The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 2, 1899, Page 6

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BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery streat, corner Clay, cpen until §:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes stroet, open until 930 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open until 9:30 o'clock. 194} Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2591 Market street, corner Sixteanth, cpen until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission straet, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until § o'clock. 1506 PolX street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second anq Kentucky streets. open unt!i 9 o'clock- AMUSEMENTS. + to-morrow night. Tivoli— *“The Bohemian Alhambra~"'Saved From es, 200 and Free The: ning. Olympta—Corner Ma California Theater - April &, Association Auditorium Grand Opera House—Sau: April 18. Grand Opera House Flames."" er—Vaudeville every afternoon on and Ellis streets, Specialties. lan Maclaren, Wednesday evening, y evening, April 5. nesday afternoon, rt, Wedne: Recitals, W Rosenthal, Tuesday afternoon, April 2. SUPPRESS INDECENT EXHIBITIONS. ¢ | “HE art of printing came to be prostituted to vile and Jaw was found to be necessary to pre- baseness utilizing it for the purpose of pro- » fight was a long one and it in- blems, but it was won and the ing cannot be made the 1¢ legal principle has nd graphic art, and that pr L1he uption photograg led by tl t of their reprehensible business. is, scems to have resorted to ical devices to turn a dirty driven out the ‘new. electr nickel out and the various moving pictures shown ip the vit [‘ cope, mutoscope and various other ted go right uses, are the means ment and instruction. ions recently made by The Call make limi ous machines in this city. We do not y rests for the needed action, ly in the same hands as the enforcement of the laws which prevent the noxious J phi ummaph\' Our public records itions are full of evidences of 1 the means for its production but it is ev ~|.nu1‘ be stamped out as poison to society. All of the moral tutelage of the home and the up- right pr sles inculcated in school may come to naugh a chance contact with evil suggestion. Expe e teaches that spontaneous moral weakness, | not the fruit of 1 design, is responsible tigh wickedness and sorrow to employ all | £s .;i moral guardianship, without loading | these ‘with the v of protecting the i e from the open attacks of the vicious enemies The streets and resorts of a 1d be purged of suggestion that takes | ire mind, and that which gratifies exter the respe resy bl order nce and great <ity shou root in the im aged. depravity the-streets, where its enjoyment by the already morally rotten offend: The ma: scope: " which shame the world by converting the useful discoveries of science, intended for the eleval of man, into the instru=| nients of his degr. . should be restored to their | primitive. 1 those who divert them to ed be punished and their further| practices in that direction prevented by the stern ! hand of the law. To this end the community of the police powers of the Government for the moral as well"as the physical sanitation of the city. answer.to this demand to say that these enormities are permitted-in other cities elsewhere, for wherever per- mitted 't ¢ a reproach to society and the odium ly charged to protect if from moral dis- While it is a settled principle that men. cannot any more than a statute dec rpose. should uses demands the fullest use ease. be:made moral by s tute B - . that the'l sical nuisa of sponta sical undoing. 1 suppress a moral as weil.as a phy ice, and leave man to be the victim only ous causes leading to his spiritual or phy- 3 ..S.C, are to be tried postmaster, killed his babe and e Yet they have the undisputed de- s e postmaster was a colored, man, and this is understood to be good in Sotith Carolina. ot s “provisionally” seize a portion of ith no intention of holding it. If there who have not heard a story for a vould be a good one to tell them. The son of ex- \Ia)or Strong. ‘seems to be fighting bravely in _the Philippines; and has received a wound which would create much sympathy for him save for |- his expressed determination to write a book. The story of the Salinas family who intend <o ves on the ,5th of the month was printed-on the 1st. They could not have selected a more appropriate date. There are moments when one cannot help but sus- ‘pect the American forces in the Philippines to ¢on- sist largely “of Funston -of-Kansas and Creelman of Yellow Journalism. (ver"'v y is to [V\u are any mari while, this This fad of scnding messenger boys from London is not accomplishing much, but it is giving the boys a chance to see a large and imprcssive world. There seems to be much leit to the discretion of Otis, and the gentleman Seems to have a Jarge supp}y of discretion to leave it to. The youngsters who stole a pig have been caught. It seems-that Mboov—.quu.ld aln.hem. ¥ Y | - misuse have been hunted among filth for profit, | 1 restraint of the owners and operators | for | should be denied open -flaunting on | Itis no | it is also-a settled principle | EASTER DAYy. 7 l ~HE total number of orthodox Christians in the world has been closely estimated at 477,080,158 most of them actually, the Resurrection is a fact, ac- cepted by them as established by incontrovertible evidence, which also proves the immortality of in: dividualized life, and thus furnishes inexpressible consolation for the struggles, the pain, the separa- tions, the disappointments, under which from the beginning of time mankind has groaned. 1f to this enormous mass of human beings we add the total number who have lived and died in the same belief since the dawn of the Christian era, the whole con- stitutes such a demonstration of faith, such a mani- festation of what Mr. Gladstone called *the influence of authority in matters of opinion,” as renders Easter a central point in history and reduces materialism in all its forms to an insignificant factor in civilization. It is not for a secular newspaper to discuss the theo- logical aspects of this festival, but some of its phases are of universal interest and importance. From the earliest records of the human race it is apparent that the law of contrast, the opposing elements and forces set loose in the world, visible and invisible, have de- manded explanation and solution, Light and dark- nriess, heat and cold, storm and calm, and other similar natural phenomena, cach of which was obviously ‘es- sential to the comprehension of the other, were ex plicable to the simplest mind. But the mysteries of good and evil, the successes of: wickedness, the fail- ures of virtue, the inroads of disease, the poignant intellect and sensibility, the brevity: of those close relationships of which love was thel cement, wrought hat, from within itself, was beyond relief. There >ered to be a necessity for a prolongation of life | beyond the grave to rectify apparent injustice and to supply compensations for misery and for failure. Thus out of individual experiences world was prepared for the doctrine of the resurrec- It has been sometimes claimed that the Old to the perpetuation of tion. Testament does not refer human life, but there, as in secular and contem- poraneous literature, this aspiration of ~man is ex- ,r"‘f-»‘l'd and its truth declared and illustrated. Fcn~ turies after their death it is recorded that the divine proclamation was issued, fraught with the assurance of immortality. *I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” When Job was in the depth of his agony he i§ accredited with g “And though after my skin worms destroy this body \u in my flesh shall I see God.” Isaiah, in his phrase, gave the same assurance— “The dead men shall live; together with my body shall they arise.” Habakkuk, in his impressive me- morial, some passages in which are the climax cloquence, tersely expressed “‘the desire of nations” in the declaration, “We shall not die.” David, stung with grief while his child w: to mourn when he was dead, him, but he shall not return to me.” Of Elijah it is | related that he accomplished the work of raising from the dead for the widow of Zarephath. “The soul of the child came into him again and he re- ving, m. of and said, “I shall go to | i i\'iwd." A similar miraculous .resuscitation is at- { tributed to Elisha in the case of the child of the | Shunamite. These references are made in this place not es- pecially because they are found in the Bible, but for 1 the reason that they gather up and enforce the an- | swer to the deepest problems to which the intellect and the heart of the race were attracted. | these lings that the education of the world advanced toward the higher civilization that the festival of Belief in the individualized im- ster emblazons. Christianity, but it is theré formulated intq the speci- fic doctrine of the Resurrection, which is common to lall orthodox believers, however discordant on other { points. When Paul conironted King Agrippa he in- | quired, “Why should it be thought a thing incredible | with you that God should raise the dead?” And in | order to show the pivotal importance of the Easter | 'mncepnon to the higher life of man, both spiritual and intellgctual; he wrote that unequaled chapter in | | his First Epistle to the Corinthians, in which he con- | centrated his underlying thought in the question, “I } | | Ephesus, 1 not?" what advantageth it me if the dead rise and, as the alternative to his faith, reproduced | the language of Isaiah, “Let us eat and drink, for to- | morrow we die.” in its practical influence upon human progress and | { upon advancing civilization Easter is the festival of | festivals. It meets the deepest necessities of man. | It lifts him above himself and into the faithful recog- | 'nmon of respousibilities and duties that distinguish | him from all other forms of organic life. It leads him t(o the embrace of an aspiring fraternity. | fies the domestic affections and assures him that death is but temporary separation and that reunion with | those who have reached his heart on earth is not a delusion but a certainty. It assures to him the growth’ and the identity of his own soul, protects him against | for the future that prophct. sage and martyr h:nc an- ticipated for him. Easter is set as a jewel in the bosorn of spring. Tt urrounded by analogies which strengthen the con- | victions that it typifies. Nature is resurrected from” | thhe -death of winter, and the springing grass. the | | protruding bud, the tinted flower, attest the univer- sality of life and that the lapse of vitality is but a pro- cess of guickening and of reqrganization. There is an Irish legend that on Easter marning the sun dances in the sky, and it is certain that wherever the .har- monious chimes of this mighty tribute to eternity are CRITICISM AND PROGRESS. finer issues and to a nobler ambition. “IROM the London Chronicle we learn that the rflirlningham City Council recently conferred the freedom of the city upon Mr. John Thackray Bunce, who has just retired from the edi!orshlp of ‘the Birmingham Daily Post after a service of thirty- seven vears. The Lord Mayor, in proposing the -resolution, stated that the Council recognized that the progress of the municipality was due in a large meas- ure to the.judicious criticism Mr. Bunce had unspar- ingly shown in his journal. The item is of some interest as an 1llustmlon ‘of the relations which exist in Great Britain between the press and public officials, but its chief value is the statement of the recognition of the service which un- sparing newspaper criticism renders to municipal progress. - The relations between the press and municipal authorities afe not the same here as in England, but the service of the press is essenually the same in both countrie: It is not at all likely that we shall soon see in the United States any incident parallel to that of the Bir- ‘mingham Council. As a rule our municipal officials ‘are not capable of appreciating the value of the criti- cism to which their acts are subjected, and even when they. are conmou oi its.usefulness they rarely have To every one of these persons nominally, and to | tortures that were the accompaniments of developed | humanil) into an intolerable doubt, fear and anguish | nd reflection the | in mortal agony, ceased | mnrtalit_\' of the human soul is not monopolized by | | after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at | It sancti- | the most virulent evils that assail him, and fits him; heard light and ‘warmth touch the human heart to | manliness enough to admit it, much less to :odmznd it. Fortunately the effectiveness of the service is not dependent upon ‘official acknowledgment. - The press does its work, and whether that work be approved or denounced, it adds its strength to the forces which tend to municipal improvement. The critic is too often regarded as a mere faul!- | finder. It would be more accurate to regard him as a truth-finder, since it is his task to weigh all things and seek out what is for the true welfare of the com- munity. 1f a city lacked the testing power of an un- sparing criticism it would be exposed to a thousand | shams in the garb of reform and a thousand jobs { bearing the specious guise of improvements. It would make no progress, because its energies would be wasted in a hundred devious channels instead of be- ing directed along. the one channel in ¢ which real progress is- posslble It would hardly. be an overstatement to say that criticism and progress are inseparable. - Where criti- cism exists and is free there must be progress, since zens .alike, renders stagnation ‘impossible in a com- munity possessing any faculties of activity at all. On the other hand, it is doubtful if there would be any notable progress in a community lacking in criticism, since the natural inertia of men in office would cause them to rest content with their - salaries in idleness forever unless some power forced them to action. Taking all things into consideration, the Birming- { ham Council did well in conferring the freedom of their city upon the unsparing eritic of thirty-seven vears’ service. It is safe to say the honor has been conferred upon many a military hero or national statesman who was less worthy of it. The service of | an editor is not of the kind that officials generally like to admit, but there is scarcely a city anywhere in the %Unitcd States of which it might not be said that its | municipal progress is in a large measure due to the unsparing criticism. of its local press. - ’ MORE EXPLANATION DEMANDED. j UR esteemed contemporary, the Examiner, O answers our question with reference to its | leadership in the last campaign by saying that I'had The Call united with it in promoting Democratic | success Judge Maguire would now be Governor, a | Democrat. would be comfortably installed in the Fed- eral Senate, Mr. Huntington would not be in control of the Railroad Commission, and Governor Gage would not possess the power to drag the government down to the Burns level by manipulating the patron- age of State and city. | All this may be true, but will our contemporary pur- sue the subject a trifle further and tell us what good would have been accomplished had the government been given this political complexion? What did the Jate Democratic Railroad Commission do toward set- tling the transportation problems of the common- wealth? True, it is alleged that it caused Mr. Hun- tington to depart hurriedly from the State, but what good did that accomplish? Mr. Huntington has re- turned, as fresh and chipper as ever. The late com- mission did not reduce rates of transportation, or ameliorate any of the evils incident to railroading in | California. Being at loggerheads with the Southern Pacific, it could not.even secure for shippers the or- dinary courtesies which are always granted to a com- | mission friendly in character. | So far as Judge Maguire goes, we are not prepared to say that he would have been any improvement | upon Mr. Gage. Maguire is a patronage cormorant, and his head is filled with “reform” ideas which are It was ony more or less disconcerting. We believe, and have al- ways said, that as men go Judge Maguire is honest, but we do not believe that politically he is sincere, or that if he were Governor he would even attempt to redeem many of his -extravagant platiorm promises. He would simply sit down, as most Goverhors do, and figure upon getting as many places for his friends | as possible, without reference to the interests of the taxpayers. However, political parties are judged by their records. Will our contemporary point out to us any- thing accomplished by the local administration which | preceded the present one of a substantial or lasting | character. worst we have had for ages, and it was entirely Demo- cratic. The State government was fairly well con- ducted, but we beg to remind our contemporary that, with the exception of the Governor, it was Republi- | can. At the present time we are not prepared to ad- mit that a Democratic Senator at Washington would | be an improvément upon no Senator at all. PARTIES TO BURN. R. J. STERLING MORTON, by way of showing that the conservatism of Nebraska can be as woolly as the radicalism of Kansas, proposes to organize a new party. It is his opinion | that the time is ripe for a wholesale departure of good | citizens from the old parties. Hc is quoted as having | said in a recent interview: “The late war and its momentous issues; the strug- gle of the two great parties over bimetallism; the rise, decline . and absolute decay of Populism—all these | clements contribute to-a situation as pregnant as !thnse which gave birth to the Republican party on the approach of our civil - strife. My investigation | teaches me that the time is ripe. I do not care to \ pose particularly as the head of the new movement, therefore I will not at the present go into details. | But I will say before July 4 a call will be issuéd out- {lining the plan and it will be signed by men of na- | tional fame and of tried political worth.” > While Mr. Morton, exhaling the odars of em- | balmed Clevelandism, is thus rallying the hosts of a | moribund counservatism, Mr. Pingree of Michigan, who plays Populist variations on Repuplican har- monies; is sweating the collar of him to organize a ‘new party on progressive lines. Furthermore, a set of New England men eminent in Boston, Duxbury and towns of that kind, propose to organize still another party, being fully persuaded, like Morton and Pingree, that existing organizations are inadequate to the political needs of the time and -of the people. This movement is headed by Edward E. Hale, and its object is to extinguish the war spirit ‘of the people, establish international arbitration and uphold the hands of the milk-white Czar at the com- ing peace conference which that imperial friend of humanity called for just before he decided to crush Finland. Here, then, are three novelties in the way of po- litical organizations to be put upon the market dur- ing the coming summer. Each of them comes well recommended, and is designed to fill the yearning _void of a long-felt want. Of course the good old parties will confinue in the fi¢ld long enough at least to.welcome the new comers and invite them to come out of the wet and be taken in. We shall then have to help in the celebration of this Fourth of July Re- publicans, Democrats, Populists, Gold Democrats, Socialists, Labormen, Woman Suffragists, Prohibi- tionists, Mértonites, Pingreeites and Haleites—and the next day it will not.snow, for it is going to be a fever hot time all over the United Smu. Alaska and the Phxhppmes. - M THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL SUN,DAY, APRIL 2, 1899, ow+ww»omom Dull witted as a burro, he essay WITH ENTIRE FRANKNESS By HENRY JAMES. its stimulus, incessantly applied to officials and to citi- g The city government was absolutely the | ® ¥ ® § WHo+0+04040 ¢W+WOMOWWWI Dr. Selridge of Oakland has been convicted of cruelty to ahimals, and deserves to get a severe sentefice. I like & good horse and have no respect for the man who drives one to death or incapacity. . To offset the case of Selfridge, White Hat -McCarty has been acquitted of a similar charge. The verdiet is enough to make a horse cry. Hereafter any man who does not want to feed his stock can inclose them in a pasture bounided by a. succulent fence and if the ‘diet of splinters fail to stick to their ribs the fault will plainly be with them and not the owner. T e The Appeal of Marysville does not think a young woman who accepts an engagement ring and then bounces the young man should retain the bauble. I do not accept this view. No man wants to present to his new girl .a second- hand ring, and with the jewel in his possession he would be constantly re- minded of a broken heart, which other- wise he might forget. . R In its comments upon current events the Bulietin has not learned to under- stand the beauty and utility of truth. It could no more be fair than a full- blooded African could be white. I do not understand why this city should not have at least one passably good even- ing paper. The Post is the best, and if it were to eliminate - its foolish *‘con- tests” might be forgiven. The other sheet is not worth mentioning and 1 refrain. ' e For the credit of the city and of Cali- fornia, who are proud of their soldiers now on duty in the Philippines, rela- tives of the members of the First ought to cease their meetings and their idle clamor_ for the boys to be brought home. All this noise is worse than in- effective; it is foolish and tiresome and a reflection upon the very Californians in whose behalf it is supposed to be made. e e Hon. J. Sterling Morton' of Nebraska is the editor of a paper which he calls The Conservative. That it is an able publication, that it speaks the sincere sentiments of the.proprietor, that it is clean and.manly, all goes without say- ing. It is my privilege to differ from Mr. Morton as to almost everything he advocates, not as to the manner of the advocacy. The name “Conservative” Jars on the ear of the younger genera- tion. This is no time for conservatism, but the contrary. We can be conserva- tive and so can a sheep, driven to the slaughter, but there is nothing in it for the sheep. R S S . A Chicago minister has given his hearers a shock by telling the truth about our social system. I read his re- marks and was gratified to find them exactly similar in spirit to remarks Wwhich appeared in this column a week ago. He thinks that present conditions are thoroughly bad and so they are. He does not, however, propose a remedy. At present the gentleman occupies a chair at the University of Chicdgo. If he can name a remedy I move that he be given two chairs. 3 o Professor Morse of Massachusetts is discredited with having said recently: “It has taken our race a million years to climb up from the beast to the man; it takes just fifteen minutes for a man to go back to the beast again.” The professor must be proud of the race to which he is a shining ornament. I am glad to be able to think that he is mis- taken, although the speed with which he would go back to beasthood is some- thing to be estimated only from his own remarks. If what he says of the rest of us iIs true I would bet on his making the sprint in seven minutes and a half. iy ‘Thete is some talk of arming the natives of the Philippines and training them to fight against their own liberty. This would be a dangerous experiment. No sooner would the natives learn how to fight than they would select their own targets. These would be Ameri- can soldiers. It seems to me our boys are being killed fast enough without starting a‘kindergarten in the art of war for the purpose, or rather, with the inevitable effect, of increasing the mor- tality. . It i§ with great interest I have read “McTeague.” While the book is not by any means the great American novel, as an enthusiastic critic has pronounced it, it is rich in promise. Frank Norris of this city is the author. - I predict that he has just started upon a career that will bring to him honor and fame. A criticism of the book would be out of place in this column, and anyhow I have not time to do the subject justice. Enough te say that as a-character study .“McTeague” is great. The only question arising i{s as to whether the characters so minutely portrayed are worth the trouble. After carefully read- ing the book I am convinced that they are worth it. There are touches of tragedy, too, suggesting a Dickens, that grand old writer, deemed by the new school out of date, but far more valu- able to the world of literature than all the Conan Doyles,.the Anthony Hopes and the Hall Caines who could be fenced in a forty-acre lot, where, by the way, I would be glad to fence them. The distinct San Francisco flavor of “McTeague” gives it an added interest here, while in no measure detracting from its interest to readers elsewhere. « ¥ el Ee ‘William Scott Lee, who wants to hang the Mayor of Denver, could have done that a few years ago without en- countering hostile criticism. He was himself Mayor of that city then. @i St The Gridley Herald is so opposed to lynching that I begin to suspect the editor of fearing that somebody with a rope hu desiz‘nl on hlm. Concerning the love lettm exchanged between Robert Browning &nd Eliza- beth Barrett Browning much has been said, but I desire to add a mite. What a man and woman enamored of. each other may-say is nobody’s business, and the son who would for a price give publicity to their messdges would sell his parents’ skeletons to-a bone mill. “The publisher who offered the price. dis- graced his calling, insulted his read- eérs and the memory of two great writers of verse,.who, in their relation apart from literature, were ordinary people, while the critics who defend the Son in the hawking of his wares are a set of asses. e e PR . Among the Americans who make ado ver their desire that the Filipinos be T [ \ + 6 independent I notice Blow-hole Carne-. gie and Blow-hard Atkinson. Carnegie is the geritleman who sells his govern- ment aerated armer plate,-and Atkin- son makes a business of demonstrating that $1 a day ¢ enough for any man to employ In the rearing of & family and to strive for more is a- sfp. Atkinson; to get up an appetite for his own elab- orate dinner, can show in figures that a 7-cent meal is best adapted to the needs of labar, &lthough his own. fat was never derived from such diet. If Carnegie and Atkinson are not a pair of frauds then rotten meat is whole- some and Alger is a gentleman ard a soldier. Charles Francis Adams is also on the list. He is a pot-bellied Bos- tonian who was once permitted to run the Union Pacific until he ran it into the ground and all theé goed officials out of its service. The three njake up a precious trio. I suggest that if they are pained at the treatment the Fili pinos are getting they go to the islands and take up arms for their friends. E Ao In this paper a week ago there was & portrait and a sketch of Hetty Green, supvosedly the richest woman in Amer- ica. The face, taken apart from the title liné and the subject matter, would- be adjudged that of a criminal, in all likelihood that of a woman who after an ignoble career was ending her days in the almshouse. Yet in one sense Mrs. Green is not a criminal. She prizes a dollar above her soul, but this indicates simply a nice appreciation 6f values, for the soul peering from that face would be dear at 40 cents. There is nothing feminine in the hard lines of her countenance, nothing gentle nor sweet. More attractive “‘mugs” adorn every rogues’ gallery in the land. . It is not strange that this should be so, for I never knew of a criminal meaner, smaller or more contemptible than this deadbeat millionairess, who declines to pay her taxes, to.dress decently, or to live after the fashion of the civilized. Doubtless divine wisdom knows what Hetty Green is for, and so it might ac- count for the existence of snakes, but to my humble understanding she cum- bers the earth. I would like to see her useless fortune scattered to the four winfls; mayhap a portion’ of it would fall into worthy hands. wir e e An editor at Eureka presented his salutatory Monday and his valedictory Friday, the latter giving an intimation that the interval had been filled with woe. His discretion is to be commend- ed. The faculty of knowing a good thing when one does not see it is rare and valuable. . A It is said that the petrifaction of a whale's head has béen found in Mon- terey County 2500 feet above sea level. To doubt anything is useless. Let us hie to the coast and discover the petri- fied imprint made by Jonah when the whale got tired of lugging him. S A patient in the Stockton asylum was sent there for an assault upon a wo- man, his insanity having been indi- cated by the act. Since his incarcera= tion he has displayed violence toward everybody coming near him. The other day he murdered a fellow patient, the episode seeming to him to be a joke. Before his confinement he had been a | 1 think worthless, marauding tramp. that under a system providing properly for society the man would in some hu- mané fashion be put to death. He is of no possible use to himself nor to anybody else, but a danger and an ex- pense. He is a burden to people who owe him nothing. They have to sup- port him and he has never done aught to merit the consideration. I am heart- ily in favor of killing the homicidal lunatic whether he be of the sort who. rends his raiment and yowls at the moon, or of the worse brand who stands at the bar of justice and pleads his mental state as an excuse for crime, This course would bé charitable not alone to sane people, but to the lunatic, Life here holds no joy for him; while in another life the eyes of his soul might be opened S ‘Will Senator Morehouse please take note that for these many moons I have been signing articles? This was partly due to the fact that other members of the staff declined to be suspected of responsibility, but in greater measure to the fact that Morehouse had in his mind' the great idea that he sprung at Sacramento, of compelling all writers to adorn their product with their sig- natures. This was a process scientifi- cally known. as telepathy is simply @ system of telegraphing without wires. The Morehouse measure is unique as the-dodo and will cut an equal figure in the regulation of the race. Neverthe- less he can see that I am with him. ke A: book entitled “The Extinction of Poverty” is on my desk and will be read in .due time. ' The extinction of poverty. is certainly much to be de- sired, but as it will be accompanied by the extinction of the human race I am | diffident about coaxing it to hurry. Notwithstanding, this book, by Atgust Greth, M. D., is doubtless worthy of thoughtful consideration. 5 wie e Dana H. Thomas, who found $3600 in the street, returned it to the owner and réfused a modest reward freely ten- dered, writes a long letter defending his act. No defense is nécessary. Mr. Thomas acted within his rights ss a strictly honest man, and if he could not | accept the reward and retain a clear conscience was wise to refuse it.- An editorial in this paper asserted that in | accepting a reward he would have done no wrong, and to this Mr. Thomas takes exception, trying to make his act of restoration analogous to that of helping | an old lady across the street—a mere | courtesy. Let him view it in another | light. Supposing he bad lost the money, that it had been handed back. Would | he not have felt an’ impulse to reward. the finder, and would he not have feit | hurt if his offer had been viewed as a temptation toward evil? would. Even the Golden Rule, which Seems to be the guide of Mr. Thomas— and no man could have a better—would sustain him in the course he did not take as well - n Lhe Sne he chose. California ls a great State with a little Governor. Colorado has had her ‘Waite, Oregon her Pennoyer, and Kan. sés a series.of freaks in the executive chair, .but for cranklness. stupidity, bull-headedness, rarrowness of mental grasp, minuteness of soul, lack of " abil. ity and absence of magnetism 1 wonld pit’ Gage against the igt. The Repul» licans had no right to nominate him. He had not earned the distinction. He is uncouth to the point of boorishness, <commonplace, drunk Wwith vanity. I think he| the facetious with pitiful result. He ean- not speak, cannot Wwrite,, cannst be civil. Undesgerved fortune found in him the raw material for the making of a Goverpor and got in its deadly work, I hall never forget the spectacle Gage made’of himself after he had receiveq the- nomination. I was sorry for him then, dnd am still sorry enough to'p the incident over. He showed at tha moment what there was in him and - cold waye swept the convention hall A Governgr® who cannot rise abovs petty spites, who cannot on occasion be .broad, who forgets that he isin a place where politeness is prescribed, is unworthy the honor Gage has received The State is sick of him alréady and he:has barely- begun to exhibit his lack of. qualificatio {AROUND THE" CORRIDORS L. D. Smith, a Stockton land-owner, at the Grand. J. C. Dasel and wife of New York ars guests at the Palace. Mrs. G.' B. Herbert of New York is a | guest at the California. .W. J. Davis, a land owner of Kings City is at the Russ with his family. A. J. Woods, a wealthy resident of Ber- pardston, Mass,, Is at the: Russ. is Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Rosenthal of New York are registered at the Palace. WW. O. White, business manager of thas the lsUKlah = Republic-Press, is making Grand ‘his headquarters. Fred Swanton came up from Santa C yesterday and will be at the Grand for s few days: 8. B. Hicks, a hardware merchant of Seattle, is at the Occidental, accompanied by his wife. Dr. and-Mrs. I. M. Lovitt of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, have engaged apartments at the California. S. Englander, a United States naval of- ficer located at Mare Island, is at the Lick for a.brief stay. W. A. Veith, a Fresno frult-grower, and W. J. Hughes, an Oakdale merchant, as registered at the Grand. Charles E. Elliott, the mining secretary, dnd his daughter have located perma- nently at the California. ¥. L. Gray, propristor of the Golden Eagle of Sacramento, is at the California, accompanied by his wife. M.' M. Gragg of Monterey and Willlam D. O'Brien, a merchant of Jacksonvills, Or., are late arrivals at the Lick. A. C. Tuxbury, 2 prominent resident of Buffalo, N, Y., is registered at the Grand with ‘his wife and daughter. Dr. W.-J. Conan and wife of Superior, Wis., and W. S. Chenoweth, a capitalist of Davenport, Jowa, are among -the ar- rivals at the Occidental. Rev. W. J. Drummond, a missionary of Nankihg, China, who has been visiting in the East, arrived at the Occidental last night and will return to the Orient on the next Steamer. John ‘Frances, general passenger agent of-the Burlington and . Missouri - River Railroad, is registered at the Occidental from.Omaha. He {5 making his annial trip over the territory under his super { vision. He has been in Los Angeles and will go to Portland in a few days. —_——— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. WITNESS FEES—A Mother; City. .If you are regularly subpenaed to appear in a court of justice as a witness you are baund to obey; if npt, you are liable -to | be punished. In California witniesses | are paid in civil but not in criminal cases. FLOWERS—J. C. A., Sunol Gien, Cal, For the sale of “wild flowers, ferns and | garden flowers” you should communicate | with some-dealers in sueh. “Ar Hst of sueh | dealers in San Francisco may be found in the classified départment of the. di- rectory under the head of florists. | IN NEW ZEALAND-A. B. C, City | This department has not the space to | answer all the questions-asked in regard to population, wages to mechanics and in- dustries. in Auckland, Wellington - and other places in New Zealand. If the cor- respondent will go to the Frée Public brary and call for “New Zealand Official Year Book 919, 137-8,”" he will thére find in | detail all the information he -desires. THE BEACHCOMBERS—H. G. B, San Rafael, Cal.. The following was the line- up of the Altos who played with the Beachcombers at Santa Cruz on. March 12, 1899; - Boradoris, second base; Brock- hoff, “shortstep; . Fergusom, left Whalen, pitcher; D. Bodie, ‘third -base: Morrison, catcher; Grawford, center field: C. Brockhoft, right”field; . F. Pace, first base. _The . professionals were: Brock- hoff, Whalen, F. Pace and Ferguson. RAILROAD DAMAGESJ. B. R, City. The maximum that -can be:allowed for damages in railroad cases: where death was & result.is. fixed by law ‘at: $5000 in Colorado; 1Hinois, Maine, Massachusetts; Minnes Misslsslg;\l, Nehraska, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, ‘Washington, \\lwonsin and yoming at- "$7000 New H: mF in the Dis- trict of Columbia, Indhma. Kansas; Ohio, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia- and West Vir- ginla, and at 520 in Moptana. In the other Btates. and. Territories there is mo limit as to damiag UNITED STATES MARINES-W. - J. W., Qakiand, Cal: “In the United States the: Marine Corps.was established by an | act.of Congress November 10, 1775, and on’the réconstruction.of the navy in 178 it was made liable‘at any time to do duty in the forts and garrisons of the United States, o the "sea °‘coast, or .any other duty on'shore. as the Presidént might di- rect. . JIn_.addition to fort, garrison. and navy vard duty, marines are. provided for all naval vessels in' vommission accdrding | to their rating. first class, vessel will | catry a_captain, 3. lieutenant, three ser- { geants; four corporals, ‘two musicians and orty privates:. A fourth class-vessel will carry one Sergesnt.’ two - musicians and ten privates. Iu havy ‘marines are considersd ss police. amd are subject to the rules of the'n except.-when- the Pregident. orders’ t on duty with the army. Cal glace fruit 8¢ per ™ at Townsend's.” —_—— ial information: sugpllad daily to business houses, and ‘public men by ths Press (‘i“man: Bureau {Allen's); 50 Mont-~ gomery st Telephone Maid 1042 ° | Fine - Ghandelier Adds greafly to the artlstrc appearance of any room. We show 500 new’ and exclusive designs, Wholesale and- retall Ickelhelmer Brus ,20 Geary Street,, 5 Neu Kearny. *° "2 luill[ Phlih( ul b Fitie Iilm. i