The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 13, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1898. THE RETIRING SCHOOL BOARD. N connection with the suit against the San Fran- cisco Real Estate Investment Company, there is SUNDAY l published in our local columns this morning an affidavit of so startling a character’ concerning the JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propretor. e e e e A e Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S F. Telephone Main 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS... .2I7 to 281 Stevenson Street Teleph: Main 1874 THE 6AN 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 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. OAKLAND OFFICE. NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative, WASHINGTON (D. €.) OFFICE Riggs Houss €. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFKCE... ...Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. .One year, by mall, $1.50 .908 Broadway BRANCH OFFICES—587 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street. open untll 930 o'clock. 62! McAllister street. open unt!l 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission strect, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street. corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street. open until © o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until $:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ene Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock EMENT> Monday Night. allfes. Zoo. ay str , Vaudeville rrow. November 17. THE MINING CONVENTION. ITH politics out of the way, public attention W will turn readily lating to the industrial and material welfare of the State. There wiil be, therefore, a cordial and hearty welcome to the members of the State Miners’ they meet in this city on the 21st and willingly to subjects re- 1 convention. sociation will be one of more addition to the The meeting of t than ordinary impor routine work required it will be necessary this year tions for the mining display of the It is ance, for in to make prepara State at the great exposition at Paris in 1900 able that some steps will be taken to widen the membership so as to bring the mining men and mining interests of the southern part of the State into co-operation with the organization. It would be difficult to overrate the importance of comprehensive exhibition of the mining in- d resources of California at Pari Never at any time the history of the world was there a greater amount of capital in the money centers e for mining enterprises, and never were such enterprises regarded with more favor. The demand for gold is pressing and continuous. To obtain it large sums have heen ventured in South Africa and other large sums have been sent into the frozen wilds of ka. There are sound reasons for believing that California still affords better prospects for gold- mining than any other country in the world, and that if her advantages are fully made known at Paris there will be a large investment of foreign capital in the work of developing her hidden resources. The mining icterests of the southern part of the lly need exploiting and exhibition. The riners in that section, therefore, should attend the meeting of the State association in large numbers and co-operate in the work. It will be remembered that at the Mining Exposition held in this city winter the rich resources of the south were but very making dustries avai State especiz fore the display as inadequately represented, and ther a whole was not thoroughly representative of the State. The south should not make a mistake like that again It is to be noted, moreover, that the time is pro- | pitious fpr the advancement of the movement begun a few years ago to bring about the creation of a De- partment of Mines and Mining in the National Gov- ernment to be presided over by a secretary of Cabinet A new spirit of progress has been infused into rank the people, and the nation as a whole is inclined to | favor every movement that tends to the promotion of its great industries. If, therefore, a resolute and united effort is made at this time the much desired representation of the mining interests of the country in the Cabinet may be attained. CHAPLAIN McINTYRE’'S WOES. OR the offense of talking too much Chaplain l:,\[dmyre of the Oregon, as is widely known, was dismissed the service. Yet he had a toler- ably good plea to make. He proved that he had not | said all the things attributed to him, that many news- | papers and even naval attaches had said as much as | was charged against him. Moreover, he affirmed, and | the allegation was not disputed, that at the time of the objectionable lecture his physical stem had been keyed up by quinine and potations of ginger ale and sarsaparilla, with a redeeming tincture of brandy: | that he was, for the nonce, non compos mentis. To the public the verdict seemed too severe. Al preacher who for months at sea has had little éppor-l . tunity to enjoy the speaking function to which train ing adapts him might naturally be expected to break loose at the first chance. Being fired by stimulants (made necessary by illness), possibly seeing double. his ton: dncontrolled and uncontrollable, no mar- vel that it wagged rashly, and even went so far as to formulate truth when a pleasant, graceful fib would have fallen more pleasingly on the official ear. But speculation is useless. The chaplain® was bounced. This was the beginning of his woe. It wouid appear that thie gentleman had been en- gaged to rich and beautiful girl. We use these adjectives advisedly, because nobody is ever en- gaged to any other kind. Now the girl has followed the example of the court-martial, and for the second time the chaplain has experienced the bounce. Her reasons are not given. It may be she thought that nst a husband who had talked himself out of a job she would have no chance to contribute a wifely share to the domestic conversation. Or possibly she objected to a man who at the instance of a dose of quinine acquired a degree of incbriation which im- pelled him to project remarks hatwisc. Supposing that some time he were to inadvertently take an over- dose of the intoxicating drug! Anyway, she is said to have declared the affair off. It is a delicate per- sonal subject, and none of the public’s business, which circumstance, of course, gives the public the right to discuss it. : As France is so ready to help £pain, and turn about is fair play, we suggest that Spain help France a little. Board of Education that it must excite the interest of every reader, and, if verified, show that the board has been corrupt. The statement, which purports to be an expose of the Lincoln School lease, bears every outward evi- dence of reliability. There is an apparent demonstra- tion that the Board of Education has a majority of rogues among its members who are for sale to the | highest bidder, and who have been purchased. All the proceedings which conveyed the property of the Lincoin School are declared to be colored by fraud. | Ii so, they should be annulled. This paper has con- | sulted able lawyers, who are not only of this opinion, | but are ready to take up the case in behali of the | city. | It appears from the affidavit referred to that Sam | Waller, School Director, offered for a sum to give | the control of the property over to the certain cor- poration, and that he was sure of his ground. - As to | | ‘:Burns. Bantel, Gallagher, Ragan and Waller him- | | | self, there appeared to be no doubt. All he asked was their price. Carew was governed by a desire to con- trol patronage, Drucker was content to indorse any- | Barrington, a weak sis- Head and Armer had thing advocated by Raga | ter, went with the majority; | ambitions. The only man in the outfit deemed, in | the all 1, honest beyond the point of corruption was Derham. | In December of last year the San Francisco Real te Company was organized for the purpose of se- ag control of the Lincoln School property. By an cit deal, Waller is alleged to have agreed to | deliver the requisite number of votes. The price set was $5000 for the bunch. The stary is so fully set forth elsewhere that detail may be ~omitted here. Enough to say that by “jumbling up advertisements,” as the gang expressed it, there was to be no difficulty in giving to this corporation all it desired, and re- jecting all bids, should the company’s bid not happen | to be the best | Certainly the circumstances call for a rigid investi- gation. I the School Directors are guilty they should go irom office in disgrace. If they are innocent, the opportunity to vindicate themselves will be afforded | | | | | cur | | | | | | by the Grand Jury. tainted by fraud, be annulled by legal proceedings. I s —— i A VALUABLE LESSON. 28 should be thoroughly mastered by the managers of the local Republican party. It is simply that | under the new ballot system it will always be easy to | carry an election by nominating a first-class ticket. Per contra, it will never be difficult to-lose when a | list of unknown, weak or unpopular candidates are| presented to the people. | Heretofore it has been the custom of the local con- | ventions of both parties to consider everything in con- nection with a candidate except the single question whether he can be elected; that is, whether his personal popularity, reputation for ability and char- acter and his circle of acquaintance are sufficient to insure his success. The Democrats learned the les- son first, and in the past two or three campaigns they have beaten the Republicans. But the moment the | latter brought out their best men they swept the city. | It ought not to be difiicult for them to perceive, there- | fore, that one great source of political strength in these days consists in the personality of the candi- dates. San Francisco is usually accounted a Democratic ci Its record shows tliat when united the voters of that party may easily elect their nominees and enforce whatever municipal policy they may adopt. Hence u great part of the victory won at Tuesday’s election by the Republicans may be attributed to the weakness | c¢ the Phelan-McNab ticket. The test applied by the L] Committee of One Hundred to candidates was not whether they were popular and could be elected, but whether they were personally agreeable to Phelan and McNab, and whether they would, if elected, give | those gentlemen their patronage. | The result shows that under the new system of voting even Democratic majorities will not save an crganization which thus violates a fundamental prin- ciple of practical politics. Mayor Phelan entirely misapprehended the sources of political success. The charter election, which was really determined by a quarrel among the factions, misled him to his ruin. He thought all he needed to do was to nominate a ticket composed of his personal friends and guarantee their honesty. He has discovered that vote-getting is an art by itself. son. The nomination of strong, independent, well- known and personally popular candidates will turn 1 San Francisco from its Democratic errors and make |ita doubtiul if not a Republican city. McKinley car- | ried the town on the sound money issue. Gage has carried it on the anti-sandlot issue, and if Mayor! Phelan’s large circle of Republican personal friends had not come to his rescue, Patton would have car- ried it on the anti-Phelan issue. ot e e A constable has been on trial at San Jose for hav- ing killed an innocent man. The plea is advanced that the constable was drunk, and that his victim had started to run. by the process of becoming inebriated acquires the right to slaughter, while if a citizen approached threateningly by an intoxicated ruffian armed with a | pistol is not to have the privilege of taking to his heels the constitution under which we live is in need | of revision, A warrant i§ out for Andrew Carnegie because he refused to perform the duty of a citizen and serve as a juryman. Carnegie has many high-sounding theories as to the obligations of Americans, and he ought to be fined for not living up to them. How- cver, he can pay $10 and be unembarrassed, wherein he has the advantage of many of his fellow-patriots. - The War Investigation Committee says that it can now see the end of its labors. The public would like to know if it discerns there anything resembling a bucket of whitewash. : When General Miles proposed three cheers feclings of the yellow boys who are still conducting the war at space rates. e, A little scrimmage with the forces of Aguinaldo would not be bad in effect. The exercise would tend to cheer up our homesick boys, and Aguinaldo needs a licking anyhow. > The people of this country are getting about ready to see the United ‘States take active charge of affairs in Cuba. Blanco has had the courtesy of the floor too long. vt it o Even if Boss Croker is coming to California there is no sense in counseling the domestic chicken to | roost high. : In any event the lease should, if | HERE is one lesson of the late campaign which | Hereafter the Republicans should profit by this les- | It is a strange thing if a constable | for | General Shaiter he was cruelly thoughtlest of the | @ VOICE OF WARNING. EABOARD, one of the most influential jour- S nals devoted to the shipping interests of the ’ country, declares in a recent number that a se- rious danger exists that either the present . or the coming Congress will pass a free ship bill and that it will receive the sanction ‘of the President. While we believe the fear to be unfounded, it will nevertheless be worth while for the friends of the American mer- chant marine to give heed to the warning. In support of its view of the danger Seaboard points out that the Republican party, while it has done much for the protection of American industries on land, has done nothing to upbuild our industries on the sea, but on the contrary has maintained free trade on the ocean during the whole period that it has been in power. A clause in the war revenue bill imposing a tax of 20 cents a ton on all foreign ship- ping entering our ports was unanimously rejected by the Senate. These facts show that the opposition to American | shipping has a strong influence at Washingtos, and according to Seaboard that opposition will now urge | the enactment of a iree ship bill on the ground that as British friendship is of importance to us at this juncture, it will be well to make it stronger by grant- ing what the British desire in that respect. Seaboard then goes on to say: “Stranger things | have happened. In 1828 the highest tariff ever 1fld()pted in the United States up to 1861 was placed upon the statutes. At the same time, in the same | year, by the same Congress and the same President, the policy was inaugurated that has brought about | free trade between American and foreign ships in | the carrying of American foreign commerce. Is his- | tory to repeat itself after seventy years? Is the sole | foundation of American independence of foreign | shipbuilders to be destroyed by the party that passed the Dingley bili?” Whether there is any sufficient ioundatiop for this | warning or not, it is high time for the friends of American shipping to urge the enactment of legisla- tion to promote the industry. The Republican party s bound by the most solemn and explicit pledges to promote our merchant marine, and yet up to this time nothing to that end has been done. It is not strange under the circumstances that journals like Seaboard should begin to doubt the good faith of the enacted instead of the promised protection. The events of the war have demonstrated the need | of an enlarged merchant marine as well as a navy, |'and with the rapid expansion of our foreign trade that need will increase by leaps and bounds. To meet the demand we must have either a free ship bill or a bill te promote ship-building at home. Some action must dustry on the ocean as well as on the land should be united and ready to meet the issue when it comes. A CLASSIC THEATER. ‘ E‘) playwright and eminent dramatic critic of London, has recently advanced a scheme for ‘} establishing a classic theater, which has been well re- | ceived not only in the British metropolis, but in New | York as well. The proposal is simply that the pro- duction of high-class dramatic works shall be pro- vided for by an association of wealthy subscribers, | just as is done in maintaining grand opera. In one respect the method proposed for supporting | the drama differs from that employed with respect to | the opera. Mr. Shaw does not advocate the erection ; of a stately theater to be used exclusively for | the | higher grade of dramatic works. He would have no igrand theater to rival the grand opéra-house. His | plan is to have the proposed association arrange with the proprietors of existing theaters to give afternoon performances of classic works and to guarantee the | expense. In that way Mr. Shaw believes the interest {in the classic drama would grow so that-in the end there would be a regular patronage for the afternoon | performances sufficient to make them profitable. As the plan has worked well with opera there seems no reason why it should not succeed equally well with drama. It is well known that a few wealthy people in | our larger cities, by interesting themselves in high- class music and guaranteeing its production, have | succeeded in providing themselves with that form of | entertainment and incidentally in furnishing the gen- | eral public with the means of musical culture they | could not otherwise have had. With such a record of | success in one line of art there is certainly reason for the belief that equal benefit would be derived from a of dramatic | similar patronage of the highest class works. The plan, as we have said, has been well received | on both sides of the ocean, but up to this time the ap- proval has been confined to words. No committee or associ | in New York to make an experiment with the propo- | sition, A movement has been started in Brooklyn, | however, to get the Brooklyn Institute to guarantee | several performances during the coming winter, and | perhaps a test may be made of the plan in that city. The suggestion is certainly the most sensible and | feasible that has been made toward the solution of‘the ! much-discussed problem of the elevation of the stage. | As it stands now it can be tried only in large and wealthy cities, for few communities have a sufficient leisure population to afford an extensive patronage of | afternoon performances. 1f, however, these suc- | ceeded, the influence would be felt throughout the | whole theater-going public. The Tivoli has shown us what a small theater can do in the way of furnish- ing a grand, opera season to San Francisco without asking a guarantee, and if classic drama were once | made the vogue among the leaders of society we | should soon have popular performances of the same works in all the larger cities of the Union. o c—— e Once more the Illinois authorities have captured Tascott. It is right that they should do so occasion- | ally. Ever since Tascott shot Banker Snell, or was | supposed to, he has devoted a rcasonable portion of his time to giving joy to detectives by being cap- | tured. This is nothing more than a fair return for the trouble to which he has put them, and it does not hurt him any, for he is always somebody else. Our | Dunham is equally considerate. —_— It is hard to belicve that Senator Thurston con- templates resigning. He was measured for his toga lung before the goods couid be delivered, and has seemed to regard it as a gooc fit. Santa Rosa’s train-wrecker goes to prison for life, and as he is only 19 this promises to be for long enotigh to permit him to realize that his course lacked | wisdom. Creek Indians are fighting among themselves over an glcmon. Yet there are people who assert that the Indian cannot be wholly civilized. : R Po‘pulists almost everywhere seem this year to be striving to lead a better life, but up in South Dakota they were still wicked enough to elect a Governor. - Dreyfus can die and ultimately his memory be purged of disgrace, but there is no similar relief for France. - | party and be alarmed less a free ship bill should be | EORGE BERNARD SHAW, the well-known | ticea how little consideration has been | | tion has been formed either in” Eondon or | WITH E 8L ?sBflSi&fi8888888888588888!3551833588!8585&& lfl“& NTIRE FRANKNESS. 2 8 By HENRY JAMES. F-3 @ EEEENESERERRNNERRE BRRNRSYRINERLNeRS If there is a fraud in the world it is the so-called science known as palmis- try. This is not a science, but a fake, stupid at that. That the destiny of mortal is written in the palm any more than in the sole of the foot is a ridi- culous notion. It is true that some- thing can be discerned from scrutiny of the hand; a plowman can be distin- guished from a pianist. But for a per- son to profess to be able to read there the story of human destiny, the length and the richness or poverty of years, the fortune which shall betide; is the rankest tomfoolery, and anybody to be taken in by it would buy a fictitious mine if he had money enough. It is a surprising circumstance that people pretending to be respectable should of- fer to read palms for a price, and that other people, in some particlars sane, should pay -the nrice. ~So far as re- vealing the future is concerned, the paring of the nail of the little finger would be as effective as the palm. A lock of hair would be even more con- ducive to a correct prognostication. It | seems strange that in an age which no longer accepts a red string as a cure for nosebleed, and which rejects the withered potato as a guard against rheumatism, there should be necessity for saying these things. . ke Two weeks ago I performed a pleas- ant duty in saying a word in commend- ation of the po-try of Ina Coolbrith. This was not done with any thought that it would provoke the approval of her friends, and yet many have written words of appreciation. The circum- stance is gratifying to me, and yet to Miss Coolbrith it will be even more so, and that is why it is recorded here. It may impress upon her the fact that she has a following, and that the beauti- ful sentiments she has couched in words of music are not lost. S For the veteran of the Civil War I have the utmost respect and have here- tofore expressed it. It seems to me right that he should have a pension. He gave his time, he offered his life. I remember well wher a man wearing the tattered overcoat of blue would come to the house of my father, and he needed no further introduction. His place was at the right hand of the host. Like many young Americans, I grew up with a feeling of respect amounting % 0N MUSt | 411most to reverence for the old soldier, be speedily taken, and the advocates of American in- | and I have it yet. Therefore, it is with an emotion not far from. disgust that I read a communication from E. A. Fal- vey, signed by himself as a veteran. There is only one point in Falvey's lets ter, and it is shown by this excerp “Attention, Comrades: You have no- shown you since you left the army with your maimed bodies and impaired health so many vears ago.” Now thay have not noticed anything of the kina, for it has not been in existence. Ths veteran has been cared for tenderly. He has applied for a pension, and lest one worthy be cheated, a pension has been given to ten preterders. With the money freely d<—ote¢ to pensions the greatest standing army of the world could be supported. The pension list purged of frauds would never be recog- nized.” It reeks to-day with sham. It bears the names of those who have long been in the grave, of those who never bore arms, of the hangers-on about the wagon of the sutler. It is heavy with bogus widows and bummer orphans. It has the burden of rich men remem- bered at special rates, and shameless enough to accept the bounty. Does ex- Senator Manderson of Nebraska draw $100 a month? I have heard so, and he ought to be abashed. Within a few years the stipend of wealthy Judge Long of Michigan was cut from $§100 to $75 a month. T his lasting dis- grace he made a contest for the former figure and beat the Government from which he should blush to take a cent. I believe a man financially independent, yet willing to receive a pension, would pick a pocket if convinced there was anything in it. There is not the slight- est excuse for Falvey to rail. 1If he earned a pension and applied for it, he is getting it. If he earned it and neg- lected to apply, the fault .is his own. At least, he shows bad taste in rush- ing into print with a plaint so unjust that for the very nurpose of making it impossible this Government and this people have for vears consented to be swindled, and allowed the pension list to grow until it has become a menace and a scandal. . The intelligence which finds expres- sfon in betting on an election is not of a high order. I have been led into a practical test of the matter, and in- variably have lost. * John Thornford, a tin roofer, has lately twice essayed to leave this world of woe, each time being yvanked back from the edge by misguided zeal. When a man reaches the morbid state in which he yearns for suicide I do not believe in interfering with him. Per- haps he would be happler in another world, and he would never be missed from this. Instead of being bothered by solicitude for which there is no re- turn in gratitude John should be sup- plied with a pistol, poison, rope and razor and locked In a room with them while a cordon of police saw to it that he did not make his escape. There are plenty of fools on earth who are will- ing to stay. . No civilian can understa.d the neces- sity for consuming a period of weeks in mustering out a regiment. If a great manufactory, employing a thousand men, were to cease operation, thirty seconds would be sufficient to make the announcement, and“he men could be paid in a day. Of course there are cer- tain formalities to be regarded as to the soldiers, but why Uncle Sam should move with the slow and ponderous leisure of a glacier must ever remain a mystery. PR Announcement is made that a “Purity’”” Congress is to convene some- where, and doubtless there will be a great cackling over topics so salacious that decency can have no excuse for discussing them, nor even for publicly mentioning them. Indeed, it does not seem to me there is any occasion for good women to gather and make moan over things which cannot be remedied by resolution nor checked by prayer. Evils, such as this congress will de- plore, are knowi. to exist, and to a certain extent to be necessary. With the arrival of the millennium, an event for which the date has not been defl- nitely set, these evils will vanish along with the congresses where feminine re- formers idly besmirch their lips with \words better never said. The way ‘to make the world cléaner is to be good. The way to inculcate admirable princi- ples is to make home influences en- nobling, to teach children the loveliness of virtue. No woman can go upon the rostrum and exploit her theories con- cerning the fallen and efther be better for it or make anybody else better. When the feminine instinct does not shrink from the path which leads to shame fair words are not able to woo it aright. The mother who cannot ex- ercise upon her son a benign influence tending to teach him to honor her sex, cannot learn how to do so by attending a congress and listening to the yawp of a lot of spinsters, of childless wives, or mistaken matrons, who imagine that by being nasty they are elevating the race. The whole business is a sort of theoretical slumming, and slumming, done in the name of reform, is a crime which has never vet resulted in any- thing but the debasing of the slummer. e o = Among the things to wonder at is the cheek of Attorney Philbrook in run- ning for a place on the Superior bench or anywhere else, except out of sight. Philbrook has been suspended from practice because his practice was so raw. hearsed. Enough to say that papers he filed were insulting to the Supreme Court, that his assertions were repudi- ated by his client, and that after care- ful consideration of his case he was barred from appearing as a lawyer. It is not easy to sc~ how a man unfit to| be a lawyer should be regarded as fit | to be a Judge. Yet in this intelligent | town more than 11,000 people voted for Philbrook. If they took this method | of declaring that he had been treated | unjustly they certainly had neglected | to ascertain the facts. If they sup- ported him without any knowledge as | to his standing they cannot be rated as | high grade thinkers. A Superior Judge is a personage of importance. He has to pass upon the acts of lawyers every | day. His decisions necessarily reach | the higher tribunal. It would have| been a peculiar circumstance if Phil- | brook had been elevated above the men | who had decided him to be-unfit to as- | sociate with themselves, and his de- | cisions had in due course reached that | high tribunal which he has denounced | as crooked, purchasable and vindictive. Yet it is my opinion that Philbrooks has wheels, and the people who voted for him extended this sympathy be- cause similarly afflicted. Wi Politics is in need of cleansing. In its moral aspect one party is no bet-| ter than another. There are good men in | each, earnest men, who desire a better- ment in the administration of affairs. T do not believe, however, there is any excuse for having in the ranks of the active workers a lot of rascals, rap- scallions, jailbirds, thieves and toughs. About the polling places last Tuesday were manv whose real place is San Quentin. These precious scoundrels toil not, neither do they soin, and yet they are tolerated and employed dur- ing campaigns. They boast of their | “pull,” and not idly, for without a pull the hand of a policeman would be on the collar of each. There were drunken rows at the polls, officials who saw dou. ble, or could not see at all; fights, dis- plays of pistols. There is no sense in this. One side is as culpable as the other. At election time respectable cit- izens hobnob with riff-raff who at an- other time they would pot trust in the presence of an unguarded 10 cent piece or a secluded clothesline. I do not think this proper, and will hold the high and holy gentlemen who make a business of politics in higher esteem when they quit it. . With a desire to indorse everything which is good, I say a word about Elizabeth Lois Struble, who makes her home in Portland, and I doubt not sheds upon her environment the frag- rance of spiritual perfection. Not that there is a distinct smell to perfection, either, but the occasion is one calling for a figger of speech. Lizzie (I hope I may be permitted to term her thus, Elizabeth being so stately and distant) —Lizzle has the goodness to publish a magazine to which she has given the title of The Nautilus. As to the general scope of the publication there is noth- ing to be said here. I desire to notice only an editorial in which Lizzie ad- verts modestly to her treatment of peo- ple for “harmony in the home.” There are many homes in which such treat- ment-is needed, and if Lizzie is the pro- prietor of a panacea for domestic ills she is doing the world a kindness for | trotting it out, and at the reasonable rate of $1 per month per home. She will also give treatment for success in all kinds of individual undertakings. As there are many individuals and all have undertakings, the field is large. She refers to the First Psalm in which iz given a pretty good rule for the pro- duction of the resuit she advertises, and while I cannot see that the wisdom therein becomes of a higher grade for having filtered through the mentality of Lizzie, it may be I am sitting in ‘‘the seat of the scornful,” of which the same Psalm makes mention. If so there are no perceptible tacks in the cushion. * As the mission of the lady seems to be to sell advice, I will donate a dose of her own medicine. If she has a method by which individual effort can be made to succeed she would be wise to apply it to the scheme of float- ing such an enterprise as The Nautilus. Assuredly it will never float unless sus- tained by some system bordering on the miraculous. The practical mind has difficulty in viewing with faith the ad- vertisement. of the seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, who sees visions while in a hand-made two-bit trance, but I am fearful that Lizzie will sub- Ject it to an even greater strain. With- out desiring to interfere in the least with Lizzie's industry, I would sug- gest that while there is a sucker born every minute most of them are busy buying gold bricks more artistically gilded than those she has to offer. & e e ‘While the Bulletin is too petty a con- cern to merit notice generally, when it pays the paper for which I toil a com- pliment the affair may properly be no- ticed here, because it won't be noticed elsewhere. The Bulletin terms The Call “A queer newspaper.”” Now this Is generous, Nobody ever termed the Bul- letin a newspaper of any kind. R Colorado boys send from Manila word that they do not get enough to eat, and they undoubtedly speak the truth. They are not of a sort to growl with- out good reason. That they do not The story is too old to be re-| hungry at the time, which was unfor- tunate, but perhaps unavoidable. They are hungry vet, which is not only un- fortunate, but a crime. Affairs in the Philippinns seem to have been badly managed. Merritt wae anxious to set away so as to get married, and Greene had something the matter with him. Both were in love, Merritt with a charming woman, and Greene with the charm of his own personality. If there has not been gross favoritism shown in the matter of promotions then such correspondents as Sol Sheridan and Mart Egan did not know what they were writing about, and they went as newspaper men, too, never setting up the claim of being special commission- ers. Perhaps a little scrap with Agul- naldo would be a good thing. It would serve to ginger up the home-sick boys and save them from the tedious and unsafe processes of typhoid and other fevers. Furthermore, our Colonel Smith, | who has._earned advancement, and not | received it, would take grim satisfac- tion in having another chance. PR Somebody writes to ask my opinion of women in politics. I have none which will bear expression in a family jour- nal. . | Arthur McEwen came all the way from New York to save the day only [ to find it being saved by the enemy. | This was not the worst of it, however, for Roosevelt took a mean advantage of his absence. THE PARTISAN NON-PARTISANS Quite a number of years ago, when the times seemed to demand it, several very respectable old gentleman got to- gether and appointed a number of other very respectable old gentlemen as dele- gates to an assembly which they chris- tened the Non-Partisan convention. They probably accomplished some good at that time, but although the occasion that called this body into existence has long Wince passed, these same very re- spectable old gentlemen continue to meet together, and with great pomp and authority (self-constituted alto- gether) proceed to indorse such candi- dates who happen to have political friends strong enough to pull them suc- cessfully through, or tact enough to escape their censure. They met as usual this year, modestly avoiding making any independent nominations, but with a great show of importance indorsing certain candidates who had already been chosen by the several po- litical organizations. As an evidence of the value of their indorsements, I have compiled a list which shows that of the fifty-two can- didates approved by the Non-Partisan (?) convention, eighteen were elected. I find also that of the fifty-two candi- dates for whom I voted nineteen were elected, showing that my indorsement was worth more than theirs. Now I am an R. O. G. myself and naturally take a lively interest in the good standing of all respectable old gentlemen. I therefore advise the con- | stituent elements of this antediluvian assembly to henceforth remain at home and dandle their grand children like good grandpas, and I earnestly en- join upon all political aspirants to shun | this combination if they have any hope in the future. 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Members of Parliament are exempt during a session from service on juries, their duties to Parliament being held to supersede that obligation of the citizen. But they are required during a session to attend as witnesses in any case, in order that the administration of justice may not be hindered. Nervous Folks There is no cure on earth to equal the Keelev Treatment for extreme nerv= ousness) This treat- ment wijl be deliv= ered to ladies in their homes, Its ef- fects are absolute in cases of nervous prostration. Send for pri: * Send fop printed maties that tella i THE XEELFEY INSTITUTES, 1M Market Street San Francisco, Donohos Butlding. have enough, and of the best quality, is a shame. They went to Manila ready to fight, and they did fight. They were ekt NS BUAEE or. g 1 ., Los Anj ! Fred A. Pnno:‘. Manager. s WG DS TEETCECTFCTBOCETSTEETTFTEW