The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 9, 1898, Page 6

FRANCISCO CALL,- SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1898. THE SAN OCTOBER o SUNDAY.. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Address All Commun [ ICATION O i Market and Third Sts.. S. F. Telephone Main 1SGS. EDITORIAL ROOM ..917 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 15%. SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is ¢ by carriers In this city and surrounding towns |5 conts a week. By mall $6 per year: per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE. NEW YORK OFFICE.. DAVID ALLEN, Adv WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Riggs House C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE. €. GEORGE KROG! ~.One year, by mail, $1.50 Room 188, Wor!d Building ing Representative. S8, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, cpen until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 930 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, opsn untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1841 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 open untll 9 c'clock. 1505 Polk street, open 30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana <y streets, open until 9 o'clock. B Y CHES O ] THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYSHIP. =VOR: theve San for the prev W Fra i District Attorney of will office 11 versec ¢ devote portance tive The Re the D The repr Po known. ley. en are well ures of the character of each are people. Under circumstances to which will be The vote for Judge Murphy should include t of every citizen who does not belong to the iated with political be said of it. He n it suited his c; bolted He has been ty turns a so- has in ti interests al fortunes, party and in politics or a Mexican in citi- suited him. phases, however, e ever rendered service to the In none of his city or won honor for himself. y is'a strik g contrast ose from the ranks of s pr htiorward cc d, and jility has pr urse. upwa every ven the ster- or responsi nhood and his jis intellect, his m 1ess for the office to which he has been nom- inated is indisputable. The proofs of it are to be is carcer. He ranks among While serving some Attorney he showed t resolute prose- cutors of crime in the annals of American law. Called to the o iperior Judge, he demon- strated in that field a mastery of all the complexi- ties of our c: edents and practice, and a Re i yreing them. The trial of the Durrant case afforded the public a striking illustration of Judge Murphy's wide knowl- edge of criminal law, and his impartial justice in ad- ministering it. As is well known, the prosecution of Durrant was fought by able attorneys with legal weapon and by every strategy of court practice known to our law. E tion after exception wa: taken by the counsel for the d every ruling of the Judge to which théir ingenuity could find a possible objection was noted. Yet when all these ex- ceptions and objections were carried on appeal to the Supreme Court that tribunal sustained Judge Murphy on every point. It was a vindication of his judicial course of which any magistrate might be proud, and stands to-day as a convincing evidence of his honor- able record on the bench. The people of San Francisco should account it an honor and a good-fortune to have the opportunity to obtain the service of this able lawyer in the office of District Attorney. The conditions of the time call for just such a man in that office, and the voters will be false to themselves and the city if they fail to elect him. W list is a law-breaker, but so is every one who promotes a ring event or views the spectacle. Between times the pugilist is apt to be a loafer, often an actual vagrant, and in many instances a bully. Nevertheless, a pugilist, while conducting himself properly, has rights. Not long ago Corbett and McCoy engaged in a ruffian encounter in a New York hotel. Naturally the proprietor was displeased. Several days later Fitzsimmons entered the place, decently clad, wholly sober, quict as any other guest, interfering with none, and to all outward seeming a gentleman. The propri- etor refused to permit him to dine, and ordered him to leave. This Fitzsimmons did, and, be it said to his credit, without assailing the solar plexus of the man sho had publicly insulted him and humiliated him. To an unbiased judge it would seem that the pugi- ¢t showed signs of better breeding than displayed the proprietor. The matter will be tested in the Yts. I there was justice in excluding Fitzsim- N5 on the ground that somebody else had misbe- h'l, justice in New York is a peculiar thing. The Pretor should have assumed the lofty ground that ™ hair of the fighter did not harmonize with the 1 of the dining-room. every fense; RIGHTS OF PUGILISTS. HEN in active pursuit of his cailing the pugi- L | | v......908 Broadway | . Marquette Building | | | shows a ven I=s despoil them. ance of | | tion in issue. aprice or the various | ] i | perien MAGUIRE ON THE MINERS. l tension of his land confiscation theory to sines. The Judge regards the prospector who finds a ledge or locates a placer as a monopolist who is taking from God's children that which is intended for the good of all. This cant, indulged in by Judge Ma- guire and the defender of his defense of anarchy, Mr. Preble, is one of the conspicuous features of the cam- paign against law and order and the rights of prop- ty which the Judge has carried on for years. His present speeches for the masses against the classes are in line with the opinions he has heretofore uttered against property and its owners. To him every successful man is in a “‘class.” Having quit bor himself in early life and begun holding office and drawing a salary when he began to vote, if not a couple of years before, and having never lived since that time except upon a ry as an office-holder, his umulations bridging him over between offices, iire has but little knowledge of the practical ex- of life. He has made up his mind that it is good politics to conclude that every successful man has succeeded at the expense of some one who has failed. He does not consider the element of personal character as a factor in failure or success. To him the successful man is a “rich man” and the enemy of the “poor.” He sees only the failures in the social state and not the successes which vindicate the social order. He has succeeded in becoming the candidate of failures. It is not employing invective at all to say that he »us temper against such property- ieves to be in the minority and there- fore helpless against the majority, which he urges to The land-owner and the mine-owner are the special objects of his venom and vengeance. ¢ are in his mind and mouth the enemies of God, characterized them in his letter to McGlynn. have no property rights to their lands and mines which Maguire feels bound to respect. Using his own langu: . they are “monopolists, cunning robbers who have despoiled the weak and undesigning,” and what they call their own, their lands and mines, must, be taken away from them. s that his land and mines confisca- owners as he b und s pol It is true, he s tion t v is not in issue in this campaign. long ago, he said that wh posed to give the people of each county the right to es on land and so confiscate it “the fight put will be on in earnest. Well, that fight is on, for that is the purpose of amendment No. 2 to the State constitution, which his single tax junta lobbied through the last Legislature. That amendment and his candidacy put land confisca- | Suppose that Judge Maguire had said in print and speech, in addresses to the Delaware Legislature and in Congress: “If an amendment to the constitution of California gives the Governor the power to hang every land-owner and mine- owner and give his property equally to God's chil- dren, and I am ever elected Governor, the fight will be on in earnest,” and then when he became a can- didate with such an amendment pending, would any land-owner or miner believe him if he said that matter was not in issue? Would any land-owner in California risk hanging by permitting ,Maguire’s election? No matter how much he might protest that hanging them was not an issue, they would not trust him. Is he any the more worthy of belief when, after ad- vocating the confiscation of lands and mines for years, and having foretold what would bring on the fight against that form of property, and the precise situation is upon us, he says it is not in issue? All that a man hath he will give for his life, and his life depends upon what sustains it. The despoiling of property-owners is in issue in Maguire’s candidacy, and if this is forgotten the State may suffer the most serious misfortune that can befall a commonwealth. PHELAN AND WIDBER. T is, for the ambitions of Mr. Phelan, an unfortu- nate circumstance. that just now his name should be linked with that of a felon guilty of a gross and inexcusable crime. Widber stole funds of which he had been made custodian by reason of the confi- dence of the community in the honor of the family, a confidence inspired by the probity of his father, to whose official position he succeeded. Thus to theft | was coupled the baser crime of ingratitude. The Mayor’s connection with the looting of the | treasury was nothing to make him appear as in the slightest degree a willing accessory. To so much as hint at this would be both impolitic and untrue. Doubtless the knowledge that the wrong had been done came to the Mayor as a shock. It must have come with the shock accentuated when the Mayor had to realize that his own carelessness had made the felony of Widber possible. This matter has been ex- plained many times, but it is one of the old, old stories, ever, ever new. One of the duties of ghe Mayor is to supervise the counting of the money in the municipal vaults. Phelan did not do this. The money was not even weighed. It was “hefted.” A dishonest Treasurer, noting this method, could see at once that the oppor- tunity to steal was at hand. He could open the sacks, remove the gold and fill them again with anything of requisite weight. He adopted the plan thus suggested by the Mayor’s course, and now he goes to the peni- tentiary, while the Mayor wants to continue in a po- sition which will enable him to “heft” some more. A defender of the Mayor, a paper given to yellow spasms, explains blithely that only an insurance com- pany lost. What a complete, vindication! “Hefting” is all right so long as the burden of the consequent theft falls only upon a soulless corporation. The reasoning does not seem good, but the implied state of morals very bad indeed. oo e ————a The dismissal of two policemen for cowardice seems to have been just, so far as it went. There are, however, two others who were as much in need of dismissal and did not get it. They must have lucky stars. Perhaps the members of the Widber jury may know why they were so slow in bringing in a verdict. There has never been from the moment of the pris- oner’s arrest the slightest doubt as to his guilt. There is no doubt that if the pawnbrokers want sympathy in the affliction of having received a set- back at the hands of the court, they will be obliged to condole with one another. At least the little trouble with the Indians in Min- nesota will demonstrate to the civil authorities that even a red man should as a matter of policy be treated decently. —_— Whatever may be the merit of the claims of ex- Queen Liliuokalani, there is a certainty that a person ousted from a throne has a right to feel sore about it. Some dz& ‘Widber may grow confidential and let somebody know what he did with all the money he stole. N his specch at the Woodward Pavilion Mr. Gage read from Maguire's speech in Congress the ex- the But, not | n an amendment is pro- | Mr.y | | FOR THE NATION'S WELFARE. UPREME among the issues submitted to the S votes of the people of the United States this | year is that of returning Republican majori- ties in both houses of Congress. We have in Califor- nia an important local issue in the contest against the fused factions of discontent led by an erratic politician, the advocate of land confiscation and the apologist and defender of anarchy, but that should not cause us to overlook or underrate broader affairs of the nation. We must not only defeat Maguire, but we must send to the House of Representatives a solid Repub- lican delegation, and elect a Legislature that will choose a stanch Republican to succeed Senator White. The national contest involves many issues, each of which is of far-reaching importance not only to this but to succeeding generations. The session remain- ing for the present Congress is short. It will hardly be able to solve the great problems that confront the country. It is, therefore, to the Congress to be elected this fall that we must look for a settlement of the currency on a safe basis, the construction of the Nicaragua canal, the increase of the army and the navy so as to make them equal to the requirements of the nation, the extension of our commerce, the up- building of our merchant marine and the solution of the many complex problems arising out of the war with Spain. With such momentous issues at stake a failure to elect Republifans to both houses of Congress would be as disastrous as would have been a Democratic triumph during a critical period of our Civil War. The administration needs the support of Congress, and the country needs perfect harmony in all branches of the National Government. A feeling of apathy or of over-confidence on this subject in California might be widely disastrous. We must not let Congressional and legislative elections go by default here in the expectation that Republi- cans elsewhere will make up Yor any falling short on our part. We must do our share in assuring a Re- publican majority in both the Senate and the House. From all reports that come to us the success of the State ticket seems certain. Mr. Gage has proven him- self to be a campaigner of the first rank. He has in a high degree the faculty of winning the confidence of | the people and of making and retaining friends. His personality and his clear record when compared with the evasive tactics and demagogue career of Maguire | Every energy, therefore, must be put forth to gain G have virtually won for him the victory at this early stage of the canvass. If the voting took place to-day he would be elected, and his strength will increase as | the campaign progresses and the issues become bet- ter understood by the people. Such being the outlook for the State ticket, all that iz needed in that direction is a continuance of the energy and vigilance already displayed in its con- duct. In the fight for Congressmen and for members of the Legislature, however, there is wanted more activity, more vim, more earnestness. We must send no free-trader nor free silver man to Congress from California. We must have a delegation that will | truly represent our people, steadfastly maintain the | interests of our industries and uphold the adminis- tration in the great work that is before it. Most important of all, from a national point of view, is the election of a Republican to the United States Senate. That is the danger point in the politi- | cal situation. The Senate at present is vjrtually in a | state of deadlock. Every Republican vote gained in | that body will count immensely for the national wel- fare. At best the Republicans can hope to control the Senate in the next Congress by but a small margin. | a Republican Senator wherever such gain is possible. | That fact should be impressed upon the mind nf‘ each voter. A Republican Legislature and a Repub- lican United States Senator are necessities of the crisis. HONORS FOR WOMEN. ENERAL WHEELER, who has returned from the war with praise for all who took part in it, from the officials of the War Department to the colored troops who helped to win the fight at Santiago, has not omitted the women from his com- mendation. He has suggested that the Government should in some way show its appreciation of their services, and confer honors upon those who nursed the wounded in the hospitals as well as upon the men who fought in the field. The General did not undertake to define the form of the honor which should be conferred. He ad- mitted that the difficulty in the way of providing suit- able recognition and reward for women who serve the country in time of war was more than he could over- come. All that he has done is to suggest that some honor should be given, leaving it to others to deter- mine the extent and the manner in which it should be carried out. The proposition has fallen upon fruitful soil. A considerable number of persons and newspapers have taken the subject under consideration and have in some instances suggested plans for making the re- wards. Most of these advocate the granting of medals of honor to the women whose work was of distinguished merit, and pensions where money is necessary to repay the sacrifices made by army nurses. This is a curious outcome of a short campaign which began with a pesemptory order from head- quarters that no women would be permitted to attend the army. The service which was rejected at the be- ginning of hostilities by the war officials has at the end come in for the highest praise from the most popular of the commanding generals. It is another triumph for womanhood over prejudice, and that in jtself will probably be regarded by most of the brave women who won it as a sufficient reward for all they endured and performed. ‘Whether the proposition of General Wheeler will pese away and be forgotten before Congress meets remains to be seen. It is more likely, however, that it will lead to some attempt to obtain from Congress a recognition of the heroic services of the women and a suitable reward for those who, like Miss Clara Barton and Miss Helen Gould, accomplished really important work for the relief of the soldiers. If medals and pensions should be out of the question, a ‘vote of thanks would be better than nothing. America owes much toc her women, and an official recognition of the fact would do as much honor to the Govern- ment as to the women themse]vei Mississippi has no particular reason to be proud of her Governor. At the first alarm of yellow fever he fled from his post of duty and went into hiding. Tt would serve him rightly if a few discerning microbes were to search him out. If Mayor Phelan’s intention of vetoing a gas bill is correctly reported, some of the Democratic orators LR R-R RS A correspondent writes from Red- ding to ascertain if the author of this column is really and truly Jesse James writing under another name. Perhaps the query should have been answered by mail, but there i€ no stamp at hand. If the secret is out there is no use of pleading anything except the statute of limitation. It has certainly been a long time since I have robbed a train, and, ever since the experience of hav- ing been killed by the Ford boys, noble gentlemen who shot me in the back, I have been addicted to less violent pursuits. I only beg of the correspond- ent that she will regard this communi- cation as confidential. TR It has never seemed to me a proper thing for a minister of the gospel to make violent love to the members of his congregation. In a measure it de- stroys his usefulness, because others of the members are apt to become jealous. No, Rev. Briggs, do not think I have you in mind. You have secured a glorious vindication. I was impelled to make the remark by a recollection of the late C. O. Brown. P There is sometimes a disadvantage in writing a bad hand. Joaquin Miller writes one so bad that he cannot read it himself, and why he should expect anybody else to read it passes all un- derstanding. A young lady whose gra- cious presence ornaments the staff of this paper is in a sad quandary over his chirography. She has a letter from the poet. For several days she has pondered upon it. She has decided that it is an invitation to dine at the heights in the shadow of Joaquin's funeral pyre, the description of an Alaskan sunset or a recipe for cooking gum- boots. At other times she wavers and believes she holds a treatise on “How It Feels to Lose an Ear,” or “The Razor as a Curse to Civilization.” I would help her if I could, but she showed me the letter, and I can’t. e It befalls that soomer or later we all feel the sting of ingratitude. With best intent I have sung the praises of the Delta Muser. Now he declares I know | nothing about poetry, and see in it no point to admire but the ingenuity of the author in making the words rhyme. Yet I have seen much more in the poetry of the Muser, and have pro- claimed it. To get it in the neck this way is scant reward. I have a feeling that the Oozer would not thus tear up the feelings of a friend, and hereafter pin my faith to him. . Of course it was a Kansas court which was called upon to decide whether a young man escorting a young woman to a place of amuse- ment was legally bound to take her home again. The court decided that he was, a gallant decision from which there will be no appeal. Yet supposing the young couple went to a dance and the lady flirted with everybody in sight, that it was a festival and she ate ice cream with everybody but the one who had paid the price of admission, that it was a corn-husking and she declined to accept the responsibility when her escort stripped a red ear. There are two sides even to this question. When a girl accepts the protecting arm of the male Kansan there is an implied contract by which both are bound. He undertakes to shield her and she to ap- preciate the delicate attention. If she throws him over the minute another male appears on the scene it seems to me the contract is broken, and when she expects him to resume his place at her side for a walk home she has more cheek than becomes one of her lovable sex. The real puzzle, however, is as to how such a matter ever got into court. 1t should have been left to the query editor. S . There could be nothing more wicked than the suggestion of dividing Swit- zerland among the robbing powers, ex- cept the act itself. France, Italy and Germany would like a slice each. The shamelessness of a larcenous nation is peyond all comprehension. When a safe-cracker has designs upon a bank he hesitates about taking the world into his confidence. When an organized band of raiders ruled over by a mon- arch and of sufficient number to be recognized as a Government decides to -steal, it is rather inclined to boast about it. The burglar has fear of the police; civilization has no police to cope with a gang of thieving nations. In all excepting magnitude Switzerland is vastly the superior of any of the precious trio which proposes to despoil her. France has for years been acting as though on an absinthe debauch. Italy has been steadily retrograding, the King unable to control its dissatis- fled people. Germany, under the Kaiser, has been in constant danger. through that eminent gentleman’s ten- dency toward the war-lording industry. Meanwhile Switzerland has followed the arts of unobtrusive peace, attended to business and been rewarded by prosperity. Each one of the decaying or turbulent nations now threatening the little republic could well take a Jesson from it in manners, morals, bravery and patriotism. i w0, From time to time people have been reading of the brutality of the attaches of the pound, to whom falls the duty of corraling the errant dog. That no particularly high-minded gentleman would adopt this calling may readily be believed, and yet it is hard to understand why, after brief as- soclation with vagrant canines, the pursuers should sink to a moral and in- tellectual plane below that of the pur- sued. ‘As an individual the dog catcher is most obnoxious. He is hated by everybody. To observe a dog escape gives the beholder joy. For the small boy, who, seeing the cart of the catch- ers coming, runs ahead to give warning and shoo rash pups into the back yard, the common heart goes out warmly. He may be a naughty boy, togs and playing hookey at the moment. Doubt- less the dog catcher is a necessity, but this does not impose upon anybody the duty of loving him. Several of these fellows have lately subjected women and children to violence. Most of them seem to need a term in jail and the rest might be tamed by a sound thumping. The strictest justice would have them clapped into the pound and fed on moldy dog biscuit. Tt B may justly tremble for their pay. General Bacon’s course has been marked by a total absence of hysterics, and does him credit as a soldier. X i Lieutenant Burnett of the navy re- fuses to regard that institution as a floating reform school, and announces that boys who should be under re- straint for crimes committed will not be accepted. Certain Judges have : =y EREEEE SRR RAUBANARIRIERRIRINIRRISR WITH ENTIRE FRANKNESS. By HENRY JAMES. REELRERIREIRERRRNE NIRIRIRIIIRRRRRRNN RRB KRB $ been In the habit of suspending sen- tence on young offenders provided they would agree to enlist. This course is not only without warrant in law, but it is a direct insult to the navy. The people. of this country are proud of their navy. They want it manned by reputable citizens. Youth are being trained for its service. It is hoped re- cruits will come from good families. There is no excuse for viewing it as a rendezvous for scalawags, and such a view ought not to be and will not be tolerated. Sometimes the intelligence of an Eastern paper, its wealth of informa- tion, is a pleasing surprise. In a re- cent number of the Cincinnati Commer- cial Tribune note was made of the fact that Portland, Or., desired to buila one of the new monitors, and the editor added: “Go on. If the Olympia and Oregon are fair samples of your work, give the country a few more like them.” An impression had prevailed here that the ships mentioned were samples of the work done at the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, a con- siderable city of California. Indeed, this impression got abroad, and at ‘Washington was so trustfully accepted that the Secretary of the Navy sent a long letter of congratulation to the management of the Union Iron Works on the excellence of its product. The people of San Francisco saw the Olym- pia and Oregon launched, saw them steam proudly away, and still enter- tain the notion that they were built here. What sort of a place is Cincin- nati anyhow? Is it the same seat of culture which glories in the tradition that once it packed more pork than any other city in the Union? REEES e Observing the progress of the investi- gation into the management of the medical and commissary departments of the army one is not impressed by the evidences of sincerity. It seems to me that to question some of the sol- diers would be the way to ascertain the truth. Let a few of the boys who came back from Cuba, gaunt, ex- hausted, starving and neglected, take the stand and tell about it, and then let the responsible officers explain. No- body has ever charged that the offi- cers’ mess was infected with rotten ba- con, or that an officer in need of a dose of quinine had to wait a week for it. The allegation has been that the priv- ate soldier, a boy in many instances as tenderly reared as the epauletted gentleman commanding him, of as good a family, as thorough a patriot, was permitted to lie in the trenches before Santiago with nothing to eat, although there were stores at the wharf; that in the hospital he lacked delicacies, not- withstanding the Red Cross had for- warded a plenteous amount. People would like to know the truth about these things. ‘So far as the investiga. tion shall tend to souse Alger in a sea of whitewash, I shall take the liberty of regarding it as a fraud. No admir. ation for McKinley can make me think . his Secretary of War was ever fit to held the position. - .. " Pivs e & Once more there has bobbed up the old question as to the relation between a newspaper man and a journalist. There is a habit of regarding the term “journalist” as a sign of affectation. This habit is founded on a lack of knowledge, and is in itself an affecta- tion. A man who earns his living by writing for the daily press is a jour- nalist or a mistake. He has a right to all the distinction the title affords. It must be remembered that every em- ploye of a newspaper regards himself as a newspaper man. The employes who run linotype machines, make stereotype plates, send out the malil, sweep the office or stand in attitudes of impressive dignity behind the coun- ter of the business department are all newspaper men. They are as useful as the people who write, but, neverthe- less, the people who write are not pre- sumptuous in asserting themselves to be journalists. I know this fs not a popular view, not fashionable, not in accord with the fad of insisting upon being known simply as a newspaper man. I strive to be a journalist. The people with whom I intimately asso- ciate are journalists. When a writer has a specific place to fill in the per- sonnel of a paper he may be otherwise classified. There are the reporters, the telegraph editors and the other editors. Nevertheless the man whose implement of toil is his pencil and whose business is to make ‘‘copy,” whatever may be his temporary position, is a journalist, and it is silly for him to deny it. If he doesn’t like the job, there are others. G It is strange that J. J. Valentine, president of the Wells-Fargo Express Company, cannot issue a circular with- out giving a Salvation Army twist to it and slavering the document with the exudation of a profound yet bubbling piety. In a recent circular to employes regarding the care of horses he gives utterance to many humane sentiments. If Valentine cared as much for the welfare of patrons as for the livestock of the concern he directs and adorns he would be all right. He introduces the circular with a quotation from Proverbs: “The righteous man re- gardeth the life of his beast.” So he does, and the unrighteous, too, if he has any sense and owns a beast, par- ticularly if sald beast is entered for a race and the stakes are worth hav- ing. Still, his advice is good. It is almost goody-good. Then follow in- structions as to the care of property, these also enforced by a proverb of great antiquity and merit. The joker is at the bottom. It'is an allusion to the dissatisfaction of customers at the policy of the company in sticking them for the war tax, which the law specifies the company shall pay, and counsels employes to be 8o polite as to insure the recovery of any business lost by the momentary dissatisfaction growing out of what he is pleased to term the “stamp unpleasantness.” My dear Mr. Valentine, there is nothing momentary about that unpleasantness. When a man is being robbed the actual process does not last long, but the memory rankles, and peace of mind is not fully restored until the purse has been. You can circulate proverbs until the cows come home, and it will not alter the fact that your company, under your specific direction, has dellberately bun- koed the people upon whom it depends for support. In this connection I copy from your beautiful and touching ecir- cular: “There is that scattereth and yet increaseth, and there is that which withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.” - e e A notorfous woman named Fuhrig has again been accused of killlng an unfortunate of her own sex. She has been similarly accused before, and, as a contemporary remarks, in going back to her practices shows & supreme con- tempt for the law. I do not see how she could possibly entertain any other feel- ing toward the law, so far as it is sup- posed to apply to her. LT Richard Harding Davls Is another of the great men whose name must be printed in full. It is difficult to imagine a Richard H. Davis. An R. H. Davis would be positive sacrilege, while to term him Dick would simply be to break the upper literary circle into & confused jumble of segments. All this is to show that I hold Richard Harding Davis in proper esteem. He inherited greatness, and even if it is & misfit, far be it from me to decry the value of it. It the greatness toted by Mr. Davis could be transposed to some one who matched it, the combination would make a hit. Davis writes a clever short story, a passable long one, in which the illustrations are apt to be fine. In con- sideration of the privilege of project- ing the impressive Davis mug into every picture illustrative of American life, Gibson does his best while setting forth the heroes and heroines of the Davis imagination. The heroes are al- ways broad-shouldered and smooth- shaved, each one, in fact, a miniature Davis, while the heroine invariably has an aristocratic nose tipped skyward, as if suspecting onions on her neighbor's breath. However, these few remarks are preliminary, and as the wise reader has skipped them there is no occasion for apology. Davis was over in Cuba during the war. He is not a good re- porter. In the recital of actual events I know a dozen men any one of whom can write all around him. He tries to make word-paintings, and the result is a daub. The impressionist style may be all right in the subdued light of the art gallery, but in description people want bold and accurate lines. Davis did not send out of Cuba one good de- scription of anything occurring there. Nevertheless he did as well as any- body else. Creelman forwarded a few stirring paragraphs, but Creelman is such an unconscionable liar that these went for nothing. From a newspaper standpoint the action in Cuba was a fallure. There was a chance to do much, and nothing was done. There- fore would it beseem Richard Harding to sing small instead of attacking Shafter. Doubtless there were errors in the conduct of the Santiago cam- paign. If ever a campalgn devoid of mistake was carried on under the di- rection of mortal history failed to rec- ord it. If ever a man achieved bril- liant victory and missed having his methods and motives traduced I cer- tainly never heard of it. The bald truth remains that a victory was achieved speedily, splendidly, with a comparatively trifling loss of life. Vast difficulties were overcome, and a war which promised to drag on indefinitely was brought to a speedy close. It is too bad, of course, that Davis is not satisfied. It is possible, however, that Shafter had in view something fully as important as pleasingthe distinguished gentleman. Shafter is fat and choleric. He was too busy to tip his helmet to Davis, too engrossed to divulge his plins, and had too much sense to,coun- sel with the reporter. Therefste thas he been Impaled, and is even now sup- posed to be wriggling on the tip of the Davis pen. I trust the gallant old war- rior will, survive, and perhaps tell the world some time what he thinks of Davis as a correspondent, an exchange of compliments being suggested by the circumstances. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. DeWitt Clary, an attorney of Stockton, is at the Lick. R. A. Graham, a rallroad contractor of Marshfield, Or., is at the Palace. Charles K. McClatchy, of the Sacra- mento Bee, is registered at the Lick. Frank B. Clopton and wife of Pendle- ton, Or., are guests at the Occidental. W. H. Smith of Ensenada, Mexico, is, with his family, a guest at the Palace. W. D. Pennycook, editor of the Vallejo Chronicle, is registered at the Occidental. E. W. Jones, proprietor of the Hotel Vincent at Los Angeles, is at the Bald- win. Joseph Durfee, a well-known politician and lawyer, is registered at the Lick from Smartsville. I. C. Steele Jr., a well-known Pescadero dairyman, is among yesterday’s arrivals at the Russ. Leon Carteri, one of Southern Califor- nia’'s largest stock ralsers, is registered at the Baldwin from Santa Barbara. D. R. Olliver and wife of Sonora are stopping at the Lick. Mr. Oliver is one of the big mine owners of the mother lode. J. A. Fillmore, superintendent of the Southern Pacific Company, returned yes- terday after a trip of inspection through the Sacramento Valley. A party of tourists, consisting of Mrs. Albert Young, Miss E. H. Young, Dr. Stuart McGuire and A. M. Youag, ar- rived yesterday from Richmond, Va., and registered at the Palace. < Mrs. M. H. Coffin, with her two children, arrived yesterday from Boise City, Idaho, and is a guest at the Russ. Mrs. Coffin is the wife of M. H. Coffin, of the firm of Coffin & Northrup, one of the largest hardware firms in the Northwest. Hugh Craig, president of the San Fran- cisco Chamber of Commerce, left for tne East last evening, to be gone several weeks. He will first visit the Omaha Ex- position as a commissioner of the Cool- gardie “exposition, which will be held in Australia in March. Mr. Cralg desires to induce all. of the exhibitors possible to make exhibits at the Australian falr and show what America can do in the line of production and manufacture. He will also be present at the peace jubilee in Chicago and attend the banquet at which Califor- nia wines have been tabooed. One of his big fights will be to convince those who attend the jubilee that American wines, and especially those from the golden West, are equal and superior to the im- ported articles. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Oct. 8—Charles M. Howe of San Francisco is at the Ral- eigh: D. M. Moses of San Franci At the ‘Willards; Tonell Higging of Loy Angeles 1s at the Ebbltt House. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Oct. S.—A. T. Relf of San Francisco is at the Hoffman; Mrs. Lelana Stanford of Palo_Alto is at the Fifth Avenue; H. C. Lathrop of Sa: » cisco s at the ~Bartholdi. & e S Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.” = e e, Special information supplied dally to business housc3 and public men Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), smb n(:t: gomery street. Telephone Malin 1042. ¢ Tourist( to Highlander in - form)—Sandy, are you cold with % k“l?tl? Sandy—Na, mon; but I'm nigh kilt wi the cauld.—Glasgow Evening. §m —_—— Commerclal lunch, 11 to 3. Among Bar- rels, 863 Market st. by iy . 4