The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22

some sharp lawyer into letting go the secrets anyhow. A woman in ntlga- ton Is at serious disadvantage In that she Is apt to bring into the contest conscience, while the opposition in this instance Is not similarly handicapped. I have heard much of Kelly and ko- walsky and Baldwin. the latter called Lucky because strange and too benign Providence has kept him rom being killed, but I have never heard syllable of good concerning any or them. I would take the unsupported word of the widow against the solemn oath of the lot.
 Senor Du Bose, who once had the questionable honor of association Wllh Minister Bernabe of Spain, has been featuring in Canada on the Cuban question. The lecture as printed in the Toronto papers lacks all the elements of meekness and most of the elements of truth Of some mild men it is said that butter would not melt in thelr mouths Butter in the mouth of Du Bose would have been sputtered over the audience hissing hot. l judge that his eyes emitted flames and that his words were accompanied by clouds or sulphurous smoke. Most of his utter ances were not worth consideration, being thoroughly Spanish-verity ellm- mated and fiction fairly afioat ln venom. But when he got after Hearst and told the shameless course of that editors papers he reared a solid super structure of fact upon broad founda- tion of the same The only fault to be found with him as to this point Is that he left the Canadians to infer that the miserable rag upon which he vented his greatest wrath was a fair sample of the American paper. However, l have not the space to follow Du Bose through his warm discourse, but if he emerged from its delivery without the smell of fire on his garments he must have been clad in asbestos for the oc- casion I would advise Du Bose to quit the rostrum. He could be of great CT service to his country by going home and permitting himself to be worked up into ammunition for quick-f1ring guns.
 The telegraphic columns announced a few days ago the marriage of Mary Alice Adams of Kern County to a per  cock. Since then I have been watching for an account of the lynching, and re- gret to record here a sense of disap- pointment. Therefore 1t becomes neces- sary to congratulate Jim, not upon his marriage, but upon the circumstance that he has escaped the hanging which he deserved as the first step in the honeymoon. These congratulations +aIro 0lNr~on n fool father-in-law, who should be swaying in the breeze, suspended from a limb close to that occupied by Jim. The man who issued the license and the man who tied the knot could be given by means of life sentence to lunatic asylum, a sufficient testimonial 1 os their worth. Having hanged the husband and father, thoughtful neigh bors should buy the orphan and widow box of candy and doll and place her in some respectable family to be rear ed. Mary Alice is only 10 years old. To permit her to assume the position or wife was to ruin a life and make mockery of a sacred rite. The act was in violation of written and unwritten law, an insult most gross to decency. If the people of Kern County shall per
  notice than an idle word of condemna- tion they will leave upon their commit nifty a brand not soon to be effaced.
 
 Last week I demanded that certain cat and dog confined in cage with collection of monkeys be released. l have since learned, with a sense or jus tifiable pride, that they had been re- ti-Ia O n peared. Great is the power Of the press.
 The evangelists who plan to go to l Cuba and to Manila with the armies are doubtless impelled by the loftiest of motives. If they go prepared to grab a gun when emergency arises, or under the noble badge of the Red Cross to aid the sick and dying, the more of them the better. There are times when the importance of dis tributing tracts is dwarfed by the necessity of placing a cup of cold water to the lips of suffering. Between drinks the tracts can do no harm. i However, the tract can never again fill i the office it has been known to serve in wars of the past, when damned in | fragments into the old muzzle-loader 1t has been effective as wadding.
 It Is a strange circumstance that the mines lately placed in New York har- bor are being deliberately dragged out by the masters of trading vessels, who are too lazy and too near a state of treason to try to avoid them. I know nothing about mines except that they occasionally blow up and work serious | inconvenience to their environment. It was natural to suppose that even to drag them from their moorings would be process not devoid of danger. ] hope this supposition is correct and that the next wanton offender will be blown so high that his descending remnants will besprinkle the sea in particles so small that the tiniest fish will not be denied the gustatory joy ot participating in the benefits.
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