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The San Francisco call., 1904-02-08
BRYAN-HEARST
PACT REVEALED
Positive Statement That the
Nebraskan Has Pledged His
support to the Editor
DEMOCRACY Is AROUSED
Conservative Elements of the
Party Unite in Declaring
War Upon the Combination
Special Dispatch t, The Call

CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON,
WASHINGTON, Feb. That William
Jennings Brvan has pledged his infiu-
ence and support 20 the William r.
Hearst boom has been repeated by its
friends and its enemies. That he has
actually promised whatever following
he may have in the St. Louis conven-
tion 10 work for Hearst as Democratic
candidate for President was positively
stated to-day by a man who has been
familiar with the details Of the Hearst
boom since il started. The opponents
Of Hearst and Bryan have now accept
ed this as absolutely true and are
uniting against the com mbination.
Il also was stated to-day that within
2 week an important conference was
held in New York by representatives
Of what is now called the conservative
Democracy and an account of stock
was taken. Reports were made from
various parts OF the country. where OBJ
servatiOns Of the various booms had
been taken. The conservatives found
that Hearst was the only one Of all the
candidates mentioned who had an act
ual organization at work in his inter
Csts in various parts Of the country.
Another result Of this conference was
the sending Of a note Of alarm TO trust
ed friends OF all other men in the field.
T. is said that while in the early stages
0f the game IL was thought best to al
low the Hearst boom 70 wear itself out
in its own way, il must now be met
and fought as q hostile menace TO
Democracy and 70 the country.
x was not the intention for friends
n Hearst and Bryan TO have il become
known that thus early an actual prom
Use OF the Nebraskan's support had
been made. and il is said 10 have been
the intention 10 have this develop
gradually and appear TO have been
compelled by the growing strength OF
Hearst in the West and among the
various elements which nominated
Bryan and supported him in his cam
paigus. The best element Of the Dem
ocracy, however, does not regret that
the revelations Of the compact nave
been made, because il now sees and
does not hesitate 10 say that il will be
necessary TO combat the combination
and that beginning cannot be made
too soon.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-08
French Reward for Honesty.

The French are like children, they
want a reward for having been good.
At the first of each year coachmen of
public carriages, conductors Of omni-
buses, are rewarded for having taken
10 the prefecture de police lost objects
found in their vehicles. Some are given
honorable mention, others sums of
money ranging from 10 to $50 francs.
AS many as 1881 objects were brought
to the prefecture in 1902 Those that
are not reclaimed are sold at auction
after having been kept a year. 1t is
a rule, however, that lost money be-
longs to the one who found ii when it
has not been reclaimed for a year. The
cOachman who was rewarded with $50
francs for having found a pocketbook
containing 500 francs was made happy
on the 1st Of January, for he was able
70 put $50 francs in his pocket.-Brook-
lyn Eagle.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-08
Personal.

J. H Leggett a mining man of Oro-
Vile, is at the Grand
Railroad Commissioner A. c. Irwin
Of MarysVille is at the Lick.
N. J. Brock, an attorney Of Grass
Valley, is staying at the California.
R. T. Butler, a mining man of
HALEY, Idaho, and wife are at the
r. L. Douglass, a capitalist of Vir-
ginia City, arrived at the Grand yes
,erday.
Frank N. Stone. an attorney of New
York, formerly of this city, is at the
Palace.
Phil L. Crovat who is interested in
he local woOlen mills and represents
the Vina ranch in New York, arrived
at the Palace yesterday.
William r. Thorsen, a wealthy Wis
consin lumber man, who recently pur-
chased an interest in the West Side
Lumber Company, is at the Palace.
p H. Lannon, the well-known capi-
talist and former proprietor of the
Salt Lake Tribune, arrived from the
latter city yesterday and is registered
at the Occidental.
Sheriff w. A. White of Los Angeles
County. accompanied by his sister,
Mrs. c. T. Goodman of Ohio, arrived
from the south last evening and is
registered at the Palace.
A number Of Northern California
mining men, who are here to attend
a meeting to-day, registered at the
Lick yesterday. Among them are r.
NJ. Green Of Oroviile, John Ross Jr.
Of Sutter Creek, J. II. Wills of Auburn
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-08
APPENDICITIS
IS CONTAGIOUS
Wisconsin Physician Says He
Has Discovered the Disease
Is of MicrObic Origin
HAS BECOME AN EPIDEMIC
Transfer Of Germs, He De-
clares, Accounts for Its Prev
alence in This Country
las BECOME AN EPIDEMIC
Special Dispatch to The llI.

MADISON, Wis. Feb. 7.-Dr. c. s.
Sheldon, one of the leading physicians
of this city, saws he has made the dis
covery that appendicitis is contagious.
DR.. Sheldon says the disease is of
microbic origin, and the only rational
explanation of it is that it is the result
of a germ that can be transferred.
The prevalence of the disease, he be-
lieves, substantiates his theory.
DR.. Sheldon says there is an epidemic
of appendicitis in this country.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-08
The Missing Regret.

A very amusing and characteristic
story OF the late Princess Mathilde is
going the rounds. The Princess was
dining at the home Of NJ. and Nine.
Ganderax with some of her most de-
voted friends. AT the hour set for din
ner one Of the guests, Gerome, the
great painter, had not arrived They
waited for a long time, and then sud
denly the Princess said:
by the way, 1 received a telegram
to-day from Gerome. who is in Cadiz,
asking me to give his apologies for not
being able TO come tonight"
But. Princess" exclaimed Nine.
Ganderax. Why did you not tell us
about il earlier2"
why my dear" returned the Prin-
cess. Il am just beginning to feel
hungry. Paris Figaro.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-08
OFFICERS OF THE CHURCH.

The officers Of the church are:
Board of trustees-H. T. creswell. president;
James Hogg vice president; A. K. Durbrow
treasurer; Benjamin Romaine, secretary A. J..
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-08
Different Pickups.

A few years ago four-f1fths of the
Irish immigrants arriving in New York
were young men who had heard that
gold was TO be picked up in the streets
here. Now four-fifths of those arriv-
ing from the same country are said to
be young women between the ages Of
II and 26. They have probably heard
that policemen are to be picked up in
the streets here.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-08

The cable companies have notified their
customers that no messages addressed 10
any port or station in the war scene in
the Far East can be accepted II written
IN code or secret cipher. This will be
Dad news for our export merchants but
they can buy gas range from the San
francisco Gas and Electric Co, AS Post
street
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-08
oFeIcEes

John + DRYDEN. President
. LESLIE d. WARD. EDGAR B. WARD,
Vice President. I'd Wee President
FORREST F. DRYDEN. I'D Vice President.
EDWARD KANOUSF T C. T. BLANCHARD,
Treasurer. SuDt. OF Real Estate
JACOB E WARD WILBUR 5. JOHNSON,
Counsel Comptroller
F C. BLANCHARD. Supervisor Loan Dept.
EDWARD GRAY EDWARD H. HAMILL
Secretary Medical Director
VALENTINE RTKER ROBERT l. BURRAGE
ASSISTANT Secretary. Medical Director
LESLIE WARD JOHN K. GORE,
Assistant Secretary. Actuary
WILLARD l. HAMILTON FREDERIC A BOYLE
Assistant Secretary. Cashier
FREDERICK Il. JOHNSTON Associate Actuary.
HENRY OVERGNE GEORGE w MUNSICK
Supervisor. Supervisor.
WM. PERRY WATSON. Assistant Medical Director.
FREDERICK L HOFFMAN. Statistcian.
GEORGE H. KIRKPATRICK. Assistant Actuary
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-08

Of Praise (Mendelssohn), duet for two sopranos
and chorus Miss Flynn. Mrs. Warshauer and
choir: God that Madest Earth and Heaven
(Sanderson). contralto solo. Miss Fairweather;
communion scene from '.Parsifaf' (Wagner).
chorus; address, Rev. DR.. C1ampett; oRertory,
"Andante Cantabile' (Tschaikowsky). from the
String Quartet. op 1.-THE offering is for the
benefit of the volunteers of the choir; benedic-
ton; 'SeYenfoid Amen" (Stainer); recessional
hymn 491 CWesley); postlude. Fuse in G minor
(Bachl.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-08
and Thomas A. Hender of Sonora.
Take "A Rest at Del Monte.

The scenery at Del Monte is very beautiful
and fer bathing. boating, riding. golhng and
other pleasures the place is famous. A first
class ticket between san Francisco and Los
Angeles, either direction. including two days
entertainment at Del Monte. only 500: chill
dren s14 50. Privilege OF thirty days stop
over II you wish Southern Pacific agents
will give YOU particulars.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-08

Germany, during the first nine
months Of this year. exported bicycles
20 the value of S4046. 900. showing an
increase Of more than 100 Der cent over
the same period Of 1901.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-30
Rescuers and Rescued.

If human lite can be capitalized the life.
saving service of the government yesterday
more than paid for its annual cost of
maintenance. In the neighborhood of
New York thirty-one men were rescued,
after days of peril on board a stranded
and breaking steamer. and OF Cape
Hatteras twenty-five men were SINH
larry taken off their ship. And these
rescIes are only part of the years
work of this service which is always on
guard and does many deed of real hero
ism never fully appreciated by the public
1t is only when a sensational wreck occurs,
or large number of people are saved
from death, that the country hears OF the
faithful. courageous self-sacrificing labors
of the gallant men composing the little
crews whose quarters dot the coasts.
The full story of the life-saving service is
as romantic as novel. A recently pub
lished book. made up from the public re-
ports by the hand of an official now dead
has proved to be one of the most vitality
interesting publications of the year. 1t Is
a revelation of sustained devotion to a
perilous duty. The wonder Is that these
annual reports. though buriIf as they are
under the forbidding title of government
publications. are not among the most
popular of all issues In print.
Only in recent years has the life-saving
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-30
Cotton Burning.

Nothing like the spectacle presented by
the planters of Georgia who are burning
their cotton in order TO reduce the surplus
and raise the price has ever before been
witnessed in this country. TO say that it
is remarkable is a feeble expression of the
case. 1t Is positively immoral, setting a
demoralizing example which may lead to
unknown lengths and give rise to grave
evils
Last year the cotton crop was small Va
rious conditions had operated to produce
this result, chief among which was the ac-
tivity of the boil weevil. which had not
only destroyed a large percentage of the
crop. but had discouraged many farmers
and induced them to curtail their acreage
Consequently the demand was not met and
manufacturers were forced to suspend OPP
erations, while the spectators. seizng upon
the natural phenomena. utilized them to the
end of wild fluctuations and abnormaily
high range of prices. One fact showed dis
tinctly in consequence. that IL the cotton
spinning industry was to be kept going at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-30
The Philippine Tariff.

The time Secretary Taft is bestowing on
the Philippine tariff question is well spent.
He understands the question thoroughly,
and members of Congress who consult him
receive information of value. Legislation
should be enacted at this session. The law
now applying in the premises is injurious
both to the Filipinos and to ourselves.
Our trade with the archipelago and the
archipelago's trade with us should be de-
veloped by every business-like means and
in a spirit of liberality. This tariff ques-
ton is not allied to the general tariff
question. and hence should not be post
Pcned. as that has been. to the next Con-
gress. 1t has in it's favor an argument
OF its own which is in every particular
so strong and convincing that favorable
action should follow soon after the terni-
nation of the holiday recess
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its former rate more cotton must be planted

its former rate more cotton must be planted
and marketed.
Taking this hint the farmers greatly in
creased their acreage and the crop. thanks
to an unexplained inactivity on the part
of the boil weeyil, is phenomenally heavy.
Wednesday in the New York cotton ex-
change prices fell sensationally. owing to
the showing of the census bureaus report
of the ginning records up to December L.
Estimates based on this report indicated
total crop of fully Is, 800 600 bales, or
about 1900 600 bales more than ever gath
cred before. The reaction in the prices
was an inevitable result of this showing.
The bonfires of the Fort Gaines farmers
follow suggestion recently made in the
Mississippi valley that the surplus supply be
destroyed to prevent a violent drop in the
price. There has been, so far as known,
no definite agreement among the planters
to this effect. and it would appear as
though these Georgia farmers were merely
taking the initiative on their own respon-
siblity
This cotton-burning recalls the suggestion
furnished by the burning of their corn by
western farmers a few years ago. But the
corn was burned not only because it was
utterly unstable, but because it furnished
a much needed fuel, cheaper than coal.
There were no accommodations for its stor.
age at reasonable rates, and it would have
been an utter waste if not burned. Its de-
struction was not intended as a means to
bull the market.
These southern farmers are laying them
selves open to the same charge that they
have perenniaily laid against the specula-
tors. In the end they stand to gain moth
ing by the trick. for the price will rise only
in proportion to the stock available for
sale, and the net returns will be no larger
with an 11.500,0OO crop than 13, 5000 out
put. 1t is a simple problem in arithmetic.
and very serious proposition in morals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-30
No Rod in New York's Schools.

BY a vote of - to 10 the New York city
beard of education refused to pass a reso-
luton recognizing fiogging as a proper
method of school punishment. Those favor
ing the rod declared that there are about
4 per cent of school boys who need it,
their excuse savoring of the only little
one" apology that has become so famous.
On the other hand a member of the ma
jority exclaimed:
SHALL we say to the world that with our
half million and more pupils we are I'M
able to govern them except by brutality?
i: is the blow OF the strong man against
the weak boy. / feel that it would be a
disgrace to the city to put the means of
torture into the hands of principals and
teachers"
New York seems to feel in the matter of
whipping school boys just as Washington
does with regard to the whipping of wife
beaters The metropolis would be eternally
cha grined to know that it is regarded gen.
orally as city of incorrigible school boys,
just Washington is already Inundated
by the suggestion, so inseparably linked
with the proposition to set up the post in
the capital. that this is community of
brutal husbands To deny the charge may
not affect the facts. but there is a strong
belief here that If there is wife-beating in
Washington, and if the present methods of
punishment do not serve to lessen its fire.
quency or its brutality, the remedy does
not lie in a direct reversion to barbarism
but in some form of forced labor for the
offender. whose earnings shall go to sup
port his unfortunate wife. Just so New
York. acknowledging that there are bad
boys in the schools. feels that the humane
and sensible methods of correction and cure
are not yet exhausted to the point of call
ing for adult brutality to refine juvenile
offenders.
With the steady and irresistible advance
of enlightened public sentiment fogging
has almost disappeared from the list of
penalties in the civilized world, whether
in public schools in the navy, or in pun
ishment OF criminals. In spite of the ex-
asperating inadequacy of existing penalties
in special and Individual cases, the world
will never reverse its steps and return to
customs and habits which it has outgrown
end cast aside.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-30
The MARYLAND Elections Law.

REPRESENTATIVE Jackson of the first Mary
land district has decided to contest Inc
election held last month as the result Oh
which his democratic opponent, Thomas A.
Smith. claims success The grounds OF
contest according to report. are:
.'That the democrats latest election law,
prepared and put through the legislature
by the German machine, was passed Ior
the purpose of diSfranchlSlng voters Oh tuo
republican party who were conStitutionally
qualified to vote. He contends that the
extra session election law and the act OF
1904. amending that law. are potn uncon-
stitutional in that they are contrary TO
the provisions of the state constitution,
and says that even if these laws are not
invalid the election officials, who were
partisans of Smith, abused the powers CON
ferred on them, with the intent and to
the extent of unfairly and unlaWfully pre-
venting the casting or the counting Ior
Jackson the ballots of upward of two tnou-
sand legally qualified and registered voters.
Mr. Jackson further arraigns the demo-
cratic election officials charging that the
votes of SSI duly qualified and registered
voters, who properly marked the pailots
for him, were not counted for him.
In taking this step Mr.. Jackson is per-
forming public service. The recent jug
Cling with the suffrage in Maryland has
been outrageous. 1t has had none other
than partisan object, and it has for
law which Mr. German and his friends
mutilated was one of the best that had
ever been on the Maryland statute books
Under it, swhen properly administered. the
sentiment of the people had been, and
could at any time be. fairly ascertained
The democracy had scored repeatedly by its
provisions, and there was no reason what
ever for any change in it so far as square
dealing at the polls concerned
After the national election of 1895 the
democratic bosses found themselves dis
credited and shorn of much of their power
in the state The machine had failed to
throw the state to Mr.. Bryan. and Lloyd
Lowndes was in office at Annapolis Thou
sands of the best democrats in Maryland
had voted for Mckinley. and were openly
rejoicing in the republican national sue
cess AS these men were not to be dra-
ss0oned by the bosses, it was necessary, if
power was to be regained, for the bosses
to manipulate the suffrage in some way.
Then followed, under the humbugging cry
of purifying the electorate, the schemes of
disfranchisement and trick ballots, which
have brought the elections in Maryland to
their present disreputable basis.
Although the story has been told several
times the country generally is not familiar
with it. AS the next Congress is to take
up the subject of the suffrage as affected
by the high jinks that have been cut with
the election laws in a number of the states
in the name of an improved and intelligent
electorate, the work of Mr.. German and
his friends in Maryland should be pre-
scented in detail and in all of its unblushing
partisanship and unfairneSs- In some par
ticulars lit takes the cake" as showing
unusual capacity for borrowing the
lingo and forms of government to serve the
devil in.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-30
ChaunceY M. DepeW.

The settlement of the senatorial contest
in New York is a triumph of both senti-
ment and business. Sentiment, as The Star
g. few weeks ago asserted cuts, as rule,
but small figure in New York politics, but
this time it made itself felt. Mr.. Depew is
a popular man. A great many of his con-
stituents refer to him as Chauncey. They
hold him in familiar regard, and take a
personal interest in his fortunes They re-
spond to his bonhommie, and warm to all
of his Municipalities. The applause at his
meetings takes on the heartiness of a fire.
side approval. Everybody feels at home,
and Mr.. Depew presides over the circle.
And the fresides came out strong for
Chauncey this time. All the surplus cotton
in the country stuffed into Gov. Odelfs ears
could not have kept out the sound of the
firesides demand.
But the business interests also We're for
Mr.. Depew. He has a very wide business
acquaintance, and although a popular ora
tor and man of the world. chummy with
travellers and clubable in every way, is yet
rated as business man. And the influ-
ence of these interests was organized for
him in this fight. Old New York and Brook
Ign made themselves felt in his behalf, and
will experience much satisfaction in his
success.
In surrendering-for it was a surrender
Gov. Odell has played good politics. He
has yielded to those upon whom he, as the
party's manager, must rely for support in
the next few years Tammany is to be
antagonized in next years mayoralty con-
test, and the next gubernatorial race in the
state will be one of very great Importance
A united party is thus assured and in that
union there ought to be a good deal OF
strength.
1t is a point of value, too, that Mr.. Depew
will remain in the Senate to participate in
the debates of the next few years on the
subject of legislation affecting railroad
rates and traffic. That subject is devel-
opng into one of magnitude, and Mr..
pepew, with his large experience as a rail-
road man. should be able as a Senator to
contribute to the discussion much Informal
ton of an illuminating character. His enc
mics charge that he is a railroad Sem
ator" but his personal character is so high
he is not injured by that. The question
as Congress must consider it will be of
national consequence. affecting the welfare
Of all the people. and there is no room
to doubt that Mr.. Depew will approach it
in spirit of full responsibility to the oath
of his high Office.
Good luck to the New York optimist. who
insists that it pays to look pleasant and
Keep on good terms with the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-30
No Revival of Flogging.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
BY vote of % to Is the board of edu-
cation has decided that corporal punish
ment shall not be re-established in the
public schools, as certain school princi-
pals have proposed The decision is sound.
1t is in accordance with modern ideas. The
worship of the rod and ferule belongs to
ruder epochs before the awakening of hui
manitarianism. 1t belongs to and accords
with the indiscriminate, haphazard and stu
pid penology which still prevailed in the
eighteenth century and the early nine
tenth. Flog the schoolboy fog the SOL
der, fog the sailor. Flog for everything;
transport or hang for everything. Force,
violence, the terrors of the law; make chill
dren, grown or ungrown. good after the
recipe ascribed to Solomon. a pattern of
neither wisdom nor virtue.
So they fogged and fiogged. and i'm
prisoned and hanged. and made severe pun
isnments for trifing crimes. The law had
something of the logged stolidity and cruel
ty of the worst convict. From the school
to the prisoners dock deliberate, sys-
tematic, stupid brutality prevailed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-30
Proud of Him.

Willie's not good in his grammar.
He has scant mathematical zeal.
But on thinking a bit
We're obliged to admit
He's accomplished a very great deal.
His copybook lessons are shaky,
And he isn't especially neat.
He's no prodigy bright;
He is seldom polite
And his trousers get torn in the seat
But he didn't get drowned going swimming
Nor blown up on the Fourth of July,
Nor hurt in the fall
That he had playing ball
His perils have oft made us sigh.
And he didn't get sick eating turkey.
His escapes fill our bosoms with joy.
His nerve and digestion,
Beyond any question,
Make US nightly proud of the boy.