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The record-union., 1898-11-17
CURAN MAR.

WAR SCENES REPRODUCED BY
stereopticon views at First Christian
Church, Sixteenth and L streets, under
the auspices Of the Kings Daughters.
FRIDAY EVENING, November Is, 1898.
Admission 25c Children 15c n17-2t
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ADJUSTMENTS.

The Sam T. Shaw Company returns
to the Orpheum tomorrow evening lot
a three nights engagement. FRIDAY
and Saturday evenings the comedy
Love in Law" Saturday matinee ana
Sunday evening Pink Dominoes." Pop
ular prices will prevail.
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BISMARCK. THE IRON CHANCELLOR.

HISTORIC LECTURE AT THE GER
man Lutheran Church, Twelfth and K
streets, THURSDAY, November 18th, at
7:45 p. m. Admission, 25c. Refreshments
free. 1t
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AUCTIONS.
AUCTION SALE

OF THE ENTIRE LIBRARY OF THE
late DR. H H. Pierson, over LOCO volumes,
SATURDAY. November 18th, at 10 a. m.
Sale will take place at No 500 street,
when the entire library will positively
be sold Epecial attention is called to
'ills d II. i SIMMONS. & CO. Auctioneers.
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Try McMorry.s Blend Coffee. a5c.
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Including FIVE new patterns which have just ar
rived, we have now eighteen styles OF extra velvet
carpets sell dollar the yard, sewed and a1d
If we are correctly informed, and we think we are
this is the largest number of patterns OF this stylish
carpet that has yet been offered for inspection by
any one firm in this city.
....... These carpets give excellent and have
SOFT springy, lively pile that does not retain I'M
pressions of foot falls and becomes old looking
until entirely Their luxurious softness ap-
peals both to the eye and touch OF the careful tur-
nisher-in fact, with one OF these carpets on your
floor you can actually realize the expression, tread
ing on velvet"
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Y A conversation on the main
Y floor of the Furniture store.
Characters-One of our sales
; men and the advertising man.
y Salesman-"Goodness what
7 a tremendous stock OF side
I boards we have now"
The A. M.-"How many?
Salesman-"Don't know, but
let's count them. One, two,
three, four ..................
\ forty-two in all"
j The A. M.-"Great Caesar,
} that is a good many. And that S
only the sarnples?"
I Salesman-"That's ALL
\ The A. M.-"Well, isn't that
: too big a stock to have on
1 hand?"
Salesman-"Not a bit of it.
\ Why, the holidays are almost
7 here and a sideboard is one Of
, the most popular gifts, because
one of the most practical. You'll
l notice a great difference in that
N stock after Christmas
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

BAKER & HAMILTON. wholesale hard
ware, bicycles. carts buggies, carriages.
phaetons, Balm farm and header wagons.
Send for catalogue
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The baby sleeps all night in
this combined baby jumper and
rocking chair, the baby's own
movements rock it to sleep
again before fully wakened up.
Back lets down and it can be
made up as a bed. A rocking
chair, a swing and a cradle all
combined. Price, S..
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LINDLEY'S
CHERUB
TEA.
NEW TO-DAY.

THE WAR OF THE UNITED STATES
with Spain, THURSDAY, November 18th,
at p. m, in the Sixth-street M. f.
Church. Rev. A. c. Herrick will give his
first lecture which will be Illustrated
with over 100 views. Course ticket ST.
Single admission soc. 1t*
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CHICKEN PIE DINNER.

THE LADIES OF THE CONGREGA-
tional Church will serve a chicken pie
dinner on THURSDAY, November II,
m tO Q n m q Cents 1t
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r. GfbbOn. Gas Kearny street. cor. CONNER
ciaI SAN Francisco. Cal.
When ordering please refer to advertisement in
sThe Record-U nion-"
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THE WEEKLY UNION-THE BEST
weekly on the coast. Only 81 year.
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DR.. CIRRoN

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rms ola reliable and the
most successful Special
ist In San Francisco. still
continues TO cure all Sex
uai and Seminal
Dise nsea, skin
OfscAses, Nervous
DeDffaty, the conse-
quence Of excesses pro-
ducing the following
symptoms: sa1low coun-
fenance, dark spots under
the eyes, pain In the head,
ringing in the ears, loss OF
onhdence, difiidence in
approaching strangers,
Ma IKx4f fnef 49,
The times., 1898-11-26
COAL FAMINE IN KANSAS.
Railroads Charged With RESPONSE
bility for the Condition.

Topeka, Kan, Nov 25.-kansas is eN-
periencing a coal famine which is the
worst ever known in the State. Hundreds
of the small towns are without coal and
the dealers are imploring their shippers
and mine owners TO ship them small lots,
Missouri and Illinois coal is being shipped
into the State, but without the Kansas
supply does not meet the emergency. The
railroads are charged with being respon-
sible for this condition. The managers
admit that they contiscate coal and apply
it to engine use, later paying the mine
owner. The railroads argue that they are
justified in reserving the coal, and submit
that unless their trains run the dealers
cannot secure coal. There is no recourse
for the local dealer, and the same is true
of the man who is shipping coal from
mines to customer. The shortage of coal
among the railroads is due to the un-
precedented rush. of stock and grain
through Kansas. They cannot supply
cars for this business. to say nothing of
the demand for coal cars. There prom
ises TO be no change in the present condi-
tion until the roads have a falling off in
business.
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Things Lost In Cabs.
dom the New York Snn.l


correspondent of the sun writes TO know why
the London system OF recovering articles lost in
cabs Is not followed here. and gives some ex-
peTiences Of his own well as OF his friends to
show the success of the plan. He writes that
articles of considerable value lost from time 10
time in London all recovered entirely
through the efficiency of the system prac;ie-d
there. The cabmen who find articles left by pas
sengers take them TO Scotland Yard. where they
are left in charge Of a bureau especially organ
lied 20 look after such articles They are deliver
ed 10 the person who lost them only on the pay
ment Of a certain percentage OF their value. Part
Of this goes to the cahman and a small share Of il
Is retained by the police. The system has proved
completely successful. The sum demanded is
enough TO make it wosth the cabman's while
TO act with honesty. while it is not enough to
be hardship TO the loser The use of cabs is
not so general here in London and their num-
her Is much smaller. two facts which make the
London system. excellent as it m2v be- not 50
necessary as it is abroad. Most Of the objects
left behind in cabs probably not Of enough
value to make II worth the losers while TO 20
10 any great trouble in recovering them. but they
are usually worth the trouble and expense Of a
small reward and a visit to police HEADQUARTERS
II II were certain that the object were 10 be
found there The rooms devoted by the street
railways TO the articles found in cars are rarely
visited and the public indifference thus manifest
ed to the recovery Of its small losses is sometimes
astonishing.
The times., 1898-11-26
HOBsON AND THE COLON.
Hero of the Merrimac Says He Can
Raise Spanish Ship.


Norfolk, Nov. 25.-The United States re-
and the Government wrecking tug Poto-
mac, arrived at the navy yard at noon
today. Lieut. Richmond P. Hobson
was aboard the Vulcan and talked
freely about the cruiser Infanta
Maria Teresa, now ashore on Cat
Island. He expressed the belief
that the ship is irretrievably lost to us
and said that, while she was. when the
Vulcan left. structurally sound, SO far as
the upper portion of her hull was con-
cerned. there was hole in her side large
enough to row a boat through This,
Hobson said, was caused by the pounding
of the vessel upon the coral reef upon
which she struck when she went ashore
after her abandonment at sea.
Capt. .McCalla later stated that he could
only confirm the belief expressed in his
recent report to the department. and II
was clear that he, as well as Mr.. Hob
son, is convinced that all hope of rescuing
the vessel is futile.
|. Lieut. Hobson said that the loss Of the
Teresa had only strengthened his desire
10 raise the Cristobal Colon This, he Is
evidently confident he can accomplish,
and IL is apparent that he has determin-
ed to do 1t provided he can secure the de-
partment's permission to make the at
tempt --r' er
He explained the position in which the
Colon lay when he last saw her, say ing
that she was ashore at the foot of Tu-
uuino Plak, the highest mountain in Gu
| nj a sixty miles west OF
Santiago de Cuba. She lies on her beam
ends. her stern in five fathoms Of water,
her bow in seventeen fathoms. He said
that she would first have to be establish
ed on her beam ends. but because of her
position this would be easily accom-
plished. She went ashore stern on. lying
on her beam. She is armor shod, and
hence has withstood the pounding upon
the rocks caused by incoming waves.
He said that the Colon is worth about
SS 600 900 The Government has already
the air bags required for floating her and
the plans prepared. What he asks is an
allowance of about 100000, nine weeks
time and permission from the Depart
ment to undertake the work. He left for
Washington tonight. and will probably
make his report tomorrow upon the Te-
resa affair. He is expected TO return
next week to appear before the court OF
inquiry now convened here.
Talks with leading men here revealed
a practically unanimous wish that Hob
son be allowed by the Department the OPP
portunity of trying his hand on the Colon
and IL was said that, even though the ex-
pertinent should fail, the sentimental
considerations involved warrant the ex-
penditure of even million dollars in the
attempt to raise one of the Spanish
ships.
The Vulcan brought up two six-pound-
ers taken from one of the Spanish
ships. and the Merritt. which is hourly
expected. it is understood, has many to-
phies aboard
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The set,lemen, with Spain.

Grom the st. Louis Globe -Demoeratl
If the United States were dealing with any
other nation under these conditions settlement
would have been arrived at before this time. and
the money feature of the American offer would
medieval notions about the relation which cash
bears 10 rational honor. Half century ago. dur.
ing the Polk Administration, an offer of Sl0O,000,
600 was secretly made for Cuba, but ii was re-
Isabella ii. would not. so the story went at the
time, barter the nations territory for vulgar
cash The world did not know at that time that
a few years earlier than Folks days the govern
ment of the Regent Christina. lsabela's mother,
offered TO sell Cuba and the Philippines TO France
at a far lower figure for the former than Polk
would have given and at much smaller sum
for the latter than the American Commissioners
have Just named. .-,..
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Now we have the truth about the au-
tonomist government which. Spain insti-
tuted in Cuba. In giving their resigna-
to affirm their devotion to the Spain that
sent Weyler to starve the people and
haye not word to speak Of any interest
in the welfare of Cuba. As we said
when they Were appointed, they We're the
mere tools of Blanco and it was useless
to expect at their hands an administra-
tion that the Spanish general did not
dominate. Yet this autonomist govern
ment was a concession" which the
friends of Spain in this country urged us
TO accept as sufficient.
The times., 1898-11-26
Judge CuIberson's View.
(From the Chicago Recordl

tFoHl the Cnicago Record
Washington. Nov. 22.-Judge CuIberson. OF
Texas. Is considered one Of the ablest and wisest
men who ever sat in the House OF Representatives
He is a typical Texan. He is tall gaunt and
blessed with rugged but expressive features He
wears what they call in Texas a snort horned
collar and bald-face shirt with low-cut vest
and ong-tailed frock coat of broadcloth. His
hat is wide-brim sombrero and he greases his
boots TO keep out the dampneSs. Judge Culber-
son chews tobacco copiously and talks with a
Texas brogue, but he is not loquaciOus He is
rather taciturn- He never speaks unless he has
something to say, and therefore what he says
Is always worth hearing. The other dsy he was
listening quietly TO discussion OF the foreign
policy OF the Government, when one of the party
requested his view of the duty of the Democratic
party toward the program of expansion. As usual.
Judge CulbersOn's reply was picturesque and 10
the point: Il reckon we've done expanded he
said, ''and the Democratic party amt got
business hangin' on to the shirt-tail of pros-ess
hollering git up" "
The times., 1898-11-26
Haley.
CFrom the New York Journal.)

From the New York JournaI.)
Mr. Bailey is the great OF Gainesville,
Tex. He represents the Fifth Congressional Dis
trict OF his State, consisting of the counties of
Collin, Cooke, Denton, Fannin, Grayson, and
Montague. He holds his scat by virtue of the
will of less than $1,000 voters. His district docs
not contain seaport, great manufacturing in.
dustry, or an important town. It is remote from
the currents of the worlds life. There is nobody
in it who has occasion to keep in touch with in
terna,onal affairs and reflect upon the place
America should fill in the politics of the globe.
The times., 1898-11-26


"Jingoes" and opposed the rescue OF
Cuba from an oppressive monarchy;
not more surprising than that they are
Americans-by naturalization in some
cases, but never by sympathies-who
now oppose the step we are taking
.oward the splendid destiny in which
he American people have sincere and
abiding faith. 1t is timely. this admis-
sion of the enemies of expansion, and it
saves them the trouble of making labor
d and dishonest arguments. They op-
lieve in American institutions or in the
American people.
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SAYS HE IS GEN. LEES NEPHEW.
Youth Arrested In New Haven
Charged With Fraud.

New Haven, Conn, Nov. ga youth,
who gives his name as Robert E. Lee, jr,
and claims to be nephew of Gen. Fitz-
hugh Lee, is under arrest in this city for
fraud. Thanksgiving eve he was in the
Temple bar, drinking with some students,
among them Edward G. Phipps. The lat
ter missed a check for s35, and the pro-
prietor, to whom complaint was made.
said the check had been given him by
Lee in payment of a bill. Lee had sign
ed his name to the check secured some
change and left the place.
The police found Lee in Bridgeport to-
day. Lee wears a cadet uniform and says
he is attached to the United States mill
tary academy at West Point.
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southern Omcehoiders.
Erom the New York Times.l D

(Fr0m the New York Times
For many years the Federal service in the
South, when the Republicans in power,
has been run, not for the public benefit, not even
to influence elections, but, as We have already
pointed out, to manufacture delegations to Ma
tional conventions. This has no more to do with
the principles of the Republican party than has
the trade of the bunko in New York. And
the latest, meanest, and most outrageous in
stance of this detestable prostitution of the Of
fee of President is due to Mr.. Mckinley. The
appointment to important places in New Orleans
of wimberley and Demas was payment for con-
vention service engineered by Senator Hanna
The President would never have dared to carry
out such a base bargain in New York or Ohio
While these things continue, all talk of the equal
rights Of citizenship is tainted with hypocrisy
that it has no force value whatever.
The times., 1898-11-26

anything about the matter, knows that
Long intends to convey the idea that
Sampson at once went in and took part
in the engagement. According to the
report, there was "a running fight
which lasted from $50 a. m. until 1:20
p. m, The naked truth is that the b..
tie ended with the surrender of the
Cristobal Colon at 1:10 p. m. In his first
report by cable. which contained some
truths, because Sampson got his In
formation from people who had been
present he advised the department that
the Colon had surrendered at O'Clock.
This was a mistake on his part, but he
was not particularly to blame for it. He
did not arrive with the New York until
1928 p. m., and could only have known
from hearsay.
In his second report, dated July is.
Sampson felt obliged to correct this
misstatement, but indemnified himself
by changing the distances between San
tiago and Rio Tarquino, between the
harbor mouth and Aserraderos, and in
ptI.tT ways 10 IIlGhe HIS dSSeitloii, thai
he was at any time within signaling dis
tance of the ships engaged, more plaus-
ibIe But the Wainwright Board found
that when the Vizcaya surrendered
Sampson, and the New York, were nine
and a half miles away, and that they
were the same distance away when the
Colon struck her colors.
We are heartily sorry for Mr.. Long.
In his determination, or that of the Ad-
ministration, to vent a spite, accomplish
the end of a persecution, or carry out a
trade, he has dallied with evidence and
with facts too undeniable to be over
come by mere assertion over an official
signature. Instead of promoting the
purposes of the Sampson scheme, he
has greatly injured the prospect of their
accomplishment; that is, if there is
manhood, honor. or any sense of de-
cency left in the halls of Congress.
The times., 1898-11-26
BALDWIN HOTEL FIRE.
The Search of the Ruins May Reveal
Many Victims.

San Francisco, Nov. 25.-Interest in the
Baldwin Hotel fire now eenters in ascer-
lost in the big death trap and the future
use of probably the most valuable block
in the city.
How many lives were lost will not be
known until the debris is cleared away.
Guests, male and female, often engaged
rooms without registering. The building
was in the heart of the Tenderloin ard
such as did not care to register We're rot
asked any questions. 1t is said that on
the night of the fire persons were sleep
ing in the hotel whose residences were in
other parts of the city. The register
does not reveal them.
The times., 1898-11-26

regulations regarding green goods and
obscene literature be provided; that there
De provided a special stamped envelope
OF superior material for registered letters;
that the circulation of postage stamps as
medium OF exchange be discouraged,
and also that the laws relating to the
special delivery system be somewhat
amended wherein they restrict the en-
ployment of clerks from certain duties.
The times., 1898-11-26

Mr. Henry White made sensible state
ment at the Thanksgiving banquet in
London when he said no treaty of alliance
was necessary between America and Eng
land, and that unity of action would
spring from unity of thought and feeling.
That is exactly the case. A treaty of alli-
ance is not like contract. TO be enforced
It must fall when there is not unity Of
thought and feeling; and when that is
certain no treaty is necessary.
The times., 1898-11-26
White Uniforms I'm Manila.
(From the independently

The fashion of white clothes goes with the
American officers. Gen. Merritt, Gen. Greene,
Admiral Dewey, and Capt. Seabury, OF the China,
Just as that ship was about to start for Hong
Kong, formed handsome group all in snow
white linen, coats, trousers, caps and shoes; a
few gold buttons and cords. shoulder straps and
cuffs, the only relief on figures that seemed cut
from marble without flaw or stain. When call
ed on Gen. Aguinaldo and he came in, his name
softly announced, he was in white, his coat but
toned, his trousers newly ironed. So far as our
officers are concerned in the Philippines, they
are not boys in blue, but boys in white
The times., 1898-11-26
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER s6, 1898.
The Truth ut Last.

Many and absurdly contradictory are
the reasons given by the enemies of ex-
pansion why we should not hold the
Philippines, which the President AYERS
became ours with the signing of the
protocol, the title being confirmed by
the capture and occupation of Manila,
the capital. That the more conspicuous
men of this minority should be of for
eign birth, like Mr.. Schurz, Mr.. Car
negie, Professor Felix Adler, and others.
is not surprising; and that some should
be hopeless pessimists, like the Rev. DR..
Parkhurst. is a matter of course. Nat
urally, therefore, their reasons for op-
posing the policy that has the sincere
support of the mass of Americans must
be varied and antagonistic. For ex-
ample, Mr.. Carnegie protests in behalf
Of the Filipinos. who should be allowed
to govern themselves. while Mr.. Schurz
objects in behalf of America, because
the Filipinos are not only incapable of
Of submitting to the control of anybody
but an absolute monarch
The most significant reason, however,
comes from Professor Adler, and it is
worth a good deal of thought on the
part of the American people. He is in
discreetly frank-franker, even, than
Professor Norton has had the courage
to be-and ne reveals the thorough dis
trust of the American people and Ameri-
can institutions that is at the bottom of
ali the opposition TO territorial eXpan-
sion. He confirms all we have said
about this minority being un-American,
and about their belief in the failure and
inferiority of republican institutions.
Like their prototype, Alexander Hamil-
ton, they are really monarchists in mind
and heart, and sneer at the fond hopes
and ambitious aspirations of the great
body of American patriots They op-
posed the war with Spain for the free
dom OF Cuba from oppression, just as
they oppose the annexation of the Phil
ippines to free the wretched people
there from the same tyranny. Pro-
fessor Adler admits that England
has been marvelously successful in
the administration of her colonies,
but why? Because her government is
still a monarchy II, THE that sbe hoe n
titled aristocracy which produces the
best men to act as leaders. In Ameri-
ca we have no such instrumentaIity
and We have not succeeded in bringing
out the best type of leader" That is to
say, under monarchy with its aris-
tocracy there is a better chance to de-
velop great leaders than under the re-
publican institutions of America. There
il is, and there is not a man in England
outside the House of Lords who would
make such a claim. Froude was the
last intelligent Englishman to defend
the aristocracy on the ground that 1t
developed leaders for the common herd.
number of observing Englishmen,
less prejudiced than Froude, have af-
hrmed. with Carlyle, that the aristoc-
racy had failed miserably in the one
rational object for which it was Gre
ated and tolerated.
Is it surprising that it is an American
citizen who assures us that the Ameri-
can Republic falls below the aristocracy
of England in the supreme purpose of
its existence-the development of the
prising than that it was an American
clique that sneered at the patriots as
The times., 1898-11-26

There can be no doubt that the anti
anarchist delegates at the Rome. confer
ence have a sincere belief in the exist
ence and enterprise OF anarchist assassins.
There is no precaution against dynamite
and dagger that they. have not taken.
They do not ride in bpmb-proof carriages.
only because they do not venture on the
streets except in disguise and under
strong police escort.
The times., 1898-11-26
NEW YELLOW FEVER CASES.
Rigid Quarantine Against the
Mfssissippf Mt san Juan

Mfssfssfppf Mt Snn Juan-
San Juan, Porto Rico, Nov. S.-Four
new cases of yellow fever have developed
on the transport Mississippi. which ar
rived here Tuesday from Santiago with
a case of the disease aboard. The Missis-
sippi brought from Santiago a number of
recruits for regiments in Porto Rico. They
have been taken to the Cuban port from
the United States by the steamer San
tiago and Port Victor.
A most rigid quarantine of the Missis-
sippi is enforced and other strong meas
ures have been taken to prevent the fever
reaching the island which is free at
present of all contagious diseases.