The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 3, 1900, Page 6

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Montgomery street. cor- BRAXCH OFF] ES—52 mer Clay., opon antil 5:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes street. open ut 20 e'elock 629 McAllister wtreet, open 30 e'cleck. 615 Larkin etreet, open u 920 o'clock. 1941 Mission sireet. open until 10 eo'viock. 2261 Market street, corner Sirteenth, open until § o'clock. clock Valeneln open umtil 9 open il ® o'clock. enty-second sad Kentueky o'cloek. once tzke t eir own and pass it to time that calls for forthwi usir soon end er record in favor of the ii- know what to expect of it 3§ it act rightly. There is no assurance of the action of c g board. The telephone « pany g t has been fighting for if it can bring &bo de 1 will carry the issue over the new ome. It is that n so imperative at which does not ervisors should have an amended require many meet, s0 that they will be his promise. ee of all legal stances a2 resol obie s imposing the desired tax upon the nickel- in-the-slot 1ele e m ves should be passed to print at the meeting to-day. “Forthwith” was the Mayor’'s word good one to act upon. Critics are now in his work or ing down rule § mn attack upon any énem from a dist precept at T guns by it the conclus own b dance of off T icers in making “No reconnoissance ."" As he violated that gela River and lost the battle and eleven is he neglected to study his he went to war. e is su Mazjor Peyton March of the Third Infantry, now operating in the P seems destined to do ghings displeasing to fem y. As commanding of- ficer of the Astor Dattery, he snubbed the efforts of the ladies of San Fr o0 to feed pie to the Astor- wids. Cablegrants announce that he has just rounded wout that unblushing record by capturing the wife of Aguinaldo and her sisters e The advocates of the theory that a new century be- gan with the year have an advantage over their oppo- ments in the fact that they can so frequently refer to this as the twéntieth century that the general! public will adopt the term in spite of all the other fellows can do. At this present moment, with the Police Depart- ment on the tiptoe of expectancy of violent changes in its personnel, uneasy heaves the breast that wears & star. The effort to organize a gigantic milk trust at Chi- «cago will undoubtedly be knocked in the head by the opening of the great drainage canal. It will deliver 300,000 cubic feet 2 minute. The New Year gave prompt notice that it does mot intend to make a reputation as e dry year. THE MESSAGE OF REITZ T E are zble to give an Engiish transiation to- | day, a statement written by Mr. Reitz, Secre- tary of State of the Transvaal Republic, to Mr. Secretary of the Orange Free State 3 Bligna: Is s its expressions Africa; in the Tran loyal friends war may, 2 people o can be addres Mr. Reitz uses are those for ependence can never be 20d is sure of a Jasting en and sorry experi e sense of injury | 2s s and Tories may, noted aad on which ] judge of Who bears an » are against her policy. Her phil s, the men upon wh om she must re he accumulated 2 ng in the sk of th ken wit heart of al FOREST RESERVATIONS. rra Club and rded reser proceed to cut the timber y reprod the reservation will struction of timber. In this e sioner seeks amended legi on, which will permit the location of lieu scrip only on land of equal con- dition and value to that which the Government takes, excluding absolutely mineral and oil lands. Califor- nia should back this legislation by every possible in- f e It the gap in the law authorizing reser- vations and makes it true to its purpose of effecting the salvation of the for of the country, in duplicating the rgency the Com This State has an awak ned interest in it, because of its bearing upon our er supply and the storage of storm waters. When the floods fall upon and pass over forest land their delivery is slower, the opportunity to save them by storage is better, and the water is less turbid than when it erodes the bare soil and carries 2 load of silt to £l up the reservoirs and in a brief time make them useless. Commissioner Herman i thoroughly wise and in- structed in the whole forest and water problem and sees very clearly that the most important function of his office is not in passing the pu domain into private hands as rapidly as possible, to be exhausted of its natural wezlth in timber and forage plants, but the conservation of these great resources of wealth to | make them perpetual. If he shall succeed in the reservation of every square mile of forest and in the adoption of a leasehold policy for the grazing lands, ! ' the renewal upon them of the natural plants which are the best producers of food in beef and mutton, he will have accomplished for his country that which will be a more lasting tribute to his memory than many monuments of brass As an evidence of the peril of 2 Philadelphia family during a recent fire, the dispatches an- | nounce that they slept soundly over a magazine. The | soporific effect of certain monthly publications were ! well known, but it was not thought they were so | potent as that. L& and Bryan himself has been invited to be present as | the guest of honor and, of course, the principal speaker. That he will accept goes without saying. It | will be wisdom on his part to do so, for the political | borizon shows many signs that portend the passing of his glory, and he must speak while he has the center of the stage. Prosperity in Nebraska and Kansas has put an end {to the discontents that made Bryanism popular there | during the hard times, and even the silver mining States have ceased to regard that as the paramount | industry. Thus the silver agitation no longer agi- | tates any considerable number of the voters of the | West. In the South the outlook for Bryanism is | dark as it is elsewhere, for the South also has become prosperous, Vast manufacturing enterprises have been built up in those States and the minds of the A LIGHT THAT IS FADING. ROM Chicago comes the report that the Wil- liam J. Bryan League of that city has arranged and the making of | for a sumptuous banquet on Saturday evening | :;cqple are turned toward business rather than poli- [ tics. A thousand evidences show that they are getting tired of Bryad and will be glad to see him leave the political stage. The Westminster Gazette tells 2 story which illus- {trates Mr. Bryan's situation at this time. It says: ¥Miss Je: Lee was piaying ‘Jo’ in Scotland. She was in the midst of the long and harrowing death | scene of poor Jo. The stage was darkened and dl:i ght illomined the pale features of the death- tricken boy. People were sobbing all over the house. le to half the house. ‘Dee quick, Miss | Lee, des ,' he roared softly; “the limelight's gaen oot! Mr. Bryan should die quickly. The Hmelight is g out. KAISER WILLIAM'S SPEECH. /IAIS K ER WILLIAM gave to the German peo- ple, 1o Eurcpe and to the world 2 New Year's ing which sounds like an utterance from ddle 2ges. In not one sentence did he give on to any aspiration for peace or to any con- t the new century would be marked by the hit and reason over wrong and force, but, @s if to show his defiance of all such seatiments, he repezted with emphasis a declaration of his old an- cestor, Frederick William 1, of the paramount power of the sword. The most characteristic sentence of the address was that in which the Kaiser spoke of his army as the people of Germany. “The first day of the new cen- L = ot 3 : B T T T S S S I R I S o I AR X S S tury,” he said, “sees our army—in other words, our | people—in arms, gathered around their standards.” | went on with the exhortation: “It is for emen, to preserve and employ in the new the old qual ies by which our forefathers de the army great, namely, simplicity and modesty | conditional devotion to the royal ser~ loyment of one’s whole strength of body | mind the ceaseless work of training and de- loping cur troops; and even as my grandfather la- | d for his army, so will I, in like manner, uner- | carry on and carry through the work of re- g my navy, in order that it may be justified y the side of my land forces, and that by npire may also be in a position to | has not yet attained. With the | ited I hope to be enabled, h a firm trust in | e of God, to prove the truth of the saying I, “‘When one this world in | tive speech of the New Year should have greeted the eth century with a declaration lord hopes to attain by the use of The Kaiser’s speeches fortinat. longer alarm Europe, and no one will expect him to | set forth on 2 military career in hot haste. Perhaps | e sole purpose of the trumpet tone of his address | | was to rouse a public sentiment which would force the Rei e appropriations he needs to build up his much desired navy. For the Kaizter does | warrior ancestors did. He s to ask for money instead of taking it, and the | of the twentieth century confronts him in his | not rule Germany as h S e Kaiser zims to do has not yet been his friends or by his enemies. It is f he himself understands what he is driving is jealous of all rival authority in Ger- He quarreled with his father, with his A with Bismarck, and he has been fighting stag after another ever since he came to the Yet he has never shown any ambition for wars of conquest. On the contrary, he has been sin- peaceful and diplomatic whenever interna- 1 controversies have brought him to the verge of His new declaration, therefore, of 2 hope to be | bled to do something under divine guidance by the | and his navy to give the German em- re 2 place it has not yet attained will give rise to | | some remarkable speculations. Germany has al- ready a dominant position in Europe. What more | will the Kaziser seek? Does he intend to spoil Russia of her Germanic provinces along the Baltic or Brit- ain of the empire of the sea? i fl on financial subjects the flurry in Wall gtreet i | early in December would have resulted in a | | serious panic had not the great banking houses of | New York and of other Eastern cities come to the re- | lief of business men who needed help and enabled them to avoid a sale of their stocks and securities at 2 time when such sale would have involved not only | a personal sacrifice but led to a general crash in the market. The Financial Chronicle, for example, after re- viewing the situation at the time, says: “To the lcredit of our bankers and banks be it said that they arrested the ruinous liquidation we have referred to | | and stayed the panic. How often the unthinking | body of our people glibly tells us that these classes | | of our citizens are unfeeling, heartless and wholly self- jsh. When the financial history of this country dur- ing the last thirty-five years comes to be written—a period during which the generation now about to lay off its armor has been active and prominent in | affairs—no class, if the inside facts are disclosed, will be found to have assumed greater risks and shown greater forgetfulness of self and personal interests than they have done on many occasions to tide the country safely over its crises. What are generally called capitalists are very conservative men. They as a whole never run risks to make money for them- selves, so they are always able and prepared in time | of danger to lend a hand in bridging the chasm less conservative men cause.” There may be something of exaggeration in that statement due to the feeling of relief following the fear in New York of a panic, but in the main the statements are not to be disputed. Bankers are in a certain sense trustees of the financial welfare of the community they serve, and as a rule they fulfill the duty well. In this State the bankers have been par- | ticularly faithful in conserving the interests of trade, and during the disastrous panic of 1893, when nearly every other State in the Union suffered from financial distrust as well as from industrial depression, Califor- nia stood in that respect almost undisturbed. From the tone of certain utterances in Congress on the financial question it appears likely the Bryanites during the approaching campaign will endeavor to arouse antagonism to the bankers. Tt is therefore well at this time for the people to take notice of the proof just given in New York of the service that bankers render to the community and to recall what was done by them in our own State when the stress of disaster was upon every industry. e ——————— With that open door in China that all the powers are talking about the diplomatists should have no great trouble in making drafts for the treaty. 5 throne. SAVED BY BEANKERS. CCORDING to statements made by authorities | refused either to give him possessipn of v FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1900. «MUDDER, VERE IS BOOLER?” “I will sat my Chrisimas Dinner in Pretoria,” said Gencral Sir Redvers Buller to the @3+ P+t e0 20t - ]Prt-eo of Wales, on leaving to take command in South dfrica.. —New York World. % ER S 2R I RS R B 2 R [ R R R R R R R e et S o ot e ‘WORDS THAT FIRED THE AFRIKANDERS Letter of Mr. F. ' W. Reitz, Secretary of State of the South African Republie, to Mr. P. J. Blignaut, the Orange Free Esteemed Friend, Free-Staters, gisaster which threatened us all along has at last overtake State. Brother Afrikanders—The | Ame: us and our land will be plunged in a blood bath.. And why? | Let the murderers, the violators of peace and breakers of treaties who atteck us explain it ‘With their usual bold- faced lying they now will pretend that not they, but we, are the aggressors. We the aggressors? ‘Who are they who for months treated with conterapt and threats all our efforts to reach a peaceable settlement? Who are t hey who for months | conveyed troops from ali regions of the world to concentrate them on our frontiers, to support thelir friendly advisers? | are they who for years have accused us and tyrants? Who are they who while hypocritically intend to violate our independence, yet Incessa. | voking manner desired to meddle with our administration? Who enticed, as well as ready to reject those very same proposais their own undeniable invitation as beinquu ng a quarrel? Wwho under pretense of sustaining the rights of the British nation with the object of pi are they Uitlanders sided with the capitalists and gain N h’'s vineyard? and countenanced missioner, ad ed with o] rica? ‘Who are they who ac forged an replete with thousands o natures, without investig: reliable? the shameful invasion of a Jameson, but the prominent imperial officials, ehould, under the protection retary of the Colonies, continue in every corrupt, threaten and calumniate country Africa, supported by all the 1 exert to the shame of our age? Is it the High Commissioner Sir Alfred Milner? the ple of England? Alas! as vet we had answer the last two queries with no, but in _our hope. The British Cabinet, the British people a loving old Queen, honored so highly by us either consented in the crime, which is committed against ys, or allowed themseives to be misled by a jain, in a manner which a just God will not let go by unpun- ished. If nations are culpable, like individuals, for neglecting to prevent a crime, as well as for thé committing of it. then fstration. ‘Who are they who have e e treacherous and rebellious mob of called League, in spite of the cautions of th interim, Sir Willlam Butler, an uprigt brated and highly respected general, and of Mr. Sch e Prime Minister of the only colony of consequence in Bo n eves a lying deceitfully obtal g whether these were genui Who are they, who, not only in fact, left unpu who were his accompii and eneouragement iajesty’s High Commissioner in South Africa, £ uences whic Who are these pe of her Majesty in Sou Is it the Secretary of the Joseph Chamberlain? Is it Lord Salisbury and the balance of.| gfllllh Cabinet? Is it her Majesty, lh;ngen{ agd the peo- | oped to be Who of being oppressors pret; home le; us, their own repre- | sentative here, decsitfully, into making proposals which they de- clared to be ready to consider on their merits while they stood as soon as made on insult rendered to rebels in order t aged own High Com- ' petition, ed sl even tolerated ma and n Africa, Mr | Colonies, able to we are disappointed | nd the noble, until now, peace- 1l have man like Chamber- Government Secretary of of to whom b nd both will fall e will have to acknow!edge, who can tell bow scon? that whom God will destroy he first makes mad The British empire is a mi rri Te: us and to the world so o that whoever may be mighty Brother Afr‘!}a‘:den the pretenses o and prove it if the: Who in Sout years land as landers. smes the right regardless of thek ha: do . 5 r natict t people wh we_oppressor ngs Nek oppressed is tha: er been achters Nek n From tion Pretorfa till they breakers of treaties an Kjmberiey and the be‘“ u)t!! us and now y covet thie gold s Where is Waterboer to-day® He wh against the Free Btate and who does not own at the Gay an inch of sofl. Where lies Lobengula to-day in krown grave, and whieh freebooters and adventurers his land? fs of the Bechuana tri and who _are ‘the present lan ther=? Is it not that peopie who, like the Pharisee of 0ld. thanked God that he was not lfke vnte th A the history of South Africa and ask yourvelves: Has thl:e‘;:ngltsh Government been a blessing or a curse to this southk ‘corner? Brother- Afrikanders, again the da s un- on which great things has risen. his Premier, that people, that Queen, will not be able to hide | will be expected from us has dawned. sun of hemstives on the day of judgment behind that mjust admin-| Either a desolate and enslaved South Africa or a . united The people who encouraged race hatred, their first | South. Africa.. Come, stand shoulder to shoulder with us and ide and their anointed Queen who allowed such atroeities,? let us fulfill a holy duty ltke men.. The Lord of Hosts will be ave made themseives accomplices of the criminal, and if in | our guide. Be not dismayed. F. W. REITZ. South Africa, like more than a hundred years ago in North | Pretoria, South African Republic. < « a Saloon Man Arrested. PRAISE FOR THE CALLS | o and the Tax Henry Karstens, proprietor of a saloor at 9 Third street, was arrested on a war rant yesterday charging him with felony embezzlement. The complaining witness is Leon Cohn, who alleged that he pur- chased Karstens’ galoon and gave him $1% to clinch the bargain, but Karstens the saloon or return the money. Karstens does not deny getting the $106, but says Cohn 4id not live up to the terms of his | agreement, and when he demanded the | money Saturday last he refused to give it up till he had consulted his attorney, who | is out of the city. —_— e~ . Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® —_— e Bpecial information supplied daily ‘> business houses and public men b{‘ the Press Cli Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone n 1042 ° ————————— ‘Hannan Bemanded. - H. J. Hannan, wanted in Greensburg, Pa., for the murder of his gambling part- ner, John Cnlg. was remanded yesterday by Judge Cook into the cust of the olice. For fear that the result might ga\‘e been otherwise, a warrant had been sworn to before Judgé Mogan by Sergeant of Police Colby for Hannan’s arrest on the charge of perjury. e . “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It scothes the child, softens mmdhny::.m-wmdcdh,m a lates the Bowels best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. ‘Wigslow's Soothing Syrup, %c a bottle. ART DEPARTMENT By yesterday’s title page plcture “In | Registrar of the Board of Election 1 Solemn Service Cathélics Close the Cen- tury.” the San Franciscp Call has | shown the superiority of fts art depart-] There is thrown in the picture the fmpress of genius and the sketch accurate of the high office in the Cathedral is pre- | sented in-the most perfect manner. holiday devotional attitude of the congre- gation on Syivester night is shown in a manner that conveys the. most exacting | knowledge of the onlooker. execution. and Journal for its artistic presentation of the are entitled to Demokrat, Jan. ment. for his unequaled subject, foraia —p— el i— APPOINTMENTS UNDER THE NEW THARTER—A _Subscribe newly appointed board of Civil Servi Commissioners will prepare a set of rules | d regulations to govern appointments | n the City Hall, San ! til they do it will be fmpossible to know an ! what age limit will CENTS AS LEGA K., City. Much argument and ink has been wasted on this very simple matter by those who, as some one wittily said, have tried: = To prove by oo Personally Conducted Excursions In tmproved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping cars via Santa Fe Route. Experienced Friday. Ticket office, 825 Market street. ————— HOTEL DEL CORONADO-—Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only 363 by steamship, including fifteen days’ board at ho- tel; longer stay, $3 00 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, Ban Francisco. —_——— The Fastest Train Across the Conti- 2 nent. ‘The California I4mited, Sants Fe Route. Con- mecting train leaves 5 p. m., Monday, Wednes- Finest to prescribe rules. ing offices and civil service rules TUnited States are legal tender anywhere In the United States in a sum not exceeding 5 cents. If you §o Into a store and make & purchase you can pay 25 cents of the purchase glflcelnont—mlploeul!ywmlom- One hundred means but ninety-nine; While at their wisdom others But todk one more to make & POLICEMEN AND EXAMINATION— J. M., City. The Police Department will |- be under the civil service rules and all applicants for positio: have to undergo such examination as the board may prescribe. t cannot tell what the course examina- tion will be, as the board has not yet met UNDER CIVIL SERVICE—F: B. H, City. The several positions in the follow- partments will be under under the new chart 1 | Coroner.” the | architect ‘of the Bosrd of y Anditor. the chief deputy of the Recorder, the chief deputy ity Enginesr, the secretary and Public Works, the he Chis? Engin Chief eer all physiciass ap- d of Heaith All of- Aepartments rs, the Chief of Poll again The | | shall make suck [ with the rules and provisions prescrided By the civil ‘service section of the charter, and any ap- pointment Not so made shall be void. The artise, | the | m credit. r, City. The| co Francisco, and un- | fixed. TENDER—W. F. one-cent pieces cs fine wondered, hundred, ms on the force will |- de; of