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26 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 26, 1900. wfaficfic all ! ‘' THE PENNY VERDICT. AN EDITOR’S GRIEVANCE. @:‘!c Bt o5 vt q 23 HE CALL has recently undergone a libel suit O a recent number of the Merchants' Associa- _____ IOMN D SPRECKELS, Proprsto o e et e e ity ahits S e e T L P tddress All Communications to W. S, LEAKE, Manager. | the innocent from unspeakable sorrow and degrada- | question presented by the writer was whether or not ...Telephone Press 204 .Market and Third, 8. F. Press 20 ANAGER'S OFFICE. UBLICATION OFFICE Telephon EDITORIAL ROOMS .217 to 221 Stevemsom St. Telephone Press 203. 16 Centx Per Week. Single C es, § Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: CALL (including Sunday). one year. CALL cincluding Sunday), § months. CALL Gncluding Sunday), 3 months. DAT CALL—By Single Month. EUNDAY CALL Onme Year.. WEEKLY CALL One Year. All postmasters are subscriptions. Bample coples will be forwarded whem requested. 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Falr, Sacramento—September 8 to 15. eve THEV PRIMARIES. telligent Republicans of the County Com- mg wisd ng a committee of eighteen ard to can n Friday, such doubts would by the actions of the bosses and m the restraints of law, those perpetrated at the ery, fraud and vio- American poli- s from the various polling fusion and it will require part of the returning do justice to all haos and board represents the Republican or- It should be impartial. honest as to perform a duty at once im- It has to give to the bosses but it has also to give full naries up- To un- se who at the p: 1e integrity of the party. s and the wrongs of the opposing g to be a perplex task, but it can dopt right principles and follow gly fr start to finish. can be furnished of frauds com- Is of Herrin, Crimmins and Kelly. that among their supporters were < of both the Republican and the Demo- that many of these men voted many times ir repeating was frequently done so 3 t the election managers of the d not even pretend ignorance of it. In nces where the bosses knew they had been 1l their tricks, the ballot boxes roken and fraudulent ballots mixed with the shown spite of i were good. Of course, decent Republicans cannot and will not ent to surrender their rights to such domination as that members obtained office by cheating, repeating and cor They will not submit to a convention whose ballot-box smashing. The loafers and hoodlums of the slums, rounded up by the Democratic bosses as well as by those who pose as Republicans, cannot be rmitted to take control of the Republican party of Sgn Francisco, elect tools of the Southern Pacific Company to the county convention and through them candidates of the party who are to represent anism in the coming campaign. Thus there rests upon the returning board the re- sponsibility of hearing all the evidence that can be brought forward by either side and gathering from it the truth of the situation. Nothing should be done Nothing should be done unfairly. In a full n made with justice to all honesty will win han corruption and therefore it has no need ‘o E lice or to ask snap judgment upon any point of controversy. Decent Republicans expect the ning board to prevent Herrin, Crimmins and lly from profiting by their frauds, but they do not the board to deprive the conspirators of a te that was fairly cast for their tickets. importance of the issue lies in the determina- tion of decent Republicans not to submit toboss domi- tion nor to vote for the tools of bosses as represen- f the Republican party. A convention con- v the better elements of the party can name a et. but a convention dominated by Her- mins and Kelly can do no more than dis- he party and lead it to defeat. Men of the type e and Wolfe will not be supported by good publicans, even if they be nominated. The issue is returning board. The gentlemen who com- e the right to count and are expected to They must make no compromise with to prej ht. B ——— land watchman who played physician and @ 2 man with merphine ought to be sent to a school of medicine or to a place of detention where will be out of harm’s way. The Oa And so General Ferdinand W. Peck will have to | zive back the decoration of the Legion of Honor. Uncle Sam is a stickler for republican simplicity even in these degenerate days. weeeenn.. Heraid Square | I tion. We took the most searching and extraordinary | precautions to verify every word that we published, that knowledge of the existence of the evidence | would deter the party concerned. This proving insufficient, the publication was made, | not with the view to sensation, which we abhor, but | to warn all raiders on the innocence and peace of | families that their trail could be traced and their ex- posure effected. Women are susceptible of abuse through their affe and in men and | women, are not oiten under the control of reason. i The cold-hearted simulator has always found there a | field for either the filling of his pockets or the grati- | fication of his lusts. Perhaps society has no greater | enemy than this class. When their arts breach the | walls of reserve which protect it there is no limit to | the exploiting of their designs. The results are told | in broken hearts and blighted lives. As we have defined the place of a newspaper, it is a member of the social state, with no lower function | in morals than the pulpit itself, and through its su- perior command of publicity, with a greater power for usefulness, provided it be controlled by purity and courage. In the case now concluded by the verdict of a jury we acted upon that belief in the rights and duties of the press, taking the responsibility and proceeding | with the greatest caution. A rule of law, salutary in its purpose, deprived us of the direct testimony of ths witness whose knowledge of the facts was the greatest, | and who had broken open the grave in which her | sorry experience was buried, to give us the story that | saved an innocent member of her sex from a fate probably even worse than her own. | To her is due the honor and respect of men and women. Herself the victim of wiles plied with match- less art, and a grievous sufferer, to go over the tragedy | of her life was another martyrdom, but she accepted it with resignation, unselfishly to save another. Her courage and sense of duty should impress others in like circumstances, to the end that the ravages of these beasts of prey may be limited to the destruction of their first victim. Some incidents of the trial are of pec to San The attempt attorney save his client by the bold declaration that, if all tarred with the same stick were barred out of society the ions, these, r interest Francisco. of an to incisco would be de- If approximately San F e or untrue ize the need of a news- clubs and churches of populated, is either true, it only serves to emp! of social offenses paper that will deal with that with a clean pen, but in It is not what its author intended it to be, a defense of his client, but an indorsement of the press and pulpit which will dare to enter such a field as he de- scribed and purify it by timely and truthful exposure. We do not need o say that the charge may also serve to advertise to the free ranger in immorality that here is the place for him to thrive. But we warn all who take it in that sense that they will find The Call undismayed by libel suits and threats of personal reprisal and ready to do its duty to a community that contains as large a proportion of pure homes and upright lives as any in the world. The verdict of a jury, hampered as it is by the im- position of every possible legal technicality, vindicates us in this view of our duty and protects us in its dis- charge. The award of one cent to a plaintiff, who did not venture to testify in his own defense, is a ve: small patch on a character that he regarded as worth $255.000, the sum for which he sued. When such as he are forced to submit themselves to the judgm of a jury which represents the instinctive decency of this community, and is mindful of its oath and the re lation thereto of its social duty, just that same di count of $254,000 99 may be expected to be the result. THE CROWDED UNIVERSITY. creases so rapidly that the prov at any one year becomes utterly inadequate for those who apply at the next. University extension in a dif- ferent sense from that in which it is ordinarily used fearless spirit IGHER educatioon in California is advancing by leaps and bounds. The number of students seeking admission to the State University in- on made for them has therefore become a paramount issue at Berkeley. It is nota question of sending forth the faculty to carry university aspirations to the outer world, but of pro- viding for the housing and the instruction of those who throng to Berkeley itself. In the freshman class this year there are 650 stu- dents and in the higher classes there are larger num- bers than before. The increase in the number of students over that of last year is nearly 400 and the total attendance this year upon those colleges and de- partments of the university established in Berkeley is in the neighborhood of 2300. That is a notable mem- | bership. It would refiect credit upon any university of the oldest and most populous States in the Union. In a commonwealth so young as California it is a record of which to be proud. Before we make too much noise in the way of boasting of the increzsed attendance, however, we must provide adequately for supplying the require- ments of a university with so large a population. There are serious needs at Berkeley for nearly all kinds of university buildings. To that subject the alumni, the Native Sons, candidates for the Legisla- ture and munificent citizens should give attention. There is ample room for each and all to do some- thing. Liberal appropriations from the State and liberal contributions from private munificence can ail be wisely and economically used at Berkeley just now. A people rich enougk to send so many young men and women to seck a university education should be rich enough to provide accommodations for them when they reach there. e The Chinese Minister at London says the whole ! secret of the Boxer outrages is simply the trouble of governing a great and ancient people. The Minister may be surprised to discover that his people will be neither great nor ancient after the other fellows ger through with them. The gentleman who tried to explain to a local col- | lection agency that he had paid a debt and for his pains was thrown out of the office with a bath of ink, a broken nose and a general assault will probably de- | cide to cheat his creditors. | The sensational litigation over the Townsend estats indicates somewhat clearly that if one cares for his | reputation he can find a more congenial occupation than interfering in the affairs of the dead. —_— George Gould is in Paris determined to save the | Castellane baubles of luxury from the pawn shops. 1 The Count, it is understood, is not among the articles 1 to be saved. : and even hesitated in the publication, in the hope | it will ultimately become necessary to admit the Fili- | pinos and Porto Ricans to the privileges of American citizenship. It is Judge Belcher's idea that the present status of these people will have to be main- tained and he suggests that before any of the islands are admitted to the family of States, even as Terri- tories, it should be settled that American citzenship | for their inhabitants will be conferred only on condi- tions. We are not called upon at present to comment at large upon Judge Belche: view of this “problem,” but it seems to us that it is eminently rational and worthy of consideration. The publication of the article, however, appears to have given particular of- fense to the Stockton Mail. The editor of that jour- nal is unable to understand why Judge Belcher should | have obtruded himself into the subject; nor why he | should have conceived his opinion worth publishing; nor where he obtained the idea that anybody cares what he thinks on any matter of current interest: nor, in short, why he should vex the public eye and offend the public ear with his opinions, either on ethical or political subjects. As the critique of the Mail is intended for a lam- poon, we are compelled to inquire into the cause of it. We trust our contemporary will pardon us for looking between its lines, since we do so in the interests of honest journalism and not for the purpose of defend- | ing Judge Belcher. That jurist, indeed, needs no de- fense in such a matter. During April, 1898, Judge Belcher had before him two cases, viz.: Irving vs. the Board of State Harbor Commisioners and the Paraffine Paint Company vs. |the same defendant, one being for an injunction | to prevent the Commissioners from awarding a con- |'tract and the other being for a mandamus to compel them to award the contract to the lowest bidder. Both involved the proper conduct of the business of | the Harbor Commission, of which the editor of the Mail waS then president. Considerable testimony was taken at the trial, a synopsis of which was pub- lished in The Call at the time, and in deciding the | cases Judge Belcher handed down a long opinion. Tt | should be unnecessary, in view of what has already { | been said, to add that in his decision the court re- | flected severely upon the editor of the Mail. He | found that the editor in question had begn running | the Harbor Commission in the interest of g few con- | tractors and politicians and against the interests of | | the State, and he said so in unmistakable terms. We do not wish to be understood as objecting to the efforts of the editor of the Mail at this time to get < Judge Belcher will probably be a candidate ‘even.” to succeed himself at the coming election and un- doubtedly he anticipates meeting opposition from many litigants who have been disappointed at the re- sults of their rascality as presented to his court. But | we submit that in exhibiting his particular wounds the editor of the Mail, as a journalist and the trustee of a public trust, should append to his lampoons of judicial officers an explanation of the sources of his spleen. = In this instance he ubuses Belcher because the latter made an imperishable record of his misdoings and in the discharge of his duty denounced him. To give currency to such articles without the accom- panying reasons for their publication tends to degrade | the press. We say this $or the benefit of the editor | | of the Mail as well as for the benefit of other journal- ists who may be tempted to wreak their vengeance | upon judicial officers who expose them. It is important that the courts should be protected in the honest discharge of their duty. Not even an editor with a grievance should be permitted to abuse them under cover of his acknowledged privilege to | criticize and correct. The editor of the Mail was | never punished for what he did as Harbor Commi | sioner. He should be thankful for that and hold his tongue. |{OUR WINE @ND FRENCH LABELS. PRETTY study for the exercise of debating fl societies is to be found in the practice which prevails to such an enormous extent of selling | California wine under French labels. The pros and cons of the subject are many. Is it dishonest to sell | good wine under a false label? If a customer prefers | that label and is willing to pay for it, has he not a right to it? The evil of the practice is that it works an injury to California. It discredits our wine to the extent | of making it difficult to sell it at a fair price under its own name. The wine that has been falsely labeled ad- vertises France and not California. .It serves to con- tinue the Eastern belief that this State cannot furnish wine fit for the finest tables in the land. Thus it in- | jures us and advances the prestige of our rival at the same time. . Just how to remedy the wrong is not clear. It is said the Eastern people will not buy California wine labeled as such and since there is no way to force it upon them it is nothing more nor less than good busi- ness sense to adapt ourselves to the demands of the market. There is, of course, good ground for that as- sertion, but on the other hand it has been proven over and over again that if a people will hold to the path of straight honesty in commercial matters it will win in the long run. American beers bore German labels or names for a long time, and then there was no repute for them; but of late a considerable num- ber of breweries have made a reputation for their own brands and now some of those brands are sold in" Germany itself. Why should it not be the same with wine? California wine properly labeled and properly ad- vertised ought to win in the American market. Our people are not such fools as to judge wine solely by the labels. It is said that a wine which with a California label sells for 50 cents a bottle can be sold for $3 a bottle if labeled St. Julien. The man who makes the profit is the New York dealer who shifts the labels. It will certainly be worth while for Cali- fornia winemen to save that amount and a course of well-placed advertising would probably do it. Good wine may need a bush, but it should not need a French label. ——— The people of Goodland, Kans., who cut a dead robber to picces a few days ago for ghastly souvenirs cught in common decency to change the name of their town. Perhaps Badland would suit conditions. The Presidio officer who, in a burst of conviviali | exceptions, the corrupt condition of our | which are unquestionably of benefit to HE first scene in what promises to be a legal “‘cause celebre” has just been played in the United States Circuit Court at Chicago. It is claimed that when “The Little | Minister” had not passed beyond the manuscript stage Mr. Barrie sold “the rights” to John W. Lovell, who in turn sold them to the United States Book Company. This company copy- righted and published the novel in 1891 and has published it ever since. But John W. Lovell and the United States Book Company got involved In litigation, whether with themselves, with each other or with somebody else is not clear. The courts of New York and New Jersey have for years been experimenting with differ- ent kinds of oil, hoping to find some mix- ture which they could pour upon the | waters troubled by John W. Lovell and the United States Bock Company to the end, intent and purpose that the sald waters might cease from troubling and might be forever at rest. At last a spe- cific was discovered in a mollifying olifi- { ant &nown as the Publishers’ Plate Rent- | Ing Company, which In some mysterious | but entirely legal way has not only | soothed down John W. Lovell and the United States Book Company but has also absorbed them and all their works, good. | bad =nd indifferent. Among these works | (ingifferent good) is the copyright of “The | Little Minister,” which the said Publish- | ers' Plate Renting Company claims has | been illegally dramatized by Mr. Barrie, | he, the sald Barrie, having no more pro- | prietary rights to said ‘“Little Minister"” (as the sald plaintiffs claim) than has Reginald de Koven to Donizetti's music. The said Publishers’ Plate Renting Com- pary therefore applies for an injunction to restrain Charles Frohman and J. M. Barrie aforesaid from further performing r causing to be performed the play nown as “The Little Minister,” and com- plainants moreover petition the United States Circuit Court to compel said Froh- man and said Barrie to account to them for the gross receipts from said play since the 1st day of January, 1807; said receipts being estimated at the amount of one mil- lion dollars, gold coin of the United States. A very pretty quarrel; one, moreover, T P = ingi _DaPonlfyle i ® 1 that is likely to afford endless amusement | business Is a-going? Verily, the manager to the public and endless fees to the law- | is wise in his day and generation. yers. I should not like to give a large sum for the Publishers’ Plate Renting Com- pany’s chances of getting any considera- ble amount of that million dJdollars. Mr. Barrie, if he is like most of our craft, has probably spent his thare; a large portion of Mr. Frohman's has gone in salaries, There are absolutely but seven an- nouncements of any importance. Mr. Jobn Hare, one of the most delightful of Eng- lish actors, brings his own company, in- cluding Miss Irene Vanbrugh, to the Cri- terion in November. He will present Pinero’s latest comedy, “The Gay Lord and from the balance, with the assistance | guex ™ the play that raised the wrath of of Messrs. Howe and Hummel, he will not | | a Scotch M. P. (who confessed that he be easily separated. | never went to the theater) and led to an The moral and literary side of this case | ,;;,¢eq debate in the House of Com- is almost as amusing as the legal, and re- | mons. The “Rose of Persia.” Sir Arthur solves itself Into this question of casuist- | SN, . losace opera (libretto, alas! ot ry: Canan author pirate his own Work? | by Giibert) will be presented at Daly’s in LB | September. Mr. Sothern is going to try | “Hamlet” an apparently hopeless at- | tempt for a man who has never risea now attacks | much above the level he reached In | wishy-washy plays of the “Lord Chum- | ley” type; Maude Adams Is to appear in | Rostand’s “L’Alglon,” and to be follow- | ea(n) by Sarah Bernhardt in the same character. Augustus Thomas' “Arizona,” | after an eighteen weeks’ run In Chicago, |is to be tried in New York and that is really all, for Mr. Miller's plans are not yet announced. Operatically, the prospect is brighter— certainly for us in San Francisco. Mr. | Grau has promised to visit us in Novem- ber with Melba, Eames, Nordica, Dippel and Van Dyck. Time was when the church was téacher and the stage pupil; their pesitions are now reversed. The stage problems, moral and immoral, more ef- fectively than dces the church; a favorite actor enjoys a social position more distin- guished than that of a Bishop, and may not unfairly be said to rank with an Arch- bishop, or even with a brigadier general. Many modern churches are built with a semi-circular auditorium in imitation of that of the theater. Parsons take lessons from actors in elocution, and even Invite | actors (such as Mr. Herne) to preach in their churches. But the crowning gift of the stage to the church is the roof gar- den, which has been adopted by the Cen- tral Christian Church of Columbus, Ind. | Between the departure of Mr. Miller and Says the Dramatic Mirror: | the arrival of Mr. Grau, we shall have Lo ‘“The garden is roofed over and storm | gepend almost entirely upon Mr. Frawley. shutters are available in case of need. | Is it absolutely impossible for him to give There is a movable stage—‘platform’ it is | ys something both worthy and new? called, presumably to appease conserva- | Everything he has presented thus far bas tive and old-fashioned members of the | been well done, but, oh! for something congregation—and the garden is used in | that is not red with the rust of ages! warm weather for ‘services, soclal gather- -8 8 Ings and concerts.’ In his third article on the *“American “The novelty of the plan has excited | Stage” (Pall Mall Magazine) Mr. Willlam imitation In other cities, and churches | Archer has called attention to the fact both in St. Louis and Chicago already | that the American drama has taken no have begun work on similar lines. It 1s|]ead in what he calls our attempt at “na- not likely that the entertalnment provided | tional and local self-realization”—an at- by the projectors of this new style of roof | tempt in which the novelists have cer- resort can be less interesting than that | tainly carried off the honors. Yet some- now furnished in the regular professional | thing has been accomplished by Mr. Gil- establishments, and it will possess the ad- ditional attraction of free admission.” R Munsey's Magazine for August contains a well written forecast of the New York theatrical season for 1900-191. It looks as if the managers were discounting the bad business that invariably accompanies th turmoil of a Presidential election; they | know that boys under 25 would rather walk in a torchlight procession than go to the theater, and if the boys don't go to the theater the girls can’t go either. Why, then, provide expensive entertainments, to which people won't turn out, when cheap | ones will just as effectively catch what lette (“Secret Service’), Mr. Thomas (“Al- abama " “In Mizzoura,” “Arizona’™) and Mr. Herne (“‘Shore Acres, “Griffith Dav- enport™). In the directlon of such studies les our hope of something that shall be of permanent value to our stage. “The tendency of both press and puh- lic,” our author declares, “is to discrimi- nate against native plays and in favor of foreign. ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ s a wonderful plece of work and in its right lace—on the French stage, in the French anguage—no one admires it more than I do. But it sickened me to see all America crowding to see it, while a noble and mov- ing American drama, like James A. Herne's ‘Griffith Davenport, was played to the most meager houses.* OUR GRAND J The Call does not hold itself responsible for the opinions published in this column, but presents them for whatever value they may have as communications of general interes. Editor Call: Your editorial of to-day upon “The Grand Jury System” s one that deserves the serious attention of this community. If the Grand Jury in other States springs from the same source as it does in our city, there should be no dif- ficulty In locating the disease which af- flicts it. Here in San Francisco the trouble is, plainly, with a few shining judicial officers. . The Grand Jury has duties to perform, and powers granted if, the State. The question of secrecy is one that offers grounds for dispute, but It does not touch the main issue. Of late years it has become fashionable in certain cir- | cles in this country to question the utility of various of its institutions. Not only do we hear this belittlement of the Graad Jury, but even the pelit—the triai jury— has been attacked and suggestions made that it be abolished and the question of fact as well as of law be left to the decis fon of a judge. We are told that we are outgrowing the Constitution and that the right of self-government is an old-fogy notion, In fact if the advice of our critics be accepted, every bulwark of the insti- tutions of our country which shelters the liberties of the people will be soon wiped away. Let us examine our Grand Jury system in San Francisco. In the month of Janu- ary of every vear each of the tweive Superior Judges in this county selects twelve persons whose names are put into a box and, when the presiding Judge di- rects, the County Clerk draws from these 144 names sufficient to complete the Grand Jury. Can the jury be any better than its source? Whom do the Judges select? In the list submitted last January I found | ex-members of the Board of Supervisors who, while on that board, pained most notorlous reputations for corruption; “Why should the Grand Jury suys‘em, which pos- sesses so much power of good, be stigmatized as a fail- ure when the human instruments appointed to earry on its worlk are failures?”’—E. P. E. Troy. URY SYSTEM. keepers of notorious saloons that cater to the vilest and most degraded elements of the community; men of wealth who re- present the corporations controlling the public utilities of the city, and whom dame rumor charges most plainly with corrupting our public officials and besides produces every moral evidence to sub- Stantiate this charge; pawnbrokers and money-lenders, whose business is at the mercy of the public officials they are charged to investigate; notorious follow- | ers of certain scoundrels known as poll tical bosses, whose sole business is co rupting the body politic. On one list the: were not only two ex-Supervisorial chat- | tels of a corrupt political boss, but also the boss’ brother-in-law; and the proprie- tor of a notorious place. A few of the Judges whose honesty | shires as the brightest star of hope of | suppliants at the bar of justice name only | citizens who have the confidence of all | who know them; and even the Judges who rame the most objectionable characters sprinkle their lists with good citizens. But are such names drawn for the Grand Jury? Only a small minority. Let The Call publish the names given by each Judge last January and the names of the members of the Grand Jury now in session and let the readers of e Call judge for themselves. At the same time The Call might publish the membership of each of the grand juries that have been selected in this city during the past ten years. Such a publication by repeating the names of certain persons who have proved themselves serviceable on so many grand juries would cxpose the corrupt ring which has controlled our courts and city for so many years. Why should the Grand Jury system, which possesses so much power of good, be stigamatized as a failure when the human instruments appointed to carry on its work_ are failures? Rather, should not the Judges who appoint notoriously corrupt and improper persons to serve as grand jurors be denounced as failures? Can any citizen safely trust his life and property to the decision of Judges who prove themselves so unworthy of the con- fidence of the community? E. P. E. TROY. San Francisco, Aug. 25, 1%00. A CHANCE TO SMILE. TALENTS. ““What you gits out'n yoh talents 'pends on how you uses 'em,” said Uncle Ebeuw. “Many a time a man’'s gif's o' tall doesn’ 'complish nothin’ "cep to make his- " " a lot o’ yuthuh men folks late foh —Washington Star. A GOOD DEFINITION. Johnnie (who is just beginning to read the papers)—I say, Charlle, wot's a “run- ning mate?" His brother—It's paw when he gets maw cornered in an argument.—Philadelphia Inquirer. WOULDN'T HAVE THE CASH. ““Would you start out on a journey on Friday? “No, indeed.” “Why are people so superstitious?” “‘But this has nothing to do with super- stition. I get paid on Saturday.” ENOUGH TO DRIVE HIM MAD. Paddock (in disgust, after the numbers are hugg ué)——mh‘s‘:er Salad fourth. Darn 31: lsuc‘l:manywu.y. And I played him three 3rs. ‘Paddock—With so many horses in he race, dear, I think I'd hn.volglayed him at least five ways.—Brooklyn Life. THE HORRID MAN. Bill-I'm making money selling mice. Jill-Whom do you sell them to? Bill—The professor of music in the next street. .H;l—Whnt on earth does he want mice or? Bill—-Why, he uses them for trying the voices of young ladies. NO CHANGE. “Glad to see you, Mr.—Mr.—let me see,” said the affable host, extending his hand. “Your name is—I have such a wretched memory for names—Smithers, is it not?" Now this had happened three or four gote K ¥, insisted upon removing his uniform, will probably' find it easier than he thought to accommodate himself to a new suit of clothes. i oy semRred If the National party has no other value in the pres- ent campaign it has at least that of consistency. It is in sympathy with no political org:&iution, not even itself. 7 l times, and the guest had grown tired of it. ¥es. sir” hi it . 5 e r,hma“;:p ed. “Still Smithers.’ WHAT WfiILL mflmvm BE? Mamma—Now g0 an good-night to }?v“.',f;':“'“" fin a smllmc ‘hx, and Little Puss—I'll say good-nigh won't give her a kiss. PR Mamma—That's naughty! Why won’'t yol‘: e" Pt::—‘&e-n’-o she slaps people’; mwhmfiwsfl&ohuhefi % d;.l*fl”ml—“_" uvé-',“m talk mm"_ ; but e . mumm: papalPueh. | 0% dot FOR CALL READERS. Matter of fact announcement in_the Mexico (Mo.) Intelligencer: Walter Dan- iels, the colored minister, was released | from jail yesterday and permitted to wor- | ship with his flock yesterday. An accomplished talker is sending wat- ermelon stories to gullible Eastern pa- pers from Kiowa, Kans. One of his yarns fells of 2 melon =0 mgt that on being cut n two and scoops out one end was for a bathtub. i In the first six months of this year 5074 more Britishers emigrated than for the | corresponding period of last year. ‘l‘hel total number was 7313, of whom 47,374 | came to the United States. Canada gets | Ti47 and South Africa about the same. McKinley iIs reasonably sure of a ma- Jority in " Pequea Township, Lancaster | County, Pa. Rev. Danfel Rhines, 79 years | g‘l)d. l‘lvels ther;.":"h his five sons, five ns-in-law ang rteen one of them Republicans - 05ons: every The pastor of a Baptist church in Em- poria, Kans., was attracted by a nolleulln the sacred edifice while passing the other afternoon. He entered quietly and found three sacrilegious youngsters using the baptismal fount as a swimming hole, Writing from a_shi: Nome. a Thayer (Kan.) man says: ‘11 Sunday morning Rev. Mr. g;le:gh;nft:dlen;\on up in the bo s.w" s poker and ‘aft’a dance is T progreps.: rracton Everybody of the male sex h: in China when the dn;:n :?wt:l s teeth. If soldiers are wanted children are taken from their toys and old men wait- ing for the o P .n.:;l.m messenger are lined up wmlan;) and Laura P. Howard of Wash- . D. C., won $20,000 in a lawsuit 4 railroad for injuries sustained a.’r’mfi:r:r' fi(:::;.r?.tud now mlexn 1s to be o BT T B see which one shall What is beli M dbe g“ved to be a Viking corpse I‘x;- !!::t ehmlr: it I‘lhcloflled rial sandals eet. Kiel experts’ it was mmo:h 1% y‘eus Alfred Fritzel, waiter Broad sireet, Bilzaveiy N- 1 onterod s ro ice l!::x some and for PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. Lu Ella Cool expects to return from Nome in November. Dr. Joseph F. Siler of the United States army is a guest of the Palace. F. T. Sutherland, a mining expert of Denver, Colo., is at the Palace. John Raggio, a merchant of San An- dreas, is registered at the Grand. George S. Sacrett, a wealthy rancher of Ventura, 1s registered at the Lick. Joseph Baum, a prominent business man of Colusa, is stopping at the Grand. Henry E. Carter, a well known attorney of Los Angeles, is a guest of the Grand. A. L. Levinsky, a prominent attorney of Stockton, is registered at the Palace. Thaddeus Sheridan Fritz, publisher of l:le Forward Movement Herald, is in the city. C. White Mortimer, British Vice Consul at Los Angeles, is a guest of the Occi- dental. Dr. Ney Churchman, a prominent phy- sician of Portland, Or., is a guest of the Palace. Charles Kohn, a prominent liquor mer- chant of Portland, Or., is registered at the Palace. H. B. Dougherty, secretary of the Ven- dome Hotel Company of San Jose, is at the Palace. O. O. Webber, District Attorney of So- noma, Is registered at the Lick from Santa Rosa. Lieutenant Claude C. Bloch of the United States ship Philadelphia is a guest of the Palace. B. Buchanan, a mining man of Great Falls, Mont., accompanied by his wife, is at the Palace. George Pope and Thomas Gilbert, ‘wealthy merchants of Brooklyn, N. Y., are at the Palace. Captain J. C. Morgan and wife of Sun- derland, England, are at the Occidental. They are completing a tour of the world. J. H. Kuhns, assistant general store- keeper of the Santa Fe Route, whose headquarters are at Albuquerque, is in the city for a few days. Conrad Tricber, one of the best known letter carriers of the city, will leave on the overland train this afternoon as a del- egate to the convention of the National Assoclation of Letter Carriers at Detroit, Mich. H. M. Kutchim, who is connected with the Treasury Department at Washington, is at the Occidental. He has been in Alaska, looking into minor details con- nected with the adjustment of the cus- toms service. e ——— A SAILOR WHO STUTTERED There is one marked pecullarity about most men who stutter. When they be- come excited the only thing they can do to recover thelr lost speech is to sing, and when in anger their most fluent mode of community is through profanity. Not long ago a boat which sailed from this port had on board a sailor who stuttered under all circumstances. He was excit- able in the extreme, and at critical times it was almost impossible for him to say a word. The mate of the vessel was a tall, muscular fellow by the name of Barnabas. hat he always Kept His peculiarity was t o . the rail, way saw him lose his balance ll‘:‘l.l; }i‘::; lntg the lake. He ran in an ex- cited way to the captain and was trying to report the Incident, but could give vent to thing more intelligible than a suc- cession of sputters. The master divired from the.look on the man's face that something was wrong, and shouted out: “If you can't say it, d—n it, sing it. The sailor took two hitches in his trous- ers, whistled once, and droned out in a - way: I8 Ferboard 1s Barnabas, Half a mile astarn of us.” —Cleveland Leader. Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_—— Special mfarn.t:n supplied daily to business houses m-." the :::nlt. ’cfifihm%‘ e & LOANS oN DEFINITE CONTRACT. NSTALLMENT PLAN. E‘v‘mtbt:.lm:t&dnmflmm cking at it. 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