The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 17, 1898, Page 6

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1898, | A GOOD TIME TO GO SLOWLY. HERE is ahead a time of political peace and | abundant Jeisure in which to consider all paths proposed for this country to follow, out of the | war path. It has been urged that we need tropical conguests to promote trade. Our foreign trade in the islands and countries of Asia has been promoting itself with- out the help of conquest. Its expansion is impres- sively expressed in these statistics: NOVEMBER 17 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S, LEAKE, Manager, " PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. ' Telephone Main 1868. 3 E£DITORIAL ROOMS. ...21T to 22| Stevenson Street ' e Main 1874, Teleph E 3 . THE S ALl 1893 our exports to Japan were. .$ 3,195,400 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAYI 8 | 1007 (nev were ......... < 13,255,400 served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns T T = for |6 cents @ week. By mall $6 per year: per mont | 1898 our exports to Chingd wera. . 3»90('-38‘; 65 cents. | 1897 they exceeded . 552 . 11,:203,000 | 1893 our exports to Australia were. 7,920, THE WEEKLY CALL.. One year, by mall, $159 | 1o BT TR 437400.000 OAKLAND OFFICE.. .908 Broadway | 1893 our exports to Oceanica were...... 11,200,000 | 1897 they were ......i.. 3 . 22,650,000 NEW. YORK OFFICE. ..Room 188, World Building bp o DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. | The expansion in four years was $38,990,400! that was gained without the expense of military con- quest and the higher cost of governing conquered colonies. ; : The Philippines, Cuba and Porto Rico combined absorb only $32,000,000 of imports annually. If we WASHINGTON (B. C.) OFFICE... Riggs House C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE. Marquette Bullding | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advortising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, 2 S open unufq:_v.o o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until take those islands and get all of that trade, it will add 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 | an inconsiderable percentage to our exports, and the | o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 oclock. | o of it will not pay 1 per cent of the cost of gar- 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 25!18°! risoning and governing them. * Of course we will not Mission street. open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | get all that trade. Other nations will divide it with t: | ‘clock. 1505 Polk street, open | . : u.:ffi'*m%%'lvc'f?:{(_ 9m:\)g_c :::(n" ngnz;-mn‘ z:.. | us, while they will bear none of the burdens of gov- erning an alien people. Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. e There is some_talk about increasing the absorbing | capacity of the people of thése islands, but there is [ no evidence that their wants can be increased, re- ing an increased supply, by any change in their AMUSEMENTa agiclan. Happen. qui Alcazar—"A Fool of Fortu L ; t Gl Morosco’s—"'A Midnight Trust.”” government. Their so!l and _cln-nat pply Orpheum — Vaudeville. most spontaneously their physical wants, and no Orpheu: ert This Afternoon. Tivolt change in flags can change natural conditions.. The energy our people must expend in holding distant er the Dome."” | possessions, under the vertical sun of the tropics, if jorilla Man, Vaudeville and the Zoo. Corner Mason and Eddy Streets, Spectalties. Olympia — Swimming. put into extending our trade with Central and South Raowa: oy | America, would bring in one year richer returns than | we can get in any score of years out of tropical colo- ’ Sutra’s: Baths. nies. If our export trade were languishing, and our sur- | plus production congesting on our hands, there might | be some argument “for even a doubtful experiment. | But with a steady and enormous increase in the world’s demand for what we have to sell and supply | Butterfield—This Day, November 17, at 11| Devisadero street | ovember 17, af 2 | ary street. | ber 21, at 11 o'cloek, y Frank: W, Furniture, THE SUBJECT OF RECOUNTS. |there is every argument for the avoidance of experi- | —— ments. in their subsequent effects | These considerations are on the practical, thvc com- | The latter is usually fol- | mercial, side of the issue. When the proposition is | Elections | examined on its ethical side, in the light of its prob- | | able effect upon our people, and the change it im- plies in our government and its methods, there is | even less to be said for imperial militarism. The les- N one respect election ] resemble a warm rain. lowed by a luxuriant crop of weeds. are always followed by a generous crop of recounts. At the present time large numbers of candidates dissatisfied with the announced results of the late | vote, are.considering the advisability of expending |son of our hundred days’ war in the tropics more ‘of their money upon lawyers and t clerks. | will surely not be lost. From every camp, In no case is any hope held out that a recount will | from Manila, Honolulu, Porto Rico and change the semi-official totals, but these candidates | Santiago, by every mail comes the lengthen- are said to “think” they have been elected, and to | ing roster of the dead. ~ Fever-smitten soldiers lan- equently entertain serious doubts as to whether | guish in the hospitals, and the bugle wails “taps con hourly over the dead. Americans will not volunteer or not a mistake has not been made in the returns. teresting mental phenon convi se se men, The threatened crop of recounts presents some in- | to fill up the ranks of the regular army to the 100,000 2. It seems that when a | soldiers required for service and garrison duty in politician makes up mind that ke is entitled to | those tropical stations. It is idle to talk about any re-clection, the most difficult thing in the world is to | care and sanitary reforms that will curb these fatali- ce him that he has been defeated. Constant | ties. The climate is poison to our race, and nothing reflection only serves to make him more certain that | can either change it or adapt white men to it. Our he is invincible. Especially is this true of office- | brief experience in Cuba and Porto Rico has proved holders who have for a long time been in receipt of | that even our negro troops are not immune. They a salary. To them the idea that the people have con- | have heen changed by 200 years passed in the temper- «luded- to dispense with their services is incompre- | ate zone, Why need we go abroad for problems to hensible. How the govern will get along with- | solve, to hunt trouble, to seek burdens, to increase out’ them is to them an impenetrable mystery. | taxation and to prepare a reaction that will push our | Among those who are talking of a recount is Judge | very government from its constitutional moorings? Wallace. It is said that this jurist’s friends believe he | was™ counted out by the “criminal clement.” The | OUR NEW INFLUENCE. idea is that the Board of Election Commissioners, | c o 4 . controlled by Mayor Phelan, appointed upon the pre- OME#of the best authorities (on Exropean polis sinct boards a sufficient number of criminals to direct | ticyattmbute the recentichaugeun (e SiER the canvass a Judge Wallace. T |1 there tolthe clerts of enzomarmn SRR it is intimated, took @bout 2000 votes away from him thetvictorles ot St 2 Surtaeg af‘d A R Grobusa e aon Tuczes Sho ealpre e n thein lEm et oy oI BE RS Jeniently with crime than he does—Judges Seawell| Britain in dealm.g with f&)!.'(lgu affairs and 'thc hesit i rrou or i an - wh S ave e oy o oUMConhncntet LRn ol B R Ease. | JifetBobien wnio Mas been Bvugiihem| | oo Ssume g Rig v o S maneD ) Emlin (el werks: o Fue Ve ey e | SO L ploR DI QN B tS i S [B5ei 2 crimitl o 56 in his ite 3 | (,ntaz Britain was without a friend among the grea! The absurdity of such reasoning as this can | n;mon_s of the earth, and, moreover, was by no means scarcely be estimated. Judge Wallace has served onthe ‘\ sajBLY ‘thm hecnivyowas mofe thin a mat_ch for any ‘Superior bench twelve years, Judge Low has served.in | combmanox‘\ .that coul.'} be brought agalr.mt it. Under $he Police and | [ustices® Comrteibhi years Tudgt (oo (contitions: Salisbiry, s caliow) o i Joachimsen has served in the same capacities for verge of “m‘d“)., 2 The nation, like its le:\d'e-r. mas d,‘s- | twenty years, Block has been Tax Collector for six ey a_nd willingly supported the waiting policy | yéirs and Sicbe Assessor for cight years. All these | 0% CYCTY issuc that arose. 3 gentlemen have been dropped because the people con- T}.]e war'wnh Spfm.‘ broughitiont a strong: piblic tlided it was time to give somebody else a chance. sentiment in the United States favorable to Great Office-holding is not a perpetual trust. It has a limit, Bnlal.n, .and 1 den.mnstrated o .stnkmg'way g | and in some cases the limit is reached at the end of | S"PETOMY of Smericet seaniansupn ancling mgd two and in others at the end of three terms. It is no JEITL IAVIES, ot .o.f these things had a stimulating | e loion on thae Hnicard aidaies (hePthey ne| - muen BB e Bt Red el eonet been retired. -All the people have done is to check sion’ that Great Britain would have Ametican pym. | :::it;t:.pgsmon fosceuyert hicics oficess into perg against heavy odds, and the second aroused a belief | i that her seamen, like those of the THAT SWAT'S THE MATTER. HERE is always tronble in the British Indian possessions. other races that she could afford to face all Europe il need be and win in the conflict. ‘Whether these ideas among the British:.are justi- fied or not does not affect the. situation. that they are believed by the Government and by the people is the important point. Self-confidence has as Just now it is due to the forceful Swat. With the personal characteristics of the Swat, the people of the United States have not the joy of being familiar. The name, however, is omin- ous. It suggests hostile activity. An official Swat leading to battle a regiment of Swats would naturally inspire a feeling of uneasiness on the part of the enemy. The Secretary for India, being asked if there was trouble brewing, might fittingly answer, “That Swat’s the matter.” We observe with apprehension that the boss Swat is' moving against the Nawab of Dir. This latter gentleman is also more or less of a stranger out this way, -but we never heard anything particular against him, and hope that he will not get the worst of the encounter. To be licked by a Swat would be a humiliating experience, unless it happened to be of the variety which searches out the solar plexus. of individuals. The British are no longer cautious. The empire has resumed the aggressive. There is no Europe almost as strongly as the British themselves: Many of the ablest journals in Germany and France have discussed it as a coming menace to the wofld. Among these powers, therefore, there has been an increased cautiousness just as in Great Britain there has been an increased boldness. Consequently we The matter is not one calling for aggressive sym- | "O% hear Salisbury derlaring that the formal annexa- pathy, yet a Nawab might be a gentleman, while to | 107 of Egypt to the empire may yet be accomplished, think of a Swat as anything but an untamed pugilist | 20d 10 protest comes from any quarter of the globe. . fighting din defiance of ring rules’is impossible. If these views be well taken we have another illus- i e e tration_of the far-reaching effects of wars and battles. Already the fact is plain that the trial of Mrs, Bot- | Qur military influence has become a factor in the kin is to be an expensive affair. By the time it has | 8reat game of*international politics without any in- been repeated twice and gone to the highest court | tention on our part of exerting such influence. Our California will conclude that the Botkin woman is a | victories are felt in the affairs of Asia and Africa as luxury. well as in the Philippines and the West Indies, and the end is not yet. Nobody believes that the Kaiser will preserve strict incognito while in Spain. There are some thnigs even the Kaiser cannot do, and one of these is to hide his royal head under-a bushel. At this writing a revolution is in progress some- where in Central America. There will probably be one to-morrow also, but it will in all likelihood be an- | other. Those warm-blooded scrappers want their revolutions fresh. Prospects of troops ‘coming home from Manila are not nearly so bright as that the soldiers will have to remain there long enough to beat a little sense into Aguinaldo. Under the law as construed in Nevada it'is no | crime to buy votes there. Somebody may use this to revive the allegation that Nevada is a rotten bor- ough, an allegation heretofore made and indignantly refuted 5 Altgeld says that free silver is still a live issue. Altgeld is no authority. He isn't alive himseli. tion between Great Britain and the United States | seems to have affected the nations of Continental | | standard. | late elections, it was simply because the Democrats | cussed on the stump. The people understood them, | éwept from every State except those of the South, | and even in those States it is upheld simply by the | race issue and not by any devotion to free silver or | Here is clearly the blindest leader that ever undertook | the ditch, but now that he is there he does not know | the ditch from the highway | pervise the operation of such laws and to have juris- | diction over local health officers. A bill providing | for the proposed commission.i ‘ tually agreed on | authority. | with sufficient power to act effectively nor given suffi- pathy and probably American aid in case of a war| State and nothing more. The Commissioners have United States, | been the end of their work. would be so much better fighting men than those ofJ | Thefact | exceptionally strong arguments can be given for it much to do with the actions of nations as with those{ longer any sign of retreat from the most advanced | ts“"’"y donle by any power less than that of the nation. position, either in Africa or in Asia. | Strangely enough, the idea of a probable co-opera- | THE DEMOCRATIC COLLAPSE. OLONEL WILLIAM J. BRYAN is quoted as having stated to a reporter of the Associated Press that the result of the recent election was not a “sweeping Republican victory,” that it was not a verdict upon the silver question, because that issue was not before the people, and, finaily, that the out- look for the supporters of the Chicago platform is as bright as ever. Colonel Bryan is to be congratulated upon his ability to stand punishment. He is like the Kansas man who, having been taken up by a tornado and slammed against his barn so hard that. it knocked the roci off, rose up as soon.as-he recovered con- sciousness and swore, “It never touched me.” If he cannot see defeat for his debased money programme in the tremendous majorities given for Republican candidates in this off year following the great tidal wave of 1806, then certainly -he will never see any- thing:beyond his own nose as long as he is a living candidate. Never since the close of the war has Democracy been in such a collapsed condition as at this time. The party which in 1802 elected Cleveland to the Presidency and controlled by strong majorities both the House and the Senate has now been almost wiped out of the whole country with the exception of the Southern States. Not only are the President, the Senate and the House Republican, but an almost un- broken line of Republican States extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific. When the next Congress meets a Democratic Sen- ator from a Northern or Western State will be some- thing like a freak—a survivor of the flood. States like New York, Connecticut, Indiana and California, which in times past were considered doubtful, have gone over to the solidly Republican column. Even the border States of the South have turned in the same direction, and Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia are in the galaxy that stand for sound money, protection and conservative government. Not only has the party been utterly defeated at the polls, but it has been driven to virtually abandon its If free trade and free silver and the Chi- cago declarations generally were not issues in the dared not raise them. As a matter of fact they were the determining issues, although they were not dis- and they voted the Republican ticket because back of the dodging Democrats there was plainly to be seen the menacing shadow of the Chicago platform. | Bryan sees all this wreck of his party. He sees it| free trade, and yet he declares everything is serene. into to lead the blind. He has not only led his party THE FIGHT FOR PURE FOOD. NUMBER of gentlemen interested in the en- forcement of pure food laws, and representing influential associations in the city, are reported to have started a ' movement to bring about the crea- tion of a State bureau of three Commissioners to su- d to have been yir- the Legisla- ture during 4 * ship. issions have ave not been clothed It is well know been failures. As a rule they cient money to do anything of genuine usefulness. Most of them have been simply an expense to the drawn their salaries, made their reports, and that has So futile have been the majority of these bureaus that there has been a demand for their abolition. It is certain, -therefore, the people will not look with favor upon-the ¢reation of a new commission, unless and unless it can be assured that the commission will be able to render a real service to the community. The prospect of obtaining a comprehensive en- forcement of pure food laws by a State commission is not encouraging. The work can never be effec- o long as national authority remains inactive on the subject the work, we believe, can be best performed by local authorities. The Board of Health in this city has recently shown what can be performed in that way. If other localities are not willing to enforce the laws for their own protection, it is not likely a State board could make them do it. It will be well for us to devise some means of getting good work out of the commissions we have before we begin the creation of new ones. The votes of the Kansas troops show them to be good citizens ‘as well as good soldiers. No mgre ‘Governor Leedy for them. This official was respon- sible for sending to California the worst equipped regiment bound for Manila, and the boys seem to have remembered it. According to General Breckinridge General Shafter is not above criticism. If he will name a few people who are, the public will scan the list with interest. Those who have attained perfection are rare. P Roosevelt's slighting remark concerning the value of volunteers otherthan those commanded by him- self cost him many soldier votes, and it is remarkable that it did not cost him all. —_— In a fight with a Jawyer the other man had his nose NATIONAL VICTORY AND PRIVATE RUIN. Some of the most difficult problems of colonial administration are forc- ing themselves upon the people of this country with startling rapidity. Al- ready we have our hands full of trouble in Cuba and in the Philippines the condition of affairs is quite as bad, though, owing to distance and diffi- culty of communication, it is not brought so prominently under public no- tice. Practically all that has been accomplished by Dewey's brilliant vic- tory at Manila is the creation of a condition of anarchy, with its attendant horrors of robbery and bicodshed. Beyond the suburbs of Manila, beyond the range of American guns, there is no law in the distressed Philippines. ‘We have rendered the Spaniards powerless to preserve order, but have omitted to provide a substitute for their deposed authority. This is not co]unlval government, it is sheer criminal neglect. Morally, if not legally, the United States is responsible for every plantation destroyed, for every life lost while this barbaric state of affairs is allowed to continue. By the strange irony of-fate an American citizen has been the first to suffer by insurgent and Spanish’ depredation. I do not know how it is that the ease has been overlooked In this country; perhaps men’s minds | have been too occupied with the elections to think: of their @Qistressed fel- low citizens. But luckily the case has been taken up in London by no less & person than W. T. Stead, the motable founder of the Review of Reviews. | Now Stead, although he is in some respects a bit of a crank, is a man of energy and purpose. When he champlons a cause you may be sure there is something in it, and you may also be sure that Stead will not let go until the grievance has been as far as possible redressed. o Bl_"lflly, here is the story as Stead tells jt. A few years ago a young merican of the name of Wilson settled on the island of Cebu and started a léttlrge sugar plantation. He was no stranger to the islands, having al- ready officlated as American Consul. Wilson prospered with his planta- tion and had about 250 natives constantly in his employment when news é&mel of the outbreak of an insurrection. This was speedily followed by a ‘pa.'n sh a.tlavl.'k upon the town of Cebu, and Wilson’s position—placed as t were between two fires—became precarious. Though he had no wife to | care for he was accompanied by his mother, a North Country English | woman. This lady, ruined and broken hearted, returned recently to her native land. Hence the interest which the case has excited in London. The destruction of Wilson’s plantation and his subsequent arrest and trial by the Spanish occurred just about the time of the battle of Manila. The planter, indeed, was lucky to escape with his life from the hands of a revengeful foe, and that he is free to-day is solely due to the exertions of Mr. Kincombe, an Englishman, who acts both as British and American Vice Consul at Cebu. The story of raid and rapine was the old one. First a riotous band of insurgents appeared and declaring the Spanish were no longer masters proceeded to strip the plantation of all the food and valuables they could lay their hands on. Then they impressed Wilson's workmen as unwilling. | recruits, thus stopping work in the sugar mill and cane fields. | Next came the Spanish, and though they drove away the insurgents the | | | planter’s position was in no way improved. In fact, he was worse off than ever. Wilson hoisted the white flag and received the Spanish troops hos- plu_lbly. Unluckily the insurgents chose that moment for attack, and while they were driven off with great loss the Spaniards were furious at having to fight under a broiling sun. They accused the unfortunate American of being in league with the insurgents, though it was obvious to any sane man that he was the victim of mob rule. Explanations were vain. The enraged Spanish officers thirsted for Wil- son’s blood and they hurried him, together with his aged and ailing mother, down the mountain side to Toledo, where he was hustled on. board a war- He was treated with every possible indignity, placed under arrest upon a vessel crowded with Spanish soldiers, who amused themselves by discussing the tortures to which thelr victims would shortly be subjected. Even the officers took part in the cruel game and openly hinted at the exe- cution which they fondly hoped would take place in the near future. By sheer luck the fugitives escaped murder before they reached Cebu, | but there Wilson found himself in a still more dangerous position. The Americans had destroyed the Spanish fleet, and Were practically in pos- session of Manila. The Spaniards thirsted for revenge, and if they could not get.it in a large way, were quite willing to take it out on a small scale upon the planter. Fortunately Kincombe was there and he fought a noble battle with all his energy. Even a Spanish court could find no evi- dence to justify a verdict against Wilson, and after many delays he was finally permitted to depart for Singapore. There a ruined man, his planta- tion destroyed, he awaits the termihation of the war in order that he may return to Cebu and gather up the wreckage of his estate. Meanwhile his mother returned to England, where she has fortunately found an able friend in Stead. Wilson’s case is only one of many resulting from this lamentable condition of affairs. The wreck of the plantation was directly traceable to American interference in the Philippines, and the question naturally arises: What is Uncle Sam going to do about it? Many other outrages of the same kind have occurred, but have not yet been brought to light. In every case the United States Government is clearly responsible for the mis- rule which permitted the spoliationand there is a long list of claims against the Government in prospect. Either the United States must abandon the Philippines or else inaugu- rate stable rule. There is no middle course. As to the means necessary for establishing proper administration. Icannot do better than quote from Lieu- tenant General Sir Andrew Clarke, who, more than twenty years ago, was called upon to deal with a very similar problem in the Malay Peninsula. The Malays are a pretty difficult race to handle; robbery and bloodshed has been their occupation for centuries; they are tougher by far than any people to be found in the Philippines. Yet here is Clarke’s own record of his success: “The cardinal feature of Interest in the. story is the means by which all piracy and land fighting, whether by Chinese or Malays, was absolutel stamped out; by which taxation was almost abolished, slavery suppressed, justice done, roads and railways constructed, ‘prisons and hospitals ‘built and maintained, and above all, the chiefs reconciled to the new life and: the recognition of equality of all races and classes before the law. It has been done by the Residents laying down and insisting on the. constant.rec- ognition of the principle that the interests of the people -they were set to govern should be the first consideration of Government officers. By learn- ing their languages, their prejudices, their character, and by showing them ‘hat consideration which alone can secure sympathy and a good understand- \g between Government and people, their respect, an” to some extent their ection has been won. The natural tendencies of our race are not exact- \nclined to these lines, and what has been done, and the present feeling as ow the natives should be treated, is due to the personal influence of a sgsion of Residents who gained their knowledge by their own intelli- L and experience; for there were no authorities to consult, the adminis- e experiment in the Malav Peninsula standing alone and having no el in British administration of alien races.” Uncle Sam is prepared to aceept the Philippine contract here is an -lesson well worth study. J. F. ROSE-SOLEY. umph would have been complete; hut flushed with his emphatic hit and tne champagne he had imbibed, he unfortu- | nately added another verse to the first, | | which made the ladies turn up. their | dainty noses and, caused his ostracism | from their midst. The fatal lines were: | “But this likeness admits of another con- | struction (And I hope that the dear ladies’ ears T'll not wound), But some one arrived at this eruel de- UND THE CORRIDORS J ustig, a prominent Tulare merchant, e the Lick. heriff John L. Matthews of Salinas is t the Grand. Senator B. F. Langtord of Stockton is a guest at the Lick. F. P. Pattee, a Valley Springs mining cietion. man, is at the Grand. “The closer she clings the more you are E. Lauzon, a well-known Virginia City ruined.’ ”* mining man, is at the Russ. Jerome Churchill, a prominent Yreka capitalist, is at the Grand. Bank Commissioner John Markley of | Geyserville is at the Lick. H. A. Preston, a well-known Jamestown mining man, is at the Lick. Dr. F. Howard Humphries of Honolulu is a guest at the California. Captain Wallmann of Berlin arrived on the Moana and is at the Occidental. Dr. Charles L. Bard of Ventura is among recent arrivals at the Palace. ‘W. W. Chapin, a well-known Sacramen- to merchant, is registered at the Palace. John Sparks, known as the cattle king of Reno, Nev., is a guest at the Palace. Captain O. J. Humphrey has returned | mas packages to | lot when Denis Kearney bitten off, 'but despite the shortening of the organ it will be the prominent feature of the trial. Uncle Sam still says. he will not tolerate delay, and keeps right on tolerating it John A. Ritchie, a well-known mining man of Quincy, is at the Russ. Charles R. Hopper, an extensive stock raiser of Yolo, is at the Grand. ‘William B. Whitney, a Healdsburg capi- talist, is registered at the Russ. Dr. and Mrs. Foucast-Scanlan of Auck- land, N. Z., are at the California. R. B. Stolder, a well-known Mariposa attorney, Is stopping at the Lick. ©09080@0809090® A certain young | g $ man about town 9 FAIR WOMAN o UP to a few days & @ 880 was an es- S AND S pecllial favorite with the fair sex. 3 THE IVY. O me was consia- | s O ered a beau ideal $0606060606040® by all his femi- | nine acquaintances, and rated as quite | the proper thing. - Whenever he| was the subject under discussion such expressions as “Isn’t he just love- 1y?"” “Such a nice man,” etc., issued from the sweet lips of his female admirers. | But a change has come. He has: been | deposed from his -high estate. He is shunned where formerly he was courted, and the poor man (victim of woman’s fickle disposition) Is seriously thinking of shaking the dust of this city from his feet and leaving for other climes to make new conquests in maidens’ realm. | It all came about in this wise. The | toastmaster of a banquet, at which were | gathered fifty couples of both sexes, had put the aforesaid Adonis down to respond to the toast, “The Ladies.” When the time came for him.to speak the fair sex present at the festlve board prepared to listen to ®omething delightful from their favorite, and whispered among them- selves: “Oh, the dear’fellow; we are sure he will say nice things about us.” And he did. He took for his main tople, “Woman's Loyalty,” and after a glowing tribute to that magnificent quality pos- sessed by her, he said, as a fitting climax to his remarks: “Faifr woman has oft been compared to the tvy, For when pain and sorrow adversity brings, Like that plant, her devotion (to man) is unceasing, For the greater the ruin the closer she | Byron Hot Springs, This recetved most rapturous applause, and had he stopped right there his from St. Michaels and is at the Occiden- tal. A. M. Brown, Marshal of Honolulu, ac- companied by his wife, is at the Califor- nia. R. J. Langdon, the recently elected Sheriff of Santa Clara County, is stopping | at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Hammond of Upper Lake are at the Californfa, en route for Boston. Dr. Charles Simon, medical superintend- ent of the French colony at Tahiti, guest at the Grand. James Campbell, Cecil Brown and Mar- tin I Smith, all of Honolulu, are regis- tered at the Occidental. W. G. Irwin, Honolulu agent of th Oceanic Steamship Company, arrved here on the Moana, yesterday. Mrs. Brenham (nee Dowsett) and Mi: Dowsett, members of a prominent Hong. lulu family, are at the California. Congressman-elect Julius Kahn, is rapidly recov from the fatigue of his é’»;mpajgn.m J. Ena of Honolulu, vice-presiden 3 - t the }I}mzrdslnnd Steamship Company, (;; at the California. He is on h g Mexico. B * ol o at ering —_——— f CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORE. NEW YORK, Nov. 16—G. W. Snorf of San Francisco is at ihe Cardillas | & N. Felton of San Francisco is at the Kol- land. Preston Woods of San Franclso is at the Metropole. C. H. Holt of, San Francisco is at the Gilsey. / ————— JUST FOR FUN. Lady—Measure off another yarJot that dress binding please. { Clerk—Beg pardon, but: I l*defstood you to say nine yards. / ¥—So I did, but another/yard will make the sale more binding. / / ‘Wife—John, I wish you wfuld let me have $0 this morning. Husband—My dear, you/must have dreamed that I married an Peiress, didn't you? *You keep your hand ow o' them pea- nuts!” exclaimed the flvgyear-old mer- chant who had set up a stbre in the front yard of ‘the perental dw “I won't nuther!” r old customer, helping hil dad's the p'leceman on cago " l! e five-year- bune. is a| 1 oY is ‘m‘o&:r&—cfll ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. WIDTH OF STREETS—A. O..S., City. The width of Mason and Taylor streets is sixty-eight feet nine inches. COOKi BOOK—R. 8., City. If you will go to a first-class bookstore you will ob- tain such a cookbook as you desire. HALF DOLLAR Ol;‘ 1837—A. 8., City. here is no_premium offered for a half ollar of 1837. Such a coin of that date sells for 75 cents. A WIDOW’'S PENSION—A. O. S., City. The pension of the widow of a captain in the United States army, dying in the ser- vice, is $20 per month. LAST DAYS OF POMPEII-H. W. A, Pledmont, Cal: “The Last of Pom- peif,” written by Bulwer Lytton in 1834, was dramatized by Buckstone in 183 MAIL FOR MANILA—A. S y. Mail for Manila leaves by every steamer sail- ing for’ Chima. Watch the shipping col- umn of The Call for the dates of depart- ure, THE INDIANA—A Subscriber, City. The troopship.Indiana that left for Manila last October should reach Manila in about twenty-seven days from the time of de- parture. CALIFORNIA'S POPULATION — L., City. The population of Californja -was estimated In January, 1898, at 1,508,130, and that of San Francisco at the same ‘period was estimated at 350,000. A FI\'E-DOLLARi PIECE-M. E. P, City. Five-dollar gold pieces coined at either Charlotte, N. C., Dahlonega, Ga., and Philadelphia sell at prices varying | from $7 50 to 38 50. THE JOLLY GIANT—R., San Luis Obispo, Cal. There is no publication’ in San Francisco known as The Jolly Giant. A sheet bearing that name was published in the latter part of the sixties. NO REDRESS—N. N., City. If a eitl- zen on election day goes to the polls and | discovers that some one has been there before him and voted his name he can- not force the Registrar to permit him to vote. BOXES FOR HONOLULU—S., Santa Cruz, Cal. The St. Paul will take Christ- soldiers stationed at Honolulu. Such must be delivered at 645 Mission street not later than 4 o'clock on Tuesday next. THE SAND LOT—A. Q., City. James G. Maguire did not speak on the' sand was orating there, nor did he afterward, but at the time of the spiit in the Workingmen’'s party he took sides with the seceders. UNITED STATES AND HAWAII-W. S. H., City. The Hawalian Islands are south of the southern latitude of the United States proper and west of the Pa- cific Coast line of the States. They are within the latitude of Mexico and west of the Pacific coast line thereof. They are within the longitudinal lines of Alaska, which is also part of the United State: OKLAHOMA—W. 8. H., City. Okla- homa, which is the Indian for “beautiful land,” was formed by the west haif of older Indian Territory in the northeast of | Texas. It borders Kansas to the north along the thirty-seventh parallel, and is one-fourth larger than Scotland. It was originally a part of the Louisiana pur- | chase, and was set apart for Indians by | the act of June 30, 1834, as the final result | of legislation. Certain lands were sub- sequently ed by _Indians, thése | farmed the district of Oklahoma.. Pagt of is land was obtained from the Indians treaty and purchase shortly after the | Civil War. The district was opened to | white settlement at noon April 22, 1889, COAL AND ACETYLENE GAS—E. B., Lockford, San Joaquin Coun George Breck, an expert on acety says that an ordinary gas meter us measuring coal gas has to be alter: measuring acetylene that with cium carbide at 6 cents per pound the cost of a light of twenty-seven candle-power 18 6-10 of a cent per hour and that, jet for jét, it is_cheaper than coal gas of six- teen candle-power at $I 25 per. thousand; z‘fiét there are a large number of insur- ance companie$ in the East and in s State that make no discrimination agaix premises in which the new gas is int duced. Coal gas passing through the meter is measured at .atmospheric pressure. LIGHTHOUSES—Tredor, City. The fol- Jowing prominent lighthouses are in ‘the State of California, which Is known' as the Twelfth Lighthouse District: St. George's Reef and Crescent City, Del Norte County; Trinidad Head, Humboldt and Cape Mendocino, in Humboldt Count Point Arena, Mendocino County; Point Reyes and Point Bonita, Marin County; Farallones and Fort Point, San Francis- co; Pigeon Point, San Mateo County; Senta Cruz, Santa Cruz County; Point Pinos and Point Sur, Monterey County; Piedras Blancas and San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo_County; Point Concep- clon and Santa_Barbara, Santa Barbara County; Point Hueneme, Ventura Coun- ty; Point Fermin, Los Angeles County; La_ Playa, Point Lomas, Ballast Point and Diamond Point, San Diego County. RELIGION IN RUSSIA—J. B. K., City. | Under certain limitations, toleration of all religions which do not violate public morality or good order exists in Ru and not to profess the orthodox Gr faith, the national religion, does not dis- qualify as regards civil rights. But the law does not allow those o0 already be- long to che established faith to secede from it; and if, in a household, either parent be a mémber of the Greek church, all the children must be brought up with- in that communion. In European Russia there are orthodox Greek Catholics, Russo-Greek dissenters, Protestants, Ro- man Catholics, Jews and Mohammedans; and all have their respective places of worship. The affairs of the Roman Cath- olic church are centered in a collegium, and those of the Lutheran church in a consistory, both located in St. Petersburg. Cal. glace fruit c per Ib at Townsend's.® —————————— Special information: supplied daily to business houses and ‘public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ e Loud—Did you hear about that golf coat of mine? ¥ Redd—Yes; I heard it.—Yonkers States- man. e — IS THE BEST TEACH nglish Remedy In any case Should it fall to give At No Uer- EXT'ERL Use Acker's coughs, colds or croup. jmmediate relief money refunded. centage Pharmacy. B Angostura Bitters, prepared by Dr. Sfegert in South America for his private use, is the test appetizirg tonle. Accept no other. “Tajk about men being J)unlshed in this {life for their misdeeds,” exclaimed Gwillams. ‘“Well, what new light have you got on the subject,” 'asked Sflint. ‘“Didn’t you read about that tornado out West ai few weeks ago that strack a train and upset a car? The only man in it who wasn't hurt was the baggageman.”'— hicago Tribune. ADVERTISEMENTS. RovaL Baking Powder Made from pure cream of fartar, Safeguards the food against alum. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.