The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 25, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDA¥Y, JUNE 25, 1899. Call .JUNE 25, 1899 SUNDAY..C.C JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. = R Address Al Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. R PUBLICATION OFFICE Telephone Main 1868. F DITORIAL ROOMS. 21T to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Matn 1574 DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Stngle Coples, 6 cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: IATLY CALL (including Sanday Call), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), § months. DAILY CALL (fncluding Sunday Call), 3 months..... 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Bingle Month.. 650 BUNDAY CALL One Year 1.50 WEEKLY CALL Ome Year postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. copies will be forwarded when requested. ..908 Broadway A Bample OAKLAND OFFICE.. C. GEORGE KROGNESS, | Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquetts Building, | Chicago. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. rman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; ot House; Auditorium Hotel NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR... ..29 Tribune Building | NEW YORK NEWS 8TANDS. Waldort-Astor Hotel; A. Brentano, $1 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Welllngton Hotel C. C. CARLTON. Correspondent. — | BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open untll | 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister street, open until 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2991 Market | street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 | Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open untll 9 o'clock. NW. cormer Twenty- econd and Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. “olumbla—'“The Adventure of the Lady Ursula,” might. Orpheum—Vaudeville, azar — “‘Richelieu."” Opera House—*"The Chimes of Normandy." Monday | ambra—*"Mignon.* irand performance to-day. tng Park—Cou: “Ing to-day. | ark—Baseball To-day. Zoo and F Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon Mason and Ellis streets—Specialties. | orama Co., Market street, near Eighth—Bat- vimming Races, Saturday, July 16. | AUCTION SALES. & Co.—Mon day, June 26, at 11 o'clock, | June 27 v at 11 o'clock, | MeAlliste street. | THE TAX UPON STUDENTS. ’ heed to | g re- sed of the Univers at their next me which they have i ification for | to work well as a wrong to the no sufficient ju; position can hardly tution founded for the purpose higher education within nen in California It was designed e open on equal terms to pportunity for UNg men or we s of it. tuition 1 accordingly i nding the willingly under. 1d s upon th its suppo have students had rendered yvide for their instruc- rom feeling annoyed by the animated by a just 1ce of the growing importance ofthe number of students instruction, and they | 1 to dcuble the amount of taxation that | ed for its support. to the proof given by the public of a amount of revenue needed to a free institution, many of were ented its 1y citizens of tate gave largely of their es to uplk and advance its interests. been remarkably generous and even | No university in the United | rospect before it than that of | an count more surely upen an public revenues and iter 1 none cz both the outlook for the imme- increases the annoyance of the people :arge for registration. The er tax for the university, and the b endowments and giits offered 1d other equipments, led the pub- the institution was to. enter upon ider usefulness than ever before. It was e a shock of keen disap- the announcement was received that e education to the youth ity is for one year at an_x" 20 upon all who enter it. ion of a ¢ 1 something 1i more o e unive; of [ | imount of the tax imposed may seem small to | nts of some of the students, but to a consid- | sber it will be a heavy burden. The tax | the doors of the university to some who f the public charges to support it, , however small it may be, it is unjust Nor can the imposition be extenuated upon the pl Why should the students of one year be burdened any more | 1 those of another? Furthermore, when | for such registration fees has once been | and itted to, who can assure the| people that it may not be followed again and again until at last such fees become fixed charges and the | advantages of the university be virtually confined to | the children of the wealthier class? | California is rich, and all her resources are behind the university. There is no institution which the | people will more willingly support so long as its | Such temporary deficiencies in the | nue as now exist can be overcome without the | imposition of an unpopular and unjust tax, and if the | Regents earnestly try they can find a way to accom- | plish it a that it is for one year only. heavily t subr education is free. revi Speculators of Tacoma are cutting away the giant | Muir glacier of Alaska and selling the ice at enor- mous profit in the northern cities. “How would you like to be the iceman?” is likely to become a popular song in Tacoma ‘ The eagerness with which two local police officers ! arrested three children on a charge of highway rob- bery ought to recommend the uniformed worthies to Wells, Fargo & Co. as shotgun messengers | vided by this republic. | Commission, has been sent to a people who have | HOLDING SURZJECTS. OTHING is more amazing than the del N and own contented “subject: | lic or an empire; it is his master. and blackened the name of man. Maay, people in this country seem to have sup- posed that all we had to do in the Philippines was to posed to administer it ourselves. Such a strange mistake to be made by citizens of a republic! Who better than we should know that no government is good, nor can be made good, or even tolerable, ex- cept it be the free choice of the governed? When the desire to govern himself has come to a man and his spirit has been touched by the glorious inspiration of liberty, none can choose for him: his consent must be the only source of the just powers of the government that is good enough for him It is well for mankind that men are still willing to for good government based on the consent of the governed. The world has been witness to ectacle, and it seems to some a pity that it was pro- A commission, called a Peace fought a hundred years for seli-government against monarchy, to ask them to lay down their arms, give up their hope of self-government, their drea freedom, and become the subjects of a republic! No man has been born good enough to govern another without that other’s consent, and the lovers of freedom should take courage that even in the far islands of the sea men have learned the lesson of in- | Gependence and aspire to it unto death. It is this that makes our undeclared war in the Philippines hard. The people are fighting for liberty we for empire. On the Fourth of July it will be just five months since we began the task of compe the unconditional surrender of our fresh boughten subjects. What an anniversary to find free-born re- publicans, panting under sun, ordered to slay a people who never offered harm to this repub- lic nor raised a finger against our mission to pro- claim liberty to all the world. When we were fighting Sy archy, engaged in a war for hu yoke cf subjection from the neck only 20,000 men in the field and won in a war of only 114 days. The stars in their codrses fought with us for freedom. In tt hilippines ander Ford of Dewey vertical y and to lift the of subjects, we put mon- ainst our subjects in the fought 140 da flect says is unc red war have we We hold not e so much ground as during the first part of gust last year, and our lines are restricted to Manila.” One need not be superstitious to see the fates in this. In the first part of August last year what ground we held in Luzon was held against Spain, against a power which denies against a monarchy, d defies the decla ation that governments derive to the N Since then we have sent free-born soldiers Philippines, until the roster reaches 37,000 1 Twenty-seven expeditions have gone across the Pa- cific and by the Suez Canal, carrying troops and mu- nitions of war, and we have fought a poorly armed, badly officer: untrained people 140 day nd ho less ground against them than we did against Spain. It is said that the ased with General Otis, Weyl Military Gov- ernor of the Philipp and it may be granted that Otis is pleased with the adm the people are a third party in the genial round of pleasure over the affair is not known. This fact is known, however, that fighting a people who aspire administration essor as te liberty we have been driven back from ground that | / we held when we were fighting Spain. We can subject the Filipinos. An army of two hundred thousand will do it, but when we throw st hold them down. Warlike and them we mu l | tell the people that we had bought them of Spain for | _g8.00 | two dollars per head and proposed to give them good | 8.00 | government, and to see that it was good that we pro- | | T ! end they find that the whole agitation has no other | object than that of arraying them against their em- ion | ployers. which is abroad that a republic can hold, rule " To the subject | ways { it makes no difference whether his master is-a repub- | “Divide Ii he happen to | burg as | know history he will be aware that military repub- | have a difficult task before them in combating a foe | | lics, avid of conquest and holding subjects, have been | at once powerful and cunning, and unscrupulous in | Market and Third Sts., S. F | the worst governments that ever cursed the carth | the use of both force an The scheme is interesting as an illustration of the of despotism. The wisdom of the old maxim, and conquer,” is understood in St. Peters- well as in Rome, and the Finnish patriots fraud. THE GAS FIGHT IN CINCINNATIL INCIN ATI will have cheaper gas than ever before, and probably for some time to come ! cheaper gas than any other city in the Union. It has cost her consumers of late $1 10 per thousand | feet, but is now offered her at the rate of 75 cents | per thousand feet for illuminating purposes and 50 cents per thousand feet for fuel. The same company | which has been furnishing it at the higher rate now | fight, willing to die, willing to be roasted in the fire, | | | { sell.” | | ion fee of $20 for the ensuing | their just powers from the consent of the governed. | " | dear old gas company from all fear of rivalry. offers it for the lower, and there is to be no de- terioration in the quality of the gas. The cause of the revolution in gas affairs and the | fall of gas prices is the appearance of competition in the field. A new company has applied to the city authorities for a franchise to operate gas works and supply gas to consumers, and the company now oc- | cupying the field and enjoying a monopoly has cut 2 novel | Tates for the purpose of either frightening the com- petitor away or inducing the municipality to reject its application for a franchise. The war between the rivals has evidently been one of the merriest struggles of the yedr. The Cincin- nati Enquirer of June 13 comes to us with no less \m of | than thirty-nine columns of argument on the sub- It a ject, and some of the argument is lively reading. has been charged that the new company seeks franchise solely for the purpose of forcing the old company to buy it out. In response to the charge the attorney for the new come id in the course of his speech: “We have been called raiders, blackmail- ers, schemers, ravishers, but I will prove to you to- we are not raiders, blackmailers and schemers. I will put it to you in such a way that you cannot get away from it. We will show that there will be no combination, that we will neither buy nor He went on to say that his company proposes to pay Cincinnati 274 per cent on its gross earnings— that that will amount to some $400,000 in ten years. and that “that is more than the Cincinnati Gas Light day that | and Coke Company has ever paid to the city or ever will.” The vigor of that response had the effect of shifting the argument of the old company, and they directed their efforts thereaiter to the object of proving three | things—that it is not practicable to furnish Cincin- nati with natural gas, as the new company promises to do; that the interests of a community are best served by consolidation the manufacture and delivery of gas; that invest- Iy made, based upon the plighted faith lity, should be protected by such muni- it would protect itself from injury ments hc of a mun cipalit or discredit. nati to solve, not for us. It may be that a supply of natural gas for the city is impracticable; it may be that such gas is dangerous and not up to the stan- lard of artific gas; it may be that competition is bad; be that Cincinnati should protect hes One however, is beyond all doubting—the fear of it o - thing, | competition from natural gas has caused the present | tration; but whether | | | unwilling subjects are hard to manage, to force good | government upon them is difficult. It can be done only by a élamling army garrisoning every town, for when military vigilance is released men who want to be free take advantage of the jailer's absence. But Creat Britain s we are doing it right, and have only to keep on killing until all the braves are dead, and good government of the survivi s: ng cowards will | be easy. FINLAND AND HER CAUSE. ~3 OR the purpose of upholding the cause of the Finns, by education and appeals to the judg- ment of the civilized world, there has been es- tablished in London a journal to be issued from time to time as occasion may demand, devoted to the work of making known the conditions of Finland and arousing popular sympathy with her people. The first issue of the publication, a copy of which has been just received, is a most interesting one. It gives a brief history of the country, a review of the constitution, an account of the coup d’etat that over- threw it, of the popular address of remonstrance to the Czar, and @ reeord of the events which have fol- | lowed the suppression of the ancient liberties of the country, including the work of the secret agents in | Finland. Ample allowance must be made for the color given to the record by the sympathies and passions of the writers, and yet even when that has been done enough will remain to attest the great wrong done to the Finnish people by the recent arbitrary action of the Russian Government. It appears that in addition tc destroying the liberties of the Finns and imposing upon them a vastly increased military burden, the Russian agents in the country have been busy in try- ing to incite class strife among the people for the pur- pose of weakening their efforts for freedom. The policy of inciting dissensions among a subject people is one that has long been pursued by the as- tute despots of St. Petersburg, and has generally been successful. Advantage is taken of whatever condi- tion of a country is most likely to give rise to dii- ference of interests in the population, and an agita- tion is started and maintained by secret agents of the Government until populkar passions run high and the subject people can no longer act in harmony even for the sake of liberty. To accomplish a division among the Finns the Russian Governmient, by means of newspapers and secret agents, has ted a movement in favor of an | allotment of land to all those in Finland who now possess none. Such an agitation is cunningly devised to excite strife between the landless and the land- owners, between the rich and the poor, between those who have and those who have not. The sup- pression of the liberties of Finland is thus made to appear to the peasantry as a step toward their ma- terial improvement. It is to be noted, however, that the Government itseli has made no pledges to the landless tb furnish them with land, and therefore can never be charged with cheating them when in the | | | | company to offer to furnish the consumers of the city with gas for much less than it has ever before been furnished. The people of Cincinnati will find in that t much comfort and economy, and other commu- nities a lesson worth heeding. AN ARGUS IN BLIND STAGGERS. RGUS of old is reported to have had a hundred eyes and to have found need for all of them in attending to his business. The fresh Argus of Alameda may have had an equal number of eyes to start with, but of late it has been afflicted with blind staggers and is bucking around much like a diseased mule. In a late issue, going it blind, the Argus declares The Cail has made bitter attacks on militarism in Idaho and has asserted the negro regulars are ter- rorizing the country and subjecting white women to msults, and then it adds: “The colored soldiers are cather more seli-respecting and steady-going as a rule than white soldiers. They have immense pride in themselves as soldiers and a strong esprit de corps.” In that statement are as many errors and departures from the path of truth as a blind, staggering beast could make from a highway on a summer's day. The Call has published from the districts in Idaho under martial law reports sent out by the Hon. Patrick Reddy and other correspondents of equal reliability. The statements contained in these reports are not to be refuted by exaggerating and misrepresenting them to the verge of falsehood, and in seeking to do so the Argus staggered into its first error. The second stagger is even worse than the first. The white men of the regular army will learn with surprise that a newspaper exists in this country which decries them as being inferior to the men of negro regiments—inferior in self-respect, inferior in steadi- ness, inferior in pride in the service, and inferior in the honor of a soldier. Assertions of that kind reflecting upon the sol- dierly qualities of the men who uphold the flag of the Union and who are now fighting in the Philippines are insulting even when the source from which they come is considered. There is no excuse for them. The soldiers of the army are in no way responsible for affairs at Wardner, and to denounce them as worse than negroes for the purpose of making a point in an unwarranted attack on The Call is about as malicious a piece of folly as ever was committed. B An easy way suggests itself to help County Clerk Deane out of the predicament in which the threat- ened shortage of courtroom clerks places him. The official stenographers could easily write up the min- utes of their courts and turn them over te the nine clerks available, who could enter them in the proper books without perspiring much. The discussions of the Peace Conference of The Hague are beginning to possess a fascinating horror. They seem to involve little else than the considera- tion of the refined art of murder on a grand scale. The nations are simply telling each other how death may be brought wholesale with the least possible suf- fering. A Filipino brass band has been captured and some Chinese of Manila have levied upon the instruments. 1i Chinese music is the sort that leads Aguinaldo’s forces on to battle, no wonder the insurgent soldiers are crazy fighters. If Mayor Phelan continues to “compromise” with the corporations San Francisco will soon be paying rent for the City Hall. The corkscrew road seems to have twisted Mayor Phelan out of his political senses and not competition in| The issues involved in the controversy are for Cin_‘ o fiQ*O*jO;O*@* In the course of his address at the opening of the recent electrical expo- sition in New York, Senator Depew stated that to attend the first exposi- tion of the kind in that city he had gone from his house to the hall in a cab, two years ago he was able to ride from the one place to the other in an | electric car, but this year he had been carried in an automobile. The experience of the Senator illus- trates the rapidity with which our | means of street travel have changed in recent years. While we are superior to New York in most things, there are a ew in which they have the advantage. Being farther east, they get the sun be- fore we do; and being more fickle in b | travel quicker than we do. Neverthe- | less we get the sun in due time and get | it in better condition than New York; | so also will we get the automobile in season. It is coming to us and we are coming to it. There will be a meeting half way. The new vehicle will be the | wagon of the hour, and everybody will be in it except the street railway com- pany. Rt g Since the time when it first became clear that a self-propelling vehicle would soon be in general use there has been much discussion concerning the name to give it. Few families have had more trouble in naming the first born than the British speaking public has had in trying to find a name for | the new machine. Many have been the | suggestions. Horseless carriage, elec- tropede, motorcab, autocab and a dozen others were proposed, until at last the authorities settied upon the name “au- tomoblle.” Now behold the perversity of human nature; in New York, where the vehicles have been in operation for a time, the street boys have named the big ones “Tom” and the little ones “Tommies."” * It is one of the characteristics of our | language that it is fashioned by the man on the strect instead of by the scholars who direct our culture, or the authors who create our literature. It is for that reason our language is so | free from all the restraints that bind | other languages to the dead past; why it has so little of formalism and so much of vitality. When a man of learning desires a name for a new invention of the time he goes to his Latin or his Greek dic- tionary and carefully culls out a word or words which nify the nature or the uses of the new machine, and pro- | ceeds in due form to give it a high. | sounding name that would have pleased Demosthenes or Cicero. As soon as the invention comes into general use, how- | ever, the man on the street renames it “for short.” He calls the telegraph a “wire,”” dubs the locomotive an ‘*en- gine,” and throughout the Union will doubtless follow the lead of the street gamins of New York and speak of the horseless vehicle as “Tommy.” STy The charm which will incline most cultured people to accept the newsboy name for the automobile is its utter ir- relevancy. The chief objection is that if the carriage be called a Tommy there will be an almost irresistible tendency to call the operator a “Tommyboy,” and that might lead to fights. Moreover, as the ladies are coming to the front in all lines of work, there may be a numerous band of lady operators of the new carriages; and to call them “Tommyladies” would be hardly polite in any circles. e . . One of the overlooked features of the season has been the amount of flurry in certain circles over the subject of masculine dress. It is strange that so little attention has been given to the subject and so little comment made upon it, for two of the highest digni- taries in the world have taken part in it. President McKinley has expressed a sorrow that he cannot play golf, be. cause it would be beneath his dignity to wear a golf costume; and the Prime Minister of Great Britain has declared with something of indignation that “the ugliest dress the English gentle- man has ever worn has lasted for fifty years without a change.” ‘When a President and a Prime Min- ister mourn for a lack of freedom and beauty in dress, is it strange that lesser men should howl? The one thing strange is that the first sign of open | and daring revolt comes from Philadel- phia. Some club men aided and abetted by newspaper men in that city have boldly advocated the adoption of the shirt waist as a part of masculine at- tire in the summertime. The climate of San Francisco is such that the Philadelphia movement is not likely to affect us much in practice. It appeals strongly, however, to the imag- ination. A Philadelphia gentleman in a pink shirt waist is one of the crea- tures McKinley should send to London on a mission, so that Salisbury could see him; and then he should be painted for the delight of future generations. o et e The most lugubrious masculine wail of the season on the subject of dress comes from the heroes of our ever vic- torious navy, and is supported by the ‘Washington Post. That rather es- teemed contemporary refers to the sub- ject as a discussion concerning ‘“the naval officers’ trousseau,” and is of the opinion it ought to occupy much more of public attention than it does. Ac- cording to the Post, the trousseau is too expensive for the average young man who becomes wedded to the navy. It says: 3 “Nobody has ever yet given a rational, or at least an intelligible, explanation of the enormous wardrobe which the naval officer has to provide, usually out of a very meager bank account. Just how many different uniforms he is re. quired to provide we do not like to say’ This is not a comic newspaper, and we object to putting the Navy Department in the range of ridicule and laughter. ‘We do know, however, that the average outfit, reduced to the smallest possible proportions, costs the individual any- where from $700 to $1200. And this, it seems to us, is bringing nonsense to its finest point.” The point is well made and the Post merits the thanks of the youthful naval man for directing public attention to the wrong done him. The President is free to dispense with a golf costume if he please; no law compels the Phila- delphia man to spend his wealth for summer coats if he prefers a shirt waist. Why, then, should a haughty Secretary of the Navy require a hero - who stars in the service on a salary of from $1200 to $1500 a year to purchase about $1000 worth of fancy clothes that he hasn’t any use for? Congress should call for an investi- 4 OXOAOAOK DK OX OO DXOAOKOKOAOKOX DX DX OXOHOAOXOKOKOKOXOXOXOXD EDITORIAL VARIATIONS. BY JOHN McNAUGHT. * HOXOXOAOHOKOX DK VX OADXDADH VA DI DK VK PAOHOHOXOXOXOHOHOX O X OHD their habits, they adopt new means of | | i DEOXDROROR | gation at once. The Secretary should | ! be required to appear before the House or a committee in each of the uniforms [ he imposes upon the naval heroes; and, | moreover, he should be made to pay for | them out of his own salary. There is | |a way of redressing any wrong, even | that of a Cabinet officer. ‘ e A Here is a story, coming all the way | from Morristown, New Jersey, which may prove of value to the people of | Petaluma. For some time past the | newspaper offices of Morristown have | | been visited regularly by a country | gentleman of the neighborhood, who | suavely but earnestly solicits all the | cast off exchanges. After his visitings | had gone on for some time a natural curiosity arose as to what he did with | such masses of valuable information as | New Jersey exchanges contain, and it was not long before the curiosity was gratified. The country gentleman takes the pa- | pers home, soaks them in buttermilk | or sour milk and feeds them to his hens. It is added, in the report that comes to us, but the addition may be mere New Jersey bragging, that the result of such feeding is a wonderful | vield of extra large eggs, out of which | are hatched chickens as intelligent as they are large. It is not worth while to say of such | a stor “it is important if true.” The main point is that considering the source from which it comes ater- esting whether true or false. s Peta- luma is the guardian of the chicken in- terests of California, it behooves her press to meet the New Jer: story promptly, and either refute it by exper- ment or tell & better story of the effect of newspapers on poultry. p PO Apropos of rural stories, the Niles Herald tells one of signs and symptoms of coming events that beats anything the East can tell on any subject. After recording the occurrence of the rec nt; earthquake, the Herald says: Mrs. | | Bush of Decoto has a faculty of fore- | telling earthquakes and remarked the previous evening to the family that one was coming. It is said she has not missed one or made a mistake for twenty vears or more. They are al-| ways preceded with a peculiar stomach | trouble, and at no other time does she | ever feel it.” Comment on that is not only unneces- sary, but in any form could hardly b other than impertinent, irrelevant and immaterial. It is one of the few stories that goes as it stands. LA Since Coghlan’s song of the Kaiser, | with its frequent reference to *“Mein- | self und Gott,” has had so much vogue, it is only fair to note the German hu- | mor of the reply to it. The New York Sun gives what it calls a rough trans- lation of a set of verses sung at a 1 cent festival of a Deutscher Krieger- | bund, and intended to honor the K: 2V and create a thirst for more beer. The song is too long to be quoted as a | whole, but the first two and the last two verses run thus: A smart man is the Yankee man, ‘ Still smarter is his lady; ‘ | * E’en though her stocking have a hole | She always is all ready. The German wife knows how to work, Nor r “I don’t care.” labor is | To work a What says the Deutscher Kriegerbund To Coghlan’s foolish jabber? Has not each man, from habit, put His right hand to his saber? Is not each waiting the command, e watchword of the night, “Forward! ye German soldiery.!"” Coghlan the devil bite! . e s If any one like not that song he is | at liberty not to like it. A difference of taste in matters of humor must be allowed in every free country; and an especial toleration must be granted to those who dislike German humor, for the thing is not only foreign to us, but foreign to the Germans themselves. It sits upon their nature In much the same way that froth sits upon beer, being mainly an artificial effervescence de- signed to give the substance an appear- ance of freshness; and in this particu- | lar song it will be admitted the writer and the singers appear to have been very fresh indeed. . ik 1 In growing old Sarah Bernhardt does | not cease to be interesting to every- thing human, and it is pleasing to learn she is to come to us again. Age brings to her not any sign or symptom of de- cay, but only a series of transformation scenes. Nothing of her that doth fade, but only suffers a sea change into something rich and strange. It is noted that her hair, once so lustrous black as | to dim the midnight skies, has now turned—not to silver, but to gold. Her fancy runs not to farewell tours, but to new flelds of theatrical adventure; and her pathway is still strewn as in her younger years with roses and lov- ers and diamonds and all things else that ladies adore. It would be interesting to know ex- actly what the gifted Sarah thinks of the world and the people she has seen in it. If she believes men to be ra- tional creatures with souls and intel- lects, then she must deem hersef to be | half divine. If she thinks herself to be only a human thing, then she must consider men to be a lot of incons- quential fools. How else can she aj- count for the adoration that has ways been hers? How else explamn why her hair turns golden with ags, while that of other folks turns silver or vanishes altogetl Sarah is one of the few people who should write a book and a big one at that. EXTRA SES SION PROBABLE the San Francisco Call ion of the Legislature 1 seems to have con- Such political wise- ter Par The claim of that an extra s would soon be ca siderable founda on. e of the opi called for the ator. That is to elect Colonel B gotten so solidly r a slip up, the vhere it now i way and cured ve no chance 2. er will stand just but with G out of rnes provided is i Burns pull ought easil Tt may not, prob- t . be ca months, but that it will be ¢ d betting investment just 1 Burns W ach pref seat for vears than is given his eat under then have rs hence, and camp and are nerve-rack Herald. —_———— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. . CAINE . the The home of on Isle of no ace called ( WAR AT Rosa, Cal. On April 2 nally d WITH SP ited an act d existed sin Un aring JOHN I Cal. It w diff, Januar van broke h he champior Pomelo, The i be obtained on ormation tha pple and where it can be pro- is to be found the bulletin of Florida / i t Sta- Such o t ting the weight of e load _upon one of mour and duratio to relationship wife to dr near relativ her own, ¢ vearing bla If it is pr rertainly ) o do likewi coast of storm is com- big wind in Ire- 1 through Ct a hurricane on the west land 1 Ireland and th monly referred land.” s\-l n L s and 100 were hood. The coasts sred with wrecks. Athlone and other were blown were destroyed the flames Lon- Sus- and_harb In Limerick counties mc down and by fire, th Dublin s don and it tained any damage. el i Calglace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* = T 2" COY borhood scarcely Spectal information supplied dafly to business houses .nd public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, * — .o Suit on Patent Slate. The Plastic T Insurance Company filed suit yesterday in the United States Circuit Court against the Western Ex- panded Fireproofing Company. The suit is brought for an injunction against the use of the plaintiff’s artificial slate. e e S e EXCURSION TO $81—Detroit, Mich., and Return—$81 Leave San Francisco § a. m., June 29, the Burlington Route will run an excursion to Detroit in charge of a special manager. Up- holstered tourist slee cars used on this oceasion e via and Denver, passing Colorado_sc by ¢ ht. Arrive Detroft 6 p. m. Ju , ete., at 32 Montgome or 972 Broad Official Route Christian Endeavor Excursion to Detroit. Leave San T 6 p. m. June 2, via 1 Pacific, Ch > and srthwestern an: . one day spent at b Round trip tions and furth Lowell, T Christian End Oakland, Cal B — Rock Island Route Excursions. Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, Rio Grande and Rock Island railways. Thro tourist sleeping cago and Bos Manager and por ny tr Low Rates to Detroit, Michigan, for Christian Endeavor Convention. The SANTA FE ROUTE make rate of $81 for the round trip. Tickets on saie June 2 For full particulars call at ticket offic 628 Market street, this city, or 1113 Broadwa. o Oakland. —_——— Ah Hin Goes Home. Lum Ah Hin, the convict who spent forty years of his life in the San Quentin penitentiary, was ordered deported to China yesterday by United States District Judge ‘de Haven. but such bargains. have a choosing chance. Fial Friday. The lfast of a big business is in sight. Nackay quits with June’s ending. No goods sold mext Saturiay. The assortments are mow Iimited, Be quick if yon want a real snap in Furniture, Carpets or Rugs. Come while you Yow'il never see such worths again, because we are going to quit mext Friday night. Alex. Mackay & Son, Mackay's store chses for good aext Friday night. 115 Market Street, Near Cali Building.