The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 13, 1901, Page 6

e ) __Gall«o .FEBRUARY 13, 1901 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Aééress All Communications to W. . LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE. ++..Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFIC .Market and Third, S. ¥. Telephone Press 201. 217 to 221 Stevensom St.. Press 202, | EDITORIAL ROOMS Telep | r E are authorized to receive subscriptions. Bample coples will be forwarded when requested. VEEK All postmaste change of address should te | > OLD ADDRESS In order | iance with their request. Ma R OAKLAND OFFICE .1118 Broadway . | C. GEORGE KROGNESS. | Masager Foreign Advertising, Marguetts Building, Chicags, (Long T hone *‘Central 2619."") istance NEW YORK C CARLTON. . PONDENT: C. C. ++.Herald Square NEW YORK STEPHEN B. SMITH. . NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; REPRESENTATIVE: 30 Tribune Building ICAGO NEWS STANDS: ., ; Great Northern Hotel; ‘s Recital this afternoon. ~Races, RIGHTS . OF THE ACCUSED. on the people of San ned the arrival of the Legisla- ointed to investigate the police authorities of the city with their dealings gambling and town. The sa ion was due examination would be impartial, ng therefore that suggests for a suspicion that the so much to reveal st the police, w: eaken the effect of any report XJ ase it will be well for the commit- Ise step or mistake in ere is danger that The committee has per- testify that they were told d been offered to the po- have permitted the wit- i the Chinamen who cas oint out'to the com- at is valueless, and the American precedent An accused person s accusers and to is thoroughly un- 1ot accorded to vestigation public sym- side of the accused, and ured and condemned, of v be necessary to 1 m in peril of their lives o excuse the publica- If such rule no man’s reputation slander of some cowardly in confidence to an accus- ad that he be not confronted 1e be placed in peril. L t without their names. a story ery we wn in California that Chinese t 1y t absclutely reliable under the best | It i t always easy to get the a Chinaman even when he is sub- tion in open court. What aced upon charges made by corners and under the seal of confidence? hinese are not devoid of cunning. The mo- 1 ds them by a strict perform- | 1 any other way, they are prompt stories to his discredit. That he most faithful le doing duty or a yellow rascal to start :d prone to suspect evil is often a credulous ear. e v many of as poss: 1 is not a champion of the Police Commis- “hief of Police or any other person whose e in the in It is, how- n of fair dealing and justice. The no legal nor moral right to permit be sworn away on hearsay evi- uts of unknown persons. If the ese informants cannot be made pub- t exposing them to peril death, the 1d be given at least to the Police Commis- sioners, so that the accused may know how to re- fute it if it be ref It is well estigation of n that after service in Chinatown e police force was broken upon n secret by men with whom he was ind whose names he never knew, and en yesterday that a big sum of money was raised i own to have him refioved because he suppressed highbinders. That evidence should be warning to the committee. Already there are evi- dences cropping out that there is something of per- secution back of the investigation. The committee is not suspected of being a party to the persecution, but it must be careful to give the accused all the rights to which strict justice entitles them. It should per- mit no man’s reputation to be assailed by a hidden witness. ne Sergeant Price testimony n not con evidence was g f e — The Federal authorities, it is said, have suppressed four American newspapers in Luzon. It is not be- nd the range of probability that the Filipinos con- sidered this to be a withdrawal of the invading force. A Chicago young man, in misapplied enthusiasm, is trying to persuade the public that he is Charley Ross. This seems to be rather a unique way to induce one’s friends to believe that he is 2 dead one. | quarters that there will be membérs of Congress who | a gratitude clause, | tory, which will deal impartially with our motives and | and keep it out of the constitution. ! stitution and authorize the President to accept that THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1901. —— - - priately in the hands -of the miember for Buncombe | $— ——————————————————F IT N THE FENCE THE DELAY IN CUBA, T seems certain that the Cuban constitution cannot l be ready for submission to Congress in time for action at this session. This is to be greatly re- gretted. It will mean our continued military occu- pancy and goyernment of the island for another year. This will give strength to the suspicion that we do not mean to keep faith. ote" It is believed that a party exists in Cuba that has an understanding with annexationists in this country and has been influential in delaying the work of the | censtitutional convention in order to prolong Ameri- can occupancy and increase the chances of making it permanent. Certain ill advised utterances of Senator Beveridge | of Indiana in favor of holding on to Cuba regardless of our promise are now recalled, and there is a gene-al feeling of disquiet at the outlook. It is said in some will insist that the Cuban constitution shall contain | in express “terms thanking the United States for intervening in behalf of the island against Spain. This is fantastic. If such a position is taken it will subject the Republican party to a fo-m of criticism which will be found hard to answer or explain. If Cuba, of her own motion, chose to ex= press gratitude to us, while one might question the taste of putting it into the fundamental law, there would be no valid objection to it. Even such an ex- pression, however, can neither make nor blot out his- our methods in the Spanish war, Cuba would bet- | ter leave gratitude to us in the hearts of her people From our side there is no defense possible of the position that we would take in denying to Cuba the independence we | promised until she thanks us, constitutionally, for giv- ing it to her. Such an act would be the hissing and byword of history, Thanks enforced in that way would be without sincerity and without merit, and such action would stamp Cuba with spaniel-like cringing dnd present this country in an attitude for | which no apology can be made. Within the last few days there have been signs of division among Republicans in Congress upon the ex- ternal policy of the Government. The issues that have come from the Spanish war are by no means | settled, nor is there unanimity of agreement in the party concerning them. It is not well to add a | wrong Cuban policy to the accumulating difficulties and anxieties of the situation. We should make our exit from Cuba as speedily and as gracefully as pos- sible consistent with the continued maintenance of order there. mong the bright spots in the history of Rome prior to her abandonment to a policy of causeless con- quest is her conduct under circumstances that sug- gest our relations with Cuba. After Paulus Emilius had delivered Macedonia and | Tllyria from the greed and tyranny of Perseus the | Roman Senate gave liberty to the people of those countries “in order,” as the decree recited, “that all nations might know that the purpose of the Roman arms was not to subject free people, but to deliver such as were enslaved, so that the one under the pro- tection of the Roman rame might always retain their liberty, and the other, who were under the rule of kings, might be treared with ‘more lenity and justice by them through consideration for the Romans, or that whenever war should arise between those kings | and the Roman people the nations might know that the issue of those wars would be victory for the | Romans and liberty for them.” Therefore it was decreed that the Roman garrisons should be withdrawn as speedily as possible and the | people be left free to govern themselves. But all this was before the Caesars, when Rome it- self was free. The example is ancient, but may well be followed by this country. The complications that will other- wise appear are most painful, and we will be.in the | position of increasing our responsibilities and losing our self-respect. The country would rejoice if Congress, before it ad- journs, would indicate its views of the Cuban con- instrument tipon conformity thereto and withdraw our troops upon the organization of a government. We repeat that the country is not indulging in a cheerful mood over the Cuban prospect. The an- nouncement that the treaty of Paris absolves us in part from the obligation assumed to Cuba in the reso- lution declaring war against Spain is not well re ceived. Nothing in the treaty of Paris compels us ‘0 violate our promise unless we choose to so construe it. If any such clause appears in that treaty it is our | fault that it is there, for Spain was powerless to make us consent to anything we did not wish. To fall back upon such a technicality will not satisfy the country's sense of honor. FOLITICAL IMPEACHMENT. URING the recent campaign nothing bothered D Colonel Bryan more than questions about the disfranchisement of negroes in North Caro {lina. He faced every way in answering to avoid a col- lision with his Southern supporters. The constitution of that State was changed so as to disfranchise all illiterates who are not descended from men qualified to vote in 1865. This leaves the ballot with ignorant whites but takes it from ignorant negroes. After it was adopted the disfranchisers. of North Carolina found themselves in a peculiar position. The amend- | ment was sure to be carried to the courts and as sure to reach the Supreme Court of the State. That body consisted of three Republicans (Faircloth, Furches | and Douglass), and a Democrat (Clark) and a Popu- list (Montgomery). As the Republicans have the ma- jority of the bench they must be driven off it be- fore the disfranchising amendment can reach them, as they would surely decide that it deprives the negro of | the ballot on account of the servitude of his anees- tors, which is forbidden by the Federal constitution. Therefore these Republican Judges must be expelled from the bench by impeachment. But there must be some excuse for such a proceeding; a case must he made against them that will enable the partisan Legis- lature to keep a straight face and pretend that it is acting in the public interest. Tne pretext for im- peachment is of interest in itself and for the use pro- | posed to be made of it. Four years ago the fusionists {in North Carolina elected Theophilus White State Fish Commissioner. Two years ago the Democrats dropped fusion and carried the State single-handed. | Then they wanted all the offices and proceeded to | oust White in the middle of his term. But the case was taken to the Supreme Court, which decided thar | he could not be deprived of his office until the expira- | tion of his term. The Democrats, determined that if | one of them could not draw the salary no one shouid, | thereupon passed a law forbidding the payment of White's salary. The matter again went to the Su- preme Court and the three Republican Judges issued a mandamus ordering the Auditor to issue a warrant 1’°‘ White’s salary and the Treasurer to pay it out of i the shellfish fund. For this judicial act they are to | be impeached. The case against them is very appro- P / County, Mr. Craig, who is an aspirant for the seat in the United States,Senate now held by Pritchard. Mr. Craig regards it as important that he succeed in im- peaching the Judges for the White mandamus, as that will advance his Senatorial fortunes, Such a prostitution of the power of impeachment was never heard of in an American State before. But it is necessary in order to disfranchise fifty thousand colored voters and enable the Bryan party to hold its | grip on the State, so Mr. Craig plants his tar heel on the neck of justice. : By and by the Supreme Court of the United States will pass on that disfranchising amendment and nul- lify it, and then it will appear to the people of North peachment for nothing. —— THE BUFFALO EXPOSITION. l cerning the Buffalo Exposition it appears the enterprise is regarded in that section not so much as a means of making a grand spectacular display of nient and enlightenment of the public as a commer- cial venture designed to promote immediate trade among the countries of this hemisphere. Carolina that they disgraced their State in this im- 'ROM the tone of discussions in the East con- the products of American industry for the entertain- Thus the Philadelphia Public Ledger recently said: “The Centennial Exhibition was less a pazaar than 1 ! great museum of the products of human activity. Some exhibitors entered it in order to advertise and extend their business, but there were many others who dis- regarded commercial interests and exhibited for the honor of the nation. The Buffalo Exhibition will be more in the nature of a bazaar, a commercial enter- prise for the promotion of trade. No one will be ex- ‘pected to send exhibits to it unless he sees in it a promise of some return for his investment, and it is because the Pan-American Exhibition offers some- | what exceptional opportunities to bring the products of our mills and factories before the people of the most populous States in the Union that Philadelphia | manufacturers ought 1o consider its value as an ad- vertising medium.” If that view be the correct one the Buffalo Exhi- bition may prove more beneficial than if its purposes were the same as that of the great expositions at Philadelphia and at Chicago. There is something radically wrong in our trade relations with the coun- tries to the south of us. The great bulk of their im- !ports are drawn from Europe, notwithstanding the fact that the United States is much better fitted to | supply their needs economically than is any country of the Old World. Accordingly it is time for an ear- nest effort to be made to obtain our rightful share of | the trade. Many reasons have been offered in explanation of the rapid increase of German trade with South Amer- ica and the comparative stagnation of-our own. It is said the Germans have better Consuls, have more | thorough banking relations with those countries and have the further advantage of a merchant marine sup- ported by the Government. Each of those reasons undoubtedly counts for something in the problem; but all of them combined would not account for the | whole of it. It is indisputable that we have never made a really resolute effort to get the Central and | South American trade. If now the Buffalo Exposi- tion leads to more comprehensive attempts in that direction it can hardly fail to bring to the Unitzd | States much of the business that is now given to our European competitors. Tor the people of California the chance afforded at Buffalo to find a profitable market for their goods is an excellent one. The task of providing an exhibi- tion of the industries of the State is in good hands, and with a fair amount of co-operation on the part of producers, manufacturers and merchants the exhibi- tion ought to attract to California not only a consid- erable number of home-seekers and capitalists seeking investment, but also a much greater share of South American trade than we have yet obtained.. | WAR REVENUE REDUCTIONS. S was expected, the House has refused to agree f\ to the alterations made by the Senate in the war revenue bill and has asked for a confer- ence. There was, in fact, on the part of some of the members a desire to reject the Senate bill summarily as an unconstitutional measure. The, House has the sole right of originating revenue measures. It framed the bill providing for a reduction of the war taxes. The Senate eliminated almost every line of the original measure except the title and tw el:nacting‘ clause, and framed what is virtually a new bill. Con- sequently the House had some show of right to reject it on the score of a violation of the constitution, For- tunately, however, only a small fraction of the mem- bers present were in favor of fighting it on that ground, and after a sharp debate a motion asking the Senate for a conference was carried by a vote of 233 to 38. Such a decisive majority in favor of a conference may be taken as a proof that the House is desirous of passing the bill at this session and is not unwilling | to agree upon a compromise. Richardson of Ten- nessce expressed what is probably the opinion of a* majority of both parties when in opposing the consti- tutional objection he said: “The people ask relief from the burden of excessive taxation, and Congress has undertaken to -provids it. Now just as the relief is about to be realized a fine drawn constitutional par- liamentary issue is raised. If the objection prevails the friends of high taxation would rejoice, for by a technicality they would have suspended the reductior bill in midair between the two houses.” The objectors having been voted dogn, the bill is not to be suspended—at least it is not suspended at that point. It happens, however, that the life of this Congress is now very short. There will be required prompt work on the part of the conference to get the ‘houses into agreement in time for the passage of the measure before the end comes, and it may yet be held up in committee. - The public would of course be gratified to have taxes reduced in any way the reductions were made. but the present outlook does not promise that full satisfaction expected when the bill was first taken under consideration. The Senate appears to be re- solved that the revised bill shall contain no provision requiring express and telegraph companies to pay their share of the tax without shifting it upon the peo- ple, and the House can hardly force it to surrender the point. The 4th of March is near at hand, and the Representatives are more eager than the Senators to pass the bill. Consequently the Senators have the ad- vantage, and they will doubtless make full use of it. It is therefore almost certain that the bill to be agreed upon will be much more like the Senate meas- ure than that framed by the House, and with that the public must be content at present. It would be interesting and no doubt profitable to | the public to know by what train of reasoning a Chi- nese gambler and briber arrived at the conclusion that the safest course for him to pursue was to attempt o bribe an agent of Mayor ¢ 3 UNCLE SAM O “THI coy 3 : WIL, CongTa AT NSTRUCT "“SEE THAT B Pirennia wNDdN PUNCH, IN ITS LATEST CHIP ON HIS SHOULDER. THE WORLD, SEEMS TO THINK THE OLD MAN IS THERE WITH A ISSUE TO REACH THIS PART OF L - PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. Merrit Hitt of Los Angeles is at the Grand. W. J. B. Lee, an ofl man of Bakersfleld, is at the Palace. C. T. Stevenson, a capitalist of Oroville, is at the California, Frank P. Hazen and wife of Healdsburg are at the California. R. E. Hyde, a banker of Visalla, is reg- istered at the Palace. T. B. Bond, a prominent attorney of Lakeport, is at the Grand. J. W. Dinsmore, a young merchant of San Jose, is at the Occldental. James F. Peck, an attorney from Mer- ced, is registered at the Lick. R. G. Morrison, an ofl operator of Ba- kersfield, is at the €alifornia. W. D. Mincker, a mining man of Su- sanville, Is a guest at the Grand. H. H. Pratt of Fresno and Fred Foster of Hanford are guests at the Lick. James McCudden, a naval contractor of Vallejo, is registered at the California. Drury Melone of Napa arrived in the city yesterday. He is at the Occldental. W. F. O'Leary, a prominent merchant of Healdsburg, is in the city on business. H. H. Knapp, a banker of Napa, accom- panied by his wife, is registered at the Palace. J. P. Treanor, a resident of Fruitvale, | and J. G. Scott, connected with the paper mill at Agnews, are at the California. SRR e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—From San Fran- cisco—E. H. Adams is at the Everett, H. Dernham and wife are at the Savoy, J. 8. Dodge is at the’ Victoria, B. Hickmott is at the Grand Union, J. B. Murphy is at the Cadillac, D. M. Moses is at the Crite- rion. * ] FASHION HINTS FROM PARIS. * : * | 1 * [ 2 . ANSWERS TO QUERIES, ROYAL NAVY—J. H. O., O'Neals, Ma- dera County, Cal. The British royal navy |has- in all 526 vessels afloat and 47 build- | Ing. A GAME OF CARDS—H., City. The game of “high five” described In letter of inquiry is nqt sufliciently set forth in order to determine the status of each player, therefore an answer cannot be furnished. | City. Had you waiched this department closely, as you wri‘te you did, yqu would have seen the answers to your question February 9, under the {itle “San Bruno Range—G. H. I, City.”™ HUNTING ON SUNDAY-—Correspond. erit, Soulsbyville, Cal. This department is not in possession of any data to assert “for a positive fact that Theodore Ropse- velt, Vice President-clect, hunted on Sun- days during his recent hunting trip.” | | | RHUBARBS Several Correspondents. | For information other than that which appeared in The Call in regard to the Australian_crimson winter rhubarb com- municate with the agricultural experi- ment station at the University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley, . THE BAL MASQUE—-B. B, Sacra- mento, Cal. Those who desire tickets for the bal masque to be given In the Hop- kins Art Institute should comrgunicate with the committee of arrangements. Sarah Bernhardt will not appear in Cleo- patra this season in San Francisco. THE LARGEST VESSEL-J. H. O, | O'Neals, Cal. The largest vessel afloat is | the Oceanic of the White Star line. She | measures 704 feet long. 68 feet breadth | and 4 feet depth. Her net tonnage Is | | 6996, and gross 17,274. Her indlcatéd horse- | | power is 27,000 and her registered horse- | | power is 3014 REGULARS AND VOLUNTEERS—R. L. H., Fort McDowell, California. Regu- | lars who ‘enlisted between June 2 and June 30, 1599, in the United States army will not be entitled to discharge from the service on the 1st of next July. That ap- plies only to volunteers. HAIGHT STREET BALL GROUND— L. P. 8., City. The boundarles of what | was known as,the Halght street baseball | ounds were Cole street on the east, rederick on the south, Stanyan on the | west and Waller on the north. The grounds included Shrader street, which | then temporarily closed. STAMP LANGUAGE-L. 8. F., Goshen, | Cal, and R. R. A., City. The language of | stamps, so called, is any combination that may be agreed upon by two or more per- sons who may wish to correspond. They | can agree that the plaeinltpg,. mp:oén itions on envelo) - oy Ceiain Ideas, understood by the sender and the receiver. INDIGESTION—E., City.- This depart- ment does not undertake to prescribe for rsons who are suffering from indiges- Blon or other diseases. Persons sometimes are under the impression that they are suffering from some particular allment and are ready to take any “cure” that is suggested. The proper thing to do is to consult a reputable physician. CHILBLAINS—Martha, City. Those who are troubled with chilblains are re- quired to carefully protect hands and feet against cold and are required to wash hands and feet thoroughly and frequent- ly; they are not allowed to go near fire | when l{ley are cold. They are treated by | the application of various stimulating ap- | plications, such as ciirine oinwment, tigct- ure of lodine and solution of nitratd of sllver. These, however, should not be ap- plied except under the advice and direc- tion of a reputable physician. Sometimes a surgical ope: ion has to be resorted to. | —— N tenese A CHANCE TO SMILE. The Artist (proudly)—TI recelved $5000 for that pleture! - Mr. Porkham—Gee whiz! Now you'll be able to quit paiatin’ and Ir;to some kind | k. o of business, won't you?—&’u Cassldy—The driver av the furst hack asked me the way to the cimitary. Of towld him. DuegnnA‘x‘mn ¥yez are a hodcarrier no more. Cassidy—Phwat am O1? Dugan—Yez e a funeral director. Hang out yer sign.—Philadelphia Record. Jinkins—TI see that a lobster which had l!un 100,000 years has been dug up at Eas- on, AUTOMOBILE MANTLE. THhe mantle represented is of nickel gray cloth. The bolero is stitched, and has alternate shawl lapels of gray and cream colored panne. The mantle is made in broad pleats over a dress of broadtail, —_————— Carnegie as’a Boy. That boy nature doesn’t change much from one generation to another is shown by Andrew Carnegie's story of how he first became zcquainted with the plays of Shakespeare. ‘‘When I was carrying messages as a boy in Pittsburg,” he says, “it was the rule :henln‘l:e had a telegra; e m! n;‘rmnne,:o hag beglun. t‘l‘: wuh.rully sul sing how few dispatches t! :ot before lho,'mp:‘nc of that ances and how manz bc:gu to them two 5 HorflE m i“. hot 0] % to gain that privilege " Soston GIEmore sotlebide el a times we Md Simpkins—TI told you long ago that you ;'ho:;x:'t give up hope.—] naunm’u- ews. Blobbs—How does old Gotrox along ith Lord Slimpurse since his ship married the old man’s daughter? Slobbs—Very well, Ind‘efi You know the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.—Phila- delphia Record. “Have you ever heard Paderewski?” in- quired the patron. “No,"” replied the musical barber; “you = R L RN O R R wears s way, ‘5 - olic Btnmm.r 7 e - Bill-Your wife used to have Bil—You o black hair, Jill—Oh, yes: haven't you heard story about her hair? 4o “Oh, s it a chestnut now ?"—Yonkers Statesman. Dfistylu 8. Gotham—I met Mrs. the street vesterday. She 'd:mltyla = to remain in their seaside’ “&l‘. Hum. Just m g::kcl it fn that 'hm..lw" T y. 3 NOT A CLOSE READER-G. H. I.,| horities are definitions, De- having another dispu wet calls spies.—Detrol Encouraging Large Fa The able statesmen o are forwarding measures rearing of large families vise means and opportu port of such families valling standards by tho: Obviously the proposed S: $10 a year to the mother and $% to those who bri or more children will not g in disposing of the problem Springfield Republican. Temptation to Extravagance, A treasury deficit Is to be far ed by reasonable men than mous _treasury surplus. In 18, at least, some defense agai: agant expenditure. In the enc ‘cumulation of treasury sur chief temptation to an expenc r threatens in’ this session of C« reach §750,000,000. The treasury s both an incentive te extravagance obstacle to reduction of taxation delphia Record. Selfishness or Devotion? In Scott County, Kansas, thers | school district in which there is onl family and thrée pupils. The teac the mother of the scholars. and recei a salary for teaching them, in addition rent for the schoolhouse, which is her o residence. A move is on foot to abolis the distriet. It ought not to succeed. Tha wife and mother who would consent to thus isolate herseif should recefve som- compensation, besi he children are en- titled to education.—St. Louis Star. “Culture” in Foreign Husbands. It did not need the Countess Frenfa- nelli-Cebo to tell us that American girls choose foreign husbands superiof culture and re ropean nobflity. We have tinguished examples of t ory, among whom it Is ¢ mention Monsieur le Comte ¢ Prince Hatzfeldt and Prince call-‘em, the titled dago who n W. Mackay's daughter and t Mackay_rescued her and | home. " The culture of these g undenfable, only it is of the kir this country gets a man thrash three times a week and finishe: him in jail.—Chicago Chronicle. The Negro North and South. Robert R. Church of Memphis, who was born a slave and worke siave in his boyhood, has contribt toward the entertainment of the « F his in the spring. | Southern papers have seized u | showing that the negro has beg ize that his true friends are to {In"the South, The “northern ba in New York, Akron, Leavenworth Colorado are again referred to; and cer tainly if they be taken as eriteria | negro’s lot in the North is far from h | ful. - But the claim that the negro receives better treabment south of M and Dixon's line than north of it is a | doubtful one.—Springfleld Republican New Mediterranean Alliance. It seems that Merciér's plan for Invad- ing England has stirred up emn | among the Gauls. Rear Admiral lere now has a beautiful pian for tition_of Turkey and the format new Mediterranean concert. R Germany are not to pe In it. It is cern of Germany's, anyway, and Russia i8 to_be compensated with a free gift of the Persian Gulf. Turkey proper would €0 to Austria and Italy, and Spain would get Moroceo. Presumably France is to be actuated by pure humanitarianism: she gets nothing in particular. This Medi- terranean reapportionment. with England left out, is the kind of comicality in which the French are always unable to see any unreasonableness. The Napoleonic craze for the natlonal checkerboard crops up regularly, fathered by some tasseled ad- miral or closet general, to be taken in each new phase with serfous gravity and discussion in the Journal des Economistes or the daily prints.—New York Press. Unrewarded Heroes. The letter of Secretary Long to Senator Morgan in reference to the failure of Con- gress properly to recognize and reward the naval heroes at Santiago will be like- 1y to revive discussion as to the responsi- bility for that faflure. The Secre(arg of the Navy points out what has been done by the i’reslden! and himself to securs for those men the recognition they un- uestionably merit, but, as everybody un- deretands, these efforts have been unavail- ing because of the feeling created by the unfortunate Sampson-Schley controversy, and it appears very doubtful whether any action will be taken by the present Con- ress, earnestly as Secretary Long pleads or it. Perhaps the next Congress will be better disposed, The officers and men of the Asiatic squadron received the thanks of the nation and medals of honor. Thers was no controversy in regard to the achievement at Manila, no question as to | whom oelonged the honor and glory of that victory. Had none been raised re- specting the equally important and even more brilllant achievement at Santiago those who participated In It would long since have been rewgrded as they deserve. It is not worth while to discuss the re- sponsibility for this. There is an obliga- tion of national gratitude due the men of the Santiago squadron and it should be paild. Congress ought to promptly heed the appeal of Secretary Long.—Omane Bee. i Choice candies, Townsend's. Palace Hotal.® Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® { Valentines for old and young: the best we have ever shown. Sanborn, Vail & Co.® jusiness houses du‘n iblic men t= and pul mi ess Clipping Bureau A.Iln"-a Ilh gomery st. Telephono . “That must have been a rlety show you were with,” remarked the stranded tragedian. “I understand at one town they even threw rocks at you as you appeared on tho stage.” “Yes,” replied the comedian. “in thetr determination to show their disapproval they left no .turn unstoned."—Catholle Standard. Go to the Inauguration. The Santa Fe will make excursion rates from California points to Washington and return om the occasion of the reinauguration of President McKinley, March 4th. The tickets will be sold on February 2ith and 2th and will be good to return, starting from Washington, not later than March Sth. West of Chicago, howsver, the tickets will be good until March 2th. These tickets will be honored on the California Lim- ited. —_— e The production of soap In Great Britaln is about forty-five thousand tons a week, of which between three thousand and four thousand is made in London. —— e HOLE IN THE LUNGS pretty poor va- * There are thousands of men and women, as well as ever, with holes in their lungs: con- sumption stopped. What did it? Some change in way of life and Scott’s emulsion of cod- liver oil. A hole in the lungs, once healed, is no worse than a too- tight waist or waistcoat. Take i &—-‘;“:‘,‘g“; the emulsion and give it a cottage ail win- | chance to heal the wound. ‘We'll send you & little to try, if you like. SCOTT & BOWNE, 4o Pearl stree, New Vark