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The San Francisco call., 1898-07-13
CARDINAL GIBBONS
 AIDS THE PRESIDENT
He Calls Upon Catholics to Unite in Thanksgiving for Our Victory
 at Santiago.

BALTIMORE, July 12.-Cardinal Gib- bons has prepared a circular to be read in the Roman Catholic churches on Sunday morning, which is intended to carry out the suggestion made by President McKin- ley that the people of the land unite in giving thanks for the victory of the American fleet off Santiago
 The cardinals letter calls upon the peo- pie to return thanks to Almighty God for His blessings upon the arms of this land in the conflict with the Spanish feet for the victory achieved and for the escape of the Americans with comparatively no loss.
 The circular further asks that prayers
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CHINESE RIOTS ASSUME
 GRAVE PROPORTIONS
Several Cities in the Hands of the Rebels-Hurrying Troops to
 the Scenes.

LONDON, July 13-According to dispatch to the Times from Wu Chau Flu the rebellion in that district of China is assuming serious proportions. The cities of Yung Shien, Pc Lien and Hu Chuan have fallen. The Triad Society is con cerned in the movement. Troops are be- ing forwarded to the scenes of the dis turbances.
 A special dispatch from Shanghai says: The leaders of the rebellion in the West River region are men recently returned from America. It is believed that the rising is a revival of the Taiping move nerS.
 The Times. commenting upon the dis turbances in the West River district of China. says: The rising Is of a moment ous character, if the Triads who are largely responsible for the great Taiping rebellion retain their old vitality.
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Where Is Thomas o'Brienp

SAN RAFAEL, July 12 = Thomas O'Brien, a local butcher who ceased doing business a few days ago. left here Friday and has not been seen since His wife is nearly distracted and says that on leaving her husband had about S100 in his pock- cts. William Dunn. metropolitan saloon OBrien with s45 to pay bills here, which money is alleged to have never been paid.
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-13
Divorce Suits Filed.

Annie s. Gordon has applied for a d. vorce from David Gordon on the ground of failure to provide. Mrs. l. M. Roberts has sued her husband H. W. Roberts for a divorce, alleging failure to provide as ,. cause of action. Jean Bree has filed suit for a divorce from his wife Agnes Bree. The plaintiff alleges assertion as cause of complaint. Suits fsr divorce on the ground of cruelty were filed by s. Mitchell against Lillie Mitchell and Rebecca Clin- ton against William J. Clinton. Mrs. Kate NJ. Petty filed suit for divorce from her husband, Alexander L. Petty, a teamster
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Committed to an Asylum.

Mrs. Mary Vanier. who resided at Broadway and Van Ness avenue, was committed to the asylum for the insane at Napa yesterday It was stated by wit nesses who testified at the examination of Mrs. Nanier before the Insanity Commits through the ill-treatment of her husband
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-13
Fishermen Drowned.

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. July 12- The tug Mystic. while towing ten fishing boats and scows with total of seventy five men on board to Roche Harbor en- cOuntered a severe gale. The tow lines broke and the boats drifted helplessly in the straits while seas swept over the scows, running the fishermens outfits. All but three of the boats were recovered. Two fishermen are missing. They were probably drowned.
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al dispatch from Shanghai says.
Orange Disorders in Ireland.

DUBLIN, July 12.-The celebration in connection with the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne were marked by the renewal of the Orange conflicts. At Bel fast to-day the police and military sup pressed several attempts at disorder Many were injured. Similar disturbances took place at Donegal.
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-13
National Educators Adjourn.

WASHINGTON, July 12.-In the pres ence of over 5000 persons, the majority of whom were delegates, the session of the National Educational Association came to a close tonight. The convention was con- cluded by the vast assemblange rising in their seats and singing America"
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-13

CAFE SPRECKELS. 18th floor. Call building. has changed hands; now under management of MT. Albert Wolff, formerly proprietor of Maison de rOpera, Oakland Regular lunch. with wine. 75c: dinner, with wine, S1.
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CAFES :!

be said for an early and bloodless end to the war.
 The cardinal also directs in his letter that certain prayers be said by the clergy at this service for the blessings of God.
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who resides in the Mission. Mrs. Petty alleges that her husband has treated her in cruel manner ever since their mar that ground
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To Restore Public Order in Italy.

ROME. July 12-The Chamber of Depu- ties to-day. after several days discussion, adopted the Governments measures to re- store public order in their entirety by a vote of F to 37. The House then adjourned.
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-13

No careful buyer afford T0DAYS SPECIALS great of the SMN0F CLOAK FACTORY STOCK Fire Smoke Co Suits and Cloak Dress Materials for the DAMAGE TO THE LINES TERED IS MERELY NOMINAL the goods would
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ADVERTISEMENTS.
CONSULTING A WOMAN.
Mrs. Pinkham's Advice Inspires
 Confidence and Hope.

a physicians office where she has un- dergone a critical examination with animpressiOn,mor or less, of discour-
The San Francisco call., 1898-07-13

This condi- tion of the nninddes estroys the effect of advice; and s he grows s worse rather
The times., 1898-11-06
c,ua Hand and Empt, Belly

Did the Hon. Dollarmark Hanna
make much by marching the hungry
and thirsty Fourth Ohio Regiment six
miles to get the glad but exceedingly
dry hand of the White House? We do
not think he did. if general remarks
INDUCED in by the boys are any indica-
ton.
They were brought here for a recog-
nized political purpose as notorious IN
as outside OF the regiment. Before they
left Porto Rico they We're told that
the Administration depended greatly
upon the moral effect of their home
coming at this critical juncture, and
hoped they would be good and meet ex-
pectations They were promised an
ovation in Washington, which they
cared little about. and splendid and
satisfying collation. within the sacred
precincts of the Executive Mansion,
which was great object to them.
All they received was a repulsive AL
gerian breakfast of dead horse and
musty hardtack and a six-mile walk.
To be sure, Mr.. Mckinley was gracious
enough to shed his well-fed and finely
groomed presence upon them, and to
| remark that he had never, all things
considered, seen handsomer lot of
Ohio Republican voters. Then he asked
them if they would not go before they
took something, and the audience,
which cost the Government thousands
of dollars, was over.
| Not a cigar, not sandwich. not
scrap of edible bread from the waste
of the imperial kitchen-not drop OF
wine from the bursting cellar, reserved
for the entertainment of Spanish and
other diplomatic people! Well, if that is
the way our modest and attached
friend, the Hon. Dollarmark Hanna
goes about manufacturing votes, he and
his party are heartily welcome to the
copyright We shall never recommend
Democrats to infringe it in the smallest
| degree
The times., 1898-11-06
The Peanut In Politics.

The race question in North Carolina
has had one result that is rather Pc
culiar. 1t will bull the peanut market.
This result is reached by a chain of
circumstances as complicated as that
which makes the clover crop in dis
trict depend upon the number of old
maids In that case the bees fertilize
the clover; the field mice destroy the
bees nests; the cats catch the field
mice. and the old maids keep the cats.
In the peanut case the race question
has precipitated political campaign of
unusual livelness and intensity of feel
ing; the campaign has interested the
laborer, and still more interested the
employer; the interest which they feel
has caused them to neglect the crop;
peanuts are among the principal prod
ucts of the Old North State, and being
neglected the peanuts are rotting in the
ground. Therefore. the wholesale deal
ers in peanuts and some of the retailers
will lose money during the coming sea-
son. Truly, the affairs of humanity are
complicated.
1t was Carlyle who said that a red
Indian on the shores of a Canadian lake
could not beat his wife but the whole
world would suffer for 1t: the price OF
beaver would rise. The peanut case and
its connection with the race question
is another Illustration of the same prin-
ciple.
The times., 1898-11-06
Boston and Pie.

In the midst of the multifarious re-
forms to which Boston has given birth
or encouragement, from sanitary fan
nels to Mrs. Eddy's philosophy of
Christian science-in which only the
almighty dollar is recognized as real
the pie habit has been secure. No van
dal voice has echoed the reckless and
insolent affirmations of New York sani-
tary humbugs as to the pernicious in
fiuences of pie. If it were not enough
that Emerson drew inspiration from
pie three times a day. the traditions
of generations of reformers and the
dearest associations of childhood pre-
vented it's attack. But at last it has
come. Having found no other means of
making life less comfortable, reform
Superintendent has excluded pie from
the school lunch. No child may here
after bring a section of pie to the school
house or within the teachers sphere Of
influence.
The chief object of all the toiling of
men. the ris1ing of life and health in
going to and fro on the earth, buying
and selling, shaving and thinking, is to
be able to eat pie. In this city, the
daily consumption of pie is estimated
at about six thousand day. The New
England pie habit has made its way
all over this continent, giving joy to
| foreign born no less than to native citi-
zens. Even in the argonaut days of
California. according to the historian,
| Bret Harte, characteristic tragedy
grew out of the refusal of an English
! tenderfoot to eat a pie of uncertain age.
| Throughout the South the habit is gen.
eral, and pie is the rival of the hoe
| cake. It was because of her pies that
Martha, Secretary Hoke Smiths color
,, ed cook, was brought to Washington
| to make pies for the fat men of the
Cleveland Administration, and her
| rampant Republican husband put on
| the Government salary list at $500 a
| year. The public opposition of the doc
| tors to pie has been Intellectual in pre-
venting the spread of the cult.
| Pie is distinctly American institu-
| tion and one of the most treasured of
l the products of liberty. Perhaps there
was pie in England in the heroic days.
| but it has dwindled along with the Brit
| ish nobility until it has become the in
significant tart. Here 1t has expand
ed its disc and grown thicker and has
drawn every luscious fruit to its service
| We have special pie for each succeed
| ing season, with apple pie for all the
year round. In the Winter months, be-
ginning with Thanksgiving. We have
the meaty, juicy minee. which fortifies
the system against the cold; in early
Spring, the lemon, custard. rhubarh
| sid. gooseberry are among the objects
| Z what the poets call the longings OF
The times., 1898-11-06
JUST Before the Battle.

The calendar week before the Con-
sressional elections has closed, leaving
the two great political parties with
their battle order all but fixed as a
fnality. The great issues before the
people, Hannaism, Algerism, and the
subordination of a peace settlement
with Spain to the interests of the Ad-
ministration Spanish bond shard gang.
have been canvassed nearly as much
as they are likely to be in general
way The exposure of the Spanish bond
deal. of Algerian corruption, of the in
timidation and blackmailing of helpless
Government employees, male and fe-
male, has placed the country in possess
sion of many valuable facts and much
food for political thought.
The syndicate Peace Commission at
Paris has suspended operations until
they can no longer jeopardize party de-
signs at home. General Credit NJ.
Dodge and his associate Alger Relief
dodgers have done all the whitewashing
possible under the circumstances and
not with much result beneficial 10 the
object of their fraudulent mission. The
army sink they have tried to deordorize,
but not TO disinfect, has been too shall
low for them, and the transforms of
popular contempt and the wind of a
few truthful and fearless witnesses
have made those sinks TO overflow so
that writhing. wriggling mass of
maggots of official jobbery, thievery
and murder by pestilence and inhu-
manity are crawling all over every
thing. just as happened in the Algerian
pest camp of Chickamauga
The most elaborate and expensive
methods have been used to conceal Ad-
ministration inefiiciency. favoritism.
rascallty and Indifference to the flag
and honor of the nation, but with small
success. TIE American people are with
out any illusions as to the Edmunds-
Ireland protocol and the treacherous
deal it half conceals. They know exactly
what Hannaism, Algerism, and other
like things are and mean. We shall see
what they are going to do about it on
Tuesday next
The times., 1898-11-06
The Typhoid Epidemfcs.

The medical profession must be high
ly entertained by the testimony of GER
tain witnesses before the Alger Re-
lief Commission. who have taken their
cue from the Secretary of War and
are not Indifferent to the benefits that
are likely to fall to officers who aid in
shielding the department from blame
Men of at least average intelligence
officers in command of regiments or
brigades, and. therefore, responsible in
some measure for the welfare of the
soldiers-have calmly stated that the
typhoid fever that destroyed so many
lives and reduced so many men to mere
wrecks was no doubt due to the deli
cacies sent TO the soldiers by relatives
or friends" Within a week several
foresightec officers have repeated that
absurdity.
Typhoid fever is dnA to a sneci6e
The times., 1898-11-06
THE LETTER DE cAcHET.
Experiences of n Young Spendthrift
in Milan.

(Rome Correspondence of the London Post-)
While some aspects of the Dreyfus agi-
tation in France are evoking memories OF
the Bastile, the Italian police have hit on
a new form of lettre de cachet- The
spendthrift son of a millionaire manu-
facturer of vermouth not long ago was
arrested at Milan. where he was kept in
prison for three days. His captivity was
enlivened by his keepers addressing to
him each morning a mysterious question.
Are You ready to go to Shanghai" The
reply being invariably an indignant mega
tive the keepers as invariably retorted.
Then stay where you are" AT last. see
ing that there was no means of making
him go to Shanghai of his own free will,
the police kindly prepared him passport
for China, took him first to Turin and
thence to Genoa. where they placed him
aboard vessel bound for Shanghai, kept
him company until the vessel started and
then, wishing him a pleasant voyage, left
him to travel in spite of himself. The
young man was kept on board as far as
Alden.
There he managed to go ashore, and
appealed to the Italian consul for release.
The consul ordered his release. and the
young traveller returned to his native
shores at the government expense.
Now he has taken proceedings against
the Quaester of Milan. Signor Minozzi,
for Illegal arrest and shipment abroad.
The police acted in accord with the wish
es of the young mans family, who were
anxious to remove him from the temp
tations of Milan for while. as the ia
ther. though millionaire, had ceased to
find amusement in paying the infinite
debts contracted by his son.
The times., 1898-11-06
French school HOLIDAYS,
(From the New YORK HeraldA

lFrom the New York Herald.)
The small boy who has to go to school in New
York looks upon the small boy who has togo to
school in France with something of the envy
with which Lazarus may have looked upon Dives.
1t is the question of holidays which constitute
the difference in favor OF the lad who attends a
public school Of instruction in the French Re-
public. The school boys OF France have more
holidays than work days in the year. and in that
fact lies the grievance of the American youngs-
ster. Two hundred and six holidays in the year,
as against $50 school days in the record OF public
in truction in France. To begin with. there is III,
regular midsummer holiday, which covers period
of sixty-four days That's pretty good for q
starter. Then there are the sundays. They are
holidays of course everywhere. but they count an
additional ffty-two days. Then ten days are al.
lowed for the proper celebration of Christmas
and New Years.. To be thoroughly obsefvant Of
! the great feast of Eastertide fifteen days are
given. Thursdays are holidays and that means
ffty-two more days of no labor. All Saints comes
in fer three days holiday, st. Charlemagne two
days, shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday two
days. Whitsuntide, three days, and three days to
make merry when the national fete in July rolls
round. Tie rest of the year the children are sup.
posed to study
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the springtime. In the Summer there
are many lip-painting blackberry,
huckleberrs and other berry pies. and
later the peach. In October comes the
golden glory of the year, the pumpkin
pie.
That this product of free institutions
and American prosperity should bs
struck down by Boston hand within
sight of the cradle of liberty and Bunk
er Hill must cause shock to all the
country. We cannot believe the school
superintendent who has issued the pro-
hibitive order reflects the best senti-
ment of the community. 1t is, we are
rather inclined to think, one effect Of
Professor Norton's criticism of the
American people and their habits and
opinions. His assertion that our cfvili-
zation needs to be reformed has proba-
bly, inspired his only convert in Boston
to begin the reform by abolishing pie.
We shall expect his prompt suppression
by the school board and restoration
of pie to its chief place in the school
boys lunch, as it is in the New Eng
land breakfast, dinner and supper and
in the New England piece" as the Vir-
ginia smack" is called there.
The times., 1898-11-06
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6. 1898.
The Situation mt Paris.

There is not any situation at Paris.
The situation is in the United States.
and nobody will be able to tell what it
is until the election returns come in
Tuesday night. Then, If the people are
victorious at the polls theaiast hope of
Spain will be dead, the Administration
will be driven to a patriotic course and
the Philippines will belong to America
without the assumption of a single one
of the bonds held by or under option TO
the Administration syndicate.
But If the party of Hannaism. Alger-
ism and the bond sharks should Sc
cure another lease of life, things will
be different Then the deal of which
the Edmunds-Ireland protocol is the
soiled cover, will be resuscitated and
an attempt made to push it through.
There is not a scintilla of doubt as
to what is the issue before the coun-
try
The times., 1898-11-06

e-erm-to n particular and distinct NIL
crobe-and to nothing else. To nave
case of typhoid. there must have peen'
another from which the germs were
drawn. 1t can never arise de novo. II
is exactly as easy for an overindui-
gence in delicacies to produce smallpox
Asiatic cholera, whooping cough. diph-
iberia, or any other disease as typhoid
fever No man would affirm that small
pox had its source in sweetmeats II
that, instead of typhoid, had ragged In
the camps.
There is no doubt that typhoid fever
was imported into the camps-prought
in at an early period by some OF the
volunteers. The crime was in the fall
ure to take precautions against us
spread. This failure was due, at Camp
Thomas. to the ignorance of the chief
medical authority-a horse doctor rais-
ed to authority by the War Department
over the heads of experienced army
surgeons. When the disease was prop
erly diagnosed at Camp Thomas and at
Camp Alger. no proper steps were taken
to prevent infection, either through the
Ignorance of the medical officers OF
their carelessness. There was never an
instance of isolation, which is the prime
requisite. The first typhoid fever pa
tients were not set off to themselves.
and care taken that infected refuse was
not placed where it could endanger the
health of others. When the disease be-
came epidemic. the infected matter IN
the shallow trenches was never covered
deeply, If at all, and never subjected 10
the action of disinfectants. All TINS is
authentic. A medical commission ap-
pointed by the Secretary OF war re-
ports that 1t was easy for the billions
of flies attracted by the exposed matter
to carry the germs from the trenches TO
the kitchens and wherever the supplies
were. Not a surgeon had the knowi-
edge or concern enough to understand
the situation, so no steps were taken
to change 1t.
Yet. in the face of this testimony oil
competent medical men, there are OIL
GERS who gravely repeat to the AigeI
Relief Commission that the epidemic
was due to the delicacies sent to the
soldiers by their friends, and the CON-
missioners as grayely write ii down foi
their report If the lime they Will use
for their whitewashing report had beer
spread over the shallow trenches. there
would be no need of il now.
The times., 1898-11-06

the rebuke administered to him by Sec
retary Alger when he wrote him per-
sonal letter stating that one regiment Of
his Rough Riders was worth ten resi-
ments Of volunteers. Col. Roosevelt offi-
cially reiterated this statement. The
Secretary Of War recognizes the fact that
he has Col Roosevelt In his power. and
is not disposed to permit the opportunity
to escape Senator Platt Is also said to
be using this original repo.t as a suspend
ed sword over the head of the Rough
Riders colonel.
1t was Senator Piatt's intention to pre-
pare substitute report which would
laud the valor of the volunteer forces in
general, and have It made public on Men
day. He hoped in this manner to gain
soldier votes for his candidate.
The times., 1898-11-06

The New York Evening Post quotes
with approval the statement of small
newspaper that the criticism which the
compensation proposition has called forth
shows the hollowness of the .hurrah'
movement for taking the Philippines"
that '.either they are worthless or are
worth many times the sum proposed"
This is an absurd statement at best. The
criticism has not been aimed at any prop
osltion to pay for the islands, but at the
suggestion of paying bonds bought up by
an unscrupulous ring that has had its
active agents at Paris. There has been
no offer. yet. of a money payment to
Spain.
The times., 1898-11-06
mig German soIdiers.
Grnm the London Chrnnicle !

.sThe tallest man in his army who is ac-
companying the German Emperor in his visit to
the East. is a grenadier named Chiemke, who is
nearly six feet ten inches in his stockings This
Frederick William mania of the Kaiscr's is an
old device Of his for impressng- the foreigne-. on
returning from his first visit to Constantinaplc in
1889 the Emperor sent the Sultan a complete set
Of kettledrums, which he intrusted TO the tallest
officer in his army. Lieut.. Pleskow, who is very
little, if at all, under seven feet. Once, indeed
when this Prussian guard .m- Looked over a s.v n
foot garden wall and asked girl picking goose
berries therein what the way TO so-aud- so.
the smrie maiden told him to ride first to the
right ard then 10 the left. and he would find the
place he wanted The nymph had honestly fan
cied that an officer oyerpeering her garden wall
like that must necessarily be on horseback.