The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 29, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL; SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1899 SR i % SHTORDA L JULY 29, 1 ' JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor ; W. S, LEAKE, Manager. | S sy i | Address All Communications to PUBLICATION OFFICE .....Market and Third Sts.. S. F Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS 2IT to 221 Stevenson Street Telephope Main 1874. | DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, 5 cents. all, Including Postage: | nday Call), ona yea 86.00 ding Sunday Call), ¢ months. 3.00 g ALL (including Sunday Call), 3 months 1.50 | DAILY CALL—By Single Month 65¢ SUNDAY CALL One Year. 1.50 | WEEKLY CAL One Year. 1.00 | All postm rs are anthorized to recetve subscriptions. ; Bample coples will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFKE.. ..908 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Mamager Forcign Advertising; Marquette Building, Chicageo. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT C. €. CARLTON Herald Square | NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR. 20 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Eherman House; P. O. 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L family of se »n is a missionar wrch HE Mor fellows feels the impulse of a 1 1 ion to carry its r To this end it sends | of the earth d the doctrines of the Book of Mor- s a sort of third testament, mong the Ge to : spre: s regarded 1 Is zealous several sle is used with it and companion texts are t the heart of the isslonaries are spread- ed and | se to trans- | saints and to | inner. | ndem of these t esent s y seem s! rg th , and y e converts and pre e word ¢ make vines to the vineyard of Zion fid he iany pious and some buxom evi v to their church. But no mis- e of St. Paul has got on without Mormon brethren are no excep- . Georgia, they were flourish- t promised many additions to the nately three of them tri wnard. The lady was not unwillir t while the missionaries were enlightening | bout Archangel Moror bers of their side show, up rode fiity mask e ni and the other celes- e out and take a ride. The narr Cunnard, accom- | hen things became confused. Sev- | anged and Mrs. Cunnard had her | elders were captured and taken | ¢ to the latest reports, managed to | a badly bruised condition by | ked them to co ed a parley. ative of the | s e troduces Mr. 1 rifle panied by d’s jaw is shattered she will not be We have no doubt that Mr. lad it is no worse, and as long as she had | ed somewhere rejoices it was in her jaw. | from Cunnard is atte to be s 1, for some time, of that domes s nece: ry to a Christian gentleman | d over the religious principles of his | n 1 by no means infrequent, raise ing questions. American missionaries, rd and approved churches, are sent into and heathen ds to preach their Christianity to is no less novel and revolting than I these natives, in their do less than was done to the Mor- in Georgia. athen blind mons in Georgia, our Government is appealed.to and | indemnity is demanded and, if need be, secured under a threat of war. The situation of the Mormons, especially, is pecu- as one of the numerous ms of religion, it is tled to toleration with the st. Its polygamous feature has revolted the moral conscience, and the mass of our people have approved most drastic legislation to punish its practice. But in the same day’s news that tells of the effort to prevent ion of Mrs. Cunnard, we read of negotia- ns of our Government with the Sultan of Sulu, who advises his Mahometan subjects that the United States will protect them in the enjoyment of both polygamy and slavery, two institutions that are of immemorial existence in the Sulu Islands. It may bother the plain mind to reconcile the ex istence of the twin relics of barbarism, polygamy and clavery, and the legal punishment of Mormon plural- | ity of wives, under the jurisdiction of the United | States. This taken with the mobbing of Mormon mis- sionaries and’ the fracture of Mrs. Cunnard’s jaw in | Georgia, while we are ready to fight if an American missionary is harmed in China, presents a complexity of policy and habit and practice, which illustrates the whimsicalitiés which attend upon our appearance as a world power. liar. Considered mer fo the conv v s e cr———— Tt is noted by the street railway men of Brooklyn | and Cleveland that strikes on their lines do not hurt 4s bad as they did in the day when the cars were drawn by horses. In former strikes the companies had a gr;al deal of expense in feeding the idle horses | and getting them duly exercised, but now when the T | slavery and involuntary servitude, which followed the ’ | perialism finds itself and the necessities of American institution of chattel slavery. | understood, ‘and alw: il of the f | should be the servant of servants, solely. | ing a wide circulation. strike comes they just shut off the dynamo and wait for developments. SLAVERY COMING AGAIN. HE imperial experiment of Great Britain is about to break down because it does not pay. Her West Indian possessions have been an ex- | pense since she abolished African slavery there. Her tropical holdings cannot be made to yield except | under forced or servile labor. ‘he United States is entering the same field, leav- ing behind our constitutional declaration against il War and Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation. | We have Hawaii, and there under our flag are main- tained practices and a labor system opposed to our | constitution and laws, and foreign to our domestic | policy. Involuntary servitude is the only means by | which tropical labor can be secured, and when it ceases in Hawaii production and profits cease with it. | In “the Philippines all surplus producing labor is | forced or servile, and if we take that diseased part | of the world into our system we must get profit out of it by continuing that form of labor. 5 It is evident that the straits in which British im- | Ci imperialism,” together are starting a revival of the A work has just been issued on the subject, discussing the ethnological status of the negro. It is written by a clergyman, printed in parts in a church paper in Pennsylvania and issued from the printing house of the Lutheran denomination in Philadelphia. It is indorsed by | doctors of divinity and by presiding elders, and is | an appeal, in the name of God, of course, to the pious 1 everywhere, to consider chattelhood as the divinely | appointed status of the dark races. In his conclusion and the clinch of his argument the reverend :mthor; < “The ways of God are always consistent, when | just and reasonable. It is a| curious fact, but-a fact, nevertheless, and fully sus- | tained by Scripture as well as by history, and that | ct is this: that God never conferred and never de- | igned to confer, any great blessing on the human | family but what he always selects or has selected a | descendant of the Adam, holding slaves, or a white | | nation holding slaves, as the gnedium by or through which that blessing should reach them. Why He has | done so is not material to discuss now; but the fact | that He always did so the Scripture abundantly | proves. Also there is the suggestive truth that the | Shepherding church is nearest Abraham, the father | thiul in whose seed all the families of the | earth were to be blessed, and Abraham owned three | hundred and eighteen servants. And the Savior of the world was of the Jewish, a white nation owning | servants and it held them by God's laws, not their | own. “But what of our natipn and government,the United Stat A government acknowledged by all nations to be the most cosmoplastic of the nations to-d Who under God’'s providence organized and estab- lished it and its reformation principles? Let us appeal to history. The first attack on British power and the aggressions of Parliament was made by a slave-holder from ate, Patrick Henry. The first President of the first Congress that ever assembled on this continent was a slave-holder, Peyton Randolph. The Secretary of that Congress was a slave-holder, Charles Thompson. of the whole who reported the Declaration of Independence The author yn was a slave-holder, Thomas Jef-{ The chairman of the committee was a slave-holder, Benjamin Harrison. of the Dec The General of the Continental army was a slave-holder, George Washington, who also | President of the convention which framed the con- | stitution. The father of the constitution was a slave- holder, James Madison. “Whatever of peace, prosperity, happiness and glory the people of the United States have enjoyed has been under the administration of Presidents who were slave-holders from slave States. Whenever the Presi- dent has been elected from a free State, from Adams ferson. was down to Lincoln, confusion, wrangling and strife have Why all this has been so is not in the line of our subject, only this far, God will not be mocked. He ordained that the negro It is in the Scriptures; to believe less than they contain is infi- delity, to believe more is superstition.” No wonder that in the theocratic revival that has risen with American imperialism, this book is reach- As it was in the beginning so it is in the end. Whenever men have set out upon a policy repugnant to human reason, revolting to the conscience of man, involving slaughter, cruelty and every abomination, members of the clerical class have supported it and put the responsibility upon God. The instances of this in the early history of the race have been canonized and stand as the ancient prece- dents, gilded by an assumption of divine sanction, | The torture of witches, the slaughter of heretics, the been the order of the day. | holding of slaves, the butchery of people who de- fend their homes from invasion, all have been un- loaded upon God and men have washed their hands | of the blood upon them in the waters of providential | approval! | Tt is so now with imperialism and the breach of faith and broken promise that go with it. To-mor-| row it may be so with the restoration of slavery, the | renewal of the horrors of the middle passage, and the | erection again of the abominations that follow the chattel ownership of man by man. NEGRO SENTIMENT ON IMPERIALISM. REPORT sent out a short time ago to the| effect that a movement had been started in | country against imperialism has naturally been the | subject of much more consideration in the East than | | attention throughout the country. : The Washingon correspondent of the Philadelphia | of a number of leading colored men at the national capital on the subject. The statements show that | organize the negroes on that issue there is a very decided feeling among the eminent colored men of Filipinos without their consent. Professor Kelley Miller of Howard University is “While I do not think the movement to organizs the colored people into aggressive opposition to the | very much, I doubt whether there is a single intelli- gent Afro-American in the country who has the heart We hear much nowadays about the capacity of the ‘backward’ peoples for self-government. The truth is alien can do it for them, no matter how enlightened the superior race may be.” and action among the colored people of the city,” said: “TI am not in favor of expansion and know matter is, we would dislike to see such a mistaken policy put into practice over half-civilized races as has A. H. Grimke, a former Consul to Santo Domingo, said: 2 “From my own observation I know that the expan- sion policy of the administration is very unpopular with the negro. The absolute supineness of the Chief Executive on the subject of negro lynchings makes them shudder for other peoples who may come under the yoke.” The imperialists have frequently met the public ob- jections to sending our brave boys to the tropical climate of the Philippines to carry on a war against guerrillas in pestilential jungles, by asserting that negro troops could be relied upon to do the fighting and make the conquest for us. Speaking of the senti- ments of the negroes of the capital on that subject, Mr. Grimke says: “They feel no enthusiasm whatever for the succe.s of the American arms in the Philippines. Moreover, they would rigorously oppose any attempt to send colored troops to aid in carrying on the war against the forces of Aguinaldo. The character of inferior races is something with which Americans have little patience, and it is impossible for them to be fair toward them. We have racial problems enough at home without undertaking more to add to them.” Thus collapses another of the pet projects of the imperialists. The white volunteers preter to come home rather than to re-enlist for imperial service in the Philippines, and now the negroes who were relied upon to undertake the conquest refuse to volunteer. They have no ardor in a war waged for imperial pur- poses. f\ claims of the Board of Health for any other than statutory officers and employes has wor- ried the board 2 good deal more than the famous dis- covery of the bacilli of the bubonic plague; for, while the body is known as a Board of Health, the members of it by the favor of Gage and the push of Burns are not in for their health. They stood with equanimity the menace of the plague, but a decision which shuts off their patronage on the eve of a municipal cam- paign fevers their political pulses, gives them chills in the feet and sends them howling to the courts. The decision of the Auditor is, of course, right and proper. He could have taken no other course since the decision of the courts with reference to the test case raised by the County Clerk. The two cases, of course, are not exactly parallel, but they are suffi- ciently alike to justify the Auditor in refusing to sanc- tion unlimited salary claims issued by the board. The board claims the right to appoint as many offi- cers, agents and employes as it may deem necessary to carry on its work. It is well known, however, that if such right be conceded the board would soon have on its payroll a host of sinecurists and superfluous employes, drawing salaries from the county to do pol- itics for political bosses. The Auditor has wisely de- termined to take no chances. He will audit only such salaries as are clearly provided for by law, and the Board of Health can go to the courts to find out just how far it can exceed that limit in acting as a political machine to grind salaries out of the taxpayers for the members of the Burns push. The decision of the Auditor is another evidence of the awakened spirit of reform in the administration of local finances. The lax system of the past, which consisted mainly in “hefting” money, has given way to a careful auditing and accounting. If the decision of the Auditor be upheld by the courts a great relief will be obtained for the public revenues. The reckless appointment of superfluous employes by the political o e BOARD OF HEALTH JOBS. UDITOR WELLS’ decision to audit no salary jobbers of the Board of Health will be checked and | the city will accomplish a marked advance not only toward economy, but toward the breaking up of the practice of using municipal and county offices as parts of the political machines that disgrace our politics. THE ELECTION OF SENATORS. ENATOR STEWART of Nevada announces S that for the purpose of putting an end to dead- locks in Senatorial elections and securing for ach State its full representation in the Senate, he will propose a revision of the existing law so as o provide under certain contingencies for election by a plurality instead of a majority vote of the Legislature. The suggestion is not a new one. A similar propo- on was before the country last winter and was widely discussed while the public mind was agitated by the prolonged contests over Senatonal elections in this and other States. The arguments for 1t and those against it were fully reviewed at the time, and while it is conceded that much can be urged in favor of the change, the objections to it are insuperable. Election by plurality vote will put an end to dead- Jocks without entailing the long wait required for an amendment to the constitution. To accomplish that change nothing will be required but an act of Con- gress revising the Federal statute which now governs such elections. That of course is a considerable ad- vantage, for it will take many years to bring about a constitutional amendment, and in the meantime deadlocks are liable to occur wherever a Senatorial contest takes place. The objection to the plan is that it would break deadlocks in the interest of the corrupt forces rather than in that of the better elements of our politics. In every case where a deadlock occurred last winter it was brought about by faithful representatives of the people for the purpose of preventing the election to the Senate of a political boss or an ally of bosses. The deadlocks, therefore, while to some extent inju- rious, were necessary to prevent the infliction of far greater injuries. The only satisfactory solution of the problem is that of a constitutional amendment providing for the elec- tion of Senators by a direct vote of the people. By such an amendment we would get rid of the deadlock | and also of the corruption of legislators by the use of money, by log rolling, by the distribution of State patronage and by other and equally pernicious forms of bribery. From every point of view it is desirable to relieve Legislatures of the work of electing United States Senators. Even when there is no dowaright fraud | or corruption in the case, these contests disturb the ;orderly process of legislative business, delay impor- tant measures and frequently prevent giving proper consideration to issues of considerable moment. Such being the condition of affairs it would be better to enter at once upon the task of amending the constitu- tion by providing for popular elections of Senators ! than to tinker with the present statute and by getting rid of deadlocks open the door for more and worse jobbery than we have yet known. According to General Gomez, the distribution of $3.000,000 by our Government among the Cuban sol- diers has had no other effect than that of demoraliz- ing them. Instead of remaining in the ranks or going home to work, they are hanging about the pay sta- tions clamoring for coin. Moreover, it is a safe pre- diction we will profit nothing by the disbursement. “The very men who get most of the money will be /E\ Boston to organize the colored men of the | on this coast, but it is nevertheless one which merits Public Ledger has furnished to that paper the views while there are some objections to any attempt to | | the capital against imposing a Government upon th:fi quoted as saying: poh‘tital policies of the administration will amount to to condemn Aguinaldo and the cause he represents. any people can govern themselves better than any Dr. C. B. Purvis, described as a “leader of thought very few of our people who are. The truth of the | been saddled upon the negro in this country.” . first to denounce us when that is gone if we do not 1&ive them more. I STUCK ON IT. From the New York Tribune, 2T NP EABEST. STORIES of the FUNNY MAN. A leading citizen in a 1iffle town in the north of Scotland was asked to take the office of elder in the kirk. He seemed re- luctant to accept the honor till a wag, who knew his weakness, whispered to him that if be became elder he would get £5 and a pair of trousers at the end of the vear. The year passed away, and when the promised garment did not appear, the elder went to the minister and said: *I haven't got the breeks yet.” “What breeks?" said the minister, The elder explained, and the minister smiled and declared that the promise was only a silly joke. The elder expressed great disappointment about the trousers, and was turning away when the minister said You seem to care more about the breeks than about the money. the i’ pun.” replied the elder, “I Jv'st helpt plate. —Argona T 8 e Habituated to Solitude. Mr. Newlywed (of Lonelyville)—T've been to the employment agency and got a jewel of a cook—coming to-morrow, dear. Said she'd just as leave live here as not, and was three vears steady in her last place, just as lonesome as thi Mrs. Newlywed—And where was that? Newlywed—I forget whether she it was on a whaler or a lumber schooner, but I know she'll like Lonely- ville.—Judge. masel’ to that fra the — . Comforting. Little Elmer—Grampa, wh so sad? Grampa—I was just thinking. am 60 years of age, and I have done anything that will be likely to make posterity remember me. Little Elmer—Oh, well, don’t worry. Mebby vou'll still have a chance to live in history as somebody’s grandfather. Chicago Times-Herald. e s Hour. s do you look Here I Pop’ Edith (showing her smart little brother | to her new beau)—Now, Tommy, you have counted up to eleven; tell us what comes after eleven. Tommy—FPop, in Brooklyn Life. - The Way to Tell. Mrs. de Pretty—Horrors! That woman who just passed is a young man in dis- Well! his stocking feet.— and—Well! How do you know Mrs. de Pretty—She looked at my face instead of my dress.—New York Weekly. POPPOPOPOPPSPPPPOISPO PRESS COMMENTS * POV PPIPIGOIPISIPOESPISISS More From ‘“Ananias’” Creelman. Marysville Appeal. It has now been clearly demonstrated that “Ananias” Creelman never had an interview with Admiral Dewey in his life, and consequently the top-heavy editorials which the Examiner evolved at various times from its inner consciousness, based on their “‘commissioner’s” statements, lose what little weight or merit they ever possessed. LR X4 The Journal’s New Rival. Los Angeles Times. The San Jose Mercury calls attention to the fact that the yellow New York Jour- nal is to have a genuine competitor, as the convicts of Sing Sing have started | a paper of thelr own. We fear that the able journalists in stripes will be unable | te compete successfully owing to the fact that there are limitations upon their en- terprise which Willie Hearst does not have to contend with. ~The grapevine telegraph stops at the walls of the State’s prison and “Jim” Creelman i3 still at large. KPR i Legitimate News. S. F. Pacific Coast Marine Record. n a recent issue o# The San Francisco Call there appeared an article dwelling upon the advancement of the commercial | interests of the State and editorially call- ing attentlon to the improved condition of the local markets for farm products. It is a wise action for a paper of such gen- eral circulation to_call attention to the real condition of affairs, and more of this kind of work should be done. But the daily press of to-day is too apt to over- Jook this important branch and to enlarge upon everything that tends to retard rather than advance the State. If less space would be given to crime and mora to legitimate news our city would know of no such experience as hard times and the entire coast would be placed in a con- dition of prosperity. Tiiieeaes Lurid Accounts Coming. Fresno Democrat. James Creelman is now writing up the Dreyfus case for the Examiner. Look out for lurid accounts which will make your hair stand om-end. never | @‘@.@@@@@@6@@@@@@@@@ ¢ APPRECIATED THE CALL. ® U. S. S. BADGER, APIA, Samoa, July 5, 189. Editor The Call—Dear 8ir: I wisa to thank you in behalf of myself, the officers and crew of this vessel for the kindness, courtesy and gen- erosity extended to us in sending files of your valuable paper to us. I assure you that your action is fully appreciated by every member of the ship's company, and it was especially gratifying under the ¢ | POOVOI O PPPPOPPOPPP0POPOOO0Q @ cumstances, we being almost en- tirely isolated from all news of the outside world. © Hoping to have an early oppor- © tunity of repaying your kindness, & I am, very respectfully, > JAMES M. MILLER, & | Commander, U.S. N., Commanding. & P 00R90000000060060600 0| —_——— Remember the Hospital Corps. Editor of Call: I would like to express | a few thoughts that have been brought | home to me with great force the last f¢w | days. While we are showing much honor | to our brave soldier boys as they return | home, let us not forget one special divi- | sion of them who have been constant in | their devotion to duty, night and day— | the hospital corps. our dear ones whom we clasp in our arms who would never have returned if these brave boys with never ceaseless fidelity to duty had not watched through long | nights and days at the bedside of sick and | wounded. togk the .place of father, mother, sister | or wife at the bedside of 'sick and dving, | and_with tender hands performed for us | 80 far away the last sad, sweet service | which we would have given much to have | done? | God bless the hospital corps. May we | as Americans, worthy of the name, not | forget to give them the hanor due. | A _SUBSCRIBER. Alden, Cal., July 25, 156, OUR SOCIETY __IN EUROPE N these days our soclety is abroad. American belles and beaux and stun- ning matrons are hobnobbing with no- bility, even royalty, joining In the | pleasures of the European capitals and Stop and think of the many, many of | Do we not owe much to the ones that | | man of this corresporident writes: “For certain rea- sons a man marries under an assumed name. Later he is in a position to make his marriage known. In that case is he required to be married anew, or is the first marriage legal?” In obtaining the license under_an assumed name he was required to take oath that he would make true answers to such questions as might be asked him, and when he swore that his name was that given by him he com- mitted perjury; and if any one feelin interested wished could have him arreste: eilt any time within three vears after tak- ng the oath. If, however, the man hes to protebt his wife and give her his true name, he-should marry her a second time and preserve the records of the first marriage. AROUND THE CORRIDORS D. Conway is registered at the Lick from Honolulu. H. L. Friedlander of London is a guest @ | at the Palace. G. A, McElfresh, a prominent L orester of Los Angeles, is at the Grand. Henry Barker, a wealthy cattle owner of Hopland, is a guest at the Russ. Professor Nash, librarian of Stanford University, is a guest at the California. J. 8. Hermann, a wealtny resident of Oil | City, is among the recent arrivals at the Grand. Admiral and Mrs. Kautz are registered at the California, where they arrived last evening. W. D. Crichton, a prominent attorney of Fresno, on a visit to this city on | legal business. | H. Seaman, one of the leading mer- chants of Winters, is among the late ar- als at the Russ. C. B. Luff, a wealthy and prominent merchant of Petaluma, is at the Lick. His wife accompanies him. J. A. Muir, the well-known and popular Los Angeles railroad man, is among th who arrived yesterday at the Palace. Dr. N. Ritzen of Germany is one of the ssengers of the Moana who arrived in city yesterday, and went to the Ocel- dental. John A. McIntire, a mining man of Sac- ramento, is a guest at the Granl, whera he arrived yesterday on a business trip to the city. J. F. Cummings, a well-known mining State, has returned from a recent visit to Boston and is registered at the Grand. | taking their places in the noted charity bazaars and flower festivals. { | In London at the recent sweil Charing Cross Bazaar the Princess Hatzfeldt (nec | Huntington) was one of the handsomest | | and most admired of the women who lent | their worthy aid. Mrs. Mackay looked | | charming and extremely vouthful attired | all in white, with a big white hat and a | broad sash of national colors. Mrs. Mackay succeeded in ing_the Ameri- can stand the hands: ¢ of the many handsome booths, and .. decorations of | the American and English colors were | | very much admired. Among the many | aistinguished visitors from this city w | attended the fair were Major and M John_A. Darling. From London Major and Mrs. Darling went to Carlsbad and | | there took part in the Blumen-Corso and battle of flowers. Major and Mrs. Darl- ing’s carriage followed in the column which was headed by the Archduchess Isabella and Archduke Frederick. Other Californians who enjoved the battiz of the flowers were Mr. and Mrs. Will Crocker, Mrs. Sperry, Miss Sperry and Joseph Redding.~ ‘Mhjor and Mrs. Darling are At present in Lucerne. It is_their intention to pass three months In Switzerland, except for a few days in August, when they go to Bayreuth to witness the Parsifal. | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE-T. R., | City. For an independent candidate to | have his name placed on the official bal- lot at the next election he must present a petition signed by a number equal to 3 per cent of the total vote cast at the preceding election. ASSAYING—A. S.. Picard, Cal. There is no free United States assay office in | California. For information about assay- | ing address the Superintendent of the | United States Branch Mint, San Fran- | ciseo, if the questions relate to the assay | ing of bullion to be converted into coin. | A’ TWENTY OF ’il—E. H., Merced, Cal. A twenaly-do!lar» ph!(‘he ofh1§51 does not | command a premium, but the selling price | is from $25 to $30. according to ih;é g(a!fs: of preservation. The United States coins | ! of that date did not have on them the | | motto God We Trust.” That was first ysed on two-cent pieces in 1864. RAIN-R. C. K., Dimond, Alameda | County, Cal. The greatest amou- = of rain | *| that fell in one place in California during | any one storm durinw the winter of 1595-99 | was at Pilot Creek, Bl Dorado County, at | an elevation of 4000 feet. It occurred dur- ing the storm of March 20-25, and the | registered rainfall was 16.39 inches. AN ASSUMED NAME-S., Clty. This PHIT.OPENA. When Uncle Sam the Spanish nut so confidently cracked, In order (for humanity) its kernel to extract, He found that in the shell two kernels lay instead of one, “Aha! a Philopena!” cried he, genially, in fun. “We'll give and take, my lady.” “I have eaten Filipinos all my life Then she whispered to herself, Now, Uncle Sam was busy and forgot tl Santiago and Manila, then, were objec He took them. ‘‘Philopena! you've botl And the forfeit you must pay me,” quo Now he has paid.the lady like an hon But he's tasting fruits of victory not foreseen when he began. And is this South Sea fruit quite ripe? The question’'s sad solution May prove that It is not adapted to his constitution. “Very well,” Espagna said, " and tossed her head. ‘But they are something of a pest, For I've found them not particularly easy to digest.” | he little jest; ts of his quest. h won and lost this game, th the crafty Spanish dame. orable man, | ters from Scotland who arrived on Dr. John D. Jones, one of the leading physicians of Washington, D. C., is a | guest at the Palace, where he arrived last night on the overland. J. Goldberg of Goldberg, Bowen & Co., who has gone to Europe on a pleasura trip, Las arrived In London, where he is visiting his son Harry. R. and A. Kirkland are two globe-trat- the Moana vesterday from Australia and reg- istered at the Oceldental. R. L. Lewers, one of the foremost busi- ness men of Honolulu, arrived yesterday from the islands with his wife and family. They are all staying at the Occidental. The wife and family of N. H. Foster of the Southern Pacific Company have re- turned to the city after a month of vaca- tion spent among the mountains and can- yons of the Yosemite. Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Renaud of New Orleans arrived at the Palace last night on the belated overland. They are among. the wealthiest and most aristocratic of | the Crescent City’'s residents. R. J. Putnam, a mining man of Placer- ville, is a guest at the California. He ar- rived yesterday on the Moana from Hono- lulu, where he has been for some time past on an extended pleasure trip. Among the passengers on the Moana, which arrived in port yesterday morning, was C. A. Green, assistant chief of the Bureau of Information of the Philadel- phia Commercial Museum. Mr. Green has spent nearly two years in the Orient, dur- ing which time he has been the means of greatly adding to the exhibits and knowledge of the bureau which he repre- sents. He states that all the Austra- lian colonies will be represented at the National Export Exposition to be held in | Philadelphia next October. ———— | CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, July 28—William H. Dun- das and Fred T. Owles of San Francisco are at the Westminster; Robert E. Wheatcroft and Dr. A. J. Powell of San Francisco are at the Cosmopolitan. e CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, July 28—J. A. Ferris of San Francisco is at the St. James; Thomas B. Hart of Oakland is at the ‘Wellington; C. C. Plehn of San Francisco is at the Shoreham. —_———— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's. ® —_——— Look out for 73 Fourth st., best eye- glasses, 1ic to 40c; Sundays, 741 Market st. (stationery store). . —_———— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- goniery street. Telephone Main 1042. * ———————— Suit on Promissory Notes. William A. Fleming entered suit in the United States Circuit Court yesterday against William U. Burns and Charles S. Burns to recover $2500, with interest at T per cent, on two promissory notes exe- cuted January 2, 1897. Samuel Knight is courisel for the plaintiff. = e The most efficacious stimulan® to sharpen the appetite is Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters. See that you get the genuine. s Beautiful hair is always pleasing, and Par- EDNA KINGSLEY WALLACE, ker's Halr Balsam excels in proCucing it. Hindercorns, the best cure for corns, 156