The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 19, 1899, Page 6

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POLITICS AND PORT CHARGES. ] OT since the disclosures made by The Call of I\ the jobs carried out in the construction of the ferry depot has there been such a thorough elation of the waste of money by the Harbor ioners as that set forth in the current num- ants’ Association Review by John E. e of Mr. Quinn's article is “Politics and Port Charges, nd its object is to show that one rea- why t rce of the city is handicapped by s that the administration of the ront is conducted, not in the interests of the r, but of office-seekers and tax-eaters. As , “There seems to be no interest in the political machine and how to pro- excessive water 1 s g but zeneral charges of the paper are backed up by i atements of offenses. Thus it is said a delegation of Los Angeles politicians demanded a part of the water front spoils, and they were given the office of storekeeper, with a salary of $175 a| To that there was added an assistant at $75 month, a month and a teamster at $125 a month. | Other ples are hardly less glaring. “A promi- | nent politician demanded a place for one of his| her.chme There being no vacancy, the office of | ector, at $100 2 month, with nothing to do, | e superintendent of repairs receives the assistant superintendent $150, 00, janitor to take care of the office n in £ s created. $200 per mon boss carpenter TRIUMPH OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, HE defeat of Dan Burns and of the railroad in- fluence behind him is a marked triumph of the Republican party. In the history of this State it has not been paralieled. The railroad, during the last campaign, deliberately cheated the press and the people. It declared, through its representatives in- San Francisco and all over the State, in terms that would bind the honor of any individual or organiza- tion, that it was out of politics. The moment the clection was over it did not even preserye the forms through which prudent men sometimes endeavor to conceal their lack of integrity, but arrogantly and openly scouted its pledges and revealed the candidacy of Dan Burns, which, to the last moment, it forced upon the Legislature. That it ultimately failed is largely due to the efforts of The Call and the Chron- icle, assisted by other Republican newspapers and the mass of the Republican party. We do not feel inclined to indulge in congratula- It was a burning shame that a man like Dan tions. Burns, a mere creature of an unprincipled monopoly, could maintain a deadlock and for two years deprive California of half of its representation in the Senate of the United States. .Every man who voted for him during the long and monotonous struggle that has just ended was untrue to himself, untrue to his party, untrue to his country, and controlled by influences directly opposed to the public welfare. The only ground for exultation is that, for the first time in the history of the State, since the railroad assumed the direction of its politics, that audacious and formid- able power has been beaten. To elect a2 man who is fit for the Senatorship was impossible without the aid of the Democratic minority, and from the beginning to the end of the struggle the organ of that minority used whatever force it possessed to assist the railroad designs. Whatever the motives by which some of them were actuated, at least fifty-five members of the Republican majority were not captured for or by Dan Burns, and while, as we have already suggested, this number even ifunited could not have elected a Senator, they were sufficient to prevent a secret caucus and to maintain the honor and the integrity of their party. Even the Examiner now, with all its unscrupulous- ness, can scarcely have the audacity to claim that the Republican State Convention of last year was manipu- lated by the railroad, or that the Republican party or the Republican press deceived the people. With all its money and with all its power, from twenty-four to thirty legislators represented the entire delegation the railroad was enabled to secure, and these servants of corruption lost their fight and individually and col- lectively will be promptly relegated to the obscurity irom which they should never have emerged. There have been few sessions of the Legislature in which more than thirty Democratic votes could not be relied upon by the railroad. Dan Burns is politically dead, and in the same-con- dition in which Lazarus was found aiter he had lain four days in the tomb. He will never be resurrected. The railroad power is disrupted. The history of the legislative session will be an enduring and effective lesson to the people. The Republican party of Cali- fornia will enter the Presidential campaign of 1900 with cleansed skirts, and the purpose of the railroad, under its Democratic management, aided by the Ex- aminer, to steal the State for the Democracy, will be frustrated. . It is due to Governor Gage to say that, however injudiciously he may have been betrayed into the ex- pression of an individual preference for Dan Burns, chiefly based upon a supposed but imaginary debt of gratitude, he held aloof from the actual contest and 5 monthly for this department, mission claims is a- dead loss, as all they do costs the State three times as t would if contracted for.” tement is given showing that the roll of ferry depot employe 2 30, while the total revenues de ach no larger sum that $1795, leav- | ing a monthly deficit of $937 30. One of the notable disclosures of the article is that | asked why the Southern Pacific and other rail-‘i the wihe roads were not paying their share for the maintenance | of depot, the secretary of the Harbor Commission | replied they had not been able to come to an agree- } When further questioned | the rent for the postoffice, | who were paying rent, the | reply was that it was a mistake not to have had thc‘ terms for the railroads arranged before they entered the building, but now that they were there the small roads were pleading poverty, and the large one claimed that it had not increased its business and did not see why it should be compelled to pay inter- | est on such an expensive structure. Discussing the problem of a remedy for the evil Mr. Quinn suggests the appointment of a strong committee of investigation to collect all the facts showing the abuses and then making on that foun- dation an appeal to the Governor for relief. In the absence of any better plan that proposed ought to be tried. It may prove, in the end, to be no more than another kick, but that will be better than a silent | submission to the wrong which by tolerating it con- | sents to 1t ment with the roads as yet. how they had news s ar e e —— Jack Chinn of Kentucky has been indicted as a | common nuisance. Certainly such a classification is | not flattering to a professional bad man. A fighter | who carries guns and knives must find that to be ar- raigned like an organ-grinder or the promoter of a i cesspool involves humiliation. ! There will be no fault found with the police for | nabbing the bicycle riders who, unbelled and unre- | generate, try to promote the rate of {nortality among their fellow-men. | — | A crazy man is said to have appeared on the floor | of the Assembly during the final hours. The peculiar | part of the incident is that he should have attracted | any attention. i The awful fire which consumed a New York hotel | demonstrated that the structure was never fit for the | purpose, and showed that any emergency will develop | heroes. The average poolroom in San Francisco now con- sists, so far as the public can observe, of a sign, a .locked door and a pair of husky policemen. William Scott Lee, who wants the Mayor of Denver hanged, was once Mayor of that city himself, and ap- parently remembers what he deserved. General Eagan refuses to talk. It was only a short | almost every form of religious activity. | acts they recognized the existence of a Supreme maintained the dignity of his high office. The atti- tude of Ulysses S. Grant at the beginning of the ses- sion and as exposed by the investigation was not creditable, but it was half redeemed by the rejection The remain- self-respect It of the proffered coalition with Burns. ing candidates preserved their personal and refused entangling and disreputable alliances. |is fortunate that in Senator Perkins the State has a representative by whom it will not be discredited, and there is no probability that two years hence, or at any future period, the degrading experience of 1899 will be repeated. @ SECULAR VIEW OF THE CHURCH. N the United States church and state are com- pletely separated, all religious tests abolished, and, within broad and definite limits, absolute toleration established. The Government is not pagan nor atheistic, but it is unsectarian, and rests upon the nioral law, as recognized by all sects and in all creeds that are consistent with modern civilization. Because, however, the wise and liberal founders of this republic eliminated from the political system they devised and perfected the seeds of factional discord that had rent Europe asunder, it is pot to be inferred that they disregarded or thrust aside the religious element in that broad sense which included Christian- ity and Judaism. The signers of the Declaration of | Independence and the framers of the constitution, with few exceptions, were devout men, representing In all their Being, to whom they appealed and upon whom they relied. Washington scarcely wrote a proclamation as General, or a state paper as President, in which this fundamental belief was not expressed. From his day tc the present time every President, not excepting Jefferson, has followed his example. In statesman- ship, in diplomacy, in military and in naval opera- tions, in the decisions of the courts, in Congressional and in legislative enactments, in the stable literature of the country, in all the phases through which our national life has passed, there has so far been no de- | viation from the foundation upon which our institu- tions were originally placed. The only aspect, therefore, in which the .secular press in the United States can logically regard the church is that which, discarding theologies and separ- ating boundaries and diversities, treats it as represent- ing the essential unities that hold all men together within the political edifice that our fathers con- structed—that is to say, belief in a Supreme Being and in the moral law. Treated from that point of view, and excluding every element of dissension that can exist among civilized men, it must be regarded ,as the mightiest and most controlling force that has entered into human life and influenced the develop- ment of the world. Strike out from history Judaism, that inexorably maintained the conception of the Deity, Christianity, that formulated the principle of fraternity, that as regards the relations between men time ago that neglecting to refuse cost him a good | is the essence of the moral law, and their blended §ob. force in the movementg of humanity since the dawn N of the Christian era, and Europe, America, Aus- tralasia, and their combined spheres of influence, morally, intellectually and even materially, would be without an intelligible reason for their existence, The part that the church or religion, in the sense in which those words are now used, has taken in the rise and progress of individual, social and national life is the solvent and the explanation of the mys- terious energies that have produced the political and intellectual triumphs of the nineteenth century, and as the twentieth century approaches sound the ex- ulting note of incomparable progress. The wars, the persecutions, the cruelties, the corruptions, that as we look backward are so prominent in the line of the centuries, though coupled with religious names and with religious organizations, when stripped of their false coverings and reduced to their realities have represented the obstructive and ever-diminishing power of barbarism in all its multifarious forms, and in a great degree have had a political origin and mo- tive. But the progress of education, the increase of mental and moral strength in individuals, the ad- herence to monogamy as defining the true relation between the sexes, the growing enfranchisement of women, the progress of society, the multiplication of employments and of avenues for skilled labor, the application of inventive genius to the necessities and to the comforts of life, the diffusion and the exten- sion of commerce, the simplification of art, science and philosophy so that they are at once deeper and truer and yet within the reach of average intelligence, the universality of literature in its transient and in its permanent forms, and guatanteeing and aiding all these elements of advancement, the successful assertion of fundamental rights, protected by self-government, are directly traceable to the operation and influence of religion through all the ramifications of human existence and intercourse. The world is not only better because of these unities which have been briefly sketched, but, in a true sense, they have poured into the world its vitality and its germinating and fructi- fying processes. The man who sums up modern civilization, including all that the word implies as well as expresses, as the outcome of human reason and human effort in antagonism to faith, has not even skimmed over the surface of the phenomena of nine- teen hundred years. There is not a home, a school, a hall of justice, an institution of learning, a monu- ment to philanthropy or charity, a library, any one distinctive feature of the present elevation of man- Lind, that does not demonstrate the necessity of re- ligion and its dominance in the suppression of savagery and ignorance and in the uplifting of the practical toward the ideal. The spires that point toward the stars and receive the diurnal baptism of the sun will survive armies and navies, all the essen- tial but deplorable brutalities of government, and will sentinel the coming ages of peace, order and plenty under free institutions when the ashes of imperialism shall have been swept into the waste places of eternity. THE TRACK GAMBLERS. O one expected: that the ~profits of track gambling would be surrendered without a struggle. The revenues have been large, and accumulated profits will be used liberally in litigating the prohibitory ordinance. The Supervisors have simply put ‘into law the wish of the community. They reflected the public desire to have the stain erased from the city’s fame and name. They could not restore the good names lost, the lives blighted, the bread taken from families, the money stolen from employers, the public funds offi- cially embezzled, to go into the pockets of the idle and vicious schemers who fatten on the bread and ruin of others. But the Supervisors could and did say that for the future this lure shall be removed and prohibited, and that no more money shall be lost, no more stolen, no more embezzled, and that the morgue, prison and insane asylums shall get no more recruits from the pool-box and books. These vicious revenues have amounted to thousands of dollars every day, and nearly every one the price of honor. Let any one watch the crowds that go to the track and esti- mate how many are drawn there by love of the horse or a wholesome admiration for a noble sport. Such are in a minority so small that if they were the only ones to be present the stand would be almost empty. The fact is that the lovers of the horse and enthusiasts in trials of speed and endurance are kept away from the track by the presence there of gamblers and their victims. The track has become as much the means of gambling as the green cloth and box and dealer of a faro game. No one visits a faro den to admire the dexterity of the dealer, the watchfulness of the look- out, the color of the cards, or the structure of the box or table. All these are merely the accessories necessary to the game of chance. In like manner the track, the horses, jockeys, starter and judges are merely necessary parts of a process upon which money may be laid, to be lost by victims of the gambling craze and won by the skilled student of chance. The prohibitory ordinance will be picked to pieces as far as skilled attorneys can do it, and the people should stand guard over it. They should back up the Supervisors. They should keep vital the present condition of public attention to the matter. The ordinance must have more than a perfunctory defense in the courts. If it show flaws under the judicial eye its defense must be such as to compel the courts to develop and bound and delimit the extent of public authority over the question, resting in the Board of Supervisors, to the end that if this ordinance fall another may take its place securing the same object and able to stand an assault in the courts. All the ingenuity that money can employ will enter the lists against it. If it stand the judicial test, then all the craft that greed engenders will be called into play to evade it. Then will come the necessity of constant vigilance to smoke out and prevent these evasions and violations of the law. The vice has been so long permitted that it has taken on the character of a fixed habit, and as such has lived on the toleration of the community. If it can be prevented long enough to make its prevention a habit, there will be little danger of its reappearance. o s e A man named Lewis recently had the experience of being hanged on a gallows he had built for the reformation of another offender. a man named Haman had a somewhat similar ex- perience. ST Certain statesmen are sighing for the day when the anti-cartoon bill shall go into effect, and as that day will never arrive the prospect for a continuous crop of sighs is better than the chance for a yield of prunes. A pugilist is about to be laid away in an Eastern potter’s field, which is sad, of course. However, bet- ter men in the habit of earning an honest living have reached a similar end, which is much sadder. Sampson has made many friends by his generous expression of desire to have other naval officers pro- moted, even if his name be cmitted from the list. There seems little need for Spain to worry about | prisoners held by the Filipinos, for the latter are rapidly losing ‘thir grip. . G 3 . It is of record that “White Hat” McCarty has once more been starving his horses. It is time for an example to be made of this individ- ual. A man who will leave a lot of horses to gnaw fence boards or go un- fed deserves to be kicked to death by one of them. « e Dune. McPherson is mad because when he recently visited the city one repogter called him an editor from Val- lejo and another sized him up as-a Santa Cruz rancher. Dunc. ought to feel flattered. At least he was men- tioned. $iiar e The more the beef scandal is probed the worse it seems to be. The people of this country will not tolerate a gang of murderous rasgals who sold for the use of soldiers meat which was rotten and full of maggots. They may be never so highly connected, respectable, wealthy, but they are a lot of unmiti- gated scoundrels for whom jail is too good, and who would disgrace the gal- lows. Furthermore they have dealt one of the industries of the United States a blow from which it cannot recover for many years. Foreign countries cannot be blamed for viewing with suspicion the output of packing establishments which sell for the consumption of American goldiers in time of war a mess of poison, putrid, revolting, and more deadly than the bullets of the enemy. I hope the name of every one 'of the villains will be made public, and that each offender will be driven from the commercial life he disgraces and the social life upon which his presence is a blot. . . Mrs. Minnie Adams has been arrested for the murder of her illegitimate child, the charge being that she ad- ministered carbolic acid to the little one. While the ascertaining of the truth will naturally be left to the courts any man has a right to his opinion, and my opinion is that the woman is not guilty. Even if she is guilty the father of the child, who deserted her and then was eager to bring an accusation against her, is no better. Everybody knows that the natural tendency of a child upon finding an object, liquid or solid, is to swallow it. If the youngster who died from carbolic acid had found a bottle containing the deadly fluid he probably followed the precedents set by countless generations of his kind and endeavored to gulp the contents down. The mother is not of a high order either of morals. or intelligence.. She would hardly have had the thoughtful- ness in buying poison to give a ficti- tious name. To be sure a policeman says that he identifies her, but the identification given by a policeman may be an error. His unsupported word ought to be insufficient to convict. If the woman is guilty, despite her wrongs and her griefs, there is no palliation for her. As yet, however, the astute re- porter and the eager detective com- bined have in no measure convinced the unbiased of her guilt. F Mrs. Dora Fuhrig has been convicted of murder in the second degree and ex- cept for the benign intervention of the Supreme Court will pay the penalty of her crimé. It is a pity no law exists by which this woman can be hanged. Without discussing the ethics of the abominable trade she follows certainly a person addicted to the slaying of in- fants ought to be reasonably sure to refrain from killing the mothers also. So far as publicly known Mrs. Fuhrig has only slain four foolish members of her sex, and to be found guilty in a single instance ought to be a gratify- ing experience. She can go to prison, serve her term and be out in time to resume the pursuit of slaughter. péd found guilty of all the crimes of which she knows herself to be guilty she would have to live a hundred years at least or cheat the penitentiary. B oa e Doubtless in the case of Mrs. Fiske- Marceau-Fennell, who has just been di- vorced again, there are some congratu- lations due. However, the observer, naturally being at a loss as to where to bestow them, drops the matter at this point. . Cige Professor Falb of Vienna has been having another of his spells. He sets November 13 as the date upon which this globe, after experiencing various startling jars, is to go into smithereens, The professor ought not to be so out- spoken. If he is wrong people will think him a scientific Keely, while if he is right he will not survive to get the glory. %l By the kindness of the Supreme Court Dick Williams, after having been twice proved guilty of accepting bribes for landing Chinese, escapes the punish- ment he richly deserves. There has never been, since Willlams was first accused, a shadow of doubt as to his crookedness. That he accepted a place of trust and while occupying it stole himself rich is known. Probably, now that the danger of punishment is past, he would not deny this himself, and nobody would believe him if he did. Such episodes as this tend to bring the Supreme Court into contempt. 1If a man has committed a certain crime and the fact has been demonstrated, to hag- gle as to the precise way in which the demonstration was brought about is monkey business, unworthy an august tribunal, and an encouragement to every rogue. When the law is so pow- erless that a Dick Williams can laugh at it, there is no reason to suppose the average citizen will take off his hat to it, nor hold in awe the judicial body which with ceremony and sounding phraseology turns the statp(e into a farce and the culprit into the street. e When the California soldiers started to brave the perils of war it was with tearful eyes and heavy hearts the peo- ple watched them go. There were pray- ers for their safe return and when in the distant tropics theéy acquitted them- selves gallantly there was a thrill, not of surprise, but of gratification. Then followed a period of dull garrison rou- tine, and the boys were homesick. This so stirred the sympathies of Telatives and friends that efforts were made to have the regiment recalled. However proper such efforts were then the situ- ation has changed once more and they are now not only in bad taste but a reflection upon the patriotism of the soldiers. I do not suppose there is a man in the regiment who would not feel an order to start for the United States while he is close to the field of martial activity and likely at any hour to participate in battle as an affront and a degradation. The boys are not do- ing the whimpering nor indulging in \hysterfa. We all want to welcome them, 4 coming back as veterans, but even those who love them most and who are bound by ties of kindred, would not wish to see them until they could bring with them the record of duty com- pletely performed and every honor of war. All that can be asked in reason is that as the Californians were first to sail away in due and proper course they be the first to sail back. But not while needed at Manila to uphold the honor of their country. They are Americans as well as Californians and neither cowards nor children. A For many years Evangelist Moodyl has been garnering human souls and | has done very well. He is now in this | neighborhood and 1 hope will meet with his usual success. But with all his en- | thusiasm, his ardor, which seems little | less than an inspiration, Mr. Moody can afford to talk sense. He spoke the other night about the Bible and said: “Ac- cept it all or reject every line.” To ac- cept every line of the Bible literally is impossible to the normal intelligence of many worthy people. In parts of it the Creator of the universe, it seems to them, is portrayed as a monster, cruel, vindictive and small; subject to the passions of anger, avarice and | vanity. With a reverence for God, the | maker of worlds, I am giad not to bei able to believerthis of the Infinite. Nor | do I think, as Mr. Moody implies, that the salvation of any soul hinges on in- dorsement of the tale that Jonah was three days in the belly of a whale, that blowing on ramshorns ever knocked down a wall, or that at the bidding of Joshua the sun stood still. Let Mr. Moody teach the beautiful morality of the sermon on the mount and no scoffer can rise up to condemn. But his dic- tum of literal acceptance is a demand that people turn not wholly to a better life, but that in great measure they turn to heathenism, ignorance and su- perstition. I would not offend Mr. Moody. He is not only a gentleman, but one of the most astutejadvertisers of modern times. * e There are a few things about the op- era season that tend to make one cyni- cal. One is the pretense of a lot of cheap people that they know more con- cerning music than a cow does of skat- ing. They went to see Melba, not to hear her; and they went as they would have gone to observe the fat lady or the ossified gentleman. While in the opera house they sized up the costume of their neighbors, speculated as to the cost of a dress, the value of certain dia- monds on display, and wondered how the exhibitors ever got the price. The criticisms of the dramatic writer of The Call have been as far above their heads as the skies. .I do not believe in fraud, and the people who rave over Melba are frauds as often as sincere. She is a glorious singer, but they do not know it. They have no way of knowing it. They have nothing to know with. wline Sue It Is with no feeling of personal ani- mosity I express the wish that James Treadwell might be sent to San Quen- tin for a long term. The young man has considerable money, but with it he has the neyer failing faculty of being a ruffian. He attempted at San Jose to kill a woman of the half-world,” who with all her faults is his superior. With a wanton and bestial cruelty, for which there can be no excuse, he assaulted and maimed her. Now his friends are at work endeavoring to gloss over his offense, and I hope they will not suc- ceed. The court to exculpate him would have to be corrupt, and the society to condone his outrage rotten to the core. If there is such a court, and if thére is such society, Treadwell is all right. If people are decent and honest, he is a low-lived law breaker. It seems to me a pity that a man without brains, honor or ambition should have money and license to be a reprobate. Wi it Perhaps it is merely a coinci@lence, and yet it struck me as strange that only three weeks after the proprietors of the Ingleside track had placarded the town with announcements that they did not advertise in The Call they had nothing but a lot of busted hopes to advertise. about the advertising in this.paper. Some way salary day comes around every week. Nevertheless there is sat- isfaction in seeing a lot of full-grown men, who have tried to deport them- selves after the manner. of asses, made to realize that they are exactly that which they proclaimed themselves to pe. o5 e Judge Kerrigan recently would have been arrested for fast driving except that he made his identity clear to a|. park policeman. I would like to know what figure his identity cut. It is as pleasant to be run down by one reck- less driver as another. ety The pastor of the church which Rus- sell Sage attends and from a pew of which his prayers and praises ascend has resigned because the institution is{ in debt. I respectfully call old Sage’s | attention to the injunction of the Mas- ter to sell all earthly possessions and give the proceeds to the poor. e Most of the vetoes of Governor Gage | have been admirable, but I wish he | could have seen his way to assisting the State to make reparation to an in- dividual who had been wronged beyond | the power of word to express. This | man had been in prison for ten years for a crime of which he was innocent. An effort was made to pay to him as some slight compensation the sum of $15,000, and while the Legislature ap- proved, the executive would not pass it. Yet the State owes that man more than could ever be repaid. Even the, tender of the pitiful sum mentioned would be only a suggestion of recom- pense. There should be a law for the protection of such unfortunates, and they should be entitled at least to.a sum equal to that they would have earned in freedom, as well as a sub- stantial pension. Sl iy Labouchere has been denounced by Professor Gayley as a profane scrib- bler. I had always wondered what Labby was, and am glad el &l to accept the e ey My friend, the cable car conductor, has written a book. Perhaps the little volume is not in itself remarkable, but that it should have been written by a Tepresentative toiler, one to whom the hours of rest are few and the hours of labor crowded with vexations, taken in consideration with the character and treatment of the chosen subject, seems to me deeply significant. The conduc- tor is Wallace E. Nevill, and for years I do not particularly care | WITH ENTIRE FRANKNESS. By HENRY JAMES. Jackson street c ous and apparently absorbed in the rmance of his duties. He has feerrxfx?ed the book “When the Cable Car Stopped,” and it is the rels_xuon of a supposititious dream, in which is :;- ploited a study of co-operation. On the visionary car he has such passengers as Mayor Phelan, Drs. Hemphill and Stebbins and Mr. Vining. His theories are unfolded by means of a conversa- tion among these gentlemen, and the scheme is carried out consistently and pleasingly; universal co-operation of course receiving indorsement, all the talkers clasping hands td the serstimem “Brotherhood and Humanity.’ Mr. Wallace Nevill does not claim great originality, but he has grouped ideas in such a way as to show he is & careful student. The work is of high moral tone, and there is much in it to set peo- ple thinking. This is particularly clear for the reason that the author is not a professor of economics, but. one who earns a daily wage with his hands. If the people who do not often express themselves in print are pondering over this great problem, solution may be nearer than \ve. kn()‘w. The editor of the Gridley Herald neatly roasts me for having given qvual- ified indorsement to lynching. Upon reflection, I guess that he is right. ERE THE DAY. We wakened %T the dawnins, but we saw the day; Anr{lev:'grspoke our ll’lml»I prologue, but we cer reached the play. on!"Our love was sweet and certain till gray sorrow dropt the curtain. Ay, we wakened at the dawning, but we never saw the day. There were buds within our garden, but they never came to flower: There were birds nmonfog;zr bushes, but 2 nly sang an . An({hv(v)e ‘l)au)ghed [:o see the swallow, but the summer did not follow: There were buds within our garden, but they never came to flower. 'Tis a garment Wh!te“and silken, 'tis a vhite and misty veil, *Tis a pair of little slippers—O, dear love, so white and frail. 3 Is the manhood in me dying, that I'm sit- ting here and (‘ry[nf : O'er a garment and a slipper and a never opened veil? Dear, the world is empty—empty as the gemless, golden band. The token I )m!d flggered and that never found your hand: They ve been tc}nng me the story of an everlasting glory. But you were the only preacher I could ever understand. Ah! we wakened at the dawning, but we never saw the And we s e our over reached the play; 3 But our love was sweet and certain till gray sorrow dropt the curtain.- Hark! A single bell is calling . . this should have been the day —Chambers’ Journal. ay, little prologue, but we and AROUND THE " CORRIDORS. A. Latham of London, England, is at the California. O. Biggs, a banker of Gridley, is stay- ing at the Grand. John Thomann, a St. Helena vineyard- ist, is located at the Grand. William N. Russ, a cattle raiser of Eu- reka, is a late arrival at the Lick. F. F. Jacques, a capitalist of Chicago, is registered at the Palace with his wife. Dr. D. H. Deal and wife have come up from San Jose for a few days and are at the Lick. A. M. McFadden, a well-known resident of Victoria, B, C., is at the Occidental, ac- companijed by his wife. PSP 'xfwo sons of MR. FINN e TOOK g R THE SAME. - | 3or 2 dansoives, and began opera- tions by visiting a countryman, one McGinnis, who keeps a grocery store with bar attachment. Now McGinnis is unfortunate in the fact that one of his legs is considerably shorter than the other, the result of an accident in early life. This has the ef- fect of making him appear about four feet high when he is standing on the short leg; but when he straightens up on the other leg he looks at least six feet tall. He was standing on the long leg when his two convivial friends entered his place and as they stepped up to the coun- ter he said in affable tones: “Well, gintlemin, phwat will yez have on this glorious day?” Maguire replied: “Begorry, some of your best whisky strayt. will yez have, Finn?"’ Finn_replied, “I'll have a glass of ale.”” At this point McGinnis reached down to get two glasses from behind the bar and in doing so rested on the short leg, which made about, two feet of him disappear from view. As he did so, Finn quickly said: “Hold on, McGinnis; if vez have to’go down cellar for the ale, to save yez the trouble I'll take the same as Maguire.” Mayor David Evans of Eureka is at the Grand. He reports Humboldt having at present a railroad boom and a bright fu- ture. W. de L. Benedict, a merchant of New York, and G. Henry Whitcombe, an in- surance man of Worcester, Mass., are among the guests at the Palace. A. J. Ascheimer, a capitalist of Phila- delphia who is making a visit to this coast with his two daughters, registered at the Palace yesterday morning. Edgar J. Arnold, advertising manager for Hale’s California stores, left on the overland last night for an extended trip in the East in the interests of advertising. He will be absent until May 1. Dr. and Mrs. C. S. Houltaine arrived from Macleod, Alberta, Northwest Terri- tory, and are registered at the Occidental. The doctor has bheen practicing his pro- fession in that locality for some years and will enjoy much-needed recreation visiting throughout the State. B CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March 18.—L. L. Levine of San Francisco is at the Cosmopolitan. G. E. Hayes and wife of San Francisco are at the Vendome. A i Reunion of Workmen. Upon a suggestion made by the Past Masters’ Association of the Order of United Workmen the local lodges and those of Alameda, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties have decidéd to have a grand reunion of all the lodges of those counties at Agricultural Park, in the city of San Jose on the 18th of next May, pro- viding that it does not rain on that day, and should it rain the event will be post- oned to another day soon thereafter. 'wo of the lodges of the degree of honor have aiready signified their intention of Joining in the festivities of the day. There are thirty-two lodges in San Francisco, twentfi-two in Alameda County, three in San Mateo County and five in Santa Clara County. P e N Divorce Suits Filed. Suits for divorce have been filed by Timothy Thornton against Annie A. Thornton, for desertion; Julia Schoen against Augustus Schoen, for failure ?o rovide; Lizzle Walsh against Peter J. ‘alsh, for fallure té provide, and Everett A. Kennedy against Harriet F. Kennedy for desertion. . I'll have ‘What Cal. glace fruit 50c per ™ at Townsend’s.* —_—— ‘Special information supplied dafly business houses and n‘\:v en b !;: he has attended to his calling on a lic Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’ » Eomery sttect. Taiephone Matn aoia Ot