The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 22, 1898, Page 6

Wall MARCH 22 1?8 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. (2% LSBT UETE Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. .Market and Third Sts., S. F. Main 1868. 217 to 221 Stevenson Street n 1874. ;’UBLI&ATION OFFICE . Telephon EDITORIAL ROOMS.. Telephone THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) is | served by carriers In this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mail $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL OAKLAND OFFICE Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE.. .Room 188, World Building ‘WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE Riggs House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Moptgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until ©:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open untll 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. [] 3 £ < ® a 5 4 < 3 B b AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—*" Mysterjous Mr. Bugle." bia— 1492 " r—“Uncie Dudley.” The Upper Hand.” The Widow O'Brien.” Tivoli—Concert Thursday afternoon, March 24. Orpheum—Vaudeville. Olympia. corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Chiquita and Vaudeville. ion to San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley, h 26. Pacific Coast Jockey Club, Ingleside Track—Races, AUCTION SALES. By E. S. Spear & Co.—This day, March 22, Furniture, at 8% eet, at 10 o'ciock. Hardware. at 1011 Broad- | PUBLISHING THE l‘!EW CHARTER: ring to do the work at a lower price than that asked by any of its morning contem- poraries, The Call has obtained the contract for | publishing the text of the proposed new charter. Our readers will, therefore, have the text of the document in full, and can study it comprehensively. It is scarcely necessary to point out that the charter | is a matter of grave importance to the people, and that it should receive the earnest consideration of all. It because of a recognition of the importance of the proposed charter that The Call made so low a bid for the contract for publishing it. The in- | tention was not to make money out of the contract, but to publish the charter as cheaply as possible for the public benefit, and at the same time secure for | The Call a2 document which is of interest to every | citizen as a matter of municipal politics. By the low price at which it offered to perform this work of publication The Call saved to the city a con- siderable sum of money. It will publish the charter at just about cost, and seeks no profit other than that which will come from the increased demand for the paper from citizens who wish to post themselves on the terms of the proposed new form of municipal government, and from the popular appreciation of | the fact that the publication is to be made under con- ditions which are so economical and advantageous to the municipal treasury. | | | | IN TELEPHONE RATES. VARIETIES DEBATE in the United States Senate on a | /LZ\ bill limiting the charges that may be made for | telephone service in the District of Columbia | brought out a good deal of information concerning | the telephone business and disclosed the fact that | there is an almost infinite variety in charges made for i such service in different sections of the Union, and cven between different cities of the same section. | It appears that the charge for telephone connection | in Washington is from $140 to $150 a year, accord- " ing to the service. In that city the telephones are in the hands of a monopoly. Senator Cullom showed | what rates could be profitably given under stress of | competition by citing his own city, Springfield, 11I., d made a good point in doing so, for the rate in Springfield is but $36. Information given by other Senators shows that charges for special metallic current are: In Mil- waukee, $120; in Louisville, $111; Atlanta, $g0; Phil- adelphia, $160; Boston, $168; St. Paul, $120; and Newark, $150. In opposition to these high rates it was noted that in Augusta, Ga., the rate is $30; Rich- mond from $18 to $30; in Kansas City, $12 for resi- dences and $18 for business houses; and in Roanoke, Va,, from $12 to $zo. One of the best illustrations of the benefits accru- ing from competition in the business was derived from the experience of Detroit. In that city the Bell telephone rates were from $50 to $7z a year. The Home Telephone Company was organized, and the Bell Company at once reduced the rates to from$24to $36 a year. As a result of the reduction in charges the number of subscribers in the city ncreased from less than 7000 to over 12,000. In this connection it may be noted that under the present high charges in Washington the number of telephone subscribers in that comparatively large and wealthy city is less than 2000. There seems no other reason for this wide variation in different cities than that some of them will submit to high charges and others will not. The rate is fixed not on what the traffic will bear, but what the people will bear. The Senate passed the bill limiting the rates which the monopoly may charge in Wash- ington to $50 a year for the use of a telephone on a separate wire, and $25 on a wire on which four or more telephones are operated. It appears, therefore, that while competition can do much, legislation also can do something. “Hyena press” is the characterization applied to some of the papers of Havana, and it is doubtless correct. But the charge is weakened apparently by coming from a sheet which by climbing as high in the moral scale as the hyena would be visibly im- proved. When the Examiner demon:trated that it did not know one end of a ship from another it merely gave an illustration of the knowledge it is apt to have concerning any subject it undertakes to treat. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt sometimes makes mistakes, being human, but his denunciation of Hearst’s paper as a lying, rascally sheet seems to be flawless. One reason for not getting excited over the report that in case of war France will be an ally of Spain is | King of Spain did not ratify this treaty until after he | had lost Mexico by the revolution. | all its parts. | territory, ultimately to be admitted as a State? THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1898. ————————————————— ——————— @BOUT PRECEDENTS. = HE Chronicle makes an airy skip-jump-and- ’-l hop over the constitution in discussing annexa- | tion by joint resolution. It says that Congress | established a precedent in the Texas case, and Con- gress can now originate another precedent. It is well not to forget the details of the Texas case. All of | Florida and Louisiana had been the property of Spain. Louisiana included Texas. Spain by treaty | ceded to France all of her possessions on the conti- rent except Florida. In 1806 the United States by treaty annexed to our territory all of Louisiana. In i 1819 we made a treaty with Spain annexing Florida and ceding to her the Texan part of Louisiana. The Tt was held, therefore, that his ratification only conveyed to the United States Florida, over which he had juris- diction, and that his ratification did not convey Texas to Mexico. In this nice question was the germ of our contention with Mexico that finally led to war. As a result of the battle of San Jacinto, Santa Anna made a treaty conceding the independence of Texas, which thereupon set up for herself as the Lone Star Republic. It will be seen, then, that our surrender of Texas by the treaty of 1819 was imperfect; that Mexico’s claim was defective; and that admission of Texas by joint resolution as a State was the actual recovery of domain over which we had always retained a shadow of title. Texas was not annexed as territory, but was admitted as a new State into the Union by express authority of the constitution granted to Congress. Precedent was followed, not invented. The constitu- tional theory and practice that alien territory can be annexed only by the treaty-making power of the con- stitution was left undisturbed. The Chronicle avows itself ready and willing now to establish a precedent, which will ignore the treaty- making power and arrogate to Congress a power which no expounder of the constitutlon has ever pre- tended that it possesses. Congress can establish no precedent unwarranted by the fundamental law. If| it could, the work of Chief Justice Marshall, in defi- | nition of the powers of the three co-ordinate branches | of the Government, would not be worth the binding of the books in which it is inscribed. | When Tim Campbell represented Tammany in | Congress he introduced a bill that was declared un- | constitutional by the Judiciary Committee. Tim | heard the report, and, addressing the chair, said, “Mr. Speaker, what's the constitution amongst | friends?” | The Chronicle seems to follow Tim’s construction | of the fundamental law. Between such friends as the ) island oligarchy and the Chronicle the constitution | may not amount to much, but to the great body of the American people it amounts to the charter of all | | the rights they have, and should not be violated in | the smallest particular lest it become ineffective in | Will the Chronicle say, once for all, whether it favors the immediate admission of Hawaii as a State | or whether it favors its annexation as a county of | California, or whether it favors its annexation as a | Will it also cite the constitutional authority for the accomplishment of the second and third plan by joint Let it be remembered that this country fought four vears of destructive and costly war to establish the now that instrument may be set aside the sacrifice made in its behalf was valor, life and treasure spent QUESTION OF THE AGE. l N the local columns was recently recorded an ac- “Aged Cyclist Injured.” A natural supposition was that some vencrable grandfather had come to grief. that the rider was 50 years old. Now, if this century has been marked by so swift “aged” it is time to slow up. Such a man should be | in his prime, unless he be a prize-fighter, in which the lawyer, the banker and the citizen generally has just a sprinkling of the white hairs which are indica- “aged” a clear insinuation that he has entered upon the sere and yellow, there is little use in one’s pre- devoid of experience he cannot have the full confi- | dence of the rest of the world, and when, as a man of | garded as an episode in the progress of senile decay, life appears too short to bother with. snowy heads bespeak the passing of at least three score years over them, yet pedaling away like a lot of more to these figures and go spinning along, shcd-1 ding the incubus of accumulating decades asthey glide So it is not fair to term the fifty-year man “aged.” The one thus misrepresented would have a perfect few copy-readers downstairs, just to convince them of their error. fl MORNING contemporary suggests that the 4 “sealers” of weights and measures throughout California contains the germ of a valuable reform nate abuse now being heaped upon that statute. This is true. Indeed, it was the existence of a demand for measures which led Mahoney to concoct his law. Being a politician, he could see no way of achieving cordance with his principles, evolved the State and county ‘“‘sealers.” tablishing a State standard of weights and measures. Such a standard might be enforced by making it a officers and constables of the State under such a law cotild, with the aid of the courts, see to it that the short measures. If it were not practicable to estab- lish a State standard by law the Governor, Secretary authorized to adopt one. In this way the valuable reform referred to by our contemporary might have community a hoard of mousing fee-takers. The objection to the Mahoney law is that it estab- entirely foreign to the constitution. Business men now pay real and personal property taxes, license other smaller impositions, and to pile upon them an additional tax for examining their weights and meas- resolution instead of by treaty? constitution as the supreme law of tne land, and if in vain. cident to a wheelman, and over it was the caption, The real fact, shown by a reading of the article, was | 1 a gait as to make proper the calling of a man of s0 case he doesn’t count. At the fifty mark the doctor, tive of wisdom. If at this stage he is to be called paring himself for a career of usefulness. As a boy 50, he falls off his wheel, only to have the incident re- | Any day in the park may be seen men whose youngsters. Some of them can add a half-score or and feeling as youthful as if yet to cast their first vote. right to ask a retraction, and, not getting it, throw a UNIFORM WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Mahonéy law establishing State and county | which should not be lost sight of amid the indiscrimi- a legal and uniform State system of weights and results except by creating more offices, and, in ac- The same effect would have been produced by es- misdeameanor to use any other. The Sheriffs, police people are not defrauded by inadequate weights or of State and. Attorney-General could have been been effected without fastening upon the mercantile lishes an unnecessary and unjust method of taxation, taxes, internal revenue and custom taxes, besides ures is in the nature of an outrage. We are willing that there is not the faintest reason for believing it. J to concede that a State standard of weights and meas- ures would be a good thing. No honest tradesman could object to it. Indeed, such a standard would probably be received by the mercantile community with favor. But establishing a uniform method of ascertaining weights and measures and fasteningupon the State fifty-seven new office-holders with power to mulct tradesmen for unconstitutional fees are two different things. The next Legislature should be required to reform the Mahoney law. Governor Budd, who is likely to be called upon under the opinion of the Attorney- General to appoint several of these county “sealers,” may properly direct the attention of that body to the subject. If it be true, as our contemporary says, that the consuming public is now being generally cheated in weights and measures, a uniform system should be adopted as soon as possible. There is no question that such a system could be enforced without costing either the State or business men a cent. GET THERE FIRST. OME enterprising New York men have begun S discussing the advisability of opening a grand universal exposition in that clry in 1901. The idea is to take advantage of the collection of exhibits of all nations in Paris in 1900 and provide a place where they can be displayed in this hemisphere before they are dispersed and scattered. The discussions have not yet reached the point of developing activity. At present it is but a project, and not a movement. Nevertheless, the matter is one which ‘concerns us, for if we permit the New Yorkers to get ahead of us in an enterprise of this kind and be first to ask an appropriation from Con- gress for an international exposition in that year our chances of obtaining a large appropriation will be much diminished. Philadelphia has already put forward a project for holding a great exposition in 18g9. Her representa- tives have made application at Washington for an | appropriation for $300,000 to be employed in the con- struction of buildings and $50,000 to be used in pro- mating exhibits of goods from foreign countries. In addition to these sums, the Government will be asked to appropriate a further amount for the pur- pose of making a Governmental exhibit. Bills pro- viding for these appropriations are now before Con- gress, and it is likely they will be adopted either at this session or that of the coming winter. If Philadelphia gets the right of way for 1899 and New York comes in for 1901 our chance for getting a good appropriation would be limited to 1900. That year would suit us perhaps as well as any, but it is known that a considerable number of people favor an exposition for the season following the grand display at Paris. In order, therefore, to give those who pre- fer that year for holding the exposition a fair oppor- tunity to develop their plan, California should act promptly in getting the project into shape. If we are to hold our great fair in the year succeeding the | Parisian display we must present our claim before New York does or we will have a hard fight on our hands to win. Upon no consideration have we any time to lose in an enterprise of this nature. Expositions con- ducted on a large scale have become so popular in the United States, they have proved so profitable to their promoters and so beneficial to the general pub- lic that Eastern cities are vying with one another in a contest for the right of holding them, as it seems to be conceded that no two shall be held in the Unit- ed States at the same time. At Atlanta and at Nashville the South in rapid suc- cession has held two expositions. The upper Mis- sissippi Valley region will hold one this summer at Omaha. Philadelphia will hold one next year. After that the field is open for all aspirants, and many will enter it. New York is already planning for the move- ment. California has no time to waste if she intends to get there first. NAVAL APPROPRIATIONS. EPORTS from Washington to the effect that R the President has received in advance full in- formation of the results of the inquiry into the cause of the destruction of the Maine and is prepared tc send the official report to Congress with a short message as soon as it arrives hardly require confir- riation. It is a matter of course that in an issue of this urgency the board would keep the President in- formed of the trend of evidence given during the in- vestigation, and it is equally a matter of course that the President in turn should at once notify Congress of the conclusions reached. In fact, should the find- ings of the board raise an issue involving the question of war, it will be imperative upon the President to transmit them to Congress, since only Congress has the power to declare war. It is therefore certain that within a few days more the country will learn what view our Government takes of the situation and what are the prospects of a peaceful settlement of the issue. It is under these circumstances that the House of Representatives will begin to-morrow to debate the naval appropriation bill. The influence of the crisis will be felt more or less by every member of the House, and the outlook is that the consideration of the measure will be an occasion for an outpouring of patriotic oratory rather than a debate on the amount of money involved in the appropriation. The country will lose nothing by this substitution of patriotism for the old fashion or haggling over naval appropriations. It is full time that something was done to provide the nation with a navy strong enough not only to guard its long coast line, but to protect its shipping and its interesty In all parts of the world. In these days of steam warships and guns capable of throwing explosive shells for miles we are no longer safe in the mere fact of our remoteness from Europe. A weak nation like Spain can menace us with something of danger, and in a conflict with a first-class power the menace with our present navy would be portentous indeed. In the affairs of nations there are always proba- bilities of war, and in our case such wars as come will almost certainly be fought mainly on sea. We must therefore prepare to make ourselves asea power, and that of no mean importance. Along the Atlantic, the Gulf and the Pacific we have three vast coast lines to defend, and, moreover, an increasing foreign commerce to protect. The importance of an ample navy has been recognized by our ablest statesmen of all parties, and the people are now fully conscious of the need. It is therefore a matter for congratulation that at last Congress approaches the consideration of a naval appropriation bill with thoughts above the level of buncombe economy. This is the week of crisis and of patriotism, and it is not too much to expect that out of it will arise a navy worthy of the republic and equal to the defense of its coasts and its flag all around the globe. Truly the spectacle of France and Russia locked in an embrace of mutual affection is a touching one. It is designed principally to touch anybody who may oppose the combination. According to an evening paper a filibuster is to run th.c '.‘gauntlet.” It is difficult to understand just how this is to be accomplished. 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W TFox omong e warm Savamnahs Mow Xas Lowg-silewt Suwter vowm Wer Sleep, Owma e oXeely dogs o) death ave erouchng om the povapet Wheve Ukoulkvie qriwly Yro ere's A yolling m® ok arwies v -~ Q reaving o\ e \z\ows\nmes X QL vodion feels the warkial Leok of batlle w her breast — O e vials o) Wer mghteous wrath unsealed . ; O dread viston here will be e\\u\-é\;\a\qmm\—\u\\—d.ivme W : Uen the \|qh‘h4m15 o\ e’ Qhfi:l- 2 ,1“‘ Fhard Ve qhio e 0 glow as krom & swingivg saber's shine _ 4a GREGORY. i Yrom the &ee\a Weavens lige this Vine 2 o e “aWq Vike aliyg v, o g e - ,5ream and \ea 5 dartews slowly ashe goes, —— Yy shadow s\\‘(as‘ % c\\YJ:‘r:’ P Hrnees Vike th line q\\n’(s e &\(\\\As\v\ \:;x\/\one)(. > { s e southern dcé‘p . ow the Yarm-howes 3 the Wesk | ar alreld — Vine_ COLLECTED IN THE CORRIDORS. D. Earl of Chicago is at the Baldwin. M. W. Berriman of Chicago is at tne Baldwin. C. M. Wilkens of Philadelphia is at the Baldwin. A. D. Levy of New York is a guest at the Palace. J. C. Dennis from Texas is a guest at the Baldwin. Leo Hamburg of New York is registered at the Baldwin. James J. Wait from Chicago is a guest at the Occidental. J. E. Woodwaite and wife of Portland are at the Palace. J. J. Thomas of Salt Lake City is regis- tered at the Lick. Mrs. and Miss Hardin from Santa Rosa are at the California. Dr. S. C. Leauhardt from Juneau, Al- aska, 1s at tne Grand. H. D. Stone and wife of Rochester, N. Y., are at the Grand. . H. L. Brandon of Philadelphia is a guest at the California, Captain Arthur E. Miller from New York is at the Palace. W. H. Cleary Sr., a prominent miner of Stockton, is at the Lick. Francis Doud, a wholesale butcher of Monterey, is at the Lick. Ex-Judge J. F. Rooney of Tuolumne County is at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. John de Gaitto of Minne- apolis are at the California. L. B. Collins and Miss Collins of St. Louis are at the Californfa. Otis H. Poo.e, a silk merchant from Yokohama, is at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs." W. S. Odell of Ontarlo, Canada, are at the Baldwin. Charles Horton and family of Winona, Minn., are at the Occidental. L. F. Bruner, a furniture-dealer of Sacramento, is at the Grand. A. B. and W. J. Youmens and wives of St. Paul are at the Occidental. Ex-Mayor B. U. Steinman and wifo of Sacramento are at the Palace. J. E. Silver, a large crockery merchant from Los Angeles, is at the Palace. J. W. Cassidy, a merchant of Quincy, 1., with his family, is at the Palace. George Lingo, a large cattleman from Birds Landing, is a guest at the Grand. Henderson Hayward, who is largely in- terested In the oil business in the south- ern part of the State, and who lives at | Los Angeles, Is at the Occidental. | F. W. George, a prominent attornev o Sacramento, is registered at the Grand. Andrew Kull and wife from Lake Ge- neva, Wis., are guests at the Califor- nia. L. S. Chittenden, who owns a large vineyard at Hanford, Cal, is at the Granad. V. D. Willlamson, a prominent mining man from Spokane, is a guest at the Palace. B. H. Upham, proprietor of the Glori- ana vineyard at Martinez, is a guest at the Lick. George R. Stewart, a prominent cattle- dealer from Crows Landing, is a guest at the Grand. ‘W. A. Morgan and E. T. Stimson, well- known mercoants from Los Angeles, are at the Palace. take charge cay al Islands to way to the Sea e of the company’s business. ping at the Occidental. Governor Hastings and party of Penn- sylvania are at the Palace. They re- turned vesterday from Del Monte. Commander B. P. Lamberton of the United States navy, who is on his way to China to take command of the Tos- ton, is registered at the Occidental. Major J. H. Marshall, a well-known Western railroad man, who has been tak- ing tourist observations in California for the past month, leaves to-day for Port- land, Or., on his return journey East. Major Marshall served aboard the gun- boat Choctaw in the operations agaiist Vicksburg in 1863. . e ———— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March 21.—W. F. Goad of San Francisco is :t the Buckingham. Miss Millie Herman of San Francisco has gone to Paris. —_—— = ANSWERS TO CpRRESPONDENTS. “CAXTON"—IL M. Oakland, Cal. The storles that werp written by W. H. Rhodes, “Caxton,” find published In a book called “‘Caxtor's Book,” were all pure fiction. THE LARGEST ;&FLTEY RANCH— M. T., City. Itis clalned that the largest poultry ranch in the State of California is one in Senoma County, three miles from Santa R GENERAL BARILLAS-I. M. G, Qakland, Cal. The Guatemalan who Vis- ited this State about a year ago and had some trouble with . society belle was General Barillas, CRIBBAGE—J. D. In the fol- lowing described play; of cribbage, A, the last player, is entitled to count four for 2 sequence: “B leads ia tray, A pairs, B plays a deuce, A follows with a four, B plays an ace and A plays 4 tray.” B counts four on tray, hice, four and deuce. AXLE AND TIRE—] water, San Benito Coun Cal. The fol- lowing is the law that w passed at the last held session of the California Legis- lature relative to axle and tires that is to go into effect in the future: “The width of tires for wheels upon wagons or other vehicles to be used upon the public highways of the State of Cali- fornia shall be for the following styles of wagons as follows: “Two and three-quarter Inch steel or thimble-skein axle, 1% inch tubular steel or axle, not le 0 3-inch tire; 1% inch steel or iron axle, 214 inch tubular or iron axle, not less than 3%-inch tire; 3 inch steel or thimble skein, 1% inch 'steel or iron, 2% tubular steel or iron axle, not less than 4-inch tire; 3% inch steel or thimble skein, 1% or 1% steel or iron 25 tubular steel or iron axle, tnan 4l-inch tire; 3% inch steel ble skein, 2 inch steel or iron, 2% inch bular steel or iron axle, not less than 5- inch tire; 3% inch steel or thimble skein, 2% inch steel or iron, 3 or 3% inch tubular steel or iron, not less than ¢-inch tire; 4 inch and larger steel or thimble skein, 215 inch and larger steel or iron, 3% inch and larger tubular steel or iron axle, not less than 6-inch tire. “Other styles of axles shall have tires ot the same width as those of equal car- rying capacity above enumerated. All in- termediate axles shall have tires of the idth as tue next larger size above R. H. 8., Bitter- fied. “To sell or purchase or to use on a pub- lic highway wagons or vehicles not hav- ing tires as above specified is a misde- meanor and to bring into the State and offer to sell wagons not provided with such tires is also a misdemeanor. The punishment is not less than $25 nor more than 3500 fine or imprisonment, nor less than 25 days nor more than 180 days.” — e —— CONDENSED WAR OPINIONS. Atlanta Constitution. Undertakers consider the grave. . Lawyers insist that we should uphold the honor of the land of the fee. Banks are willing to accept bills of in- demnity. The standing army thinks Spain should be sat on. Citizens of our seaboard cities say we should strengthen our coast pretenses, Carpenters are anxious to nail the flag to_the mast. Plumbers are content with piping times of peace. A majority of the clergy is in favor of the United States taking up a collection. If the regular army is not sufficient, farmers stand ready to raise home sup- plies. Local astronomers say make Spain see stars. The Signal Service Bureau is anxious to furnish war clou —_———— REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. ‘Women never apologize to each other: they only cry and then kiss and make up. Probably Delilah had an {dea she could save money by cutting Samson’s balr her- self. Some men’s faces reflect nothing but the truth. Some women’s reflect nothing but the teeth. Every man is a hero to the woman he marrles and every woman is a hero to the man she doesn’t. Women talk a lot about thelr rights, but none of them want to do any fighting. If there was a war a few of them would g0 as nurses. Nobody shoots at nurses. No man ever wants to kiss a girl after he has once seen her hold -a nickel the conductor has given her for change be- tween her teeth while she gets her purse open.—New York Press. e e Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.s —_—————— situation that we will Fine eyeglasses. Fourth street. ——— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * Specs, 15c and up. 33 —_— e UNITY WORTH THE PRICE. Senator Proctor is right. The readiness of the South to fight for the nation i worth all that our preparatio: have cost, and vastly more. World. —_—— ANGOSTURA BITTERS are endorsed by all the leading physicians and caemists for purity and wholesomeness. Get the genuine.—Dr Siegert's. —_————— FOR BRONCHIAL AND ASTHMATIC COMPLAINTS, Brown’s Bronchial Troches” have remarkable curative properties. Sold only in boxes. ————— STEEL FOR BRITISH SHIPS. American shops have begun to help in the manufacture of the British navy. The Carnegie Company has received an order for 5000 tons of plates for the hulls of Stanley Brown, the superintendent of |chips. This is the kind of Anglo-Ameri- the North American Commercial Com- |can alliance we like.—St. Paul Pioneer pany, accompanied by his wife, Is on/his | Press. ADVERTISEMENTS. OSSN Supplies that will keep— Concentrated Strength— Absolute requisites for the Alaskan journey. Royal Baking Powder will ‘keep, while others will not, and gives the most leavening gas to the pound, thus economizing in weight. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.