The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 19, 1903, Page 8

THE €AN FRANCISCO (}ALL.'WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1903. AUGUST 19, 1903 JOHN D. SFRECKELS, Proprictor. 7 «crecs £11 Communications to W. S. LEAKE. Manager TELEPEONE. #gk for THE CALL. The Operator Wiil Connect You With the Department You Wish. Market and Third, S. F. 17 to 221 Stevenson St. Delivered by Carriers, Cts. Pe- Week, 73 Ctz. | Per Month. Single Copies 5 Cents. Terms by Mat DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), DAILY CALL dncluding Sundas DAILY CALL—By Elagle Mont UNDAY CALL Onpe Year.. WEEKLY CALL, Ope Year.... { Da { Suncay.. | Weekiy.. PURLICATION OFFICE. CDITORIAL ROOMS. 4.15 Per Year Extra 1.00 Per Year Extra TOPEIGN FOSTAGE A1l Postmasters nre nuthorized to receive subscriptions. €ample coples will he forwarded when requested. | Mell subscribers in ordering change of acGress ehould be both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS {2 order t and ecorrect compliance with their request. | te insure & prom OAKLAND OFFICE. 1118 Bromdway.... 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SOULHERN FROSFERITY. value of realty ¢ is great prosperity and occupations, nor un- instruments of from the sary to revise the premise the ficial figures who seek to induce political | nt prosperity of the w, while the masses | and not reap for oth ude this and cottonseed w nue and tton year's crop | Il bring to n prices, during the ths $600,000,000, and the other agri- | will add to this $900,000,000. The plant factured products of the Sonth s | ality with the value of agricultural products, | t in one year three billions is added ’ hat section dent that the Sout whi to the wea It overed from | h has completely rc-t the Civil War and is more general prosperity | er history. he has reached this a Republican administration and under the fiscal and industrial policies of the Re- publ Without saying that her financial felicity is due to those policies, it is admitted that under them it exists, and no one undertakes to say that it could have been greater under any other poli- cies, party or administration t gets no hearing in the South is evi the paraly now en Mr. W liam Randolph Hearst, in his paper, has repeatedly said to his readers: “Remember, it is your first and | constant duty discontented.” | That declaration will injure his Presidential candi- dacy in the South The Atlanta Constitution, the greatest of Southern Democrétic papers, publishing and commenting on the statistics of the prosperity of the Southern people, says: “What interest can such a people have in prophecies of calamity and creeds of discontent? We are for prosperity and the deep-seated determination of our | people is to foster and further it. Whoever expects to | make headway with a gospel of lamentatien in the South will find that he is estrayed from his proper pasture, if there be any proper pasture left in this country for such an ass.” That is pointedly rough on Mr. Bryan and the other calamity criers in the wilderness. It is @ high com- pliment to the common sense of the South that even its party organs admit the facts. What may be said | of prosperity in that section is equally true of every part of the country and of every occupation of the people. The broad and shining path of prosperity is one of the roads that lead to Roosevelt. | | | | Disconte: | to make everybody A man in this city who sees shadowy and savage shapes before him and trembles in fear that the con- victs escaped from Folsom are seeking to murder him has been arraigned on a questioh of his sanity. 1f his fear of these desperate men, who have become ubiquitous in our imaginations, be the only cause of his trial there are thonsands more in San Francisco | and in every other populous center in the State whose sanity may be questioned with equal justice. A laundry trust has been organized in this city and all the leading purveyors to cleanliness Have been united in the combination. We may soon expect therefore to hear of the king of the washboard and to | be as familiar with his autocracy as we are with that of the steel king, the cotton king, the wheat king and | tablishment pays a profit to the State. all the other varieties of royalty bred by the marvel- | into his followers. | fenberg water cure, and his followers were legion, be- | other States | bodies, negroes being the intended avengers. 1Hs LYNCHING FAD. HE American people, or a portion of them, are given to fads. Between 1836 and the outbreak of the Civil War there was a procession of fads. X [ The Millerites gave away their property, made long white nightshirts, put them on and took to the hills and housetops to get a good start heavenward when the end of the world came. Graham got dyspepsia and lived on bran bread, and immediately Graham bread was accepted by the faddjsts as a panacea for all ills, and a dietetic reform began and went to such extremes that eating anything threatened to be un- fashionable. Thompson appeared with his new school of medi- cine and squirted a stream of “No. Six” and lobelia Preissnitz promulgated his Graf- lieving that a tub and wet bandage would enable men to reach the age of Methusaleh with all the virtues of Meichizedek. The Socialist theories of Fourier fitted into the tendency of the time, and Charles A. Dana and others retired to whittle out a new world and a ! new heaven at Brook Farm. The Skgneateles community in New York under- | took to live on philosophy and the beatitudes. Horace Greeley hurried off to a Socialist community in Penn- sylvania. The Shakers established themselves at New Lebanon as followers of celibacy and “Mother Ann.” | Jemima Wilkinson appeared at Penn Yan, N..Y,, | |as a female incarnation of the Messiah and tried to walk on the water of Crooked Lake. Joseph Smith and “the witnesses” promulgated the Book of Mor- The Fox sisters began spiritual rapping and mon. made the world's hair rise with “the Rochester ‘l\nncking.\" All kinds of reforms, marvels, wonders | and curious things were afloat, and if the credulous | and superstitious did not see what ‘they wanted,they had only to ask for it. Then the Civil War came on | and in-the potency of its passion and its intense and | mighty call to the people all things else were burned as by fire and no sound was heard but that of the great trumpet that called the sons of the republic to exertion and fidelity unto death. Since then another generation has arisen and an- other is coming with manhood just thickening its '/ The old disposition to take up a fad is still But vnfortunately the fad now seems to neck. upon man. { be lynching. Men and women are lynched, and what is supposed to be justice is administered, al frseco, | while the dust gathers on the Judge's desk and in | the jury box of the criminal courts, for their place is usurped and their function assumed by the mob. The savagery of the fad is progressive. At first the victims were hanged. Then soon it was the rule to riddle their dead and pendent bodies with bullets. Then they were shot full of lead as they were strung up. Next a mob of artists in lynching, having shot and hanged a man, cut his body down and burned it. dhe next step was a short one, and was taken, we believe, in Texas, where the v iemned, pinioned and burned alive, tied to a stake. Observers believed that this marked the high tide of the fad and that the horror of it would have a repellent effect and that the horror of it would haye a. decline and disappear. But they were mistaken. The horror of the stake became a fascination. It seemed to fittingly express the spirit of revenge roused by the vile nature of the crime which it expiated, and in sev- eral instances it has been used to punish offenses of less enormity. This horrible fad is not confined to any section. In all divisions of the States it is rampant. The South has furnished the greatest number of cases, but they | do not differ in kind from those that have occurred in Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Indiana, Illinois and In the dispatches of one day recently a rope was being knotted for a negro woman, in South Carolina, who beheaded her children and burned their A Mis- souri Sheriff was standing off a mob that desired to iynch a loafer for shooting an officer. A Delaware ! mob was in hot pursuit of a negro to burn him for shooting a constable. Minnesota lynchers were in pursuit of a wretch guilty of an unspeakable crime, and the same cause moved another party in Ohio. But the oddest of all that day’s doings appeared in Georgia. A penitentiary Warden was the threatened victim. Among his prisoners is a white woman, a Miss Crist, known as “the Diamond Queen,” born of a good family, and believed to be insane. The Warden's name is Alagood, and he ordered Miss Crist, though a delicate woman, to work as a fieldhand with The negro prisoners, incited thereto by his wife. Now Mrs. Alagood's methods seem to belie her name, since they weré a la bad. When Miss Crist protested against assignment to field work Mrs. Alagood or- dered her husband to have her whipped. Thereupon the frail white woman was taken to the torture-room, ! tim was caught, | ! gists and by the officials of other States. But out- side ot Missis§ippi, even in such progressive States as Georgia, the system is execrable. The leased convicts are put in charge of overseers, by compari- !son with whom the worst picture of the old slave- driver ever ‘conjured by the heated imagination of the ‘abolitionists was a beatitude, Prisoners are under- ' fed, underclad, overflogged, chained together at night | and overworked by day. Literature has made the world familiar with the woes of the' galley-slave in European countries, where a sentence to the galleys is a sentence to | death. But the condition of the leased convict in the South is more woeful and wretched. It is an in- 1 ducement to increase the list of felonies, transferring thereto what elsewhere are misdemeanors only, and | to lengthen the sentence, in order to satisfy the greed | of contractors by increasing the number of involun- .i tary laborers. There is no attempt to apply the prin- ciples of prison reform. Moral growth is left out of | the question entirely, and good and bad alike are | subjected to a system that has no equal of its hor- | rors since the middle ages. Good men and women of | the South are having their humanity quickened \3Y | the awful spectacle, and soon some disciple of John | Howard will sound the trumpet of reform. The { horror in Georgia where a white woman was flayed by the whip may be the beginning of better things. i s 55 Midnight attacks have become so alarmingly fre- | quent in this city that if they continue it may be ad- visable to include them among the social events of San Francisco. The police should exert themselves, capture one of the knights of the road and hold him | for exhibition as a curiosity. D has yielded to the great American temptation and taken to the lecture platform. He has, however, more in the way of excuse than the average | lecturer, for he has done something that interests all i intelligent Americans and has acquired an experience 1 which enables him to make his lectures as instructive | as they are interesting. Every community in the | United States recognizes the value of the work done {by Mr. Folk in prosecuting the corrupt officials in | Missouri, and each is eager to learn how a similar | purification can be wrought out at home. What Mr. | Folk has to say therefore is felt as a matter of local concern wherever he speaks and his audiences are | drawn together by something more than that intel- | lectual curiosity which generally impels men to listen to any noted man or woman who comes to lecture to them. What Mr. Folk has had to say in the lectures he has delivered is in the main the repetition of a story ! told by the press at the time when it was developing |in the law courts of Missouri. It is a story of how a combine got control of the city government of St. Louis and of the State government of Missouri apd ran them for all there was in them. As one of the reports of his lecture puts it, he told “how one fran- chise was sold for $250,000, twenty-three of the twenty- | eight members of the Municipal Assembly taking at | least $3000 each, while seven received from $10,000 to | $17,500 for their votes. One member of the Council i held out for $25,000, then for $50,000, and finally voted inrthe expectation of receiving $100,000. Seven Councilmen at one time were secretly on salaries of $5000 a year to promote certain corporate interests. A lighting bill was bribed through for $47,500. These | representatives of the people conspired to sell out the municipal water works, worth $40,000,000, for $15,000,000, in order to make $100,000 apiece in rake- off. Even the old Courthouse and the municipal market were almost sold in order to enrich the city legislators, and the market was saved only by a coun- ter corruption fund of $20,000 which the marketmen raised in order to satisfy the greed of these miscreants in power.” Of the men who were engaged in the corrupt deals Mr. Folk says: “Some of these representatives are fugitives from justice in foreign countries, others have turned State’'s evidence, the remainder have faced juries, and eighteen of these givers or takers of bribes have received sentences ranging from two years to seven years in the penitentiary.” So far the showing made for the law is excellent, but unfortunately Mr. Folk had to tell his audience of another feature of the situation which is by no means | so pleasant to reflect upon. He told them that de- spite all the revelations of corruption and fraud, de- spitelall the proofs furnished in court, despite the con- victions, there remains in St. Louis a powerful body of men who are yet supporting the brike-takers and the bribe-givers. They are denouncing all the prose- cutions and all the revelations as nothing more than MUNICIPAL CORRUPTION. ISTRICT ATTORNEY FOLK of St. Louis | | | | | EXCEPTIONALLY PRETTY WEDDING CHARMS SOCIETY - An exceptionally pretty wedding was that of Miss Camilla C. Lund and Burt Lincoln Davis, which was solemnized last evening at the home of the bride’s moth- er, Mrs. Marie Lund, 1329 Fell street. Dr. E. Nelander officiated. The invited ‘guests were limitd to forty-five relatives of the bride and groom. The decorations were unusually dainty and artistic. Ropes of smilax were car- ried from the pink trimmed chandeliers in various directions. The doorways were outlined with stalks of pink amaryllis, which also concealed the mantels, together with sweet peas and ferns tied with' pink silk ribbons. The bay window was converted into a bower of follage and pink ribbon. Ropes of smilax in various lengths extended from the ceiling, form- ing a dainty background for the wedding party. / The bridal gown was exceedingly pret- ty. It was white crepe de chine over white taffeta and trimmed with masses | of chiffon and appliqued in pearled lace. The bride wore the regulation tulle vell and carried a shower bouquet of lilies of the valley. Miss Bessie Rowell acted as | maid of honor and was attired in a white | silk crepe de Paris over white taffeta and trimmed with handsome cream lace and chiffon. She carried a shower bouquet of bridesmaid roses. The bridesmaids, Miss Mollie Seibel and Miss Evelyn Huff, were dressed alike in gowns of pink chiffon over taffeta, of the same color, and also carried shower bouquets of bridesmaid roses. Dr. J. W. Likens was best man and the ushers were Dr. Frank Topping and M. Lindsay, The bride's mother was attired in black crepe de chine with garniture of white chiffon and lace. Mrs. Ernest Johanson, the bride’s sis- ter, wore light green silk with cream lace applique. / Many pretty and useful presents were received by the young couple. After an elaborate supper Mr. and Mrs. Davis left for their honeymoon, which they will spend in the north. They will reside in San Francisco, as the groom is in the in- surance business, having charge of the firm of Davis & Son since the death of his father, J. B. F. Davis. L Miss Helen Wagner has returned from Del Monte. . A jolly house party was given on Mount Tamalpais last Saturday and Sunday by | Mr. and Mrs, J. R. Hanify. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hanify, Mr. and Mrs. George E. Bates, Mr. and Mrs. F. oLle T. Cooper, Mrs. Hattie Woodbury, Mr. and Mrs. George A. Storey, Mrs. I. S. Lewis, Mrs. Jaynes, Miss Wightman, H. A. Russell, W. B. Storey, Miss Lela Lindley of Sacramento. . dtoe Rev. Dr. Clampett, rector of Trinity Church, has returned with his wife from a three months' trip to Australia. Rev.| Clifton Macon wiil now proceed to Trin- ity Church, Oakland. e 3 Mrs, L. L. Baker and family have re- turned from San Rafael. . e e Miss Carolay is in the Santa Cruz Mountains at present. .« e . Captain Willlam R. Smedberg has re- turned to his post at Fort Grant, Ariz., after a brief visit to his friends in San | Francisco. . e . Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Baker (nee Kitt- redge) have returned from a trip to Port- land. . . Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Irwin have returned | from Del Monte. .« . Mr. and Mrs. Willlam S. Wood gave a dinner for Judge and Mrs. M. M. Estee a few days ago. Among the guests were | Mr. and Mrs. John P. Young, Mr. and | Mrs. Charles Deering, Judge and Mrs. | McFarland and Baldwin Wood. =5 e Captain T. M. Anderson, who has been visiting his father, General T. M. Ander- son, at the Soldiers’ Home, Dayton, Ohlo, returned to his post at the Presidio yes- terday. ! P Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Nagle and Miss Clara Nagle left for the East Tuesday, the 18th inst., and will be absent a few months. They intend to visit Chicago, New York and Niagara Falls, returning via New Orleans. They will also spend some time in Ken!ucky.. . Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Heller are at Lake Tahoe. PERSONAL MENTION. A. S. Shepard, M. D, of Cripple Creek is at the California. O. E. Williams, a hotel proprietor of Ukiah, Is at the Grand. Julius Paul Smith, a vineyardist of Liv- ermore, is at the Palace. J. M. Roberts, a rancher of Potter Val- ley, is a guest at the Grand. L. R. Fancher, a rancher of Merced, is among the arrivals at the Grand. NEBRASKANS START BOOM FOR WEBSTER —_— e ~ofe NEBRASKA REPUBLICAN WHO IS BEING “BOOMED” FOR VICE PRESIDENT. e - INCOLN, Neb. Aug. 18.—The Re- publican State convention to-day nominated the following ticket: Associate Justice of Supreme Court—John B. Barnes of Madison County. Regents of the State University—Charles 8. Allen of Lancaster and W. C. Whit- more of Douglas. The unexpected feature of the conven- tion was the adoption by a unanimous vote of a resolution declaring John L. Webster of Omaha, one of the delegates to the convention and one of the well known party leaders of the State, to be the choice of the Nebraska Republicans for Vice President in 184. The resolu- tlon was offered just after the conven- tion was about to adjourn and was re- ceived with enthusiasm. A portion of the platform relating to national issues is as follows: We congratulate not the people at large, that the administrations of our national affairs and our negotiations with foreign nations are being conducted by the courageous Republitan President who knows no fear, who eourts no favor, but who loves peace crowned with honor and In whose charge we have a feeling of perfect safety and security—a President whom the American peo- ple now desire to honor with a second term as the chief magistrate of the greatest and grand- est nation of the earth—Theodore Roosevelt. We adhere to the American protective pol- icy of the Republican party, which has in- creased the revenues and not impeded trade; which has opened the doors of mills and (acto- ries to millions of Amerfcan skilled mechanics and is returning to them,the higher wages which are the just recompense of their tofl. The Republican party recognizes that legit- fmate business fatrly capitalized and honestly conducted has Increased our industries at home and expanded our trade abroad and enabled us to successfully compete with foreign countries in the markets of the world, but the Repub- lican party Is unalterably opposed to all com- binations of capital under whatever name Lav- ing for their purpose the stifiing of competition and_arbitrarily controlling production or fix- ing prices. The Philippines are ours as the legitimate and crowning result of honorable werfare, and we hold them for, barter or sale, but as a of the national domain made sacred to us by the American blood which has been shed to plant and maintain the Stars and Stripes upon the far-off isles of the Pacific Ocean. —_—— Framing the Picture Is sometimes almost as difficult as nam- ing the baby. You find the task an easy one if you bring your pictures to us and try the moldings and mats here. We have so many varieties of moldings and such exquisite ones that a satisfactory selec- tion is quickly made. Sanborn, Vall & Co., 741 Market street. but only ourselves, EXCAVATION OF STATUE IN ROMAN FORUM ROME; Aug. 18.—A most important dis- covery was made to-day during excava- tions in the Roman Forum, eonsisting of the base of the celebrated ‘equestrian statue of the Roman Emperor Domitian, which is of the greatest interest in de- termining the topography of the Forum during the first century of thé empire. The base stands five feet below the pres- ent level of the Forum. It is forty feet long, twenty feet wide and more than ten feet high. On the top are three blocks of stone, showing where the feet of, the horse stood. The fourth block is lack- ing,. indicating that the right forefoot of the horse was raised. The distance be- tween the blocks is so great that It is caleulated that the statue was six times life size. —_——— FRENCH WARSHIP'S TURRET IS GIVEN A SEVERE TEST Used as Target ;or Live Shells, the Steel Tower Proves Im- pregnable. BREST, France, Aug. 18.—An interest- ing experiment of firing a live shell at one of the turrets of the warship Suffreny with the objects of ascertaining the ef- fects on the mechanism of the turret and guns therein, was carried out to-day. Three trial shots were fired by a turret- ship at targets erected om the Suffren. Then a fourth shell was fired at the tur- ret of the Suffren. The sheil struck the turret, which appeared to stand the test well. —_—————— INDIA’S IRRIGATION BOARD ISSUES REPORT Proposes to Spend $150,000,000 on Protective Works and to Aid Private Enterprises. SIMLA, India, Aug. 18—The irrigation Commission has issued its report. It pro- poses to lay out $150,000,000 in twenty years on protective works and also $2,000.- %00 annually in loans for private irrigation works, the necessary funds to be raised by loans and the interest thereon to be charged to the famine grant. The key- note of the policy advocated is the vigor- ous use of the national resources of the country and its resisting power in the battles with famine. i s O R Fast Run Across Atlantie. NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—The North Ger- man steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II arrived to-day from Bremen, Southampton and Cherbourg, after a fast run of 5 days 1§ hours 10 minutes over the short course of 3052 miles, at an average speed of 22.58 knots an hour. The best previous west- ern record of the Kaiser was made in May last, and was 5 days 21 hours 48 min- utes, _—————————— ' ~ False Report of Quay’s Death. PITTSBURG, Aug. 18.—Senator M. S. Quay arrifed in Pittsburg to-day on his way to his home at Beaver from South- ampton, L. I. Early to-day a _sensational report was circulated that the Senator had died suddenly on the train while en route to this city. It is not known how the re- port started as Mr. Quay was in his usual health! ———————- Penal Servitude for Skipper. ST. JOHNS, N. F., Aug. $8.—Captgin Frank Wollard of the scho n Whitten of Gloucester, Mads, e trial on the charge of shooting and killing one of his crew, named Patrick Yettman, was concluded yesterday, when he was found gullty of manslaughter, sen- tenced to sixteen years' penal m-u Offers Prize for Sugar Beets. OGDEN, Utah, Aug. 18.—H. C. Have- meyer of New York, on bebalf of the American Sugar Refining Company, has offered a cup valued at $500 for the best exhibit of sugar beets raised In the arid or semi-arld regions to be shown before the National Irrigation Congress at Og- den mext month, ——————— Look out for 81 Fourth (front of barber, grocer); best eyeglasses, specs, Iic to 5c. ¢ —_————————— Townsend's California gl fruits and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st., above Call bldg. * —_————————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Call- fornia street. Telephone Main 1043, - He 25 wh New Novels of This -Moncy-Mad World tied up and given forty lashes on the bare back by | slanders on Missouri or slanders on St. Louis. That the Warden. The thongs cut to the ribs and left | body of men remains powerful and well organized. It gashes in her breast. No male prisoner had ever re- ;has a considerable public sentiment behind i®and it is E. B. Corbin, a well-known resident of Sebastopol, is registered at the Grand. 'W. H. Hatteh, a well-known attorney of | Modesto, Is among the arrivals at the Lick. HE world is money mad. That statement looks absolutely start- ling in cold type, but when you realize that it is a sentiment em- anating from the foremost political and financial economists of the world it is time to begin to sit up and take notice. If you. doubt its truth just take a casual glance at the popular literature of the hour. |group that has an enlightened, humane and prop- ceived more than ten lashes, but the Warden's wife]‘ is thorough in what she undertakes.. At once Georgia was on fire and immediately it was proposed to lync’h the Warden. He made Adam’s excuse that his wife ordered it, and the Governor proceeded to investi- gate. But the Alagoods don’t show themselves in public and the masks and the rope are ready if the ‘Warden is caught. . Just what will happen as the next curiosity of lynch- ing no one can foresee. The fad grows on what it feeds upon. But one longs for Graham and his bread, Thompson and his cayenne squirt gun, Miller and his end of the world and the other good old fads of our grandfathers. The Pennsylvania millionaire who spent $2000 for a special train to carry him to the Corbett-Jeffries fight in this city is a striking illustration of the fact that there is at least one person in the world who either doesn’t care for money or doesn’t know what it means. Either or both ideas are dangerous to possess. P SOUTHERN PRISONS. W Southern people and press as to their prison system may be referred to in the North without offense to the section involved. In most of the Southern States all convicts, male and female, | are leased to contractors, to work on plantations, in coal and iron mines and phosphate pits. The State of Mississippi is the only one in the HAT is admitted and discussed by the erly punitive prison system. It was achieved there after the conscience of the State was aroused by the John Howard Prison Reform Association, and the question was carried into politics. There is a prison shop for the manufacture of agricultural implements, and a convict farm of several thousand acres. The prisoners are disciplined without cruelty and the es- Too much cannot be said in praise of the Missis- « Asippi plan, and it may be studied usefully by penolo- easy to see that as soon as the storm blows over the corrupt syndicate will renew its efforts to control the city and enrich its members by the spoliation of the taxpayers. It is thus made once more evident that the source of political corruption is not to be found in municipal councils, nor in State legislatures, but in the evil elements of the community itself. Until there is some way of getting rid of the bribe-givers and bribe in- stigators the prosecution of the bribe-takers will hardly work anything more than temporary relief. Mr. Folk has done his duty well, but to keep St. Louis free from boodlers will require the constant succession in office of men as able, as fearless and as honest as himself. - It is always the unexpected that happens, even in Kentucky. After a series of delays, threats of assassi- nation, the calling out of State troops and a general public upheaval, two desperate murderers were actually convicted in a court of justice. After this astounding violation of all precedent we are forced to give up in despair. We may as well reconcile ourselves to any- thing from Kentucky when she will thus sacrifice one of her most deeply rooted principles. It would be interesting to know who felt more chagrined, Admiral Casey or the guardians of the Puget Sound forts, when in a dense fog the gallant fighting sailor slipped past the fortifications and won a bloodless victory in the sham game of war. Admiral Casey certainly must have been grieved to discover how helpless our defenses are when put to the test. When they are absurd playing at war what would they be in actual conflict? u San Francisco has given another proof of her ex- traordinary patronage of plug uglies. The heavy- weight fighters have given their exhibition, we have given them more than $62,000 to see it, ticket scalpers have feathered their nests, everybody is happy and | the promoters are scheming to arrange another “con- ‘test” for the delectation of the absurdly i Beoplé of the city, 13 . E. B. Yerington, connected with the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, is at the Palace. { B. 8. Hirsch, a merchant of Ukiah, is here on a'short business trip and has made his headquarters at the Lick. F. Golden, a jeweler of Carson City, who has several mining claims in the Tonopah mining district, is at the Lick. John J. Murphy, Assessor of the city of Boston and president of the Boylston School Association there, is visiting the city and is the guest of his cousin, John J. Coughlin, 2406 Larkin street. el e Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—From S8an Fran- cisco—Mrs. L. Bicknell, at the Cosmopolt- tan; B. Jeppey and wife, at the Welling- ton; E. E. Johnstone, at the Murray Hill; 8. McNeill, at the Grenoble; J. J. O'Neil, | at the Cosmopolitan; Dr. E. K. Johnstone and wife, at the Victoria; W. B. Waldron, at the Park Avenue. ——— NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. momu’ D THE BEE. A Story of the Ignorance of a City Girl. « The city girl coming down to break- fast at the farm house and observing a -plate of honey on the table said, “Oh; I et ot K B ’s abou e way some people talk about the blight of mdnu’}-?h.’t as if a bald was something one got all at once instead long depletion which thrives upon the t?; b:ll'nt the result of germ ts of the hair and succumbs to only one known remedy Herpicide. Herpicide is not Juid.” 1 e. bro' Newbro's a tonic any m than Ollefi'ld?.lil t s an ‘l, "’ You will invariably find that the theme is wealth, and more wealth. and yet again more wealth—wealth in the spending even as much as wealth in the making. Not the fairy tale lore of wealth of bygone ages, but modern wealth that has to do with empire building, the destiny of na- tions, the struggle for commercial dominance and aristoeratic social su- premacy of the men and women of the hour, yea, almost of the very minute, so vast and so rapid is the rise and fall of the bureauocracy of wealth. No more the tales of buried treasure of picturesque pirates or lost mines and enchanted palaces st with riches, but the gold that glitters before our very eyes—rich, llow gold that we watch in the making—gold that is accumulated while you wait by men we all m {; women who are and spent with greater ease and facility known. Of such a dozen books that everybody is reading right now might be mentioned at random. To begin with there is Spenders.” which was concluded in last Sunday’s Call, and which not only shows the excitement of modern money ing, but the more subtle art of spending it. Then there is “The Octopus,” Frank Norris' famous tale of the building of vast wealth, and his later book, “The Pit.” which tells of the awful struggle to corner that same vast wealth. Then there are “The Autocrat,” “The Thirteenth District,” “Tainted Gold.” “The Mis- sissippi Bubble,” etc., etc. Indeed the list might be swelled indefinitely. But of all these novels none are quite like unto that very latest creation, “Brewster's Millions.” In point of fact “Brewster's Millions™ is absolutely unlike anything that has ever been written before. for in it a perfectly adorable young fellow has to spend a million 2 yvear. wet his money’s worth and yet-have absolutely nothing to show for it at the « .d of that time in order that he may inherit six million more. Sounds fascinating, doesn’t it? Well, it is more than that. Now you may think it is the easiest thing in the world to spend a million. Never tried it. of course. But wait until you have read “Brewster's Millions.” which begins in the next Sunday-Call. and you will see what a stupendous task it is to spend illion a year—actually spend it—not dissipate it or give it away or lose it in false speculation. b‘:x:nget your money’s worth as you woaid ifgou had only a hundred in- stead of a cool gpillion. But the popular craze of literature of the bright. snappy. up-to-date sort goes even further than this. Never hefore was there such a tre- mendous demand for short stories of the best sort. And what better reading could you get? A good <hort story is a complete novel in con- densed form. and it is just such evcellent reading as this that is pro- vided in the Sundav Call's new “Half Hour Storiettes.” of which, next Sunday, you will get two full pages. Here are some of the i “Mysterious Leqfric.” “In the F'ash of Strined Death.” “The Secret of the Jamaica Sink Hole” “The Reautiful Miss Marriam.” the Foolish,” “Shorty Mahan’s Passing.” _“Love's “While the Train Waited.” “What Tiny Peter Did.” ete.. ete. all there is a new short story by A. Canan Dovle. “The Shadow Be- fore”: “Millions in His Dreams.” hy Marl- Twain: “Me-aws of ~ Kitty.” X K:'t: Marr: “The Ora-le of Mulberry Center.” by S E. Kiser And besides all this there ic the regwlar Sunday Magazine section. ' giving you the very latest in that is goi i thd\vodl“m fo-day. The Sunday Call can’t ba bt o