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The San Francisco call., 1898-05-07

work exceedingly slow and the cost cor respondingly high
 It Is only at the Nervion shipyard at Bilbao, under English management, that work Is done expeditiously, and the three fine armored cruisers-Infanta Maria III reasonable time and moderate cost, the contract price being g, ,S95 900 for each. On the other hand, those built at the dock yards have taken from six to seven years, and the Reina Mercedes, of 352c tons, built at Cartagena, took twelve years. The Prncesse de Austria, begun in October, 1889. at Carraca, was launched seven years later, and during the last year on the stocks progressed at the rate Of only about 2000 pounds per day.
 Of the small cruiser class of 113O tons. the Isla de Cuba and Isla de Luzon were built on the Clyde at cost each of $223 = 590. The Marquis de la EnSanada built at Carraca, cost s1 ,439,973, or more than five times that of the Clyde built vessels 25 per cent for exchange, as Spanish money outside of the country is subject to that discount in ordinary times. The Don Antonio de Ulloa and Don Juan de Austria required four years at the dock yards at Cadiz and Cartagena, although only of 1130 tons, and the torpedo-gunboat Fflipias, of 750 tons, built by contract, of building a similar vessel in this coun- try.
 There are Instances Of long delays in other navies in completing ships, and we have had some notable cases in this coun- try. Such cases however, proceeded from state of "donothingness' which exists in the yards of the South American states, France and Portugal, but is most pro- nounced in Spain.
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COLLECTED IN
 THE CORRIDORS

E. Jacobs, the visalia banker, arrived yesterday.
 A. J. Larsen, proprietor of the Lodi Sen tinel, Is at the Grand.
 E. B. Edson, prominent business man of Siskiyou County, is in the city.
 Judge John D. Bicknell and wife of Los Angeles are guests at the Palace.
 E. de Reynier, a lumber merchant of Sanger, is in the city on business.
 H. D. c. Bernard, a Santa Cruz law yer. registered at the Lick yesterday.
 T. E. Johnson, vineyardist of San Jose, Is spending few days in this city.
 P. Humbert of Boston, a well known mining operator, is in the city on busi- ness.
 Harry z. Austin, a Hawaiian sugar planter. is visiting this city and is guest at the Occidental.
 Ex-Senator J. N. Gillett of Eureka ar rived in this city yesterday and Is regis tered at the Grand.
 E. Zanetti, one of the most extensive ranchers of San Benito County. Is visit ing friends in this city.
 Ex-Judge l.. l.. Chamberlain came down from Auburn yesterday for a brief visit to friends in this city.
 Percy Davis, prominent merchant of Coulterville, arrived in the city yesterday. He Is registered at the Grand.
 Chief Engineer Henry A. Brainard of the Stockton and Tuolumne Railroad, ar- rived from Stockton yesterday.
 Carl D. Lindsey. District Attorney of Santa Cruz County and an officer of the Naval Battalion, Is guest at the Grand.
 Among the visitors to the city who reg istered at the Lick House yesterday Is John L. Hudner, the attorney, of Hollis ter.
 Albert M Johnson, the well known law yer. of Sacramento, and his wife are vis- iting friends here. They are staying at the California Hotel.
 w Forsyth, Lee l.. Gray and L. R. Payne. prominent vineyardists and raisin packers of Fresno. are among the guests at the Occidental Hotel
 Among the arrivals at the Palace yes- terday were Albert c. Bunage, a promi- nent lawyer of Boston; Mrs. Bunage, A. c. Bunage Jr., F. H. Bunage, Russell Bu- mage, Miss Bessie Bunage. Mrs. B. R. HasheIl Miss s. A. Hashell and H. Lewis. The party is touring the Pacific Coast.
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FOR TIE KLONDIKE.

NIR S. W. WALL, whose splendid service in I \ Alaska and the Klondike country during the past winter enabled The Call to furnish its readers with an unrvaed series of reports of events and conditions in that region, started his return to Dawson last night, and will carry with him a special edition of The Call containing for the benefit of Alaskan readers full report of all the war news up to date.
 The achievements of Mr. Wall in the arduous work of newsgathering along the Yukon among the most notable triumphs of recent journalism. When the boat on which he had embarked for Dawson was stopped by reason of the low water in the river last summer he at once started to make his way by Succeeding in this, he carried to the people of Daw son and the Kondike generally the first information of the stopping o the supply boats points along the lower river. This news gave warning of possible famine during the winter and enabled hundreds to leave Dawson and make their way to other places where ample supplies existed thus relieving to a large extent the strain Dawson and saving the gold districts from the calamity which threatened them
 During the winter, when no further news of i'm portance to be gathered in Dawson itself, MT. Wall made his way down the river and obtained accurate information of the movements and location of hun dreds of and who had gone into the country during the rush and of whose whereabouts their friends knew nothing These reports published in The Call, carried relief to many anxious house holds In that and in other midwinter journeys Mir. Wall gathered information which enabled him to give to the public through The Call the fullest and most accurate reports Of the various mining camps and diggings which have been published.
 By continuing this successful correspondent in the Alaskan field The Call assures its readers the best and most reliable service in that region. It confers benefit upon the people of Alaska also by sending north with him the Klondike supplement re- lating to the The work of preparing the supple ment has been carefully done. It gives the record of events leading to the outbreak of hostites and all important incidents that have occurred since To Americans who in those remote districts have been deprived of news this edition of The Call will be of the greatest value, 1t will enable them to have understanding of the whole situation which they could obtain from the ordinary editions of news papers which may reach them.
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BaTTlE-sHIP AND ToRPEDo-BoaT

Smooth and lean-they have stripped her
 clean
 Down to her leering guns A-Weather and lee she smashes the sea With her weight of ten thousand tonss From bow to stern her watchers turn The beams of her searching suns. A-wash half drowned, we speed. around To beat the veerfng light, For she must see ere her fangs are free That she may begin to bite. And we laugh where we lie. at the blundering
 eye
 That misses us in the night They have freighted her with five hundred
 men;
 She Is fierce with rihed guns But she cannot mark as she rolls in the dark. The death that comes and runs. We fit as a mist wreath the sea, And ere her topmen leap We have struck and fled and the riven dead Are sucked in the whirling deep.
 J. W. M. in N. '. Press.
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Where is the heart of 6 soldier. His thought. his hope and his dream. When the rifles ring and the bullets sing. And the flashing sabers gleamT Oh, not on the field of battle. But far and far away, His heart is. living the old, old hopes. While his sword Is red in the frayI Where is the heart of soldier, And what do the bugles wake. And what does the of the cannon mean When the hills beneath them shake? Oh. not for him the glory,
 And the dash and crash of war, But his heart is away mission gay Where they hear no cannon roari And there is the heart of soldier A little home on the hill. A whitehead woman, a little child, That stand by the window sill: A little song and a little prayer. And a wonder in the face, And a God save papa and bring him back In the goodness of thy gracei And there is the heart of soldier Not on the field of fight, But steeped in the dream of a saddened home Where window keeps it's light That soldiers feet may keep the path And his way may homeward lead. When under the flag of the freedomland He has wrought the heros deed. Yea. there is the heart Of soldier. Where wife and baby are. Though his eyes and his will may follow The light of the battle star. Though his hand may swing the saber. And his bayonet charge the foe. The soldiers heart Is away, away. In the home where they miss him SO!
 Baltimore News.
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THE INCOME TAX FOLLY.

C ENERAL GRANTS statement that in every | T political crisis the Democratic leaders be
 ) always counted on to bunder is as true of the party to-day under the leadership of Bryan and Bailey as it was under that of Seymour and Hen dricks. striking illustration of the fatuous folly of this bunderng IS shown in the pursued by the party in opposing the revenue bill and seeking to amend it by imposing income tax a substitute for the proposed bond issue.
 There is not the slightest chance of getting the House or even the Senate to agree to an income There is not the slightest to believe the people favor any such It is fairly certain the Supreme Court would set such a tax aside as un- constitutional if it were enacted What then in the name of reason, political sagacity and good horse sense, do the Democratic leaders mean by pushing such proposition to the front and wasting time and lung power in discussing 1t?
 It is asserted, indeed, with some vehemence by certain of the blunderng Bourbons that the Supreme Court declared the Wilson income tax to be uncon- stitutional but would uphold such tax this june ture as a war measure. So far as can be seen how ever there is not the slightest ground of law or evidence to serve basis for this assertion It seems to have been made solely for the purpose of providing seeming justification for the folly of ad vocating the tax and clearly designed for in Buncombe County rather than in Washington.
 Here is set of political leaders holding high office and entrusted with the duties and responsibilities of statesmen who, in the face of war sure to entail large expenditures, urge the adoption of system of taxation which has just been declared unconstitu- tonal Their only argument for such a is based upon the possibility that the court might verse itself. They would expose the income of the nation in time of war to that chance. They would turn away from sources of revenue for the pur- pose of imposing unpopular unjust and doubtful simply to be consistent with their campaign cries against wealth and the thrifty and enterprising whose incomes somewhat larger than those of the general mass
 Tactics of this kind are not only below the level of statesmanship but beneath that of ordinarily clear sighted politicians. They the outcome of folly which n its nature IS best characterized by the fam
 iar term, "pure cussedness"
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AN ARTIFICIAL NECESSITY.

I attempt made to create an artificial necessity
 for the annexation of Hawaii?
 That country lies 2ooo miles from shores and is 5000 miles from Manila The plea is made that a naval expedition from San Francisco 10 Manila must coal at Honolulu and that taking coal in Hawaii will break the neutrality of that country and make her ally of the United States therefore should annex.
 The folly of the argument is exposed when it is remembered that have been offered coal by the Straits Settlements and other British colonies in Asiatic waters, and has pretended that the neutrality of Great Britain is broken thereby and that she becomes ally.
 No government has yet declared coal contraband of in the Pacific. It may be sold to either Spain or the United States without breach of neutrality England has declared it contraband in the Atlantic only She owns all the coal in stock from Alden to Hongkong, and will not declare it contraband n that hemisphere because she has for sale and can withhold it from Russia or Germany without con- traband declaration, and sell it to the United States if she choose
 This leaves coal free in the Pacific and we can get it where it is to be found, unless declare it traband ourselves, which is not likely.
 So the emergency argument for renewal of the rank scheme of annexation has no foundation. Its reappearance is suggestive of the effect upon this country of the war in which we are engaged Spain is dropping to pieces the result of following the path of manifest destiny" for four centuries It is far cry from effect but the life of nations exceeds that of many generations of men.
 Spain wanted islands, colonies, "gems of the An titles" and "the garden of the Eastern seas" She reached out for spice islands, gold mines snd every thing profitable and pretty. She invented necessi- ties, discovered policies and created pretexts for planting her standards in every zone. Here it was to the souls of natives and there 1t was to get rid of their bodies, and everywhere it was policy of extension of power and prestige.
 Considered as, national policy every argument now made for taking Hawaii against the protest of oS per cent of its people, and for holding the Philip pines, if we have then and for keeping Cuba which will be attempted in defiance of our solemn counter declaration, may be found in Spanish history from I4oe until now.
 The patriotic support of the and the flag where 1t floats should be used to make such grave and far-reaching change in our national policy
 We should not invite unanswerabe criticism which will put the defensive before the world by protesting high motives in making Cuba inde- pendent while we destroy the independence of Hawaii against the protest of her people.
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ENGLAND's WAY.

The King of Abyssinia once seized a certain Captain Campbell and put him in a dungeon. Campbell was British sub ject His immediate release was demand ed and King Theodore refused. England fitted out an army at once and, marching If 900 miles over morass and mountain, broke down the gates of the dungeon and bore Captain Campbell home in safety. It cost valuable lives and millions of money to protect and save this one British sub feet. but 1t is such deeds as this that help to make nation proud and prosperous Boston Globe.
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THE BRINK OF REVELATION.

Queen Victoria's voice Is to be kept in the British Museum through the medium of a phonograph. It would puzzle the wisest of prophets to foretell what won derful achievements the end of the next century will be recording for posterity. With all our wonderful discoveries We seem to be merely on the brink of revela- tion as far as the scientific and natural worlds are concerned.-Baltimore Ameri- can.
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rpEAr coI1NrRY FOR FIAr1srs

Spain has declined to issue 800 1000 900 more paper pesetaS. What picnic Spain would be for our friends the Populists. Since more money makes good times, what a glorious time they would have in a country that can have all the money it wants based on nothing ana reueemaDie in nothing.-Minneapoli Journal.
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nm NOT START AT THE TOP.

It might not be out of place to mention the fact that Hannibal, Caesar, Alexan- der Marlborough, Frederick. Washington. Ronaparte, Grant and all the other fa- nous warriors of ancient and modern his- tory had to learn the business of soldier ing before they were placed in charge of brigades.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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ADJUSTMENTS.

BaIdvin-"The Purser." Columba-'A Secret Warrant" Californta-"A Texas Steer" Alcazar-'srhe Gay Parisisns" Morosco os-"Hearts of New York" Tlvoli-"Wang." Orpheum- m-V Vaudeville The Chutes-Zoo Vaudeville, and African Lion Hunt" OlympiaCorner Mason and Eddy streets, Specialties Central Park-Dog and Pony Show Baths-Swimming. Fl Campo-Musc dancing boating fishing, Sunday, Coursing-Ingeside Coursng Park California Jockey Cub, Oakland-Races
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WHERE A PRovERB APPLIES.

Common emotion has drawn England and America together as never before. Both peoples in the light of coming battle see that they are one as no other sepa- rate and independent nations of the world around can be. Spain and Europe both recognize England as our ally. This country sees that its natural ally and supporter is Great Britain. The bitterness pathy of race have asserted themselves Philadelphia Press
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WHAT THE ALLIANCE MEANS.

Suppose that, for purposes of common defense and of common interest. the Unit ed States and the British empire should stand together, what combination of the powers could resist them? Anglo-Saxon unity is self-suggestive-not for the pur- poses of aggression; not to make war, but to make future wars impossible by com manding the peace with power to enforce it.-Philadelphia Record.
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Read the exciting adventures of a party of argonauts who have sailed 90. 1000 miles to search for Alaska's gold; in next Sundays Call.
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AUCTION SALES.

By watkins-Ths Horses Tenth ant at II o'clock,
 H. Umbsen & Co.-Monday, Real Estate. at II Montgomery street. at l2 O clock
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snecial Notice.

Those troubled with dandruff and itch ing scalp mail this to Smith Bros. for free sample of Smiths Dandruff Pomade. For sale by all druggists.
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THE COMMAND OF JUSTICE.

THE COMMAND OF' JUSIICE.
 The men who will bear the brunt of the struggle are entitled by their very position to be free from criticism by those who re- main in the rear. Trust the President; trust the navy; trust the army; support the Government.-Buffalo Express.
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NOT IN OAKLAND-A. S., Oakland The lady inquired about does not have ar office in Oakland. This department can not advertise where her office is
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A COMFORTABLE SURPLUS.

There is a surplus of volunteers to meet the call for 125 900 men, and in war, as in finance, a surplus Is much better than a deficit,-Gle se-Democrat
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TWO MOUNTAINS-S A. M, City Mount Hercules in New Guinea has an al titude of 32, ,7S6 feet. The height of Noun Everest is 29 002 feet.
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FAME REVISING THE LIS1

Age has it's privileges. It has been said an experienced man knows what he can not do. A young man knows nothing Of the kind. And he therefore accomplshes the impossible. The heroes or Ihls new. entire additions to our list of notables. men who come with no credentials, yet achieve marvels.-Chicago Times-Heralo'
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FoR HoARsENEss, COUGHS, ASTHMA AND BRONCHIAL TROUBLES, use "Broton's Bronchial s- roches." Sold only in b cxes. Avoid limitations
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pysPEPSIA CAN BE CURED BY USING Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets. One little tablet wiiI give immediate relief money refunded. Sold in handsome tin boxes at No Percentage Pharmacy.
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DECATUR's IMMoRTAI, TOAST.

The die is cast, and all true Americans will stand by their country, confident that she is right, but, right or wrong, they are for the country still.-Oswego Palladium.
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THREE GENERALS-P. J., City. Gen. eral Shafter was born in Michigan. Gen. eral Miles in Massachusetts and General Coppinger in Ireland.
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UP WITH THE FLAG.

Up with the Stars and Stripes! Let the Star-spangled Banner drape its beautiful folds wherever the eye may turn. If your home is but room in a garret let a flag, be 1t the tiniest, futter from its window. If your business is but a peanut stand you can ennoble it with a penny flag. Price has nothing to do with patri- otiSm. Up with the Stars and Stripes Let them wave over every schoolhouse Let them drape over every place of amusement! Let them decorate every home, however humble! Let no store nor workshop be without them. Up with the fiag!-BoSton Traveller
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AN INSANE PERSONA. B. J., City. It Is the duty of an arresting officer who has taken a person in custody TOT lnsan- ity to search him or her at the prison and turn over to the prison keeper any property he or she may have for sate keeping. It is not part of the duty Of the arresting officer to take charge oI all the property that an insane persen may be isn poffs1Ssru of person n and estate If 1t Should come to the knowledge or the arreStihs5 officer that the party tbdf IS Se Rgs property he would report that fact to the superior officers of the police department, and they would take some actlon 10 nave the same protected
 A PRIZE-o. G., City. The general un- derstanding among all amateur associa- tions is that "an amateur Is one who has not entered in an open competition; or Tor either stake, public or admission money or entrance fee; or under a hcut1ouS name; or has not competed with or against a professional for any prize, or where an admission fee is charged; or who has not instructed, pursued or as- sisted in the pursuit of athletic exercises as a: means of livelihood, or for gain or any emolument." The communlcaton does not state the condition or standing of the 1.-two men who boxed before d club for a medal. consequently IL Is i iln- possible to answer the question are they amateurs?
 LOST PAPERS-L. A., ClIy. II you lost your first papers all you have to do is to apply to the court in which you hled your application and obtain certified copy of them. These will answer tho purpose of the original, and upon them you can obtain your final papers of nat uralizatfon, provided that you have re sided continuously within the United States for five years, one year at least III the State or Territory In which is located the court in which you shall apply for the final papers, and that you are man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the constitution of the United States of America and disposed to the good order and happiness of the same.
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REMOVE the causes that make your hair lifeless and gray with PARKER'S HAIR BALsAA.
 PARKER's GINGER ToSIC cures inward pain
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ANGosrURA BITTERs are endorsed by all the leading physicians and c 1emists for purity and wholesomeness. Get the genuine.-Dr Siegert's
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The distinguished officers of the National Guard might well understand that in this emergency no- body cares whether they get high sounding jobs or not The little affair with Spain was not brought with special view to letting braided officers shine on parade
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A POSSIBILITY.

It would be a strange sequel to the drawing of the sword by the United States if the map of nations should be graced
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Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), BIO Mont gomery street. Telephone Main 1O42.
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Germany is inclined to the opinion that the United States Government was all the while casting en- vious eye on the Philippines which shows the ten dency of people to judge others by themselves.
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

TOD sLOANS AGE-Tod's Admirer' City. Tod Sloan. the lightweight JocAey' is 2S years of age.
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rRopHTEs OF THE CHASE.

When our army returns from Cuba It must not fail to bring sections Of Wey- ier's trocha along as trophies.-St- LOUIS Republic,
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It IS all right, of course to have parades in honor of Commodore Dewey, but by waiting short time the parades would apply as well to Sampson and Schley
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A choice present-Townsend's California glace fruits. 5Oc ID. in fire-etched boxes. .
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If to display in large type the linc News From Dewey and under it in much smaller letters, "Anxiously Awaited is not bunko business, the gold brick game IS honest enterprise