The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 29, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1898 SATURDAY.. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. B i Address All Communications to W: §. LEAKE, Manager. FUBLIC:\TION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS.. 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1878 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents @ week. By mall $6 per year; per montb | €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE One year, by mall, $1.50 | 908 Broadway MAGUIRE’S NEXT FRIEND BARRY. UDGE MAGUIRE has recently appealed to QJ the people of the Fourth District to elect his next friend, Mr. Barry, to Congress. This great commercial city should consider well its interests when it comes to elect a Congressman to Mr. Barry is not fitted in any respect Con- represent it. for such duties as fall to a Representative in gress., His habit of reckless denunciation of men and measures is not a habit that implies influence over the judgment of others, which a Congressman must have to be useful to his constituents. Last February De Lome, the Spanish Minister at | Washington, was detected in the writing and send- ing of a letter abusive of President McKinley. The | language used toward the President in that letter was grossly abusive. .Room 188, World Building ng Representatlve, NEW YORK OFFICE DAVID ALLEN, Adver WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE .-Rigge House C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ..Marquette Building €.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay. open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until- 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. | 1941 Misslon street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 | Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open | until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ang | Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. e e AMUSEMENTS, —Prisoner of Zenda. —*“By the Sad Sea Waves.” Span of Life.” | New Yori.” i—*"'Girofle-Girofia.” Vaudeville, ‘Where's Matilda?" corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Lillian F. Smith, Vaudeville and the Zoo. PHELAN'S ASSAULT ON THE SU- PREME COURT. ONSIDERING the quality of his talk, Mayor C Phelan talks too much. He is better in re- pose. His recent attack on the Supreme Court | was not only in bad taste, but it showed the Mayor | to be narrow-minded, with a little soul, placing his own ambitions above the statute, and his desire for | revenge before the dignity of the State’s most august tribunal. The Supreme Court interpreted the law, did not like the interpretation and calls for at of two Judges who concurred in it and ppen to be candidates for re-election. He | voters work out at the polls his own would have petty spite. might ha remembered that seven .d the decision which causes him pangs. o dissent. Among these Justices were representatives of both parties. There were men who, | ed in the law, have grown gray in the admin- | g of it, and have never before been even in- | accused of pandering to a vicious element nor of construing any point with particular reference | The vener- He is a man Concerning his integrity there cannot | ever has been question. Yet in his haste | or condemns the entire Supreme bench. He could not well ally select any two, pronounce fit, and not at the same time reflect upon the ding of the others, for the others agreed with the | to the likes and dislikes of disputants. able Jackson Temple is a Democrat. honored of “all. lo or’s grievance is over the defeat of his | to oust the Board of Supervisors. He had | a board so ineffectual and so corrupt that he | wished to be rid of it and have the privilege of nam- | ing Just how pure his motives were need not here be discussed, but he violated the law, pre- | sumed on powers he did not possess, was defeated in | and that the Supreme Court said he was | rightly defeated which rankles, and in | spasms of discomfort he gives utterance to words, | words, words. This is his method of groaning. En- | deavoring to assail certain members of the Supreme‘ Court, he has assailed them all. He ought to have hefted the consequences in advance. new set. the scheme is a fact A FARCICAL PROCEEDING. T a meeting of the Board of Election Commis- /E\ sioners on Thursday, at which all the members were present except Auditor Broderick, the charges of improper and illegal registration made | against certain candidates for Supervisors by Regis- trar Biggy were read and summarily dismissed with- out further consideration. The whole proceeding was farcical. As soon as the citations were read Commissioner Block moved to dismiss, and the motion was agreed to at once. There was no discussion beyond a statement on the part of | some of the Commissioners that the parties accused had evidently no intention to violate the law. he charges against the colonizing nominees was not that they intended to violate the law, but that they did violate it. Had the Commissioners con- ducted an examination they would have found that the violation had been unmistakably made. It was for that reason the question was set aside hurriedly and the citations dismissed without discussion. For an understanding of the farce it is necessary for the people to remember that among the nominees cited by Registrar Biggy were five candidates for the Board of Supervisors who had made the improper registration at the solicitation of Mayor Phelan or his backers, and that a majority of the' Board of Elec- tion Commissioners is made up of Mayor Phelan, Tax Collector Block and City Attorney Gallagher. Commissioner Block, who as Tax Collector has been shown to be guilty of stuffing the military rolls with the names of all classes and kinds of persons from Chinamen to dead men, moved to dismiss the charges. Commissioner Phelan, who prompted the accused to commit the false registration, and City and County Attorney Gallagher, one of the Gallagher Maguires, voted to ststain the dis- missal. What else could have been expected from such a board in such a case? The only recourse for justice is the appeal to the people on election day. P An Examiner artist has made the important dis- covery that Charles L. Patton has whiskers. Yet there are those who think that paper has accom- plished nothing for its side of the contest during the campaign. e LR The German Chancellor has just sold 150,000 acres of land. Possibly he found the task of keeping cockle-burrs off so large a farm too great a task for him, as he is getting pretty old “Manhood,” exclaims an inspired Hearstling,” is in the balance.” So it1s. And manhood objects to | tive in Congres having a Hearstling hold the scales. He would trifle with the weights. Barry, in his Star of February 12, indorsed De Lome in the following editorial: the Democratic party in California has nominated as its candidate for Governor James G. Maguire, of whom it says: “He is one of the most pronounced adherents of the single tax theory of the late Henry George, and it is upon this basis he has been nomi- nated, and upon this issue his campaign is being fought.” From that point the Bostonian variations upon the theme follow with rapidity and with brilliance. The Herald goes on: “California has been for the last thirty years a land of monopolies, and monopoly on the part of land-owners who have held real estate for the purpose of securing the unearned increment has been one of the heaviest burdens that the State and the people have been called upon to bear. Judge Maguire makes his professions of tax reform without any qualification whatsoever, and he hopes to be able to have elected with him at the same time a suffi- cient number of Senators and Representatives to con- trol the State Legislature, and in this way make prac- tical the reforms he is advocating.” It is difficult to decide whether in that passage the « The press has, by some unrevealed means, | ..qi for exceptional vivacity of imagination is to be obtained a private letter from Spanish Minister de Lome to a Spanish agent, in which he charac- terized the President as ‘weak and catering to the rabble, a low politician who desires to leave a door open to me and at the same time to stand well with | the jingoes of his party.’ Senor de Lome has cor- rectly outlined the President’s character. It is unfortunate for him as a diplomat that he knows how to tell unwelcome truth.” | | given to the portion which depicts the sparsely pop- ulated land of California as being in the hands of monopolists, or to that which declares the shiiting, evasive, dodging Maguire is making professions of the single tax without any qualification whatever. It is not worth while to stop, however, to consider that point. New variations follow of even greater dash and sparkle. Describing the character of the opposing forces in the contest the Herald says: “The Do the people of this city want the man who wrote | supporters of the Democratic ticket in California are that for their representative in Congress? the Populist Republicans—that is, those Republicans The Spaniard violated diplomatic decency by insult- | who believe the regular Republican party is under the | ing President McKinley, and was sent home for the offense. Do American citizens propose now to elect to Congress a jack-Spaniard who disgraced Ameri- can citizenship by publicly indorsing De Lome’s in- sult? 1f they do, they appear as approving the conduct of De Lome, as admitting that the American people have elected a “low politician” to the Presidency, and San Francisco will appear in Congress as vindi- cating the Spaniard and inviting others in like po- sition to insult the President of the United States with their approval. There are some things upon which men of all parties are agreed. The respectful treatment of the President by foreign representatives is one of those things. We can imagine no more unfortunate thing for San Francisco than to indorse De Lome by indorsing Barry. It is not a question of party, but of patriotism. If a party nominate a man guilty of conduct so in- sultingly unAmerican, its honorable and high-minded members should resent it by his defeat. Barry is begging for Republicans to support him. Do they have the same opinion of President Mc- Kinley that De Lome expressed and Barry indorsed? If they do, their support of Barry will be legitimate and proper. But we say in all soberness and calm- ness that Barry's offense against his country in in- dorsing De Lome differs only in degree and not in kind from an indorsement of the President's murder if the Spaniard had knifed him in the White House. What influence can such a man have in an Ameri- can Congress? What can he do beneficial to this great city, which needs so much? Surely men must be either indifferent to their in- tergsts or frenzied by fanaticism if they support man who has so outlawed himself from every legiti- mate sentiment of American patriotism. |REDEEMING THE SEVENTH DISTRICT. EPORTS from the Seventh Congression’ Dis- trict show that the Republicans are making an earnest and aggressive campaign against the R | fusion forces of iree trade, fiat money and general dis- content. They are resolved that their next Representa- shall be a sdpporter of the adminis- tration, an upholder of the great Republican policies upon whose maintenance the welfare of the industries of the district is largely independent. In making the fight the rank and file of the party have the satisiaction of knowing they are ably and vigorously led. In fact, it is apparent that in nomi- nating J. C. Needham of Modesto as the Congres- sional candidate of the party the Republicans “named a winner.” He has succeeded in arousing the enthusiasm of the members of his own party, he has the favor of the independents, and, accordingly, is increasing in strength every day. The strength which Mr. Needham has developed in the campaign has not been a surprise to his friends or to the people of his district, among whom he has long been a notable man. He is still young, being but 34 years of age, but his career has been steadily upward from the start, and for a long time past he has been looked upon as one of the leaders of that | section of the State. Mr. Needham is a typica! Californian. He was born in an emigrant wagon at Carson, Nev., while his parents were making their way to California. His early life, like that of so many successful Americans, was spent on a farm. Ambitious of supplementing his common school education by a collegiate course, he passed his vacations in the work of the harvest fields to earn money, and devoted his evenings to study. In due time he entered the law college of the University of Michigan, and there took rank among the brightest students. After graduation he settled in Modesto and began the practice of law. In a comparatively short time he rose to a high position at the bar, and was intrusted with much of the most important litigation of the district. He soon made himself known not only as an able and efficient advocate and counselor at law, but as a man of sterling integrity and of marked ability for leadership. Having a public-spirited regard for the affairs of the State and of the nation as well as for his own fortunes, he early took an interest in politics. He first showed his vigor as a campaigner when as a candidate for the State Senate he heavily reduced the usual overwhelming Democtatic majorities of the district. Further proofs of his abilities and zeal in political issues were given by his services as chair- man of the Republican County Central Committee, as member of the State Central Committee, and by his work as a speaker and campaigner in every elec- tion since he arrived at man’s estate. With a leader of this quality and approved worth to direct the struggle, and with every incentive of patriotism and intelligent self-interest to animate them, the Republicans of the Seventh feel that they are making a winning fight. The great mass of the people are in favor of sustaining the administration, and the voters of the Seventh will send to Congress a man who will help the Government to deal with the problems before it. instead of fighting it as the fusion candidate would do if elected AS BOS_TON SEES IT. BOSTON, through the medium of the Herald of that city, has been giving the Eastern sec- tion of the country, and possibly Europe, an account of the political campaign in this State. It is an account that merits reading in San Francisco, partly that we may see ourselves as others see us, but mainly because of the picturesque variety of Bos- tonian notions contained in it. a| | { | corporations—and the California socialists.” control of syndicates, railroads and other great ] It will be conceded that this creation of such a body of voters as “Populist Republicans” is about as good as would be the painting of a white blackbird, but there is better to come. The supreme stroke of Boston genius is reached in this brilliant passage: “The Republican ticket is supported not only by the regular Republicans, but by a determined, if not numerous, body of anarchists, who appear to see in the possible election of Judge Maguire the success of a movement to place larger and more important functions upon the Government, when in their (the anarchists’) opinion government should be deprived of all of its functions, or, in other words, as a controlling power should cease to exist.” When after this review of our affairs the Herald closes by saying, “The campaign in California is thus carried on upon a local basis, but on issues that are worldwide in their character,” we feel that we can say without slang, “Well, we should smile.” / PERTINENT QUESTIONS. E observe with pain that our gsteemed con- temporary, The Non-Partisan, edited and pub- lished by the conductor of the late lamented Bulletin, at the outset of its career is practicing yel- low politics. We find in volume 1, No. 1, of our con- temporary the following remarkable specimen of political rot: The corporations, bosses, boodlers and ‘“push” generally appear to be a strong combination, but, on a liberal estimate, from seven to eight thousand votes are all that may be credited to that combina- tion. We ask the question, Will the fifty thousand or more honest, iatelligent voters and taxpayers submit to being ruled by this association of villan- ies, or will they rise in their might and crush out the dastardly attempt that is being made by the bosses to stand up this city and plunder it at their pleasure? Citizens of San Francisco, what say you? Will you, through indifference and neglect of your civic obligations, make possible such a condition, or will you rally to protect the fair fame and best in- terests of San Franclsco? This reads exactly like an ante-election effusion in an “anti-railroad” Democratic organ. Of course we do not suspect our esteemed contemporary, The Non-Partisan, of any such motive as actuates Dem- ocratic organs in shouting about the bosses, and yet it is doing politics in the same way and is publishing the same character of matter. What construction the people will place upon the utterances of a political newspaper which opens its campaign with such in- sufferable blather as we have quoted remains to be seen. They may not be as charitable as we are. In connection with this subject, however, it is per- tinent to address the esteemed Non-Partisan a few questions. Of the fifty-three candidates who are re- ceiving its support thirty-seven are Democrats who have been nominated by a committee appointed by James D. Phelan. Is our contemporary aware of the fact that all or nearly all of these men have promised in the event of their election to give their patronage to P}gelan? Can it be possible that the fact has es- caped our contemporary’s attention that this patron- age will, if secured, make Phelan the most powerful political boss the city has ever had? What does our contemporary mean by referring to the other bosses in warning tones while actually assisting Boss Phelan’s ambition to eclipse all bosses in political power? = The Non-Partisan is vigorously supporting sub- stantially the entire Phelan ticket. True, it has a few Republicans on its list, but they have been named mostly for unimportant offices. The Board of Su- peryisors with its vast powers, the patronage offices with their tremendous influence, and the judiciary with its great strength, have all been turned over to Phelan and his crowd of autocrats, Fay, McNab, Popper and Braunhart. Does our contemporary think this is going to promote good government? As we understand, the objection to bossism con- sists in the fact that it concentrates in the hands of a single man the power to control the powers of taxation and disbursement. This leads to corruption, for the reason that it is human nature to waste and misappropriate that which belongs to others. What does The Non-Partisan mean by supporting a scheme designed to bring this condition about, and which will place the people of San Francisco at the mercy of Boss Phelan? Does it think him a saint? We address our contemporary these questions in no spirit of idle banter. The Republicans of this city who have héretofore supported non-partisan move- ‘ments and who are now asked by Deacon Fitch to vote the Phelan ticket are entitled to have them answered. The Non-Partisan need not expect them to vote for its candidates this year unless it justifies its extraordinary course. P One reason for not attaching importance to the interview with George Crocker is that it was pub- lished in a paper of such character that the publica- tion constitutes no evidence that the interview ever occurred. —_— Populism is not only dead out here, but it did not experience a pleasing taking off. To be smothered in the cesspool of Democratic corruption must be a hard method of departing this life. As the campaign advances there is a growing be- lief that a man may wear a silk hat and not have un- der it the quality of brains a Mayor really needs. If necessity arises for thrashing the Cuban in- surgents, your Uncle Samuel has all the men and | The Herald begins accurately enough by saying | material at command. R IN THE WOODPILE. v THE NIGGE NUMBER SEVEN. To the Editor of The Call: The power of th: people may be used against the people. This is the dominant note of our system. It is the cause of all our political institutions. We divide nower because we 816 Jealous of power. The true menace to the plain citizen, to you and to me, is not the boss who shares his power with half a dozen other bosses, but the big boss that may own them all. The reason why the power given by the people may be used against the people arises from a very fundamental fact in human nature. We are all looking out for our own interests. Your concern in politics and mine arises from the desire to protect ourselves. The politiclan draws a salary, of course, to benefit his country. He sacrifices himself on the altar of patriot- ism for more than he could earn at any other avocation. We all understand the value of those statements. Plain people like you and me are birds too old to be caught with chaff. 3 One man goes into politics because he can draw a salary from the office for which he seeks. Another man goes into politics because he is promised an office by the friend for whom he works. A third man aims for School Director because he has a big family of.girls and he wants to unload them on the school department. We all understand these motives. Plain peo- ple especially take them for granted. We are made of very plain clay ourselves and we don’t think the Almighty used up all the fine variety in making politicians. WHEN A MAN HAS POWER He naturally uses it to advance his own interests. The Supervisors will stand by those who stand by them. The Sheriff will give offices to those who have helped him. The Assessor will not be too scrupulous when it comes to the valuation of the property of those who have done him a service. This is a law of human nature, and plain people like you and me are not in the business of reforming human nature, but of making the best terms we can with it. 3 This is the reason why the founders of the republic were so particular about dividing power. Whenever power is used for the special benefit of an indivicual the people are injured. Now there is a constant temptation present with officials to use political power for their own benefit. The more power they have the greater the temptation. Therefore the fathers cut down the force of the temptation by cutting down the power. Whenever, therefore, we see a man in politics we naturally ask, ‘“What is he after?” When we find a man grasping after the control of officials we inquire, “What has he in view?” When we see that this monopoliza- tion of power is planned on a splendid scale we say, “Surely there must be a big prize at stake.” : MR. PHELAN TELLS US THAT THE BIG PRIZE Is good government. He says, “I cannot be accused of sordid motives for I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Other bosses have to steal to get rich; I am so rich that I do not need to steal. Don’t believe what you hear about interested motives. All that may be true of all other men and of all other times. I am an exception. I have no thought nor wish, no ambi- tion but to give you good government.” Among the chief enemies of good government Mr. Phelan places the corporations. The plain citizen has no love for corporations unless we chance to hold a few shares in them or have our money in their bonds. Then, of course, we may have interest enough in them to find out just what they are. But you and I are not usually bound by such investments and we consider corporations merely as things without bodies to be kicked or souls to be damned. Hence the cry against corporations is a popular cry. You and I take it up with great gusto and derive much satisfaction therefrom. WE ARE PARTICULARLY SOUR ON CORPORATIONS That levy direct taxes on us. Every day we have to pay our nickel or two to the street cars, every month we have to hand over our coin to the water company or the gas concern. Direct taxes are always unpopular. In olden times the tax gatherers did not enjoy the favor of the multitude. “Publicans and sinners” was the common collocation, and it was not flat- tering. ed, “Corporations and sinners.” But the idea has survived to our day, only now it might be word- But if we take the trouble to examine the composition of these corpora- tions we shall find they are nearly all run by very rich men. The Southern Pacific Company has been bréeding millionaires since it started, and the directorate of the water company and gas concern is composed of persons whose estates are as large if not larger than Mr. Phelan’s. Now Mr. Phelan says all these corporations are in politics, and Mr. Phe- lan is an honorable man. By that, of are politicians. course, he means that these rich men Certainly they are rich beyond the dreams v hence they cannot have sordid motives. Lty Other people may go into poli- tics to get rich; certain not the millionaires who have almost reached the saturation point. richer. measure, and Mr. Phelan cannot ask They are so wealthy that they can hardly Therefore, if we are to judge them and Mr. Phelan by the one get any otherwise from plain people like us, these corporations must be in politics simply and solely because the; T consumed with the desire to give the people good government. T BUT YOU AND I WHO ARE PLAIN PEOPLE Have thoughts of our own, because we see and mark what goes on about us. riches than in making them. Men who are very rich have oftentimes more trouble in keeping their Great estates and wealthy corporati shining marks for those who live upon others. L Mtictans have levied tribute upon such institutions, and when we ‘We know how politiclans loudly blame them for corrupting politics we often say to ourselves that the bribe was as often given to preserve a right as to perpetrate a wrong. Hence cor- porations are not in politics merely for good, government, but to protect their interests. These interests are so great that a change tha not feel might bankrupt them or double their fortune. L W roo dollar they pay a hundred thousand. ‘Where we pay on. Therefore, if they would x‘)’re’servg their wealth they must keep an eagle eye on the politician: b e Goran msdlves orito Pt donhel 1L [eevenon BUT MR. JAMES D. PHELAN IS NO INCUNSIDERABLE CORPORA. TION g - Himself. city, of doilars to the Phelan estate. No one knows the exact value of the Phelan estate ev _but every one knows it is enormous. even in this as the estates of corporations to the fluctuations of politics. on the tax levy means little to you and me That estate is just as sensitive ua A cent more ; it means hundreds of thousands There can be but little fluctuation in the value of our holdings, but a complaisant Assessor might make quite a dif- ference in the value of Mr. Phelan’s property. It is said that Mr. Phe- Jan once upon a time made statements to an Assessor abou ry wealth which were not perhaps considered with sufficient exatctm:déal:g:;r: he made them. ernment. Of course the condition of his estate ma eonsideration altogether with Mr. Phelan in his desire to But the ordinary citizen, that is, you and I, may wen ¥ be a secondary give us good gov be excused if we ask ourselves why is he so blamed particular about having his own Assessor? Yours truly, A PLAIN CITIZEN. THE CORRIDORS Rango Tabats, a prominent Japanese merchant, is at the Palace. F. L. Wooster, a well known mining man of Sonora, is at the Lick. F. A. Hihn, a Santa Cruz capitalist, is a recent arrival at the Occidental. E. C. Farnsworth, a prominent Visalia attorney, is registered at the Lick. E. P. McCormick, a well known mining man of Salem, Or., is at the Palace. Charles E. Hammerquest, a large New York merchant, is at the Occidental. A. N. Butts, a well known mining man of Los Angeles, is at the Occidental. Carl E. Lindsay, City and County At- torney of Santa Cruz, is at the Grand. George W. Patterson, a prominent Btockton lawyer, 1is stopping at the Grand. A. B. Wood, a prominent mining man of Detroit, is among the late arrivals at the Palace. C. K. McClatchy, one of Sacramento’s best known newspaper men, is a guest at the Lick. Captain M. A. Morse, a well known steamboat man, is registered at the Pal- ace from British Columbla. W. F. Peterson, a large confectioner of Sacramento, and also president of the Pacific Coast Travelers’ Association, is at the Grand. Rev. H. F. Rowe and wife of New York, en route for Japan, where they will engage In missionary work, are stopping at the Occidental. The following young missionaries, reg- istered at the Occidental, will sail on the Doric to-day for the Orfent: Miss J. O. Paine and Miss F. Hinds, for Seoul, Korea; Miss J. D. Longstreet and Miss E. M. Glenk, for Fuchau, China, and Miss G. F. Munn, for Shanghai. G. S. Hein, London manager of the Lon- don and San Francisco Bank, making his first visit to this city, is at the Palace. I am making the trip,” he sald yester- day, “to inspect the resources of this coast and to make myself personally ac- quainted with our various branches. I anticipate very prosperous times for the next few years from the development of the trade connections with China, Russia and Siberia on the one hand and with our new colonies on the other. As regards an Anglo-American alllance, I am much pleased with the idea.” Mr. Hein will re- turn to London about January 1. —_———————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—Mrs. S. Tripp of San Diego is at the Fifth Avenue. Claus Spreckels and family are at the Hoff- mann. AROUND RS R LI Mark Strouse’s Will. The will of Mark Strouse was admitted to probate yesterday by Judge Troutt, and letters testamentary were ordered {s- sued to the executors named in the will, mille Strouse, widow of the deceased, ?;!a::‘n Silverberg and Myer Branden- | FOR PLACE—G. z, ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. JPI&!‘?LA},\"S GRADUATION—H. H. C. - y. James D. Phel - ate from The University of Califorgia. 'THE TWO_ FITZGERALDS—Several Voters, City. W. F. Fitzgerald and E. L. Fitzgerald, candidates f Eateeei or office, are not FRANCE AND GERMANY—J. B. G., Sausalito, Cal. The latest figures as to population give Fi D Bameim: e asand Ger. Knob, Shasta County, C:l. If a man bets for place on a race, and the horse he bets on c 22?{‘2\‘?2 mlnn Wing l;]ls ll‘)e(: if heol‘;rl‘)ey!s’: or place and t collect his ticket. Sopaminhe oy THE PRESIDENT—H. S., Oakland, Cal. There is nothing in the constitution of the United States which says that the President of the United States shall not go outside of the limits of the Union dur- ng his term of office. There is nothing in the United States statutes on the sub- A BROTHER IN THE CAVALRY— Miss 8. H., City. If your brother is in a troop of cavalry at Manila and you have not heard of him for a long time, ad- dress a letter of inquiry to the captain o the troop in which he enlisted. Direc the letter to the captain of the troop, glving the letter 6f the troop and the regiment, Manila, Philippine Islands. ARMY CANTEENS—P., Petaluma, and F. B., Newark, Cal. There is no saloon at Fort Point, the receipts of which are applied to the maintenance of the sol- dlgrs there located. n army canteen is a place at ‘where beer, soda, ginger gle and u?e ’?fii’; and cake, bread and sandwiches are sold and the profits divided at the end of the month between the companies that con- tribute to the expense of maintaining it. The .Government does not seil liquor to soldiers as a beverage. FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR-J. B. G., Sausalito, Cal. The strength of the French army at the breaking out of the Franco-Prussian war was 427,000, with a reserve of §,000; that of Germany was 447,000, with a first reserve of 188,000 and a | second reserve of 225,000. The cost of the | war to France was: War expenses, 1.315,000,000 francs; indemnity to Germany, 5,315,000,000 francs; sustenance o; German 340,000,000 francs; loss of revenue during the war and of revenue of Alsace and Lorraine, 2,024,000,000 francs; struction of war material, 2.,144,000,000 francs; mfllmrya%:sm% ete., 1,314,000,000 francs. Total, 1 000,000 francs. e HALLOW'EEN CUSTOMS-E. L. B, Belmont, R. R., Haywards, Cal. In Ire- land, when young women want to know it lovers are falthful, they, on All Hal- low’een, place three nuts on the bars of a grate, naming each after the lovers. If the nut cracl o{ ljlmml the lover will Erova unfaithful; if it begins to burn or he has a regard for the one mak- troops, ing the trial. If the nuts named after the girl and her lover burn together they will married A stick s hung horizontally by a string from some point overhead and an apple is placed at one end a plece of lighted candle at the other. The stick is b ted the, foont puply igp 2 al e aj e ffimes they chtch the candle. : l-".l'!::mndmrtlnwmunumbcru apples In a tub of water and have the yggnx folks duck for them, and bring them up with their teeth, as hands are not allowed. Tn Scotland young peaple go out blind- folded in the kail yard and pull up the first kall he or she touches. As the kail is big or little, or straight or crooked, so shall be the future partner for life of the one pulling it. The quantity of earth sticking to the root shows comparatively the wealth of the opposite party. Three dishes are ranged on the hearth, one containing clean water, another muddy water and the third is empty. The voung people, blindfolded, are led to the hearth and they feel for the dishes. It the clean water is touched by a man he will marry a maiden; if by a maiden she will marry one never before married; if either touch the muddy water, then it is either widow or widower for a partner; if the empty dish is touched it is.a case of bachelor or old maid. Eat an apple before a looking glass and see the face of the lover. ARTIST DIXON SCORES A MARKED SUCCESS HIS VOLUNTEER CALENDAR THE HIT OF THE SEASON. Depicts the Citizen Soldier in Action and Repose as No One Else Has Shown Him. The hit of the season has been scored by L. Maynard Dixon, a member of iue Call art staff. .His United States Volun- teer Calendar for 1899 is pronounced one of the most notable artistic productions of its character of the present year. It deals with the volunteer soldier, and de- picts him in various guises. Dixon, who is a mere youth in years, has the heaven-given gift of genius. sus results are gained in broad effects, as though drawn by a man brought up out of doors. He is a protege of William Doxey, who has done so much to develop the genius in the young artists and young writers of the Pacific Coast. Dixon has caught the spirit and the movement of the citizen soldiery. Tne cover shows a soldier and an officer. Both are full of action. The first page shows a volunteer apparently on his way to a transport ship. He is accompanied bv a young woman. One can almost hear the swish of her skirts, so lifelike does sue stand out from the page. Others show the young volunteers in action. A touch of pathos 1s added by a scene showing a man wearing the well-known emblem of the Red Cross rendering aid to a wounded Spaniard, although himself wounded. g/[r. Dixon is at present enjoying a short vacation, but will soon return to his duties on the art staff of The Call. —————————— WILL OF WILLIAM EDE Entire Estate Bequeathed to the Widow, Son and Daughter of the Testator. The will of Willlam Ede, the wealthy contractor, who died on the inst., was filed for probate yesterday. The In- strument which is olographic and bears date of December 22, 1884, bequeaths the entire estate of the deceased to Catherine Ede, his widow, William Ede, a son, and Clara Louisa Bde, a daughter, share and share alike. Mrs. Ede is appointed exec- utrix of the will and guardian of the per- sons and estates of her children, to serve without bonds. The estate of the testator conveyed by the will, which consists of real and per- sonal property, only amounts to $300,000, he having conveyed real property to his gelrsh, valued at $560,000, just prior to his eath. 5 Improving Precita Valley. The section over which the Islais Creek bed had run In former years is now be- ing reclaimed, so to speak, and converted into neat homesteads for the thrifty set- tlers who Ognrchmfled property in that neighborhood years ago. Army street, which runs in the center of the plat of the bed of the creek, will have an elec- tric car line In the course of a few months, while another line will run on Precita’ avenue on south. To connect these two thoroughfares with the prinei- pal streets running north and south the club has had contracts entered into to have_Harrison, Alabama, Florida, Bry- ant, York and Hampshire streets graded and filled in from Twenty-fourth to Pre- cita avenue. With this end of the job finished and Bernal Park fllled in and or- namented the valley will be an ideal spot. These improvements are due to the eflo;ts of the Precita Valley Improvement Club. 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