The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 8, 1900, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1900. ...SEPT JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. “ommurications to W, S, LEAKE, Manager MANAGER'S OFFICE. .......Telephone Press 204 FUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, S. Telephome Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Stevemsonm St. Telephome Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Coples, § Cents. Inclading subscriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested. £ change of address should be AND OLD ADDRESS in order ect compliance with their request. Mali subscribers in oraerin particular to give %o insure & prompt and co VAKLAND OFFICE.. GEORGE ...1118 Broadway KROGNESS, C Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. (Qong Distance Telephone *‘Central 2619.”') NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON. Heraid Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH,,, 30 Tribune Bui ing NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 2I Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Motel; Fremont Hcuse: Auditorfum Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE MORTON E. CRAN ....Wellington Hote! Correspo AMUSEMENTS. xteenth streets. ptember 24 to Oct e MR. FACING-BOTH-WAYS. ber 6. ] ; drew the immortal M:r. F. -Both-W. pre- totype lentine which John ken as a moc w practicing th gy that must either interfere with his him awake at night uation: Bryan is going up and dows g tr 1 In particular he charges them the Government and robbing the peo- elected President he will ma ther to pass unsinged through r a trust to make a living in the United other hand, the Wells-Fargo Express rmed with other express com stitutes 2 monopoly with a gaspipe he public and the people. That com- doing the things which shirking the war tax imposed ngress, and it is shifting the burd: ow John Valentine n ts as the sources of ies very serves 20 To present a smiling front and the trusts would be d it to n J. Valentine can do it so easily e company pastime. 10t time since he furnished the public saign letter declaring for Bryan, and z'ready he Bas issued another. At the same time he a fighting for permission to he public the tax that Wells-Fargo ought The argument of the corporation attorneys but u the courts of Ca k ces a gay ard gaudy contrast to the letter which Valentine recently addressed to the New York st declaring an intention to vote for the self-styled pion trust buster of the country, but there right of Valentine’s company to shi ¥ ch: is nothing in the gaudiness that displeases Valentine's taste. He likes it. Mr. Valentine is for the trusts and for Bryan. He is opposed to McKinley and opposed to paying taxes. He appears in court claiming the right +to M BéR 8, 1900 his papers to advise people on the | the question was in the yolk, and without form ir | public opinion, he was capering and screaming | | “Nail the flag to the Philippines!” Before Spain sur- F red, before Manila fell, before the protocol, he exert the full power of the express monopoly in ex- | torting money from the public, and he shows up be- fore the public as a supporter of the demagogue who corporations, good, bad or indifferent. an is welcome to zll the aid he can get from such an advocate, but when he takes Wells-Fargo into his camp he must take the trust with it, for neither Wells. Fargo nor its president, Mr. Valentine, will ever agree to abandon the privilege of tax-shirking. They may be facing both ways, but they are not losing sight for an instant of their own interests. denounces The transport Lawton is now engaged in a busi- ness that will long be remembered as a most serious episode in the history of the West. The great vessel is now a pauper ship commissioned by the Govern- ment to carry back to civilization the stranded miners of Nome. The local Police and Fire boards have under con- sideration the abolition of the “tapper” system for tha benefit of firemen. The substitution of the “knocker” system in both departments has probably obviated the need of any other. Reports from London declare that Lord Roberts has by proclamation annexed the Transvaal. It will re- quire something more, however, than paper and ink for him to conquer what he has annexed. Vanderbilt, it is said, has an ambition to own a rzilroad to the Pacific Coast. Tt is sincerely to be hoped that he will seck to realize his plans by build- | ing rather than buyinz what he wants. The people of the Mission appear to be wandering in a labyrinth of confused ideas. They have asked the Phelanites in public office to guard public interests h the same care as they do their own. Local school teachers may have reason to fear that the barber secretary of the Board of Education may allow his instinct free play and exercise it on their warrants. g Twenty-five reformers exposed their heads a few duve ago in Hankow and it is almost needless to say | Peating as an illustration of what passes for politics in five reformers are now minus heads. that twen Bryan may think he is running for the Presidency, | trecs among workingmen. but to the country at large he appears more like an advance agent of the yellow iumanh. 7 | 1808? | i i | POLITICAL HYPOCRISY. HE Kansas City platiorm says: “The greedy TU m which dictated the Philippine policy of the Republican administration at- tempts to justify it with a plea that it will pay, but even this sordid and unworthy plea fails when brought to the test of facts.” Mr. lly supporting that platform d “only three Democratic papers in the United States,” and is especially calling on Cali- ive her electoral vote to Bryan, to vote n of the Philippines and to rebuke “the alism” of President McKinley. No virtues may appear in a reaction | >mmerciz Hearst is frant his rlank fornia to for alie greedy commerc atter what high nst an experiment in externalism, which some of have deplored, it is not for Hearst and | When th 1 wise! subject. st 6, 1808): “There is aid in the Examiner (Augu vote for Bryan and better times. He wrote his story for the New York Journal, and the Toledo Blade has reviewed it. The Blade says: “Toledo people have an jdea that this is rather a busy and prosperous city, but Creelman says it is not so. According to his tale of woe thousands of idle men are walking the streets crying because they have not something bet- ter.” It goes on to say Creelman referred to former millhands now working on the boulevard as horrible examples of distressed workingmen, and pretended to quote some of them. It then adds: One of the officials who accompanied Mr. Creelman tells what the latter actually found on the boulevard. He only met one man who had worked for the rolling mills—a contented Irishman, with all the wit of a native son of Erin. After Creelman had discovered that this victim of prosperity had worked in the mills for $3 per day and was now working for $130 he said: ‘““Then you are just losing $1 50 every day?” “Hell! " Who's 'losing money?" profanely Irishman. “You are." “I am not. “Yes, you are. Didn’t the mill for $3, and now vou are only getting $1 50 $150 per da replied the said Creelman. vou tell me that you worked in nce the mill has closed down, Therefore you are losing just that the part of the world who does not see rol of the Philippines would be of im- | 1 value to the United States. In the over seven millions of people, occupying ousand square miles of the rick- We under conditions of close cor mense finar ) re one hundred t have, ilt up a trade of fifteen or little Hawaiian group. of = s of territory and only one 1d inhabitants. It needs no prophet opment of trade with the ar conditions.” rth ippines under sin | August 9 he said in a scornful reply to the | re making the same argu- nd he indorses: “Well, we lippines—because it would pay, e of immense richness; nufactures outside our anse it will give us a favorable posi- because is ready for the greates 1 if it is turned this way o will become one of the largest cities the world.” because our r bec end for the trade of the Orient; e of the Pac n history, in No greedy commercialism about that! August 11, “The is that we cannot ger to the peace of the 1808, he began to prod the President, saving: ards the Philippines as reg e them away without ¢ We curring the President he m to Spain without in- We are sume the very large respon- return same dax aware that the ion, but the force of circumstances that direction.” nex | ably In regard to ¢ Mr 1sent of the governed and equality He before t rst's law ews ripened early. He proposed non for the Filipinos and that they should belc to us but be pent up in their own | islands. oust 13, 1%R, in an editorial in the Ex- aminer entitled “No Trouble Froni the Malays” | nswgring the question, “Are these millions to be | wed to come to this country?” he said: “The | question is a proper one, and there would be grave grounds for hesitating in the acquisition of these lands if there were danger that these races would move toward the United States. There is one | reason for believing that they would not make such | a movement in the fact that they havé not done so | to the present time. Except for the Chinese in the Philippine Islands, none of the residents of the Span- ish territory have been debarred from coming to this 1f they have not been attracted count hither in v be doubted whether they would be drawn here in the future. But supposing that with their attention attracted to the United States, by the establishment of American rule and commerca among them, they should begin to move in our the past, it ma direction, IT WILL BE JUST AS MUCH WITHIN OUR POWER TO PREVENT THAT MOVEMENT IF THE ISLANDS BECOME OURS AS IT WILL BE IF THEY REMAIN | THE PROPERTY OF S]‘l\IA\‘ % 1 imperialism about that! Mr. Hearst wanted the islands because they were “treasure islands” and it would pay, and then he proposed a policy that is de- fined as the essential oil of tyranny and imperialism, that, belonging to us, the people should be forbidden to migrate and denied the right to come here and look at their owners! Having early settled all these questions, Mr. Hearst claimed that annexation for commercial reasons and denial of the right of expatriation to the people were Democratic doctrines, purely Jeffersonian, and that Democrats were tired of having to vote the Repub- lican ticket to secure the triumph of Democratic Hearst on November 12, 1898, after the sweeping Republican victories of that vear, kissed and made up with Britannia to this effect: “The powers, even if united, would have their hands full if they tackled this aroused country, and they would know very well that they had been in a fight before they were through with their job of coercion. “BUT WITH ENGLAND OUR FRIEND wa can laugh at the fulminations of all the other powers and go right ahead settling our little dispute with Spain in our own sweet way. And that is just what we propose to do. We have made up our minds to take the Philippines, and we are going to take them, paying a fair price and wronging nobody. But just let any of those powers try._to stop us as we are carrying home the bundle, and we will show the world just one more example of a power getting thumped and mauled and thrown in the gutter. So, go right ahead, President McKinley. Don’t let them scare you a bit. The elections are over, the country is behind you, and the people are really spoiling for a little diversion be- fore their blood cools. Tell the powers to mind their own business or you'l! teach them how to do it.” There is something really delicious in that metaphor of packing the Philippines home as spoils, like a bundle we had bought, and knocking every ob- jector into the gutter. Yet that was Democracy ac- cording to Hearst less than two years ago, and the California platform thanks him for his great services to the party! What answer has the party and the Ex- aminer to make to the Democracy it advocated in principles REELMAN'S screeds have long since ceased to C make any impression upon the minds of intel- ligent men. The press no longer finds it neces- sary to_refute his strange tales or to point out the ab- surdities of his statements. Now and then, however, some newspaper takes occasion to review one of his yarns for the purpose of amusing its readers by ex- posing the crude way in which the fellow earns his money. An instance of that kind has just occurred, and as it relates to certain campaign material Creel- man is concocting for the Bryanites it is worth re- rss the yellow journals. Creelman went to Toledo to find evidences of dis- He was in search of wage-earners out of 4 job, or those whose wages have been reduced—discontented men who are going to | A | the comr | effectual to the undiscerning observer; covered its whole envious system | gress for moral reasons; from President McKinley and has thus withdrawn | | over to the Republica | when he made the charge. | Congressional delegation had indorsed the course of “The - T am,” said Pat; “didn’t I tell ye thot the mills always shut down In the summer? wurkin’ here fer a pasthime, an’ ain't I glad to be git- tin' a dollar an’ a half?” “Well,” sald Creelman, “you fellows have got just what vou voted for, and I supposc you ought to be sat- isfied with empty dinner pails.” Whose dinner pail is impt; been out of work.” . me dinner pail ain’t empty. 1 kin git a full dinner out of me pail ony day, and then two lunches.” Creelman drove on and wrote up this man as a dis- contented, disheartened victim of McKinleyism. That is an illustration of the way in which the whole caldmity story was faked up. After reviewing several other points of the yarn the Blade says: “It was also a significant fact that Creelman did not find one man on the boulevard who expressed discontent or who would say he intended to vote for Bryan.” Such are the resources of the calamity howlers in these days. Truly Bryan and Creelman are a pretty pair, and it is fitting the one should be going about hunting for “facts” to support the specches of other. the DEMOCRATIC IMBECILITY. HE platform committee of the Democratic ascended to a height of seldom achieved even by politicians when it refused to indorse the course of ex-Congressman Marion de Vries in the House of Representatives because he has ac- cepted an appointment as member of the New York Board of Appraisers from President McKinley. If ee had paused at this refusal perhaps the imbecility | hue of its asininity might have seemed pale and in- | but it un- when it compro- mised with the friends of De Vries by congratulating him upon his appointment! Subjected to analys the action of the committee amounted to this: The Democracy of cannot indorse the course of Mr. de Vries in Con- he has accepted an office from the Second Congressional District at a critical moment; shortly befcre this he voted for the Porto Rico bill, and the Democracy of California suspects that this vote obtained for him the appointment. Ia short, President McKinley offered De Vries a bribe for that vote and he gathered it in. Yet the Democ- | racy of California heartily congratulates him on hav- & accepted the bribe! Tt was singularly appropriate that in evolving this logical postulate “Buggy Robe” Braunhart, one of Phelan’s pin-headed Supervisors, should have been conspicuous upon the committee. Whenever the Democracy of California needs a jackass to make it ridiculous it is fortunate in securing the services of this ex-Buckley lamb. Whenever it happens that Jraunhart is not available, in consequence of obscur- ity forced upon hi by the promptly makes him available. For Mayor Phelan made him available. this occasion That individual, al donkey of some pretension, sent him to San Jose to represent the people of this city Jraunhart charged De Vries with having accepted an appointment at the hands of President McKinley ir pursuance of a plan to turn the Second District This is false, and he knew it At that time the Second himself a po De Vries in the Lower House and had congratulated the State and nation upon the appointment of a first- class man on the New York Board of Appraisers. This should have been sufficient for the Platform Committee. If the Democracy of the Second Dis- trict still believes in De Vries, and is willing to indorse his course in Congress, certainly the Braunharts, the Foppers, the Henleys and the Tolands should not have complained. Probably a true explanation of the action of the committee may be discovered in the spirit of envy manifested by many of the politicians who comprised its membership. The office of United States Ap- praiser is one of the most important in the country. The members of the New York board are appointed for life and receive $7000 a year each. The law pro- vides that they shall be appointed equally from the leading political parties, and the vacancy which has been filled by the appointment of Mr. de Vries called for a Democrat. President McKinley first offered the | place to ex-Congressman Bynum of Indiana, whose name, however, was reiected by the Senate. Then he complimented the Pacific Coast by choosing an able young Democrat from California, who had twice been honored by the people of one of its Congressional districts with their confidence. Moreover, in making his canvass for the place, De Vries secured the in- dorsement of all the commercial and financial bodies of California, irrespective of party. Could any ap- pointment have been secured more fairly? California’s interest in having a representative upon the New York Board of Appraisers is practi- | cally illimitable. Time alone will show what Mr. de Vries can do for us in the position. But office-seeking Democrats of the pinhead variety never witness the. advancement of 2 member of their party with patience. Perhaps, however, we should be charitable. Braun- Lart at least has not sufficient sense to help it. Germany has ordered American troops to vacate ground conceded to the Germans in Tientsin, and the command ‘has necessarily been obeyed. A com- mand made under different conditions and in reference te different ground necessarily would have been dis- cheyed. No one would be condemned perhaps for express- ing a shrewd guess that the tears which flowed from the eyes of a Chinese audience the other day at the story of their Emperor’s wrongs were of the croco- dile variety. ? Tf certain corporations which refuse to pay their licenses to the city were as lax in collecting their bills as they are in paying them the people of San Fran- -cisco would be justified inuh'ngl day off for a cele- % 4y At T a State Convention at San Jose Thursday night | California | people, somebody | Hon. Frank D. Ryan, Commissioner of y Public Works, Sacramento—Dear Sir: In | your communication of August 15, 1900, | you say: | Has the Commissioner of Public Works and | the Auditing Board, under the act of the Legis- | re spproved February 9, 1900, pro the work to be done by said Commissioner | and board and prior acts, authority to contract | for work to be done on Bear River, between W tland and the mouth of sald river, so as sist the flow of the flood waters of said er and thereby promote proper drainage n’!l‘ the lands and territory adjacent to said river? I am also in receipt of a communication | from Hon. Robert T. Devlin in relation to the same matter, wherein he calls at-| tention to the limitations placed upon the | work that might be done by yourself and the Auditing Board prior to the act of the | Legislature to which you refer, setting forth at considerable length the reasons | for the passage of the act in question. J It appears that prior to the passage of‘ this act the Auditing Board as well as | vourself were limited to the work out- | jined in a certain report which had been | | referred to and made the basis of the | original act creating the Auditing Board to the Commissioner of Public Works. The amendatory act referred to in your | communication provides for work other than and in addition to that outlined and described in the report above mentioned, and fn that behalf the amendatory act, at page 21 of the Statutes of 1900, says: | In addition to the work outlined and described in said report, the said Commissioner of Public | Works and Board of Auditors are hereby au- | thorized and empowered to perform other, fur- | | ther and additional work upon the Sacramento River, the San Joaquin, Feather and Tuolumne | rivers, and Petaluma, Alviso and Napa creeks, and upon all tide waters entering and flowing | into the bays of San Pablo, Suisun and San | Francisco, and also upon the navigable creeks, | | rivers and sloughs of the State of California of @ charapter and nature similar to that out- | lined and described In said report, for the pur- | | pose of promoting drainage, rectifying channels | | and improving pavigation. | _After quoting the above provision Mr. | Deviin_ refers to certain matured plans which have been agreed upon by vourself and the Auditing Board for the carrying out of the purposes of the act of 1900, and | which plans involve the contemplated | | shall work in and about the old channg‘l of Bear | River. Mr. Devlin further say: It may be asserted as a question of fact that no drainage of the Sacramento River can be complete without the completion of this work upon Bear River, and that the completion o this work upon Hear River s an integral part of the plan for the improvement of the Sacra- mento River. % The question presented in the c nications of yourself and Mr. Devlin would seem to resolve itself into the single proposition as to whether or not work (rone a distance from the Sacra- ommu- | mento River could be deemed “‘work upon the Sacramento River” within the mean- ing of the act of 1900, provided such work was necessary for the accomplishment of the purposes set forth in said act. The principle here involved has long since been determined by the Supreme Court of this State as well as by the Supreme Court of the United States, and I believe by the Supreme Court of every State and Terrt tory where there has been any consider- able amount of mining litigation. The Federal statutes in relation to annual labor upon mining claims provide that “on each claim located after the passage of this act and until a patent | %mve been issued therefor not less dollars’ worth of labor shall be perfor: or improvements made during each vear.” Labor performed “‘on each claim” has been held to include labor performed a distance from the claim it- self, as where the labor is performed in the ‘turning of a stream or the introdue- tion of water, or where the improvement consists in the construction of a flume to carry off the debris or waste material and the like. The principle to be kept in view, the court says is that the labor must be per- formed with a view of developing the claim and extracting the minerals there- from; that if such labor tend to accom- plish ' this purpose that it is. within the meaning of the law. performed “on the claim.”” This principle you will find laid down in De Noon vs. Morrison, §3 Cal. 163, St. Louis Smelting Company vs. Kempt, 104 U. S. 654, and also in 2 Lind- ley on Mines, sec. 631, page 91, where the ithorities are collected and cited There has never been a dissenting voice, so far as I have ever heard, in respect to the principle last above set forth. The | WILL RECLAIM THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF THE FINEST LANDS IN THIS STATE Attorney General Tirey L. Ford in the following important letter has explained the law of the situation to Commissioner of Public Works Frank T. Ryan, and the latter says that the way is & i d tide water lands. now clear to begin big improvements on our navigable streams an will be made on Bear River improvements and will necessitate an expenditure of $25,000. The start same reasoning must apply he Auditing Board to the Comm Public Works, together with y such Commissioner, shall find that the doing of the work cont upon the Bear River is necessar plete the general scheme of dr: vided for in the act of 1900 ar work tends directly to the a ment of the purposes set forth referred to. then [ am of the opi such work is within the meaning of 1900 and that the Audl z B gether with yours a do such work. Any ¢ seems to me, wnul’]' ressed purposes of the s ;‘-nnrfi, g TIREY Att San Francisco, Septembe IMPORTANT WERK WILL BEGIN AT ONCE Commission Has Laid Out Plans ¢4 Clear the Course of Bear Riv Frank D. Ryan, ( - Works. was seen of The Call and state the Board of Public W Sacramento to-day tc ability of starting work o tmprovement on Bear Riv thought that the work will necessitate an expe $25,000. It is the intention clear the brush in and to confir that will earry clear right Feather River. ing the course of the st it, will result in great be along the river, by prevent of overflow of their lowlan This_opinfon, rendered by eral Tirey L. Ford to be performed by Works, will be th thousands of acre the State. of the the strear > water in WAy the me of th PERSONAL MENTION. | Former United States Senator Stephen | orsey Is at the Palace. | Mr. and Mrs. Gerritt P. Wilder of Hono- {lulu are at the Occldental. | A. P. Dron, a wealthy mining man of | | Oak Flat, is at the Occidental. | | F. A. Wickersham, a banker of Peta- | | 1uma, 1s registered at the Palace. ! John J. Byrne of the Santa Fe Com- | at the Palace. | 1ker of apa, ac- | is staying at the | | Mrs. H. H. Hewlett, wife of one of | Stockton's most _prominent bankers, {s i | D | pany at Los Angeles s | E. S. Churchill, a | companted by his family, ! Palace. | | registered at the Occidental. H. Lindsey of Fresno is at the Lick. He {savs he i out of politics and that hence- | forth he will devote his time to the min- ing industry. W. 8. Calkins and wife of Nevada City | are at the Occiental. Mr. Calkins is a well-known newspaper man and is here to | see the celebration. | Mrs, John Morrisey, wife of the popu- |1ar manager of the Orpheum, has left for | the East, where she will put in two | months visiting relatives. | Colonel R, J. Northam of the Governor's staff is registered at the Palace from Los | Angeles. He is accompanied by his wife and Mrs. H. C. Wyatt and daughter. Professor Sir MichAel Foster of Cam- bridge University, England, is at the Pal- ace, accompanied by his son. During his stay in this city he will deliver a lecture at the Cooper Medical College. R R R | CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON | | WASHINGTO! | Sept. 7.—B. Kendall | and Miss Jennia Kendall of Pasadena | |are at the Shoreham. Earl H. Webb of | | San Francisco and H. J. Chinn of Helena | are at the Raleigh. A. W. Keumbeck of | San Jose is at the St. James. J. H. Ad- | ams, wife and son and J. J. Collins and | | wife of Los Angeles are at the Arlington. | J. Harrison Cole of Los Angeles is at the Metropolitan. ————————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. —Joseph V. Selby at the Waldorf, M. 0 1s at the Savo | | NEW YORK, Sept. | of San Francisco is Brown of San Francis | PRECINCT REGISTRATION TO BEGIN THIS MORNING Warning to Those Who Registered Since January First, but Have Since Moved. Precinct registration will open this morning at 10 o'clock and remain open until 10 o’clock this evening. 8ix hundred and six specially appointed deputies will assume charge of registration in 303 pre- cincts. The Registrar's office at the City Hall will also remain open for registra- tion. Only 48,000 voters have registered o far, leaving some 27,000 names to be placed on the roll. Citizens are urged to register in order to be able to vote for President on November 6,.1900. Those who have registered since Jan- uary 1, 1900, and have changed their res dence must have the same corrected. Pre- cinet officers are forbidden to make any such changes. Precinct registration is only for those who have not registered as yet. The Registrar's office will be open until 10 o’clock in the evening for the conveni- | ence of citizens who have changed thelr residences. ——e————— Objects to Overhead Wires. The Merchants’ Association filed a pro- test with the Board of Supervisors yes- terday against granting further permits for stringing overhead District Telegraph or messenger service wires on poles in underground districts 1 and 2. The asso- clation says that it 1s to be regretted that the ordinance on the subject as construed by the City Attorney exempts these wires from those which are to be removed from the street, as it was the clear understand- ing of the association and of the different district telegraph and messenger compan- jes that all such wires strung on poles within the underground district should be removed. —— e De Vries’ Answer. Sacramento Bee. The following telegrams will explain themselves: » SACRAMENTO, Sept. 5.—Hon. Marion de Vrles, United States Appraisers’ Office, 641 Washington street, New York, N. Y. Examiner publicly charges: ‘A change came with the withdrawal of De Vries, Who was appointed to Federal | office by the President on the distinct un- derstanding that a Republican would be returned to Congress in his place.” ‘Will you telegraph an answer to that for publication in the Bee? E. NEW YORK, Sept. 5—To the Editor of The Bee, Sacramento, Cal.: What the President may have assumed or been as- sured by his advisers I am not advised. But any statement that T was a party to | any compact or understanding that a Re- publican should be returned in my place is absolutely false. MARION DE VRIES. Russia’s New Calendar. It Is sald that Russia is about to adopt 3 new cdlendar. Each yoar contalne 1t months of twenty-eight A and_ begi Gay and ends o Saturday. The main fesars of this calendar is its avparent stahibty, and this Jt resemblen the sovereign remedy. Hos s tte: 0 Itters. Which has held ay half a . Try it for constipation, nerv- ousness or insomnia, be sure you get the | company | was one of a committee which PARK MUSIC STAND] INSCRIPTION. “ Editor The Call-Dear Sir: Having reaa the article in this morning’s paper desir- ing the general public to submit sugges- tions for an inscription, like the spirit of God, to breathe the breath of life into | the park’s new music temple, I hereby offer the following sentiment: Musie, through whose deep and | tender intorations the inner no- | ble aspirations of all the races | may gladly commune. is God's divine and unive 1 langua o welding each eternal soul into heaven's glorious infinite chain of brotherly love. M L L San Francisco, Sept. 9, 1900. ———— Valentine’s Notorious Ways. Vacaville Reporter. We should have more respect for the ! opinfons of J. J. Valentine on political subjects if he and the Wells-Fargo Ex- pregés Company were not notorious of- fenders against the laws. Mr. Valentine surports Bryan because the administra- tion is endeavoring to suppress a rebellion against the authority of the United States | in the Philippine Islands. Mr. Vaientine | having succeeded in defying the authority | of the United States expressed by Its rev~ enue law doubtless enjoys a fellow feeling | with Aguinaldo, who is dolng the sama thirg in a little different way in a differ- ent place. Until Mr. Valentine's express bears the burden of taxation imposed by statute he should be placed incommunicado so far as expressions of opinion on public questions. —_——— ‘Was Colnon ‘“the Nigger.” Grass Valley Union. The &tockton Mail “jumps on™ Senator Prisk of the Third District and says some very unkind things of him. We take it for granted that there is “a nigger" in the Mail's woodpile, for Mr. Prisk made a &00d Senator.—Nevada City Herald The raseally robbery in connection with the building of the ferry depot at San Francisco explains It all. Senator Pr Investi- gated the transactions of the State Fai: | bor Commission, of which E. L. Colnon, editor of the Mail, was a member, and the | report of that committee was anything ut complimentary to Colnon That's the “nigger In the woodplile. —_——— The question of opening up British Guiana as a fleld of emigration for some of the tribes of Indfa, with a view to get- | ting them to settle on the soil and thus | relieve some of the congested distriets | of the Indian empire, is pressing nsell( bkl to the front. ’ THE DAYS OF '49. Brave days of long ago, how mem'ries flow, Like bubbles on youths' The days when men were strong, and right controlled the wrong, The days of Forty bb and wine | We tolled where nugzets gleamed, where waters We joined in bout and fray—shook hands, that was the way In days of Forty-nine. But now through welling tears we sean those misty years, Those years of yours and mine, And from the dering ghost That, passing, makes no sign. nt host comes many a wan- And from the golden haze that glows above those days, Those days that ever shine, We hear the singers’ wa!l float back along the . trail We blazed In Forty-nine. So back from mem’ries’ crowd once more And saunter down the line. Lift cheer and songs of praise. Hore's health to those brave day shore the old scenes Brave days of Forty-nine. Carson City, Nev. —SAM DAVIS. ————————— Ice cream and soda at Townsend's. ————— Pure fruft juices used at Townsend's. * Ice cream by the gallon at Townsend's.* —_——— Townsend's California glace fruits, 50c a pound in fire-etched boxes or Jap baskets, €39 Market street, Palace Hotel. g Spectal information supplled daily business houses and public men b Press Clippt: Bureau (Allen’: ; 510 n gomery st ‘Telephone Main G e P s In the United States and Canada there are 960,094 Odd Fellows and $37,3%5 Free masons. " to the ont- . Mothers give Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitter to their children to stop colic and looseness the bowels. —_—— Remova the causes that make your halr iife less and gray with Parker’s Halr Palsam Hindercorns, the best cure for corns. 15 cts THERE ARE PROPHETS AND SONS OF PROPHETS. The newest son ef a prophet is in Southern California, 1 SUNDAY CALL September 9. HOW JACK CHRETIEN SPENDS HIS TIME IN JAIL. THE M0QUI INDIAN SNAKE DANCE. HAS SEEN A ND TALKED WITH THE DEPOSED EMPEROR. THE STORY OF LEUNG KAl TIN. THE SENSATIONAL STORY OF THE DAY, . “VALDA”... BEGINS SUNDAY NEXT, SEPTEMBER 9.