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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 12 ..SEPTEMBER 12, 1899 SPRECKELS, Proprietor. JOHN D. Al Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. B e e S PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS... 2IT to 221 Stevenson Streat Telephone Main 1874 DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, § cents. Terms by Mafl, Including Postage: g luding Sunday Call), one year. 6.00 r luding Sunday Call), 6 months 3.00 i ng Sunday Call), 3 months 1.50 X Single Month 650 BUNI e Year. 1.30 WEEKLY One Year. 1.00 ! postmasters are authorized to recetv: subscriptions. coples will be forwarded when requested. cesseeisedd 908 Broadway Bamp OAKLAND OFFICE C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Maneger Forcign Advertlsing, Marquotte Building, Chicago. NEW YOR‘EVCORRESPUNDENTI €. C. CARLTON....... ERR Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR...... 29 Tribune Brilding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Sherman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel} Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Breatamo, 31 Uuiom Equare) Murrey Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Welllngton Hotel &, L. ENGLISH, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—52T Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes street. open until | 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister straet, open until 9:Z0 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll I0 o'clock. 22C" Market street. corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1096 Valencla street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. NW. cormer Twenty- second and Kentucky stre untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. i Orpheum—Vaudeville. Tivoli—*'Othello, azar—'‘The W of Sin."” Opera-house—‘Fatinitza.” tes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and corner Mason and Ellis streets—Spectalties. man-Clay Hall—Ballad Concert, this evening. B Swimming Races, ete. Mechanics’ Fair and Philippine Ex- bit. hs— Pavilion—Mechanics' hi AUCTION SALES. dge & Co.—This day, at 12 o'clock, Real street. THE NEW GRAND JURY. e impanelment of a new Grand Ju; e more revives a hope on the part ot at corruption in office will be | and the wrongdoers | Such | jnesty exposed convicted | of returning of despotism.” LINCOLN ON MONARCHY. N his speech in this city Mr. Bryan took pains to l introduce himself to the party Mahatmas present as the reincarnation of Jefferson and Lincoln. He represented the Republicans as celebrating the birth- day of Thomas Jefferson, in Boston in 1850, and Lincoln writing them a letter in which he said the Republican party believed in the man above the dol- lar. The anti-slavery people of Boston did celebrate Jefferson’s birthday in 1830, in honor of Jefferson’s opposition to slavery, discussing which he had said: “1 tremble for my country when I remember that God is just.” Lincoln discussed the ownership of man as a chattel slave for the profit of his labor. The dollar was the coin that bought human flesh and com pelled the toil of slaves who had no share in the | wealth they produced. Continuing Mr. Bryan said: “That was the doc- trine of Lincoln, and in the carly days of his ad- ministration he sent to Congress a message, and in that message he warned his countrymen against the approach of monarchy. What alarmed him, he stated in that message, was the attempt to put capital upon an equal footing if not above labor in the structure of the Government and in that he saw the danger of | returning monarchy.” Nothing can better serve to ! illustrate either Mr. Bryan's carelessness of facts or | his intellectual dishonesty than this juggled quota- | tion from Lincoln. In his first regular message to Congress, delivered December 3, 1861, Mr. Lincoln discussed the origin of the rebellion and the state of the military operations it had forced npon ‘the Government, and then entered upon an examination of certain principles involved and the difference between the tendencies exhibited by the peaple of the South and those of the North. Upon this he said: “It continues to develop that the insur- if not exclusively, a war upon the | rection is largely, | first principles | the people. Conclusive evidence of this is found in the most grave and maturely considered public docu- ments as well as in the general tone of the insurgents. In those documents we find the abridgment of the existing right of suffrage and the denial to the people all rights to participate in the selection of public officers except the legislative boldly advocated, with labored arguments to prove that large control of | the people in government is the source of all political evil. Monarchy itself is sometimes hinted at as a pos- sible refuge from the power of the people. present position I could scarcely be justified were I to omit raising a warning voice against this approach Then followed a dis cussion of the origin of this symptom observed by Lincoln as existing in the Southern Confederacy, which he found in the desire the slave-holding States to have the dollar own the man. Now, what must one think of Mr. Bryan’s honesty in the light of his misrepresentation of Lincoln? was in the South, among the present supporters of Mr. Bryan, without whom he could not have reached the nomination in 1896 and eannot reach it again, that Mr. Lincoln found signs of the approach of mon- archy. Bryan drew a considerable part of his speech Lincoln was draw- popular government—the rights of of from this palpable misstatement. ing attention to a condition developed in the Demo- icted, prosecuted and with each Grand Jury, and frequent disappointments of the past they 1 and earnestly expectant. s the belief of the people that sooner or later we ve a Grand Jury that will not be easily turned difficulties in the way of obtaining | of whose When cor- successive by evidence to convict guilty officials rere is a moral certainty. seeming ptioh becomes so open and notorious as to be the mon talk, there must be some way of | ight the facts of the case and proving | When bribery, the sale of official patronage, unl offi- bidders for municipal contracts and other | 1sance in office become intolerable, the | iction on the part of the law office 1 court of justice. awful collusion between n of theé wrong and the punishment | Such a condition prevails in San Fran- | co at this time, and it is for that reason the im- | d Jury is noted with satis- | the new G office aiter filing | were | corrupt practices | nd Jury retired from the h it was stated members ¥ in of the prevalence of veral departments of the municipal and county | but were unable to obtain evidence to | one. It was a good Grand Jury, but it | The people now expect to find in the strati any sood Grand Jury that will do a great deal. | new It may ifficult to get evidence against rascals, but | it is not I ible. No band of official, knaves was ; | to be able to completely conceal | €0 cunni traces of rauds., Corrupt offi ed again and again in other cities under vir- tually the same laws as ours, and what has been done e can be done here., 1 has already set before the new tter which demands its investigation. ted out that Dr. Grand It has e reputable citizen that he received $2000 for permitting the specifications for bids for school s to be changed in the interest of a particular -committeeman, J. J. Conlon, lleges, agreed to the fraud and was a party pt investigation of that case is im- v t would appear that evidence sufficient who, it te pora The prot wely and pesseveringly seek it, ¥ consequences save those of justice. that case because it is now a part of the news of the day. It does not stand alone. ary claimed to have been morally certain of guilt eisewhere, but could find no legal evi- 1t is the duty of the new Grand Jury to seek t evide: ething more than'a general re- te Grand ] dence. ation and expressions of moral cer- ected of the present body. The people The press censor at Manila has refused permission to the correspondents to telegraph the important in- formation that many of the men in General Mac- Arthur's division are ill. The censor probably wanted to simplify his duties by sending the news in the fist of deat In his speech at Sacramento that distinguished gentleman, Mr. Bryan, remarked that if a hog were turned loose, even if valued at but “a dollar or two,” ome one would take it in. We note that Mr. Bryan is still at large. e The ambitious cffort of the bookmaking blacklegs lito to make Colma a pirate town certainly possesses one merit. It is unparalicled in the his- v of the State as an act of indecent impudence. —_———— Gold has been found, so the dispatches announce, on Crooked Creek. Some of the worthy members of the Board of Education ought to buy a map. Y AR Another Filipino captain has been captured. Every fittle counts, but there appears to be a few left. £ o o tor ‘ i iais have been | H. E. Gedge, chairman of the | mittee of the School Board, has informed | Jso said that of the sum received he | convict in a court of justice can be obtained if the | cratic States of the South, then in rebellion against | the Union, where a monarchical spirit had been fos- tered by the ownership of chattel slaves. He made no reference to the North nor to any tendency in the free States, where labor owned itself and its earnings. Mr. Bryan represents him as “warning his country- ened at the attempt then in its inception to place capital upon an equal footing with labor in the struc- ture of the Government!” The only government Lincoln had in mind was the rebel government, founded on slavery, dedicated to the ownership of man by the dollar, in which there should be no iree labor. Against that government and its structure Mr. Lincoln was making war, and he continued to its overthrow. Its hosts were over- thrown, its hopes defeated, its purposes destroyed and those who cherished them were scattered, to make their next rally in support of Mr. Bryan. They con- tinue to declare that their cause, characterized by Mr. | | Lincoln in 1861 as the return of monarchy, was a just cause, and they seem to select Mr. Bryan as its latest representative. Every thoughtful man sees that if Mr. Bryan had quoted Mr. Lincoln truthfully, and had let his audi- ence know that the message named the Southern Confederacy as the seat of avowed monarchical ten- den¢ies, a considerable part of his speech would have been hissed instead of cheered by his audience, which was not one to listen patiently to what it would have considered abuse of the late Confederacy. the fact that he warned the country of an attempt of | the Democratic party in the South to expel the people | from power and establish a monarchy. The misuse made of it by Mr. Bryan is therefore dishonest to a degree that impeaches his morality and marks him an unsafe public teacher and a tricky leader. Enthusiastic New Yorkers intend to petition the French Government to pardon Dreyfus. If any no- | tice is taken of the petition it will probably be that the French Government is quite able and perfectly satis- fied to attend to its own affairs. ! M. Francis, one of the editors of the Paris Figaro, says France changes her Cabinets as we take off and i put on our coats. The distinguished Frenchman must believe that there is a deal of fuss and feathers in our dressing. BOYCOTTING FRANCE. | HETEI HE Dreyfus verdict has a momentary effect T(]isas‘.rnus to France. The whole world has been Jured and enchanted by the preparations made for the great industrial exposition set for next year in Paris. It has been planned on a more ex- tensive scale than heretofore known. France had de- termined that it should not only be an exposition of the world’s progress in industry, science, art and knowledge, up to date, but should be such a spectacle as to invite to Paris millions of money-spending visitors. No nation understands spectacular art and its value as thoroughly as France, and she has coined profits out of it, not only on the occasion of these fgrcat expositions, but by continuous attention to the creation of every charm that can attract the stranger. Whether this feature in the Parisian exposition de- | tracts from its economic value or not, it serves its in- millions of money. | If the Dreyfus verdict destroy the charms of next year's exposition, and nations intending to be pres- ent boycott and withdraw, the loss in money to the French people will be enormous. - There is no doubt that Germany is keenly affronted by the verdict at Rennes. In every possible way it had been made known, on the word-and honor of the Kaiser himself, that his Government had had no deal- ings with Dreyfus, had received from him no informa- tion in violation of his duty as a soldier and a French- man nor any other kind of information. It was 1 In my It | Yet | men against the approach of monarchy, and iright- | If there is any value in what Lincoln said it is in | | tended purpose and leaves in France hundreds of | naturally expectc& that this German disavowal wquld ‘affect the court-martial, since the charge against | Dreyfus gained its gravity because it assumed that he | had betrayed the military secrets of his country to | Germany as an enemy of France. ! To have accepted the German disavowal was to go | a long step toward re-establishing cordiality between | the two countries. The Kaiser had announced his m | tention to visit Paris during the exposition, and his presence there would have furthered the French pur- | pose to provide every attraction that could add to the I pageantry of that occasion. Now, of course, he u{ill The Austrian Government takes sides with | | not go. ! him. Even Russia is profoundly stirred. The astute ] Muscovite feels keenly the error of an apparent mis- | carriage of justice. Russia’s French ally has made a mistake, a disastrous and weakening blunder, and has therefore diluted the importance of the alliance to Russia. Italy, as a member of the Dreibund, will un- doubtedly sympathize with Germany and Austria. The activity of the Jesuit party against Dreyfus has rekindled the embers of aversion between the Italian | state and church, and has not affected favorably the internal peace of Humbert's Government. England is not pleased. The Fashoda incident and | national rivalry in Africa have cast a shadow upon | the relations of the two countries, and England, like | Russia, abates any good opinion she may have cher- | ished for her neighbor. The discussion of the trial and the verdict reveals | everywhere the rising respect for the orderly processes of the law. The apparent difregard of the rules of evidence at Rennes, and the awful condemnation of a i man whose guilt was not proved according to any civilized rule for getting at guilt by the taking and | weighing of evidence, have seemed to pass a gloom | over the modern world such as comes with the pro- | found shadow of a total eclipse of the sun. In the present temper of the nations the first effect of the verdict threatens to be the failure of the great | exposition. If this result is realized it will be put among the causes that men will plead for a revolu- tion in France. The Government of President 1899. A SHIP OF THE DESERT IN HARNESS. mining districts of Western Australia. In many of the Australasian colonies the camel is to a large extent used for all kinds of transportation. While in Afriea and Turkey and Asia goods are generally transported on camels’ backs, in Australia, and especially in the colony of West- ern Australia, the camel is mostly ‘harnessed,” and has to do the same work as any other draft animal. shows such a “ship of the desert” in harness used in the streets of Kilgoolie, the center and chief city of the flourishing gold The illustration AROUND THE | CORRIDORS | Mr. and Mrs. James L. Flood are at the Palace. Judge Edwin Swinford is registered at the California from his home in Colusa. V. G. Frost, an attorney of Merced, is among the recent arrivals at the Lick. John MecMull has come down from | Fresno and is s ing at the Occidental. 1. Pock, a real estate man and cap- | of Stockton, is registered at the | | itali de- petency of the ject to the justice of the Examiner's nunciations but to the com Examiner to make the: ————— Where Gage Is Saved Trouble. Ukiah Dispatch-Democrat. The San Francisco Call at regular inter- vals jumps all over his Excellency, Henry Theophilus Narrow Gage, for taking or- ders from William Franklin Herrin and Colonel Daniel Mazuma Burns. The Call intinfates that the little man on the bank of the Sacramento is making an ass himself. Oh, no, he isn't. saved him the trouble. —_—————————— The Call Secures a Triumph. £ The Lord has Loubet will now be profoundly tested. Just what are | Grand. o6 AnBH S Tiomes his authorized resources for averting the force of the | Baron Leo von Rosenberg, a German | The Call this afternoon scored a tri- 8 nobleman, is registered at the Palace, h in the d £ wirel v ide world fully comprehend. | Al 2 ace, | umph in the development of wireless | blow the outside world does not fully comp: from New York. telegraphy in connection with the Sher- | The extent of his executive jurisdiction over the case after the court-martial drops it with the sentence is not clearly marked out in the constitution of the re- public. He may find a way to save his countrymen from the consequences invoked by their passionate course, and if he do it will place him among the world's fors- ! most statesmen. To do justice to a probably innocent ran, save his country from revolution and reinstate | ! her in the world’s respect is a task calling for the | highest statesmanship, and the nations will wish him | well as he enters upon it. | An incorrigible young Oakland thief complains bit- terly that the officers prevented him from killing him- self. He has just cause for protest. He should have | been permitted to accomplish perhaps the only laud- able purpose in his nature. The police of Paris seem determined to occupy the | center of the stage of public interest even if they have | to play the part of fools. Their siege of the agitator Guerin would be absurd in the nonsense of a farce | comedy. THE GAMBLERS AT COLMA. EPORTS from Colma are to the effect that the R gamblers have by no means abandoned their scheme for incorporating a town in that dis- trict and making it headquarters for their gambling | hells. The exposure of the scheme by The Call | directed to it the attention of the people of the county | and at once there was an outburst of indignation and | earnest protest against the nefarious plan. Before that expression of popular sentiment the gamblers re- coiled, but they did not retreat. It appears they are but waiting for the storm to blow over and in the meantime are quietly but persistently working to wir | over to their side as many of the more credulous resi | dents of Colma and the vicinity as they can. | In a contest of this kind the people must be con- | tinuously watchful. The gambling trade is nefarious, but it is profitable. There are thousands of dollars to | be made by any set of men who can get a chance to | maintain anywhere within the vicinity of San Fran- | cisco poolrooms and other gambling devices open to | the public and free from police surveillance. When | the Ingleside track gamblers had their races and pool- | rooms running in full blast they had something like a bonanza, and thousands of dupes, women as well as men, contributed to their enrichment. Where so much money is to be made without ri: and without the exercise of industry or of skill there | are sure to be many unscrupulous men eager to take | advantage of it. They can afford to work a long time | on the scheme and they can afford to pay out large sums for the concessions they wish. Even if one set of gamblers abandon the scheme another set will come forward to take it up. The contest against gambling is, in fact, one that goes on from generation to generation, and the attention of the gamblers be- ing now directed to Colma, the residents of that at- tractive suburb will have to be on guard continu- | ously. g The tactics now adopted by the schemers is that of dividing public sentiment at Colma and arraying one set of residents against another. Should they succeed in doing so it will be easy to make the contest appear as a local controversy over incorporation, in which the residents of other sections of San Mateo County have no interest. By such means they hope to con- ceal their own activity in the matter and lead the pub- iic to believe that no question of gambling is involved. Such tactics are cunning. They will be used to the utmost to get the Supervisors to call an election on the issue. When the election is called the gamblers and all their political push will show themselves. The | genuine residents of the district will be overwhelm- ingly outvoted. The danger, it will be seen, is still menacing. The people of San Mateo must be on guard and see to it that the Supervisors stand firmly against the efforts to corrupt the community. BT ———— 7 There have been many people unkind enough o say that San Francisco is jay, particularly with re- gard to fashion. They will have to take it all back now. A cat belonging to a local milliner got into | the show window the other night and was so deceived by the birds and plumage designed for female adorn- ment that she destroyed $100 worth in an effort to | obtain a toothsome meal. After that it would seem that San Francisco is up to date on millinery, at any rate. Oakland is to have an exhibition this week of bird- less hats. The local milliner whose pet cat played havoc with every stuffed bird in a valuable collection of bonnets is certainly qualified to deliver a feeling address on the subject. T In an answer to a suit filed against it for damages the other day the Southern Pacific denies practically everything except the interesting fact that it is still on earth and a menace to its patrons. | George E. Goodman, a wealthy banker | of Napa, Is among last night's arrivals at the Palace. H. H. Hunter, the Redding mining cap- itallst, is a guest at the Grand, where he arrived yesterday. W. C. Kiesel, a leading merchant of San Dicgo, is registered at the California on a business trip to this city. | 'W. Forsyth, the Fresno vineyardist and | capitalist, has come down to the city and | is a guest at the Occidental. Ohson H. Sakuraia, a newspaper man of Tokio, left last night for an extended visit to the East and Europe. Drury Melone is down from his home | at Oak Knoll on a short business trip to | the city and is staying at the Palace. | Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. Camp, two | prominent soclety people of Chicago, are | among the late arrivals at the Palace. Frank Barrett of Palo Alto, who is | largely interested in the ol lands of the | southern part of the State, is a guest at | the Lick. Among those who arrived in the city | yesterday and went to the Russ was | Thornton Williams, a leading merchant of San Diego. At the Occidental are registered a num- ber of officers of the Fortieth Infantry | and a number of the Minnesota officers who are accompanied by their wives. Among the passengers who arrived on the City of Rio is Rev. Sonada, who is a master of literature in Tokio. He comes to establish a Buddhist mission in this country. J. H. Perry, a lucky mining man from Cape Nome, is registered at the Palace. I Colonel -J. T. Harrington, a prominent | attorney and politician of Colusa, Is a | guest at the Lick, | The Southern Pacific passenger train | No. 10, which was looted by Arizona | bandits last Saturday night, arrived here |last evening. It brought about two | hundred merchants from El Paso and in- | termediate points who have taken ad- | vantage of the wholesalers’ excursion to make a visit to San Francisco. They are scattered around among the various | hotels. 46————&+ “Billy” Barnes, ex-District Attor- THE NARROW ' ,or captain of ESCAPE the Fifth Califor- F “BILLY” nia Regiment, | OBARNES United States | 3] Volunteers; Na- D —C 3 tive Son of the Golden West,| gourmet, hail-fellow-well-met and other | things too numerous to mention, came near to having “lately deceased” and ‘‘re- mains” added to his other titles. And the | Dbest of it is the death he so narrowly es- | ! caped was that of 4 burglar and general all-around criminal. Here is the story of | the gallant captain’s adventure: Barnes had been retained in the Mitchell murder case at Colma, and his presence was necessary at the preliminary examin- ation of the defendant. He telegraphed to his father-in-law, D. M. Delmas, that he would pass the night at the Delmas home in Mountain View | and then dismissed the matter of lodging | from his mind. He passed the early part | of the evening in convivial pursuits in | this city. taking the owl train down to the country. He arrived at Mountain View in comparatively good condition and | walked out to the Delmas residence. But | upon arriving there he found the house dark and deserted. No one was at home. Billy figured on the proposition for a little while. He remembered the many valuable | | hints he had received from professionals | during his career as District Attorney, but, .unfortunately, the men who had | given them to him were of smaller bodily habit than the corpulent Native Son of the Golden West. Suddenly, however, he | remembered some large double windows that opened on the porch, and prying these open he was soon inside. The mat- ter of finding a bed and turning into it | was only a minor detail and soon accom- plished. A little while afterward Paul Delmas, who had been attending a small-and-early | down the road, returned to the parental | roof filled with the exuberance of youth, | the glory of the night and a mixture of | various florid decoctions. He walked up | to the house and noticed the open window. | He at once thought that the place had | been entered by burglars who had ran- sacked it and left. As they had left he decided to enter. So with a gun in one hand and a candle in the other he pro- ceeded to investigate. His shoes made some noise on the stairs, and this noise awakened the slumbering Billy. ‘“‘Ha!" said he, “burglars! I will escape while vet there is time.” So softly he stole from his bed and toward the door of his room. Opening it suddenly, he came face to face with his armed brother-in-law. There was a dual gasp for breath and then two rigid forms.were stretched upon the carpet. They had both fainted. i e Examiner Methods.: Fresno Republican, The Examiner, taking its cue from the recént fatal ending of a San Francisco prize fight, violently denounces the bru- tality of the prize ring and berates the lawmakers who have given it semi-legai recognition. Yet the Examiner has done | more than any one other influence to de- velop prize fighting. The popularity and lucrativeness of prize fighting is purely a matter of newspaper advertising. The Examiner has taken the initiative in the recent development .of free advertising | which alone has given the ring its finan- | clal standing. One-half of this free ad- vertising given to the cockpit would soon T the value of a go ecock to several thousand dollars. e do not ob- ’ | acteristics that have marked his since taking office, tried to interfere at | | stance; difference in the world.”—Boston Christian ’ | at half the usual charges. | of these inducements is to have the coun- man’'s arrival. Receiving stations been established at the Cliff House and the news came by that “the Sherman is soon followed by the chee: received in the same way, board.” n_sight’ ng intelligence, “All well on e In the Narrow Gage Class. Del Norte Record Governor Gage, with the same char- acts the last moment with the reception com- mittee, formed at San Francisco to greet returning volunteers. All his acts are that of a very narrow Gage man. LATEST STORIES of the FUNNY MAN. ‘Why It Didn’t Suit Her. “No,” said the y-.low of the waiter, ad- dressing the tombstone man, “I will not aeccept this monument. I do not care to advertise my poor, dear Henry's business over his grave.” “Why, madam,” the man asked, “what's wrong Wwith the stome? It's one of the best we have in stoek for the “1 don’t care,” she declared, rice.” T won't | have it, with that lamb on top and under it them words: ‘Well done, thou good and faithful servant’ A person might think he nad just taken an order for a mutton chop.”—Chicago Times-Herald. —_— He—I am rather more in favor of the English than the American mode of spell- ng. She—Yes? ‘“Yes, indeed. Take ‘parlour,’ for in- having ‘0’ in it makes all the Register. Those who know old Mr. Wilson of this place personally will regret to hear that he was assaulted in a brutal manner last rveek, but was not killed.—Country Week- y. An inmate of a Scotch lunatic asylum was visited by a relative, who asked if the clock in the room was right. *“If it had }')eenva' richt dae ye think it wad ha’ been here?"”" Teacher—Mary, make a sentence with “dogma’ as subject. Mary (after careful thought)--The dog- ma has three puppies. The apex of “plainness” seems to have been attained by an old gentleman ‘‘down East.” “Wh said one of his friends, “he was s0 homely that when he made up a face he was handsomer than he was at other times.”—Youth's Companion. At a recent duel the parties discharged their pistols without effect, whereupon one of the seconds interposed and pro- posed that the combatants should shake hands. To this the other second objected as unnecessary. “Their hands,” said he, “have been shaking for a half-hour.” “Some men have the best luck!” “How s0?” “There's McIntosh, for instance; ice cream gives his girl neuralgia.”—Chicago Record. —_—————————— OB AT | POSTAGE ON SUNDAY CALL. SUNDAY CALL wrapped ready for mailing—postage 2c to all points in United States, Canada and Mexico, and 4c to all for- eign points. 7 B e COMING HERE TO BUY. Merchants From the South Come on Manufacturers’ Excursions. Among the arrivals on the Southern overland yesterday were a large number of merchants from Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and the southern part of the State, coming here to make their fall purchases of goods. They are excurslon- ists who have taken advantage of the offer of the Manufacturers’ and Whole- salers’ League, which offers transporta- | tion, hotel and amusement rates to buyers The purpose try merchants buy their goods in this city and State instead of xen’éing to the ks.:z\‘s'\t for the same. Heretofore much of the business of the West has been done with Eastern houses, and Western manufactur- ers have suffered not a little by this dis- crimination. It was determined to secure some of this trade, and in making the attempt the local body has Yeached well out into the terrltorfl which the Eastern houses may be of the opinion is theirs. Montana, Idaho, Utah and Washington have gone away well satisfied with their bargains. Now come Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and the southern part of California to buy in the city by the Golden Gate. There wiil be several other excursions before the season is over and the Promnters of the project feel that they will be well repaid for the enterprise. ¥ ———————— SODA OF CELERY HARMLESS. Charles Hutchinson’s Death Was Due to a Disease of the Brain. Chemist Crackbon reported to Coroner Hill yesterday that there were no poison- ous substances in the “Soda of Celery" which Charles E. Hutchinson had been | taking to cure a headache just before he died, September 7, at the laborers’ on Nineteenth avenue, between K an L streets. The harmlessness of Soda of Celery was also testified to hy Dr. Stlver- mon and Dr. Bradley Plymier. The au- topsy showed that death had been caused ay hemorrhage of the brain, and the tes- mo dnvalog the fact that the de- ceased had ered from headache for a cam | long while—the result of the disease. The { jury rendered verdict of death from | natural causes. A representative of the Ferry Drug which put up the Soda of Cel- ery, swallowed a triple dose left in the bottle from which the medicine had been taken by tchinson. This was done in v the Coroner and the jury ation is not harmful. HEALTH OFFICERS CLASH. Inspector Gans and Surgeon O'Rourke Differ About Immature Veal. There is a clash between Market In- spector Gans on one side and Veterinary Surgeon O'Rourke and Officer Butter- th on the other, and it may be neces- ¢ for the Health Board to take a hand n the controversy to arrive at a satisfac- tory settlement. it is all caused by the arrest of Jesse 3 ¢ O'Rourke and Butterworth last sda ver was apprehended on the on road as he was bringing in a load al. O'Rourke pronounced the calves rges were placed of having immature on and the other of he_limits. Prison where the evidence and, on amination, pronounced them whole- In the face of this, however, J. C. . a rancher of San Mateo, says that old the live calves to Meyer when | they were only three days old. They | were slaughtered by Meyer on the day he | bought them. Gans claims that O'Rourke is invading his official domain, while the latter de- that if Gans that the two in question are over three days old ot competent to perform his duties hould produce some valid reasons for his_conclusion. The case will not come up until the lat- ter part of the week, when Judge Conlan will decide between the opposing Health | employes. | e %ANSWERS TO CORRESFONDENTS. | 3 | CARBONATE OF LIME—A. 8., Fa- 1. Hydrochloric ture and | mosa Kern County, C acid will dissolve carbonate of lime. | CENTURY—Subscriber, City. If you live until the Ist day of January, 191, you | will witness the ushering in of the twen- | tieth centu HALF-DOLLAR OF 1834—Stockton Sub- scriber, Cal. A half dollar of 1834 does not vommand a premium. Such can be purchased from dealers for 75 cents each. TWO HALF-DOLLARS—An Old Sub- scriber, Cit. Half dollars of 1812 and of 1828 do not command any premium. The former are offered for $1 and the latter for 85 cents each. A MISSING PERSON—A Subscriber, | Pacific Grove, Cal. If you wish to learn | about a person who has disappeared and was last heard of in San Francisco, write a full explanation to the Chief of Police. SOLO—T. H., San Andreas, Cal. As the | correspondent does not state what was trumps and under what rules the game | of solo, about which a question was raised, was played the question cannot be answered, as there are several ways of | playing that game. WHY THE NINETEENTH—OId Sub- scriber, East Oakland, Cal. “Why is this called the nineteenth century? We have been debating this for some time and would like to have it explained through Answers to Correspondents,” writes this | correspondent. There is but little ex- | planation necessary. As soon as 100 years | had elapsed the first century closed, and | with the vear 101 commenced the second century and then the vear 201 became the beginning of the third century and so on | down the line up to the present time, | when the year 1801 became the first of the | nineteenth centur: MAJOR GENERAL AND BRIGADIER —E., City. In the National Guard the major general ranks next to the Governor, who is commander-in-chief, The adjutant general on the staff of t commander-in- chief ranks as a brigadier general, but he has no authority of his own volition to | issue any order to the major general. If he gives any orders to the major general | he does so as emanating from the com- { mander-in-chief, delivering them just the | same as_an aid, orderly or meéssenger would. But the brigadier general would | be bound to obey any order issued by the major general, despite the fact that he is adjutant. general. STOCKS AND BONDS—L. E., Eureka, Cal. Stocks can be sold at any time at | market value. Bonds are redeemable at par. Assessments may be called for from those who hold railroad or other stocks in California_ and Nevada. There are | some States where such a rule does not | prevail. San Francisco brokers charge one-half of one per cent on sale and pur- | chase of stocks when the amount involved | Is in excess of $200. On all transactions | under that amount the price is §l. A stockholder is liable for all expenses. The holder of -shares of stock does not part ownership of his property because the stock goes down so low that the stock is no longer quoted on the market. | DEFACING OIN—Subscriber, Mare | Island, S., Vallejo, Cal. The Federal law says on the subject of defacing coin: Bvery person who fraudulently, by any art, way or means, defaces, mutilates, | impairs.” diminishes, falsifies. « scales: or lightens the gold or silver coin which has | been or may hereafter be coined at the mints of the United States, or any foreign | gold or silver coins which are by law made current or are in actual use or cir- | culation as money within the United | States, shall be imprisoned for not more than two years and fined not more than $200 man may have a number of A coins of the United States or coins such as | described in the section of the law quoted, | and if he feels inclined to have the same melted for the ?urpuse of converting such into either bullion or jewelry he is per- fectly free to do so. The money, if he | came by it legitimately, is his own, and | he is at liberty to do whatever he pleases | with it; but he is not permitted to deface | the coin or to lighten its weight and then {try to pass it as genuine without in- curring the penalty. A man, if he was | foolish enough to do so. could cut or chon | 2§20 piece in halves or quarters or into any num®er of pleces, providing he did not try w!to put the pieces in circuiation as money. | —————— | Cal.glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_—— Special information suppiled datly to business houses and public men by the | Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * ——————— Yesterday’s Bankrupts. Charles Williams, San Francisco, $04 52; no assets. Henry Van Allen, San Fran- cisco, railroad foreman, $263 77; no assets. ——————— Dr. Stegert's Angostura Bitters, the world- renowned appetizer and Invigorator, '8 used over the world. Beware of imitations. 1