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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 189 RECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, M ;l'BLlCATIO.\ OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson Street JOHN D. SP THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL, 18 pages OAKLAND OFFICE... | { One year. by mall, 8 ..908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFKE.. ..Room 188, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. | WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE... Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE .. Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. | { e | BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street. osen until | 930 o'clock. €21 McAllister street. open until 9:30 | o'clock. 6i5 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o%lock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 | Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open until 9 oclock. 1505 Polk street, open | until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner” Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. | AMUSEMENTS | Specialties. Recital. AUCTION SALES, | | y, Japuary 7. Horses and Ve- ong that vet it rt its weight | il read it, tudy of careful public affairs read with since it records no- be | sage is the ,!m\\ing' the State government. i out that his | 1897, inclusive, | as the Governor can derable space is given to | direction of tax reform. Under | ate of the tax levy is in the| ization rather than in that | place a high he State the tax rate revenue will be 1 ired to raise an equal f During the ternately 1 ers have al- vear certain members of telegraphed to Boards of for a reduction in | and many counties | ting from such a condi- State because | the rate, and | d a Board of edore and shuttlecock with t understand the combina- They do understand, however, | dinarily instead of a progressing State, | rates destroy property as a basis for | the advantages which| n such a change in the laws as would | rs to be chosen by the people of the | " State at large instead of by districts, and the facts sub- | mitted by the Governor strengthen the argument for: v The message, however, advo- vider innovation, and proposes a complete re- modeling of our tax system. Some striking instances are given to show the injustice of the present system . - and the extent'to which ‘personal property escapes * taxation. gested reform. - 2 . . | Another important recommendation is the creation | of a Centrz and two State officers, to have general charge of mak- | ing <cor for State buildings and to regulate sala- | ries .and © er employes, etc., in State institu- tions. Such a board would enable many-reforms to be carried out w 1 are now impossible because of the Jack thority to enforce them. Hardly nt or branch of the State government is overiooked in the message, and wher- ever evils are noted well considered reforms are sug- gested. It is a state paper which should be thor- oughly studied by. the legislators. for many of the re- s ra commendations made ought to be carried out at this | session. s e e The present Board "of Education has the advan- tage of being displayed against the background of the rascality of the old set. If fairly honest. they will shine ‘as models of virtue by contrast, and if con- scientious and thorough they will be rated as but little lower than the angels. There was nio necessity for a Police Commissioner to say he had not read the statement of the intended reid on the police force i He merely exposes self to the danger of not be- ing believed. Thank you, Professor Hammon. But now that the inauguration is over and there is no gold braid to be endangered by rain, we could stand a few more showers. Governor e. thinks papers are paid too much for the publication of constitutional amendments, but he should remember that they print his speeches and never charge a cent. e Governor Gage intends to keep the staff of his law office together so as to be able to resume practice in four years. ‘ Fortunately he was able to give a job to each. The plot against the police seems to have been in- jured by exposure, 1 i will do so. ate Board. to consist of the Governor | the interest of Dan Burns. | GOVERNOR GAGE'S BOORISHNESS. ENRY T. GAGE is now Governor of Califor- nia. The position is one exalted in station. The incumbent has power to promote good government, to advance economical methods, and in great mieasure to check the spoilsman. He can dis- courage corruption, overthrow abuses. He can bring to the executive chair dignity, and be an honor to the place which is an honor to him. But because such rich opportunities present them- selves there does not follow a certainty that they will be grasped. No assurance exists that an individual will live measurably near to the ideal. Already it is tc be observed with regret that Governor Gage is too small to bear well the trust imposed. A large man regards himself as chosen to be the of the people. A small man swells to absurd propor- tions, and fondly imagines that he buiges impress- ively. Or he can listen to the voice of the scheming politician and think it the mandate of the party or the commonwealth. These are errors into which Gage ady to have fallen. Unless he take steps to te himseli at once he will become hopelessly servant extrical mired. When the editor of the Sacramento Bee sent to the Governor-elect for an advance copy of the inaugural ge for the benefit of the Associated Press Gage mes took the request, twisted it into a roll and asked if McClatchy expected an answer. Being assured that ke did, Gage replied, “I'll be — —— if I give it,” turned on his heel and regarded the incident as Yet by it he had made one active enemy and ronted all the leading papers of the State. Such conduct boorish, and boorishness comports ill with a governorship. Gage should have known that even Presidents of the United States send out their messages in advance and never question but that aith will be kept. When in his rambling speech of cceptance Gage had said he would rather be Gov- was ernor of California than President of the nation peo- ple supposed him to be indulging in figurative com- ant it, and to regard pliments. He seems to have clay so common that the more his character is mani- est the more the marvel at his fortune grows. r supposing that Gage would His paucity of 1deas, and the he vehicle of speech he em- ng the campaign. The effort [ ts in the conduct of the | tO &et the address in advance was no tribute to him, | product and most of our orange output will be lost. zests others | but a perfunctory duty toward the office into which | The raisin must be grown in a naturally arid region he.has been projected. Nevertheless, he chose to re- gard it as a favor to be sought by cringing journal- lining to grant it that he had scored a triumph. Such papers as want to print the address In all probability it will be given more ists, and in space than its worth will warrant, and thus the execu- an unnecessary and de- tive conceit be augmented, plorable contingenc; | | | THE FEDERAL BRIGADE. HE Federal office-holders who are absent from their o no credit and the national adminis- doing thems tration no good whose patronage the estin power to give them o Insofa v enjoy and are dishonoring it in the people whose votes gave it the 1Ce. ion in B * fight indicates the preference of the Presi- dent, they are insulting the man whose commission they bear. The President takes no part in the elec- tion of a Senator in California, and his own| appointees deserve rebuke for placing him in a false Because these office-holders have received appoint- ments and are drawing salaries is no reason why they should attempt to control the Senatorial choice of the party and force it to do an unclean thing. There is not a decent man in California that does not know that the election of Burns will inflict an injury upon the Republican party from which it will not recover for years. What right, then, have these men to strike down the hopes which others have invested in future | party success by an act which makes such success for a long time impossible? Not only every seli-respecting Republican who has no wish for public office, but also every such Repub- lican who has ambitions that can be realized only by future party victori should say to these Federal office-holders that their presence in Sacramento on such an errand is an offense, an indecency, an affront to the party and an insult to the State. They should be ordered back to their offices to do the duty for hich they are paid and which they neglect to engage in while cutting their party's throat. It is hinted that Burns has long tipped off races on his several tracks to certain of these office-holders, { who in return go into his fight for the Senate. If this is so. it is not only a reason why they should be or- | dered home, but dismissed from their offices or sur- { rendered by their bondsmen. While they are paying back their obligation for racing tips the Federal | court in this city is'engaged in collecting $50,000 from i the sureties of Welburn, who turned the Internal Rev- | enue Office into a mixture of racetrack, lottery agency [and assignation house. This administration should see to it that these of- | fenses are not repeated, and that the Federal service is not dragged in the mire by such methods These office-holders got enough when they got on the pavroll. Let them keep hands off the party and attend to the duties for which they are paid. /\ campaign for free silver the Democratic party has been so weakened that when the next Con- | gress meets there will be not a single straight Demo- | crat in the Senate from the Northern States. Nor will there be a solid Democratic representation from the South, as the Republicans will have ten Senators from that section. The conservative branch of the Govern- ment will be safely in the hands of Republicans, and free trade and free silver are no longer issues of prac- | tical politics. g Under these circumstances it is natural the Demo- crats should begin to look for a leader who is not identified with either the free trade or the free silver fiasco. Even among Democrats who believe in those theories many are no longer in favor of making an- other fight for them. The Nashville American, for example, says: “We are Democratic from headpiece to footslug, but we believe we are sagacious enough to see a brick wall when it stands in our pathway,” and it adds: “There is a chance for Democracy to make a strong fight in 1900, but it is not by blindly forcing leaders or issues to the front that have been rejected at the ballot-box.” | A BOOM FOR GORMAN. S a result of the Wilson tariff and the Bryan In the general search for a new leader the attens |ria has several statesmen who could be spared. | b; r as any of them pretend that their presence | tion of the Democrats is at this juncture directed mainly toward Gorman, who has a fairly good record on tariff and finance questions, but who, nevertheless, stood with his party in the Bryan campaign. His colleagues in the Senate are strongly in'his favor, and he seems to have considerable support throughout the country. In a recent interview published in the New York Herald Senator Faulkner of West Virginia, after de- claring his opposition to the renomination of Bryan, said: “I have in my mind a man whom I regard as the ablest leader the Democratic party can boast of to- day. I do not care to mention his name, but he is now a member of the United States Senate.” It is significant that in no quarter does there seem to be any doubt who was meant by the statement, and every comment on it has been a discussion of the availability of Gorman as a Presidential candidate. The suggestion has not been received with uni- versal approval even among those who wish a new leader. The Nashville American, which itself favors an abandonment of the free trade fight for the pres- ent, strangely enough objects to Gorman on the ground that while he “is able, a good organizer, a man of brains, he is not in accord with the general Democratic doctrine of tariff for revenue only.” The more serious objections to the suggestion, however, are those based upon Gorman's record as the political boss of Maryland. His practices there were so corrupt as to force the better element of his own party to revolt against him. That record would be fatal to him as a candidate for the Presidency. However able a leader and organizer he may be, he is best known to the country as a machine politician, and he is, moreover, without magnetic or other popu- lar qualities. He is undoubtedly the first choice of his Senatorial colleagues, but the day when a clique of Senators could nominate a President has gone by. The Gorman boom, therefore, is perhaps much larger now than it will be in 1900. tion this winter is some measure for defense | O of California forests against fire. When one reflects upon the range and variety of interests de- | the subject assumes an im- | PROTECT THE FORESTS. NE of the most important matters of legisla- { | | ‘pendent on our forests, | himseli as awful and mighty. On the contrary, he is | pressive magnitude. The lumbering interest may be temporary here, as it has been in Michigan, Wiscon- | sin and Minnesota, or it may be made a permanent | interest by treating timber as a crop which may be | | harvested and grown. Agriculture and horticulture | and mining depend on the conservation of moisture | y preserving the forest shelter of the mountain slopes and plateaus. Without irrigation our raisin where the heat and dryness add sugar to the graps and dry it to a raisin in the open air. The fruitfulness of the vine requires in such a situation ample irriga- tion. The whole crop of this State depends on irri- | gation, and without it we would not grow enough| raisins to pay for shipping to a market. The same is | true of the orange. It must have sun and dry air and | | | enough moisture at the root to make up for evapora-| , g | tion from the foliage. Without this the fruit is small| In a Me: and the rind thickens. i Other important field nad | orage crops require irrigation. The mountain for- | icsts are the water reservoir of the State. Destroyed » | at the rate at which they are now being consumed by | & ces in this city in order to be present in | fire that reservoir will soon disappear; the soil will| PHOTOGRAPH COLORING—S. M. H., Sacramento doing politics for Dap Burns are | wash off its rock foundation, and when rain falls or snow thaws water will come down in irre- | They are doing harm to the party | sistible torrents instead of going into the shaded soil | ¢1& to descend slowly into its natural channels and reach | the irrigator in such volume and at such season as is | | most useful to him. x The miner depends upon the same resource, for | water for his steam or electric power, and for running : stamp mills, washing gravel and in every essential | process of his industry. Finally, the climate itself, prized possession of Cali- | fornia, depends materially upon the preservation of | | the forests. It is to be hoped that the two universities will add | to their colleges a college of forestry. Cornell has ! done this, and has placed at the head of it Dr. Fer- | | now, long at the head of the forestry division of the | Department of Agriculture at Washington. The | State of New York has acquired 320,000 acres of for- est in the Adirondacks for the purposes of this col- | lege of forestry. California has a greater wealth and a greater stake | in her forests than all the rest of the Union combined. { If the universities found schools of forestry their | classes will be sought by young men who have a |taste for this most interesting pursuit. If the State provide an organization for policing the forests in the summer season it should be required that the students of forestry in the universities shall have the preference in that employment. Then will be opened a way to save the forests, to aid the study required and to help | the many young men who energetically work their way | through the university. At Berkeley there is a stu- | | dents’ woodyard, run by co-operation of students who have to pay their way as they go. They buy wood, saw and peddle it. From such material as that the State could enlist its forest police, help students and prevent the vast and destructive summer fires. | | The young men would acquire valuable practical knowledge in botany, dendrology and geology, lines of learning necessary in scientific forestry, and we { would have a well-equipped army of trained foresters, ! sufficient in number to oversee our whole forest area introduce economic methods into the timber harvest, preserve the oncoming crop and preside usefully over | the great interests of the miner, the lumberman, the | horticulturist and the agriculturist. By this plan the forest policy of the State would be | | administered .without making it a part of a political | machine. Its continuity of policy would be unbroken ! and every dollar spent in it would bring a dollar’s !worth of benefit with compound interest. | It would be well if the Legislature could have the | benefit of counsel with the authorities of the univer- | | sities on this subject. They both have botanical and | | agricultural departments and professors who are very | competent to advise, The Miners’ Association, State | Board of Trade and Sierra Club have already taken | some action in the premises, and doubtless have ideas | | and information that would aid to a legislative con- iclusion. The organizations of fruit-growers and ! dealers and the lumber interests should join with ! these and see to it that at least a beginning is made | during the present session. i | Porter Ashe will keep his seat on the simple ground that he was elected to it legally. There are legislators who will regard this ground as extraordinary and bordering on treason, but happily they. are in the mi- nority. Perhaps it was allowable for a Governor-elect to have a fit of the sulks, but for a Governor to do o is far from dignified. Ii people do not stop blowing up the powder trust it might give them a taste of their own medicine. Dewey want's a statesman'’s assistance, and Califor- ‘ Vallejo, Cal. | steamer AROUND THE CORRIDORS W. A. Frost of Chicago is at the Palace. T. O. Toland of Ventura is at the Lick. P. J. Kuler of Philadelphia is at the Grand., George W. Brooks Jr. of Chico is at the Grand. ¥. H. Dyer of Salt Lake City is at the Palace. C. J. Black of Los Angeles is at the Oc- cidental. Charles G. Lamberson of Visalia is at the Lick. S. J. Kraemer of Portland is staying at the Palace. Mrs, Charles Ferneaux of Hilo is at the Occidental. A. O. Norton of Boston is a guest at the Occidental. N. P. Wallace of Detroit is a guest at the California. A. C. Kuhn of San Jose arrived at the Palace yesterday. David Cobb and wife of San Jose are guests at the Lick. E. J. Dubois, a miner of Paris, is a guest at the Grand. C. A. Edwards and wife of New York are at the Occidental. L. W. Moultrie, a railroad man from Fresno, is at the Lick. Marc Newman of Philadelphia is regis- tered at the California. C. E. Wood of Washington, D. C., is a guest at the California. James McCudden, a contractor of Val- lejo, is registered at the Palace. F. B. Walker, a capitalist of Minneap- olis, is a guest at the Occidental. Captain John E. Boyer of the First Washington Volunteers is at the Palace. Robert Frazer and John S. Dovey, both of Philadelphia, are guests at the Palace. Dr. A. E. Osborne of Eldridge and Dr. G. W. Dwinell of Montague are at the Grand. E. Smith of Denver and W. H. Brevoort of New York, two prominent mining men, are at the Palace. J. C. Stubbs, general traffic manager of the Southern Pacific Company, left in his private car for the East last night. He | was accompanied by ex-Senator Charles N. Felton Major and W. C. Ralston. eneral R. H. Cunliffe, retired, of the British army, arrived on the over- land last night and is at the Grand. Gen- eral Cunliffe served for over thirty in the native army in India. colo; years He was a nel in the staff corps in 1883 when he retired with his present honorary <. During the Indian mutiny he ed in Madras. He is here on a pleas- | ure trip en route to Honolulu. His home is in London, and he expects to return there. —_— e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Jan R. W. Vincent f Los Angeles, Harry Unna and wife, M'rs. M. Fitzhugh and child, of San Fran sco, are at the Imperial; August C | Hinz of San Francisco is at the Belve- dere; Mrs. M. L. Leach and C. M. Fickert, of San Francisco, are at the Majestic. B T ANSWE. RS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A KILOGRAMME: D. 8., City. A kilo; A gramme is equal to 15432348 grains troy. ICAN DOLLAR—A. D. S., City. n dollar there are 417.4% grains of silver 27 fine. POLITICAL CLUBS—Politicus Legalis, City. The Codes of California do not rovide for ‘‘the general and internal or anization of political parties and clubs.” If you desire to become an adept in the art of coloring photographs address a communication to any first- photographer, who will give you such information as you desire. JNARD VESSELS—E. J. V., City. The largest vessels of the Cunard line are the | Lucania and the Campania, twin vessels | of like dimensions. 620, breadth £5.3, 12,850, net 5000, indicated horsepower 30.000. WORDEN PIPE—M. W. B, Crockett, Cal. The records of the Patent Office from October, 1898, back to January, 1878, fail to show that any one by the name of Worden_was granted a patent by the United States Patent Office for a sewer pipe. WHITE STAR STEAMER-E. J. V., City. There is now being built for the The length of each is | White Star line the Oceanic, the longest | &4 steamer that was ever built. It will be 705 feet long, 83 feet beam and 50 feet depth, with a draught of 25 feet, horse- power 45,000, LICK OLD LADIES' HOME — Henri- etta, City. The name of the Lick Old Ladies’ Home has been changed to the University Mound Old Ladies’ Home. The home is not at this time rec: ng any applications for admission, but when it does the cost for admission is 3500 for one who has reached the age of 62, WORLD'S POPULATION—The latest computation of the population of the earth is that of M. d'Amfreville, given out in 189, who gives it at 1,479.729.000, divided as _follows: Asia, § Africa, 163,933 Oceanica and po! ustralia, $,230,000. CHINESE—J. H., Placerville, Cal. As there is no census showing the number of natives of this State of Chinese par- ents who on the 8th of last November were of voting age, it is impossible to an- swer the question “How many individu- 0 lar regions, 7, als of Chinese parents born in California, | who, being 21 years of age and over, uid {‘;nl vote at the election held last.Novem- | er?” ARMIES—E., W. A., City. In time of peace Russia has the largest standing army. It numbers 1,743,200 men. Which is the best drilled army of the world is a matter about which there is considerable division of opinion. It is a claim laid for the English, German and French armies, and there are some who hold that the | United States regular forces are entitled o that honor. LETTERS TO MANILA-F. W. A, City. A letter directed to a person in Manila, P. I, will be sent out from the postoffice in San Francisco by the first that sails direct or_ by the steamer going to Hongkong. When the mail for Manila goes direct the letters are delivered at the postoffice there. If sent by way of Hongkong it remains at that lace until the regular steamer between ongkong and Manila sails. A steamer leaves Hongkong for Manila every five days. FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS-R., City. In the list of foreign newspapers pub- lished In San Francisco appear the follow- ing: German—California Demokrat, Cali- fornia Staats Zeitung, California Volks. freund, Deutsche Vereins Zeitung, Abend Post and San Francisco Tageblatt; Ital- ian—La Voce del Popolo, I'Elvazia, I'Im- parziale and I'Italia; Scandinavian—Bien and Paclfic Skandinavian; Slavonian—He- vatska Sloga; French—Le Californien and 1'Impartial Californien; Spanish—El Com- mercio, Mexican, La _Opinion Publica; %yls]sd«u Svizzera; Japanese—The New orld. VICTORIA CROSS—J. H., Placerville, Cal. The decoration called the Victoria Cross was Instituted on the termination of the Crimean campalign of 1856. It may be granted to a soldier of any rank and for a single act of valor. The cross of the Legion of Honor, the Crimean campaign, served a purpose in the French by none of the British decorations, and it was in imitation of it that the Victoria Cross was founded with the inscription “For Valor,” and which can be given to none but those who have performed in the presence of the enemy some signal act of valor or devotion to country. It is in the form of a Maltese cross of bronze. In the center is the ro¥a.l crown, surmounted by a lion, and below on a scroll the words “For Valor.” The rib- bon is blue for the navy and red for the army. On the clasp are two branches of laurel, and from it the cross hangs, sup- Efifled by the initial “V.” The decoration accompanied by a pension of ten 4pounds sterling a year, depth 43, gross tonnage | as was felt during | army_ which was served | THANKSGIVING CHEER AMONG SOLDIER BOYS By Corporal Special Corresponde: MANILA, Dec. 3—The coming of transports is now of almost daily oc- currence, sometimes one sometimes two |or three arriving in one week. They all bring troops and the Eighth Army Corps continues to grow in size, as well as in grace and wisdom. Among other bodies there have come to our hospita- ble shore the ‘“terrible” Tennesseeans, { who have gained for themselves such | fear-inspiring reputations for valorous | deeds and desperate work accomplished | | during their campalign in San Fran- cisco. Their reputation has preceded | them, and from all I hear I think it is safe to promise them the warmest | kind of a time as soon as they com- mence to ‘‘spread themselves.” There are a few “warm babies” in the regi- | ments already here who are more than | willing to constitute themselves a re- | ception committee and do all they can | to demonstrate how kindly they feel toward the men from the South for the | manner in which the latter requited ‘Western hospitality. Thanksgivin~ day proved a great success. I did not see much of it my- self, as I was ordered to the hospital, | but from all accounts things were | made to go with a zip, boom, ah! Dur- | ing the cooler hours of the day there were athletic games ashore, boat races {afloat and a general come and have | something time everywhere. At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon our boys—or at least those who were well enough to | do so—became the guests at dinner of the Minnesotans. They were enter- tained by their hosts company by com- !pany in different restaurants of the city. Every one had a first-class time, and when the homeward journey com- menced it would have been hard to de- termine by the devious trail left behind { which was the “field and staff” and Which the ‘“rank and file.” As for the “line”—well that was so crooked that a man had to turn around before he could tell the way it led. The Minne- otans are good fellows, from a good | place, and the celebration was the nat- ural outcome of the more than ordin- | arily good feeling that exists between | their regiment and our own. The honor of acknowledging this honor done the Californians fell upon | Lieutenant Colonel Duboce, who is known as Manila’s “silver-tongued Ajax,” and gallantly did he acquit him- self of the pleasant duty. _The sick in hospital had as good a ime as their condition would permit. Being an inmate of Ermita Hospital, 1 dined there, partaking of an excellent | dinner provided by Dr. McCarthy. It | was spread under a tent, the gift of | Father McKinnon, and served on tables | loaded with delicacies from the hospita- | ble Red Cross storehouse, the doors of | which were unlocked and thrown wide | open by J. O'C. Schlott. | It was a curious and rather pathetic | sight to look along the rows of tables laden to the breaking point with every | obtainable delicacy, and then glance | from the board to the faces lining it— wan, sunken faces, upon which the pal- lor of sickness had overcome the bronze | of the soldier; faces wistful and tired of expression, lightened by eyes which would kindle with a momentary flash of pleasure as they rested on the good | things provided, only to grow dim | again with the recollection of that | home for the loss of which these same | delicacles were offered in compensation. However, the affair was a success, | notwithstanding its environment. | Speeches were made by Dr. McCarthy, Father McKinnon, Mr. Schlott and others, who were, in turn, feebly cheer- by their guests. En passant, I | would like to remark a peculiar charac- | teristic of the volunteer soldier. He cheers on all occasions and at all times, \cvn the slightest provocation or without any provocation at all. He cheers when he hears a piece of good news; he cheers when the news is bad; he { cheers at reveille; he cheers at retreat; he cheers at mess call, and he cheers | to the very echo the speeches of his | superiors, which are, as a rule, on a { par with the food. Yes, the American | volunteer soldier has a penchant for | cheering, which is surpassed by noth- {ing I know of, unless it be the passion possessed by the volunteer officer’ to make poor speeches at every appropri- ate apportunity. The rainy season is supposed ‘» he over, but still it rains about three- | fourths of the time, which, though un- pleasant as it makes traveling {and moving about out of doors is really a blessing in disguise, as it | makes parades (the abomination of the | enlisted man), an impossiblity. Con- | sequently, the boys spend most of their time within the shelter of their bar- racks, discussing rumors which come | floating down the line with a rapidity | and diversity which would make one's | head swim. Who gives them birth, whence they originate none can say. They always have been, they are, and, | as long as the army exists, they will | continue to be. | _ The latest one which comes to me as | I write is that we are soon to leave Ma- nila for Honolulu to take the place of | the New York regiment, which will | then be ordered here. Of course there | 1s not the slightest truth in this report, but if it were so it would be an excel- | lent arrangement. The New Yorkers | are very anxious to get here; the Cali- | fornia boys are “crazy” to get home or | as near there as possible. Transports | have to come and go. Why not make | the change and make every one happy? ‘We received the papers here recently | and noticed therein a statement by cne | who, in diplomatic language, would be characterized as “a certain exalted per- sonage.” Said,personage affirmed, if he is correctly quoted, that the boys of the First California were anxious to | stay here as long as the Government desired their services. The boys are anxious to do nothing of the kind. They want, almost to a man, to get home | just as soon as they can be taken there. ‘Their work has been accomrlished and they object to being used as a stepping | | | stone to ambition, be that ambition | ever so worthy. Did all the corre- | spondents, whether ssiopal or otherwise, look through the ranks once |in a while instead of over them they would not only get a more correct idea of how the men feel concerning vari- | ous_matters, but would discover much | food better fitted for reflection than for | digestion. | General King has arrived, but as he | is ill with the ordinary climatic com- } plaints Colonel Smith continues to | command the brigade and Lieutenant Down at Manila the Men From Minnesota Feed the Favorite Sons of California. F. A. Healy. nce of The Call us, and in taking Temple took a fel- low whose place in the ranks, as w as in the hearts of his comrades, will be hard to fill. The sick list is now at the low water mark. In both divisional and conva. lescent hospita!s we have but nin one man, the smallest sick list s our entrance intc Manila. Dr. O'Brien is soon to leave for homa in charge of the sick, who will go on the next transport. This position been given him as a reward for his cellent service at the smallpox hospital. Lieutenant Dohrmann goes with Dr. O’Brien, as it is thought a sea voyagas is necessary to perfect the lieutenant's recovery from his attack of typhoid fever. Captain Frank Warren of H company has been ordered to hold him- self in readiness to leave at a moment’s notice with his dispatches for Washing- ton. These orders to Captain Warren are quite a compliment, and if strict en- forcement of discipline and close at- tention to duty go for anything, the compliment is well deserved. it FLOATING FUN. "‘What is he matter with the Turk?” s-sh! Poor fellow! He has twenty- eight wives, and he has just learned that some one is going to start a combination millinery and dr: goods establishment gext door to the harem.”—Washington tar. “I heard a queer expression the other day. I was speaking to a lady of the fina Wrentha and she ex- I know that town—it's ectly delicious old graveyards.’ ”"—Boston Transcript. - Bainbridge—Don’t sit in that barber's chair. It will take him too long to shave you. Tillinghast—Is he slow? Bainbridge—Worse than that. He stut- ters. —Judge. “Don’t you believe happiness is merely 2 mental condition?"” “No; it's a financial condition.”—Chi- cago Record. ¥ said the old family ser- you please, suh, gimme my “Marse Tom, “Why Ch mas i{s a month off yet.” “I knows -that, suh, but den I know you, too; en mos’ generally when Chr mas come, you's too drunk ter know whu day it is.”’—Atlanta Constitution: The Professor—I declare, Mrs. Blom- hard, you look as young as your daugh- ter. Mrs. Blomhard (much flattered) — Do you really think so, professor? The Professor — Yes, indeed. No one would ever believe there was such an extraordinary difference in your ages.— Detroit Free Press. As the conventional young man sat talking with the conventional y g Wo- man the conventional stern father came in. "Phe young man would fain be sociable and at ease. “The open door—" began he. “The front door is open at this min- u;tS." said the father.—Indianapolis Jour- . —_———————— 'TWAS A SMART DOG. Had Been Trained to Bark When the Roundsman Came. As the police sergeant was leaning over the railing in front of his desk the other night a dirty yellow dog sneaked in the open doorway, looked quickly around in a timid way and then approached hesi- tatingly the doorman. The doorman said ‘‘Get out!” and the dog got out. That led the sergeant into 2 story. “You don’'t know_ what that cur was here for, do you? Well, he's lookin® for a cop, and I know just what cop, too. The dog expected to find the cop on post.to- night, as_usual, but the policeman .re- ported sick at 19 and went home. ““Any one would think it strange, but it's a fact that lots of policemen s city have curs like that as companions on their night patrol. Perhaps that is why they call the last tour the ‘dog waich.’ “You see, the ordinary copper gets mighty lonely about 3 o'clock in the morn- ing, and if any animal brushes up and makes friends the copper finds it a- re- lief, and ten chances to one he finds the dog—for it’s usually a dog—at the same place the next night. ““That’s all fl?h! so far as it goes, but {2 the copper is lazy or inclined to take chances in ‘beating’ his roundsman by taking a nap or a drink, the dog’s likely to be as much of & nuisance as he is com- pany. You see the dog stands outside the saloon door every time, and if the rounds- man sees the dog he usually sees the cof- per a little later, and then trouble is in store for some one. “My pardner, Harry B. Murphy, used to have a pup that followed him around, and, as Murphy used to take chances like the ‘rest of them, we thought the dog would become a nuisance, but he didn't, for Murphy got the cur trained so he’. bark every time the roundsman—Jimmy McGee—came around the corner. That dog could spot McGee three blocks away, S5 Do svod Murphy’s skin fifty times. M‘ixfrphy named him ‘Harry B.,’ after him- self. “McGee got onto the e.pretty quick, but he never caught Murphy, and that worried him to_death, for McGee was a perfect Tartar. Finally McGee caught the dog on a pier one night, and he clubbed the pup over the head and threw him into the river. Murphy on hearing this fished the dofi out of the river and buried him. Over the grave he put this epitaph: Here lles Harry B., Who_was brutally murdered by Jimmy McGee. —New York Sun. Cal. glace fruit 3c per 1b at Townsends.® B Special Information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 ont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 —_—————— : Bill—Do you consider amethysmts un- ucky Jili—I should say so. I had a collar button once with one in it, and the thing used to roll under the bureau nearly every morning.—Yonkers Statesman. _ —_————— Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters—acknowle edged the world over as the greatest knownm regulator of the stomach and bowels. —_———— “How do you feed cats?” “Do you mean feed them to keep them or drive them away?’—Chicago Record. Colonel Duboce the regiment. The | only addition to the existing conditions | of garrison life is the nightly concert on the Lunetta. There is a bandstand there and every evening a concert is given by one of the different regimental t bands. The Californians play on | Wednesday evenings. Since my last letter we have lost an- other man—Frank Temple, a private of | Company I, who died a day or two ago from smallpox. Again death, following | the rule he has observed aevery case, picked from the best among in almest |.