The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 21, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 21 1899. MAY D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. . 'S, LEAKE, Manager. 'P/l BL'CAT‘IU.‘ OFFIC ..Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson Street requested. 908 Broadway Room 188, World Building c Advertising Representative. WASHINGTON (. C.) OFFICE Wellingion Hotol C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. Sample ccp ©0ZKLAND OFFICE NEW YORK OFFICE C. GEG KROG s CHICAGO OFFICE Marquette Buil C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. FFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay til 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street. open until o'clock. 621 McAllister street. open until 9:30 ck. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. Mission street. open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market ERANCH Of et corner Sixteenth. open until 9 o'clock. 2518 csion street. open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh eet. apen untll 9 o'clock. 1506 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kéntucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. and “Cavalierfa Rusti- every afternoon AUCTION SALES. IN SIGHT AT LAST. ed to the at such o seemingly to have 2 sche jertake to aid the completion of that than enter ug ne by either of he question of de oners and ree, and that the appoint a new comn in. Th: d as if the Commissi ever ag sion go over the rout ounld have en- tziled more years of del nd it looked as if the ac- tive undertaking of the ent e were as remote as ever. The report now coming from Washington that hed by the Commissioners arded, therefore, as one of the most grati- reement has been re ng news items of the time. It s s to clear away st great obstacle in the way of undertaking the substantiz th , for with from unanimous report on act upon, it itate in determining to go make the appropriations necessary to be- e work. 1e ¢ sion to is sioners favor port the Comm Lull route across Nicaragua. be entirely fcasible and estim 5,000,000. Tt is added that ¢ estimated cost is t! the Comr adhered to dimensions consid- erably greater t ever before proposed, both in length of in width, depth and radius of cur- vature er efs and especia the trip over made a c« in 1o wa they said, necessarily the estimated cost nations made from 1 contemplated a much smaller former sur ngton that the report RAILROAD STRATEGY. | HE Southern Pacific Company entered tHe Cir- T;uu Court of the United States on, Friday last | without notice to the Attorney General of the | State or to Messrs. Foote and Hayne, the special counsel who have represented the Railroad Commis- and on its own motion dismissed the grain-rate There was no possibie opposition to the mo- tion when presented on behali of the railroad itse by such magnitude, in which large pub- involved. it would have been in ac- case. case of 1a usage for the co In that case, however, the Attorney | Hayne and Foote, possibly all t, and the reporters | have been there. It was more con- ent, .. with railroad methods, for the un- | expected to happen, and for one of its strategic points to be made and’ one of its gross frauds consummated, when immediate comment or the suggestion of awk- ward questions was impossible. The public Messrs. been en pres litigation 1 observe that a com- rtesy of a notice to | by E. S. Pillsbury, who then declined the suggestion of Judge Morrow to adopt the motion with the re- mark, “Well, we don’t know to what penaltie}\that might subject us.” The railroad game to obliterate the litigation through the commission in mere form was blocked. But it was so essential to avoid a hearing on the merits in the Circuit Court that, when all other means | had failed, it swallowed its declarations of years and, through its own attorney, forced a discontinuance. It placed its application, however, on the extinction of the controversy through the repealing action of its two representatives on the Railroad Condmission, and magnanimously concluded to bear the loss of " the money it had expended, which, so far as disclosed, had been fully counterbalanced by the loss the State had suffered through the treachery and fraud to which it had been subjected. It thus appears that in order to obtain a judicial determination of fundamental propositions in troversy between the railroad and the State a new litigation will be essential. oad. and .in which the State has menced by the ra expended fully forty-three thousand dollars, has ended | ng | without the settlement of any issue it embraced a"di\'es‘izale the respo after it had accomplished its only real purpose, so l’nr} i was concerned. It will be noted, also, that this result would not have been attained except through dishonest collusion with the majority | of the present Railroad Commission, Messrs. Black- | and Laumeister. The exact facts should be | as the com; recollected t the full measure of responsibility may be exacted. | e Railroad Commi in 1895, consisting of oh M. La Rue, James 1. Stanton and William R. rk, was not controlled by the railroad. It adopted a horizontal reduction in rates of | which was never carried into effect. By | and by a schedule also, it wused its full to reduce g es by 8 per cent. The sued in the Federal court t and accompanying affi- | seven pages of print, broadly of the commission to touch-its by itself. which it alleged to be so m even crit It also set forth its | ads constituting the system cism. s of the r . and annexed as exhibits, copies of rticle \I‘I section 22, of the State constitution, em- ‘ i andnoncs: v : ! i - : The modern nations have been too much indoc- CIng ‘hf‘ IR g fing offSecoagsaad ion trinated by Lord Salisbury’s conscience-quieting doc- ctions ol o trine of “dying nations,” upon whose estates the | the | nd the imposition of different rates, the act board: was organized and its duties | Kentuc a sub-| h was the basis of its own I he statute of v. with s. through the Attorney | filed affidavits in | restraining order that which held the com- d the equally sweeping provi- The argument the case lasted for months sel, mission | in a vise sional ir on that was demanded. s part of and went g controversy between As printed its apportion- yne, pages; Pillsbury, 332 am F. Herrin, 131 pages, and John Gar- 695 ry development of great plication for a temporary in- ia determination to | all its phases to a definite The univ he controversy 1 result 1 apinion throughout ed, throughout arely met the claims and that the decision | i1 permanently adjust its relations with the Union—was oad had sq Commi oners the publ Judge McKenna avoided the decisi of the larger points, reserving them for the final hear- | granted a temporary injunction re- n of some and simply execution of the grain-rate schedule. | borate and complete answer to the bill of iplaint was filed, signed by the Attorney General the solicitor and by Robert Y. Hayne and W. W. rte as counsel for the: Commissioners. ‘After the hearing of exceptions and other dilatory proceedings to be decided settled. Under the equity practice, the testimony had to be taken in the form of depositions, and some idea of the magni- tude of the work done in the production of the proofs be derived from the fact that the evidence ac- Iy introduced covers 2804 type-writteh pages, of ch 625 are the direct and cross examinations of C. P. Huntington. After a lapse of nearly three years, when the po- the issu were wl litical contest of 1898 commenced in this State, the | main controversy was almost ready for trial, and not a whisper had been heard to the effect that the rail- road had been playing with the Commissioners and deceiving both them and the people. But the cir- had altered and the Southern Pa- cific Company dare not meet the struggle it had de- liberately invited. In relation to the Central Pacific Railroad Company it had to satisfy its stockholders and its bondholders, and it was also fotced to pro- vide for the payment of the indebtedness to the Fed- eral Government, by a continuance of its impositions cumstances ely and quickly make upon trade,commerce, manufacture and all the other | industrial elements of a commonwealth rapidly tak- g a foremost the Union. Among other facts shown by the evidence was that its estimate of in round numbers was about one-half of its estimate for the establishment of “just and reasonable” rates. For i rank in ilroad property for the purposes of taxation | booemrang if State officers, other than Commissioners | when so much loot is in sight. yr the complainant and|. .. : o 7 | i 2" | india. Even the United States have been invited to | oners was as fol-|_, =5 S e . = . take some of it. All the limitations of international Fitzgerald, 336 pages; | Attorney General Ford, of whose good faith so far no doubt has been entertained, promptly in- ibility of the railroad and its agents and employes under the constitutional pro- vision to which The Call has already referred, and that the State Board of Equalization .examine the filed depositions so that the railroad assessments may be raised and the two aspects in which, for opposite pur- poses, it presents its property values harmonized. The shameless conduct which the railroad considers | a trinmph over the people may yet turn out to be a Blackstock and Laumeister. do their -duty. From these Commissioners of course nothing can be an- ticipated, although, with the railroad consent, they | may undertake a pretended revision of the rate schedules that will give no relief whatever and con- stitute merely “‘a sop ta Cerberus.” o THE PEACE CONFERENCE. HE reports irom The Hague are not reassuring to those who hoped that the Czar's canference would result in the decrease of armaments and strong and Vi nations have a right to administer, and by Kipling's “White Man’s Burden,” which is the death knell of the weak and defenseless, to abate their military establishments and mind their own business | 1f they*could agree, peacefully, upon which should administer upon each | ion that the whole decide to be moribund, and | which should go jocund to the task of exterminating | the weak and friendless, the matter would be simpli- fied, and armaments might be reduced to the scale re- | quired in hastening the death of the dying and in \hci of the weak. But the trouble is the impos- | such an agreement. Take the descent upon | mple. That great empire offers a| Caesar found in Gaul or England in slaughter sibility of China as richer spoil th an e law are suspended at the borders of that country. Its immediate partition is not delayed by any regard for the rights of its people. but only by disputes among the nations now in peace conference as to which shall get the best pieces. Already American state$men have declared that we must have our rights in the division of China. Just what rights we, or the other western nations, have to property that| morally and by international law belongs to another, | has undertaken to define. China has waged | war on none of them. but has stayed at home and | minded her own business. Yet the forcible over- throw of her Government and the partition of her cstate are planned and the western nations are armed to fight it out with each other and throw cannon- shot like dice for property to which they have no legal nor moral claim. So the disarmament phase of the Peace Conference iz not likely to get much consideration. But there is a branch of the question, already suggested by Sir | Julian Pauncefote, the representative oi Great Britain. | This goes to an agreement to mitigate the horrors of | war by defining clearly what shall be considered an act of war against an enemy. Formerly, in naval | fare, many acts were permitted which now by in- ternational agreement are forbidden as piracy. This | | was a great and humane step out of the unrestrained | cruelties of the past. Recent events have made it necessary to take a similar step in regard to military | carnage on land. Slaughter of the wounded, killing :prisnl]crs, using fire primarily as an agent of destruc- {tion of human life, bombarding unfortified cities, | shelling coasts and the shores of streams inhabited by defenseless natives, resulting in the wholesale murder j.m’ women and children, are all used as the means of | ! spreading terror and compelling a surrender of all other rights as the price of the right to live. no one | | time, as on Friday last, the rail}'oad was represented | con- | But it is suggested that | the lifting from the people of the burden of great | PRORPXOXQ #! * Not many people of the vast popula- tion of the United States ever heard of Miss Helen Wright of San Jose, and few therefore outside that citv and the beautiful valley that surrounds it gave much if any heed to the recent an- nouncement of her death. To most who read the brief notice sent out through the Associated Press it was but the rec- ord of another woman gone, and that was all. Nevertheless all California, and perhaps it would be no exaggera- tion to say all the United States, suf- fered a loss by that ceath. % In comparison with the career of noted women, Miss Wrightiin her work at the State Normal School lived a se- cluded life; but the influence and the | issues of that life were not shut in by | any narrow seclusion. Her nature was animated by what may be termed an elemental spiritual force having power to shine and to warm not only by di- rect rays, but by reflection from the minds and the hearts of others; So that from the pupils of the school and from the circle of her friends, ‘her exalting and purifying influence was radiated and spread, heaven alone knows how far or how strongly, through all the homes of this broad land of ours. Miss Wright had n, public career vis- ible to the general eye, or audible to the general ear, but Providence has or- dained that the blessings which fall upon the lives of all f us come oft- | times in ways of which we are not con- scious, and none can tell how much of the good we gain from our experience with the world hgs been due to per- soms we never knew, of \ 10m we never heard, and the re- of whose death is to us less notable than the fading of a rose in our garden or the flying away of a singing bird from our window. This much, then, is due this Sunday morning by way of tribute to one of thé most potent personal infiuences in our commonwealth; a tribute which may be taken in itself as a faint proof that the twilight of that influence still lingers on earth, though the radiant sririt of the light itselZ has passed up- ard into the perfect day and van- ished in the infinite. TR The heated controversy over the pub- lication of the love letters of Robert | and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, which had begun to give way to other sub- jects of discussion in literary circles, has been revived and fanned to a fiercer heat than ever by a letter re- cently published in the London Stand- ard from C. J. Moulton-Barrett, the only surviving brother of Mrs. Brown- ing. The letter is of such brevity and of such interest: to all who give any heed to literary matters it is worth reading in full. No digest could do it Jjustice. It runs thus: “In spite of earnest protests, Mr. Browning, with a want of delicacy hardly conceiyable, has published the letters of his father and mother pre- vious to their marriage. The careless indifference of Mr. Robert Browning, ‘“There they are, do with them as you please when I am dead and gone,’ was no excuse for the sacrilege. His mother would have been horrified. She loved her father. “The motices of the book have gen- erally been so eruelly unjust to father’'s memory that 1 consider it my duty, as his eldest surviving son, to relate the facts. My father acted as his own merchant for his Jamaica estates, and on that account went daily to the city. He never met Mr. Brown- ing. He was aware of his visits, and he regarded them, like the visits of Miss Mitford and Mr. Kenyon, as af- fording my sister pleasure. My sister had been an invalid for years. By the directions of Dr. Chambers her room was kept at a certain temperature and she never left it. Under these circum- stances my father lost his daughter. He had loved her from her childhood. He never recovered it. I venture to say few fathers would take the hand of a man who had so acted. And I would add, few sons, either for gain or love of hotoriety, would make public the confidential letters of their mother. Yours, ete. “C. J. MOULTON-BARRETT. “Grove, Jacksontown, Jamaica, March 30.” s e Concerning the charge made by Mr. Moulton-Barrett that the letters of his sister and her lover do an injustice to his father nothing can be said by the general public. That can be dealt with only by those who know the facts. It is a strictly family affair. The two other points of the letter, however, are as discussable as anything under the The Peace Conference is between so-called Chris- | tian nations, all of which send missionaries to the | heathen, and whose Christian sects proselyte among | | themselves, each regarding itself as the special custo- | | dian of the truths of Christianity and a promoter of‘ | the principle of peace on earth and good will toward | Their general professions of Christianity will | _deserve more credit if they will follow what seems to | I be the initial trend of sentiment in the conference, and | agree to do their killing of each other and of others who, being defenseless and therefore most in need olz peace, are allowed no representatives in the Peace Conference, without unnecessary cruelty. Not much | | | men. canopy of heaven, and every human being has full liberty to join in the de- bate and help to swell the hullaballoo. The question whether it is morally right for a man welcomed -into any home to induce a daughter of that home to elope with him in defiance of a father's command raises the whole of that world old controversy as to whether love or duty has rightful par- amount authority over conduct; while the other question of the right or | weong of publishing to the world the love letters and sweet private confi- dences of eminent people involves a determination of how far literary art- ists are to be bound by the conventional CHOXOEOXOROROXOLOROKOX DR OROEOXCHOXOROAOKDXOHOXO R OROXDLDED EDITORIAL VARIATIONS. BY JOHN McNAUGHT. O*O4OXOHOKOHOLIROROAOHOAOXPLOHDIOHDHOKOROROROROKDOROXOX DO my | XOHOROROXON moreover had the teaching of Blake to | g0 unon: Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair; But desire gratified Plants the rose and olive there. o= » | As the controversy over the action of Robert Browning in persuading the daughter of his host to elope brings into the field of discussion two oppos- ing views of morality, so does that over | the action of young Browning in pub- lishing the letters. There is the mo- rality of common folks and the quite | different morality of genius in such | matters. Ordinary men and women ; shrink from disclosing the issues of | their hearts to the public. Such a thing { is who has won the Huntington will be eventfully hope for his enlightenment in this lis for-he is too old and his ignorance too extensive to be explored a | opengy up in the years that remain to hin but with an eye of benevolent faith we may see him provided with an educs- tion in the world to come, even if b ! has to go through an all-fired hot time to get.it. T as ity San Francisco has begun many mo umental undertakings in times pa:: but few of them have accomplish even so much as the M'?Nirrn of gra\ stones to mark where they lie buri In the movement now started to ra a monument to Dewey there is a char to rachieve a work which will not o redeem the past, but adorn the fut No place is better f..>d to be the of a commanding memorial to [!'nv h of ‘the epoch-marking victory of M nila Bay, and not one of our na great heroes is more worthy of ing the place of honor here; for irst triumph ir which to mighty movement is secret; and most womid blush IeSd | pgcific Ocean and make this city ¢ to find it fame.” Genius takes i other view of such things. In the old days when painting was the supreme art of the world, the sreat men who engaged in it did not hesftate | to use their daughters, their wives and their sweethearts -as models whether they were going to paint a Madonna or a Venus. The great masters of litera- ture in our time have followed the ex- ample. They have carried the prac- | tice so far that Leslie Stephen declares: | “Literature is in all cases a demoraliz- ing occupation. It is demorafizing be- cause its success implies publicity.” The aim of the poet is to give artis- | tic expression to emotions common to | the race, and if he think he has done that better in a love leiter than he ever | did in a poem he gives the lette to the | world as a matter of course. | e While the great major’ of men and | women, upholders of the sure morality | of duty and defenders of the privacy | of the sweet confidences of love, will | condemn both Brow-ing the elder who | ran away with the girl and Browning | the younger who -ublished their let- | ters, it is worth noting that the \\'n-i man in the case, Eli abeth Barrett, ap- | proved of both actions. She was very | glad that Robert ran away with her, | and she had no hesitation in telling her | love affairs to all the world. £ The “Sonnets from the Portuguese” are nothing more '.him personal love | letters in the form of verse, and that ’(‘hief port of that copal church at Nanking, China, | Oc The monument and the site are ther fore appropriate to one another, ar this is the appropriate time to crow the one with the glory of the other order that it may serve to bear wit- | ness to posterity - the liberality an the loyalty of this generation. AROUND THE k] CORRIDORS C. L. Canfield, general agent of the Ck cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroa arrived last night from Chicago. Mme. Yaceco and Otto Kawakami. two distinguished representatives of Japanese stage, arrived at the Palace last | night. J. A. Filmore returned yesterday af a tour of inspection of Southern and Cen tral Pacific properties as far e Ogden. Harr; M. Bunker, a former journalist of this city, arrived from New York ves- terday. He will spend some weeks v/ ing relatives here. Lord and Lady Chichester of Trelar are guests at the Palace, having just rived from the Orient, where they hav: made an extended visit. Dr. Robert C. ebe, a medical mi ary connected with the Methodist s at the idental with his family. Wolff of the ship-building firm of icker of Portland is a guest He is accompanied by F. Wolff & at the Occidental. famous one beginning, “First time he | his company’s superintendent, Fred A. kissed me he but kis..d the hand ! gallin. wherewith I write these lines,” is about Christopher Gardner, recently English as open a confession of the first kisses | Consul at Amoy, € of love as could possibly be made. She has left on record the declaration “the world has # right to the soul secrets” of gifted plople. Such a statement of course gave full approval beforehand to her son’s action; and as for that of her husband in carrying her off from her father, she gave it emphatic and even rapturous approval in a letter to him, in- which she said: “Can I look back on such things and not thank you next to God.” h This evidence of the complete satis- faction of the woman in the case ought to put an end to the controversy, for what was this world created for except the satisfaction of women? Ordinary people are no doubt justified in feeling bashful about their love letters, but they have no right to turn that bash- fulness into a code of morals and try | to impose it upon the soaring singers of splendid songs—the lovers who write of love without being silly. | « o+ | There is of course never anything | new under the sun, for Solomon said so, but we never lack for novelties; and some of them have an appearance | not only of newness, but even of fresh- | ness. For example there has drifted out to this part of the world a copy of | a London freak which has just begun | publication. It bears the title The | Eagle and the Serpent, and announces | itself “A journal of egolstic philosophy | and sociology.” | It says “a race of altruists is neces- | sarily a race of slaves.” It declares for war on the ground that any man who is so big a fool as to sacrifice himself for his country should be sent at once to the slaughter and got rid of. It as- serts the bane of our civilization is the altruism of women, their ever ready | willingness to sacrifice themselves, and adds: “No egoistic woman will give a gift unless she has received one of equal value. She will make no one happy unless she is made happy MHke- wise. This just and wise doctrine will act as a beautifier on women of all ages. The young will be made more beautiful and those advanced in years will be rejuvenated.” Proceeding to the task of revising the words of the ancients and the wise, the egoistic philosopher declares David should have said, *“I have been young and I am old and I have never seen the righteous do anything but beg quotes with approbation Heine’s saying, “I will forgive my ene- mies when I see them all hanging from the tree in my back yard,” and has the | audacity to suggest that Jesus should | have said to the sinner, “Neither do I condemn thee; go and do it again.” - el R From the high poetic egotism of Browning's belief ‘that every human creaturé has a divine right to love and happiness wherever they are to be found to the blatant screed from Lon- mon of San Franci ough. Thomas Costigan and wife of Sar Francisco | H. McCaleb of San Gi ter, O. McWhinney of San Francisco, Mrs. Frank Brown and Brown of Pasadena sailed on the Cam- pania for Liverpool to-day. nd on the Gaelic has resigned t himself exceedingly Rev. Eyre Chat Tniver: Trinity College Brotherhood is at the Occidental. e comes from China, where he was connected with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Count Spee, who was an aid Prince Henry on Emperor V ship Deutschland, now in Chine at the P; and is accompanied by F. Stuttgart, Germany. Rev. Dr. J. W. Carlin and Rev. Hagegard, two missionaries r Swatow, China, and Assam. the Orient on.the Gaelic vesterday are at the Occidental. They have to attend the approaching Baptist con- vention to be held in thi Colonel John C. Ki ffice in which he popular. -rton of the Dublin | ing for a tour of the big cities of tb { East. Colonel Kirkpatrick's it is not so much for ple: re as for business, the chief object of his trip being to look in plans for the proposed fheater to be built into the Palace Hotel. He will visit all of the best playhouses of the East and will pay especial attenti in conjunction with hotels. He will be absent about a month. —e——————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. 20.—Victor D. Solo- "0 is at the Marlbor- NEW YORK, Ma; are at the Grenoble. Miss E. Francisco is at the Jakn McKenzie, wife and daugh- e Miss Annie Adams- e e | CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, May 20.—Jacob Selz {and wife and H. Hellman and family of | San Francisco are at the Shoreham. —————— ANSWERS TO CORRESFONDENTS. OLD COINS—Reader, Oakland, Cal. As your letter of inquiry does not give tne dates of the United States coins asked about it is impossible to state if they command a premium. THE HOSPITAL CORPS—Subscriber, Benicia, Cal. To enter the Hospital | Corps of the United States Army make application by letter or.in person to the Army_ Headquarters, Phelan Building, San Francisco. TLAGER BEER—W. D., Oakland. Cal. There are records of beer being brewed and stored in Germany in the thirteenth century. Lager beer is properly beer that has been kept in store (lager) for some time prior to use as a beverage. CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES- | A.'S., City. Crime in the United Stat | i gauged each census year by the num- | ber of prisoners in penal institutions. In | 150 there were 200 prisoners to every | 1,000,000 population; 1850, 607; 1570, §53; 1850 1169, and in 1890, 7 ! MRS. BRUNNER—Inquirer. This | partment has not de- been able to disco ? | the present address of the widow of tfe late Dr. W, H. Brunner. Can any corre- n to those conducted edu."s {‘cated.. Of course it would be futile : Oy attention has so far been given to the fact that none of the Central and South American nations is per- mitted a voice in this conference. Not being per- mitted to speak, they are evidently thinking, and the frank proposition of Cecil Rhodes, that, being in- capable of resistance, their conquest shail be consid- (don is a long stride: and yet they are . of a kin. Fortunately it is a big, wide | world and there is room enough in it . for all kinds. T do not know that the | welfare of the good and 'he beautiful | and the wise absolutely requires the | elimination from the face of the earth | spondent of this department enlighten the correspondent? The lady at one time was a contributor to the San Francisco press. TO PATENT AN ARTICLE-B. B. City. If you desire to secure a patent for some article vou have invented place the matter in the hands of a reputable at- torney who makes a cpecialty of attend- will be sig moralities of private life. RKither ques- tion is one over which even the least talkative people may talk until they are ready to fight, and yet never fight because they ecan never get through with all they have to say. P the latter objcct its appraisement was a little more than $41.000 per-mile, and it was evident either that it was not contributing its fair proportion of taxes or that it was literally phlindering unwilling cus- Here was matter for the consideration of the State Board of Equalization. But all the other ¢ President as soon If that : report may be made public in iscussed during the summer, so that when Congress meets it will be possible to take prompt action upon it as he returns irom be so the de time to be fully he capital. its tomers. s ered a part of the white man’s burden, forms the prin- . L of anything that now exists—except |ing to the securing of patents. Tt will = vital points on which at the time its suit was instituted | _; : f 2 * It is to be noted that in his poems | embalmed beef and ; | save you a great den! of time and trouble Wealthy Chinese merchants cipal subject of their thoughts. Browning always takes the side of lov - ond Governor Gage, | 28%° YO SifTavoid the possibility of mis- Y e * of Vancouver.are per- fecting a- mammoth trust, one of the objects vf which is to build ships to ply between this country aud the Orient. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company cer- tainly ought to get some stock in that concern and destroy. the threatened competition in the importation of coolies. The Pedce Conference of the Czar is holding its sessions in “the house in the wood,” a rather sugges- | tive place for the !discussion of the tremendous problem. The nations will be long in the woods be- fore the solution comes. General Gomez has issued manifesto command- ing his Cuban hosts to lay down their arms. The General is as daring in his handling of words as he was discreet in dodging encounters. Rumors are current in New York that the Van- derbilts have at last got a finger in the Southern Pa- cific pie. Wouldn’t that be a joke on Uncle Collis? Another American idol has been smashed: “Fight- ing Bob” Evans gets seasick whenever he travels the waves in any crait except the Iowa. the railroad was not only willing but anxious to ac- cept the judgment of a court of chancery were in an equaliy satisfactory condition for the trial which the public expected and which had been substantially | guaranteed. . | With its usual disregard for consistency, its usual | indifference to the public interests and its usual prac- | tice of extortion and oppression, the railroad now de- vised a scheme to have the suit dismissed, which in the form it adopted would have been successful but for the integrity and the firmness of Judge Morrow. While “out of politics” it committed an atrocious fraud upon the Republican party and secured two of the Railroad Commissioners. It then manipulated | the Legislature to prevent the requisite appropriation | for the remaining labor to be done on behali of the public. When the plan had been thus far carried out Commissioners Blackstock and Laumeister, in con- formity with the famous r€port polished into com- pleteness by William F. Herrin, rescinded the reso- | lutio‘ns of 1805, unexecuted as to the horizontal re- | duction and perfected as to the grain rates, and in- | structed Attorpey General Ford to make the motion Some one has recently compared the United States to the strong lion which, by a process of evolution and for the purposes and pleasures of ‘diet, destroys and assimilates to himself the weaker animals de- prived by nature of the means of defense. In this view of it a meeting of lions and tigers, to consider the paths of peace toward each other, would interest the weaker animals only because it would probably prevent a fight for the possession of their bodies after they are dead. In any view of it, now is the time for the Christian bodies of the world to impress upon the conference the need of defining more clearly the difference be- tween an act of war and common murder. ’ s e e Local cigar-dealers and saloon-men insist that the nickel-in-the-slot machines are not gambling devices. ‘Nobody ever said they were. The machines are “sure thing” propositions for the dealers. GBS Sl The Piutes may be ignorant savafzes, but they know a percentage poker game when they see it. Is it not possible that Justice of the Peace Groezinger could for dismissal which Judge Morrow denied. At that against duty. In his creed, there are no limitations or restrictions upon the right of love to be sovereign lord of life. He regarded happiness based upon love as the thing of supreme value to the soul, and maintained the right of every individual to seek and seize that happiness, no matter how many other individuals he might have to trample in the pursuit. Tennyson, as all the world knows, held the opposite view, and would say no more in de- fense of Launcelot than “His honor rooted in dishonor stood and faith un- faithful made him falsely true.” Browning lived up to his -creed. He practiced what he preached, and there was happiness in his home whatever there may have been old man Bar- rett’s. It is after all as good a creed as another, and if the path of those who accent it be beset by Remorse waiting for his prey, it is at any rate free from the haunting of that ghost Regret, which forever attends the thoughts by day and the dreams by night of those who have turned away be induced to join the tribe? When Collis P. Huntington in the flush of his hospitality said virtually to his guests at his banquet the other evening, “The weakn--~ of the people ' of this country is caused by too much education—look at your graduates and then look at me.” doubtless thought he was announcing a wisdom never before uttered by man, but he wasn't. Several ages ago a Lombard barbarian who had overrun Northern Italy said much the same thing. A certain monk approached that magnate one day, when he was in a good humor after dinner and massacre, and adviged him to set up a school in which young Lombards could be taught how to read. “Get out, you fool,” said the conqueror; “what's the good of an education? You can read and I can't, but 1 have licked you once and I can lick you again.” That is the way the b: “arians rea- soned during what is known as the dark agés. All the world knows, how- ever, that in the course of time the Lombards learned to read and write from the cup of joy when offered by | and do several sums in arithmetic, and the hand of opportunity. Browning [ it is therefore reasonabie to expect Mr. university | he ! tukes. THE ALMY AND Colgate, 1. 'T. The bound from San Francisco to Prince Wil- m Sound. with ty gold-hunters or board for the Copper River distriet, was off Doint Reves, Cal, April 1§ THE HICKS—R. N. Helen W. -Alm, 2, Al on board were lost. The Andrew Hicks left icisco on & whaling crutse, January 2 and noth- X 5, 1 ing has been heard of her since. AN AGQED PARENT-J. F. F., City If your father is a dent of England, T vears of age, unable to read or write, and without money. yet you wish to have him ceme to this city that you may provide him a home, you will have to make ar- rangements with some one who will de. liver to him the ticket you propose tc send and then make arrangements witk | scme one in New York who will receive him and see to his transportation from that point to this city. Under the condi- | tions. if he should ati~mpt to come alone | he might not be able to explain his posi. tion properly and he might be seng back as one liable to become a charge on the community. ———— Cal. glace fruit50c per Ib at Townsend's.* ——— e Specfal information supplied datly te business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont. gomery street. Telepnone Main 106 ©