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

FRANCISCO CALIL, SUNDAY JULY. 2, 1899, SUNDAY. .. . JULY 2 180 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor 5 SR e Rddress Ai Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager, PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts. S. F Telephone Main 1568 EDITORIAL ROOM ... 2T to 221 Stevenson Street ne Main 1874 Telep DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. TATE €4 DAILY CAT DAILY. BUNDAY WEEKL LL Gn 55z Alk post ers’ are muthorized to receive subscriptions. Bample coples will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE..... e .903 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Forclgn Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. O NEWS STANDS. So.; Great Northern Hotel Sherri Fremont Hc NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: .....29 Tribune Building ‘WS STANDS. 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BRANCH OF cpen unt! y Ureula,” Monday ni reat.”” ‘he Lily of Killarney." ~Vaudeville every afternoon Ities, Zighth—Bat~ ete. mming Races, RUE STORY OF SAMOAN AFFAIRS. “3IROM the reports af our special correspondent, W.'E Williamson, the American public receives full and accurate account of the situation Isl and the recent events which s story differs in so many important 1t has been sent out through the s to lead to the conclusion that een colored in the interests of cer- ad therefore, partisan \partial statements of y it is made known that mbers .has not been alito- ing of censure, that the disturbances have been due machinations, and that Mataafa has ggressive and turbulent barbarian de- The shelling of the na- unjustifiable. Admiral Kautz seems to have followed the ad- rs rather than that of our own into acts which, to say are, cts. r reports. to:have been wholl; & fo have been led i serves. to British toward the of the Porpoise, who r up strife for the purpose 1self, made trips up and 1g and burning villages . inoffensive old men, women P when asked why he had destroyed ¥ he villages he replied, “Well, we were out i1 this beastly, God-forsaken country, and we some fun to keep alive.” | e of the kind of allies our imperial | & new-found fondness for “Anglo-Saxon | ¢ brought us. It appears, moreover, that | of our-own warships in bombarding the | es was hardly more necessary than the ive cruise of thé bloodthirsty Sturdee. In re- thé. course of events that led up to the hos- corréspondent says: “On receipt of the| 's detter, Mataafa, it is claimed, at once pre- | farther down the coast, but after < boats had put out to sea some distance | f: . Apia, the warships opened fire on adelphia leading off. The Porpoise im- foliowed. In explanation of this Anglo- ce the naval men said that the Mataafa Mu u, but appearances 5 Tl at to-the west: them pi tiof. taafans say that they were withdrawing down t in compliance with the ad- miral’s Tett nd this would seem most likely, as no aim that half a dozen rowboats full gnecan ser ttack thrée warships and a thousand h on shore with machine guns.” n of the falseness of the Associated reports is given in the:anhouncement that so from ‘there being a antaganism the Commi the are acting in harmony, and it is oner who ‘has been the: disturb- commission. ‘In short, the whole to been misrepresented that the trfuth has been made 1t on the subject will.undergo 1d the American people will - be n ever not to-be misled: by Brit- tish flattery into following British between n*and the -German ioners” in have ighton, the newly Jose rmal School, can the. pawnbrokers:some fine points on the possi- i ‘their trade.” He is accnsed of having ac- anything from a hog to a rag carpet. After her recent and disastrous experience with the ited” Stites, Spain evidently thinks that warslips are”dangerous thi to have around. Shé has re- iser to Venezeula, : s, S ceritly sold a crs wise man he will try the virtues of 1. on Jim Creelman. If it is all he claims for kill off two kindred ills at once, yellow ow journalism. is said, is forming skeleton regi- ments at. Mar The climate of Luzon ought to be 2 good recruiting officer in that game. to British rather ; ing in an opposite direc- | lf THE TAX LEVY. 1 : siel i mal HE pledges of both parties in the last municipal { T campaign were rigidly-to the effect that the tax 1 levy for this year should not exceed one dollar on the hundred on an assumed total assessed valuation of $350,000,000. These pledges upon the reiterated urance of Mayor Phelan af!gr nearly two years experience as the head of the muni- cipal government that the dollar limit, with the addi- tional restriction as to the basis of assessment, added to other ordinary sources of revenue, would produce a sufficient income for all municipal purposes. No man could have made a more industrious canvass than Mr. Phelan. He seemed to be almost ubiquitous, fre- guently making half a dozen speeches in widely sep- arated parts of the city in a single evening. Wher- ever he went the strictest adherence to the dollar limit 4s the burden of his song. This was a standing ar- ument that appealed to the tax-laden citizens with nzular force and, probably more than any other g clem cure an isolated victory that in most respects was a defeat. Mr. Phelin was the Examiner’s pet candidate. If possible, it indorsed him more vociferously than even the fusion candidate for Governor. It literalty roared and howled over the economical part of his claims to public support, the inconsistency of which, in re- ation to the enormous expenditures he proposed in the acquisition of public utilities, was observed every- Jere except in those fusion circles where socialistic octrines were rampant. The Republicans accepted the pledge of economy, so formulated that it was literally ironclad, in perfect good fait When the new Board of Supervisors met and Mayor Phelan delivered his second inaugural he specially reiterated on his own behalf and impressed upon every member the pledge which in honor and in conscience they were bound to keep. It is true that the figures he then presented involved some relaxa- tion of the technical rigidity of the pledge, but, as to two item $125,000 for the purchase of St. sion that they salarjes nother Mary’s Park, there was a general conce were to be added to the dollar tax. Auditor W and of exce . a business man of large experience made an estimate for the year that commenced which amounted in the aggregate to 468,142, and placed the rate at $1 16 on a valuation of $350,000,000. But this estimate, however closely pruned, consider- ably exceeds the pledge, exclusive of the two items to ! which we have above referred. The Finance Com- the Board of Supervisors, in the most nd detailed manner, and carrying out to their own pledge, which also represented al- re political capital of Mayor Phelan, re- vised this e e and brought the sum total down to $4.038.578. of which § 00, or the proportion to be raised by the tax levy, involved a rate of $1.073. On Friday last The Call exclusively published in full the schedules representing the scaling of the Finance Committee, and proving the accuracy and the fidel- ity with which the labor had been performed. ent character, levy for the fiscal mittee of laborious the lett most the ent im In our local columns yesterday there was a full ex- pression of the consternation that the mere act of keeping a promise had produced in the City Hall It appeared that nearly every head of a de-| partment protested. Dr. Perrault, the chairman of the Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors, beyond his individual indorsement of the pledge, furnished the most unanswer- able reasons for the schedules that had been pre- pared, and expressed the willingness of the committee to consent to any modification or readjustment that Mayor Phelan could suggest that would meet the de- mands of the exasperated protestants, without disre- garding or evading the plain obligation of honor which had been so often renewed. The Examiner also, the great “internal policy” manufacturer, the special champion of Mayor Phelan, the fusion representative that wastes both time and words in false charges against the Republican party, | now virtually repudiates the pledge to which Mayor Phelan is fully committed and claims that the sched- ules of the Finance Committee are not official and are intended only to justify extravagance in Septem- ber next. Those schedules merely fulfill a trust. The Call hopes that Mayor Phelan and every other muni- cipal officer of either party who has subscribed to the dollar limit will be held, as all gentlemen should be held, to the fulfillment of their word. THE FOURTH OF JULY FUND. G ROM every point of view it is to be regretted that something in the nature of a scandal has occurred in the work of the committee chosen to arrange for the public celebration of the Fourth of | July. In the absence of a formal conviction of any one of the charge of having sought to obtain a fee for arranging a display of fireworks at Glen Park, the public will give the accused party the benefit of such doubts as exist, but the mere suspicion that any mem- bers of the committee are using their authority for the purpose of private gain is enough to destroy popular confidence and prevent anything like cordial co- operation with the committee in preparing for the celebration. It is not too much to say that the celebration of| Independence day is something in the nature of a sacred festival to the American people. They expect those appointed to take charge of the arrangements to enter upon the work animated by no other mo- tive that a genuine patriotism. For that reason they are more exacting in their demands upon such committees than upon almost any other class of pub- lic servants. When the people are assured that every dollar contributed to the Fourth of July fund will be expended solely for the celebration they give freely, but when evidence appears that the managers are locating the display of fireworks for the purpose of advancing private interests, or are in any other way taking advantage of the occasion for personal | profit, they at once turn away with indignation and disgust. | It behooves the Supervisors to be careful in the ap- pointment of members of the Fourth of July com- mittee, and the committee itself to be extra careful in the selection of officers to carry out the work. In the present instance the scandal was promptly ex- posed, and the parties involved in it deprived of au- thority to act for the committee. injury has been done, and the splendor of the cele- bration will be largely diminished by reason of it. Where feclings of ardent patriotism are to be ap- | pealed to there must be no slightest cause for doubt as to the purity of those who make the appeal. Popu- !lar sentiment revolts from the thought that the cele- bration of the Fourth of July is to be taken. advan- | tage of for the purpose of working private schemes. | Indeed, there should be stringent laws to punish any one found guilty of such acts. In the absence of any | adequate law on the subject, the man known to have l(;fl(‘ :d in that way should be excluded by public | irdignation from any further service of the people. i One experience of this kind is enough. Those who | would conduct patriotic festivals must themselves be | patriots. were largely based | nt in the campaign, enabled Mr. Phelan to se-| one of $130,000 for deficiencies in official | yesterday | Nevertheless, the | THE PHELAN-EXAMINER SUMM‘ER- SAULT. HE CALL has some reason for gratification, not T that its suspicions of a few of our public men lieve their seli-righteous protestations. For example, the Examiner and Mayor Phelan, in their fusion co- partnership of last year, were almost frantic in their opposition to the Huntington monopoly. But time and opportunity have placed them exactly where they belong. : * When the Examiner was supporting Mayor Phelan | for re-election, its Canadian Annex, though trimming | to catch the railroad wind and professing Republican opinions, was equally strenuous in his advocacy and | presented all the symptoms of a subsidized personal organ of the candidate who talked constantly through his hat. When Mr. Huntington broke the railroad pledge of abstinence from interference with politics, | and for months rallied every corrupt element in the have been confirmed, but that it failed to be-| | the charmer not only State to fasten Dan Burns upon the Federal Senate, the Examiner and its Canadian Annex helped the | scheme with all their might and main. The Call then | |and repeatedly charged that there was a delib- | | ate conspiracy that originated with the Huntington | | monopoly to turn this State over to the fusion | | Democracy in 1900, and that a hundred straws indi- | cated that the independence, the intelligence and the | integrity of the Republican party, vindicated by the Senatorial deadlock, had driven Mr. Huntington into | a new alliance, in which the nominal positions of 1808 would be reversed. : Thickening events point toward the speedy realiza- | tion of this prediction. Mayor Phelan fell down from the extreme position he originally took on the gas| and electric monopoly, and on that issue the resolution | for which he was responsible destroyed the legal | status of the public in the courts. When the ;\Iarketl Street Railway Company planned its clean-up of nearly all the rights the municipality had left in its| streets and in its connecting easements, The Call | promptly and by unanswerable facts and figures stood | by the honest half of the Board of Supervisors. Mayor | Phelan was most bold and energetic in his denuncia- tion of the outrage. But again he has fallen down, | | and this time he lies so prone that his utter prostra- | tion cannot be overlooked. The northeastern part of the city needed increased | street railway accommodations. The Call in every | way facilitated the effort to secure them. It advo- cated the full investment of the Post street system, wih its legitimate connections, including Montgomery and Sansome streets, with all the privileges and rights | essential to the demands of trade, commerce and| property, as represented, for instance, by the .\[er~‘ | chants' Association. But it uncompromisingly op- posed the new franchise on Grant avenue and Bush | street, the real purpose of which on the part of the | Market street monopoly was and is to shut out com- | | petition. | On this basis the whole matter was apparently set- | tled. But now the advocacy of this outrageous fran- | chise is renewed, and with Mayor Phelan’s expressed consent. His weak knees have again given way, and, ‘\ahhough he is interested in property on Grant | avenue, which fact alone on the high elevation he | has assumed to occupy ought to have strengthened his | original determination, his surrender is directly to the benefit of the street railway department of the Hun- tington monopoly. Mayor Phelan still retains the support of the Ex- | aminer and its Canadian Annex. But he has now also distinctly acquired the right of a labored eulogy from the regular newspaper attorney of the monopoly, | which was published on Friday under the heading, | “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s.” | That is exactly what has been done by Mr. Phelan. | Mr. Huntington is Caesar, and, so far as the Mayor | can handle the situation, to him the new railroad | franchise has been duly rendered. The change from a possible Brutus to Marc Antony, with the approba- | tion of the Examiner, its Canadian Annex and the evening railroad sheet, will attract general notice. | Perhaps there are six of the Supervisors who would | still prefer to range themselves with Brutus. The International Council of Women, which is now | in session at London, solemnly invoked the other day, | in the name of universal womanhood, the blessings of peace and good will to the world. One of the speak- | | ers, who exercised her feminine privilege of having | an opinion of her own, was then hooted, hissed and | jeered. The ladies of the counci] ought to join the | Peace Conference at The Hague and contribute to its enthusiastic confusion. William . Davis, the negro expressman, who be: trayed Osca Welburn into the hands of the Federal | authorities, must have the heart of Judas under his black hide. He is a thief who is not wearing convict stripes because of the - magnanimity of Welburn. ‘When the time.came for the thief to show his grati- tude his greedy eves saw the glitter of a mythical reward and he pointed out his benefactor to the ar- resting officers. Mrs. Charles B. Trescott, wife of a millionaire fish- packer of Portland, Or., has made her debut on the local stage. She claims to have studied the occult sciences to such purpose that she is able to establish | an electrical connection between herself and the au- | dience. Retaliation by the audience in the shape of | string or any other connection between its members | and the bouquets they may throw is barred. The Czar's Utopian congress is holding its peace | with a vengeance these days. All sounds from the | House in the Wood are drowned out by the roarings‘ of the Dreyfusards and the antis at Rennes, the riot- | ings of the high and low Dutch at Brussels, and the | grumblings of the Boer Dutch in the Transvaal. The wail of the horse fly is heard in the Jand. When the cable and electricity supplanted the equine in street car propulsion he almost starved to death, but ‘man- aged to struggle on. Now that the automobile has appeared on the scene he is ready to turn up his toes. The wolf is camped at his door at last. J. M. Chretien and T. P. Robinson realize now, perhaps, that they were not expected, as members of the fireworks committee, to make a pyrotechnic dis- | play of themselves. < A glance at the proposed appropriation for the Fire Department for the fiscal year, which will end next | July, encourages the belief that fewer purchases, whatever the price, will be made in the open market. Grass will be short for the sheep of Gage in the Health Department. The difference between expecta- tion and realization in the appropriation is painful. The Minister of Justice in the Waldeck-Rousseau Cabinet is Monsieur Mobs. It is ten to one that President Loubet will soon call for his resignation. An alderman of Milwaukee was covered with dough the ot*¥ day and resented the gift most emphati- cally. Iie must belong to a new species. | cheap human life | a way as X OXOROXPADOXOXOXOROXOROXOXD. < * ® * ® * i * £ 4 * XOAOROHEHOAOAPASRORSROROXOXD EDITORIAL VARIATIONS. BY JOHN McNAUGHT. HOXOHOKOXOR on#o*o*o*o*ow*on*o*o*om*om*o*o*o*o*o*«uu*o*on*wo The late Charles Kopp of this city | ities will repeal t found in a congenial woman certain charms which made him tired of his wife, and thereupon he transferred to his affections, which were not worth much, but cer- tain property worth a good deal, which his wife had helped him to earn. The wife coming home from a visit to the far off East, and finding that her hus- band had taken advantage of her ab- sence to deprive her and her child of a home and of the means of obtaining a new one, proceeded to blow a - hole through the head of him and made him a good husband by making him dead. A Coroner’s jury sitting. upon the corpse and the problem returned a ver- dict of justifiable homicide. Upon this showing my contemporary moralists gibe at the jury and main- tain that such a verdict tends to and encourage mur- der. - Such critics are too captious for anything. It may be conceded that love is the supreme thing in human. life; that a man ought in obediencée to di- vine law leave a woman whom he does not love for one whom he does love; but there remains the fact that a man who gives up his wife for love ought to give up everything for love, the com- munity property Included. When & husband robs a sick wife for the pur- pose of enriching his love, he merlts just as much of this earth as is re- quired to bury him. The verdict of the Coroner's jury is approved. The high contracting parties to the Belmont-Sloane divorce and marriage affair have gone into the retirement of a honeymoon hedged around with many millions, but they have left be- hind them as pretty a kettle of fish as ever enticed every cook in the country to take a hand in the frying. The is- sue is one to which the original parties in the case may be and probably are indifferent. The creature in the frying pan is the preacher who married them. That reverend gentleman, W. M. Bar- rows of Greenwich, Conn., ‘was: taken to task a short time ago by the General Association of Congregational Minis- | isters for marrying the couple, but he succeeded in making such a defense that no condemnation was pronounced upon him, notwithstanding the: reports to the contrary. In fact, so far from denouncing him the resolutions adopted by the association were drawn in such to enable Mr. Barrows to vote for them and thus put himseif in line with his fellow clergymen on the sub- ject of the duty of ministers when asked to marry divorced people. So far all appears right and good, but it seems that in defending himself Mr. Barrows claimed he had been de- ived by the parties to the marriage. stated’ that in the course of the ion the Rev. Washington Choate ireenwich, a personal friend of Mr. Barrows, said that Mrs. Sloane had given Mr. Barrows to understand that he had secured a divorce from her husband on the ground of infidelity a vear previously, and that the minister | had married her under the impression that she was the innocent party and was entitled to remarry according to the rules of the church. When he dis- covered the facts he returned to Mr. Belmont the fee which had been paid to him. Thus Mr. Barrows obtained acquittal at the hands of his brethren by accus- ing the contracting parties of cheating him, but in doine so he flopped himself out of the theological stew only to fall into the public frying pan. . . A certain Mr. Hubbard, an attorney of Greenwich, acted as agent in ar- ranging for the marriage, and when he heard the accusation of cheating brought against his clients he rose in their defense. He is reported to have said in a recent interview: “I called Dr. Barrows out from a committee meeting on the Thursday | night preceding the wedding and told (him I would give him $250 to perform a wedding ceremony on Saturday morn- ing. The only question he asked me was if it would be proper to marry them, and T told him that I knew of no ybjections. I also said to him that the bride would be a divorcee when she ar- rived at the parsonage, and that the only bad thing connected with the af- fair would be the notoriety, - which would extend from Dan to Beersheba. Continuing his statement, the attor- ney went on to say: “That Friday afternoon after the di- vorce had been granted, Mr. Sullivan, from De Lancey Nicoll’'s office in New York, came to Greenwich, unknown at the time to me, and called on Dr. Bar- rows. He told Dr. Barrows that he un- derstood arrangements had been made through me to marry the couple on Sat- urday morning. Mr. Sullivan says, and |1 have no reason to doubt his word, that Dr. Barrows said he had agreed, but had since made up his mind not to do so. “Mr. Sullivan says he asked Mr. Bar- rows to perform the ceremony that night, and ‘when he hesitated” he told him that the ‘fée I offered should be doubled, making $500. - After Mr. Bel- mont was married he gave the minister ten $50 bills ‘inclosed in an envelope. This, I understand, Dr. Barrows has since returned to Mr. Belmont.”" Such ‘is ‘the situation. Dr. Barrows has a record he is mnot proud of. He declined to marry a couple for $250, but consented. for $500, and- then returned the money. The only point in the evi- dence that does him credit is that he was ignorant of the Sloane scandal, and did not know the circumstances under which the marriage took place.” Evi- dently the reverend gentleman does not read the yellow journals, and for that virtue we can forgive him much. P e Among the evidences of the rapidity with which the automgobile is coming into general use in the East are the ordinances which varfous cities are en- acting against its use. Every step in human progress has to confront ad- verse legislation as soon as it gets strong enough to confront anything. There was once a host of ordinances against the use of bicycles. It was said of them, as of the automobile. that they frighten Lorses, endanger life, constl- tute a public nuisance and disturb the traffic of streets and highways. The bike has won its way and so will the “Tommy,” as the New Yorkers cailed the automobile. The bike, moreover, has caused an improvement in streets and highways, and so will the riew ma- chine. The ordinances may stand fast, but the automobile moves iast, and by and. by it will run over the ordinances {and then for self-brotzction the author. ¥) hem to get them out of the way. r R By a vote of the delegates of the Peace Conference -summoned to The Hague to give a little speetacular per- formance for the amusement of the Czar, it has been decided that the United States and Great Britain repre- | sent and stand up for the barbarisms of war, while Russia is the champion of an enlightened and merciful human- ity even in the rage of battle. The issue upon which the decision | was reached fs Interesting, since it shows the acuteness of diplomatic in- tellects and the keenness with which | a be- the august conferees, even after Netherland dinner, can tween the merits or demerits of various methods of putting an end to an enemy who is trying to put an end to you. The fssue arose' on -a whether or no a civilized nation may use in .war shells charged Wwith asphyxiating gas.. Amer Britain said “Yes.” Russ Captain 'Mahan, In supporting said *‘No, the question | 'a and Great | | THE DEVILTRIES OF POLITICS:' American view of the case, asked why | the employment of gas should be inter- dicted while the more cruel wholesale | destruction of life aimed at by the sub- marine torpedo should be - permitted. “A shell charged with asphyxiating gas need not necessarily destroy human life,” he said, “‘any. more than chloro- form, but might only place men hors de combat for a time; marine boat, under cover of darkness, might send thousand sleeping men to a watery grave. by air and permit wholesale asphyxia- tion by water?” To that.question Colone} Jilinsky re- | plied that after a successful torpedo at-' his | | VARIOUS VIEWS OF DENNERY. tack the - victor would bend all energies to save as many of the drown- ing enemy as possible, and so aftrac- | tively did he present that humane view of the subject that he brought the ma- | | Dennery is one of D jority of the conferees to his side and won his case. can boast of having achieved at least one victory for humanity. It remains to be seen, however, whether naval battle a Russian ship, after hav- ing reduced one of the fleet of the en- emy to a sinking condition, will then bend all of its energies to saving life instead of going forward to attack and | if possible sink another ship. T The controversy .concerning the use | of asphyxiating gas in shells is not the | only humorous freak that has been | thus far developed at the conference. In the debate on the question of es- tablishing a permanent tribunal of in- ternational arbitration Dr. Zorn, one of the German delegates, strenuously -to the motion, and said: “A king holding his title by divine right could not think of divesting himself of an essential part of his sovereignty, the right to shape the nation's course at a critical time.” The introduction of the idea of di- vine right of kings into such a debate struck Sir Julian Pauncefote as in- congruous, and he described it as “a view of statecraft which is not mod- ern.” That is decidedly a very diplo- matic way of putting it. The Ameri- can delegates appear to have been ren- dered speechless by the very thought of it. At any rate they had nothing to say. It is certain, however, that the divine right of kings cannot be made to conform with international arbitration. One or the other must give way, and if the Peace Conference cannot induce the Kaiser to resign, it had better ad- journ. N most plays one sees ideas tend to repeat themselves, acts to recall simi- clous memory might be dimly conscious that a Sheridan atmosphere was closing & NTURE OF THE ADVENTU THE LADY URSULA” I lar acts, but “Lady Ursula” does not invite comparison. A person of tena- about him and find a whiff of time from the absorbing business of feeling new in- fluences to say that he was glad of ijt.| Why forbid retall asphyxiation | Thus Captain Mahan | has to take a back seat and the Czar| in aj whereas a sub- | stealthily approaching | a objected | To us it seems one of those unimprovable | lays that at great interv i [ t play 8! tervals dawn upon | 1eEDE, dhe SPICHE S other thing: the dramatic horizon. 'Tis not especially attractive ‘at the first' look, but grows upon you gradually, until it possesses a beauty you scarce felt it could contain. Characters often walk about in plays for purposes that, except to the author, are nscrutable, but here each figure has its reason and charms by its sKiliful coloring, We should like it t0 be our fate to walk through life hand in hand with Lady Ursula, and if it were not for Sir George Sylvester, in the person of Mr. Mller, that most perfect stage lover, we might *raise the siege,” even in the face of certain defeat. From the moment my lady comes within the orbit of our vision we, like the impressionist, have but one point of view, and those who would be in the picture, except as grateful masses of background color, must keep close to her ladyship's ‘elbow. She is something new in stage womanhood, a distinct creation. The frank enjoyment she gets from her escapade, even in the midst of threaten- ing ~disclosure, bespeaks the ' ingenue- ness of bubbling girlhood, not trodden out by prudish education. As she gropes her timid road to manliness by copying the | sling of Sir George's legs and the man- ner of his strides, she plows her way into our hearts with the deepest and. softest.: of furrows. Who would not love her? Who could account her light”or unre- spectable? i 1 [ | i { | Who could see aught but the - thoroughbred, whose very security lies in © her_never feeling the need of protection? Words ave plenty, but they cling to our pens for very shame at their inadequate- ness when ‘we would describe the scene in the third act. The subtle some- thing that glves to music its insidious in: fluence is there in perfection. Our antici- pations are keenly alive to a climax. How can Sir George i 0] is arms about her? He js but hu- man, - And.vet did he break the spell by so much as a touch we shoul s Thank you, Mr. Miller; o aurel to your already 'crowded. wri When the curtain falls on Miss Ansiio 1 don’t know what 1 am mad with, but mad I am,” we want the lights kept low the hands held tight, the .sllence un. broken. But suddenly our unwillingness to break the spell Is swamped in our wil. lingness to let, them know how true they Ve sung. e effort costs tears. but what of that? Ay e have had occaslon before t of Miss Anglin's pauses. In Taay T sula’ they aré quite as eloquent as her words. In real life the indecent haste of:| our vis-a-vis to take the privilege - ing from us keeps us. from nc%rigfz(ialgff our points. Go and learn_a lesson in courtesy from the society Lady Ursula moves in. No one would dare to pre-empt one other pam;ses al.,ly SO much as a gest- ure. er portra: of th above criticism. Y e pamtn Mr. Miller's Sir George Sylvester is— well, it is Sir George Sylvester, and who | can say more? The Mr. Dent s€ Alderman is a fine chm-act.ex—lzac't‘l'og:1 I?!l; absolutely bristles with the duel spirit of the age. Mr. Morgan as the Earl of Has- senden but strengthens the Impression he gave us in “The Liars.”” We regret the part is not a larger one. The minor parts are all played in perfect harmony with the main theme, and this is art. The mounting of the piece deserves a word. These people, if they spent their sub- sianca generously. at’least did It. like & love | t the temptation to | t'was first-di add one more & | ! i Killow certain Marcell x‘% l_t‘g“%glei 1 ct. ch;‘reectt < DESH ste. 3 | Tike .t e At P Hadtenden's and sup and breakfast. . The room is perfoct-not an anachionogy e leave the theafer, mentally, o Sthetlcally :better than exe. - and esthetldly REOTTE | THOMPSON. AR T THE IRISH CHALLENGER. SAN FRANCISCO, June 30, Editor Call—Deéar Snr:NIn an ;:rm ublished in your valuable. paper a. gays ago, in speaking of the coming’ ,\ac!;: race yoy say that the Shamrock:is 1 Irish becaus Irish shipyard. This fact is prove that she is not Iri could have been built in fa as any. part of the United Kipgdom, as. some of .the finest vessels of the Brifish marine were buiit‘there. Sir Thomas Lip- ton, the:challenger of the America: cup,: an. Irishman. The {uundnxlm}; of. h:; me 2 the Emera Rt e N ehdlemen who have in_ their composi- cle. Sdm_ have -been es Sutten -was_ ti n the secord, Lor hardly. stromg: enough to sh;-becausy sha .- Belfast as well il Charl aunched under the - resentative the auspices atives o best af Iri: E ty. - Lady: Russéll of < N tfe 0f the Lord. Chief Jus= w ¥ a4 member-of a_very old Duolin rford, not to speak of Lord and Lady. in, all prodncts of the soil. ‘o for vour gourtesy and ot taken-up-too muclr of T remain yours truly, © 411 Octavia straet, ———————————— in the ‘‘spoils system" by the removal of Chisf . Dockery and thirty- five other employes of the San Franctsco Board of Health. - Chief Inspector Doek= ery knew the requirements of his: offlce, and his prompt, courageous action in ‘en= forcing the pure food laws has been sub= ject to favorable comment that has given him a_ State reputation. Only the: con- temptible class who use politics for pers sonal profit ever stopped to inquire what party he belong A man of fine ex- cutive ability, pired . his - subor- dinates to do.t - duty, and tha public recognized his warth. The action may be necessary to reward- the Burns “push,’ but as -producers of raw material the farmers must, irrespec- tive of party, deprecate it as‘a body against the pure food MOVement, County Farmer. One of the evi The San Francisco Board of Health has chosen Leon Dennery for its secretary. MBurns’ most malo- dorous henchmen. Vice has no surprises for him, and decent men do. not care to be seen in his company. The Board of Health will probably meet in the Pest: house hereafter.—San Diego Union. Leon Dennery has been chosen secre- tary of the San Francisco . Board of Health—Leor Dennery. who, {2 the Leg- islature of e of California and in. the it rs .of San Francisco, built a reputat which. “shines and stin and stinks and shines: like a rotten mackerel by moonlight It is noticeable, however, that men of Dennery’s character are too often’ the ones who of late years have been suc- cessful in obtaining public positions of appointment in ‘this State.—Sacramento Bee. @ Leon Dennery, who made a disreputahls record ag an Assemblyman; and wa: rowly defeated for S tor in :1898, when Police Commis: unst worked in a most flagrant and unprincipk ner , and is an ¢ g s by pointed to be secretary of the B Health, member of - that board knowing pre-eminent “unfitness, but- not one 1 contest the edict of Dan It would be a saving of money the appointment of Dennery and of Inspector. Dockery, the abalished.—San Burns. if, af the removal entire outfit Francisco Sta — e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENIS. ALABAMA CLATMS—R. W.; City. For information about: the ahama claims ou should addres the Bureau of Claims in Washington, D. C. This department be cannot pass upon :the justness of the amounts allowed t laimants. ROACHES—Subscribers, City. It is said that powdered borax is the best ex- terminator of roaches that have got into a house. It is claimed that there iS sorme- thing pecullar either in the smell or touch dea of bo which is certain to yoaches; that they -will flee from places where it has been deposited and. will never again appear there. ROSES—Subseriber, Oakland,” €al. In: the language. of flowers a Ted rose that {8 deep red- signifies bashful hame,’" & white rose signifies “I am.:worthy :of vou,” a red rosebud signifies-‘'pure and Jovely,” while a white one means “giri- hood”’ and “the heart: that knows ' no love.” A-:red and white rose comblied signify “‘unity. SIR WALTER SCOTT~Z., Sonora,-Cal: The foundation of Sir Walter.Scott’s {it= erary mind was laid while_at. the. farm of his grandfather -in Roxburghshire. Hi early and delighted familiarity: with the: hallads and legends then floatinig all over: that part-of the country did more to-de: termine the spheré and mode of ‘his lite ST. JAMES PALACE-G. B. .F.; €ity, St. James Palace was at ope:time-a: part of St. Martins-in-the-Fields, London.:-The. phrase.. “The Caurt of St. James,” is:siid to date from.the burning of Whitehall in the reign of William 111, when St :James became. the royal residence.” While it is no longer.-occupied: by - the sovereign, it gives its: name official fo “the British. caurt, .- The roval “hougehold. was frans ferred to Buckingham Palace fn 1837, and nevw StoJames is used only for levees and drawing-rooms. -.The . reison: that. our Minister is sent to the Court of St: James and not to-the court of 1 ictoria is'becauss St. James:is the nanie ¢iven to-the British: court, and it does not change. with. each sovereign. : THE AMERICAN FLAG—E. 6., Sebas> topol, Cal. Robert: Marris ‘and :Colonél George Ross were designated by, Congress” to confer with General Washington about a design‘fer the United:Statés flig.: The. destgn was. adopted June W, 177 is taken to- Mrs. -Ros§ -at '239: Arch . street; Philadeiphia; where the first flag, so°it is 33 was discovered that.if one’stripé:and star were added for, every new: Stite iittec . the flag wauld become $0_on the 16th. of Decémber, irieen stripes.and-tiwenty- uently, April 4,181, {t the number. of. stripes v -fHe -number: and that one star should: every . new Stateé -admitted Jrian. The United S ayed at Fort Schuyler. New: York, on.the sitecof the present village-of Rome, -Oreida County.” The stars. and- stripes ‘were first displayed in hattle®at: Brandyivitie on September 11, T Bt was. first dieptayed on a vessel on-the T -8, Ranger by Paul Jones July 14,1777, -at’ Portsmouth. Tt was first saiuted in-for-- eign waters at Quideron, France, Febru- ary, 1718 :.The national salute-is oné shof for each State in the Union. -~ = : of original be added into the Fourth of July decorations, flazs, efe.. for sale cheap at Sanborn & X'afi?!s. i 7t T R Cal.glace fruit suc per Ib at Townsend s Spectal _information supplied dafly. to business Mouses and public men. by th Press Clipping Bureau (Allsn's), 510 Monte gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, % —_—————— Deputy Farley on Wheels. ,‘ N. 8. Farley, Deputy Customs Col i First Division, left for. $t. Helenu last Friday by train, from 'which place he rode on his bicyele {0 Calistomn o ¥ess terday morning he started on his wheel - from Calistoga for Highland Springs: t rejoin his family, who are spending. the- summer there. He will return a sorer and a wiser man next Wednesday. e 3 On July 13 and 14 the Santa Fe route will ‘seli- tickets to Indianapolls and returs at the vek low rate of §76. Occasion—annual. meeting of the Epworth League. Get full particulars af. the Santa Fe office. &8 Markas mtrass. she was. not. built. in-ad - Lord Charles Beresford is:from.. nar-::