The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 9, 1899, Page 6

THE SA AN EXTRA SESSION. DERS of The Call have recently been made iliar with our view that the Legislature only tisiactorily adjust the Senatorial situation erve the strength of the Republican party unimpaired for 1000. Therefore no one need be surprised that we con- {un;-'.,.v with philosophy an extra session of that body, in the belief that it will make such adjustment. We feel no rancor in saying that the only shadow upon the party’s future has been the candidacy of Colonel Burns. If he had declared himself, as Grart | did, a candidate in 188 and had gone before the people as frankly, and won, we might have silently MBER o, 1899 $0 as to pre JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. s All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager PUBLICATION OFFICE. . arket and Third, §. F. | 1868, | EDITORIAL ROOMS. .. ...217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Main 1874, Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CAL! deprecated the popular choice as a mistake, but we :;:::: would have refrained from drastic criticism of that ATLY SUNDAY C4 WEEKLY CALL O All postmaster: | choice. As he did not do this, his tandidacy stanlds | now just where it did upon its avowal after the Legis- lature was elected. 4 The fate of the party in California next year is still bound up in the selection of a Senator. We are still of the opinion that the choice of Colonel Bun_|s will decide that fate adversely to party success in 1900. All men have seen the tendency of party sentiment in this city. It is toward a greater independence of acticn than ever before. It is in the direction of re- buking impropriety in the acts of party managers and leaders. We have had no doubt whatever that if Governor Gage appointed Burns he would put the knife into the vitals of the party. We applaud his decision to refrain from such slaughter. He has decided wisely. Now let the Legislature be as wise. No one will be found to dispute the proposition that if it elect Colonel Burns the party will go into the Presidential campaign handicapped beyond the probability of carrying this State. No friend of Colonel Burns whose advice is worth giving or taking will dispute this. All men will admit that | our purpose has been only to preserve for the party - | the strength that came to it out of its conspicuous | victory in 1808. The necessities of the situation, the | perils which were on every hand during the regula.- | session, compelled a drastic and at times a seemingly thorized to receive wsubseriptions. fample coples will be forwurded when requested OAKLAND OFFICE. ve...B0S Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette B ing, Chicago. NEW YORK ('()nknsmxnnsfu «ssss.Herald Square NEW YORK REPRE Es'rA'rn’Eun Co.: Great North- Fremont House: Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. | WASHINGTON (D. €.) OFFICE.. Wellington Hotel | J. F. ENGLISH, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—S527 Montgomery street, cor- ner Clay, open street, corner S 1096 Valedela street, 106 Eleventh wstreet, W. corner Tw Orpheum—Vandeville. | Orpheum—In ald of the Charity Fund of the Associated | Theatrioal Managers, Thursday afternoon, December 14 | Columbia—*"Shenandoah.” alifornia—"An Enemy to the King." Tur and Tartar.” | emergency that left no time for a selection of phrases. The Legislature comes together with the situation spread before it like a map. Every member knows his duty and is advised of the interests at Opera House—"His Majesty.* stake. A Senator is to be chosen. The party has a ratar. Plaster of Parts | wealth of well-seasoned material. A choice may easily Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoom and | he made that will not only command party approval The Call When the now azar Olympla, corner Mason and Ellis streets—Specialties. Central Park—Steepiechase and Coney Isiand. Panorama Battle of Manila Bay, Market street, | but the commendation of the whole State. pear | has no candidate, and has never had any. | proper m support. This paper has no individual purpose to be ‘\fm’\\flr'lwl by a Senator, no interests that require his support beyond those which are general and common to the wi It is devoted to but one purpose and that is the success of the an party and its broad prin- ciples. We at sincerity that every selec- de by the party to an important place affects 's strength, usefully or harmfully, according | as it is proper or improper. We deny that the party is at all lacking in trained | material a Such are nu- | merou To them we invite the atten- n of the Legislature, and from the midst of them lieve a proper choice will be made. We propose to pursue a course of watchful wisdom as to the steps which precede and accompany the action of the Legislature. Improper motives in any individual will be observed and reprobated with un- diminished vigor. But we also expect and believe t the wise and loyal Republicans in that body will ke the direction of matters in their own hands and t its action when completed will command the re- spect and receive the indorsement of the whole State. S — oo an appears in the balloting he will have our Tecreation Park—Raseball to-Aay. Px . Oakland—Poultry and Dog Show. w ion, San Mateo County—Races, ate. ndenhall—This day, Horses, at corner Vi 1 Market 1hl ubl ber 14, at 7:45 t R feel with at 12 d resy ed personalities. n its ranks. we confidently t when red rec It was have features ich ng recently reaks. The negro was burned 1ousands unmasked esence of chil years, were seen poking the ng more fuel and The Washington authorities ought to get out a search warrant for Consul Macrum of Pretoria, who seems to have departed from the -earth’s surface. Perhaps he is in one of the bomb-proof cellars of the Transvaal capital. /r\ ment of the republic of Colombia has been so deeply impressed by the which at- tended the so-called “popular loan” in the United States at the outbreak of the Spanish war that, haw- ing need of money, it determined to follow the ex- ample. It appears, however, that the people of Co- lombia were not so much impressed as the Govern- § crime was un- the pu ment with pity for him. it must be the participation by people of nment of passion, that inflicts even upon a brute, to say aa? noth- There have been crimes as g as the negro’s committed in this city. In- n be admitted that the church murders, which were expiated on the gallows at San Quentin, But those murders were satisfac- A COLOMBIAN LOAN. CCORDING !oWa ;e—c—en; report the Govern- were more horr success 1e law, and even its vexatious de- y endured by a community that felt ull enormity and guilt of the mur- derer In civilized society vengeance is the function of | the law, not the right of the individual. for wh slashed lynct The crime dragged and equent by these It is a grievous error to assume that any one is safer against a similar offense because this | shrieking wretch has been chained to a tree and | burned by a slow fire. The experience of modern peoples is that where law is instituted the very best protection comes of its orderly administration. Life and person are safest to-day in the United States | where there is the promptest submission to the law. They are the least safe where the law is most fre- ated by lynching and the infliction of mob violence. The more frequent such occurrences become the more frequent are the crimes which they punish by such ghastly vengeance. the South sh for the ¢ the ¢ ville negro w: should have done. The Government has thereupon burned is not made less followed the issue of the popular loan with notice that if it be not subscribed within a given time the army will collect it by force. A popular loan of that character may in the end | be just as effective as that which our Government carried so triumphantly through. It will doubtless bring into the public treasury the money needed, and will therefore serve the main purpose for which a loan s intended. The difference in the method of apply- ing it, however, is so great it will hardly escape the attention even of those who are most indifferent to such matters. | The nearest approach we have ever had in this Every woman in | country to such governmental dealings with finance ould join her voice to those who cry out | was the nomination of a candidate for the Presidency shment of criminals by the law. That is | on a platform which virtually said to the creditors of 1y as is” enjoyed in the law- | the Government that if they would accept the payment the country. | of their bonds at fifty cents on the dollar well Iynching communities under- | stand that their violence encourages the crimes it is intended to punish and prevent cherishes achieve it may be tion that a viol quent], ¥ road to su h abiding sections ¢ and It is hard to make good, but, if not, the Government would force them to do it by the remonetization of silver and the pay- ment of all debts on the silver basis. Mr. Bryan was not elected, and our Government, therefore, has not set Colombia an example in the course she is follow- ing. If she persists in that course, however, and wishes a leader from this country, we are willing to give her Mr. Bryan. In his politics it is doubtless as permissible to force a loan as it is to force a settle- The scoundrel who an evil purpose and waits for a time 1 ure to reason away what scruples there brutal intellect by the constant reflec- who takes part in a lynching is fore why may not he violate it? In all criminals there is after all a subtle psychological process which sets up justification to quiet the con- | ment of a gold obligation in depreciated silver. which is in men. A mob furnishes the | ———— material for use by the criminal mind, and so we have The wheelmen of Watsonville have petitioned the these appa nchings followed by repetition of | town authorities for permission to ride on the side- science all the very cri are suppoted to prevent walks. If they ride as some of the cyclists do in this The ¢ ly for violation of the law is to re- [ city they will find that the streets are not large spect the 1 Where a jority of a community | enough. lives in righteous regard for the law transgressions | T N e AT PRE are less, and less heinous, than where such majority | SOME QUESTIONS OF INSURANCE. itself breaks the law in these barbaric ‘outbursts of | T n S —— more t unrestrained 7 UR Eastern contemporaries are giving much | O attention to a recent decision of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania that a severe cold is | not a disease, and even if the man with the cold be confined to his bad/ie is nevertheless in good health. The question arose in a case in which an insuranze | company endeavored to evade the payment of a | policy taken out by a man who had at the time a cold After the n frank admissions of several local sansage manufacturers in reference to the de- sirabifity of dead horse as meat the sign “Delicates- so conspicuously displayed over shops, has taken a new meani Once on a time San Francisco health inspectors JRERE AW i f chich he died. The Eastern people advent of the automobile, however, nej PR boagamadbs e Py sy % T aps Ve atven: g b neighl | pear to be well pleased with the decision of the | court, for in the climate of that section of the Union olds are so commdn that if they be accounted dis- eases hardly any citizen could consider himself The cattle barons of the Middle West have entered into a combination to control the beef trade—locked horns, as it were, for their own profit. FRANCISCO CALL. SATURDAY, | harsh presentation of this view, but it was in an | | ment, and have not responded as promptly as they | to tell a bologna by its bark. Since [which afterward developed into an attack of pneu- | a iogna by Sine ‘heahhy within the meaning of the language of a life | insurance policy. The Westminister Gazette in a recent issue reported |2 still more curious insurance question which has | come before the courts of Vienna. It appears that a | surgeon while trimming his finger-nails cut his finger }sligh(ly, and in making a dissection shortly afterward | became subject to blood-poisoning, from which he | died. The insurance company declined to pay the | policy on the ground that its terms expressly ex- | cluded liability for anything that might result to a | surgeon performing an operation upon himseli. The | plaintiffs insisted that the trimming of finger-nails is not a surgical operation, and a lawsuit is the con- sequence. The question appears to be a puzzling one | to Austrian Judges, for they have had it under ad- | visement for some time and have not yet decided it. In connection with the Vienna controversy our | London contemporary cites a decision of a Berlin | court on an insurance case which is in some respects | similar to the one just decided in Pennsylvania. A citizen of Berlin who was badly afflicted with corns | was unable to move quickly enough to get out of the way of a runaway and was killed. The insurance men claimed that as he had corns he was not in good health at the time of the insurance and the policy should be declared void. The court refused to sanc- | tion any such doctrine, and accordingly by legal in- terpretation corns do not constitute a disease. These various cases are not in themselves impor- tant or even interesting except in so far as they offer |an answer to the old question, “Who shall decide when doctors disagree?” The Judges have assume:l a right to decide, and if their decisions do not satisfy insurance men or physicians they are at least pleasing | to the public. It would indeed be 2 bad world if | corns and colds were discases and trimming nails a surgical operation. — An Oakland minister has satisfied himself that | snakes were created before- men. He is probably willing to admit, however, that some men have added, | under certain conditions, to the very disagreeable supply. ————— . SOME PERPLEXING QUESTIONS. INCE Secretary Alger was forced to retire partly S by popular clamor and partly by the odor of embalmed beef the War Department has had no such agitation as that which has shaken it over the | summary dismissal of Noble E. Dawson from its service. The offense for which Mr. Dawson has paid by the loss of his position was that of writing to | the Postmaster General a letter which, while showing a commendable desire to have certain postal questions settled, was not so commendable for tone and style. This letter, which, be it remembered, was sent from a subordinate official in the War Department to the august head of the Postoffice Department, ran thus: “I trust that when the wise and patriotic ad- ministration gets back from its swing-around cam- paign, having shown the bucolic voter that it was McKinley who caused the bountiful crops to grow, | salted the Klondike with a wealth of golden nuggets and furnished employment (in the Philippines) to our unoccupied needy, you will, undaunted by the specter so aptly limned by the autumnal poet in his luminous phrase, ‘The Dewey-skirted clouds imbibe the sun,’ again tackle the colonial postage matter.” Undoubtedly such a letter was highly improper. Even a person holding the safe position of a private citizen has no right to address a Postmaster General in such terms, and from a Government employe it was something like treason. Mr. Dawson, therefore, well merited the punishment which retires him from the attractions and emoluments of official employment at Washington back to his former home in Towa, where he will find frosts and flying snow to welcome his return. Nevertheless he was quite right in pressing for a settlement of colonial postage matters, It is high time for the Government to decide upon the way i which our relations with our new possessions are to be maintained. Postal matters are but a small part of these questions, and in one way or another | they affect large interests and ought to be promptly | determined. | We have as yet provided no definite form of gov- | ernment even for Hawaii, and it will be remembered | that a short time ago in cases arising under the con- tract labor laws of the islands it was decided by the courts there that the constitution of the United States is not the paramount law in Hawaii. Not long ago a controversy arose between the Treasury Department and the War Department over the position which Porto Rico occupies under our Government, and | similar conflicts of authority have occurred in Cuba. In his message the President has referred all of these issues to Congress for settlement, and the at- tention of the two houses should be given to them as soon as business begins. There ought to be no long delay in determining what are to be our postal !and tariff relations with the islands and also whether the constitution of the United States prevail there or not. Dawson’s mode of making his suggestion to the Postmaster General was too poetic to be toler- ated, but the suggestion itself was all right, and be- fore the “Dewey-skirted clouds imbibe too many suns” the questions should be settled. Fitzsimmons seems to have aroused the ire of pugilistic authorities by violating one of the primary principles of his profession. In a recent argument he vsed a pistol instead of his jaw. COMMERCIAL MUSEUM BENEFITS. ) EPORTS from Philadelphia concerning the R work of the Commercial Museum in that city are of a nature to stimulate the promoters of | the movement to establish a similar museum here and to furnish them with arguments to induce merchants and citizens generally to give the project a liberal support. In a recent review of the work of the Philadelphia | Museum for a single week the Record stated that the officials had received letters of inquiry concerning | trade matters and markets for particular lines of goods from sixty domestic and sixty-six foreign correspondents. By way of showing the range | of foreign inquiry covered by the museum it was pointed out that these letters of the week represented | inquiries from Africa, Australia, Austria, Belgium, | Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Dominica, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Hayti, Holland, Hungary, India, Italy, Martinique, Mexico, Norway, Palestine, Peru, | Porto Rico, Russia, Sicily, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland and Turkey. It is stated that while the war with Spain adver- tised the United States and made known our great- ness as a nation, thereby attracting to us the attention | of traders in all countries, the information concerning our industries and our markets has been given more by the Philadelphia Museum than any other single factor in the country. Merchants and manufacturers {in all parts of the world are now resorting to it for information, and its benefits are everywhere recog- jnized. A similar museum on this coast would be aj- | most as beneficial as that in Philadelphia, and it is to | be hoped it will not be long before one is provided |and adequately maintained. DECEMBER 9, 1899. | Laren, two wealthy lumber merchants of 1717 L i B B i i i T i o T e T S S S S g e e d L e e P . B e o e o R e e e e e s A S S S A S S A A A S S o S il e o o o e reteieterere® Whew! This Expansion Proposition Is the Warmest I’'ve Been Up Against. AROUND THE CORRIDORS L. M. Doerstreet, U. 8. N., is a guest at the Occldental. E. M. Carr, the Pinole contractor, is a guest at the Grand. Ozro W. Childs of Los Angeles is reg:s- tered at the Palace. Professor R. E. Allardice of Stanford is staying at the California. James F. Peck, an attorney of Merced, 1s registered at the Lick. J. E. Harmon, a Yreka capitalist, is at the Grand with his wife. Dr. W. Waller has come down from Sac- ramento and is at the Grand. H. P. Stabler, a well-known fruit man of | Yuba City, Is staying at the Lick. | J. H. Madrill, a Santa Cruz journalist, is registered at the Lick with his wife. | Rev. and Mrs. Cannongood are at the Occidental from their home in Nanalmo. D. R. Cameron, a Hanford oil man, is at the Lick, where he arrived yesterday. | A. F. Grant, a milllonaire busine: of New York, is registered at the George Chaffey, a well-known capital- ist of Los Angeles, {s a guest at the Pal- ace. H. P. Andrews, an influential attorney of Red Bluff, is among the recent arrivals at the Lick. C. L. Chrisman, an extensive rancher of Ventura, is at the Lick while on a flying trip to the city. | Mr. and Mrs. Drysdale have moved up from their Burlingame home and are ncw quartered at the Palace. Benjamin P. Barker, a wealthy land owner of Livermore, is registered for a | short stay at the Palace. Dr. C. A. Devlin, one of the leading | medical men of Vallejo, 1s among the arrivals of last night at the Grand. “Dr. R. T. Atkinson, U. . A., is at the Occldental, where he arrived last evening from Boston, on his way to the Philip- pines. Lewis S. Wright, one of the best known mining men of Sh; County, is at the Palace while on a short business trip to this city. C. E. Longfellow, a distant relative of the celebrated poet, is registered at the Occidental from his home in Gardi- ner, Me. James McKinnon and Alexander Me- Chippewa Falls, Wis., are registered at the Grand. William H. Wilson, a prominent Chi- cago journallst connected with the Inter Ocean, is at the Occidental, xccompanted by his wite. They are making a pleasure trip to the coast. The Hon, Thomas R. Bard of Hueneme arrived in the city yesterday and regis- tered at the Occidental Hotel. Mr. Bard is one of the eminent public men of Caii- fornia, and at the last session of the Legislature was brought forward as a candidate for United States Senator. He is more concerned in the industrial de- velopment of Ventura County than he is in political affairs, —_—— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Marsden Man- son of San Francisco is in the city. L. A. Clyde and wife of San Francisco are at the Wellington. Verdict of Suicide. Coroner Hill held an inquest yesteraay morning upon the body of Willlam Thon, who killed himself in the City Receiving Hospltal lest Thursday evening by aet- ting fire to his clothes while confined in | the padded cell. The jury returned a yer. dict of suicide while “temporarily insane. Carelessness was shown on the part of the officials In charge of the hospital in al. lowin; lhlm to take matches with him into his cell. —_——— Candy Canes and Baskets. Townsend'ss | ——— Plum pudding made of California Glace Fruit. Townsend's 627 Mkt, Palace Hotal* ——— Time to ler'xgr your Eastern friends Townsend's California Glace Fruits; lb?, in fire-etched boxes, 627 Mn.rlm. n”.o" —_—— Special information supplied dally to business houses :nd public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont. gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 * Traveling sets, valises, bags, pocket- l books, blll‘ bookuhl.nd card cases are nice resents for either gentleman or lady. f.enerad in gold free of charge v‘ha}; bcn‘m c from Sanbo all 3 e Warest. rn, Vall & Co., U | plantations and coffee raising in the H. | sylvania, Rhode ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. erage copper, 1088; average tin, 915: lead, 6S; pe HOBSON—Inquirer, City. Lieutenant | #43. Wrought iron exp R. P. Hobson is still at Manila. SRysatis vart mery () | under tension within els SE—R. W. and C. | Iron stretches twice e in New York | est medical col- BELLEVUE COL 8., City. Bellevue Cql 1s consldered one of the leges in the United Stat as much i CERTAIN FEES—R. At the University thing is not free to stud, charged In the college of ¢ pharmacy and other departments. w « CIGARS IN MANILA—W. H. D., City. The question in regard to Manila cigars and cigar bands was answered In this de- partment on the 3d of last month. COFFEE PLANTATIONS-T., City. At the Free Public Library there Is to be | found literature on the subject of coffee Ye can obtaln a circular of information by u addressing a communication t corder at Berkeley, Cal Stanford does not furnish everyihing free to students. You can also obiain a circular of infor- mation by Writing to the university at Palo Alto —_———— Tourist Excursions. Personally conducted tourist excursions, Santa Fe Route, with latest v upholstered seping cars, th fornia to Boston every Wednesday every Sunday and Friday, Sunday, ard to Chicag points every Sanday, Wednesday and Friday. Call at ticket office, 628 Market street for fuil particulars. ——— Re- wallan Islands. MAJORITY—A. If by the question, “ a female attain her majority at 18 or at 217" you refer to California the answer Is that a female attains her majority at the age of 15. In Maryland the females become of age, so as to enable them to contract marri without consent of parents, at 16. In other States except Connecticut, Tlinols, Kentucky, Louisi; , Cal. all Florida, ana, Ohlo, Pen Island, South Dakot = 2 % A woman Is never happy unless she can Virginla, West Virginia and Wyomin, Mt - R¥ porid- - where majority Is attained only at 21, the | :‘.:“;‘;‘m‘;‘,",’;““,.;,‘;‘“‘b};u”}:n :";,‘d”h‘g age Is 4 | and goes to the theat —_— er. EXPANSION OF METALS-A. F., EREPITYS T PO R Robinsons, Cal. The expansion of metals | The California Limited by heat is one-elghth of an inch in the | On the Santa Fe Route, Connecting tratn number of feet given below for 1 degree | l°aves at of heat for each of the metals name Castiron In 1688 feet; steel, steel, 1665; untempered steel, tempered yellow, 1530; annealed steel, soft forged iron, 1 p. m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, One day to see Los Angeles ant blistered | beautiful Pasadena if destred. All m steel | served in Harvey's ears. Fin equipped train snd b ot any line to the st. Get full particulars and handsome folder at ticket office, 628 Market stree hardened ; rolled iron, iron wire, 1389; 537 A SAN FRANCISCO GIRL WHO WILL LIVE AT THE PALACE OF THE MIKADO. HOW TWO BUDDHIST PRIESTS WOULD CONVERT SAN FRANCISCO. WHAT OUR RICHEST GIRLS WOULD DO IF THEY HAD TO EARN THEIR OWN LIVING. CURIOUS ANIMALS OF THE ENGLISH ARMY. 0000020000000 o | 5 1 | NORMAL SCHOOL GIRLS AS OARS- WOMEN. GENEVIEVE GREEN TELLS OF HER VISIT TO THE FORTY IMMORTALS. THE WOMAN GOLD-HUNTER OF CALL FORNIA. FICTION, DOMESTIC SCIENCE, FASHIONS. ALL BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED. OUR GREAT CHRISTMAS NUMBER OUT SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17.