The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 17, 1898, Page 7

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 189 THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 17, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. e e e e A et Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. L AR e L e S St S e * PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. P+ b4 ‘Telephone Main 1868. A EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 221 Stevenson Street ) Telep! Maln 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) i3 served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents @ week. By mall $6 per year: per montb 65 cents. ' THE WEEKLY CALL One year, by mal, $1.50 | QAKLAND OFFICE .908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE. Room 188, World Building = DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (B. C.) OFFICE.. -Rigge House C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE... . Marquctte Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Represcntative. ‘BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay. open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 .o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 - * Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. I505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-sacond ane Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTa ““Northern Lights. ellar, the Magiclan. istakes Will Happen.' Fool of Fortune.' Mianight Trust.”” Orpheum — Vaudeville. Orpheum ert This Afternoon. Tivoll—*'S Comed: er the Dome." The Chutes—Gorilla Man, Vaudeville and the Zoo. Olympia — Corner Mason and Eddy Streets, Spectalties. Sutra’s: Baths—Swimming. Ingleside Track—Races To-day. Rosenthal — Coming in December. AUCTION SALES, By Frank{W. Butterfield—This Day, November 17, at 11 #'clock, Furniture, at 504 Devisadero stree By Easton, Eldridg 0.—This Day, November 17, at 2 o'clock, Turkish and Persian Rugs, at 12 Geary street. By Sullivan & Doyle- y, November 21, at 11 o'clock, THE SUBJECT OF RECOUNTS. Livery Stable, at 1123 Mission street. N bne respect elections in their subsequent effects resemble a warm rain. The latter is usually fol- lowed by a luxuriant crop of weeds. Elections are always followed by a generous crop of recounts. | 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 conquests 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- expressed in these statistics: sively 1893 our exports to Japan were. .$ 3,195,400 1897 they were ... . 13,255,400 1893 our exports to China were. . 8,900,000 1897 they exceeded ............. . 11,900,000 1893 our exports to Australia were.... 7,920,000 1897 they were .............. . 17,460,000 1893 our exports to Oceanica were . 11,200,000 1897 they were . 22,650,000 The expansion in four years was $38.000,400: All 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. Ii we take those islands and get all of that trade, it will add an inconsiderable percentage to our exports, and the profit of it will not pay 1 per cent of the cost of gar- risoning and governing them. = Of course we will not get all that trade. = Other nations will divide it with us, while they will bear none of the burdens of gov- erning an alien people. 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- quiring an increased supply, by any change in their government. Their soil and climate supply al- most spontaneously their physical wants, and no change in flags can change natural conditions. ‘The | energy our people must expend in holding distant possessions, under the vertical sun of the tropics, if put into extending our trade with Central and South America, would bring in one year richer returns than we can get in any score of years out of tropical colo- 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 there is every argument for the avoidance of experi- ments. These considerations are on the practical, the com- mercial, side of the issue. When the proposition is 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 At the present time large numbers of candidates, dissatisfied with the announced results of the late| vote, are.considering the advisability of expending | more ‘of their money upon lawyers and tally clerks. | In no case is any hope held out that a recount will | change the semi-official totals, but these candidates are said to “think” they have been elected, and to | consequently entertain serious doubts as to whether | guish in the hospitals, or not a mistake has not been made in the returns. | hourly over the dead. | to fill up the ranks of the regular army to the 100,000 The threatened crop of recounts presents some in- teresting mental phenomena. re-election, the m convince him that he has been defeated. reflection only serves to make him more certain that he is invincible. Especially is this true of office- | holders who have for a long time been in receipt of | a salary. To them the idea that the people have con- gluded- to dispense with their services is incompre- hensible. How the government will get along with- out’ them is to them an impenetrable mystery. Among those who are talking of a recount is Judge | Wallace. It is said that this jurist’s friends believe he was’ counted out by the “criminal element.” The | idea is that the Board of Election Commissioners, | controlled by Mayor Phelan, appointed upon the pre- | <inct boards a sufficient number of criminals to direct the canvass adverse to Judge Wallace. These men, | it is intimated, took @bout 2000 votes away from him | and distributed them among Judges who deal more leniently with crime than he does—Judges Seawell | and Troutt, for instance, who _never try criminal | cases; Judge Borden, who has been trying them only a few weeks; - and Judge. Murasky, who never tried a criminal case in his life. . The absurdity of such reasoning as this can ,_scgrcely be estimated. Judge Wallace has served onthe Superior bench twelve years, Judge Low has served in the Police and Justices’ Court eight years, Judge Joag}jimsgn has served in the same capacities for twsrity years, Block has been Tax Collector for six years and Siebe Assessor for eight years. All these gentlemen have been dropped because the people con- cluded it was time to give somebody else a chance. Office-holding is not a perpetual trust. It has a limit, and in some cases the limit is reached at the end of two and in others at the end of three terms. It is no reflection .on these defeated candidates that they have been retired. ~All the people have done is to check their disposition to convert their offices into per- petuities. THAT SWAT'S THE MATTER. THERE is always trouble in the British Indian possessions. 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 unecasiness 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. The matter is not one calling for aggressive sym- pathy, yet a Nawab might be a gentleman, while to think of a Swat as anything but an untamed pugilist | fighting in defiance of ring rules is impossible. Already the fact is piain that the trial of Mrs. Bot- kin is to be an expensive affair. By the time it has been repeated twice and gone to the highest court California will conclude that the Botkin woman is a luxury. ‘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. S 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. It seems that when a | soldiers requi politician makes up his mind that ®e is entitled to | those tropical stations. ost difficult thing in the world is to | care and sanitary reforms that will curb these fatall Constant | ties. The climate is poison to our race, and nothing | | due in their judgment the new boldness Altgeld says that free silver is still a live Altgeld is no authority. He isn't alive himself. issue, even less to be said for imperial militarism. The les- son of our hundred days’ war in the tropics will surely not be lost. From every camp, from Manila, Honolulu, Porto Rico and Santiago, by every mail comes the lengthen-| Fever-smitten soldiers lan- and the bugle wails “taps” Americans will not volunteer ing roster of the dead. red for service and garrison duty in It is idle to talk about any can either change it or adapt white men to it. Our brief experience in Cuba and Porto Rico has proved that even our negro troops are not immune. They have been changed by; @00 years passed in the temper- ate zone. Why need we go abroad for problems to solve, to hunt trouble, to seek burdens, to increase taxation and to prepare a reaction that will push our very government fromvits cos stitutional moorings? > OUR NEW INFLUENCE. OME of the best authorities on European poli- tics attribute the recent change in the situation there to the effects of our war with Spain. To | the victories of our navy at Santiago and Manila' is. of Great Britain in dealing with foreign affairs and the hesita- tion of the Continental alliances to act against her. The argument for this view of the situation is simple. Prior to the outbreak of the war with Spain Great Britain was without a friend among the great nations of the earth, and, moreover, was by no means sanguine that her navy was more than a match for any combination that could be brought against it. Under such conditions Salisbury was cautious to the verge of timidity. The nation, like its leader, was dis- trustful, and willingly supported the waiting policy on every issue that arose. The war with Spain brought out a strong public sentiment in the United States favorable to Great Britain, and it demonstrated in a striking way the superiority of American seamanship in handling mod- } ern navies. Both of these things had a stimulating effect upon the British. The first led to the conclu- | sion that Great Britain would have American sym- | pathy and probably American aid in case of a war against heavy odds, and the second aroused a belief | that her seamen, like those of the United States, would be so much better fighting men than those of 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. * The fact | that they are believed by the Government and by the people is the important point. Self-confidence has as much to do with the actions of nations as with those of individuals. The British are no longer cautious. The empire has resumed the aggressive. There is no longer any sign of retreat from the most advanced position, either in Africa or in Asia. Strangely enough, the idea of a probable co-opera- tion between Great Britain and the United = States seems to have affected the nations of Continental 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 now hear Salisbury declaring that the formal annexa- tion of Egypt to the empire may yet be accomplished, and no protest comes from any quarter of the giobc. N If these views be well taken we have another illus- tration_of the far-reaching effects of wars and battles. Our military influence has become a factor in the great game of’ international politics without any in- tention on our part of exerting such influence. Our victories are felt in the affairs of Asia and Africa as well as in the Philippines and the West Indies, and the end is not yet. 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. 2 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- |' A ough, an allegation heretofore made and indignantly wefuted, oo pedharee ibe 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, finally, 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 .roof off, rose up as soon'.al'he recovered con< sciousness and swore, “It never touched me.”: If he cannot see defeat for his debased thoney 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 standard. If free trade and free silver and the Chi- cago declarations generally were not issues in the | late elections; it was simply because the Democrats | dared not raise them. As a matter of fact they were | the determining issues, although they were not dis- | cussed on the stump. The people understood them, | 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 swept 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 iree trade, and yet he declares everything is serene. } Here is clearly the blindest leader that ever undertook | to lead the blind. He has not only led his party into | the ditch, but now that he is there he does not know | the ditch from the highway. 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- | pervise the operation of such laws and to have juris- | diction over local health officers. | for the proposed commission is said to have been vir- | tually agreed on and will be urged upon the Legisla- lture during the coming winter. | Upon the general subject of enforcing the pure | food Jaws of the State. there is little or no difference i of opinion among intelligent people. The producers | of pure food and all consumers are keenly interested lin the issue. It is well known that the manufacture | and sale of impure or “sophisticated foods,” as they | are sometimes called, injuriously affect legitimate | business in such articles as well as work a grievous | wrong upon purchasers. Public ‘sentiment in this | city, and to a large extent throughout the State, has | been aroused upon the subject, and a strong popular | support is assured to any well directed movement ':xward making the enforcement of pure food laws ore universal and more stringent. Conceding all that may be urged upon that point, | it remains doubtful whether it would be advisable to iestablish the proposed bureau. California has had a great deal of experience with bureaus and commis- sions. The experience has been Tong and various and tolerably comprehensive. Almost everything we have undertaken has been to some extent managed by a commission. The people are, therefore, prepared tc speak on this issue with something of expert authority. It is a subject they understand. It is well known that most of our commissions have been failures. As a rule they have not been clothed with sufficient power to act effectively nor given suffi- cient money to do anything of genuine usefulness. Most of them have been simply an expense to the State and nothing more. The Commissioners have drawn their salaries, made their reports, and that has been the end of their work. 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 éreation of a new commission, unless exceptionally strong arguments can be given for it | 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- tually done by any power less than that of the nation. So 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. B The votes of the Kansas troops show them to be good citizens ‘as weéll 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. Roosevelt's slighting remark concerning the value of volunteers other than 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 lawyer the other man had his nose ‘bitten off, ‘but despite the shortening of the organ it will be the pron;inen't feature of the trial. Uncle Sam still says. he will not tolerate delay, and keeps right on tolerating it A bill providing | NATIONAL VICTORY AND PRIVATE RUIN. Some of the most dtfficult problems of colonlal 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 bloodshed. 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 . colonial. 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’ (ieptedatlon. I.do not know how it is that the ease has been overlooked in this countr; perhaps men’s minds have been too occupied with the elections to think: of their distressed fel- low citizens. But luckily’ the case has been taken up in London by no less & person than W. T. Stead, the notable founder of the Review of Reviews. Now Stead, although he is in some respects & 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. Briefly, here is the story as Stead tells jt. A few years ago a young American of the name of Wilson settled on the island of Cebu and started a large 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 came of the outbreak of an insurrection. This was speedily followed by a Spanish attack upon the town of Cebu, and Wilson’s position—placed as it 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- pitably. 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- ship. 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 their victims would shortly be subjected. Even the officers took J}Brt 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 termifation 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 absolutely 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 Covernment officers. By learn- ing their languages, their prejudices, their character, and by showing them that consideration which alone can secure sympathy and a good understand- ing between Government and people, their respect, an” to some extent their affection has been won. The natural tendencies of our race are not exact- ly inclined to these lines, and what has been done, and the present feeling as to how the natives should be treated, is due to the personal influence of a succession of Residents who gained their knowledge by their own intelli- gence and experience; for there were no authorities to consult, the adminis- trative experiment in the Malav Peninsula standing alone and having no parallel in British administration of alien races.” If Uncle Sam is prepared to aceept the Philippine contract here is an object-lesson well worth study. 3 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 cruel de- AROUND THE CORRIDORS J. Lustig, a prominent Tulare merchant, is at the Lick. Sheriff John L. Matthews of Salinas is at the Grand. Senator B. F. Langtord of Stockton is a guest at the Lick. | co; Pigeon Point, mining man, is at the Russ. Jerome Churchill, a prominent Yreka capitalist, is at the Grand. B | 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. 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. ‘Willlam 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, s stopping at the Lick. ©09000009090909 A certain young g 9O man about town S FAIR WOMAN o UP te & few days b3 § 8go was an es- g AND g pec;‘al favorite with the fair sex. 3 THE IVY. Q@ me was consia- b:S O ered a beau ideal ®060$04090©0®0¢ 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 festive 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 topic, “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: “Fafr woman has oft been compared to the fvy. For when pain and sorrow adversity brings, Like that plant, her devotion (to man) is unceasing, : For the greater the ruin the closer sh _ clings.” : 5 This recefved most rapturous applause, and had he stopped right there his tri- cago Tribune. 1 F. P. Pattee, a Valley Springs mining Aictinie man, is at the Grand. “The closer she clings the more you are E. Lauzon, a well-known Virginia City ruined.” 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 return lnijm St. Michaels and is at the Oct:!dt:\‘3 tal. A. M. Brown, Marshal of Honolulu, ac- ¢?mpanled by his wife, is at the Califor- nia. R. J. Langdon, the recently elected Sheriff of Santa Clara County, i at the Lick. digteie Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Hammond of Upper Lake are at the California, gn route for Boston. g Dr. Charles Simon, medical superin: ent of the French colony at Tanitl. o a guest’ at the Grand. g James Campbell, Cecil Brown and tin L Smith, all of Honolulu, are rlgx;l:: tered at the Occidental. W. G. Irwin, Honolulu agent of - the Oceanic Steamship Company, arriv on the Moana, yesterday. 0 here Mrs. Brenham (nee Dowsett) and Mi Dowsett, members of a prominent Hon:: lulu family, are at the California. Congressman-elect Julius Kah 1 n, is at Byron Hot Springs, ‘rapidly recovering from the fatigue of his campaign. J. Ena of Honolulu, vice-president of the Inter-Island Steamship Company, is at the California. He i st ine a s cn_r his way to —_————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—G. W. Snorfen of San Francisco is at the Cardillac. /-C. N. Felton of San Francisco is at the Hol- land. Preston Woods of San Francisfo is at the Metropole, C. H. Holt of, San Francisco is at the Gllsey. [ —_——— JUST FOR FUN. | Lady—Measure off another yfirJ of that dress binding please. Clerk—Beg pardon, -but: I ¥you to say nine yards. Lady—So I did, but another/yard will make the sale more binding. Wife—John, I wish you wfuld let me have $50 this morn! Husband—My dear, you /must have dreamed thn¥ married an Peiress, didn’t you? “You ki your hand ouf o' them pea- nuts!” exclaimed the fivgyear-old mer- e in the front ard of -the parental dwi 3 X ““1 won't.nuther!” :sglll 1‘0 five-year- old_customer, hel £5 dad's the p'leceman on fis bl '—Chl- TO CORRESPONDENTS. WIDTH OF STREETS—A. O. 8., City. The width of Mason and Taylor stregts is sixty-eight feet nine inches. COOK BOOK—R. S., City. If you will g0 to a first-class bookstore you will ob- tain such a cookbook as you desire. HALF DOLLAR OF 18%7—A. 8., City. shere is no premium offered for a halt oliar of 1837. Such a -coin of that date sells for 756 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 POMPEIT-H. W. A, Piledmont, Cal: “The Last Days of Pom- peii,” written by Bulwer Lytton in 1834, was dramatized by Buckstone in 1835. MAIL FOR MANILA—A. S., City. 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 inabout twenty-seven days from the time of de- parture. CALIFORNIA'S POPULATION — L., City. The population of California.was estimated in January, 1898, at 1,508,130, and that of San Francisco at the same ‘period was estimated at 350,000 A FIVE-DOLLAR 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 $5 50. 1 THE JOLLY GIANT—R., San Luls Obispo, Cal. There is no_publication’ in San Francisco known as The Jolly Glant. A sheet bearing that name was published in the latter part of the sixtles. NO REDRESS—N. N,, City. If a eiti- zen on election day goes to the polls and discovers that some one has been thers 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- | mas packages to soldlers 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 lot when Denis Kearney was orating there, nor did he afterward, but at the time 'of the split 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 Stafes. 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 States. OKLAHOMA—W. §. H., City. Okla- homa, which is the Indian for “beautiful land,” was formed by the west half of the 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 ceded by Indians, and these formed the district of Oklahoma.. Part of this land was obtained from the Indians by treaty and purchase shortly after the Civil ‘War. The district was opened to white settlement at noon April 22, 1889, ANSWERS COAL AND ACETYLENE GAS—E. €. B., Lockford, San Joaquin Courty, Cal. George Breck, an expert on acetylene gas, says that an ordinary gas meter used for measuring coal gas has to be altered for measuring acetylene gas; that with cal- cium carbide at 6 cents per pound the cost of a light of twenty-seven candle-power ig 6-10 of a cent per hour and that, jet for jet, it is_cheaper than coal gas of si teen candle-power at 25, per. thous: that there are a large number ‘'of insur, ance companieS in the East and i ti State that make no discrimination against premises in which the new gas is 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 County; Point Arena, Mendocino County; FPoint Reyes and Point Bonita, Marin' County; Farallones and Fort Point, San Francis- San Mateo _County; Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County; Point Pinos and Point Sur, Monterey County; Piedras Blancas and San Luis bispo, San Luis Obispo_County; Point Concep- cion 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 publi¢ morality or good order exists in Russia, and not to profess the orthodox Greek faith, the national religion, does not dis- qualify as regards civil rights. But the Jaw does not allow those who already be- long to the 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, - 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 3¢ per Ib at Townsend's.® e ——— information: supplied daily to public men by the 0!3(- Special hus}nes?‘ hcl-useiu(;ngu (Allen’s), 510 C! ny e ) Fomoery mibeet, Telephone Mair 1042. —ee————— Loud—DId you hear about that golf coat 3 OfInInNe? es; T heard it.—Yonkers States- man. FERIENCE 1S THE BEST TEACHER. X ingiisn Remedy In any case o Soughs, colds or croup. Should it fall to give Soteediate relief money refunded. At No Ve centage Pharmacy- Angostura Bitters, prepared by Dr. Slegert in South Ameriea for his private use, s the best appetizing tonle. Accept no other. 3 «wPalk about men being punished in ¢his lm:r !m-n their mlsdeex ," . exclaimed Gwilliams. M¥eil, what new light have you got on the subject,’ 'asked gfllnL “Didn't you read about that tornado out West a few weeks ago that strack a OMiin and upset a car? The only man in it who wasn't ‘hurt was the baggageman.”— Chicago Tribune. ADVERTISEKENTS.