The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 11, 1899, Page 8

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 1899. Call JU E 11, 1890 D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. JOKN Address Al Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFIC ..Market and Third St: Telephone Maln 1568 EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1574, . 15 CENTS PER WEEK. 5 cents. Including Postage: DAILY CALL (! day Call), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), § monthi SISHE: DELIVERED BY CARRI £6.00 3.00 DAILY CALL cincluding day Call), 3 month: 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Moxth. 65e BUNDAY CALL One Yea 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, One Year 1.00 ers are authorized to receive subscriptions. copies will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE.. NEW YORK OFFICE C. GEO. KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. NEW YORK NEW ANDS. r Hotel: Brentano, 31 Union Square; W A H WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFIC) c: 3 Wellington Hotel €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE...... -~ A CAGEORGEI\'ROGNESS'AdvchIsi CHICAGO House; P, ouse; Audit Margquette Building ng Representative. NEWS STANDS. N “o.; Great Northern Hotel; BELMONT AS d STRIKER. | many premonitory signs. One of the disturbing | elements, however, is the difficulty of reconciling the RRY BELMONT, the gold Democrat, must sentimental declarations of the conference with the stir his energies to action or hire an advertis- | acts of the nations of whose representatives it is com- ing agent if he desire to hold any longer the ’LDOsed. The first thing a man who repents is expected The other | to do is to “bring forth works meet for repentance.” | | This self-evident platitude is most industriously ap plied by the pessimists who sneer at the conference. Poland, Schieswig-Holstein, Alsace, Lorraine and | | | Belmont headship in New York politics. | Belmont, O. H. P, is forcing his way to the front | with ceaseless activity and shouting Democratic war | | QXOXOXPXOXOXOXOKOXOXOROXOAPHOXOHOH DK DX DK PHOKOK DRI K OROUOXO * * : EDITORIAL VARIATIONS. ¢ o % BY JOHN McNAUGHT. % ;mmo*o*o*o*em*o*o*owaww*o*o*o*e*om*o*o*onm*’;g It is to be regretted the story from |a foot down upon every one of the hun. ...908 Broadway L | Room 188, World Building | " _ | cries with a voice whose uproar sounds like the bel- i lowing of the bull of Bashan. iver since he deserted the gold banquet of Tam- many to dine at the dollar dinner with Bryan, O. H. ¥. Belmont has been assuming more and more the manner and the method of a leader who aspires to i"l:"" the part of a political Moses and lead his fol- {lowers out of the Egyptian darkness in which they are dwelling. Being unable to stump the country like | Bryan, or to utter with his tongue words enough to “prnmulgxate his principles or satisfy his desires, he | has established in New York a journal called the Ver- | dict to assist him in his aspirations. | To that end he proposes a general acceptance of the | Chicago platiorm and an agreement to store it :nvay' with the party treasures of the past. He urges his | followers to an aggressive fight for nearly everything rmonize the warring factions of Democracy. The avowed object of O. H. P. and his paper is to | | Ireland coniront Russia, Austria, Prussia, Germany ]and Great Britain, and, refusing to obliterate history, |insist that restitution of destroyed nationalities should | be a condition precedent to a movement for univer- 1l peace. Finland confronts the Czar, who has sent | | a pacific message to the world and stmultaneously | lays his weighty hand upon her autonomy-and seeks to destroy her identity. Even the United States is not exempt from criticism, for the line of demarca- | | tion between the acts of the Government and the pronunciamentos of the imperialists is not clearly un- derstood. And yet, in spite of unfavorable omens and incon- sistent conduct, it is a realized fact that, with appro- | priate solemnity and with high intelligence and with | profound learning, the civilized world is discussing the probability of universal peace, and that there is | a reasonable prospect of a slight foreshadowing suc- | wine, happiness ‘and music until the | proven to be false. Cairo of the death of Jancsi Rigo has As a general rule it is better to kill a story than to wish a man dead, but in this case the story was so excellent to the whole world, while the man is of such little value to anything more than a very small and fractious fraction, it is hard to avoid a feeling of regret that he did not die at the very time and in the very way he was reported to have died. In the whole realm of fiction hardly anything can' be found equal in dra- matic contrast and intensity to that brief telegram telling how the beauti- ful Princess Chimay lay in a sumptu- ous villa in the suburbs of Cairo giv- ing birth to twins, while her wild art- ist lover reveled with his friends in joy over the event, improvising wonderful rhapsodies on his violin, filling the | Egyptian night with the intoxication of dred arguments in favor of the monu- ment, it is evidently something in ths nature of a centipede. That the denunciation was witty goes without saying, for was there ever a Yorick who was not fertile of jest and jibe even when the heart had turned to clay and the skull was full of dust? It is the joke of this writer to assert that in all California there is no artist capahle of designing a monument that would be creditable to this generation or an ornament to the city; and he ar- gues therefore we should have no mon- ument. A falser statement or a more illogical deduction from it would be difficult to | find. As-a matter of fact, California has better artists in all arts than critics in any, with the exception of the drama, where we are fairly strong in criticism, but weak in production. It is good to be witty; it is good to demagogues can dream of except free silver. In a | cess, of which voluntary arbitration is the converging | recent issue of Verdict the appeal went fort! |point. It has been said that Europe wants relief ‘ “Draw your politics as you might a sword and |irom war budgets rather than from war, and it is | | throw away the scabbard. Strike for an income tax!|apparent that a demand for that kind of relief will | Strike for a levy on |soon exist in our own country. It is doubtiul | be anonymous; it is good to be a centl- pede, but it is never good to be ridicu- lous and false at the same time. A nom de plume may hide from the wrath of men, but the Yorick should remember the devil sees it. dread bubonic plague struck him, changed his melodies to howlings and sent his half-drunken company of rev- elers squealing home through the dark- ness, while he lay dying and beyond the hearing of the cries of his love call- chises! untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana | Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. el e S e e AMUSEMENTS. “olumt The Liars,” Grand Opera House—'"The Pirates Penzance” and ‘T Pag- Theater—Vaudeville every a to-day. ., ete. Mr. John Taylor, Tuesday Hall-Song Recital, Thursday evening, LET THE SUPERVISORS MEET. by a vote, the passe resolution at 2 m. as ‘the p. meeting. t for this resolution, 20, 1899, the board adjourned would have no doubt of the i opinion that, unle vited 1f could be no further meeting until t Monday in July. But, in view of the uncer- y produced by this unanimous action, we co: sider that prudence requires the presence of the minority at the meeting that will unque nably be Lield b ority to-morrow. If tt neeting is r and should t out to be minority contrary, it esence of the mi- he majority who may upon to vote with them against all of the are not dorsed by the cat public disaster. of are many iten busin routine honest involving payments to citizens and mat ter i ent importance, that ought not 1 unless the acceptance of a supreme ential to the public welfar But, in the , there is no such crisis, and, as to-mor- the num- suggested, r of row's proceedings cannot be influenced by ber of Supervisors in excess of six who 1 sor e of one of our 1y be fully relied re to the position he has voluntarily and We do not share the suspicions of Supery pressed in yesterd We believe he ma s issu ies nor the public to the m of proper 2 to the stern part of o, within the limita- tions indorsed by t} tion. That does not re surrection of dead franchises the exten of electrical privileges on Geary eet, between Tayl and Grant avenue. We understand, indeed, Market Street Ra wompany | determined not to press that and va rious other parts of the wholesale scheme of confis- IS that has been so opportunely checked. No franchise or privilege of kind should be even before t new charter effect. ex- is strictly essen to meet the wants of ict to which we ded f electricity on the Post stre ve al Beyond the t line, possibly the block on Taylor street, between Geary and Post streets, . further, application of electricity to franchises already held chise ed for sin on Montgomery y further action Under no cir- cumstances— rate charter is operative—should any franchise be granted, and especially the franchise demanded on Grant avenue, between Geary and Bush streets, and down Bush street to Sansome street. nection needed to bring the northeastern section of the city and the Potrero together, as we are informed, can be ‘made by the Post street line and its Mont- gomery street adjunct We again suggest that the minority of the board meet the issue boldly and leave no loophole, by their absence to-morrow, for cavil or criticism. The monopolistic street railway grab apparently is al- ready beaten, and, in our opinion, can never be re- vived. appear to be the slightest need of a by the board at at the present time il extensive the any new Aguinaldo promises to keep General Otis busy during the rainy season. The Filipino leader does nct seem to have sense enough to keep out of the wet. Philip Kaolb of Pleasanton believes flammed in a sheep deal. was at Yosemite. he was flim- We thought the Governor One thing is certain—Jim Jeffries, now that he is champion, will turn a deaf ear to flattery; he worked | in a boiler-shop. Governor Gage must find congenial company in the Yosemite. The great valley has long been noted for its big bluffs. ¢ be pres- | | the destruction of the national bank! -and-let-live system of honest currency and bank- ing in its stead. Strike for the overthrow of Presi- to fill all offic | box!” did not end there. We have cut it at crely to give the reader a chance to take “Strike | The appeal | that point breath between strikes. It went on to sa {for popular election of Senators! Strike against |an increase of the army, to the end that Ilib- | and fleurish! Strike to swell the navy, erty multipl vou tl bt a ba t | cause y win the respect of nations, and be- hip is your best Embassador! Strike the tariff as the wall behind which pro- | tection crouches to bushwhack the best welfare of the | to cut down peopl Tarift is protection, and the latter the seed of trusts—those combed and curried monsters of | monopoly Protection is against commerce, and comu the very life of reason and prosperity! | Strike against protection, then, as against original sin!” | Once more take breath and then resume. The ap- | peal cc “Strike for an isthmian canal! Raleigh once said to Queen Elizabeth, ‘Darien is the 1d” On Raleigh's word. with all the key of the Strike for the initiative and strike for it is the blow royal, to bring down all the rest, then. ke for a car refer Strike for it fir It rest!” 1 Tha aign policy of the new Moses. It ill be noticed that in its general striking to right id leit it strikes free silver down and out. Tt will be noted also that while the leader has planned well to get his party to move on out of that Egypt of the past, he carries them no farther than the wilderness. He involves them in a jungle where the wildest ideas i Democracy, Populism, socialism and anarchy are tangled together in confusion. It would be a lucky stroke indeed if in the course of the general striking any men Ived in such a wilder- ber of the party inv strike a path t ads out of it. CONFERENCE AT THE HAGUE. THE PEACE v [to be the establishment of an international tribunal | of arbitration, submission to which is to be optional. | As to details, naturally there is much divergence of opinion, and suggestions are pouring in from the ntatives of the powers. ire now to anticipate the prac- 3ut the fact that the governing nations are deliberating upon the subject | of peace itself of deep significance. 1 | doubtedly. whether a definite scheme or plan is suc- | cessfully formulated or not, the modern tendency to | arbitrate national disputes that do not involve ques- It | has not been generally observed that the wars of this | century have been less destructive and less expensive in the aggregate than those of the eighteenth century, and that peaceable settlements between nations both in Europe and America have been the rule, even | under exasperating conditions. der the pseudonym of Diplomaticus has pointed out there have been many efforts, sincere and insincere, in the direction of peace. he conception of dis- HE ious sections of the Peace Conference at The Hague are hard at work, and so far the converging point of their deliberations appears repr | Tt would be prema tical outcome of the con erence. | in | tions of existence or of honor will be accelerated. As a fine writer un- | Strike for an inheritance tax! BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay. | churches! ike for the public ownership of fran- | Whether in this direction the conference will prove open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open untll | o i 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister street, open until 9:30 | Strike for the death of the trust! o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. IS41 Misslon street, open until 10 o'clock. 229! Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 25I8 Mission street. open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open on con- means | (and naval purposes as an | gresses for the promotion of peace. improvement This dential patronage—the bribe of legislation—and strike | enormous appropriations, the use of which is to be | is as nothing to it. . wherever possible, from the ballot- | regulated by the pacific or belligerent aspect of in- | it served so well to point a moral and | There are many statesmen military commanders who | most preparations | peace and the maximum of destruc- | |tiveness «in war are the best means of ad- varncing the supreme object of civilization. There are few who have any faith in bullets that do not kill, in | analogizing battles to French or German duels, or in | the policy of relieving the strain of campaigns by; siestas and feast days. | It seems probable that the action of the Czar will not be a total The time may be not far distant when pacific suggestions om imperial sources will be drowned in the demand | from the mass of humanity, and when that day ar- rives progress will be more rapid toward— i “The Parliament of Man—the Federation of the World.” LOYALTY :TO THE GOVERNMENT. | T should be the aim of every citizen of this repub- | l lic to keep his country’s honor virgin. Nothing marks more plainly the nce between republic and the monarchies elsewhere than this in- onsibility of the citizen for the character ternational neighbors. and naval and that the Lelieve expensive in lure, but a measurable success. diffe our dividual res of the Government. In a monarchy pledges may be | broken, faith violated and dishonor run riot, but the | subjects may remain individually devoted to puhhci and private virtue. The Russian people are not re- sponsible for the deep dishonor of their Government in breaking its covenant with Finland. That is the work of the Czar. But if this republic break its pledges to Cuba, and to the world in the case of the | Philippines, it will be the dishonor of the people, | for the Government is theirs. Already the ery arises that loyalty to the Govern- | that we support the conquest and for- cible annexation of the Philippines, the seizure of | Cuba as soon as we have disarmed her people, and the establishment a military satrapy in Porto | Rico. There is but one kind of loyalty to this Gov- | ernment, and that requires that the people keep the Government strictly within its constitutional limita- | tions. Every man who supports and defends the crcise by those who administer the government of powers not derived from the constitution is loyal to the persons who so trespass, but he is disloyal to the | Government and untrue to the constitution. This is simply an axiomatic statement. The con- | stitution creates the Government and delegates to it the powers it may exercise. \When it claims the right | to powers not so delegated it is guilty of revolution and has equal right to overthrow the whole consti- tution and proceed to create any kind of government it may choose. The Federal courts have never affirmed the consti- tutional rights of the Government to acquire and | On the other hand, this right as been expressly denied he Supreme Court of the United States has de- cided this in precise terms. That court sa “This | brings us to examine by what provision of the con- stitution the present Federal Government, under its | delegated and restricted powers, is authorized to ac- | quire territ outside of the original limits of the United Sta and what power it may exercise there- ment require of hold imperial colonies. h and Sansome streets, there does not | The entire con- | armament was a favorite theme with Frederick the iy gver the person and property of a citizen of the Great. Napoleon v”;”‘n‘““e at St. Helena, aiter | United States, while it remains a Territory atd until | deluging Europe with blood and decimating the |t shall be admitted as one of the States of the Union. | manhood of France, claimed that his central thought | There is certainly no power given by the constitution e . s h ) to the Federal Government to establish or maintain irope of the Amphictyonic Council of Greece, | colonies bardering on the United States, or at a dis- which, it may be observed, failed from causes that are | tance, to be ruled and governed at its own pleasure, | no less operative in modern times. The Holy Al- | nor to enlarge its territorial limits in any way, ex- | liance of 1815 was ostensibly formed in the interests cept by the admission of new States. That power is of peace. Louis Napoleon suggested proportional | plainly given, and if a new State is admitted it needs ! disarmament among European powers by a revision [ di 1 3 44 M | no further legislation by Congress, because the con- | | of treaties. When the treaty of Paris was framed in | gitution itself defines the relative powers and duties | | 1856 Lord Clarendon obtained an ineffective declara- | of the State and the citizens of the State and of the ! tion in favor of international consultation before acts | Federal Government. But no péwer is given to re- : | | of war were perpetrated. Such a covenant was | quire a territory to be held and governed perma- | adopted in reference to controversies between Turkey | nently in that character. To acquire territory and |and European states, and in the demands that pre- | govern it by Congress as it sees fit would be danger- | ceded the Russo-Turkish war Russia acted as an in- | gus to the liberties of the people.” }crna‘woxna] agent, although in the war itself she was 1 With the principles above laid down, every consti- | isolated. | tutional lawyer and every commentator, from Web- These are familiar instances which illustrate the | ter to Judge Cooly and Morefield Story, has agreed. fact that, for a century or more, and especially dur-| I we are conqu g territory for any other purpose ing the last eighty vears, rulers have had some per- | than its admission as States and people as equal citi- | ception of the ultimate necessity of superceding | sens we are engaged in an enterprise which no mian | armies and navies by negotiation. Although the goal | can indorse who is loyal to the Government and con- lis still very remote, advances toward it have been | gtitution. substantial and notable during the last thirty-five | The Geneva arbitration between Great Britain | The Call will continue to furnish the results of in- and the United States was a substantial mm-emcm}dependum investigations and ‘original ideas for the toward lasting amity between the two great English- | penefit of its yellow contemporary, which has appar- speaking nations. The withdrawal of warships from | ently abandoned its *‘national policy”™ but still re- 1the _G_rcm_ L:lk‘cs wn§_a_nother guarantee against the | tains its “internal policy,” and will not complain if precipitation of }|o<t|lxl|es between the same leaders | its articles are appropriated ~ without credit and its of modern civilization. The settlement of the | facts and its figures -republished days after their Venezuelan dispute still further aided the cause of | original appearance. Truth will bear delay and can- the advocates of peace. In 1890 the Pan-American | not be too widely circulated. treaty established permanent arbitration between | seventeen republics, some of them in South America, | and since that year Great Britain has entered into | ;%1‘:\«1 been the extirpation of war by the revival in I yea The slowness with which occasional letters from Andree come in gives rise to the belief that he must ten treaties of arbitration. | have intrusted their delivery to district messenger ing for him continually until her Strike for | helpiul. Mr. Goschen, who has charge of the British | nurses quieted her with an oplate Strike for a | budget, proposes “‘conditional estimates” for military | Sleep. It was as mad and tragic a tale as ever was told of love and beauty. Zola’s description of the death of Nana Every incident of adorn a tale; it is a pity it was a lie. s Fedii e Between the publication of the story of the death of Rigo and its contra- diction there were just twenty-four hours, but that short space was long enough to give fluent moralists a chance to preach one more sermon in the old way upon the old theme, “The wages of sin is death.” They have as- sumed that the Princess is a sinner, that her lover is another sinner, that their love is a very great sin indeed; and they have preached as if these as- sumptions were indisputable. One local moralist went so far as to intimate it would not be immoral to strangle the ‘“the innocent, helpless crea- born of that love, in order to get rid of that much of “the evil that corrupts and gangrenes humanity."” The chief objection to such assump- tions is that when assumed we lose the arguments by which they are sup- | | ported, and it would be interesting to know why the Princess and her artist | are sinners any more than some other fol Against what, against whom and in what way do these two dazzling free livers sin? That they have lived according to their own mutual will and not according to the will of their neighbors is true, but may not their neighbors be wrong? If men and women have not a right to the enjoyment of their own souls | and their own bodies. so long as that | enjoyment injures no one else, to what have they a right? Society indeed claims and asserts a right to regulate the life of every individual: and that right is not to be dlsputed by any one who lives In’ society and accepts its favors and its benefits; but when one departs from society and goes into an- other realm to live, Mrs. Grundy has no more right to pursue and to punish than Kaiser William would have to ar- rest in the United States some German who should happen to sing in this country that “lese majeste” song about “Meinself und Gott.” TS If a balance were rightly struck be- tween the Princess Chimay and societ; it would probably be found that society sinned against her more than she sinned against it. From all that is known of her, it is certain nature gave her many good qualities and infused them with more than ordinary strength. She has courage, independence, frank- ness and a sort of undisciplined self- ! pride that refuses to stoop to hypoec- risy. When she took a lover she left her husband. She did not lie to him, nor stain his house by an intrigue. Thus while she has defied society and fought it, she has never cheated it, nor tried to cheat it. On the other hand, society cheated her from the start. It gave her false ideals of life. It taught her to believe that money, rank, title and social pres- tige are the best things the soul can desire, and that for these everything else ought to be sacrificed. She be- lieved society. She gave up whatever there was in her ardent and unexper enced girlhood for the title of Prince: and a position in royal drawing rooms and throne rooms. She found her Prince to be a scamp, her position a vanity, the throne rooms a bore, her existence a continual vexation of spirit. Society, in fact, had flimflammed her. It had played a confidence game on her. It promised her golden joys and gave her a package of brass filings. Most women under such circum- stances would have stayed in the game until they had a chance to pull out with a Belmont or a Vanderbilt, and so go off with wealth, to start riew with the sanction of the state, the blessing of the church and the congratulations of society. This woman didn’t play the game a minute after she found she had been swindled. She went off with an artist instead of a millionaire; and for that offending is dubbed “sinner” in every land where Mrs. Grundy rules. . FEdii . It must not be supposed that a justi- fication of the course of the Princess Chimay means a condemnation of so- ciety. That would be illogical. If the Princess has a right to do as she pleases, then society has also a right to do as it pleases. If she turn her back upon the world, the world has a right to fling bricks at her so long as none of them hit hard enough to hurt. No matter how antagonistic two forces may appear to be in their rela- tions to one another, it is impossible to completely defend the one without defending the other, for the world is all one fabric. No man has a right to deem himself truly tolerant until he has learned to tolerate the intolerances of others, and the Princess who will not tolerate Mrs. Grundy is no. better mor- ally nor any wiser than those who will not tolerate the Princess. The true song of toleration is the ditty, “All coons look alike to me,” and everything human must be regarded as a ‘‘coon™ within the meaning of the song. e . There are other Yoricks than ours, and all of them are not centipedal nor given to assuming the names of dead Jesters, though they assume everything else. One of them has recently arisen to speak his mind in the East. The name of him is Herdry B. Fuller, and | he has been described as “the most ar- tistic of Chicagoans,” and by a Chicago | paper at that. In the course of his yorickings this | Yorick said, according to report, that “the average American is cheap”; that the “texture of the American mind is | flimsy and whining"; that the “soil of | Amerfcan character s light and sandy”; that “as Americans we have the climate against our artistic aspira- | tions.” He is reported to have said also a great deal more of the same kind. | Evidently Mr. Fuller would object to | monuments and would be both flippant | and severe if any were suggested in Chicago. It is to be noted, however, ening because he has nothing of musie or art or other provision for the joyous side of life is wasting time when ha sits down to consider what he would do if he were 20 again. Seventy is jus: good a time as any to undertake wh: ever one really desires at 70. Tt is tru that one learns more readily when young, but it is also true that one re. mains young as long as he continues to learn. The Oakland preacher should follow his sermon “If I Were Twenty Again” by a sequel with the title, “When I am a Hundre AROUND THE CORRIDORS Captain Frank Barrett of Palo Alt at the Lick. M. A. Kurlender and wife of Santa R are stopping at the Grand. L. Pearson, the well-known statione Sacramento, is registered at the Lic C. A. Carroll, editor of the Calis is spending a few days at the Occid N. A. Scowden, a prominent mini gireer and expert, arrived yesterday Shasta County and is registe t Palace. J. N. McLaughlin, a wealthy land- er of Moss Landing, is registered at Grand. General A. W. Barrett returned to California last evening after a trip to Angeles. Judge and Mrs. J. H. Deveroux of Col rado arrived in this city vesterday a-1 are stopping at the Grand. Signor Perugini joined the Lamba Opera Company in this city this morni He Is a guest at the Palace. Sir Richard and Lady Udny of London; who have spent the past week at Del Monte, returned to the Palace yesterday Fred T. Steinway and wife of New York City are among the guests at the Palace. Mr. Steinway is senior member of the firm of Steinway & Son. L. M. Allen and wife of Chicago are among the guests at the Grand. Mr. Al- len is the assistant passenger and ticket agent of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. Mr. and Mrs. George Rosekrans have returned to the city after an extended ab- sence. Mrs, Rosekrans (nee Bessie Bath- urst Brooks) will receive her friends at her home, 416 Clayton street, second and fcurth Thursdays. J. C. Stubbs, third vice president of the Southern Pacific, returned last evening from New York, where he went three weeks ago to meet his daughters, the Misses Helen and Mary Stubbs, who lately returned from Paris. Both the young ladies were on the ill-fated steamer Parls, ty t L that his condemnation of such projects is based upon different grounds from | those taken by the local Yorick. He | does not deny that we have a few art- | ists, but maintains they cannot flourish | because the soil is sandy and the cli- ! mate bad. On the showing of such | criticism we are much better off than | the metropolis of the lakes. We might | by swapping Yorick get an artist in | exchange, but who can ever hope by | v means to change the climate of | Chicago? ‘ While we are talking of Dewey, it is worth noting that in nearly every land where he may chance to go in Europe | he will be claimed as a long lost snn‘ and find himself furnished with a fam- ily tree proving that his ancestors hailed from that country and he is a man of that race. That the Irish will greet him as a descendant of their early Kings, and that the British will welcome him as a | brother Anglo-Saxon are matters of | course. These insular pretensions, | however, will not be permitted to go undisputed. A French authority as- serts the hero's name was originally De Houy, and that he is the offspring of a Huguenot family. The Belgians | trace his descent from a certain De Wey, and claim to have a record of the | first of the family that came to this country. The Germans as yet have not | put in a bid, being evidently in doubt | as to what the Kaiser thinks of his treatment of the German war vessels at Manila; but in due time we shall hear from them. When we build our | monument we shall have to make it as many sided as Yorick has feet in order | to get all the family names on it. { eiiite Py Now that school examinations are under discussion, a puzzle in the way of grammatical construction will prob- ably be interesting to a good many peo- ple and therefore it s worth while call- ing attention to the following extract which the Little Rock Democrat has exhumed from a brief filed by the At- torney General of Arkansas in the noted insurance cases which have oc- cupied to so large an extent the at- tention of the people of that common- | wealth. It may be stated at the start | that the puzzle lies in disentangling the | pronouns and determining to what they | refer; the other peculiarities of the ex- | ample don’t count: “So that we see from this decision | that fire insurance corporations, and | the contracts issued by them, stand in | bad odor before the law. exclude them from its borders. They are neither commodities nor transac- | tions of commerce. They are outlaws | upon the face of the earth and the State in its sovereign capacity nothing! In! the nature of sex they are neuter gen- | der, and cannot even propagate itselt | without artificial ‘aid. It is the Wan- | dering Jew of business. It cannot enter a State only as a sneaking robber on his peril, or by going to the gates of | the commonwealth as a mendicant, and | like Lazarus licking the sores of the | sovereigns for permission to scavenge.” | & e An Oakland clergyman, the Rev. J. T. Sunderland, has preached a sermon upon the theme, “If I Were Twenty Again”; has published it in pamphlet | form and circulated it far and wide. It is a good sermon. It tells many good things that a middle aged man woula do if he could start over again and live differently. He would lead a simple, wholesome life; would make worthy friends; would read none but good books; would learn to sing if he could; | would learn to play on some instrument and would make “a distinct provision for the joy side of life.” All of which is most excellent. The true moral of the discourse; however, is one which the preacher has left out: If all those | good things at 20, why not at 502" | All sermons should not be preached for young men. The chances for im- provement mental or moral are as good at one age as at another. There is a familjar story of an old man of 70 who advised his son to plant an orchard, but the son would not do so, because he thought he might move or die he- fore the trees came into bearing. Thereupon the old man planted an or- chard himself, despite the mocking of his son ‘and his neighbors; and, as the story goes, he lived to eat fruit and They may | | | guard at | into, | officer left by the main guard in Samoa.” | The law In almost every portion of the | in property captured from the enem | ing, when there will be Distant, therefore, though the time may be when boys. Last Saturday a writer whose sex ig | drink cider made from the fruit of those concealed under the nom de plume of | trees for many a healthy year. | the sword is to be broken and the wolf and the lamb are to feed together and the lion to eat straw, it can- not be denied that the proclamation of the Czar and dthe discussions of the Peace Conference accord with Zola is going to wash some more dirty French linen. The great author has decided to write a novel on the Dreyfus case. “Yorick” denounced by all the gods of mockery the purpose of San Francisce As it was with that apple orchard, so it is with every kind of fruit a man to erect & monument to Dewey. What | desires for his enjoyment. The middle manner of creature this unburied Yo- [ aged man who feels the lack of early ~xick may be I know not, but as it put | education and finds his faculties dead- which was wrecked a few weeks ago on the treacherous ‘“Manacles’” off the Eng- lish coast. ———— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, June 10.—Mrs. T. Magle of San Francisco is at the Empire; Frank Haughey of Sacramento is at the Neth- erland; C. F. Sanderson of San Francisco is at the Hoffman; J. L. Betzel of San Francisco is at the Imperial; Dr. G. Chad- dock and Miss Lou Williams of Los An- geles are at the Gilsey; D. Rideout of Marysville is at the Holland; G. D. Clark and wife of San Francisco are at the Westminster. HE IS STILL ALIVE Cadet Sweet of the Navy Denies a Report of His Death. U. S. F. S. PHILADELPHIA, HONOLULU, H. 1., June 1, 1809, To the Editor of the San Franciscs Call—Sir: In some of the Sydney papers [:F 0 in stating that an account of the death of Cadet G, it was copied papers he was killed in the Apia, Samoa. Would you pl 1 enough to publish a denial of the report? The only offi st in that battle were Lieutenant L U. S. N., Ensign Mcnaghan, U, m- mander Freeman, s The bodies of Lieutenant Lansdale and Ensign Monaghan are now on this ship, being brought to San Fran burial. The report of my death was a mista in setting up, the reporter of the having written that “Cadet Sweet the only American officer left at th Samoa whan his two It was construed Cadet Sweet was the only American and Lieutenant Co N. co officers were_killed. ” Please rectify this if The Philadelphia expec to rrive in San | Francisco on the 20th or 21st of June. Very truly yours, G ORGE C. SWEET, U. 8. N. ——————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE OREGON-J. C., City. The speed fif the Oregon at Santiago was seventeen nots. THE ARMY—J. B. K., City. The total strength of the United States army prior to the breaking out of the war with Spain was, rank and file, 28,216, UNCLE AND NIET‘I‘—Y. G. ‘I, Ck world prohibits the marriage of uncle and niece or aunt and nephew. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE-J. E., City. This department cannot “give in a few words how the English language was composed.” Any encyclopedia will #ive you a history of the language. THE BLIND PREACHER-—W., Philo, Cal. Rev. William Henry Milburn, known as the “blind preache is the chapiain of the United States Ser in Philadelphia in 1823, S became nearly blind in CARDS LEAD-J. In casino when two players on the last deal make ¢nough points each to g0 out the one who He w horn stember 26, and arly life. €. City. holds cards has the right to count first is a tie on car then spades counts first and goes out, if he has enough to run him out. CAPTURED CANNON—J. H. §., City. Whatever arms are captured by the United States army or navy in battle are captured in the name of the United States and belong to the Government. In the disposal of the pieces, as for_instance ob solete cannon captured at Manila, it i generally done in accordance with in- structions from the War or Navy Depart- ment. No officer has a personal interest ————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* —_————— Trunks, valises, traveling rolls, belts, purses. Best goods, best values at San- born & Vall's, 741 Market street. —_———— Specfal information supplied daily to business houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telepnone Main 1042 —_— Maccabees to Entertain. To-morrow night Golden W Tent of the Knights of the Mac: is city ance in will give an entertainme the main hall of the Native gramme of musical selec mental and vocal, and spe offered by the Golden \\ Miss Millie Fiynn, W. Nellie B. Waters, Miss G Miss_Goldie Harris and ( member of the order who as ‘“the one-man orchestrs o Rock 1sland Route Excursions. Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rio Grande and Rock Isiand railways. Through tourist sleeping cars to Chicago and Boston. Manager and porter accompany these excur. sions through to Boston. For tickets, sleeping car sccommodations and further information address CLINTON JONES, General Agent Rock Island Railway, (24 Market st., S. F. e -e—— The Rio Grande Western Railway Take pleasure in announcing the inauguration June, 1, 1899, of a complete dining-car service between Ogden and Denver on all transconti= mnental ns. Service a la carte. General ofe Devine, Unger, a designated W, | fice, 14 Montgomery st v ¢