The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 18, 1895, Page 10

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1895. 10 ST B FORMING A NEW COMPACT [nsurance Companies May De- termine to Return to Old Rates. ‘DELINQUENT | a Considerable Progress Made at One Meeting—But Two Features Undecided. Thé new Pacific Insurance Union held a meeting yesterday in the offices of the defunct compac California and Battery streets, and made considerable progress in ador a constitution and by-l In fact sections of the whole constitution and general rules of any material ron:t‘q\xoncu} were adopted. The general managers wer: quite largely represented, and a remarka- 3 was the absence special ble feature of the meeting of agitation or opposition from a Harmony- prevai dings, and it pointed tow ion of an iron-bound compact which ill place the badly demoralized insurance rates upen their former stiff standard. The new compact decided to call itself the Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific, 1n which membershsp shall consist exclusively of the princip: epresentatives of insurance companies transacting busi- oast. s upon the Pacifie The management wiil be in the hands of & president, secretary, treasurer and committee of nine members, ration is similar to that of count, commission abatement, pecunia or other valnable inducement shall be paid or ¢ ¥ or indirectly to any sured person, 111.[\1 or corporation, or to { his or their agen A promine: ¢ e meeting that sections 3 and 4 of article V of the constitution would be acted on to- day. These se s the particalar poin so they business ade the s “If we yurne meeting to-c points,” he said, “the n accomplished fact. There ; large representation at to- row’s meeting, and more than likely e managers in the compact will be ent. on 3 deals with the compensation of 1t provides as follows: sation for business shall be al- 1,0!1. and then ot exceeding in the the net premiums arge, payment or a voucher n Francisco 1 b cent additional commission on & sco premiums rmission shall paid to others, and may be om in their principal re. the upon which broke actually have b ities of Portland, BLACKLIST. | 1 | derwriter stated after the stion will be admitted | 1 b Cleveland a large number of Swashbuck- lers and fire-eaters, men_apparently just itching for war, and praying, asit were, for a provocation, have started up in the Re- publican party, and in their efforts to at- tract attention have out-Heroded their Democratic competitors. “The Democratic party is now atlow ebb, | 1 yet there is not the shadow of a doubt | that it would be possible for it to sweep the country next November if the present Administration simply arranged that by | next M or June we should be so in- velved in foreign complications that a| declaration of war was a National neces- There would probably be only one | dential election in a foreien war, | t for leng before another four years were | over the people of the country would have become heartily disgusted with themselves | for having been let into such an insane act of folly. But_ for the time being, with the war fever at its height, with the prospect of speedy victories and a great final tri- umph, the people would support in an irresistible manner the administration and the party that made itself the exponent of this assertion of so-called American rights. Ot be said that war is an altogether impossible proceeding, and so. indeed it | should be; but if these jingoists do not mean war, but simply loud mouthings and | blusterings, they are the most despicable | crowd of individuals that a nation could | ossess, for the man who_lays his hand on the hilt, but does rot dare to draw his | sword, is everywhere recognized as the | worst species of a coward.”—Boston | Herald. WRECKED BY INTEREST, The Latest Developments in the Failure of Louis Braver- man. His Assets Said to More Than Cover His Liabilites, but He Was Land Poor. There are some peculiar features in con- nection with the failure of Louis Braver- man that make it of iuterest aside from the large financial interests involved. According to the relation of Renben H. d, the attorney for Mr. Braverman, it isa case of interest,long and persistent, eating into the vitals of a once financially | healthy individual, whose wealth was at |one time estimated at Lalf a million dollars. “For the past ten years,” said Mr. Lloyd, “Mr. Braverman has paid out no less than | need of his doing so. There were other causes which aided to bring about the financial downfall of this once prosperous merchant: but it was the matter of inter- est that eventually wrecked bim."” Up to fifteen years ago the firm of Brav- erman & Levy was one of the most favor- ably known jewelry and diamond houses n the City t that time, for personal reasons, a dis place, but the withdrawal of Levy was not effected, it is stated, till it haa involved a loss of $100,000 on Mr. Braverm For | five years he carried on the business alone | and with great success. Then his physi- | cian told him it was imperative that he ! retire. owing to the poor condition of his | health. $100,000 for interest, and the saddest part | of the affair was that there was no actual | lution of partnership took | ON HIS SECOND TRIAL Dr. Eugene West in Court for the Murder of Addie Gilmore. RAPID PROGRESS BEING MADE Four Important Witnesses Examined for the People—May Finish ’T0~Day. Dr. West was on trial yesterday. Dur- ing the morning the last two jurors were secured, and the case aganst him was opened for the second time. A. P. Black, the Assistant District Attor- ney, made the prosecution’s preliminary statement to the jury. He told how Addie Gilmore came down from her home in Colusa to learn the milliner’s trade in this City, how she disappeared early in Sep- tember, 1893, and how soon after her head, severed roughly from tbe body and en- closed in a wire screen, was found rising and falling on the waves on the beach near Lime Point. How soon after parts of her body, cut to pieces and packed in an oil can, were found on the beach along the | | tify. that many stockings are so wrought to-day.” > Queen Guinevere's cheeks flushed at this mild sally, . 3 “And it had bands like unto the rainbow entwining it,” 3 ““So have most of the smckmg’u' worn by our vain dames in these times,” pursued King Arthur, glancing innocently at the ceiling. “'It was brief in quantity; no longer than a knight’s gauntlet.” “‘How came you by this wondrous stock- ing?” asked the King. A knight passing through our forest gave it me, saying, ‘Wear this at Yuletide and I will come and wed thee.” I was ever happy from that time. But yesternight I hung it by the mantel-tree and it was stolen away.” A 5 “'Tis very sad. Who was your knight?’ asked the Queen.” % ““His name I know not, good lady,” an- swered Gwendella, *‘but his face I cannot | forget, so bo!d and true it was.” “Then,” quoth Arthur, “if he be a knight of our court, this maid shall behold his face,” and thereupon he summoned all the knights to assemble. And the Queeu took Gwendella by the hand and led her timidly by them. But even the girl shook her head. And when the last knight was passed a shade of displeasure shone in Arthur’s face, and he sald: | _“It would seem that some -stranger has | deceived this simple maid.” STREETS REMAIN CLOSED, The Southern Pacific Freight Yards Are Not to Be Cut Up. SUPREME JUDGES SO DECIDE. Supervisors Have the Power to Close Highways at Will—Synons’ Suit Knocked Out. The Supreme Court has sustained the decision of the lower court by which the action of the Board of Supervisors in clos- ing certain streets lying between Channel and Fourth streets on the north and Mari- posa street on the south was ratified. The proceeding to set aside the action of the board was brought by John Synons and James Eva, who were property-owners in the district through which the closed streets formerly ran. In their complaint they alleged that they were the cwners of seven tracts of land in that vicinity, and that they bad the right to use in common all the public streets, and that by passing the order complained of there was closed up one of the principal streets and means of convenient approach from the Potrero to the central part of the City. The Supreme Court says: If it be assumed that the streets are claserll we are of the oplnion that the averments of the petition do not show that the plaintiffs have such an interest in the matter complained of as to entitle them to be heard in a proceed- ing of this nature. None of the streefs which are included in the order are adjacent to any of the 1ands of the petitioners. Six of the parcels landiof whicn they haveset out in their petition as the besis ot their right to be heard abut upon Pennsylvania street, and the other upon Towa street. The order does mot purport to affect Pennsylvania street, and that portion of Iowa street included in the order is more than two bloeks distant from the land of plaintiff fronting on that street. The plaintiffs do not show that they have sustained any injury special to themselves or which is different, except.in degree, from that sustained by other owners in the vicinity of the streets included in the order. Ttdoes not appear that by the closing of these streets they are deprived of access to their lands, and the averment in this respect, that “‘one of the main streets and reason of convenient approach from the central part of the City to the Potrero” is closed by means of the order implies that there are other meaqs of convenient approach to their lands. "And, although they also aver that the efect of the order is to close ‘‘various other streets and avenues heretofore onened and dedicated to public use,” they do not claim that any of these streets are even serviceable to them in approaching their lands. wners of land who are only remotel affected by the proceeding and who sustain n special injury different from that sustained b. others in that vicinity are not authorized t call upon the officers of the City to justify thei: acts or to invoke the judgment of the court upon the legality of the steps taken by the municipality in passing the order. Whether the order will have the effect to diminish the value of plaintiffs’ land or to cause them damage is not a ground for annul- ling the act of the Board of Supervisors, and y 0 cannot be considered in_ this proceeding. If the Board of Supervisors.has the authority to pass the order and the plaintifis have sustaine eny legal damage by reason thereof, they must seek relief in a direct proceeding therefor. Neither is it competent for the plaintifisin him how Judge Buckles’ decision pleased him. Of course he answered in the nega- tive and said that the Teal Club proposed to carry the matter into the higher courts. I promised him that the Mallards would continue the fight, even if the case went as far as Washington, but the legai luminary was thunderstruck when I informed him that in case the Teal Ciub was successful in the higher court the Supervisors of So- lano County were vested with authority to stop all duck-shooting in their county from one year’s end to another. That set- tled the argument.”” The question of the blockading of sloughs was discussed and the following committee on legislation, whose business will be to investigate the legality of the law as regards tue barricading of navi- gable sloughs, was appointed: G. W. Den- nis of Alameda, Robert Bfler of Oakland, F. Staples, T. Casey and H. Bathu of San Francisco. On motion of Mr. Dennis, W. J. Ahern was appointed ex-officio member of the committee. Mr. Dennis spoke very stronely and to the point on the success of such a club as the "Sportsman’s Protective Association, provided the members would live up to its rules and laws. The next meeting of the club will be held in the same hall Tuesday evening, January 7. A FINANCIAL STATEMENT, A Clean Report of How the Con- vention Funds Were Disbursed. The Executive Committee Is Still a Little Short of the Amount Expended. The executive committee appointed for the purpose of making arrangements to | bring the Republican National Convention to this City met recently and prepared its report. Although the delegates to Washington | were particularly economical there still re- | mains a bill of §388 which must be paid ‘before the committee can be discharged. The following itemized statemeni presents the disbursements and receipts clearly: STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS O¥ THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. | _Receipts— | Voluntary subscriptions and collections sent to the committee... .$1,250 Pald to Louis Sloss Jr. direct. AR 81,3256 Disbursemente— General X. A. Friedrich, round-trip ticket to Washington, also personal expenses and hotel bill 5 500 00 General N, P. o to Washington, aiso personal expenses and hotel bill . 40000 | Leo Alexander & Bro. | Pacific Postal Telegraph Compary. J. M. Litchfield, postage finance commit- tee .. | 710 i s 474 elegrams from Washington 31 10 “haries G. Tayior, executive secretry 100 00 Miss Maud Porwell, sienographer..... ... 40 00 | H. W. Tavener, clérical work in maiing | collections.........ccii et eeeraeas. 8000 | ! T £1,160 83 | Balance $164 17 remaining in the hands of Louis | | Sloss Jr., treasurer. Against this balance a draft has been drawn by the Washington committee ] amounting to $552 1¥, which closes the ex- | pense account and leaves the committee | $388 short. | Herewith is a list of percentages col- NOLAN BROS. SHOE CO. DON'T BE MISLED WE HAVE NO BRANCH STORES ON MARKET STREET. WE D0 ALL GUR BUSINESS AT 812 AND 814 MARKET STREET, PHELAN BUILDING. WE ARE OVERSTOCKED ON MEN’S HOLIDAY SLIPPERS And will close them out at less than cost. 500 pairs of Men's Embroidered Opera Slippers 1 per pair broidered Opera £1 25 per pafr e Embroidered 800 pairs of Men's Fine km and Evereit Slipp 1000 psirs of Men's K Opera and Ev Call and see these Slippers and you can’t help but buy a pair. SLIPPERS and SHOES Are the best and most useful Presents you can make for the holidays. DURING THE' HOLIDAY SEASON WE WILL MAKE A 2 |GENERAL REDUCTION ON ALL OUR SHOES. several lines of the Latest Style Shoes will close out at cost to make room for our spring stoclk. "You are all aware of the trouble of getting fitted in stores that only carry one oriwo widths. In Oir store you have no trouble, as we carry the largest ific Coust and can fit | stock of any house on t | any foot from AAA to I WE RUN A LARGE FACTORY And sell Shoes at just what other dealers pay for He endeavored to sell out, but was un- them. All we want is the wholesale profit and ble to do so without sustaining too great | 5 give the retail protit to our customers. 1t isa w and | at this proceeding to Teview the decision of the | : Board of Supervisors that the public interest | [ected to defray expenses of delegates, etc.: i . : known fact that we are tne only shochouse that meda County comprising | @ loss. He turned over the balance of his and convenience require that the streets be | Al Hayman & Co., 5 per cent of $1000, F50; | N hing business the year & ' is Brookiyn and Ala- | closed. The Legislature has, by the statute re- | Nathan, Dohrmann & Co., 5 per cent of $250, | (0N ‘proof that we sell better Shoes for less roney )ck to his son, Sigmund L. Braverman, who took into partnership Rudolph Bostleman, a young man who represented himself as having an unlimited credit with ferred to, conferred upon that body the power | $17 50; Examiner. 8'4 per cent of $7500, to open and close streets, “whenever the pub- | £250; Charles M. Shoriridge, 215 per cent of lic interest or convenience may require,” and | $10,000, §250; United Carriage Company, 5 the determination of this question by ihatbody | per cent of $200, $10; Pacific Transfer Com- than any other house. BEAR IN MIND! ated by com 1g in ihe aggregate | located within the | and not exce DR. WEST AND WITNESS PLYMIRE. grau Ray be sl ed, and no e of any de- he same is tamp of usiness, growing premiums may be n that 581y ms and betwe limited to 1 ct business or reinsurance. Section 4 deals with the collection of vremiums, whether in_cash or for cr . The abuse of the creait system has bee: so great, and the companies were soim- posed upon in the last rate war, that some | members are ready to coniine business to cash transactions. Still the majority of the underwriters think that the insistence of cash is too drastic a measure, and if the cash clause pass at all it will be only in a modisied form and as a compromise meas- ure to be tested perhaps in some central place before becoming general, if atall. In the general rules it is set forth for ton- sideration that premiums shall be due and payable in the principal offices of members not later than the fifteenth day of the sec- ond month aiter the issue of the policies, on which day, if not paid, policies must be canceled. On the same day it 1s proposed that all members make lists of delinquents to be filed with the executive committee as a black list, and thatno member shall thereafter grant insurance on the same or other property of such delinquent, until notified by the executive committee that the disqualification has been removed. ¥ Setttiement may be made for premiums of insurance cover: public property by notes bearing interest at not less than 7 per cent, or by warrants, vrovided that no such note shall mature later than the expiration of the insurance. To this clause the following amendment was offered at yesterday’s meeting and will be acted upon to-da; Premium collections: Excepting in the case of farm business, where settlement may be made by note bearing interest at 7 per cent, in the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Jose, Stockton and Sacramento, I or_covering_ notes shall not be de- ivered to the assured or hi return for the premium paid in spot cash. Thirty-seven companies are taking part in_ the compvact deliberations, the only offices remaining neutral being the Conti- nental, Northwestern, Franklin, Williams- burg City and Brown-Craig companies The Continental’s policy is to keep out of unions unless it have its own way. The other concerns are small in comparison, so that it o be said that all the live compenies are united for a compact, even at the expense of views held in former d cussions relating to compensation of agents. It was stated yesterday by a general agent that the rates will go back practically where they were under the old compact, the only exceptions being San Francisco and the larger coast cities equipped with water sy s and fire de- artments, where a small reduction will e mude as the new standard rate. Words of W Before you marry, be sure of a house wherein to tarry. \When industry goes out at the door, poverty comes in at the window. A good paymaster never wants workmen. A good wife and health are a man’s best treasur A bridle for the tongue is a necessary biece of furniture. ‘What children hear at home soon flies abroad. It isno use hiding from a friend whht is known to an enemy. Silks and satins put out the Kkitchen fire. When there is room in the heart there is room in the house. Seek not to please the world, but your own conscience. The Country Itching for War. “Ten, fifteen or twenty years ago it was members of the Democratic varty who were constantly bringing forward some belligerent suggestion—were twisting the British lion’s tail and indulging in other buncombe proceedings—while, as the party responsible for the government of the country and the enforcement of its foreign policy, the Republican organizations and the Republican leaders could be counted upon to view all issues of this kind in a dignified and conservative manner. "It is hard to say just when the change took place, but about the first term of Mr. n, | . | firm of Braverman & Bostleman made a as | g farm property and | agent, unless in | | the New York diamond dealers. The new | speciaity of diamonds, but matters did not | run_as” smoothly es was expected, and | about three rs ago the firm was forced | into irsolven Braverman senior took hold of matters, effected a settlement, indorsed about $30,000 worth of notes for the insolvent firm and the remaining stock was trans- | ferred to him as security. Since then the b5 | business has been virtually the property | | of the father of the senior member of the unfortunate firm; and his efforts have been directed toward realizing on the stock, which is to-day valued at about $40,000, | but was unable to do so, owing to the slow market for diamonds. At the time Louis Braverman retired from active business he invested his money | in real estate in and about Fresno, which at the time was enjoying a boom, and in City [Sketched in the courtroom yesterday by a *“Call™ artist.) | Oakland shores in Alameda County, and | how her death had been traced to Dr. | Eugene West, the defendant. He said he would show that the girl died at Dr. West's house, from the effects of a criminal operation performed by him, and how, to avoid detection and punishment, he had cut the body to pieces and consigried it, | bit by bit, to the waters ot the bay. For the nurpose of expediting the tnal, E. Wilson, counsel for West, agreed to admit that the head and pieces of flesh washed up by the bay on its various shores wre parts of the body of Addie Gilmore. This has saved all the evidence given at the first trigl by the Coroner, his deputies and all the people who were examined at the first trial, in order to prove beyond | property. Among his present holdings are a 160-acre vineyard at Fresno in full bear- | ing, valued at about $48,000; his home place i on Eddy street, near Gough, worth $35,- | 000; 87 front fee: on Polk street, near Sac- | ramento, valued at $40,000; improved prop- | erty on Davis street, near Sacramento, | valued at $45,000. His other belongings, | it is estimated, will bring his assets up to about $240,000 'as against his liabilities of | $225,000. i What has acted as an ‘‘old man of the | sea” to him and kept him from emerging | from his ocean of debts is a loan of $75,000 better known as “Oregon’ Cohn, to help him out dnrin&z the period of his Jargest real estate deals, and it is to his efforts to meet the heavy interest in connection with this loan and his unwillingness to dispose of any of his real holdings that his pres- ent unfortunate situation is attributed. | At one time he had an offer of $65,000 for | his home property, but on asking the ad- | vice of *Oregon’” Cohn he was dissuaded | from turning it into cash and rtaking up { part of his note to Cohn, who, it is charged, | was governed in his counsel to Braverman | by purely selfish interests. This proverty is now estimated to be worth not more than $35,000. In the same way he was in- fluenced, it is asserted, not to dis- pose of his Davis-street property when he was offered §50,000 cash for it by John | T. Doyle. It has since depreciated and is to-day considered worth not more than Oregon” Cohn has a mortgage for the real estate of Bravermas, but the instru- ment has never been recorded, and it is this fact that is said to be back of the | movement of some of Braverman’s un- | secured creditors to have him declared i | solvent. | It is the avowed purpose to have this | mortgage invalidated and place Cohn on a level with the other creditors. All efforts, it is understood, will be concentrated ro accomplish this object. Should it be effected, it is believed a settlement will be speedily arranged. What brought the matter to a climax | was the presentation of a note for $3000 by the London, Paris and American Bank on behalf of one of the Eastern creditors of the firm of Braverman & Bostleman, and the inability of Braverman Sr., who had indorsed the paper, to meet it. In his desperate efforts to keep his head above water a while longer he visited every prominent raisin-broker in the City | during Friday and Saturday, in the en- deavor to seil his crop of raisins from his Fresno vineyard. The product had cost him 3 cents a pound to put in shape for the market, but he was unable to get 1% cents for it. He would not sell for less, {and thus the crisis came. Summing up the whole situation, Mr. Lloyd said: “The amount of real estate held by Mr. Braverman shows that this old men, like thousands of others, was living in the hope that he could seil this property at something like what it was actually worth, which would leave him a good compe- tency. But in the meanwhile the interest he was compelled to pay ate him up.” The hearing on the petition to have Mr. Braverman declared an insolvent will take place December 30. 1 g R S London bridge consists of twenty lccks or arches, whereof nineteen are open and one filled uE or obscured. It is 900 feet long, sixty high and seventy-four broad, and almost twenty feet aperture in each arch. Itis m\fipon,ed by eighteen piers or :o!n}:. from thirty-four to twenty-five feet nicl l he obtained some years ago from J. Cohn, | full amount of his $75,000 loan on the City | !a doubt that Addie Gilmore was really | dead, and that she had been so brutally butchered. John Gilmore, the girl's father, was called as the first witnessas | soon as these preliminaries had been | settled. | Gilmore told how he had become anx- | ious in consequence of the long silence of his daughter, and had come down to this | City to see why she had not written. He went to Toplitz & Co., the milliner’s establishment where she had been work- ing, and there he met the forewoman, Mrs. | Harriet Austin. She and he went to Dr. : West’s, and after many evasions, and not | until they had called more than once, did | | he tell them that the girl had died in his | house, that he had burned her clothes and that her body had been sent to a medical college. | stantially the same iacts, and then D. V. | Plymire was called. Plymire had known | Miss Addie Gilmore in Red Bluff, where | he was a stone-cutter. He met her again here in San uently came to study medicine, and while she was working as a milliner. He said she came to him and wld him she was about to undergo an operation and he swore he had tried to persuade her not to do so. He was questioned closely as to the | conversations he bhad had witi her and how often he had seen her, but his memor[\; appeared extremely bad, and not muc! | evidence was obtained from him other | than the fact of the girls'sexpressed inten- tions. Plymire was followed on the stand hv BMrs. Harriet Austin, under whom Addie Gilmore worked. She toid how she had gone to see Dr. West to inquire about the missing girl and how he had put her upon the wrong track. She told, too, how he had admitted that the girl died in his house. Mr. Black expects to finish his case to- day. There will be but two witnesses who | were not examined atthe former trial—Dr. | Harvey, under whom Plymire was study- ing, and Mrs. Dr. Dale, to whom the dead girl said she was going. The result of the first trial was set aside becanse Judge Wal- lace had refused to allow Dr. Rodney John- son to testify because his testtmony would necessarily relate to privileged communi- cations. The case will go on to-day. THE STOLEN ST—(;EKIHG. A Christmas Story of the Days of King Arthur. One Christmas eve, long ago, a stocking ! was stolen in merry England. It was in the time of Arthurand his Round Table, when stozkings were pre- cious and offenders against them were soundly scourged. The King and Queen Guinevere were holding court at Caerlon, when Gwendella, a forest girl, sought their presence. “I was this day tc have wed a noble knight,” she sobbed, “but some one has stolen my stockiuf.” “Then you shall have another,” quoth the King, minhtull{. “There is no stocking that can fill the place of the one stolen.” “Be not too positive of that,”’ spake Queen Guinevere, kindly. *“‘In what did your stocking differ from all others in our domain ?” “Why, it was spun of pure silk and em- broidered with threads of gold.” ‘*Ha, na, ha!” laughed the merry Kine. *’Tis but too true,as our purse can tes- Miss Emma Gilmore testified to sub- | Francisco, v-here he subse- | Then the King told them all the tale and bade them hunt the culprit down, and promised that he would bestow upon the | knight who did the service a crimson scarf clasped with two golden apples. | **And,” said the Queen, ‘‘artfully cast | your eyes to the stockings of all the dam- | sels you meet, that she, upon whom this gift has been bestowed, may be found out | and punished.” And so, the knights went forth and rode away. | _ But presently the great knight, Sir | Lancelot, strode into the hall. And | when he beheld Gwendella he smiled, and | the girl’s face took on a hue of scarlet, for | shé remembered in him the krnight she | knew. And he turned to Arthur and Queen Guinevere and said : “This maid I love full well, and as 1 was coming hither from the tild I zave her a stocking as a pledge that, should she not | hang it by the mantel-tree on Christmas | eve, I would wed her on this day.” *‘But the stocking is stolen,’’ said the Queen, in a husky voice. “Stolen but ~ yesternight, though,”’” | pleaded Gwendella, upon her knees. | ““A broken pledge, a blighted heart,” | murmured Sir Lancelot, and be hung his head and stood away from the girl. And 80 he lingered until the Queen dismissed Gwendella. Then Artiur and the Queen { condoled with him in his feigned grief. But Guinevere knew that Sir Laucelot had stolen the stocking; for had she not | given it to him for fortunes in the jousts, |and had he not sworn to give it unto her again at the Yuletide? Nordid he break his faith. But Arthur never knew the truth, and unto the end of his reign the knights of | Eu(;;h\nd sought for the stolen stocking, up {and down. And merry gentlemen, unto this day, who Lold in memory King Ar- thur’s name, oft turn their heads about when_Jadies cross the streets, for they would serve full well the behest of so good and true a prince. And honest ladies, knowing of the theft, with timorous guile oft toss their petticoats away to prove that they wear not the stolen stocking.—George A. Beckenbaugh, in N. Y. Truth. — e Children Out of School. The city of Syracuse hasopened a truant school as a necessary adjunct to the law for the compulsory education of children who are of school age. Such children as do not attend school with proper regularity will be committed to the school for ten days, and during their confinement will be'compelled to study and exercise. The name is not happily chosen, as a truant is one who stays from school without the knowledge or consent of parents or guardians. institution will be to confine children whose parents wish to have them other- wise employed than in attending school. In some cases, as where a widow 18 left with a young family, whose older boys can earn something, compulsory educa- tion works great hardship, and really can- not be enforced without what the English call a reform-school, but might better be called a prison-school. Perhaps after a few years of trial Syracuse can tell us whether the city has benefited by accus- toming a large number of her young people to the inside of this house of de- tention. Also whether it would not have been better to try a little drawing before so much driving. & In Pennsylvania a similar law goes into operation next year. It will be enforced spasmodically, as where # local board of school directors wish to keep attendance up to the minimum uired for the con- tinuance of a school. In most parts of Philadelphia, and probably of other cities of the State, it could not be enforced, because the existing schools are full and the community cannot afford to build enough new ones.—Philadelphia Amer- ican. ————— Interest Children. Children must be interested. The per- sons and places where thev find the keenest interest are those to which they will attach themselves. If the parentand teacher will fail to preoccupy the field, the dangerous outside influences are sure to do it. To make noble, pure-minded Christian men and women we must preoccupy the baby from its cradle to its teens.—Golden Re- | view, 'he chief use of this | is not open for review by the court. The judgment is affirmed. The opinion is written by Justice Harri- son and Justices Garoutte and Van Fleet concurred. Considerable agitation was raised over | the action of the board and a strong anti- railroad feeling was developed in the mat- ter, for the closing of the streets was for the purpose of giving the Southern Pacific Compauny a lot of land along Channel | street where the freight yards could be established without the interruption of cross streets. first to prevent the passage of the resolu- tion and afterward to have it rescinded. The Superior Court’s decision was the first victory for the railroad and now the ruling of the Supreme Court leaves the Southern Pacific in undisputed possession. SPORTSMEN IN COUNCIL Duck-Shooters Who Will Fight Alleged Game Protec- tors. An Association That is Antagonistic to the Salt-Marsh Pre- serves. A large number of sportsmen assembled last evening in the K. of R. B. Hali, Mason and O’Farrell streets, at a special call of the Sportsmen’s Protective Asso- ciation. President W. J. Ahern addressed the meeting at length and said that the object of soliciting the co-operation of the sportsmen at large was to check the rapid growth of a foreign system of alleged sportsmanship that was inimical to the sporting interests of this county. “You must not forget that in unity there is strength,” said Mr. Ahern, “and, thercfore, if this association will continue to be successful in the future as it has been in the past we must have your finan- cial support. “We, as a body of gentlemen sportsmen, have been called ‘pot-hunters’ by the money aristocratic clubs that are of the opinion that the birds of the air and the fishes of the waters belong only to tne rich men of the country. “This langnage may answer well enough in the older countries, but according to the constitution of America the poor man has some rights, and one of those is the right to shoot and fish, provided he does not trangress the laws of the country. “As regards the shooting of wild fowl on marsh lands that are overflowed by tide waters, the law gives every sports- man the privilege of shooting thereon. and until this law has been proven uncon- stitutional by the highest court of this State I cannot understand why or how any sportsman can be punished for trespassing upon such lands. One of our members was arrested on two occasions by what is called the San Pablo Duck-shooting Club, for having trespassed upon lands which the law states are open to sportsmen to shoot over. *He was acquitted of course, but I think he has excellent grounds upon which to enter suit for damages either against the county or the club that caused his arrest. “We are law-apiding citizens, and it is not because we cannot afford the pleasure of shooting wild ducks or quails on week days that we must be branded by our rich and influential brothers in field sports as poachers and law-breakers.”” After the president of the club had fin- ished speaking Robert Boyer, president of the Mallard Club that recently defeated the Teal-Cordelia Club in the Superior Court of Solano County in a suit brought by the last-named club restraining cer- tain members of the Mallard Club from trespassing on certain parts of the Suisun marsh, said that the Mallards propused from the start to fight every inch of ground, and so far they had been success- ful beyond all question. *I i.appened to meet one of the attor- neys employed fiy the Teal Club a day or two ago,” said Mr. Boyer, ‘“‘and I asked Strenuous efforts were made | $ any, 6 er cent of $200, Coleman $50, $250, .‘%m? 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