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

~........NOVEMBER 6, 1808 SUNDAY. : "~ JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propristor Address All Communications to W. S. :LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE.....Market and Third Sts,, S. F. Telephone Main I1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2!T to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Maln 1874 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is | served by carrlers In this city and surrounding tow! for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year: per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL One year, by matl, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE... wevssssiiesss- 908 Broadwoy NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. €.) OFFICE. .. cecnreees Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE... ...Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Represcntative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgornery street, corner Clay, open untl! 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, opén until 930 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 oclock. 615 Larkin street, open until 930 o'clock. 1041 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, cpen until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street. open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street; open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ‘ane Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. the Wind."* / MWednesday by Willam Armstrong, ust of Soctety.” efit to Mr. Frank Mathieu, Wednes- and Eddy streets—Spectaities. th, Vaudeville and the Zoo. A SCURRILOUS ROORBACK. SHORT time ago The Call warned the pub- ic in a general way agamnst scurrilous stories m politi- ampaign. ~xe always to be looked for ters ™ the closing days the have tc direct attention to a specific case | rrility and denounce the falseness of a cir- t the city in which of being scattered abc ous libeler assails the character of Wil- | Republican nominee for the office of The author of the circular has shown more malice The voters of the city also know the worthless- nptibility campaign all intelligent and fair-minded men | belp rather than injure the candidacy Deane, for they a natural desire to te an honest official from the attacks of an has not the courage to fight in the open, to the cowardly tactics of publishing and than cunning in his efforts. ir. De: know N of anonymous will have y wh vhat he dares not sign. s been in the public service as a dep- Clerk for a long time. He n to be thoroughly acquainted with the duties of the position. His ab his honesty, his' fidelity to every trust and his uniform courtesy in attending to the wants of the people who have business with the office are well known. No man in the city is better fitted to take charge of the office, and none could | more cfficiently or with greater | perform its duties and usefulness to the community. econc Once more we warn the public against all such stories which be issued between now and the closing of the polls on election day. The anony- mous slanderer it seems we must always have with us, but there is no reason why his falsehoods should in- honest man or affect the vote of an intelli- jure an; gent citizen. SENATOR VJHITE'S FORGI;:TFULNESS. —~ ENATOR WHITE, speaking at Grass Valley, urged the re-election of Marion de Vries to man, Congress on the ground that he is an honest d that, having had experience in Congres- sional service, he is now a more useful Representative to his constituents and to his State than a new man could be, however earnestly the new man might en- na of his duties. ter upon the pe! From this declaration of his opinion concerning the value of experience to a member of Congress it is clear the Senator orgetful when in mak ing his addr an Jose and in this city he neg: lected to urge the re-election of Mr. Loud from the Fiith District. The Senator's argument applies to the case of Mr. Loud with even greater force than to that of De Vries, for the present Representative from has had a iar longer service in the House ned there a greater degree of prestige s at itor's argument is in the main correct puting. Other things equal, a Repre- xperience at Washington is of far more o is mew to - Congress and has everything to learn. The people of the Second Dis- trict can with good reason object to the re-election ec trade, free silver opponent of the admin- porter of the administration from the Fiith. Mr. Loud is now one of the most influential mem- | bers of the House of Representatives. He holds the irman of the Committec on Post- offices and Post Roads, and in that office has ren- dered important services to the nation and to his con- stituents. By the single act of extending free de- livery to the rural districts in Santa Clara County he has conferred great benefits on his constituents, and high position of cha when under his direction the system is further ex- | tended the whole country will be the gainer. Clearly it was a sad case of forgetfulness on the part of Senator White when he omitted to urge the people of the Fifth to re-elect Mr, Loud. Banker Marsh o stole a Pennsylvania bank blind, has surrendered after dodging the police for seven years. Not only had he grown tired of exile, but he had the assurance that the worst punishment awaiting him was a possible dyspepsia from an over- dose of fatted caif. S Chinese troops'are to be armed with bows and arrow There is a belief that with these weapons they will not be likely to injure themselves, and they are never, in any case, expected to injure anybody else. Professor Wiggins sends out a demonstration that he has succeeded in squaring the cirele. If he thinks he has, his cup of joy must be full already, and there is no use in contributing to its overflow by accepting his view i - | | | [ | MAGUIRE AS THE ONLY ISSUE. ! N his speech at Oakland Governor Budd said that “Maguire is the only issue of the campaign.” We have believed as much ever since the campaign began. Y When a principle is in issue it is subject to ex- amination in all of its lights. Its origin, its purpose, its effect if approved at the polls, are all in debate. The Governor is right. Maguire is the issue and Maguireism is fairly subject to the same examination and analysis as a principle. We have persisted in | that examination. We have taken Maguire's record and his copious expressions as the index and text by which to analyze him and forecast the effects of his ! success. As a party man we have'shown him a persistent bolter when he was not a candidate for office or put- {ing himself in position to get a party mnomination. We have shown him to be a most successful salary drawer and job-chaser. His letter forever withdraw- ing and permanently bolting from the Democratic party in 1887 has been published.. His declared pur- pose to support Henry George for the Presidency in 1888 and his organization of the land and labor party to that end have been made public. His speech in favor of the anarchists, whose purpose is the destruc- tion of all government and law, and whose platform is: “Do what you wish; everything is everybody's,” Sy | has been neither ‘explained nor denied by him, but has ; been defended by his supporters. % His declaration of his purpose “to destroy all vested rights, titles. and ownership in land,” and his refusal ‘i to deny. that he will use his power as Governior to carry it ont," have been before the people and no de- nial has been heard. We have treated him as the issue, and as such have | judged him by his own declarations. In such. judg- ! ment he stands for those who intend to destroy gov- | ernment by the murder of its représentatives, and for the destruction in California of $861,000,000 of prop- erty in land and the securities which rest on vested ! rights and titles to real estate. The refusal of Ma- guire and his supporters to deny these things and' their indorsement of them present the issue in sharp | definition. Our duty has been done. We have presented - no evidence that is not furnished by Maguire himself, and have drawn therefrom no conclusion that is not justifiable. The examination has been judicial in its temper, and the conclusions reached stand as undis- puted as the judgment of a court. As a principle is, so it must be judged. . As a man thinketh, so he is. When a man is in issue no other course than the one we have taken is possible. Judged in this way, Maguire stands for anarchy, for land confiscation, for the destruction of property, for party bolting, for unsound money, for war upon the national administration, for a reaction that will paralyze business, hinder industrial development, in- jure the employer of labor and bring the wage-earner to want. The conclusions are all fair, judicial, just. They are admitted by Maguire and his supporters. We insist then, that a man who-stands as an issue at war with property, and does battle against all the restlts of man’s industry and all the time seasoned in- | stitutions of government and society, is not a fit man to be elected Governor of California. He is attempt- ing to found a party and a public policy upon the diseases and failures of society. We insist that par- tiez and policies must be founded upon the social health and success, and that the proper American spirit is the impulse of optimism, of hope in the future and trust in our people and our institutions. We feel satisfied that the people of California agree with us, and that their agreement will be expressed in the | rejection of Magiire. MORE WELLS-FARGO TRICKERY. HAT the Wells-Fargo Express Company has Tno intention of paying its share of the war tax has from the first been evident. Had it desired to abide by the law instead of to sneak out of its just responsibilities there would have been no occa- sion for a test case, for the law needed no judicial interpretation. It was perfectly plain, to the com- { pany painfully plain. The Wells-Fargo people, under the instructions of | President Valentine, began to wheedle and bulldoze their patrons, forcing or fooling them into assuming | the obligations of a great company which did not | wish, for the mere sake of paying its debts and per- fjorming a patriotic duty, to have its dividend pro- ducing powers impaired. | One day, much later than it should have been, this ! arrogant corporation was sued by William Costley | because it had refused to transmit a parcel for him | after he had offered to pay the regular rate. The contention was that in addition to this regular rate | Mr. Costley should pay the war tax Congress had aid should be paid by the corporation. Costley was victorious in the Justice Court and | in the Superior Court, to which appeal was taken. | The dual exposition of the law would have swept | aside any defense the company could have had, ex- cept that there was nothing to sweep away; it had no defense, Yet Valentine would not permit his men to obey the statute. He made some cunning little rules of his own, quoted Scripture to bolster them up, and constituted them a guide for the prompt | and polite annulment of Congressional legislation. | Canght and convicted in breaking the law, he con- tinued as brazenly as ever to break it. Now that two other patrons have come forward with demands for damages, the grounds being similar to those which Costley had rested his action upon, that the corporation had no intention of being honest | and decent is emphasized. It knew these causes if taken to trial in the same tribunal which had put a | decision on record could have only one result, and that disastrous to itsel. ~So it sought another ! tribunal. Here is opportunity for more delays, more technicality. There can be nmo merit to the Wells-Fargo con- tention, There can be no excuse for the swinish way in which this corporation has acted. It deserves nothing of the people who have so generously sup- ported it heretofore. Fortunately the mails are open to a large part of the traffic in small packages which | has heretofore gone to Welis-Fargo. The mails are safe, cheap and conveniennt. If citizens take their wares to the Postoffice and shun the Valentine con- | cern, with its avarice and its sham, they can give it a lesson not to be given in any other way. It has no conscience to appeal to, but its strong-box is | semsitive. | . | o e s After litigation lasting fourteen years a will dis- posing of a Stockton estate once worth $75,000 has been sustained. The reason the litigation ends just now is that the estate has been exhausted in paying legal fees. We congratulate and condole with the {ratermity. ST s Applications for discharge from the army must await the signing of a treaty of peace. Evidently the War Department still wants a few soldiers within bugle-call. L I Aguinaldo’s $25, head seems to rest as uneasily ‘uthoughitwnn’:rm : @ CITIZEN'S DUTY TO HIS TOWN S a citizen is indebted to his city for streets, fl lights, parks, schools‘, police and fire protec- tion—in short, for almost ail of those public works and institutions that render his condition su- perior to that of dwellers in the wilderness—a duty to the municipality as well as a proper regard for his own welfare imposes upon him the responsibility of seeing to it that as far as lies in his power the in- terests of the city shall be at all times rightly con- served and guarded. = No man can be accounted a good citizen who does not encourage home industry, assist in the employ- ment of local labor, help in the support of all lines of productive energy, and aid in making the com- .munity a thriving and prosperous one for all classes of warkers. It is also his duty to unite with others for the purpose of maintaining an economical ad-’ ministration of municipal business in order that the community may have the benefits of the best results at the smallest possible cost. g All of these duties are involved in what is known as municipal ‘politics. The development of local in- dustry as well as the improvement of streets and the maintenance of schools is largely dependent upon the right management of the public affairs eof the city. Where the administration is just and honest and effi- cient, capital becomes enterprising and” labor finds employment at good wages. Where there is dis- honesty, incompetency and a waste of morey there is a loss imposed upon almost every line ;of business, and industry feels the injury, though the cause’of it may not be readily perceived. _The citizens of San Francisco are called upon to censider thése duties in the' light of the election that is now approaching. On:the one side is a candidate for Mayor askirig. re-election not upon his record, but upon a promise to do better next time. He is virtually respomsible for the majority of the Board of Supervisors, ‘and that majority is discredited and dis- reputable. He is responsible for the majority of the School Board, and the board is involved in scan- dals. His carelessness caused a heavy loss in the city treasury by defalcation, and in na part of his administration is there to be found anything in the waz-of compensation. Knowing that his record would not receive the in- dorsement even of his own party, the Mayor obtained a renomination by a' trick - whose grossness was greater than its cunning, and is now seeking to win a re-election by methods which can be most accu- rately characterized in mild language as “false pre- tenses.” Here is a self-asserting ambition, as reck- less of the welfare of the city as it was of the money in the treasury, and as unscrupulous in the campaign as it was in the Committee of One Hundred. Clearly it is the duty of a citizen to defeat this kind of domination. Civic patriotism and all involved in the phrase and the sentiment demand at this time the elimination of Phelanism from our politics by the elimination of Phelan himself and the election of a Mayor who will be neither deficient in performing his duties nor domineering in pushing his own ambitions. It is a duty owed to the city for every citizen to work and to vote for Charles L. Patton. BARRY'S SINGLE TAX THEORY. AMES H. BARRY, anarchist candidate for QJ Congress in the Fourth District, is to be con- gratulated upon the fact that his single tax theories have received judicial recognition. On Fri- day a suit was tried before Justice of the Peace Barry —who is in no way related to the anarchist, though bearing the same name—in which the cause of action was a demand for $53 due the city in delinquent taxes. Special Counsel Willet, who brought the suit, claims $200, but the difference between that amount and $53 represents the costs, penalties and interest cwing by Barry under the tax laws. We say that Mr. Barry is to be congratulated on the fact that his taxation theories have received judicial recognition. It is well known that he is an enthusiastic single taxer. Even Judge Maguire, who is a prince in the line, can scarcely compare with Barry in practical mastery of the system invented by the late Henry George. Maguire pays his taxes occa- sionally—at all events, he pays them whenever the Assessor and Tax Collector are sufficiently fortunate to get him in a corner. But Candidate Barry openly repudiates his obligations to the Government. Even when sued for his taxes he resists. / Barry’s idea of single taxation, therefore, consists in downright refusal to pay any taxes. Free speech among the anarchists means the right to throw bombs into public meetings, or, which is the same thing in principle, the right to rotten-egg orators whose ideas are offensive. Barry’s theories of single taxation are equally logical. He thinks other peaple skould support the government. It is quite plain that we are placing a fair construction upon his theory, fdr if he were willing to contribute anything toward the support of the government he would pay his taxes before the city was compelled to sue him. Barry’s idea of single taxation is destined to be- come extremely popular among the nihilists of the Fourth Congressional District. None of them relish puying taxes, and any system which will compel somebody else to pay them cannot fail to boom. The only people among them likely to oppose Barry's theory are those who, being the unfortu- | nate owners of real estate, cannot escape the de- mands of the city by hiring lawyers to fight it in court. These may vote against him. But all who want somebody else to support the government are bound to rally around Barry, So we say the anarchist candidate for Congress is to be congratulated on the outlook. Not only have the proceedings in the Justices’ Court made his single tax theories conspicuous, but they will bring to his support al! the other single taxers in the town. Death and taxes are said to be certain. This is true under Barry's system. Taxes are certain never to be paid. The man who attempts suicide and writes his im- pressions as he feels himself floating toward the bor- der must have a pang of weariness when he finds somebody hgs snatched him back and he has the task of reading the fool stuff he scribbled as a farewell to a world of woe. Perusal of it ought to induce him to really get off the earth and omit the formality of a good by. ‘The Kaiser is said to be angry because his pilgrim- "age to Jerusalem did not cause a wave of excitement to sweep around the globe. His royal hankering to be the whole thing passes reason. We mentioned the fact that he wenf, and really there was nothing more to say. Any person throwing banana peel on the sidewalk deserves to be indicted for attempt to murder, and in case a victim falls into the trap the charge ought to be raised to manslaughter. The public has had too much experience with gold bricks to be pafkularly disturbed by anenymous cir- culars sent out by Democratic bunko men, JUST BEFORE THEBATTL NUMBER FIFTEEN AND LAST. Editor Call: The plain citizen must on Tuesday register his convictions by marking his ballot. The character of his vote will determine the election. The plain citizen can chew this cud of comfort that he decides the result. The noisy workers who have owned the town for weeks will take a back seat. The banners will come down. The perambulating signs will rest in some back yard. The ingenuous kid will burn his election cards. The dead walls will be restored to their legitimate use of setting forth the best brand of baking powder and the thrilling rescues nightly enacted within the classic precinets of Morosco’s. BUT THE VOTE OF THE PLAIN CITIZEN Will do its work. It depends on you and me as to who will be the next Mayor of S8an Francisco. For that reason you and I should consider well and closely the issues of the campalgn. The great issue with us is the Mayor’s fight. Mr. Phelan comes before us and on his banner is a strange device. His friends are loud in their dec- larations that the device reads “Excelsior.” The plain citizen, like you and me, has been spelling it out painfully, and as far as we can decipher the crabbed Chinese characters it reads ‘‘Phelan.” Mr. Phelan has been making a unique campalgn. For years our papers have been dinning into the ears of the people the evil doings of the “boss.” Night, noon and morning their cry has been “boss.” Everything dishonest, corrupt and disgraceful has been summed up in that word, and it has become like the name of the Saracen Sultan, by which Christian babies were fright- ened to sleep. MR. PHELAN CAME BEFORE THE PEOPLE As the avowed opponent of boss rule. He proposed to save the city from these direful and wicked monsters. He asked the citizens to support him. When a freeman appeals to freeman to fight with him in a righteous cause they come each with the arms which are a freeman’s defense in their free hands. When Mr. Phelan summoned the citizens of San Francisco to his banner he summoned them with fetters on their limbs, to lay thelr chained hands each on the other’s shoulder and to step to his bidding to the tune of the rogue’s march. Mr. Phelan’s cry has been, give me men who will de all that I ask and I will give you good government. SURRENDER EVERYTHING TO ME, Your political privileges, your right to nominate, your right to think, your right to reject, and 1 will drive out the bosses. He offers us not even the serpent’s boon of the knowledge of good and evil but he forces to our lips the Clrce’s cup that changes us to brutish beasts and creeping things. The plain citizen loves no boss, yet he belleves that the many lesser bosses are not so dangerous as the big boss that can control them all. This was the first warning note, and this the events have justified. Mr. Phe- lan has loudly denounced bossism. He would have none of it in his own party when it interfered with his own right to ride his own party to a fall. But as the campaign progresses his sentiments underwent a change. ‘When the bosses were in Phelan’s way, the bosses were kicked aside; when the bosses were needed to elect Phelan, this new edition of the prodigal son slunk around the back yard of his father’s house to lay VIOLENT HANDS ON THE FATTED CALF. Mr, Fay, who is Mr. Phelan’s young man, boasted: We have the money. We can buy Buckley and Rainey. and the rest of them. We will elect’Phe- lan if it costs millfons. Judging by the way banners are flying and bon- fires are roaring and election cards are dancing and heelers are heeling and orators are orating and papers are writing the plain citizen can well believe that it is costing millions. Every venal paper in the city is standing like a elown in the circus, with one leg green and the other ieg yellow. For the candidate who has no money they have not a word tq say. For the candi- date who has money, that i, for James D. Phelan, every pencil-chewing, nadl-biting hireling is writing for dear life and his expenses. James D. Phe- Jan entered on the campaign with the expressed determination to spend only the $240 allow by law. Whoever has forced him to sling naughts recklessly after this $240 ought to be honored by the political workers as a public benefactor. e WHEN MR. FAY, WHO IS MR. PHELAN'S Young man, made his boast no one thought that Mr. Phelan would b2 so reckless as to conduct his negotiations in the open day. But with some strange fatuity Mr. Phelan is driven to the housetops to perform these operations that should be confined to the cellar. He tried to buy the bosses in‘the open market. From the result the plain citizen is more than ever convinced -of the utility of having a number of small bosses. The meeting broke up in disorder; but the phalanx had been broken. Major Harney has opened headquarters where his followers congregate to ‘“‘whoop her up” for Phelan, and the major's military mustache has ever since that eventful night been in a state of chronic demoralization from the salty tears of re- congliation shed by James D. Phelan as he fell on his erstwhile enemy’s | neel In Sacramento Phelan had roasted ‘Harney's followers as thugs and thieves because Harney opposed Phelan’s delegation. - In_ San_ Francisco Phelan has-promised Harney ome-third of the patrongge for these same thugs and thieves, because their votes may help Phelan’s election. The plain citizen can see in every act of Mr. Phelan one red thread. It runs through all. It is never absent. Mr. Phelan is consistency itself, He is supremely true to Mr. Phelan. Every trick of the trade is turned to his advantage. Every petty device to increase his glory has been tried, and not in vain. When this city is Phelan, when_ this State is Phelan, then, and not till then, shall Phelan be satisfied. For this he has come before the people, before the plain people, you and me, and has raised the taking cry of low taxes and public improvements. We have found that his cry of low taxes means low taxes on the Phelan estate; we have found that his improvements are to be paid for by you and by me. - He has used the veto power not for the good of the plain eitizen, but for the good of himself. For every public work performed during-the last two years he has claimed the credit. He has claimed the credit for putting s THE TWO-DOLLAR WAGE In the charter when every member of the charter committee knows that the records show that he was opposed to it. Thirty-five cents a day, says Mr. James D. Phelan, is sufficient for the workman to support his family on— 36 cents sufficient, says Mr. James D. Phelan, with his mansion in the Mis- sion and his villa at Santa Cruz and his apartments at the club and his other establishments with their Japanese armor and their flower covered porch and their artistic bric-a-brac. It is time for the plain people, for you and for me, to rebuke hypocrisy. ‘We see no advantage in having a king. We distrust a king who strives to come to his kingdom bv untruth. Mr. James D. Phelan has not been frank with the people. He has striven to lead them astray by false cries. Arm and arm with the bloated boss he minces down Market street, and his falsetto is ringing in the eaves of the houses, “Down with the boss.” The plain people are afraid of him. They do not trust his honesty. When he eries, Look at my record, they ask, What have you done? When he says, “Have I not made a good Mayor?” they reply, “Could you have been much worse? In our system the official’'s power for harm is small. Yet you succeeded in al- | lowing the Treasurer to steal $116,000, of which $16 000 has not. been recov- ered. You have neglected your official business by not attending meetings You have denied justice to the poor by not vetoing the jobs by which they were robbed of their property. All this and much more the plain people h'e:’ve against you, and it is by the plain people this election is to be de- cided.” % For the plain citizen the American system is good enough. You and I want no bosses. We could not live under a man who owned the Supervisors, who owned the judiciary, who owned the officials. This city would not be big enough for his plug hat and free men. It will be the duty of the plain citizen to sit on the plug hat and to reduce its dimensions so that you and I may have room to walk about in the free sunshine in this citv which plain citizens built, which plain citizens support and which plain citizens shall ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. POULTRY RANCH—F. J..hClt;:r The:: is a ve large poultry ranch r San Rosa. nfi is ownl:! by R. Spreckels. DE YOUNG'S DBATH-N. S, City. 1 ung was shot and killed D; ghgi “Kn.ld.iogg in San Francisco April z{ 1880. SAMOA DISASTER-T. R. M., City. The United States and other vessels to which you allude in the letter of inquiry were wrecked at Apia, Samoan Islands, March 15 and 16, 18&. PRESENTS FOR SOLDIERS—Miss H., Oakland, Cal. In the Answer; 1‘3098 otohx ndents, issue of November. 2, v ?:s prln’ted what is most desirable for the soldiers at Manila. NON-TREATING CLUB—F. A., Wat- sonville, Cal. By addressing a communl': catlfin io "Mem::eés ufF the II:éOT' g“v‘v’l'll 983 Market street, San Francl . be able to obtain information of lKe Non- Treating Club. MARRIAGE BUREAU—A. M. M. 8., -City. This department does not know of “a ‘marriage bureau in the United States that is of size, of note, and which can be said to be reliable,”” and if it did it could not advertise it. VOLUNTEER ENGINEERS—A Read- er, City. To ascertain the present where- abouts of Company L, Second Regiment, United States Volunteer ngineers, = dress a letter of inquiry to the ‘War De- partment, at Washington, D. C. THE DURRANT CASE—A. 8., City. No one has yet taken the trouble to compute how much it cost the city and county of S‘an anclsgo and l!he Sta:\“iqgl ifl;!‘(:r- nia to try Durrant for m s proxlmar on was made I-n‘:l that was round numbers $40,000. THE VOTE FOR MAYOR—J. K., City. The vote for Mayor at the election held in San Francisco in 1596 was: J. D. Phe- lan 29,066, C. L. Taylor 20,760, . B. sau-~ meister . L. Dimond 331, C. C. O'Donnell 1787 and Oliver Everett 57 HENRY T. GAGE—J. B. K. and ™. 8., City. Henry T. Gage was at one time & farmer. As a practicing attorney Henry . Gage. whllepprn,ct!clng his profession in Los Angeles was liable to be called* to practice in the Police as well as in any other court. Many of the greatest attor- neys have appeared for clients in Police Courts. ST. BERNARD DOG—A. S., San Jose, Cal. The surest way to break a St. Ber- nard puppy of the habit of Kkilling and eating chickens is to punish himd-;atva{:l{ of such an act, an 8 :oh:an n‘q‘é"gflns about the desired result muzzle him. Any first-class book-dealer will secure for you a work on the train- ing of dogs: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT—A. 8., City. The death penalty as a punishment for murder is forbidden by law in the States of. Colorado, Rhode Island, Maine, Michi- gan and Wisconsin. In Rhode Island the only alternative is imprisonment for life. In nsas the signature of the Governor is necessary to an execution. In all other 5!&:5! the death penalty is inflicted for murder. TO SECURE A PATENT—A Constant Reader, Oakland, Cal. You can procure a patent, if entitled to one, without the in- tervention of an attorney, if you will pro- ceed to Washington, D. C., and present your claim in person, but you will find it an expensive and troublesome Jjob. It costs about $100, including a lawyer's fees, to obtain a patent. The United States pr?tecm a patent in the United States only. WRITING ON A BALLOT—N., City. A voter has the right to write on his ballot. The law says: “There shall be left at the end of the list of candidates for each of- fice as many blank spaces as there are persons _to be elected for such office, In which the voter may insert the name of any person not printed upon the ballot for whom he desires to vote as candidate for such office.” To vote for a candidate, rule. A PLAIN CITIZEN. AROUND THE CORRIDORS Dr. William E. Keith of San Jose is at the Grand. H. A. Preston, a Jamestown mining man, is at the Lick. James MacLachlan, & prominent Pasa- “dena politician, is at the Palace. ‘Willlam J. Leet, a prominent insurance man of San Jose, Is at the Baldwin. John J. Boyce, the well-known Santa Barbara politician, is at the Palace. J. B. Montgomery, a well-known Port- land capitalist, is at the Occldental. L. Hartman, a well-known merchant of Washington, D. C., is at the California. F. W. Leadbetter, an extensive paper dealer of Portland, is a guest at the Pal- ace. Messrs. W. A. and A. L. Hobson, promi- nent Ventura merchants, are at the | Grand. Pauline Hall, the well-known actress, child and two maids, are registered at the Palace. D. A. Honig, the well-known horseman, accompanied by his family, is at the Baldwin. L. G. Nesmith, cashier of the First Na- tional Bank at San Jose, is registered at the California. Dr. A. E. Osborne, in charge of tha Home for the Feeble Minded at Eldridge, is at the Grand. 8. N. Androus of Pomona, president of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club, is stop- ping at the Grand. Lafe Pence, one of Colorado’s greatest | Demoeratic orators, is registered at the California from Denver. ‘Whaling Captains T. H. Jenkins of Vancouver, B. C., and D. T. Duval-of New Bedford, are at the Russ. H. Volekmar, a German officer of Leipsic, now at the Baldwin, leaves here on the Rio Janeiro on the 10th. Nate H. Anspach and bride are regis- tered at the Palace from Cleveland, Ohio, where Mr. Anspach is private secretary to Captain G. J. Grammer, general traffic manager of the Lake Shore Raliroad. They will return East in a few days via Portland and the Short Line. ———— cuuomw_g__m NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Nov. b5~Mrs. Frank Nembaud of Los Angeles is at the Im- mfl. Mrs. Willlam J. Youn; 34 sco is at the Hoffman. s ot B R NATURE'S SCAVENGERS. Rature, not being a Eliropean power { keeps et forces In- readiness where. thes are needed, in consequence of which the scavengers muster in stren, in hot countries. Vultures wander but rarely to these ‘parts. and such sharks as occur are, with few exceptions, but minnows of their race. Yet we have even in these islands humbler purifiers at work, tadpoles and burying beetles, and others suitable to the comparatively easy work that falls to them. One of these days, when natural history is tauRht in a rational manner in our schools, when the rising generation learns to appreclate the 1fv£ns ‘world around instead of ng planos and splashing pigments, we shall have a re- cantation of the modern zoological faith ::g g“ggtter appreciation of the beasts We shall find nothing to shuddes the meal of the vulmri, but we n:t;t g: the contrary, even learn to protect that remarkable bird and its fellow-scaven- gers as among the worthiest of earth’s children. To the last the vulture is ac- tive in its allotted mission, and when at length®it falls no Hving beast, or bird, or insect will touch its body, and It must crumble Txletly to dust, a lasting—some- what too lasting, as those know who have camped near an undiscovered dead vul- ture for some days—monument to the usefulness of the great scavenging army of which it once was so active a mem- ber.—From the Saturday Review. TIME TO SMILE. Mrs. Parvenue—That picture in the cor- ne;‘ is tay g“nuold hmxtar. rs. Bw: —1 hnfi-e m;s“d - ndeed! I would never rs. Parvenue—Yes, the ht it from gave me a written ?-?nuul &% at the painter was past 75 before he done a st;;o e on it. axter—I must hurry around old Hardrocks the flnt'mflumc in memmmornl!}s and get, that money he owes me, He's !0‘{‘nrs“ lg hn&e trouble, axter—Wh; malk y%‘ "2"‘“-,‘."; y, Joslah, what es axter—The says his boy has started out to n’:’ Napoleon at some- thing. 1 didn't notice just what. Mrs. Wedderly—Yes, my husband and I met and became e ged at the seaside. Mrs. Van Laub—Dear me, how singular! Mrs, Wedderly—I don’t_see anything so remarkable about it. Young folks are always Jgnttlns engaged at the seaside. Mrs. Van Laub—I know, but you s t&gh}gve subsequently got married to eacl “‘Has way fo “No. she's gone aw: or My fully ungerstood that she'd be more comfortable right here at home, but if T g Somewhere for awhile my and come scared own sh, T tell you, a flow S got to be a ipiomat all the time to keep afloat nowadays.” ‘SHg pajensnj—jAddey os aw aywux pinoM eyl 9s[d Sujyjdur Mouy 3 uep 1 ‘MOU 08 pMOM NOA USEM I—3§ 4DIP I 31 19UM ‘TBM—SH “Addey suwl oYBUWI 0) Y1V - sud o | Spue 9yl 03 0F pMOA NoL IVYY pPalw[d 3D NOA POLITW 494 M PI0JOH—IYY | stamp & cross In the square at the right of the name, THE BALLOT—F. H. H.,, City. To ex- press his cholce, a voter must, under the law, stamp a cross In the square to tne right of the name on the ballot, opposite - the name of every candidate he wishes to yote for. -If ‘there are four Republican idates for the office of Police Judge n?dl;e::oqk} lmug'outoot'herut onl e 0f the nam _vote W ocfi\ntt' ‘y!m' that candidate y; it g not carry the other three Republican - dates with it. ' CHANGE ~OF RBESIDENCE—S. and others, Clty. The law of this State on the subject of change of residence prior to election is as follows: “Section 1239, subdivision 3, Political Code—A person must not be held, by reason of having moved from one precinct to another in the same county w(&ln thirty days prior to election, to have lost his residence in the precinct so moved from, provided he was an elector therein on the thirtieth day prior to such election.” ——————————e Cal. glace fruit 50¢ per Ib at Townsend's® —_——— Important—Best eyeglasses, specs, 15c to 40c, at 81 Fourth, near grocery. D —_———————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and v(nzlllle manfl:i‘ the ss Clipping Bureau en’s), ont- sxenary ztl:'lee‘t_ Telephone 1042, ¢ ———— Stern Parent—So you want to marry my daughter, eh?" Young Man—I not only want to, but I intend to marry her. ‘Well, have Young Man—Yes, I expect you will de- cline to give your consent and we will have to elope. —_—ee————— Through Tourist Car to St. Paul This car is nicely upholstered in leather, leaves every Tuesday night, no change. Goes via Shasta route and Northern Pacific Rail- way. The scenic line of the continent. Tick- ets on sale to all Eastern cities at lowest rates. T. K, Stateler, general agent, 638 Market st San Francisco. —_—— Commercial lunch, 11 to 2. Among the Bar- rels, 863 Market st. Stern Parent—Oh, you do! you any expectations? —————————— 8t. Louis Citizen—I read in the railway notes this morning that the Chicago Limited— Chicago Citizen—~Say, you must have read that in one of your viliage papers. You ought to know that Chicago has no Hmit. ADVERTISEMF.NTS. @i it rcarmwmmana PUTS §ON A BRAKE When a man is rushing on the road to destruc= tion, the Keeley treatment steps . in and putson a brake. It is a cure for drunkenness and all drug addictions, ‘Write for information. THE KEELEY INSTITUTES, 1170 Market s San Francisco, Novohos Butidiag Lankersbim n-umg..n and o A Manager,