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BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay open until 8:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes street, open until 930 o'clock. 639 McAllister street. open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street. open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty- second and Kentucky strects, open until 9 o'clock. e e AMUSEMENTS. Orpheum—Our Heroes' Fund Benefit, this afternoon. Columbia—*Heartsease.”" Assurance, Grand Opera-house—**Dorot: Chutes, Zoo and Free Theater—Vaudeville every afternoan ces, eto. ipins Wonder Show. n Building, Fund Benefit, Wednesday and THE CUBAN REVENUES® ent sustained in Cuba by | United States controls the revenues of the d from taxation of the peopl reported that very large sums have been ym these revenues to contribute to the per- . and spmptuous form in which our officers 4 in Havana and in the provincés wherc r and staff are located, been to some extent contradicted Associated Press, but the matter merits t if there be any considerable | on for:thent it ‘will be a serious scandal to our n the i d. plaints which produced the Cuban 1 was. of the pomp and pageantry at the ce and the draining of the people’s substance ¢ | state by Spain. usted by a long revolution, which | tries ‘and impoverished its people. r gove: Goxe rt§ hay e rep palas intain ofty he island'is to inflame the unselfishness of this country and bring | into a spirit of sacrifice as a justification. of the war. One needs to go back only a year and a | half to be face to face with the only spirit and the sole purpose for which Americans were willing to bear the | burden of a foreign war. That war formally ended 14th of August, 1808, We did not take pos- of Cuba until some time later. If the repre- sentations the condition of the island and the wretchedness of its people wete true, it is unbecoming to take from their poverty large sums of money to be: spent in sustamning the Spanish methods of ex- travagance in order to impress them with our power. N her civil or military of-{ ficers sent abroad to ape viceregal forms. Such gewgawry unfits them for the simple ways which shogld be the ways of a republican people. If a con- | siderable ‘number of these officers get a taste of the use of irrésponsible power abroad and take money | from Cuban taxpayers without asking their consent, | to spend in trappings and luxuries, they will lose re- | spect also for the home taxpayer, and as far as they impress“the current of domestic government will | make it-as much as possible irresponsible to the pto-i ple, to the ‘end that the luxuries attending the admin- | of asatrapy may continue to beguile their | when‘at'home. The people did not go into the | panish war for any such purpose. Ex-President -Harrison, it will be admitted, is a| pretty good Republican and a pretty good American. | He wasrecently. interviewed in Paris by some friendly | French statesmien who are uneasy about the future | purposes of this country, especially as indicated by our | d occupation of Cuba. General Harrison quoted from our declaration of | “The United States hereby dis- n or intention to exercise sov- liction or control over said island, ex- acification thereof, and asserts its de- | of do our people wish con i | the p: termination’ when- this is completed to leave the gov- ernment and.control of the island to its people.” He| then assured the Frenchmen that “the United States | ire: for war or conquest. Their attitude | ited-outside their own borders to the safeguard- litierty. . Our written constitution is so con- | ted-that no act of a party in power can become | t hout the consent of the people, fi!ldi peaceful, industrious ard opposed to Ideas on colonization are attributed to us that are not curs. America wishes to grow by the expinsion :of ler commerce, by exporting her froducts, and ot by force of ‘arms.” “We think it would puzzle any one to find in our written consti- n autherity to wring money from the taxpayvers of Cuba to spend in viceregal luxury in the palace at Havana. fe are the peoj new veamtures. William Waldori Astor may have a chance yet. Since the annotincement of her engagement to Lieu- tenant Cornwalliz-West, Lady Randolph Churchill has been cut dead by the members of the young man’s family and the Marlboroughs, Now is Willie’s tims to cut in and cut out the “Loot.” The Emperor of Russia has congratulated the Chinese Government upon its wisdom in permitting him to gain a.strong foothold in the oriental king- dom. It is safe to say that Chinese officers of state do not see the joke in the Czar's congratulation £6.00 | ENTERPRISING CAPITAL. N line with the very intelligent and interesting in- | terviews of the returned volunteers as to the phy- “stography of the Philippines are the descriptions that come to us of physical conditions in the West Indies. Of course there is nothing new in all this. | It was exploited by Von Humboldt, by Darwin, Drapq’ and a score of naturalists long ago. It was learned in the hard school of experience by the Scotch Darien Company and the Acadian refugees to French Giiana. - The wealth of the world has always | been in the temperate zone. Its poverty has enjoyed | nakedness as a luxury in the tropics. Money may prosper in the torrid zone, because men do not. The wages of labor there are fixed by {the cost of living, and that is fixed by the spon- {tancous fruits of nature and a climate that makes | clothing a superfluity. Enterprising capital has been quick to see this, and | English syndicates have promptly taken advantage of the necessity of Cuban planters by buying all the good tobacco lands in the island. Their investments thercin now amount to $10,000,000, and their agent has recently said, “You Americans will hereafter buy your tobacco of Englishmen.” Professor Knapp of the Agricultural Department at Washington, who made a voyage of investigation to the Philippines and reported that they offered un- limited opportunities to the American home-seeker, | contradicted that rose-colored estimate by reporting that English syndicates were on the ground getting title to all available hemp, sugar and tobacco lands. This is quite without precedent. Our people have been busy with the war, which is to put the West Indies and the Philippines in our possession, while the financial enterprise of Englishmen has been taking in everything that would make that possession of value to us. The English avoided investments under the flag of Spain, and one motive of the Brit- ish Government in holding Continental Europe at bay while we dispossessed Spain was the desire that | we should bag the game that her capitalists might | eat it. As our conquests have been put on the material level entirely, it is something of a disappointment to ! find that the profits expected by our own people are already permanently secured by the English. Those who own the soil of a tropical country are the masters of the profits of its trade. The sole means of producing wealth in the tropics is the handling of Manufacturing is not a torrid zone possi- ond the simplest forms. The soil is about | - The people of the United States seem to be placed lin the r: r peculiar condition of spending life and | money to make secure the ownership of tropical soil | by foreigners and to and safeguard the | profits to aliens, who will work it by cheap labor in with our better paid white labor -at increase cor home! The profits of Englishmen in the English crown colonies have been decreasing for years. There they must administer government and pay its costs. It setition has become necessary, therefore, that they shall lay | their eggs in a nest built by others, and they have played the cuckoo trick on the United States. Not long ago the people of this country resented the ownership of realty in the United States by Eng- shmen, and this resentment went so far that Cali- fornia adopted an amendment to her constitution to prevent such ownership in this State. Surely it is a marvelous change for the same peo- ple to be paying the cost of an expensive war and sending their sons to perish in its battles to open property to the prompt ownership of English capital and stand guard over it while it yields the-high profit of low-priced labor to its alien owners! e e The attorney for Augustus Howard, the man many aliases, accused of 3 his client is of legal age and will for himseli whether he should surrender to the police. Perhaps the police will have something to say on this very important point if ever they set eyes on the elusive Mr. Howard. of many crimes, decide The price of babies is dec not necessarily an indication that the supply greater than the demand. A Chinese of Boise City recently bought one for $25, and now the mother repents of the sale. The court will decide if the price was reasonable. ning, although this is is THE AWAKENING OF THE SOUTH. T the recent meeting of the Georgia Agricul- fl tural Society the Hon. D. A. Tompkins made the principal address, the one which gave the tone to the whole meeting and shaped the tenpr of the resolutions adopted. A full report has been published in the Atlanta Constitution, and it merits all the space given, for it is full of that sort of eloquence which impels not only to action, but to right action. Mr. Tompkins is not ene of the Southerners who despairs of his country.. He does not believe the problems of the South are incapable of solution. He is of the opinion that the strife between white and black is largely due to the lack of sufficient employ- ment. The Georgia farmer, he says, works on average not more than 100 days in the year, that being the amount of labor required to raise a cotton crop. He would have the farmers co-operate with one another to build factories for the employment of the idle whites and blacks who have nothing to do an \b\q to quarrel with one another. To provide a mar- ket for the cotton goods thus produced he favors lib- eral subsidies for American shipping. On that point he said: “We must develop and maintain our ship- ping. We must have a merchant marine and a navy to protect it. We havereached that point in our in- dustrial development when, if we extend our manu- factures further, we must have more markets. - You have built railroads by subsidies. There is hardly a town, county or State that has not contributed in | bonds or in money or in lands, or the use of streets, to the construction of one or more railroads. Al- most every railroad in the United States has had more or less bounty money to aid in its construction. | Towns vie with each other to-day in offering bounties ;(0 obtair. new lines of roads, and everybody feels that {it pays to do so. Yet there is an incomprehensible | prejudice against giving even a fair mail contract to a new line of vessels to a foreign country. England and Germany are willing enough to send their sub- | sidized ships here after our 5-cent cotton. They will {never permit them to come for our 15-cent cloth. | These countries want to hold the manufacture and | hold the trade. We must have our own ships, as we émust also have a navy to protect them.” The speech was equally strong in support of sound imoncy.and financial integrity. “Wherever there are markets for Anterican good: he said, “we need | American banking facilities. We must have a money | upon which the people of all the world can rely. The American ‘banknote must be at all times and in all places as good as the English pound sterling.” The address was in substance though not in form a yigorous protest against that of the president of the society, J. Pope Brown, upon whi we commented yesterday, and it is significant that it was the speech which made the strongest impression upon the so- ciety. In a notable passage Mr. Tompkins said: - “A passenger once fell overboard from a Mississippi River steamboat at a point where the river-was about two mitles wide and looked as though it might be a mile deep. The man couldn’t swim, and was naturally very much irightened. He was floundering about and seemed in imminent danger of drowning. The pilot from the first kept shouting to him, ‘Stand up,’ and when he finally did make him understand and the man stodd up he found that the water was not over knee deep. Many of our troubles are very much like the troubles of this man. If we knew the surround- ings, or could in any way find out just what to do, we would be able to escape a sea of trouble by simply standing up. The purpose of my talk to-day will be to show that the life-saving thing for the cotton farmer is the cotton factory.” That is indeed the true way for the South to save her civilization. By providing work for her people all the year round through the establishment of fac- tories, by gaining markets through the means of a liberal policy toward our merchant marine and the establishment of our-finances on a safe basis, the South will pass easily over the difficulties in her path. General Jiminez, the Dominican insurgent, prob- ably realizes now that there is a vast difference be- tween expectation and realization. He boasted that the people of San Domingo were falling over each other in an effort to make him President. He has discovered that their soldiers fell all over his and al- most massacred his army. It is said that Thomas B. Reed will remain in the House of Representatives and from the floor will oppose the policy of the administration. If he re- mains faithful to his own interpretation of the privi- leges of the chairman he will be heard only when the Speaker is in a pleasant mood. S issued by the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion for the year 1898 embody a considerable number of tables significant of the economy of rail- way transportation brought about by recent improve- ments in cars and locomotives. The aggregate railways of the country amounted on June 30, 1808, to a total of 186 06 miles, being an increase for the year of 1967 miles. The increase was | distributed so uniformly over the Union that only States showed a construction for the year in ex- | cess of 100 miles, these being Arkansas, Californis, | Louisiana, Missouri, New York and Wisconsin. | Notwithstanding this increase of nearly 2000 miles of railway, the number of freight locomotives in use increased by only 229, while the number of passenger locomotives diminished by 61. Taking all loco- motives, including those used in the service of the companies as well as those used for freight and pas- senger servi'cc, the increase over the previous year was but 248, The total number of cars reported for the year was 1,326,174, being an increase of 28,694 as compared with the previaus year. A classification of the cars shows that the number employed for the passenger service decreased by 31, while the freight service showed an increase of 27,006, the remainder of the | increase being in cars used for the service of the com- | panies. | Tt is pointed out in the report that “these facts sug- RAILWAY DEVELOPMENTS. TATISTICS of railways in the United States |than in passenger traffi and it is added: | number of cars leased also shows a decrease of 4364, | as compared with the previous year, and the cor- | responding figures for the years from 1804 to 1898, |inclusive, indicate that this decline conforms to an established tendency. Whether this tendency is in- cident to a period marked by relative decrease a |in railway construction, or whether it indicates a | | change of the financial policy of railway corpora- | tions, cannot be safely determined from | hand.” Certain other statistics given in the report are in- | teresting in. this connection. From a table showin: | the relation of cars and locomotives to mileage it ap- | pears that in 1804 there were 1!1xcrc*l§qc but 718. Computed for the United States as a whole it appears that an average of 1,343,006 pas: senger miles are to be credited to each passenge ‘](;comoti\'c, and that 5,530,408 ton miles are to be | credited to each freight locomotive. “In both cases,” says the report, “the work of locomotives shows a considerable increase as compared with the previous year.” All ‘these statistics tend to show the increased economy of railway transportation due to improved locomotives and a consequent enlargement of the carrying capacity of the cars. Since nearly 2000 ad- ditional miles of railway can be operated with but little addition in the way of cars and locomotives and | men to handle them, it would seem there might be a reduction in railway rates without injury to the com- panies. It has been left to Richard Croker to make the most caustic condemnation, of New York Democrats. He says that the investigations of the Mazet com- mittee are. making ten thousand Democrats a day in New York. The Mazet committee is exposing the criminal, vicious administration of New York affairs by Democrats. A Another war cloud is gathering over Europe. The Emperor of Austria met the Chancellor of Germany the other day and had time to talk to him only seven minutes from a car window. The correspondents are greatly concerned over this. They possibly thought that a talk of seven hours was necessary for the ex- change of international courtesies. Colonel Charles Page Bryan, United States Minister to Brazil, appears to be all right. While the execu- tives of that country and Argentina are hugging each other in the ecstasies of the recent rapprochement, the colonel has been banqueting the correspondents, There's a diplomat for you D2 Naval Paymaster Wilcox, who loses half a year's salary and is reduced to the lowest grade in his par- ticular service for looking upon the cup that cheers, has at least one satisfaction. He enjoyed one of the most expensive drunks on record. publishes a story to the effect that the French have taken the Chinese island of San Chau. It was full time that they took their queue to get in on' the breaking up of China. _— Now that Millionaire Willard Reed Green of Den- ver has explained how he was swindled by “Plunges” Hill, he will find no one to dispute the fitness of his surname. 3 Midsummer political gossip is engaging attention in Washington. “Midsummer night dreams” have been heard of before. : gest that there has been a greater expansion in freight | ‘The data at | 728 cars in the service | | for every 100 miles of road operated, while in 1893‘ A newspaper in the Portuguese colony of Macao. 135000 rents and profits, for the unlawful AROUND THE CORRIDORS Rev. A. F. Bruder of Pittsburg Is a guest at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Hill of Eldridge are staying at the Grand. Cyrus Moreing, a wealthy Stockton merchant, is a guest at the Lick. A. H. Buhne, a capitalist and Council- man of Eureka, is in the city for a short visit. Fred Liddeke, one of the leading mer- chants of Centerville is a guest at the Lick. A. C. Dauphiny, a prominent business man and politician of Eureka, is at the Grand. . State Senator John F. Davis is regls- tered at the Palace from his home in Jackson. Frank H. Short, a prominent attorney of Fresno County, is in this city on legal business. ¥ Judge and Mrs. John F. Finn have re- turned to the city and are staying at the Palace. & Rev. D. G. Mackinnon of Stockton is at the Occldental with his wife on a short visit to this city. J. B. Chinn, a well-known fruit grower of Porterville, is among the recent arriv- als at the Grand. Among the late arrivals at the Russ last evening was “Doc” Gray, one of the lead- ing hotel men of San Diego. Charles R. Gardner, a big tobacco manu- facturer of Wheeling, W. Va., is at the Lick, where he arrived yesterday. B. Ricker, a large mill owner of Car- son, {8 among those who arrived in the city yesterday and went to the Palace. J. A. Lippincott, one of the leading and most influential citizens of Philadelphia, is at the Occidental on a short visit to the coast. > Phil Zohelein, the Los Angeles million- alre, s a guest at the Palace, where he is staying while on a short business trip to the city. * James Collins, one of the most extensive ranchers and largest fruit men in the State, is at the Lick from his home in Courtland. Frank O. Wells, Hugo Behan and S. J. Fleming, three mining men from Prescott, Ariz., are registered at the Palace among the guests who arrived there yesterday. R e Selby Oppen- | heimer,the young OPPENHEIMER | associate of Mr. : Friedlander inthe AND THE California Thea- LITTLE MAID. | ter enterprise, is a sport—not one o — ¢4 of your ordinary every-day, seven | times a week sports, but a real hot arti- | cle. So warm is he, in fact, that once when he passed a firehpuse the engine | of its own accord rolled on a’ light. Now Selby doesn’t have to keep up ap- | pearances. He has the long green in | | plenty and his roll when he flashes it speaks for itself and speaks more elo- quently and to better purpose than would all the purple and fine linen of a Solomon who was known to be “on the hog.” | But Selby likes to dress well. He prides | himself on his esthetic taste and nothing pleases him more than to be compliment- ed on his apparel. Sometimes there are to be found in his attire quite as many hues as flash from the multi-colored rainbow, but ro delicately are they blended that the general effect is more ‘the subdued glory of the moon than the-torrid splen- dor of the sun. At least so thought Mr. Oppenheimer until an occurrence’ that took place a few days ago. He was standing in front of the theater sinning himself and looking down upon the passing show when a lady, accom- panied by a little girl, went up to the © to purchase some tickets. While E s selecting the seats the little maid | wandered around looking at the gaudy posters upon which were printed in gor- geous colors the different scenes of “The Fairy @odmother.”” She looked at each one in succession until her eyes lit upon | the resplendent Selby standing till as | a statue near one of the corners of the theater entrance. Then she became ob- livious to all else. Standing back a little she crossed her hands and gazed in rapt | | admiration until her mother, finishing her purchase, left the box office and, taking | | her hand, started to lead her away. Just | | then Selby moved. ! | “Oh,” gasped the little girl, “mamma, | a real man.” That was all she said. But it was heard | by Murry and Harry Campbell and it wis | | enough. The news spread and the josh- | ing came so fast that Oppenheimer sim- | ply gave carte blanche at the bar for every one connected with the theater and | then fled. | M. L. Islam, a merchant of Portland, | and A. Jensen, one of the leading business men of Gardinerville, are both registered | | among yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. | John ¥. Noble, division superintendent of the Southern Pacific at Ogden, is | among the late arrivals at the Palace. | He comes to the city on business con- nected with his position. Chief Engineer Storey of the Valley | road left this morning for a tour of in-| spection over his line. He will medt President Ripley at Bakersfield and the two gentlemen will journey to this city together. J. B. Donner, superintendent of tele- graph of the Southern Pacific Company, will leave to-day or to-morrow for New Orleans. He goes to attend to matters | of importance connected with his position. He will probably be absent for a couple of weeks. Among the passengers on the Warren | was Major Bradley Putnam Strong, who was attached to the staff of the command- ing general at Manila. As soon as the vessel arrived he landed and went to the Palace, where he was met by his father, ex-Mayor- Strong of New York. W. 8. Gage of the Pacific Lumber, Com- pany’s mills at Scotia has just returned | from an extended business trip in that vi- | cinity. He says the mills, and, in fact, | everything in that sectlon of the country, | is progressing in splendid shape, but that | the mills are somewhat handicapped from the difficulty they experience in’getting | | Jaborers. There is plenty of chance there | for men who are out of employment and who are not afraid of work. ‘When the Governor of Colorado and his staff left the Warren last evening they smuggled ashore Licutenant Colonel | Moses and Captain E. E. Strong. Both | gentlemen are now at the Occidental. | Captain Strong is now on his way home; | | | | | | on sick leave. He was formerly of the Colorado Regiment, but for meritorious service and distinguished gallantry in the field he has been promoted to the Thirty- sixth regular Volunteer Infantry without any reduction in his rank. e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—Paul Graves and wife and Charles A. Son of San Fran- cisco are at the Hoffman. Mrs. J. Cough- lan of San Francisco is at the Holland. M. R. Mcintyre and wife, Mrs. A, L. Bryan and Miss Bryan of San Francisco are at the Gilsey. Jake Adler and Al- phonse Judis of San Francisco are at the Manhattan. Mrs. M. L. Powers and A. B. Donavan of San Francisco are at th ‘Westminster. B ———— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON A. A. Hatch of San Francisco is at the National; W. A. Harrington and wife of San Francisco are at the St. James, —_—————— Tuolumne’s Sheriff Sued. Suit has been brought in the Unitea States Circuit Court by the Leechman Prospecting Company, Limited, R. L. Price, Sheriff of Tuolumné 3.53.‘3;‘ and others whose names are unknown tg recover §10,00 damages, with costs, and | proces: | sehool of inter; | as these? seizure and detention of the Keltz Quartz lode mining claim, the north extension thereof nns the Kelvin mill site, all in Tuolumne County. —_— e ——— THE BARK AUREOLA HAS BEEN CONDEMNED Supervising Inspector Ber -ingham Refuses to Allow Her to Receive Certificate to Sail the Seas. The bark Aureola has been condemned by Supervising Inspector John Berming- ham and a certificate of inspection has been denied her on the ground that she is rotten. This is the first instance in which a vessel has been condemned by the local inspectors in this State. The Aureola was built at Warren, R, T., in 1863, and did good service in her time, but the inspectors have decreed that she is dangerous to be at large on the high seas. © United States Inspector Captain Marcucci recently reported her condition to United. States Iocal Inspectors Cap- tains' Bolles and Buiger. hey ordered that certain repairs should be made upon her. From this decisjon and order the Simpson Lumber Company, which is the agent for the vessel, appealed to the Supervising Inspector. In his epinion he says: My impression is. that were she opened out for a more thorough inspe: tion she would be found too rotten to ju tify the expenditure necessary to pas: the inspectiorr for the certificate.” FATHER WCORRY TELLS THE “STORY BEAUTIFUL” LECTURES FOR THE BENEFIT OF ST.. BRENDAN'S. Stereopticon Views Are Used to Illus- trate His Numerous Topics. The lecture delivered yesterday for the benefit of St. Brendan’s Church by Father MacCorry of Old St. Mary's was as great a suecess as ever a lecture could be. The oratory of the brillfant young priest was as eloquent as his subject was beautiful, and he held the rapt atlention of his au dience for the better part of two hours. He was Introduced by Father Nugent of St. Brendan’s. The lecture consisted of telling the old, old story of the Christ life in a newer way—the dressing of the ‘‘Story Beau- tiful” in a new, fresh®garb. The repro- duction of Hofmann's paintings was a sermon in itself—his Christ is a “World's Christ.” The coloring was chaste and delicate throughout—in every case a faithful imitation of the original canvas. In some instances the stereopticon pro- jections were exquisite, the “Flight Into | Egypt” and “The Rich Young Man" had ything but the throb of lif “Christ thsemane'” brought an involuniary reverent admiration from the ry one who beheld it. “I have seen the original of that ‘Gethsemane,’ " said the speaker simply, “‘and 1 do not think that a man of finer feeling could look at it for half an hour and live.” Throughout the lecture the word-paint- ing of Father MacCorry, his descriptions of scenery, social customs, episodes in the life of the ““Man of Sorrows,” vied in bril- llancy and color with the pictures on the screen. A moral lesson affixed to nearly every siide ed upon the canvas. The ccompaniment and res Giorgiani w. drawn was as artfully it 2 by &trikingly appropriate and faultless in execution. Altogether no man or woman whose soul has not been gnawed away by self- ishness and sin could have gone out after hearing this telling of the “Story Beau- tiful” without feeling an irresistible im- petus to better and higher and nobler things. What Some of the California Boys Think. No more guard duty, picket and drill, No Kitchen police and fatigue. We've cleaned up barracks, carted out will, We've tramped it for many a league; We've slept in shelter tent, hovel and trenc ‘While the rain soaked through and through; Starved with scant rations, sick at their stench, We've cursed till the air was blue. But now, that at last we are home once more, Have laid aside rifle and kit, Will we seek again fame on a foreign shore? Friends of our childhood—NIT. CORPORAL FRED HEALY. PLAIN TALK A strange infatuation seems to possess the minds of some people who are called religious, proclaiming, as they do, from pulpit, platform and press that this na- tion is to-day engaged in ‘‘a holy war” in trying to subjugate the Filipinos. Several so-caled eminent clergymen ABOUT THE WAR { have sald in sermons recently delivered that “God ordained that this nation should conquer and subdue” the Filipino rebels, “that thereby civilization may be advanced and His name glorified.” Texts have been culled, from “the Book™ with painful care to fit the position assumed by ‘‘these holy men of God.” Some of our religlous journals have been trying to prove that this nation is the great emancipator of the world, and that we have been delegated by the Almighty to “‘wade through seas of blood” to the end of bringing the needed gospel to starving souls, providing any of the heathen should be found alive after the exterminating has *had its full course and been glorified The Congregationallst of Boston.in a re- cent number very tersely says: “The fer- tility, audacity and agility of a certain preters of the Bible is well illustrated in the supposition advanced at the Bible Institute last week in Chicago by a popular Boston exegete. He found in Isaiah 13 and 14 and Jeremiah 50 and 51 sure proof of the annexation of the Phil- ippines by the United States, and the further striding eastward of what seems to him a materialistic civilizatiqn until China shall have been captured and Baby- lon once more become the seat of the world’s mightiest civilization, albeit one that will be given over to anti-Christ, The same report adds that thousands sit en- raptured daily under such exegetical leg- erdemain as this. What wonder that men who are told that such a use of the Seriptures is legitimate say that one can find in the Bible whatever one wishes to find there?"” On the other hand, a religious in this dt_i- upholds and defends the war on the Filipinos as just and God-given. In other words, no “matter how much blood and treasure are expended in_ sub- Jjugating an innocent people who desire liberty and an independent Government, let this nation go on to the bitter end: and that sentiment, not reason, s spired_of heaven, born of God. there be to the Christian mind anything more sacrilegious than such sentiments ow can it be that religious teachers and editors of religious jonrnals take such views and enunciate sich doe- trines, which are certainly contrary to the teaching of Jesus? The editor of the pa- per referred to proceeds to hold up to public scorn a leading clergyman of San rancigco for saying at a recent conven- tion: “I tell you that if God is upon the firing lne of the Philippines I cannot see it.” The editor says: it is “‘an excess of sentiment. Sentiment, indeed! Call it that if you will, but for one let it be said I prefer that term and-all the intended slur which it carries with it than to have it said that T advocated brutality and in- humanity of man to brother man who de- sires to be free from slavery and. worse than despotism. I prefer Christ to Cie- sar; 1 prefer liberty amd freedom to im- Der(l}x}llum “Give me liberty or give me death” can at this time with true application be taken from our Revolutionary pages. Preacher, editor, throw your intended stigma.of pessimistic seniimentalism or what you Will; the right and the wrong will be plain to every man or womar with the true s;lm of Christ beating from his heart for humanity and the genuine up- lifting of the human race. The same San Francisco editor on July 14, 1899, says: “An lllinois village sent seventeen young men to the war. They were sober industrious boys when they went. One came back in a coffin; sixteen came back confirmed dginkers.” What kind of sentiment is this? Does this ap- eal with telling fdrce to American omes? Can a Christian_man feel that war brings blessings to a Christian nation, much less a Christlanizing influence, to those whom the church seeks to convert? matter of history comes back at this moment to show the feeling and the spirit of the Filipino Junta in April, 189, before there was the least suspiclon that our administration intended to take and hold the islands. The Junta issued its proclamation in these terms: ‘Compa- ournal triots: Divine Providence s about to place independence within our reach and in a_way the most free and independent could hardly wish for. The Americans— not from mercenary motives, but for the sake of humanity and the lamentations of s0 many persecuted people—have consid- ered it opportune to extend their protect- ing worth to our beloved country.” Then follows a strong appeal for Filipiny atriotism and aid, *“to help our American iberators’ and ‘Where you see the American flag flvin there assemble numbers; they are our redeemers.” credit was at that time given to the so-called *‘rebels” for the help besto “The chink of the dollar had not been heard.” In Juney 1808, Merritt's r port indicated that a plot had been formed for conquest. . Then came the political term “‘destiny” and the religlous framing of “the will of God.” How quickly E rights of man'’ are made to stand as for power and greed. Such betrayal of th., principles _on which our republic w founded will-surely be met by & just retr bution and punishment. " The sentiment about ‘‘destiny” and ‘“t will of God” will not ‘stand the t everlasting truth when m ured h will of God h!msn]l,', l‘lnmlhll(d by s uman hands and desires. : 2 *D. GILBERT ll:AF,\’!'v t 59, MRS. TEVIS—W. A of the late Lloyd Tev marriage Mjss Susan G. a native of Kentuck: —_—————————— ANSWERS TO CCRRESPONDE City. THE AMERICAN DOLLAR—E . City. The American silver dollar in . don passes current for 9 cents. On t exchange the price fluctuates. PEOPLE'S HOME' SAVINGS BANK-- The latest declared dividend to the depo itors in the People’s Home Savings Bani on the 12th of last June. The amoun:, per cent, and it was the s PINE CONES—R. C. 8., East Oakland, Cal. If the cones you have were gathered before being fully ripe they can be dried in the ordinary way without danger their opening, but if ripe when gathered there is no way to prevent them from opening. ; FACTORIES—M. W., City. partment does not advertise any b and for that reason cannot gi Jacation of the factories asked can find the addre in the cla: portion. of the city directory, in the back part of the book. FIVE NAVIES—J. H., Oakland, Cal. It by your question as to the size of the five largest navies of the world you refer to the available number of ships, the an- swer is: Great Britain, 619; France, 3 United States, 274; Italy, 3, Germ 215. Those were the statistics on first of last January, 1y, the BIRD — Constant Reader, the ‘care of canary birds seem afflicted £ which causes the to drop out. Such birds should be fed principally upon rape seed and oc- casionally a small plece of .carrot, of which most birds are very fond, and if a little olive 6il is at times put on the bare spots the feathers will commence to grow more readily.’ GOVERNMENT neda. nment land CANARY City. Land — A | Constant For information about n California you should address your inquiry to all or either of the following United States land offices: Los Angeles, S Humboldt, Independenc Marysville, Redding, = Franeisco, Stockton, salia. Each will, on yment of $1, fur- nish a map of lan that may be taken up within its territorial limits, if there is any such land, and each office will also give Information’as to pric POSTOFFICE AND CUSTOM-HOUSE —J. H. P., Napa, Cal. The age limit for positions in the Postoffice Department under civil service is: Letter-carriers, minimum 21, maximum 40; all other posi- tions, from 18 up. In the Customs De- partment, for all positions, from 20 up. For the postoffice service write to the secretary of the Board of miners at the postoffice in which you seek employ- ment for application blanks and informa- tion. For the Custom-house service write to the secretary of the local Board of Examiners at the Custom-house in which you desire employment for information and application_biank. GRENADIER —E. M. M., City. The term grenadier was originally appiied to soldiers whose duty it w to throw hand grenades. As the duty was very danger- ous and the grenadiers were always first in_an assault only veteran soiers were selected for that service, and thus they formed a kind of military elite. When hand grenades went out of use tae name grenadier was continued, and the soldiers Called by that name generally formed a company of a regiment distinguished by the height of the men and a particular dress, as, for instance, the high bearskin cap: ’ and it holds tfie ‘place of honor, namely, the right when in line and the front when in column of attack. BUILDING IN CASINO — Subscriber, City. In the game of casino, if two part- ners are playing, each may make a build, and if neither is taken by either of the opposing partners, one of the builders may take up the build of his partner and call it by the plural number—that is, if there are two builds of eight on the table, the builder may take his partner’s build, place it on his own and call out eights, not eight. In a case of that kind the partner whose build was taken up and made eights by his partner should have taken up the build, having an eight, and not have thrown his eight on the table, for be took chances of his opponents building on it with an ace or a deuce. So long as the builders were partners it makes no difference which-one takes up the build. CABLE MESSAGES—Deer. (,‘n‘ek. Mill Towles, Placer County, Cal. The follow- ini is the manner of receiving submarine cable messages at this time: For a long time a delicately su of a compass was used and its At M n to, ed needla ight motions were observed by watching a spot of light re- flected from the needle upon & screen. It re- quired a great deal o terpret the messages and no record was left. Improved ap- paratus is the siphon record : (:r(ll; e siphon-shaped tube that hangs from a trough of-ink_ with its end close to ¢ touching d of telegraph A fine col ended near a st mag ist slightly when R s I n is conne to the magnet. The siphon is cd od b thread with the cofl so thyt, the ¥C ons of the coil are imparted to e appar deljeate and the moving power of the Coll 5 bnaecount of the resistance racing the record.. whic hen tfact with the paper, but fine dots of the ink rop from the end of the nt jarring given to he whole apparatus stands. <connected with the ocean lgnal current sent over . throws out delicata slight that the touch the pap to its motions when would result from co: the record i which are made tube b the table on The suspended cable and every a b on which ofl the thread attached to the wave in the Iine traced on h different undulation in the a corresponding letter. The 1 are according to Wheats' a he European: code in which the t sent with a negative rity. p 1 mak Ee the magnet, siphon an the pay tracing The be gift for your Eastern friends, s Californla Glace Fruits, 50c ched boxes or Japanese bas- Market st., Palace Hotel Bldg. * —_— e Specfal information supplied daily business houses and public men b; Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 gumery street. Telephone Main 1042, To Protect the Forests. Frank Bidart was sentenced by United States District Judge de Haven terday fo pay a fine of $50 for pasturing sheep on the Sierra forest reserve in Inyo County. Bidart pald the fine. —_—— President McKinley and His Wife Wil travel over the Northern Pacific Rallway when they visit the famous Yellowstone Park. Town: 1b, in Kets. 1 to the onz- They intend viewing the mew geyser that spouts a tremendous stream of bofling water to the height of the Call bufiding. It's a wonderful sight. Send 6c In stamps for book telling all about it to T. K. STATELER, Gen. Agt., 638 Market st. S, F. ————— Very Low Rates East. On August 20 and 30, the popular Sante Fa route will sell tickets to Philadeiphta and ree turn at the very low rats of $S§8. Occa- sien, National Encampment, G. A. R. Call at 628 Market st. for full particulars. There is at least one real Angostura Bitters— Dr. Slegert's—and no other stomach bitters *just as good.” Avold substitutes