The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 23, 1899, Page 6

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Tuesday, street Bartl &t 12 o'clock, Book Marlet THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. ve been made for hold- B angements the Republican primaries in a manner that t an honest ballot and have it honestly wch has been gained by the energy he rank and file of loyal Repub- »mes of would-be bosses. to every member of the party his ing the s r the next step that must be \plishment of Republican suc- good administration of munici- T of good men it is neces- convention should be composed of men who Iy is, there- Assembly dis- ke such n Republicans in ev n on m That march to victory and good gov- as party loyalty. next step in the h must now be arranged, It is the step w pared for and made certain. the points to be insisted upon in choosing that no office-holder should be among One of se office-holders have all the rights of + the but in this case propriety dictates they ide, and if they do not they should be | the voters. The holders of office may h take an active part in the primaries, | not one of them ought to hold a seat in the con- | other vention. The body that is to represent Republicanism in nonmin es for office must be composed of men ve no personal favors to ask, or wires ey must be delegates animated by the sole 1g as the candidates of the party | ied upon to be faithful in office to | men who can be r nd responsibility intrusted to them. | In addition to nominating 2 good 1 ention must elect 2 body of energetic, | able, le men as a County Committee. It will be of little avail to nominate a strong ticket if the | committee intrusted with the management of the cam- | paign be not equally deserving of public confidence. | Its membership should be carefully considered. No | man suspected with good cause to be a servant or an | ally of would-be bosses ought to have a place among the party managers, or be intrusted with authority in the party council during the campaign. | These, then, are the issues before us: to elect to the | convention good men, not one of whom is an office- holder; to assure the nomination, first, of a strong ticket and, second, the selection of a trustworthy County Committee. To attain these desired ends it | will be necessary that the business men, the property | owners, the taxpayers and the intelligent workingmen | honest, of the party shall from this time on give attention to | their political duties and take an active and an earnest | part in the primary elections. The time has come for the better elements of the | people to assert themselves in the management of poli- | tics. San Francisco can start her career under the new | arter with a good administration if the people so | will it. The Republican party has opened the way for | honesty to triumph and if corruption win it will be | solely because the taxpayers have neglected their po- | litical opportunities and civic duties. e A bearded lady in New York is afflicted with a dis- ease, the particular manifestation of which consists of swelling of the head and hands. Physicians can readily understand how the ability to raise whiskers | would swell the head of any woman, but th for the life of them see how it would puff her cannot The proprietor of a hotel at Suisun caught a man the other day in the act of stealing his cash register. The fellow explained that it was a joke, but the hotel | man is still of the opinion that, if he had not stopped | him, the joke would have been carried too far. | Lombroso, the great criminologist, who has been | making a long-distance study of Lieutenant Hobson | of the Merrimac, is inclined to the belief that the | y ung naval hero is the greatest of all kissing bugs. | Superstitious people will hail with delight the news | that a trust has been formed to control the opal mines of Mexico. No one will object to a corner in bad luck. 0. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; | | exacted, rather than assert | tariff, which will materially strengthen the Demo- | | of the islands, will come the arranging of a financial | will be injected of the income tax, which no effort | THE FAMILY OF NATIONS =l o Wy HE United States, we are told, have incurred T certain obligations as a member of the family 9(’ nations, and that these require that we act in matters external by using all the powers which belong to any sovereignty. The objection to this view is that it ignores the char- acter and purposes of our Government. It throws the good example of exact justice and strict nal morality which it has been our mission and policy to show the world. When we began govern- ment under the constitution we found that every other sovereignty in the family of nations claimed absolute ownership of its people, as its subjects, and denied to them the right to cast off that ownership and transfer themselves to the ownership or citizenship of any other sovereignty. A necessary doctrine to the exist- ence of the divine right of kings was: “Once a sub- ject always a subject.” The sovereign could sell the 1 | | sfer himself could not forswear or tra it. Along with this went the doctrine that might makes right. . Under this the stronger sovereignty could, by cause- {}ess invasion and conquest, forcibly seize the alle- | giance and ownership of the subjects of the weaker | ! and the church absolved them from any sin in submit- | ting to their new owner, who had the divine right to take them if he could. { Our first great international action rose in denial of this doctrine that might makes right and that gov- i ernmer expatriation and the privilege of choosing their domi- for more than fiity years we pressed ¢ a domi- cile. Persistent | the right of expatriation. We offered not on cile but our own birthright of free citizenship to the thralls born under the European system. We fough: the war of 1812 mostly in vindication of that right, n the Martin Kozsta affair declared our willing- | ke war on all Europe in defense of a single | natura 1 citizen. 3 | We have in sentiment always denied the right of | England to hold the Irish by conquest and voice the protest of Ireland against seven centuries of subjection i to an alien power We have in like manner decried the butchery of Po- 1and and our literature and politics are full of depre- tion of the crime by which she was mutilated like a carcass hacked for hounds, by the powers around her, because she v in full sympathy with tioned her by conquest and lamented that the victor s weak and they were strong. - We were ‘rance when Germany parti- did not satisfy herself with the great money indemnity the old doctrine of the conquest. In all of Florida and what we ided by this po- our allegiance by Louisiana, transier of es acqui took from Mexico, we consistently sition and offered the subjects of France and Spain ght of citizen- and the citizens of Mexico our birthri ship, or the full protection of all their rights if they se to depart and go to the flag under which they had been subjects. It was this position which made this republic the hope of the oppressed and brought to our shores the freedom-seekers of every nation. We were in the fam- ily of nations as a republic, denying every monarchical theory which fettered the person or withheld the rights of man to seli-government and the privilege to seek its establishment on the soil that bore him, or depart to its enjoyment where it was already administered. It be that wholesome principle so necessary to the continuance And it will be seen, also, that our position pines is an aggravated and radical asser- imperialism abandons this wi s of liberty! in the Ph: tion the ownership of man by a sovereignty, and | the right to dispose of his allegiance without consult- | ing his wishes! Therefo hen we are told that we gations to the family of nations whicl are under obli- require h ur im- perial policy, it is the equivalent of saying that we are ny longer to appear in that family as a nd promoter of freedom, but not permitted republic, the friend must in that associati | principles of divine right; that might makes right and 1 has no personal control of his civil allegiance conquest. We have reversed ourselves, and have in one year admitted all that we have denied since we issued the Declaration of Independence. DEMOCRACY AND IMPERIALISM. Y cleverly dodging the extreme silver men, and B by carefully confining itself to what was hardly more than clerical work, the Democratic Na- tional Committee managed to get through the meet ing at Chicago on Thursday without taking sides with | of the wrangling factions of the party. It was the Instead of storm there any unexpected that happened. was stagnation. There was no lack of opportunity for a row if the National Committee had felt in a humor for one. The fight between the Harrison and the AIlchd} gangs in Chicago was in full evidence during the pro- | ceedings, and the committeemen were again and again challenged to take one side or the other. Much | sad experience has taught them wisdom, however, | and they kept out of the wrangle. The result is that so far as the National Committee is concerned no declaration has been made as to what course the Democratic party will take on any of the issues be- | fore the country. ; In the meantime the movement of the influential | leaders to get rid of Bryan goes steadily forward. It | matters not to them which way they move so long as i the course takes them far from the Chicago platform and its champion. Senator Morgan, who | speaks with more authority than any other single man for the Democracy of the South, has once more declared himself in favor of new and has cheered his followers with predictions that such is- sues will be forthcoming. In a recent interview he announced that the cam- paign of 1000 would be made not on one issue, but on many. He is quoted as having said: “The more there are the better for us. The Congress that as- sembles in December will, in providing for the gov- ernment of our new possessions, have to modify the | issues, cratic position. Sugar will give you issue enough. We can no more place a tax on sugar from Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines than we can from Louisiana. Then, in providing for the government system. Silver has been the only money there, there- fore the remonetization of silver will be again de- manded by the Democrats. If we can’t get free coin- | age we will say give us five hundred or a thousani millions. Once we make an inroad, the rest of the party way will be cleared.” As if those issues were not enough to build hopes pon, the Senator added: “Then, again, the issue u has been made to collect. I shall as soon as Con- gress assembles introduce a joint resolution to require the President to collect this tax, which will no doubt throw it again into the Supreme Court. Still another issue will be brought out by the reapportionment by allegiance of the subject to another, but the subject | s own men and can deny them the right of | | ever been asked? A | to be one of the most efficient organizers of military the action to be taken on the fourth and fifteenth {amendments to the constitutior, as far as it relates to States like Louisiana, for instance, which has dis- franchised the negroes. As to trusts, both parties will | denounce ‘them in the strongest terms, and neither | do anything inimical to them.” There is a certain frank cynicism in that last state- ment which is characteristic of the man. “Both par- ties will denounce trusts in the strongest terms, and neither do anything inimical to them.” /The state- ment is not strictly accurate, for it is to be noted the Republican party has made no pledges concerning anti-trust legislation it has not fuifilled. The impor- tant feature of the interview is the advantage the Sen- ator expects to gain for his party out of the im- perialist programme. Imperialism means free trade in sugar, fruit, tobacco, rice and all the products of | the tropical islands. It also means an opening for the issue of more fiat money. The Senaior is an im- | perialist. The people, however, are well aware of those dangers and are not likely to walk into the snare that is set for them. Imperialistic Democracy is no more attractive than Bryanite Democracy. SAN FRANCISCO @ND HER LIBRARIES. AN FRANCISCO is the only American city of S metropolitan rank that is ill equipped with libra- ries. In that respect she is so far behind other large cities of the Union that any comparisons on the subject would be odious to her people. That much is | well known and understood, amd it has been the desire of many of the more earnest leaders of the intellectual life of the city to bring about a better condition of rs. The desired end is not impracticable nor even diffi- cult of solution, and if it be sought in the right way iand by the right men may be accomplished within a | time comparatively short. | The key to the situation is the Mercantile Library | | with its handsome building, its valuable collection of books, its heavy mortgage and its location out of reach of the class of people to whom such a library CEIHPAOASH SR OXORORORONSH EDITORI 3 $ From the loud expressions of delight over the increase in the assessments of the property of corporations in this city, a casual observer would suppose we had solved the whole problem of taxation for municipal purposes, and had achieved justice to all and an am- ple revenue for the city at one stroke. The casual observer, however, would be mistaken. Our prevalent joy and universal congratulation is due to the fact that we are paying more atten- tion to the one corporation brought into the taxation fold than to the ninety and nine that escaped and are still gamboling in a comparatively untaxed freedom. The problem of how to compel each citizen to pay his due share of taxes, without exacting from him one cent more than that, remains unsolved. In- deed, its solution has never been se. riously attempted on this side of the continent. It is different in the East; they have more tax solvers over there than taxpayers—almost as many as tax shirkers; and as a consequence, the lit- erature on Eastern tax issues ranges from grave to gay, from lively to se- vere, and in bulk is sufficient to fill up a library, or a junk shop. aiile Some years ago George H. Andrews, Tax Commissioner of the City of New York, contributed to the gavety of the dizcussion of the tax problems this summary of a few of the incongruities of the tax system of that State: A has $100,000 of imported goods, and 18 exempt. B has $100,000 of miscellaneous goods, and is taxed. C has $100,000 of goods consigned, and is exempt. | | appeals. If the Mercantile Library could be consoli- dated with that of the Mechanics’ Institute there would be at once established a large downtown library of the first class with a patronage sufficient to main- tain and to develop it into one of the foremost of its kind in America. The Mercantile Library building could be sold for a sum sufficient to pay the debts of the institution, so that the consolidation would impose no burdens on the Mechanics’ Institute. Nor is that all. It is well known the Free Public | Library is not only inconveniently but inadequately | | housed at the City Hall. The Mercantile Library | building is in a good situation for the Free Public 1 Library, and if purchased by the city would furnish ‘chc Free Library at once with just the sort of edifice | | it needs for its books and its work. [ There are, of course, sentimental objections to | breaking up the Mercantile. It is the oldest library in | the city, has a history of which its supporters are justly proud, and it is natural many of them should hesitate to disestablish it. Such considerations, how- ever, arenot well supported by reason nor by a right respect for the object of the founders of the institu- The pioneers established it for the purpose of providing San Francisco with a great subscription library that would be of use to her scholarship, her | culture and her general education. Such was their ob- | ject, and events have brought it about that the object can be attained much better by union with the Me- | | chanics’ Institute than by maintaining the Mercantile | as a separate institution. { tion. San Francisco requires two libraries, one free and | public, the other maintained by subscription; the one | | centrally located and distributing its books through | subordinate reading rooms in different parts of the city, the other located downtown where the business | of the community is carried on and readily acessible 1 to its patrons during business hours or during the | evenings. The Institute Library is ideally situated | library should be, while the Mercantile is out of the | ‘wa)’. It is at the Institute Library, therefore, the | i sisting in that work the object of the founders of the | Mercantile can be best carried out to a speedy realiza- | | tion and San Francisco be supplied with a library | worthy of her rank among the cities of the republic. [ No doubt Mr. Chambers can keep up a reasonable degree of courage down at Simoa by saying to him- self over and over again that the President does not want his resignation of the Chief Justiceship, but let | us give pause. Is it of record that the President has There must be a Montevideo that in the dispatch from | | the presence of the | mis| announces bUniled States gunboat Wilmington off the mouth ofi the Platte River. It cannot be that Bill Bryan has sneaked into South. America! i D | LAW TANGLES AND WAR PROBLEMS. | CURIOUS sidelight is thrown upon the per- | plexities of the administration by the decision | of the President to confide the direction of the | military training or of executive experience. It ap- | pears the legal tangles of the Philippine imbroglio | are much more harassing than the war problems. ! The selection of a lawyer for the office is not in itself a matter of surprise. Several lawyers have occu- | pied the position in times past, and one of them, Ed- win M. Stanton, proved himself during the Civil War administration the world has ever seen. None of the former War Secretaries, however, was selected pri- merily because of a need of a lawyer in the depart- The choice of Mr. Root has been determined o1 that ground solely. It seems to be a law case and not a campaign we are conducting against Aguinaldo. If this view of the situation be correct, General Otis stands blameless for not prosecuting the war more vigorously. It may be that he i3 in the situation of a bailiff who has gone out with a very large posse com- itatus to arrest Aguinaldo and his iollowers for trespass “vi et armis” upon certain town lots, subur- ban tracts, farms and jungles purchased by us from Spain. Naturally he does not wish to exceed the legal powers of a bailiff and therefore desires counsel to ad- vise him how far he can go and where he must stop. It would also appear that Alger’s resignation was due to no lack of administrative ability, but to ineffi- ciency as a counselor at law to the bailiffs in the field. It will be remembered that some years ago when the exigencies of British politics raised a lawyer to the office of First Lord of the Admiraity Gilbert’s facile pen very neatly satirized the appointment and made it contribute to the gayety of nations by the well known song of the admiral in “Pinafore”: “Stick close to your desk, and never go to sea; and you'll get to be the ruler of the Queen's navee.” It was a good song and a merry one. Our politics now points the same moral and the Hon. Elihu Root will have the satis- faction of serving as a reminder to every clerk in an attorney’s office that by due attention to the practice of law he may become the director in chief of great ment. Republicans in Congress under the new census, and imperial wars and Asiatic conquests. 1 t D has $100000 of goods owned, and is taxed. E has $100,000 of goods manufactured in New Jersey, and is exempt. F has $100,000 of goods manufactured in the city, and is taxed. G has $100.000 of goods for which he bor- rowed capital on United States bonds, and is exempt. H has $100,000 of goods which he =old TUnited States bonds to pay for, and is taxed. I has $100,000 in ships plying from this port but registered in Boston, and is ex- empt. J has $100.000 in ships plying in the Pa- | cific but registered here, and s taxed. K has $100,000 in mortgages on New Jer- sey property, interest paid In Jersey City and mortgages deposited there, and is ex- empt. L has $100.000 in mortgages on city prop- erty, and is taxed. M has $100,000 of money in his pocket, and is exempt. N has $100,000 of money In bank, and is taxed O has $100,000 of certificates of deposit in sub-treasury, and 1s exempt. P has $100,000 of certificates of deposit In bank, and s taxed. Q has $100,000 of specis in the assay of- fice, and is exempt. R has $100,000 of specle in his safe, and is taxed. S has $100,000 check on the United States Treasury, and is exempt. T has $100,000 check on bank, and 1is taxed. U has $100,000 of treasury notes, and is xempt. 'V has $100,000 of promissory notes, and is axed. ‘W has $100,000 of United States bonds, and is exempt. X has $100,000 of State or city bonds, and s taxed. Y has $100,000 in certificates of indebted- ness of United States, and Is exempt. Z has $100,000 in certificates of indebted- ness of a corporation, and is taxed. o e le To that list running from A to Z of n recognize the thin imperial | for the uses of business men. It is just where such a | the absurdities of New York taxation, Commissioner Andrews added: “If the alphabet had been longer, my tale had been stronger.” Since the statement ses to be sold or to submit to | great subscription library should be built up. By as- | ywas made many of the incongruities specified have been removed, but enough remain to fill the list again in case any one should desire to do so; and California is in as bad a plight as New York was before the reform move- ment started itself and then started all the big personal property owners to moving their domicile to New Jersey. Taking State taxation as a whole throughout the Union, it will be found that the burdens rest mainly upon those who are either too honest or too stupid to evade them. We tax honesty and ignorance rather than property, and consequently whenever we catch something neither honest nor ignorant and compel it to pay taxes, we feel like making a civic holiday and shouting for joy. A universally satisfactory solution of tax problems is not likely to be at- tained by this generation. The people know what they wish, but they do not know how to accomplish it. We have achieved smokeless powder, wireless telegraphy, horseless vehicles and lightless photography, but what we are | War Department to a lawyer rather than to a man of | most earnestly yearning for is a tax- less government. . Yachting experts, and persons who expect to make big bets on the coming contest for the America’s cup, are watching the trials of the Columbia and the Shamrock with something mors than ordinary curiosity. They are seeking for facts on which to base an estimate of the relative chances of the competitors; and a good many of them believe they have found it. The races at Cowes between the Bri- tannia and the Vigilant are taken as a basis for the calculations. The two yachts were about equal, taking one kind of wind and sea with another. The Vigilant returned to this country and went into trial races with the Defen- der, the result of which showed the Defender could beat the Vigilant in a thirty-mile race by an average of five minutes and fifteen seconds. From that record the conclusion is the De- fender is about that much superior to the Britannia, and therefore if the Shamrock can beat the Britannia by six minutes she is clearly in the De. | fender’s class. Now the Columbia is being tried out in a series of races with the Defender, and the Shamrock is being tried out against the Britannia; and as a conse. quence the results of the matches will afford a fairly good basis upon which to found an estimate of the compara- tive merits of the two competitors. Despite the seeming simplicity of the problem, however, there are wide di- vergences in the estimates. A British expert figures out the Shamrock must beat the Britannia twenty minutes in a thirty-mile course in order to have a chance.to win, while a New York authority estimates she will have a chance if she can beat the Britannia by fifteen minutes. There are others who assert the two yachts are about equal and the victory will go to that which is best handled in the race. The only unimpeachable conclusion to be | Nevada City, is one of those who arrived | AL VARIATIONS, BY JOHN McNAUGHT. OROIOXOXORIKOROROROLORONORIADIIXPHINDLIXOHOAS XX OROXIRSXO | than a humbug. e ad ] k4 3 =i @ * ¢ | drawn from it all is that it Is safest not to bet. . The prevailing splutter and flurry over the kissing bug is a striking illus- tration of the old proverb, “We always see what we look for.” The American | Union existed for more than a hun- dred years, and in all that time no one of the vast population within its wide domain ever saw a kissing bug. Now, in the height of the summer, which is so justly called “the silly season,” there comes out of the East a story that a kissing bug has made his appearance at the watering places along the At- lantic coast, and all at once the crea- ture appears simultaneously all over the United States; and every commun- | ity has Its thrilling tale to tell of the | terrors of the creature's kiss. | Is there any such thing as a kissing bug? Lots of creatures of various kinds and sizes have been taken by various kinds and sizes of people to various kinds and sizes of entomologists, and each ento- mologist has been assured by each Vi itor that his or her particular speci- men is the bug that does the Kiss- | | Lick. 3| in the city yesterday and went tq the Arthur L. Levinsky, a leading of Stockton, is a-guest at the Palace Mattheyiof [Angels Ca | a’;‘n?;\i‘? e"18te mfixfi?—‘mn; Gra Dr. L. A. McLean has come down ¢ Sacramento and is staying at the Grang, Miss Ada Wyckoft of Lorin has lefr for Boulder Creek to spend several w F. Sabachi, a capitalist of Los is one of the recent arrivals at the Gra Edward Skinford, one of the leadir torneys of Colusa, is a guest at the L R. E. Jackson, a well-known and p Jar hotel man of Hot Springs, Ark guest at the Palace. C. N. Sterry, counsel for the Southern Pacific at Los. Angeles, is at the Palacs with his wife and family. R. P. Elliot, a lucky miner from Daw son, Is at the Palace. He arrived yester- day from Seattle by train. Daniel E. Hayes, the Prison Director, returned last night from a trip to Mol som. He is at the Occidental. G. A. McElfesh, a prominent member of the order of Foresters in Los Angeles, is among the late arrivals at the Grand. Lieutenants # B. Putnam, J. J. Hau- ser and J. G. Leefe were among yester- day’s army arrivals at the Occidental. H. P. Anderson, a lucky prospector who T iy | has returned from the Klondike, is a guest at the Palace, where he arrived last night. W. D. Long, the well known theatrical man, has returned from his recent visit to New York and is registered at the Occidental. Frank Madison, grand president of the Native Sons, is up from Santa Cruz on & visit of pleasure and business. He is reg- istered at the Grand. ing; and the entomologist has been gen- erously informed that if he would name it he could have it. In every case the | creature thus submitted to the investi- gation of science has been found to be | a very old sort of thing, and in no case has any scientist indorsed one as a kiss- ing bug. The sensation has not been anything like so severe on this coast as in the East. With us it is but a nightmare; with them it is a delirium tremens. Comparatively few bugs have been sus- pected In California, but along the At- lantic coast all kinds of creatures have | been arrested and charged with being | gullty of stinging kisses. In Philadelphia a story got around that entomologists and the professors of the Medical College would pay $10 aplece for the kissing bug, and for days thereafter it almost rained bugs on every sclentific man in town. It is said the insects offer-d were of all varie- ties, including such harmless and well- known things as katydids, grasshop- pers and undeveloped butterflies. To an interviewer, seeking informa- tion on the subject, Mr. Samuel Hen. shaw of the Agassiz Museum at Har vard admitted that he didn’t know any- thing of the creature and .could give no information to a public yearning for knowledge. He said he had been asked a great many questions regarding the mysterious insect, and “had examined several specimens of horseflies pre- sented to him for critical opinion,” but he had not found anything like the kissing bug of the summer resort tales. Professor ope of the Field Museum in Chicago has also had occasion to ex- amine a varied selection of insects sent | in by a wild populace, but he, like the | rest, has found no kissing bug. The most frequently accused creature is bug bearing the learned name of MMe. lanolestes picipes, but Professor Fuchs, entomologist of the California Academy of Sciences, told a writer for this paper that_to term that creature a Kkissing | bug “Is surely not right.” ! Thus from the Atlantic o the Pa- | cific sea, science knows not the kissing | bug, and it is safe to bet he is no more | « . Daniel F. Leary, who announces him- self as a toiler in a mill, grinding ink and paint, has found in the rhythmical | beat of the machinery and the lnelndy‘ that sings through its noises an inspi- | ration to poetry. He says: “A paint | factory is not the best training camp, | and yet there may exist an unseen tie | between the grinding of printe ink | and the grinding of verses; and if so, thirty-five years at the paint grinde: ! art, with brain a swinging to the swing | of my mills, should place my mind In | the majestic ‘swing of the Pleiades,’ | said by Mr. Markham to be beyond the | reach of a ‘Man With the Hoe.” As an evidence of his faith in the mill | muse, he submits to the judgment of the public these verses: LOVE AMONG METAPHORS. Birth is a curve, love, and Death is its mate; And Life is the clause, love, that's held | at low rate; i And minor the key is; 'tis rung in by Fate, | This world would naught be without it. Between these two curves, love, together we two, | 8o close to my heart I would swing, sweet, | with you: | And your eves would be heaven forever | In view— | My life, love, is worthless without you. And Time is a sea, love, and Life is a | wave, And Birth is the starter; the goal is the grave. i *Tis mighty rough riding, this billow we | crave— The ride, love, is lonely without you, And Hope is a truant who swime all the day; With the last as the first, love, he's rips for the fray And he'll keep on fade away— But life would be flat, love, without him. swimming till the last And Birth is a gate, love, and Life i3 the way; And heaven a playground, I've heard peo- ple sa And Death is the fee for admission we pay— Your love would be pass-key without it. Is Birth, too, a 'bus, love? And Life is the inn Where Revel and Riot s0 oft raise a din. But the lover and loved are safe snuggled in— My life is a riot without you. This life is a riddle, and Love is the key. To unravel the riddle, love, labor with me; And, Love need a breeches, we'll raise a fig tree— For Cupid's 50 nude, love, without it. e e If there be not merit and a musical lilt in those verses, I know not the dif- ference between genius and a gram- marfan. The last stanza is something | of a puzzler from a poetic point of view, but there’s humor in it, and somethimrg of realism, for in this prosaic world love may ‘“need a breecnes” cccasions ally; and fig leaf trouserings would be at any rate better than an Examiner overcoat. So the poem goes as it stands. Life would be duller without It. AROUND THE CORRIDORS Lieutenant Frank Watson, U. 8. N., is a guest at the Occidental. Edwin Tilly, a wealthy mine owner of | and Embassadors Extraordinary of | Daily Examiner.” | what can Dr. C. I. Fletcher of Indianapolls and Dr. C. P. McConnell of Chicago are regis- tered at the Grand. Mrs. McConnell ac- companies her husband. Jay W. Adams, Pacific Coast agent for the Nickel Plate lines, has returned from his recent trip to Los Angeles, and is reg- istered at the Occidental. John Rodgers, a mine owner of Chicago, who is interested in large and valuable mineral properties all through the West, is at the Lick on a business trip to the Coast. Profetsor John J. Donovan of Santa Clara College has returned from hi~ re- cent vacation which he has been spending in Boise City, Idaho, and is registered at the Lick. [$6— e+ Those who ad- £ 4 mire the modesty ANOTHER and reticence of GREAT the Examlne]r ::ra heaping eulogies EXAMINER on that sheet for RESCUE. the diffidence it displays in ot o= ®¥ yeralding to the world its latest effort at rescue and the | alleviation of human suffering. They say that while they cannot help applauding the noble self-abnegation that has always characterized that conservative and non- publication, of fireside fiction, yet in justice to itself it should make known to the public its heroic efforts in behalf of those unfortunate hill tribes who, amid the mountains of Belvedere, have been undergoing all the awful suf- ferings of a prolonged thirst. The story of the drought, of the demon- stration against Coop, of the hardships endured and the fortitude displayed by the residents of the Sahara of the Pacific, who for days subsisted with nothing over their heads but a roof,and nothing around them to drink but hard and soft liquor, has already been told in these columns. Here is the story of the Examiner’s latest rescue. Among the curious things incident to Belvedere is one of those wonderful in- sects catalogued by naturalists under the general head of “‘Special Commissioners the When the water famine came he saw his chance, and standing upon the high- est mountain top he, like Moses of old promised to find for them a paradise a water in the desert. The day before yesterday the special | embassador, awakening from his glumber, proceeded to the top of his house and gazed into his tank. He found It as dry as the columns of his own paper. Swear- ing softly to himself, he took the boat for < city, his head sunk upon his breast with the weight of the stupendous scheme his brain was evolving. Arriving on this side, he proceeded to his paper, where a special meeting of the heads of the de- partments was called while he unfolded to them his massive idea. They listened and were overcome by its magnitude. But top the Examiner when rescue | is the slogan? The idea was adopted, and a short time afterward a sprinkling cart filled with clear, cool water and drawn by two mag- nificent horses was seen to go on board the Tiburon boat. It arrived at the other - de and, guided by the Extraordinary Embassador, it proceeded” to his house. There it halted while he mounted to the ! roof and again gazed into the tank. Be- | hold! It was filled to the brim with { water. The exy ation is simple. Water has been running in Belvedere for days. He simply did not know enough to turn on the cock. The Examiner has a watering cart and a span of horses it will give away to the next person who will send in a prepaid subscription for one month. B CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, July 22—W. A. Mears of San Francisco is at the National; E. 0. Hadley of Oakland is at the St. James. SPEAKING TUBE For Motormen to Use in Calling Streets. Edward C. Bates of Boston, Mass., pro- poses to transfer the duty of calling out street names from the conductor to the motorman of a street car, whose attention is not diverted by collecting fares and making change. In order to make this duty convenient for the man on the front platform a hinged mouthpiece. is fixed to the under side of the car roof, on the end of a tube leading into the interior of the car. He has only to call out the street as it is approached, and his words are car- ried intoc the middle of the car, where every one can hear them. When it hap- | pens that this particular end of the car is being used by the conductor the mouth- piece is turned up but of the way. ————— A leading feature of San Francisco— Townsend's California glace fruits; s0c 1: in fire-etched boXes or Japanese baskets. 627 Market street, Palace Hotel bldg. * —_———— Special information supplied daily business houses and pnbE: men Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Bomery street. Telephone Main 1043 to the 5