The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 5, 1898, Page 4

THE SAN. FRANCISCO COALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER b5, 1898. DECEMBER s, 1808 JOHN D. SPREGKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications:to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. ;’UBLICATION OFFICE . .Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS.... 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents ‘@ week. By mall-$6 per year; per month 65 cents. . THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE One year, by mall, $1.50 ...908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE... i ..Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES— open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, apen untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. Boy Wanted Just for Fun." est Manhattan.” Private Secretary."” Alcazar—* e. a man, vaudeville and the zoo. “orner Mason and Eddy.streets, specialties. Sutro's Baths— nming. Mechanics' Pavillon—Charity Bazaar. Calumbia — Press Club Entertainment, Thursday After- poon, . December §. Sh cember Oskland R De- n - Clay Hall-Piano Recital Friday Evening, ce Track—Races to-day.® 1 5 ston: perous times. & 1d several advanced. There %&’yément, and business By Frank W. Butterfield—This Day, at 311 Octavia street, at a. m., Furniture. By Killip & Co.—Tuesday evening, December 6, at 7:3 o'clock, Thoroughbred Yearlings, at corner Market street and Van Ness avenue. 1898 BREAKS THE RECORD. T is customary in trade to base comparative con- I ditions on the heaviest previous business year until a new record-breaker occurs, when that, in turn, ie taken as the basis. These record-breaking years occur every now and then and are dispersed along the ercial highway of the country like so many mile , and are commemorative of exceptionally pros- For several years past the year 1892 has been the basis of comparison, as that year made the best average up to the present time. But we are new told by those whose husiness is to collate com- mercial statistics that hereafter 1808 will be the basic year. It seems rather odd to us in Califronia that 1898, which has been our “dry year,” should have been the most prosperous in the country’s history, but-if we are to-believe the figures of the commercial statisticians, it has broken the record in the volume of trade, though it is behind other years in the plane of values. In other words, prices have been low, but the-amount of business has been very large. Ii this e really true, it destroys the popular theory that war is destructive to business, for during four months of the year the United States was engaged in an expensive war with Spain. Indeed, it was observed throughout the whole course of the war that outside of Wall street the business of the country was hardly affected by the war, one way or the other, and The Call pointed out at the time' that a foreigner might travel from one coast of the country to the other with- out knowing that a war was in progress if he could be kept away from the newspapers. The foreign and internal trade of the nation went on as usual, and the people were as tranquil,as a cow chewing her cud. As the year goes out certain favorable conditions aré apparent. The iron and steel trade are excited over the placing of orders for from 500,000 to 700,000 tons of steel rails—more than 23 per cent of the coun- try’s annual production—at prices which, though not too satisfactory to manufacturers, indictate a stable ccndition of the trade. ‘The boot and shoe business is looking up, leather is steadier and hides are higher, and the early advent of winter in the South has ‘caused a marked improvement in the cotton market. The exports of flour and wheat from Atlantic ports last week were 7,484,000 bushels, against 6,500,000 bushels for the same week last year. The lumber trade seems to be improving, and the recent advance in prices-is maintained, while reports from the pro- ducing districts show that the heavy output has been satisfactorily handled. The general jobbing trade of the country has been'checked here and there by se- vere storms, but this is transient and incidental to the season. _The sales of wool in November were 30,875,- 000 pounds, against 34,122,000 for the same week last year, but they were effected only by concessions on the part of sellers. Manufacturers of woolen goods re- fiol"t rather larger orders, and the general opinion is that theWool trade has seen its worst days, though no marked improvement in prices is looked for un- til the'present enormous stocks become materially re- duced. The failures last week were 281, against 306 for the same week in 1897, ‘while the record for the month of November is said to be the best in this re- spect in the history ofthe country, and shows a grati- fying condition of financial soundness. The bank clearings continue to show a gain over those of last year, the increase last week being 15.8 per cent. The uncertainty connected with the Peace Commission unsettled Wall street during the early part of the week and led to some selling of our securities by for- eign holders, but that'was a mere passing cloud. On the whole the country seems to be going out of the year with flying colors. Locally there is little new. The lack of rain still hangs like '3 cloud over the State, and while last week's shower helped the pasturage in the northern part, the San Joaquin Valley and the southern portion of the State derived little benefit from it. Aslongasthe dry weather lasts the interior banks and merchants will be indisposed to advance seed to farmers, and this acts as a drawback to business generally. What the State needs more than anything else at the mo- ment is a good soaking rain, and when it comes there will be a general unloosening of purse-stringsall along the cqmmercial and,agricultural” line. There is no contraction of credits anywhere, and money is in abundant supply at the regular rates of interest, but capitalists, both individual and corporate, are dis- posed to go slowly until they are satisfied of favorable results from their advances. The tendency of prices during the past week was generglly fayorable to farmiers, . There was no decline it any drticle of<produce, i tle speculation d safe lines, “remedy -capable”of curing- gia 97 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | 106 Eleventh | ers seem to have no | hilarating delights of winter.” THE WORK BEFORE CONGRESS. S a rule comparatively little important legisla- fl tion is undertaken at the short session of Con- gress. That which is to be held this winter, however, may prove an exception to the rule. Cer- tainly there are great issues to be dealt with. ;The fact that the Senate is not fully under the contrgl of sound money men may prevent any attempt enact a currency reform bill, but with that exception there is hardly any important measure of needed legisla- tion that might not be accomplished this winter. Some of these measures, like that providing for the construction of the Nicaragua canal, have been long before the public. Others like the proposed legisla- tion for the promotion of American shipping have been given an increased importance by reason of the rapid expansion of our commerce, which is now car- ried on in foreign ships. Still others, like the demand for. the establishment of a parcels post, are new. All of them, however, are supported by a strong popular sentiment, and it is reasonable to expect that at least some of them will be provided for by the legislation of the session. : X The action of Congress will undoubtedly be largely. guided by the message of the President. It.is re- ported he will recommend an increase of the army. and the navy, the construction of the Nicaragua canal, a careful consideration of th: policy to 'be adopted with regard to the governmen:. of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines, but will not recom- mend any financial reform at this time. While these reports are more or less authentic, they will not in any way detract from public eagerness to read the message itseli. Mr. McKinley is a conser- vative statesman, well fitted to direct the affairs of the nation at this critical juncture. It is still freshly re- membered how he saved the country frora eommitting the blunder of recognizing the so-called Cuban re- public, and the people have, therefore, ample confi- dence that his abilities and his patriotism’ will enable him to settle up all the issues and responsibilities growing out of the war with Spain without commit- ting the United States to any policy adverse to its highest interests. 2 Certainly Congress assembles for its short session at a very critical period of our history. It is likely to be marked by debates o.. the highest themes that can engage the attention of statesmen, for such will be those involved in devising a government for Hawaii and for the islands freed by our arms from Spanish tyranny. - We shall see what our Senators and Representatives can *do with the great oppor- tunity before them. A ——————— NEW YORK BEATS LONDON. HAPPY coincidence has brought it about that /E\ the year in which the United States first . re- vealed themselvestto other nations as a great world power of commanding naval and military-pres- tige should also be marked as the year when for the first time New York outranks London as a com- mercial city. The commercial triumph is, in fact, the more surprising of the two. No one ever doubted that we could sweep the Spanish from the seas and drive them from the colonies they misgoverned, ,b'ug it was not at all expected that the honor of being:the world’'s commercial metropolis would be shifted from London to New York before the year was over. The figures and reports on which the claim of New York for supremacy are based are official. Mr. Van- derlip, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, is quoted as having said recently that the annual report of the Commissioner of Navigation would show . the. total value of London's trade in 1805 was $1,123,501;630 New York’s showing for the same period was $803,- 321,100. In the following year New York gained $137,080,338, while London advanced only about $27,- 000,000. In 1897 the figures for New York were $976,- | 898,235, a decrease from the preceding year, while London showed another slight gain. But 1808 has proved a banner year. Exports of merchandise have advanced fully $450,000,000, a greater gain than has been shown by any preceding twelvemonth. Imports of merchandise have not advanced, but there have been heavy imports of gold to put the figures up. *Al- together New York's foreign trade for 1898 will not be less than $1,300,000,000, while that of London is computed at $1,202,207,847. Of course the contest will be close for some years to come, and the fortunes of trade will vary. London will be ahead one year, and New York another, but in the end the advantage of New York will be so great that mere temporary fluctuations and changes in the commercial world will not affect her supremacy. She will be in the near future what London has been for so many years of the past, the commercial metropolis of the world. It is safe to say that if ever New York loses the supremacy she has now attained the loss will ‘be due tc the opening up of the Orient and the dcvefopment of great commercial cities on the Pacific. San Fran- cisco in this respect is the child of destiny. The in- dustrial progress of the United States has brought the mercantile center of thé earth to our Atlantic coast, and the progress made in the Far East may bring it to this coast at a time much earlier than is now expected. 4 THE BRIGHT SIDE OF A BLIZZARD, ARELY has that vigorous and buoyant Ameri- R can optimism which with a “frolic welcome takes the sunshine and the storm” been better illustrated than in the comments of the' New York Mail and Express on the recent fearful. storm that swept over the whole country from the Dakotas to the Atlantic coast. Our contemporary not only saw a bright side to the blizzard, but found it so radiant that it burst into a rhapsody of sparkling prose. The storm, it will be remembered, was one of the severest of recent years. Upon land and sea the de- struction of property and the loss .of life were great. The Mail and Express itself describes it as “a grand all-star combination of cyclone and blizzard.”” *One storm wind started from the south and the other from the far west. The two united in New:Jersey, and from there made a swiit and terrible advance. Way- farers caught in the blizzard were frozen on the high- ways, many destitute persons died of ‘the cold in"their unwarmed tenements, and on the sea-the number, of wrecks was appalling. After viewing and reviewing all these disasters the Mau and Express cheerfully advised its readeérs next morning after the storm to turn “from these distress- irg recitals to contemplate the beauty touches which the great cyclonic bliZzard has given to the visible world.” As an inducement to a study of these beauty | touches the genial and irrepressible optimist said: “The storm king is a scenic painter of surpassing’ genius. With his airy brush and his wealth of white he has given the outlines of castles and palaces and fairy dwellings to the monotonous structures reared by man. The trees, decked with feathery. plumes and glittering icicles, are like giant flowers from some ‘en- chanted clime, and the distant hills loom skyward as if they were terraced banks of habitable clouds. m of which means that it was a royal storm, gorgeous and beautiful, fitly heralding the approach of the ex- Californians will not begrudge he' Bast ich Wik ter delights, and if the people there find them -ex-~ hilarating, 'so ‘much the better. ; accounting * for tastes. 'We can ‘hardly re- frain from something of envy, however, for the cheerfulness ~ of the' happy liar who, after the: passing of a blizzard, can rise up and swear! that he likes it. Every American has the nerve to boast of: the prevailing weather of his locality, and few indeed who can survey the work of a winter blizzard ‘and shout with rapture, “It was a royal storm, gorgeous and beautiful.” WOMAN .AS A CRIMINAL. HATEVER ground a woman may have for W complaining that her natural “rights” are de- % nied her, when she turns criminal the basis of her’logic fails. As a criminal she has privileges no male could think of claiming. She is apt to be re- | garded as a heroine. At least she arouses a maudlin sympathy and escapes punishment. As to her privi- lege of slaying the man who may have wronged her, or have been simply her companion in evil, no serious question arises.” There may be an arrest, a perfunc- tory performance at court, which is merely a trial of patience and a waste of time. Under present condi- tions in cities around the bay any woman may kill any man she feels an impulse to kill, and fear no penalty more serious than her conscience can mete out. ¥ . In direct defense of her honor, as of her life, human 'judgmenz would sustain any woman if she slew her as- ‘sailant. No such circumstance has marked the numer- ous murders committed here by women. Usually they have been cold-blooded, deliberate, and so without excuse, that, with the tragedy reversed, the woman the victim, the man the assassin, the gallows would have been the end for him. The plain citizen does. not crave the probability of being eliminated from = the material world even by the gentle hands celebrated for a natural tendency to rocl: the cradle rather.than press ger. . Since the execution of Durrant, the monster who was hanged after a three years’ fight, the law agnins_t -murder has seemed in a degree effective. . There has grown up a restraining habit of dropping thugs and killers through the trap, reforming the individual and making him useful as an example. No similarly be- nign influence has been brought to bear upon the woman homicidally inclined. 'She has been taught that she has ‘nothing to fear from any violence, and ‘that a fit of hysteria and a gush of timely tears will wash away her guilt. THis'is not fair'to either sex. If the Shattuck woman had been hanged, as she richly deserved, for luring Harry Poole into ambush and shooting him, the man-killing habit would not have taken so firm a hold upon femininity. But this woman, heartless, brutal and cunning, was not pun- ished. On the contrary, the court permitted her to go, for the District Attorney, having convicted her once, saw the futility of undertaking the farcical pro- ‘ceeding again. Her sentence in the first place had been twenty-five years, yet there was not about her deed the first color of justification. The only woman who has been punished was Mrs. Worthington.. Pen- niless, friendless, weak in mind and body, geaded to lthe act by her husband, she excited'no sympathy. Lhe episode was not romantic nor the central figure a beauty with lachrymal founts on tap. She did not understand the science of applied hysterics. All the rest of the list have escaped. It is with no desire to appear harsh we call atten- tion to the recent tragedy in which the bride of a 'ni6nth sought the presence 6f her husband, first arm- ing Herself, and sent a bullet into his heart andanpther through his brain, She claims this was done in self- defense. If it was, the fullest opportunity should be given her to prove it, and if it was not, if she sought this man with intent to kill him, the penalty should be as quick and as severe as it would have been for him had he slain her, The mocking of justice has continued too long, for the rustling of a skirt may mark the approach of an assassin as truly as may the stealthy tread of the midnight footpad. It is high time for the distinction to be wiped out: The bullets sped by the hand of a bride carried death with them. How is such a deed less black because not the work of a man? Whatever fate may have in store for this self- created widow, it is certain that her career affords a dreadful lesson to foolish girls. She had been mar- ried without parental consent. .The husband was perhaps in many respects her equal, but he was in- capable of providing for her, and this she knew. In order to marry she was forced ta lead a double life, deceive her parents, and exist in a constant fear of | exposure, - A marriage which must be kept as secret as a thief keeps a robbery has in it no element of good, and the girl becoming a party to it is treading on dangerous ground along a path which can lead only to disgrace. i There ‘has as yet developed nothing to show that either mentally or physically the man was the stronger of the two. He did not seem as one who could in- fatuate and beguile. In these illicit alliances the error cannot always be put upon the man, though for his share of it he dwells in trembling fear and goes to his grave. She has a share also. . To hold her blame- éss #s a grievous wrong. A girl-who has the protection of a home does not need to be protected by a pistol. When she resorts ‘to it, let the consequences be visited upon her. There is no | declare the climate to be unsurpassed, but they are [ ENGLANDS EDTORS N DRE DANGER. The Author of the Immortal Words, “Not Simp‘lry{:{?isted. but Nailed,” W Prosecute Them if They Say Anything About ¥is Painful 01d"Con- tract With the Southern Pacific. In this era of fraternity, when we are even talking of an alliance with the British, our cousins over -the sea will surely permit us a laugh at their unconscious humor. They have heard there of the'sale of the Examiner’s good will to the Southern Pacific, and the subjdined ~excerpts from the Westminster Gazette show how fully they have grasped the situation: The Examiner and the San.F:ancisco Call have for many yvears added to the gavety of the American press by their ceaseless quarrelings and bickerings. They are perpetually flving at.one:another’s throat and semetimes one and then the other gets the upper hand. The Call {s at present. parforming a. lively war dance on the body of its rival. It alleges to have upearthed a very pretty piece of blackmail on the part of its rival. and its crowing is particularly vociferous. It declares that William R. Hearst. the proprietor of ‘the Examiner, was at one time promised $30,000 in installments from the South ‘Pacific Railway on the understanding that he would from that time consult .the interests of the railway and cease from all hostile criticism: This agreement was signed in 1892 and for a time, according to The Call, the South Pacific and the Examiner had a community of interests. Shortly after, however, the parties in this econtract quarreled. and although the, affair was arranged at the time, the evidence of the questionable transactions has now by some means pasged into the hands of The Call, which is not slow to rake the ashes of an old scandal on the head of: its rival. The text of the agreement has passed into it$ hands and it forthwith glves it In full as follows, under the title of “The Purchase of Hearst:" The company’ [is to enfoy imihunity ‘from hostility in thecolumns of the Examiner, and] s not ‘to be the victim of maliclous attack -or criticlsm, er of misrepresentation: that the Examiner will not seck to create hostile sentiment In the minds. of this commun- ity against the Southern Pacific Company, or any of the interests It represents, and that while not’ stipulating as against all criticism, it agrees that criticigin shall not proceed from any motive of malite or malignity, and that-such criticism as may be found neces- sary to keep and maintain the-confidence of the nublic .to the extent that any public sen- timent may have been created from dther sources, is to avoided as much as possible. Round the typewritten. agreement..which purports to be a rough copy, are scribbled the comments of the managers of .the Examiner. One of them agrees to the entire. document except a few words in brackets. Another says that “cer- tainly nothing else.would be satisfactory,” while a third asks, “How ddes this conform to your understanding?"’ Although more than six' years old the document is still a very.pretty cudgel for one newspaper'to belabor its rival with. ' Unfortunately the answer of the Examiner is not to hand. ? i p+ A Meanwhile The Call, with the vlew of slinging anot published phaotographs of what in American slang i ca..ed the Examiner's cold pig. This is the colloquial expression.for the upnsold returps of a newspaper, and the cartload In the eruel photograph s meant gently to convey that the Ex- aminer has not such a big circulation after all. st The fun came in where the editor took it all back. He recanted on the authority jof Creelman, a correspandent Whose aversion to the truth is paid for at space rates, Possibly Creelman could tell the truth, but indubita- bly he never does so, He was an accessory to the horrors of the war be- tween China and Japan, creating most of them himself and portraying with elaborate detafl thrilling series'of events which never occurred. In Cuba he conducted the campaign, the presence of the officers being wholly super- fluous and rather annoying. He was an eager target for Mauser bullets, and told with much elaboration the sensations of a brave man under fire. So when Creelman was instruected: to.call upon the editor of the Gazette and to tell him what was what the editor imitated Davy Crockett’s coon. Creelman added this to universal joy: To the Editor of the Westminster Gazette—Dear Sir: There is not a word of truth in the statement published in your columns based upon the San Francis- co Call's charge that the San Francisco Examiner had many years ago made an agreement with the Southern Pacific Rallroad by which the proprietoror man- agers of the Examiner were, in conalde{anon of a payment of a sum of money, to refrain from hostile attackson or criticism of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. The whole story is a _pure falsehood uttered bythe San Francisco Call, which is a mouthpiece of the Railroad Company, which now bitterly attacks the Examiner because the Examiner has for years maintained ~an ear- nest anti-corporation attitude. This raiload and its allied ‘‘trusts’’ on the Pacific Slope first sought to. shield themselves from honest criticism by attempting to crush the Examiner. They supported the Examiner's rival, excluded -the BEx- aminer from the railroad trains, and exerted their influence in every possible manner, public and private, to silence it. These facts are well known in the United States, and are repeated here now simply’ to meet a statement calcu- lated to decelve people in England who are not famillar with American af- fairs. The whole Pagific Slope has been for years in.the grip of a corrupt and tyrannical corporate clique, headed by the Rallroad Company, which has inspired the attack to which you give currency. The Examiner has led a pop- ular uprising against this despotic svstem. The railroad and its accomplices failed in their efforts to crush the Examiner. They then tried to cajole it with advertising and favors. Failing in this they are now trying to discredit it. The Examiner is in no way affected by suech an obviously false attack, and the conspiratorg have had to go a long way from San Francisco to find a newspaper other than their willing organ willing to publish this stuff. The Examiner is bring- ing a suit against The Call for libel and judgment is assured. T am instructed by cable by Willlam R. Hearst, the provrietor of the Examiner, to deny specifically every part of the story printed in The Call, and to hold to strict accountability in the courts all persons who repeat {t. Faithfully yours, JAMES CREELMAN, Temple Chambers, Temple avenue, E. C., November 14. The editor was scared. The threat of libel fetched him. The ridiculous folderol of Creelman, of course, could not be understood in‘London. How could they know there the Examiner was a ‘discredited and purchasable sheet, its virtue a jest and its record a scandal? So the editor sald this: [We are very glad to publish Mr. Creelman’s letter. Our paragraph was in- tended to be asummary of anewspaper controversy which has excited some in- terest in America, and we were careful to explain that the statements were ex parte allegations subject to the answerof the other side, .Mr. Creelman’s letter %erl'tlnhgs p“\"ts(}ai“ entirely different color upon the statéments made in The all—Bd. W. G. : 5 8o ‘he will not be sued for libel. Happy man. -He wouldn’t have been, and couldn’t have been, but the bluff worked wefl, -/ : But Crgelman had a pull with some other papers.. H¢ caunsed tha Even- ing Dispafch ‘of Edinburgh to fly ta the rescue of .Hearst .as.a man who was opposed to the Southern Pacific, but he did not tell it that he was so opposed because cut off from the payroll, a circumstance fully advertised out here. The Echo also, made comment displaying a childish ignorance of the situation, and a sweet and simple faith in Creelman. -The correspondent wrote a communication in which he sald—but why quote Creelman? There are Aesop and Munchausen to draw on. Creelman was instructed to make a general denial of the charge that Hearst had sold his toleration and he did it. He forgot to deny that the Examiner circulation is largely by way of the garbage erematory, but still he did very well. We congratulate Creel- man. In the world of fiction he holds a leading place, and is steadily lengthening the lead. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Fred L. Martin, U. 8.'N, is at the her bolt at its rival, has pleted on the stocks, inspected by Japa- nese officials, after which they were taken t}:: pieces and boxed for shipment to Yoko- ama. il At the Chatham dockyard the wages to workmen for the week ending November Grand. 12 was $250,000. This amount exceeded the Dr. W. D. Ward of Fortuna is at the | average weeks' wages by $100,000, and was Grand. due to the elaborate —‘war :preparations J.'F. Maxwell of Boston is a guest at|Which have necessitated "gonsiderable the Palace. grertime, -+ H. E. Barber of Stlckton is a guest at| A submarine boat, the invention of an the Grand. engineer in Berlin, 1s shortly to be tried Thomas Darwin of ;Chicago is at the | officially by the German Admiralt- in the Occidental. harbor of Kiel. The boat carrifes only three men and 1t has already been tried t® the extent of three hours continuous ;ravellng under water at a denth of nine eet. W: A. Newton of Chicago is registered at the Palace. Professor 8. W. Young of Stanford is at the California. George Newmann of El Paso is regis- tered at the Lick. 3 Mrs. Wyeson and daughter of Charles- town are at the Lick. L . Attorney P. H. Griffin of Modesto. is staying at the Lick. R. Bancroft, a merchant of Merced, is registered at the Lick. 3 Captain S. O'Nelll Murphy of London is staying at the Palace. H. B. Blagrave and valet of New Hamp- shire are at the Palace. - Vel §. Hartman, a merchant of Meréed, is registered at the Grand. C.'B. Butt and B. B. Belrs, U 8.°N.; are staying at the Palace, The Russian coast-defense ship Aprak- sin 'has passed through a continuous seven hours' trial under full power. The contract called for 5000-horse power, but the'trial developed §757. On the first trial the engines fell short of the power and the contractors were fined $14,400, which now is remitted. The ship made 15.07 knots over the measured mile course in four runs. -An almost forgotten act of naval heroism is retold of Admiral Lyons of the British navy, | Lyons.was a lieutenant, 21 years of age,” on 'the seventy-four-gun ship Minden ‘in"the East Indies, fighting the ‘Dutch.” One of the ‘strongholds was Fort A gentleman who was killed while on a ‘hupting trip it is now suspected shot himself deliberately, since it is discovered that his life was heavily insured. ‘Needless to say, the insurance companies do the sus- pecting. To the average judgment the good that after. 5 —_— Whether a woman has a right to kill a man who happens to have acquired her ill will has come to be ya pressing question, and might as well be ‘settled right now. A man may be imperfect and yet.commit no capital offense, and a woman as executioner is out of her element anyhow. The Shenandoah arrived in port with a story of a meteor which had flashed flamiagiacross the sky, and a reporter r‘ec‘ounp:d the yarn as a “long, fiery tale.” Perhaps he did not mean to do this, but either the scribe or the type machine was peculiarly honest. e SR b -General Kitchener is being severely criticized for having. put thousands of dervishes to the sword. When the critics can suggest a better use to which to employ dervishes their remarks will ¢arry greater | weight. Two people ‘have been found guilty of extortion, As to what the capitalist from whom they extorted ‘was guilty, of course the jury was not in a position to Some of the big non-| come West. If they some dreadful defects in the quarantine laws. ‘When professionalism begins to invade football the g;{if:'on would better be planted to.cgrn and the ar- tificial nose devoted to stage purposes alonal - l ‘money can do a dead man is hardly worth reaching | | of this scheme is the ' only for torpedo craft | Marrack in_Java, which the British cap- tain considered too strong to capture by his force of 450 men. The fort mounted 54 guns and had a garrison of. 300 soldiers, ‘ Charles T. Noack, a jeweler 'of Sacra- ‘mento, is a guest at the Lick. : George K..Hollitzelle and family, of St. Louls are guests at the Palace. Anthony Burdick and wife of Daven- port, Jowa, are at the Occidental. George Mainhart, a prominent miner from Grass’ Valley, Is at the Grand. . F. M. Romain and wife and Miss Hixon, of Fresno, are’at the Occidental. il Rl ey CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—Senator Per- kins arrived yesterday and is at the Al- bany Hotel. Representative De Vries and wife arrived to-night. Dr: Fred Clark and Captain Williams of Stockton are at the Hotel Johnso! NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVTES. | — The French naval budget of 1899 is $60,- 815,680 and provides for a large increase of officers on the active Jist, it being in- ‘tended to bring up the several squadrons to their fullest strength. .Two battleships of the Oslabya type are | to be laid down at the St. Petersburg navy yards, They will be of 12,374 tons dls- placement, . 434 feet in length, T4 feet € inches beam, apd. are to be built entirely of Russian material. The German Navy 1 onartment {8 pre- paring plans for making Danzlg Bay a naval station. A tract of land has been ‘acquired near Edingen and a torpedo- boat station will be established at P) sailors, effected a landin; made a dash a, fort and drov wounded. ‘His captaln .was furlous and Lyons narrowly escaped a court-martial, but when :the admiral of the fleet heard of the explolt he promptly promoted Lieu- tenant, Lym_\s and a few years later he was made a captain. e A serlous state of affairs Is reported on board the British battleship Majestic ly- Ing at Gibraltar. In consequence of the ship's company having strewn on the decks orange peel and other fruit debris the order was given that no frult was to be allowed on board and the hours of smoking were also curtafled. The crew felt aggrioved and on the might of No- vember 9 matters came to & crisls. Dur- Ing one of the watches all the hoat's thrown averboard. - The captain mustered the grew and told them that the mischief had been done by ours and cowards, The ringlehders have not been discovered, and all lenve has Been stopped, creating much bad feeling on the ship, all men are made to suffor for the acts of a few. A Bouth Atlantio statlon. é)uln and, Harrington executive officer, ne boat Kear Were tampered with or destroyed by a few of the discontented of the crew. of the and the iIntended station 18 probavly i ~and othor lght | prinot; tenc W»‘“" years In the penitentiary. ) ANSWERS TO CORR Araught. vessels. A . {Two Japanese torrdo hoats buitt by Normand at Havre have just been ocom- ad.* They are 130 fogt by i feat and 7 dnu‘g- They were entirely ooms *| phas; butmL_yon: con‘celved the idea that he could capture it, and contrary to orders he, vl&“{hme midshipmen and thirty-one g in two boats, gnl:n;t lh?mmlly prepared @ the soldiers out, arter Wwhich he spiked the guns and r:‘t:xrned to his ship “with a loss of only three falls were . cut and many articles were, similar dneident occurred in our navy on board the Hartford in 1870 while on the Mayo was cap- #0me of the guns and a lot of The ringlbadors were caught and the two M were tried, convicted and son- it WER ON T ROQF,"— 0. ZM“":R‘,’ = i The Fidmber the roof,” in connection with the.City g‘all eut l’Sa'fl Franeisco, is msantt.y me alleged jobbery with the tin roof tract of that building. City. As George A. Alexander, who flgured, in an unen- viable light in tie! dase of Durie l-(l]eithgl did not leave his htidress with this depart- ment at the time he left the city, ,“’-"en main away until the thing blew over, 1t is impossible to tell where he is at pres: ent. X THE WILMERDING SCHOOL—Educa- ° tion, Dixon, Cal. When the Wilmerding 1 { 1 | School is buflt it will occupy a_block of | land on the Potrero of San Frun_ci.?(‘u. | known as block 138, bounded by Seven- | sas streets. As vet the course of studies | has not been declded upon. | FATHER OF THE AMERICAN | NAVY—Esek Hopkins of Rhode Island is d to the name of “Father of the erican Navy.” He appointed commander in chief of the navy by the | Continental Congre: 1775. In 1776, while | fn commana of t colonial fleet, he | captured_the ships_Hawke and | Bolton. He was retired in 1777 for neglect | to appear before the naval committec on ! a charge of unnecessary delays. SULU GROUP—E., City. The Sulu ground mentioned in the peace treaty be- | tween the United States and Spain is an archipelago of more than sixty islands in the Mindoro Bea, between the Philippines and Borneo. Cagayen Suiu, the largest of the islands, is thirty miles long and twelve wide. It contains the town of the residence of the Sultan of the siands have a population of Soong is in 66 degrees 1 rth latitude, and 120 degrees 55 minutes and 51 seconds east longitude. THE RUSSIANS AND OPALS—W. C. D., City. The Russiar~ are very super- stitious in regard to opals. They believe that this exquisite stone, with its fairy light dancing over its delicate surface, will bring tears to the ~ves of the wedrer. No woman of rank will have an opal in her jewel box. The merchant or the or- dinary shopper, if he snon . see an. opal, will that day not make any purchases for fear that ill luck will attend the pur- chase. The Russians fear the influénce of the stone, but they are unable to tell why. CAVEATS—H. C., City. The filing of caveats is sometimes of great importance, as it may be quickly done and affords im- mediate protection against the issue of a patent without the knowledge of the caveator. - The object is to give the in- ventor time to perfect his imvention.. A caveat consists of. a petition, specification, drawing and afiidavit of invention. The filing of a caveat does not secure any ex- clusive right of sale, the patent sectres that. If you have a valuable invention and have to have a mgdel made, you should first secure a caveat or place the matter in the hands of a rellable agént. You have a right to dispose of your in- vention to any one at any time. MATCHES—S., City. A number of per- sons have been named as the inventor of the phosphorus match. ‘“Invention” says that “it appears that the real inventor was a Hungarian, James Irinyi. When he was a student, 19 years old, in 1835, he attended the Polytechnic School at Vi- énna, and was a student of chemistry un- der "Professor * Meissner. Heé becam greatly impressed by a demonstration oy the reaction -produced by _rubbing ‘to- gether peroxide of lead and sulphur. It struck him that the reaction might be gregulK intensified when _substituting orus for sulphur. Irinyl was not seen for several days by his fellow-stu- dents; but when he rejoined ‘them he had his pockets full of matches, which he struck on the wall, all ‘taking fire. He sold his invention, it is recorded, to a merchant pamed Romer for about $3500. | teenth, Mariposa, Rhode Island and Kan- GERMAN MILWAUKEE. The theater, art and science have found a home in the German city of America. One German and three English theaters offer to the public an abundance of varied pleasures, and all eminent in-intellect and art are accustomed to stop in Milwaukee on their American travels. A public li- brary, as well as a picture gallery and a museum, offer gratuitous instruction to » every one. In the fall there is an annual industrial and agricultural _exhibjtion, which with each year receives a greater abundance of contributions. DoZens. of German glee clubs and athletic tions. serve for social {ntercour: As might be expected, the English language 13 used in the conduct of business, al- though at least from 50 to 60 if not a greater, per cent, of the people have com- mand of the German language, which is taught in the public schools. In almost every business, in nearly all the commercial houses, which are for the most part conducted by Germans, the German lmguage is used along with the English, and, so ignorance of German is regarded as great a fauit as ignorance of Ernglish, if not a greater one. Recently an attempt was made-to remove the German language from the curriculum of the pub- lic schools, but the inquiry instituted for this purpose produced a result very vexa- tious to the Iinvestigators. The over- whelming . majority of the non-German parents decided in favor of having their children taught the German language. Thus Milwaukee, in this case also, has socia~ made food her . reputation as the Ger- man_city of America.—From the Chau- tauquan, ——————— HUMOR OF THE DAY. ‘“What is a decadent?’ “A decadent? - Well, he is a man whe borrows money to pay his board while he writes morbid poetry that he can't sell.”— Detroit Free Press. ““Won't you miss the news and bustle of war in the country?”’ “No; I'm going to take Jimmy and Bobby, and they have only one gun and drum between them.”—Detroit Free Press. Mrs. Enpeck—The philosophers tell us th?t blessings often come to us in dis- guise. Mr. Enpeck (with a sudden show of spirit)—Say, Maria, when are you going to unmask?—Cleveland Leader. Mrs. X (observing: her friend at work upon the floor of the kitchen)—Why in the world don’t you get a servant to scour your floors? Mrs. Y.—Because, my dear, I'd have to scour the town to get a servant.—Life. mx&mue—s, o you and Jack have quareled, you? Ella—Yes; he sald something that I didn’t like, and I told him we must be strangers henceforth. T lil(M le_h‘Al;Ad gild hg‘ 2 as| ‘orgive him? Ell s‘ixNgt he. You see he—that is, his knees were occupied at the time.—Chicago News, “I understand she went to the theater while she was away, in spite of the fact that she was in mourning,” sald the tall on his knees and b od gossip. ngg§2!?rsl|§° did,” answered the friend of the absent one. “¥ATd they say that, of all things, she went to see a comic opera.’ “That's so, too; but it's all right.. She explained it all to me very carefully. The fere was ‘The Black Hussar.’ "—Chicago ost. ———— Cal. glace fru.. 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® it s bt iy Our store will be open evenings until Christmas. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Mar- ket street. L3 Speclal fnformation supplied dally te business house::s 1nd'p(uAI: ic men by the Clipping Bureau (Allen's), Moy :)qr:e;:ry -gr"cel'.‘ ‘Telephone hm% '3" Ifls a Much has been said of late in to the wholesomeness of apples, Paris speclalist says that women who want to have clear complexions ought to eat three or four apples a day. y act on the lver, “Mrs. Winslow’'s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by millions of mothers for thelr children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child,” softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Collc, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Drugglsts in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soething Syrup, 20 a bottle. 3 i . HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantasec of the round-trip tickets. Now only §60 by steamship, including fifteen days’ board at b longer stay $2 60 per day, Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco. ; ’ e % ! DRINK A STEEPING OF MOKI TEA BE- and_see ou . will. aleep und bow the morning. #ui Ih~you.n- g.bl 101 Joyously #lok hea * 1 1t supplies food for the ces & olear and