The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 13, 1899, Page 6

HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 138, 1899 F’l"—__—-————f V : rrived yesterday from the East and are AUGUST 13, 1899 SPRECKELS, Proprietor. JOHN D. St Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Managor. PESSOCT DO UsemiaidsTe PUBLICATION OFFICE ..Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS. _.2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephons Main 1874 DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coptes, § cents. Terms by Mafl, Including Postage: DAILY CALL DAILY CALL DAILY CALL DAILY GALL—By NDAY CALL All postm iz etve subscriptions. Bample coples will be forwarded when requested. QAKLAND OFFICH.... Ssssoesenseseod 908 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Meaager Foreign Advertising, Marquetts Building, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDE! € €. CARLTON. . NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR. ...29 Tribune Buflding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Shermsn House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northera Hotel; fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. NT» Horald Square NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. Waldbre-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, %1 Union Square; Sfwray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE .Welllngton Hotel d. L. ENGLISH. Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES- 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 200 Hayes street, open until 930 o'clock. 639 McAllister street. open untll 9:3Q o'clock. 618 Larkin street open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street. open until 9 oclock. 106 Eleventh street, open unti) 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty- second and Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'cloc AMUSEMENTS. California—‘*The Fairy Godmother.” . hColummm—"Tha Adventures of the Lady Ursula,” Monday ght. Orpheum—Vaudeville. Orpheum—Our Herces' Fund Benefit, Thursday afternoon, Alcazer—""The Lady of Lyons.”™ Grand Opera House—"Faika."" tes, Zoo and Free Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon on and Ellis streets—Specialtes. ng Races, etc. eball to-day. rand performance to-day. Union Coursing Park—Coursing To-day. The Tabernacle, Exposition Building, Carnival, Wednesday, Aul Oakland—Cakewalk AUCTION SALES. 2:30 o'clock, Turk! Louderback—To-morrow, at street Monday, August 14, at 11 o'clock, Horses, LYNCHINGS IN THE SOUTH. UT of the fearful lynchings which have fol- lowed ¢ another with such rapidity in the South of late there has come at least one good result. The appalling nature of some of these ter- le offenses ag: t law and humanity has startled the intelligence of the Southern people with a fear - States may be drifting back to barbarism, and Potomac to the Rio Grande the more 2 ers, white and black, are busily engaged in discussing the evil, with a view to finding some ite remedy. t of the earnestness of the new phase ion that lynching is no longer justified ground that ation of the white man upon the negro The Southern people are now aware the toleration shown to lynchers in cases that kind has prompted the fawless and rowdy element in the South to resort to it on almost eny kind of provocation, and to carry it to the ex- treme of savage cruelty. As a consequence the plea in defense of lynching is but little heard of late. It is now almost universally conceded to be an evil, and the trend of the debate is toward devising means for its suppression. Many of the leading men among the negroes have given up the problem in flat desp: At a recent meeting of the council of elders of the African Metho- dist Episcopal church of Georgia and Alabama a resolution was adopted setting forth the deplorable condition of the negroes in the Southern States, and a committee was appointed to petition Congress to appropriate $100,000,000 to subsidize a line of steam- ships between the United States and Africa to facili- tate negro emigration to that continent. The whites are naturally more hopeful. It is not in the nature of the American white man to despair in the face of any kind of governmental problem. It is asserted by some of the speakers and the writets on the subject that the practice of lynching has sprung up in the South largely because of the law's delay and the inefficiency of the courts. An elab- orate 3rray of statistics has been published in leading Southern papers showing that of the number of per- sons indicted for murder comparatively few are con- victed, and the conclusion is drawn that the people it is the natural and proper ret ho assaults a white woman. of resort to lynching in the case of great crimes because | they have no confidence in the courts. At a recent meeting of the Georgia Chautauqua Society at Barnesville the Hon. Dupont Guerry of Macon disputed the charge made against the courts and declared: “Those who have so much to say about legal technicalities are either demagogues or ignoramuses who do not know a technicality from a great constitutional provision.” Mr. Guerry argued, however, that since it is clear the people demand a swifter process of law, it would be better to provide than to swnaz to the alternative of lynching. By way of nging the issue in a definite form be- fore the people the speaker submitted the outlines of a bill providing for prompt justice. According to the Atlanta Constitution, the bill continues the or- ganization of the .Grand Jury from one term to another, makes it a conservator of the peace, and ra- quires it to serve at called terms of court; provides that witness culied terms, and for appointment of counsel in ad- vance and for trial at that term if parties can get ready; provides for immediate hearing of motion of new trial, immediate bill of exceptions, and imme- diate hearing in Supreme Court. A bill of the kind providing for what may be called | a “shortcut” trial in times of popular excitement may | not be as good as the safeguarded trials to which we | are accustomed, but it is better than lynch law. It is to be hoped the Georgians will try it. some organization is necded to conserve the peace and promote good order in the lynch-ridden coun- ties of the State, and a Grand Jury might well be as- signed the fask. .(Lllfall'ifi from human throats. | cause of his bray is the movement to have the day of [ the San Fr. s may be summoned at once to attend | Certainly ! 1GH hopes have been entertained that in the preparations made for the reception of the Cali- fornia Volunteers on their return from the Phil- ippines there would be such universal harmony that from first to last the proceedings would be marred by no word of wrangling, fault-finding or protesting. The hope was natural, but was too high for a com- | plete fulfillment. The general satisfaction has not in- { cluded all the people. One voice has been lifted in protest against the prevailing enthusiasm. It is but a single voice, but the noise of it disturbs the har—; mony even as the bray of an ass sounding from a field would jar and mar the fullest chorus ever poured The complainer is the Fresno Democrat, and the eception of the returning heroes set apart as a public holiday, so that the working people may have full freedom to take part in the festivities. The the r JUST ONE 'KICKER. fi,——'Jfineti braying runs thus: “The San Francisco papers are | now urging that the Governor declare a dies non on | the day that the First California Regiment arrives a(‘! home. This legal holiday business is being run into | the ground in California. Why should business be | suspended all over the State simply to give S:ml Francisco a legal holiday? Business will be prac- | tically suspended on that day in San Francisco if one- | ha proposed to be done in the welcoming of | nciscans is done, but why should the | State have in consequence to suffer the inconvenience g the courts closed, banking and commercial | irs stopped and all legal business suspended?” A more senseless protest against the patriotic im- | pulses of a people has never been written. Legal | holidays have not been “run into the ground” in Cali- | Our holidays are few, and even of the few | It is probable fornia. many are not adequately observed. that ornians take less recreation than any other people. ried on with vigor at all seasons of the year, and we keep continuously at it. We have not the long win- ter rest or the long summer repose of the East. We are driving forward at high pressure all the time. | An additional holiday added to the list of this year | would be a benefit even if it were taken solely for re-| creation, and it is certainly commendable when taken | for the purpose of welcoming home the heroic sons | Our climate is such that work can be car- ornia who are coming back to us from a war cn the other side of the globe, a war in which they | lizve been victorious, in which they have not (m!}" distinguished themselves but have reflected glory | vpon the State. | It is to be regretted that even a single Californian | has been found wanting in sympathy with the en-| thusiasm of the people in this movement, but there is some satisfaction in knowing there is only one. The | bray d, and now the glad chorus can go | on as if it had never been uttered. | P e e 12s been he: Recent reports from Guatemala indicate that Presi- sassination of many t Cabrera has ordered the a his worthy subjects. He may find himself some fine 1g in the predicament that ended the careers of -looking into | motn sone of his bloodthirsty predecess the muzzle of a gun. | Th yrm king is exercising over Porto Rico and | Cuba a devastating power of which Spain had no su: force to command. And the new little able to guard its picion much protector of the islanders is wards as Spain would have been. e | THE RIGHTS OF AUTHORS. MOVEMENT has been started among litera people in New York to have the copyright law | amended by Congress in order that writers may | enjoy the fruits of their labor in perpetuity. Under | the present law it is possible for the rights of a book to lapse and become public property in the life of the writer. A petition to Congress has been prepared and | circulated by Margaret Lee, and many writers and | literary persc have signed it. In their argument for the desired amendment the petitioners say: “In Russia copyright exists during | an author’s life, twenty-five years aiter his death and ten years in addition if an euition of his works is pub- | lished within five years of the end of the term; in Spain, during the author’s life and fifty years there- after; in Germany, for the author’s life and thirty years thereafter; in France, during the author’s life and fifty years thereaiter. We demand that the United States shall at once take the foremost position and make copyright perpetual. The reason of the law | is the life of the law; the reason‘for the putting of any | restriction on the life of the copyright having disap- peared, the limitation should cease, and the right the author in his work should be perpetual.” No valid argument can be urged against the per- petual copyright asked for in the petition. If a man use the profits of his labor to buy land the Govern- ment secures the title forever to him and to his heirs until either he or they sell it. If another man employ his lakor in vroaucing a book he is justly entitled to as full possession of the property as is given to the land-owner. Reasons of public expediency require that perpetual patents should not be given to invent- ors, for improvements in mechanism affect widespread industries, and a monopoly of an improvement in machinery would in some cases amount to a monopoly of the industry, but no such objection stands against | perpetual copyright for authors. 1t is not at all likely the movement will make much headway until after a prolonged agitation, for the op- position to it will be strong, but it is none the less worth while for authors to begin the contest for what is undoubtedly a natural right. It required many years to bring about the arrangement for an interna- tional copyright between this country and Great Britain, but in the end the authors were successful. An earnest and united effort for perpétual copyright may have a similar history. The literary men of this generation will hardly profit by it, but they may have the satisfaction of winning a recognition of the rights of those who are to follow them. s e TT— The cannibalistic natives of the Solomon Islands seem to carry their notions of friendship to the point of intolerance, According to Count Festetics, who narrowly escaped providing a feast for the savages in his own -adventurous person, the cannibals are as ready to eat a friend as an enemy. | MUCH @DO ABOUT NOTHING. UR Eastern contemporaries are as busily dis- O cussing the outlook of the Democratic party as if it were a matter of concern to the nation. The signs of the skies visible along the distant hori- zon are interpreted variously. Some gazers perceive in them evidences that Bryanism is declining, others see proofs that Bryanism is growing in strength. A considerable number assert the remonetization of si ver will be the issue in 1000, as it was in the last Presi- dential campaign, while many are convinced the party will seek new leaders and new issues. | The action of the Maryland Democrats in ignoring the money question in their State platform this year | he accumulated | 1s taken as a proof that those who are opposed to a on of the blunder of 96 will be able to shape the policy of the party next year. The fact that a gold Democrat has been nominated for Governor in Ken- tucky is also pointed out as another evidence that the old Bryanite fervor is giving place to a return of com- mon sense. 3 It is of course well understood the elimination of free silver from the contest next year means the de- feat of Bryan for renomination. His candidacy would make the money question the predominant issue in the minds of the business elements of the people despite cvery =ffort that could be made by himself or by his party to set it aside. He is as fully identified with the silver craze as McKinley with the tariff, and the in- telligence of the country will never trust him in a position where his power can in any way affect the finances of the nation. That much is generally understood and agreed by all the political experts who are now considering the future of Democracy. There is confusion, however, in the discussion as to what issue with the administra- tion the Democrats could raise if the money question be set aside. It will be impossible to raise an issue on the subject of trusts, because the Republican party is not responsible for the existence of trusts and is as much opposed to their objectignable features as any Democrat can be. Neither is it at all likely any suc- cess can be gained in arraying Democracy against the war policy of the administration, for on that issue Democracy is divided against itself. The whole subject is oi no more than speculative interest. It can hardly be called a matter of national concern. Whether the party cling to Bryan or turn from him, whether it fight trusts or ignore them, whether it denounce the foreign policy of the ad- ministration or not, will matter little. It is as certain as anything in the future can be that McKinley will be re-elected. All debates concerning the probable course of the Democratic party on national issues will for some time to come be but much ado about noth- ing. Until it has been purged not of Bryan only but of all the leaders who have made his supreme leader- ship possible there will be nothing for it in each Presidential contest but to go forth, as Colonel Watterson cnce said, “to a march through a siaughter-hcuse to an open grave.” Apparently it is only necessary to cross a river in the Philippines to find oblivion. The fact that Fun- <ton has not been heard of since the action for which | he received his promotion recalls the other fact that Hully Gee Otis has dropped clear out of sight since he crossed the Rubicon on a cablegram. THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF GOOD| | thought. CITIZENS. | OVERNOR ROOSEVELT, in an address be- G gave to the cultured audience that gathered to fore the summer school of Ocean Grove, N. J., | | you WMMMW»WMMM EDITORIAL VARIATIONS. } HOUOLPXOXOH As the Boston Globe, a contemporary very much esteemed for reliability, vouches for this story, I accept it as it stands and with alacrity pass it along: A committee of the Selectmen of Tyngs- boro, Mass., appointed to inquire into the cause of a somewhat mysterious fire in the town, found reason for be- leving it was caused by lightning. It is not the custom in Massachusetts to let disasters pass as accidentat nor to excuse offenders however high their station, so the committee reported that this particular fire was due to ‘“the carelessness of the Lord.” « e e When Boswell in his “Life of Samuel Johnson” set the fashion of searching out everything that can be learned of the doings of a famous man and pub- lishing it, he was said by a wit of the time to have added a new terror to death. Dr. Johnson himself felt the terror, for he once said: “If I knew Boswell intends to write my life I'd take his Colonel Ingersoll is the latest sufferer from the practice, and it is safe to say if he had known what his fool friends were going to do after his death he would have killed them before he died. Some of them have actually sought out from old newspapers the verses written in early manhood by the gifted orator and republished them as evidence that he might have been a poet if he hadn’t preferred to be something else. In doing this Ingersoll's friends have given Moses a means of attaining a sweet revenge should he happen to meet his lampooner in the Elysian fields. “You were very merry on earth over my mistakes,” Moses will say, blandly, “but you must concede I never made the mistake of writing such poetry as have done, nor of making such friends.” The written oratory of Ingersoll at- tests his ability to infuse prose with harmonies of rhythm almost equal to the perfection of music, and to make the sound of his sentences accord so fully with the sentiment expressed in them that, whether grave or gay, lively or severe, the melody of the cadences added to the impressiveness of the It is strange, therefore, that in‘undertaking poetry he failed utterly. Such, however, was the fact. The mo- ment he placed his free-flowing words under the restrictions of verse he lost his cunning and his grace, and he who in prose moved so swimmingly along no hear him a plain talk on their political duties and the | sooner ventured upon poetry than he extent to which they are responsible for the short- | waddled like a duck out of water. comings of government, whether of the nation, the | State or the city. | Tt is not worth while to quote the whole of one of Ingersoll’'s poems to It is idle, said the Governor, for'a class of people | oo\ what doggerel they are. A few calling themselves “‘good citizens” to try to set them- ; verses will suffice. Here are some from selves apart from politics, ours the political life must in the long run correspond | to the social and the business life. In the end our politicians must be exactly what the people allow them to be. They must represent the people—perhaps the virtue, perhaps the vice, perhaps the indifference of the people. To those would-be reformers who think they are really doing something for reform by mere denun- ciations of politicians this plain statement was di- rected: “In blaming the bad politician do not forget that we are ourselves to blame for permitting his ex- istence. Again, do not let us fall into the mistake of | thinking that we shall ever make politics better by hysterics in any shape or form. Windy denunciation | of all politicians, good and bad, is the very thing most advantageous to the bad politician, because such de- | punciation being one-half false loses all pmctici\lj effect, as it is impossible to separate the true from the | false.” | That the the lesson intelligence of San Francisco has learned | Roosevelt undertook to teach at Ocean | Grove has been proven by the results of the rercnti primaries. There remains, however, the danger that the people may not continue to live up to the stan- dard of civic patriotism illustrated in that contest. If the good citizens who triumphed on that day should now sit down contented with their victory it is safe to say the defeated bosses would soon rally their strength and devise some means of getting back at | least a part of their former power in the municipai | government. The fight for good government in San Francisco | | did not end with the primary elections, notwithstand- ing the completeness of that victory over bosses and the yellow journal. It will go on until the polls close on election day. The gangs of spoilsmen who seek to | use the municipal government for their own profit are tireless workers, ceaseless plotters, and have a cunning that for some purposes serves almost as well as wis- dom. Against their efforts the intelligence of the peo- ple must be always on guard. § —— Alexander McDonald, the “Klondike king,” seems to be overwhelmed with distress because in one year liabilities aggregating $6,000,000. Most people weould consider themselves almost miraculously fortunate to get their fellows to loan them that amount in a lifetime. The Yaqui Indians are inspired by a belief that un- der the guidance of the strange Santa Teresa they are to journey to heaven. The military activity of the Mexican Government already indicates that the trip will be fully as interesting but in another direction. Dispatches from Havana contain the information that General Jiminez, the revolutionary aspirant to the Presidency of San Domingo, has sent an égent to New York. Pending further advices, it is safe to as- sume that he sent a press agent. The dispatches declare that a devastating hail storm absclutely “cleaned” a strip of land twelve miles wide. The farmers in that part of the country are likely to chenge that ancient remark that cleanliness is next to godliness. —_ Fearful havoc has been done in the West Indies by the recent hurricanes. President McKinley might with profit issue an order for the enlistment of a few of them for service against the Filipinos. What a picnic Chief of Police Lees would have if the criminals hereabout were as talkative as M. Paul Deroulede and his confreres. Instead of a sweatbox he would need a gag. . The Board of Works in Oakland is rapidly becom- ing 2 by-word for the things it has planned and not executed. Some wag has rechristened it “the board of words.” Ina pfize.-fight at Philadelphia the other night one of the principals weakened and claimed a foul. If that was rot an evidence of chicken-heart, what was it? for in a country such as|a poem published years ago in the Greenville (I1l.) Journal and entitled: THE WAVY W , flow'ry lake, Where grassy waves in stillness ride, A wild, unbounded, living tide, When breezes softly wake. Where dark-haired Indian girls, Reclining on thy dewy breast. I morning dew and sunlight dressed, Adorned with dewy pearls, First felt the tender flame— Saw lover's lips in rapture move; And felt the trembling beat of love Thrill wildly o'er their frame. PR T See the flower in beauty’s ray, O'er its rative sweets exulting; But the blast in wildness swe, Bears its native sweets away. See it lone and bleeding lav, And o'er its petals softly weep, TiIl death comes o'er like gentle sleep; Thus those lovers passed away. PR Lest it be thought unfair to cite In- gersoll's youthful indiscretions in verse as conclusive proof he could not write verse at all, I submit two verses from his latest poem, written shortly before his death, and entitled “The De- claration of the Free.” One stanza runs thus: We rave no falsehoods to defend— We want the facts; Our force, our thought, In vain attacks. And we will never maanly try To save some fair and pleasing le. That may be accounted a pretty fair jingle by those who “want the facts,” and Ingersoll was always in want of facts; but it is not poetry nor within a measurable distance of poetry. we do not spend | Here's another burst, or “bust,” from the same screed: We will not willingly be fooled By fables nursed: Our hearts by earnest thought are schooled To bear the worst; And we can stand erect and dare All things, all facts that really are. AR T ‘With blank verse, being freed from the necessity of rhyme, and freeing himself from the metrical laws of po- etry, Ingersoll was more successful than with other verse, but not much. We have a specimen of it in lines writ- ten upon the back of a photograph given to his daughter, and which are believed to be the last words he wrote: Immortality, With its countiess hopes and fears against the shores of time and faith, Was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow Beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and Garkness as long as love kisses the lips of beating death. 1t is the rainbow hope, shining on the tears of grief. Of such character are the poetic re- mains of Robert Ingersoll, and as they are doomed to die anyhow the true friends of his fame will wish these re- mains had been incinerated with all the rest of him that was mortal. e e, It is surely unnecessary to quote any specimen of Ingersoll's prose to show how widely its rippling or thundering cadences, rolling along in untrammeled freedom and force, differed from his halting verse. Still it is worth while to furnish a specimen to bring the con- trast impressively to the mind, and the following passage is interesting not only as an illustration of his style but as a statement of what he aimed to accomplish in oratory. It is taken from the Westminster Gazette, and as it oc- curs in the course of some observations made upon public speaking in America and Great Britain, it is perhaps a spec- imen of his conversational rather than his oratorical style; but it will serve my purpose and be more interesting to the general reader than the well-worn quo- tations from famous speeches with which all are familiar. He is quoted as having said: “There is no difference between the real Eng- lish and the real American orator. Ora- tory is the same the world over. The man who thinks on his feet, who has the pose of passion, the face that thought illumines, a vu:ce in harmony with the ideals expressed; who has logic like a column and poetry like a vine; who transfigures the common, dresses the ideals of the people in BY JOHN McNAUGHT. : OXOXOXPXOREIOEOXEXOXOLOXIROXOAIAONOXOLIXOIOXOROINSAOXOXD 4 s SRO XS purple and fine linen; who has the art of finding the best and noblest in his hearers, and who in a thousand ways creates the climate in which the best grows and flourishes and bursts into blossom—that man is an orator, no matter of what time or what country.” e e That Ingersoll's oratory fell a long way short of the standard he set up goes without saying. No man attains his ideal in anything unless he be a base man whose ideals are base. Nor does it matter much, for, after all, the true life of man is spiritual, not physi- cal; in the thought and the aim, not in| the action and the attainment. Inger-| soll aimed at a lofty oratory, and if in his desire to gain applause from his au- diences he paid more attention to the vine of rhetoric than to the column of logie, dressed very commonplace ideas in the purple of gorgeous words, and | not infrequently appealed to what is | lowest and meanest in men rather than to what is nobliest, he is to be forgiven —partly because we need to be forgiven much ourselves, partly because he is dead and will do it no more, but mainly because he stuck to what was best In himself and rarely wrote poetry. . . Senator Chauncey Depew, who has long been regarded as one of the most genial as well as one of the most effect- ive of after-dinner orators, has recently declared that to make a hit with a speech to men who are well lined with a good dinner and desire to top off with a feast of reason and flow of soul it is “absolutely essential to leave some- body’s hide on the fence.” Such a statement from that source Is surprising, for Mr. Depew has the repu- tation of leaving nothing on the fence but chestnut burrs. The truth of it, however, is not to be disputed. A Sher- idan, indeed, may achieve triumphs, | “though his wit in the combat, as gentle | as bright, never carries a heart-stain away on its blade”; but the average speaker can never please a crowd un- less he takes the hide off a neighbor. Most men, indeed, are so fond of seeing somebody else hided that almost every man who practices the art of taking the hide off is generally regarded as a wit. Yet it should not be so. As a matter of fact it requires more wit and more imagination to ~say complimentary things about a neighbor or a companion at a festal board, and cover the hide of his reputation, than to strip him to the bone and expose his skeletoh. SO S It is to be hoped Senator Depew will practice in the Senate what he has preached for dinner parties. Since the awakening of Ingalls from the irides- cent dream of political life there has | not been in the Senate one-half as| much of hide stripping as the people desire. The Congressional Record has | become as dull as a comic weekly, and | there is no joy in it except for folks who like statistics. If ‘the fresh Sen- ator from New York will immediately (pon the assembling of Congress pro- | ceed to make a hit at Tillman of South Carolina the gayety of the holidays will be increased, whether the hide left on | the fence happen to be that of Tillman | or that of Depew. | . Out of the discussions that in the | East have followed the exposure of bar- barities inflicted in the way of punis ment upon the unfortunate inmates of | a girls' reform school in New Jersey | there has come one little gleam of hu mor and of good. The trend of the dis- cussion is to determine the best means | of making refractory girls behave themselves, and many children have | been invited to give their ideas on the subject. One of them is quoted as say- ing: “I just love music, jewsharps and | brass bands and organs and all kinds; | and when I'm very bad at home they | play me good. Yes, sir, it is just this instead of punishing me they put me on a sofa and play easy, soft mu- sic, and somehow it makes me gooder and gooder.” On arriving at New York the other | day the passengers of the Campania beheld upon the pier a vast concourse of people and heard the strains of a brass band blaring out: ‘“See, the Conquering Hero Comes.” The passengers were therefore aware that among their num- ber was one whom the American people are proud to honor, so they lingered on the deck, waiting to see him go ashore. The first that walked down the gang- plank was Senator Wolcott, orator, statesman, lawmaker, member of the Bimetallic Commission. The peo- ple paid no attention to him. Then | followed Israel Zargwill, novelist, dramatist, lecturer and wit. Upon him there pounced three reporters, but the crowd let him pass un- noticed. Next along the gangplank tripped Tod Sloan, the incomparable | jockey, the victor of a hundred bril- liantly won races, but still the people waited. All at once the band sent forth Jouder and more triumphant strains, the vast concourse of people waved hats and handkerchiefs and canes, and| shouted as in a delirium of joy, for, be- | hold—they saw ‘‘Pedlar” Palmer. i Now, “Pedlar’” Palmer is not a pedlar, but a prize fighter, and he has come to | this country to elevate pugilism. We | have thus an {llustration of the trend of public favor in the metropolis. Statesmen, wits and race riders are as nothing; they are lumped on a common Jevel and ignored when the fisticuff man comes to town. Admiral Dewey may account himself fortunate that he js to reach New York in a ship of his own and will not have to run the risk of having his reception spoiled by the simultaneous arrival of some ‘“pug” from Pugtown. ARQUND THE : CORRIDORS Dr. Leonard W. Ely of New York is at the Palace. G. M. Engles, a lumberman of Prima, is at the Russ. Dr. H. Trowbridge of Fresno is stop- ping at the Lick. Senator William Cutter of Paraiso Springs is at the Grand. ‘William Beokman, the banker, of Sacra- mento, is at the Grand. 'W. W. Middlesoff, an attorney of Stock- ton, is registered at the Lick. Fred Stoll, a well-known mining man of Dawson City, is at the Russ. Joe Craig. proprietor of Highland Springs Hotel, is at the Grand. Willlam M. Thornton, a well-known mining man and banker of Anaconca, Mont., is a guest at the Palace. Dr. P. 8. Kellog and Dr. W. R. Wash- burn. surgeons in the United States army, | [United , Statgs, oz stopping at the Occidental. Barnes, a nurse in ths ‘my,, arrived last night from New York City-and.is.stopping at the Occidental. She served in Cuba dur- ing the war and is now en route to Ma- nila. While in Cuba she was attached to the Seventh Army Corps. Lieutenant Colonel E. M. Haves of the United States Fourth Cavalry arrived Jast night from Washington en route to Manila, where he will be assigned to active duty. Colonel Hayes has been in Cuba since the inception of the war and has earned a military reputation second He will not tarry long in this Miss S. H. to none. city, but will leave very shortly for the Philippines. He is a guest at the Occi- dental. A special meeting of the San Francisco Leaf Tobacco Dealers’ Association was held yesterday for the purpose of bidding farewell to M. P. Kohlberg, one of the largest leaf tobacco dealers in the city, who goes to New York to-morrow. The gentleman came here in 1872 and engaged in the manufacture of cigars, but later, in company with his partners, devoted his energies to the leaf tobacco business, He will engage in the same line in New York. Resolutions of respect were passed. ! — e—— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Aus. 12.—Howard T. Thomas Jr. of San Francisco is at the Hoffman. Miss Alice Neilson of San Fran- cisco is at the Gilsey. Miss L. B. O'Neill of San Francisco is at Marlborough. Dr. de Chantreaux of San Francisco is at the Martin. —_—e—e———— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—F. A. Bergen and William L. Duncan of San Francisco are at the St. James. Charles L. Lloyd of Oakland is at the Metropolitan. —_— ce—————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A DIVE—E. R. C., City. No one ever dove from either the old or the new CUff House into the ocean. CHARLES FROHMAN—-M. C., City. Charles Frohman of theatrical fame is not in the city at this time nor is he ex- pected here. e ECOLE DES BEAUX ARTS—A. 8., City. Women as well as men are admitted as students in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. __ INSPECTION—S., City. The baggage of emigrants departing from England is not subject to inspection by the officers of the Custom-house. £is BILLIARDS—A. §. B., City. The record of billiards was published in the depart- ment of Answers_to Correspondents in The Call of July 27 under the heading of “Billiard Playin UNIFORMS— law that prescribe: . R., City. There is no that the President and the Vice President of the United States shall wear a uniform, nor is there any that provides that Governors of States shall wear one. EARTHQUAKE PREDICTIONS—Sub- scriber, City. It was Falk who predicted earthquakes in California, and one of his redictions was that there would be one n August, but he did not fix the date. THE STEAMER CHINA—M. N., City. The Pacific Mail steamship China did not arrive in San Francisco in August, 1866. She arrived July 20, 159. and sailed for Hongkong on the 30th of the same month. AT GRAVELOTTE—J. T. M., City. The greatest loss during the Franco-Prussian war was at Gravelotte August 18, 1870. The French loss was 13.2713 out of 120,000, and n loss 20,517 out of 146,000, whi 4449 killed, 15,189 wounded and ich 938 In San Fran- sors must, on TAX LEVY. cisco the Board of Superv or before the first Monday in May, annu- ally levy the amount of taxes required to be levied by law upon all property not ex- empt from taxation. REWARD FOR FINDING—J. K., City. A person who in the State of California | finds any valuable thing is entitled to be 1 necessary expenses in- ame, and is en- ard for keeping reimbursed for al curred in protecting the titled to a reasonable re the same for the owner. PUBLIC PRINTER—S. D. F., Ci The Public Printer at Washington, D. C., has charge of all business relating to the pub- lic printing and binding. He appoints the officers and_employes of the Government printing office and purchases all neces- sary machinery and material. FOR COMIC PAPERS—J., City. If you believe that you have ability to write for comic papers all you have to do is to sub- mit some of your manuscript to the editor of the paper you select. If the matter meets with the approval of the editor you will find a market for your writings. VOLUNTEERS—R., City. The follow- ing named States furnished volunteers during the late war which were sent to the Philippine Islands: California, Colo- rado, Towa, K; Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Ore- gon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennes- Sce, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. BREAD RIOTS—A. S., City. None of the published accounts give the exact figures of the number of people killed dur- ing the bread riots of Italy in 1888. You can obtain the information by sending a letter of inquiry to William F. Draper, United States Embassador Extraordinarv ,}m} Minister Plenipotentiary, Rome, taly. ORANGES—S., City. It is impossible to answer the question “How many carloads of oranges were shipped from this State for the season ending May, 1899? Do not include lemons in giving reply,” for the reason that oranges and lemons are not segregated in the statistic of shipments, }uxt“al} g0 under the head of “citrus ruits.” A NOTE-—Subscriber, City. If vou hold a note payable on demand dated June, 2, and you have not received the money oucan not now sue, as the statuts of limitations runs against it, notwith- standing the fact that in 188 there was made a smair payment thereon. The lmi- tation does not run from the time of the last payment on a note. : RINGWORM—O. S., City. There are a number of remedies for ringworm, but this department cannot give such, as it does not undertake to perform the func- tions of a physician. A person so afflicted should consult a reputable physician, as there may be conditions which may’ re- quire a sort of treatment which might be directly opposite to any of the so-called remedies which might be published. MOTHS—Subscriber, City. It is not the moth that does the mischief but the mag- got which. springs from the eggs deposited in the early spring by toe moth. Wherever such are suspected to exist spraying with camphorated alcohol or diluted creosote is said to destroy the eggs. If in clothin or furs these should be exposed to the sus and well beaten, then wrapped in newspa~ pers, as printers’ ink is deadly to the mag- | got; or put some camphor in the chest gp closet in which the articles are kept. —— T Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's, * —_——— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’:negm.? D::Ihi: gomery street. Telephone Mafn 1042, * —_—r an Dishonored His Cloth. Henry Hadler, who deserted fro: California Heavy Artillery while sta‘gm:z‘: at Lime Point and served a term on Al- catraz Island, was yesterday arrested by Detective Ryan on a charge of petty larceny. He Is accused of stealing a lot 2 om J. g ofETal e Andrews’ barn, 82 —_————— President McKinley and His Wite Will travel over the Northern Pacific R: When they VIsit the famous Yellowstons Bacle They intend vViewing the new geyser that spouts a tremendous stream of boiling wat to the height of the Call building. Ite a wonderful sight. Send 6c in stamps for book telling all about it to T. K. STATELER, Gen. Agt., 638 Market st., S. F. 5 ——e— Very Low Rates East. On August 29 and 30, the popular Sar route will sell tickets to Philadelphta aug = turn at the very low rate of $3885. Occa- sion, National Encampment, G. A. R. Call €28 Market st. for full particulars,