The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 14, 1900, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 14, 1900. ..MAY 14, 1900 JOH tddress All Communi D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ions to W. S. LEAKI £, Manager JON OFFICE..Mnrket and Third, 8. F. Telephone Main 1565, PUBLICAT ..217 te 221 Stevemsonm St. Main 187 EDITORIAL ROOM cluding Postages DATLY CALL Sunday), ove year. DAILY CALL dreluding Sunday), ¢ months. DAILY CALL (nclading Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By SUNDAY CALL One WEEKLY CALL One All postmasiers . Bample copies w sam 200 1.50 a5- 1.50 2 100 e muthorized to receive eriptions. 4ed when requested. DAKLAND OFFICE. C. GEO Maneger Foreign Advert Jong Distance Telephone ....1118 Broadwnay NEW YORK CORKESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON, ...Herald Square XEW YORA STEPHEN B. SMITH CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: #herman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hote! Fremont House: Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, A. Breatano, 31 Unmion Square Murray Hill Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OF MORTON E E CRANE, ....Wellington Hotel Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES — corner of Clay. open Montgomery unt ven aves. Va ! . corner M n and Eddy streets—Specialties Vuudaville every afternoon and Fischer's Concert House—*Peust.” Kepp Company Concert Hall—Vaudeville AUCTION SALES. By A. W. Louderback—To-morrow, at 11 a. m. and 2 p. m., Persia d Stockton stree day 14, at 11 o'clock, Horses, on streets. at 1 o'clock, 7 Mission street ULL SEASON ANOTHER D IE improvement in business remarked during week of the month did not last | ast week was 1l again, with a r er tendency in prices ban off 18 per cent, as h the same week in 1899, New York se of 26.4 per cent and Boston 18, st year. ss reports are received from the Pa- . particularly California, and a fair retail rted from different parts of the country, complain that orders from jobbers are not what they ought to y mills and factories are still run- s received away back in 1899, but new T in very slowly, or not at all. ture of the leading staples at the steel buyers are holding off and mediate wants. Stocks showed , while several descriptions weak- last week. The unsettled con- g trades in the matter of labor a detriment to the iron, steel and to mention the dozen other lines t upon the building of houses. ws the effects of the strikes in lower quo- d there. Wool has declined again and reported slack everywhere. Prints are er previous quotations. Hides and ue dull and weak, as the boot and shoe ers are holding back on account of the rer and hides are consequently ac- e principal markets. Wheat has nd the market has looked very soft for several days. The Government as bearish, as indicating a i e of the damage done by un- er in midwinter, though the a ion of ship- were seasonable ts of eat and our from Atlantic ports ger than for the same week in 1809. Wall street still sleeps. Trading is almost wholly cc essionals, as the public still holds aloof. y enou, there are no threaten- ing si ne financial sky, Europe is borrowing our gold blocks, yet the public refuse to take the bait. The fact is, nobody wants to speculate for some reason or other. Recent r throughout California have somewhat ing the past week. The y was caught, some fruit spoiled. crops given a fine revigoratio some saved altoget] and so on. nefited. Some districts t On the whole the v exceeded the damage. were damaged, othe: benefits large The business of the port San Francisco continues brisk and while not as as last year. when the soldiers were here the thou s and the Government was buy- ing immense quantities of clothing and provisions for the Pl ines, it is still active enough to keep times good. The decline in wheat is the only unfavorable feature in California at the moment, but wheat is not | the only staple of the State, as it was a few vears ago,” o it brings no disaster in its train as in former years, reports of the cordiality of the popular en to Dewey along the route of his citizen thinks just as much of him and his wife as if neither of them had ever had an aspiration for the Presi . The modern iconoclast has reverence not even for ame of Thomas Jefferson. The chairman of the list convention says that Jeffersonian is Populism. The gentleman ought to be urged to smoke another-brand. Pe fusion Democracy Tgnatins Donnelly has been nominated for Vice President by one wing of the Populists. Ignatius will need 2!l the craft displayed in his Shakespcarean freak to locate himself after the votes are counted in November. * PARTY PLATFORMS THIS YEAR. Y way of contribution to the political predic- tions of the season the Philadelphia Press re- B cently. declared the platforms which the two great parties will adopt this year can be summarized parallel columns thus: We indorse— We rejoice— We glory— We are proud— We heartily support— | We entrust— We commend— |in | We repudiate— ‘We mourn— We decry— We are ashamed— We condemn— We denounce— We disavow— There is nothing in the way of a puzzle in the pre- diction. No one will be in doubt as to which plat- | form will be adopted at Philadelphia and which at | Kansas City. The difference between the positive | optimism of the Republican party and the negative of Democracy clearly at this time. There is on the one side at work accomplished and on the other cism of the ich it was performed. was never more we itself and of the One party has a The other ¢ of progress and improvement. The Republican party will indorse the administra- tion, the prosperity that has been brought its governmental policies, g hicved both at home and abroac rejoice in ry in the i, express hile augmenting the welfare of its peo- artily support the administration that has mental in achieving these great benefits, ple, will { been ins hip in ate g everythir en done, d the ed of condemn standard and vote the party ticket even | nounced Democracy its ted States i ty of the people of the more abundant and of peo- a high ple b perity al order of t nd wil power a set of tion to interfe: 1ance tries for the purpose of giving e to get even with the in- dustrious the thrif During the four years wh h have followed the last been no interruption: of progress, tion there seth! to en k rprise. The country has gone forward upon the paths of prosperity popular happiness. Now hich gives the demagogues cha comW the election year nd the agitators a ce to check that progress if they can. The plat- forms of the two parties will show the motives that animate them and the people will have a plain choice to make between.the party that rejoices and is proud and that which mourns, decries and repudiates, w THE HALL OF JU.STICE JOB. ELAY in the work of completing the Hall of Justice adds one more to the many irrita- tions of the Phelan fiasco government. The Mission clubs complain of a lack of permanent im- provements, the Merchants’ Association is compelled to periorm the task of street-cleaning, the fraternal societies protest against the darkness which renders the streets dangerous at night, and now the business men in the vicinity of the Hall of Justice have to re- new their complaints against that exasperating job- bery, which for so long a time has made the construc- tion of the building a public scandal. Phelan’s -election pledges have proven to be less reciiable than the proverbial pie crust, for even when broken the crust shows something of substance, while the Phelan phrases have vanished into empty air. Instead of improvements commensurate with the growing wealth and population of the city we have had a retrograde policy which has carried the munici- pal administration back to the primitive days of Yerba Buena, when street-cleaning was left to the public rit of the individual citizen, and he who went out at night either carried a lantern or waited for the moon and in either case went armed. The Hall of Justice, designed as a permanent im- provement, has under the Phelan regime taken a form that threatens a permanent scandal—a permanence at any rate which will be as lasting as the Phelan govern- ment. Years have passed since the work on the build- ing began. The traffic of the vicinity has been seri- ously interfered with during all that time and prop- erty-owners have suffered a loss in the rental value of their property. Most of the loss has been due solely to a lack of energy on the part of the municipal government, and the Mayor, who has frequently | boasted that he is the government, is, of course, re- sponsible for the wrong. The evil is more irritating at this time because the work is now so far advanced that a little energy on the part of those in authority could soon complete it. | That energy, however, is frittered away in general fussiness in other directions. The Mayor tinkers here and tinkers there, to show his power through a mere nity, but nothing is done of benefit to the com- munity. Thus the Hall of Justice is left unfinished, the streets are unswept, unsprinkled and unlighted. Robbery goes on by night and jobbery by day and the Phelan administration will be long remembered for “ways that are dark and for tricks that are vain.” O have had bad luck in the contests with the teams of Eastern universities and something of their fzilure to win the triumphsour hopes expected is attributable to accident. We have therefore reason for a continuance of hope for success in future con- tests, for in the next matches the handicap of bad luck may be on the cther side. | Neither the athletes themselves nor their iriends, ! however, will make of the accidents an excuse for failure. In fact our champions need seck for no ex- cuses. They have done well against’ some of the strongest teams the great unmiversities of the East could bring against them. It is to be borne in mind | that the spring season in the East is trying even upon those who are native to it. The Californians were not acclimated and, of course, felt the effects of the " weather. Furthermore we have not as yet had in California the thorough training which the Eastern ! students undergo, nor has there been here the same 4 degree of stimulus to athleti¢ exercises which East- UR athletes of the University of California and | e prestige the nation has attained as a | (ernment was established. | sourian, however, have not been received with the m | ern students feel by reason of the many annual con- tests among the numerous large universities of that section. The University of California has now proven a worthy competitor on the athletic field with the great- est universities of the East. Her team may not bring home many prizes, but it will return with honor. An incentive will be given to further training among the students and the university will be a gainer from their efforts. In the course of time we shall send East a winning team and for the present the University of California has every reason to be proud of the record ton have been a little too strong and too speedy for them, but they made the sons of Eli get there quicker hump himself. ——— AN ISOLATED CITY. W of being the capital of the greatest and freest republic on earth and the only large city government and no desire for any, It is a community isolated from the rest of the nation, having little or commerce and none of our popular aspirations A short time ago Champ Clark of Missouri, think- troduced into the House of Representatives a bill to restore local seli-government to the District of of the right of suffrage, which was taken from the people of the District when the present form of go her sons have achieved this year, Yale and Prince- than they ever did before and compelled the tiger to ASHINGTON city has the double distinction in the civilized world which has no degree of seli- no connection with the great movements of politics or ling to do the people of Washington a good turn, in- Columbia. That, of course, involved the restoration The efforts of the Mi {gratitude he expected. The Washingtonians are id of themselves, they are afraid of one another, hey dare not trust their own vote. They prefer to be governed by Congress and take chances A report concerning the manner in which the sub. ject is regarded in Washington says: "An indication | ol local feeling was made a few nights ago. At a eeting of the Columbia Heights Citizens' Associa- tion resolutions for k and against the Champ Cla n were introduced and discussed. The ive resolution expressed the opinion that uni- versal ¢ ‘is deemed highly undesirable to the best ests’ and the members of the association { were asked to prevent the passage of the bill. After It is a pros- R h talk the advocates of suffrage and those opposed to it came to a vote and the frieads of local self-gov- ernment were beaten 9 to 1, the vote being 36 to 4. This would be the result in other sections of the city 1egroes were not permitted to take part in the ions or to vote.” It is frequently said that the objection of the people of Washington to undertaking self-government is that the negro vote in the District of Columbia is so cor- rupt that it renders good government impossible. The statement, however, is not to be accepted as a full explanation of the situation! Throughout the Southern States there is in all the principal cities a negro vote larger in proportion than that in Wash- ington and yet the people of those cities carry on local governments with as high a degree of honesty and efficiency as those of the North. Moreover it is not true that the negro vote is as corrupt as the Wash- ington people assert. It has never been noted in other large cities that the colored vote is any worse than the white vote or that it tends to make popular government impossible. The defect of Washington is that its population is made up mainly of people who take no part in the activities of American life. It is filled with office- seekers who could not get elected to anything and who content themselves with Government clerkships. It has no citizens of leadership capable of organizing a great commercial enterprise or directing a local government. The community is American in name only. It dislikes the hustle and the jostle of repub- lican institutions. It suits the official class there to draw salaries from the national treasury, spend them in imitating the manners of foreign embassadors, leav- ing busidess and politics to the rest of the country. 1t would benefit the District of Columbia to have self- government imposed upon it and it is to be hoped Champ Clark’s bill will be tried E@N EARLY ADJOURNMENT. EPORTS f{rom Washington are to the effect that the leaders in both the Senate and the House are desirous of bringing the present ses- sion to a close before the end of June. For that rea- son many important measures which it was expected would be dealt with at this session will probably be postponed. Should the reported policy be carried out there will be, of course, some disappointment, but we believe the people on the whole will not be dissatisfied. It is now clear that the great expectations with which the assembling of Congress was attended cannot be realized and the fault has not been that of Congress itself. For example it was believed last summer that when Congress assembled we should have a definite settlement of the Philippine question. The President himself suggested as much in his speech at Boston when he said that the nation’s policy toward its new possessions would have to be determined by the wis- dom of Congress. Events in the islands, however, have prevented the adoption of a permanent policy at this time and until the situation there is more fully understood it would not be wise to undertake to for- mulate such a policy. Moreover until the Supreme Court has pronounced judgment upon the constitu- tionality of the legislation for Porto Rico it is better to wait before legislating for the Philippines. The Nicaragua Canal bill is another of the import- ant measures which were expected of this .session, but the opponents of the canal by making a fight against the Hay-Pauncefote treaty have virtually forced a postponement of action upon that subject. Other great issues have been so far involved with par- tisan questions that to bring them forward on the eve of a Presidential election would result in a partisan i wrangle, and probably little of good could be obtained by an attempt to force action upon them. It is to be borne in mind that while an early ad- journment will leave much undone that was expected, nevertheless a great deal of work has been accom- plished. The act which establishes the gold standard and reforms our currency and banking laws is one of the most important acts of legislation since the war and in itself will be sufficient to confer distinction upon this Congress. Then there has been legislation affecting Hawaii and Porto Rico of great importance which opens up a new field of activity for our Gov- ernment. Thus enough has been achieved to consti- tute a good record for the session, and if now the members of Congress determine to close up and re- turn home about the time Presidential conventions are held nobody will blame them. It has been a good Congress, but there is no desire on the part of the people to have it at work all summer. ————— The Presidential campaign opens very coolly, but there is plenty of time for it to get red hot before it finishes. t ENGLAND’S WAR AND THE FAMINE IN INDIA e e S ol o e CIVILIZATION TO JéBN BULL—"IF YOU HAVE SO MUCH MONEY TO SPEND FOR MY SAKE, GIVE SOMB OF IT HERE.” B e e ok T o ok a2 OME papers show a disposition to blame the British Government for spending so much money in prose- cuting the war In South Africa, and o little, comparatively, In relieving hunger-smitten Iodia. In India, it is estimated, 80,000,000 famine sufferers need help and 5,500,000 are being relleved by the Government. England has sent, in sub- weriptions, $725.000 to aid the Indian treas- ury. In South Africa, where, the New York Times says, “at most a population of 300,000 is directly involved In the out- come of the South African war,” England 18 spending a thousandfold more—$750,000,- 000. The Cleveland Leader calls this con- trast “one of the sorriest spectacles which our poor human nature has presented in many years. It is especially dishearten- ing in view of the fact that it Is the | gun will save a whole family from death. | is unprepared, now as always. work of the natifon which clalms to lead the van In human progress and stand for {all that is best in clivilization.” The Phila- delphia North American makes the con- trast still more vivid. It quotes as fol- lows the appeal from the Christian Her- ald, which is raising funds for rellevlng‘ the famine: “Every time the clock strikes the hour it tolls the death-knell of at least 500 vic- tims in India, who have died for the want of a crust. The quickly, and your contribution to-day may #ave scores, hundreds, ves, thou- sands, of lives to-morrow. “How many lives will you save? rt one life. “Two cents a day will sup: ife for two ““One dollar will save a months. dollars will save a life until the “Two harvest. | “Five dollars will save a man, wife and | child until the next crop is gathered. | “Fifty dollars would save five famllies. “One hundred dollars would save a small community.” Then the North American observes: | _“Put the table into another shape and | we may say: “Two rifle cartridges a day will support ife. | ‘“One six-pounder shell will save a Il | for two months. | “One tweive-pounder shell | life_until the harvest. {_"One pair cavalry boots will save a | man, wife and chiid until the next crop | Is_gathered. | "+One minute's discharge of a Maxim { will save a | “The cost of the war for one second | will save ten lives for four months. | “Two rifles will save them and afford | them the comfort of blankets during the | rainy and cold season. | “““The cost of firing one shot from a six- | tneh gun would save five familles. “One scrub baggage-train horse would | save a small community. According to Professor Washburn Hor kins of Yale University, who in 1897 made a study of the famine fhen prevalling in India, the need in India is not for addi cable operates | tional provisions, but additional money. | 300 per cent interest, and thi: “There is no lack of grain he writes, | ““there is no secarcity of supply.” He con- “Why, then, are the peasants tinues: | starving? For the plainest reasan, because —Des Moines News. have no money to buy this gratn. It 1d by merchants, who have snough the multitude, but will not give it | away; nor may the Governmen: comj | them 'to do so or connive at looting it. If | any charitable folk will help the natives of India, and great indeed is their need, | let_them' cable money, not send corn.” | But the professor denies that this lack of money is due to the establishment ¢ a gold standard or to excessive taxation, or to the British misgovernment of any kind. He writes: :’h'ge J{ | “Drought is the cause. Whenever the | monsoon rains fail and the winter showers also fall, there will always be a famine as long as the Hindu ryot remains what he is by nature and through inherited inabil- i ity to escape the money lender. The peas- | ant works hard, but he is always In debt. Not only can he not save, but he will not. | When times are prosperous he lives as easily as he can; when bad times coms he | Professor Hopkins scouts the idea that there were no famines in India before the | advent of British rule. Famines lasting | for years prevailed under Hindu and Ma- hammedan rule. Now the measures, both of prevention and relief, are vastly greater than they were then, and the burdens of taxation very much lighter. The professor | repeats that the improvidence of the peas- ant class is the chief cause of the trouble. For a wedding or a funeral the ryot will cheerfully double the mortgage on his es- tate, paying to the native usurer 130 to too, “not on | the sum loaned, but on this sum with a | cipher added. which the usurer knows | how to tack on and the peasant is too ig- | norant to discover.” BURNS AND THE SP. R R IN POLITICS IN MARIN Sausalito News. We were very much surprised to learn at San Rafael on Saturday last at the meeting of the county convention that certaln friends or pretended friends of Colonel Burns and the Southern Paclfic Company had engineered the primaries with a view of defeating General Dickinson as a delegate to the convention to meet at Sacramento. against him, and this by the “‘old (Ilm not vote for Colonel Burns for ¥ As for terested In promoting our best interests Burns’ election—they should have had Mr. Burns. olonel Burns and the rallroad company is genuine—tnat they are onl: Seelng that he was not and never had been a candidate the fight against him was of the order which attacks windmills. frem Mill Valley, Bolinas, Tiburon and Belvedere were arranged ard,” and this again because the general nited States Senator. We are not particular- interested in the general and he can cally as well as otherwise, but there should be gates present may be pleased to learn the true reason o he was not a candidate the situation was a trifle Judicrous, and it loses noth- ing of its humor that Assemblyman Atherton also and yet his relations with the “‘old guard’” The delegates for to vote take care of himself. politi- air play and some of the dele- the opposition to him. probabl failed to vote for Colonel Burns suggest that if their friendship n- favored Colonel Atherton cast his vote for Colonel would and that the county The action of Senator Dickinson and Assemblyman Atherton in refusing to vote for Colonel Burns has always been it is strange that it should now be used against either by an: appear that the action at the last primaries as set forth in t and is fully indorsed by this county, and %2585 and it would s article was taken by a few with the hope of securing the appointment of one or more of their num- ber to some position in the near future; but we venture to say that they will not succeed. We are loth to believe that either Colonel Burns or the railroad company had anything to do with this matter, but would rather think it to be the overzealous action of volunteers seeking to curry favor. Events will soon show, however, the true inwardness of the situation, but at the present writing it i{s certain that a premeditated and persistent effort was made to prevent General Dickinson' election as a delegate to the State gonvention, and all because he did not vof for Colonel Burns for United States Senator. ‘We shall awalt future developments with great interest in view of the present situation. ARMY INTELLIGENCE. Lieutenant Colonel H. L. Scott, assist- ant adjutant general, U. §. V., has been announced as assistant adjutant general of the Division of Cuba. He wili take charge of the Civil Department of the City of Havana in all matters requiring the action of the division commander, and will also have charge of the estimates for island funds throughout the different provinces of the island. Leaves of absence have been granted to Captain H. L. Jackson and Lieutenant G. L. Townsend of the First Infantry, stationed at Cuba, with permission to visit the United States. Second Lieutenant Thomas A. Roberts, Tenth Cavalry, has been transferred from Troop G to Troop H of that regiment, and Sccond Lieutenant Ferdinand F. Fonda, Tenth Cavalry, has been assigned to the vacancy in Troop G. Captain Fielder M. M. Beall, Third In- fantry, on leave of absence at Fort Zam Houston, has been ordered to report for temporary duty to the commandant of iy Alfred C. S inspect r Alfr . arpe, inspector gen- erla;ll'.u& 8. V., has been assigned to duty as inspector general of the department of Porto Rico. Captain Daniel Robinson. retired, has, upon his own request, been detailed as professor of military sclence and tactics at Simpson College, Indian- ola, lowa. Leave of absence for four months has been grant to Major Theodore F. Forbes, Fifth Infantry. Captain Charles D. Clay, Company M, Seventeenth Infantry, has been transfer- red to Company E of the same regiment. Captain James H. Frier, Seventeenth In- fantry, has been assigned to the vacancy thus made in Company M. First Lieutenant Ira L. Reeves, Fourth Infantry, now on sick leave, has been ordered to report at Fort Sheridan, Ill., for the purpose of conducting a detach- ment of the Fifth Infantry from that post to Santiago, Cuba. He will return at once to New York upon the completion f his duty. oF‘rst LlZutenlnt Harry R. Campbell, First Infantry, has been transferred to Company C of the Fourth Infantry, First Tieutenant Thomas J. Fealy, of Company C of the Fourth, taking Campbeil’s place n_Company L of the 3 ! ijorg Frny ncls W. Mansfleld, Eleventh Infantry, has been nted a leave of ab- sence for four months, to take effect upon his rellef from duty as Collector of Cus- toms, Ponce Rico. k's leave of absence has been Ratol Eward G McDowell, fl:gd t:;lflr Gr ST John L. Barbour, retired. has been relieved from duty at the Clinton Liberal Institute, Fort Plain, N. Y., and pebey Sl = o i i Maretta College, Marletta, O. NEWS OF NAVIES. The three new cruisers for the Russian navy, Askold, Bogatvr and Novick, will be fitted with five slender and tall smoke pipes. These ships are practically en- larged Esmeraldas, Gray paint has been tried with success on the British battleship Revenge and tor- | pedo depot ship Vulcan, both in the Med- | { iterranean. They were practically invis- | ible at a distance of two miles. | The Italian battleship Regina Margheri- | ta, in course of construction at Spezia, is 113500 tons, will carry the extraordinary | heavy armament of four 12-inch, four $- | inch quick-firers, twelve 6-inch quick- | firers and eight 14-pounders. Vickers, Sons & Maxim at Barrow are bullding one battleship and three armored cruigers for the British navy. The hull contracts amount to $10,131,725 and for ma- | chinery $3,798,895, making a total of $13.- i 930,620, The Japanese battleship Mikasa is | also belng constructed at the Barrow | | yard, making a gross total of about $18,- 000,000 to be received and distributed by one private shipyard. The British ironclad Belleisle, rated in Brassel's Naval Annual of 1899 as fit for active service, has been condemned and is to be used as a target for the channel | squadron. The Belleisle was purchased in 1878 for $1,200,000 and has never been con- sidered an efficient vesscl. Her side ar- mor is twelve inches, not thick enough to offer any considerable resistance to a modern high-power rifle of §-inch caliber. The British Admiralty has at last made some slight concessions to the Engineer Corps of the navy. The engineer in chief will have the relative rank of rear ad- miral; chief inspectors of machinery have been increased from five to eight and in- spectors of machinery from eight to thir- teen. The grade of staff engineer has been abolished; chief engineers are to rank with lieutenanits of and above eight years senlority; there is also a slight Increase in pay, and the allowances to senior engi- neers on board ships have been raised from 25 cents a day to 62 cents. The agitation for the expansion of the German navy has brought to public at- tention the fact that the clamor for more ships s largely due to the Individual bene- fits which certain steel manufacturers would derive from the couple of hundred million dollars’ expenditures. German | swords, | pride and affected | the exposition will try and occasionally brought Krupp prices down, as for example when the latter made a tender for a number of fleld gun barrels at $1200 apiece and when a competitor of- fered to deliver the articles at $487 50 hrupp reduced his offer to $475. On an- other occasion his bid of $2 1213 for shells | was subsequently reduced to $1 % through | competition. Krupp is the owner of the only gun-proving grounds in Germany, for | which he charges the Government a fabu- lous rental. Imperial Germany appears to be worse off in the matter of monopolies than republican America, for even the Emperor himself holds considerable stock in a ship-buflding yard, which latter, of course, is largely employed on Gevern- ment contracts. b nne LR P 2 THE CALL'S HAPPY HIT. Stockton Independent. The San Francisco Call published a car- toon yesterday by Artist Warren that struck home. It was labeled, “Our ex- hibit at Paris Exposition.” Its chief feat- ure was the California Commission in re- galia and uniforrr and armed with obscuring with their gigantic tmportance the mini- ature display of squashes and other pro- ducts. In the foreground were a few pigmy observers inspecting the spurs, swords and - epaulets of the great Com- missioners. It was a happy hit. It is ta be hoped that all Stockton visiters to a view of California’s exhibit in all their salaried glory. New—peanut crisps at Townsend's. —_— Molasses crisp chocolates. Townsend's, * ———e———— Splendid ala¢uma at Townsend's. . ——————— Roman caromels at Townsend's. - e S - Butter logs at Townsend's. —_———— Extra fine cream caromels. Townsend's.® —_———————— Townsend's California glace fruits, 50c & jund; in fire-etched boxes or Jap bas- ets. Market street, Palace Hotel. * pu cie - st Spectal information supplied dafly ‘: business houses and public men Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), m'ho. gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ We do picture framing and take pride in framing artistically everything from the lmalll mlnl;;t:re photos I(o' trhél‘n.n-z oll paintings. ng your pictu and fet oa alk it over with you. Sanborm, Vail & Co., 741 Market st. . e e — In the town of Ensley, Ala., eighteen months ago there were people. Now there are 5000. They were brought there by the steel mill, the rod mill and other industries. S Finer and Faster Than Ever. Beginning May 13 the “OVERLAND LIM- ITED,” the Union Pacific’s splendid 9%-hour “fiyee” to Chicago, will leave San Francisco daily at 10 a. m. instead of §:30. The FAST MAIL will leave daily at 6 p. m. instead of §:30, with through Pullman and tourist slecpers for Chicago. Perfect dining car service on both trains. D, W. Hitchcock, General Agent, 1 Montgomery st., San Francisco. The Ttallan Government has decided to tablish a bacteriological laboratory for ::eanudy of bubonic plague in the island of Pianosa. ———————————— ADVERTISEMENTS. is thin blood. It causes pale faces, white lips, weak nerves and lack of vitality. A blood- enriching, fat producing food-medicine is needed. Scolls Emulsion. newspapers opposed to the naval scheme charge that Krupp at Essen and Freiherr at o MW“ take place "g’ Ln“ De. | Yon Sturm at Dillingen, who have practi- rtment, has n ordered to proceed | a monopoly of armor and gun manu- rom the New York Arsenal to Frank- | facturing in Germany—just like Carnegle fort Arsen: phia, for the pur-|and the Bethlehem Works in this country of ma certain tests of high ex- | —do not compete, but decide the work and losives. P &otonel James W, ' Scully, _assistant ‘mas| , b thor- q““tte; ‘make at least th-:'ee trlp:um New Orleans Scranton, on connected Charl |FEE e With the Quarter: Government contracts aggregating $69,- 750,000, and while this profit is, no doubt, goes to the root of the trouble, strengthens and en- riches the blood, and builds up the entire system. For Anemic girls, thin boys,and enfeebled mothers, it is the Standard remedy. scor? & SOVNE et e verke