at lhla gexl prescrip- , eparted, sayin; ‘R.Rfig“'gg‘;“"- ying he would look er s the Latin tutor began usual course of ‘getting better, untfl'gg g0t 80 much better that his face was very sharp, and when he smiled three crescent lines showed at each side of his lips, and when he spoke it was in a muffiled whis- per, and the white of his eye glistened as pearly as the urest porcelain—so mignt: e abje. ta beas VF, Spring; he = o—attend—to hi again.—But, ete.” e —_——————— LIVELY TURTLE. John Fehder, a saloon keeper at Seven- teenth and Market streets, c?alms tgehae:“s had a peculiar experience last night. Feh- der intended to have a soup festival at his place and bought a twenty-six-pound turtle from a negro to help make the soup. The turtle had cut on its back the following inscription: “H. B. 1850.” About 5 o'clock last evening Fehder says he cut oft the turtle’s head and put the turtle in the ice box. Three hours later he heard a noise at the ice box, and a little later the turtle ran across the floor. Fehder says he tried to catch it, and in replaceing it in the ice box the head ofthe turtle bit him. Fehder has a good reputation for veracity.—Louisville Courier-Journal. —_—— Cal. glace fruit 50¢ per Ib at Townsend's.* —_————— Special information supplied daily to business houscs and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont. gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ B Trunks and Valises. Trunks and valises, pocketbooks and card cases, purses and billbooks, lap tah- lets and traveling sets, Mexican carved leather beits and cigar cases are the lead- ing features in_our leather goods depart- ment. 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