THE LATEST BROKEN HEART. YOU FOS is a Chinese laundryman of Pitts- burg and his Sunday school teacher promised to marry him. It is a regrettable fact that to make such promises seems to be a weakness of the Sunday school teacher who snatches heathen brands from the burning. No sooner does the rescued real- ize that he has been duly snatched than he wants the woman who has been instrumental in his salvation to marry him. Probably, this is that having been saved he may remain so. Often he is refused, whereupon he goes back to fan-tan and ways that are dark. In many instances he is accepted. Then de- cency blushes and pale yellow half-breeds begin to people the thoroughfares. But the woman who saved You Fos, and for the sake of keeping him saved was willing to become his •rife, has backed down. She had a lucid interval and balked at the altar. It seems that the minister to whom the twain applied for the tying of the knot chanced to be neither fool nor knave, so he told the girl to go home. She went, and the stricken You Fos has brought suit for damages for breach of promise. In Pittsburg he may get something more substantial than what is technically known as the "ha ha." In this State he would never get a cent by the verdict of any jury. To be sure there would be some satisfaction in cinching a woman who had been so idiotic as to permit a Chinese to make love to her, yet it mu<t be remembered that she reformed, and that in all probability a Chinese was her only chance. NO EXCUSE FOR BRUTALITY. COMMON instincts of the human heart check any impulse to speak ill of the dead, and a breach of this rule can only be justified when it has been made necessary in defense of the living. If the dead are to be protected, surely the unfortu- nate, groping mindless in the borderland, is entitled to at least equal consideration; in the name of de- cency is entitled to more. The dead are past all harming. At times the clouds hovering about the mentality may be dissipated and the vacant eye, tak- ing on again the old light, look once more upon the world, realizing what it sees. Why prepare for it an insult or why harrow up the feelings of friends who mourn as for one who has been called away? Perhaps the Post will tell. The statement that Sutro has not paid his share of taxes comes with bad grace from the organ of the Southern Pacific, a monopoly which pays no tax it can wriggle out of. which tries to repudiate its debts, which preys upon the community it should serve;, an organization so venal and corrupt as to be a reproach upon the nation itself. Let the Post look to the source whence it draws pap. When General Flagler, chief of ordnance of the War Department, was informed that tests made at the Presidio showed that 50 per cent of the shrapne! shells supplied to the light artillery at this post was defective he dismissed the subject with the remark, "It is of small importance, as the shells are used in small caliber or field guns." This is the first time high military authority has taken the ground that the importance of a swindling operation in ammunition varies with the size of the gun for which the ammuni- tion is intended. According to the Flagler scale of estimates, if 50 per cent of the rifle cartridges fur- nished the infantry were defective it would be of no importance whatever. French politeness is a trait of wide renown. Zola himself probably has a high regard for it. Yet in this wild Western Hemisphere an eminent author brought to the bar would not be greeted by threats of being spat upon. We even think in our uncouth way that there is impropriety involved in spitting upon the sidewalk. Hundreds of people who collected in Plymouth Church lecture-room to hear a debate concerning the admission of Hawaii did not hear it. To conduct an argument there must be a question with two sides, but after the opponents of annexation had spoken there was nothing more to say. Of course Blar.co's tour of Cuba was a failure. Everything that has been undertaken by Spain's rep- resentatives in the islands has been a failure. The only method by which that country can achieve any credit will be through a masterly and dignified re- treat. Delany's assertion that his accuser ij a liar and a blackmailer seems direct enough, but it does not prove anything. The indignant captain should be digging for corroborative evidence. Whether a man who dies by gas poisoning goes through the ordeal voluntarily i 3 possibly an impor- tant question, but it does not affect the reputation of the gas. BLAINE'S HAWAIIAN POLICY. SO much has been said about Blame's Hawaiian policy that it is well to see what it was. It has been distorted into nameless shapes to convert it into an argument for annexation, and that sentiment in the country which followed the Maine statesman to the close of his career has been ap- pealed to for a supply of post-mortem enthusiasm in behalf of the pending treaty. Mr. Blame supported the independence of Hawaii and considered only one emergency in which annex- ation could be justified, and that was imminence of seizure by a foreign power. No such crisis has ap- peared. Its appearance has been often simulated, frequently pretended and many times prophesied, when it had no reality, present nor prospective. The politicians of the Dole oligarchy and their allies in this country have done their best to nag Japan into a hostile demonstration, but without success. In fine there has been no evidence of the actual situation in which Blame proposed a step beyond maintenance of the independence of the islands. In 1881 England was suspected of an intention to demand consular jurisdiction over British coolies from Hongkong. Blame, then Secretary of State, instructed our Minister at Honolulu to this effect: "The Government of the United States has, with un- varying consistency, manifested respect for the in- dependence of the Hawaiian kingdom and an earn- est desire for the welfare of its people. It has al- ways felt and acted on the conviction that the pos- session of those islands by a peaceful and prosperous power, with which there was no possibility of con- troversy or collision, was most desirable, in refer- ence to its own large and rapidly increasing interests in the Pacific. It has declined even at the request of the Hawaiian people to assume over their affairs a protectorate, which would be only a thinly disguised domination, and it has confined its efforts and in- fluence to strengthening their government and open- ing to their commerce the readiest and most profit- able connection with its own markets. But this pol- icy has been based upon our belief in the real and substantial independence of Hawaii. The Govern- ment of the United States has always avowed, and now repeats, that under no circumstances will it per- mit the transfer of the territory or sovereignty of those islands to -any of the European powers. The United States was one of the first among the great nations to take an active interest in the upbuilding of Hawaiian independence and the creation of a new potential life for its people. It has consistently en- deavored, with success, to enlarge the material pros- perity of Hawaii on an independent basis." He asserted over and over again that no departure from this policy could be justified by anything short of an attempt to acquire jurisdiction by any other power. Therefore, in the absence of such attempt, and none is in sight or likely to be made, the Blame policy of neutrality and independence must stand. The threat of the Dole oligarchy to trade the coun- try off to some other nation does not constitute such an attempt. It is nothing less than a confession that the oligarchy can no longer rest upon the support of 2 per cent of the people, and that unless it can use its usurped and temporary authority to cede the islands to an outside power, the majority will install a. government in its place. RESPECTFULLY DECLINED. OUR valued contemporary, the Mission street Boodler, asks us to assist it in getting an "ad- vertising" contract out of the Spring Valley Water Company. We are compelled to refuse the request. We are always ready to relieve the op- pressed and uplift the downtrodden in journalism, but we draw the line at corporation "advertising" contracts. We do not solicit such contracts our- selves, owing to the moral turpitude involved in exe- cuting them, and much as we might wish to relieve the financial difficulties of the Boodler, we are com- pelled to decline to assist it in blackmailing the water company. Perhaps in respect, to corporation "advertising" contracts The Call is a trifle youthful, but if it is we cannot help it. We take the same view of our duty to our readers as was taken by the Supreme Court of a newspaper's general duty to its readers in the cele- brated case of Fitch vs. De Young. The Boodler will remember that the defendant in that case, in order to escape the penalty of libel, took the position that the owner of a newspaper, by virtue of his own- ership, had a right to sell its space and Its influence to whomsoever he wished, and that, therefore, it was not libelous to say that he had sold it. A Superior Judge was found who sustained this contention on the sa- cred ground that it is the privilege of a than to do with his property as he pleases. But when the case was taken to the Supreme Court that tribunal came to the rescue of decency and morality. It declared that a newspaper's readers are its clients and that it has no more right to sell them to corporations se- cretly than it would have to pick their pockets or rob their houses. It may be an evidence of our weakness, but we think this is good law and good morals. We do not believe the Boodler should be allowed to force the water company to "advertise" unless it makes the en- tire business public at the time the sale takes place. The vice of the $30,000 contract with the Southern Pacific Company was its secrecy. The Boodler never said a word about drawing $1000 a month from the railroad treasury, nor that it had contracted to treat the monopoly with "justice" through two Legislatures and a State campaign. In fact, it kept its readers entirely in the dark on the subject until Huntingdon himself told a reporter in New York that the Boodler's enmity was due to the fact that he had cut it off the railroad payroll. We do not say that the rates of the Spring Valley Company should not be reduced. It seems to us as well as to the Boodler that $778,000 is an enormous sum to pay in dividends in a single year. But how would things be improved for the ratepayers if a por- tion of this $778,000 were turned over to the Boodler for "advertising"? That might contribute to the hap- piness of the sheet, but would it make the people any happier? The Boodler may think that when it is happy the people are happy, but we differ from it on that point. We think the converse is true. When the Boodler is happy it is time for the people to look out. Even though the Boodler might put its request for assistance in this matter on personal grounds, we must still decline to grant it. The Boodler elected the present Board of Supervisors and should apply to its members 'for aid. It is reported that last year the board got a contract and "dumped" the Boodler. If this is true we have no hesitation in saying the board was ungenerous, if not ungrateful. What the Boodler should do this year is to avoid being "dumped." We know of no other way in which it can get a contract out of the water company. Even if the confession of the old Tammany chic/ is in existence it is of less importance than a nice fresh confession from the present chief would be. THE LOS ANGELESWATER FIGHT. BY action taken on Monday the Los Angeles Common Council has given the water com- pany notice to file a complete inventory of its property within two weeks in order that a basis may be had for the settlement of the issue between the city and the company. This is the most important step which has been taken by the city government in the interest of the people since it first became clear that the water com- pany intended to hold on to the water supply of the municipality after the lease had expired. If the ac- tion is followed up with due vigor it cannot fail to secure the rights of the city, and may therefore be ac- counted an important victory of the people. The issue is one that never should have arisen. The case of the people Is so strong both in law and in justice that the action of the water company in opposing it could have emanated only from a desire to plunder the public. By the terms of the lease un- der which the company has held the sources of water supply in Los Angeles for thirty years the company is bound to surrender possession of the property of the city at the end of the term, and furthermore to convey to the city all the improvements of the plant at a price to be fixed by arbitrators. It is a matter for amazement that under these cir- cumstances the company should have up to this time declined to take any steps toward the fulfillment of its obligations, while on the other hand showing a thousand evidences of an intention # to hold on to the plant at the expiration of the lease by postponing ar- bitration to the indefinite future. At one time it appeared as if the scheme of the company would be carried through with ease. The three leading papers of the city were silenced and the Common Council induced to do nothing. Weeks and months passed, the time for the expiration of the lease was drawing near, and nothing had been done to determine the price the city should pay for the im- provements, or even to arrange for arbitration. The game seemed to be in the hands of the water com- pany. It had only to keep quiet, lull the people to repose and postpone arbitration in order to be in a strong position to hold the water property of the city for a long time to come. Fortunately Los Angeles had some citizens who could not be induced to be silent in the presence of this scheme either by fear or favor, by bribes or bullying. They began a fight for the interests of the people which attracted attention throughout the State, notwithstanding the fact that the leading papers of Los Angeles either ignored it or denounced those who led it. At that juncture The Call discerned the importance of the controversy and at once gave the advocates of the rights of the city a chance to be heard. The whole scheme for retaining possession of the prop- erty of the city was exposed. Public sentiment was aroused. Mass meetings were held. Popular indig- nation made itself felt and the schemers of the water company were compelled to abandon their plan of winning by a still hunt. % The action taken by the Common Council in call- ing for an inventory of the property of the water company within two weeks may under the circum- stances be regarded as the beginning of the end of the contest. Mayor Snyder is known to be strongly on the side of the people, and now that he has the Council with him there can hardly be but one re- sult. A victory has been won for justice and law, and The Call congratulates the people of Los An- geles upon the outlook for the recovery of their property. ZOLA IN COURT. BEFORE the officials of the French Government entered upon the prosecution of Emile Zola they would have done well to consider^ the re- sults of similaT prosecutions against men 6i genius in times past. Had they done so they probably would have decided to let the case pass and left the novelist free to make of the Dreyfus incident a ro- mance or a political sensation, as he pleased. In every single instance where a Government has prosecuted a man endowed with a high order of lit- erary ability it has suffered a defeat and been marked through all history with a stain that nothing can erase. It has not mattered in the least whether the Government was right or wrong, whether the genius was a saint or a rascal. The one important fact has been that the Government side of the case has been buried in dull official reports which nobody reads, while the writer has told his with a vigor and grace that win a way for them into the minds of all who love literature and delight in eloquence. Plutarch tells us that King Minos of Crete, who for so many ages has been remembered as the original of the Minotaur, was really a just and good sovereign. He had the misfortune, however, to of- fend the Athenians, and the brilliant wits and poets of that city of genius at once lampooned him and de- nounced him and fastened upon him for all time the charges and stories that have made his name a synonym of all that is most brutal and bestial in na- ture. Itis not with impunity, adds Plutarch, that one can offend the favorites of the muses. Daniel Defoe was not a particularly good citizen, nor a very great genius, but the British officials who sent him to the pillory remain pilloried to this day in history. There is reason to believe Dean Swift was not altogether a perfect saint, but all the same the men who turned him from court and banished him to Ireland found little pleasure while living, and no increase of reputation since death, from the pic- tures he drew of them in "Gulliver's Travels." Vol- taire was not a model in any respect, but the Govern- ment that sent him to the Bastille has never been re- membered with special favor by any class or genera- tion of men from that day to this. It is useless to multiply instances. When law as- sails a man who can write "thoughts that breathe in words that burn" the right or wrong of the contest has no effect on the result upon public opinion. The world- forgives genius that entertains it, and it never forgives governments for being dull. It reads the work of the poet and romancer and does not read the law documents. Zola may be condemned, and it may be proved he is rightly condemned, but it will avail his prosecutors nothing. When he turns away from the Government and the populace, from the court and the crowd, and in the seclusion of his library takes up his pen he will have in his hand a weapon that will win the fight for him for all time. What he writes willbe read, and the world, interested and charmed by the forceful and vivid style of the great realist, willnever know any side of the story except his. Train time between Chicago and Denver was once nearly forty-eight hours, but is now a little more than twenty-eight. California people would be glad to have Mr. Huntington while in the East pick up a few ideas as to how this sort of thing is accom- plished. "We think not," announces the Stockton Mail. It 1 is only fair to say that this circumstance had not passed unnoticed. NATAL HEROES HER ANCESTORS Miss Annie Paulding Meade has become a , ( Miss Meade is the accom- plished daughter of the late Admiral Rich- ard Worsam Meade, U. S. N., and grand- daughter of Commodore Richard Worsam Meade, U. S. N., and Admiral Hiram Paulding, U. S. N., who was Midshipman Paulding in Miss Sewell's engaging story. Several years since Admiral Meade wrote a number of lectures, to be read before the National Geographical Society and the Army and Navy Club, at Washington. He had 'been asked to deliver these lec- tures In various other places, and was preparing to do so at the time of his final illness and subsequent death. Miss Meade, who was deeply interested in her father's work, has taken up these lectures where he laid them down, and she is rtow arranging for a series to be given throughout the country. All of the talks are illustrated by fine stereopticon views, many of which were made from the ad- miral's own collection of photograpns. The subjects of the lectures are: "The Car- ibbean Sea, the Mediterranean of Our Western World"; "A Winter Voyage Through the Straits of Magellan," and "Commodore John - aul Jones, the Spon- sor of the Stars and Stripes on tne Ocean." MISS ANNIE PAULDINQ MEADE. THE SONG OF THE SEA. Oh, the song of the Sea, The wonderful song of the Sea! Like the far-off hum of a throbbing drum It steals through the night to me; And my fancy wanders free To a little seaport town, And a spot I knew, where the roses grew, By a cottage small and brown. And a child strayed up and down O'er hillock and beach and lea, And crept at dark to his bed, to hark To the wonderful eong of the Sea. Oh, the song of the Sea, The mystical song of the Soa! "Chut strains of Joy to a dreaming boy That music was wont to be! And the night-wtnd through the tree Was a perfumed breath that told Of the spicy gales that filled the sails Where the tropic billows rolled, And the rovers hid their gold By the lone palm on the key — But the whispering wave their secret gave In the mystical song of the Sea. Oh, the song of the Sea, The beautiful song of the Sea! The mighty note from the ocean's throat. The laugh of the wind in glee!. And swift as the ripples flee With the surges down the shore. It bears me back, o'er life's long track, To home and Its love once more; I stand at the open door. Dear mother, apain with thee, And hear afar on the" booming bax The beautiful song of the Sea. —Joe Lincoln in L. A. W. Bulletin. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Special gunnery and torpedo courses are to be given for retired captains, com- manders and lieutenants of the British navy who are on the list' of volunteers for further service, and those who attend the course will receive the full pay of their grade. The courses will begin March 28 and terminate June 24. The total naval estimates of Denmark for 189S-99 amount to $3,251.ISO, or at the rate of $1 CO per capita of the population. This total includes $200,000 toward the con- struction of an armored ship to be named Herluf Trolle. Marquis de Villamayer and Marquis Courillas have offered $50,000 and $100,000 respectively to the Spanish Government as an aid to strengthen the navy. The JUIs and^Hyane gunboats, to re- place old vesels under the same names in the German navy, have been nearly completed. They are very much like the British gunboats of that size, and are of 895 tons displacement, 1300 horse power and 12 knot speed. As they draw only ten feet they are well adapted for the service intended, on the African coast and on the rivers in the Orient. The British Admiralty is about to have tests made of cellulose made from corn- stalk pith, an American invention which was tried in this country last year with decided success. The Portuguese cruiser Adamastor, built by Orlando Brothers, Leghorn, Italy, has had her final trials, and ex- ceeded her guaranteed speed of 17.5 knots by over half a knot. The vessel is 242 feet 2 Inches in length, 35 feet 2 inches beam, and on a draught of 14 feet aft, with 419 tons of coal, displaces 1902 tons. Her twin Screw engines are of 4000 horse power, with four single end boilers carrying 160 pounds steam, having a heating Burface of 8823 square feet and 262 square feet of grate. During her six hours' natural draught trial the engines developed 3100 horse power and gave a speed of 17.19 knots. The forced draught trial gave 4030 horse power and 18.04 knot speed. The coal consumption was exceptionally low, being only 1.45 pounds per horse power at 10 knots, anil giving the ship a radius of action or endurance at 10 knots of 8596 miles. During the past year four battle-ships in the British navy have been completed and undergone the specified trials, which consist of a continuous eight hours' steam- ing under natural draught, four under forced draught, and thirty hours under half boiler power to ascertain the coal consumption under ordinary cruising con- ditions. The following are the . tabu- lated results of the trials in the order named above: Natural Draft. 8 Hours. Horse-power. Knots. Jupiter 10,248 15.8 Mars ; 10,209 16 Hannibal 10,317 16.3 Caesar 10.G38 16.7 Forced Draft. 4 Hours. Horse-power. Knots. Jupiter 12,475 15.4 Mars 12.483 17.7 Hannibal 12,138 17.G Caesar 12,653 18.7 Under half power the Jupiter made 14.1 knots with 1.51 pounds of coal per horse- power per hour; Mars, 14.4 knots, using 1.93 pounds of coal; Hannibal, 14.8 knots on 1.78 pounds of coal, and Caesar 14.8 knots with 1.93 pounds of coal. The mean horsepower developed by the four ships in the order named was. 6198, 6039, 6124 and 6309. A fifth battle-ship, the Illus- trious, had only made her coal-consump- tion trial when the year ended, and de- veloped 6155 horsepower, 14.5 Rnots speed and using 1.77 pounds of coal. All these battle-ships are of 14,900 tons 'and calcu- lated to make 17.5 knots under forced draught. The four battle-ships of the United States navy which have been completed and gone through a four hours' forced draught trial are the Indiana, Massachu- setts and Oregon, each of 10.25S tons and the lowa of 11,410 tons. The steaming records of the American battle-ships are given in order to make comparisons with the latest productions, and considering the discrepancies in size and that all but the lowa were designed eight years ago the American battleships' performance is very creditable: _ „ Horse-power. Knots. Indiana... 9,73g 15 . 55 Massachusetts .......10 16 21 Oregon 11,111 16.79 lowa 12,105 • 17.09 The American speed data are derived from a measured course, while the British are from patent log and overrated. The German navy comprises the follow- ing officers of the line on the active list: Two admirals, three vice-admirals, nine rear admirals: forty-seven captains; eighty-two commanders, of whom sixteen of superior rank; 171 first liteutenants, 264 second lieutenants and 179 sublieuten- ants, making a total of 749. The line personnel of United States navy has none of the two first grades of the German navy, but the total number slightly ex- ceeds the Kaiser's navy, being 775, includ- ing naval cadets graduated last year. HUMAN FENDERS FOR CARS. - Editor of The Call: The Call has de- voted so much time and labor in explain- ing the many devices submitted for street- car fenders that I fear it may be presum- ing too much on your valuable space to ask the publication of my views in the matter. However, as I do not recollect any one suggesting the fender that is, in my opinion, the only practical and effi- cacious one. I submit it for what it is worth. It is simply the Human Fender, and consists in each street railroad com- pany manning each car with a strictly No. 1 motor man and a strictly No. 1 con- ductor, well paid for their services and not compelled to work more than eight, or at most ten hours per day, so that their attention can always be concentrat- ed on their work, with strict rules in re- gard to any accident that might happen on their car. I do not wish in the least to reflect on the present employes, as there are doubtless an army of superior men engaged, but by making the hours of Labor as short as possible and the pay -as large as possible it will act as an incen- tive to the very best class of labor to "seek that employment and to retain their places by avoiding by their extra atten- tion to duty any accident occurring by the respective cars in their charge. A simple rule making it a cause for dis- charge for any motorman to propel his car at a rate of more than eight miles an hour will speedily regulate the 'speed of the cars, so no danger can come from fast driving. By this means I think the rail- road company will save money by .avoid- ing annoying and expensive suits for damages, and all that they would be re- quired to furnish each car with would' be a wire netting or slat arrangement flush with the front and sides of the car, as any fender rigged out several feet in front is an extra danger, and any scoop arrangement wich might be worked oy the motorman only divides his attention, probably preventing him from stopping his car as quickly as he otherwise would, or in some cases probably inducing soma romantic fellow to try to see how slick he could scoop up the subject. One more source of some danger lies in running 1 two cars together, as the extra length some- times causes a person to cross the street after it passes, without noticing the car or team coming in an opposite direction. Very respectfully, C. BRANAGAN, 128 Chattanooga street. San Francisco, Feb. 8, 189 S. CALTFORNIANS^ INJVVASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Feb. B.— Leroy Temple, Los Angeles, Riggs House; W. G. Harmer, Oakland, National Hotel. Cal. glace fruit 50c perlb at Townsend's. • Prof. Field's worm powders sold on a guarantee. Try them. At druggists. \u2666 . \u2666 \u25a0 Special Information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. • Alexander Agassiz of Harvard is to spend several months among the Fiji Isl- ands studying the coral reefs. Time Reduced to Chicago. Via Rio Grande Western, Denver and Rio Grande and Burlington railways. Passengers leaving San Francisco on 6 p. m. train reach Chicago 2:15 p. m. the fourth day, and New York 6:30 p. m. following day. Through Pull- man Palace Double Drawing Room Sleeping Cars to Denver with Union Depot change at 9:30 a. m. to similar cars of the Burlington Route for Chicago. Railroad and Bleeping car tickets sold through and full information given at 14 Montgomery st. W. H. Suedaker, General Agent. "Mrs. Winslow's SoothinC S.vruo " Has been used over fifty years by millions ot mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, reg- ulates, the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup. 25c a bottle. CORONADO.— Atmosphere Is perfectly dry. eoft and mild! being entirely free from the mists common further north. Round trip tickets, by steamship. Including fifteen days' board at the Hotel del Coronado, $65: longer stay. $2 50 ncr day. Apply 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco, or A. W. Bailey, mana- ger. Hotel del Coronado, late of Hotel Colo- rado, Glenwood Springs, Colorado. When the hair is thinan>l gray Parker's Haib Balaam renews the growth miii color. IllNDKßtoßxs. the best cure for corns. 15 eta. Don't forget Waller Bros. Gift Day, Feb. 26, 189S, 33 Grant avenue, corner Geary street. \u25a0 m \u25a0 Mme. Carnot.the widow of themartyrcd President of France, is livingquietly in Paris, and no sovereign passes through that city without calling on her as a mark of respect. In one corner of her apartment she has arranged a chapel, and here she has placed around a por- trait of Carnot innumerable souvenirs sent to her after the assassination. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS Dr. H. A. Smith of Astoria is at the Grand. Robert 11. Barclay of Salt Lake is at the Palace. T. D. Mott Jr. or Los Angeles is at tTie Palace. E. H. Winship of Napa is a guest at the Grand. C. A. Henry of Ogden Is a guest at the Occidental. E. F. Seymour of New York is at the Occidental. Rudolph Oxman of San Pedro is regis- tered at the Palace. "W. H. Clearey, a mining man of Stock- ton, is staying at the Lick. George S. Grant of Seattle is registered at the Occidental with his wife. Joseph R. Ryland, the San Jose capital- ist, is at the California with his wife. W. J. Spenser of St. Paul arrived in the city last evening and went to the Occi- dental. Stephen W. Roach, a shipbuilder of New York, Is among last night's arrivals at the California. Dr. L. Brecheman of Philadelphia is at the Occidental on a short pleasure trip to the coast. E. A. Warren, a mining man amd vine- yardist of Chico. is at the Lick, accom- panied by Mrs. Warren. THE RETORT COURTEOUS. under no circumstances, could he possibly be mistaken for anything else than a swefl. The other night he was standing in the lobby of the Baldwin Theater, attired in faultless evening costume, when a couple, who had just entered, walked past him, and, stopping a few feet away, looked round for a moment or two, as if in search of something. Finally the man, detaching himself from his pretty com- panion, approached X. and said: "Have you a programme, my man?" To say that X. was wild with offended dignity would be putting it mildly. But*mad as he was, he rose to the occasion. Glanc- ing at his interrogator, with the most supercilious contempt, he answered, "Yes, thank you. The other fellow Just gave me one." The girl, who had listened to the whole dialogue, was the only one of the three who laughed. Rev. J. M. Beard of Grace M. E. Church left yesterday on a short visit to the southern part of the State. H. E. Adams of the Stockton Gas Works Is in the city on a business trip. He is staying at the Grand. C. A. Carpenter, a well-known member of Gotham's society circles, Is one of yes- terday's arrivals at the Palace. Judge C. N. Sterry, the attorney for the Santa Fe at Los Angeles, is stopping at the Palace while on a short visit to the city. Rev. John A. B. Wilson, pastor of t.ie Howard-street M. E. Church, has left for Los Angeles County, where he will dedi- cate a new church for his son next Sun- day. Mme. Josefa M. de Ezeta, wife of the ex-President of Salvador, was one of the passengers on the San Bias for San Jose Mr. X. is a gen- tleman living at a Bush-street ho- tel, who prides himself on the fact that he is always correctly dressed and that, de Guatemala. She goes to visit her tam\ ily and assist at the marriage t>f hetf younger sister, also to look after some business affairs, and will be absent about two months. While she is away her chil- dren will remain at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Oakland. F. A. Miller, a uotel man of Riverside, Is at the Palace, accompanied by George Toost, G. Rouse and E. A. Chase of the same place. TV. Shillito, a young Englishman, who is making a tour of the United States, is at the Palace, en route to the Hawaiian Islands and the Orient. WAS NOT c ALTOGETHER c BAD. c <. plete ostracization from all refining influ- ences, and the nature of their business, which brings them in continual contact with therefuseof humanity, has a tendency to give them but a poor opinion of their kind, while the many hard luck stories that they hear when the ponies are run- ning their way have the effect of making them more than skeptical and hard to- ward the woes of others. Yet even amid the debasing environment of the betting ring there are occasionally met with in- stances of charity and brotherly love that I doubt are ever duplicated by those who look with scorn and aversion on the out- casts of the tenderloin and who tell from pulpits of the evil done our city by the sporting fraternity that makes its yearly visit to the coast," said a gentleman in the office of the Baldwin last night. "The reason I speak thus," continued he, "ia a little occurrence I just witnessed as I was standing in front of the cigar-stora about half an hour ago. A little fellow, who could not have been over 10 or 1J years of age, was standing near the curb. When along came a tout, who I know my- self to be about as hard a character as any racetrack ever produced. He was walking very quickly, and his whole air was that of a man in the hardest kind of luck. Just as he came opposite the boy the little fellow's sobbing attracted his attention, and, stopping, he asked him what was the matter. 'Iain't had nothin* to eat since mornin', 'cause I lost all m' dough shootin' craps,' replied the youtn: 'an' I was trun down when der evenin poipers cum out." 'Well,' said the tout. 'I'm up against it myself so hard that there is only one case in m' jeans; but when it comes to goin' hungry 1 guess I am more used to the graft than you are, so you'd better take this.' And blessed if he didn't hand over to the urchin tho whole dollar, which was every rent ho had in the world." "The followers of the races have a pretty hard name, and in many cases it is well deserved. They lead a life of almost corn- ©be <^!§l*^(£&U WEDNESDAY ..................FEBRUARY 9,-1898 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE .Market and Third Sts.. S. F. Telephone Main 1568. EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson straat Telephone Main 1874. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY! Is served by carriers in this city and surrounding towns \u25a0 for 15 cents a week- By mall $6 per year; per month «35 cents. . THE WEEKLY CALL .....One year, by njall. $1.53 OAKLAND OFFICE ::"... ; r/.:V. 908 Broadway Eastern Representative. DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE Rifcfts House C. C. CARLTON. Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES— S27 Montgomery street. corner Clay ' open until 9:30 o'clock- 339 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock- 621 MoAlllster street: ; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkln street: open until 9:30 o'clock £W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until o'clock- 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock iC6 Eleventh St.; open until 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street . open until 9:30 o'clock- NW. corner Twenty-second end Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock- THE SAX FRAX CISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, '1898. 6 Baldwin— "Girlfrom Paris." California Theater— Blac* Pattl'B Troubadours. Alcazar— "Charley's Aunt" Morosco's— "The Unknown " Tlvoll— "The Pearl of Pekln." Tlvoll— Concert To-morrow afternoon. Orptieuin— Vaudeville. Bu6h— Thalia German-Hebrew Opera Co., to-morrow nlffht. Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets— Specialties. The Chutes— Chiquita and Vaudeville Mechanics' Pavilion—Mining- Fair and Klondike Exposition, Calllornla Jockey Club, Oakland Racetrack— Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. By Eastern &.Eld ridge—This day, February 9, Turkish Bugs, at 626 Sutter street at 2:30 and 8 P. m. By Frank W. Butterfield— This day, February 8, Turkish Kugh. at 116 Minerstreet, at 11 a. m. and 2 and 8 P. M. AMUSEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS. HOT BISCUIT and cakes made with Royat Bak- ing Powder are anti-dyspeptic.