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Sweden, the reports say, is-being overrun by Rus sian spies. The Czar probably is engaged in the in nocent pastime of learning the effect of his peace conference, on his neighbors. The military secrets of General Joubert, it is said, are being peddled in every capital in Europe. Somebody ought to send the information to the Transvaal, where it may do some good. Young Ladies' Institute. Young Ladles' Institute No. 1 will give an entertainment and dance on Friday evening next to its friends in Sherman & Clay's hall, and the ladles in charge an- nounce a very entertaining programme. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. QUAY— A. S., Tracey. Cal. Tha name Quay is pronounced as if written kwa, with the sound of a as in hay. CONUNDRUMS— A. E., City. This de partment is sorry that it cannot give the answer asked, but it draws the line at answering conundrums. IRRIGATION INTERESTS. THE interests of irrigation will be advanced by the settlement of other questions which have caused delay in adopting a definite storage policy for the saving of flood waters. There is a halt all along the line to wait for the settlement of the range leases in the semi-arid region for the use of stockmen. The proceeds of such leases are to be di vided with the States, to be by them applied to irri gation purposes. It is very desirable that the lease hold policy be at once applied in order that there may be an accurate measure of the amount it will produce for irrigation. When such measure is taken the people will know how much capital they must seek elsewhere for the storage of storm waters, and will determine where it is to be sought, and how. Until the leasehold question is brought down out of the air it is a real obstruction to progress in irriga tion. The leasing of ranges for cattle on the public do main is a big enough question to stand alone and win on its merits. Since the stock increased and the forage has been decreasing there has been a lawless condition on the ranges for which any kind of law would be an agreeable substitute. The cattlemen have been arrayed against the sheepmen, and there has been between them a condition of actual war, involving the destruction of much property and a loss of life. There have been scores of sub-feuds, sheep men against sheepmen and cattlemen against cattle men, contesting for a season's use of rapidly disap pearing forage. As a result there has been not only a condition of lawlessness, while the gentle shepherd has gone armed like a marauder, but the total value of that part of the public domain adapted to grazing has dwindled year by year, through overstocking and destruction of its natural grasses. The fault was with Congress and a disposition is now shown to correct it. If a law be passed which properly regulates the leases, is respectful of actual stockowners and of the small rancher's privilege to control enough abutting commons for his domestic stock or small herd, and which prevents speculation in leaseholds, a most grateful change will appear. Then the leaseholder will be interested in renewing the exhausted grasses of his range and the agrostolo gists of the Agricultural Department will find their most useful occupation in protecting the country's beef food supply, by assisting in re-seeding to the plants which supply forage. It is proposed to make the tenure of the leaseholds ten years, with the privilege of two renewals, a total of thirty years. It is safe to say that at the end of that period the Government will own grazing lands more valuable than they were when ranged only by the buffalo, elk, deer and antelope, and the beef food supply of the country will be in better condition than now. Our Western members should see the importance of united action "to secure such legislation, and all irrigators should give their weight and influence to it, to clear the ground for the specific interest which they represent. would be itself a trust worse than the co-operation it was organized to defeat. We have not yet had suffi- The Fastest Train Across the Con- tinent. The California Limited. Santa Fe Rotrto. Connecting trains leave at 8 p. m. Monday. Wednesday. Friday and Saturday. Finest equipped train and best track of any tin* t> the East. Ticket office. 628 Market street Use Dr. Slegert'a Angostura Bitters to stimu- late tha appetite and keep tha digestive organ* in order. Personally Conducted Excursions In Improved wlde-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping; can via Santa Fe Route. Experienced excursion conductors accompany these excur- sions to look after the welfare of passengers. To Chicago and Kansas City every Sunday. Wednesday and Friday. To Boston. Montreal and Toronto every Wednesday. To St. Louis every Sunday. To St. Paul every Sunday and Friday. Ticket office. «2S Market street. President Diaz of Mexico has taken time by the forelock and has announced his successor. The auto crat of the City Hall might take a few lessons in Mex ican politics and treat us to another surprise. There must be something in the charter to justify Phelan in going a little further. As a glittering example of what a newspaper did not know of the Senatorial situation at Sacramento, the local yellow sheet struck high water mark in a career of ignorance. A suggestion of news occasion ally might improve its columns. India is subscribing very liberally to the South Af rican war fund, and four million famine-stricken men, women and children are begging for food within her borders. Some patriotism evidently does not begin at home. An evening paper that is given away with the drinks says that Police Commissioner Biggy once, without reason, turned down Christopher Buckley. If that's the case — and it seems to be — more power to his elbow! Special - Information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Pre3s Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. - • Valentines — comic and sentimental. Great assortment. Sanborn, Vail & Co.. 741 Market street. • Hot Bouillon, Oyster Cocktail, Clam Juice, Charlotte Ruise, Chocolate, Coffee, 10c each. Townsend's. 735 Market. • Gulllet'* Ire Cream an.! Cakes. 905 Larkin St.* Ice Cream and Cake, 15c Townsend's. • Hot Lemonade and Orangette, 10c. Town- send's, 735 Market street. • TO SPEED THE PARTING GUEST Huntington Theater Party in Honor of Miss Ardella Mills. The Misses Huntingdon grave a. theater party last evening at the Columbia The ater complimentary to Miss Ardella Mills, who will leave Monday next for Europe. After the theater there was a supper at a downtown restaurant, which brought the affair to a happy conclusion. In the party were the Mlss«3 Huntlnc ton. Miss Ardella Mills. Miss Elizabetn Mills, Miss Kate May Dillon. Miss Lesla Voorhles. Miss Edith Stubbs, Alfred Poett, Alexander Center. J. Metcalf, Mr. Gee and Mr. Bliss. ANOTHER CO-OPERATION PROBLEM. ONCE more the rapidly expanding practice of co-operation has given rise to a problem which confuses business and perplexes busi ness men. The new issue has arisen in San Jose, the home of the co-operative fruit unions, but this time the intent of the movement is not to eliminate from traffic middlemen who live at a distance, but mer chants who live in San Jose itself; hence the com plexity of the problem. It appears the students of the State Normal School in that city have combined to form a co-operative book store, with the object of obtaining their books at something like wholesale rates. The success of the undertaking will mean a considerable loss to the booksellers of the city, who have in the past had the patronage of the 700 students of the institution. So large a trade, of course, is not to be surrendered without a struggle to retain it, and consequently the book dealers are striving as best they can to defeat the project. The issue, as it is reported to have presented itself to the merchants, is more important than shows at first thought. The movement toward co-operation is so far reaching in its influence that each new suc cess attained by it leads to movements in similar di rections elsewhere. Thus it is feared that if the stu dents of the Normal make a profitable venture of their undertaking it will not be .long before the entire school population will, in the various larger centers, combine to obtain books and other school require ments on the co-operative plan. That will mean a very heavy loss, indeed, to" many booksellers, and the San Jose merchants are said to be engaged in an ef fort to arouse the trade throughout the State, and particularly in this city, to assist in the opposition to the movement. It is not worth while to inquire into the merits of the controversy so far as it affects San Jose alone. It is reasonable to assume that the book dealers of the city have not made unjust charges for books supplied to the students. In fact, it would be impossible for them to do so even if they formed a combination among themselves to fix school prices, for San Jose is so near to San Francisco and Oakland that the out side competition would soon bring prices down to the rightful level. It is, therefore, probable the un dertaking of the students is simply a part of that wide sweeping movement toward co-operation which is going on all over the civilized world. It is in that light it will have to be considered; and when con sidered so, it is not easy to see how any antagonism can defeat it if it be properly managed. • It is easy to denounce such combinations; easy to speak of them as trusts, and declare them to be in jurious to the general welfare; but the fact remains that co-operation»is the most potent of the new eco nomic forces of our time. It shows itself in a thou sand forms, some good and some bad, some wise and some foolish. Blunders are committed in its name, and many unscrupulous things have been done by avaricious or aggressive persons in carrying out some of its enterprises, but it grows in spite of all. The merchants are, of course, justified in fighting the Normal movement by selling books cheaper than the students' store can sell them, but anything like a banded combination against that particular venture CLOTH AND VELVET COSTUME. This costume is of violet cloth. The vest forms a bolero behind, rounded at the waist with long fronts. It is trimmed with stitched bands and has a collar and lapel* faced with black velvet. The tunic is or namented with rolled seams, and beneath It is another tunic of black velvet. The skirt Is lons and supple all round BALLOTING MACHINES IN NEW YORK. SO satisfactory have been the results of voting by balloting machines in various cities in New York, it is now proposed to use the machines in the metropolis itself for the elections of the coming fall, and the Police Commissioners have the subject under consideration. The State constitution provides that "all elections by the citizens shall be by ballot, or by such other method as may be prescribed by law, provided that secrecy in voting be preserved." That renders it legally possible for local option zo be exercised in the matter, and hence the movement toward machine voting goes on in New York by de grees, one city or county following another, instead of waiting for action by the State government. In a review of the experiments with the machines in that State, the New York Sun says: "A practical test of a voting machine was made in April, 1898, at a local election* in Lockport. At the general State election of November, 1898, 7$ voting machines were used, 73 in the city of Rochester and 2 in Utica. The experiment was encouraging, for in November, 1899, 225 machines were used, 108 in Buffalo, 73 in Roch ester, 26 in Utica, 10 in Ithaca, 5 in Albion, 2 in Canisteo and 1 in Winfield. The test in Buffalo, a large city of 60,000 electors, was trying, but it appears to have been very satisfactory, judging from the de termination of the public authorities there to adhere to machines." It would appear from the record that the tests have been sufficiently numerous and sufficiently varied to justify the conclusion that the machines are a large improvement over the old system. Those used in the different cities in New York are said to be some what similar in the principle of construction to the cash registers and railway annunciators with which the public is familiar. The advantages resulting are said to be: First, celerity of voting and counting; second, the elimination of fraud from the count; third, the freedom from ambiguous or defective ballots; fourth, the reduction in the number of election offi cers, required and a consequent diminution of ex pense; and, finally, a greater convenience for voters. According to the reports, the duties of election officers where the. machines are used are merely per functory, as the machines register the votes and count them automatically. The speed attained by them is remarkable. It is said that in Rochester, at the first trial of the system, the returns from all the voting districts in the city were at headquarters in thirty nine minutes. In Buffalo, at the last election, they were in within seventy-seven minutes after the polls were closed, and rapid tabulation of the results was secured by the use of eighteen adding machines — a further extension of the system. of substituting me chanical methods for those of canvassers. Such being the reports from the smaller cities, a good deal of interest will be felt throughout the coun try in the investigations now being made in the city of New York. It requires something like $500,000 to defray the expenses of an election in that city, and if a trial be made with the machines this fall and the re sults are as good as they are said to have been else where, it will not be long before the machines will be in general use in all progressive States. WAR AND JINGOISM. DXE of the lessons we may learn to our profit from the British at this time is the rapidity with which the jingo spirit develops in time of war even among a people whose natural instincts are more commercial than military. At the time of the Hague conference the British people as a rule were loud in proclaiming their devotion to peace, but some of the very men who were foremost in professing such devotion have taken the stump for war and are talking as vehemently as Roosevelt himself of the blessings of the strenuous life. Dr. Conan Doyle, for example, in a speech at the Authors' Club in London a few days ago, is reported to have declared himself a convert to the jingo creed that wars are beneficial. He is quoted as having said: ''Some eight months ago I took the chair at a peace meeting, but I wish now to abjure that error. I have Eecn more positive virtue in this country during the last few months than I saw during the previous forty Another illustration of the same jingo tendency is to be seen in the quotations which the advocates of war are bringing from the books of the great writers •whose genius has conferred luster upon the Victorian age. Thus from Ruskin's '"Crown of Wild Olive" there is quoted a passage which runs thus: '"When I tell you that war is the foundation of all the arts I mean also that it is the foundation of all tlie high virtues and faculties of men. It is very Etrange to me. to discover this, and very dreadful — but I saw it to be quite an undeniable fact." Further on the idea is amplified: "I found, in brief, that all great nations learnt their truth of word and strength of thought in war; that they were nourished in war and wasted by peace; taught by war and deceived by peace; trained by war and betrayed by peace; in a word, that they were born in war and expired in So loud have become these voices shouting for war that the Westminster Gazette recently argued that a conscription in Great Britain would be a desirable thing, because it would result in putting into the fir ing line a good many men who will be inveterate jingoes so long as they can stay at home and let some one else do the fighting. The Gazette points out that in Germany and France, where conscription is <in force, there are by no means so many clamorous war advocates as in Great Britain and the United States, and from that fact it concludes that a conscription which brings all classes of citizens into the army in clines them to be more conservative than they would be otherwise. The lesson for us lies in the demonstration that jingoism grows by what it feeds on. When we once enter upon the path of imperialism we shall develop a belief that the wars to which imperialism leads are in the nature of benefits." There will be an increased tendency toxard militarism, and things which we now regard with abhorrence will become subjects of a boastful pride. HAIL, THE NEW SENATOR What the California Press Thinks About the Selection of Thomas ft Bard. SAN DIEGO TRIBUNE. In the selection of Thomas R. Bard of Ventura as their caucus choice the anti-Burns men have given Southern California a deserved representation; have purged the contest of any charges of corrupt influences and have a clean can didate who, if elected, will unite the party in the State this fall. • • • SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL. The election of Thomas R. Bard to the United States Senate is assured. He is an excellent compromise selection, being able and honest. His selection will in sure a grand Republican victory in California this year. California is now as sured two Republican United States Senators. • • • VENTURA FREE PRESS. If the California Legislature now in session would conclude when it ballots for United States Senator next week to choose Thomas R. Bard for this im portant position, there would be general rejoicing all over Southern California. And there seems a bare possibility that they may do this very thing. • • • STOCKTON RECORD. Now that the opposition has been united, organized and successful, the good sense, the Republicanism and the patriotism of the Burns people should cause them to accept the result, as Republicans opposed to Burns would have accepted one in their favorite's selection. Mr. Bard's Republicanism, fidelity and ability are unquestionable, and nothing but personal ambition can prompt any objection against him. ;.' ¦;_*-,"¦:¦ • '.-.;.* "¦ SAN JOSE HERALD • * • Mr. Bard is a capable man of affairs; has always been identified with the Republican party; has taken a keen interest In politics: has been a delegate to one National Republican Convention and twice a Republican Presidential elect or. He has had no legislative experience. Unless later developments puts some new face upon affairs, ne is to be accepted as the candidate of the Republican party for the high office of United States Senator. WOODLAND MAIL. The Mall was for Colonel D. M. Burns first, last and all the time, but we bow most gracefully to the will of the majority. • • * Thomas R. Bard is one of the foremost Republicans of the State. He Is a man of high and noble char acter and unimpeachable Integrity. When this State went for Cleveland he was the only Republican presidential electorchosen. The election of Mr. Bard will no doubt heal up the break that has been caused in the party ranks. He has reason to feel very proud, as he received the nomination, jjractically without solici tation on his part. We predict that he will make one of the best representatives this State ever had. V LOS ANGELES TIMES. The action of the Republican caucus at Sacramento last night in nominat ing the Hon. Thomas R. Bard of Ventura County for the high and honorable office of United States Senator is a delightful outcome to what has heretofore been a most distressing state of affairs in this State. Mr. Bard is a man of high character of splendid standing In the community and of excellent attainments. In the entire list of candidates that have been balloted for in the caucus at the present session, and that were voted for in the regular session last year, none comes more nearly being the ideal Senatorial candidate than Is the distinguished gentleman who was, on yesterday, so handsomely honored by the representatives of his party and by the people of this glorious commonwealth. FRESNO REPUBLICAN. As the original Bard paper the Republican may be pardoned for a little feel ing of especial satisfaction at the selection of Thomas R. Bard by the Republi can Senatorial caucus last night and the practical guarantee of his election when the formal ballot is taken next Tuesday. However, the gratification of the respectable people of the entire State will be unbounded. From a trembling hope, that it might escape disgrace California has changed to a trfnmphant proclama tion that it has won honor; that the combined efforts of every element of cor ruption and degradation in politics, have come to nothing, and that instead the State Is about t» select to represent it in the highest legislative council in the world a man whose election will confer as much honor on the State as on hlm . SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT. By all means let It be Thomas R. Bard, and it is not strange that we should have advocated his election during the regular session, and the Republicans of this town entirely ignoring the really clean candidate of Ventura. Again, last Monday in connection with the Republican mass meeting, we stated that Santa Barbara Republicans did not want Burns because he is deemed too' unprincl nled and neither wanted Thomas R. Bard because he is a man of sterling prin ciple's We have been acquainted with Mr. Bard for thirty years and know him to be a strictly honorable man, and hence in every sense a fit man for the high est position ln f the State. Being liberal-minded In politics, it must not be charged against us that we desire the election of Burns to the detriment of the Republican party of this State; but we do desire a gentleman as Senatorial representative, and such is Thomas R. Bard. . . , LOS ANGELES EXPRESS. The Senatorshlp has come to Mr. Bard without unseemly seeking on his part. He combined such qualities of strength as made him the logical candidate upon whom all Independent legislators could unite. i'f^.J*; The protest which Mr. Bard's selection means against unscrupulous party methods Is significant, and it is one which Republican leaders are bound to he:d. If they do not, so much the worse for them and so much the worse for the party. . To the men who have stood up and done their duty I'.ke men in the magnificent victory for political regeneration of the Republican party of California, all honor. They deserve well at the hands of the people of the State. They have stood fast for principle in spite of all seductive iniiuences, and there is no good citizen who may not well feel unusual joy at the action of the Republican caucus. • • • ALAMEDA ARGUS. The decision of the Republican caucus to support the Hon. Thomas R. Bard for Senator is an agreeable solution of a very vexed question. So far there has been nobody to object to Mr. Bard. This may have been owing in some degree to the fact that he was not prominent in the contest until immediately before his election but there could not have been much against him when the widely sun dered factions opposing Colonel Burns so readily flocked •to his standard. Mr. Bard is in public life in the best sense of the term. He is broadly and creditably Californian, and ho will aid to bring to the affairs of this coast the most respect ful consideration of the United States Senate. We congratulate Mr. Bard; -we congratulate the Republican party and we congratulate the great State of Call- SACRAMENTO RECORD-UNION. Hon. Thomas R. Bard, the party choice for United States Senator, we believe, will grace the office, fill It with ability, and from its seat reflect honor upon the State. His business life gives warrant for the faith that he will prove a val iant, untiring and wholly capable 1 champion of California's highest. best interests and a patriotic, broadmlnded and dignified defender of the National Government standing for. the policy that will best tell for its advancement and uplifting before the world, and for the accomplishment of the great purposes for which destiny has cast it. sgg^SjgjigfflgßiflWttaJlii Mr. Bard occupies the happy position of having the office come to him. He has not been a seeker after preferment. He has filled but one political seat. He was chosen Presidential Elector for the State in 1592, and was the only Repub lican elected at that time, which Is indicative in large measure of the estimation in which he Is held by his fellow citizens. He enjoys the distinction of being the choice of his party and not of a fac tion. He. ls not the subservient tool of trusts, neither the enemy nor the creature of corporate Influences; neither the servitor nor the master of any; but a free minded, broad-minded, businesslike and life long Republican and patriotic Amer ican St. Louis Republic. When Proper Precautions Will Be Taken to Protect Human Life. cient experience with co-operation to know what limitations if any, should be placed upon the adoption of it by any class of people. The Normal students, however, are quite within their rights in following the example of the fruit men, and the merchants must submit to the inevitable. CONGRESS should be impressed with the pol icy of a pause in legislating as to the Spanish islands. An examination of the treaty of Paris demonstrates the impolicy of haste in concluding very new and very grave questions. The administration of Cuba and Porto Rico has proved that conditions are certainly made no worse by omitting statutory regulation, while it is undeniable that a mass of information is being gathered that will enable enlightened legisla tion when it must be had. If this be true of a situa tion that has been maintained since the 14th of Aug ust, 1898, how much more must it be true of a situa tion yet undeveloped in the Philippines? In regard to the latter, Congress may easily make a mistake that will have fatal results at home within the next few months. So far no full and satisfactory panorama of all the conditions in the Philippines has been exhibited to the American people. Superficial observers, who have not been in the islands' long enough to get tanned by the vertical sun, have made rhapsodical reports which are an unsubstantial basis for legislation. Professional philanthropists have ex ploited plans for applying a sentimental emulsion to the situation. Religious enthusiasts have entered the field with the olive branch in one hand and the plan of salvation in the other. In this confusion of ideas there is absolutely not a single square foot of bed jeek upon which to plant legislation. Therefore Con gress should let the matter alone. It should not com mit the country to a policy which may soon have to be changed in detail or entirely swept away. The Republican party has interests at stake which must not be imperiled, for they are the interests of the country. The Administration must not be bur dened with the execution of a Congressional plan which will probably be a misfit, while fighting for its life in a Presidential campaign. Issues are not arti ficially manufactured. They grow out of the ever changing conditions that ebb and flow. The Bryanites are trying to make an issue on ex pansion. No one who entertains sincere convictions on that subject trusts them. It is patent that they were ready to assault the Administration if it had taken the side they now pretend to support. They stand upon expediency and not upon principle. Their position is unimportant unless it is made weighty by a premature conclusion reached by Congress, with out full knowledge of the situation upon which it at tempts to legislate. The Republican party has not spoken on the sub ject through a national convention. The issue is not formulated. It need not be until it is digested by pub lic sentiment. There is no certainty that Senator Foraker's bill is wise, or that it can be amended into wisdom. The Republican party does not want to en ter a Presidential campaign defending a legislative interpretation of the constitution which the courts may not sustain. Indeed, the party need not be put in the position of defending anything. Its record for four years, as written in revived industry, resusci tated trade, wide-spreading prosperity, increased wages, and the transfer of millions of workingmen from the soup house to the factory, from the pauper list to the payroll, requires no defense, and on that record it should stand. It need not be compelled to defend experimental and imperfect legislation. It need not be forced into a position that will divert pub lic attention and popular approval from the mighty things it has done to what it may. be accused of in tending to do. ¦ Congress should pause. It should refrain from experimental legislation. It should show the same confidence in the President that the country has' shown, and should not obscure the domestic issues raised by its successful policy at home by the shadow of issues raised abroad. LET THERE BE A PAUSE THE SAN FRANCISCO CAIiL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1900. THE GOOD TIME COMING IN KENTUCKY. TUESDAY FEBRUARY 6, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address A!! Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLIC ATI OX OFFICI-:..M«rUet and Third, S. F. Telephone Main ISGS. EDITORIAL ROOMS. .. .217 to 221 Steremoß St. Telephone Main 1874. Delivered by Carrier*, 15 Centn Per Week. Slnsrle Copied, 5 Cent*. Ti-rnin by Mnll. lnelndini; Voutagtit DAILY CALL (Inoluitiacr Sunday), one yrar..so.OO DAILY CALL (ln.-luditijf Sandajr). *i monthn. . 3.00 DAILY CALL (Including; Minduvt, 3 months. . I.SU DAILY CALL I'.y Mnck Month «5e SIAOAV CALL One Year USO WEEKLY CALL One \>ar 1.00 All poatniaater* are nnttaorized to receive •mbmcriptlonu. 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Tlvoll— "The Idol's Eye." Grand Opera-houFe— "Aladdin Jr." Orrheum— Vaudeville. Columbia— "The Hmugzlers of Badayex.' # A '..,.¦:::• :i — '"London L*ite." Caliiomia — "The Cuckoo." Alcarar — "Friends." Chutes. Zoo ana Theater— Vaudeville every afternoon and evenirc. Olyropla, corner Mason and Ellis Etreets— Specialties. Shermaa-Clay Hall — Concert- Oakland Race Track— Races. AUCTION SALES. By Eastern. Kldridffe & Co.— This day, at 12 o'clock. Real Estate, at C3S Market ptreet. By \V. O. Palmer— This day, at 11 o'clock. Horses, at 1515 Minion street. By Chase & Mcndenha!! — Friday. February 9, at 12 o'clock. Race" Horses, at Oakland Race Track. 6 A DAILY HINT FROM PARIS.