The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 4, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1898. Tall IN HE news from Germany is disagreeable. Cali- FEBRUARY 4, 1808 | = | |OUR COMMERCIAL INTEREST | fornia had just opened the way in that empire JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Commu nications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. ‘PUBLICATION OFFICE........ Market and Third Sts. S. F. Telephone Main 1S65. EDITORIAL ROOMS.......... 21T to 221 Stevenson street Telephone Main 1874, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers In this city and surrounding towns for 15 cents a week. By mall $6 per year, per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE... Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE..........Room 188, World Building ..One vear, by mall, $1.50 908 Broadway Riggs House ‘WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE €. C. CARLTON, Correspondei ERANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street. eorner Clav: open until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street: open untll €30 o'clock. 62 MoAllister street: open untll 9:30 o'clock. 6I5 Lorkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock SW. corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets; open untll | So'clock. 2518 Mission street: open untll 9 o'clock 106 Eleventh st open untli9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street cpen until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second | and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. aris.” | Black Patti's Troubadours, Sunday night an-Hebrew Opera Co., Sunday night. Mason aud Eddy streets.—Kirchner's Ladies' | ne Lectures. agleside Racetrack—Races to-day. & Park, 10-morrow afternoon. > d q | A Z 0 > 3 m w @N @SININE BOODLER. N its latest attempt to secure another “advertis- | ing” contract from the railroad monopoly the Mission street Boodler is entitled to the sym- people. The Boodler thought it had the monopoly in the door on the fen- | der question, and its editor rushed out to the police court and swore to a warrant for the arrest of H. E. Huntington under rdinance which is not operation. This h t disturbed the railroad at The Boedl ceeded in laying its or liable in civil dam for malicious arrest and itself open to an action for libel, besides convincing the public that it is an ass of the first magnitude. Then in order to carry out its desperate programme | of getting on the railroad payroll whether or no, the | Boodler took up the cause of Supervisors Delany, Haskins, Devany and Rivers, members of the Com- mittee on Health and Police, who are responsible for the delay in For several days the | Boodler has been loud in its defense of these officials, while soundly berating the Market Street Company | for not equipping its cars with a fender in defiance | of the law. In frantic efforts to put itself right be- fore the public and dissipate the universal impres-} sion that its crusade is only a campaign for another | “advertising” contract, the Boodler has converted it- | self c comedian. Now it is | howling daily about fenders, ordinances, electric cars, Attorney-Generals, Governor Budds, warrants and | Huntingtons, without either system or coherence. | If we did not know that the Boodler was always a d fear for its sanity. than that a man weaves a tangled web of fraud and deceit he soon be- comes enmeshed in his own The Boodler started the fender fight with a corrupt motive. It did | not desire the public good. It wanted to put Hun- | tington in a “hole” because he will not “advertise” in it. So it proceeded on an inoperative ordinance and told a whole lot of falsehoods about fenders and electric cars. Like all numskulls who play with tools which can be handled successfully only by grown-up, intelligent men, the Boodler has simply fallen into the mire of its own idiocy. The Call hesitates to pursue this subject further, because we understand there is a law, moral if not statutory, against ridiculing fools. We are, indeed, sorry for the Boodler. We are especially sorry for it in this fender question. If it is so important that it shall get another “advertisi contract, why does it not put in an application in the proper way and offer to shut up about the railroad monopoly? It has no moral right to inflict its idiocy upon. its readers in a futile attempt to compel the corporation to “ad- vertise.” It is our opinion, foolish as the Boodler is, that the railroad, if properly petitioned, would pay a little something for its silence. l pathy of all tender-hearted in dopting a fender. o a veritable journalis! brainless donkey we shoul There is nott when | | | uer | lies. The arrest of a mate for cruelty to sailors has taken place at Portland. As usual, the sailors are held in “jail as witnesses and doubtless the accused will give | bail with comfortable promptness. One of the pen- | alties of being a sailor is, apparently, to get beaten, | and the penalty of complaining about this is to get | the punishment which ought to go to the original | cfiender. i SRS Murderer Clark says he bears no ill-will toward any one, which is a noble sentiment and ought to have been cultivated while he still had possession of a gun. Possibly Secretary Alger has been worried into ill- ness by the fear that the harbor at San Pedro will be built despite his conscientious scruples against it. | | There is no doubt that Vining’s material for a | private graveyard is enough to make an imposing | spectacle if grouped and suitably monumented. Nevada wants to wipe Douglas County off the map, i and this ambition will be at once recognized as an effort in the direction of leading a better life. I R Friends of annexation are now said to favor delay. There could be no milder way of expressing their recognition of the fact that they are licked. Prospectors kept out of the Klondike by lack of provisions may repine, but even repining is prefer- able to being starved to death. Dr. Schenk is not so certain as he was. He is be- ginning to realize that the Creator is still an au- thority. “The wages of sin” is not the variety to be col- lected in a hat. That is the wages of nerve. 4 | it should have been. GERMANY. | [ for American fruit. Our exhibit at the food | show in Hamburg was followed by a steady and in- creasing demand for American fruit. German deal- ers were represented here by buyers who were fairly skinning the market of its stock. In the midst of this activity appears an arbitrary prohibition of im- ports which cuts off apples, pears and all fresh fruits entirely, and may readily exclude also all dried fruit, | the form in which our trade promised the best results. We have a commercial treaty with Germany whereby we are guaranteed the same advantage in her markets which is accorded to the most favored nation. Under this treaty each nation may establish such revenue regulations, by tariff, as it chooses. It may put its tariff rate on any given article or class of articles at a ‘prohibitory point if it chooses. But neither nation may exclude the products of the other by subterfuge and indirection. This is done by Ger- | many when she excludes our meats and fruits on pretended sanitary grounds. To answer the de- mands of her agrarians Germany excluded our pork undér pretense that it was commonly affected by trichina. Against this exclusion we could show the | almost entire immunity of our pork-eating people from the disease caused by that parasite, but this | made no impression upon the German Government. It desired to get around its treaty and avoid punish- ment for violating the favored nation clause, and so | it stubbornly insisted upon this exclusion for sanitary reasons. Even after our Government had established a rigid scientific inspection of all meats for export Germany flouted the efficiency of the inspection and in a high-handed way impeached the good faith not only of the exporter, but of the Government itself. At the same time that this was going on England was taking largely of our pork products, packed in the same way and by the same houses, and her peo- ple consumed them to their advantageand without any evil results. In the same way England is' to-day taking our fresh, dried and tinned fruits, and with a scientific inspection of all her food products that is not excelled by that of Germany finds no reason for refusing them on sanitary grounds. It is noteworthy that Germany does not put up these bars to the trade of any other nation. If she | did it by her tariff it must act equally against all the | countries with which she has commercial relations. This she does not wish to do. She desires to take and hold an attitude of hostility toward the United Stat, to single out our people for her resentment, without injuring her standing with any other. 1t is time to end the game of false pretenses under which this policy has been pursued by that nation. The American people were badly impressed recently by the information that the American Minister to Berlin was treated with such conspicuous disrespect that it had become the subject of diplomatic pro- test. Our Minister was compelled to the statement that he could endure the snubs and slights put upon him as an individual, but did not propose to treat them patiently when they were offered in his official character. There has been nothing in the attitude of the United States toward Germany to provoke insults to our Minister or discrimination against our trade, and it is time that both cease or that diplomatic and com- mercial intercourse cease until that Government im- proves its sense of respect for its treaty obligations | and for other members of the family of nations. The most impartial and unimpassioned representa- tions should be made to Germany, with no hint of anything beyond amicable protest, and if patient ef- fort on that line fail to improve the situation, it will be proper to make it plain that this is not China and the policy which forced the Tsung Li Yamen to dis- graceful submission is not of general application. U cisco” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch moans over one of the most noted movements of our civic life; declaring that it tends to weaken govern- ment and is subversive of republican institutions. It describes the movement as an example of philo- sophical anarchism, and advises us to battle with it at once or prepare to meet the worst. It will surprise our readers to learn that the authors of the anarchy are the members of the Merchants’ Association, and that the anarchical movement itself was the enterprise that resulted in having some of our streets kept clean and well lighted by voluntary con- tributions. The argument of the Post-Dispatch is that any movement on the part of a voluntary association of private citizens to perform work that ought to be done by the Government is a tendency toward an- archy. It is a substitution of the individual will for the public will, and it weakens all government by causing the people to rely upon voluntary actions and contributions for public improvements instead of pro- viding them through the machinery of the organized municipality. According to this view of the case, the sweeping and lighting of the streets by an association of pri- vate citizens was in the nature of lynch law. It was a violation of the established order of society, and was virtually an act by which certain determined men set the government aside and executed something with promptness which otherwise would not have been executed at all. There is an element of reasoh in this argument. k is not advisable that a people should ever be led to rely upon private action to perform work which ought to be done by the people as a whole. It fares ill with a community that waits for a millionaire to give it a public library or a park or to provide any other work necessary to the general good. The best communities are those all of whose institutions and undertakings essential to the general welfare are car- ried out by the people themselves at the public ex- pense through the established government. It does not follow from this, however, that volun- tary action in matters of public concern tends to anarchy. Such movements as that so well carried out by the Merchants’ Association in this city serve rather to advance municipal government by exhibit- ing to the people object lessons of what could be ac- complished by municipal authority if wisely directed and energetically employed. *San Francisco has learned from the action of her merchants what can be done in the way of street improvements of all kinds, and as a result her government in this respect has been distinctly better than before. -It would in- deed be gratifying to have more object lessons of that kind. He that calls them anarchy is himself an anarchist. A QUESTION OF ANARCHY. NDER the heading “Anarchism in San Fran- It seems that the family of Henry George was not left destitute, and there was certainly no reason why Genius ought to be certain of at least the reward constituted by the ability to make a decent living. | MAKE READY FOR THE CANVASS. l begin making ready for the coming political cam- paign’. The Democratic State Central Commit- tee has already held a meeting and started activity in the ranks of that party. Republicans cannot afford to be idle when the enemy is at work. The day when the contest will open briskly all along the line is not so far distant as to make the preliminary work of organization at present either premature or untimely. As the dominant party in the nation and in the State, it devolves upon the Republicans to take the initiative in every step of the campaign. The party in power must shape the issue to be submitted to the country. It must take the leadership at the start or lose prestige with the people. A party charged with the administration of the Government cannot afford to wait and leave it to the opposition to decide what questions shall be put to the front in the canvass and what measures shall be made the dominant fac- tors of the contest at the polls. The appeal recently issued from the State League of Republican Clubs calling on the Republicans every county to organize clubs to co-operate with the league during the campaign deserves a prompt re- sponse from the party at large. This is the time to begin such organizations. The sooner the party gets into ranks the quicker will all its members feel the thrill of the coming contest and the more efficient will they be for the performance of the arduous work required of them when the campaign opens ac- tively and the battle becomes hot and furious. It is too soon, of course, to fix a definite date for the assembling of the State convention, but it is not too soon to decide that it shall be called compara- tively early. On the part of the Republicans this is to be a campaign of education. They will have T is full time for the Republicans of California to of specific measures to defend and to some extent these | will not be understood by the people until they have been explained by the press and from the stump. That work ought not to be postponed too long. In fact the party should be ready to take the field as soon as Congress adjourns and the record of Re- publican legislation is made up for submission to the voters. California is not “a yellow dog” State. It is Re- publican in principles, sentiment and policy, but it demands of the Republican party unswerving fidelity and untiring energy in the performance of public duties. - It does not bestow victory as a favor on the party at any time, but holds it up as a high and noble prize to be won by merit. Because that truth was overlooked in times past the Republicans of Califor- nia have mget many defeats, and at this time, with a Legislature strongly Republican, there is a Demo- cratic Governor at Sacramento, and our industries are misrepresented by five free traders to only four Republican protectionists in Congress. There must be no mistakes this year. The Re- publican party is in this campaign to support great, broad principles and far-reaching measures of tional importance. It must have brainy, broad- minded, vigorous, full-blooded men to represent it. This is the time to get the energies of the party started. Activity aroused now will mean enthusiasm when the battle begins. dike excitement has affected the Eastern States THE KLONDIKE RUSH. l that the stocks of all railways likely to obtain a T is significant of the extent to which the Klon- large share of the travel westward have advanced con- THE TRAGEDY OF HOUSEKEEPING, As Told by Want Ads. ANTED—By February 1, a small, sunny, modern cottage, location central. Address JOHN SMITH, box 65, this office. WANTED—By February 1, small sunny flat; rent reasonable. Address JOHN SMITH, box 65, this office. WANTED—Immediately, small flat; 2 in 1 no children. = Address JOHN box 65, this office. WANTED—Girl for housework: 2 in fnml\sy: call early. MRS. JOHN SMITH, 1703 Steiner street. WANTED—Competent girl for house- work; 2 in family. 1703 Steiner street. WANTED—Respectful, good gir]l for housework and to take complete charge of small flat; must know how to cook; no Irish; 2 In family. 1703 Steiner street. WANTED—Good cook who'll do general housework; 2 {n family; no Irish nor Swedes. 1703 Steiner street. WANTED—Good cook; neat, energetic Irl:“no Irish, Swedes or Germans; 2 in amily. na- | siderab'y on the strength of the increased trade they | are expected to receive. Street News these roads are referred to as “the Klon- dike group,” and the announcement is made that all of them are booming. The financial editor of the New York Tribune at- tributes much of what he calls “the sensational ad- vance” in the bonds of the Seattle and Eastern Road to a contest for control, but says the upward move- ment in all the northern lines is due largely to the “Klondike craze” and its effect upon the public mind. He quotes reports to the Secretary of War as in- dicating that 200,000 people will go to Alaska this year, and concedes that estimates of a large bus for the Klondike group of roads are well justified. The Wall Street News in discu ticipation only, but adds that thc Northwestern ra ways have spent a great deal of time and money in rush this year, and concludes, “If only a fair part of their expectations are realized the shares of all roads running to the Pacific Coast are selling very low.” The Tribune estimates that the abnormally large rush for Alaska will continue for at least two years, but argues that the vast extent of the Alaskan gold districts and the richness of the placers thus far dis- covered promise a permanent trade of great propor- tions. It is pointed out-'that the difficulties which have confronted the Alaskan miners in the past will be diminished with each succeeding year as the facili- ties for obtaining supplies increase, and that con- sequently the development of the country will go steadily forward so that even if the rush falls off after rext year the trade of the region in supplies of all kinds is likely to grow in magnitude for years to come. Wall street is not always a safe guide to follow. It has its temporary aberrations as well as the rest of the country. Nevertheless, when it is so sanguine of a great trade and business in a particular direction as to put up the millions of money necessary to ad- vance the stocks and shares of a whole group of rail- roads it may be accepted as a very good indication that a good basis exists for the bull movement. In a sparsely settled country like the Pacific Coast we do not feel the Klondike excitement as it is felt in the crowded East, where the intending prospectors of the new gold fields are counted not by hundreds, but by thousands. Wall street is in the center of the excitement in the East and knows what is coming. As the Tribune says, “it may be imagined what earn- ings the companies which handle the bulk of the Alaska trade will make this year and what a perma- nent trade is opened to them. Supplies for 200,000 people must average over a ton each, and all has to be carried in.” E— —————m AN AQUARIUM ON WHEELS. Live fishes afe ordinarily transported in cans, de- signed for the purpase, and made of different sizes. If necessary the water in these cans is aerated by dipping it up and letting it fall again through the air into the can. Sometimes the water is aerated by umping from one can to another with a pump made or the purpose. In cars especially designed for the transportation of living fishes, as, for example, those of the United States sh Commission, a constant circulation of water is maintained. The young salmon recently received at the New York aquarium from the commission’s station at Green Lake, Me., came through in such a car. It is fitted with tanks. There s carried under the car foor a reservoir of water, into a supply tank above. whence it runs down into the tanks containing the fishes, over- fiowing into the reservoir below. lx‘fls practically an aquarium on wheels.—New York Sun. Prince hnfitm is putting his mark on Australian English. They are selling Rauji boots, Rauji tobacco and Rauji squashes at the An- 1 tipodes. X In such papers as the Wall | iness | | ing the rapid rise | by white peop! in the shares says that at present it is based upon an- | Sion: | an effort to approximate the extent of the Klondike | wares, a man who has been hunted by the police of nearly half the States WANTED—Capabl girl who can cook; wages. street. 1703 Steiner street. family of 2. do general housewor! Auctioneers. 1703 Stelner street. 1703 Steiner street. WANTED—Chinese cook. 1703 Steiner WANTED-—Honest, economical Chinese cook who will do housework; 2 in family. WANTED — Japanese 1703 Steiner street. WANTED—Japanese who can cook and WANTED—Reliable hely for cooking and houseworlk In family of 2; to first-class servant. WANTED—Fairly_competent, ordinary girl for cooking and general housework; good wages; 2 in family. _WANTED — First-class boarding-house by young couple who will take long lease of rooms, and, #f lace is satisfactory, become permanent oarders. Address J. D., box 65 this office. AUCTION! Auction! This Day (Saturday), at 10 a. m., will be auctioned off the tasteful, elegant furnishings of pretty flat, 1703 Steiner street. has been in use only a few weeks by a young couple without children, so buyers will have an excellent opportunity of picking up rare bargains. willing American 2 in family; good r housework; 1703 Steiner street. good wages 1703 Steiner street. 1703 Steiner st. refer hotel life; The furniture DAVIS & CO., MIRIAM MICHELSUN. GOOD occults across the bay. of dollars annually to that country. that deadly pest of the grape vine. the sionary, next Sunday’'s Call. READ NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. THINGS IN NEXT SUNDAY’S CALL. Summon a man from a distant land to appear before you in a few hours? Bosh you will say. But that is just what several adepts claim to have done in a meeting of Of course the man who was summoned did not ap- pear in his every-day body, but in its “counterfeit presentment.” How these | | adepts met and why they permitted a novice to visit the meeting and the | strange scenes that took place there are all set forth IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. In France a discovery has just been made that promises to save millions It is a way to destroy the phylloxera, So anxious were the French to discover | a remedy for this evil that a reward of $300,000 was offered. The pest 1s rap- ‘idly destroying the non-resistant vines in this State as well, and a loss of millians of dollars is threatened. California winemakers, as well French nation, are deeply interested in this discovery. | certain of effect does the new remedy seem that the French Academy and | leading specialists of this country have taken it up. Read what they say about it in next Sunday’s Call. Missionaries meet with strange adventures in China, but a woman mis- working all by herself in a section of the empire rarely penetrated le, often meets the strangest adventures of all. A woman mis- ary has just returned from just such an expedition, and in next Sun- day’s Call she relates the queer sights she saw among the Celestials and the odd customs that prevail ia their home life. ) A notorious confidence operator, a merchant in “gold bricks” and such There are lots of other good things. If you want to read all about them and want to get all the best and brightest news of the day as the So important and so CLEANEST AND BEST. Cathlamet Gazette. We are in receipt 6f the Golden Ju- bilee edition of the San Francisco Call, with its highly artistic and il- luminated cover. The edition is to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of gold in California by J. W. Marshall in 1848. The paper is replete with interesting details of the development of mining in Califor- nia, besides its usual complete tele- graphic and news service. The Call is unquestionably the cleanest and best newspaper In San Francisco, and should be more generally circulated on the Columbia River. Success to The Call and its fight against sensa- tional journalism, which panders only to the lowest instincts of society. —_—e———— OUTRANKED ALL THE OTHERS. Denlg's Pony Express. The San Francisco Call's Jubilee edi- tion was a triumph in modern jour- nalism and a sucecinct and compre- hensive history of those early days when gold-seekers were thronging the hills and valleys of California brought down to the present day, Nothing of interest seems to have been omitted, and the whole story is told in beauti- fully colored illustrations and intelli- gent pen description. The Call out- ranked all the bay papers in the com- pleteness, beauty and value of a Golden Jubilee edition. ————— NEW ERA IN JOURNALISM. Winters Express. The Jubilee Edition of the San Francisco Call was a megnificent publication, and its glory was in- creased by the special trains that sent it to all parts of the State hours in advance of the mails. The Call has marked a new era in journalism and its speclal trains a new era in rail- roading. ———————— A VALUABLE HISTORY. Inyo Reglster. The San Francisco Call got out a special jubilee edition last Sunday that will interest every pioneer and lover of California history. Its his- torical articles are comprehensive and well worth keeping for future reference. COLLECTED IN 5 THE CORRIDORS| Dr. F. W. O. Scott, U. 8."N,, is at the Occidental. Dr. W. N. Moore of the Ukiah asylum | is at the Russ. H. Silver, a Los Angeles capitalist, is a guest at the Palace. A. Sharkey, a large lumberman of Liv- ermore, is at the Russ. i J. M. Wilmans, 2 wealthy mining man of Sonora, is at the Lick. © H. J. Lewelling, a lawyer of St. Helena, 1s registered at the Lick. James F. Peck, the foremost attorney of Merced, is at the Lick. G. W. McGrath, a prominent banker of Omaha, Is a guest at the Palace. | John Poole, one of the foremost busi-| ness men of Seattle, is at the Russ. S. N. Griffith, a vineyardist of Fresno, | arrived at the Occidental yesterday. i ‘W. R. Carrithers, a large wholesale ; merchant of Santa Rosa, is at the Lick. | Thomas Warburton, a wealthy stock- man of Nevada, is a guest at the Russ. J. A. Wilcox, one of the heavy men of Red Bluff, is at the Russ for a few days. | B. F. MeCullough, a big cattleman of | Crow's Landing, is to be found at the Grand. | ©000® 0000 . If there is any | o O doubt about this A story the press o o agent of “The| O COMPLICATION o @it ot o the | O OFSPEECH. ©O will show the| o shoes as roof. | oco0ooco0co0000 0% Miss CnrflepBehri and Harry Hermsen sent their shoes out | for repairs the other night and the mes- | senger boy in returning got the feet cov- | e:nsl ml:::! d:lss Behr wears men's | shoes sev 'S too large for her in | her character of the slavey, so she did not notice the change. During the second | act Miss Behr found, to her surprise, | that she was speaking with a German | accent and at the same time Hermsen intonation. Try as they would they could not conquer their unruly tongues and were In & frenzy of apprehension when the curtain fell. other’s shoes. A change was straightway effected and no further difficulty was en- The point of this story lies in the cor- began to develop a penchant for Cockney | Then they compared notes and found that the trouble arose | from the fact that each was wearing the | roboration it gives to the assertion of Miss Mamie Gilroy, the prospective bride of Dr. MacNamara, the head of Chicago’s Board of Health, that Mr. ‘Ward, the company's advance agent, is the soul of truth and the mirror of probity. Ex-State Senator James McCudden fs registered at the Baldwin from his home in Vallejo. R. H. R. Loughborough, U. 8. A., has been ordered out to duty on the coast; he is at the Grand. Dr. O. L. Barton of the Herman mine has come down to the city on a vacation: He is at the Grand. F. P. Wickersham, a big banker and prominent politician of Fresno, is at the Lick for a few days. Dr. Ida Muschett, the only woman phy- sician of Jackson, Amador County, is reg- istered at the Grand. Henry Levin, a- mining man of Tycson, Ariz., is making a short stay in the city; he is at the Baldwin. R. H. Ryland, a leading merchant of Los Angeles, is among those who went to the Palace yesterday. Dr. C. A. Ruggles of the State Board of Health is In the city on a business trip and has taken apartments at the Grand. George C. Carter, a well-known and popular insurance man of Boston, is mak- ing a short trip to the coast and is at the Palace. Frank W. Griffen, a mining man of Breckenridge, Colo., has again returned to the city, after a short absence, and is at the California. John O’'Neill and his two sons, together with Dr. David Nagle, all of London, England, are among last evening's ar« rivals at the Palace. . 0000000008 He had been & o pretty good .sort o A VERY o of afellowbefors o DOUBTFUL o bhis trip abroad, but since asso- O COMPLIMENT.® clating with. the O English aristoc- -3 ©C00000000 racy he had be- come so critical on matters of dress, form and speech that there was nothing in his native California that had his com- plete approval. Yet the feeling that he entertained for his benighted fellow be- ings, who had never been over two or three thousand miles from their homes, was rather one of compassion than con- demnation. He pitied their unfortunate ignoranceandnever allowed an opportun- ity to pass without endeavoring to cor- rect it. Strange as it may seem, this young gentleman’s kindly attempts to polish off the rough edges on some of the o0ld nuggets of the days of 49 were not always received in the proper apirit; in fact, some of the hardest cases that he tried to bring under the influence of his ‘| transatlantic refinement have been heard, after his departure, to commune with themselves in terms not generally heard in the best society. The other day a party of business men was sitting at lunch in the Palace Grill when their circle was added to and orpa- mented by the advent of this young scion of nineteen centuries and one generation, who drew up his chair to the table, and, regardless of the business discussion that was going on, proceeded to hold forth on his favorite topic to the exclusion of all other conversation. The rest of the party listened with ill-concealed impatience un- til one of them broke in with: “Say, old man, you know I was once in England myself. I met some delightful people there. One of them in particular,Lord X., was, I think, the most thorough and per= fect gentleman I have ever seen, and, do you know, there is one thing about your manner that reminds me very forci- bly of his.” “What is that?” asked the surprised and delighted young anglomaniac. “The complete difference,” replied the first speaker. It took some time for the full signifi- cance of the answer to soak in, but when it did there was a sudden rustling of chairs heralding the abrupt departure of the only cad in the party. T Al CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—L. D. Atkins, Los Angeles, National Hotel; H. G. Mat- tingly, Oakland, The Shoreham; Charles | D. Frisble, San Francisco, Riggs House. Genuine eyeglasses, specs, 15¢ up.33 éth.® it s i e Cal.glace fruit 50c perib at Townsend's.* Bt el ot Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Maih 1042. * — ————— SUCH IS FAME. A Prussian officer in the German army has been in the habit of questioning raw recruits on simple matters of na- tional history. Here are a few replies to his questions: “Who is Bismarck?" “Bis- marck was Emperor of the French. “Bismarck is dead.” “Bismarck is a pensioner and lives in Paris.” “Bis- 'y X { marck took part in the campaign of 1570 | in the Union, has just been netted here by the law. Time and again he was i arrested, and time and again he was helped to freedom by his devoted wife. The story of his rise, fall and the clever schemes he worked to delude t}_le wary and unwary alike and relieve them of their money are all set forth in and received a medal for good conduct.” “Bismarck descends from the Hohenzol- lerns, and was born on April 1.” Of sixty- | six recruits whom the officer had to in- struct twenty-one had never in their lives heard the name of the Iron Chan- cellor.—Brooklyn Citizen. —_—————— Time Reduced to Chicago. 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Every new leaf a man turns over the devil lays on top of E grid he is savingp for t}fl;»plle T Love is a game in which it never pays to bet to the lmit. ot i ‘When a gir! nks she has got a fo0t She W Eencranty Tnd Tt oan P ety T hon e ie sald b =Y ¥ a hair “falls to _her knees"'m:h‘:n tenuflm.t hf; means when she bends over. .