The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 12, 1900, Page 4

..FEBRUARY 12, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager "E..Market and Third. S. F. ne Main 1S6S. PUBLICATION ROOMS. ...217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Main 1 EDITORISAL Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year..86. PAILY CALL (including Sunday). 6 months.. 3.00 PAILY CALL (including § 3 months.. 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Sin, ees o SUNDAY CA .. 150 WHEEELY .. 1.00 All postmasters receive subseriptions. fample copies will be forwarded when requested OAKLAND OFFICE ...1118 Broadway JORGE KROGNESS. Advertising, Marquette Build- Chicago. c. Menager Forelgn NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON . vees.Herald Square CHICAG WS STANDS: Shermnn House: P. O. News Co.; Great North- ern Heotel: Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waidorf-Astorin Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Sgun Murray Hill Hotel 3 RESENTATIVE: 290 Tribune Building NEW YORK LUKENS JR WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFIC J. F. ENGLISH, Correspondent. R PERRY BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, opem until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Haves. open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 MeAllister, open until ) o'clock. ©15 Larkin, open until #:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, opem until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until ® o'clock. 1096 Valencia, opem until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. AW. cormer Twenty-second and Kentucky. open until o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Jeffries-Sharkey Contest Pictures. The I g . e—""Alladin Jr.”" House—Eymphony Concert Thursday afternoon. audeville. = 5 Uneonventional Honeymoon.™ ar—*‘Ob, Busannah.” Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and s—Specialties. ille Students to-night. to-day. THE PRESENT LULL IN TRADE. wgularly featureless last week, but was larger than for sev as s, which off only 18g9. For some ngs have been considerably below nd the insignificant loss last week of business is increasing again. by the bank clearin, ent from the same week in s, too, which recently have ex- est ¢ ion’s share of the loss, are now gaining, good sign. The record of failures, avorable, the disasters last week inst 217 last year. usly mentioned, the feverish excitement t year or two seems to have completely sub- turers are no longer complaining that Machinery and woolen point of activity at the moment and 1 the latter is surprisingly large and prices, t fill their orders. le the foreign demand for excellent. The iron trade shows some anied by weaker quotations for but there are enough old orders furnaces going for some time to jecline in leather and hides has not in- oot and shoe manufacturers to buy freely, t getting the contracts that they need Still, though the factories are buying e. they are turning out more goods than ever be- orders. In fact, were it not for 1899 the industries of the coun- be complaining of dull times. v are filled, new business may arise, be safely predicted now. and probably the best at the moment, nd strength in provisions. The con- has for some years been the best When, after a period of stag- siness begins to pick up, provisions are the provement, and when trade begins to ions are generally the first to quiet down. on ol trade. Hence the rent activity in these goods may safely be taken as a favorablé indication. There seems, o be no particular speculation in anything however, t A street. People buy what they want at nothing else. e market had shown rather more d increasing ease in money serves to e speculation, though the public is not dip- ping very deeply and the professionals still have the market largely to themselves. Toward the close of the week there was a disposition to realize and the 1 heavier in consequence. Fluctuations dur- st at was ing the week, however, were small. In this city, local securities, after a period of dull- sh volume 1899. ness wed signs of more activity, though the transactions was not up to the average of Merchandise continued active and no com- laints were heard among the merchants. The con- ued dry weather and frequent north winds have en- abled the farmers to catch up with their work and being seeded throughout the State. ters are complaining of the scarcity of nursery »ck and in the central part of the State many fruit men, being unable to get fruit trees, are planting vines instead. In the Upper San Joaquin it is said that the output of grapes in three or four years will be increased 50 per cent for this reason. The fruit men have done so well during the past year or two that the croakers, who are forever crying down the fru justry as overdone, have gone into their holes and there is a rush to establish new orchards and vineyards, with the probable result that in several years these enthusiastic planters, disgusted by a pos- sible bad year or two, will be just as eager to dig them up as they are now to plant them. At least, this is the history of the fruit business in California. It is the man who follows his business through thick and thin, the cobbler who sticks to his last, that suc- ceeds in the long run. P — After all the fuss and feathers England gets her Alackan harbor at last. Uncle Sam may awake to the realization some day that the acquisition of new cousins is expensive business. e Dawson, it is said, has reached a thirst high-water mark with nineteen saloons in two blocks. The Daw- sonites must have been reading the police regulations of San Francisco, t areas are THE cANAL AND THE TREATY. ESPITE the splutter of froth and fury which D has followed the announcement of the treaty with Great Britain concerning the Nicaragua ! canal, it seems likely the treaty will be duly ratified ‘ and the enterprise carried forward. It would be in- | deed a matter of regret if any controversy over the | treaty should lead to a postponement of the construc- tion of the canal. Both houses of Congress are now 1 ready to vote an appropriation for the project, but if | the present opportunity be lost there is no telling how long a time may elapse before another so favorable occurs. | There are two classes of persons engaged in de- ‘ nouncing the treaty—first, those who are opposed to | the canal and who are glad of a chance to prolong the 1figh1 against it; second, those who are seeking for | material to be used in the campaign this summer and | fall against the administration. The first class see an | opportunity to baffle the canal project, for a time at | any rate, by inducing the people to believe that under | the treaty the waterway would be of more advantage | to Great Britain than to ourselves, and they have been | prompt to take advantage of it. The second class re- | gard it as good Democratic politics at this juncture to | represent the administration as surrendering American right and the Monroe doctrine, and, for the sake of | making party capital, that class are willing to act with those who are antagonistic to the canal under any circumstances. Fortunately the stanch advocates of the enterprise arg not to be deceived by the clamor of the opposition, and moreover there are a good many sterling Democrats .Wellington Hotel who are not willing to abandon the enterprise for the ! sake of getting a fictitious campaign cry. One of that class of Democrats is Senator Morgan, who is re- ported to have recently assured the President that the treaty would be adopted. In an interview on the sub- ject the Senator is quoted as saying: “There is always a lot of mouthing about anything Great Britain has a hand in, but there is not sufficient reason for it this time. treaty is that in case of war ships of the enemy could | go through the canal and attack the Pacific Coast. | Where would our ships be all this time? Running away or fighting? for a fight anywhere, and for that matter could stay in the canal itself and do their fighting.” While the outlook is thus bright at Washington it is equally promising in Nicaragua. Reports from that country quote President Zelaya as saying the one great desire of the Government and the people of Nicaragua is the construction of the waterway. No objection will be made to the construction by our | Government instead of by private parties and the President promises to grant every concession pos- sible within the constitutional limits of his power. Of course, the outcry against the treaty will go on and swell in loudness until the campaign is over. The opponents of the canal are powerful and control many newspapers and the Bryanites in their efforts to find an issue against the administration will not hesitate to join the anti-canal crowd in the fight. In the end, however, reason will prevail. We need the canal. Tt chould be built at once and there is nothing in the | Hay treaty which justifies opposition to it. The Sausalito offender who was forced the other day to keep swimming about in the aquarium which does service as a bastile in the little town probably never anticpated in his most solemn moments that some day he would be compelled in such a literal sense 10 bale himself out of jail. The amenities of life in the frozen north are giv- ing the descriptive writers some unusual opportuni- ties for spectacular pen work. One enthusiast pic- tures the road from Dawson to Nome as dotted with the ears, fingers and toes of venturesome gold-hunters. William Jennings Bryan, it is gravely announced, is adored by the women of Boston. This is not the ony instance where the genial William has discovered that what he needs least he receives most. Ii the fair ones could only vote! | THE KENTUCKY SITUATION. | GO\'ERI\'OR TAYLOR of Kentucky has acted wisely in deciding to leave the issue of the con- test over the Governorship to the Legislature and the courts. That is in fact the only rational policy | for him to pursue. The law of the State provides a certain course of action to be taken in the settlement of disputed gubernatorial elections, and whether that law be wise or unwise it is the duty of all parties to abide by it. 1f men are to take up arms and fight whenever they | believe their political opponents are about to take an | unfair advantage of them, the politics of this country | would hardly be much better than that of South America. It is always much better to submit to a lit- tle wrong than to have civil wars, for small wrongs | can be righted without a resort to such violent means. In the Kentucky case the Governor has the more reason to be content to leave his case and his rights to the arbitrament of the tribunals constituted by the | 1aw, for up to this time he has suffered no wrong from them. The election boards of the various districts of the State made returns showing a majority of votes in his favor and the State Election Commission, though | a majority of its members are Democrats, approved the returns and gave him a certificate of election. | It is the law of the State that gives the Legislature the power and imposes upon it the duty of finally de- itcrmim'ng the issue, and if the legisators, through | partisan prejudice or any other evil motive, act un- justly and set aside the decision of the Election Com- | mission, the responsibility of wrong-doing will rest upon them and an appeal can be taken to the people at the next election. Taylor has the proof of the jus- tice of his claim in the records of the election and with these proofs in his possession can safely leave the controversy between himself and the Goebelites | to the voters of the commonwealth. It is a gratifying fact that throughout the whole course of this outrageous proceeding on the part of | the followers of Goebel to take possession of the State government by fraud or by force that the influential Republican leaders and organs of the country have steadfastly counseled moderation and respect for the law on the part of Kentucky Republicans. There has been no clamor for military interference to prevent the Goebel Legislature from carrying out its resolve te unseat the Governor. On the contrary, the prevailing tone of Republican comment on the situation has been that of a profound respect for legality. It is better to submit even to a bad law than to violate a law, for | under our form of government it is in the power of a people to repeal a law when it is found to be bad. It not infrequently happens in human history that evil results in good. The bitterness of this contest, Jeading as it has done to the assassination of Goebel and the attempted assassination of Taylor, ought to convince the Kentuckians of the criminality of their political methods and the barbarism of their fashion of settling disputes. The Republicans of the State cannot serve Kentucky better than by setting an I see that one of the main grounds against the | Why, they could pick their ground | recall the Legislature to session at Frankfort and o leave in the hands of the legal tribunals the decision upon his title to the office of Governor the Republican leader has been true to American ideals, and if the people of Kentucky be worthy of self-government they will in the end justify his course by driving from power those who obtain it by bending the law to the service of iniquity. 3 THE UTILITY OF PERSECUTION. THE Roberts affair seems to have propagated an anti-Mormon campaign. 5 Obviously the proper thing to do is to pro- pose an anti-polygamy amendment to the Federal constitution, adopt it by the required vote of the States, and thereafter put the “twin relics” joined wn the first Republican platiorm both under the ban of the United States. The spirit in which some are treating the subject savors of religious persecution. The constitutional authorities have not yet reported who are willing to claim that Roberts was given his constitutional rights by the House of Representatives. There were no precedents for the decision in his case. Its only ex- cuse is that it established, and did not follow, a precedent. No religious movement has ever been crushed by persecution. Such movements are always founded upon an idea, and ideas are immortal. The history of the world should inform and deter those who think there is utility in persecution. It did not suppress Hussism, nor its imitators, the Huguenots. When it was turned against the primitive church it did not eradicate it from England, where it is stronger than in the days of Henry VIII. One or many branches of Christendom never yet succeeded in de- stroying a single branch thereof by persecution. All religious ideas flourish in New England, where the Puritans sought their eradication by grievous pains and penalties. If Joseph Smith had never been murdered in Carthage jail and his followers, hunted like vermin, had never been driven toward the wilderness in a hegira that ended in the prosperous settlements that flourish in the Utah basin, it is highly probable that Mormonism would long ago have been buried near to its cradle. It has thrived on persecution, and a renewal of that policy finds it now no longer a Hagar dying of thirst in the desert, but a fully equipped ecclesiastical organization, led by men of great wisdom and great knowledge of human nature, and with a record of material benefit to its followers which it may well compare with that of any other or- ganization, secular or religious. It will pay the opponents of Mormonism to take it at its word. The rulers declare that the church has abandoned polygamy, and that its life does not de- pend on plural marriage. The cases are at the worst sporadic, and the institution would die by contact, even if not barred by the law or banished by another revelation. . Taking the church at its word, it can offer no ob- jection to such an amendment to the constitution, and it is highly probable that a Utah Legislature would join in its ratification. Then why not drop invective and epithet, and ascription of bad motives and bad faith, and compel the Mormon church to persecution? e —————— SYMPATHY AND NEUTRALITY. ECAUSE of the frequegcy with which many of our leading statesmen ;‘we declared their sym- pathy with the Boers, and the fact that a large majority of the American people agree with them, fears have been expressed in some quarters that senti- ment may lead us to a violation of the laws of neutral- ity. Thus the New York Sun says: “Because America’s instinctive sympathy with the Boer grows more irrepressible as he maintains his struggle to defend his home in" South Africa, it becomes the duty of those entrusted with the management of the Government to hold this country with the greater steadiness to the line of impartiality. However high the Transvaal sentiment rises in the United States, an American ad- ministration is bound to see that nothing be charge- able against us of favoritism to either of the com- batants.” The excellence of that sentiment is not to be dis- puted. There is a possibility, however, that in en- deavoring to avoid showing partiality to the Boers we may err on the other side. Reports from the East are to the effect that the British are making a very large use of this country as a base of supplies for their campaign and they are even enlisting men for military service. The Baltimore American, after directing attention to a dispatch from Cape Town to the effect that 150 American .scouts who had arrived there as “muleteers,” were enlisted in the British forces, goes on to say: “This is only one of a number of batches which have been recruited for the British army by this transparanet fiction and there are others getting ready to sail, either as muleteers or hostlers, horses being just now the principal need of the British which can be supplied by the United States. This is all done by commissioned officers of the British army. They make known the number of men they wish to go with a certain steamer and specify the qualifications re- quired, among these being service in the army in Cuba or experience as scouts on the plains. The de- vice, of course, does not deceive any one and they probably do not expect it to do so.” It ought to be comparatively easy for our Govern- ment to investigate the charges the American makes. If it be true that British officers are recruiting men in the United States it will be a part of our duty of neutralty to put a stop to it. In following the advice of the Sun not to permit our sympathy with the Boers to lead us into any injustice to the British, we ought also to be careful that our respect for British interests does not incline us to overlook the rights of those with whom we sympathize. P — A cousin of General Buller, who honors San Fran- cisco by his permanent residence here, says that the general is a master of military strategy. This may mean that the voluble cousin is telling family secrets which the public does not know. It is now definitely announced that Admiral Dewey wants to be President of the United States. After that little affair in Washington there is an absolute certainty that the great sailor’'s managers won't make a house-to-house canvass. British military authorities have assured themselves that the Boers have great respect for the fighting of the British. If a wholesale slaughter of her Majesty’s troops is any indication of respect perhaps the British authorities are right. It has been left to ex-Secretary of War Alger to deal Great Britain the heaviest blow of censure of her South African campaign. The general has resur rected his pen and is pleading the British cause expand naturally and not by the ever useful force of | Senator Bard, all hall! fe, a balm for many a wound. - ALAMEDA ity next fall. % Bard will make a good, strong team. the great State of California. . HUMBOLDT win a great victory perity. Every good sincerity. cessful business man. who come in contact with him; and ne which he may undertake. SAN BERNARDINO SUN. California greets you as Ington, with confidence that the trust will be magn! fierubllcm party of ghe Golden State finds in your election the panacea for party xi The election of Senator Bard has united the Republican as never before and has put this State in line for a rousing o SAN BERNARDINO TIMES-INDEX. Bard 1s a man of affairs, a business man, & life-long Republican in every way worthy of ;ll:’e high honor of being a United States Senato! i 5 W ORANGE COUNTY HERALD. Thomas R. Bard is certainly a “suitable” candidate in every sense of the term. . &0 . BAN JOSE MERCURY. We shall not need to blush for Mr. Bard in any relation in which he is likely to be placed, for at Washington, as at nome, he will command the respect of e | i is not likely to fall short in any purpose % ¢ her junior Senator at Wash- ificently _fulfllled, while the CINAL. e T party of California Republican major- W PETALUMA ARGUS. ‘e congratulate Mr. Bard, the State, party on so wise a settlement of the Senatorial squabble. Senators Perkins and the Legislature and the ‘Republican and a man r from . STANDARD. With Bard and Perkins in the Senate the people of California will be well represented, the party which they represent with honor wi next fall and so help the nation man should r.eyol:'e n.t the prospect. STOCKTON INDEPENDENT. Senator Bard has well formed opinions as to the vote and influence will always be on the side of honor and individual integrity and Callfornia may feel not only relieved but the extra sesslon was theé election of Thomas R. Ba RED BLUFF PEOPLE'S CAUSE. ill be in condition to ‘along the highway of pros- great national issues. His roud that the outcome of as United States Senator. | tume. THE SA FR CISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1900. e, 8 . T Ol e e S S SRS AYE AR DG T navy, especially among the midshipmen KIND WORDS FOR SENATOR BARD. Additional Commendatory Comment by the Press Through- out the State. al describes his dress aq midshipman as follows: A coat, the sk of which actually swept the deck, ar wide that it would button down very bottom; my White cuffs r half way up the arm to the elbow. walstcoat, also of 2 ln;)wy hue, re 3 to my knees, and I had on white thr Stockings, high shoes and buckles - plain cocked hat. A prodigiously iong silver-handled sword completed my Other midshipmen of the samg party were even worse dressed, one ing a high hat bound bg narrow gold white waistcoat, light blue knee brec and a huge pair of waterproof boots. admiral 8 fore whom these young presented themselves sent them over side, ordering the gang to g0 to & mouth taflor and get razed and proper uniformed. ST. VALENTINE DULY HONORED Alpha Cotillon Club Holds High Revel to His Glory. The first season of the Alpha Cotillon organized by Miss Gertrude Burne closed with a valentine bal masque. Tt favors consisted of red hearts stabbe with arrows, dainty valentines, gold bows and arrows and Japanese love quotations artistically done on red and yellow bar ners tied with ribbons. Under the efficient leadership of Henry Clapp the figures of the german were most attractive. He was effectiv dressed as St. Valentine and was ass by Miss lsabel Birkmaler as, the Queen of Hearts. Those in the first set were: Mis It may be well for the State in general and the Republican party in particular that active politicians have been set aside to make way for a sagacious and suc- all ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ % Alameda Argus. It 1s hardly expected that the Ban Francisco Examiner of one day will align ent pages of a single issue to be reason- ably consistent. Yesterday, however, In one place that distinguished journal had Thomas_ R. Bard elected Senator through the machinations of C. P. Huntington ard in another it had him placed in the high and honorable position by the exg‘endllure of $100,000 of Spreckels gold. There has been no sign for. ngood long time that the | Spreckelses and Huntington are in ca- hoots. In fact, a real discerning person might conclude that they are a consider- able ways apart. Their interests, even so | far as a_ Senator is concerned, cannot be | wholly identical. How the people of Call- | fornia can, therefore, be expected to be- ileve that both Huntington and the ! be seen, unless a first rate diagram is supplied along with the proposition. *: Sehiie Sacramento Bee. In an editorial upon the subject of choosing United States Senators, the es- teemed Examiner is pleased to remark: “There is but one reason why Mr. Bard was chosen by the Republican caucus, and that is that he is wdrth two or three millions of dollars.” Is not that about the only reason why the late George Hearst, founder of the | present Examiner, was elected Senator by a Democratic Legislature of the State of California. . e e Los Angeles Times. That journalistic drab, the San Francis- co Examiner, is now attempting to make it appear that Senator Bard is of the same class of Senators as those who have bought their way into the Senate. This ridiculous nonsense is indicative of its GRILLING OF THE EXAMINER. Severely Denounced by State Papers for Its Unwarranted Slander in Connection With the Senatorial Election. MWQW%WM. | | that i lected to the Senate | was a man e e 0 the nate from auy in policy with that of the next, but one | Bas & man elocted to the Fernle and oLl might without violence expect the differ- | gations than Mr. Bard. He has no master Spreckelses elected Bard is not likely to | - ¢ 1;5 1 1 0 pure cussedness and the genuine idiocy Yer\'ldel the management of tlhat ous and disgusting sheet. Never but the people, and his character is so far | above reproach that the Examiner cannot appreciate the situation that exists in this particular case. The cannot conceive the possibility of a S atorfal election that is not based upon the use of money, or some other form of brib- ery. Thank heaven, California has a Se: ator to whom the mud from the batterie: of that concern cannot stick. e Fresno Republican. The State has long since ceased to look | for decency from the San Francisco Ex- aminer, but it has yet to learn the full measure of its indecency. Its recent gra- tuitous attacks on the political integrity | of the men who were responsible for the election of Senator Bard was doubtle by no means_the worst the Examiner capable of, but they are probably the worst it has yet ventured. THEC W Stockton Independent. The Examiner cartoons and fake sensa- tions connecting Senator Bard with the Sugar Trust and with C. P. Huntington | are the height of silliness. The people of | the State are not so unintelligent and | credulous as to accept the Examiner’s ra- | sertion against the evidence of every competent observer on the scene. L e Alameda Argus. Evidently the election of Thomas R. Bard to the Senate Is displeasing to our | especial friend, the Examiner. But we | very much fear the Examiner will not make striking headway by charging Bard up to elther the railroad or the sugar | trust. Such tactics long ago passed into | the domain of the chestnut. | The new naval programme of France | provides for the construction of thirty- | four submarine boats and vessels which can be submerged. » The German Institute of Naval Archi- tects recently held its first meeting at Charlottenburg, near Berlin. The society 1s not yet one year in existence, but num- | bers already 605 members. The eost of battleships in the British navy was $245 per ton ten years ago, and had increased to $375 last year. The addi- tional cost is due to more expensive mate- rial used and more complicated construc- tion, which items more than outweigh the decreased cost of labor in the yards. The Russian coast defense ship General Admiral Aproxin, which went ashore on the coast of Gothland a few weeks ago, is still hard and fast. Some of the rock upon which the ship rests has been blown up, but the effect of this heroic treatment upon the ship is not stated. Admiral J. S. Brand of the British navy, speaking recently at Eastbourne, said that “when an inquiry was made as to the pre- paredness of the army for war we must not forget to insist upon an equally strong inquiry as to the condition of the navy. I could say something that might alarm them, but perhaps it would not be wise.” The keel of the battleship Albemarle was laid at Chatham dockyard on January 1 last. The ship will be 405 feet long by 75 feet 6 inches, and will displace 14,000 tons on a mean draught of 26 feet 8 inches. Her water-line protection will be a belt of Har- veyized steel 290 feet in length, of T-inch maximum thickness, tapering to 8 inches at the ends, and the speed is calculated at 19 knots. The German navy at the present time numbers 162 vessels for effective service, which at the end of eight years will be in- creased to 222 If the Emperor’s naval plans are carried into effect. There are now 17 battleships, 8 coast defense vessels, 11 pro- tected cruisers, 27 unprotected cruisers, 5 gunboats and 84 torpedo boats. By 1908 there are to be added 23 battleships, 9 pro- tected cruisers, 21 smaller crulsers and gunboats and 80 torpedo boats. The trials of the Parson turbine-pro- pelled torpedo-boat destroyer Viper was the second preliminary contractors' run, and was four runs over the measured mile course., The average speed was 34.8 knots, and the fastest run for one mile 35.5 knots. As the contractors have only guaranteed 81 knots during a three hours’ continued run, accidents only will prevent the boat from doing considerably better than con- tract speed. The British sheathed cruiser Hyacinth of 5600 tons has finished her speed t(rial, the latest under full power, giving the following results. Steam in bollers, 251 pounds; revolutions of screws, starboard 169.15, port 173.55; total horsepower, 10,536; speed, 19.4 knots; coal consumption, 1.58 pounds per horsepower per hour. The horsepower exceeded the contract by 53, but the speed fell short one-tenth of a knot. That a stupendous blunder in the design of the Queen's new vacht was committed is evident from a brief summary of alter- ations decided upon. The forecastle is to the location of the bollers to be The yacht is in south lock at the and na }.%Wm i NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES R i S e e e e ] | cantile tonnage and naval expenditures of . | unauthorized person is permitted to board the vessel. While the Director of Naval Construction of the British Navy is re- sponsible for the design, and the blunder in | calculations which has made the yacht | unsafe is no doubt that of a subordinate in the draughting room, yet, inasmuch as | Sir Willlam White would clatm credit in | the event of the success of the vessel, he | must now also take the blame for the fail- ure. A Parliamentary return gives some inter- esting and instructive figures on the mer- the principal maritime nations, as follows: 2 “agw 2 LEEEL ;Ef_iai"n“w Russia .... The mercantile tonnage is that engaged in foreign trade, and if Lord Beresford's definition of the uses of a naval establish- ment is that of insuring the over-sea ship- ping, then Great Britain's naval expendi- tures are really the lowest when viewed as a means of insurance. Flogging s still practiced in the British navy, as the latest victim, Thomas Me- Geehan, can certify. He was a second- class fireman on her Majesty’s ship Doris, lying at BSimons Town, and was undergoing a sentence o impris- onment on the Penelope for striking a chief stoker. McGeehan, tiring of his confinement, shammed illness, and a med- fcal survey was held, disclosing the fact that he had been malingering. On this a board of three officers sentenced the man to eighteen lashes, of which eleven were laid on according to the Queen's regulations, when the prisoner became in- sensible, and the wretched man was car- ried bleeding and senseless to his cell. The British navy regulations prescribe punishment for all sorts of offenses; boys may be either birched or caned, and as summary punishment men may be flogged not to exceed forty-elght lashes. The offense of malingering, however, is pun- ishable with imprisonment not to exceed forty-two days, and it would seem that the officers exceeded their authority. Flogging was abolished by law in the United States navy in 1850, and the last record of violation of this law was In 1576 in San Francisco harbor, when the cap- tain of the Pensacola inflicted this unlaw- ful but well-merited punishment upon a 1ot of hoodlums on board his ship. For this violation of law the n was court-martialed and senten to two years’ suspension. Prior to 1747 there was neither estab- lished rank nor a prescribed uniform in the British navy, and the adoption of the latter is told to be due to an accldent. George II met the Duchess of Bedford on horseback in a blue riding habit faced with white, and the King was so well pleased with the effect of it that, a ques- tion having just been raised as to the propriety of deciding upon some uniform dress for the navy, he Immediately com- an 1747, the rank and uniform of admirals, captains, lleutenants and midshipmen S R Hearstling orggan | encer as a California poppy; s M ‘oreado! from Carmen iss rett, Psyche; Mr. Sewel. Moulton, Heatrice; Mr. MecGin. nth Regiment uniform; Miss Low nese girl; Mr. Chase, comic E. Birkmaler, true lover's knot; er, yelle domix Miss Mabe Maud Muller; Mr. Fuller, dom fiss Howell, buttercup; Mr. Craig bers and the Beasom, guests present Noble, Rose, Somers, Marvin, Burnett Day, Cralg, Livingstons, Oppen heimer, Meudorff, Fuller, Calvill, Robin- son, Wismer, Circe, Drs. Roese, Starr, Rosenthal and Manh; Misses Gray, Har- land, De Leong, Hendy, Rourke, Critten- den, Prindle, Warren, _Soper, Stone, Young, Murphy, Newell, Scoville, Booth. Gottig, Sessions, Olive Burnett, Kate Har. land, Ida Harland, Jackson, Bruns and Graham. Among the most noticeabls costumes were Carmen, George II, the Hussar, which was accurate in every ticular; Queen of Clubs, Punchinello, dy Tea- zle, German naval officer and Rosalind The young people lock forward with pleasure to the season of 1900-0L [ R kSt RS SR R s ] I A DALY HINT FROM PARIS.I G+ + e+ 20+ 9 00+ B e L S o B R A St B 2o o 3 e dn ol oo ot St 2n ot o ] LIBERTY SATIN DOMINO. The domino represented is of the - cess shape, worn with a coat. It is of Parma colored Liberty satin. front is entirely of finely pleated m: » 4 sofe. The removable hood and frill o the same material. On each side of th hood are bouquets of violets and rii rosettes. —_—e—————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per T at Townsend's.® —————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Cli; ping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 ¢ —_——e—e———— Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal, is a small city of about 3000 white popu~ lation. 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