The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 9, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, MANAGER'S OFFICE. PUBLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL ROOMS Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S, LEAKE, Manager. 204 Telephone Pres Market and Third, Telephone Press 201. . ..217 to 221 Stevensom St. Press 20Z. Telep! Deltvered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. nts. Postage: Te DAILY CALL {inéluding Sunday), one yecr. DAILY CAL DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Mont Single Coples. § rms by Mail. Includi LL (including Sunday), 8 months. (1 All postmasters are authorized to receive Eampl; bacription e coples Will be forwarded “‘hen requested. Mall subseribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in ord: o insure a OAKLAND OFFICE. Wanager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. | prompt and correct compilance with their reque: +++.1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2618.”") <. ©. STEPHEN B. SMITH. Waldore CARLTON NEW YORK CORRESPO! NDENT: Herald Square EW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: -30 Tribune Bull EWS STANDS: P A. Brentano, 1l Union NEW YORK -Astoria Hotel; Murray Hill Hotel Sherman CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. MORTON E. CRANE. Correspondent. ..1408 G St., N. W. AMUSEMENTS. pe 233 Square; | Orpheum—Vaudev! era-house—Maurice Grau Opera Company, Mon- November 12. Tost Paradise.” lumbia—"'She Stoops to Conquer.” Alhambra—"King of the Opium Ring.™ 1i Opera-house— “Trovatore.” Are You.” 4 Eady streets—Specialties. heater—Vaudeville every afternoon and Piano Recital to-morrow afternoon. ights. AN EMASCULATED, CODE. = report of the commission for the “revision with recommendations orm of the law,’ g the Code of Civil Procedure, which n printed for the edification of the legal s less valuable, if such a thing is possibie, previous commission with code. t but what the work done ble gentlemen who comprise the body Code of ( Procedure discovers the pos- 2 powers and eminent abil- 3 P with the report is that it is 100 powe ble. : e Ce s recom the repe; or endme purth of the present co h ion for the publication of fiity f Supreme Court reports and for at least contests over disputed questions of con cost of these volumes and these million dollars. approxim: ate ges proposed with reference to the y the commission abolishes g for perfecting the title there are claims of unknown han pert wexis t alifying a Judge from acting in contempt when he is the aggrieved ry court af the mercy of the bullies the bar In dispensing with the pres- in probate cases that heirs in the fied of applications for letters the shes the only means many persons g that their interests are unprotected, g to individuals to whom claims have signed the right to sue for them it cuts off a vilege now enjoyed by many poor people who have just causes but not the money to prosecute them. ve of k and in denyin In revising and reforming the law this commission, like its predecessors, has attempted too much. Two- thirds of all the cases which are now appealed to the Supreme Court involve questions of practice. Of the 127 volumes comprising the California Reports more than half have been devoted to explaining, applying 2nd correcting the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure. Why rip up all this work and begin anew? Will the time ever come when the Jawyers will cease to practice on their clients by raising and disputing questions of procedure? The Commission for the Revision and Reform of the Law consists of A. C. Freeman, W. C. Van Fleet J. Denis, with W. F. Henning, a Los r of law, as secretary.. We hope it will be established later on that Messrs. Freeman and Van Fleet have had nothing to do with this revolutionary attempt to “revise” and “reform” the Code of Civil Procedure and George Angeles wr i and their innocence would leave the awful burden of guilt to fall upon Governor Gage's and Secretary their salaries as soon as due, and torn up all the sta- tionery available, they may be better able to bear the responsibility than their older and more diffident col- leagues. In any event we shall never believe Free- n and Van Fleet zre particeps criminis until the is proved by trustworthy evidence in a court of ccmpetent jurisdiction It has been the practice of Legislative Judiciary Committees heretofore to throw the work of all Com- missioners appointed to “revise” and “reform” the laws into convenient wastebaskets. That fate w dcubtless in due time overtake the work of this one In the meantime it may be well for the taxpayers consider how much this biennial monkeying with the codes is costing them. The Commissioners draw each $4000 annually and their secretary $2400. They have s clerk and stenographer, who destroy a'la-ge quantity of official stationery every year. Their exist- ence was authorized by a statute passed in 1895. So up to date they have cost the treasury nearly $100,000, which does not inclade the expense of printing their “reports.” Vet it never seems to occur to anybody to suggest the abolition of the commission. Will California a hundred years hence still be in the business of revis- ing and reforming its laws through the legislative wastebasket at 2 cost of $20,000 annually? —— Commissioner Some one who has influence with the yellow kid of local journalism and wishes to bestow a benefit upon San Francisco ought to persuade the little rascal to apologize for the outrageous errors of his election predictions. The public would have the satisfaction of krowing that the saffron youngster would be kept out of evil ways for a long time ¥ { ming. {in | by The Call | votes in the Electoral College and Bryan 166. Both are gentlemen of sense and ability, | As the latter have probably drawn ' ELECTION FORECASTS. NY times has The Call demonstrated by | /\/\ some striking achievement of newsgatherAing the difference between legitimate _journalism and that fake journalism which does not gather news but substitutes for it any kind of a story that will fill space without much cost and please people who de- | ight in being fooled. Rarely, however, has it ever made a more striking demonstration of that contrast than by collecting information upon which to base a forecast of the result of the elections which have just | taken place. 3 It will be remembered that The Call and the New York Herald made a careful study of the trend of public sentiment in all the States, and on October 21 | The Call published the result of the investigation. It | gave a table showing the probable vote of every State 4 in the Union. Some of the States, Illinois, Indiana and Kansas, were then considered doubtful. The | Call placed every one of those States as sure for Mc- | | Kinley. The result shows they were so. In fact, The | | Call correctly forecast the vete of every State, whether considered doubtiul or not. Nor was the forecast confined to the Presidential ticket. The Con- | gressional elections were calculated with an almost | equal accuracy, and despite all claims that the Demo- | crats would control the House of Representatives, the | forecast gave a Republican majority in that branch | | of the Government which tallies very closely with the | results thus far made known. | By way of contrast with the correctness of the es- timates of The Call made October 21 the public | should note the forecast published in the Examiner 1 of October 29, a week later. The Examiner claimed | as sure for Bryan 197 electoral votes, including among | them those of West Virginia, Kansas, Wyoming, 1 | South Dakota and Maryland, which The Call had placed a week before in the McKinley column, and | i which voted as The Call predicted. Furthermore, the | Examiner placed as coubtful New York, Delaware, ‘Nonh Dakota, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, California, | Washington. Each of those States The Cali | had forecast as being sure for McKinley, and in that respect also The Call has been proven right and the [ Examiner wrong. | The wide difference in the results of the two calcu- | lations is due to the difference in the methods by which the calculations were made. The Call, aided | by the Herald, gathered news; the Examiner faked a report and published it as news. For the purpose of obtaining correct information there were employed by The Call and the Herald mr‘fn] and reliable stu- | dents of political affairs in every doubtful State and Congressional district. The informaticn thus tained was worth something. | | It gave the people a | comprehensive idea of the whole situation, and from an American standpoint was the most valuable news item of the day on which it was published. The fake estimate of the yellow journal cost nothing and was worth nothing. Finally, it is to be noted that Bryan lost this year the one vote he had in California four years ago, the ten he had in Kansas, the four he had in South Da- kota, the four in West Virginia and the three in Wyo- On the other hand he will probably gain twelve votes in Kentucky, where the election is in doubt, but which gave that many votes to McKinley 1806, Each of these gains and losses was forecast In short, our tables gave McKinley 281 In- cluded in the Bryan column were Idaho, Kentucky and Nebraska, whose vote is still in doubt. Should one of these States prove to be for McKinley it would be the only error in the calculations made and pub- lished two weeks before the elections. Such accuracy of estimates proves the thoroughness of the news- | gathering upon which they were based, and demon- strates the reliability of the news service The Call gives the public. THE DEFEAT OF THE BOSSES. H ARDLY any feature of the elections in this | State is more gratifying than that which reveals the careful discrimination exercised by the peo- ple in supporting Republican | such candidates were thoroughly candidates. Where representative of the principles of the party they were almost witholut | exception elected by good majorities, but where the | bosses had succeeded in nominating notorious rail- road tools on the Republican- ticket self-respecting ':penple refused to be - supporters of such men, and | most of them were defeated. ® The circumstances under which the bosses were | beaten adds to the satisfaction with which the victory | for honest politics will be regarded. The trend of | public sentiment was so overwhelmingly Republican | that every candidate who had a place on the Repub- | | lican ticket had an immense advantage over his oppo- “r-om. Moreover, W. F. Herrin, who in times past | had never shown himself openly in supporting rail- | road candidates and opposing honest men, came out | publicly in this camp.\fign, and by bringing Kelly and | Crimmins to the front as political leaders made him- | self a partner with them in the fight. Thus the defeat { | of those candidates demonstrates that the intelligence | of the Republican voters of San Francisco will not tolerate “yellow dogs” even in such tidal wave years | #s this, and that the Southern Pacific Company has no longer the strength in local politics it once had. The fight made by Herrin, Crimmins and Kelly was directed mainly to the election of Dibble and the defeat of Belshaw. No man in either branch of the Legislature has ever been more compliant or more | unscrupulous in sefvice to the railroad than Dibble, and no man has ever stood against them more firmly in the interests of the people and of honesty than Belshaw. Therefore Herrin spared no expense of time, energy.or money to elect the one and defeat the other. All his efforts were vain. The victory of the people was decisive. Dibble was beaten. Belshaw was elected. This demonstration of the clearness with which a majority of the voters of the State discriminate be- tween genuine Republicanism and the. spurious poli- tics which the railroad and the bosses undertake to carry out under the name of Rep’ubficanis.m comes at a most opportune time. The:Southern Pacific:is’ in the hands of new managers. The newly chosen presi- | dent, Mr. Hays, will ere long enter upon the work of his office. When he reaches California he will’ be confronted with this evidence of the alliance between Herrin and the ward bosses of San Francisco to do “crooked politicsg” and he will also perceive how far that alliance is antagonistic to the sentiment and the interests of the people. It is hardly likely he will ig- nore the lesson. The people of California are sure to derive a great profit from the discrimination they have exercised. They have rid the Legislature of the presence of Dibble as a member of the Assembly. If he go to Sacramento to do politics he will have to go as a lobbyist. They have by indorsing Mr. Belshaw given encouragement to every honest legislator. Finally, they have brought dbout a situation which will in all likelihood lead the new managers of the Southern Pacific to either remove Herrin from cffice or at least compel him t‘ attend to the legitimate business of ob- | the road hereafter and quit slum politics. Over such results there is good reason to feel the highest grati- fication. THE PAYMENT OF CUSTOMS. ERCHANTS doing business in New York /V\ have long enjoyed the privilege of paying customs duties by bank certificates, and as 1 consequence their importers are able to liquidate duties at the Custom-house without carrying the very large sums of money involved through the streets in cash. The advartages of the privilege are many, and it is gratifying that the Merchants’ Association of this city Ks begun a movement to obtain a similar privi- lege for importers here. In order that the plan may be clearly understood by those interested, the association has obtained from New York full information concerning the practical operation of the system in that city. Copies of the letter and documents containing the have been sent to the banks and to the leading com- mercial houses of the city ifiviting co-operation in the undertaking. In a circular letter pointing out the ‘%" sirability of the privilege the directors of the associa- | tion say: “We believe that it only requires the fa- | vorable consent of the commercial banks of the city to make successiul a petition to the Treasury De- partment for the extension of this privilege to San Francisco.” Such being the case it is to be hoped the banks will cordially respond to the movement. In describing the method of procedure in that city the letter from the Merchants' Association of New York says: “Any bank in this city which is a mem- ber of 'the clearing-house may make a deposit at the sub-treasury at its opening in the morning of such sum as it deems best, for which it receives from the sub-treasury a certificate of deposit, in duplicate, cov- ering the amount. This certificate shows: that the amount deposited is to be applied in payment of cus- toms duties. One of the certificates is retained by the bank, the other being immédiately sent by it to th= Collector of the Port. Any client of that bank who has occasion to make payment of duties during the | day can go to the bank and obtain from it a certifi- cate directed to the Collector of the Port for the sum which he has to pay. The client takes the certificats to the Collector, who receives the same as so much cash. At the end of the day the Collector sends all these certificates, together with a summary thereof, to the sub-treasury, with the request that the balance of the sum total deposited by the banks be distributed. Thereupon the sub-treasury returns to generally through the clearing-house, a check for such balance as remains after deducting the customs duties paid during the day. In this way eath day’s transactions are completed that day. The same process is repeated day after day.” It will be seen from the summary of the working of the system that the plan is'not onerous to the banks, is perfectly safe for the Government and is of great benefit to merchants. It is stated that in New York the customs duties average $500,000 daily, and the advantage ‘of a plan which enables merchants to { avoid carrying that sum through the “streets every day is too apparent to need explanation. The import business of San Francisco is bound to increase rapidly with the expansion of oriental trade, and it is therefore timely for our merchants to obtain all the privileges which assist in facilitating the busi- ness. A CHANCE FOR DEMOCRACY. N the day after the 'great and glorious election O an old dyed-in-the-wool Democrat was heard bewailing the fate that in his imagination awaited him and his. “After imperialism,” said he, “will come militarism. Then there will be a suppres- sion of everything in the country that opposes the ad- ministration. Democracy, if it exist at all, will have to be a secret order. It will no longer be tolerated in the open.” While there is nothing in the situation to justify | fears of militarism, there is enough to sustain the con- clusion that as a political organization Democracy is no longer of any value. There is no need to make it a secret order, but if it is to survive at all it will have to be converted to other uses than that of nomi- | nating candidates for the Presidency and drawing up platiorms. It can hardly be conducted as a fraternal association just at present, for there is too little brotherly love among the few voters who remain in it; nor can it be made a glee club or musical society, for it has at present no inclination to melody. The laws will not permit it to operate as an athletic club | for the promotion of prize-fights, and no other kind of athletics would be pleasing to its members in their gloom. There remains a plan of making it a pic- nic association, and that plan merits consideration. | - By arranging a series of picnics held far from the madding crowd Democracy could still be of some service to the State. For example, in this city it might take Phelan out for a frolic and either lose him | in the woods or drop him in the bay. A national frolic of a similar nature would give a chance to lose | Bryan, Altgeld and others. Services of that kind | would be appreciated. All discussions of Democratic reorganization should take the picnic club idea into consideration. It will be a great deal better than making a secret society out of the thing, or trying to | run it any more as a political machin ‘; Reports, founded in the gravest -suspicion and based upon ugly facts, point again to the head of the law department of the Southern Pacific Company as a disbursing agent of political corruption. It is to | be hoped that the new directors of the corporation will learn enough of our politics to be wise enough | to mind their own business, - | China has overcome its objections, it appears, to the desecration of its graveyards and will permit the building of railroads. The oriental powers that be | have evidently reached the conclusion that it is better | to have a few railroads rather than many graveyards | made by aggressive foreigners, | The Board of Supervisors seems to be honestly :moved by a purpose to check the adulteration of fcods. The board would take a long step in the right direction by commanding the Board of Health to enforce the laws already in existence but notoriously disobeyed. The grief with which the patrolmen of the Police Department accept their duty to check night lamps that are unlighted may worthily be compared with the dread of night pedestrians who suffer from that municipal parsimony which keeps the city in dark- ness. The Michigan aspirant for office who killed him- self because of the severity of the criticism aimed against him must have had a sense of his unworth even more keen than that of his critics. . And now Switzerland wants to borrow several mil- Lions of dollars from vs. Uncle Sam is the most popular man on earth when there are favors to be granted. ; A information | each bank, | GERMANY HAS A NOVEL IN ELEVATED RAILROADS g EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY ~ BANGOR NEWS-—The entrance exam- inations for our schools are advanced be- cause the race is gaining in knowledgs. ° The boy of 15 is as well educated to-day as the college graduate was fifty years ago. PHILADELPHIA TIMES-Count Bont n't marry Miss Gould for her personal arms, for she didn't possess any of spe- cial value; he didn’'t marry her for her i telliger for she was furnished with t mmodity on a very but she had fifteen »ns money, and Count Boni wanted them very badly. DA EWS—There is no reason why ences over the Chinese out- break should not be referred to the court established for such purposes. In fact, | if this matter is not duly referred to this at The Hague ce Wi met. be o THE BARMEN-ELBERFELD SUSPENDED RAILWAY, THE INVENTION { OF THE LATE HERR EUGENE LANGEN OF COLOGNE. EIGHT MILES LONG AND IN DAILY USE. T 18 | above the Rivgr Wupper. whole car depends. roof. practically no noise. improved and modified to the monorall trial section of the monorail suspension | was commenced in the spring of 1898, i amendment. | PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. C. L. Hammond of Nevada is at the Grand. W. J. McDonald, the brewer, is at the Grand. W. W. Cary, a Stockton mining man, is at the Lick. H. C. Davy of San Jose, a mining man, is at the Lick. Senator Willlam M. Stewart of Carson is at the Palace. Speaker of the Assembly Alden Ander- son Is at the Grand. Irving H. Taylor, a New York mer- chant, is at the Palace. Senator Thomas Flint Jr. of San Juan Is registered at the Palace. S. J. Fore, a big railroad contractor of Ashland, Or., is at the Grand. George Myers, a prominent Fresno mer- chant, is stopping at the Liclk. Professor W. W. Campbell of the Lick Observatory is at the California. H. S. Stevens, proprietor of the Stevens Hotel at Seattle, is at the Grand. C. S. Benson and wife of Portland ara stopping at the Palace for a few days. W. A. Brewer, principal of one of the schools at San Mateo, is at the Palace. J. S. Rodriguez, a prosperous Guate- mala coffee planter, is at the Occidental. 0. 1. Woodward, a large land owner at Woodward Isle, is stopping at the Grand. ©O. 0. Howard Jr., a prominent Los An- geles merchant, is stopping at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. Feulet of Paris are at the California. They are making a tour of the world. J. D. Ludwig, mining superintendent of Mariposa, is stopping at the Grand for a few days. . Dr. F. H. Paterson and wife of San Juan have taken apartments at the Grand Sl ¢ he United States geo. f the Unite - mg‘cfi -E?:Q:thw“mng:on is registered at the Occidental: B. F. Porter, general superintendent of the Phoenix Railroad in Arizona, is reg- d at the Occidental. l!;;rex«'. Wells of Sydney arrived in the city yesterday on a tour of the world. While in San Fraifcisco he will make his headquarters at the Occidental. J. H. Bennett of Reno, who was re- cently appointed general freight and pas- senger agent of the Nevada, California and Oregon Railroad, is at the Palace. “This Is his first trip to the coast. — ——————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Nov. 8—Mrs. J. . Morgan of San Francisco is at the Arling- ton. S. N. Baker of Los Angeles is at the St. James. P SRR Ry ] + . ook out for the hundreds of + 4 laughs in the comic half-tone [ 4+ scction given free with next 4 + Sunday’s Call. * 4 + PHitttttstttttttet it & i The thanks of all . Francisco Call for its fearless and done, Call; keep up the good work. MPEROR WILLIAM'S recent visit to Barmen and Flberfeld was connected with the opening, not only of a hall of fame conceived on a plan somewhat similar to that which is shortly to grace University Helghts, but also of a railroad which Is the first of its kind to be put into practical operasion. At once a one rail and a suspended railway, the line runs from Voh- winkle to Elberfeld and Barmen, the two latter towns being centers of great in- dustrial activity, with an aggregate population of a quarter of a million. distance is a little over eight miles, and for a greater part of this the track is The carriages travel literally hanging from a single rail running exactly above the center line of the roof. These carriages each have two pairs of bicycle bogle wheels, one at each end of the roof, from which the The wheels have electric motor attachments, which develop energy sent along a second rail in the usual means of stout hooked bars, which bend from the wheel axle round one side of the rall, and fix into huge steel eves projecting from the middle line of the car's The railroad itself, consisting of two distinct lines—for up and down traffic —Is rigidly held by cross girder work. The whole superstructure is supported at a suitabie height above road and river traffic by A and O shaped trestles, the ends of which rest in masonry foundations at either side of the way. The designed maximum speed of the railway is only thirty-six miles an hour, but it should be noted that curves and gradients are many. stations on thes stretch of eight miles between the termini. pages at each of these, trains will take twenty minutes for Trains on this upside-down railway travel smoothly, with very little vibration and They are amply provided with brakes and usual safety ap- pliances, and by a somewhat novel provision regulate the signals automatically. Herr Engene Langen of Cologne was the originator of the “hanging” railway, | but in a trial stretch of line which he bullt at Cologne in 1883 the cars were sup- ported by double sets of wheels running on two lines. ly died, beforz seeing his system put to practical use. burg and Augsburg, to whom the work of erection was intrusted. was found to be so eminently satisfactory that the sister towns of Elberfeld and Barmen® entered upon negotiations for the construction of a line. e S S TEACHERS ARE THANKFUL. Thanks are the orders of the day at present, hence it Is only proper to say that the teachers of this city fully recoginze and appreciate the value of the services of The Call in its loyal support of Senate Amendment No. 15. The Call was, I believe the only morning paper It received the highest vote of the whole number ments, excepting the Stanford measure, for which we all voted, of course. The Call therefore has a right to plume itself. The teachers cannot forget this and they all feel correspondingly grateful to The Call, as well a§ to the evening journals that followed the course of +* The manner, and support the car by There are nineteen Inclusive of stop- the whole journey. The inventor subsequent- | The original idea was | system by engineering firms in Nurem- | In 185 a | system was put up in Cologne, and this Buflding | = that supported the of amend- R RE RN R S & The Call in advocating the cause of common justice. W. W. STONE, s 2 4- Principal Burnett School. & o San Francisco, Nov. 8, 1900. - o + B B A CHANCE TO SMILE. First Chinaman—Has Ah Push associ- ated very much with tne Christians? Second Chinaman—Oh, yes. You should hear him swear.—Puck. | Youth—Oh, I don't want to take that | character. I'll make a fool of myself. suré. Maiden—Well, you said you wanted an easy part.—Detroit Free Press. ¢ Little Clara was out with her mother, | taking dinner at a neighbor's house, and the hostess, In an attempt to be enter- | talning, asked her if she liked Kkittens. | The little miss shocked those gathered a: | the table by looking suspiciously at the chicken ple; and exclaiming, “I'd rather | have cake.”’—Tit-Bits. ' “What are we coming to? If this sort | of thing keeps on every soclal barrier will | be swept away.” “What's the matter now?” “Why, somebody's maid here in the Po- | lice Court actually got up and insisted ! that she is a kleptomaniac.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “I can't have lost all my good look: said Miss Northside to her best friend Miss Shadyside, ‘“for 1 can still obtain a | in a crowded streetcar.” | replied Miss Shadyside, ve seats to old age as well as to beauty.”— Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. | “These aren't the kind of biscuits my mother used to make,” he sald. “Oh, George,” she faltered, on the verge of tears. ““Well, they're not!” he repeated em- phatically. “They're enough sight bet- ter.” And then the sun came out again.—Phil- adelphia Evening Bulletin. Her Mother (sternly)—Mary complains that you won't help her at all; that you never even hold the baby. | Her Husband—That's not so. Why, 1| held him last night for a while. | Hfl; Mother—Oh, you did. How long, | pray Her Husband—Well—er—long enough for Mary to bring up a scuttle of coal.— Philadelphia Press. —————— Retire Them Now. ‘Whoever consults an Army Register will | discover that every colonel on the lst is a veteran of the Civil War, and one-third of them were in the army before 186, More than half of the lieutenant colonels and majors fought in the Civil War. Most of them, perhaps all, have had years of hardships in Indian campaigns. These men are nearing the age of compulsory retirement. Many of them are great suf- ferers and perform such service as is re- quired with all the fidelity of true soldlers but without the vigor. 1 dash of younger men, which is now impossible for them. They hang on, hoping for another promo tion that will enable them to gain a lit- tle larger retiring pay for the solace of their later years. Why should not a rich and grateful nation, which bestows pen- sions with lavish hand on privates who served but a few months in the Civil War. ive to these gray and weary veterans the n of retirement with their coveted pro- motion at once? It would cost but lfttle, They deserve such consideration and grat- uity, no, not gratuity, but earned honor and reward. It would bring into com- mand of our regiments and battalions el sieiiieleieiiniei el e e e @ 'KIND WORDS FOR THE CALL. Pinole Weekly Times. people, irrespective of party, should be Rase tendered the San § * politiclans. The Call's work in behalf of fying to the people of Contra Costa, and we watch fight it is making. The Call is a good, clean paper, and does not bring the blush of shame to the cheeks younger men, full of vigor and amb the consequence of which would b:u‘l,:.' creased efficiency and new o] Serand: *len life.—Boston % <+ - t bosses and Belshaw 1s very grati- with interest any other a t Metcalf and our ~and fit for of decent people. Well -7 | wasted. \being arrested by ['vent them joining the | “man Boer women'* ! a few miles outside of the same city | ersal 2 A. | can plutocrac | relied upon and might as well be aban- doned. PROVIDENCE JOURNAL~—In the mul- titude of ne works of fiction poured ¢ it is astounding to a proportion can be it novels pure and simp ¢, among the pictures ¢ racter drawn with the insight st and the perception of the ures that stand in some visi- m to the real world, pictures that are stamped with the art that is from the press t te | | truly “a eriticism of life.” MILWAUKEE WISCONSIN—Chicago has undoubtedly achieved a splendid sani- tary triumph in the conmstruction of the great drainage canal, and it has not yet appeared that in getting rid of her sewage by the river route she has endangered the health or the comfort of river cities. She is as deeply Interested in the lake ship- | ping as any port, and would suffer greatly in business were the outflow through the canal to seriously lower the level of the lake. There is therefore no cause for alarm on the part of other lake citles. PHILADELPHIA LEDGER—The two great needs of Porto Rico are schools and roads. Before schools can be estab- lished in the rural districts passable roads must be built, and the progress of these great improvements depends upon the prosperity and the revenues collected. Fortunately, conditions on the island are ing. The sugar ¢ P is the largest since 1892, and one o the lar ever produced, and the coffee crop. w only one-third that of a full yleld, Is six times larger than last year's crop. INDIANAPOLIS 'WS—Indiscriminat- ing effort in charity may be worse than Its result to the benefici not to rescue but to degrade. Its e on_society Is to misdirect, misapply exhaust the efforts of those who re desire to do something to ald the unfc unate. It encourages and multiplies men- dicants instead of uplifting men from loom of discouragement and despair. Tue charity does not mean to throw down_things to men in the abyss of pov- erty, but to lift them up so that they may be able to get things for themselves. CHARLESTON NEWS AND COU- RIER—The men of the Transvaal have | made a great name for themseives in war and now the British authorities are vol- untarily conferring a sort of “Victoria Cross” on some of the boys and women. “All Boers over fourteen vears of age. near Bloemfontein,” it is announced, are Britjsh troops “to pre- commandoes” and have been imprisoned is a proud record for the boys and women, but it is not one that any Bri can ever refer to with satisfaction. PHILADELPHIA NORTH AMERI- CAN—By making a row over the dis- of a few handfuls of coin, the Gou' are likely to discourage the amia- ble efforts of the nobility of Europe to gratify the American dinction and destroy the rapprochem between French aristocracy and Am .. They have their ( in the family, but they should cor the distressing plight of other plutocra American families, which have not entered the charmed circle of aristoera and are eager to buy counts, princes an other European social bric-a-brac at any price. CHICAGO RECORD—One of the impor- tant features of the reclamation of arid lands by means of impounding reservoirs is the fact that it would be immensely heip- ful to the project of improving the gres rivers of the West into commerecial water- ways. A system has been devised by number of engineers well posted on subject which shows that impounding reservoirs built along the Mississippi River would save many acres of land from alternating floods and dros ts and would make possible a channel twenty feetsin depth from Lake Michigan, if de- sired, to the Gulf of Mexico. CHICAGO INTER OCEAN-—Scientific interest and the commercial profit to be found in supplying the demands of public curiosity may enable the bison to survive. n 1 desire for social dis- | But he will no longer be the same em- Dbodiment of vital power as when he swept in countless thousands through the val- leys of the Platte and the Republican. Only those who saw the bison then ean reaiize how the description of the war- horse in the book of Job applied to him. His neck was “clothed with thunder.” Ha pawed in the valley and rejoiced in_his Rtrength. He swallowed the ground in flerceness and rage. Such was the bison, but we shall never again see him n all his glory. Commercial Education: The city of London, having already done valuable work for technical eaucation, ie about to direct its attention to the sub- ject of commercial >ducation. A special court of the corporation convened recent- 1y to consider a scheme which will prob- bly involve an expenditure of a quarter of a million sterling. It is prapo: to found a great school where vouths who have chosen a commercial carcer will be taught the technicalities of the branch they have selected. In such a school it will not be possible to make the fees very low, but it is hoped the case of vouths who are not able to pay the fees will be met by scholarships.—Cardiff Mafl. 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