The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 29, 1896, Page 20

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1896. . NOVEMBER 29, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 Daily”snd Sunday CALL, one vear, by mall.... 6.00¢ Dally #bd Sunday CALL, six months, By mail.. 3.00 Daily and Bunday.CALL, three months by mall 1.50 Dally and Sunday CALy, one month, by mail. .65 Bunday CALL, one yaar, by mail.. 1.50 W ¥xxLY CaLL, Oneyear, by mall 150 BUSINESS OFFICE 710 Market Street, San ¥Francisco, CalifornJ: Telephore.......... a%: Maln-1868 | EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone... Maln-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until £€:80 ock. . 89 Hadyes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. « 713 LaTkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. £\ corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets; open “until 9 o'dlock. 2618 Niission street: open untll § o'clocks 167" MIZL street; open until 9 o'clock. 4 Marker sireet, open t:ll @ o'clock. e OAKLAND OFFICEz E =5 08 Broadway. - EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31°and 32, 34 Park Row, New York €lfy. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. - 1HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. More.politicsin a few days. Congress is getting ready to open out. Thé Berkeley ‘“‘bete noir’” seems to have _been bigger than her mascot. We are sorry for the people of the bliz- zard-swept East, but why don’t they come west? Road improvement is.one of the reforms | that is always on the highway to pros- perity. The Congressional ' Record should issue itself popular. Street improvement in this City is spreading so rapidly we may almost have hope of a clean sweep. The sympathy of our climate with that of the East is a good deal like human | - sympathy—rather cold. Prosperity after. the long depression is not coming back with a bound, but all the same it is bound to come. Calffornia has beaten the funding bill whenever it came up in the past, and1s qaite ready to do'it again. Read our edvertisements this morning and learn where to make your holiday puichases to best advantage. Sapta Clans taxes everybody heayily, but he promises a rebate in the shape of something nice on Chrisimas, There is a prospect that Cleveland's message will try to cover everything, in- cluding the blunders of his administration. _As Weyler has returncd to the front it seems clear he went to Havana only to cet his setond wind and e ready for another -blow: . Abput this time -everybody resolves he will_fiot spend as much for Christmas gifts'as- he did lastyear, but he is fodling : himself. The- tax-reform conveution caused so . hitle discussion there is reason 1o believe the people are satisfied with their taxes ““after:ail. : + Senator Hill says itis not advisable for any one to attempt to reorganize tne Dem- “‘oczatie party.at this time, and the Sertor’s - . head is leve!. " All parties and all statesmen are in favor of coast defenses” just now, and it looks as if.we .will soon be so ready for war we will have to.jnvite it in e - - As the newly elected Senator from Ala- bama-wil} bezin his Senatorial cafeer at the age of 75 he probably looks upon the .Senatorehip as a grave pgsition. One advantage of the airship mystery is the inducement it gives to young men and " women to take evening strolls: The hea- vens are always worth looking at. If 8pain should give Cuba independence for a Christmas gift she'would break the record by.combining .economy ana gener- osity 1n one act of a grand-stand play. The war in Cuba cannot possibly last nruch loniger, since it has now exhausted _the resources of Cuaba, the finances of Spain and the patience of the United States. The Pittsburg Dispatch claims that an electrical locomotive regently invented in that eitr isthe greatess mechanical im- provement of the day, but evidently.it has not posted itsell on our airship. Garret A. Hobart did:not cut a very large figure in the-campnign, but a press clipping bureau claims io have newapaper “notices of over ‘800 babies named for him since his nominatién for the Vice-Presi- dency. * There are football experts in the East _Who declare that Princeton’s victory over . Yale was due to the fact that one of Yale's men did not part his hair in the middle, .and the criticism may have a suggestion -of value to_Berkeley. Henry Watterson aavises Democrats to hold a day of fasting and prayer on the < 8th,of January, while Coxey wishes them - .tohold a grand reunion at St. Louis on that day and invite the Populists in, and we shall see_ which of these men has most influence with she donkey. According to & writer in the London Financial Tiines Russia is preparing to re- sime sfecie payment ‘on a novel plan, Instead of bringing her paper up tb the standard of her gold, she is arranging to reduce the weight of her gold coin to bring itdown to the level of tLe money now in circalation. % Attention of California dpirymen is called to the fact that Denmark sells to Great Britain 109,000,000 pounds of butter at an average price of 24.53 vents a pound, while the United States sells to that coun- try but 2,000,000 pounds at less than 20 cents a pound. There is a big chance for improvement on that condition of affairs, Senator Mitchell of Oregon indorses the miners’ request for a representative in the oCabinet and says: *'I stand ready to co-op- erate with any Senator or memuoer of the House at the coming session who may be disposed to take the lead in the matter,” Now, then, let the Catifornia delegation get to the front and begin the fight at onge. | : , | gua canal. an 1lluminated holiday number and make | CLEVELAND'S MESSAGE. Pmsidfnt Cleveland has so far- pro- gressed in the work on his message to Congress that our correspondent at Wash- ington has been ablé to give a summary of the subjects of which it will treat and a fair outline of what the President wili ‘say concerning them. It is tne intention of the President that this, whigh is to- be his last an- nyal message to Congreas, #shall be the most important of his public docu- ments, He will make it the occasion for setting forth the policy which he be- lieves ought to be followea by the National Government for the maintenance and ad- vaucement of the prosperity of the coun- try and will design it no doubt to serve as a plea for all the actsof hisadministra- tion. Considerable attention will, of course, be paid to foreign affairs, and the Presi- dent will congratulate the country upon the solution of the Venezuelan contro- versy. Itis also said he will devote con- siderable space to Cuba, but it is not yet known what he will say, This fact throws a singular light upon the character of the President. Perhaps there is no other statesman of responsibility in the country who, after all that has been done in Cuba, has not yet decided what course he ought | to pursue and is still waiting for some- thing to turn up which will help him out of his quandary. Although there is not ‘much prospect that Congress will give much heed to any- thing the President may say concerning the revenue or the financial question it is announced that Mr. Cleveland wi'l devote much of his message to an elaborate con- sideration of these issues. It is in this partof his document that he will endeavor’ to justify the policy of his administration. In this respect, therefore, the paper wilt be intended for the future historian rather than for the politicz of to-day. It will, of course, be waited for with a great deal of interest, for even the opponents of Mr. Cleveland have considerable curiosity to know what he can say in defense of an administration which has been so disas- trous to every industry of the country. From the reports given out it appears | the President will make no statement concerning the funding bill or the Nicara- These omissions will largely counterbalance whatever good effects may result from anything he may say of other issues, It isclear that these questions, together with that of Cuba, will be the most interesting to arise at the coming session of Congress, and for the President to omit them from his message will be another proof how far he is from under- | standing the American people and how completely be is out of touch with public sentiment. IN FRIENDLY RIVALRY. The great football contest which was fought out on Thanksgiving day between the Crimson and the Blue and Gold con- tained a feature which augurs well for the future of the country when it shall have passed into the hands of the youth who are now being educated. Immediately after the game the captain of the team that failed wrote a message of congratula- | tion to the victor that'sounds true blue and as good as gold, “Yours ‘in friendly rivalry,” he signed himself, and if the minds of our young men are being trained to hold themselves in this attitude then, indeed, we may have happy hopes that friendly emulation in all branches of effort will lead them to such heights that even the seemingly de- feated will be more than victors. Great will be the welfare they will brinz to the world when they come to rule if football should so-thoroughly train their tempers ds to enable them to show the same gener- ous spirit in all the con:ests of the future. Football doubtiess has its uses beyond those desirable ones of developing good lungs and tough muscles and digestive powers that can work felicitously. Time is not wasted, even in a spiritual sense, in producing a muscular manhood that can struggle to a hard finish with the utmost good nature. There is a sort of maznifi- cent animalism which makes it easy for the soul united thereto to be magnan- imous. . Itisin the acquirement of this that col- lege athletics have their highest purpose. Perhaps especially in the rou_h ana tum- ble of football can mental placidity and courtesy to opponents under exasperating circumatances be cultivated. Also the habit of getting up promptly to fight again after being unceremoniously knocked down and run over is an excel/ent posses- sion to have, and playing football cer- tainly has a tendency to zetthe mind ac- .customed to doing t.is merrily. California has reason to be proud of the spirit manifested in the match by bota the victors and the vanquished. It is a good thing to triumph without vainglory and to bear defeat witbout bitterness. *In friendly rivalry” is the motto for all Cali- fornians. Well doue, Stanford! Well said, Berkeley ! COAST DEFENSES. The report of Secretary of War Lamont is interesting chiefly because of the earnest efforts which the Secretary is evidently making on behalf of the coast defenses "o ‘the conntry. This subject is one whose importance is now well understood, and the Secretary’s recommendations will be cordially approved. As Secretary Lamont says, his prede- cessors in office at the head of the War Department . have during many years faced the difficult task of arousing the public mind to a realization of the diffi- culties in the matter of coast defense, but have so far succeeded in awakeninz public interest on the subject that any further arguments are unnecessary. Each succes- sive Congress has shown a greater will- ingness to make appropriations for this cause, and there can be littie doubt that the coming one will be equally wise in proyiding for it. The plan of coast defense which has been undertaken involves over one hun- dred distinct batteries, in somothing more than twenty harbors, and constitutes an efficient protection for the more im- portant seaports both of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. A large amount of work in these defenses has been already done, and while much ‘remains as yet incom- plete, the Secretary gives reasons for be- lieving that within a compuratively short space of time our coasts will be made practically secure against foreign attack. The extension of our coast defenses necessarily calls for an increase in the force to msan them. This, of course, will entail the enlargement of the army by the addition of new batteries of artillery, and this is the only increase in the army which the Secretary asks for. It may be noted that this shows a difference of opinion batween the Secrstary of War and the commanding general, since General Miles asked for an increase of cavalry to guard the great West as well as an increase of artillery to guard the coast. It is pleasing to note that the problem of providing our coast deferses with satis- factory disappearing gun carriages seems to have been successfully solved. The Secretary reports t.e 12-inch all-round- traverse disappearing carriage is now un- aer construction, and eight or ten such carriages of similar design are about to be constructed. The report as a whole will be well re- ceived by the country, and the recommen- dations of the Secretary deserve favorable consideration from Congress. The amount of money asked for, according to the estimates for the next fiscal year, will aggregate $10,482,268. This sum is not large when the importance of the work of the War Department is taken intq con- sideration, and it is not likely that it will be materially reduced when Congress makes up the appropriations for the ensu- ing year. i — GREAT BRITAIN'S ISOLATION. One of the most important speeches of the year in England was delivered re- cently by Sir Charles Dilke at a meeting of the Liberals and Radicals at Enfield. In the course of his address Sir Charles made some extraordinary revelations of the conduct of European diplomacy and expressed himself as decidedly in favor of the isolation of Great Britain from any Earopean alliance. The most important statements made by Sir Charles were these: First, that three great powers lately proposed to Eungland the partition of China and that the British Government refused its con- sent. Becond, that the Russian general who was reported to have inspected the Dardanelles fortifications really did so and moreover acted as the representative of the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Third, that Russia, France and England could compel Turkey to carry out desired reforms by simply agreeing among them- selves to turn over to Greece, in case the Sultan refused, all the islands along the coast of Asia Minor now held by the Turk- ish Government. The speaker went on to say he was op- posed to any policy looking to the parti- tion of the Turkish empire. Such a policy meant great risk of general war and moreover would entail arrangements detri- mental to British trade and costly to the country as regards the scheme of national defense. The partition of Turkey he thought was as undesirable as the parti- tion of China, but he declared that if Russia and France would agree upon the policy of restoring the islanas to Greece he would favor England’s surrender of Cy- prus to Greece as a part of the general plan. The occupation of Egypt he declared to be one of the most considerable diffi- culties in the way of arranging such a treaty with France and Russia. He, moreover, rogarded the occupation of that country as a military weakness to Eungland and of no value whatever to the empire. Hedeclared himself, therefore, in favor of abandoming Egypt as well as Cyprus, thereby putting England in s position where she could act with greater force in the settlement of the Turkish problem. Sir Charles closed his speech by declar. ing, however, that he dia not seek nor favor an alliance with France or Russia, or any other nation further than was necessary for the single object of set- tling the existing problem. A limited alliance confined to the carrying outof a ceriain definite purpose was as far as he was willing to go. He declared outright for a policy of isolation which would leave England free in all cases and at all times to control her own policy of action. Theé speech is the more notable because, with the possivle exception of Lord Salis- bury, Sir Charles Dilke is regarded as the abiest master of foreign affairs in British politics. While his personal influeice was largely lost by the scandals in which he was involved some years ago, his knowledge of foreign politics and his pene- trating 1nsight into the conditions of modern Europe were in no wise affected by the circumstances which have excluded bhim from further participation in any Cabinets The British people, therefore, still listen to him with interest and are largely guiaed by his counsel. He stands now midway between the position taken by Salisbury and that of Mr. Gladstone, and in the prevalent confusion ot British ideas as to what should be done in regard to Turkey, it can hardly be doubted that his speech will have great weight in de- termining the course to be pursued. EUROPEAN PEACE. The German Xaiser in a speech con- taining. complimentary allusions to the Czar said the autocrat is lord of an immense army only for the purpose of maintaining peace, and there can be no doubt the German Emperor in thus cail- ing attention to the benencent use of power by his great neighbor meant to show himself to the world in that same light. Moreover, Punch contains an illus- tration of the Russian Emperor kissing the hand of the Emypress of India as he bids farewell at the castle of Balroral, in which she is represented cs saying to her kinsman that all 1s well so long as they two remain in power. There can be little doubt that these great potentates have good intentions about preservinz the peace of Europe, and in one way of looking at the question 1t is a source of satisfaction that such immense equipments for destruction should be held in readiness for the enforcement of peace. It would seem, however, that while these peacefully disposed people are in positions of such great influence on the world’s aestiny, they might use that in- fluence in putting the peace of Europe on a more permanent basis than the mere dread of each other's power. If they sin- cerely desire that all war should cease the surest way to secure such a result would be to enter into a mutual agree- ment to have their war teeth pulled. It costs $700,000,000 a year to maintain the peace of Europe, and this expense is copstantly increasing. Ii all this vast sum were devoted to preparations to live for the future in Christian unity with each other instead of making ready to kill with wholesale expedition what a world this might grow tu be of palaces and pardens, of prosperity and happiness. Paris might be almost everywhere. That this 1s no impossible Utopian dream is evidenced by the course recently taken in regard to the Venezuelan dis- agreement between England and America. It seems to be recognized by great minds that war betweeun two such peoples in this advanced age would be too absurd to be thought of seriously. If a permanent treaty of arbitration between these two powers be not a dream, but almost a cer- tainty of the near future, 1t does not seem unreasonable for the people of Europe to demand an alleviation of their burdens by an extension of the system of arbitra. tion to ali great civilized powers. A question of interest in this connec. tion was decided this fall by the referen- dum in Switzerland. There was a biil up for consideration to increase the military equipment of the liitle republic which its eopponents called the “Prussianization’’ of the country. The Swiss overwhelmingly voted down the proposed measure, and thus was a good example set by the land which is so famous for courage, patriotism and love of liberty. “THE CALL” AND THE LOTTERY EVIL. San Francisco News Letter, November 28. THE CAvLy is doing good work in altempting to break up the lottery evil in this City. Although expressly forbiddens by law, venders of lottery tickets pursue their nefarious traffic under the very eyes of the police. If the papers of this City would only refuse to print the offidial list of winning numben;;eop’e would ‘soon see the them away, TRANSMITTERS IN HIS EARS WONDERFUL ELECTRIC PLANT CONSTRUCTED FOR AN ITALIAN MAGICIAN. An Italian megician, Pigliani. has been very succeesfully performing s clever trick in Paris Wwhich has earned for him the cognomen of the “Man Ear.” He has been pertqrming ina very large hall in Paris and during the evening h sistant at the other end of the room finds some excuse to ask & question of a person in the audience far away from the magician on the stage. In an instant the answer came from the lip of the magiclan instead of his assistant to whom 1t was addressed. Theeffect is very puzzling. Itis thewn explained that the magician had anticipated the question by his Plateson floor of Auditorium Wires [eading {rom to Auditorium wisdom of keeping their bard-earned dollars in their ckets, instead of throwing SUGAR IN TOBACCO A very interesting problem was submitted awhile ago to the Kew authorities, England, by the Treasury Depdttment. “Does natural suger occur in tobacco?’ was the question, and striking facts were brought to light. The treasury authorities were interested from a fiscal point of view, the duty on tobacco (other than cigars) being a little over $1, except in the case of sweetened tobacco, which is higher, while sweetened cigarettes are not allowed at 4ll. Before this investigation it was generally admitted that tobacco did not contain more than a trace of saceharine matter. A sclentist made a thorough examination of the subject. Commerciel samples of tobacco, {ree from adulteraion, were found to contain over 15 per cent of sugar, while sun-dried onfloor of Stage The Mystery Explained. art of mind-reading. The assistant then adroitly selects certain persons who happen to be sitting near him and gives them the oppor- tunity of asking any question. As each avsils himself of the chance the answer comes with astonishing promptness from the man on the stage, who is probably fifty feet away. Pig- liani has booked himself on the subjects which are most likely to be deslt with by a ques- tioner and hes a great fund of general knowl- edge which he draws from. If he does not Lave at hand the information asked for he says so, but he does it 50 quickly that the effect is traly puzzling. The explanation thet the man isa mind- reader is only for the purpose of throwing his patrons from suspecting his real methods, but the trick is done bv tie aid of a miniature telephone plant. This was constructed for him by Troupe, the Parisian electrician. The latter exposed the trick after Pigliani ended his engagement in P'aris and had started on a tour of the Continent. It is regarded as a mar- vel of the electrician’sart. In the first place the floor of the singe and the auditorium is generously studded with metal plates hardly larger than & uail head and these are con- nected by wires hanging under the floor. The magician on the stage wears a heavy wig ‘which conceals & pair of tiny rubber-covered transmitters, l}nn‘f’l)‘ larger than a dime,which are fastened in his ears. The necessary wires are also nidden by his locks. The wire passes down_ under the ciothing and ends in & plate sunk in the shoe sole. The confederate wears ashirt bosom of a hard, specially prepared celluloid, which acts as the dianphragm of a telephone transmitters Thix is fitted with the Lecessary epparatus and wires, the latter ter- minating in the piates in the solaof the shoe. Aseach of these men stands @n a couple of these metal plates the@ircuit is established, and a_whisper uttered in the near prescnce of the shirt-bosom is carried to Pigliani. The number of metal plates allows the men to move around and avert suspicion. The thing is simple enough, but no one contemplates that a telephone plant could be crowded into s0 little space. The itlusion which Pigliani hasso success- fully secured was destroyed by the electrician in order that the latter might get proper credit for his work, whicn is a ‘marvel of scientific mechsnism. He displays a dupil- cute 'phone ontfit which he made on the same lines as the one built for the wizard and it is aitracting great a'tentjon from the few that are invited to inspeet it. PER ONAL. W. 8. Bartlett of Sarta Ana is in town, Judge E. D. Ham of Napa is in the City. V. D. Black, a banker of Salinas, is here. J. R. White, a vineyardist of Fresno, is at the Lick. James A. Kennedy of Honolulu is at the Oc- cidental. William McKinley of Nevada City is on a visit here. J. Naglee Burke, the horseman, of San Jose, is at the Palace. Dr. R. S. Blakeman of the United States navy is at the Paiace. G. M. Francis, editor and owner of the Napa. Register, is in the City. George Miller Heultz, 8 pusiness man of Salt Lake City, is at the Palace, William Forsyth, the great raisin-grower of Fresno, is at the Occidental. L. A. de la Nux of Honolulu and Mrs. de la Nux arrived here yesterday. J. R. Foster, a mining man of Eureks, Hum- boldt County, is at the Grand. Captain E. E. Robinson ot London was among yesterday’s arrivals here. W. H. Lewis, a sugar planter of Honolulu, arrived here on yesterdsy’s steamer. Manager C, O. Johnson of the Pacific Coast Railway, San Luis Obispo, is in town. James McCuden, the contractor of Vailejo, is in the city accompanied by his daughter. Among the arrivals here yesterday was Pro- fessor Earl Barnes of Stanford University. Ferdnand Hauss, a prominent resident of Yuba County, is stopping at the Lick House. B.F. Langford, the State Senator, able law- yer and mine-owner of Stockton, isin the City. Mrs. G. H. Davis of San Rafael is visiting in the City and registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. W. B. Rowland of Seattle, and a relative of ex-Mayor J. C. Rowland of that city, isa re. cent arrival here. William R. Tomey, & well-known resident of Santa Rosa, is among the latest arrivals at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. The Rev.J. P. Lytton, pastor of one of the leading St. Louis churches, arrived here yester- day and is at the Occidental. Among the arrivals here yesterday was J. Findlay Thompson of Halifax, England. He came on the steamer Hawall. Robert Alexander, holding large mining in. terests at Sonora, Tuolumne County, is in town on a business visit and staying at the Cosmo- politan Hotal. L K. Wright of Leeday Eye, Minn., arrived in the City to-day and will spend the winter on the Pucific Coast. He is a guest at the Cos~ mopolitan Hotel. John M. Maxwell,a pioneer of Leadville, Colo., who is interested in some of the car- bonate mines there, arrived here yesterday after some weeks spent in Hawail. He is ac- compenied by Mrs. Maxwell, Count K. Anenokosi, secretary of the Jap- anese legation at Washington and formerly acting Minister to Austria for Japan, isat the Palace. He ison his way {from Washington to Japan, requiring a chanze because of ill health, CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—At New York hotels— Windsor, W. H. Mills; Murray Hill, Mrs. Bow- den, E. Blaokenburg; Imperial, F. Butler; Astor, J. Mullender; Park Avenue, E. L. Brown; Holland, 0. R. Rumsey; Netherland, Miss L. Frauenbatz, Mre. A. T. Bowden, Mrs, F. B. Freeman. Safled on the Etruria for England—Captain A Cum Lueia K. Barciev. the Ansatges O orom Mies | leaves grown at Kew contained over 2 per cent, others 9 per cent. NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. “She is a girl of uncertain age, I believe.” “No, she's been the same age for the last ten years,"—Pick-Me-Up. Lill (at & soiree, whispering)—What has be- come of Aunt Lucie’s habitual smile? Erna—It is at the dentists.—Tid-Bids. Editress—This joke dates from the time of Pharaoh. Humorist—How careless I was to submit it to you, when I might have known you would re- member it.—Truth. She—And now, Charlie, I supposé to-morrow you will have to speak to papa about this. He—Yes, dearest, I suppose 1 must. (Aftera pause.) Hasyour tather got & telephone?— Somerville Journal. Mrs. Strongmind—And Jor what are you in- carcerated here, my poor man? The Prisoner—I married & new woman. Mrs. Strongmind (astonished)—Impossible! | You couldn’t be put in fail for that. The Prisoner—ButI was! I marrieda new woman and the oid woman.I already Had kicked about it and put me here Tor bigamy.— Puck. s She—Major Pommelwell wears three med- and thefirst because he had none at all.— Washington Times. “Did you come out well on your examina tions?” «Didn’t I though ? All the professors wanted ‘me for a son-in-law right away.”—Fliegende Blaetter. Sl e «“My pa’s an 0dd Fellow,” boasted a little b?‘y)lvp a Freemason,” replied the other, «an that's higher, for the hod fellows wait on the masons!”—Tid-Bits. A PRINCESSE SHAPE® FOR GOWN OR V RAPPER. A princesse shape fs always popular, and with the flaring skirt, the easy sleeves and the large collars of the. present mode has added charm and comfortableness for wrappers or house gowns. Fabrics of wool are usea with a finish of machine stitching. Others are elaborately braided. One of brown cloth had the darts covered by a fancy design which tapered at the waist and then spread gradually.to the foot of the skirt, where it was eightinches wide. This was done in black braid witha gilt edge, the braid being sewed on endwise s0 the gilt was uppermost. The collar was braided to match. Many wemen prefer to have such handsome materials as satin and silk brocades made up in this shape. The collar may be of black chiffon, with & design’in white applique lace. A dull green warp-printed sifk, with lines of black, and flounces in matched colors, had such a collar, with a folded collar of the silk cut bias. BITS OF KANS4S WISDOM. Atcéhison Globe. Learn a little and remember it. ssip seldom injures a man whois notra le guilty. A woman is aboutfas sure to lose her specta cles as she is to lose her pocket-book. Loud conversation is hardly necessary and is frequently annoying to others. A tear in your trcusers wil never worry you as long as you are in ignorance of it. Almost every woman cherishes & sample of the first dress her husband ever bought her. People in love do lots of making up witltout quarreling, and lots of quarreling aftér mar- riage without making up. An Atchison man eals the raw oyster him- self und gives his wife the juice, with which to make herself a Stew. The mother of a boy usually worries about his future iong after he should worry about it himself and 4o something. €O PLEIE St. Louis Giobe-Democrats McKinley gets & mujority of the States, a majority of the electors and & majority of als. Twonder why they were given him? He—He got the third because he had the other two; the second because he had-the first, | the popular vote. This certainty mukes him one of the most elected men who has ever run for President.;, ANSWERS 1 0 C(ORRESPONLENTS Sve Hru—S. F2C., City. 4f you have beef working for a man and he discharges you Wwithout paying vou what he owes you, your only remedy,would be to commence an acfion egainst him in a court of civil jurisdiction. Any attorney of good standing will advise you diyou have & good case. 3 GO0OD PLACE FORa MaN—A. 8., Fort Bragsg, .Méndocino County, Cal. This department does not advise any ohe as to how money shoult bs Or 83 to whether any piace is-a good place for a peron to locate in. For that reu- son it cannot ¢dyise you whether “Trail- Creek and Rossland, B. C., are good places for & work- ingman In the summer o Lo oW BRAZILIAN PEEBLE—H. S, City. The reason thai some, spectacles mure called . “pebhle g";,s:]es is because the lensesare of ‘Brazilian ebble, a colorless rock crystal obtairec Brazil” and wiosed i for its purf Ft 1s adsc noted for i1 harduess, which rendersiit mach less liable 10 be scratched than glas ELECTORAL AND FOPELAR Vorg The eiectoral vote is tue one by S...City.. ich the President and’. the Vice-President of the United States are elected. are ot elected by the popul.r atyotd is given in the newspape g of refer- ence that knowledge number of voters who ex the electors of the seeral ca. UNIVERSALIST CHUECH is no Universalist church -in t time. There is & Universali pastor. Tite First Universalist Ch land is the-only one in this part c and of this the Rev. E. Hiumand js is lately from U:h}u)\I_l, \\»'L\ churches of this denomination in Los At les, Riverside,San Diego, Pasadensa and Santg Paula. - E. H. BLACK, painter, 120°Eddy straet. - s e BEND your {riends; Townsend’s California fruits, 50¢ & pound; in handsome baskets, * S EPECIAL Information daily to manutacturary business houses and public men by the Prasy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgowery, * . “Why don’t you work for a living?” -asked the lady who answered the ring at the door- bell. “I used to, but there is no business now,’ answered the tramp. “What was your business?"” “I was & barber in a football toyn.”—Yone kers Statesman Through Sleeping Cars to Chicago. 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