The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 12, 1899, Page 6

NCISCO CALL, SATURDA AUGUST 12, 1899. UGUST 12, 1809 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Cse ey oy ‘cations to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. | Wise i sl o Address All Com PUBLICATION OFFICE ......Market and Third Sts., S. F | Telephone Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS. 2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street | Telephone Matn 1874, DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. | nele Coples, § cents. ! Ter DAILY CALL (i L (in ; Sunday Call), § mont 11), 8 months QAKLAND OFFICE. C. GEORGE KROGNESS. . Masagor Forcign Advertising, Marquetto Building, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. €. CARLTON........ Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR .29 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO NEWS S8TANDS. sse; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Auditortum H an H. Houze; W YORK NEW IS SWINE @ND SALVATION. I British supremacy throughout South Africa and | suzerainty over the Transvaal. A concession of the VERAL years ago there appedvéd fih!+San kprivileges demanded by the Uitlanders would not, Dowie. | therefore, end the claims made upon the Boers. The ancisco a wonder worker named He hailed from far New Zealand, and his bus Christian healing. ness in life was prolonging it by government. Their republic is to cease to be inde- He professed to cure all the inherited and acquired pendent and to pass formally under the protectorate ills of the flesh and bones by a persuasive incanta- | of Great Britain. tion which induced the sick to think that they were | The claim of suzerainty on the part of the British so is he.,” ® nterpreted | is not a new one, and at one time was to some extent ck Smith think himself | conceded by the Boers, who did not then foresee | what would result. that from well. “As a man thinket! by Dowie to mean that if well Jones, so is he. They now perceive His carcer here was more or less checkered—prin- | suzerainty to sovereignty will be but a short step, and und an | that if the right of the British Government to inter- brnia, | cipally more. As a prophylactic prophet implacable rival in the and finally pt in the local affairs of the Transvaal for the pur- made by Uitlanders against the republic be conceded, it will not be very long before there will be no great difference between ling climate of Ca de tracks for | pose of redressing complaints “hicago 1 and led in sign es new he These pa stitute,” with a capacit other fields. for five There he has an * hundred people, and it is Il the time, for verily | the condition of the Transvaal and that of Egypt. one of that kind is born into the world every minute. The Salisbury Government does not expect these When gns 1 passes failed to repair a rebel-| claims to be conceded willingly. The dispatch of lious liver or remove the remorse of a guilty stomach | troops to South Africa goes briskly on. From Mr. he came to putting the blame of failure on a pork | Chamberlain’s statement that the issues are “a source diet, d posted on the walls of his mystery mill, | of danger to the whole of South Africa” it appears | above the ! God Bless Our Home,” a tablet | the Ministry fears a general uprising under the lead inscribed, “Whosoever eateth of swine flesh or | of the Boers which would invelve even Cape Colony ygs is not fit to enter the kingdom of itself. It is in that light, at any rate, he presents th= | Dowie thereicre decided to attack the hoyg Id, for the Berkshire, Poland China, | world. It is essentially a frank statement that Great ter White root in every square mile | Britain is fighting for empire in Africa and the Boers 1 the neighboring States, and in that | must surrender their independence or maintain it not Phil Armour stick ten thousand pigs a nst all the power the British can bring against N S STANDS. 5 ; = 3 Waldorf-Astoris Hotel: A. Erentano, &1 Union Square; day and turn into money everything irom bowels to | them. Muarray HI Hotel. bristles, except the squeal? To at the hog and e WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ---Wellington Hotel ¢},c processes ic is conversion into fcod and fer- The whistle should be blown on candidates for the J. L. ENGLISH. Correspondent. ontgomery street, corner Clay, BRANCH OFFICES— tilizer, hair bru is to pull the found. office of Labor Commissioner, each of whom is con- stantly violating the eight-hour law in an effort to bone buttons and sausage cases n from under Chicago and send she cpen until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes street. open until & 2 3 5 i S ek, 630 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 |a misery through several States. When the ears of | induce the Governor to appoint him to the place. c'clock. 615 Larkin strect, open until 9:30 o'clock. | corp card of Dowie’s campaign they grew cross Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 229! Mark: e ioanth, open untll 9 oclock. 2518 |grained. The sentiment of those f e States was | RATTLE-WEED DEMOCRACY. en until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh uttered one time by Hon. Frank Landers of Indiana, | 5 B s s Ozf’:cczl: c:z\:,ucrfir‘r;rd:r::ag- who packed pork, went to Congress, ran for Gov- O\»ERXOR ALTGELD has recently made ernor and bought the Hoosier hog crop. His pac! his contribution to the Chinese music now Sl polis v B ol ot oo o aT being furnished by the “new Democracy.” AMUSEMENTS. ther.” and all his works. Fund Benefit, Thursday afternoon, Vaudeville every afternoon Specialties. treets— Grar : 2 to-morrow e ——— AUCTION SALES. 2:30 o'clock, Turkish This day, a at 11 o'clock, Hors ¥, August 14, THE GOLD COMES ROLLING IN. ion sale of seats for the benefit to of the city a —IROM tl be the dramatic stars ion has been made to the volun- d, which is now approaching the 1ces are given of aid from other given another noble sum to the fund. ked for by the reception com- For the re- here are cer- virt in sight. refore f let the people respond 000 men and women in San Francisco who pleasure in contributing an average of a f pose of:welcoming the boys 1 to obtain employment. ever is to be given should be given promptly. no time to lo The transport bearing the on her way across the sea and will 1 time comparatively short. The en- »r should be in the hands of the com- Under 1stances to delay in giving will be almost all. The emergency calls for He gives twice se. - the close of the coming week. s not to give at says the old préverb, and never t wisdom more applicable than at this time It is to be borne in mind the money is not to be pended wh It is the ntion of the committee to assist the boy find- ter they are mustered out, and a le portion of the fund will also be required welcome for other troops on their lly in parades and festivals. A moment’s consideration will the sum asked for is none too large for| It is certainly none too large for and population of San Francisco. | in view f the w very citizen is expected to contribute to the fund. | t The time is short. Let the| The respense of the people be prompt. - boys are coming 3y reason of the fact that the dollar limit has| crowded Mrs. Grace Harris out of the Morgue, the | duties she performed will devolve on Coroner Hill's | e deputies. Space-writers on the daily papers will | s the fortune that dowered them with such a| e-consumer as Mr. Matron Tom Smith-McCor- | ivan - Flanagan- Gately - Mogan - Lacombe- i ble olfe. | | MUSIC AND PATRIOTISM. | NDER any circumstances the famous Arion | Society of New York would be welcome to | San We are a music-loving peo- | ple. a social, hospitable, genial people, and all who | come to us in the goodiellowship of musi ! dial weicome. The Arions, however, have promised to provide an entertainment for the benefit of the volunteers’ reception fund, and in that way have| doubled their welcome. They are with us in the | sympathies of patriotism as well as of music, and | their songs will awaken a responsive chorus even | from those to whom nature has denied the gift of | melody. The Arions of San Francisco, with their allied Ger- man vereins and singing clubs, could be relied upon to fitly welcome and entertain their fellow Arions from the East, but that pleasant duty will not be left | wholly to them. By their ready agreement to join‘ with us in the popular preparations for the recep- tion of our volunteers the visitors have made them- selves the guests of the whole city. San Franciscni welcomes them in patriotism as well as in harmony. | While they stay with us our city is theirs, and i being smaller than their own town of Greater New | York, it should not furnish enough to fill all their | vast capacities for joy, they may take the State. All | California is theirs. | P The officious lieutenant commander of the Brit- ish gunboat Peacock may find that it is more dan- gerous to talk about Uncle Sam’s soldiers than it was to shell unprotected Samoan villages. | Francisco. find a cor- | The proof that the neighbors of France were will- l ing at any time to buy national secrets from any! scoundrel base enough to sell them is not likely to aid | the Czar’s dream of peace. | Araby. {ing in English’s opera-house to denounce Landers . breathing the pork- use of some one s and Mr. Holmes, for: as their ficld the where stood the embattled hog. rooting by the road- side. hogs were passing their novitiate for the corn finish which would fit them to matriculate in Phil Armour’e institute in the early winter i straig! scribed by his name his own bacon by sacri and come a evangelists supplied the prayer and cartridges and the to test his sanity, and notice to the evangelists to root | out of there. | out a war it will be due more to the diplomacy and | the part of the British. The gr test of this year is to be made in Ken- tucky, it seems, not as to the future of the Republi- can party, but as to the grip of the Bryan faction on the opposition. Altgeld declares that Goebel, the Democratic candidate for Governor in that State, “will be ground to powder.” This trituration is to occur to Goebel because of his “intimacy with the cnemies of Mr. Bryan's friends.” Nothing is said of the soundness on silver, nor of his lack of admiration of The people revolted and called a big meet- Orators took the stage and held ion their noses, disheartened by scented air and discolored by the 1 to p 1d prote: AT It was a torrid time, but d fair play was a jewel which shone even nd Mr. Land be cared and said: heard. “What ers should sett dianny? Corn and What built every b 5 house in *his State? Corn and hogs. Whar'd the | the crazy quilt pattern of the Chicago platform. But MonGy Comeiiron to mat upithis oo house,l 7hq |iBe = niecely convivial wath Ene Scncinies ol M paint them picters of Mr. Shakespeare, Mr. Johnson Bryan's friends. that the Blue Gr: “howdy” to men in the party who think there are other pebbles on the poli- tical beach besides the orator of the Platte and other rivers. It is, therefore, a declaration of war against all men who are not for Bryan's nomination. They may be sound on the unsound platform, and may be- lieve wholly in the sacred ratio of 16 to 1. They may desire destruction of the Supreme Court and wish to remove all judicial safeguards to the rights of prop-| erty. But if they are not foresworn to Bryan they | are to be ground to powder. The Goebelites, when they heard their doom announced from Chicago, im- mediately flung to the breeze a banner inscribed in water colors, “Bryan and Blackburn.” But this did{ not seem to secure their acceptance, for Altgeld im- | mediately repeated his declaration of war and alluded to the banner and its legend as “a conspiracy.” He also said that he did not believe that Colonel | Bryan would support Colonel Goebel. But therein he slipped a cog, for when Bryan heard that his name was on a banner in Kentucky he issued dates for a ! stumping tour there in support of Goebel. The Gov- | ernor in his first interview went further than to lay | Goebel low, and gave out a platform for the party, to | be affirmed next year. Some of his declarations on that subject are remarkable. He favors holding the Philippines and giving them “a good form of gov- ernment,” and seeing that no other power interferes | with them. But he opposes any increase in the army as imperialism! Just how the conquest which must precede any form of government in those islands is | to be made without an increase in the army is not explained. One can see the folly of advocating a policy which, in the opinion of the best military judges, will require a present force of 100,000 soldiers and permanent garrison of not less than 50,000, and at the same time denying the use of that military es- tablishment without which the policy itself is un- thinkable. Tmperialists will see nothing noxious in | Altgeld's proposed plank. The Republicans, if they shall elect to follow imperial standards, will find it | difficult to do better for that issue than their oppo- | nents, | The further planks proposed by the Sucker Dic- | tator are for Government ownership of everything that engages the physical and business energies of the people. He says: “Let the Government take the railroads, and all monopolies will begin to totter and | some of them will fall.” He omits explanation of the methods by which property that has cost the owners | eleven billions of dollars is to be taken. But, judging | from his known views that whenever a piece of prop- | erty becomes profitable to its owner it ceases to be- | long to him, we suppose that a khock will be heard | on the office-door of every railroad, and the Govern- | ment will walk in and take a seat, with a full equip- | ment of conductors, brakemen, engineers and sleep- | ing-car porters, and immediately take charge. To advocate such a scheme as this and oppose imperial- | | ism is to run away from a fugacious kissing bug into the carnivorous jaws of a Bengal tiger. | is a condition in which government dominates the | people. It comes of the possession of power to dic- tate their fate and subordinate their will. Pray what | difference does it make whether this is done by the | employment of an army of 150,000 men, or the em- | ployment of a force of five millions who depend for | thus furnish the people with a fair understanding of | {h:r sy T{read % 'Govcrnment Afavor and lboumy i ) and wages, in the gainful occupations of which the ! what the Ministers purpose to do. In accord with | Government is the owner? this privilege Mr. T. P. O’Connor has asked Jo: e s i 5 Chamberlain, Secretary of the Colonies, what Jrosucr’;‘e' | 'l'he ‘st‘:ndard Sombolaint ot bmc‘n_ ke getitesld the [Sailsbilty Coverbment ok Metideluponn do blosa vt ihelazes somoomtc sndindindiaticmployess . s " of labor has been that they control the votes and ing with ?!‘e lm_"?““_fl]‘ and the reply has made it | gictate the political action of their men. clear that if the crisis in South Africa pass away with- | \When Altgeld unsheaths his spiteful tongue against Goebel, because he is friendly to Democrats who | cppose Bryan’s nomination, what may we expect of an Altgeld in the Presidency who controls millions of workingmen, that eat their bread in the shelter of Government ownership? More than one path leads to imperialism, but the sser says men? From Governor Hendricks 1 bought Ben coupee to ride from our celebrated What eddica id others of corn and hog ade D Harrison’s linen breeches an’ country n Voorhies an orator, street to his law office? Corn and hogs. would become of Indianny I think a Hoosier that caint mell of slarterin pigs ought to be drummed te line into Kaintucky to eat blue grass an’ e stand the across t go into the dairy.” it. The crowd voted with effusion ders porkhouse was an ornament to the h a community Mr. Dowie has lag, skull, and all, g, crosshones stumbling-block to salvation. He has sent out evangelists to preach this crusade right into the heart of the hog region. Two of these, Mr. Groves, until a year ago a Methodist evangelis merly a Methodist elder, selected town of Worthington, Minn., They converted the leading hog breeder, Mr. Milton, in whose white clover pasture hundreds of Milton was made to feel tt at these grunters were a team pulling him right ht into that fiery furnace and burning lake de- ke John. He agreed to save ing that of his hogs, and after preparing a wide and deep grave and a tomb- stone inscribed, “Whosoever doth not bear his cross ter me cannot be my disciple; this monument erected over swine flesh killed for Jesus’ sake,” he and his sons got their Winchesters, the signal for the first volley, which they said came by divine inspiration, and shooting began, nor stopped tntil every porker had rooted the dust. The scene had attracted a large number of neigh- boring farmers, and when the funeral began they threatened to lynch Milton, the evangelists and all concerned The affair closed by taking Milton before a court the This they did after delivering two pray- ers in the hogpen. The probable propagation of a fanaticism is shown by the genuine alarm of the Chicago pork packers lest this fad spread and materially reduce the hog crop, and it has already had a bad effect on the price of corn. e e e— Shades of the great masters of painting! How they must weep in the great beyond to know that Collis P. Huntington, even with purpose to deceive a willingly deceived Assessor, values their canvases by-the yard! BRITISH POLICY IN THE TRANSVAAL. WE advantage to the public of the British sys- O tem of government by a Ministry responsible to Parliament is that it enables the opposition party to demand an explanation of the policy of the Government upon any issue before the country, and the courage of the Boers than to any moderation on Mr. Chamberlain is quoted as saying in the course of his repl “We recognize the grievances of the | Jitlanders and have said that these grievances are not merely themselves a serious cause for interposition | shortest trail is Government ownership. it;;gc \1\:(::; "(;‘ ;1232", to the whole of Sf)ut-‘: We may get rid of an oppressive standing army, g y predominance is menaced by the for it does not often approach the polls, and in any acpon of the I.‘ransvazl in refusing to redress the event can be outvoted when its support becomc‘s grievances or give consideration to requests hitherto oppressive. But what chance will there be against put in the most moderate language of a suzerain any Government, no matter how bad, once it is in power. We say that this state of things cannot be | power and through Government communism con- tolerated. We have put our hands to the plow and | trols so many millions of votes? won't draw back. With that statement I propose tc rest content.” | United States naval authorities have just finished a From that statement it appears the object of the | new chart of the world. It is not so very long ago British Ministry is not so much to redress the alleged | since the same authorities assisted very materially in wrongs complained of by the Uitlanders as to assert | making a new map of the earth. Imperialism | several | | British demand of them the virtual surrender of seli- | issue to Parliament, to the British public and to the | | ill-starred Goebel's un- | By this the public is leit to assume | | | | more a | them. | & 11 “Hush! hush! hush! Here comes the Bogie Man; You'd best lay low—you stand no show, He’ll catch you if he can!” —St. Louis Republie. NG DIVERGENT MANKIND. MINGLI Can the Contact of Two Races in the Philippines Result Beneficially to Either? ©ond lesson our people have recetved but not apparently learned is in our experience with the nesro popul: tion of the United States. They were originally imported as slaves and the result of this early expansionist en- terprise was the mingling of the white race with the black. It produced even strous results than the mingling of the white and red. Intelligent people long ago comprehended that the greatest evil resulting from slavery was not mere- Iy in the existence of occasional cruelty toward the enslaved race by masters of extreme brutality. the worst s were not immediately apparent and were comprised in the grad- debasement of the more civilized mas- ters and the prevention or obstruction of true civilization among the slaves. The | 1t was realized that | white man fell and the negro could not | rise. Tt is now apparent, since the termina- tion of our Civil War, that slavery was only an incidental evil and that its sup- pression at the cost of so many lives did not remove the source of a dangerous and annoying condition which necessarily arises from the mingling in the Southern States of two divergent varieties of hu-| man beings to whom intermarriage is re- pugnant. After the Civil War the Re- publican party with enthusiastic devotion to the complete freedom of the negro en- deavored to secure and maintain for him | | | ! curse to the American people, and they were barred out by stringent laws against their immigration. And why would they prove to be a curse? Not particularly because they are im- moral, for in certain forms of morality. notably in their industrious habits and their temperate use of intoxicants, the Chinese are superlor to the whites. Not particularly because they were supplant- sub- ing the labor of our own people by | stituting cheaper labor, for European im- 1I. | migrants h DITOR of The Call-Sir: The sec- ad been doing that for a cen- tury. The real reason at the basis of all opposition to Chinese immigration is the fact that they are a divergent variety, if not yet a distinct species human_be- ings, with whom we instinctively refuse to intermarry, although, alas fof human | frailty, the antipathy is not sufficiently generai to prevent the occasional appear- | ance of the inevitable mongrel. Had the Chinese been of our own race their appearance in America would not have been more objectionable than the immigration of millions of Europeans, who come here willing at first to work for lower wages than our population, and satisfied at first with a lower standard of living. Had the Chinese been Cau- casians they would have soon adopted our customs and ideas, changed their Standard of living as Europeans have done, demanded and received better wages, and thus ceased to be the rat- like competitors of whom we have justly complained. In the absence of racial tinctions their union by intermarriage with our people would have permitted their children to become ahsorbed ac- ceptably into the great composite associa- ton termed the American people and there would have been no “‘Chinese ques- tion.” ‘As it was, however, the fnevitable war of races had already commenced on the Pacific Coast in the boycotts and riots when immigration was fortunately re- stricted. The condition proved that race wars belong not alone to the South, but occur whenever two antagonistic races are brought together. The people of th North were never more moral than those of the South. They were merely fortunate in escaping contact with a divergent race. The people of the East, who at one time blamed the Western people for antago- | nism to the Chinese, were no better than entire sccial and political liberiy. The result almost produced a new rebellion and it gradually became apparent that, | like ofl and water, the two races could not unite in any articular. It cou.d aot be a Government by the whites and blacks. It must he social and political control by either one or the other. The more intelligent and powerful race has naturally become supreme and the ne- groes are actually serfs in the Southern though nominally freemen. Opposition to this condition and denun- ciation of it have nearly ceased in the , for it is beginning to be under- tood that unless we can remove the an- tipathy which exists between the whites nd the blacks there must always be cer- tain ecvil results from contact between Many of those evils are recorded in the history of negro slavery in the United States. The existence of the white and the black together in the South de- veloped a race of aristocratic masters ruling a race of ignorant slaves who must be kept in ignorance ta insure their con- tinuous servility. It developed the inev- jtable mongrel as a frequent product, whose servile existence under such condi- tions becomes a torture exquisite in pro- portion to his resemblance to the domi- nant race. It produced the ‘“poor white trash,” a social factor whose status was even worse than that of the slaves. The characteriof a nation being merely a com- posite picture embodying the character- istics of its individuals, slavery was de- basing the United States, for every ne- gro born within its borders made the na- tion worse and weaker. The evil effects of white and black con- tact culminated finally in the Civil War, in which every soldier who died on either side paid the penalty for the sins and folly of our ancestors, who were blinded to future results by their own greed for what they supposed to be immediate advan- . The introduction of negroes tol mented the nation with sectional animos! ties for fifty years. It stagnated the in- dustrial life of the Soutnern States so that they are still far behind any other part of the country in the development of their resources and in all kinds of social efficiency. It held in miserable subjection not alone the blacks of the primitive Afri- can type but also thousands of wretched creatures of mongrel types in whom the mingling of Caucasian blood had devel- Oped aspirations which made slavery to them a hell on earth. Its evil effects spread from the slave-holding sections into the national life tilil it cursed the na- tion with accumulated wrong and the war of the rebellion came as a purifying fire to warn us of these crimes against na- ture. We paid de?rl)’ in the blood of North and South for the sins of our pro- genitors. ‘And we are not done vet making pay- ment. Some millions of negroes still re- main among us in political and social sub- jection. The Inevitable mongrel is being bred into a world in which he finds him- self neither white nor black, and where he is sure of mental torture in proportion to the intelligence which he may possess. Every time a white man is murdered or a woman outraged by brutal negroes in the South. every time a Southern mob horri- fies the world by torturing and burning a negro, we pay again for the mistakesof our predecessors and register another protest against the mingling of different races. Bitter antagonism still exists between the two races in the South, a condition of suppressed warfare i8 manifested, and the evils are not likely to be abated éxcept by the separation of the two races, or by the disappearance of the antipathy which pre. vents amalgamation. A third-lesson of experience is com- prised in the immigration of the Chinese o the Pacific Coast. At first Chinese immigration was popular; their cheap labor was welcomed by all, just as slavery was at one time satisfactory to North as well as South. Then we dis- covered, first in the West and later in the East. that their presence here would be a we are or were. They merely did mnot, and perhaps do not now, comprehend the entire significance of ce contact. Our peaple escaped the final calamities of as- sociation with the Chinese, but they ex- perienced enough to understand that a mixture of the white with the yellow race would result quite as disastrous to_both as contact between the white and the black. It remains now to consider con- tact with the brown race. GEORGE A. RICHARDSON. Placerville, Aug. B THANK THE CALL. Fditor of The Call: The Grand Circle of the Companions of the Forest of Amer- ica of California, recognizing that the San Francisco Call has done a great deal of good to the order by placing before the public reports of the proceedings of the various circles of the order in a fair and interesting manner, hereby tenders a vote of thanks to the management of the San Francisco Call for the interest shown in the work of this order and in fraternal work generally. MRS. FLORA JACOBS, Grand Chief Companion. MRS. K. AGEE, - Grand Sub-Chief Companion. AGNES D. BREMER, Grand Financial Secretary. San Francisco, Aug. 8, 189 AROUND THE CORRIDORS H. Dubbers, a lawyer of Bakersfield, is at the Russ. L. D. Jacks, a Santa Rosa caplitalist, is at the Grand. Rev. James J. Hynes of Marysville a guest at the Lick. Judge J. M. Mannon of Ukiah is at the. Lick, accompanied by his son. Mark L. McDonald, the Santa Rosa cap- italist, is a guest at the Occidental. James E. Bell, a big mill owner of Ever- ett, Wash., is staying at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. L. Gerlach of Stockton are amoeng the recent arrivals at the Grand. W. C. Cressy, a wealthy merchant of San Jose, is registered at the California. Barney Murphy has come up from his home in San Jose and is staying at the Lick. L. R. Poundstone, a big merchant of Canyon, is among the late arrivals at the Grand. Amos Hill, a mining man of Trinity County, is one of the recent arrivals at the Russ. W. H. McClintock, a mine superintend- ent of Sonora, is one of theilate arrivals at the Lick. J. J. Trabucco, District Attorney of Mariposa County, is registered at the Lick for a short stay in the ecity. S. Solon Holl, one of the leading attor- neys of Sacramento, is at the Grand, where he arrived last evening. T. J. Fleld, a Monterey banker and cap- italist, is a guest at the Palace, where he arrived yesterday morning. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Crane of Santa Cruz have returned from their honeymoon trip to Portland and are registered at the Pal- ace. George H. Fisher, a large orchardist and land owner of Santa Cruz, is a gues: at the Russ. Mrs. Fisher accompanies her husband. Gifford ‘Pinchot, the forestry expert of is the Department of Agriculture, returned to the city last evening and registered at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Watkins of Sacra- mento are among those who yesterday registered at the Occidental. Mrs. C. M. Moses of Denver, wife of Licutenant Colonel Moses of the Color- ado regiment, is at the Occidental await- ing the return of her husband. At the Palace are registered 13) mem- bers of the New York Arion Society, who arrived here yesterday to attend thelr convention now being held in this ecity. John M. South formerly proprietor of the San Luis Obispo Mirror, and latterly a well-known member of the typographi- cal fraternity of this city, leaves this morning to embark in a newspaper enter- prise at Madera, in the San Jcaquin Val- ley. — CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—J. H. Marshall of San Francisco is at the Imperial; Dr. C. M. Richter of San Francisco is at the Manhattan; L. E. Scherer of Los Ange- les is at the Marlborough. —_———— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—James F. Smalley and wife of San Francisco are at the Wellington. J. M. Thurston of.San Francisco Is at the Arlington. ———————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL—A. §., City. One desiring to enter the Polytech- nic High School in San Francisco for the purpose of taking any course must pre- sent either a certificate of graduation from a grammar school or undergo an examination, of which information will be given by the principal. A COIN OF PORTUGAL—O. J. C., Oak- land, Cal. A reis plece of Portugal coined in 1823 may be obtained at from 30 to 50 cents, and from that you may judge of the value of the piece you pos- sess. Twenty reis is equal to 2 cents. The valuation fixed by the United State on a milrels plece is $1 08. AGNOSTIC—J. K., City. An agnostic is one of a class of thinkers who disclaim any knowledge of God or of the ultimate nature of things. They hold that human knowledge is limited to experience and that since the absolute and unconditioned, if it exists at all, cannot fall within ex- perience we have no right to assert any- thing whatever in regard to it. STANFORD UNIVERSITY—B., Placer- ville, Cal. If you will write to the regis- trar at the Leland Stanford Jr. Univer- sity, Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, Cal., vou' will be furnished with a circular of information which will tell vou all that vou may desire to know ahout tha rules and regulations as to admission and about studies and accommodations for students. MEDALS—J. R., City. The medals and certificates which are to be given out by the committee of the Native Sons are for those who during the Spanish-Amer- ican war volunteered in the State of Cal- ifornia. The medals will not be given to men who enlisted in 1895 and during the war were assigned to duty in Ma- nila. The medals will be given to all volunteers, army or navy, irrespective of the locality in which the volunteer was born. PENSIONERS—J. A. M., City. The sta- tistics in this city of the various asked about countries except the United States do not give the number of pensioners, but give the amount paid in pensions. The number in the United States June 30, 1898, was 993,714, and the amount paid $145,748,~ 865 65. The pensions in the arm in Eng- land amount to £1,355.600 per vear. France —Military pensions, 129,204,000 francs; vari- ous pensions, 70,325,600 francs; Legion of Honor, 10,998,820 francs; for war veterans, 8,700,000 francs. Germany—Pensions of the 4 army of the Empire, 896 thal 5 navy, 2,881,540 thalers: civil pensions, 1,52?,1 370 thalers. Russia, 58,306,000 rubles. Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's. * Special information supplied dafly to business houses and public men by th Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 (:n:S . gomery street. Telephone Main 1043, —_———— Accidental Death. Dr. Hill held an inquest yesterday on the body of Dr. George B. McLay at the late residence of the deceased, 2430 Mis- sion street. Dr. Sobey, the attending physician, testified that he had been treating the deceased for several months for insomnia and had prescribed mor- phine. He had no doubt that the death of Dr. McLay was an accident. —— e President McKinley and His Wife ‘Will travel over the Northern Pacific Rallway when they visit the famous Yellowstone Park. They intend viewing the new geyser that spouts a tremendous stream of bolling water to the height of the Call building. It's a wonderful sight. Send 6c in etamps for book telling all about it to T. K. SRATELER, Gen, Agt., 638 Market st., S. F. \ ————— Very Low Rates East. On August 20 and 30, the popular Sante Fe route will sell tickets to Philadelphia and re- turn at the very low rate of $538. Occa- sion, National Encampment, G. A. R. Call at 625 Market st. for full perticulars. ——————— Avold all danger of disease from drinking impure water by adding 10 to 20 drops of Dr. Slegert’s Angostura Bitters to a glass.