The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 15, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1899 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propriet —— SUSHSBSSSEVPUE S VPSS Address All Communications to W. S, LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION UI'FiCl .Market and Third Sts., S. F hone Maiz 1868, 217 to 221 Stevenson ereet phone Main 1874, ; EDITORIAL RGOM DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, B cents. by Mall, Including Postage: ng Sunday Call), one year. 1 post = ed to recetv. subsoriptions. Ba aple coples will be forwarded when rquested. CAKLAND OFFICE ...908 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, C 2o, NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON.... “Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR... ..29 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Sherman House; 0 ews Co.; Great Northern Metel; Fremont House; Totel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentsno, 1 Uniom Squarej | Murrey Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE......... Wellington Hotel L. ENGLISH, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 30C Hayes street, open unti! $:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister street, open until 9:20 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open until i0 o'clock. 22C' Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clack. Valencla street, street, open until 1096 open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh 9 o'clock. NW. corner Tweaty- s, open untll 9 o'clock, le every afternoon and rner Mason and Ellis streets—Specialties. (Bush Street—Hans Huckebein.” eball to-day. Tt Miss Lillan K. Slinkey, AUCTION SALES. October 17, at 11 o'clock, THE DAILY RABID. Examiner is a close imitator of that style led in England “The Penny ial ent on conditions zed this of the report was its nts of fact in | They have been ents in this country and in text of an offi agent of 1 of the for months. stater 1 1 ‘ authoritative and The Call put ner r some, of the statements in nterview which it McQueen of Bosto: parts of it with interviews with General Reeve and s were observers of the same others knowledge of the same facts as cial narration. timate knowledge of Rev. Mr. » Congregational clergyman, w shown in its representation of him robed as a Catholic priest ¢ g dying soldiers of that faith on the battle-field and ac stering the final consolations of the ch The rch according to the Latin rites! ! has no need to fake news, for it pub- The Examiner system of pub- lishing only such news as it likes compels it to so- | phisticate and invi and fake to fill the place of ‘what it suppresses. | In these high times, when news centers are dotted thickly over two hemispheres, a genuine newspaper has no lack of matter which interests all classes of readers. The Call is such a paper and has the enter- prise and facilities to maintain that character. lishes all the news. e ———— i A CHARGE AGAINST DAVIS. l ThuRe | NE of Phelan’s weekly organs attacks Hon. | Horace Davis and charges that he teaches “a | O Bible class.” Whether Mr. Davis chooses: to go fishing Sundays or teach a Bible class is his per- | sonal affair. The Call wishes to say, however, that while it feels no spirit of censorship of the religious or the non-religious, there are many worse ways in which a gentleman may spend Sunday than in teach- ing a Bible class. The Phelan push may see something very wrong or very amusing in it, and the Mayor's chances may be advanced by sneering at it, but we have never known any harm to society to come from the intelligent, reverent instruction of others in the great moral and ethical precepts of the Bible. States- men, long chastened and instructed by public life and by bearing the great burden represented by the 1 fate of millions of people, have uniformly welfare a testified that civil government among men is freer of error, "and society is less the victim of misery, when and where the moral guidance of the Bible is most generally accepted. This was the view of Glad- stone, of Bismarck and Thiers, and even was the tes- timony of Bonaparte in his fatal exile on St. Helena. In this view even agnostic philosophers concur. Yet the Phelan push seem to think that a gentleman who teaches a Bible class and thereby is disseminating | moralities so useful in civil government as well as iu | personal conduct is thereby disqualified for the office of Mayor of San Francisco! | To be a Christian gentleman without being a sec- ian bigot is to have a character desirable in public office, and the enemies of Mr. Davis admit that such is his character, but the “push” treat it as a disquali- | fication! e e It is worthy of note that with the dogs of war | howling in South Africa and the Philippines and | velping in several South American republics no one | has heard a Peruvian bark. | Ii we are to have a commercial museum in San Francisco we ought to get it started before the ex- port exposition in Philadelphia ends and all the ex- hibits there are scattered. | sity but for those who are not in the enjoyment of ;such advantages, and for others who have passed the i | coons will look alike” to Tomkins. | localities other than those of the mountains the re- | safe. THE CALL'S HOME STUDY. UR “Home Study Circle” has been generally and widely approved by the most eminent cducators. It is legitimate newspaper enter- prise, and is for the assistance not only of those who are able to be students in school and univer- | school years but feel the need of more training an'_l}' prefer to give to it their leisure hours rather than devote them entirely to flash reading. This is an age | in which the trained mind has the advantage. That, indeed, has always been true, but time was that the opportunity for tra and tt many. ning was within reach of the few, <e, therefore, had an advantage over the | The opportunity for training has now be- | come more gencral and is enjoyed by a vast majority | of the people of this country, and none are barred except circumstances for which our educational b, | discovering any system is not responsible. But in the development | arisen a condition that somewhat limits personal attention to individual students, who | need something more than the day's elass instruc- | tion and such direction as they find in a textbook. | Where conditions of fortune permit these resort to private tutors to fill the gaps left in instruction class. This is irequently impossible, however, and therefore there remain weak places in training that | leave the mind only partially equipped for the think- ing and application of knowledge which will be re quired in the practical contacts of active life. The great popularity of the Chautauqua circles, of \he! various summer schools and university extension | courses, arises in the need felt for the strengthening | of these weak places left by the necessities of class | instruction. - | The Call's course of study, prepared by the most eminent educators in each line to be followed, is in the same direction. In it everybody, from the ap- prentice boy and work girl to the busy professional and business man and lady in society, will find means of self-culture of the highest value, and if the | course be followed with interest 1 industry it will | result in a fair academic training. Adult studentts | who choose to give to its pursuit a part of their | leisure will find in it a most interesting mental equip- } ment and enrichment in that material which will add | to their interest e broader affairs of life and will aid them in restoring the learning and graces of con- versation which has been said to be an art lost in the concentrations of our busy modern life. Its prime | value, however, is intended to be found in the hc!p; given to the young. Mental training is like a chain, | no stronger than its weakest link. Active men have | not failed to note the lack of success in the careers of many gradunates of our higher institutions of learn- ing. This is due to a break in the symmetry of the raining they have received. Some principle has not | of that system in been fully grasped, and its faint impression has faded | from the mind. Its faintness was perhaps recognized | by the student, who let it pass without effort to deepen its effect. Such students will find in our studies the equivalent of that personal attention which | was lacking from the teacher. Each of the scholars | engaged in its preparation is, in effect, a private | tutor to ev akes use of the course. | ich The Call goes, therefore, will | ntage of having practically Every family to w v the happy ad as | te tutors all of these distinguished and =xpe- | rienced educators, in another view of it we get the very warm ap- | proval of teachers in the public and private schools | all These teachers have the same feeling | they would have if each one of the professors who | class- | iding in the instruction of their | se teachers are hard worked, and | ades. up our course was with them in their personally All of the hem are overworked in the emergency pre- sented by schools, and to them this course of study comes as a distinct and valuable and appreciated | We are, then, in a clear and distinct sense, introducing a valuable ad- pupils some of our crowded ‘ elp with their classes. dition to the teaching force of every school without cost to the taxpayers or burden upon the school fund. A public journal should add all that it can to the | proper enlightenment of the people and should in- crease the usefulness of the equipment the young should have to fit them for their place in active life. It should also aid those who have lacked by reason of no opportunity or failure to improve advantages that were enjoyed. In this way a newspaper is doing its whole duty to the community which supports it, and this is the desire and purpose of The Call. J. J. Tomkins, a Chicago horseman, and William Taylor, colored, got into an argument a few days | ago, during the course of which Tomkins observed, in the words of the song, “I don't like a nigger, no- how.” The colored man promptly jabbed the end of his umbrella into the Chicagoan’s eye, blinding him. Hereafter, also in the words of a song, “All EREECTSOF THE "RAINS! EPORTS from various parts of the State are R to the effect that the rains have been every- where regarded as a blessing and that little or no damage has been done by them to any crop. As a rule the early rains do more or less damage to grapes and to hay, but this year the losses of that kind are said to be comparatively insignificant. The only point where there is any grave fear of loss is at Truckee, where the storm brought a snowfall which continued: for about three days, and as the stock and herds are still in the mountains there is a good deal of anxiety felt concerning them. From ports are nearly all reassuring. In Sacramento it is | said the damage to grapes in that section will be slight. From Stockton it is reported that thus far there has been no damage, though at first it was be- lieved the table grapes would suffer. Other varieties of grapes have been gathered. The rain has not hurt the hay, for as a rule it is either baled or under cover or stacked and water shedded. Much of the same kind of reports are received from other localities where the showers have been good. From nira comes the statement: “Little dimage has been done by the storm as the dry feed was about all gone. No green or dry fruit was in- jured to any great extent.” San Bernardino reports no loss and adds: “The orange groves will he preatly benefited.” Ventura has some fears of dam- | age to beets still in the fields, but other crops are Thus it goes throughout the State. A little damage here and there, but nothing sufficiently serious to counterbalance the general blessing of the rain. A notable feature of the storm is the amount of snow which has fallen in the mountains along the whole length of the State from north to south. While Truckee reports a snowstorm almost con- tinuously for three days, Los Angeles reports the mountains of that section to be mantled with about six feet of snow. This gives promise for a good rainy season all winter, for as long as the mountaine are covered with snow there will be a temperature in the upper air sufficiently cold to precipitate what- | set every nation on the globe to fighting. * * © - | 'as by the special features prepared for ever moisture may blow across from the ocean and cause it to fall in rain upon the valleys. The prospect is in every respect gratifying. All that we really need in this State is rain. If we get this year a rainfall sufficient not only to make a season’s crop but to fill up the sources of supply which were nearly exhausted by the long droughts of the recent years, we can look forward with good as- surance of prosperity whatever may happen else- where. The big bubbles of stock speculations in Wall street may break. but they will not injure us. ; “War,” says Andrew Carnegie, “war is un- human.” Yes, and it is also an effective means of blowholes in armor-plate that properly blinded Government inspectors have been unable to see. THE ODD FELLOWS’' JUBILEE. OR fifty years the order of Odd Fellows haz been at work in California, and during the coming week, in accordance with a custom that bas become something like an unwritten law in the United States, it will celebrate the jubilee with a grand conference and festival. The event will be tire chief feature of the week for San Francisco, and possibly for California, and will serve to remind the community of the good work which that and other benevolent and fraternal associations have done and are doing for the betterment of humanity. The first lodge of Odd Fellows in California was established September g, 1849. The jubilee was not held on the anniversary of that date because the Grand Encampment of the order is to meet here next Tuesday and it was thought best to hold the festival at that time. The celebration, therefore, will be marked by the ceremonies of the encampment as well the com- memoration of the jubilee itself. Within the fifty years of its work in the State the order has grown from small beginnings to be one of the most potent institutions of the commonwealth. It has in its subordinate lodges upward of 33,000 men:bers. In the Rebekah lodges, to which ladies as well as men are admitted, there are about 17,000 members, of whom about 800 are ladies. The encamp- ment branch of the order numbers about 7000. It will be seen that numerically the order is strong in all its branches and that its growth has fully kept pace with the increasing population of the State. The benevolent work of the association during its eer in California shows an expenditure in the half century of over $6,000,000. Most of it has been done quietly within the lines of the order itself and with the simple grace of true charity, so that it is not fully known even to the members themselves, but that it has been widely helpful is not to be doubted. To some extent, however, the good work shines before men and is visible in the stately build- ings of the Home for Aged Odd Fellows at Ther- malito and the Orphans’ Home at Gilroy. It is, moreover, frequently manifest in the work done by boards of relief in all the principal cities of the State and by the employment branch. Fraternalism is one of the marked characteristics of our people. In no other State ofi the Union do the various fraternal orders flourish as in Califor- nia in proportion to the numbers of the population. Among these orders the Odd Fellows have held a high rank. Beginning in the State in the pioneer days, when almost every man in the community was a stranger to every other, it set about the work of binding the better elements of the population into a true brotherhood devoted to the service of a genuine humanity. The members of the order who have in- Lerited the work of their predecessors can draw from the past splendid inspirations for the future, and the celebration of the jubilee this week will be a prophecy of the wider work and higher good that are to be wrought in the future. Former Mayor Ellert has resigned the manage- ment of the garbage crematory. Another man will now have to superintend the burning of the Ex- aminer's “bona-fide” circulation. INTERNATIONAL FIASCO. AN HEN the dignitaries who represented the W various powers at the great Peace Conference at The Hague finished their discussions and their dining, and with mutual good wishes bade one another farewell, they returned each to his own home and reported progress. As the Czar had requested the conference, his Ministers felt it incumbent upon them to speak for the conference as a whole, and in a notable state paper they informed his imperial Majesty that all was well, that the discussion had ac- complished much good, and that peace, if not within reach, was at least in sight. Since that time, so short a while ago, President Kruger of the Transvaal Republic has invoked the powers to uphold the principles of arbitration agreed upon at The Hague and to arbitrate the dispute be- tween the republic and Great Britain. Aguinaldo, president of the Filipinos, has also invoked arbitra- tion in the interests of peace in the Philippines. To each of these requests the high powers who babbled of arbitration and universal peace so eloquently at The Hague have turned deaf ears. Arbitration is a good thing for diplomats to discuss over the wal- nuts and the wine after sumptuous dinners, but clearly they still hold it would be a breach of eti- quette to suggest it as a practical reform to either one of the powers. There is something ominous in the fact that war in the Transvaal followed so swiitly after The Hague conference. It is a significant reminder of the old saying, “Men cry peace, peace, when there is no peace.” Perhaps if another conference of the kind should be held there would be universal war, one in which the Czar himself would take part and go to slaughtering as gayly as any conqueror known to history. When the Peace Conference was called no powers hailed it with more alacrity than the United States and Great Britain. The affair promised a good op- portunity for them to deliver moral lectures to the nations of Europe which are cursed with militarism. The warlike spirit of the Kaiser and the thirst for re- venge and military glory of the French were to be rebuked by the peace-loving, peaceful Anglo-Saxon race of America and England. It was a beautiful opportunity and it was fully taken advantage of. Many were the sermons and many were the orations proncunced in this country and in Great Britain | against the criminal folly of the military nations. To-day the nations of Europe are ail at home with their armies holding spectacular parades and exer- cising their soldiers in harmless maneuvers, but we and our cousins the British are making the brown man and the Boer understand that soldiers are not for ornament only.. The example we set will preach louder than the words we uttered so fluently while the conference was in session. We have, in fact, turned the conference into a fiasco and started wars which, while small in themselves, may have conse- quences which will involve the world in alarms and CHOXOXOAOAOXOAOROXOAXOROXOXOXOAPAOX X OX DN AOXOROXOXOXOXOXD EDITORIAL VARIATIONS, BY JOHN McNAUGHT. 0*050*OMOMO*QI'QMQ"N*’MI‘0*0*0*0*0*0*0*’*0*0*0*0-!0 @ i 3 § The international yacht race is drag- ging worse than a champlonship prize fight. Old Time is slow in New York, but he has won in every match so far. If the :nillionaires who have provided the sport for the entertainment of na- tions cannot raise the wind to make the affalr interesting they would do weil to call the races off and submit the thing to arbitration. LR Now that the talking between the Boer and the Briton has ceased and shooting has begun, the fervor of American sym- pathy with the little fellow in the fight has reached the singing point and poetry pours forth from every quarter of the country exhorting the Afrikanders to be vallant and sweep the Anglo-Saxon from the land. All of this poetry {is worse than wasted. The Boers have songs of their own. For the benefit of those who like to express their sympathy by sing- ing it may be worth while to state that a specimen verse of the national hymn of the Transvaal runs thus: Waal hoog nou in ons helder lug, Transvaalse vrijheidsviag, Ons vijande is weggeviug; Nou blink'n biifer dag. I know not the tune of it, but that is a minor matter. The words are the main thing and these sound warlike enough to carry fear to the ears and pos- sibly to the hearts of foes, no matter in what rhythm they be chanted or what melody sung. Doubtless they will strike as much terror into the British as fell upon the Filipino when for the first time he heard an American regiment shaking the air of the tropic evening with a grand chorus of that chivalric battle song, “A Hot Time in the Old Town To- Night.” Co The best outcome of the racket in the Transvaal thus far has been the reawak- ening of Algernon Swinburne from his long Intellectual slumber. It is true the sonnet he sent forth on awakening is of no value as a contribution to literature, to history or the news of the day, for it was hoarae and uneven as if the singer had a frog in his throat, and wild and in- coherent as if he were singing under the influence of a nightmare. Such defects, however, are due probably to the fact that the poet was not fully awake when he uttered his song. Better things are to be expected of him and will surely come if the war rouse him to mental ac- tivity again. The educated world, satl- ated with Kipling's barrack room style of rhyme, is beginning to long for some- thing of genuine literary elegance, and Swinburne is the only man in England who can furnish it in the form of poetry. If Oom Paul bring him from retirement and sets kim to work again the ald Boer will have conferred some henefit on liter- ature, whatever damage he may do in other ways. ot e i Tt is said there are among the Brit- ish many bitter enemies of the Ameri- can people and the saying may be true. At any rate there is a fellow over there with brains enough to write and money enough to have his book published who has set about inciting poets of this coun- try to strike their lyres and make a noise incessantly, In an “Ode to Amer- ica” he ideclares: Thy Iyric Muse, Haunted by songs of either Ocean's waves, Shall dip her pinions in celestial hues, And strike the note of a new Poesy in minstrels vet unborn, And sing the twilight solitude Of many an old primeval wood, And celebrate the dawn of Fresdom's ampler morn. The dithyrambic eloquence of that apos- trophe sounds like praise, but was doubt- less intended to incite domestic disturb- ancey It is hardly complimentary, for ex- ample, to say our lyric muse is to dip her pinfons in celestial hues, seeing that such hues are generally blue—deeply, darkly blue. The only redeeming feature of it all is the intimation that the muse will strike her new poesy in minstrels who are as yet unborn. There is something of hope in that. Perhaps minstrels now born will keep quiet. It is time the outpouring of replies, whether in prese or in verse, to “The Man With the Hoe" should be stopped by lynch law if necessary, for the limit has been reached, and sent to me, moreover, with a Tequest for comment. It is too long to be quoted in full; two stanzas will suffice, and here they are: ‘When thou, liege host to hungry men, thy hoe in scorn forsake, Of whose green corn shall Markham, pray, In seorn partake? Lord almoner to queen, to mald of plaided yoke, Sun, Rain and God thy partners grand at every stroke, Is't more, or less, than kin to Balaam's friend who mocks Of thee, “to rapture dead, a brother to the ox2'" Thou heart of hard work, we bow to thy hoe, We thousand Vales, that mother fond, the fruiting vine, We thousand Plains, garner grain. ‘We thousand Hills, that graze, and green 'fore God do nod— Protest we all—we ljve not servants to a clod! Likewlse, we million meadowed Homes, half- Ifke to heav'n, Confirm our fatherman of earth the hope, the leav'n. Ye scribes of embroil, beware of his hoe! As for the request for comment, it must be deferentially but firmly refused. This is not an objurgatory column, ‘and I am not a “scribe of embroil.” sl ie There exist in the East certain ocia- tions known as “mothers’ clubs,” and they have been writing articles of vehement controversy on the subject of Mother Goose. According to one of our exchanges these clubs in no less than four leading States have made a movement to abolish her melodies and jingles on the ground that they are foolish, or, as the mothers express it, “‘are vulgar, senseless jangle.” One mother is particularly severe on the rhyme that tells how the cow jumped over the moon, and says: ““All the child knows of animal life is what you are teaching him, and if he gets false ideas it is because you have given him a wrong perspective, which his baby mind absorbs and which he has to un- tangle and learn later on. Why not give him a rhyme that is true?” It would be a pertinent enough anewer to such a question to say that the rhymes of Mother Goose are just about as true as any other rhyme except the one begin- ning “Thirty days hath September”; but that would raise too wide an issue to he undertaken for casual readers. I refer to the subject only to make it serve as an oc- casion for commending the sagacity of a wealthy and benevolent lady in this city, who, having been requested to contribute to a sum for the Home for Feeble-Minded Children, replied with promptness: “I won't give you a cent, but if you will start a home for feeble-minded mothers I will give you $1000.” e . At a church fair which was one of the brilliant events of Haywards last week there were five booths—St. Mary's booth, St. Madeline's booth, St. Anthony's booth, All Saints' booth and Dewey booth. So Dewey has got In among the saints, That is fairly good for California; but here is an incident which is better and which the Boston Pilot says occurred in that city: A few Sundays ago an exhorter who was addressing a crowd on the com- mon solemnly and impressively presented to them the alternative of “salvation or damnation—the King James Bible or the where million reapers | Douay Bible!” To the preacher's discom- KOAOAOROHON fiture, his hearers instantly raised a shout of “Hooray for the Dewey Bible!” CTRa TRE The Bostonians are not wholly ridic- ulous because they thought a Dewey Bible had been put on the market. Such a vast muititude of articles bear the name of the admiral, it would be nothing su prising to hear of a novelty in theolog: labeled in that way. In fact, what isn't Dewey isn't fresh. Here's a New York | story by way of illustration: During the | reception festival an enterprising Bowery | photographer hung out in front of his | “studio’” this fetching legend HAVE YOUR PICTURE TAKEN SHAKING HANDS WITH AD- MIRAL DEWEY—12 FOR 2ec. Those who went into the gallery found there a man with a false mustache and a | gray wig, who was made up to imper- | sonate the admiral during the photo- | graphing process. The photographer made | barrels of money. | siisea0e | Several of the New York papers have | been calculating to what an amount that | city is glad Dewey came home by way of that port instead of San Francisco. The | Sun estimates the number of outsiders who visited the city at about a million | and calculates they expended an average of $5 each, leaving the city $5,000,000 | richer for the celebration. Of course all | that was not profit. The Herald, with- out attempting to determine exactly how | much the city made out of the reception, | estimates there was a total expenditure of | $20,000,000, which it distributes in this way: For railroad tickets to New York.. For fares on surface and elevated rail- roads . Bl For hotels, restaurants and boarding- houses and seats for naval and land 250,000 | | | | 5,000,000 | 1,000,000 500,000 For baggage express For providing accommodations transportation for and city and State guests and for covering special public | decorations . 00 | For merchandise, solvenirs, ete. 5,000,000 | It the estimate of the Herald be correct | there is a coincidence of figures worth | noting. We paid Spain $20,000,000 for the Philippines and now we expend an equal amount to welcome Dewey home. Let us hope the rest of our imperial career will | be cheaper. We ought to conquer Agui- naldo for half what we paid for him, and | the welcome home of Otis ought to be put | at less than half the Dewey price. aTiie Now that the high court of interna- | tional arbitration has decided the dis- pute between Great Britain and | Venezuela there should be anotheri court of arbitration to review the work and inform a perplexed world which | party to the controversy got the stakes, | since it seems conceded neither of them won the game. According to one set of reasoners the award is in favor of Venezuela because it | confers upon that republic the control of the Orinoco. According to another set | the lion’'s share goes to the British, for | although the Venezuelans get the river they receive with it only a tract of worth- less swamp, while the British get a vast | area of the richest and best land in South America. Some people think the United States is a clear winner because we forced John Bull to arbitrate, but there are other folks who say we are losers inasmuch as | Uncle Sam claimed under the Monroe | doctrire the right to determine all Amer- | ican questions without interference on the | part of Europe, while in this case Europe did interfere and fix boundaries without ' giving us anything more than a casual hearing before the court. ! Perhaps the best judgment on the decl- slon is that pronounced by ex-President | Harrisong “It might have been worse.” Rz e Justice Story, who served on the bench | of the Federal Supreme Court in the days | when the great john Marshall was at the | head of that tribunal, is credited with tell- | ing a story of the customs of the Justices | in those early days which illustrates the | advantage of living in a country of wide area, and indirectly tends to the conclu- sion that if alive to-day the venerable Chief Justice would be an imperialist. | In describing the social life of the mem- | bers of the court Story is reported to have | said: | “We dine cance a year with the Presi- dent, and that Is all. On other days we | take our dinner together and discuss at | table the questicns which are argued be- | fore us, We are great ascetics, and even | deny ourselves wine except in wet weath- | er. What I suy about the wine, sir, gives | vou our rule, but it dces sometimes hap- pen that the Chief Justice will say to me, | when the cloth is remcved: - ‘Brother Story, step to the window and sz2e if it does not ook lilre rain.’ And if I tell him | the sun is shining brightly Judge Marshall | will scmetimes reply: ‘Al the better, for | our jurisdiction extends over so large a | territory that the doctrine of chances | makes it certain that it must be raining | somewhere. "’ | What more would any free-liver and 1ib- eral citizcn have? Let us annex all the | lands in sight, and then if we wish to | drink wine or practice polygamy or hold | slaves or loaf all the year around it will | be easy for us to find a justification. The | custom is sure to be law and religion in some part of our dominion. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. | MRS. PHEBE HEARST—Vi Vi, Placer- ville, Cal. The address of Mrs. Pheba | Hearst is the Examiner building. Letters addressed therc will reach her. She has a home on Bushnell avenue, Berkeley. OLD PEOPLE'S HOMES—H. M., Beau- mont, Cal. There are several Old Ladies’ Homes in San Francisco—Old Ladies’ | Home (Episcopal) north side of Golden | Gate avenue. between Masonic and Cen- tral; Old Ladies’ Home (Catholic) con- | nected with St. Mary's Hospital, First | and Bryant; Old Lax Home (formerly Lick Old ' Ladies’ Home) University Mound; Old People’s Home (Crocker's, for | men and women) 2507 Pine street. AUTHOR OF “GADFLY'—S., City. Mrs. Voynich, the author of *Gaafly,” was born in Cork, Ireland. Her father, George Boole, was an eminent mathe- matician and was for a time a professor in the Queen’s College. She is a musician. Her husband is a Lithuanian from Rus- sian Poland, who, in 1887, was exiled to Siberfa, from which place he made his escape to London, where he is now en. F‘Em in experting books that were pub- ished in the fifteenth century. THE SPANISH FLEET—Subscriber, City. On the Ist of May, 1898, the Spanish fleet which was in Manila Bay was com- posed of the following-named vessel Reina Cristina, Castilla, Velasco, Don An- tonio de Ulloa, Don Juan de Austria, General Lezo, EI Cano, Marques dof Duoro, Isla de Cuba, lsla de Luzon and Isla dé Mindanao. Dewey's dispatch. to the Government was: “The squadron ar- rived at Manila at daybreak May 1. Im- mediately we engaged the enémy and destroyed the follo\\'ln§ vessels: ~Reina Cristina, Castilla Ulloa, Isla de Cuba, Gen- eral Lezo, Duero, Correo, Valasco, Min- dcnn?o, one transport and every battery at avite.” STATIONARY ENGINEER—H. B. A, Danville, Cal. No license is required in California of a stationary engineer. The National Association of Stationary En- gineers has on several occasions sought to have a bill passed requiring such en- flneers to be licensed, but it has thus far ailed in its gur&vose. Individuals who desire to join the N. A. S. E. must be able to undergo a practical examination be- fore being admitted. The objects of the assoclation are to educate and improve | SIE | spread themselves out MISCELLANEOUS. SERIOUS BUSINESS It Is: “Must Sell at Amy Price at All” PATTOSIEN'S IN A BAD FIX Beginning to-morrow morning PAT- TOSIEN’S will close out their entire stock of medium and high-grade furni- ture, carpets and all kinds of house furnishing, so as to enable them TO REBUILD. The present store, unable to cope with the vast volume of increasing busi- ness, will be greatly enlarged. It will be driven . back s eight feet far- ther, right up from Mission down Six- teenth to Capp street, three stories high with a basement. Now you may not understand how this notice will interest you, but if you come to reflect that we are standing on the threshold of the holiday season, and that more than 150,000 dollars’ worth of all new Fall goods shall be sold at al- most any price to enable PATTO- NS to proceed with their xmgrqvg- ments, you will realize how much it is to your advantage to be an early vis- itor. The mere mention of details of this truly great occasion would ;unply be annoyance, because there is such a thing as having too much business at one time, and PATTOSIEN’S do not want to create a sensation, for we know there will be a crush. Hence it is we do not quote many prices to-day on goods for fear that prices such as there will be—about two- thirds or less than the regular prices— would cause a rush. $1200 EXTENSION TABLES..$8.00 The great crush mentioned above will take place when 200 Extension Tables, worth from $10.00 to $50.00, before you at two thirds actual cost. These dining tables are in the way of the carpenters and must be removed. Over 250 Solid Oak 6 and 8 foot Tables, with handsomely carved legs, for $10.00 and $12.00, and 10 and 12 foot- ers as low as $15.00. 3 Need it be said at all that the firm’s recent immense import of mattings direct from Japan are standing in the way also? And PATTOSIEN’S would rather give the splendid upholstery goods | made in their own shops to beautify the homes of the people at half-price than have them spoiled in the building operations. p\'ero fiddled while Rome burned. living members to secure employment. The dues are $ a year. FAVORS—G. H., City. Favors to be dQistributed by 2 host or hostess at a party or reception may be anything, neat and small, that the one who.is to distribute them would think might be a pleasing souvenir of the occasion. There is no limit to articles which one might choose. Fancy cards, small bonbon boxes, tiny cups, Oriental ware, bows of ribbon with the occasion of the souvenir lettered in gold, and photographs of places have been used as favors on such occasions. FOR A BRIDE—Subscriber, City. If you desire to make a present to a young lady who is soon to become a bride it is to be presumed that you intend to make her a wedding present, and if you desire her initial or monogram engraved on it vou should use the initial of the name she will assume or have the monogram made up of the initials of her prospective husband, for, say she is to marry John Henry Smith, then the monogram should be made up of the initials of that name, for she will become Mrs. John Henry Smith. AROUND THE CORRIDORS John M. Besse, a well-known merchant of Kings City, is at the Grand. Edwin Taylor, a capitalist from Rail- road Flat, is a guest at the Russ. Dr. Helme, a leading medical man of Silverdale, is a guest at the Palace. Dr. O. Weld, a prominent physician of Vancouver, is a guest at the Grand. Judge S. Solon Holl of Sacramento is one of the late arrivals at the Grand. Dr. W. E. Winship has come up from Stanford and is staying at the Palace. E. B. Dana, a manufacturer of jewelry, is registered at the Lick from New York. D. P. Thompson, a capitalist of Port- land, Or., is registered at the Occidental. C. R. Downs, a wealthy mining man of Sutter Creek, is a guest at the Occl- dental. E. P. Wright, a traveler from London, is at the Occldental, accompanied by his daughter. Among those registered at the Califor- nia last night was Professor J. S. Kellogg of Stanford. G. Willis Price, a well-known business man of Seattle, Is registered at the Lick with his wife. Mark L. McDonald, a Santa Rosa cap- italist, is staying at the Occidental, where he arrived yesterday. Charles S. Riley, a prominent fruit man of Sacramento, is registered at the Grand, where he arrived last evening. A. P. Maginnis, who is connected with the land department of the Santa Fe at Los Angeles, is at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McKenzie are regis- tered at the Lick. Mr. McKenzie 1s a wealthy mine owner of Mariposa. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Cowling, two promi- nent society people of Boston, are among the arrivals of last night at the’ Occi- dental. o Chester V. Dolph, Alex Smith, James Gleason and Frank §. Baker, a party of prominent Seattle business men, are at the Palace. W. E. Anin, United States Inspector of Free Rural Delivery, is a guest at the Occidental, where he registered yesterday from Washington, D. C. —————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—Henry Hilp and Robert Moore of San Francisco are at the Holland. Leopold Klaw of San Francisco is at the Hoffman. N. D. Lus- tig of San Francisco is at the Imperial. Dr. Willlam C. Voorsage of San Fran- cisco Is at the Marlborough. Joseph K. Lambert of Oakland is at the Cosmopoli- tan. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Andrews, A. J. Bell and W. P. Shaw, of San Francisco, are at the Grenoble. —_——— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON H, C. Holliday, wife and daughter of San Francisco are at the Arlington; Fred- eric Newcom of Qakland is at the St James; Richard A. Paulsell of San Fran- cisco is at the Wellington. Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend’s. * —_——— Specfal information supplied daily to the members in engineering, care for them in sickness, furnish m‘x’mey to de- fray the expenses of funerals and ald business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont~ gomery stre:f Telephgna Main 1042, ¢