The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 15, 1899, Page 6

_THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, St e JANUARY 15, 1899. JANUARY 15, 1 | JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propretor. ons to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. FFICE ......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1808. EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2IT to 221 Stevenson Street 3 Telephone Main 1§74 | Communica! | PUBLICATION O THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is i eerved by carriers in this city and surrounding towns | for 15 cents ¢ week. By mail $6 per year; per month | cents. 3 .HL' WEEKLY CALL, 18 pages ..One year, by malil, $i -OAKLAND OFFICE ....908 Broadway Room 188, World Building NEW YORK OFFICE. : ing Representative. DAVID ALLEN, Adver “WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Riggs Houss L C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. ...Marquette Building | ng Representative. CHICAGO OFFICE .. ' -C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Adverti Montgomery street, corner Clay, 387 Hayes street, open untl} §:30 o'clock. 62 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open- untll 9:30 ‘otlock. 1941 Misslon street, open until 10 a'clock. 2291 Market €treet, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open untlli 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open | unt!l 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o’clock. | | BRANCH OFFICE open until 9:30 o'cl | i | | SALES, | AUCTION honor, made up of i members of the Legislature who for United States Sena- To record this act is a able to say that a name had list would have been an ad- present this is denied. 1t that they had won D. Knights of Sacramento. or when he recorded his vote Barnes, as it had been before. ang through the Assembly cham- houses were in joint session. Boasts e by the Burns push that they had se- nights. A tremendous pressure had been to bear upon him. The County Committee 1 issyed its ukase, and yet Knights stood firm. He was not to be won by promise nor threat. | There were many who feared for him. They had | son and the spectacular plunge | ew the Burns gang had been | ration and that there was no limit to | they would offer. Knights had d to promise that he would support W <en cured * brought witnessed the fall of Jil t, as some promises are better broken than lized that misrepresentations had been . that a deliberate effort to deceive him of the pri o would gramme, and he turned against have led him astray. They were ed. More surprises and greater t The following is the black 1s it appeared yesterday. There is a hope that | another vote some of the names may be taken | from it: those wi surprised ht n await them. after SENATORS. Bettman, San Francisco. Burnett, San Francisco. Hoey, San Francisco. Laird, Shasta. Leavitt, Alameda. Shortridge, Santa Clara. Wolife, San Francisco. ASSEMBLYMEN. Arnerich, Santa Clara. Barry, San Francisco. Beecher, Shasta. Cobb, San Francisco. Devoto, San Francisco. Dibble, San Francisco. Henry, San Francisco. JILSON, Siskiyou. Johnson, Sacramento. Kelley, Alameda. Kelsey, Santa Clara. Kenneally, San Francisco. Lundquist, San Francisco. McKeen, Alameda. Miiler, San Francisco. Pierce, Yolo. Rickard, San Francisco. Eugene Sullivan, San Francisco. WRICHT, Alameda. i There may be Burns’ votes in reserve. Whenever they desire to get on this list, and to be held up to -the scorn of the people, there is space for.them. The Examiner is sure the arrests in connection with the Wilson murder were too soon. They were cer- “tainly too soon for the Examiner to know anything about them umtil details were printed in The Call, and - the same is true of many other events of importance. | The police have turned loose a gang of confidence - men, who promise to leave the city within five days. ~ The interval will be sufficient to permit them to turn "t enough tricks to, pay for tickets. Congressman Berry of Kentucky has taken to “writing poetry, but the depressing feature of this cir- cumstance is that he makes Uncle Sam assume the role of publisher. 3 e The attorneys who were to press suits against the " State on behalf of the various counties have with- drawn. They are astute gentlemen, quite capable of taking a hint. In order to show the situation at Sacramento con- {'Such advocacy would in | liable THE POSITION OF THE JUSTICES. HE bandaged eyes represent the equality and the ermine the purity of justice, administered: through the forms and in the tribunals’ of the law. A slur upon the integrity of the bench is like \the spitting of scandalous venom .at a. woman. The American people feel that while their courts are clean they can meekly endure the filth of the lower depths of politics. For a Judge to be seen even carefully picking his steps through that nasty pool 1§ as shame- ful as the spectacle of a wife slipping into an abode of sin. For these reasons the charge of Speaker Wright against four Justices of our Supreme Court, now de- nied by them, is almost unexampled in its infamy, and if true would have been a sickening revelation. He made the.accusation as an excuse for his own deep treachery to his immediate constituents, to the State and to'the country. For the insult to the nation, ex- pressed by his vote for Dan he sought to shield himself by quoting the imaginary advice of four membérs of the most exalted department of the State government. A Judge does not cease to be a man or as citizen, but, for'the reason that he speaks for the law, “whosc seat,” as Hooker beautifully said, in the bosom of God and whose voice is the harmony cof the ‘world,” he'is placed somewhat above ordinary | manhood ‘and ordinary citizenship. This is the chiv- alrous. tribute of a free people to the men who are intrusted swith the protection of their rights and the redress of their wrongs. Judges. are supposed to touch the world in'its most vital interests, and yet to live apart from the world, in the realm of undiluted truth and honor, so that they may .rigidly apply | eternal principles to fluctuating facts. Therefore, even where great and honorable states- men, with laudable ambition, are pressing toward the toga, judicial interference is resented as an outrage and 2 crime. B Justice of the Supreme Court of California to champion Dan Burns would | reveal unspeakable moral leprosy. and, for plain rea- i most an impeachable offense. ly absolute disbelief in the ciréumstantial record t has been published broad- cast against this Mexicanized American by The Call and by the reputable press of the State. Each one | of these accusations, unless true, is a gross and in- | newspaper proprietors, | Burns, for a ute al soms, would con | | { | | | fensible libel, for which editors and reporters, are both criminally and ci Dan Burns, if possessed of the strength of in- nocence and integrity, has the inalienable right to invoke these remedies and to wash his dripping repu- tation to the whiteness of snow. And yet the very judicial officers who, if his apparently torpid sensibility should be aroused to the point “of ~ common self- respect, would sit in the place of ultimate judgment, Speaker Wright has represented as having deliberately | prejudged a multitude of cases upon which it might | thus become a necessity for them to pass. The annals of I the United States do not contain the story of an atti- tude so humiliating, so despicable and so exasperat- ing. The Call, to which, as to citizens generally, ju- dicial reputation is dear and beyoad calumnious | rumors or uncorroborated staterrents, is glad tp be assured that a majority of our own appellate court have not voluntarily transferred themselves from the bench to the lobby. It is hoped, moreover, that leg- islative resentment at such a challenge to decency as Speaker Wright has issued will insure the igno- minious defeat of the defiant candidate for the Federal iSenatorship, on whose behalf so transcendent a deg- radation was falsely promulgated. As for the Speaker himself, his broken pledges’ will not be seriously un- derscored by one additional falsehood. e — W General Merritt and others disparaging to the constitution in connection with the acquisition IMPERIALISTIC DRIFT. of the Philippine Islands. The subject is attracting d THE E have already commented upon remarks by | the notice of reflecting and educated citizens all over the country, and is by no means exhausted. =~ The possible addition to our flag of a black star, repre- senting barbarism, paganism, Mohammedanism, polygamy and all the other degraded characteristics of the nine millions who form the mongrel Asiatic population of the Philippines, is exciting not only apprehension, but positive alarm. The drift in favor of imperialism and the imitation of Great Britain, though not to be discerned in any formal utterances of the President of the United States, has neverthe- less been manifested in official circles. For example, James Wilson, the Secretary for Agriculture, in his annual report, speaks of increased trade relations be- tween the United States and its “insular dependen- dencies.” This is not the only expression of similar import to be found in the public documents of 1808. The sensational press constantly belittles, derides and misrepresents the constitution, every great expounder of that instrument, ‘and every American statesman whose name has been a household word and whose reputation has been held dear among the American people. There have been so many evidences of flip- pant disregard of the most sacred principles of our government that thoughtiul and earnest men feel the necessity of arresting the tendency toward retrograde revolution. It has been proved beyond controversy and with- out even the semblance of intelligent contradiction that the retention of the Philippifies, ‘either as a colony or as an Asiatic ‘addition to our territory, would be a gross violation of fundamental -law, op- posed to the spirit and the objects of our political institutions, a departure for which there is no pre- cedent, and an act of deliberate treachery toward mankind. The fact, however, has not been clearly .explained that our claim of ownership of the Phil- ippines, under the recent treaty of Paris, is in itself a relapse toward the tyrannical and illogical doc- | trines of the Middle Ages, which were expelled from our soil by the Revolutionary War and by our Gov- ernment, and the repudiation of which in relation to Cuba was the official justification for the late war. Spain held the Philippines as she retained Cuba, not- withstanding her claim resting upon discovery, ‘un- der the rejected dogma of the divine right of kings. She had no other title or source of title. This dogma necessarily denied the existence in the inhabitants, as against the monarchy, of any rights, natural or conventional. There had been prolonged rebellions in Cuba and in the Philippines, and the interference of the United States was put solely on tlie ground of ‘humanity and to insure to the Cubans an opportun- ity to exercise their conceded right of self-govern-. ment. v “When the treaty of Paris was framed the situation in the Philippines was that Spain claimed the sov- ereignty she had exercised for centuries: that we had captured Manila and occupied other portions of | the African question in the South by sary, to consummiate the transaction. It is devoutly to be hoped that we may not have to shoot the principles of the Declaration of Indepen- dence into the Filipinos. But if they refuse peaceitilly to accept our offer of American liberty, then it would cannon’s mouth. They must either submit. or be bombarded into submission. Our conception of freedom regulated by law, of.government for the peo- ple and by the people, if necessary, must be rammed down their throats. 5 This decision of the expansionists, who deny that they are imperialists, is a new application of Ameri- can doctrines. | Old-fashioned citizens insist that it involves treason and revolution; and that we are now doing what our Revolutionary Fathers shed their blood to extirpate, and with professions of sentiment which are false, but for the-actual benefit of specu- lastors and gamblers, . denying the high-sounding manifesto that we paraded before the world when our Embassador left Madrid. Perhaps some of the ex- pansionists who are convinced that the masses have closed their eyes and fallen into deep sleep can point out in the constitution, in judicial decisions, in the practice of our “State Department, or in some acknowledged record, the particular American prin- ciple or precedent under which, through our cap- verted from more or less successful rebels against Spain into involuntary subjects. or citizens of -the United States. Perhaps they can reconcile this proposition with the entrenchment of freedom in the ‘constitution that was the chief triumph of the Civil War. Perhaps they can establish the consistency, especially in the face of the Congressional response to the unanimous demand of California, of replacing an Asiatic question in the West. But, when they do these things, they will have succeeded in fastening “Prophesy not unto. ys right things. smooth things;' prophesy deceits.” Freedom con- ferred on Asiatics by' bombardment and military force will be a ‘unique revelation of manifest destiny, and will necessitate some new fabrications from -the reconstructed Jefferson and the expanded.version of Cooley on Constitutional Limitations. Y the death of Nelson Dingley not only Maine but the whole country suffers a severe loss. He this juncture in our affairs, for he was an acknowl- edged master of thosé eéconomic problems which are @ LOSs TO THE NATION. B was one of the statesmen we can ill spare at leadership would have materially aided Congress in reaching right conclusions concerning them. Mr. Dingiey's fame will be chiefly associated with tariff measures, and particularly with the act which now protects our industries and regulates our com- merce. It is not likely that any radical change will be made in the act for many years to come. It .is and month after month, despite the disturbance in trade caused by the war, it has worked out a com- ability of its distinguished author. So far as tariff measures are concerned, Mr. Dingley may be said to have completed his task, but theré remain financial questions to be dealt with in the settlement of the currency, and the important one of providing well devised legislation "for the up- building of our merchant marine. On these meas- ures the nation expected great service from him and counted upon his zeal, his patriotism, his energy and his skill to accomplish the prompt enactment of the desired legislation. when his presence in Congress was of vast value to the republic, and it comes as a loss which will be felt throughout the Union. Mr. Dingley was one of those statesmen who rise to eminence by patient, laborious study and a seli- sacrificing devotion to the public. His energies and his rare business capacity, had he applied them to the advancement of his private fortune, would have made him a rich man. He turned aside from the al- lurements of personal gain and worked with an eye single to.the welfare of his country. It is gratifying to know that the people appreciated his true worth and freely accorded him the honors to which he was entitled. He passes now into history as another of those illustrious sons of Maine of whom all Ameri- cans are proud, and his memory will long be cher- ished by his countrymen. B — ‘THE NEVADA SENATORSHIP. OLONEL JACK CHINN, who has hitherto C been associated exclusively with Kentucky politics, is now playing a star part in the Sena- torial melodrama in Nevada. Senator, Stewart and Congressman Newlands have the leading roles in the play as contestants and rivals for the Senate, but Colonel Chinn is making most of the uproar and at- tracting most attention. It is not altogether clear by what title or right the Colonel is taking part in the contest. serted at one time that he had been sent out by the but that has been denied by the chairman of that com- mittee, and the Colonel himself has declared that | at Carson and what he is doing there they must apply to Blackburn, McMillan, Daniels or some other dig- nitary in the far East. His entrance into Nevada politics has been hailed with satisfaction by the supporters of Stewart, but the independent citizens of Nevada are shying bricks at him. The Silver State, for example, after noting his pernicious activity in the Senatorial fight, says: after long years of electing non-residents to that upon us. by having non-resident lobbyists? Has it come to such a pass that we are not considered wise enough to select our own Senator? Have we degen- erated to such an extent that we need outside ad- vice?” 5 We are not in the confidence of Colonel Chinn, nor banana on it that with the presence of the Kentucky fire-cater in Nevada the Southern Pacific Railroad has'something to do. That corporation is seeking to dictate the election of Senators all over the Pacific Coast. Its agents are of many kinds, and their name is legion. 1i, therefore, the people of Nevada desire to find the island of Luzon, and that the actual possession of the archipelago was held by the nine millions or thereabouts who, composed its population. So much of the title of Spain by divine right as remained ‘was transferred to us for twenty millions and in ‘recog- nition of our military and naval supremacy, and we 'temporaries are quoting freely from The Call reports. This is all right. Our aim is to instruct as well as please, ~ now claim that this transfer, with or without their consent, carried with it the nine “millions who, out who has imposed upon them the indignity of trying to boss their Senatorial choice by the in- fluence of outside lobbyists-they should apply to the notorious knockery in San Francisco. Mr. Herrin, doubtless, knows something of Jack Chinn, what he is doing in Nevada, and why it is desirable that Stewart should be elected. In their ¢ivil contention against Consul Wildman whether as subjects or citizens, politically belong to | the Filipinos may forget some of their other troubles. tlie United States and-must be disciplined, if neces- | seem that their acceptance must be enforced at the | ture of Manila and the twenty-million purchase from | Spain, the nine millions of Filipinos have been -con- | al “bridle in the jaws' of the people. causing them to | err,” and they will have followed the injunction: | Speak unto us | row pressing for solution, and his wise counsel and | ncw about midway in the second year of its existence, | plete vindication of the financial skill and economic | Death has taken him at a timc“ It was as- | Democratic National ‘Committee to help Stewart, | if any impertinent person wishes to know why he is | “We ask in all candor if it has come to such a pass, | high position, that a further indignity is to be placed | of Senator Stewart, but we regard it as a wager. so | safe that one can risk a big bonanza against a little | I ““It is, after all, not the few great libra- ries, but the thoiusand smell ones that may do most for the people.” The Sth day of February, 1893, is a red letter day in the annals of the library world. 'On this date the first traveling library was sent out by the Regents.of the University of New York, to begin in ‘that State a form of popu- lar instruction which has achieved in- stant success. Rich in the possession | of nearly 600 libraries in general use, varying in size from 1000 to 400,000. vol- | umes, New York is also fortunate in having some of the ablest librarians in the Union, and an enlightened public | sentiment respecting the value of libraries. . Amnual legislative appropriations of $25,000 enable the Uni- versity Regents not only to aid weak local libraries, but, besides, to create a {large duplicate department in the State library. " From this department the traveling libraries were dispatched. | They consist of 50 to 100 volumes, being, in fact, miniature libraties, put up in bookcases, and”are sent for terms of | three or four months on their work of education. The use of the books is free, {'under simple rules, including aguar- | antee fér the safety of the Jibrary, but | the receivers pay freight charges both | ways. o 3 | Our space does not. allow quoting of 1de!afls of the establishment of the tem, but it may he observed that strug- gling libraries have been- encouraged, many new ones started,’ schools bene- | fited beyond measure, grange meetin made more e ve, extension centers quickened to stronger life, and» resi- dence at summer hotels made more en- | Joyable by thé visits of these libraries. During: the last year particular atten- tion has been paid to the needs of study clubs, and it is now possible for a club in any part of New York to obtain from the Regents entire libraries upon spe- cial subjects under study by the club. | Among these are economics, agricul- | ture, literature, history and other de- | partments. Every possible attention is paid to all genuine wants, and the 657 traveling libraries now in success- | ful use indicate the esteem in which | they are universally held. These are | some of the results of six years of pire State, under the direction of Melvil Dewey. , Turning to Wisconsin, we see a’field in which some of the finest library tension work has been accompl under totally different conditions from those just noted. - Comparatively a new | State, with extensive areas of forest | and of land defor ed in certain sec- tions, sparsely populated in w gions with settlers from Germany, Swe- den and Poland, and, with slight gener- al knowledge of library benefits, it was Impossible to launch the traveling | library system with State aid in 1896. Fortunately, Senator J. H. Stout, re: ognizing the urgent need, generously placed funds at the disposal of the new | library commission for the starting of | twenty-flve libraries in the county of Dunn. This number he has increased | to thirty-seven. Emulating this liberal example, a banker, Mr..J. D. Witter, | provided the means for twenty-five li- braries for Wood County. The work | was to be confined to these two coun- | ties (each of the area of Alameda Coun- | ty), to be under close local supervision, | and designed for farming communities, but free to all. The books chosen were popular ones of interesting travel and | biography, the best of modern and | standard fiction, while science, histor: | and children’s books were not over- | looked. Additions to the books sent were soon made of old magazines, picture | papers and children’s periodicals, all of | which were to be retained in the neigh- | borhood. Local associations were re- quired to be formed, but no expenses beyond freight charges were to be met. In Dunn County, of the thirty-four | stations established for the care of the | libraries, twenty-two were in farm | houses, nine in postoffices, two in stores | and one in a railroad depot, thus bring- | ing the supplies of books into closest | touch to the people. The benefits conferred by these librar- fes can hardly be computed; in Dunn County they reach in their range prac- beyond the limits of the city of Meno- monie. Joyous recreation, instruection, | sympathy with the world, an uplift from grinding toil, sweetness and light entering darkened lives, and a quicken- ing of mental power have been its fruits to adults; while to thousands of chil- dren it has been a veritable entrance into a new world of picture and story, ‘lax;ld the beginning of higher ideals of e. Awakened public sentiment secured annual appropriations from the Legis- lature of $4000, providing for the main- tenance of two efficient fleld secretar- jes. Still another result, though not unexpected, is seen in the founding of eighteen local libraries within the past | year. Other private donors, clubs and | federations have taken up this pioneer work in various portions of the State, and to-day there are over 160 traveling libraries circulating in as many as a score of counties. Of the traveling library work in other | States it may be menticned that Mich- | igan, Towa and Ohio have successively adopted it by stated appropriations, and in twenty additional States reports are given that individuals, clubs and espe- clally federations are constantly in- creasing the number and range of these libraries. Particularly does the cause of educa- tion appeal to women's clubs, and the | organized power of the best women of the land is now effectively exerted for the spread of good literature among the masses of the people. Sorapid has baen the growth of this movement that it is estimated that in these twenty-five | States there are now over 2000 traveling | libraries in circulation with about 100,- 000 volumes, No more hopeful sign in our common schools can be seen to-day t the wide-spread conviction among our edu- cators that largest possible attention should be paid to the reading of good | books in the early years of school life. | It is beginning to be.realized that next | to the cultivation of the power of cb- servation in youngest children, is the importance of thorough teaching of the language through whose words they are to think and to express their thoughts through life. Less crowding of the.cur- riculum ‘and more intimate acquaint- ance with English literature is the com- ing slogan. The importance of traveling libraries to the intellectual well-being of Cali- | fornia_has long been discussed and can { with difficulty be over estimated. This | State 1s, regretful as is-the fact, but scantily supplied with ~fres publie libraries, there being less than fifty within its limits. For. instance, in the San Joaquin Valley, south of Stockton, the two little libraries of Fresno and Tulare are the only free libraries in that large territory with fully 100,000 peopla. In the dozen northern counties of the State the two libraries at the widely- | separated points of Marysville and Wureka are the only known ones for'a population of 125,000, Looking along the city of Santa Barbara, in the enor- mous extent of 350 miles through some 4 TRAVELING fTheir Origin—Development in New York and Wisconsin, Object With Possibilities When Adopted in California. educational | thoughtful, energetic action in the Em- | tically all of the 16,000 population living| the eoast between San Francisco and| LIBRARIES. of our most. fertile valleys, there is but one up-to-date, influential free library to be found—the one of 15,000 volumes at Santa Cruz. This deficiency is not wholly owing to a lack of public spirit, but in part to want of knowl- edge of the existence of a law provid- | ing for the support of libraries by tax- ation. Still there is wide-spread indif- ference upon the subject; even frozen ria, where George Kennan discov ered well equipped public libraries, ca give points to many a California tow which prides itself on its standing and attractions The eficial results attending the ion of traveling libraries in the will be realized here, providing al- ways that sound judgment in the selec- tion of books and business sense in management are exercised. Miracles, however, are not performed by these circulating libraries, and it cannot be expected that the adult of 40 years, who, from choice or necessity, has not acquired the reading habit, can genu- inely appreciate books. To all othérs, be ly, and the older readers, the traveling library has a mission of supreme value in bringing ‘the “best that has been thought and said in the past and pres- ent before their minds. Emphatically is it the boon of the age to -the distant, tude. Specifically, the use of traveling libraries in California would insure the starting of a large number of free libraries in our incorpurated cities and towns, which alone have the nower to tax for their creation and maintenance. In scores of other towns which are no incorporated, particularly in the miniz counties, where there are very few places with corporate powers, these vis its would secu reading rooms, and, gradually, of local libraries. Numerous are the wrecks of little subscription libra ali over the State which have failed solely for want tractive books would provide. No greater want for our young peo- ple in the country exists at present than a chance to continue the education be- gun in the common schools. Obtaining the rudiments of knowledge, they now | needs the acquisition of power. Over | 95 per cent of the scholars in the State | have no instruction beyond the grar- mar school, and of these a large per- centage do not graduate. Leaving school, the country boy, when work | fails, has nowhere to go, has nothing to interest him, and, sadly too often, be- comes a loafer. A few thousanrd dol- | lars per annum invested in traveling | ries will save untold numbers of | our youth from idle, dissoiute living. | Says President Eliot (in referring to | university = endowments), ‘‘Whoever shes to do some perpetual good in this world, whoever " hopes to win that finest luxury, must exert his | influence upon the young, the healthy, and the promising.”’ Some striking testimony of the worth of libraries was given at a recent gath- ering of librarians in Sacramento, when a prominent visitor stated that at the age of 12 he was obliged to become a breadwinner, and asesibed much of his success in life to the aid afforded by the public'library. It is plainly evident that California cannot now undertake a State system of traveling libraries. That will fol- low ~ in due time: Private liberality’ must be relied on for means with which” to prosecute this great work of home education in our midst. These means will not be wanting, as past experience in other phases of educational work among us abundantly proves. It is one of the interesting features in this move- ment that, once understood in its scope and its bearing upon the welfare of the country people, who pefore have been neglected in all other library develop- ments, helping hands have been-held | out to aid them. The work in our State can be begun in many directions. With the Los Angeles public’library ‘as a base, the donation of $1000 will equip twenty traveling libraries as the first | instaliment for that region. In Stock- | ton, the strong Woman’s Club can find a field of exceeding usefulness by sup- plying destitute towns in that vicinity. In El Dorado County the work of send- ing out a few libraries into adjoining hamlets has already been started by | one of .its honored men. The new Fed- | eration of Woman’s Clubs in ths San | Joaquin Valley can, in their own neigh- | borhood, make common cause with | their Eastern sisters, who are pressing this missionary labor so effectively in a score of States. Perhaps no finer philanthropy could | now be devised for the State at large | than for some interested person to do- | nate $5000 or $6000 to the State Univer- | sity for the purpose of beginning in a’| tematic manner the supply of trav- eling libraries to destitute localities. | Those willing servants, the Regents, would doubtless accept the trust:and experienced librarians would attend to its performance. The Library Association of California, of which Mr. F. J. Teggert, librarian of the Mechanics’ Institute in this city, is secretary, is earnestly interested in pro- meting. the cause, and Wwill' cheerfully furnish needed information. the children, the young people especial- | neglected dweller in- the country’s soli- | 3z ! bine's the establishment. of | of regular supplies of such fresh, at- |tomers, increas as traveling libraries | day, week after ENTS. .. - ADVERTISEMENT), 1 WAR EXTRA | VAR~ ' BATTERIES ROAR i IN FURNITURE WA | The rumbling thunder of Patto: | artillery duel with the high-pric m- | bine stores still rolls upon the ear and | echoes among the hills from San Diego | to Eureka, from Nevada City to the Golden Gate. Low prices resound everywhere. But don’t you think that Patto: n's | are selling their goods at least 20 per cent too low? They could easily get | that much more than they ask and-be fall that money in. I would advise them im do it. That, no doubt, good -ad- vice gratis, but when Pattosien’s need advice about running the great two- lacre store in the M n, 1 ga to a professional adviser and pay him for fa lump of it. | Their low prices are the bone of con- == en’s | tention. That's exactly what the fight | is about. They have been selling their goods, acec g to the high-price cgm- per cent too low all would join the pro- their prices. the war would be over to-morrow. BUT JOIN ‘,THE COMBINE? NEVER! % Whe a1l that going to end? | never. going to end. |on with a idea, | along, and if the | cession and raise 1t is igh g as it does, day after week and year -after Ye a delighted such rgains as Pattosien” can draw your own conclu thirty-two double wagon-loa niture and carpets were de ] week.” Just th of it—thirty-two wagon-loads delivered from the great two-acre Mi. m store in one week. And what does the last war ex Pattosien’s B in Bulletin say says: ; Brussels Carpet, sewed and laid, including lining, 50 cents. e Ingrain Carpets, 25 cents and 30 cents. : All-Wool Ingrain Carpets, highest grades manufactured, worth 90 cents, selling for 70 cents. p And a thousand other bargains on every floor. Seven-piece Oak-finished Bedroom Sets cut down from $24 to $14 50. Highly Polished Oak Sideboards, | worth regular $25, $35, $40 and $50, | cut down. one-third. e ‘Metal Beds, with brass trimmings, $2 50; others at $4, 85, $6, $10, $12 and $15; worth one-half more. REMEMBER, RECOLLEGT- Al _rodds frof East, ‘Wéfi!. North and South lead to - PATTOSIEN’S GREAT 2-ACRE STORE, Sixteenth and Mission Sts. You can not miss it. ‘It is the magnetic center. of house-furnishings. public appreciate fer. - You of It tinich, .treasurer; George FPus! con- ductor; F. Martincich, sergeant:at-arms; M. Sabadin, captain; P. Danyovich, first lieutenant; orina, second lieutenant; J. Turato, V. Zuspar, Charles Micich, A. Popovich and B. M. Burin, trustees; and V. Zupar, janitor. Z. Carich was the In- stalling officer and was assisted by George Dabelich as master of ceremonies. The Austrian military band furnished the mu- sic incidental to the installation. The as- sociation now numbers about 200 and the reports show an increase of $1380 during the past vear. After the ceremonies there was a fine banquet. trict Deputy Grand President Hall of Menlo Parlor last Thursday installed .the officers of Alcatraz Parlor, being assist- ed by Leonard Stone of Pacific Parlor. The new officers are: Henry Lichtenstein, J. P. P.; T. J. Barry, P.; Max Lichten- stein, first vice president; Arthur Lich- tenstein, second vice president; .B. P. Lapachét, third vice presiden H.. Kendrick, M. .. W. Sink, R. T. Ansbro, ¥. §; G. Moulin, T.; B Priest, 1. S.; BEdward Regensberger, O, S, W. E. Deane and Joseph McBride, tru tees. At a banquet which foillowed C. F. Fitzsimmons, the retiring past president, and William Horabin, the retiring finan- cial secretary, were each presentéd a handsome gold badge in token of the high esteem in which they are held by their fellow-members. The following-named officers of Magno- lia Lodge of the Independént -Order - of 0da Fellows were installed by E. G. Har- rison, D. D. G M.: John Deas, (e oS J. Rehn, V. G.; Samuel Polack, S.; Her- man Stern, F. 8., and A. G. Forsberg, T. ch, President ‘Jordan, in one of his ad- dresses, pithily says that “The unedu- | cated man looks out upon life through | narrow windows.” Gladly does the | State of California annually spend | $7.000,000 on schools and university, | that her boys and girls, her young men | and maidens, may view life through | broad windows.® The travellng library | comes to.increase the horizon by wider | outlook upon the beautiful worlds of | tact with men in history, science and literature, by never-ending progress in ‘“preparation for complete living.” GOLDEN GATE. Elected and Installed. the American Revolution has elected the following named to serve for the ensuing term: Hon. Horace Davis, president; Wil- liam M. Bunker, senior vice president; W. H. Jordan, junior vice president; Ed- 8. win Bonnell, secretary; Colonel A. Thomas Jones, prelate; Mrs. B. Simon, marshal;. Mrs. Anna Hanisch, warden; Mrs. C. Beer, organist; Mrs. F. rais and Senator E. I. Wolfe, repr tives to the Grand Council; Mrs. M. E. Elljott and Mrs.- L. M. Pfaendler, alter- nates. J. Warshawski becomes past coun- ciler: Past Councilor J. C. Bernstein was the installing officer. Alcalde Parlor, Native Sons of the Gold- en West, had the following named officers for the current term installed by G. Rey- nolds, D. P.: L. J. Hurley, P. P H L. E. Derre, first vice Desmond, second vice ateon, third vice presi- ; -H. F. Morton, R. .S-; A. Rahwyler, T, . Korten, O. S.; R. Dre. Bond and Galwey, Sy Wi s L. J. "W ¥. Moran - Hessio o - Andrews, trustce surgegns . The following named have been installed as officers of the Austrian Military and Benevolent Association: M. Perich, presi- dent; N. Batchia, vice president; P. Saulovich, - recording secretary; . Mostahinich, financial secretary; P. Sven- nature, art, poetry and song, by .con- | The California Society of the Sons of | rge Deputy District Grand President . F. Barnet of Pledmont Parlor installed the following named officers of uoia Par- ToroN.'8."6W.:" John §. Ward, P, P.; H. P. Sengstacken, ‘president; Willi L. Goodwin, first vice president; Henry Sche- fer, second vice president; Joseph Law- less, third vice president; Richard D. Bar- ton, recording secretary; Charles E. Tor- res, financial secretary; Dr. Frank Cranz, marshel; F. Oldenberg and M. O’Brien, trustees; W. L. Vice, outside sentinel; and A. Gudehaus, inside sentinel. --After-the | installation and. the -other, business of the | evening was_disposed of there were in- | teresting addresses by the installing offi- | cer and members of the parlor. | The following officers have been ‘in- | stalled for Court Magnolia of the Fores- ters of America: C. M. Harris, C. R.p AL L. Friedman, 8. C. R.: J. Anderson, urer; F. W. Clarke, financial, secre- recording secretary M. Glass, J. W . Hartman, J. B Nusbaum, M.D, rsberger, phys druggist; | G. Hapre Pinto, organist. |~ The!foliowing named have been installed Hubbard, registrar; Charles H. Warner, | 35 S0 Ot rancisco Ladge No. 3, treasurer; Sheldon I. Kellogg, marshal; | Widemever, J. P. G.;" Alexander Jacobi, T. H. Perkins, R. Vandercook, M. L. Re-| N. G.; J. F. Regan, V. G:; 'W. D. Wil, qua, Warren Oney, A. G. Towne and By- | B 83 F. W, Warren, F. S Se7 s ron Mayzy, board of managers. The mem- | Guorge Walcom, H. B N G T o Bincy bership of the society is now 305. L. 8. N. G.; C. Pl SEW “The following named have been installed | L. . V. G.; F. W. Randdlph, R, as the officers of American Council of the | S. S.; F. M. Heveman, L: S. §.; F. A. Order of Chosen Friends for thc current | JeNBINgS f\h“}"“g'"f The retiring past term; A. M. Pfaendler, councilor; Mrs. | BRI e Sowel ag o secmnaricd 8 Elliots, viee councllor; Mrs. . M. |of his services whiloin o i LN ructor; J. M. Mora secre- { g 2 4 J.°C. Bernstein, assistant secre- | sons 0% Speech belng made by S:,R-Ja- Mre, L. M. 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