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FRIDAY FEBRUARY' 25, 1898
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AMUSEMENTS.
Baldwin- The Bostonians.
California— Blac* Patti Tronbadonrs.
Columbia—" Shall We. Forgive Her."
Alcazar -■'Charley's Aunt."
Morosco'B— "The La*t Stroke."
Tlvoll-'The Vice-AdmlraL"
Orpheum— Vaudeville.
Bush— Thalia German-Hebrew Opera Co., Sunday night.
Olympla. corner Mason and Eddy streets— Specialties.
The chutes— Chlqulta and Vaudeville.
Mechanics' Pavilion— Mining Fair and Klondike Exposition.
Pacific Coast Jookoy Clnb-Rac.-s at Ingleslde to-day.
AUCTION SALES.
By Frank W. ButterfieM-This day, February 25, Furniture,
at corner Post and Hyde streets, at 11 o'clock.
liy Frank \V. BntterfleM— This day, February 25, Turkish
Rugs", at lit! batter Btreet, at 2 p. m.
Hy Madison & Burke— Thursday March 3, Real Estate, at 626
Mark.-t Street U 1-' .'dock.
POLITICS IN SON JOSE.
I""*HE speech of Councilman Nolting at a meeting
of the Common Council of San Jose on Mon
day evening was the opening gun of the "gang"
attack upon the citizens' movement for municipal re
form. It sounded the keynote of the desperate cam
paign of the frightened boodlers and gives notice to
the reformers that they are called upon to meet stink
pots, and that whatever foulness and falseness can do
to drive decent men from the field will be done.
It is but justice to Mr. Nolting to say that no one
acquainted with him or with San Jose suspects him
of composing the speech. He probably had no
more to do with it than the brass cannon has to do
with the ammunition that is fired through its brazen
throat. He was at once below it and above it. He
was below it for he could no more have arranged
slander in such a cunning way than he could have
written a commentary on English grammar, and he
was evidently above it because the explosion like a
petard beneath his feet has blown him to such politi
cal fragments that a Coroner will never be able to
find enough of his remains to hold an inquest on.
The speech has an interest surviving the fate and
disappearance of Nolting because it has led to a dis
closure of certain tactics practiced by the San Jose
gang. 4 mon S the men whom Mr. Nolting spat
tered with the "loose expectoVation of his eloquence"
was J. P. Jarman, formerly a member of the Common
Council. It was charged that Jarman. while a mem
ber of the Council, had expended $2000 in improve
ments about the City Hall, making use of the ex
penditure as a means of getting votes to procure his
election to the County Board of Supervisors.
It appears that the work referred to was in charge
of a committee of which Mr. Molting was a member,
but Mr. Jarman was not on the committee. He says
he was requested to take charge of the work and su
perintend it because he had a practical knowledge of
the kind of work to be done, and he adds: "I learned
afterward that it was a trap set by the bosses to in
sure my defeat as Supervisor, they taking it for
granted that I would do as they would under similar
circumstances, that is, furnish all the materials from
my own store and have my own painter do the work.
I did not furnish an ounce of material nor did I put
one of my own men on the work, nor did I handle
one dollar of the money."'
The statement of Mr. Jarman needs nothing to con
firm it. but abundant confirmation exists in the many
disclosures that have been made from time to time of
the methods of the Santa Clara County gang in the
practice of politics. Records of the courts, records of the
proceedings of grand juries and records of one nota
ble legislative investigation at Sacramento bear ample
evidence that for ways which are dark and for tricks
which are vain the San Jose gang is peculiar.
The fight for reform and good government in San
Jose has been well devised and the forces that main
tain it have been well organized. Nevertheless the
victory will not be easily attained, and the men who
accept positions in the forefront of the battle will
have many hard blows to face and many mean stabs
in the back to guard against. The Nolting speech is
as full of warning as the rattle of a rattlesnake. It
means venom. The friends of honest politics must
be on their guard. If slander or any form of cun
ning can carry confusion into their ranks or weaken
confidence in their leaders and candidates the vic
tory that now seems well assured will be wrested
from their grasp.
The proposed grand exposition is the most appro
priate way to celebrate the admission of California to
the Union, and it is gratifying to note that all the
States and Territories of the gold-bearing region
show a willingness to unite with us in making it
something more than a State celebration. As a mat
ter of fact the undertaking should be national, for the
annexation of California was one of the most impor
tant events in the history of the republic and merits
commemoration by the Union as a whole.
It is surprising to learn that a Chicago scientist
who declares the present practice of saving the lives
of persons who are mentally, morally and physically
unfit to maintain themselves will result in reducing
all civilized races to a condition of lunacy or idiocy
fixes the date of that climax at a thousand years from
now. The general Impression has been that Chicago
is traveling much faster than tliat.
Getting up so-called charitable subscriptions that
yield a 10 per cent rake-off to the collector and a
whole hog grab for the managers of the paper seems
to be the only means of making yellow journalism
pay in this country.
The excitement resulting from the destruction of
the Maine has distracted attention somewhat from the
explosion in the School Board in this city, but the
neoole haven't forgotten.
THE JOINT RESOLUTION
O NNEXATION being dead by treaty may
l\ seek resurrection by joint resolution. In that
* case, being sown a corruptible body it will not
p"t on incorruption, by any means. The title we
propose to receive from Hawaii is not purged of its
iniquity by a change of process. There is no balm in
; a joint resolution to heal and sweeten the offense to
this country and to Hawaii.
The President of the United States said that the
government of Hawaii was subverted in 1893 by an
"abuse of the authority of the United States, which
was in rplain violation of international law, and re
cnired the President to disavow and condemn the act
of our offending officials and within the limits of his
constitutional power to endeavor to restore the lawful
authority." *
To this Lorin Thurston, representing the Dole
oligarchy, replied: "The fact that the United States
Minister may have trespassed upon the international
rights of the Hawaiian monarchy does not thereby
confer jurisdiction upon the Government of the
United States to deliberately trespass upon such
rights of the de jure or de facto government."
Here is the admission that the de facto title to
sovereignty was procured for the oligarchy by the
act of the United States, and it. is proposed to trans
fer that title, so procured, to this country.
The manner of the transfer is immaterial, whether
by treaty or joint resolution. We cannot honorably
wrest a title from its lawful possessors, put it in the
hands of an intermediary and from them accept it as
our own. This is not conquest. It is worse.
Mr. Jefferson laid down the principle that should
be observed by the United States in the acquisition of
territory. He was in favor of the annexation of
Cuba, and writing to Madison on that subject in 1809
he said: "It will be objected to our receiving Cuba
that no limit can be drawn to our future acquisitions.
Cuba can be defended by us without a navy, and this
develops the principle which ought to limit our
views. Nothing should ever be accepted which would
require a navy to defend it."
Tyler, Webster, Taylor, Clayton and Blame each
stated strongly, as a declaration to the world, our
Hawaiian policy to be the independence, neutrality
and integrity of those islands.
Secretary Sherman in his "Recollections," a two
volume autobiography, says: "I hope that our peo
ple will be content with internal growth and avoid
the complications of foreign acquisition. Our family
of States is already large enough to create embarrass
ment in the Senate, and a republic should not hold
dependent provinces or possessions. Every new ac-
quisition will create embarrassments. If my life is
prolonged I will do all I carf to add to the strength
and prosperity of the United States, but nothing to
extend its limits or to add new dangers by acquisition
of foreign territory."
Here, then, is the expression of a line of American
policy from Jefferson to Sherman. Every man who
declared that policy spoke by authority. True, Jef
ferson was not President at the time he made the
statement to Madison, but he had been succeeded in
that office by Madison less than two months before
he wrote.
Tyler and Taylor were Presidents and their declar
ations were official: Clayton, Webster and Blame
were Secretaries of State and Sherman was a Senator.
Nations apprise the world of their policy by acts
and by declarations of those in authority. In that
way our policy toward Hawaii was made known and
repeatedly confirmed. Therefore the lawful govern
ment of Hawaii had no notice of our intention to aid
in its subversion and our trespass upon its interna
tional rights was an act of peculiar turpitude. Our
declared policy had put upon the defensive in the court
of international morality every predatory govern
ment that extended its jurisdiction and destroyed the
autonomy of weak nations by such trespass as we
committed in Hawaii. As we have often pointed out,
our abandonment of our solemnly declared policy has
been most grateful to the robber nations, to whom
our former position was a standing reproach.
RAILROADS IN THE SOUTH-
ACCORDING to Eastern authorities a boom in
railroad building seems to have struck the
Southern States, and it is said the indications
are that during the present year more track will be
laid south of the Potomac and Ohio than in all the
rest of the United States and Canada together.
The Washington correspondent of the Chicago
Record says a conservative estimate of railroad build
ing in the Southern States for the year promises up
ward of 3000 miles of new track, which is 30 per cent
more than was constructed in the entire country last
year and four times as much as was built in the South.
It is said that upward of $40,000,000 in bonds has re
cently been floated for new roads and the extension
of old ones. Much of this money has been obtained
in Europe, and more in the financial centers of the
North, where confidence has been restored in South
ern enterprises and sure profits are expected from
investments.
It is not in railroad building only that the South
ern States are going forward by leaps and bounds.
The development of that section is notable in every
line of industry. The manufacture of cheaper grades
of cotton goods in that section has forced the well
established mills of New England to reduce the
wages of operatives in order to earn profits for their
owners. The iron industry has expanded until Pitts
burg fears the competition, and the shipments from
Southern ports have so increased as to seriously
affect the commercial prestige of New York.
Many causes have combined to bring about this
remarkable industrial development in a section of
the Union where the people have long been re
garded as unenterprising and comparatively stagnant.
The fall in the price of cotton has compelled the
Southern capitalist to seek other industries for the
employment of his money. The firm establishment
of the protective system has given an opportunity for
the upbuilding of Southern factories, and the break
ing down of Bourbon Democracy in several leading
Southern States in the last Presidential campaign has
encouraged Northern capital and enterprise to enter
the South and help in its advancement.
Conceding as much of Southern industrial progress
to these factors as can be claimed for them, there re
mains a considerable proportion of that progress
which is mainly due to the energy and sagacity of the
Southern people in advertising the resources of their
States by means of expositions maintained on a scale
sufficiently large and splendH to attract national at
tention. Thousands of clear sighted Northerners
visited Atlanta and Nashville - mong the crowds of
sightseers at the expositions in those cities and saw
in the exhibits displayed there abundant proofs that
the South is a promising field for enterprise of all
kinds. The South, therefore, is reaping what she
sowed. She has achieved success because she has
earned it.
The Great West can find a profit in following the
THE SAN FRAXCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1898.
example, of the South. In the West as in the South
the best exhibit to be made at an exposition is that of
the country itself, and since the country cannot be
sent to foreign fairs, the only way to accomplish the
desired exhibition of it is to hold expositions at home
and bring outsiders to the country. We need not
envy the Southern States their railroad boom nor
any feature of their industrial development. We have
only to act with an equal energy to achieve greater
results in our own land. Let the Great West hold an
exposition that will attract the attention of the whole
country, and the resulting benefits to this section will
cast the Southern advance into eclipse.
AMERICAN conservatism of speech and action
has rarely been better exemplified than in the
manner with which the great majority of
the people and their. representatives in Congress have
borne themselves during the period that has followed
the destruction of the Maine. Although a great ma
jority believed the destructive explosion was caused
by Spanish treachery, and although the belief has
been largely confirmed by each successive report
from the scene of the disaster, the country as a whole
has conducted itself with moderation and dignity.
With the exception of a few sensational yellow jour
nals and one or two irresponsible members of Con
gress there has been hardly a single notable offender
against the prevailing good sense and firmness of the
people.
It seems, in fact, as if the possibility of a war with
Spain had steadied rather than excited the country.
The resolution of the people is too strong to require
expression in big words and high-sounding phrases.
The discussions of the subject in Congress have been
particularly moderate and wise. Even less than usual
has been said about Cuba in either House, and men
of all parties are waiting with confidence in the
President to learn what course the nation will be
called upon to take when the investigation has dis
closed the cause of the disaster and the extent of
Spain's responsibility is known.
It requires no very discerning eye to perceive that
this attitude of almost judicial impartiality on the
part of the American people does not proceed from
any indifference either to the loss of the Maine or
to the cause of Cuban independence. On the con
trary, the sentiment in favor of a speedy recognition
of the belligerent rights of the patriots is stronger
than ever, and along with it is an increasing con
viction that the United States should take steps to
put an end to the war which for so long a time has
devastated the island and now threatens to totally de
stroy its civilization.
The day of agitation for Cuban independence has
about given way to the day of determined resolution
that Cuba shall be free, Congress will not force the
hand of the President, because Congress is well as
sured that he is animated by the spirit of genuine
Americanism and will at the right time and in the right
way intervene to put an end to the wrong and save
this American island from complete ruin at the hands
of a nation that has been proven incapable of rul
ing it.
Even the most conservative, however, are agreed
that the time for intervention is rapidly approaching.
The destruction of the Maine has hastened this con
clusion, but did not form it. The sentiment existed
long before, but had not reached the point of resolu
tion until now. At present the well nigh unanimous
conviction of the country is that the war in Cuba
must be checked and that the sooner intervention is
made the better.
Councilman Woodward of Oakland, who said last
Friday "I have not yet studied the water rates" and
on Tuesday said "I have studied water rates for
twenty-six years," is the latest statesman whose ex
planations require a diagram to be understood.
Perhaps the statement made by the Councilman on
Washington's birthday was designed by him to con
vince the people of his ability and willingness to do
a certain thing which Washington could not do.
Chicago's good citizens loudly applauded Ben
jamin Harrison's appeal to the rich to pay their
taxes, but we shall have to wait until the next assess
ment roll is made up in that city before we know how
many thought the appeal was addressed to them and
how many regarded it as a slam at the plutocrats of
New York.
It is not certain who prepared the slander speech
with which Councilman Nolting opened the gang
fight in the municipal campaign in San Jose, but it is
safe to say the man who prepared it would not have
uttered it, and the man who uttered it could not
have prepared it.
The sudden and stormy splutter in New York
against so-called "indecent" plays would have more
weight if the papers had not been so careful to name
the objectionable plays. As it is the wordy rage
seems very much like the latest theatrical device in
advertising.
A postoffice clerk in Chicago who saw one of the
new green i-cent postage stamps for the first time a
few days ago immediately telegraphed to Washington
that a counterfeit stamp was in circulation, and now
everybody in St. Louis is wondering why it is that
Chicago is always so far behind the procession.
Wounded sailors of the Maine are crying for
vengeance, but just where they may be expected to
secure it is a trifle uncertain. Some of the Americans
who were captured with the Virginius also cried for
vengeance, but there is no official record showing
that they obtained it.
There is little reason for hoping that we shall ever
get the new Hall of Justice completed so long as the
present contractors and architects are alive, but for
tunately they are mortal, and in the next generation
something may be accomplished.
Zola's year of imprisonment will give him time
enough in retirement to write a realistic story of the
Dreyfus case that will yield him a sum sufficient to
pay his fine of 3000 francs and hire a lawyer to defend
him for its publication.
The Oakland waten fight is now in such a shape
that the people over there cannot take water without
getting into the soup.
John P. Thomas broke into a store in Clayport,
Ind., last week. The crime was committed early in
the morning. The criminal had had his trial and
been sentenced before 10 o'clock in the forenoon of
the same day, and before 7 o'clock in the evening he
had begun imprisonment for a series of years within
the walls of the Jeffersonville Reformatory.
A versatile New Hampshire man who started in
life as a carpenter, later becoming an editor,
changed from that employment to the business of a
barber, and subsequently was ordained as a minis
ter, occupying a pastorate successfully for several
years. Now he is back in the harness again as a
newsDaper man.
THE CAUSE OF CUBA.
SPECIAL FEATURES IN
NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL
PRESIDENT GUTIERREZ of Salvador has written a letter to a friend
in this city telling what he proposes to do in. the next revolution down
there. The letter is not exactly like the famous De Lome letter, but
it lets in a lot of side light on the forthcoming battle for the Presi
dency.
That there's going to be a revolution there isn't any possible
doubt. In fact, after a fashion, it is already under way: the train of
events are started that will very shortly end in actual fighting and blood
shed. Hence President Gutierrez* letter and hence the story in NEXT
SUNDAY'S CALL.
Read it and get a good idea of how Central American revolutions are
started.
In a corner of this continent punishment for alleged witchcraft Is going
on very much like it did in the stiff-necked days of Salem. The Zunls.
under the pressure of the four chief priests, have Just had such a lively and
exciting time trying to whip the witches out of an old won-an that several
companies of United States troops had to be called out. The excitement
gave signs of passing into the wild, unlicensed proceedings of a "ghost
dance." Several white women teachers took a hand in the proceedings,
and now the Zuni is in such a distraught condition that the United States
troops are obliged to remain before it on guard.
What the whole uproar means is fully told In NEXT SUNDAY'S
CALL.
Did you know that your voice made pictures every time you spoke and
that the sweeter the things you said the more beautiful the pictures made?
Voice pictures opens up a vast field for people young and Oid.
Just read NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL and you'll find out how easily the
trick is done, and you can picture your own voices and the voices of your
friends.
Incidentally you'll rce at the same time what Interesting pictures are
made by the robust, resonant and famous voices of Jessie Bartlett Davis
and Messrs. Cowles and Barnabee of the Bostonians, Attorney W. H. L.
Barnes and Chief Sullivan of the Fire Department.
The San Joaquin Valley ranchers are not the only farmers who have
trouble over rain and snow and hesitating crops. The ice farmers on the
Truckee River have just as discouraging a time "cussing" the Government
weather prophets and getting out at unreasonable hours to «try and save
their perishing crops.
Ice farming as conducted on the Truckee is an exceedingly lively and
busy life while it lasts. NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL tells all about the inter
esting life of the hustling mountain ice farmer, his terrors of a snowstorm
and the very slick way in which he harvests his crop while- the summer
boarder is hibernating in ease and high hopes.
The law recently proposed in Ohio by Assemblyman Parker to regulate
marriage by physical examination has caused a great deal of discussion
East and West. Read in NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL how some San Francis
cans regard the problem. «
The disaster to the Maine has started people to talking about torpedoes
How they're used and thfe difficulties of using them* and a whole lot more
about torpedoes, big and little, is fully set forth in NEXT SUNDAY'S
CALL.
Pages of graphic pictures and columns of interesting stories in
NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL.
BUY IT!—— -READ IT! f%«7
NO INVALIDS NEED APPLY.
There was a significant silence in the doctor's office.
The eminent specialist had doffed his livery— the long, stiff, white coat,
the cap and the reflector on his fore.head, which glowed in the darkness
like a malignant eye.
He stood a moment while the servant brushed an imaginary speck from
his spotless coat; he put his hat on, and, despite some unaccustomed pre
occupation which disturbed his self-satisfaction, he proceeded Jauntily to
ward the outer door. But he turned as the negro stood holding the door
open and said, suddenly:
"The last patient— James, you remember— the sallow, dark, young
man?"
"Yes, sir. I remember. With the heavy top-coat and muffler."
"Exactly." The doctor scratched his chin reflectively. "Well, when he
comes again — ah — discourage him — you understand?"
"Yes, sir?" said the negro, interrogatively.
"Yes. Just tell him I'm engaged and likely to be occupied all the fore
noon—or afternoon, as the case may be. Ah— impose upon him by your
manner, you comprehend? If he doesn't take the hint— ah— make him wait
—indefinitely, you know. And— and forget about him, and— ah— then tell him
I've gone out— something like that. You understand, I don't care to— to
treat him. I — in short, you understand?"
"Yes, sir."
And the boy gently closed the door behind him, locked ujr the place and
himself departed with as close an Imitation of the great physician's manner
as a slim, short man can attain to the dignity of a tall, stout one
Then the new glass table covered with instruments looked at the pa
tients' chair inquiringly, and the patients' chair returned the glance with
a significant smile.
"But why?" asked the table curiously, "why doesn't he want to treat
that last patient? Is he— poor?"
"Oh, no," said the chair patronizingly, "he isn't rich, nor well oft even,
but—"
"Isn't he good pay?"
"Oh, yes; he'd pay."
"Well, I don't see," said the table, thoughtfully, "does he dislike him
personally?"
"My good friend," answered the chair, stiffly, "he doesn't know the man
— has never met him, you know."
"Oh!" The table subsided a moment, then inquisitively continued:
"Well, has he heard anything about him that would— "
"Why," impatiently interrupted the chair, "that has nothing to do with
it."
"What has then?"
"Well, you are dull. Can't you see the man's ill?t
"Yes. Well?"
"Well!"
"Well, I don't see. Is It that he knows that he couldn't cure " i
"Well, I never!" exclaimed the chair, indignantly.
"No, of course not," said the table, hurriedly, "but If he's a doctor "
"Well, suppose he is! Does he want the office filled with unpleasant
sick people, who make the place look like a hospital? Does he want to
offend the ladies who come here for daily treatment and a little gossip
and— and to be petted and fussed over, with the disagreeable sight of ill
ness and real suffering? They come here just because it's pleasant and
pretty and comfortable here. They like to sit in the parlors and glance over
all the papers and pictures and talk to each other about their own symp
toms; then they like to come in h ?re and have him look at them gravely
and speak caressingly to them and give them a little treatment and a pleas
ant prescription now and then, lie likes that kind of patients, too. He
has become accustomed to them now, and he knows Just what they want.
It's easy and pleasant for him, and they don't mind his bills— he's so fash
ionable, you know. He likes strong, well people, with a little something th«
matter with them; patients who don't complain too much. It makes him
nervous to listen to complaints about ill-health and that sort of thing. He
likes people who Joke about their troubles, you see.
"Whenever a really ill person comes he frowns and gets 111-tempered.
He doesn't like it; neither do the rest of us. But they don't continue to
come very long; they go away indignant, to tell others that he is so busy
he can't attend to his patients, or that he's too independent; that he is im
perious, inconsiderate, a brute— that sort of thing, you know. All of which
means more business. Do you see?"
"I see," said the table, thoughtfully. MIRIAM MICHELSON.
COLLECTED IN
THE CORRIDORS
P. A. Buell of Stockton is at the Grand.
At the Palace is A. R. Katz of New
York.
T. J. Field, the San Jose banker, is at
the Palace.
John N. Mcßride of Chicago is a guest
at the Palace.
Lieutenant J. E. Cane, U. S. N., is at
the Occidental.
George J. Coote arrived at the Palace
from St. Louis.
Franciß Jones of New York is registered
at the California.
T. H. Harvey is registered at the Pal
ace from Kansas City.
Attorney F. D. Nicol of Stockton is
registered at the Lick.
I. Bird, the Merced attorney, is at the
Grand for a few days.
E. W. Runyon, the Red Bluff banker,
is a guest at the Palace.
T. Duggan, a mining man of Denver,
is staying at the Grand.
W. D. Pennycook, a newspaper man of
Vallejo, is at the Occidental.
E. C Banard is registered at the Occi
dental from Washington, D. C.
L. W. Falker, District Attorney of Mer
ced, is at the Grand with his wife.
Professor E. H. Griggs has come up
from Stanford and is at the Grand.
W. S. King of San Jose is at the Cali
fornia with his wife and daughter. *
G. F. McCandles of New York is.at the
California with his wife and daughter.
Nathan Cole Jr. and wife arrived at the
California yesterday from Los Angeles.
R. Wilson, a mining man of WallacOj
Joseph D. Hen
derson, a wealthy
insurance man of
Los Angeles.is at
the Palace, where
he last evening
told the following
story to Illustrate
MENDACIOUS
FROM PATRI
OTIC MOTIVES.
the transcendent versatility and magnifi
cent mendacity of the average citizen of
Illinois when the reputation of his State
is at stake:
"I was once passing through Illinois,"
said Mr. Henderson, "in company with
another Californian. The train was run
ning through a long section of farming
country, and, as we sat and looked out
of the windows of the smoking room, we
commented on the great fields of wheat
that, commencing at the fence which ran
along about twenty or thirty feet from
the track, stretched away in the distance
as far as the eye could reach.
"We compared the appearance of the
grain to the appearance of that in the
valleys of California, and passed many
unfavorable remarks on the poor show
ing it would make if brought into compar
ison with the luxuriant and magnificent
growths produced by the fertility of our
own unsurpassed soil and climate. Sit
ting opposite us was a quiet individual
who had been listening intently to all we
had said. Just as my friend had finished
a more than ordinarily severe criticism,
he leaned over toward us and said: 'Gen
tlemen, I don't wish to interrupt you.
but, as you seem to be rather severe In
your opinions on the wheat growth of
this State, which is, as is everything else
In Illinois, the finest of its kind In the
world, I want to ask you how far dis
tant you think this wheat we are pass-
Ing through is from the train?'
"I looked out of the window and said,
about twenty feet, while my friend
guessed about thirty. 'That's where you
make your mistake, gentlemen,' said t'.io
stranger. 'On these level plains there is
a tremendous mirage, and that wheat that
you think so poorly of is five miles dis
tant if it is a foot. Could you see it
close, in fact, as your fancy makes you
believe you do, you would never say an
other word about the wheat of California,
which compares to it as does a scrub oak
to a giant redwood.'
"When we recovered sufficiently to
speak, the first use we made of our
voices was to ask the veracious stranger
what he would have."
Idaho, is at the Occidental with his wife.
H. Robey arrived in the city last even
ing from Baltimore and went to the Pal
ace.
Dr. and Mrs. Leon Harvey have ar.
rived from Denver and are at the OccL
dental.
E. S. Churchill, a wealthy banker o!
Napa. is at the Palace with his wife and
family.
H. A. Jastro. a big politician and banker
of Kern County, is one of yesterday's ar
rivals at the Grand.
A. Lawrence, a mining man of Catskill.
New Mexico, is registered at the Grand
on a business trip to the city.
F. S. Morris, R. L. Durham and R. E.
Moody are three railroad men who ar
rived at the Palace last evening.
Some days ago
a gentleman who
resides at a hotel
where they em
ploy colored help
decided to tip
some of them, so
calling the waiter
j A LITTLE
> COLORED i
> SARCASM. <
> i
who attended him at table he told him
that he had a coat, vest and pair of shoes
that he did not want and that he intended
to give away and for the waiter to name
his choice of garment as he could not
have the entire suit. The black boy was
unable to make up his mind whit ho
wanted most, but said he would think the
matter over and hand in his decision in a
day or so. That evening, however, the
generous guest saw the porter, bell boy
and elevator man and disposed of all the
articles. The next evening as he seated
himself at the dinner table the waiter to
whom he had spoken first came up to
him and said: "I'se sorry fo' dem dar
niggers yuh gib de close to. De one yuh
dun let hab de coat hab cotehed a col*»
frum de breez dat blowed thrugh de holes
an' de man what am got de shoes is er
walkln* hise uppers an de boss man am
dun sarnt away de coon wid de vest fef
gibin' fleas to hise dorg."
The only reason that "nigger" is still
working is that the gentleman's sense of
humor was stronger than his sense of of
fended dignity.
THE MARTYRS OF THE MAINE.
And they have thrust our shattered dead away
■ In foreign graves.
Exiled forever from the port the homesick
sailor craves! . • '•-•-,; \v -^
They trusted once to Spain,
They're trusting her again!
And with the holy care of our own sacred
slain! • . .:;.;;■■-
No, no, .the stripes and stars
Must wave above our tars. V 1V 1 *-'.•.■,'■;;
Bring them hornet ,
On a thousand hills the darling dead of all our
battles lie, ..
In nooks of peace, with flowers and flags. But
now they seem to cry • • :
From out their bivouac:
"Here every good man Jack
■ Belongs. Nowhere but here— with us. So
bring them back." /'■■'.• -
And on the Cuban gales
A ghostly rumor walls,
■ ;•■--; •. "Bring us home!" .
Poltroon, the people that neglects to guard the
■ bones, the dust, ■ .. • • '.
The reverend relieves its warriors have be
■ queathed In trust! / ' -/ '
But. heroes, too, were these ' >
Who sentinel'd the seas
And gave their lives to shelter us in care
lees ease.
Shall we desert them, slain,'
i And proffer them to Spain
As. alien mendicants — martyrs of our
Maine? ■„■„-
; ''*•:•*-■,* : '- •"■" "' : Not "-' Bring them 'iome? JJV3
, —Rupert Hughes .in ;New York Sun.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
COMMISSIONS IN THE ARMY—Ser
geant, Angel Island. The purchasing of
commissions in the British army was can
celed by royal warrant July 20, 1871.
AN OLD-TIME PAPER— G. W., East
Oakland, Cal. You ought to advertise in
The Call the fact that you have such an
old paper as you say you have, and in
that way you will probably attract a
buyer.
WEIGHT OF WATER— J. H., City. To
ascertain how many pounds of water a
tank of given dimensions will hold, ascer
tain the number of clibic feet of the tank,
then multiply the number of feet by 62.
which is the weight of a cubic foot of
rain water.
PRIZE FIGHTING— E. McC, Angel Is
land, Cal. There is no Federal law
against prize fighting except the one
passed in 1896, February 7, by the Fifty
fourth Congress, prohibiting prize fighting
in the District of Columola and in any
of the Territories. Most of the States
have State laws against prize-fighting.
Cal. glace fruit 50c per lb at Townsend's.*
Special Information supplied dally to
business houses and public men by tha
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont
gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. •
Husband's Calcined Magnesia.— Four
first premium medals awarded; more
agreeable to the taste and smaller dose
than other magnesia. For sale only in
bottles with registered trademark label.*
Dr. Margaret M. Traill Christie, who
has been appointed by the India office to
study the bubonic plague in the hospitals
for native women in Bombay, is a very
young woman, and it Is only two years
since she got her degree from London
University.
" Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup"
Has been used over fifty years by millions of
mothers for their children while Teething with
perfect success. It soothes the child, softens
the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, reg
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Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or
other causes. For sale by Druggists In every
part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs.
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CORONADO.— Atmosphere Is perfectly dry,
soft and mild, being entirely free from th»
mists common further north. Round trip
tickets, by steamship, including fifteen days"
board at the Hotel del Coronado, $155; longer
stay. $2 50 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery
street, San Francisco, or A. W. Bailey, man
ager. Hotel del Coronado, late of Hotel Colo
rado, Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
Get a home; $7000 cash and $40 per month for
a few years will buy the prettiest house in
the prettiest suburb of San Francisco. Call on
It. E. McGUI, 18 Post st.
Don't forget Waller Bros. Gift Day, Feb. 26.
1898. 33 Grant avenue, corner Geary street.
Princess Beatrice is the greatest photo
graph collector in England. She has 800
photographs placed about her various
rooms k while she has thousands safely
stowed away. She has been an assiduous
collector of photographs ever since sho
was a little child.
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