The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 8, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1898. ANUARY 8, 1808 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFIC .Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS.... 2I7 to 221 Stevenson stree Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is cerved by carrlers in this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents G week. By mail $6 per year; per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL.. OAKLAND OFFICE ... 903 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE.... Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. One year, by mall, $1.50 BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 930 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street: open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets: open until 9c'clock. 25i8 Misslon street: open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eieventh st; cpen untli9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street cpen untli 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. t Gay 1e Girl T Ls “The D Isiand.” Behind Me." AUCTION SALES. day, Jaunary 10, Horses, at corner Van €0.—Mo a 11 o'clock. nd Ma 2 A 7RE<VZO>RD-7BI£EAKING FEAT. complished by telegraphy was achieved yester- day by the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany in supplying The Call with news connected with the Durrant case. It consisted in the transmission from Washington of the decision of the Supreme Court in a time so brief that within fifteen seconds aiter the decision was handed down by the court the repot of it was displayed on The Call's bulletin boards in San The decision was given in the court at 1:05 p. m. ‘Washington time, and as the difference in standard time between the two cities is three hours and two minutes, this was equivalent to 10:03 a. m. in San Francisc The report was placed on The Call bul- letins at 10:03%—fiiteen seconds later. [his feat surp; all records in the way of news gathering, transmission and publication across the Its effect was such that if the decision of the court had been favorable to Durrant the news L\ FEAT that breaks the record of marvels ac- he ncisco. continent. could have been transmitted from The Call office to |1 7 E | tion he will fill the vacancy in the board. The de- San Qt ve reached the War- den before the execution took place at 10:34. In c marvel of speed and ac- the Western Union serv- tin prison in time to ha nection with th cu v be noted th ice enabled The Call to surpass the Examiner in the local d also by as much as fourteen minutes in getting from San Quentin to this city the news of the execution. By arranging a system of signals from the prison to the telegraph operator the announce- nent of every step in the proceedings of the execu tion was sent to The Call and bulletined nearly a quar- ter of an hour earlier than the Examiner received it. By reason of the promptness with which The Call obtained the news, both from the court at Washing- ton and the prison at San Quentin, it was enabled to | the State In this service it preceded that of the Examiner by from five to fourteen minutes in repor The achieve- ments of the day in the way of transmitting news with rapidity were genuine triumphs of telegraphic com- munication, and the Western Union may record them among the greatest feats ever accomplished in its history. send reports to its bulletins throughout ghead of all rivals. ng the news in various cities. STREET CAR FENDERS. THERE is no doubt that the Board of Super- visors should adopt without delay an ordinance compelling the street railway companies of this city to place fenders upon their cars. The death rec- ord made by the electric roads within the short period during which they have been in fashion is certainly appalling. It is not to the point to say that most street car accidents are due to the carelessness of the victims. While the law may not mulct the street rail- ways in damages when the victim contributes to his own destruction, the law of public opinion ought to inflict heavy penalties upon a Government which tol- erates without regulation the means of destruction. Beyond doubt a fender can be invented which will avert nine out of every ten of the street railway acci- dents which take place in this city. It is not neces- sary for the companies to rig their cars with a con- trivance which will pick up a careless person, throw him on a feather bed and offer him a glass of beer, a sandwich and an apology. What they want is an ar- rangement which will turn obstructions from the tracks. This might occasionally hurt a person, but it would always prevent the manglings and deaths which usually accompany street railway accidents. So far as the general public is concerned it de- mands rapid transit. It will consequently be very un- popular for the Supervisors to reduce the speed of the electric cars to eight miles an hour. A rapidly moving car provided with an efficient fender will do no more damage than one that is moving slowly. If a person gets under the wheels of an electric or cable car he is certain to be mangled whether it goes fast or slow. The point to which the Supervisors should direct all their energies is the discovery of a fender equal to the task of throwing obstructions from street railway tracks. Once discovered, the street car com- panies should be compelled to adopt such a fender. Ii it is impossible to find a contrivance which fills this bill it will be time enough to reduce the speed of the cars or to force the rapid transit roads to build elevated trestles. Probably a non-killing street car will never be in- vented. There are a few fools whom it will be im- possible to protect from the consequences of their carelessness and folly, but something should be done to prevent the murdering process that is now in vogue. The street car companies, as well as the Poard of Supervisors, owe it to the public which patronizes them to adopt a fender without un- necessary delay. 1f the scheme of transmitting pictures by wire prove successful, and the pictures are of the kind generally to be observed now, kind heaven send that the wire break. WHY IMPROVEMENTS LAG. N this city and in Oakland the evil and ever present spirit of jobbery shadows every aspiration for pub- lic improvement. Oakland enjoys many advantages of situation and scenery. The view of San Francisco and the inter- vening bay, with its anchored argosies, which may be had from the heights around Oakland, has but few scenic equals in the world. That city has for more than a score of years sought to acquire space for an ample public park, not a mere plaza, where a few plants are tattered by the trade wind and children recruit their knowledge of letters by reading signs that advise*them to “keep off the grass,” but a park, with drives, bridle and foot paths, verdant reaches of lawn and parade and recreation grounds. The diversity of surface now within the city limits permits a park system not excelled by any town in the world, connected by a system of boulevards which the clement climate will permit to be bordered and or- namentgd by palm trees of forty different kinds and by other flora which suggests a dream of the Italian Riviera. But every time a forward step has been pro- posed real estate jobbery in some form has appeared, and in the ensuing recrimination all plans are tainted and fall. Everybody connected with it gets under sus- picion, the papers not excepted, and the public mind is diverted from worthy projects of public improve- ment to the war of individual interests. In the recent fiasco one of the San Francisco morning papers ap- pears to have been retained to fling mud at the Coun- cil and defile everybody who failed to favor the pur- chase of it which it approved. Complaints were made that members of the Coun- | cil, being business men, were under duress of threats that that paper would roast them for not favoring the scheme which it wanted to pass. The same yellow journal was behind a rank real estate job in this city within a few months and was pursuing the same tactics. The Call favors all of these proper public improve- me¥nts and will encourage them everywhere in Cali- fornia because our climate enables & garnishing of cities by means of parks to a refined extent of em- bellishment not possible elseéwhere. But we do not propose to aid in the prevalent jobbery which tries to use the popular wish for improvements as a means for undue private gain. We hope that there is enough official courage and civic spirit left in Oakland to proceed with the project to improve the approaches to the city by redemption of the nasty marshes near Sixteenth street station, which in an important sense are an injury to the whole State, since they must be traversed by the hun- dreds of thousands of people who come to and go from San Francisco every year. GOVERNOR BUDD'S OPPORTUNITY. OVERNOR BUDD, by the death of Dr. J. I Stanton, Railroad Commissioner from the Second District, has an opportunity such as is presented to few executives. Under the constitu- ceased, besides being popular in the truest accepta- tion of the term, was a man of more than average character and integrity. He did all he could to make the Railroad Commission a success. It was only when that body had been completely tied up by the Federdl courts that he desisted from his efforts to regulate freights and fares. There is now abroad an impression that the Rail- road Commission is a failure. It is costing the tax- payers about $20,000 a year, and is rendering them little or no service. Except as a tribunal for the set- tlement of the petty disputes which occasionally arise between rival transportation companies, all useful- ness seems to have departed from.it. To Governor 3udd is presented an opportunity of demonstrating to the people of California either that the Railroad Commission is a failure, or that the basis upon which it is founded has been swept away. He can do this by appointing to the vacancy created by the death of Dr. Stanton a man of character and administrative ability. Ii the appointment were left to The Call it would select a Republican for the place. We believe that the Republican party of California contains more men of integrity, ability and character than any other party— a sufficient number, in fact, to fill all the offices almost in the world. But Governor Budd is a Democrat. Dr. Stanton was a Democrat. The vacant place be- longs to the Democrats, and a Democrat will un- doubtedly be selected to fill it. What Democrat, then, in the State of California possesses the ability to demonstrate to the people during the next twelve months either that the Rail- road Commissionis a failure or that it is still possessed of legal virility? It may be impertinent for us to meddle in Democratic politics, but we have no hesi- tation in suggesting a name. Edward B. Pond, ex- Mayor of San Francisco, and at present vice-president of the San Francisco Savings Union, is a man whose word will be taken after a year’s service on these points: As chairman of the Finance Committee of the Board of Supervisors for two years Mayor Pond saved the taxpayers of this city $100,000 in gold coin. As City Hall Commissioner during his two terms as Mayor he saved them over $500,000. As an adminis- trator and a business man he has no su- perior in the Democratic party in this State. If the Railroad Commission is a failure it ought to be abolished. If it is of any value the people want to know it. Pond will find out all about it without wasting any time. His appointment would not only be received by the people generally with satisfaction, but it would reflect great credit upon the Governor. THE NEEDS OF MINING MEN. CCORDING to the Western Mining World of fl Butte, Mont., there is little prospect of any . immediate improvement in Federal mining laws. Senator Stewart is quoted as saying there will be no changes at all made in the laws at this session of Congress. It seems the bill proposed by the com- mittee appointed for that purpose at the Gold Miners’ Convention is regarded as too radical in its nature and will not be pressed by the miners themselves. Commenting upon the situation th® Western Min- ing World argues that if nothing is to be done to re- form the mining laws at this session every effort should be made to induce Congress to create a na- tional bureau of mines and mining. Such a depart- ment would collect the information on which a wise system of revision of the mining laws could be car- ried out. It seems to be generally agreed among mining men that their industry has grown beyond the capacity of the Interior Department to handle properly and that for its proper development there is needed a more comprehensive and intelligent su- pervision at Washington. California miners have taken the lead in working for the establishment of the desired department and have found prompt and willing support in the West. In the East the movement has not been well re- ceived, but the opposition is probably due more to a lack of knowledge of the conditions under which our mining industry labors than of any positive objection to the creation of a new Cabinet officer. The great mining exposition to be held in this city will have the effect of arousing popular interest’in the industry and will undoubtedly give the general public a clearer idea of the needs of mining men in the way of national legislation. It will, therefore, serve as an important factor in hastemtng the adop- tion of the desired reforms in Federal mining laws and will aid the movement for a department of mines and mining. Throughout the entire mineral producing region of the West there is a vital interest in the subject. It is hardly likely that any mining State or important mining county will fail to make a good exhibit at the exposition or to send a strong delegation to represent it in all discussions that may be undertaken to con- sider mining affairs and to devise meaps to improve their conditions. B — MERCHANTS’ ASSOCIATION WORK. AN FRANCISCO is to be congratulated upon S the appearance in the current number of Municipal Affairs of an able article by J. Rich- ard Freud on “The Civic Service of the Merchants’ Association of San Francisco.” At this juncture, when so many Eastern people are planning to seek homes in a pleasanter climate or looking for invest- ments for their capital, it is gratifying to be able to make through so influential a publication a clear statement of what the progressive merchants of the city have accomplished for San Francisco in the way of municipal improvements and public benefits. It has been so often reported that San Francisco is a city of discords, business rivalries, antagonisms and municipal stagnation or misgovernment that pro- gressive men who recognize the value of co-operation in all sorts of enterprises, public or private, have hesitated to make their homes here and cast in their lot with us. Believing our people to be incapable of combining and working in harmony for any purpose, they have turned away from the tempting natural ad- vantages of the city and sought fortune in other localities where the business men are reputed to aid | the ventures of their neighbors and to be ready at all times to combine and labor for the general good. Though Mr. Freud in his article does not refer to this aspect of the situation, his review of the work of | the Merchants’ Association effectually disproves all | stories of a lack of civic patriotism and the spirit of co-operation among the business men of San Fran- cisco. The plain narrative he gives of difficulties overcome and results accomplished by the association makes clearly evident the fact that our citizens by co-operation have achieved more for the community than those of other cities where there is much more boasting of enterprise and public spirit. The history and the work of the association are fa- miliar to our people. The organization was begun less than four years ago by forty-seven men. It set about its work at once and demonstrated its useful- | ness by the results it achieved. At the end of the first year it had 214 members, and since then the growth has been so rapid that at the time Mr. Freud's ar- ticle was written there were 915 business firms en- rolled in its membership. Among the more important services of the asso- ciation Mr. Freud notes the cleaaing of the streets, the repaving of many of our thoroughfares, im- provements in street lighting, reform in the street car | transfer system, the procurement of a site for the Wilmerdirig School of Industrial Arts and the pro- motion of the movement for a new charter. Much of this work entailed heavy voluntary contributions from the members. On the single ftem of street | sweeping alone, when the association had the .con- | tract for that work, the sum of $30,000 was contri- buted voluntarily by the merchants in addition to the 1 And again when improved street lighting was under- | taken upward of $15000 was subscribed by the | members. San Francisco can point to the record of the Mer- chants’ Association as an evidence of the public spirit of her citizens. There may have been a time when | our leading business men lacked civic patriotism, but that time has gone by. The first battles for muni- cipal progress have been won and the rest will be easier. Mr. Freud's article is timely. It presents San Francisco to the country at this juncture in the true light and will help to gain for her a new repu- tation befitting her new spirit. . e SOME SUGGESTIVE FIGURES. HE customs statistics of the six leading dis- Ttricls, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Baltimore and New Orleans, show | that the duties collected on importations are the fol- lowing percentages on the value of the goods im- ported: New York .. Philadelphia San Francisco Boston Baltimore .... New Orleans . .40.4 We are within four-tenths of 1 per cent of the high- | est in the list, and an inquiry into the reason would be interesting. It must be either that we import a superior class of goods, bearing a higher rate of duty, or that there is a closer collection of duties here than elsewhere, except at Philadelphia. An analysis of the importations would be of great interest as showing how far the tastes and necessities of our people have differentiated between Boston and San Francisco. If the differing percentage be due to the grade of mer- chandise imported it would appear that Boston géts along with a grade more than 6 per cent lower than is demanded by the people of this coast. With Judge Campbell as presiding Judge of the po- lice courts there will be no lack of dignity to shock the drunk and the vagrant. Heretofore these persons have sometimes been shocked by a degree of flip- i pancy, but with new honors fast upon him Campbell will make no more of the breaks that have at times caused not only the gentlemen called before him pain, but have made people who never hagl that honor wonder whether he was running a show or a court. —_— Parson Davis of Oakland does not seem to be much of a success when he gets out of his familiar role of cutting monkey shines. This is particularly a tribute to the gentleman for his conduct at San Quentin. The reports from Florida that a state of slavery exists there do not serve to help the cause of annexa- tion. If we already have slavery there is surely no need of acquiring more of it. Some natural curiosity is felt as to whether there is not somewhere a nation that does not own Clip- perton Island. TO DESTROY THE LORD KELVIN ON HI HISTORY OF ¢«“JOHN IN THE. A WOMAN WITH o e e o e o = e e e e Y e e e 2 B e o e e e e e § % FIVvE BUY: IT. 40— E 5 CONTENTS JANUARY 9: A LOCAL SECRET ORDER THAT HAS SWORN S «VORTEX” THEORY. THE NEW TERROR OF THE NAVY. WONDERFUL PREHISTORIC BONES FOUND OUT A STOMACH. A KISS THAT KILLED—Most Remarkable Love Story of the Century. ALL THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST NEWS OF THE DA | o RULERS OF CHINA. DOE,” by Judge Hunt. SIERRAS. CENTS. READ IT. COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS T. Threlfall, 2 mining man of Towers, is at the Grand. C. A. Smith, a rancher of Winnipeg, is a guest at the Palace. F. E. Doggett, a mining man of Pres- cott, Ariz., is at the Lick. H. L. Billings, a business man of Chi- cago, is staying at the Baldwin, ‘W. E. Bertrand, a mining man from Mexico, is a guest at the Palace. H. C. Hopkinson, owner of the Stock- ton Pottery Works, is at the Grand. Professors Young and Fairclough ot Stanford University are at the California. F. McCauley, a prominent business man of Chicago, is at the Palace with his wife. C. Sakaloff and J. Ireptonok, two trav- elers from Russia, are registered at the Baldwin. Hon. John Reld, a member of the Can- adian Parliament, is at the Occldental, with his wife. +eessecscsssces .;_ B. Vincent, wWho may occa- A TALE stonally be seen E around the corri OF THE dors of the dif- ARCTIC. ferent hotels, is a man with a eeeeeeeeseeees ictory Some years ago he was a mate on board the whaling bark Napoleon, which foundered at sea off Cape Navarin, on the coast of Siberia. Vincent and twenty-six companions succeeded in escaping from the sinking vessel to a large cake of ice, though they were unable to take any provisions with them. For thirty-seven days thess poor ‘wretches drifted about without food or shelter, now in this direction, now in that, at the caprice of the cruel Arctic ‘winds. Finally the ice floe drifted in shore and grounded. But only five of the original party were alive to crawl to land. Of these five two expired as soon as the beach was reached, the other three were picked up by a wandering tribe of Deer- men and taken into the desolate interior of the country. There Vincent's compan- fons expired, one after another, from the scurvy, and there Vincent himself lived for two long years with his savage friends until a trip to the coast resulted in his rescue and return to civilization. 8. J. Brandon, the clerk of the Senate, is in town from Sacramento. He is regis- | tered at the Grand. Lady Reid, the widow of the surgeon- general of the British army, is at the Occidental from Vancouver. A. J. Levy, a business man of New York, and George B. Mechan, a banker of Denver, are at the Palace. Miss Grove and Miss Thompson of London, England, are at the California. They are making a tour of the world. A party of Philadelphians is registered at-the California. It consists of O. Douglass, W. P. Martin and H. Lewis and wife. J. F. Rodrigues, the Minister to Mexico | from Guatemala, is in the city on a short visit. family and is staying at the Occidental. eeeosssseeseees Twenty lovers of sport have TO WHIP i chartered a spe- clal car and will THE RUSSIAN § {20 to-night at RIVER. 6:20 for a fishing trip to the Rus- sian River, going over the North Pacific Coast as far as Duncans Milis and returning to the city late to-morrow evening. The party, which is a strictly private affair headed by John Peletier of Borel & Co.'s bank, expect to have first-class sport and to be able upon their return to show such substantial proofs of their prowess that the somewhat notorious achievement of a gentleman of Palestine familiarly known as Jonah will sink into icance by comparison. J. E. Stubbs, the president of the Ne- vada State Unlversity and a brother of the railroad man, is in the city for a short time. He is staying at the Occi- dental. J. Kruttschnitt, the general manager of the Southern Pacific, who has been making a trip over the road as far as New Orleans, returned to the city on ‘Wednesday evening. Don C. W. Musser, son of Willlam Mus- ser, one of the leading business men of Utah, is on this coast on a lecturing tour. He arrived here from Washington. Two or three years ago he visited Palestine. +eesssssesesesesees A lady who is at one of the hotels A here has a coun- try place not far FELINE from Menlo NARCISSUS. Park, 'on the grounds of which s a ountain having the reflective properties of a mirror. A large and hand- some tomcat, belonging to the es- tablishment, was wandering around the grounds one day and, chancing to look into the fountain saw the reflection of its own features lcoking up out of the lquid depths. The cat became so fas- cinated with the feline loveliness it be- held that it could not tear itself away, and forgetful of mice, rats and even the tempting green parrot on the porch, continued to lock into the water and ad- mire the beautiful creature it saw there, The mistress of the house had her pet brought in and the most delicate dishes that ever tempted the palate of a cat were placed before it, All to ne pur- He is accompanied by his wife and | pose. Tom refused te touch the food and | as soon as released would hurry back | to the fountain. This continued until one | day the emaciated body of poor Thomas was found at the edge of the water. His | heart had been true to its ideal until it had ceased to beat. e | CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7—Louls P.| Boardman of San Francisco will remain | in Washington for several days. He has removed to the Riggs House from the | Raleigh. T. E. Gibbon of Los Angeles, | | vice-prestdent of the Los Angeles Trac- | tion Railway Company, is at the Riggs | House. RHINOLOGY—NASAL RESPIRATION. ¥ A | | | | | . Fig. 2—Respiratory curves of the same | subject ; | a—nasal. b—buccal. c—of two subjects. | d—by a single nostril. | | The time was 36 seconds for ¢ and 2 | for a. | For some years past the nose has held | in medicine and physiologyan importance | | not formerly recognized. They accorded | to it the function of smelling, and were | willing to admit that it served to humid- | ify and warm the inspired air, but that | was all. Now the study of this organ | constitutes a recognized branch of medi- | cine. Rhinology is a medical specialty, | | and the nose is thrust almost everywhere | in diagnosis of the human ailments. | | T6 the presence of polypi or other ob- struction in this organ, they attribute | asthmatic affections, nightmare, coughs, faclal neuralgia, vertigo, fever, depres- slon and visual as well as mental troubles. Dr. H. Mendel of Paris has just added 2 very interesting confirmation of the importance of the nose in the respiratory act, in showing, by careful experiments, that that organ allows to pass in the same time and with equal respiratory ef- | fort a much larger quantity of air than the mouth, and that nasal obstruction determines a diminution in the supply of | oxygen to the blood and provokes as- phyxia and its usual consequences. To ascertain exactly the volumes of air to which the nose and the mouth respect- ively give passage in a given time, Dr. Mendel constructed an apparatus which he calls a Rhinometre (A) which consists essentially of a receiver of known ca- pacity (40 litres), which can be increased or diminished at will by adding or draw- | ing off water. This apparatus has four orifices. One connects the interfor of | the receiver with a Manometer (M) on the outside, which permits the measure- ment of the inside pressure and the vol- | ume of alr lmspired. The three other orifices—2 centimeters in diameter—are fixed to the mouth and to the two nos- trils by means of three rubbers, I centi- meter in dlameter, armed at the end with nozzles of exactly the same diameter, but varying in caliber according to the age and size of the subject. On the top of the recelver are installed thres electro magnets. FEvery time the current traverses the circuit these mag- nets attract thelr armatures and close the rubber tubes, stopping the access of alr to the cavities of the patient. The electro magnets are controlled by clock-work apparatus (H) which sends the current at the end of a second, half 8ecend, ten or twenty seconds, as may be desired, An electric bell actuated by the current warns the patient that the tubes are about to open, and that respir- | | Sing. | says he has discovered ation is possible. With a little practice nothing is easier than for the patient to make the beginning of the inspiratory ef- fort goincide exactly with the opening of the tubes, and thus measure accurately the volume of alr inspired. In general, while the mouth will breathe in one litre of air the nostrils will take in one and a quarter litres in [l{e same time, and with equal effort. This applies to normal subjects. Subjects troubled withnasal obstructions naturally produce different results. The apparatus is practical and simple, and is destined to render great service in diagnosis of s v the aid of a reglstering apparatus M. Mendel made some experiments as to the comparative frequency and n:gu- larity of the nasal and buccal resmra.hc;r.;;‘ acts. The tracings of the curves, -whic are here reproduced, are Very interas:ltng and instructive. They show the vll‘e..p - atory movement as fixed by a sty us’j‘;‘: disks turning at a given velocity. & 0; expiration is the outside crest of eac! ot the sinuosities, and inspiration is the le or inside. By the curves a and b it was E;hown that in the same Interval of time—3% sec- onds—nine nasal respirations were made, S ainst eleven buccal. aTgi tracings ¢ and 4 were taken from two different subjects, one of whom had obstructions in one of his nostrils, and they demonstrated the very paradox- fcal truth that inspiration by a single nostril even procures more air than the buccal movement. Let us breathe through the nose, and train the children to do the same, and we will avold many hurtful consequences. (Le Monde Illustre.) =wes BS PRECEPT AND PRACTICE. My grandmother used to say to me, My grandmother used to ‘say, “Now don’t run after the boys, my girl But stick to your sewing. pray For men who want wives unt them, dear, Care not to be met For the longest chase | My grandmother use way; - the fairest SPoTt, to say. My grandmother used to say to me. y grandmother used to say, Now stop your dreaming and baste your hem, Dreams never were meant for a day. Don’t hurry, my girl. to find a lad, Maids never have will nor way | Till sorrow and twenty are come and gone;" My grandmother used to say. But I'd heard some tales and said one day: “Now, Granny, you dear old thing, You met, I've been told, vour lover at b And were married and all rs0 Now, what have you got to say? For, ‘Stop your dreaming and baste your hem, ABG Woolng wil Keep for a Eood two-year,” N T At Stiitman. Powell in Puck. FLASHES OF FUN. “Why did you ever come to this frozen country?”’ asked one shivering traveler | of another in the Chilkoot Pass. “My creditors made it too hot for me in New York,’ said the other through his chattering teeth.—Brooklyn Life. Edith—Mr. Fatham, I hope you won't think me inquisitive, but will you please tell me what your profession or business is2 Fatham—Oh, not at all, Miss Tilter; I am a thespian. Edith—There, I told mother I knew you were not an actor.—Boston Transcript. The -Youthful Enthusiast—I have just heard that two people, who have lived with each other in the bonds of matri- mony for a¥long time, come to look much alike. Isn't it beautiful to think of? The Savage Bachelor—I don’t see any- thing beautiful in the thought of two people gradually taking on a look of chronic worry.—Indianapolis Journal. “Poor Timmie! Foive I do feel sorry for h “Bedad, an’ yure shympa away. He's surrounded by Harlem Life. years in Sing y's trowed frinds.”"— “Why have you taught your baby boy to eat onions?” “It keeps people from kissing him."— Chicago Record. “Virginla has flirting.” “That looks like a combination of the new women and the old maids."—Cleve- land Plain Dealer. Mr. Gaswell—-An E passed a law agalnst stern astronomer two groups of spots on the sun. Mr. Gasbill-I wish he would come to Pittsburg and make an effort to dls- cover the sun {tself.—Pittsburg Chroni- cle-Telegraph. - —————— Low's Horehound Cough Syrup for hoarseness; price 10c. 417 Sansome st. ® o GRANTS TO MdTHERS. Since the Queen ascended the throne it has been reckoned that over 500 grants have been made of the charitable dona- tlon of three pounds, which her Majesty usually bestows on mothers of living triplets who are in poor or indigent cir- cumstances.—Philadelphia Inquirer. =S e e Cal.glace fruit 3c perlb at Townsend's.® : —_——— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Biireau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery st. Tel. Main 1042, . —_—— Melville Davidson Post, who was wide- Iy censured for pointing out the loop- holes in the law through which eriminals may escape in his book, entitled *The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason,” has published another work of the same nature, and says “he who points out the vice of the law to the people cannot be said to do evil.” —————— DR. SIEGERT'S ANGOSTURA BITTERS, the world renowned appetizer and invigorator, is used over | the whole eivilized world. Beware of imitations. e THROAT TROUBLES. 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