The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 3, 1899, Page 6

1E SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 3 1899. e —— JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address 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 Telephone Main 1874. . Including Postage: day Call), Sunday Cal & 3 months gle Month = e Yeai L One Year are authe s will De forwarded W bscriptions, nen requested. QAKLAND OFFICE.... veeee--+-908 Brocdway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Maoager Foreign Advertising, Marquotte Building, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON ..Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR... . ..29 Tribune Building ‘WS STANDS. vs Co.; Great Northern Hotol] Hotel CHICAGO N ouse; P. O. W YORK NEWS STANDS. ja Hotel; A. Bremtano, 31 Union Bquare; Waidor. Murray H WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE L. ENGLISH, C Wellington Hotel spondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 30C Hayes street, open untl} £:30 o'clo 639 McAllister street, open until 9:33 c'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 22C' Markst street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 1096 Valencla street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twemcy- second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock, AMUSEMENTS. ne Yentleman." as a Lamb.” Rip Van Winkle.” er—Vaudeville every afternoon and Mason and Ellis streets—Specialties. ion—>Mechanics' Fair and Philippine Ex- Pa hibit. Oakland etrack—Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. Fldridge & Co.—This day, at 12 o'clock, Real e T day, at 11 o'clock, Ormonde at 11:30 o'clock, . KIPLING AND THE KING. “HERE have been signs of flinching in England as the Boer war feeling has grown. Herbert Spencer, rep: iting the extreme of rational- aughan, the extreme of super- sm, are at one agains Literature 11 time have not forgotien the rights d have joined in rebuking the unjust There has been asserted in England a feeling that it is not a crime in any people to assert their right to develop institutions in line with their national or racial genius, ara some have gone so far as to say that the day England fires a shot as aggressor in the Transvaal will be the begin- ning of the fall of the empire. This may be true, and yet the present generation may seem to see in that act and on that day assurance of the empire's immor- tality. After empires are dead the historian can go back and find the beginning of their downfall, but it is. usually unseea by those who are cotemporary with it. The aversion to this war shown by English thinkers has evidently made an impression which the British impe: ts feel must be reckoned with. Mr. Rud- ) d Cardinal V war. yard Kipling is in the habit of illuminating every | i serious situation with a flash of his poetic genius, which lights the whole world at once. The failure of the Czar's peace conference was sure from the mo- ment he published “Adam Zad the Bear.” call it brutal, unjust, inhuman—no matter, it shaped the policy of the United States and England, and they issued from a conference called to promote peace on earth and good will toward men with but one result of their alliance, and that the retention of the dum- dum bullet in war because it is the cruelest missile that can be fired from a rifle. Adam Zad the Bear was abroad, and there could be no peace while he ranged the hills. This country seemed to be hesitating between the unselfish purpose of the Spanish war and a new- born greed for power and possessions and the glories of empire. In that pause Kipling published his “White Man’s Burden,” and what to millions had seemed a national crime appeared as a national duty, and the brown man has been disappearing from the face of the earth quite rapidly ever since. Mr. ling had a difficult task to form the Brit- ish conscience in approval of a war pretended to be for the extension of the franchise and liberty, while really to crush a rising republic that Britain may have no rival in South Africa. It must be admitted that his poem is of less merit than either of its predeces- sors. He professes to see the King come again in Oom Paul. So he raises the warning voice against letting the Boers have self-government in the homes they planted in the wilderness lest the old idea of the divinely appointed king shall take root in the Dark Continent, and come again to conquest the world and rebind its chains on men. The poem is badly strained. It is cast in the same stern mold as Adam Zad, but one cannot help feel- ing that it might just as well be fulminated against the United States, because we fix conditions to naturali- zation and compel a term of years and complete ab- juration of former allegiance before it can be enjoyed at ell. That the Boers choose to fix the terms upon which aliens may share their birthright is a sign of the coming of the king again is almost too fantastic for poetry, and Mr. Kipling has not added to his fame by setting up such a fallacy. The hard truth is that the lion and the unicorn want Africa, and intend to have it regardless of any rights which their holder is not strong enough to defend. Oberlin M. Carter, ex-captain in the United States army, must serve five years in a military prison for robbing the Government of $1,600,000. Leaving out of consideration the element of dishonor, which the worthy thief seems never to have feit, the Government is paying him $320,000 a year for his disgrace. In making its wholesale appointments Saturday night the Health Board overlooked an opportunity. 1t forgot to appoint an inspector of the general fund * to see that no ‘other municipal departments interfere with the raid upon the treasury. ...OCTOBER 3, 1899 We may | PRESSURE ON DEWEY. HE movement to make Dewey a candidate for T the Presidency may die out, or it may assume formidable proportions. It is in line with the habit and practice of our people, who at the close of each of our wars have sought to express their feeling for the leading figure of each by an offer of the Presi- | dency. This began with Washington. It was con- | tinued with Jackson. He was the most conspicuous | personality in the war of 1812. After we had met a es of defeats on land he saved our national pride | the victory at New Orleans, and the fact that the | battle was fought after peace was declared did not | affect his position. The keen political insight of Mr. | Clay at once saw in Jackson a coming President, and he ceaselessly antagonized a candidacy that was in-} evitable. He joined with Adams, in the election by the House in 1824, to defeat Jackson in that agree- ment which Randolph characterized as “an alliance | between an Eastern Puritan and a Western blackleg.” | It must be said for Jackson, however, that he had at- tained eminence in civil life. He was a lawyer of repute, had served creditably as Justice of the Supreme Court s State and had legislative experience in Congress. At the close of the Mexican War the Whigs took advantage of the latest hero worship in the nomina- n of Taylor. That party had opposed the war, and | Lincoln himself, as a member of Congress from | Illinois, had gone to great lengths in an!agonism.‘ 3ut the Whig politicians saw a chance to get a statute | f oblivion and a party victory at the same time, and i with Taylor, who was not known to have ever | subscribed to a single principle of Whiggery. It at- | tempted to work the same sentiment in 1852 by the nomination of Scott, but lost. It is true that Pierce in the Mexican War, but was undis- military record did him no good. | hat campaign the part of Scott in the war was ht over again. The campaign ballads were war But the smoldering embers of war enthusiasm | could not be made to blaze, and Scott fell, and the Whig party fell with him, never making another fight. History was repeated at the close of the Civil War. Grant, of unknown politics and undistinguished in ’civi] life, had made such a glorious history for his country in war that he was a prize for the politicians. Yet with him the idea was of slow growth. There is no evidence that it originated with him or that he had | the slightest ambition for the office. But it came to | him, and his career in it did not add to the greatness of his fame. His countrymen remember him most fondly as the organizer and winner of victories in battle. | Hayes, Garfield and McKinley were all officers in | the Civil War, but it cannot be said that their mili- | tary experience as volunteers and not as regularly ‘lmined soldiers was a commanding reason for their | election. It was merely a creditable incident in their | careers, but, standing alone, would have been insuffi- | | cient to promote them. | Now we have ended successfully the first foreign | war of the republic in which we were the invaders, | and it is not unnatural that the old habit asserts it- self. There are existing political conditions which make Dewey’s candidacy seem an overmastering necessity to a large number of politicians. It has been a ques- tion in the n of thoughtful, Democrats whether hat party is to survive. It is known that Mr. Tilden | made a grewsome prophecy that it would rally and | elect one man to the Presidency and then pass out of existence. Its effort to make Dewey a candidate is a | struggle against fate, and repeats the Whig ex- perience with Taylor in 1848. The candidacy of | Dewey is the only possible way in which it can throw Bryan and cleanse itself of the eczema with whigh he has infected it as principles. Therefore from the South and from New York comes the demand for Dewey, and the movement will present a very inter- | esting study for the next eight months. The move- ment now has the features of an attempt to stampede | not only the party but the country. That it is cnusing} anxiety is evident in the interview of Senator Hanna. [ | Dewey himself has taken some pains to state his dis- | qualifications for the Presidency, and has treated the | | propo: n only half seriously. This has seemed to | ncrease the movement. Viewed from the politician’s standpoint, the Ad- miral’s immediate future offers the most alluring pos- sibilities for promoting his candidacy. The unequaled | effusion of feeling in New York is not to be the last | of patriotic demonstration. A little later he is to go | :’to Philadelphia and Chicago, and the furor will be | | prolonged. | At present the question is the most interesting one | in our politics. | ——— is | The scandal connected with the attempted sale of | a notaryship would suggest that the Governor might | judiciously establish an exchange for the auction of | positions at his disposal. It seems to be a rather un- i dignified proceeding, to say the least, to hawk the | places through the byways by political tricksters. | ! i A GUERRILLA CAMPAIGN. | 7 IDE as are the differences in the political situ- \V ations of the various States where campaigns are in progress this fall, there is one feature | common to all, and that is the lack of a definite issue | upon which the Democratic party can ask the sup- | port of the people. In every State, from Massachu- setts to Nebraska, the fight of the Bryanites is scat- | tering and ineffective. It is like a guerrilla warfare | or a futile skirmish along a far extended line with no | direct assault anywhere. | From the Democratic campaign orators there has | been some denunciation of the gold standard, of the | tariff, of trusts, and of the general policy of the ad- | ministration, but it seems that upon none of thesc! | issues have they succeeded in rousing any energy | | among their followers, and accordingly they run back | | and forth from one to the other trying to find some- | | thing which even if it be not an issue will at least | form a campaign cry and serve to excite the masses. The trust question appears to be the favorite with the campaigners in several of the States, and yet even | | upon that issue there is lack of coherence and force in the attack. In Iowa the Democratic candidate for Governor has endeavored to combine an old issue | with a new one by attacking the tariff and de- nouncing it as the parent of trusts. Bryan in a re- cent speech tried to fasten the silver question to the new theme by declaring the gold standard to be the cause of trusts, and in Ohio McLean is attributing | | the existence of trusts to the general depravity of the | Republican party. Thus in one State Democracy | | sromises to abolish trusts by the adoption of free | trade, in another by the remonetization of silver, and | in a third by the mere act of getting possession of the | offices. i Suc!| a condition of affairs in the counsels of the | party is not conducive to clearness of thought among the leaders of the council, and accordingly it is not surprising to learn that when George Fred Williams j.of Massachusetts was asked by a Boston reporter | what measures he would take to curb the evils of the vLtrust system he replied that “he believed that if | | seamanship of the two nations whose sailors Bryan were elected and surrounded by men deter- mined to enforce the law much good would result, and that this would tend in time to bring about an effective remedy.” In fact, it appears the Democrats have taken up the trust question not because they have a definite policy to propose with regard to it, but solely because they have no other issue at all upon which to make even a pretense of a campaign. The country is too pros- perous to enable them to rally the masses by any of the old calamity cries, and the free silver fssue will no longer serve to win votes. Therefore the trust issue is brought to the front, and therefore the cry is that the way to remedy the evil is to elect Bryan and trust to Democracy. The Board of Education has decided to equip a number of the school buildings of the city with fite | escapes. What a pity it has no power to put them in the City Hall. Director Gedge might then have a chance to escape the Grand Jury. O witnessed the triumphant welcome accorded to Admiral Dewey there would be in New York a week of reaction and comparative repose, but it will not be so on this occasion. Thousands of the visit- ors who thronged the city to attend the reception will remain to witness the yacht races, and the fleets of excursion steamers, yachts and other pleasure craft that come and go to and from the course will in themselves form a marine display fully as picturesque and hardly less imposing than the grand naval pageant that celebrated the return of the hero. By the trials to which the competing yachts have been subjected it has been made abundantly evident they are the fleetest craft of their kind ever con- structed. Never before have sails carried boats capable of ocean voyaging so lightly or so swiftly over the seas. They represent the constructive skill and the and whose ship-builders are the foremost in the world. The contest, therefore, is something more than a sport for men of wealth and leisure. It is another test of the comparative excellence of the Ameriacn and the Briton, and as such will be watched with in- terest by thousands to whom yachting is a thing un- familiar and racing ordinarily uninteresting. The race, moreover, is to be marked by another feature of worldwide interest. It is to afford an opportunity for a thorough test of the efficacy of wireless telegraphy in reporting events as they hap- pen. and only a short time ago The Call achieved a notable triumph in journalism by arranging to re- ceive by wireless telegraph the earliest report of the arrival of the transport with the California troops from Manila, but nothing yet accomplished in that way will equal what is to be done to-day by The Call and the New York Herald in receiving by the new telegraphy dispatches of the various features of the race while it is yet in progress and the yachts are fleeting over the sea. From the tests which have been made under the personal direction of Signor Marconi it appears the arrangements made for the wireless telegraph service are such as to assure a successful working of the ystem when put into operation this morning. It is from The Call, therefore, the people of San Francisco will get the earliest reports of the course of the THE YACHT RACES. RDINARILY after such a week as that which | race, and ample preparations have been made here for bulletining them at once and also for showing with miniature yachts the counterfeit presentment of the race as it occurs. As for the race itself everything promises well. Sir Thomas Lipton has won the favor of the American people by showing himself to be a frank, true-hearted | sportsman in the best sense of the word, and the race will be one of friendly rivalry free from any trace of | national or personal antagonisms. The course will be kept clear from the interference of excursion steam- ers and other crait by a small fleet of revenue cutters under command of Captain Evans of the navy. Un- less, therefore, some storm prevent, the first match of the two great yachts will take place to-day under good auspices, and persons in San Francisco who watch The Call bulletins will be able to follow it | almost as closely as those who actually witness it from the deck of an excursion steamer. An astronomer at Nice, Italy, announces the dis- covery of a new comet. It is approaching the earth at a great rate, and it will not be surprising to hear within a day or so of some New York yellow news- paper hoisting the name of the celestial wanderer at the head of its editorial column as a Presidential can- didate-—not only hoisting, but ling. FOR YOUNG AND FOR OLD. Y the arrangements made for a series of articles B designed for continuous home studies The Call will furnish every day papers of instructive value as well as of interest to the family. The studies are designed for the young as well as for the old. While the series upon the works of Shakespeare will attract the more thoughtful students of the higher branches of literature, the desk studies for girls and the shop and trade studies for boys will meet the need of young people who wish to acquire information that will be of practical value to them in the affairs of life. The education of the mind begins with infancy, and so long as the brain retains activity the educating process never ceases. It is for each man and woman to determine in what directions education shall go forward. The press furnishes information of all kinds on matters of current interest, the evil with the good, the trifling events of life with those of the gravest importance, but hitherto it has not seriously set about sroviding for its readers courses of study having a definite purpose in the direction of education. That which has been lacking in the past is now to be made up so far as The Call is concerned by the reading courses which have been prepared under the direction and supervision of Professor Seymour Eaton, for- merly of the Drexel Institute of Philadelphia, and one of the foremost educators in the United States. The studies selected are sufficiently varied to please the most diverse tastes and interests. For one class of students the articles on the great artists of the world will be most gratifying, while another will fol- low with most attention those upon American states- men, or those which deal with domestic economy and household science. Each series, however, will have something at least of attraction for all. Boys can profit much by following the articles designed as desk studies for girls, while many a girl who may have to seek employment will find it to her advantage to study carefully the instruction to be given in the shop and trade studies prepared for boys. The papers are, in fact, for the whole family. They will be profusely illustrated and will supply pleasant reading even to those who do not wish to take them up as serious studies. To all persons engaged in educational work they will be of exceptional value, inasmuch as every article is to be the work of a man or a woman who has had a large experience in educa- tion in one form or another. It is true similar tests have been made before, | attracting much attention. residence, Bishopstead, Fourteenth ple. The cross is similar in design to the Episcopal color. | the more anclent and the more heraldic. FIRST CHURCH FLAG g " RAISED IN UNITED STATES HE church flag unfurled by Bishop Coleman of the diocese of Delaware is It floats from a sixty-foot pole at the Bishop's by the Bishop and two heraldry experts. ; | Its technical description is as follows: ‘‘Barry of thirteen gules and a gent on an inescutcheon argent of seven-thirteenths a cross patonce purpure. This means that it has thirteen bars of red and white bunting alternately, with a center fleld of white, seven bars wide, in which field is an Episcopal cross in pur- | The flag is nine feet six inches square, the square form being Not only is it the only church flag in the United States, but It is also, so far as known, the only distinctive church flag in the world. The English Church flles a flag, it 1s true, but that is the Union Jack. Bishop Coleman will fly his flag on every church day, which will make an average of about once a week. | | and Orange streets, and was designed Bishop's pectoral cross. Purple is the (9090609006066 0600000 'S PRESS COMMENTS $ @ 2000602289000 00000 | Rewards of Mrs. Hearst’s Enterprise. Oakland Tribune. | California is getting a lot of the finest kind of advertising as a result of Mrs. Hearst's enterprise in bringing about the architectura! competition for the univer- sity plans. Here is a sample from the Chicago Inter-Ocean: “It is plain that in the future Callfornia will have something to boast of. If we hope to keep pace with our sister State of the Pacific Slope we must expedite the subway and stadium schemes.” e Success of the State Fair. i Litvermore Herald. | The State Fair was brought to a close last Saturday night after the most suc- cessful season in a decade. The State Agricultural Soclety will be enabled to reduce the heavy debt under which it has been staggering for years by at least half and the way has been paved for equally successful fairs in the future. All kinds | of causes have been assigned for this un- Kpl’eceden(ed success. The Cltizens’ Fair | Association, a body of representative | Sacramento business men, contributed a | great deal to the success. An active and | able board of directors with a broad | policy was likewise a strong factor. 'The press also contributed its good offices. ut back of all these Influences was the directing hand of the new secretary of the society, Peter J. Shiclds. Mr. Shields, while retiring In disposition, has rare ex- | ecutive ability and being in thorough touch with all the interests represented at the fair was able to direct all the depart- ments to the successful issue mentioned above. Under his capahle administration the State Agricultural Society should wax stronger and stronger until its in- fluence upon the agricuitural and racing interests of the State is as potent as If it was a quarter of a century ago when it was a lusty infant and a power for good in California. e Does He Risk His Honor? Bakersfleld Californian. Hon. Frank H. Short of Fresno, stanch Republican, astute politician and spell- binder of no mean order, is agalnst ex- pansion. He lately published an able paper on the subject, and is again in print 1 in a forceful article in The Call arralgning | | the pollcy of the administration with ref- | erence to the Philippines. Among other things Mr. Short says: “It is historically true that probably no country or despotic ruler thereof ever un- dertook to extend his jurisdiction over an- other country or geople without asserting some clalm of right and an additional de- sire to benefit not only his own country but the country and people subjected. | Alexander |s reputed to have rather terse- {1y put it, ‘It I have destroyed cities and | countries, 1 have founded greater. The | Caesars destroyed civil liberty in Rome as | it had previously existed, and thought they had more than recompensed the Roman people by giving them an im- perfal army and imperial power and the imperial_city of marble, substituted for | the old Roman town of wood. But in the | light of subsequent history the change is | | not reputed to have been to the advan- tage of the Roman people.” | If the Fresnan is not careful he will find |a wide chasm between himself and the grand old party. Mr. Short, by reason of tness, abl. ity and locatlon, is the loglcal | Congressional_candidate of his party in the Seventh District, and he should not throw away his chance of Congressional honors by refusing to follow his party unless, indeed, as is more than likely, he would rather be right than to win at the | game of politics. ————— Clip the Express Companies’ Claws. Chicago Journal. ‘When Congress levied an internal rev- enue tax on parcels carried by express the express companies made the people pay it. They *shifted the tax.” They didn't care where the burden fell, just so it didn’t fall on them. Now they are grum- bling at the Government for instituting an international parcels post with Ger- many for parcels up to eleven pounds in weight. They want to carry those pack- ages themselves at their own prices and compel the sender to pay for the revenue stamp on the receipt besides. There is no cure for this kind of greed. There is no way to make these corpora- tions efther generous or patriotic or fair. The only thing to be done with them is to adopt measures that will protect the peo- le from thelr rapacity, and one way to E(r that is for the Government gradually to extend the activity of the Postal De- partment until it covers part or all of the express business. n quarreling with the German parcels post treaty the express companles have drawn attention anew to our own back- ward position in the matter of a parcels post. No parcels weighing mare than four gounds can now be sent through the mails etween. points in this country. Yet if it is practicable to carry a four-pound par- cel it is perfectly practicable to carry a larger one, and it is as pragticable to carry an eleven-pound package between American points as between an American and a German point. The eleven-pound limit would embrace the great bulk of the Christmas and New Year express busi- ness, and the express charges at that time of the yvear are no inconsiderable item of the holiday shopping expenses. The people ought to be able to emanci- pate themselves from the tyranny of the express monopoly, and they can do it if they will demand of their representatives, when Congress meets, that the benefits the Government gives foreigners through the international parcels post be extended to Americans as well. There is no sense in denying to ourselves what we have glven to others, and there is just as little i sense in allowing the greedy express com- | | ganies to monopolize the parcels-carrying | usiness as there would be in allowing them to monopolize the carrying of let- | ters. — e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ‘ s | GRAMMATICAL—E. F. M., City. The| correspondent asks: “Is it grammatical to say, ‘You and I will go to the theater,’ or ‘You and me will go to the theater'?” | “You and I" is grammatical; “You and me” is not. TAeE TWO CITY HALL DOMES—The dome of the City Hall in San Francisco. includ- ing the wingless angel, is 32 feet. The dome of the City Hall in Philadelphi including the height of the statue of W liam Penn, is 537 feet 4% inches. | CHICKENS—I. L. B., Auburn, Cal. This department cannot print the names of any | firms that deal in fancy chickens and | eggs. 1f you had signed your name In-| stead of your Initdals the information | askfid for would have been sent to you by mail. | DREYFUS' JUDGES—W. B, City. The| list of the Dreyfus Judges as published in The Call was correct. The fact that| the yellow journal published a list that varies from that of The Call is no proof of its correctness. Whenever you see nn)’(hln? in The Call you may rest as- | sured of its correctness. i BUNCOMBE-E., City. The origin of | “buncombe,” as applied to effusive rhe- | toric irrelevant to the business at hand, has been traced to a member of Congress | from Buncombe County, N. C., who, many years ago, when taxed with the irrele vancy of his speech, repjied, “I am no speaking for yo| t for Buncombe.” [ “STARVING TiME' —E., City. In 1609, | after the departure of Captaln John Smith for England, the settlers of James- town, Va., were, during many months, reduced to the ‘last extremities, being | obliged to eat rats, snakes, toads and the | like to save themselves from starvation. That was known as “the starving time." | A PRETTY NAM -Mystic ) City. | What would be “‘an odd and pretty name | for a boy” is a matter of individual taste. In the back part of Webster's Dictionary | you will find a great number of Christian | names suitable for a boy. You will there | find some that are “‘odd” and some that are ‘“pretty.” If you cannot find one | there to your liking make up one. | THE MEDALS—W. A. G., City. If you/| enlisted in the State of California for the | Spanish-American war, whether in the volunteer or regular service, and were not | dishonorably discharged, vou are entitled | to a medal from the Grand Parlor com- | mittee of the Native Sons of the Golden West. File your claim at the office of the grand secretary, N. 8. G. W., 414 Ma- son street. THE FLAG IN 190—0. S., Soldlers’ | Home, Los Angeles County, Cal. This department has not been able to find in the records that “Senator John Sherman introduced a law for the placing of the stars in the blue field on the American flag, to take effect in 1900.” The placing of the stars was fixed upon the admission of the State of Utah in 18M in alternate rows of eight and seven. WOMEN AS CLERKS—M. E. B., Col- | ma, Cal. Women who are employed as clerks or saleswomen in dry goods or cloak stores in San Francisco are paid | | from $6 to $8 a week. Generally the hours are from 7 a. m. to § p. m. The wages of skilled sewers and dressmakers deperd upon the class of work upon which they are eniaged. wressmakers who go out by the day charge from $130 up. “Do you eat soup or do you drink it?"” asks this corre- spondent. That is one of the mooted | questions. Writers on etiquette hold that | one eats soup, for they all agree that one | should '‘never eat soup out of the end of the spoon, but always from the side Now, consomme is a soup. If that is served in an ordinary soup plate and par | taken of a spoonful at a time, that would be considered eating soup, but if the same ! consomme was served in cups, the one taking it the same as coffee or tea would be looked upon as drinking soup. There | are a number of soups, stch as family, julienne, boulliabaisse,which no one couid drink, but would have to eat; conse-| quen!la’ whether one eats soup or drinks | soup depends upon the character of the | soup and the manner in which it is served. | ADMIRAL—S. 8., City. The grade of | admiral in the United States navy (as| distinguished from vice admiral and rear admiral) was_first_established by act of Congress on July 25, 1865, and under that act three admirals have been created. The first of these was David Glasgow Farragut, for whom the grade of vice admiral was specially created in 1964 in | recogmiticn of his services during the war | of the rebellion. To further honor him Congress in 1866 created the rank of ad- miral. The country also recognizing the valuable services rendered by avid Dixon Porter, in 1866 promoted him vice admiral, vice Farragut, promoted admiral, and upon the death of Farragut he was promoted admiral. The rank became ex- tnct February 13, 1891, upon the death of Porter. It was not revived until recently, when Congress, recognizing the great :fi;\fig:l of George Dewey, created him PROVING A HOMESTEAD—Home- steader, Coulterville, Cal. In mak- ing final proof under the laws of the United States the homestead party may appear in person at the district land office and there make affidavit and proof required in support of his claim; or he may appear with his witnesses before the Judge of a court of record of the county or State, or district and Territory, in which the land is situ- ated, and there make the final proof re- quired, which proof, duly authenti- cated by the court seal, is required to be transmitted by the Judge or | west of the Miss | of Oxnard, Cal clerk of the court to the fi'églszer and receiver, together with the fees and charges allowed by law. The claimant must sign a final affidavit show- ing the date of settlement, also that b has resided on the land according to I The witness has to .answer que in support of that affids . and tt claimant must sign his testimon amination at the time he makes fidayit. A man may settle on a land for the purpose of making it a hor stead under the laws of the United States, and he may be the owner of other lands at the time of proving up—that is, provided the other land is such as he has purchased. For instance, 4 man settle on land in Humboldt County the same time be the owner of real es- piece of a home- ACQUIRED City. After the adoption of !!\e ¢ constitution by the original thirteen States the United States acquire d territory as follows: April 30, 1803, the United States acquired by pur- chase from France all f_if Louis- fana for $11,250,000, in which territory was included all that is now known as Louis- jana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, = braska, Dakota, fontana. and large part 11ng: I;‘]elénmr_ : S\r\»h ‘nited States Florida, which S e teed as part of the Loulsiana purchase; December 29, 1 Texas be- came part of the Union as a result of war with Mexico; in_ 1848, by treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States paying to Mexico §15,000.000 and assuming debts amounting to $3,250,000, the United States ncquired what is mow known as Utah, Nevada and large portions of Ari- zona, Colorado and New Mexico, also Upper California, which is now the State of 'California. These regions were con- quered during the Mexican war and by the treaty of 1848 passed to the United . On December 30, 1833, the United 3 Gadsden treaty, came into ssession of those portions of Arizona and New Mexico south of the Gila River. Cost, $10,000,000. March 30, 1867, the United States acquired Alaska by purchase from Russia_for $7,200,000. In July, 1898, the Hawalian Islands were annexed; then followed the conquest of Cuba and the Philippines. AROUND THE CORRIDORS Fred Conn, the Big Pine borax king, 1s registered at the Russ. John Willhart, a prominent mine-owner of Montana, is a guest at the Russ. A. H. Hart, a wealthy silk manufac- turerr of New York, Is a guest at the Grand. Hans Kenma, a traveler from Germaay, is among the arrivals of last night at the Palace. Drury Melone has come down from his home at Oak Knoll and is staying at the Palace. Supreme Court Justice McKenna will leave to-night on the overland for Wash- ington, D. C. George F. Cummin, a well-known flour man of Tacoma, is among the recent ar- rivals at the Lick. Paris Commissioner E. W. Runyon came down from Red Bluff yesterday and regis- tered at the Palace. John Fennell, the mil#fonaire rancher, of Tehama Count, s among the arrivals of yesterday at the Palace. John C. Dornin, a leading business man of Tacoma, is registered at the Occidental on a flying business trip to this city. Miss May Genevieve Moroney, the gifted local pianiste, has returned from the East, where she was visiting relatives. ‘W. G. Hughes, a prominent Los Angeles capitalist, is a guest at the Occidental, where he will be found for the next few days. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Vice, two prom- inent society people of Sacramento, are registered at the Lick, where they ar- rived last evening. At the California there is reg large party of Raymond excurs who come from Massachusetts, Conne cut and Pennsylvania. J. W. Ashland, an extensive fruit- grower of San Jose, is at the Russ with his wife. They have come up to the eity on a short pleasure trip. James Walters, prominently connected th the Spreckels sugar refinery at Watsonville, arrived in the city yester- ay. He is staying at the Grand. S. H. Spooner, a special United States of 1 | Attorney, is a guest at the Occidental, where he will remain during the short stay he purposes making in this city. Richard Wilde, formerly contracting freight agent of the Great V tern Rail- road, has left that company to assume a like position with the Canadian Pacific. George H. Higbee, general manager of the Empire Transportation Line, is ex- pected to arrive in the city on Thursday next. He will probably go to the Palace. B. E. Hand, assistant general freight agent of the Michigan Central at Chicago, has resigned his nnection with that road. He will be cceeded by W. Mac- millian, who was general Eastern freight agent at Buffalo. J. C. Donald, attached to the Associated Press service in this city, and formerly a member of The Cal local staff, is leav- ing for Vancouver, B. C., where he pro- poses residing permanently. While still | remaining connected with the Assoclated Press, Mr. Donald expects to engage in commerce in the northern city. formerly of The Call's local ¥ and who is now occupy- ing the position of assistant Sunday editor on one of the New York papers, was married to Miss Madge Anderson of Chicago on September The ceremony was performed in New York, after which the couple departed on a wedding tour through the rural districts of New Jer- sey, where Davis spent his boyhood days. Mr. Davis Is well known in Nevada, where he formerly contributed to the Carson Appeal. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Oct. 2—Henry T. Oxnard is at_the Fifth Avenue. Louis D. Fo of San Francisco is at the St. Denis. George S. Bothwell of Los Angeles is at the Bartholdi. ————— Rebels? We like to hear the expansionist press speak of Aguinaldo and his men as reb- els. What are they What is a rebe Were the Gre Were_the Ru sisted_Napolcon? If the United States should sell Long Island to Germany, and the Americans now residing on that Island should resist, would they be rebels? If so, then are the Otherwise or not. —_——— Cal. glace fruit 30c per Ib at Townsend’s. * —_—— staff in this ¢ rebelling against? at Marathon rebals? ans rebels when the re- Filipinos rebels? Speclal information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monte gomery street. Telcphone Main 1042, * —_————— Frenna Again in Court. Joseph P. Frenna will be placed ’ before Judge Carroll Cook for the (;;.‘utrg:}l. of James F. Turner on Tuesday, October 24. Defendant’s counsel and the District Attorney were in court when Frenna's case was called and although further time ‘was asked the court set the date named. ————— Northern Pacific Railway. Upholstered tourist sleeper Paul every Tuesday night. N:h;’.:i:! w-ri:;' car fs nicely upholstered in leather and 1s e tremely comfortable In every respect. Pullmay sleeping cars of the latest pattern on oot train. Tickets sold at lowest rates o a1l oy East. T. K. Stateler, Gen. Agt., 633 Maricop o San Francisco, : i Cheap Rates. September 29 to October 5 inclustv e, - ta Fe Route will sell tickets to Chlcn‘o"’:! %::y low rates. Occasion, corner-stone laying Government bullding and fall festivities. Get full particulars at 625 Market street, —— There are many imitations of Dr. Blegert's Angostura Bitters—most of them dan The genuine is & household remedy o