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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 11 ;; for the delectation; of the absurdly indulgent
people of the. city. . . I
A laundry trus t has been organized in this city
and all the leading purveyors to cleanliness liave 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
all the other varieties of royalty bred by the marvel
ot'-.commercialism oi^e United .States. . , A
It would be interesting to know who felt more
chagrined, Admiral Casey br~ 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 jgrieved 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? :/.- ,
A man in this city who sees shadowy and savage
shapes before him and trembles in {ear that the con
victs escaped from Folsom are seeking to murder
him has been arraigned on a questioh of his sanity.
If his fear of these desperate men, who have become
ubiquitous in our imaginations, be the only cause of
his trial there are thousands more in San Francisco
and in every other populous center in the State whose
sanity may be questioned with equal justice.
WHAT is admitted and discussed by the
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
group that has an enlightened, humane and prop
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
tablishment pays a profit to the State.
-Too much cannot be said in praise of the-Missis
sippi plan, and it may be studied usefully by peholb-
SOTJTHERN PRISONS
The Pennsylvania millionaire who spent $2000 for
a special train to carry him to the Corbett-Jerrries
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.
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.
"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 lamentation 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 -a 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.
THE editor of the Manufacturers' Record, Balti
more, has gathered comprehensive statistics of
the financial and industrial progress of the
South since 1897. He gives his statistics and their
in great detail, so as to leave no doubt of
their validity and reliability. The increased values of
visible property are taken from the official assessment
rolls. Between 1900 and 190.2 the gain, so shown, in
the values of realty and personalty in the South
was $460,000,000. or $230,000,000 per year, as against
£79.000.000 per annum for the preceding ten years.
There can be no great gain in the value of realty
and personalty unless there is great prosperity and
profit in the wealth-producing occupations, nor un
less the prosperity and profits are generally enjoyed
;:nd distributed with fair equality, share and share
alike, to those who have been the instruments of
their production. These official figures from the
South seem to make it necessary to revise the premise
of the calamity criers, who seek to induce political
action by insisting that the evident prosperity of the
country is beneficial to only a few, while the masses
are in peonage, and sow and reap for others and not
for themselves.
The statistics continue and include this year's crop
of the South. Cotton and cottonseed will bring to
the Southern planters, at plantation prices, during the
next twelve months S6oo.ooo,ooo, and the other agri
cultural products will add to this $900,000,000. The
value of the manufactured products of the South is
put at equality with the value of agricultural products,
which means that in one year three billions is added
lo the wealth of that section.
It is evident that the South has completely re
covered from the paralysis of the Civil War and is
now enjoying a greater and more general prosperity
than at any time in her history. She has reached this
high condition under a Republican administration
tnd under the fiscal and industrial policies of the Re
publican party. 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.
Discontent gets no hearing in the South. Mr. Wil
liam Randolph Hearst, in his paper, has repeatedly
said to his readers: "Remember, it is your first and
constant duty to make eveo'body discontented."
That declaration will injure his Presidential candi
dacy in the South.
The Atlanta Constitution, the greatest of Southern
Democratic papers, publishing and commenting on
the statistics of the prosperity of the Southern people,
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DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOLK' of St Louis
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
intelligent Americans and has acquired an experience
which enables him to make his lectures as instructive
as they are interesting. Every community 'in the
United States recognizes thc^ 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 £ouncil
held out for $25,000, then for $50,000, and finally voted
iivr the 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 $47,50O. 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 toldjthem that de
spite all the revelations of corruption and fraud, de
spite\all 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
slanders on Missouri or slanders on St. Louis. That
body of men remains powerful and well organized. It
has a considerable public sentiment behind it^and it is
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. Folkhas 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.
MUNICIPAL CORRUPTION.
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. •
ROME; Aug. IS.— A most important dis
covery was made to-day during excava
tions In the Roman Forum, consisting of
the base of the celebrated "equestrian
statue of the Roman Emperor. Domitlan.
which is of the greatest interest In de
termining the topography of the Forum
during the first century of tbe 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'hish. 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 i*
calculated that the statue was six times
life size.
FBENCH WARSHIP'S TURRET
IS GIVEN A SEVERE TEST
TJsed as Target for Live Shells, <th«
Steel Tower Proves Im
pregnable.
BREST, France. Aug. IS.— An interest
ing experiment of firing a live shell at
one of the turrets of the warship Suffren/
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-
Bhlp at targets erected on the Suffren.
Then a fourth shell was fired at" the tur
ret of the Suffren. The shell struck- the
turret, which appeared to stand the teat
well. -
INDIA'S IBBIGATION
r-BOABD 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 $130,000,000 In twenty
years on protective works and also $2,000.
000 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 th* vigor
ous use of the national resources of the
country and its resisting power In the
battles with famine. -~
Fast Bun Across Atlantic.
NEW YORK. Aug. IS.— The North Ger
man steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II arrived
to-day from Bremen, Southampton and
Cherbourg, after a fast run of 5 days 15
hours 10 minutes over the short course
of 3052 miles, at an average speed of 22.53
knots an hour. The best previous west
ern record of the Kaiser was made in
May last, and was 3 days 21 hours IS min
utes. * : :•;¦;' -
Falsa Beport of Quay's Death.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 13.— Senator M. S.
Quay axrKed in Plttsburg 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. 13.— Capt^n
Frank Wollard of the schooner . Hefcn
Whitten of Gloucester. Mass.,,^whdse
trial on the charge of shooting 'ind killing
one of his crew, named Patrick Yettman.
was concluded yesterday, when he was
found guilty of manslaughter., war* sen
tenced' to sixteen years' penal servitude.
Offers Prize for Sugar Beets.
OGDEN, Utah. Aug. 13.— H. C. Have
meyer of New York, on behalf of the
American Sugar Refining Company, ha3
offered a cup valued at $300 for the best
exhibit of sugar beets raised In the arid
or semi-arid regions to be shown before
the National Irrigation Congress at Og
den next month.
LINCOLN, Neb. Aug. IS.— 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
S. Allen of Lancaster and W. C. Whit
more of Douelas.
The unexpected feature of the conven
tion was the adoption by a unanimous
vote of a resolution declaring John !••
Webster 1 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 1S04. The resolu
tion 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 only ourselves,
the people at large, that the administrations
of our national affairs and our negotiations
with foreign nations are* being conducted by
the courageous Republican President who
knows no fear, who courts 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 part*, which has In
creased the revenues and not Impeded trade;
which has opened the doors of mills and tucto
rles to millions of American skilled mechanics
and is returning to them , the higher wages
which are the just recompense of their toil.
The Kepublican party recognizes that legit
imate business fairly ¦ capitalized and honestly
conducted has increased our industries at homo
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* hav
ing for their purpose the stifling of competition
and arbitrarily controlling . production or fix
ing prices.
The Philippines are ours as the legitimate
and crowning, result of honorable warfare, and
we hold them for, barter or sale, but as a
part 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. .
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 an'd such
exquisite ones that a satisfactory selec
tion is quickly made. Sanborn, Vail &
Co., 741 Market street. •
Framing the Picture
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 officlated.The invited guests
were limited 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 foliage and
pink ribbon. Ropes of smilax in various
lengths extended from the celling, 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 veil
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 rose.«=. The bridesmaids. Miss
Mollie Seibel and Miss Evelyn Huff, were
dressed alike in gowns of pink chiffon
over taffetf^ 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, j 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, i
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.
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.
Rev. Dr. Clampett, rector of Trinity
Church, has returned with his'wife from
a three months' trip to Australia. Rev.
Clifton Macon will now proceed to Trin
ity Church, Oakland.
Mrs. L. L. Baker and iamily have re
turned from San Rafael.
Miss Carolai^ is in the Santa Cruz
Mountains at present.
Captain William R. Smedberg has re
turned to his post at Fort Grant, Ariz.,
after a brief visit to his friends in San
Francisco. . *
• • •
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, j
Mr. and Mrs. William 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 Dcering, Judge and Mrs.
McFarland and Baldwin Wood.
Captain T. M. Anderson, who has been
visiting his father, General T. M. Ander
son, at the Soldiers' Home, Dayton, Ohio,
returned to his post at the Presidio yes
terday.
• * •
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,
Now York and Niagara Falls, returning
via New Orleans. They will also spend
some time in Kentucky.
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 Uv
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.
E. B. Corbin, a well-known resident of
Sebastopol, is registered at the Grand.
W. H. Hattra, a well-known attorney of
Modesto, is among the arrivals at the
Lick.
E. B. Yerington. connected with the
Virginia and Truckee Railroad, Is at the
Palace.
( B. S. Hirsch, a merchant of Ukiah, is
here on a 'short business trip and has
made hia headquarters at the Lick.
F. Golden, a jeweler of Carson City,
who has- several mining claims in the
TonOpah mining district, is at thft 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.
Californians in New York.
NEW YORK, Aug. 18.— From San Fran
cisco—Mrs. L. Bicknell, at the Cosmopoli
tan; B. Jcppey and wife, at the Welling
ton; E. B. Johnstone, at the Murray Hill;
S. McNeill. at the Grenoble; J. J. O'Neill,
at the Cosmopolitan; Dr. E. K. Johnstone
and wife, at the Victoria; W. B. Waldron,
at the Park Avenue.
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 Sk^neateles community in New ,York under
took to live on philosophy and the beatitudes. Horace
Grecley 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 Joseph Smith
and "the witnesses" promulgated the Book of Mor
mon. The Fox sisters began spiritual rapping and
made the world's hair rise with "the Rochester
knockings." 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 it*
neck. The old disposition to take up a fad is still
upon man. But unfortunately the fad now seeing to"
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. 3*he next step was a short one, and was taken,
we believe, in Texas, where the victim was caught,
condemned, 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 r |a*£ .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
other States. 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
bodies, negroes being the intended avengers. A Mis
souri Sheriff was standing off a mob that desired to
lynch 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 were 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,
tied up and given forty lashes on the bare back by
the Warden. The thongs cut to the ribs and left
gashes in her breast No male prisoner had ever re
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 lynch
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. .
Thompson appeared with his new school of medi
cine and squirted a stream of "No. Six" and lobelia
into his followers. Preissnitz promulgated his Graf
fenberg water cure, and his followers were legion, be
lieving that a tub and wet bandage would enable men
to rearh the age of Methusaleh with all the virtues of
Melchizedek. 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 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.
The Millerites gave away their property,* "made long
white nightshirts, put them on and took to the hills
and housetops lo 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.
NEBRASKANS
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gists and by the officials of other States. But out
side of Mississippi,, 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
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
tary laborers. There is no attempt to apply the prin- j
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 by
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.
'lHd LTNCHltfG FAD.
THE FAN FRAKCISGO CALL. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1903.
NEBRASKA REPUBLICAN WHO
IS BEING "BOOMED" FOR
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New Novels of This
Money-Mad World
THE world is money mad. That statement looks absolutely start-
ling in cold type, but when you realize that it is a sentiment em-
anatintr 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 dance at the popular literature of the hour.
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 byjjone asres, but
modern wealth that has to do with empire building the destiny of na-
tions, the struggle for commercial dominance and aristocratic soda! 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 stored with riches, but the trold that
glitters before our very eyes— rich, ytllow gold that we watch in the
making — gold that is accumulated while you wait by men we all know,
and spent with greater ease and facility by women who are Detter
known.
Of such a dozen books that everybody is reading risrht now mhtht
be mentioned at- random. To begin with there is "The Spenders."
which was concluded in last Sunday's Call, and which not only shows
the excitement of modern money making, 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 a year, ret his
money's worth and vet -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 thinsr 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 SundayCall. and you
will see what a stupendous task it is to spend a million a year— actually
spend it — not dissipate it or give it away or lose it in false speculation,
but get your money's worth as you would if -you had only a hundred in-
stead of a cool pillion. ' ,
But the popular craze of literature of the bright, snappy, uo-to-date
sort goes even further than this. Never before was there such a tre-
mendous demand for short stories of thr' best sort. And what belter
reading could you get? # A good <bort story is a complete novel in con-
densed form, and it is iust such . reading as this that, is pro-
vided in the Sunday Call's new "Half Hour Storiettes." of which, next
Sunday, you wiU get two full pases. Here are some of the titTes*
"Mysterious LeQfric." "In. the F T -»*h of Strined Death." "The Secret of
the Jamaica Sink Hole." j'The Beautifnl M«s3 Marrhm." "FaWes for
the Foolish," "Shorty Mahan's Passing." "Love's. Golden Tether"
-"While the Train: Waited.". ."WTin Tiny.Petrr Did." >tr.; etc •: B-st of
all there is. a new short story by A. Connn Dovte. • "The Shadow Be-
fore": "Millions in His Dreams." by M" rl " Twain: "Meow* of ¦* Kitty "
by Kate Thyson Marr: "The Ora-rle of Mulberry Center." by S E Kiser
etc.. etc.
; . . And besides all this there. u tH#» regular Sunday Mas?:»*in* section
giving you-the very, latest in evenrtbing that is going' on in the^world
to-day. The ' Sunday Call can't bV beat.
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