The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 4, 1900, Page 18

1 THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1900 I— %WW*H“*H' QW%%W 1S THIS MAN THE NEXT G g England’s Best Critics Enthusiastically Join in Praising His JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Froprietor 211 Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Address FUBLICATION OFFICE..Market Telephone Maim 156S. CDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Stevemsom St. Telephone Main 1874, Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DALY CALL (including Sunday), one vear day), ¢ DAILY CALL (* a ouths DAILY CALL (inelud DAILY CALL—By Sin; SUADAY CALL Ome Yen WEEKLY CALL One Year - All postmasters are authorized to receive aubscriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested OAKLAND OFFICE... 908 Brpadway ESS. Marguette Bul NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLYON.... ..Herald S NEW YORK R LUKENS JR PRESENTATIVES | 29 Tribune Buildinz ERRY o Grent North- . 0. News Co.: ern Hotel: Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel Sherman House: P. 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Co.—To-morrow, at 11 & m. and 2 p. m., Stockton street Tu Fébruary 6, 12 y at street February 6 at 11 o'clock, v, February 9, at 12 o'clock, the defeat of the Senatorial candidacy of ¢ Republicans of the Legislature have he State from a menace discredit h It is something to have he impudent pretensions of a to have repudiated his claims Those things, however, The importance, the matter of deepest t the battle was gained over the ¢ Railroad. The defeat of Burns was e Kentucky corporation, the victory people was an overthrow of those banded f corruption that work the will of Huntington rnia politics | % ited abilities, great offenses | public and private record could not f have attained much influence in Califor- b lican party. The power that en- hold a prominent position as a candi- the United States Senate and to make a | re than a year against the conscience | t on of decent Republicans was fur- | niched to him by the Southern Pacific Railroad. In | m respects the fight was against Herrin more than against Burns. It was Herrin that put the disrep- | utable candidate in the forefront of the battle, and it was Herrin and his colleagues of the Southern Pa- C v that supported him in every phase of | est. With the fall of Burns, therefore, Hun- of nor. ely minor results of the victory a 1 honesty had a complete triumph over the forces of corruption At no stage of the conflict was there a compromise From 1e time the Southern Pacific Company put ard ae a candidate for the Senate the gen- | ne Republic: s of California never for a moment deter avered in nation to crush the con- ey came up to attend the extra 2 ctermination stronger than ever. of Mr. Bard the agents and the offi- ts and the bosses c the Southern ad no voice whatever They were ey were not heeded, they were not ey were driven out of the counsels of le to understand they had no right ifornians, but it is | art Republicans, who perceive s another of those which add to the It is one more proof that when put t the Republican party never fails to uphold red the lofty principles ders. Parasites may attach them- or the sake of living upon it, is gratifying to all part that tl hono! to the t the maintain unimpa to the sclves party men m predatory y join it for the sake of preying | hypocrites may enter its ranks for the sake nors by fraud; but all these | cla ined are powerless to weaken it or cor- rupt it. Whenever there arises any issue between the rascals and honesty, the party never fails to clean the camp and put the traitorous rogues to flight. That is what has happened in this case. Mr. Bard straight-out anti-railroad man. He owes nothing to the Kentucky corporation. That organization did not give him a single vote. He stands for the stal- wart, independent, honest Repubiicanism of Califor- He has not only defeated Burns, but he has mphed over the Southern Pacific Railroad and itd gangs and bosses. e ——— upon i of getting offices or ses com isa nia American officers in the Philippines are evidently becoming ubiquitous. Several of them have been seen in different parts of Luzon at the same time. Aguinaldo ought now to be easy game. Fitzsimmons says he was “doped” in his fight with | wanted. | put them the State to do more. | having large financial backing has also obtained | be forgotten that Montana and Arizona, which | won three distinct victories. THE SENATORIAL CAUCUS. O one has denied that among the supporters of Burns there were honest men and good Re- publicans; grievously deceived as to public sentiment or perhaps unduly led by a sense of po- litical obligation or of personal friendship they may have been, but they retained personal and partisan in- tegrity. They were led, by the often expressed desire of Burns to submit to a caucus, to believe in his will- ingness to submit to party usage and take whatever | came of its application. Now a caucus has been organized, its permanent | chairman has been elected, its rules have been fixed and it has acted. It was a‘m:m!_\' caucus, for it voted openly, and no man in it could hide behind a secret ballot. It was so organized, its doings were so frank and public, that no secret machinery could actuate it. It proves not to be the kind of caucus that Burns party was not a shadow of anything wanted, but it is the kind the Republican In it there secret or sinister. It was the manly voice of Cali- fornia Republicanism, bravely and openly uttered for It brought to a close, under party authority, a most unusual, most extraor- 2ll men to hear. rvles a s luster no dinary contest. Its decision has upon tarnish, no corruption, no stain even of bargain ani agreement. Its choice goes to the Senate with no smell of smoke on the clean garments of a reputa- California With the other Western State that has had a remarkable tion that no man has ever attacked. is highly honored by the Republican choice. contest for a‘seat in the present Senate, daily held up to derision and aversion by the revelations of an in- vestigation, which seem to prove a condition of pub- lic morals that make Sodom a New Jerusalem by comparison, California may well exalt her horn that she has plucked the flower safety from the nettle danger, and is able to go with unsullied name to take the great oath in the person of Senator Bard. We have the right to say to the honest men in the following of Burns that they cannot afford by tech- nical haggling to run the risk of passing out of the class in which the State and party are still willing to They have seen their candidate beaten in a fair fight, in an open field, after a year has gone by in which he had ample time and tether to make good his promise to them of ability to get a majority. Let this content them and let them join the rejoicing ranks of California Republicans, who are sure that this result means victory in this Presidential year and ho respond to its raptures and thrill to its coming. As for the other class of supporters who followed Colonel Burns, they must consult their prudence for reasons that will justify them in keeping a promise made in their name. They wanted a caucus, signed and are perfectly aware of hap- pens in such cases to those who refuse to abide by They have seen the whole State rise up its call what the result and salute the victor, satisfied that he represents its honor and will heighten its fame. They don’t want They don’t want it to put on the ermine and the black cap and pronounee a sen- tence that will brand the forehead of every man it The party has spoken. Its voice is of glad Let it be so. o s——— T Queen Victoria seems to have mastered all the in- tricacies of the gentle art of “passing the buck.” Her proficiency was shown in the opening sentences of her latest speec sion to s “In resisting the invasion of my South African colonies by the South African Republic and the Orange Free State my people have responded with devotion.” And right along Joe Chamberlain has been getting all the credit for starting the war. Poor Joe! touches. tidings. v e s e The people of Philadelphia seem to have good cause to kick up a row between Uncle Sam and the baby Emperor of China. . The Chinese Minister at Washington says Philadelphians are the best people in America. Praise from a different source might be more welcome. IRON FOR THE PACIFIC COAST. ACIFIC COAST interests are given such little p attention in the East that it is something of a rarity to find anything like a fair notice of them in the press of that section. It is therefore gratifying to observe that the New York Tribune, in commenting recently upon the coal and iron mines in Southwestern Utah, gives a satisfactory survey of the prospects which the development of the ‘mines { will in all probability realize for California and for | the coast. It is pointed out that while the iron ore of the district is not so free from phosphorus as that of the vicinity of Lake Superior, the pcrccm;\;ge is nevertheless small. Coal which can be made into a good quality of coke, and the limestone needed for reducing the ores, are near at hand. It is added that a large tract of the iron district has been leased to a corporation, with the stipulation that not less than 150,000 tons shall be taken out yearly, and the fur- ther announcement is made that a British syndicate a footing in the region and contemplates the construc- tion of a railway to the Pacific Coast. Taking those facts as a basis the Tribune says: “The construction and operation of hundreds of fac- tories on or near the coast will certainly follow the successful production of iron in Utah. It must not al- ready furnish more copper than Michigan, are nearer | to the Pacific seaboard than to the Atlantic, and if | the former be furnished with cheap iron also, im- mense manufacturing results may be expected. Within half a century the manufacturers of this coun- | try—practically all of them here in the East—have First, they almost com- pletely excluded from the domestic market the Euro- pean producer. Next, they successfully invaded countries whose trade Europe once monopolized— Egypt, China and Japan, to say nothing of South America. Finally, they secured a footing in the very homes of their rivals, England, Germany and France. The transmontane region of the United States is likely to repeat at least a part of this programme. That it will in time achieve complete independence in the manufacture of metals one can scarcely doubt. It is hardly less probable that it will compete with the East some day in Japan, China and Australia.” In such predictions there may be something of ex- zggeration, but that is a minor matter. The point of interest is that the East has begun to give heed to the manufacturing possibilities of California and the coast generally. It is now perceived that with the development of the Orient there will come a demand Jefiries. Fitz certainly did receive something that wery seriously affected his head. for manufactured goods which will be a strong stim- | ulus to the upbuilding of factories here. The thing \ to Parliament, in which she took occa- | will not be done in a day nor a year, but it will come, and the coming will be much sooner than some people expect. American military authorities are finding food for considerable self-satisfaction in the fact that United States troops can be placed in the field more quickly than the British. Her Majesty can retort, however, that her soldiers are killed more quickly than those of Uncle Sam. l Chamber of Commerce of San Diego, John . Webb, a gentleman who is now engaged in pro- | moting American trade with the Japanese, pointed | out that while it costs the producers of Southern | California from $34 to $38 a ton to ship their | products to the Chicago market, the same goods an be delivered at Yokohama for from $6 to $7 per | ton. In that fact alone can be seen the benefit which | California will derive when her products find their markets in the Orient rather than in the Eastern States or in Europe. THE ORIENTAL TRADE. U the course of an agldress on Friday before the American trade in Japan and China is increasing rapidly as it is, but would increase more rapidly if more attention were paid to it. repeatedly pointed out that one of the main reasons why there is not a larger demand for ( fruits in the Orient 1s the lack of proper packi Our goods are put up to suit the American trade, | and we have not yet learned the advantage of packing | it to suit the demand in Asia. It has been stated, for | example, that fruit packed in tin is not suitable for | that climate, and that we shall have to pack it in glass if we are to have the full benefits of the trade. Reports of that kind emphasize the need ¢ establishment of the Commer actly the kind of goods and sort of packing that are demanded in the various Pacific Ocean markets "I'hc advices of Consuls are helpful, but they fall far short of what will be done in the way of enlighten- | ment by the comprehensive object lessons of the pro- posed museum. In the meantime it is evident we are | expending our energies in the wrong direction when we pay $38 a ton to ship goods to a poor market by rail, while a better market awaits us across the sea, | which we can reach at less than one-sixth the cost. The Boers have at last begun to deal with fire in- lfinitcly more dangerous than that which from British guns. Kruger's agents are offering to | Continental nations the tremendous monopolies that | have brought disaster as concessions to England. | 1 A NEW PLATFORM FOR DEMOCRACY. ‘? INCE there appears no way by which Democ- ‘ racy can get rid of Bryan and make the con- | test this year under a new leader, some of the | thinkers of the party hope to obtain variety by fur- nishing the party with a new platiorm. One of these ie D. Cady Eaton of New Haven, and he has been kind enough to favor The Call with an outline of his programme. He proposes these things: | on State banks, thus restoring to the States the right of regulating their finances. Second—Limit the | powers, privileges and activities of corporations to the State creating them and require that all officers and directors be citizens of those States. Third— Forbid the acquisition of any territory which by geographical distance or ethnical difference of popu- | lation may not, within the periods and in the man- ner prescribed by the constitution, return Congres- sional representatives who are capable of taking part in the government of the United States. Fourth— Require Congress to exercise the constitutional right of regulating the value of American coins. Fifth— Limit the grant of pensions by the National Gov- ernment to the veterans of the regular forces of the army and the navy, relegating the care of volunteers to their respective States. of the value of coin, requires some explanation. The author of the programme 3 The and cheapening production of gold and silver and the | metals should suggest to Congress that a period may | have arrived for the exercise of its constitutional !righ! to ‘regulate’ the value of American coins. If, | as some economists assert, the purchasing power of gold is steadily decreasing, then to preserve the | American dollar as a standard of value there should }from time to time be added to it a sufficiency of | metal to preserve its original value. That the | framers of the constitution anticipated the arrival of such periods is evident from the power given to Con- | gress to ‘regulate’ the value of coins whenever regu- | lation should become necessary.” That plank kills the whole programme. The | mere reading of it will make a silver man shudder. ‘\\'hen a party has been asserting that gold is rising in value and that the free c iz necessary for the welfare inage of unlimited silver | of the down-trodden | masses, it is something like an insult to suggest to its ;leaders that they adopt a platform calling for an in- crease in the amount of gold in the existing standard. Mr. Eaton, however, appears to be quite free from any thought of insulting Democracy. He seems to be an earnest man, indeed, for he closes his paper with the solemn warning: “If the people of the United | States are no longer capable of taking care of them- isclves. or are tired & the effort, then let the forms and manners of republicanism be given up and those of imperialism substituted, for the uncertainties of the present state of affairs are intolerable. The sway of a modern, hereditary and intelligent despot, suf- ficiently secure in his position to have time to give car to the complaints of his subjects, is less to be | feared than the tyranny of ephemeral, political and financial bosses whose only thought is to make their | rule of a day most profitable to themselves and fol- | lowers. This country cannot be held together ‘much | longer except by establishing an absolute, central | despotism, or by restoring to the States of the Union | their sovereign rights under the constitution. Whicn | do the people prefer?” The Irish “Joan of Arc,” who is agitating a vision- ary campaign in New York, appears to differ from her great prototype in one important particular. The lady possesses no more dangerous weapon than her tongue. — Several of the columns General Buller sent across the Tugela seem to have changed their direction. At least two of them, headed “Dead,” were paraded yesterday in the columns of the London newspapers. An Oakland minister has deserted the pulpit for the stage and has won considerable success in a ju- venile part. He must be laboring under the impres- sion that he is in his second childhood. The Boers, with the expressed intention of inun- dating Ladysmith, are’damming the Klip River. So, probably, is Ladysmith. the | | Museum, which will | i<hm\' to our producers, manufacturers and merchants | belches | §5ubt Mr. Alexander will have cause to First—Repeal the tax | The fourth plank, that referring to the regulation | increasing | consequent changes in the relative values of these | Our Consuls have | California | art,- with Sophocles and Dante” The “Much might con- | fidently have been | expected from the itic continues: “The Wife Marpe: | from | 1y_suited to the stage.” ¢ 3 @S ST T OETIC drama of a high or- der is again possible in English, if we accept the al- most unstinted praise with which most of the English reviewers greet Mr. Stephen Phillips new play. The. eritic of The Saturday Re- view says that this production ‘‘unques- tionably places Mr. Phillips in the first rank of modern ara- matists and of mod- ern poets. It does more: it proclaims his kinship with the aristocrats of his Kly magnifi- cent as was the promise of these poems I was not pre- pared for such an achievement as the resent work. 1f Mr. Phillips had, under the form of dran given us a series scenes, or pageants, sometimes pathe somestimes pictur esque, sometimes richly fanciful, of fine oetic quality, recalling Dante and Milton here, recail- ing Keats or Coler- S Last ‘Play. S MR. STEPHEN PHILLIPS. REAT DRAMATICPOETT S A @ Mine, doubly mine: and yet 1 cannot touch them. cannot them. Does I shall and kiss ind Forever? And _ the budding cometh on The burgeoning. the cruel flowering . At night the quicken- ing solash of rain at dawn That muffled birds how clasp the call of like amid these and sounds must starve— with so much give, perish thirst! Omitted by His casual L of Well, well You are spared mu children can wring the heart Luc. Spared! to be red what I was born to have! I am a woman, this very flesh Demands its natural its rightfu and s implore with vehemence thes pains. I know that ch wound us, and prise Even to utter till we at last death And all these ma wants and thwar jdge there, I should not have been sur- prispd. But he has given us a master- piece of dramatic art which has at once the severe restraint of Sophoclean trag- edy, the plasticity, passion and color of our own romantic tragedy. a noble poem to brood over in the study, a dramatic spectacle which cannct fail to enthrall a | popular audience and which would in | mere stage effect have done credit to the | deftest of modern playwrights. He has produced a work for which I have little | thank him, and a work which would, I have as little doubt, have found favor with the judges who crowned the ‘Anti- | gone’ and the ‘Philoctetes.” ™ The Daily Chronicle calls the play a “live poem and a live drama, a thing of exquisite poetic form, vet tingling from first to last with intense dramatlc life. He has chosen a theme of pure passion and has steeped It in an atmosphere of pure poetry.” The critic continue: “1 am en!flg reconciled te saying no word which shall appear to qualify my | estimate of ‘Paclo and Francesca,’ as a | thing unique in our day, a new and in- | | timate blending of poetic sweetness with dramatic strength. At the lowest and | Jeast, it stands far as the poles apart the ordinary blank-verse play of | theatrical commerce. It is brief, poignant, | rapid, vital, never lingering for a mo- ment over empty rhetoric; and its verse | has a delicate music of its own which will require almost a new art for its adequate rendering.” Sydney Colvin, writing in the Nineteenth | Century, devotes a long article to the | play. He says: “To my mind the result, as it now lies before us, is a thing of surprising beauty and power, free from the shortcomings of the author’s previous work, and testify- ing to his possession of quite unsuspected gifts. To the rich poetical production of the nineteenth century it Seems to me that Mr. Phillips has added that which was hitherto lacking, notwithstanding so | | many attempts made by famous men: | namely, a poetical play of the highest | qualit ! strictly designed for and expre: The Westminster Gazette remarks that | this is “high testimony from a sound | critic, and we pay it great deference.” It adds: | “There is much of Tennyson and a little | | My of Shakespeare in Mr. Phillips’ version, but we flnpde nothing of Dante. There is beauty, but not power. Again we grant Mr. Colvinsthe ‘sustained and modulated emotion.” It is there and a_great merit. But the very smoothness and accomplish- ment of the rhythm defeat in some meas- ure the stress and force of the passion. “Let us, however, not be misunderstood. This play is a remarkable achievement, both as a whole and in its parts. It abounds in beautiful passages and beau- tiful phrases. * * * A man who can write like this is clearly a force to be koned with. But we shall do him wrong if we praise indiscriminately. * * ¢ Let us repeat that, if auy of this sounds deprecatory, it is only by com- parison with the high standard which i invited. Mr. Phillips' poem is the bes that he has given us and a work of high sromise. We predict more and better. e < yet in the stage of anxious and careful technic—a_most necessary and creditable stage. When he has perfected his instru- ment and moves more freely he will be able to take greater liberty. Then we shall look for finer quality, more origin- ality, greater virility. A course of Brown- ing and Meredith would in the meantime be no bad thing for him. But, also in the meantime, let us be grateful for a work which as a whole is sweet and pleasant. which is constructed with rare skill and | which, now and again, contains a gem of | the purest water.” From the London Times we quote the following abridgment of the play: | ““The author has presented the story of | the tragedy of the house of Malatesta in its simplest form, without the accessories | which various commentators of the six teenth century have added to the story as told by Dante. The incidents are histori- | cal. The only essential innovation is the character of the widowed and childless cousin of Giovanni, Lucrezia degl’ Onesti. who, bitterly jealous herself, fans the jealousy of the husband and actually plans the tragic end. Lucrezia's sudden outburst of grief and rage against her lonely fate is, poetically speaking, one of the finest passages in the play: Glo. Lucrezia! this is that old bitterness Luc. Bitterness—am 1 bitter? Strange, oh, strange How else! My husband dead and childless left thwarted woman-thoughts have Inw turned, And that vain milk like acid in me eats. Have I not in my thought trained little feet To venture, and taught little lips to move Until they shaped the wonder of a word? I am long practiced. Oh, those children mine! | Together'—where we are is endiess thoughts, answered by the wind, Have dried in me bellef and love and fear. I am become a danger and a menace, A wandering fire, a disappointed for A peril—do you hear, Glovanni’—Oh Tt I» such souls as mine that go to swell The childless cavern cry of the barren sea, Or make that human ending to might-wind “The struggles of Paolo against his des- tiny, the half-unconscious yielding f Francesca to what was at first a m ‘drawing of youth to youth,’ and the cer tral scene in the ‘place of leaves’ wher the book of Lancelot and Guinevere proves to be ‘the Galeotto. the tween of the lovers'—all this is tol perfect truth to nature, with a thorough artistic reserve, and in verse that is a ways melodious and sometimes of extra ; ordinary beauty. And here is the “4nal speech of Paolo, before the two pass tc ether to the rcom where happiness & sen!h await them: . What can we fear, we two? 0720, Thins seast us Thy creatures bound Together by that law which holds t In palpitating cosmic passion bright; By which the very sun enthralls the earth, And all the waves of the world faint to the moon. Even by such attraction we two rush Together through the everlasting vears. Us, then, whose only pain can be to part, How wilt Thou punish? For what ecstasy Together to be blown about the globe What rapture in perpetual fire to burn Eternal yearnl: There centuries shall in a y\;nnmfl‘u L And all the cycles in one hour elap: St1il, ‘still together, even when faints Thy sum, ‘And past our souls Thy stars like aghes fall. How wilt Thou punish us, who cannot part Franc. I lte out on your arm and say your name— Paclo!™” *Paolo!” 3 Pao. “Francescal Then follows the final scene, In which servants enter bearing in Paolo and Fran- cesca dead upon a litter: Luc. AR'ah! ah! 3 Gro. Break not out in lamentation! (A pause. The servants set down the litter.) lue. (going to litter). I have borme one child, and she has died in youth! Glo. (going to litter). Not easily have we three come to this, We three who now are dead. Unwillingly They loved, unwillingly I slew them. Now | 1 kies them on the forehead quietly. (He bends over the bodies and kisses them on the forehead. He is shaken.) Luc. What ails you now?” Glo. She takes away my strength. 1 did not know the dead could have such hair. Hide them' They look like children fast asieep. (The bodles are_reverently covered over.) @048 4000e00005+0 A DAILY HINT FROM PARIS, R e PSPPI S SD S SO S S S S S S I R e SR SRS ! ! : L I e MAUVE SATIN CLOTH COSTUME. The costume represented is of Ophclia satin cloth. The front of the corsage Is pleated from the neck to the waist, and there are pleats on the shoulders. The vest is of stamped velvet, with pompadour patterns and long shawl lapels. —_—————————— EXTRA CLERKS ALLOWED. Some Departments Granted Relief by the Mayor. As a result of the conference held last week between the Mayor and the heads of departments it has been decided to comply in a measure with the requests of city officials for additional clerks. The Auditor will be allowed two extra clerks and the Treasurer four, while the Record- er will be allowed a mor!fflga clerk, of which he s in urgent need. The Mayor has not as yet visited the County Clerk’s office and nothlnfi has been done in regard t<l> kD:ane'n application for eleven more clerks. The messenger for the Recorder’'s office will not be allowed, and the Recorder and his deputies have decided to assess them- selves for the ary of a messenger, which is deemed an absolute necessity, ——————— Catholic Truth Society. The monthly lecture and religious ex- ercises for members of the Catholic Truth Soclety will be held in St. Mary's Cathedral next Wednesday evening. The scholarly pamphlet on “The Practice of Conf on in the Catholic Church,” by ev. R. F. Clarke, 8. J., will be dis- tributed. Street Department Surplus Funds. ‘The Auditor yesterday received a com- munication from the Board of Public ‘Works requesting that the surplus funds left over from the riation of the t six months made avail- e use of the . The money reet improve- Auditor holds that the sur- ransfe eral other provision, however, is In conflict with the first, and it may be that some way may be found to use the funds for the purpose for which they were orig- inally appropriated. SELECTION OF BARD. Stockton Independent. The nomination of Hon. Thomas R. Bard of Ventura for United States Sena- tor last night by the Republican caucus will be hailed by Republicans generally throughout the State as a happy rellef from the strained political situation that has lasted a year. Thomas R. Bard Is a gentleman who stands high in the Re- publican councils of the State. The only charge ever made against him to our knowledge is that of his being rich. In 1892 he headed the list of Electors on the Harrison ticket, and the people in the coast countles where he is known were so anxious to honor him that he ran ahead of his ticket and was the only Har- rison Elector chosen in this State. Mr. Bard is clean, energetic and distinguished for good judgment. It is to be ho that the fexlsln(or! will dispose of the Senator- ship on the first ballot next Tuesday by indorsing the action of the caucus. Those who preferred other candidates can well afford to waive their preferences in the satisfaction of ending a disagreeable con- test that was injuring the party as well as the State. —————— DAY OF RECKONING o FOB ENGLAND The Star. Fifty millions of people are starving in India under British rule, while the Brit- ish Government Is spendigg enough money to feed them al in the ef- fort to subjugate a free people In Africa. The justice of God may sometimes tarry, but it is sure; and there will be a day of reckoning vet' for all this wickedness that is being done under the sun. Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's. e Guillet's Ice Cream and Cakes. %05 Larkin st.® — e — Bpectal business houses und public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mon: gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 —— ——— Your name in gold letters free of charge on all pocketbooks and other leather goods purchased at our store. Trunks, Valises informeion supplied dafly to and Mexican Carved Leather Work a spe- clnl!);. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Mer-t street. . . Clerks for Civil Service Board. Upon the approval of Mayor Phelan the Supervisors’ Civil Service Committee de- cided yesterday to recommend tha® the Civil S8ervice Commission be allowed one clerk at $100 a month, and a clerk and stenographer at $75 a month. —_—————————— Personally Conducted Excursions In improved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping cars via Santa Fe Routs. Experfenced excursion conductors accompany these excur- stons to look after the weifare of passengers. To Chicago and Kansas City every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. To Boston, Montreal and Toronto every Wednesday. To St. Louts every Sunday. To St. Paul every Sunday and Friday. Ticket office, 428 Market street. The Fastest Train Across the Con- « tinent. The California Limited, Santa Fe Route. Connecting trains leave at § p. m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Finest equipped train and best track of any line to the East. Ticket office, 628 Market street. —— Insolvent Merchant. C. Baettge, a merchant of this city, filed a petition in insolvency vesterday In the United States District Court. His labil- ities are $2207 80 and his assets $250 debts on open account. Mnllfl s two on all our LADIES’ SHOE wet weather, LZok at these low prices: They are Ladies’ Hand-sewedeCork Sole, £4.50, now.. Sizes 8 t B, C and EE wide ;onloov".’..........l Kast e e u()u‘vc) [ 2 AV 4 oYS J Cut in Halt. That’s just what we've done! Cut th reat stock of il Concity I Kzep your feet dry and comfortable. Ladiss’ Button or Lacé, formerly $3.50, now......cesrereeee 8L T3 essesccssnasases Misses’ Button or Lace, sizes 11 to 1 wide ; sizes 121 to 134, EndEEvH’:.' PG el i Child’s Lace or Button, sizes6t08, C, CnnH o W sy aranteed waterproof leather tfl only sensible footwear for lace or button, formerly -..82.25 i n;v.-.........‘l.oo and E wide, now.75¢ D wide ; sizes 84 to i, E and .$1.CO 738-710 Market St.