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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1900, JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Froprietor. o B ‘dd-ess All Communica ions to W. S. LEAKE, Mara-er MANAGER'S OFFICE. . ...Telephone Press 204 LICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, Telephone Press 201. XOOMS. 217 to 221 Stevensom St. Telephone Press 202. EDITORIAL Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. stngle Coples, 5 Cemem. Mail, Inclnding Postaxe: Y ding 8.0 Y CALL «ncluding Sunday). § mont! 2.00 ¥ CALL dneimding Sunéay), $ mont 1.50 Y CALL—By Single Month. ‘csi: JAY CALI, One Year.... ¥ 100 CALL One Yeer.. postmasters are = mubseriptions. Sample ccples will be forwarded when requested. subscribers in ordering change of address should be e poth NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order pt and correct compliance with their requést. Man) ...1118 Broadway GEORGE KROZGNESS, c Uznager Foreign Advertiing, Marguette Building. Chicago. (lomz Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.°) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C C. CARLTON.., Heraid Squere EW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: 30 Tribune Building CHICAGO XEWS STANDS: © House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northers Hotel: Hcuse; Auditortum Hotel. YORK NEWS STANDS: A. Brentano, 31 Union Square: EW ria Hotei; ...Wallington Hote. espondent. MORTON E. CRANE, Montgomery, fcrnes - 200 Hayes, open unt!l 930 o'clock. 611 . open until 8:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin. open unt!l Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, pen untll § o'clock. 1086 Valencla, open 106 Eieventh, open until § o'clock. N'W cor- nd and Kentucky, open until 9 o clock. r Sixteenth, AMUSEMENTS. The Great Ruby." ey Island E streets—Syp Vaudeville every Leaves' 15 of many pped, so as de- ils are acteristics whi The prese oted, and the ef h fir aily Mr. H. | survey of 400 square California, taking in nearly ound Fresno. Mr. Whitn Thomas e work here. this survey of our soils depends 1s to perfect ress to do this, and our peo- 1d publish ! of their duty in urging the re- SOME CERMAN STATISTIC:. as we have been in the past in the work of and publishing the results of c can no points. ken in 1890 was not fully revealed to creafter, but the salient facts and commerce we did manage tc In Germany, however, they trade LOW the Germans give us or iwo. begun the publication of cted in the census 1805 gures, some of them are of in- general public as well as to special stu- - statistics or of German industry, and mong the more interesting are those which show e extent to which the consolidation of industries many during the period covered A summary of the returns in that re- nce 1882, the date of the last census, persons engaged in gainiul occupa- 39.9 per cent, while the number of increased only 4.6 per cent. Estab- hments are divided into three groups. according ber of employes—the small ones with five s persons, the medium establishments with be- 1 on in Ge ced the n t and the large ones with more than <11 establishments increased bu: ber and 10 per cent in the size of eir personnel. the medimm ones increased 69.7 per 6.3 par cent respectively, and the large mes 9o per cent in number and 837 per cent in size nf st 18 per cent in n is stated that the results shown have been due of economic law, and organization of trusts. the ta operat Gerntany has ot »f competing with Great Britain tes for foreign commerce, and in Terself to nd the United § doing so has been compelled to adopt the most eco- nomic methods of manufacturing. The small and 1 pped factory canmot compete with the big fac- abandoned for the larger one. A effects which we attribute in th to the aggressiveness of trusts are undonhi- ue to the same causes which have been so poten Germany. d therefore those who denounce .11 31 combinations as trusts are as fool- as they are blatant. We chall learn by the census now being taken how far industrial consolidation een carried in the United States during the past dec- ade The showing will doubtless prove an extensive tion. but it is safe to say it will not equal reported from Germany T A VO W~ surgeon in +he Receiving Hospital whn liagnosed a case of fractured skull the other day as 2icoholism certainly pessesses qualities of mind and Aucation which must recommend him highly to his iperiors on the bubonic Board of Health sorts of industri The Superintendent of the Mint Leach is convinced thar steps of the Mint were not constructed for politi- cal purposes. The superintendent probably recalls the fact that there is a saloon across the street. HIPPODROMING. UR partisan processes have gone far beyond the simple ways that characterized the earlier years of the government. True, our politics then partook of the character of the government, as developed in meeting the plain ssues and few responsibilities that were upon it. The people, with but little partisan guidance, by spon- taneous community of action fixed upon candidates | for the Presidency, selecting those who had identified themselves with the uppermost public issues, and the | campaign a simple affair. Each State had its | different election day. The means of communication primitive, and sometimes more weeks passed by without general knowledge of the result at the polls than hours do now. With the settlement of our centinental domain, and appearance of the many complex and sometimes interests that issue from our great va- ries, our party politics and processes | W indu | riety o [1\".\': emerged from their former simplicity and are now a maze of detail, compiex, and oiten confusing. The “letter of acceptance” by a Presidential candi- date is a very modern method of getting before the country an exegesis of the party platiorm from his There has grown now a ponderous notification com- mittee, one for the Presidential and one for the Vice Presidential candidate. By courtesy and recent cus- tom the permanent znd temporary chairmen of the national head these committees. Each must make a speech and the candidate must reply. Mr. Bryan introduced an innovation into these post- convention ceremonies in 1896 by going away from his own State to be informed of his nomination. He went to New York City, proceeding under the most spectacular conditions, and was notified in the pres- ence of a vast assembly in Madison-square Garden. It was regarded as a piece of political hippodroming, and was belimed to have injured more than it aided the prospects of the party. The oratory was florid to a degree. and as Mr. Bryan had unfortunately spoken of going East as “entering the enemy’s country,” the This year he proposes to perpetuate the custom of going away from home to get the news of his nomination. Indianapolis has convention feeling was not cordial D | papers that are warm on one side only, and accord- | that when this journal made its appearance it was an- | tion for the primary election on August 14 closes July 28. Registration for the general election in No- vember will not close until September 26. Every ‘voter who registers before July 28 will establish his right beyond all question to participate in both the primary and general elections. As the law requires every voter to register anew in order to vote at the general election in November it is advised that the trip to the City Hall be made before July 28. We repeat that the issue is up to the Republicans of San Francisco. The time to beat the scheme of the bosses and the Southern Pacific touts for controlling the next Legislature is right now. Let the duty b attended to. John M. Chretien is seeking to palliate his crime by insisting that he is not the only rascal who has picked dead men’s bones in the courts of San Fran- cisco. He should possess himself in patience; there | is excellent promise that his pals will join him behind | the bars. HOT TIMES I|iv KANSAS. OWN in Kansas, where things are still bleed- ing, notwithstanding the woolly horse has long since given place to the wild colt all wool | and a yard wide, they cannot content themselves witi § ingly, to supply a long-felt want in the community, there has been established a “magazine” that is red- hot on both sides and still heating with the heats of the campaign. The magazine is called “Pro and Con.” In a re- cent issue it said: “Our readers will bear in mind | | | | | | | nounced that it departed from the common rule and boasted a Republican as well as a Populist editor. Mr. Goss will serve the saviors of the country—the Populists—while the G. O. P. end will be toted by Mr. Ball” The number now before us fully justi- fies the boast of a double set of cooks, for it roasts both sides of everything it touches. | For example, we are told in one column of a stal- | wart citizen of the Pcpulist persuasion that, “being | awakened to his country’s needs by the appearance in | the arena of John Briedenthal and J. M. Jackson, he been selected as the scene of the spectacle, and the whole ticket will be there. It will be by no means a The most ponderous prepa- rations are being made. . Mr. Bryan will have his ceremony first. The chairman of the notification committee will address him and he will reply. Mr. Stevenson will relate the story of his sensations upon being nominated for the Vice Presidency, as the tail, nd appendix of such a brilliant comet, which s around the central sun of hope every four vea Other orators will tell the particular way in which the country is going to the devil from his point of view, and the performance will close. The morn- ing and the evening were the first day. The curtain 1 ring down, and the parched throats be unparched in preparation for the staging of the Vice Presidential notification Mr. Stevenson will be taken by surprise the second day. He will | the knowledge with a grateful heart in his bosom 1 a lurid tongue in his head Then Mr: Bryan will tell how pleasant it is for hi to wag such a brillfan: tail as Mr. Stevenson, and will tell how it tl him from sacrum to cervix, the tire longitude of his political spine Then the crop of tory that was not ripe the day ed, and more dangers, pitfalls, | pre and quicksands toward which the country is blindly rushing will be pointed out, and thereafter the campaign will be considered wide open. It is a queer ¢ . among the modern additions party ways and means, this going into another State to be notified. It is expected to make votes in the immediate vicinity of the ceremony, but on that theory it should Jose them where it was not It is a custom in line with Colonel Bryan's intense love of display. Fond of being an object of attention, he proposes not to waste such an opportunity in a one-night stand, either. trail revol w r of his nomination and acknowledge ills before will be harve to, the ity where -familiarity has bred that contempt m which prevents his com for h g of his own prec- cinct, so he goes on the road and hippodromes. B The yellow kid is to be congratulated. The Call seldom pleased to be in his company, but in an affair such as the probate crime, which The Call ex posed, it is a matter of sincere pleasure to sec the Examiner accept the situation and follow in the wake of a public crusade. The yellow sheet cannot do much. but by its attertion to the grave scandal which The Call has laid bare the saffron youngster may be kept out of mischief. B ) A REPUBLICAN RESPONSIBILITY. UI’ON the Republican party rests the responsibil- ity of defeating the schemes of the railroad | managers and the ward bosses of San Fran- cisco to control the next Legislature and through it fix the Assembly. Senatorial and Congressional dis- tricts for the coming ten years. The responsibility is | imposed upon Republicans because it is everywhere admitted that this is a Republican year in California, as in the Union, and that about all the Democrats can hope to do is to hcld their organization together. The rearrangement of the districts under the new cen- sus will be done in the name of Republicanism. Shall it be done by honest Republicans, or by men who | wear the party badges and train in its ranks only for the sake of the spoils of politics? The combination formed among the bosses of both parties in this city, and backed by all the resources of the unscrupulous managers of the Southern Pacific road, is a formidable one. It can be defeated by the better element of the Republican party provided that element be aroused and energetic. It cannot be de- feated by a half-hearted spirit, or by weak and unor- ganized action. There is needed at this juncture the exercise of the full strength of loyal Republicans, and that need is especially felt in this city, for the danger- point is here. Tt should not be overlooked that for the purposes of the railroad and the bosses it will not matter much whether a Republican or a Democrat be elected so long as he will serve the schemers. Kelly and Crim- mins, therefore, would be quite willing to plan and plot a defeat of Republican candidates if it be made to their advantage to do so by the railroad. Such | being the case, it would be folly on the part of the Republicans to put any trust in them, or to permit them to exert any influence in making nominations. Clean politics is the best way to win a clean victory. Compromise with the saloon gangs and bosses will compromise everything. The time for earnest Republicans to begin organ- izing for victory is now. Among professional men, business men and workingmen the questions of the H ay should be, Have you registered? Have you en- rolled in-a Republican club? Every loyal Republican should by such-inguiries help to bring his friends into active work for the party and for the cause of good | government., As The Call has repeatedly pointed out, registra- a i 1 bent his pruning-hook into a machete, buckled on the breastplate of rightecusness, and now, at the age i of seventy-six, when he is entitled to rest, he is doing valiant service for his country in her time ‘of need.” In another column, defending a Republican delegate to the Philadelphia convention from a charge that he “took with him sixteen new suits of clothes and changed four times a day,” the paper says: “The fact is that Mr. Burtcn carried with him an extra suit, a clean shirt and a change of underwear. Of course even this is hard for a Democrat to under- stand—one of the fellows who wears a shirt until it smells like a horse blanket and changes underwear at | the biannual bath. There is an adage that cleanli- | ness is next to godliness, and it takes both to make a Republican.” It appears from these statements that down in Kansas when making ready for a political campaign a Populist buckles on a breastplate of righteousness, while a Republican changes his underwear and puts I | ing at all terrifying about it at first. on a clean shirt. Both customs are good, and taken ogether serve to refute the prevailing impression that Kansas men are clothed only in their own wool and bathe only in their own bleeding. There are other notable things in Pro and Con. On one page it is asserted: “In the nomination of McKinley and Roosevelt the Republican party offers the country a magnificent national ticket. A com- bination of ability, strength, character and sturdy American manhood—a perfect pair.” On another page there is a description of the Republican conven- tion at Philadelphia, in the course of which it is said: “Empress Hanna, with an oceanic smile on his cuboid imitation of the human face, announced that he had connected himself with the Enfant Mc at Washing- ton, Pabst and Blatz-at Milwaukee, the warehouses at Peoria, the wineries ¢f California, the champagneries of France and the revenues of Cuba. This announce- ment was greeted with grunts of approval, for it was prophetic of prosperity.” One editor tries to rzlly the Prohibitiomsts of Kan- sas to the support of Bryan by taking up the army canteen question and referring to McKinley as the “Enfant Mc of Canton, Ohio, and the canteen oi America,” while on the very next page it is asserted: “The suggestion on the part of the Prohibitionists that they might give Bryan a million votes because of the existence of the army canteen is the most child- ish piece of poppycock of the decade.” Upon one point the magazine stands with both feet. or rather four ieet, and Pro is so Con and Con is so0 Pro the reader cannot tell which is the Balling and which the Gossing. That point, if we may judge from the statements made, is not only a very smail but a very slippery one, for it is the character of a contemporary who it appears has rebuked Pro and Con. One editor speaks of that rash contemporary as “one who contaminates all he touches and never pays an honest debt. who robs the home of its chas- tity and flaunts his loathsome pile of putrid hide and guts on the street and among the friends of his vic- tim”; while the other refers to him as an intellectual malformity, whose thin mentality has gone up in cigarette smoke, and advises his fellow citizens to take him out, lay him over a log and let a buck nigger swat him with a barrel stave. In conclusion it is but fair to Kansas to say that her conditions are excellent, and the Republican editor bears witness to her prosperity. He says: “This prosperity has a political significance. For all the world knows that an element which thrives and fat- tens on blue devils and adversity cannot long survive in such a land. The beautiful rains which mean death to the chinch bug mean good wheat and big corn; and good wheat and big corn mean extermination of the Populist, and the extermination of the Populist means no fusion. and no fusion makes Republican success. And all the world admires Republican success. O, brother, this is a good year.” With that sentiment we may as well conclude this review. ILet the Populist brother be reasonable and recognize that conditions which exterminate him make a good year, and let him rejoice therefor. Furthermore, let us hope that in the general improve- ment that is going an there will be an improvement also in the Kansas contemporaries of Pro and Con. Southern Pacific officials have been cited for con- tempt for disobeying an order issued by Judge Bahrs. The gentlemen have been so frequently in contempt of the courts and of the people that the citation ought to be the promise of diversion rather than of anything else. — There was a time when the impecunious drinker looking for a free drink from his favorite saloon- keeper sought to win a favor by getting a “tin roof.” The shrewd confidence man who now looks for winking complacence must ask for “a ruef” James Taylor Rogers is' probably convinced by this time that in his experience at least there was one man | on a pin, carefully avoiding any immediate mortal injury, or | Occtdental. | at the Occldental. | largest stockholders in the Wilder Steam- who positively declined to remain dead ‘stake is used for this pleasing diversion. i i + et F all natfons and tribes and races on the face of the | earth to-day the Chinese are the most cruel, the most | de- 5ted to fearful tortures of those in their power, and ] the most adept in devising ever new forms of martyr- dom for the objects of their hatred. : In their almost simpie cruelty they are lower than the ani- mal, says the New York Press. If they merely dehg_h‘;ed n: torturing, one might say it was a perversion. But they do not merely delight in it. They torture living creatures, 'lror'n |:a s to man, as a simple matter of course. and the native victims accept it equally as a matter of course. There Is somethinw cupremely terrible In the matter-of-fact, stolld way n}.] whi they subject a prisoner to demoniac pain with as much readi- | ness as a magistrate in New York would sentence a man to sperd ten days “‘on the island.” BAMBOO FLOGGING. Ath, there is the Wwhipping and scourging with bam‘];)noub:'i‘;s.w'rmg s so common a method of “‘preparing” a victim for trial that it is hardly considered punishment, much less torture. Yet the bamboo is laid on hard. enough to bring blood at each stroke, and, especially when it is applied to the soles of the feet, the victim often faints from pain and loss of blood combined. One can hardly enter a Chinese court of “justice” without witnessing a flogging. THE WOODEN COLLAR. The mildest punishment that is known to the simple and kindly official Chinese soul is the cage or Cangue. Its principle is that of all Chinese punishments—slow torture. A Chinaman would take no artistic pleasure in anything that killed quickly or that reached its culmination of pain quickly. His vietim must suffer a little more each hour. In that w: he makes his delight last long and can keep a whole string of wretches to charm him by their slow dving for months. If he killed them at once his fun would be over too soon. The Cangue, then, is formed to keep the agony of the peni- tent up for months, till madness or death ends his suffering: It is a delightfully simple thing—so simple that there is noth- It merely is a large frame of wood, with a collar In the middle. It weighs about fifty pounds, and is so made that it can be locked arotind a man's neck. When it fs so locked it rests directly on the muscies of the neck and on the bones of the shoulders, and it is so con- structed that it cannot be shifted even a tenth of an inch, nor can the weight be relieved with the hands. In addition, the col- lar has a sharp rim underneath. At first the viciim does not svffer much, except from inconvenience. He is turned loose as scon as the Cangue Is locked on him, and for an hour or two te waddles around in fair comfort. But gradually as the sharp edge of the collar cuts deeply into the flesh of his neck and all bis muscles are drawn more and more tense pain begins to conquer him, and in a week the torturers have the felicity of seeing a maddened wretch stumble and fall around blindly, weeping and yelling with anguish. Remember, in additfon, that the Cangue is so made tiat the man in it cannot feed himself or drink, and must depend on others, which gives his jailers the chance to »dd the torture of hunger and thirst to his other sufferings, and the extent of this “easy” punishment may be estimated. BAMBOO SLIVERS. The bamboo furnishes favorite implements for Chinese legal tortures. Sharpened slivers of bamboo are used for countless purposes in countless ways. Indeed. if the reader will imagine just what he would hate most to have done to him with a bam- boo sliver he will hit something that the Chinese are sure to do. The most simple and merciful deeds are to stick tiny slivers all over their victims and to leave them there to fester. Worse still is the cheerful practice of driving wedge-shaped | pleces of bamboo under the finger or toe nails of accused per- sons. This is done gently and slowly with a mallet, and the bammering is kept up until the victim confesses or the judges decice that it is enough. IMPALEMENT. Impalement is a popular amusement. A sharpened bamboo The sufferer is pin- joned and 'ald .on the ground. Then the executioner either drives the stake through him as an insect would be impaled the stake is forced along the whole length of the body, provid- ing a death somewhat more swift but even more hideous to contemplate. In one unspeakable form of impalement the yel- 5 & 2 FERMIBLE - TORTURES ~=>>PRACTICED<~- By the Chinese. p ool low wretches do not carry It far enough to kill the victim at once, but stop just so that he will live in incredible agony for days and days and sometimes even weeks, during which time he is placed on pubiic exhibition. CRUCIFIXION. Crucifixion is a common form of punishment, but usually it is only a mere accompanying detail of other tortures. Thus a man be crucified and left in the sun to die from thirst. Or he may be nailed to a cross with his head shaved and cov- ered with sweet syrup to attract insects that will bite him to death after days of suffering. Of all punishments that involve crucifixion, however, the one that delights the official Chinese heart the meost is Ling- Chee. Ling-Chee is such a brilliant result of ingenious thought \ that thes executioners rarely nail a man who is to suffer this form of punishment to the cr: They fear the pain from that might interfere with his enjoyment of the real perform- ance. which is nothing less than slicing him to death with dia- bolical skill. Therefore the man who is to suffer Ling-Chee generally Is bound to the cross. Then there arrives the execu- tioner. An executioner skillful at Ling-Chee is viewed with high respect in the empire, much as a successful bull fighter is viewed in Spain. To bungle in g-Chee and to slice so much from the victim ecarly in the game that he faints, or, worse still, dies before he has suffered all the slicing that h: been decreed. would blacken the executioner’s name forever, and might even make him the next subject for Ling-Chee. EXECUTION BY SLICING. The executioner is recelved with a little murmur of appro- bation, for his record s as well kept fn mind as Is the record of an athlete In America or England. He bows to the high dignitaries and then takes one of his ords from the ord- carrier, who has followed him. They are wonderful swords that are used by the Ling-Chee executloners. Sometimes they are hundreds of years old and have records so long and bloody that a person with nerves might well shudder to touch them. The executioner does not shudder. He knows what depends upon his delicacy of touch. Swiftly he swings the great weapoa around his head till it whistles, Satisfled that it Is ready for business he dpproaches the victim slowly. Remember that all this time the poor wretch has been staring at the assemblage, at the executioner, at the array of swords. He iIs to be kept in suspense still longer, for when the executioner approaches him he does not begin at once to slice him. First he feints at him and then withdraws. Then he makes belleve again. Suddenly the sword shoots in wickedly and one of the victim’s eyebrows is sliced off g0 neatly that it scarcely draws blood. Now begins wonderful work—wonderful and devilish. It may be that the condemned man has been the subject of great imperial mercy. In that case he may have been blessed beyond compare by having his sentence commuted so that he 13 to be killed in on twenty slices. whereas hardened offenders might have been sentenced to dle only after seventy-five cuts or even more. If the vietim is very lucky, the sword will be at him so swiftly that the eye can scarcely follow it. At each stroke some part of the poor bound body will fall to the ground. Now it may be a shoulder, now a plece of the breast, now an arm. Suddenly the last cut is made. It is straight at the heart and the weapon cuts it out and ends tfle suffering of the wretched man. But the spectacle is not ended. The executioner now has to dis- member the corpse. and this he does with passes of the sword, each carefully studled and done according to regularly lald out rules, till there is absolutely nothing left on the cross and only a pile of terrible fragments lles at its base. When Ling-Chee Is to be a long operation and the victim is to die only after long torture the slicing is sometimes dona 20 slowly that half the day elapses before the condemned man dles. The executioner knows just what to cut without killing, and he goes to work as carefully as would a surgeon. Muscles and tendons and flesh are stripped from the body with the razor blade of the sword until only a dreadful framework re- mains that still has awful life In it. And at this terrible spec- tacle the Chinese gaze stolidly, without an expression either of pleasure or loathing. HANGING IN SNAKE PIT. Another ingenjous torture that is much used is to suspend the condemned man with his head down in a pit. At the bot- tom are snakes, toads and all kinds of loathsome reptiles, which w within a few inches of the victim's face. Hers he is left til the torture of the position, hunger, thirst and reptile bites kill him. pleasure of those who | formance. But he de “What's the use? in the I-’E fiSéNAL MENTION. Dr. J. J. Miller of San Jose is at'the Baltimore American. G. A. Rodgers, a hotel man of Sanger, = is at the Lick. Dr. and Mrs. Humphries of Honolulu are at the California. Thomas H, Mallory, a minmg man of Fresno, is at the Lick. G. L. McCandless, a druggist of Sacra- mento, is at the Grand. State Senator Thomas Flint of San Juan is a guest at the Palace. Otto G. Never, manager of the Paso Robles Hotel, is at the Palace. Charles E. Egan, a dry goods merchant of Honoluluy, is at the Occidental. A. C. Bingham, a banker of Marysville, and his wife are guests at the Palace. J. B. de Jarnett, owner of extensive fruit ranches in the vicinity of Colusa, is “This is the third t matter with | " “It's stron it _ought to do—wal office and settle.”—Ch AN EX The Collector—Here you haven't You pmmlsPJ Saturday. The Young Man—W. by the watch. It is t dianapolis Press. After the light—t Dr. & J. Lustig and his bride returned vesterday from their bridal tour and are guests at the Palace. General G. H. Roberts, U. S. A.. of Bolse, Idaho, 1s at the Lick, with his wife and daughter. They have just returned from an outing at Santa Cruz. Mrs. George C. Beckley, wife of “Com- modore” Beckley of Honolulu, one of the But under dust a Rest from a wo) FASHION HINT ship Company, arrived at the California vesterday with her family. She expects to remaln here about two years in order that her children may attend school. Attorney General Tirey L. Ford, who has been on a vacation at Lake Tahoe for the past two weeks, returned vesterday and will resume his duties to-day. While at Tahoe Mr. Ford was serfously 1. To- day he will assume personal charge of the Fresno rate case before Superior Judge Bahrs. W. 8. Chance of Washington, who was sent to Hawali by the Becretary of the Treasury to establish the customs system for the islands, returned vesterday on the steamer Australla and is at the Palace, with his wife and child. He accomplished his mission successfully and is now on his way back to Washington. J. W. Mason, a prominent merchant and former extensive coffee planter of Hilo, Hawail, arrived on the Australia yester- day and is at the Occidental. He is ac- companying Mrs. T. J. Higgins, widow of his late partner, who is on her way to Chicago, where her.son {g In school. Mrs, Higgins is also at the Occidental. LATEST STORIES of the FUNNY MAN. HE'S THE BOY FOR YOU! We found the savage king wearing nothing but a silk hat. “A very unconventional garb!” we pro- tested. His Majesty laughted heartily and sald: “If you think this is unconventional, you ought to see a king up In the jungle a way. He actually wears russet shoes with his silk hat! "Talk about your un- PP S S U S P S S S P S S Y ‘do so on_subsequent occaflons for the They won't, book me continuous vaudeville, too early to start a Wild West show."— GROUNDS OF HIS COMPLAINT. to me with a complaint about the coffee.” said the steward of th the * responded the kicking pas paid a cent on th: to have the money for me AFTER. With never star’'s soft beams: —Atlanta Constitution. | night. R T . L e e e et e ) B e ot S D R S MNP SWEDE COLORED CLOTH DRESS. The dress represented is of bright Swede MIDWEEK NOTES OF THE THEATERS HE LIARS,” at the Columbia Thea- ter, is playing to appreciative houses. The comedy receives an excellent | terpretation at the hands of Henry | Miller and his goodly company, and | is, in truth, one of their best efforts. Next week the Lyceum Theater success, “His | Excellency the Governor,” by Rebert Marshall, will be given for the firsg time | in this clty. missed the first per- clined, saying: and it _is ime you have come | “What's | it strong e steamer. t? Isn't enough to do what up to_the captain's icago Tribune, CUSE it is Tuesday watch, e This afterncon at half-past 2 o’clock will tegin the first of the Burton Holmes lec. tures at the Columbia Theater. “Manila’ will be the subject first enlarged upcn, and the lecture will be copiously illustrated | with colored and motion pictures. The Holmes lectures are an annual event of the Lenten season at Daly’s Theater, New York, and during the rest of the year are | given in all the larger Eastern cities. | 15 their first appearance here. The “M: | and ell, it's only Friday hat much slow.—In- he night, [ = | nila” lecture will be repeated on Sunday o lorie . ‘The Great Ruby" is crowdh Grand Opera-house this week. Mr. ley has undoubtedly given us one of the most complete and handsome stage set ngs_ever seen in a San Franelsco thea. ti ter. Wilton Lackaye, Corona Ricardo and Mary Van Buren take the leading parts. - “At Gay Coney Island” still holds the boards at the Callfornta_Theater and is playing to good houses. The “musical in- | terruptions™ of Mary Marble, Mathews and Bulger, the mascot’s dance and Norma Whalley are much enjoyed. o nd daisies white, rld of dreams! the e | : FROM PARIS. { | Ingomar s the play of the week at the Alcazar Theater, with Florence Rob- erts and White Whittlesey In the leading roles. The management announces a re- vival of “The Country Girl,” a Willlam Wycherly comedy, first produced at Drury Lane Theater in i673. oy “Wang,” with its laughter provoking situations, is filling the Tivoll a-housa nightly. “Wang" will continue until the RSPIDE of the grand opera season on the The Orpheum is doing excellent business bi! Miss Burkhart in . @ | Quaker City quartet, John Donahue R e AR Sk S | Mattie Nichols are among the good things. | R " e| . ® . ® . @® * - . @ + - + < + | _ At Fischer's Concert House are Miss | Lenore White. Coral Thorndyke. Lena Johnson, Isabelle Underwood. Edward B. | Adams and the elever orchestra’ to fur- nish an excellent evening’s entertainment. b The Chutes and Zoo offer the Ogdens. La. | Lista, the Bartons, Howard and Campbell, | Hadley and Hart and Cannon, the fat man, for their week’s bill. —_————————— Want the Fence Removed. A committee of storekeepers on Market street, near MecAllister, consisting of Frank Dunn. S. B. Bogart and H. Bjorn, waited on the Board of Public Works yes. terday and filledl a protest against the maintenance of the fence around the O'Callaghan property at the cormer of Market and McAllister streets. It represented that trafic had been Inter- fered with on account of the failure to erect a temporary sidewalk and business in the vicinity had suffered to a great ex- —————— large lapels of the An Insolvent Merchant. h a shaped floun conventionality! He's the boy for you!" We were much shocked.—Detroit Jour- o8, e | colorea cloth. The HIS DIFFICULTY. lero are cdged wit! “Why are you so very silent in com- pany?”’ asked the scientist's wife. ““Well, people are continually trying to draw me into conversation about the re- cent eclipse.” “That is a topic on which you ought to be able to talk.' “I'm perfectly willing to. T don't mean to be unsociable, but it's very difficult to think up enough words of less than five syliables to make people .understand what T am talking about.”—Washington Star. EASY WHEN PROPERLY DONE, Senator.” asked the beginner in poll- tics, “have you ever had any trouble in curpnnp a’convention?” “No,” answered Senator Lotsmun, hat is, not when I have done a little of the necessary work of picking it 1p and h'm—packing it beforehand.”—Chicago Tribune. ¥ A TELL TALE. After Willlam Tell had shot the from the head of Tell Jr., he was ur seille The collar is of velvet, rather darke: tunic edged with a flour v DATEON oIk Bia, unce headed with ————— Praise for Tax Collector Scott. The Peddlers’ Protective Association has forwarded a complimentary resolution to ;ll‘l‘x"s(;?lllec:or Scott in which that. official | v praised for his efforts in placin, the peddlers of San Francisco in A posi: ltll&r;lgwherehy they can obtain an honest The resolution recites that the report of the Tax Collector shows there were issued 444 peddlers’ licenses at $6 per quarter, against 218 {ssued in the preceding quarter | at 3.1’0 each. showing a net gain to the ecity | of $504. The association appreciates the businessiike efforts of Tax _ Collector | Scott, who has Jvrn\'en himself a true friend to the Peddlers’ Protective Associa- lt’lg:nn;: Jdrging lh; abolition of the free et g le reduction of the quarterly S. B. Kennedy, a merchant of Stockton, filed a petition in Insolvency yesterday in the United States District Court. His lia- | bilitles are 76 and his assets are Cal. glace fruft 50c per ™ at Townsend’s. —_———— Spectal information supplied dally to business houses and public the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen'a). 810 Aont gomery st ‘elephone !ag;‘h v Pt e RS sca s SATISFYING HERSELF. Mrs. Hifly—Did the Swaggers iny "‘M"“""s"‘":i"" AR nvite you 5. Snubd—Goodness, no! They would inot dare to: T must draw the nnZo'f ‘1::\‘ | acceptances somewhere, and the Swaz gers know well enough which side of the line they are on.—Ohio State Journal. We recommend the use of Dr. Siegert's An- gostura Bitters to our friends who suffer with dyspepsta. *