The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 29, 1895, Page 23

THE N FRANCISCO CALL, SU NDAY, D ECEMBER 29, 1895 SUMIETHING EW N CARLS Eleven and Twelve Spots in Each of the Various Suits. EIGHT PERSONS MAY NOW PLAY 1 It Will Make Things More Uncertain Than Ever in the National Gambling Game. Draw poker, National game, as made i y steadily in popularity, as a means of social recreation, ever since 1 S leu‘lfi'l:nlm Minister Schenck made it a fad in London, years ago, says New York World. ol A sprinus drawback to the general intro- | tion of the game into the parlor has always been that the number of people who | can sitintoa game has been necessaxilyi limited to four or five. | The ideal game of poker is with five | players. On the deal twenty-five cards are exbausted. That leaves twenty-seven in | the deck from which the players may dr: Less than that number in reserve is likely to see the deck exhausted on the | draw, which makes it necessary to go to | the discarded cards to complete the draw, | h & very unsatisfactory arrangement. | To meet this objection and to make it vossible for a party of eight to sit around a table,a new deck has been made that contains sixty. The new cards are the eleven and twelve spots in each suit. The new deck is known in the tr the “full e. dealer near Union square sa the new decks are selling quite frel that the indications are that six eight handed games of poker will be the | most popt round-table game the winter. The addition of four eleven and four twelve sp. to a deck will at first | strike the player as novel and it will take him some time to get used to such a start- ling hand as three twelves and two elev- ens, as shown in the accompanying illus- s that ely and seven and idition of the additional cards in- no change in the rules of the game, although it will upset all present theories of chances in the draw, and the card-sharps wiil have to-do some mew figuring. The introduction of the eleven and tweive ma- terially increases the possible number of full-hand combinations, increases the pos- sibilities of ““Hushes” and “straights,” i adds an additional and most del . irer, who does not print these cards, said that the objection to the new cards was the great similarity, upon » casual glance, b the eleven and twelve spots. *T ot & new one,” said Mr. Dougherty, oduced a scrapbook made up om the United States Patent Ofiice re- f five years past, in which preserved the details of every play- ent ever issued, Le! e sixty-four cards. ame manufacturer took that ran the suits up spots. The latter deck two cards and was very | g was ever done under n the eleven and twelve out patents on dec. as high as twenty contained nine! unwieldy. Noth the patent of 18’ spots, and the patent has long since ex- many have been made from m of playing-cards w stood the test of centuries. C of > c with kings, queens and knaves, in England in the time of was ds on which the s were replaced with crossed stacked muskets, crossed can- nd pyramids of cannon balls, the c Is, vivai 3 urt order was supplanted b ndieres and private soldiers. were quit . but fell out of ome the additions that have never succeeded are cards of circular shape, cards tin diamond shape and cards with the umiber of spots printed in large figures. The most radical change, however, that as succeeded is the introduction of what | | pital tent, the trenches six nights out of seven, and v‘.)hen l‘)ecame 80 reduced, not only in num- ers, but also in the men’s bodily strength, :h.n it was unable for some time to go here again. * * ¥ When the soldier 20t back to camp he used to often lie in a puddle which chilled his bones, under a Wworn-out tent, through which the rain beat. The less robust would fall asleep completely worn out, to awake shivering, and in many cases to be carried to a hos- the tent w , and thence to a Those who were stronger went out to collect roots of brushwood, or of vines, and roasted the green coffee ration in the tin of the can- | teen, afterward, if they had a chance, | pounding it in a fragment of shell with a stone, ere they boiled it for use. Others, | unequal to this laborious process, would drink their rum, and, eating a piece of bis- cuit, lie down again in the great coat and blanket which they had brought, often wet through; from the trenches. In the afternoon the soldier was sent on fatigue duty from five to seven miles, ac- cording to the position of the camp, | usually to Balaklava, to bring rations. On his return he had again to gather fuel, in order to boil the salt beef or salt pork in his mess tin, which did not hold water enough to abstract the salt. A portion of the meat, therefore, only was consumed, and it was necessary from time to time to tetl off men to bur; v Salt pork, which was eaten two s out of seven, was frequently eaten by the men in its raw state from the diffi- culties of finding the fuel to cook it. Bhortly before dark the soldier either marched back to the trenches or lay down to sleep, if he was not on picket in front of the camp. Many men, disliking to report themselves sick, were carried the trenches in the morning and died a few hours afterward. Those who reported sick | were taken to the hospitai, in many cases merely a bell tent. Here the men lay (often | | in mud) on the ground, and in many in- | the echoes of our hills, shrilly signaling |- ces their diet was only salt meat and They were, moreover, so crowded the quantities. thrown | ack from | HOME INDUSTRY TRIUMPH Story of the Trial Trip of the First California-Built Locomotive. IT WAS THIRTY YEARS AGO. The Completion of Thkat Locomotive Marked the First Giant Stride in Our Mechanical Development. No State in the glorious sisterhood of the Union can boast of strides more gigantic than those which have marked the indus- trial history of California. In comparison | with the results of centuries of endeavor on the part of the old commonwealths ot the East she holds up the achievements of years; and if we possess that abiding faith in the future which measures from the progress of the past in an advancing ratio we may confidently assert that the twen- tieth century will not have told the half of its years before the land west of the Rockies shall vie with the East in all that constitutes greatness and prosperity in an | industrial and commercial sense. T while since the first locomotive startled | the advent of the new era—but a short | while since the driver of the overland the old settler it seems but a short | farmers and fruit-growers and merchants | on this occasion were the officers of the of 3700 feet, would be reached, the gmlmt[ grade being 105 feet to the mile. Thence to the summit of the Sierras is a distance of 34 miles, on which portion of the route work would be pushed rapidly. H. M. Newhall, president of the San Franeisco and San Jose Railway, spoke of the difficulties overcome through the ex- ertions of a few men, without whose aid the line would not have been built. “This road might be considered a mere bagatelle, but yet would be regarded as an important link'in the chain of iron which was to bind us to our sister States on the Atlantic slope.” John T. Doyle concluded the speech- making by referring to the incalculable advantages to be gained by the speedy completion of the grand transcontinental railway. 4 On the homeward trip the California made a test mile in 67 seconds. The hosts San Francisco and San Jose Railway: Pres- ident; H. M. Newhall; Superintendent, C. B. Polhemus; Master Mechanic, R. B. Bishop; Car and Road Master, S. Atkinson; Conduetor, H. J. Young. And thus was celebrated the inaugural trip of the first “home-manufacture” loco- motive in California. Now, of course, we haye ‘‘home-industry” engines and cars without number, and are rapidly expana- ing our industrial scope. We are spéeding to the day when California will indulge in a hearty celebration on a bigger scale. Home - manufactured locomotives will figure in the approaching event, but they will be only secondary causes of gratitica- tion, for the primal cause will be that boon for which we have praved for years (or since a good enter- prise became a tyrannical monopoly)—a competing railway—a genuine home pro- duction railway—the road that thousands are to-day toiling ¢arnestly to extend, as a friend ‘and helper to the rate-ridden of the Valley of the San Joaquin. Travels of a Piece of Steel. Steel travels slowly, or, at least, it did in THE FIRST CALIFORNIA . BUILT LOCOMOTIV [Reproduced from an old lithograph.] —H. J. BOOTH & CO. BUILDERS, SAN FRANCISCO, 1865. together that the doctors could scarcely pass between the patients. As we had no ambulances and the French could not al- mule-litter transport, many arily carried on cavalry horses, which, slipping on the hill outside of Bala- klava, oiten caused further injury or the death of the patient. On more than one occasion, as I was re- turning from Balaklava, I met a party of | sick, mainly frost-bitten, riding cavalry horses, the troopers leading them and holding the men on; but the ground was often covered with snow and very slippery, and on the hill above Kadikoi I once saw every man dashed to the ground from the s slipping snd falling on the hillside. r the sick who were unable to hold on were fastened into the saddles, and some died on the journey.—From Sir Evelyn Wood’s Recollections. N T A POTATO TERCENTENARY. { England to Celebrate the Biscovery of That American Vegetable. The holding of a potato tercentenary in England next year is now being seriously agitated, says the Albany Press. In 1596 the first potato was planted in Holborn, England, about the time that Sir Walter Raleigh was planting the first Irish potato at Youghal, in the county of Cork. For two centuries the potato continued as a botanical curiosity. was a deli sometimes roasted and steeped in sack, or baked with marrow and spices or preserved and ‘When Parmentier developed the plant in France Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette wore the flowers as ornaments. Frederick the Great had to jorce the Pomeranian farmers to plant potatol It was the famine in Germany in 1771-72 that first When first eaten it | candied. | | stage read in the rolling steam-clouds of that epoch - making innovation the letters of his occupation’s doom. That event makes an important chapter ! in National history, but there is another event that, while sely related to the foregoing, is only of Statewide significance, and vet is of peculiar interest at this | time when the slogan of “home industry” | is heard from one end of the State to the | other, This latter event was the initial trip of | the first locomotive built on the shores of | the Pacific. We build vast warships now; but the construction of that locomotive { was the prime successful feat which nat- | | urally *led up to the present stage of devel- | opment in the mechanical arts on the | Western Coast. The 30th of August, 1865, was a notable day in Central California. On the morning | following the leading article in the Daily Alta Cplifornia bore this caption: “Trial Trip of our Home-Built Pioneer Locomo- tive on the San Jose Railway.”” The ex- cursion is proudly referred to as *‘the trip of a locomotive and train of cars of home manufactare.” By invitation of H. J. Booth & Co., the builders, a party of 150 ladies and gentlemen atiendeu and were superbly entertained. The locomotive, which was christened California, is thus described by the Alta: It was built at the Union Founary by H. J. Booth & Co. The weight of the California is ebout 46 tons; her total length, including ten- der, being 42 feet. She has a 16-inch cylinder with 24-inch stroke, and a five-foot driving- wheel. The fuel used is wood. This immense engine has been constructed of the best ma- terials, and on subjection to the strictest scrutiny seems to be compact, strong and sdapted to traversing the iron track safely at | the highest rate of speed attained by Eastern- built locomotives The cars, 6f wh | engine, were built at the Mission Dolores shops h four were atiached to the | exercised certain judicial functions. the arm of G. B. Garrison, a machinist in Plant City. While he was dressing a mill rock in 1865 a small sliver of steel flew from the pick and entered his right hand at the base of the thumb. It caused great pain, and Garrison has thought he had rheuma- tism in the arm ever since. The pains be- gan_at the wrist, and year by year ex- fended upward, until on Saturday they be- came acute at the right shoulder. A hysician examined the shoulder and ound indications of a foreign substance. He used a lance, and out popped the sliver of the steel that had entered the base of Garrison’s thumb thirty years ugo. piece of steel was as bright as when it flew off the pick, and with its exit the pains ceased. CONGRESS AS A MIMIC SHOW. ‘When Ex-President Harrison Says It Was the Butt of Jealousy and Ridicule. Practically there was no union of the States, and certainly nothing that could be called a National Government, uutil the constitution was adopted in 1789, writes ex-President Harrison in the Janu- ary Ladies’ Home Journal. Before that we had a Congress consisting of a single body of delegates. All votes were taken by States—a majority of the delegates from the Btate casting the vote of the State. There was no Senate, no Presi- dent nor any separate executive depart- ment, and practically oo judiciary. The Cong! . either by the whole body or by committees, performed the necessary ex- ecutive functions; commissioned officers; raised and disbursed revenue; conducted our diplomacy; audited accounts, ur{(tl was a weak attempt to organize a Govern- A NEW THING 1 This Is the Way the New Eight-Handed Poker-Cards Look. N PLAYING - CARDS. are known as court cards. They are of the finest workmanship and_the co cards are respectively four resigning g8 and aueens and their prime. ministe These | cards are made in France and Germany and are on sale in New York City. e IN THE ORIMEA. How the British Army Had to Rough It and Snffer During the Siege.s In the early partof the winter the bat- talions in the front were generally on duty two nights out of three, and later every alternate night. The life of the rank and file was thus spent: The men were mus- tered carrying great coat and blanket, just before dusk, and marched througha sea of mud into the trenches. These were cut up | by deep holes from which bowlders and | stones had been taken, and into these holes on dark nights the men often fell. When the soldier reached his position be Dhad to sit with his back to the parapet and his feet drawn up close under his body_so aliow others to passalong the four-foot wide trench. If he was not detailed for a work- ing party, nor for a picket in the trenches or in advance of them, be might lie down, resting as best he could in a wet ditch. % % % The relief of our sentries could enatch a dog’s sleep four hours out of six, boping their comrades would, by remain- ing on the alert, give them time to jump u ere the enemy was_on them; but for the two hours that each nian was out near the enemy the sirain on the nervous Sys- tem would have ueen ant even to a ro- bust, well-fed man. These sentries had necessarily to stand absolutely still, silent and wateliful, and as the severity of the winter became more and more marked numbers of men whose frames were weak- ened by want of adequate nutritious food were found in the morning frost-bittenand | unable to move. { One battalion which landed nearly 900 strong early in November was actually in demonstrated the value of the tubers. The fact is that it has only been within | the past century that the potato has risen in prominence as the most dainty of | esculents. The introduction of the potato into England was directly due to Sir Walter Raleigh, whose = Virginia expedition brought hack some of the tubers in 1586, but to the Spaniards in reality belongs the credit of the discovery and the introduc- tion of the new article of food to Europe, It was undoubtedly through the Svf\ni'ur_ds that the potato was brought to Virginia. There is no proof that the North American Indians cultivated the potato before the date of the Spanish conquest. It grows wild to-day in Peru and Chile. “The Span- jards carried the tuber to Spein long before the Raleigh incident, and from Spain it was taken to Italy, from which country it was introduced into Flanders in 1588. The date of the proposed potato ter- centenary will, according to these statis- tics, be some ten rs behind date, a cir- camstance which “is not at all creditable to that portion of mankind which bas been so largely benefitted by its discovery. There is no article of human food, except- ing grain, perhaps, which has so penerally entered into human dietary and which has been so great a blessing to mankind. It is very reasonably said that if the supply was limited it would be & delicacy that would only come within «the reach of the wealth- jest, There is notbing like it, and the civilized world should take a hand in the celebration. A New Pal The American Palace Car Company has at the Atlanta Exposition one of their improved cars. Duringtie day the berths are lowered into pockets in the floor and rattan chairs take the place of fixed seats. The car also has a kitchen and a refriger- ator, and is to be used as a drawing car as well as a sleeping and a parlor car. e ———————— 3 Common Chinese laborers can earn from 5 to 15 cents a day. ] of the company. Not only these have been | constructed, but ten additional. The trip was eminently successful. The | train stopped at a station called the *“Twin | Trees,” seventeen miles north of San Jose, | and there a dance and banquet were held. Mr. Booth was presented with an ex- uisite wreath of flowers by Josephice, the 10-year-old daughter of C. B. Polhemus, and this wreath was suspended amid en- thusiasm between the flags with which the engine was decorated. The excursion- ists tripped through the mazes of the merry dance in an~ extemporized ballroom in the heart of a grove, with ceiling; and the Alta assures us that “there was everything that could be de- sired to eat and drink, and more than ‘seven basketsful of fragments’ remained after all had fared sumpbuouséy." ‘Dr. Rowell toastea the builder of the lo- comotive, and Mr. Booth responded with “some sensible remarks with regard to the mechanical advancement of California.” Then Mr. Booth proposed the health of California’s chief cxecutive. Let us quote again from the Alta: Governor Low, who occupied & seat at the head of the table, responded. He complimented in handsome language the me- chanics of California, and, in a more personal builder of the pioneer engine, **Cali- and those associated in the earrying outof the enterprise, which he hoped and be- lieved to be but one of those iron iinks which ‘was to encircle the continent. In eloquent terms Governor Low des- canted on the necessity of the Atlantic and Pacific Railway, and turning to ex- Governor Stanford, who sat at the other end of the table, offered as a sentiment the health of that gentleman. The president of the Central Pacific Railway then addressed the eudience. He believed that in the course of five years 200 locomo- tives, at least, would be required to transact the business of California.. The speaker an- nounced that so rapid had been the progress of the Pacific Central road that the same would be completed to Colfax by Sep- tember 1, at which point an _elev tion of 2600 feet would be attained. By January 1, 1866, Dutch Flat,an elevation floor of planks, trees for walls and sky for | ment, but it answered so lonyg as the com- mon peril of British subjugation lasted. ‘When that threat was withdrawn by the peace of 1783 the selfishness and jealousies of the States became intense and threat- ened to snap the feeble bonds that held the States in union. The Congress became the laughing-stock of the country, and the best men shunned it. It had contracted debts in the prosecution of the war, and, the States neglecting or_refusing to pay their quotas, Congress was protested and dishonored, for it had no power to lay and collect taxes. It had made commercial treaties with foreign powers, and the States refused to allow in their ports the privi- leges guaranteed by the treaties. Congress was a mimic show, the butt of jealousy and ridicule. Great things were demanded of men who could do nothing. Each State made its own tanff law. If one, with a view to raising rioney to pay its pressing debts, fixed a high rate on for- ei;in goods imforted. another would adopt a lower rate to attract commerce to its ports. It was hence impossible for the States to make a beneficial use of the power to levy duties on foreign goods. And besides, commerce between States was hindered and bad blood engendered by duties levied by one State on goods coming from another. New York laid a duty on firewood coming down the sound from Connecticut, and upon garden truck cross- ing the river from Jersey. Out of these and many like things grew the conviction in the minds of our statesmen and people that ¥a more perfect union’’ was necessary ; that we must have a National Govern- ment to which should be entrusted all those fuqenl powers affecting especially our relations with foreign countries and the relations of the States with each other, and including such as were necessary to the general defense and welfare, el elegign s The strength of the regular army, as given in annual report of the Secretary of War, is 25,871 men, including 2126 officers, and the cost of maintenance for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, was about 2,987,000, READY FOR THE BEER WAR Local Brewers Expect to Make a Big Cut Within a Few Weeks. MALT HOUSES IN THE FIGHT. Possibilities of a Combination Being Made Against the English Syndicate. The impending beer war among the members of the Brewers’ Protective Asso- ciation is still an interesting topic of -con- versation, not only among the brewers, but among the saloon-keepers and all con- sumers of the malt beverage. The battie will not begin until after the new year when the special committee will make its report &s to whether certain brewers of the association have been guilty of violating their pledge, and have been selling beer at less than the price agreed upon—$5 per barrel. This special committee was ap- pointed to make an investigation as a means of delaying the open rupture until after the bolidays. As early as the 13th inst. Mr. Frederick, the president, proposed to cut the price of beer to $2 per barrel asa meansof dis- ciplining the offending brewers who were said to be the managers of the California and Broadway breweries. Away back of the trouble that now ap- pears on the surface are two other features that figure with great importance in the present difficulties, and one has a great bearing upon the other. When the English syndicate purchased many of the principal breweries in this locality it be- gan operations by closing down old and well-established institutions. By so doing between sixty and seventy-five men were thrown out of employment. In the Pacific fifteen men lost their jobs anda a like number were dropped from the Oakland. about ten men. men is kept in the Brooklyn and Hofburg breweries which alternate in running, so that the men in those breweries lost their | positions. At the time of the purchase nearly all the breweries were making their own malt. These malt departments were closed and the syndicate brewers now obtain their malt from the Fredericksburg brewery of San Jose, where malt is made by auto- matic machinery and not over ten men | are employed. By this move fuily seventy men lost their situationsOakland 5, Wieland | 25 to 35, United States 12, Chicago 12, Wil- lows 5, Pacific 3 and Hofburg In this way over 150 brewery workmen and malt- sters were thrown out of employment. As might be expected there was a rush to the outside, or commission malthouses, for places. At that time maltsters were carn- ing from $18 to $25 per week and overtime was allowed for. With a large number of idle workers hunting for places the malt- houses began to cut the wages paia to the workmen, until now $10 and $12 per week of seven days and no allowance for over- time is the best that the workmen ear: Only one maithouse, that of Krug & Zim merman, at 408 Shotwell street, has held to the old wages paid to their maltsters. The figure that the maithouses have cut in this beer waris of much importance. These houses are: Charles Bach, 535 Sac- ramento stteet; Krug & Zimmermann, 408 Shotwell street; Bauer & Schweitzer, 418 Chestnut street; Herman Zweig, 610 Bran- nan street. With this great reduction in wages the malthouses have been able to iucrease their profits from $300 to $500 per menth, according to the number of menemployed. Then came & keen rivairy for business and a corresponding cut. in the price of malt to the brewers. Previous to this cut malt that now sells for $160 per 100 pounds then sold for from $1 85 to ;’IESS, and barley is no cheaper now Lhan it was then. Say- ing that the brewers use seventy-five pounds of malt to a barrel at the present price, they can sell for 40 to 50 cents less than those brewers in the association who make their own malt and pay the regular wages of $18 to §25 a week. as many of them are doing. The temptation was too great and they broke away, if the charges made are true. ‘What makes the situation more compli- cated is the fact that all of the malthouses are members of the Brewers' Protective Association. A thoughiul consideration of the foregoing facts will show many diversified interests grouped under the banner of the protective association. The brewers who make their own malt and pay the standard wages to their maltsters will not remain in an association where malthouses are selling their vroduct to rival brewers at prices that will permit of a biz ecut in the price of beer and where this advantage has not been overlocked in tie seramble for trade. ““This fact of itseif,” said a brewer yes- terday, ‘is sufficient to split the associa- tion wide open and start a general beer war. It may appear that the brewers who make their own malt would not stand any chance against cheap malt and brewers who are inclined to cut prices. They would not but for the fact that the cut- rate breweries have not enough capital back of them to stand a long siege. Does not this accout for Mr. Fredericks’ move in the association to reduce the price of beer to $2 per barrel? The charge was that the oreweries complained of had cut from $5 to $350. In order to meet that cut we would have to go down to $2 in order to get below them in their cost of nroduction at the low price they pay for malt.” There is still another rock in the brew- ery trouble that the association is likely to split upon, even if all the other difficul- ties were straichtened out. It is the Eng- lish syndicate known as the San Fran- cisco Breweries (Limited). The brewers in and out of the protective association, of The Eust Oakiand dropped | Ore crew of about ten | which the syndicate is a member, regard the latter as a dangerous rival. : 5 One familiar with the situation sums it up thus: “It seems to have been the policy of the syndicate to secure a hold of some kind upon its patrons that no one could shake off. Asa result, it carries a large number of its patrons by furnishing them saloons and holding the leases to their premises. While nominally a wholesale concern, it is practically a retail institu- tion as well, for none of its customers dare to go elsewhere for beer. The syndicate’s scope is gradually being extended, and wherever it gets a hold no one else has a chance. It is a slow but sure freeze- out for the rest of us, and many of us are not in favor of protective measures that afford protection to such a rival—one that will crowd the rest of usout of the business in the long run.” 2 The situation across the bay in Alameda Cpunt¥ i3 about the same as in San Fran- cisco, for the brewers there know that they wiil be in the midst of the fight beforc long. In and out oi the association, there are six or eight breweries, and when the circus begins the thirsty citizens of that locality will drink deeplv and cheaply. One of the best fighters in the lot is Charles H. Kramm of the Anchor Brewery. In the past he has locked horns with the syndicate, and later he jumped into a fight against the syndicate and the Brew- ers’ Protective Association combined. In a recent article in Tae CarL the informa- tion was published that Mr. Kramm was cast out of the association for cutting the price of beer, and that he -had combined. with the thingtun Independent and American brewéries. He states’ that. he did not combine with the breweries named. In his explaration of how he left the asso- ciation Mr. Kramm gives some interesting information concerning brewery methods, the very methods that have brought about the vresent troubles in the association camp., Mr. Kramm writes as follows: About three years ago the syndicate, which was then selling beer at$3 per barrel, realiz- ing the fact that there was no money in it at that figure, and despairing of ever accompiish- ing their object, namely, the freezing out of the “small fry” on this side of the bay, called a meeting of the brewers doing business in Oak- land and Berkeley and mede a combination, with the result that the beer was raised to net. The terms of the contract, as was subse- quently proved, were based upon a misrepre- sentation of facts, and after a few months had rolled bi‘ it became very apparent that I was getting the worst of it, and ii Iremained with the Brewers’ Protective (?) Association the re- sult would be very disastrous to my exchequer | and I refused to abide by the contract unless it was modified. This is the reason I was *‘cast out”” of the as- sociation, and not beeause 1 Jowered the price of beer, {or every retailer in the county knows I was the last one to come down, hoiding out for the high rate until I was compellied to meet the cut made by other breweries, both in and out of the syndicate. My customers (and | their name is legion) will to & man bear me outin this. The cut referred to was made in this fashjon. The price of beer was maintained at $5 per barrel, but the drivers were instrueted to spend $1 over the bers of any saloon they left beer M. A technicality, sq to speek, which pro- tected them from the charge of redueing the rice, bt which virtually lowered the article n question. Trusting that you will give this space in your journal and uphold the reputation THE CALL fias always enjoyed for fair dealing, T am H. Krawr CHAS. WHEN JOHNNY GETS HIS When Johnby gets his gun, 100k out, ‘There’s bound to be a fus For Johnuy is in earnest He hoids his blunderbuss His martial air is wonderfal; His smile upsets all fun, And things assume & warlike atr When Johnny gets his gun. GUN. In softer moods our John is calm, He's sportive, guy and good, & ‘When vachting be will never “load” His vessel'ou the run, But saves his efforts till the time He wants to load his gun. Te's sturdy on the baseball fleld, And football plays with vi 1n ericket, too, he doth excel, And sports afield suit him. But in the bettle van, for right, He'll make the foeman run; And, oh, the triumph of that hour Wihen Johnny gets his gun! In wild adventure John delights, He loves (o travel, too, And, when exploring, alwa; The north pole up (0 view And, as for loving Liberty, He's freedom’s bonest son ! And down will go its enemies When Johnny gets his gun. But now he hears the lion roar In vengeful wrath and rage. Ah! John has heard that sonnd beforey You'll read on history’s page. He stood up squ re at Bunker All, ‘When Freedom's fight begun, And thousands now will follow quick When Jobnny gets his gun! Stand back! Monroe once said the word That makes the Nation grand, And Cleveland glves it emphasis, A law unto the land ! Stand back! Stand back! A million men Shout 'nesth the Western sux, And, oh, the gathering of the hosts, When Johuny gets his gun! JORN C. SHEA, ju Buftalo News. ‘Will All the Elephants Be Killed? ‘When we take into consideration the large quantity of ivory imported annually it is not surprising that those interested i it should at times become somewhat anx- ious about future supplies. An authority upon Indian matters, some few years back, was particularly struck by this thought and wrote: *‘It is reported that England alone imports 1,200,000 pounds of ivory, to obtain which 30,000 elephants have to be annually killed, and the world’s supply | must, it has. been estimated, necessitate 1100,000 being annually siaughtered. It may safely be assumed tnat, if this rule of destruction continues, a comparativeiy few years yvill suffice to exterminate the Alfrican species of elephant.” The assumption is, fortunately for the world at large, incorrect. As a matter of fact our imports average about the same year by year, but there is-a very import- ant factor which the Indian authority just quoted has evidently overlooked— namely, that most of the ivory that we re- ceive is technically known as dead ivory, | that is, tusks which have been taken from elephants long since dead, and stored up in the interior of Africa. (5! live ivory, or tusks taken from recently killed animals, we do not receive, comparatively speak- ing, a considerable quantity. Thereis no fear whatever of the supply being ex- hatsted during the next two or three gen- erations.—Chambers’ Journal. NEW TO-DAY. SR A S ST S TS asaso>y > (P SSSSISSSTSTSSSIssSSsse San Jose Mercurya % % &‘ ent. There is scarce bound in leatherette, $1.25 per copy. 7 THE FRUIT GROWING INDUSTRY 1S EXHAUSTIVELY TREATED IN THB 5 ABOOK OF 32 PAGES, 9x12 INOHES, JUBT ISSUED. e Every detail s given, from nursery to market, ineluding crops, prices and profits. Santa Clara Couaty, its cities, towns, orchards, vineyards and preminent people, filusirated from 939 photographs. 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November 4 last I bought my first box of No-To-Bac from Anderson & Cramer. 1 bad little faith, and to my great surprise, after using part of the third box I was completely cured and did not have the least desire for tobacco. To-day I feel better, I sleep better, think better, and I have gained fifteen pounds in weight, and thereis not-a day passes that I do not recommend No-To-Bac to many of the tobacco-users who I know are destroying their lives and vitality by the use of tha weed.”” Further investigation revealed the fact that there are 500 people living in this town snd the surrcunding country who have been cured by No-To-Bac. Anderson & Cramer stated that they were the first to start the good work here, as Mr. Anderson termed it. ‘“Yes, we in- troduced No-To-Bac into this town about three years ago. ‘I'he demand at the start was very light, the folks had no faith in it, but we sold _to a few people, and to our great astonishment every one reported a cure. Since that time we have sold hun- dreds of boxes, and every one under a guarantee to cure or refund the money, and strange as it may seem, we have never had a call to refund money.” No-To-Bac not only relieves the nervous irritation and makes the use of tobacco entirely unnecessry, but at the same time builds upand fortifies the general physical condition. As a natural invigorator and stimulant we believe there is no prepara- tion in America to equal it. “The public should be warned, however, against the purchase of any of the many imitations on the market, as the success of No-To-Bac has brought forth a host of counterfeiters and imitators. The genuine No-To-Bac is made by the Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago, Montreal and New York, and is gold und r a guarantee to cure by all druggists, and every tabiet has the word No-To-Bac plainly stamped thereon.” WISHES YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS —AND — A HAPPY NEW YEAR! 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