The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 6, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6 1897 Call NOVEMBER 6, 1897 SATURDAY. - = oo JOHN D. SPRECKELS, All Com wt'zan: to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE. ...710 Market street, S8an Francisco Telephone Main 18 Propriztot. Address All Communi EDITORIAL ROOMS ++20 517 Clay street THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is served by rs in this city and surcounding towns for 15 cents a week. %6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OF ..908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE ..Room 188, World Building , Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 339 Haves straet; open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 0 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteeath and open untii 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open 143 Ninth street; open until 9 o’clock. 1505 NW. corner Twenty-second ock. ELIEF for the men in the whaling ships imprisoned in R the ice the Ar Ocean should be dispatched by the Government promptly and without delay. Over in the Government has sent relief expeditions to in polar explorations, and it has en ready to give assistance to those who have suffered Mississippi. It has provided for the citizens rendered destitute in Cuba ips to carry food to the persons engaged hing reign lands. fitting that in this emergency it rong arm of its aid to the sailors who in ican industry have braved the ern seas, and by the swift coming of win- it in the frozen waters and now face the 1 by cold and destitution. of the whaling fleet are beyond the reach of ces, they are not bevond that which the nment could give. In fact, the plan of relief of th interested in the mee published in TH 7 of accomplishm if promptly undertaken, and should be needed to induce the Government plan the Government is to be asked to ble, which is to make to the nearest attainable point. is a herd of reindeer, by the aid of tions in charge of white men with push along the coast northward to a prisoned ships can be reached or until the If the Government vessel be started at t Clarence, and at any rate could reach e north shore of Norton Sound, from which comparatively easy to get supplies over to the xiiiaries can this kind every day is of importance. There It is therefore gratifying to note the which the movement for relief has been Wis city, and it is to be hoped the authorities at ble to speedily push it forward to suc- s of the brave sailors who are now ex- minent peril. with When siagle women begin to cal maids” and to organ themselves *‘bachelor clubs wherein to rail at the sacred in. tution of matrimony a suspicion that they are pining to be oed grows at once into an absolute certainty, and any wise nan who does zot want to bedragged to the altar will e public mind there will be a sense of satisfaction at osed upon the warden who refused to carry out the sentence of a murderer. The sameness of seeing assassin after assassin started toward the gallows and stopped at the foot of them is getting intolerable. ker is ill le the report that C fails to send anything thrill of sorrow over the country it does excite a suspi. t he has been celeb g his victory. Or the thought sgest man in New York may have been too much like cion th ng thet him. The failure of an Eastern theat'rical manager ought to be a s of his kind. He had an ides that any freak Le ion to import, particularly if feminine and fortified with a scandal, could keep his house full, Commenting on the New York election a German paper tcannot be denied that corruption has triumphed.” s we have ovserved nobody whose judgment is worth on has attempted to make any such denial bas pronouncel the man who swindled in the name ss Club not guiity, but they can never make the man GOOD GOVERNMENT IN SACRAMENTO., UPERIOR as were the Eastern elections in magnitude and weneral importance to that in Sacramento the fact should not lead us (o overlcok the significance of the local vic- tory for gord government. Sacramento, as the capital of the State, reflects with considerable accuracy the trend of public opinion in Californies, and a distinct gain for municipal admin- istration in that city may be counted a benefit for the entire commonwealth. “There can be no question that the election of William Land to the mayoralty is an event of no little importance to Sacra- mentoand one from which the people are justified in expecting good recults of many kinds. He represented the better ele- ment in the politics cf the city and his success is a triumph over the factions and the forces that in the past have materially injured the welfare of the municipality by subordinating all public interests to the schemes of individuals or of combina- tions adverse to progress and an impartial enforcement of law. The Sacramento Bee forcibly sums up the result of the election in saying: *“The people of Sacramento have decreed at 1he volls that the reign of incompetency must cease and be veceeded by of capacity, ability and energy. * * * % They h proclaimed in tones whose import cannot be mis- taken that the capital city of California must hereafter be rned in a businesslike manner by business men.” Mayor Land is in every way worthy of the confidence the citizens of Sacramento have shown in him by electing him to the office where he will bave the honor as well as the responsi- bility of instituting the much-needed municipal reforms. He is one of the foremost men of the city, and is well tratned in the management of men and business. That he is capable of fir mly and rightly directing public affairs is proven by the skill with which he bas conducted all bis personal business, and his fide ity and Lonesty in the fulfillment of every private trust is a cuflicient guarantee of an unfailing integrity in the verformance of all services and duties his new position will im- pese upon him. 1 Tne CarL takes pleasure in congratulating the citizens of Sacramento upon the bright outlook the election of Mayor Land opens :or their city. In doing so, however, it warns them that the Mayor must not be left alone to fieht the battle for good government against the banded and organized forces that are opposed to it. The Mayor should have the wiiling and prompt co-operation of all intelligent and public-spirited cit- izens throughout the whole course of his administration. It has Leen the people’s victory, and the people should be reso- lute to maintain all they have gained by it, go' |THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC MCRALS. HE action of the Board of Supervisors in appointing a Committee on Public Morals to take charge of the spirit- ual interests of the people of San Francisco is a move in the right direction. There is nothing that this city needs so much as general moral rejuvenation. During the recent con- troversy between Captain Lees and Police Commissioner Gunst ‘it was stated on behalf of the latter that the town Is and has been for some time *‘wide open.” This means that gambling is carried on throughout the city with impunity, and that “‘rake-offs” for those appointed to preserve the morals of the town are everywhere prevalent; all of which iu that if the new Committee on Public Morals does its duty ° will be able to make a glorious record for itself. But if Captain Patrick Micheltorena Delany, chairt of the new committee, has been accurately interviewed ’ reporter for this journal—and in default of a supplementz planation we are justified in assuming that his views ¢ moral questions which confront us have been correctly ¢ we are compelled to say that he is the wrong man in t’ place. The captain is a very estimable gentleman, understand , maintains the strictest morals himseif. E the code he observes personally, however, he does n¢ would be received with applause by the masses. stance, he says the nickel-in-the-slot machines wi! to “go’” by the committee, but he does not placeic He < mination to obliterate them upon moral grounds. no man living can beat them, for he has tried it himseir. Shaking dice, he intimates, will be permitted—not because that practice is moral, but because it is a convenient way for two gentlemen to dec h shall pay for the drinks. Be- i he adds, dice-shaking is a fair game. ‘“When you are ng with friends,” says the captain, ‘“‘you have an even chance to come out even.”” And then he appends the thought- ful remark: ‘I am inclined to think that to stop shaking for e e W the drinks would be in the nature of trampling on a man’s > rights.’ Betting at the racetr: he also regards as a grea he puts his objection to it on the ground that it is impo beat the bookmakers. As for poker, he thinks that is an even game. If a man can play with friends, and is careful to keep sharpers away from the table, says the captain, he can manage to keep even, or maybe get a little ahead. Prize- fighting the captain did not regard as bad at all. Limited con- tests, he informed the reporter, were not only right, but highly enjoyable ; and the reporter says that immediately upon the conclusion of the interview Supervisor Delany hurried down- town to arrange for a complimentary box with the manager of the Goddard-Sharkey mill. Doubtless Captain Delany’s high character as a man and a citizen procured for him the place of chairman of the new Committee on Public Morals. Indeed, outwardly he seems to be all right. But we submit that if this interview is the measure of his ideas on questions of public morality, he enter- tains opinions which are altogether too loose to qualify him for the place to which he has been appointed. It is quite plain to us that Captain Delany thinks the test of the morality of gambling devices is their fairness. According to this standard, only ‘‘brace” games of faro, marked cards, loaded dice and programmed horseraces are to be barred by the new com- mittee. A We do not suggest that Captain Delany resign his position as chairman of the Committee on Public Morals, but we trust that upon reflection he will observe the extreme propriety of relinquishing the position to Mr. Britt, Mr. Shee- han, Mr. Smith, or some other gentleman who attends church occasionally. Captain Delany may attend church o onally himself, but it is quite evident that he pays no attention to the teachings of his pastor. Gorman's friends are ot a sangu In his defeat in Maryland they see a certain sign that his country is to call him to greater things. Well, the facaity of looking on the brigut side is a happy one and worth cultiv: g. Yet it is to be toped that Gorman will not subject his aural equipment to unneces- sary strain in listening for that call- ne sort. An evening paper, with confidence unwarranted by facts, announces thata certain person will be hanged January 21. The only possible reason for reaching this conclusion is that the court has named that date for the operation, which in the light of events is simply not a reason A LIE WELL STUCK '10. OME 1mp of Satan once persuaded fools to accept it as a roverb that a lie well stuck to is as good as the truth, and since then that misleading phrase has brought more fools to their ruin than any other bit of cynicism circulating among men. Millions of liars who might have escaped with slignt punishment for some original lie, have gone plumb to bades because they did not have sense enough to turn loose and let it go alone. There are also millions of instances where the au- thor of a flving lie would never have been known if the fool had not stuck to it aiter every one else had abandoned it, thus enabling scorn to trace it to him and point him out to a world which thereafter not only denounced him as a liar, but derided him as an ass. Au illustration of this truth is to be found in the current charge that Senator Foraker has determined to knife Senator will refuse to vote for the re-election of his colleague. This lie originated many moons sgo. It came first prominently before the public last year in the shape of a story that Foraker would oppose Hanna in the movement to bring about the indorsement of McKinley for President. That was disproved at the meeting of the Ohio Repubhican Convention. The liars stuck to it, however, and changed it to a report that Foraker would oppose the nomination of McKinley. Thatin turn was disproved, and the liars still sticking to it rang the successive changes that Foraker would knife McKinley at the polls, would oppose Hanna’s election in the Senate, would antagonize the adminis- tration and would defeat Hanna before the pecple this year. As the lie went through these various transformations the credulity of the public was exhansted. Little by little the absurdity and falseness of the story in all its forms began to be understood even by the dullest intellect, and then the liars who had sense enough to know when to turn loose dropped th yarn and fled for cover. The fools, however, who believe a lie well stuck to is as good as the truth are still siicking to this and in the pages of asinine journali-m flaring head lines con- tinue to proclaim *‘Foraker will kaife Mark Hanna.” If ever there was a lie well stuck to in American politics this is that !ie. It falls, however, a long way short of being as good as the iruth. It has never injured the men against whom it has been directed, nor has it ever added anything to the men who have repeated it. It had once the bloom of noveity, but thet has long since departed, and now. it is a fool-catcher merely. Its only surviving use is to illustrate the truth that every lie sooner or later returns to the devil, and those who stick to it go with it. Contemplation of the silly couple somewhere who went into a caze of lions to be married causes a feeling akin to pain. The failure of the lions toeat them was most reprehensible, Now, of course, the possibility that there may be more people of the same sort must be sadly recognized. Chicago reports the case of a babe two and a half years who speaks two languages and has grown gray from overstudy. No comment seems to be necessary, except that a real Chicago lie is apt to be imposing of aspect and show an artistic finish such as could only be the result of long practice. A Washington girl who has justeloped is not to be blamed. Her four sisters had done the same thing, and if the elopement habit does not run in that family in the manner that red hair does in others there is something the matter with the law of heredity. When the steamer bearing Weyler met with accidentie should bave been promptly thrown overboard as = Jonah. There are no officious whales down that way to interfere, Hanna, and that all the Foraker men in the Ohio Legzislature | PERSONAL. A. L. Lavinsky, a lawyer of Stockton, is the Grand. Guy W. Brown, U. S, N, is registered at the Occiaental. Leuis Dean, a cattleman from Reno, Nev., is at the Russ. J. Finnders, an insurance man from Port- land, Or., is at the California. John F. Truesdell of Washington, D. C., ar- rived at the Palace last night. De Vrlq- Van Doesburgh, a winemaker of St. Helena, is staying at the Lick. Charles Francel, chairman of the Town Council of Salinas, is at the Grand, Fo vusi 1. Suuivan, Proprieror of L Beach Hotel of Sante Cruz, is & guestatthe Celifornia, Fred Ericksor, the railroad contractor who lives in Jamestown, is at the Grand for a short stay in town. D. W. Jenks, a well-known lawyer of Modoc County, in fact the original Captain Jenks, is alate arrival at the Lick. Professor R. E. Allardice, head of the depart- ment of mathematics in Stanford University, is registered et the Califoraia. Joseph Spinney, the Fresno City Council- man, popuiarly known as “The Boss of the | Border,” is a guest at the Grand. Dr. and Mrs. F. N. Otis, Miss Egith F. Otis and Dr. Willlam K. Otis, of New York City, rrived at the California last night from the East. Eenry Mulliken and Henry C. Baldwin of Bostor, Mass, arrived here last nighton the Central overland train and registered atthe Palace. Judge E. A. Belcher of the Superior Court has been slizhtly ill for several days. He ex- pects to be able to resume his place on the bench next Monday. Louis Lesser of New York, manager of Countess Hatzfeldt, who is to appear next week on the Orpheum stage as asinger, ar- rived last night at the Baldwin. Judge Daingerfield wiil go to Santa Rosa next weck to preside in the Superior Court there during the trial of some water litiga- tion. During the week Judge S. K. Dougherty will take Judge Daingerficid’s place on the vench iu this city. Colonel Daniel Lamont, formerly secratary to President Grover Cleveland and now vice- president of the Northern Pacific Railroad, will arrive in this city tc-morrow morning from Portland, Or., andk will remain until Monday evening. Maaager John C. Kirkpatrick ot the Palace Hotel has issued to each of the city newspaper interviewers a souveuir cardcase containing an invitation tendering the courtesies of the griliroom and the wine cellar to the bearer and his family on Thanksgiving day. Attorney George D. Collins has returned from Washington, D. C., whither he went in | order toargue before the Supreme Court of the United States the case of Richard W liams, who seeks 10 reverse the acti United States Circuit Court in where! beeu guilty of extorting money from Chinese while ne wus acting as Government int preter of the Chinese language. a of the this city, CALIFORN ANS IN NEW YORK EW YORK, Nov. 5.—At the St. Cloud— L. W. Brown; Morton—Mr. aud Mrs. M. Levis; Metropolitan—T. Corbett; Imperial M Davis; St Denis—Mrs. Carter; Conti- nental—R. C. Gardner; Murray Hill—M-. and Mre. J. Robinson, A. P. Robinson; Ho land— J. C. Siegfried; Wini-or—Mr. and Mrs. H. Tracy; Evereti—E. A. Doyly, A. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. G. homas, Miss G. Thowmus! Ger- Iach—Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Robiason, ~Miss Rouiuson. CALIFORN AN IN W2 - 5 R wASiH{INGTON SHINGTON, Nov. 5. — Mrs. E. R. Tucker c.and is at the St. Jumes. G. R. Green- 1 Francisco, a graduate of Stanford class of "97, who has been spend- ing several weeks in Washington, returns home on the 15th and soon thereafter will make a trip 10 Southern California. PASSING PLEASANTRIES. She—So many men marry for money—you wonldn't marry me for money, would you, dearest? He (absently)—* No, darling, I wouldn’t marry you for sli the money in the world,” and he marvels now that she dia not spesk the last time he met her.—Pailadelphia In- quirer. He—Do you think thera really is any danger in kissing? Sne—Wait till I go to the stairs and listen to find out whether papa is asleep or not.—Chi- cago News. Minnie—I puckered up my mouth and tried to wnis le—or pretended to—and he never of- tered .0 kiss me, though I had heard him spoken of as one Who knew a good thing when hesaw it. Mamie—Perhaps he didn't see it. Miunle—That's so! I forgoi the light was low.—Indianapolis Joarnal. “‘What,"” asked the British offici; do to the Ahkoond?”" “Swat him,” saia the higher official. “Do you think we khan?” “Certainly. Ameer trifie.” And then the tribesmen ordered another evolution.—Town Topics. “shall we “Don’t vou know that football is a game of foreign origin?” 0. Of what nationality?” ’."—Philadelphia Bulletin. “Rushin’, _A periodical says: vallows have been met With at sea more than 1000 miles from any hnd» Thats true, you often me't a very convivial set golng over—Richmond Times. = | “SIr,” sald the haugaty Lady Constance, ““I can read you like a book.” Oh, then, tell me,” cried Reginald de Sent- | less, breaihlessly, “do I marry tho rich heiress in tne last chapter?’—Harper’s Bazar. it was adjudged that Williams had | THE GOSTLIEST Gl GARS--AND OTHERS. “If I had to count the cities in the world where the best judges of cigars were to be found Icould do it on three fingers, for London, St. Petersburg and San Francisco are the only spots where the true connolsseurjthinks lifeworth 1i any Continental, and in no part of the wor.d ving. Englishmen know more about cigars than can better judges of the weed be found.” Thus spoke a famous English cigar merchant to a representative of London Tit Bits. “And the money spent in cigars?”’ “Is enormous. Thereare many gentlem: The most expensive cigars are Flor de Cubas, aristocratic smokes, their price being 12s 6¢ e boom there was hardly anything else smoked is the proper price for them, but in Piccad After these come Pedro Murias, Cortina Moras and Cabanas, their price being from t0 £10 per 100. For weieht the most costiy cigars are those similar in shape to cigarettcs. 20 fifty ounces to the 100, and a box or cabinet of 1000 of these Wwhiffs costs £15.” sovereign. “‘Who smokes these cigars?” en whose bills amount to £300 or £400 a year. Intimidads and La Coronas. These are truly ach, or £50 per 100. During the Sfouth African by the cream of brokers. Imay say that12s6d the same cigar would cost you at least a “The most costly cigars are smoked by the biggest solicitors, one or two gentlemen in the abinet and the Russian aristocracy. peculiar fact to be noted is that the man who There are t| ime. Hariey-street doctors, aguin, purchase very 1oney as he who droys in occasionally. nree times & week and lay out 50s each Their price for a cizar seldom goes lower than 7s 6d. gives a £50 order does not spond so much ree or four gentlemen who drop in here ostly cigars, and one now on my books spends his £350 a year regularly in this way. *A lew years ago,” continued this gentleman, ‘'a shop was opened in a hotel in London hat is the resort of foreigners. In this shop tobacco in every shape and brand can be found, :nd no matter what part of the world the visitor comes irom, he can find his native tobacco. W THERE IS THE HALF CABBAGE TWOFER, May (o October more money is taken tnere thi A peep at this gentleman’s private ledger errand-boy can call in and get his halt-ounce ihe land.” When a distinguished gentieman first purchnse is repented no notice is taken people smoke. solicitors as a cluss prefer a £10 brand. cigar; those a little bit hig o and it would be found that ‘A curious anomaly Englishmen. verses this order. wh Why? When cigars were fi dry cigar was the best. In conclusion we may say that so closely a the Houses of Parliament, for during the last “pt oue were cliens of one cigar merchant. are ofien together generully purchase from the same person. AND THERE 15 ALSO THE AHALF GUINEA FLOR DE CuBs Now, since the Cecil, Savoy and other big hotels have been opened, and_although the visitors 20 Lo thrse Liotels to stay, they invariably arive to the original shop for thelr soother, and from an atany other place in London.” revealed mauy interesting facts. Although the of shag, this shop is visited by the highest in purchases a box of cigars the brand is registered ir this ledeer; at his second visit. if he orders a different make, this is also entered, but if the . Thus at & glance one can tell what different Army and raval ofiicers choose a cigar varying from 40s to 70sa hundred. When we come to M. P.'s the taste is very divergent. The ordinary M. P. smokes a 64 her in the socitl scale purchase one between 23 ana 4s 6d. bers of the Cabinet for the most part choose the more costly brands, aithough there are one or (wo members who mever buy anything buta70sa hundred kind. e bigger the man the cheaper the c.gar. coniinued our informant, The former will have his cigars wet and bis totacco dry, whereas the latter re- Mem- Take the Londoner asa is noticeable between the foreigner and rst introduced they were not sold quick enough, and therefore were often dried up; in consequence the retailer persuaded the smoker that & As a matter of faci the green cigar is always the finest to enjoy.” re smokers bound to one another that men who This is specially noticeable in Government all the members of the Cabin:tex- One gentleman invariably smoked two cigars a night at 4s 6 1 each, purchasing them every evening. He stated that he could get three hours’ solid enjoyment out of every two cigars, and that was cheaper than anything else in London. LY NEGRO BLOOD AS Di. A. R Jenkins of Kentucky offers to the ex is 'hese organisms in the African’s blood that this disease. Methou smailsyringe buib. Operation—Fill the tube and bulb by tm press all air and turn off stopcocks. Opea vei S e syr.nge musi have no vaives, the rubber tub better suited if he had repeatedly been expose A FEVER ANTIDOTE. On the basic fact that the pure-blooded African has absolute protection from yellow fever, perts present in the local rezion of that disease this new treatment: They transfuse the blood of the colored man into patients suffering in the b -ginning stage with the severe form of fever as & yellow tever antitoxine. Itmay cure or immunize through the destruction of the yellow fevergerms in the patient’s system by the phagocytes and planocytes of the African’s biood. It 1s almost certain that it protect him, acquired by ages of exposure to small rubber tube 20 inches long; a stopcock at each end; in the middle a Two blunt beve -ended can'ilas at each end complete the appara us. mersing 1n_warm salt solution 6 to 1000, ex- n in donor's arm nearelbow; insertone canula filled with salt solution into the open vein, directing it down toward the hand. Open vein in patient’s arm; issert canula directed toward body; turn on the stopcocks. This transtusion e being compressed on one side while sucking bood and compressed on the other while injecting into the patient’s veins. Absolutely no air must enter the patient’s veins. Several ounces of blood should be 1nj2cted 10 be used in first s1age of worst cases before necrosis of liver. The donating person should have the strongest characteristics of his race and would be d to the disease without having been infected, POTENT MONROE DOCTRINE. Mexican Herald. Bismarck finds the Monroe doctrine an *‘in- solent” one. Well, he isa past master in di- plomatic bluff and insolence, and ne knows aswell as any man that the Monroe doctrine ! stands for the perpetual independence of the New World. The siatesmen of the New World irom Washington to Santiago and Buenos Ayres kuow that,1f the Cabimets of Europe had their way, they wouid carve Latin Amer- ica up into “spheres of influence” just as they nave Africa. Bismarck, when in power, coveted & Naboth’s vineyard in Brazil and had an eye on other regions as weil. Japan, when | she gets a big navy, is likely to pick a quarrel with some of the west coast repnblics o1 South America just to provoke war and win terri. 1 for colonization. But the Americas, adopting President Diaz’s enlarged Monroe aoctrine, will stand togetheragainst greed and land-grabbing. IN THE SHADOWS THE ROAD L L 2 T I L T R T I LT T L2 IRELAND'S JOAN OF ARG, A GAME OF POKER NEVER PLAYED. CAMPAIGNING AGAINST THE COMANCHES. | gmco | THESE WILL BE FEATURES OF OF MAD CANYON. OF DEATH. NEXT SUNDAY'S GALL. INDIAN SUMMER. Thecattie on the upiands nip the grass That lingers ‘mong the shrubs and bowlders yet; The sage—a muddy inand sea—is set To roiling by a vagran: wind, ana has Its sable cloud-ships that as quickly pass As privatcers: and crows, who e silelds of jet ‘Ward off the javelins formed of sunshine, fret The ears at times with ¢ wings loud and crass. Dim as a feeble purpose tha. may rise In hearts where hopeiessness alone has flung Its shadow, winds the road; then on the eyes Sbimmer the hills—graves made while earth was young, When echoed still the spheres’ sweet mins:relsies And lived the glants from whom Anak sprung. Solemnity haugs o'er the fields ana words As palpaole as the biue veil (nst spresds ‘Abouc the world: one idie lo terer treads On nuts that dam the steam: Red Riding Hoods, The suma: s stand among the solitudes ‘Where a shy woodchuck giides: the pitted heads Of thistles are windshorn, and spiders’ threads Ealace the «apling where the sparhawk brooas. A faint pulsa 10a, rings the cricket's be. Out fno the weeds where—gems of amethyst— Protectel gentians 8:ill (he ey: sight greet: Asportive squirral stirs the leaves; and, hist! The dove's voice in the haz —a symbol meet Of faith toas calleth throu.h death’s shrouding mist. WirL T. HaLk MORE LEI:URE NOW IN ORDER, Minoeapolls Times. Are we not entirely too fast? Isspeed to be she end of our efforts or only & means to some thing vastly better? It is well to do work quickly. But is it so If we are only to keep on working? We should say not. It is not through booms and deals and record-breaking alone that the kingdom of heavenis to come te man. If inerease of speed enables us toachieve more in a given space of time it shou!d also enable us to have more leisure tor the enjoy- ment of that whicn we have achieved. If it wean more wealth it should mean more right- 11 use of wealth. Ii itmean more work it should also mean more play. — THE DEVIL AND FOOTBALL, Westminster Gazette, The rector of Pakefield, near Lowestoft, ob- jects to football on theological grounds. He eays: “The various attractive agencies at work in the direction of amusements among voung men are devices of the devil, and of them all none presents such insidious evils as football matches. These thiugs cause people to forsake the meaus of grace. The devilisa successful practitioner, aud itjany:in this con- grexl;.lnn p{efer attendance at a football match to going to prayer meeting, they bee | long toSatan’s flock.” Enins PEOPLE TALKED A:OUT. Lord Robarts, as is perhaps natural consid- ering his own case, asserts that the short men make the best fighting material in the British army.’ Miss Rose Eltinger, an American, sing be- fore Emperor William at a_coficert in Bcr}:: carly last week and his Majesty converse with ner and complimented the singer upon ber volc o A paragraph appeared in the London papers lust week, calling attention to the neglect of Thackeray’s grave in Kensal Green Cemetery. It is overrun with ivy which ob:iterates the btion. liam F. Sands, who has been lppo‘nl(‘d secretary of the United States logation at Seonl, Korea, is a son of Captain J. H.Sands of the navy, a grandson of Admiral Sands and a grand-nephew of Admiral Meade. During President Cleveland’s term ho was 80C0 .l sec- retary of the United Btates logation at Toklo, Japan. Dr. Bertha V. Thompson has just been ap- pointed City Physician of Oshkosh, Wis. She s the first woman to hold _the office of Cliy jan in the State of Wisconsin. She was nah, Wis, and was a teacher for a and then served as nurse in hospi- ser! few tals before studying medicine. She is the only woman physieian in Oshkosh. ear: sSince Queen Victoris has found it necessary tolean on a cane in walking she has used a stout oak stick originally presented to Charles II by a loyal citizen of Worcester. When the Queen first used 1t it had only a plaiz gold top, but when she required something to give a firmer * to support her better there was ndc s Indian idol, which yof Seringapatam. of Naples, Signor he boo Speaking of the Princ g0 Glarelli says: “His hobbies are of a scientific natur e perhaps, the only real rician among all the present Princes Europe. He has mever occupied him- much with literature, music or but he is a master of electric mechanism. Heis very learned in all that concerns the application of electricity 10 light, motive power, sound and photography He was one of the first and most successful experimenters with the X rays after their di covery, and in Rome his residence in the al had the a-peet, during his Royal s bachelor deys, of a scientific labora- of self painting, Quirir High THE OLD AND THE YOUNG. A young maid sat in the twilight shade, As sweet L.utle maids wii do; And she felt not afraid, for the sweet young maid Felt the touch of an arm that defied alarm— Au arm toat was strong and true. Though never a wora did eithe- say. They spoke in the o d familiar way: A sigh and the press of a hand told well The thoughts of the heart the lips would tell. So they sat there sigh: While the ember: he nestled su near, And the time went fly-fly-flying, An old maid sat in & chair near by, As old malids are woat to do, An answering cry to«ach soft. soft sigh Came from her heart whica could bave Do part In alove with its bill and coo. She sat and the e poor old thing, O: those duys when an arm would round her cling; But the thouzhts brought back s different trili— I'hat heart bad vauoish that heart was stiil. And she sat there sigh sigh-signing, While the ewbers were dy-dy-dying, Sue shed but a tear ko her vanished dear, And the time went fiy-fiy-iying. The old mai ! opened her tearful eyes, zed through the twilight shade: ¢ those Sizhs, those soit, soft sizhs, heurts were— muist the . ear; e twliight glow e of the long ago: The time had been fly-fly-fiying, And the emovers d was but & dream, But now reai did 1t seem, To the 0id maid sigh-sizh-sighing. W. E. NANNING in Momenta. MARVELOUS ME . ORIES. Tid-Bits. 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