The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 20, 1899, Page 6

T TIE SAN FRANCISCO CALL AY, AUGUST 20, 1899. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. hddress All Communications to-W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS.. ..217 to 221 Stevenson Street | Telep Matn 1874, DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 16 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, 5 cents. A GOVERNOR IN DIFFICULTY. OVERNOR THOMAS of Colorado is in dii- ‘ficulties that would be novel in any other .6 State. He is what is called in Ireland “on his kaping,” be- " | cause of the fury of a female citizen voter and lady of creation in that altitudinous commonwealth. His office has been guarded and his entrances and his exits have been furtive and stealthy. He would walk backward to see who is behind him, except that then somebody might still get in the rear by getting in front of him. 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Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR 29 Tribune Bullding | CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Eherman House; P..O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. Waldort-A otel; A. g 5 =i filn 1;.‘:‘::‘1‘ Hotel; A. Brentano, 3I Union Square; WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ..Welllngton Hotel | J. L. ENGLISH, Correspondent. ERANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay | open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Misslon street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street. open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open uptll 9 o'clock: NW. corner Twenty- second and Kentucky streets, ope untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. ‘ | | As You Like It."” ern Gentleman,” Monday night. | rnia— zar—‘Under Two Flags. Opera-house—*Dorothy." | o and Fres Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon | Mason and Ellfs streéts—Spectalties. tmming Races, etc. seball to-day. “ilipino Wonder Show. s and Zoo—Benefit of the' Reception Fund, Tuesday | jHierces: Fund Benefit. Wednesday and 3 and 26 | . Sacramento—September 4 to 16. | THE EXTRA SESSION SCHEME. | > UFFICIENT evidence has now been collected | ind published by The Call to make it clear that Gage and Burns and Herrin are not spending s in pursuit of health, nor in considering f the State. They have been diligently mbers of the Legislature to find out an extra ession would result in an election | f Dan Burns to the United States Senate. 1 extra session will cost the State a great deal of It will impose further burdens upon the tax- 1 the diversion of money will prevent the necded improvements. The is to be gained by such expen- lic funds, and of course some 1. The call for an extra session will: de- | certain legislation to be of pressing importance, be summoned together to con- e real intent of the call, however, will be about the election of the man to whom Gage are committed, no matter what it may = ask w wer lators | | n | secret work that has been going on virators during the summer the one to find members of the Legislature to vote for Burns if an extra session be Should a majority be found for him we he extra session and the taxpayers w d tt Should there be no such , Governor Gage will find no legis- | urgency at this time, and there will o 1s beer gre burden. nge the conspirators should be willing | i The complete rout of the Burns the Republican primaries in this city the | ows his power is at an end in San Fran- o politics. He desires to go to the United States Senate, and it is a case of now or never with him. He will not again have such a gang in the Legisla- ure as he has in this one, no matter what else may 1 ( ge is on all fours with Burns in the scheme. He nothing to lose by it, for he has no prospect of er getting office again in California. All the profit he is to derive from politics must be obtained now. It will matter little to him if the people denounce an extra session in addition to the other of his acts they ly denounce. He has had experience and he knows that a man may just as well be convicted for stealing a sheep as for stealnig a lamb. | ev 1 alr Herrin is in much the same condition. He has made a blunder of the business of running railroad | politics, and he, too, must achieve a victory in order | to retain the favor of Huntington. He has openly de- clared Burns to be the railroad candidate, and Hun- tington has publicly snubbed him by denying that the railroad has a candidate. Thus Herrin must win out, | or there may be a vacancy in the Southern Pacific law | department. Here we have three rats in the pit with only one way to get out. With them it is this Legislature or nothing. Fortunately, the people understand the sit- uation and are on guard. An extra Burns session | will mean political ruin for any and every man who votes for the Mexican, and the ruin would be poorly repaid by anything that could be done for that man by either Burns, Gage or Herrin | Nebraska is a great corn State, but it does not | amount to shucks when the hat is passed around for | funds to give her returning volunteers a send-off. It | is remarkable, considering the number of cyclottes in that region, that there should be any difficulty ( raising the wind. in Governor Gage excuses his refusal to name a legal in honor of the returning California Volun- teers on the ground that he does not know the day on which they will arrive. The excuse is a good one —nobody ever accused Governor Gage of knowing inything. 5 holid The small boy of Oakland is making a nuisance of himself by throwing stones at Southern Pacific trains, As the Southern Pacific is used to having things shied at it, no serious complaint has been heard ex- | want has ‘grown into a fine frenzy. | work at good wages. The lady in the case has a husband in the peni- tentiary. It is her fad to have him pardoned, and the Governor has turned a deaf ear to her prayer. After exhausting her powers.of persuasion in vain, she has | put her feet in the warpath and refuses to turn.back. Her desire is to, throw vitriol in the Governor's face as evidence of her disapproval of his official stub- bornness. Vitriol is not a cosmetic in general use in Colorado, and the Governor protests that there are | other liquids used as a carminative which he prefers to this corrosive fluid, which gnaweth like a worm and leaves its record permanently embossed on the cuticle. ‘It i§ the crisis of his life. But as it is a female crisis he can't fire at it. The case brings to the front an interesting phase of female psychology. The infuriated lady’s husband is in‘prison for beating her into a merchantable jelly. When the ballot was gallantly extended to the ladies cf Colorado they ‘invaded the Legislature and pro- ceeded to reform the laws which the brute man had theretofore passed in his own interest and to carry out his coarse and pestilential instincts. was to make wife-beating a penitentiary offense. “The man who lays his hand upon a woman, save in the way of kindness, is a wretch whom it is base Ifl:mcry to call a coward,” cried the lady legislators, with Claude Melnotte, and thereupon proceeded to do for such wretches by an act entitled an act which puts them in stripes and durance for five years. Thé lady in this case was the first to feel the heavy | hand of conjugal correction after the law was passed, and in her dudgeon she inivoked the statate and sent Rer life partner up to expiate and repent. He had hardly got used to his new clothes and shaved head before she: wanted him back, and her The Governor is a politiclan. He keeps one eye upon the female vote and seems to be in fear that the ladies who have not yet been whipped by their husbands-will resent at the polls his pardon of this wife-beater. But the lady wants her husband, and has given the Governor . his choice between losing the female vote or parting with that manly beauty ihich heretofore has been his best stage property in_ politics. What seems to be needed in Colorado is a lady for Governor. Then sueh an issue as this would be set- tled by a hat-drawing match and not by vitriol. The- case will lespread sympathy for | Governor Thomas and will cause a thoughtful state about reformed legislation. As a rule the ladies whose husbands admonish them arouse | with a chair or knock them down with their fists re- | sent outside interference. The sentiment of females | who are under that sort of discipline was expressed by the one whose friend found her weeping salt tears out | of two freshly blacked eyes, and said, “He’s been whippin' ye agin, Nora.” “Yis; but it's not that | es me cry. Poor Patll not live long. He's get- tin’ weak, for he don't strike me near as hard as he | used to.” We hope that Governor Gage will assure | | the Governor of Colorado that every protection shall | be extended to him in California. Unless there is a regular society of:women who avenge themselves on | Governors that refuse pardon to wife-beaters Gov- ernor Thomas will be safe here. It is true that his Colorado Nemesis in skirts may disguise herself as n‘ man and get a squirt at him, but every care will be taken to prevent this. California intends to. protect visiting Governors. So far nothing worse has happened to them than a | speech by Mr. de Young, and there is a general dis- | position here to prevent things going from bad to | worse. | B —— | The investigating committee of the Alumni Asso- | ciation of the San Jose Normal School seems to have committed a fatal blunder in appealing to Governor Gage to set aside the verdict in the case of Dr. Mc- | Naughton. The committee should have directed its attention to the source of gubernatorial authority. The appeal should have been made to Burns. STRIKES AND PROSPERITY. H ished its course-when -another occurred in Cleveland, and now, just as that is about to be settled, the report comes that a strike of the brick- makers in Cook County, Illinois, has stopped work on 200 buildings in Chicago and thrown upward of 10,000 workmen out of employment. These occurrences are not of a surprising nature. It has long been known to students of sociology that strikes follow prosperity just as certainly as over- speculation follows it. Were this not so, the advance | of the world in material wealth would go on with a continually augmenting force and rapidity. Human nature is so constituted, however, that when once flushed with success it is never content. It reaches out cagerly for more, and too often, like the dog in the fable, drops the substance in an efturt to grasp the shadow. During the depression of the second term of Cleve- land, when the Democratic tariff left the industries of the nation exposed to the ruinous competition of the cheap labor of Europe, there were no strikes and very few speculative ventures. Capitalists were then well pleased to obtain any profit at all from their invest- ments and workingmen were only too glad to find No considerable number of people were tempted to hazard anything on a strike or a speculation. All the industries of the people were carried on with extreme conservatism, and labor and capital were too glad to be able to co-operate to give any’ heed whatever to agitators who sought to stir up strife between them. Two years of prosperity have brought about the scemingly inevitable results. Speculation in industrial stocks has reached a point that verges on madness, and strikes follow one another with a rapidity, almost unparalleled. These of course will tend to check prosperity. They are in the nature of brakes applied to the wheels of progress, and will prevent it from going forward with anything like the momentum it would otherwise have. These things are but manifestations on a large scale of the course which Franklin noted in the case of families—work begets money, money begets pride, ARDLY had the great strike in Brooklyn fin- cept from the passengers. pride begets extravagance, extravagance begets pov- The first reform | again, and so the endless revolution goes on. We have once.more reached the point where the mass of the people wax fat and kick. These are some of the effects of prosperity. For- tunately, while they check, they cannot hinder progress. They cause focal disturbances, and in the future as in the past may bring about a great national depression, but they never wholly stop the forward movement of civilization. It is of course to be re- gretted they occur, but it is better to have strikes and speculations with prosperity than to have the con- servatism of depressions. e —— e —cna—— THE OPENING IN KENTUCKY. FTER Altgeld broke the profane silence which f\ had brooded over the Kentucky campaign it 3 was opened and the winds rushed therefrom like a cyclone. The first day Mr. Goebel fainted while expressing himself in a loud and determined voice to a mass- meeting, and his speech had to be finished by Senator | Blackburn. On the same day Congressman Settle | fainted on the stump and fell from the height of his climax, dislocating his oratory and sustaining severe fractures of the objurgatory parts of speech, and his effort had to be finished by a common pennyroyal stumper from a rural district. This is something new, and is a substantial addi- tion to the dramatic features of the fight. There is one Kentuckian who does not faint nor lose his wind and bottom. keeps his head and his health and his pride in Betty and the twins. Referring to Altgeld’s horror of the methods by which Goebel was nominated, General Buckner says they were merely copied from the methods used in 1896 at Chicago to nominate Bryan. The ousting of the Michigan and Nebraska delegations to secure | Bryan's needed two-thirds was a piece of criminal | politics, in which the party policy was reversed, its | own administration repudiated and the stamp of | regularity stuck on Bryan’s candidacy and the reor- ganization of the party effected. Buckner is justly astonished that the party in Kentucky should be criti- cized for a local application of that high example. He commends Bryan for supporting Goebel, whose | nomination came by the methods which made Bryan | himself “the greatest of Americans” and tied him to the affections of Dick Croker. The anti-Goebel organization has selected Bryan’s picture as the official vignette of the opposition’s | ticket, and when the orator of-the Platte goes there | to spelibind the people he will be face to face with | himself on the bolting ticket. | The Goebel people claim that it is unfair to make | such use of the standing candidate’s picture, because in the districts where ignorance is bliss thousands of Goebelites will vote the ticket from which that zinc | smile beams upon them. It is-with a propeér sense of our distance and unfit- ness that we suggest to the regulars that they try as a counter vignette the picture of a barrel of Kentucky Bourbon. Mr. Blackburn’s most statesmanlike oratory always | contains an ascription to the “women, hosses and whisky of old Kentucky, matchless, gentlemen, as the } bravery of hér sons.” It is our opinion that the many | smiles in a barrel of Bourbon will outrun the single smile on Colonel Bryan's face. t go into history as “the battle:of the smiles, Bourbon against Bryan.” We are sure that this suggestion will please Colonel | Watterson, who has just expressed himself in the New York Journal as of the opinion that Colonel Bryan is not the whole thing, anyway. A party that Qpens its campaign by fainting all along the line needs something to keep up its spirits, and what can be more inspiring than a barrel of Bourbon, genuine two-stamp goods? We anticipate the hope that will sustain the opposition. Aware of the back counties, where taxed whisky is unknown and the moonshine article only is used at weddings, christenings and murders, the barrel of Bourbon will have no more in- fluence. than a Siwash totem. IN SOUTH Y way of warning to those British jingoes who DUTCH @ND BRITISH with gayety of heart are ready to enter upon a AFRICA. B war with the Boers, a writer in the Fort- nightly Review presents certain facts showing the comparative strength of British and Dutch in South Africa and revealing what kind of a contest Great Britain would have on her hands in that quarter of the globe if war should break out. The writer points out that the Boers are closely united to the Dutch of Orange Free State and of Cape Colony, not only by race and sympathy but by inter- ests and aspirations. A fight to a finish between the Boers and the British therefore would certainly arouse against the empire the antagonism of feeling of all the Dutch and might arouse their active enmity in battle. In other words, a war entered into lightly against the Transvaal may move all South Africa to strike for independence just as all the American colo- nies did when in the last century a jingo British Min- istry undertook to deprive New England of her rights. Such being the case, a showing of the comparative military strength of the two races in South Africa is interesting. The writer for the Fortnightly estimates it in the different states as follows, the figures repre- senting the numbers of armed men on each side: Brithh. Duten, Cape Colony....... 50,000 Orange Free State . 18,000 Transvaal 22,000 Natal ... 1,500 British Bechuanaland . 500 Rhodesia ........ ,000 300 Imperial troops |‘r;”s.uuth .Arrlcn at the present time, say .... 000 Totals ........ 39,500 92,300 The number of British troops in South Africa bas of course been largely increased since that esti- mate was made, and can be increased to almost any number that may be needed. Ocean transportation for troops in our time is comparatively easy, and Britain rules the waves. She can send army aftar army, if need be, for, as the jingo. chorus goes, “She las the ships, she has the men, and she has the money, too.” The point of the warning is not that the Dutch can drive the British flag from South Africa as it was driven from the United States a century ago, but that they can involve the empire in a serious war and make her empire so insecure that it will fall the first time Great Britain has a powerful enemy in Europe to confront. 3 : ‘It is'not easy to set bounds to the degree of folly a nation may commit when flushed with the overween- ing confidence that. is born of pride, power and pros- perity. It has been a long time since the British peo- ple have been engaged in war of any difficulty, and they may be foolish enough to enter upon the sub- jugation of the Boers without counting the cost, but it is hardly likely. Such warnings as the one given are sure to have effect upon the minds of intelligent men. Mr. Chambeflain is a jingo, indeed, but there is nothing in his career to justify a belief that he is a erty, poverty begets work and work begets money fool, Simon Bolivar Buckner | The campaign will | * @ * € * @ § © By his career in this country the dis- tinguished Charles Doyle, alias Augus- tus Howard, allas “Plunger” Hill, has demonstrated that the difference be- tween the ignorant granger and the know-it-all business man is to be meas- ured by the difference between the values of the gold bricks they buy. ‘When an unsophisticated, innocent, confiding farmer trusts the pleasing tale of a rank stranger and buys a bag of brass filings at about the price of so much gold, the world laughs and attri- butes the success of the fraud to the ignorance of the farmer; but when a shrewd man of affairs, who has started with nothing and made millions of money, falls a victim to a confidence operator we gasp and stare as at some kind of a miracle and wonder how such things can be in a civilized country. Yet there is no cause for wonder- ment. The farmer is not deceived be- | cause of his ignorance. It is his greed | that makes him credulous, and it is the same with the duped man of the world. Each sees what he thinks is a hance of getting something for noth- Any man can cheat another who is | can lead that other to believe he the one who is doing the cheating. If the true story of the career in this country of the man of many aliases could be written it would be found he got the best of our smart American promoters of enterprise by inducing them to believe they are getting the best of him. All the same the iniquitous Austra- | Han is too sharp a blade to be left at |large and it is to' be hoped some provi- dential concatenation of circumstances | will enable our detectives to get not |only a clew, but the rascal himself. | We need him in the penitentiary as | a proof that providence is on the side | of virtue. . Tt is permissible of course for us all to laugh and make merry over the losses of those who listened to the tales of the plunger and furnished the coin for the plunging, but the laughter | should not sound any note of self-glori- | fication. Every man has his gold | brick, and he who has not run up | against it to his cost has good cause to deem himself lucky. Pious men have | been known to purchase gold bricks { when they thought they were buying | bibles; and men who never buy any- | thing at all have had gold bricks hand- | ed to them as free gifts at surprise | parties. | . There s a widespread bellef that the Government is so tied up with red tape ‘ it needs a month to do a work that pri- | vate enterprise could doin a week, | therefore, when the Government shows speed, the thing is worth noting. For | that reason attention should be directed | to the promptness with which aid was sent from this country to the stricken | people of Porto Rico. The dispatch of Governor General Davis announcing the effects of the | great hurricane was received by the | War Department at Washington on | August 11. On that same day orders | were sent to New York to purchase | food supplies-and the transport Mec- | Pherson was ordered to receive them. | The New York Tribune says: “Within | one hour contracts for 600,000 pounds of | rice and 600,000 quarts of beans were | placed, and inside of another hour | trucks were being loaded with the pro- | duce for conveyanee to the, United | States transport McPherson, Which is | to take it to Porto Rico.” The next day the transport set out ever beat that? private enterprise SEH e T According to an old story, when Satan undertook to tempt the philoso- pher, Acepsimos, to leave his study of wisdom and incline his heart to folly, he offered him first a dukedom, then a principality, then a kingdom, then an empire and finally the whole globe, but still the philosopher refused. “What,” sald Satan, “will you not ac- cept the globe as a sufficient exchange for one folly?” “Most willingly would I commit forty follies for it,”” said Acepsimos, “were it not for the people on it.” On the subject of the annexation of the Philippines the average American citizen is an Acepsimosian philosopher. When Secretary Long tells us that if the islands be annexed as a part of our territory the 11,000,000 Asiatics will have full liberty to come and settle in this country we refuse to commit the folly. If Satan wishes us to accept those isl- ands he must first remove the people. oie e Here is a truly true advertisement from a New York newspaper and it means business. “A young Christian man, with wife and four children, cul- tured people, needs $10,000 cash imme- diately to invest in business and in a home in the South; desires some kind lady, or person, young or old, that is alone in the world, to furnish him this amount of funds and make her home at once with his family for life and have their care, sympathy and love.” The one satisfactory feature of the proposal of that family of Christian and cultured people is that when they get the $10,000 they propose to go South and not come to California. We can stand a good deal in the way of enter- prise, but not too much—and we have just entertained Mr. Howard. . s . Last Sunday I directed attention to a report of a committee of the Selectmen of Tyngsboro, Mass., to the effect that a fire caused by lightning was due “to the carelessness of the Lord.” The re- port created something of a sensation in Boston, and the Globe of that city sent a man down to the village to in< vestigate it. The reporter, who writes in the third person, speaking of him- self as “The Stranger,” tells an inter- esting tale. The first Selectman he in- terviewed was a certain Enlow Perham and the conversation ran thus: R “Who wrote the report charging the Deity with being guilty of carelessness in allowing lightning to set fire to Olive Plaisted’s barn?” “Mr. Sherburne, the chairman of the board.” “Rather an odd way of stating the cause of a fire, isn’t it?” “Sounds kind of funny, but still I don't know but it is true enough.” “Is the chairman of the board a wag? Is he given to cracking jokes?” “He is a man who doesn’t say much, but he has got a good business head on him. I know not how he came to write what he did. Perhaps he started with an L to put down lightning on the paper and wrote Lord instead.” That explanation being flippant, was * doubtless intended as a Jjoke on the on her voyage under full steam. Did | CHOXOAOXOXOAOAOROAIXOXROXOXOHOROROKOAOY BIPXOROXOROXOROROXOD EDITORIAL VARIATIONS. BY JOHN McNAUGHT. A DKPEOXPAOXOXOXOXROX DN 0*0*0*0!—9«!-0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0*0-}9 | “to make a desert and call it peace.” | | refuge from interference went into the |'started with delight exclaiming: “Why, | | | | | HOROASRONON stranger. When Sherburne was seen he stood by his report like a stalwart. When asked why he wrote it, he said: “I had to give some cause for the fire because the law requires it. True state- ment, isn't it?” “Your orthodox fellow citizens would hardly accept a declaration that the Lord was careless.” “They ought to. They say he is re- sponsible for everything that happens in this world of ours.” All of which goes to show there re. main in New England a good many people who have a faith that is child- like, who believe what they hear, and | do not shrink from the logic of their faith. If the Lord be responsible for what happens in Massachusetts, then he was careless in letting his lightning | set fire to Olive Plaisted’s barn. What other verdict is possible? e A Not the least interesting part of the story of the trip to Tyngsboro is the closing paragraph: “The stranger went down to the depot to wait for an electric car. 'Twas now after noon, and from a cloudless sky the sun was shooting its shining rays upon the placid waters of the winding Merrimac. The green branches of the trees on the farther shore were sway- ing in a gentle breeze. The girls were swinging in the hammocks in the shade beside the country homes set back from the street. At any rate the Lord was not careless when he created the nat- ural beauties of Tyngsboro.” If that paragraph were designed merely as an expression of admiration for Merrimac ripples and Tyngsboro girls, it will pass muster; but if it be put forward as a defense of the Massa~ chusetts Deity It is irrelevant and im- material. The careful creation of a girl in a hammock is no palliation of the carelessness that burns a barn. s alina Toward the $50,000 required to make an adequate welcome for the California volunteers the Market Street Railway Company donated $250, and the sum was promptly returned by the execu- tive committee, with the statement that it was cut of all proportion to contri- butions made by other citizens and cor- porations who will receive little or no benefit from the presence of the crowds that will attend the reception. In returning the money and deliver- ing the rebuke the committee acted with dignity, for there is no pleasure in accepting the money of a niggard, but the action was nevertheless illogical. The committee did not make its appeal | for money to the purses of citizens, but to their patriotism; and considering the amount of patriotism or State pride there is in the officials of the Market Street Company, the donation ‘of $250 was remarkably generous. There is no other instance likely to be found where so large a sum was raised by an appeal | to so small a thing. | R S | A story illustrating the way in which | troublesome political problems are sometimes solved by a happy accident comes to us from New Zealand. For a long time the Government has had diffi- culty in keeping within the bonds of peace and good order a turbulent tribe | of natives. Many forms of conciliation were tried, but each in turn failed, and it looked as if it would be necessary | Just at the critical period of the affair it chanced that a bronze statue of Vic- toria was to be unveiled at the capital. The chiefs of the aggressive tribe were invited to attend the ceremonies and with a surly compliance they came. | No sooner did they behold the lustrous bronze of her Majesty's face than they she is one of us.” Since that time New Zealand has had no more trouble with the tribe than Democracy had with Populism after | nominating Bryan. In the belief that the head of the British Empire is one of their own kind, the once stubborn na- tives are now as bland as brothers to the white folks, and are preparing to run for office. . Dr. Franklin, when representing this | country in France, once entertained the court of Louis XVI with a new game. He wrote out a clever bit of gossip, read it to one of the courtiers and re- quested him to tell it to a second. The story was then repeated from ome to another until it had been heard and re- told by all the lords and ladies who were present. The last to whom it was told was called upon to repeat it alouaq, and when the telling was ended Dr. Franklin read from his paper the origi~ nal story. The fun of the game lay in the surprise felt when it was seen that the tale as last repeated bore not the slightest resemblance to what had been written. A still more amusing {llustration of the way in which a story changes as it passes from one person to another is furnished in the development of the news item sent out from this city con. cerning Mr. Huntington’s famous after- dinner declaration against the excess of education. As that story has been transmitted in printed words, insteaa of spoken ones, it ought to have pre- served its form as well as its essence in traveling from here to New York, but it lost both. It has recently been re- told with elaborate comment in an edi- torial by the New York Times, and as given there is so different from what it was in its original San Franciscan veri- tude, the average Californian would not recognize it were it not for the appear- ance in it of Mr. Huntington’s name. According to this latest version of the story Mr. Huntington made his declaration in reply to a deputation from a “boom town” in California which had called to urge him to found a university there in order that his name as a public benefactor and a pat- ron of learning might be linked with the history of the booming metropolis and be remembered forever hereafter with all the veneration now given to that of Leland Stanford. Upon that story the Times bases a very good editorial, but it will not be worth while to quote it. ‘The story is sufficient in itself. There may be Cali- fornians who without a smile can imagine a deputation of other Califor- nians asking ‘Huntington to found a university and urging it by citing the example of Stanford, but if such there be they are of recent Eastern Importa- tion and wouldn’t know a joke from a saw buck. 6 & e Deputy Coroner Arrested. Deputy Coroner J. J Flannagan was dmtr!ng a_lox;f Market street in a hurry esterday afternoon in Co i {o get a witness for the menel; Hl‘llllq:lerslt‘ ‘When he reached Fourth street Policeman | and 143 followers in Jnly of that year la Farley held up his white-gl d hand, but Flannagan drove on. Farley's blood was up and he pursued the deputy till he overtook him. Flannagan was taken to the City Prison, re_ Farley booked him on charges of fast driving and re- fusing to stop when ordered. \When Chicf Lees was notified of the facts he released Flannagan from custody. AROUND THE CORRIDORS W. L. Clark of Benicia is registered at ‘the California. H. J. Small has come down from facra- mento and is at the Palace. Joseph Durfee, a big lumber Smartsville, is at the Lick. ‘Wintlirop Fisk is registered at the Oc- cidental from Fuente, Mexico. Sig Davis is spending the summer months in Alameda with his wife and son. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Adams are among the late naval arrivals at the Occide J. H. Call, a wealthy business man Los Angeles, is a guest at the Occidental. noch Knight, a capitalist of the ¥ is registered at the Palace from Los gele; 0. J. Gillesple of Los Angeles and E. W. Frost of Eureka are both staying at the Grand. H. Warren, one of Winnemucca’s most prominent business men, is a guest at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Trent of Salt Laka City are among the recent arrivals at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Stone hdave come up from San Mateo and are registered at the Palace. W. 8. Flemming, a wealthy vineyardist of Napa, is among the la ivals at the Russ. A. D. Coftee is at the Lick, accompa by his family. He is regls ed from F ence, Ala. H. C. Short, travellng auditor of the Santa Fe, is among the recent arrivals at the Russ. P. McRae, the Hanford contractor, is registered at the Lick on a short business trip to San Francisco. Judge Stanton L. Carter has come down on a short visit from his home in Fresno, and Is staying at the Lick. F. B. Pattee, a leading business man of Valley Springs, is staying at the Grand, where he arrived yesterday. R. U. Goode of Washington, D. C., Is among those who arrived in the city yes- terday and registered at the Occidental. Fred Rafnville, a well-known mine own- er of Jamestown, is one of those who ar- rived here yesterday and registered at the Russ. J. R. Hebbron of the State Board of Equalization is a guest at the Lick, where he arrived yesterday from his home in Salinas. William Carson, the millionaire lumber- man of Humboldt County, is in the city on business. He is a partner of Capital- ist John Dolbeer. —_———————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—R. Cailleau of San Francisco is at the Martin. Frank Palley of California is at the Grand. C. A. Winsor of San Francisco is at the Gil- sey. Among the passengers for Liverpool on the Cunard steamship Umbria, salling to-day, were A. G. Rowand and Mrs. Stokes of San Francisco. e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. GERMAN EMPIRE—L. and G., City. The population of the German empire is 52,279,901 & = THE CENTURY—A Subscriber, City. The twentieth century commences with the first day of January, 191 NO SPECIAL VALUE-T. S. M., Oak- land, Cal. A half-dollar of 1856 and a dime of 1854 are not premium coins. ST. GERTRUDE—M. Cal. The Catholic institute of lea in charge of the Sisters of Mer: Vista is called St. Gertrus MORMONS IN SALT LAKE—E. J. C., City. In a band of Marmons s ing man of fed J. T., Alameda, ning State of Utah, where Brigham Young out the site of what became Salt Lake City, in a then wilderness. HAY—F. M., St. Helena, Cal. Hay is grass or other plants cut and cured for feeding to animals. The best of the many grasses sown for hay are: Timothy, red- top, orchard grass, fowl-meadow grass and June grass. Meadow oat grass is also valuable for hay, and cow pea and Lu- cerne or alf: A are grown r the sa purpose. Wheat, barley, oats, rye and-the like are not sown for hay but for the grain. RIVER BOATS—M. J. T. Alameda, Cal. There are several lines of steamers that touch at Rio Vista on the way up the Sacramento River from San Francisco. One dispatches steamers from Jackson- street pier Tuesdays and Fridays at p. m.; another daily, except Sunday . m., from Market-street pier, and s another dally, except Sunday, from Jack- son-street pier at 11 a. m. SAMUEL BRANNAN-E. J. C., City. Samuel Brannan chartered the 370-ton ship Brooklyn, fitted her up for a trip around the Horn to California and sailed with 236 passengers, including sixty adult females and about forty children of both sexes, the passengers being mostly Mor- mons, from New York, February 4, 1845, and five months later stopped at the Sandwich Islands, remained there a short time, and on the 31st of July of that year he and his vessel arrived in the harbor of San Francisco. ALIMONY—A. P. C. S.,, Port Costa, Cal. Whether a man who is divorced shall pay alimony to his former wife s a mat- ter of discretion, and the court may or- dre such payment or not. When the or- der is maSe it must be obeyed. g that a man left the State and marri again would not absolve him from that obligation, as the order would st nd_un- til revoked, and if the man came bac! the place in which the court whie the order is located he would, alfmo; be ause, 1d be sent to jail for had not paid the before it to show c: non-payment he wou contempt. AP VOLUNTEERS—I. M. H., City. This correspondent writ “I feel 1 may take the liberty to respond to the answer you gave in Sunday’s Call August 13 in x'ogu;d that sent volunteers to the 10, the States (h08 <" !you " mentlon the First R’ew York Regiment, which was a mistake, as it did not go to Manila_but o Honolulu, You omitted the gallant ent.” , Xd'f“:l‘eo ;E';'i!‘lr that was given was strictly correct. The correspondent asked if the States named in the answer had furnished Volunteers who were sent to the Philip- ine Islands. The answer was: *The fol lowing named Stat furnished volunteers during the late which were sent to the Philippine IS ."" and then follows the names of the States. There was no question as to Idaho, and there is nothing e answer as to' the First New York Regiment. The Astor battery was a part of New York’s volunteers, and it went to Manila. Cal. glace fruit S0c per 1> at Townsend's. * ——— Speclal information supplied dally to business houses and public men b§ ths Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mon:- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * Flags, shields, garlands, Japanese lant- erns, bunting, red, white and blue tissue paper, patriotic pictures and all kinds of Jecorations for sale cheap at Sanborn & Vail's, 41 Market street. . —e——————— Seized With Syncope. Dr. Corryville, a retired physician. 76 years of age, had an attack of syncope at Pine and Polk streets vesterday morn- ing. He was taken to the Receiving Hos- pital and after being treated was sent to his hcme at 3201 Pacific street. 3 po S e Very Low Rates East. On August 20 and 3, the popular Santa Fe route will sell tickets to Philadelphia and re- turn at the very low rate of $38 5. Occa- sion, National Encampment, G. A. R. Call as 628 Market st. for full particulars.