The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 4, 1900, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1900. 4 . TSR -4 Y 1 : 3 | The ubase Call. | MONDAY........c.. Sl JUNE 4, 1900 Lnd o JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. #ddress All Communications to W. S, LEAKE, Manazer. s Third, S. F. PUBLICATION OFFICE. .Market a Telephone Maln 1868, ROOMS. ...217 to 221 Stevemson St. Telephone Main IST4. EDITORIAL by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cen Terms by Mail, Including Postage: Delivered Manager Fore gn Marquette Building, Chicago (Long Distance Telepho: “‘Central 2619.") YORK CORRESPONDENT: Heraid Square ENTATIVE: 30 Tribune Building CHICAGO Sherman House: P. H Au. STANDS: : Great Northern Hotel: EBrentano, 31 Union Square; £ ooeseeeeen Wellington Hote NE, Correspondent BRANC ¥ OFFIC dy streets—Specialties. eville every afternoon and @ “Mignon.” AUCTION SALES. | y Chase & Mendenh: onday, June 4, at 1732 Market —Monday, June 4, at 11 o'clock, Horses, at PRICES STILL SETTLING. RICES continue to settle all along the line and | he whole country, if sugar and sev- taples be excepted. The brunt of the e by manufactured products and their ch as iron, cotton, wool, hides, leather, In some lines there is still a n the feverish quotations of 1899, peless task, and most branches of trade he inevitable and are accepting the h the best grace possible. its and manufacturers who large stocks of high-priced goods the ‘ er beneficial than otherwise, for it in- | in conditions. It means a steady | ish trade. There are no signs at | ons for the general run of goods | profit point. Prices for many raw | considerably above the normal for a | can stand pruning. It is better , fluent market at fixed profits than a | with breakers ahead. We are simply to a more stable basis, and when it is the demand will again spring up, prices will | decline and regular conditions once more | The country is to be congratulated that the | ation has been attended with so littls ar the decline in staples has averaged to 20 per cent. The lines most affected were | d in the first paragraph. A favorable feature | tuation, however, is that the falling off in the s bank clearings is not as pronounced as it e decrease last week being less than 3 per | t over 18 per cent for the preceding week. failures still show an increase over 1899, The railroads cogtinue to report a | of business, in some cases even larger 9, which points to a good undertone in de, in spite of the decline in quotations. ar this y 1t n in 1 general tra Wheat 2nd its dependent grains have been weak of‘ late, with a slow but steady decline in the former. | The fruit trade of the State is opening well, and thus | far very satisfactory prices have been obtained for most kinds eculation is languid all over the country. Even street is more listless than usual during the sum- mer, and the recent events in South Africa, presum- | ably the we from t ent, ap vorable to a revival in financial business all over e failed to elicit any material response rt. The public are still shy and indiffer- the professionals have the field exclusively to ! The best demand is for sound, dividend- | bonds, and these have sold well for some | Indeed, this demand has been so con- t it is said that supplies of these securities | The | themselves pay tinuous tha are now smaller than for a number of years. investors of the country are evidently after steady ad of quick returns on stock markets. interest in The Examiner has again stolen the important news of the plague situation for which The Call is paying. wever, has reason for congratulation, is grateful that news of such vital im- as are the reports of Dr. George some added circulation even by ¢ purveyor of stolen goods. An investigator into matters of trade has discovered that the mullions of buttons, flags and patriotic pic- tures offered for sale and displayed in London dur- ing the celebrations over the relief of Ladysmith and Mafcking were made in the United States, and now the British manufacturers are almost sorry there was any occasion for rejoicing. The public, d The Call portance to the city F. Shrady is the local journ: ven alis: The efforts of the “Boxers” in China to exclude foreigners have thus far had no other effect than that of affording Russia an excuse for putting 20,000 troops in readiness to invade the kingdom, and if the Boxers keep on for a year the foreigners will own the country. It is reported that a club of fifty young Englishmen are coming to the United States this summer to pick out a place to found a bachelor colony, but the chances are there is deception in the game and that the whole crowd is on the lookout for American wives. ' THE YUBA RIVER THE DECAY OF CHINA. T is little fess than amusing to see the reasons re- cently given for a belief that China is in decline In the first place, it is said that the | Celestial empire is falling into pieces because the Chi- | nese object to the presence of Americans and other foreigners among them. Long columns of high wis- dom on this text are being written and published in | the United States and Germany. To object to for- cigners of a different race, coming among them to save their souls or do anything more or less material, is regarded as a reason for the immediate partition of | China, or the occupancy of her territory by allies, who are allies only because they cannot trust each other. But while in this country and in Germany the writers write of this sign of decay in China, we are casting | zbout for more rigid means to make good and enforce our own objection t@ the presence here of foreigners from China. If that be a sign of dgcay we have been decaying for the last twenty years. We have not only mildly forced China into treaties to exclude her people from this country but we have passed all sorts of laws, local and Federal, to the same end. when we have not been inventing and setting up legal traps and tricks to keep out these objectionable for- cigners, we have been killing them in California, Colorado and Wyoming, and in that way, by mob vio- lence, we have killed twenty Chinese foreigners to one white foreigner killed by mobs in China. It is laughable that, with all this so recent in our history, and much of it current, contemporary and every-day matter, we should be vttering wisdom on the decay of China as proved by the objection of that unenlight- ened people to the presence of foreigners! The next reason given for the decay of China is the reported persecution of native C sake. It is even said that our Go tested against this because the v We beg to respectfull 5 not a protector of th | its forms. at all. nese for religion’s ernment has pro- ims are Christians. submit that our Governme e Chyistian religion in any of Indeed, ours is not a Christian government It is a secular government and not the pro- tector of any form of religion, Christian or otherwise. | We are seldom without some cution at home. rm of religious perse- Not long ago a Jew Mayor of Savan- nah had to stand between Catholics and A. P, A. Protestants to keep them from slitting each other’s throat. Within a year Mormon missionaries have been hunted out of several American States, glad to escape the vengeance of their pursuers and in some | cases clad in neat-fitting but uncomfortable suits of tar and feathers. Ii China is occasionally spitting a native Christian on a bamboo skewer, why is that any more a sign of her decay than our Mormori chasing is a sign of our | decay? A Christian is just as offensive to China as a Mormon is to our orthodox Christian taste. Professional hypocrisy is doing a large business in the world at this time. One of its manifestations i3 this outbreak of holy horror about the internal condi- tion of China. In this country we exclude Chinese and mob Mormons, and in Germany the weather has not washed out the tracks of the Poles, expelled and marched out by Bismarck as objectionable foreigners, and yet we are astounded and pained to learn that poor, old, broken China objects to foreigners and in her decay indulges in religious persecution as a pas- time! The Western world has made other mistakes about China and Japan. The late Marquis Tseng, in com- menting on the opposition everywhere to Chinese as objectionable foreigners, sa “China - voluntarily isolated herself and desired to remain isolated. She did not force herself upon the West. But the Western rations used force to open China to the world, with- out seeming to reflect that they also opened the world to China.” A little more of the “Jook before you leap” states- manship would be a good thing. The United States sent Commodore Perry to open Japan to the world, and he did it. Japan is just now returning the favor by considering that Ccmmodore Perry’s can-opener worked both ways, and opened the United States to Japan. We did not think of that forty years ago, when we ordered Japan to open her door or we would shoot a hole through it. But we are reminded of it | now, when we find it necessary to close our own door to Japan. We were under the glamor of the great trade we hoped to get from Japan, but it is now shown tc be probable that the invasion of this country by Japanese in large numbers will take from us in five years more than all the profit on our Japanese trade from the beginning. But not many here and in Europe seem to be im- pressed by the fact that China is actuated against for- cigners by exactly the same motives that impel the Western nations to exclude Chinese and will soon make them exclude Japanese also. It is self-preserva- tion, and a natural feeling that the different races would better stay in the place where nature planted them. But when we act upon that principle it is statesmanship; when China does the same it is a sign of decay! e e ——— Political experts estimate that the only danger to the Republican party this year is that the Democrats may carry the House, and therefore no chances should be taken in the Congressional districts. The warning should be heeded in California, and every effort made to send a solid prosperity delegation to support the administration. The report that London is to have a drama repre- senting the siege of Mafeking is another illustration of the tendency of the stage to keep up with the press. Everything that is new, from a novel to a war, has to be played up to keep the public interested. IMPROVEMENTS. N the report of the California Debris Commission lon the subject of impounding mining debris in the Yuba River, it is stated: “Especial attention is invited to the fact that the ob- ject sought to be accomplished is the storage of the debris now in the Yuba and its tributaries with a view to the improvement of the rivers below and decidedly not with a view of permitting unlicensed or indiscrim- inate hydraulic mining at localities above the im- pounding works. When the works have been com- pleted and in operation several years there will be time and opportunity to determine whether or not the sys- tem is capable of sufficient expansion to warrant an attempt at storing therein the tailings from the hy- draulic mines without compelling each mine to im- pound any or all of its debris. The commission believes the project practicable and worthy of adop- tion, and so recommends. It is the only one thus far evolved which gives reasonable hope of success and at a very moderate cost for storage.” Commenting upon the report Attorney General Ford is quoted as saying: ; “It will be several years before it will be definitely known how much of a success the works on the Yuba River will be. The first effect will be to determine whether they are capable of storing the debris now in the Yuba and its tributaries. If they are not a suc- In vacation time, | cess, then of course hydraulicking will not be resumed there and will not be resumed at all until the success or failure of the experiment which promises so well has been demonstrated. The first benefits come to the farmers. The California Miners’ Association has ex- pended $1000 to assist in this matter. That is an indi- cation of our faith in the success of the plan. If fail- ure is the result about $1,000,000 of the people’s money will have been lost, but we do not believe z_hzt there Il be a failure. The capacity of the expansion o.( th'e proposed settling basin to hold the lighter material is practically unlimited.” It will be seen that the plan provides fir'st for the improvement of the rivers and the protec}xon of t'he | farmers of the river counties, and not until ‘those in- ltercsts have been assured can it be determined how | far hydraulic mining may be carried on above the | impounding dams. Tt is therefore gratifymg to_ learn ;xhc California Miners' Association has faith in tha plan. It is to be hoped the faith will be justified by the results obtained. “Unlicensed or indiscriminate | hydraulic mining” is of course not to be expected, | nor is it desirable, but we may reasonably expect the works to prove sufficiently efficacious to admit of con- siderable mining not permitted at present. P | | | | { ;THE FENCE ADVERTISING NUISANCE. | o ke | HEN the Supervisors to-day resume consider- w ation of the ordinance fixing the limit of height to be permitted to fences used for advertising purposes they will doubtless bear clearly in mind the protests and the arguments which have been repeat- | edly urged before the board and before the commit- | tee having the matter in charge against permitting ; such fences to exceed ten feet in height. That being so it is reasonable to assume action will be no longer ‘puslponed, but that the issue will be settled as the | majority of the people desire and as public interests : demand. | It is known that fence advertising has been carried States, and that in all thickly settled localities it has been found necessary to impose restrictions upon it. In large cities, such as San Francisco, the nuisance works an injury to the owners of property adjoining the lots on which the high fences are erected, and constitutes a menace to the bodies and to the lives of those who in the transaction of their daily business | have to pass beneath them. It is therefore as a pro- | the public demands a restriction limiting advertising fences to a height not exceeding ten feet in any part of the city; and it may be added they should not be permitted at all upon crowded thoroughfares. | The advertising fence is one of the worst offenses against the growing artistic taste and public spirit of the American people. It is a survival of the | time when communities were indifferent to what sort of appearance their thoroughfares presented. Since i the introduction of a finer order of street architecture and the use of plate-glass windows permitting a dis- play along the streets of the most beautiful fabrics and the costliest articles of luxury, there has arisen a sense of revolt against a further toleration of those glaring, flaring, coarse and gaudy posters which when pasted upon walls and fences along the streets go far to mar all the fine effect of the architecture and the window decoration. Such unsightly and often dirty objects should not be permitted upon our prin- cipal streets under any circumstances, and when the danger they impose upon the public are taken into consideration, it becontes equally clear that even upon the less crowded streets they should not be per- mitted to exceed a limit that reason sustains. Ten more should be granted. CROKER AGAINST HILL. HEN the Demccratic State Committee of New W York met about a month ago to arrange for the State convention of the party, Croker of Tam- many was in England and David Bennett Hill went down to the meeting and captured the machine. Such at least was the report that came from New York at the time. Hill outlined a programme for the Democ- racy of New York to pursue in the National Conven- tion, and the State Committec indorsed it. Tammany sage of Wilfert's Roost, and when the committee ad- journed every paper in New York city declared, “Hill is in the saddle.” Since that time Hill has been busy fixing his wires to the machine, so that when the State convention met he would have only to touch a button to have the machine do the rest. Up to within something like a week ago everything was seemingly in his hands. Then from Croker there went a message which ordered the Tammany braves to prepare to fight. Hill's programme included an indorsement of Bryan, but not the election to the National Convention of a delegation instructed to support him. Furthermore the delegation was not to be committed to free silver, but it was to go to the convention with freedom to make such terms with the Bryanites as would enable the New Yorkers to frame the platform in considera- tion of voting for the Bryanite candidate. Croker’s programme as outlined by John F. Carrol, temporary leader of Temmany, is quite different. Carrol is quoted as having said recently: “As far as I have been able to consult with the rep- resentative men of the organization they entirely ac- cord with my view of both the propriety and expe- diency of sending to the National Convention a dele- gation instructed for William J. Bryan as the Presi- dential candidate. It is safe to say that every delegate from the organization will favor this programme, and whatever influence I may possess will be exerted to impress the desirability of its adoption upon the dele- gates from the other localities in the State.” The convention is to meet to-morrow, and the ex- pectation of a good fight is thrilling the blood of the braves. Hill has some advantage from the fact that never in the history of the ‘State has'a New York delegation to a Democratic National Convention been instructed for a particular candidate except when the State had a candidate of its own for President. If Hill can induce the convention to maintain the precedents of the party the victory is his. Croker has to take the aggressive and carry the convention into the adoption of a policy hitherto untried. The impression prevails in some quartérs that Cro- ker will have an easy triumph. It is recalled that in 1898 Hill had the State Committee with him as he has now, but that when the convention met Tammany nominated Van Wyck without trouble and Hill had to retire to Wolfert’s Roost to sulk after acquiescing in Croker’s plans. Tt is believed the new contest will be a repetition of the former one; that Hill will do all he can until the convention meets and then will break down and lack the courage to make a fight on the floor. There are other folks, however, who hold to the doctrine that things rarely happen twice in the same way. They maintain that this time David Ben- nett has made ready for a contest to the bitter end, and that he will go back to Wolfert's Roost with Croker’s scalp hanging to his bel* | to the extent of a public nuisance all over the United | tection to property and as a protection to person that | injury they inflict upon adjoining property and the | feet in height affords ample space for such fences. N» | was apparently incapable of making head against the | REPEATED and apparently irrepres- the society of “Boxers' have at last the open-door. question, although In an ability to protect foreigners than they auairs into their own hands. Once that “Chinese question.” = of two continents, is said to have a mem- time. province of Shantung, which lies almost the exact size of the State of II- of the Emperor. These figures indicats ... certain that it was not originated for the Chinese. The society was first called the robbers. But this admirable motive was ery has been turned against all alterable prejudices, beliefs and customs | S et fatives on the other. 996600000¢C sible atrocities perpetrated upon Christian missfonaries in China by taken on a political aspect, and will prob- ably lead up to a precipitate settlement of indirect manner. Unless the authorities at Peking display more willingness or have shown thus far the governments of clvilized nations will be comnelled to take this step is made there will probably be {an_end of both ‘“Boxers” and of the The Thug Soclety, whose unspeakable deeds have horrified the Christian people bership running up iato the millions. The scene of its present outrages Is the mari- sou h tung has an area of 55,000 square miles | linois. Packed within this space is a pop- ulation of not less than 35,000,000 subjects against what odds our Christian mission- aries have to contend. When and where the Society of Boxers was organized is not known. But we are urpose of slaughtering ‘‘foreign devils,” e e bestowed on Europeans by the ““Brotherhood of the Strong Sword,” and |its object was the extirpation of native corrupted by wicked men within the organization, and of recent years its ma- hing furopeans, and especially against mis. #lonaries. of the Chinese on one hand, and to the Getiberate les and slanders of the edu- .» und, the Chinese is a . Take him all aro th %I‘the‘Chh\eso capital city.. ‘Shan- | This fact is due to certain un- | e quiet, peace-loving fellow who abhors a fight. He is not warmly wedded to his religion, as is_the Hindoo. He would as soon profess Christianity as Buddhism or Confucianism. He has no quarrel with the Christian missionary because of that functionary’s doctrines or because of hi desire to let the light of the gospel shin in China. The enmity of the yeilow man for the missionary lies in the alp n- #ane regard in which the Chinese hold thelr dead ancestors. The Chinese will listen unmoved to any denunciation of his religion; but a word in derogation of his | beloved dead rouses within him a fiend that stops at nothing. .o funerary practice which has been held in | more reverent esteem than the pi | When a man dies his son dedicates to memory a tablet of wood unon which are inscribed the words “Spirit Lord” and “Spirit Throne.” After burial this tal and evening, for the mourning pe three years, sets before it offerings t soul of the dead man. This custom is not religlous any more than is the Christian | custom of strewing flowers on the graves of the departed. It is only the peculiar fashion in which the Chinese honor the | memory of thelr ancestors. And. strange as it may seem, this custom has stood between Christianity and the millions of China for two centuries. When the early Catholic missionaries went to the Celestial kingdom they found its peaple apparently worshiping a slab of wood. Ready to listen to all suggestions the missionaries in other matters. e Chinese drow the lne at,giving up | this particular act of homage to their dead. The soldiers of the cross were puz- zled.” Unceriain as to whether or not the tablet worship was idolatry, they ap- pealed to Rome and_the judgment of the Pope was adverse. To be a Christian the Chinece must give up the memor let. When, later, the other churches sent | BRITISH WARS AND THEIR COST Interesting Figures 'I:aken From Recent Official Reports the end of March is some $320,000,000, the cheapest in money in her history, field and the distance to which they had to be transported. In the American war of independence Great Britain expended $605,000,000. The wars with France, beginning in 1793 and lasting with but littie until ended by Waterloo, cost her $1,155.- {000,000, The whole cost of the Napoleonic | wars to France was $230,000,000. In the | Crimean war Great Britain put 97,000 men in the field and the cost to her was $345,- 000,000, not much more than the present war up to date. France sent 310000 to the Crimean war at a cost of $495,000,000. Great Britain lost 27,00 mén from battle and disease from 95,000 and Russia nearly half of the £80,000 which she mustered on the shores of the Black Sea. The American Civil war cost the Federal Government $3,700,- 000,000 in money and 350,000 men, while the 300,000 more. According to a report recently issued by the Bureau of Ordnance at Washington the cost of the ammunition used in de- stroying the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay | was $45,000, while the destruction of Cer- vera’'s fleet off Santiago cost $100,000. counted one of the most glorious and peaceful in English history, it is a matter three years since she ascended the throne there has never been a time when her war | sion to the throne, as the present Boer | war is probably of the close of her reign, | while twenty-eight other distinct wars, ranging over every quarter of the globe, including the Crimean war, have filled up the interval. ‘With conflicts impending in China and on the Afghan border Great Britain has never been so weil prepared before to meet the situation. Her total force in | South Africa now numbers more than 1220000 seasoned troops, three times as | many as she ever before put in a foreign field at any time. ARMY INTELLIGENCE. AJOR HENRY C. WARD of the Sixteenth Infantry and Major m Leven C, Allen of the Twelfth In- fantry have exchanged places. Captain Isaac N. Lewis, Sixth Artillery, has been ordered to proceed to Fort Schuyler, New York, to superintend and adjust range and position finders at that post. The leave of absence granted Colonel Simon Snyder, Nineteenth Infantry, has been extended one month; that of Second Lieutenant Edgar A. Myer, Eleventh, one month, and that of Captain Alvarado M. Fuller, Ninth Infantry. one month. Leave of absence for two months has been granted Captain Edmund Witten- myer, Fifteenth Infantry. The order directing Major John T. French, quartermaster, United States Vol- unteers, to proceed to Portland, Me., has been revoked. The leave of absence granted Captain Charles P. George, Sixteenth Infantry, has been extended four months, By direction of the President the pro- vinces of Morong and Infanta and all that portion of the province of Manila north of the Pasig River, all in Luzon and now a part of the Department of Southern Lu- zon, have been transferred to the Depart. ment of Northern Luzon. Second Lieutenant James W. Furlow, Eleventh Infantry, stationed in Porto Rico, has been granted a leave of absence for one month, with permission to visit the United States and apply for another month. Leave of absence for fifteen days, with permission to visit the United States, has been granted Second, Lieutenant H. L. ‘Wigmore, Fifth Cavalfy, stationed at Por- to Rico. + L.eave of absence for one month, with permission to visit the United States, has been granted Major A. C. Sharpe, Inspect- or general, United States Volunteers, and acting judge advocate of the Department of Porto Rico. Captain William V. Judson, Corps of En- gineers, engineer officer of the Department of Porto Rico, has been ordered to pro- ceed to Pgnce, P. R., and then to Adjun- tas, Utuado and Arocioo to inspect Gov- ernment road work that is under way at those places. First Lieutenant John S. Battle, Elev- enth Infantry, aid-de-camp on the staff of Brigadier® General Davis, has been ap- pointed census enumerator for the Depart- ment of Porto Rico. First Lieutenant Seaborn G. Chiles, Eleventh Infantry, has been ordered to re- port for duty at San Juan, P. R., completed former duty assigned hi R tmaster, United Btates Volamroant has been ordered <o proceed = 1 to Cardenas on_busin the purchase of supplies and materials to be used in the repairs to tha{fll and the San Fernando eivil hospital at Colon. First Lieu H. C. umm. d Artillery, will sved from 'duty as HE direct cost to Great Britain of | the present war with the Boers up to | consldering the number of men put in the | intermission | loss in iife to the Confederates was some | . While Queen Victoria's long reign is ac- | of fact that throughout the whole sixty- | dogs have all been in the leash. The first | Afghan war was the event of her acces- | @oieb e e et eio { FASHION HINT FROM PARS. rres e e o e e @. | | sre et eDebed Do & e e | | however, for the failure of the American o © - ? | . Beoed et e i eoesese®| CLOTH AND TAFFETAS DRESS. The jacket and lower part of the skirt of the dress represented are in nasturtium colored cloth, the rest in white ground | taffetas, with nasturtium colored pattern. | The fichu collar is draped and stitched. | and the jacket is a rounded habit. The | front is of string colored lace, frilled. st b it il NEWS OF NAVIES. | | The Germania shipyard at Kiel is one of the branches of the Krupp establishment and employed 2726 men at last account. It has only been in existence about four years. The target range at Meppen owned by Krupp is 72,00 feet in length—nearly four- teen miles. All the guns made at his works for the German army and navy, as well as those for foreign governments, are tested there for endurance and ac- curacy. Germany has adopted the Russian mast for its battleships. It carries its fighting tops quite low, thus escaping the smoke from the funnels, insures greater ac- curacy of firing, as the rolling is greatly diminished and the vessel js less subject to strain. A floating dock for Hamilton, Bermuda, is being built at Newcastie-on-Tyne for the British navy. It has been designed by Clark & Shanfield, who also drew the plans for the United States floating dock at Algiers, La. The Bermuda dock will be 54 feet in length, 100 feet wide, and carry 33 feet of water over the blocks. The contract price is $925,000 and guaran- tees completion within one year, so that the dock may be towed out to Hamilton in August, 1901 Good progress is being made at the new naval port Belgrano, Bahia Blanca, in the Argentine Republic. The harbor will | accommodate twenty ships of the Gari- | baldi type (7000-ton vessels) besides a fleet of torpedo boats and other small craft. Around this harbor a trict of land cov- ering 2223 acres is reserved for govern- | ment use for drydock, shops, official resi- | dences and parade grounds. The work is being done by contract by an English company which has already bullt a mole 659 feet in length forming one side of the basin channel, which will have a depth of water of 21 feet at low tide and 30 feet at mean tide. The Brazillan torpedo cruiser Tamoyo, built at the Germania yard, Kiel, has passed through her trials with fair re- sults. Under four hours’ forced draught the engines developed T500 horsepower, giving a speed of 227 knots, and under eight hours’ natural draught, the horse- power averaged 5000 with a speed of 20.5 knots. The Tamoyo is 269 feet in length, feet 10 inches beam, and displaces 1089 tons on a mean draught of 9 feet 10 inches. Her battery consists of two 3.9-inch, six 6-pounders and two 1%-pounders. She has also three under-water torpedo tubes. The coal capacity is 260 tons, sufficient for 6000 knots at a 10-knot speed. The waste of time and money through the red-tape system which exists more or less in all naval administrations is illus- | trated by the fact that the Japanese bat- tleship Shikishima was built and com- pleted at the Thames Iron Works, Lon- don, in less than thirty months. The same firm is now building the battleship Albion for the British navy, but her com- pletion is not looked for until December next. The keel was lald December 3, 155, and her period of construction will there- g‘r’gmflht months. With the con rs placed orders for armor, mm and guns and there was no hitch in the work nor delay sub-contractors. A similar sys- FH For ages the Chinese have followesi a | 4 ORGANIZED MURDER IN CHINR » § out their missionaries the Roman prece- dent was followed by them; and has been | followed until to-day. That is one reason why China has been backward in chang- [ ing the joss-house for the church. H . * . | Al this, however, would not account for the murderous attacks on the missiona- ries which have made the very name of | China an abomination. The masses of the people in that country are steeped in ig- norance. They are easily influenced by their Intelligent and educated countrymen. The latter have been at very great pains till into the minds of the vulgar an ise batred for the white preachers of S fluence the passions ¢ telllng them that the Chinese children for « n asylums they say, rder are used as of the little on ain certain paris very v As the belief that some itch doetor. s of the body are very potent im al operations is a popular supersti- tion how readily the cultured among thera can impose on thelr simpler fellows by using with the Ciy ese. it is easy to see so powerful a lever s this. . . In the society of the Boxers the educat- ed Chinese found an efficient instrument with which to vent their hate for the in- s missionaries. Boxers is the new or the Soclety of the Great or ng Sword (in Chinese Ta Too Why). Its members kill and loot foreigners and natives without discrimination on the slightest provocation, and oftentimes on no provecation at all. Occasionally a Boxer is executed by the order of the pro- vincial Governor, but these punishments are only half-heArted affairs, which, in view of the proverbiai disdain of death common among Chinese, have little effect. mething more than diplomatie protests Il probably be necessary before Euro- n and American m aries will be safe in Chi icago Times ¥|5ESEiRTE7RS TO THE FILIPINOS Lieutenant Beale Explains Why Renegades Are Not Captured. i ANY shameful stories have coma from the Philippines of soldiers who have deserted the American q colors to accept commissions in the Filipino zrmy, but there is no record of the capture and formal execu- tion of any of these traitors. Pos- sibly the average person thinks that th's condition of affairs is due to lack of dili- gence on the part of the American troops, or that they are soft-hearted over the de- livery to the authorities of their former comrades. Lieutenant C. A. Beale. recent- Iy arrived here, who had command of the couts in General Lawton’s flying bri- gade that swept the Island of Luzon last December, finds a much better reason, | troops to capture these renegades. He In- timates that when traitors are caught | they are summarily executed by thelr | captors. | .“When we were on that trip,” he said, | “we frequently heard stories ot former | Amer soldlers who were leaders in the insurgent army, and quite as often the names of the traitors were mentioned. The temptations to desert were always great, for the insurgents were willing to mako majors and colonels of our private sol- diers and gave them plenty of money and authority. The insurgents who came into our lines boasted of this, and it made our boys so mad that it was difficult to keep them in camp, so anxious were they ta hunt down the traitors, “One night we were so close to the enemy’s trenches that we could hear their conversation. The commanding officer was an American, and we could hear his orders, given in English in a loud tone of voice. More than that, the boys were certain they could recognize the voice as that of 2 man who had disappeared from camp some time before and was supposed to have been captured. Of course, they were wild. A scattering fire being kept up all along the line. When the voice of tha American was distinguished in the insur- gent trenches the firing on our side began in volleys, and they were directed at whatever place the voice was heard. Every man In the line was trying to hit that traitor. I think he became aware | that he was a target, for sometimes, after a volley, he would laugh lone and loudly. Toward morning we heard no more of him, and I do not know whether he was hit or simply retired for the night. It was with difficulty that I kept the boys from storming the insurgent trenches. “Although I have never witnessed suchi a sight, I have frequently heard that when an American was cornered In the insurgent trenches he was shown no quarter. I never heard of that kind of & prisoner. It is my bellef that the boys always considered that when a tiaitor was caught red-handed it was their duty to punish him without waiting for the formality of a court-martial. PERSONAL MENTION. G. D. Plato, a merchant of Modesto, i3 at the Lick. Rev. James O'Reilly of Blissville, N. Y., at the Lick. D. R. Cameron, a commission man of Hanford, is at the Lick, L. S. Alexander, a merchant of Watson« ville, is at the Occidental. F. C. Hammond, a business man of Ju« neau, Alaska, is at the Occidental with his wife. Mark R. Plaisted, editor and proprietor of the Fresno Evening Democrat, is at the California. ‘W. Oothout, a wealthy resident of Santa Barbara, and Mrs. Oothout are guests at the Palace. J. 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