The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 18, 1899, Page 6

LAV UIDUY vAlu, ouluUaxr JUNE 18, 1899 UNDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. LEAKE, Manager, sz All Communications to Wy S, Pl BI ICATION OFF! ..Market.and Third Sts., S F hone Main EDITORIAL 2T to tevenson Stree’ e Maln {8 CENTS PER WEEK. 15 Postage: one year. . 6 months. Terms DATLY CALL (including DAILY CALL (inch DAILY CAL AL szl th recetve subsoriptions. ded when requested. AND OFFICE.. NEW YORK OFFICE. ..908 Broadway ‘Room 188, World Building ing Representative. Unton Square; WASHINGTON (D. C.) orrxcE Weliington Hotel C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ... Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Ad\criu. & Representativ: STANDS. Great St Northern Hotel; erman Hou open until 8:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until ) o'cloek. 629 McAllister street, open until 9:30 ock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1641 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market <tree! eenth, open until 9 o'cl 2518 Mission open until 9 o'clock. 106 Elaventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open til 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. —_— AMUS. INTS. every afternoon pectalties. ar Elghth—Bat- be it t it with mil ssoci tion fc s in nation 1ether the ends to upon d and the manner cted spme are ion which and nssion., out during the investi combinations the cthing to f ssociation of that the and ¢ vore:! 1 but found that « the combine for- s to take lie customers of dis It is gen- bad ru association can ch of vay « wranteeing the product of re such abundant opportuni- 1 itk t if dishonest dealers are to 2l from the eombine (Iu re- : al to the public- welfare Dur the inyestigations of the subject in I.mmn it ove t sti of kinds ex- it ss. A substance bearing a close S e infnsed into skimmed s comparatively sour can “milk resh Referring to these rge business in deal- en who c A circular from a concern gives the names and prices of intended to preserve milk from to enhance the color of to make pound: butter: sparkle like champagn nd to embellish va- ri u'hu articles of diet. Compounds are recom- that are said to ‘keep milk and cream per- weet and fresh for any: desired length of time.' ire powders wa d that "will give a deli- cious cream’ and others that impart a ‘natural, rich, camy shade in milk and buttermilk” One of the artists is so ‘enthused’ over the success of his trans- ormations as to declare that ‘Nature is no longer in the game.” " A ssociation that will work for the protec- tion of honest dairymen against the competition of ishonest dealers in such stuff as that brought to hght in Boston will undoubtedly be of great benefit to San Francisco, and since it appears likely that some combine will be formed it is to be hoped it will be of that kind et e s . The Bedouin Arabs who stole the Mahomet are hiding’it for ransom. taken their tip from_the San Fi missioners, who recentl, holy carpet of They must have ancisco Police' Com- put a Price on their carpet. Somebody has worked out another grudge on Henry 1. Kowalsky. He has beentelected “‘grand builder of hospitals in the Grand Hospitium of the America.” Bohemians-of:/ The press dispatches contain the information that “Oom gallons of beer a day,.notwithstanding. his- dislike o British g The dear old -Batkans are lnnmmg FEuropean horizon. _ They were trouble. ¢ again nn the always hcaps of 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, Paul Kruger continues to consume his two'| PROTEST OF BUNKER HILL. 2 battle of Bunker Hill was not fought on the I eminence of that name, which rises one hun- | dred and ten feet above the sea level, but on a | lower spot known as Breeds Hill, in the immediate | vicinity. There Colonel Prescott, with fifteen hun- dred patriots, confronted the British troops and with- stood the British bombardment, and, although tech- | was with the enemy, they retired in per- having baptized a continent by the | nical victor, fect order, afte onstitutional liberty and sounded a blast for | humanity that has since reverberated throughout the The Mystic River, flowing into Boston har- was an | rites of world, bor and blending with the surging Atlantic apt simile of the stream of popular sovereignty that, since June 17, has poured from Bunker Hill into-| the arid deserts of monarchy and imperialism. Thei commemorative obelisk, 221 feet in height, over | which from base to summit the magnificent eloquence of Daniel Webster spread its consecrated patriotism, i the perpetual sentinel of a Continental Republic, with its banner of liberty, across the broad expanse between two mighty oceans, waving in solar glory or resting under the still majesty of the night. It is jatic annexationist, a convert to Roman or British | tion, or an American speculator of plutocrat, hard to comprehend how an imperialist, an coloni “hed with mercenary turgidity, can think of Bun i\!’I Hill without a blush, or, at its recurring anni- versary, successfully resist its regenerating and trans- fig g influence. On that day the rising sun flood- ed the cradle of American freedom, and with its ex- | piring rays it seemed that, on this hemisphere, des- | had into eternal Through lmmble colonists, the ragged Continentals, manhood bad burst the cerements of the ages and. stood upon its feet in all the splendor of resurrection. A spon- taneous impulse, perhaps more accurately a providen- | tial precipitated a revolution that never | receded until our Constitutional Republic was firmly | established. by the Declaration of Independence, by the bloody | potism <unk darknes suggestion, The blow struck for liberty was followed struggle with King George, by the Articles of Con- ! federation, by the Federal Constitution, by the ab- | sorption of the Northwestern Territory, by natural | and legitimate extension from the Guli of Mexico d the Colorado to the ctic, by the supreme test the Civil War, by development in population, | in wealth, in power and in influence, that almost ed the optimists of the globe. y that the rea the revolu- tionists, the gold worshipers, would obliterate or re- \ 1850. when the E nists. this histor contest of In the titanic rse & fer of the Constitution, surrounded by states- men and patriots. was facing sectionalism and slowly | drawing California into the Union, he said: “We | ve o great, popuiar, constitutional Government, ww and judicature, S and defended by the | ections of the whole people, No monarchical | throne presses these States together. no iron chain | of military power encircles them. They live and stand under a Government popular in its form, rep- | resentative in its character, founded upon principles | of equality, and so constructed. we hope, as to last forever. In all its history it has been bene-| ficent: it has trodden down no man's liberty, it | has crushed no State.”” This was the same noble | erican who. twenty years earlier. with his heart turned toward Bunker Hill and the beginning of American history., had stood for “Liberty and | Union,” and had proclaimed that where the Ameri- | can republic was born the might of patriotism erted to =ave it, and that it would fall at | it must, would be ¢ amidst the profoundest monu- | ments of its own glory and on the very spot of its | crigin.” And first martyred President his official station and inaugurated his own immor- when our assumed tality he proudly asked: “Is it true. then, that any lainly written in the constitution, has been denied?” *. * * “Think, if you, can, of a single instance, in which a plainly written provision of the constitution has ever been denied.’ Bunker Hill has been appropriately celebrated We 1 d 1800, hope its meaning and its protest may be at home, if the moment carded in Cuba and the Philippines. enforced for HENDERSON'S ELIGIBILITY. HE T opposition to Henderson for the Speaker ship continues to rally around the idea that his | tely birth excludes him from that office be- | law of 1702, repealed in 1886, put the Presi- | the legislative branch of the 1t by selecting the President pro tempore succession in Governm o{ the Senate and the Speaker of the House. The constitation, gives Con- gress the power to designate the officer of the Gov- ernment who shall succeed to the Presidency in the event of disability of the President and Vice Presi- dent. The act of 1792 was passed to conform thereto. | it might as weil have sent the succession to the Chief Justice csentative, or to the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the House, or the chairman of the Finance Commi tee of the Senatg. Either course would have been in perfect conformity to the constitution. The Bulletin ion can go only to such as are named in the constitution, and that, therefore, the law of 1886 is invalid because it sends it to the Cabinet officers in the order of their se- and these are not specifically named in the constitution. But the instrument says that the houses | of Congress shall elect a Speaker, President pro tem-, pore “and other officers.” These are sergeant at | arms, clerk, etc.. and, therefore, according to the Bul- letin, the Presidential succession could be conierred upon the sergeant at arms or the clerk of either | House, but not upon the members of the Cabinet, be- | former are included among the “officers” the constitution. The law of 1886 is | spoken of as if it were already under fire in a case pending before the courts and about to be decided adversely to its validity. But there is no such case, nor can there be unless | the situation arises for which the law provides and the Secretary of State were about to take the office of President. It is quite likely that even then no way cculd be found in which to bring such an issue to bar. A writ would have to issue from a Federal court. All | such writs must run in the name of the President of | the United States: therefore the - exeeutive would | be in the position of issuing a writ against himself to | | test his right to apply for the writ at all. That the law of 1886 was constitutional doubted by the Congress which passed it. In that Congress were Edmunds, Carlisle, Hoar, and other | leaders of the American bar of both parties, and they all concurred in its support. Not only on constitutional grounds is the law right, |.but it is justified on those of propriety and expe- | diency. The purpose of the constitution is to keep the three co-ordinate branches of the Government as listinet from ecach other as possible. The House has infrequent occasion to influence the choice of the | executive, arising only when there is a failure of | choice by the Electoral Colleges. The Senate takes | on a part in the executive function only when ratify- l ing treaties and confirming appointments, and in the as we have shown, or the senior Senator or Repr arguing that the suc “officers” niority cause the rorized by was not A | succeed Martin Kellogg | him. | tified with the State, chosen to preside over the uni- | | recommendations that giv | While the change is one t | assigned to the office of managing editor, and in that judicial function when sitting as a court of impeach- ment. The President participates in legislation only when using the veto. To pass the Presidential suc- cession to the President pro tempore of the Senate and Speaker of the House was to invite intrigue for the vacation of the office that it might fall to the legis- lative branch. It is no secret that the attempt to impeach Andrew Johnson arose in just such an in- trigue. Ben Wade was President pro tempore of the Senate. A cabal formed to oust Johnson, make Wade President and profoundly change the future course of political events. It would have succeeded except for the clear judicial judgment of Fessenden and Grimes. With the succession to the executive placed definitely in the executive branch of the Government, the in- dependence of that branch is preserved and the three co-ordinate branches of the Federal government are ikept as distinct as the constitution intended. | The Bulletin falls into a strange error about Speaker Crisp, who was born in England, by saying that his parents were there, in the service of this Gov- ernment. His parents were actors and were fre- quently abroad playing long engagements, for they | were artists of merit. During one of these sojourns the future Speaker was born. His par:nts were fa- vorites in Boston and lived there a great deal, filling professional engagements. On such occasions they lived with the parents of Congressman Loud of this city, and he and the future Speaker were friends in boyhood. Their early relations were the cause of the marked favor shown Mr. Loud by Crisp when in the chair. To conclude the issue of Henderson's eligibility, it is as undoubted as is his right to a seat in the House. BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER FTER conqdcrauou snmutntl\ long to s time for due attention to every issue m\()l\ed the Regents of the University of California have elected Benjamin Ide Wheeler of Cornell to | in the presidency. The choice will doubtless give well nigh universal satis- | institution, and the new president will find cordial | support and co-operation in the work that awaits While it would have been pleasing in many respects to have had a native Californian, or one long iden- | versity at this jun ure, when it is about to enter upon a new epoch in its development, still it has been everywhere recognized that true State patriotism would be shown not so much by electing a local edu- cator because of local esteem as in choosing the man who is best fitted for the position and can render best service to the State, and that is what the Regents Lave aimed to accomplish. There is urgent need at this time for a man of ex- ceptional powers at the head of the State University. The institution occupies the peculiar position of hav- ing a financial embarrassment at present with the | most golden and splendid prospects in the immediate | future. It therefore requires for its proper manage- | ment a President who can deal with equal wisdom | with the two diverse problems of existing needs and prospective expansion, as well as give a new stimulus | te its educational work and extend its inteliectual in- fluence. Abundant reasons exist for believing the Regents have found such a man as the occasion requires. fessor Wheeler, while comparatively young, has at- Pro- | noted for | Rome; $ O APROKORIRD X The word. “June,” printed conspicu- ously at the head of the calendars, re- ports of sweltering heats coming to us from all points outside the city, a cer- tain haziness in the atmosphere, the radiant diaphanous garmentin~s of the girls upon the streets, two ripples of earthquake and several severe shocks of suicide, are evidences that summer- time has come—the season that. wilts the collars and tries the souls of men— the period of the year when some mor- tals throw aside their clothes for a plunge into the sea; and others throw their bodles off for a dive into the in- finite. All authorities on the subject agree that suicide is more likely to occur .in summer than in winter, in the daytime than in the night, on sunny days than in gloomy weather; is more frequently resorted to by healthy people than by the sick, by the young than by the old, by the educated than by the ignorant, and by people who are comparatively well to do than by those who suffer the wretchedness of absolute poverty. Arguing from statistics, therefore, Mr. Tennyson should have written, “In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of suicide.” Man can turn to thinking of love in January as well as in June, but he cannot think 80 easily of self-destruction. When the atmosphere of the earth is disagreea- ble one does not feel like stripping off | his flesh and trusting his naked soul to { the inclemencies of the infinite. Any- body at any time can tumble into love, but one must have vouth and beauty and vigor of some kind, and the sea- son must be gay and bright and warm B z E - | when desire comes to knock at death’s | faction to all who are interested in the welfare cf the | door to ask for a place to s POl There is a sort of nickel-in-the-slot philosophy which accounts for suicide on the grounds of insanity or coward- ice; and it is as common as the slot machines and just about as valuable. It is easy to say no sane person nor any courageous person ever committed self- destrucfion, but the saying doesn't ac- cord with the facts. The race that in all history is most breeding men with sane minds in sane bodies—men conspicuous above all others for physical hardihood and moral strength—was that of old and that race produced more illustrious and a larger number of illus- trious suicides than any other. Their philosophy encouraged it, and it was a proverb among them, ‘“He who com- plains of the ills of life is x fool, for he may die when he chooses Of course suicide will never be to the modern world what it was to the an- cient. It is one of the few paganisms which the devotees of Mrs. Grundy and the votaries of Bohemia unite in de- nouncing with severity and with wit, and’ which is therefore condemned in the name of society and in the name of good fellowship as a violation of re- ligion, a breach of etiquette and a sign of a lack of humor. By reason of this well nigh universal eep. tained a national reputation for eminence in univer- sity work y sided man, university life, He comes to us with ssurance that our most | sanguine expectations of an ideal president for the | new era of California University will be fulfilled, and | accordingly there will be a general congratulation | throughout the State over the choice made by the Regents, and a warm welcome when he arrives to enter upon his labors He is reputed to be a ma with sympathies for all the issues of from scholarship to athletics. a CONGRATULATIONS TO SAN DIEGO. ITH this issue of the paper Mr. James Mac- Mullen resigns the responsibilities of the office Wui managing editor of The Call to accept con- trol and management of the San Diego Union. at advances Mr. MacMullen | to a position which he prefers, and is therefore in the | nature of a promotion, the chief beneficiaries oi the loss to The Call will be the paper which obtains his services and the city to whose welfare that paper is devoted. To San Diego and to the San Diego Union, therefore, the congratulations of the occasion | are due. : Mr. MacMullen has been on the staff of The Call for upward of eleven years of continuous service. Beginning his work on the paper as a reporter, he soon demonstrated a marked capacity for mastering every duty intrusted to him, and rose rapidly in the esteem of his colleagues and his employers. Pro- moted to the desk of city editor, he filled that posi- ion with such success that when The Call passed under the control of the present management he was field even more than in the former ones demonstrated his wide knowledge of practical journalism and his ability to direct and control men. Rarely has any city editor or managing editor maintained a better discipline in a newspaper office, or infused a staff of workers with more of harmony and genuine enthusiasm in their work, than Mr. MacMullen did while holding those positions on The Call. He leaves with the regrets of all who have worked with him, for there is not one who does not feel a loss of something personal to himself in the re- tirement of a man who has been not only an inspir- ing managing editor but a genial companion and a true friend. The San Diego Union will find in its new manager a well trained journalist of liberal education and wide experience—an editor who knows news and how to obtain and how to handle it. His service to the paper will be valuable in many ways, and can be relied upon to widely extend its usefulness and deepen its in- | fluence. San Diego adds to her population a citizen of marked public spirit, of generous sympathy with every movement that tends to the general good; one | who will in his new office be largely instrumental in advancing every interest of the community. To the | Union and to San Diego The Call extends congratu- lations. Chief of Police Devery of New York swears that he saw no money pass for admission ‘to the Jeffries- Fitzsimmons fight.. Such sublime official blindness ought to make the Chief famous. ' President Kruger of the Transvaal says that in view of recent events he doesnt know what is going to happen. He will not remain long in doubt if he con- tinues to step on the lion’s tail. Aguinaldo has sent another of his generals to death. | Ii he keeps up the good work much longer he will be forced to turn on himself. gl .News comes of the collapse of the banana trust. The promoters probably slipped up in a skin game. ‘objection, | practiced by | public | who desire popular favor. suicide has ceased to be tesmen, society leaders, wits, authors or others It does not follow, however, that those who do take it up as a last resort are any more unworthy of the love of the masses than a good many of those who would never think of doing anything so shocking to popular sensibilities and so false to the teaching of Omar XKhay- am. lecturer: . If we accept the showing of the re- cords and do not go behind the re- turns, there are as many reasons for suicide as for matrimony. In some in- stances, indeed, the very motive whic prompts one person to marry prompts another to get in all haste to the realm where there is neither marriage nor giving in marriage. Some fo'ks kill themselves in June because of things for which they would not give 30 cents in March. Two girls, voung and Joyous, attempted suicide in this city, and one of them succeeded, because a young man broke a promise to take them to Denver. A dispatch from New York reports that a woman killed herself in that city last Sunday because she found it “too hot to live.” A woman in this city lived as long as she was able to belleve her lover worth dying for, but as soon as she found he was not worth it she killed herself for him. Clearly Matthew Arnold was wrong in saying the chief defect of the race is “a bloodthirsty clinging to life.” A con- siderable number’do not cling to it with even a beer thirst. Not more readily do prunes drop from the trees in years when prunes bring good prices than do some persons drop from life; and no sooner does there come a clear, warm day, when the heavens look enticing, than they turn loose of earth and let their souls drop down the abysses of space without even taking the trouble to look where they are going to light. - EliRE T Every one who meditates suicide feels along with the impulse to self- destruction an equally strong impulse to give a reason for it. Thus the act so far from being irrational is perhaps more conducive to reasoning than any other within the power of man. Few people, even when under the influence of love or liquor, undertake it without giving to it the most serious thought of which they are capable; and it is hard- Iy an_exaggeration to say that every intelligent man or woman in the world has at times earnestly considered it as a solution of the harassing problems of life. Many are the actions by which hu- manity manifests its superiority to the brute creatures who nourish a blind Nfe within the brain, but, as has been many times pointed out, the powers which most strikingly evince that su- periority are those that enable the hu- man to eat when he is not hungry, drink when he is not thirsty, make love when not in love and die when he feels like it. is a distinct triumph of mind over mat- ter, of the spirit- over the flesh, a sub- ordination of the body to the desires of the soul. Some philosophers maintain thought is a disease of the brain; o that that every interference of the intellect with | the processes of the physical being is an insane proceeding. According to that philosophy, it is an act of insanity for the brain to compel the body to die when the body desires to dance; but by the same argument it is also insane for the brain to compel the body to drink a gallon of beer when being al- ready swollen with liquid it longs for a salt herring; or to gorge itself with a French dinner when it desires nothing PAOLOAOLOXOXOXOLOAOAOXOKOHOXOOKOKOKOAOKOXOX SR OXOXOX %D EDITORIAL VARIATIONS. BY JOHN McNAUGHT. ¥ OXOXOROXOXOXOXOAOLOKORPXOADEDXOR K OHOXOXOROXPHOAOXO%O2D | | “life In each of such actions there | HOAORPROXROR I but a ham sandwich. Thus if suicide be insanity, so also is high life insan- ity; and the only sane member of the human family is the ourang outang. AR S When aspiring suicides undertake to give reasons for their aspiration they make a most fantastic mockery of di- vine philosophy, for not one person in a million and a half can exvlain the motive of even the simplest actions of | Eureka, is his life. Hence every act of self- destruction is accompanied by some- thing in the nature of a comedy and causes the face of the world to assume the grotesque expression of a -grinning mouth underneath weeping eves. A tender hearted woman in this city in giving way to the promptings of the June came to the conclusion she was | dying for a man, and left behind her a verse declaring: You I loved since first we met, You I loved and love you yet. hate, but I will never About the time that verse so pathetic in its simplicity w in process of com- position a man who had resolved to | get off the earth set about finding an explanation for his action and, manlike, took to philosophy instead of poetry, as the ladies do. He wrote: “When the philosophy of the human family has been learned and women re- fuse to inspire a feeling of a masculine | heart, a man will think this: Woman's object in life is to pla a man for a fool, and she never will leave him till she finds a bigger foolL.” Thus it is shown that in this act, as in all others, the woman blames the man and the man blames the woman; and each finds in the other a helpmeet and a resource to account for all short- comings. Surely it would be a sad world indeed if men and ywomen did not have one another to rely upon in time of trial. The reasons assigned for their ac- tions by persons who are about to re- move themselves out of reach of trou- ble have no value at all, except as illus- | trations of the truth that when people | give you nine reasons why they per- form a certain act, you may be sure there is a tenth reason—not given— which is the dominant one of the lot. Fortunately the subject has been stu- died by great men and their views are more instructive than those of xhe" small fry. | In explaining the motives of Werther | and the causes which induced that | youth to close his bright career, Goethe attributes self-destruction in every case to a sheer weariness of life caused by the failure of repeated efforts to enjoy it. Victor Hugo regarded it as the out- | come of an incessant meditation upon the conditions of existence. “Wh man goes out every morning,’ °n a Hugo, “to meditate upon life, he will g0 out some evening and fling himselt | into the river.” Giacomo Leopardi con- | sidered it the result of “a desire for hap- | piness, not satisfied with pleasure,” out of which there comes a conviction that has not one sole fruit, but use- | less migery all.” “All satisfaction in life,” said Goethe, s based upon the regular rm"urren(mL of outward things. The alterations ’lf‘ day and night, the seasons of the year, of flowers and fruits, and of whatever | else returns from time to time, \\hlohl we can and ought to enjoy; these are the proper impelling powers of earthly | life. The more open we are to those | pleasures, the happier we are; but if | the varfety of these things appear bes fore us without our participating in it, | then there comes upon us the greatest | ' evil and the heaviest disease, and we | regard life as a disgusting burden. The thought at least of suicide becomes then inevitable. If these opinions on the subject are not convincing, they have at any rate a moral common to them all and are therefore instructive. They teach the | three maxin Be content with plea ure, do not think too much and keep in the swim. . Among the factors that tend to wear- iness of life is the unendurable mourn- | fulness of nature, . for never was the human soul ever quite so sad as the | world around it. It is not for nothing | we talk of the wailing of the winds, the moaning of the seas, the sighing%of | leaves and the dirges of the forests. Animate nature may be gay enough at times with its variety of fighting, feed- ing, frolicking and mating, but inani- mate nature appears to be always for- lorn. Even the infinite heaven seems to have a yearning for some‘hing it cannot attain, or hasn’'t attained as and doubtless could we but hear, it would be found the very music of the | spheres is set in a minor key. A disputant in one of the “Philo- sophical Dialogues” of Ernest Renan attributes the mournfulness of nature to an incessant yearning to evolve a God. Nature, according to that specu~ lative philosopher, feels through her | universal frame the need of an intelli- | gence that is at once omnipotent and | benevolent, and is forever trying to give birth to him. Every force that | governs matter, from that which on this earth has caused the worm to mount through countless spirals up- | ward to the dignity of man, to that | which moves jin the throbbing and the panting of the stars, tends each in its way to accomplish nature's vast de- | sire. Such a philosephy is just as helpful as another in explaining the unexplain- able, and is more cheerful than most, inasmuch as it gives a promise of the coming of a time when life in the United States and in the universe gen- | erally will be so much better ordered | than at present that no one will ever | get weary of life or anything in it from | love to politics, and suicide wili cease with the tired feeling. . The final word of sane genius upon suicide was uttered by Tennyson in “The Twe Voices 'Tis life whereof our nerves are scant; | O tife, not death, for which we pant; More. life and fuller that I want. That statement expresses as near the | whole truth as we can attain in this | world upon the subject of self-destruc- | tion. Those in whose nerves life is| scant kill themselves in the expecta- tion of getting a better supply in a new deal. That being so, the best ar- | gument against suicide is to be found in the old saying, “life is short, but we shall be a long time dead.” ('()n('eding] all the superiority tkat can be claimed for the spirit world over this planet, the fact remains that we shall have ample time to enjoy it when we get to it; but once we leave here, we come not | agalu. So long therefore as one has a| | Honolulu | tions, | (.( orge | night | up ot 164 pages stake on the table of life, best to stay with it and p it s v th out. There is no telling what f, may come on the next turn wheel. e AROUND THE CORRIDORs T. H. Selvage, a prominent attorney r in town. A. H. Conger. capitalist of Pasa is registered at the Grand. Herbert S. Ogden of the United St is registered at the x-Mayor Robert Effey ¢ among yesterday's arri nd. Charles E. Errickson, a railroad con- tractor of San Luis Obispo, is stopp at the Lick. Captain Frank Barrett « Palo Alto, was among yesterc Als at the Lick. F. P. Mil a wealthy mining man of Coulterville, is stopping with his family | at the Occidental. State Pri Director Da e came down from Folsom yesterday and is stoppirg at the Occidental. Major and Mrs. John Tweedale arrived erday from Washington and are stered at the Occidental. . W. M. Frank, a prominent furniture dealer, returned last ning from ness trip through the Northwest. W. S. Gage of the Pacific Lumber Com- pany, which operates cxtensively in Hum- boldt County, is on a business trip to New. York. D. R. McNell, proprietor of Central Park, starts for the st y even- ing to be gone several wee He will visit all the princiy cities of the East in quest of fresh attractions in the amuse- ment line. Walter 1. Willey, asEeiot tho letting of contrac - supplies in California is making ready the opening of bids on tt st He has hired a warehouse at the corner of Clay and Davis streets, w ds will be stored. D. K. B. Sellers of Wellman-Peck Com- pany has just returned from an extensive trip throughout the F: having been delegated by the tobacco jobbers ( 1i- fornia, Oregon and Washington it the larger manufacturers of that s His object primarily to the East was to stimulate trade in his line with t Orient. The jobbers foresee a gr - in that direction and are : t of the times. Mr. Sellers are very encouraging. ————————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, June 17.—A. Sweet of | Los Angeles is at the Ebbit House. H. A. Breeden of San Francisco is at the Shoreham. Bernard Duncan of Los An- el at the St. James. A. B. Wood of is at the ! ngto —_— e ROYAL ARCANUM DAY. Anniversary of the Order to Be Cele- brated .+ere and in Los Angeles. The members of Argonaut Council . Golden West Cou 1716 and of Buena Vista Council , of this city, will on Friday evening next Royal Arcanum day, that being the sond anniversary of the found ing of the order. A fine programme ha been prepared by the es will be deliv nd there will be and songs, after is to be a programme of celebration will be in the the Shicls building. Monday Supreme Represen W. Dixon, Grand Regent celebrat Y recita- which ther dances. Laurel Hall of mus| J. Chappell and Grand Secretary 1 on paid_an official Y to S Council No. 1074 in Los Angele there were interesting addresses by visitors, and the membersh formed of what had been done in Council in the city of Wa S recent sess these officers Council in the same city. of the Angel City will celebrate the e versary of the founding of the order by a | picnic "at Terminal Park. ———————— Souvenir Programme. The Native Sons’ Medal and Certificata Committee is preparing ouvenir pro- gramme to be used in connetcion with the distribution of the certificates and medals to the soldiers and sailors who | enlisted in the service of the United States from California. It will be made fllustrated, and will con- of the movement, the ros- California volunteers, a information in relation to the raising of troops in this State anc what each branch of the service did. 1 expected that 18,000 of these pro- grammes will be issuéd—S000 for the men Who enlisted and 10.000 to be distributed when the medals and certificates are given ou tain a history ter of all the great deal of > P —— Soldiers Are Repentant. W. G. Nigh, John B. Costigan and Pa rick Brannan, the three soldiers who c ated a disturbance at Third and Mission streets Friday night, and in the si with Policeman Chase, who arre them, tore his trousers all to piece s, pleaded guilty in Judge Graham's court vesterday to charges of b 1d ug turbing the peace. They expres regret and said they would do an to get out of the scrape. The Judge that if they would pay the officer for a new pair of trousers he might be lenient with them. and they agreed to do so. The cases were continued till Monday. — e Columbia Council, ¥. M. I. The committee named by Pre F. Harney of Columbia Council, reported at the last m(ennfi lhxr tha next outing of the x at Glen Ellen on the fair will be strictly invitationa number of tickets will be limited. ing the past two months this cou icil has initiatea Joseph Corbett, W. O. Patch, Ira O'Brien, Joseph M. apodonico, Walter F. Murphy, Dr. Joseph Nolan, Alfred J. Fritz and M. Fugazl. —_— e Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’'s.® Spectal irformation supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 810 Mont- gumery sireet. relepmre Main 1043, A Painter’s Fall. Malmedy, a painter living at 225 while working on a staging at a new building on Polk street, mear ‘{;cA‘n;‘:z‘:r ye iay afternoon, fell .‘,‘ the ground. He wus taken to thé Receiv- ing Hospital, where it was found that his It wrist was broken and his left shoul- der dislocated fpaa i PGS Reduced Rate to Detroit and Return Over Northern Pacific Railway. nvention will be mmencing July 5 official route, nvention was he j0 people returne d in Detro he Northe when t Over, Northern Pacific, and they were loud in their r the many beautics seen along the .. You will have a nice, cool, pleasant journey, enjoying the most luxurious of aecom- modations. Stopover allowed at the Wonderful Yellowstone Park. s for il- Justrated boc General Agent, © | Official Route Christian Endeavor Excursion to Detroit. Leave San Francisco 6 p. m., June 2, v Central Pacific, Union Pacific, Chicago an orthwestern and Wabash Railway spent at both Denver and Omaha Round trip rate to Detroit, $81. tion: her information ade P. Lowell, Transportation Manager Christian ndeavor, 1626 Eighth Oakland, Cal 3 = e Low Rates to Detroit, Michigan, for Christian Endeavor Convention. ave., The SANTA FE ROUTE will make rate of June $81 for the round trip. Tickets on rale 29th. For full particulars call at ticket 625 Market street, this city, or 1118 Broad Oakland, 5