The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 9, 1899, Page 4

MONDAY .JANUARY o, 189 JOHN D_ SPRECKELS, Propnetor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. 2 R e S PUBLICATION 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 a week. By mall $6 per year; per montb 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL, 1€ pages OAKLIAND OFFICE....... ..One year, by mall, $1 eee....908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE ...Room 188, World Bullding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE........coove Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. ....Marquette Building ¢ Representative. CHICAGO OFFICE % - C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertt 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 untll 9:30 o%tlock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open untll o'clock. ENTS AMUSE a Man, Vaudeville and the Zoo. Mason and Eddy streets, Speclalties. irsing To-day. Violintst, Tuesday Helmont, , 10, at Ua nsettled than for some weeks The distinguishing local feature g up of the protracted dry spell by a ufficiently copious and extended to previous was the bre series of give the State a good start for the coming season. The-effect of these rains is already manifest in a gen- I'loosening of purse-strings by country banks and commercial capitalists in the direction of accom- inodating the farmer with advances for seed and cur- rent running expenses, for they now see a good chance to get their money back with interest, which want. During November and December odation was generally withheld, which d a depr: g effect on trade all over the But now that the farmer is enabled to go | { with his plowing and seeding business ought | to a marked improvement in the near future. The frequency of the recent showers justifies the be- lief that m now on we will get the usual rainfall, and if we do the State will produce an immense yield of farm products, for a very large area is reported un- der cultivation, and the good prices ruling for grain and hay serve to stimulate farmers to put in all they can. gain, stocks of everything are so reduced that at least fair prices are assured for the coming crop, so | ought to make a better showing this year. dency in the heavier lines of farm produce been upward. Wheat has ruled firm on | or thy accomr 1 prod State. e d for foreign export, said to be the aviest ever known, keeps the market in good con- Barley is about stationary at $1 30, which is a fine quotation for this cereal. Oats and corn have | also’advanced; and hay has gone up again since the first of the year, due to small receipts and a good de- and shipments, chiefly to the Salinas | apd Montere icts. The city demand is light. | These conditions indicate good prices next summer, Hence the activity among farmers to seed all the land | m for cour dis! ples are steady as a rule. The is still kept down by enormous stocks where they amount to 291,000,000 pounds, an.increase of 114,000,000 pounds for the year. This immense quantity of wool must be cleared away be- The tendency in pork | and its products has been upward and hogs and lard | are both higher than they have been, with an active‘: demand for the latter. Other lines of provisions are | reported quiet. Hops continue to bring exception- | ally: fine figures, though the demand is light. Dried fruit and raisins are still dull, the former especially so, though dealers are of the opinion that stocks will be well cleaned up by the time the new crop comes for- ward. Prices for dried fruit have been good this sea- | eon,.except for prunes, which have been depressedand | out of favor, owing to the small size of the fruit, due to thie dry season of 1808. The mining industry felt the dry year keenly. Lack! of water to operate the mills caused many a shut- down. The recent rains, however, which have so blessed the farmer, have caused heavy falls of snow in the mountains, which means plenty of water later ©on, so the depression in this great industry will prob- ably soon be. lifted. It is wonderful what an effect the ‘rain has on business and the spirits of the public. Two.weeks ago blue predictions and long faces were the rule everywhere; to-day there is a general feeling of ‘theerfulness, and expressions of confidence in the coming season are heard on all sides in the fore prices can rise much. me: people express fear that revelations concern- ing the sale of bad beef to the army will affect the nieat export trade. There should be no abatement of the. investigation on this account. Contractors who :dedl in rotten beef ought to be in the penitentiary, and .the public doesn’t want their nefarious trade to ex- . —_— y system of political awards which would make a thief such as “Lefty” Bannon janitor of a Police Court does not need mere reform, but elimination. . The plan to demand from the State certain rebates :-of taxes for the supposed benefit of the counties, is an excellent one from the standpoint of the lawyers. When America and England go into the concert business the European concert will be classed as a second grade entertainment. Ii.any doubter thinks the future of the State is in danger he should think of the Federal brigade up at Sacramento and be comforted. 'There. seems no reasonable doubt that sooner or Jater Aguinaldo will get a licking he will remember if ‘he happens to survive. * There is no marvel that Roosevelt should have declined an empty honor. He has plenty that are not THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 189 BURNS UNFIT AND UNCLEAN. HOROUGHLY convinced, as it has long been, T of the utter unfitness of Dan Burns for the Senatorship or for any position of trust, The Call was hardly prepared for such an emphatic in- dorsement of its views as -was presented yesterday morning in a series of interviews. These interviews were from representative citizens in all parts of the State, and given in response to a request so worded as to excite no bias. Correspondents were instructed to visit a dozen or so prominent Republicans and get statements as to their preference or otherwise for Burns for Senator. Of the hundreds approached, not a dozen indorsed Burns. On the contrary, he was de- nounced in terms most comprehensive and emphatic by residents of every county. It was said that his election would be a disgrace. “Anybody but Dan Burns,” “Beat Burns by all means,” “Burns a dis- grace to the State,” such were the sample expressions. In most of the towns there was no one to be found not openly opposed to Burns. Neither were they afraid to say so. Unless the colonel from Mexico has a hide abso- lutely impenetrable some of these shafts must have pierced it. The situation is certainly strange. Here is a politician at Sacramento demanding that he be elected to the Senate. His demands are backed by all the power of the State Executive, the presence of 2 mob of hirelings, and the support of the Republican Central Committee by whom his orders are regarded as final. Loudly this delectable aggregation pro- claims that its man is sure of winning, but such a possibility strikes decency with a sense of impending calamity, and causes Republicans to dread for the fu- ture of their party. This series of interviews is the best index to pub- lic sentiment yet presented. It tends to calm the ap- prehension that Burns and his unholy following can defy the public will, send to the Senate one whose presence there would be a reproach and a lasting shame, and refuse to regard the claims of better men. The votes to elect the Senator are those of members of the Legislature. But back of these are the votes of the people. The people have spoken. They have declared they will have none of Burns. If he shall be forced upon them, the legislators guilty of the out- rage will be regarded as weak, purchasable or cor- rupt, and will be retired to private life, never to be trusted again. Burns as a Senator would be an out- rage, a travesty. The people of California know this, for they have said so. Any legislator desirous of ignoring them nierely votes in favor of suicide. The defeat of Burns is assured. Even the creatures he has intimidated or bought or wheedled, cannot defy the greater condemnation of the people. If they send him to the Senate, for themselves they court obloquy and oblivion. THE JACKSON DAY SPEECHES. NDREW JACKSON AAmcricans whose personality and deeds will be longest remembered and most honored by all classes of his countrymen, but he has been singularly unfortunate in the form which has been given to the celebration of his fame and his victory at New Or- leans. The occasion has become a Democratic fes- tival at which oratory flows freely, and at this par- ticular juncture that kind of oratory is not calculated tc either arouse patriotism or awaken a memory of Jackson. The chief banquets held this year in honor of the day took place at Chicago, Omaha and Denver. That is but a sparse showing, and the public will wonder what Democracy was doing on that day in the other cities of the Union; why there were no ban- quets and speeches in Boston, New York, Philadel- phia, St. Louis and San Francisco. ever, who took the trouble to read what was said at was soon changed to a greater wonder that any ban- quets were held at all. Rarely have political addresses been more doleful and dismal than those which at Chicago, Omaha and Denver mocked the memory of Jackson by setting forth in his name a Democracy he would have scorned while it talked and hanged if it ever at- tempted to act. At Chicago the principal speaker was Bryan; at Omaha, Altgeld held forth, and at Den- ver Governor Thomas made the chief address. were all in harmony. Their words were varied, but their sentiments were one. Altgeld being much the strongest man of the three made the strongest speech and the burden of his song was that the corporations are ruling the land, the rich are robbing the poor, the country is full of corrup- tion, and that the “judiciary openly rejoices over the fact that an era of corruption has enveloped the land, that the betrayal of the people has become a science and that the robbing of the people has become a fine art.” In Chicago Bryan was going over the same old nation by reason of the supremacy of the gold monopolists. He declared his renewed and unaltered devotion to the Chicago platform of 1896 and had the tion taken by that platform.” Mr. Bryan does not drink, so it is clear the liquid served with the ban- quet must have been strong indeed since the very smell of it could inspire such an utterance as that. Taken as a whole the Jackson day orations this year are the lowest in form and substance that such speeches have reached since the Democracy first be- gan to make a party festival of the anniversary. Com- pared with such addresses as were made only a few years ago, when Hill, Carlisle, Olney, Phelps, Watter- son and others of a like character were speakers at the different banquets, the speeches made this year are poor and tawdry performances, little better than the calamity howling any street agitator could do. P e e ANOTHER FLIMFLAM GAME. ITH another exhibition of that impudence Wand versatility of lying which never deserts it, the Bxaminer is using the Senatorial contest at flimflam game upon the public. parading under false pretenses and working a fake for all the traffic will bear. As a part of the flimflam it asserted yesterday: “It is the only morning newspaper in San Francisco which is in a position to give the news, only the news and all the news of the Senatorial contest”; and appointed ambition to give it bias, and no concern for the personal success of any of the Republican gentlemen who are seeking the toga.” On the day preceding the publication of that piece of impudence, the Examiner had in screaming type announced Dr. George C. Pardee as its candidate for the Senatorship, and yesterday in the very issue in which it asserted on the first page that it has no can- didate for the Senate, it published a double-leaded editorial advocating Pardee’s election and again de- claring that gentleman to be the Examiner candidate for the office. The Examiner has in fact more of personal spite to empty . _Javenge, and more of disappointed ambition ta give itlmn of the way before the regular session next winter, % is one of the typical | To those, how- | the three banquets the wonder at the silence elsewhere | They l raven croak of disaster threatening the people and the | audacity to say: “Events have vindicated every ‘posi- | Sacramento as an opportunity for playing another | Once more it is| added: “It has no personal spite to avenge, no dis- | bias than any other paper in the State. It was once turned down from the Southern ‘Pacific payroll and that made its spiteful. It is now, and for some time past has been, trying to get back the blackmail revenue of $1000 a month and that furnishes it with ambition to serve the railroad purpose. It is really a Burns organ and is using Pardee’s name only to work its flimflam game, but that is a minor issue in the matter. The main point at present is to direct the attention of the public to its lying claim to im- partiality. A newspaper less shameless than the Examiner would not assert one thing in its news columns and another in its editorials, but nothing is too incon- sistent, too silly, or too plainly false for that journal tc venture upon. It is one of the class of newspapers which Charles A. Dana described as being “published for fools,” and iz giving the fools all the flimflam they can stand. PUNISH THE EAVESDROPPERS. S an evidence and an illustration of the extent flto which conversations over their wires are be- trayed by the telephone companies, the story of the decoy message published in The Call yesterday is complete. It discloses not only the betrayal of pri- vate conversations, but the fact that the betrayal is made with such promptness as ifmplies an habitual practice of that offense. The record of the case is that at 11 p. m. Thursday a Call correspondent entered the telephone office at San Rafael and informed the operator that he was going in search of an item of great importance and would return later in the night to send the news to The Call. At 1 o'clock he returned and telephoned to The Call office a story of a fictitious occurrence. That story, which shouid have reached The Cali office with all the privacy of a confidential conversation, was known all over Szn Rafael early next morning and in a short time spread over Marin County and to this city. This case taken in connection with the evidence published by The Call a short time ago, of the prac- tice of the telephone companies in betraying the con- versations of their patrons, and of the fact that the Examiner is permitted to tap the companies’ wires and listen to any conversation the eavesdropping edi- | tor desires, shows clearly that some legislation is | needed to protect the public against the wrong. All sorts of conversations are carried on over the | telephone wires. The most confidential talks of jblvsiness partners and political allies, the gossip of | friends, the communications of lovers and the home | affairs of families are carried on to a greater or less | extent by telephone. It is therefore of the highest importance to the public welfare and domestic life | that the business of the telephone should be con- ducted with the utmost privacy -and that this privacy should have the sanction and guarantee of law. No meaner or more pernicious offense against morals, honor and business honesty can well be com- | mitted than that in which the telephone companies have been engaged in this practice of betraying the | secrets of their patrons. The private spy, the sneak The invention and the use of the telephone have given | | to that class of contemptible rascals a greater oppor- i } tunity for their vile trade than they ever had before. | | By such arrangement as that made by the Examiner, | | the sneak can with the connivance of the employes of , the company, listen to anybody’s business and no one ; is secure from his spying. When it is remembered that the telephone reaches not only the business offices, but into hundreds of homes, and that the persons who use it believe they | are conversing in privacy and that no one overhears them, it will be seen that the wrong of the sneaks is | irtolerable. It amounts virtually to an eavesdropper | listening at the keyhole of the door of nearly every | office, parlor, sitting room and boudoir in the city. | There is but one way to reach the evil and that is | by a law providing a severe punishment for all who | engage in the sneak practice. The officials of the | company who permit it, the eavesdropper who listens | and the employe who connives at it should each and | all be subject to penalty. Such a law is necessary to | guard the welfare of business and the sanctity of the ihnme and should be enacted at this session of the | Legislature. | %and the eavesdropper have always been despicable. { A CONGRESSIONAL FORECAST. RIOR to adjournment for the holidays Con- f p gress made such rapid headway with legislation | some authorities at the capital are now san- 1 guine that not only will all the necessary public busi- ness be disposed of before the session expires on March 4, but 'several important measures outside of routine work will have been enacted. i This hopeful estimate is based upon the fact that | the House has broken all records of work accom- ! plished before the holidays. It is to be noted, how- ever, that the Senate has not broken a record. What has been done, therefore, is simply that the House has sent up to the Senate four great appropriation bills much earlier than usual, and has acted so ad- | versely upon certain measures, such as the interna- | tional bank bill and the immigration restriction bill, | as to virtually remove them from further considera- | tion by this Congress. The Appropriations Committee has yet to report the fortifications, sundry civil, legislative and general | deficiency.bills. In addition the House has still to | consider appropriation bills to be reported from the }Ccmmitlees on Military Affairs, Naval Affairs, Post- offices and Post Roads, and Rivers and Harbors, for |it is said there is no longer any doubt that a river | and harbor bill will be reported and acted upon dur- | ing the session. { Among the measures likely to be taken up early in the House are the navy personnel bill, one pro- viding for the reorganization of the army and a bill restricting second class mail matter. All of these will | occasion considerable debate, and the passage of that restricting the second class mail privilege is doubtful, | although many of the features which led to the rejec- tion of 2 similar bill at the last session have been eliminated from the new measure. The bill will prob- | ably be considered prior to the postoffice appropria- tion bill, for upon its passage or rejection will depend the amount of the appropriation which will be pe- quired for the department. From the extent and the vigor of the opposition to | the Nicaragua canal bill which has developed in the ;Senatc the prospects of the passage of that measure at this session are far from good, but the supporters of the great undertaking are now thoroughly aroused, and with the influence of the administration on their side there is a fighting chance of success; and if the country actively urges Congress to take action’ vic- tory for the measure may be won in spite of the diffi- culties in the way and the power of the opposition. Altogether the outlook for the session is not so bright as the sanguine optimists at Washington de- scribe it. There is very sure to be a good deal of im- portant work left over after the 4th of March for the next Congress to deal with, and that fact will emphasize the need of holding an extra session to O DR OISR RO N L OO O settle the currency question so as to get that issue Ffl SRIRNEBALIRINIUIRIRIRI R e R oR R+ ReReLeKo D OLD BELEU PRISON. A Description of the Place in Which a Can- didate for the United States Senate Was Confined. Beleu was formerly a convent o After the confiscation of the church p: turned into a prison for the Federal d of Columbla. It is a vast pile, with n geons and cells. In late years efforts have been made to introduce a modern system, but little has been accomplished. The prison is unhealth: “"ulnll “““III i ST Bi08aznus e/ such offenses were tried by special ju victions were “few and far between.”* unprofitable practices, had the const| ers and editors are tried by a judge superiors. At the beginning of the e as possible, journalists were confine pelled to do the same disgusting cho newspapers were permitted to furn ing writers, and in honor of journalis; are never without tenants. Beleu formerly played quite an { and many a ‘pronunciamiento” took whereof the vilest rabble was turne Behind the prison is an old adob unfortunates condemned to be shot, penalty is inflicted in Mexico. Earl taken out there by a squad of seven soldiers, commanded by a lieutenant. He is blindfolded, told to kneel down and then the command to fire is given. In case death does not issue at once, th places the rifle against his ear and b f straw hats and mats, employment he may hold, brings the unlucky writer to Beleu. Formerly all t the religious order of “Mercedarios.” t it was roperty by the Governmen istrict, which is similar to the District umerous court yards, passages, dun- penitentiary y and its un- d to all the willing guests are expose dangers, physical and moral, such an abode abounds with. The discipline is tyrannical in the extreme. The ‘“capataces” Or trustees in charge 0f a squad go around pro- vided with.a heavy bull whip, which they apply :vigorously and often with- out the slightest provocation on their unhappy charges, who have either in- curred their ill will or do not pay for good treatment. One of the female trus- tees is a famous woman criminal, “La Bejarana,” who, in the early se_vunties: tortured to death a young girl, her adopted daughter, and was sente’nced for this crime to twenty-five years’ im- prisonment. The prisoners are not com- pelled to work, but so as to be able to procure better food the greater part “kill time” making Dbaskets, plailgng manufacturing rings and innumerable knick-knacks out of cocoanuts, etc., all of which they sell for infinitesimal prices. A feature of Beleu is the prison des- tined for offending journalists. The press laws of Mexico are abnormally strict. In theory the press is fr but de facto a more tyrannical supervision is exercised than even in Russia. The slightest unfavorable comment on the Government, the most just criticism of one of its officers, no matter what petty ries, and, as might be expected, con- The Government, disgusted with these Itution amended, and nowadays report- who is responsible to nobody but his ighties, so as to humble them as much d with the common criminals and com- res as they, but later on the leading ish two rooms in Beleu for their offend- m it can be said that these apartments mportant part in the political troubles, place within its walls, in consequence d loose. @& wall, against which are stood those which is the manner in which the death y in the morning the condemned is e sergeant steps up to the dying man, lows out the wretch's brains. F.DE T. gommmfi feiei st te ut e e ) Eavesdropping, and the s phone officials, and, as u Fakirs was abetting the buying stolen news. A tion a felony might stop a [ et Aatnairad gttt md tui mi e K el n g e e i s e ) K w R e m st AROUND THE CORRIDORS S. N. Androus of Pomona f{s at toe Grand. R. B. Purvis, Sheriff of Modesto, is at the Lick. Thomas H. Lynch of Fresno i{s at the Occidental. J. C. Ruddick, the attorney, of Uklah is at the Grand. F. C. Lusk, the banker, of Chico is a guest at the Palace. J. J. Hebbron, the cattle-raiser of Sali- nas, is at the Grand. J. Goldman, a merchant of Merced, is stopping at the Grand. John L. Retallack, a mining man of Spokane, is at the Palace. John Markeley, the Bank Commissioner, of Geyserville is at the Lick. C. A. Lemp, the well-known St. Louls beer manufacturer, is at the Palace. J. H. Cluckscale and D. A. Pierce, of Los Angeles, are at the Occidental. M. 8. Sayre, the well-known attorney of Lakeport, is a guest at the Lick. 8. C. Dreseher, the merchant of Sacra- mento, and wife are at the California. F. E. Sevanstron, U. 8. N., arrived last | night and is stopping at the Occidental. N. J. Levinson, city editor of the Ore- gonian and bride are guests at the Pal- ace. A. P. Catlin and John C. Catlin, attor- neys of Sacramento, are stopping at the { Lick. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORE. NEW YORK, Jan. 8—E. H. Brown of San Francisco is at the Astor. John Sla- ter of San Francisco Is at the Imperial. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Fourteen gangs of shipwrights are working on Queen Victoria's yacht at MAKE EAVESDROPPING A FELONY. The Call has unearthed a most scandalous state of affairs in the telephone offices of San Francisco. seems to have been a regular business of the tele- dropping and the selling illicitly secured informa- ness. The telephone company which allows such dirty work to be done by its officers and employes should have little business. shun it as they would the leprosy.—Eureka Standard. CHROBOETOTEIINE L 23301 83 01 82 X 830250251683 ale of news gained by it, sual, the Monarch of the disreputable business by law making such eaves- part of the infamous busi- o 23! The people should | e the Pembroke dockyard, and it s in- tended to launch the vessel during the month of March. A coal bunker explosion occurred last month on the British cruiser Andromeda, and two men were badly burned. It is thought that they opened the door while carrying a naked light. The Parson turbine-driven torpedo-boat destroyer, building on the Tyne, Is 200 | feet in length, and will have 10,000 horse- | power with the hope of getting a speed of forty-five miles an hour. Japanese war vessels are to have col- lapsible life boats, and a number have been ordered from Renfrew Bros., boat- builders, Greenock. The boats are 28 feet in length and built of teak (diag- onal) and varnished. The Russian battleship Rotislaw is the first ship in the Russian navy fitted for using naphtha fuel exclusively. The re- cent trials were a decided success, as over eighteen knots, or two knots above the anticipated speed, was reached. At a court-martial held on H. M. §. Immortality at Hongkong last November, Assistant Paymaster Wilder of the Im- | mortality was ordered to lose three | vears' seniority and be dismissed from his ship for borrowing money—S$ls0—from a chief writer on the same vessel. The Moskwa, the latest addition to the Russian volunteer fleet, has arrived in England on her first voyage from St. Petersburg to Port Arthur and Vladivo- stock. The Moskwa was built on the Clyde, and is 493 feet in length, 55 feet beam and 24 feet draught, displacing 10,225 tons, and has a trial speed of 20 knots with 12,600 horse-power. An armor plate made by Brown of Sheffleld for the Japanese battleship Asahi, building at Clydebank, was tested last month at_ the Elswick proving grounds. The plate was 8 feet by 8 feet by 88 inches thick, and was attacked by +R*R+ RN IBI NG RN R UNITED STATE CAVITE, officers and the crew of access to them and have caused them to be sent is NEWSPAPERS FOR THE SOLDIERS Edilor of the San Francisco Call, San Francisco, Cal., U. S. A—SIR: On behalf of myself, the THE CALLS that have come regularly by each mail. They have been so distributed that all have had The papers are a great pleasure, but the knowl- edge of the thoughtfulness and kindly feeling that Very respectfully, E. Commander, U. S. Rolietietie N+ BN+ B+ BB %% O + S STEAMER MONTEREY,E P. L, Nov. 25, 18¢8. this vessel, I thank you for been greatly appreciated. a greater one. H. C. LEUTZE, Navy, Commanding. O+ 5050020 025502000 550550050 ReKeRIRIRIRNIR R R+ ; : § il gomery street. three rounds from an 8-inch Armstrong gun, the shells being Wheeler-Stirling armor-piercing shots. The velocities were 1859, 1964 and 2039 feet per second, and the shots were all smashed, indenting the plate only about three inches, and showing some few hair cracks on the face. The back was intact, except three slight bulges, the most prominent of which was 1% inches in height. The Superb, second-class battleship, is to be commissioned and go to China to serve as guardship at Wei-hai-Wel. She is one of the old style ironclads, built in 1880, of 9170, tons, 8500 horse-power and 15 knots speed. Her main battery consists of sixteen 10-inch muzzle-loaders and six 6-inch quick firers. Her side armor is compound, 12 inches thick, and the Su- perb is altogether a very inferior vessel in the event of any actual hostilities. The French naval programme for 1899 provides for the building of two vessels of 4000 tons displacement each, which are to be known as intelligence cruisers, their duty being to convey news, com- munications and orders at a high rate of speed. Each of them is to be able to steam 1330 miles at a maximum speed of 23 knots per hour, and to carry sufficient coal to steam 8000 miles at 10 knots per hour. The British Board of Trade has pub- lished a Parliamentary paper setting forth the relative expenditures of Great Britain, France, Germany, Russla and the United States, as compared with their mercantile interests. The year dealt with is 1896 in which period England expended twenty-four and one-third mil- lion pounds sterling to guard ten and a quarter million tons shipping. France spent ten and a half million pounds ster- ling to guard a g chant ship. m quarter million poun nage of about 15 ping; Russia, pounds sterling on 577,207 ton pping, and the United States expended s pounds sterlin the foreign trade. A CURE FOR LA GRIPPE To the Editor of the San Francisco and a half million 584 tons shipping in Call: It may interest your readers and the public in general to know that during the great influenza epidemic in London in 1889 the Board of Health of that city advised the public afflicted with the disease to make an abundant use of hot lemonades. The perspiration caused thereby is in most cases sufficient to remove severe colds and the consequent complications, thus doing away with quinine or other drugs, which often leave unpleasant re- ults. 5 For bronchial troubles the acid of lemons relieves the irritation of the throat, acting at the same time as a natural disinfectant. . rresh lemon juice even when diluted in small proportions with water will kill any cholera bacilli therein con- tained, hence it is not surprising that it will destroy the so-called influenza bacilli. Very truly yours, CHARLES F. HEIZEL, 155 Herkimer street, Brooklyn, N. 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Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco. —_———————— The best managed dairies in Minnesota have reduced the cost of manufacturing a pound of butter to 1.28 cents. The pre- valling price in other States is about 3 - cents. Hungry, Sick! To the Churches, To the Synagogues, To the King’s Daughters, To the Doctors’ Daughters, To Charitable Physicians, To Relief Associations, To the Kind-Hearted Every- where— ‘We cannot come to you. WILL YOU COME TO US? THERE ARE 2000 FAMILIES and parts of families by actual count in three blocks around SUNSEINE HALL, 94 HARRISON STREET, near Sixth; mostly refined and intelligent people, but many of them in sore financial distress. Several hundred children are suffering with measles and as many adults with grip and kindred complaints. WHOLE FAMILIES ARE SICK, with no money in the house to provide medical attend- ance, medicine or food. Our superin- tendent and half our active workers are {ll. A COMMITTEE WILL BE IN AT- TENDANCE EVERY DAY from 9 to 3 to receive visitors and guide them to the homes where relief is most needed. Wanted—Work for strong men and women, where they can be paid every day. Medical advice, medicine, pro- visions, food for sick mothers, new or second-hand clothing, especially shoes, and belding. Money in large or small donations. Come and see for yourselves and hear the stories of the patient suf- ferers. SILENT WORKERS.